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Environments, Volume 5, Issue 9

September 2018 - 12 articles

Cover Story: Knowing how metals in living cells are partitioned between detoxified or sensitive fractions helps us better understand metal toxicity. Fractionation methods often involve heat treatment in order to isolate metals bound to cytosolic heat-stable peptides (HSP), such as metallothioneins; metals in this fraction are normally considered to have been ‘detoxified’. The present research revealed the presence of unsuspected metal forms in the HSP fraction, some of which are clearly not bound to metallothionein and may well not be detoxified. View this paper.
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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,615 Views
14 Pages

How Inter-Basin Transfer of Water Alters Basin Water Stress Used for Water Footprint Characterization

  • Shinjiro Yano,
  • Toshio Okazumi,
  • Yoshihisa Iwasaki,
  • Masahiro Yamaguchi,
  • Kenichi Nakamura,
  • Takuhiro Kanayama,
  • Daikichi Ogawada,
  • Akiko Matsumura,
  • Martin Gomez-Garcia and
  • Taikan Oki

Water footprint assessments contribute to a better understanding of potential environmental impacts related to water and have become essential in water management. The methodologies for characterizing such assessments, however, usually fail to reflec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
19,680 Views
10 Pages

The Management of Hazardous Solid Waste in India: An Overview

  • Leelavathy Karthikeyan,
  • Venkatesan Madha Suresh,
  • Vignesh Krishnan,
  • Terry Tudor and
  • Vedha Varshini

Due largely to economic development, industrialization, and changing lifestyles, quantity of hazardous waste in India is rising significantly. This is particularly true in mega cities, where populations are large and growing. Due to a range of factor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,372 Views
23 Pages

An Overview of Dynamic Heterogeneous Oxidations in the Troposphere

  • Elizabeth A. Pillar-Little and
  • Marcelo I. Guzman

Due to the adverse effect of atmospheric aerosols on public health and their ability to affect climate, extensive research has been undertaken in recent decades to understand their sources and sinks, as well as to study their physical and chemical pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,763 Views
17 Pages

The distribution of As, Cd, Cu and Se among biomolecules of different molecular weight (MW) in the heat-treated cytosolic fraction of livers and gonads of white suckers (WS; Catostomus commersonii) collected in a reference lake and in a lake subject...

  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
13,603 Views
12 Pages

Climate-induced drought hazard has been emerging as one of the major challenges in the mid-hill farming system and rural livelihood in Nepal. Drought stress, in combination with century-long socio-political issues such as unequal social structure, ge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,150 Views
15 Pages

Optimizing Spacer Length for Positioning Functional Groups in Bio-Waste

  • Revathi Iyengar,
  • Maria Faure-Betancourt,
  • Saleh Talukdar,
  • Jinting Ye and
  • Abel E. Navarro

The goal of this study was to determine the optimal chain length needed for tethering functional groups on bio-wastes. The purpose of modifying the surface of bio-waste is to improve their affinity for phenols. To this end, four different aminated gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,151 Views
17 Pages

The disposal of municipal solid waste into primarily dumpsites in developing countries causes a number of potential public and environmental health risks. While there have been various studies that have evaluated the contaminants that cause the risks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,955 Views
24 Pages

What Is the Value of Wild Bee Pollination for Wild Blueberries and Cranberries, and Who Values It?

  • Aaron K. Hoshide,
  • Francis A. Drummond,
  • Thomas H. Stevens,
  • Eric M. Venturini,
  • Samuel P. Hanes,
  • Martha M. Sylvia,
  • Cynthia S. Loftin,
  • David E. Yarborough and
  • Anne L. Averill

Pollinator conservation efforts and growing interest in wild bee pollination have increased markedly in the last decade, making it increasingly important to have clear and practical estimates of the value of pollinators to agriculture. We used agricu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,173 Views
18 Pages

This study implemented a questionnaire survey on tourists to the Nanwan Beach, Kenting, Taiwan and then applied the travel cost method to appraise the recreation benefits of the Nanwan Beach. The truncated Poisson model (TPOIS), truncated negative bi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,062 Views
13 Pages

Ratio of Mercury Concentration to PCB Concentration Varies with Sex of White Sucker (Catostomus commersonii)

  • Charles P. Madenjian,
  • Andrew L. Stevens,
  • Martin A. Stapanian,
  • David P. Krabbenhoft,
  • John F. DeWild,
  • Jacob M. Ogorek,
  • William H. Edwards,
  • Lynn M. Ogilvie and
  • Peter B. McIntyre

The whole-fish total mercury (Hg) concentrations were determined in 25 mature female and 26 mature male white suckers (Catostomus commersonii) caught during their spawning run in the Kewaunee River, a tributary to Lake Michigan. The age of each fish...

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Environments - ISSN 2076-3298