Youda Huang

TL;DR: It is highlighted that both adults and children consuming food crops grown in wastewater-irrigated soils ingest significant amount of the metals studied, however, health risk index values of less than 1 indicate a relative absence of health risks associated with the ingestion of contaminated vegetables.

TL;DR: The model-free affected-pedigree member method was used during initial screening with chromosome 6p, 8q, and 1p microsatellites, and only individuals with absence seizures and/or electroencephalogram 3-4-Hz spike- and multispike-slow wave complexes were considered to be affected.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that the sorption of PBDEs on sediment organic matter governed their spatial distribution, transport, and fate in the sediments, and risk quotients derived from concentrations ofPBDEs in sediments from the authors' study may pose high ecological risks to exposure of benthic organisms.

TL;DR: Algae played an important role in regulating the distribution of EDCs in surface waters, and relationships between UV absorbance and EDCs revealed that π-π interactions were among the dissolved organic carbon (DOC)-EDC binding mechanisms and that DOC fractions with higher degrees of aromaticity and humification possessed higher affinities towards EDCs.

TL;DR: This study indicated that the important roles of aromatic moieties, accessibility, and microporosity in the sorption of HOCs by SOM, including the NHC fractions, dominate the overall sorption by the bulk samples.