Analysis of environmental information is considered of utmost importance for humans, since environmental conditions are strongly related to health issues and to a variety of everyday activities. Despite the fact that there are already many free on-line services providing environmental information, there are several cases, in which the presentation format complicates the extraction and processin...

background: acanthamoeba spp . are free-living amebas found in a wide variety of natural habitats. the high percentage of acanthamoeba in different environmental sources represents a sanitary risk for public health especially contact lens users and immunocompromised patients. the aim of this study was to determine the presence of acanthamoeba spp. in different environments such as water, soil, ...

BACKGROUND Because of the long asbestos-related disease latencies (10-50 years), detection, diagnosis, and epidemiologic studies require asbestos exposure history. However, environmental asbestos exposure source (EAES) data are lacking. OBJECTIVES To survey the available data for past EAES and supplement these data with interviews. METHODS We constructed an EAES database using a literature ...

Integrated environmental management in urban areas is nowadays considered as a sine qua non objective of Community and national environmental and development policies. Large amounts of scientific information on the state of the environment are now available from a large pool of data sources. This work presents the on-going research efforts at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission...