One of the classical data mining techniques is k-nearest neighbor. This method uses the class of the k nearest neighbor to classify a new instance. The distance is calculated with one of the multiple mathematical distance metrics. In this paper, the technique is used in the air quality forecast domain in order to predict the value of the air quality index. This index is used to categorize the p...

Air pollution and lung cancer are closely related. In 2013, the World Health Organization listed outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic and regarded it as the most widespread carcinogen that humans are currently exposed to. Here, grey correlation and data envelopment analysis methods are used to determine the pollution factors causing lung cancer among residents in Nanchang, China, and identify ...

heavy metals, e.g. cd and pb emit and release into the environment during cement production and are deposited into soils. this research was carried out to determine the concentration and spatial distribution of trace elements in top soils around the kurdistan cement factory, west of iran in order to evaluate the effect of cement factory on the environment. twenty-four soil samples were collecte...

Heavy metal pollution may pose a significant threat to aquatic ecosystems. To assess heavy pollution, sediment samples were collected from Changwang and Wuyuan Rivers between June December 2019. An inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer was used analyze the concentrations of As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn. The results revealed that River had significantly high Cr (240.70 mg kg−1), Co ...

In contrast with Mobility Factor (MF) and Risk Assessment Code (RAC) indices, IR attributes a risk share to metal species bound to reducible and oxidizable phases which are totally neglected in both of the two above-mentioned indices. In other words, besides the absolutely mobile fractions, the potentially mobile ones are also regarded in risk evaluation process elaborated by IR. The different ...

Two mathematical methods to assess the "health status" of flounder (Platichthys flesus), eelpout (Zoarces viviparus) and blue mussel (Mytilus spp.) populations of the Baltic Sea were applied on selected biomarker data collected during the EU project "BEEP" (Biological Effects of Environmental Pollution on Marine Coastal Ecosystems). The Bioeffect Assessment Index (BAI) and the Integrated Biomar...

Water quality assessment at the watershed scale requires not only an investigation of water pollution and the recognition of main pollution factors, but also the identification of polluted risky regions resulted in polluted surrounding river sections. To realize this objective, we collected water samplings from 67 sampling sites in the Honghe River watershed of China with Grid GIS method to ana...