Abstract Continuous bio-signal monitoring with on-skin worn sensor devices enables out-of-hospital patient (i.e. ubiqutuous health-care) which has high potential to reduce various disease related societal costs through large-scale screening of the risk groups. However, novel fabrication methods need be adopted enable required deployment such devices. Additive technologies have emerged as candid...

Background: Mercury (Hg) is a hazardous metal responsible for environmental contamination and human intoxication. Methyl mercury bio-accumulation through food chain can be responsible for chronic mercury exposure of South Caspian Sea communities with a diet rich in fish. Uncertainties about exposure levels that could have damaging consequences for nervous system development of infants makes b...

in the framework of the mytilos project (interreg iiib medocc), international research cruises were carried out in 2006 in order to evaluate the level of heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pah) along the coast of the western basin of the mediterranean sea. caged mussels (mytilus galloprovincialis) were placed in situ at six sites in the north coast of tunisia. results showed to...

in order to evaluate the phragmites australis, myriophyllum spicatum and potamogeton perfoliatus aquatic plant species as an indicator organism of heavy metals pollution in bio-monitoring studies of the aquatic ecosystems, the aim of this study was to determine the levels of heavy metals accumulation zn, cu, pb and cd in sediments, roots, stems and leaves of these plants in north and south of t...