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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 12

December 2016 - 96 articles

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Articles (96)

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,376 Views
19 Pages

Urban waterlogging seriously threatens the safety of urban residents and properties. Wargame simulation research on resident emergency evacuation from waterlogged areas can determine the effectiveness of emergency response plans for high risk events...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,713 Views
13 Pages

Predictors of high-risk patterns of substance use are often analysed in relation to demographic and school-related factors. The interaction between these factors and the additional impact of family wealth are still new areas of research. The aim of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,143 Views
9 Pages

Social Disparities in Exposure to Point-of-Sale Cigarette Marketing

  • Mohammad Siahpush,
  • Paraskevi A. Farazi,
  • Jungyoon Kim,
  • Tzeyu L. Michaud,
  • Aaron M. Yoder,
  • Ghada Soliman,
  • Melissa K. Tibbits,
  • Minh N. Nguyen and
  • Raees A. Shaikh

While most ecological studies have shown that higher levels of point-of-sale (POS) cigarette marketing are associated with larger proportions of residents from lower socioeconomic and minority backgrounds in neighborhoods, there are no studies that e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,090 Views
16 Pages

Evaluation of the Treatment Process of Landfill Leachate Using the Toxicity Assessment Method

  • Aifeng Qiu,
  • Qiang Cai,
  • Yuan Zhao,
  • Yingqing Guo and
  • Liqian Zhao

Landfill leachate is composed of a complex composition with strong biological toxicity. The combined treatment process of coagulation and sedimentation, anaerobics, electrolysis, and aerobics was set up to treat landfill leachate. This paper explores...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,511 Views
15 Pages

Modeling Driver Behavior near Intersections in Hidden Markov Model

  • Juan Li,
  • Qinglian He,
  • Hang Zhou,
  • Yunlin Guan and
  • Wei Dai

Intersections are one of the major locations where safety is a big concern to drivers. Inappropriate driver behaviors in response to frequent changes when approaching intersections often lead to intersection-related crashes or collisions. Thus to bet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,845 Views
19 Pages

Parental Perceptions of the Social Environment Are Inversely Related to Constraint of Adolescents’ Neighborhood Physical Activity

  • Maura Kepper,
  • Stephanie Broyles,
  • Richard Scribner,
  • Tung-Sung Tseng,
  • Jovanny Zabaleta,
  • Lauren Griffiths and
  • Melinda Sothern

Background: The current study examined relationships between the neighborhood social environment (parental perceived collective efficacy (PCE)), constrained behaviors (e.g., avoidance or defensive behaviors) and adolescent offspring neighborhood phys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
10,156 Views
14 Pages

What Contributes to the Regularity of Patients with Hypertension or Diabetes Seeking Health Services? A Pilot Follow-Up, Observational Study in Two Sites in Hubei Province, China

  • Da Feng,
  • Ray Serrano,
  • Ting Ye,
  • Shangfeng Tang,
  • Lei Duan,
  • Yuan Xu,
  • Jian Yang,
  • Yuan Liang,
  • Shanquan Chen and
  • Zhanchun Feng
  • + 1 author

Regular maintenance of non-communicable chronic diseases can constrain disease progression in diabetic and hypertensive patients. To identify the individual and social factors that are associated with positive health-seeking behaviors and regular mai...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
12,527 Views
13 Pages

Artificial Diets for Mosquitoes

  • Kristina K. Gonzales and
  • Immo A. Hansen

Mosquito-borne diseases are responsible for more than a million human deaths every year. Modern mosquito control strategies such as sterile insect technique (SIT), release of insects carrying a dominant lethal (RIDL), population replacement strategie...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,999 Views
4 Pages

Emerging infectious diseases, and the resurgence of previously controlled infectious disease (e.g., malaria, tuberculosis), are a major focus for public health concern, as well as providing challenges for establishing aetiology and transmission. [......

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,464 Views
12 Pages

In this study, the high-production-volume chemical benzothiazole (BTH) from synthetic water was fully degraded into less toxic intermediates of simple organic acids using an up-flow internal circulation microbial electrolysis reactor (UICMER) under t...

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