Integrating machine learning models with cross-validation and bootstrapping for evaluating groundwater quality in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand
This study aimed to explore the applicability of random forest (RF) and artificial neural networks (ANN) models to predict groundwater quality. Particularly, these two models were integrated into cross-validation (CV) and bootstrapping (B) techniques to build predictive models, including RF-CV, RF-B, ANN-CV, and ANN-B. Entropy groundwater quality index (EWQI) was converted to normalized EWQI which was then classified into five levels from very poor to very good. A total of twelve physicochemical parameters from 180 groundwater wells, including potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, sulfate, bicarbonate, nitrate, ...
Source: Environmental Research - April 18, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Nguyen Ngoc Thanh Srilert Chotpantarat Nguyen Huu Ngu Pongsathron Thunyawatcharakul Narongsak Kaewdum Source Type: research
Green synthesis of manganese ferrite magnetic nanoparticle and its modification with metallic-organic frameworks for the tetracycline adsorption from aqueous solutions: A mathematical study of kinetics, isotherms, and thermodynamics
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 16:118957. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118957. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn the current investigation, MnFe2O4/ZIF-8 nanocomposite was generated as a magnetic nanoadsorber using the extract of Dracocephalum plant and characterized by XRD, FTIR, VSM, BET, FESEM, EDS-mapping, TEM, XPS, TPD-NH3, and TGA analyses. Also, to determine its efficiency in the adsorption process of tetracycline, the effect of pH (3-9), nanocomposite dose (0.025-2 g/L), initial pollutant concentration (5-100 mg/L), contact time (5-200 min), and temperature (5-50 °C) were studied. The results of the morphological properties o...
Source: Environmental Research - April 18, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Moslem Azqandi Bahman Ramavandi Negin Nasseh Davood Zaarei Farzaneh Fanaei Source Type: research
Transforming pollution into solutions: A bibliometric analysis and sustainable strategies for reducing indoor microplastics while converting to value-added products
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 16;252(Pt 2):118928. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118928. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMicroplastics (MPs), as emerging indoor contaminants, have garnered attention due to their ubiquity and unresolved implications for human health. These tiny particles have permeated indoor air and water, leading to inevitable human exposure. Preliminary evidence suggests MP exposure could be linked to respiratory, gastrointestinal, and potentially other health issues, yet the full scope of their effects remains unclear. To map the overall landscape of this research field, a bibliometric analysis based on research art...
Source: Environmental Research - April 18, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Hong Yee Kek Huiyi Tan Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman Chew Tin Lee Fatin Batrisyia Jihat Ahmad Nur Dayana Ismail Bemgba Bevan Nyakuma Kee Quen Lee Keng Yinn Wong Source Type: research
Longitudinal Study of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins along Canada's Coast
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 16:118944. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118944. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTParalytic shellfish toxins (PST) in shellfish products have led to severe risks to human health. To monitor the risk, the Canadian Shellfish Sanitation Program has been collecting longitudinal PST measurements in blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) and soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria) samples in six coastal provinces of Canada. The spatial distributions of major temporal variation patterns were studied via Functional Principal Component Analysis. Seasonal increases in PST contamination were found to vary the most in terms of magnitude ...
Source: Environmental Research - April 18, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Shuai You Li Xing Mary Lesperance Youlian Pan Xuekui Zhang Source Type: research
A progress update on the biological effects of biodegradable microplastics on soil and ocean environment: a perfect substitute or new threat?
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 16:118960. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118960. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTConventional plastics are inherently difficult to degrade, causing serious plastic pollution. With the development of society, biodegradable plastics (BPs) are considered as an alternative to traditional plastics. However, current research indicated that BPs do not undergo complete degradation in natural environments. Instead, they may convert into biodegradable microplastics (BMPs) at an accelerated rate, thereby posing a significant threat to environment. In this paper, the definition, application, distribution, degradation ...
Source: Environmental Research - April 18, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Daqin Wang Fei Xiong Lingjie Wu Zhihui Liu Kai Xu Jiawei Huang Jinyan Liu Qin Ding Juan Zhang Yuepu Pu Rongli Sun Source Type: research
Could soil microplastic pollution exacerbate climate change? A meta-analysis of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming potential
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 16;252(Pt 2):118945. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118945. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMicroplastics pollution and climate change are primarily investigated in isolation, despite their joint threat to the environment. Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are emitted during: the production of plastic and rubber, the use and degradation of plastic, and after contamination of environment. This is the first meta-analysis to assess underlying causal relationships and the influence of likely mediators. We included 60 peer-reviewed empirical studies; estimating GHGs emissions effect size and global warming potential (GWP)...
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Shahid Iqbal Jianchu Xu Muhammad Saleem Arif Awais Shakoor Fiona R Worthy Heng Gui Sehroon Khan Dengpan Bu Sadia Nader Sailesh Ranjitkar Source Type: research
Cefixime loaded bare and functionalized halloysite nanocarriers and their biomedical applications
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 15;252(Pt 2):118927. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118927. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEffective drug delivery for is the foremost requirement for the complete recovery of the disease. Nanomedicine and nanoengineering has provided so many spaces and ideas for the drug delivery design, whether controlled, targeted, or sustained. Different types of nanocarriers or nanoparticles are aggressively designed for the drug delivery applications. Clay minerals are identified as a one of the potential nanocarrier for the drug delivery. Owing to their biocompatibility and very low cytotoxicity, clay minerals showi...
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Deepak Verma Manunya Okhawilai Karthik Subramani Karthikeyan Chandrasekaran Pornnapa Kasemsiri Hiroshi Uyama Source Type: research
Recent advances in catalyst design, performance, and challenges of metal-heteroatom-co-doped biochar as peroxymonosulfate activator for environmental remediation
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 16;252(Pt 2):118919. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118919. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe escalation of global water pollution due to emerging pollutants has gained significant attention. To address this issue, catalytic peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation technology has emerged as a promising treatment approach for effectively decontaminating a wide range of pollutants. Recently, modified biochar has become an increasingly attractive as PMS activator. Metal-heteroatom-co-doped biochar (MH-BC) has emerged as a promising catalyst that can provide enhanced performance over heteroatom-doped and metal-dope...
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Ganapaty Manickavasagam Chao He Kun-Yi Andrew Lin Mardiana Saaid Wen-Da Oh Source Type: research
The impact of prenatal mercury on neurobehavioral functioning longitudinally assessed from a young age to pre-adolescence in a Spanish birth cohort
CONCLUSION: Despite elevated prenatal THg exposure, no association was found with children's behavioural functioning assessed from early childhood to pre-adolescence. The nutrients in fish could offset the potential neurotoxic impact of Hg. Further birth cohort studies with longitudinal data are warranted.PMID:38631469 | DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2024.118954 (Source: Environmental Research)
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Blanca Sarzo Ferran Ballester Raquel Soler-Blasco Jordi Sunyer Maria-Jose Lopez-Espinosa Jesus Ibarluzea Manuel Lozano Jordi Julvez Gorka Iriarte Mikel Subiza-Perez Ll úcia González-Safont Ana Fern ández-Somoano Jorge Vallejo-Ortega M ònica Guxens Uli Source Type: research
Ecological and health risk assessments of heavy metals and their accumulation in a peanut-soil system
This study evaluated the potential ecological and health risks of heavy metals (Cu, Cr, Cd, Pb, Zn, Ni, and As) and their accumulation in a peanut-soil system based on 34 soil and peanut kernel paired samples across China. Soil As and Cd posed the greatest pollution risk with 47.1% and 17.6% of soil samples exceeding the risk screen levels, respectively, with 26.5% and 20.6% of the soil sites at relatively strong potential ecological risk level, respectively, and with the geo-accumulation levels at several soil sites in the uncontaminated to moderately contaminated categories. About 35.29% and 2.94% of soil sites were mode...
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Xiaoqing Zhang Huanhuan Liu Xin Li Zhaowei Zhang Zhihua Chen Dajun Ren Shuqin Zhang Source Type: research
Characteristic and mechanism of biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal facilitated by biogenic manganese oxides (BioMnOx) at various concentrations of Mn(II)
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 16;252(Pt 2):118943. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118943. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBiogenic manganese oxides (BioMnOx) have attracted considerable attention as active oxidants, adsorbents, and catalysts. However, characteristics and mechanisms of nitrification-denitrification in biological redox reactions mediated by different concentrations of BioMnOx are still unclear. Fate of nutrients (e.g., NH4+-N, TP, NO3--N) and COD were investigated through different concentrations of BioMnOx produced by Mn(II) in the moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR). 34% and 89.2%, 37.8% and 89.8%, 57.3% and 88.9%, and 62...
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Ying Cao Sicheng Shao Zhiqing Ye Chunxiao Wang Dandan Pan Xiangwei Wu Source Type: research
Assessment of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Soils Polluted by Chemical and Technogenic Ways with Poly-Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Heavy Metals
This study focused on assessing the prevalence and distribution of antibiotic-resistance genes in polluted soil ecosystems impacted by industrial enterprises in southern Russia. Metagenomic analysis was conducted on soil samples collected from polluted sites using various approaches, and the prevalence of antibiotic-resistance genes was investigated. The results revealed that efflux-encoding pump sequences were the most widely represented group of genes, while genes whose products replaced antibiotic targets were less represented. The level of soil contamination increased, and there was an increase in the total number of a...
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Ming Hung Wong Tatiana Minkina Nikita Vasilchenko Svetlana Sushkova Yanina Delegan Anuj Ranjan Pallavi Saxena Sarieh Tarigholizadeh Tamara Dudnikova Andrey Barbashev Aleksey Maksimov Alexandr Faenson R ıdvan Kızılkaya Source Type: research
Metabolomic reveals the responses of sludge properties and microbial communities to high nitrite stress in denitrifying phosphorus removal systems
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 15;252(Pt 2):118924. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118924. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTNitrite, as an electron acceptor, plays a good role in denitrifying phosphorus removal (DPR); however, high nitrite concentration has adverse affects on sludge performance. We investigated the precise mechanisms of responses of sludge to high nitrite stress, including surface characteristics, intracellular and extracellular components, microbial and metabolic responses. When the nitrite stress reached 90 mg/L, the sludge settling performance was improved, but the activated sludge was aging. FTIR and XPS analysis reve...
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Rongrong Hou Jiandong Liu Peng Yang Haijun Liu Rongfang Yuan Ying Ji Hongfei Zhao Zhongbing Chen Beihai Zhou Huilun Chen Source Type: research
Correlation between the development of phage resistance and the original antibiotic resistance of host bacteria under the co-exposure of antibiotic and bacteriophage
This study explores phage resistance development in hosts with different antibiotic resistance and helps to understand the limitations and possible solutions of phage-based technologies.PMID:38631474 | DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2024.118921 (Source: Environmental Research)
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Lingli Li Mengya Zhou Ming Yu Xu Ren Linzhi Li Chunjun Shen Chunping Deng Yucheng Liu Bing Yang Source Type: research
Could soil microplastic pollution exacerbate climate change? A meta-analysis of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming potential
Environ Res. 2024 Apr 15:118945. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118945. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMicroplastics pollution and climate change are primarily investigated in isolation, despite their joint threat to the environment. Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are emitted during: the production of plastic and rubber, the use and degradation of plastic, and after contamination of environment. This is the first meta-analysis to assess underlying causal relationships and the influence of likely mediators. We included 60 peer-reviewed empirical studies; estimating GHGs emissions effect size and global warming potential (GWP), accordin...
Source: Environmental Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Shahid Iqbal Jianchu Xu Muhammad Saleem Arif Awais Shakoor Fiona R Worthy Gui Heng Sehroon Khan Dengpan Bu Sadia Nader Sailesh Ranjitkar Source Type: research
