Environmental Health

Classification of toxicity effects of biotransformed hepatic drugs using whale optimized support vector machines.

Measuring toxicity is an important step in drug development. Nevertheless, the current experimental methods used to estimate the drug toxicity are expensive and time-consuming, indicating that they are not suitable for large-scale evaluation of drug toxicity in the early stage of drug development. Hence, there is a high demand to develop computational models that can predict the drug toxicity risk...

Research and Application of an Air Quality Early Warning System Based on a Modified Least Squares Support Vector Machine and a Cloud Model.

The worsening atmospheric pollution increases the necessity of air quality early warning systems (EWSs). Despite the fact that a massive amount of investigation about EWS in theory and practicality has been conducted by numerous researchers, studies concerning the quantification of uncertain information and comprehensive evaluation are still lacking, which impedes further development in the area. ...

Environmental monitoring using autonomous vehicles: a survey of recent searching techniques.

Autonomous vehicles are becoming an essential tool in a wide range of environmental applications that include ambient data acquisition, remote sensing...

Intensity-based 2D 3D registration for lead localization in robot guided deep brain stimulation.

Intraoperative assessment of lead localization has become a standard procedure during deep brain stimulation surgery in many centers, allowing immedia...

Analysis of the Importance of Oxides and Clays in Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn Adsorption and Retention with Regression Trees.

This study determines the influence of the different soil components and of the cation-exchange capacity on the adsorption and retention of different ...

Advantages of Synthetic Noise and Machine Learning for Analyzing Radioecological Data Sets.

The ecological effects of accidental or malicious radioactive contamination are insufficiently understood because of the hazards and difficulties asso...

An aptamer-based effective method for highly sensitive detection of chloramphenicol residues in animal-sourced food using real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR.

Chloramphenicol (CAP) residues can not only harm human health through entering food chain, but also cause the spreading of drug-resistant bacteria, th...

Enhancing anaerobic digestion of poultry blood using activated carbon.

The potential of using anaerobic digestion for the treatment of poultry blood has been evaluated in batch assays at the laboratory scale and in a meso...

Betulin-loaded PEDOT films for regional chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy is one of the most commonly used cancer treatments. Even so, it has significant adverse effects on healthy tissues. These effects can be ...

Differential cytotoxicity and internalization of graphene family nanomaterials in myocardial cells.

Given the well-known physical properties of graphene oxide (GO), numerous applications for this novel nanomaterial have been recently envisioned to im...

Correlation between degradation pathway and toxicity of acetaminophen and its by-products by using the electro-Fenton process in aqueous media.

The evolution of the degradation by-products of an acetaminophen (ACE) solution was monitored by HPLC-UV/MS and IC in parallel with its ecotoxicity (V...

A plant-inspired robot with soft differential bending capabilities.

We present the design and development of a plant-inspired robot, named Plantoid, with sensorized robotic roots. Natural roots have a multi-sensing cap...

Microbial Degradation of a Recalcitrant Pesticide: Chlordecone.

Chlordecone (Kepone®) is a synthetic organochlorine insecticide (CClO) used worldwide mostly during the 1970 and 1980s. Its intensive application in t...

Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation of young post-pubertal dairy bulls alters the fatty acid composition of seminal plasma and spermatozoa but has no effect on semen volume or sperm quality.

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of dietary supplementation with rumen protected n-6 or n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) on the ...

Graphene oxide as a nanocarrier for controlled release and targeted delivery of an anticancer active agent, chlorogenic acid.

We have synthesized graphene oxide using improved Hummer's method in order to explore the potential use of the resulting graphene oxide as a nanocarri...

Exposure assessment models for elemental components of particulate matter in an urban environment: A comparison of regression and random forest approaches.

Exposure assessment for elemental components of particulate matter (PM) using land use modeling is a complex problem due to the high spatial and tempo...

Analysis of correlation between pediatric asthma exacerbation and exposure to pollutant mixtures with association rule mining.

OBJECTIVES: Traditional studies on effects of outdoor pollution on asthma have been criticized for questionable statistical validity and inefficacy in...

Mixotrophy in the phototrophic dinoflagellate Takayama helix (family Kareniaceae): Predator of diverse toxic and harmful dinoflagellates.

Takayama spp. are phototrophic dinoflagellates belonging to the family Kareniaceae and have caused fish kills in several countries. Understanding thei...

Physiological study on the influence of some plant oils in rats exposed to a sublethal concentration of diazinon.

The present study was aimed to evaluate the influence of olive, sesame and black seed oils on levels of some physiological parameters in male rats exp...

Identification of an exposure risk to heavy metals from pharmaceutical-grade rubber stoppers.

Exposure to low concentrations of heavy metals and metalloids represents a well-documented risk to animal and human health. However, current standards...