Assessment of potential ecological risk to benthic organisms inhabiting these sediments is often necessary to determine risk-based remedial cleanup goals. In some cases, these ecological risk assessments (ERAs) can be relatively straightforward, focusing only on the visual presence of tar or sheen in sediment cores or on PAH concentrations linked to unacceptable risk thresholds. However, ERAs c...

pollution of water and soils by heavy metals is an emerging problem in industrialized countries.the present study was conducted to investigate the heavy metals concentration in water and sedimentsamples from ship breaking sites of sitakunda to assess the potential ecological risk posed by heavy metalusing different methods. heavy metals concentration was analyzed by atomic absorption spectrosco...

The discharge of mine water containing sulphate may pose potential ecological risk to receiving waters. In this paper, we demonstrated the application of a risk-based approach to managing sulphate discharge using a coal mine in the Bowen Basin (Australia) as a case study. This approach integrates information on sulphate concentration and its ecological impact to quantify the risk and evaluate t...

This work examines the effects of six pesticides on five green algae: Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata, Scenedesmus quadricauda, Scenedesmus obliquus, Chlorella vulgaris and Chlorella pyrenoidosa. The results indicate that the decreasing order of the average toxicity to five algae was: fluazinam > propineb > maneb > mancozeb > zineb > bromoxynil octanoate. however, according to sensitivity magni...

BACKGROUND In occupational life, a mismatch between high expenditure of effort and receiving few rewards may promote the co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors, however, there is insufficient evidence to support or refute this hypothesis. The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which the dimensions of the Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) model--effort, rewards and ERI--are associated wi...