Decadal Pollution Assessment and Monitoring along the Kenya Coast

Following surveys recently carried out in Maputo estuary, a survey with the purpose of acquiring data required to characterize the estuary was carried out in December 1983. After reviewing the hydrology of the tributaries to the estuary, the parameters to be monitored - salinity, conductivity, temperature, and dissolved oxygen, are referred. Finally, taking also into account previous information available, an evaluation of the results, and an assessment of the estuary are done. The estuary can be classified as well mixed, since the vertical salinity gradients found are small. The Umbeluzi estuary, however, is partially mixed. Temperature decreases with the depth, and when moving downstream. Some pollution was found along the lower part of the estuary, probably due to the discharge of domestic and industrial wastewater, which brings the dissolved oxygen figures below the saturation level. As for the upper part of the estuary, the dissolved oxygen levels are not only dependent on the pollutant load, but also on the growing of algae, which by photosynthesis under daylight produce oxygen that dissolves into the water. Quite often, the dissolved oxygen figures are above the saturation level. The growth of algae could be due to the input of phosphorus and nitrogen brought in by the tributary streams. A pollutant load discharged upstream could be the reason for some pollution seen in the Umbeluzi estuary.

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Use of Metallomics in Environmental Pollution Assessment Using Mice Mus musculus/Mus spretus as Bioindicators

Current Analytical Chemistry ◽

10.2174/1573411011309020009 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 229-243

Author(s):

M. Gonzalez-Fernandez ◽

M. Angel Garcia-Sevillano ◽

R. Jara-Biedma ◽

F. Navarro- Roldn ◽

T. Garcia-Barrera ◽

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Keyword(s):

Environmental Pollution ◽

Mus Musculus ◽

Pollution Assessment ◽

Mus Spretus

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Research Progress and Prospects of Soil Pollution Assessment and Prediction Models

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/304/5/052042 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 304 ◽

pp. 052042

Author(s):

Xiuxia Li ◽

Wei Zhu ◽

Yufang Qin ◽

Fei Yin

Keyword(s):

Soil Pollution ◽

Prediction Models ◽

Pollution Assessment ◽

Research Progress

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Measuring Household Resilience to Cyclone Disasters in Coastal Bangladesh

Climate ◽

10.3390/cli9060097 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

pp. 97

Author(s):

Abdullah Al-Maruf ◽

J. Craig Jenkins ◽

Amelie Bernzen ◽

Boris Braun

Keyword(s):

Methodological Approach ◽

Coastal Region ◽

Household Survey ◽

Storm Surges ◽

Household Level ◽

Coastal Bangladesh ◽

Indicator Approach ◽

Island Communities ◽

Assessment And Monitoring ◽

Social Safety Nets

The main objective of this paper is to measure the level of household resilience to cyclone and storm surges in the coastal area of Bangladesh. We draw on four general disaster frameworks in terms of addressing household-level resilience to cyclones and storm surges. We use a composite indicator approach organized around four components: (1) household infrastructure (HI); (2) household economic capacity (HEC); (3) household self-organization and learning (HSoL), and; (4) social safety nets (SSN). Drawing on a household survey (N = 1188) in nine coastal union parishads in coastal Bangladesh purposively selected as among the most vulnerable places in the world, we use principal components analysis applied to a standardized form of the survey data that identifies key household resilience features. These household index scores can be used for the assessment and monitoring of household capacities, training, and other efforts to improve household cyclone resilience. Our innovative methodological approach allows us to (a) identify patterns and reveal the underlying factors that accurately describe the variation in the data; (b) reduce a large number of variables to a much smaller number of core dimensions of household resilience, and (c) to detect spatial variations in resilience among communities. Aggregated to the community level, our new index reveals significant differences in community cyclone resilience in different areas of the coastal region. In this way, we can show that shoreline and island communities, in particular, have significant deficits in terms of household resilience, which seem to be mutually reinforcing one another and making for lower resilience.

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FOXP1 syndrome: a review of the literature and practice parameters for medical assessment and monitoring

Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders ◽

10.1186/s11689-021-09358-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Reymundo Lozano ◽

Catherine Gbekie ◽

Paige M. Siper ◽

Shubhika Srivastava ◽

Jeffrey M. Saland ◽

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Keyword(s):

Neurodevelopmental Disorder ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Medical Assessment ◽

Forkhead Box ◽

Organ Systems ◽

Practice Parameters ◽

Assessment And Monitoring ◽

Multidisciplinary Group ◽

The Brain

AbstractFOXP1 syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations or deletions that disrupt the forkhead box protein 1 (FOXP1) gene, which encodes a transcription factor important for the early development of many organ systems, including the brain. Numerous clinical studies have elucidated the role of FOXP1 in neurodevelopment and have characterized a phenotype. FOXP1 syndrome is associated with intellectual disability, language deficits, autism spectrum disorder, hypotonia, and congenital anomalies, including mild dysmorphic features, and brain, cardiac, and urogenital abnormalities. Here, we present a review of human studies summarizing the clinical features of individuals with FOXP1 syndrome and enlist a multidisciplinary group of clinicians (pediatrics, genetics, psychiatry, neurology, cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology, and psychology) to provide recommendations for the assessment of FOXP1 syndrome.

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