This study assesses the prevalence of disinfection by-product (DBP) precursors in some Southeast Queensland drinking water sources by conducting formation potential experiments for the four regulated trihalomethanes (THMs), and the potent carcinogen, N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). NDMA formation potentials were consistently low (<5-21 ng/L), and total THM (tTHM) formation potentials were consis...

BACKGROUND By international standards, water supplies in Perth, Western Australia, contain high trihalomethane (THM) levels, particularly the brominated forms. Geographic variability in these levels provided an opportunity to examine cross-city spatial relationships between THM exposure and rates of birth defects (BDs). OBJECTIVES Our goal was to examine BD rates by exposure to THMs with a hi...

Exposure to disinfection by-products (DBPs) of drinking water is multiroute and occurs in households serviced by municipal water treatment facilities that disinfect the water as a necessary step to halt the spread of waterborne infectious diseases. Biomarkers of the two most abundant groups of DBPs of chlorination, exhaled breath levels of trihalomethanes (THMs) and urinary levels of two haloac...

Spray aeration is a comparatively low-cost option to reduce trihalomethane (THM) concentrations in distribution system storage. The effect of spray on unregulated, toxic disinfection by-products was investigated bench-scale apparatus closed-tank and open-tank experiments. In the experiments, initially over 90% THMs, trichloroacetonitrile, chloropicrin were removed, while 36% dihaloacetonitriles...

We analyzed data from a prospective study of menstrual cycle function and early pregnancy loss to explore further the effects of trihalomethanes (THM) on reproductive end points. Premenopausal women ((italic)n(/italic) = 403) collected urine samples daily during an average of 5.6 cycles for measurement of steroid metabolites that were used to define menstrual parameters such as cycle and phase ...

OBJECTIVE High sodium (HS) diet is associated with hypertension (HT) and insulin resistance (IR). We evaluated whether HS diet was associated with a dysregulation of cortisol production and metabolic syndrome (MetS). PATIENTS AND MEASUREMENTS We recruited 370 adults (18-85 years, BMI 29·3 ± 4·4 kg/m(2) , 70% women, 72% HT, 61% MetS). HS diet (urinary sodium >150 mEq/day) was observed in 70% o...

BACKGROUND Trihalomethanes (THMs) occurring in public drinking water sources have been investigated in several epidemiological studies of fetal death and results support a modest association. Other classes of disinfection by-products found in drinking water have not been investigated. AIMS To investigate the effects of haloacetic acid (HAA) compounds in drinking water on stillbirth risk. ME...

The parsing problem for a rb i t r a ry un i f icat ion grammars is unsolvable We present a class of un i f i ca t ion grammars for whcih the parsing problem is solvable and a para l le l parsing algori thm for th is class of grammars 1. In t roduc t ion Uni f icat ion grammars have the power of a Turing machine, and one can easily prove this by showing that a un i f i ca t ion grammar can simu...

In this paper, we discuss the thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of geomaterials at light their microstructure and its changes induced by multiphysics loading. After recalling strong links between water retention properties unsaturated soils, relation themicrostructure physical ruling heat mass transfers are discussed. The mechanical soils is then discussed focussing on definition an effective s...