Currently, atmospheric CO2 levels fluctuate around 390 ppm and continue to rise at an accelerating rate (Caldeira and Wickett 2003, 2005); projected scenarios indicate that levels will approach 450–600 ppm by 2050 and 750– 1,000 ppm by the end of the twenty-first century (IPCC 2007; gattuso and lavigne 2009). The resultant increase in dissolved seawater CO2 is expected to reduce surface ocean p...

Quality of our living environment matters. As in book called Place Matter is said: ”Where we live makes a big difference in the quality of our lives.” (Dreier et al. 2001). Quality of the living environment has been in the interest of different disciplines. Environmental psychology, geography, sociology, communicative and collaborative urban planning are mainly those fields, as Manzo et al. (20...

Nicotine is a natural alkaloid that is very toxic to humans. To eliminate the harmful effects of nicotine in the environment, biological methods employing microbes to degrade nicotine are required (Brandsch, 2006; Liu et al., 2015). Shinella sp. HZN7 can degrade nicotine efficiently via the variant of a pyridine and pyrrolidine pathways (VPP; Ma et al., 2013; Qiu et al., 2014, 2015). The main i...

This paper presents an innovative approach to implementing integrated environmental and health and safety management systems in construction companies. It focuses on the sub-system for operational control of on-site environmental impacts and health and safety risks. The high compatibility between the operational control requirements that are stated in ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007 and the...

the potential sources of cr (vi) are various effluents from metallurgy, electroplating, leather tanning, textile dyeing, paint, ink, and aluminum manufacturing industries. these industrial effluents can contain cr (vi), in the concentration range of 10 to 100 mg/l (nakano et al 2000), which is much higher than the standard limit; 0.5 mg/l in industrial wastewater (epa). in aqueous systems, chro...

Nowadays, the capability of cloud management suppliers is one of the important advantages for suppliers that can improve the performance and flexibility and reduce costs in companies through easy access to resources. Also, the environmental impacts of suppliers are a significant issue in today’s industrialization and globalization world. This paper analyzes these subjects by fuzzy multi-objecti...

Malignant melanoma is considered to be the most aggressive form of skin neoplasms. Over the past few decades, the incidence rate of melanoma has steadily risen throughout the world. The risks of developing melanoma consist of intrinsic and environmental factors. Intrinsic factors generally include a family history and an inherited genotype, while the most relevant environmental factor is sun ex...