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PAHs and PCBs in an Eastern Mediterranean megacity, Istanbul: Their spatial and temporal distributions, air-soil exchange and toxicological effects.
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The results of the Factor Analysis represented the impact of traffic, petroleum, coal/biomass and natural gas combustion and medical waste incineration plants on ambient air concentrations and a similar spatial distribution trend was observed in the soil samples.About:
This article is published in Environmental Pollution.The article was published on 2017-01-01. It has received 74 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Soil contamination & Air pollution.read more
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The occurrence of OCPs, PCBs, and PAHs in the soil, air, and bulk deposition of the Naples metropolitan area, southern Italy: Implications for sources and environmental processes.
Chengkai Qu,Stefano Albanese,Annamaria Lima,Dave Hope,Pat Pond,Alberto Fortelli,Nunzio Romano,Pellegrino Cerino,Antonio Pizzolante,Benedetto De Vivo +9 more
TL;DR: The results obtained showed that most of these compounds are pervasive in all the studied environmental matrices, especially in some hotspot areas, such as the Bagnoli Brownfield Site and the infamous "Triangle of the Death", where unwanted ecological risk conditions for PAHs and Endosulfan were determined.
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Microbe and plant assisted-remediation of organic xenobiotics and its enhancement by genetically modified organisms and recombinant technology: A review.
Imran Hussain,Gajender Aleti,Ravi Naidu,Markus Puschenreiter,Qaisar Mahmood,Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman,Fang Wang,Shahida Shaheen,Jabir Hussain Syed,Jabir Hussain Syed,Thomas G. Reichenauer +10 more
TL;DR: The current contribution provides a comprehensive overview on enhanced bioremediation and phytoremediations approaches using transgenic plants and microbes and sheds light on the mitigation of associated environmental risks.
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Source apportionment and carcinogenic risk assessment of passive air sampler-derived PAHs and PCBs in a heavily industrialized region.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated possible sources and carcinogenic health risks of PAHs and PCBs in Dilovasi region by Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) and the USEPA approach, respectively.
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and heavy metal contents in the urban soils in southern Poland
TL;DR: How urban and industrial sprawl has affected the concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals (HMs) in the soils of two towns with different levels of urbanisation and industrial development is examined.
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Passive air sampling for semi-volatile organic chemicals
TL;DR: Kinetic passive air sampling for SVOCs is also challenging because their typically very low atmospheric concentrations necessitate relatively high sampling rates that can only be achieved without the use of diffusive barriers, which in turn renders sampling rates dependent on wind conditions and therefore highly variable.
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PAH source fingerprints for coke ovens, diesel and, gasoline engines, highway tunnels, and wood combustion emissions
TL;DR: In this article, a modified high-volume sampling method (PS-1 sampler) was employed to collect airborne polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in both the particulate and gas phases.
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Source Apportionment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Urban Atmosphere: A Comparison of Three Methods
Randolph K. Larsen,Joel E. Baker +1 more
TL;DR: The sources of PAHs to ambient air in Baltimore, MD, were determined by using three source apportionment methods, principal component analysis with multiple linear regression, UNMIX, and positive matrix factorization.
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A validation study of the WHO method for cancer pain relief.
TL;DR: It is shown that a correct use of the analgesic ladder can reduce pain to a third of its initial intensity and concluded that analgesics, as proposed by WHO, are the most suitable treatment arm in controlling pain in palliative treatment for advanced cancer patients.
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Characterization and comparison of three passive air samplers for persistent organic pollutants.
Mahiba Shoeib,Tom Harner +1 more
TL;DR: The accumulation of persistent organic pollutants by three passive sampling media--semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs), polyurethane foam (PUF) disks, and an organic-rich soil--was investigated and passive sampler-air partition coefficients, KPSM-A, were calculated.
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Octanol−Air Partition Coefficient for Describing Particle/Gas Partitioning of Aromatic Compounds in Urban Air
Tom Harner,Terry F. Bidleman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, atmospheric concentrations and particle/gas partition coefficients were measured for PAHs, PCBs, and PCNs in urban Chicago during February/March 1995 and compared to the adsorption (Junge−Pankow) model, which utilizes the subcooled liquid vapor pressure as a fitting parameter, and the KOA absorption model.