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Respirometry for Environmental Science and Engineering
Fundamentals of respirometry: Covers biological growth relationships and their application to respirometry. Features of commercial respirometers: Describes the basis for design and operation of commercial respirometers including discussions of their operating features. Applications of respirometry: Covers biodegradation testing, ...
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MT-PCR – A rapid, reliable and effective tool for assessing toxic ‘algal’ blooms in Victorian water supplies: aiding protection and preservation
This project addressed a need for a sensitive, accurate and reliable testing method to aid assessment of the toxicity of algal blooms and assist water management. Increasingly, diagnostic dilemmas are resolved through the use of DNA-based technologies which often provide high sensitivity and specificity and are efficient both in terms of costs and time. However to date, no such test was available ...
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Disinfection By-Products and Human Health
Disinfection By-Products and Human Health is based on contributions from speakers who participated in May 2011 workshops on Disinfection By-Products (DBPs) and Human Health at Ozwater 11 in Adelaide, Australia or at an AWA sponsored workshop at the Curtin Water Quality Research Centre, Perth, Australia. The contributions are prepared to facilitate communication with practitioners, rather than ...
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Principles of Hazardous Materials Management, Second Edition
A comprehensive overview of the field of hazardous materials management, this second edition features updated information on toxic and hazardous substance and waste; sources, storage, and treatment; transportation; regulatory jurisdictions; emergency response planning; as well as industrial hygiene and worker safety. As in the best-selling first edition, the text provides a basic understanding of ...
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Assessing the Hazard of Metals and Inorganic Metal Substances in Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems
Current procedures used for hazard identification and classification are based on persistence, bioaccumulation, and toxicity measurements. Assessing the Hazard of Metals and Inorganic Metal Substances in Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems provides the basis for improvements to the current model for hazard assessment. The book reviews the scientific underpinnings of the use of persistence as applied ...
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Assessing the Hazard of Metals and Inorganic Metal Substances in Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems
Current procedures used for hazard identification and classification are based on persistence, bioaccumulation, and toxicity measurements. Assessing the Hazard of Metals and Inorganic Metal Substances in Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems provides the basis for improvements to the current model for hazard assessment. The book reviews the scientific underpinnings of the use of persistence as applied ...
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Principles of Air Quality Management, Second Edition
Blending information from popular mainstream articles, highly technical publications, and research journals, the second edition of Principles of Air Quality Management features new sections on air toxics, new information on chronic and acute health effects, and new approaches to the assessment of those impacts on sensitive populations. It emphasizes toxic air pollutants and alternative approaches ...
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Principles of Air Quality Management, Second Edition
Blending information from popular mainstream articles, highly technical publications, and research journals, the second edition of Principles of Air Quality Management features new sections on air toxics, new information on chronic and acute health effects, and new approaches to the assessment of those impacts on sensitive populations. It emphasizes toxic air pollutants and alternative approaches ...
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The Complete Guide to Environmental Law
Keep up-to-date and maintain accuracy in the complex and ever-changing area of environmental law with this comprehensive view of hazardous materials liability and enforcement. The Complete Guide to Environmental Law is well cross-referenced to USCs, CFRs, leading state statutes, and state regulations to clearly illustrate how federal and state environmental programs relate to each other. It ...
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ISOCYANATES: Sampling, Analysis, and Health Effects
STP 1408 examines the latest data and technology on isocyanates, and features topics ranging from sampling and analysis methods to health effects. Isocyanates are widely used in many industrial processes because of their high activity and affinity to many substances, which lead to polymerization, as well as the properties for the resulting polymers. They are used in the production of adhesives, ...
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Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment, 7th Volume
Provides a variety of environmental toxicology issues that reflect the current status of ecotoxicology research and methodology. 28 peer reviewed papers represent the three major components of ecotoxicology including: measurements of toxicity of contaminants in aqueous, sediment, soils, air, and dietary media to terrestrial and aquatic plants and animals monitoring, ...
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Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment, 4th Volume
The most current information available on the international aspects of pollution and its impact on the environment. This comprehensive text includes state of the art research from Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands and the United States. Featured topics among 15 peer-reviewed papers include: Transboundary pollution issues across international borders Laboratory and field estimation of exposure ...
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Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment, 2nd Volume
45 papers present the development of new reserach techniques, synopses of available techniques, findings concerning various environmental stressors, and the application of techniques and processes to environmental assessment. In eight sections: Aquatic Toxicology and Use of Experimental Ecosystems Biomarkers Effluent Toxicity and Simulated Treatment ...
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Plants for Toxicity Assessment: Second Volume
Addresses the use of plants to assess the toxicity of air, water, and soil both through laboratory/greenhouse and field studies. 35 papers cover: Regulatory Perspectives Applications of Plant Bioassays/Photosynthesis Xenobiotic Uptake by Plants General Phytotoxicology Biochemical and Genetic Applications New ...
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Aquatic Toxicology and Risk Assessment: 14th Volume
Evolving concepts and perspectives in aquatic toxicology and hazard assessment. Topics covered: Organ System Toxicology and Biomarkers Risk Assessment and Complex Mixtures The Animal Welfare Act Toxicant Reduction Strategies Carcinogenesis Bioconcentration Toxicity Evaluation Sediment Toxicity ...
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Plants for Toxicity Assessment
The first publication to address all of the following in one volume: regulatory perspectives comparative plant toxicology plant xenobiotic bioaccumulation effects of air pollution on plants general phytotoxicity and new plant bioassay approaches. STP 1091 describes many new approaches for plant bioassays, including those suitable for in aquatic and terrestrial ...
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Characterization and Toxicity of Smoke
12 peer-reviewed papers on smoke toxicity, smoke chemistry, and smoke characterization. Studies address smoke hazard assessment, smoke spread modeling, appropriateness of toxicity tests, appropriateness of animal species as human substitutes, effect of materials on nuclear winter, and more. For researchers, regulators, producers, and those involved in the field of smoke ...
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Aquatic Toxicology and Hazard Assessment (12th Edition)
34 papers debate the merits of test development, animal and plant culture, nutrition and testing, and the lack of interagency harmony. Papers are divided into the following categories: Benefits of Interagency Harmonization of Methodology Review of Common Modes of Toxic Action Field Techniques Interpretation of Microcosm Data Quality Assurance in ...
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Sampling and Analysis of Toxic Organics in the Atmosphere
A new work full of innovative technical approaches and evaluative methods concerning toxic organics. ...
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Aquatic Oligochaete Biology IX
This volume contains selected papers from the 9th Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta, 6–10 October 2003, Wageningen, The Netherlands. 18 contributions deal with the biology of aquatic oligochaetes, and represents a mixture of the fields of taxonomy, anatomy, morphology and physiology, life history, ecology, sludge studies and toxicology. This wide scope is in line with the recent trends in ...
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