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Contaminant Intrusion through Leaks in Water Distribution System: Experimental Analysis
2015
Abstract This paper presents the results of experimental tests on the intrusion of contaminant through pipe cracks in water distribution network resulting from low/negative pressures. The tests were carried out on a looped distribution network at the University of Enna and were performed first producing a pressure transient that causes negative pressures then reproducing intermittent supply. A soluble contaminant was added to the water volume in the network through a pipe crack. Sampling of water volume was carried out in two nodes of the network and the contaminant concentrations were measured. It was showed that: the contaminant was drawn in and transported, in the first set of tests; the…
Safety in Hazelnut Mechanical Harvesting
2022
Hazelnut cultivation occupies an area of about 13,000 ha in Sicily, 10,000 of which are concentrated in the province of Messina, specifically in the pedo-mountain municipalities of the Nebrodi. These are heterogeneous plants by cultivar and planting time. To date, the hazelnut represents a scarcely mechanized marginal crop, with a characteristic training system as the multi stemmed bush. The harvest takes place as soon as the hazelnuts reach maturity and detach from the herbaceous dome that surrounds them falling to the ground. Before harvesting, swathing is carried out by hand using rakes, or facilitated by backpack blowers, or mechanically by means of a swather or with a tractor-mounted b…
COMPOSICIÓN QUIMICA DE LAS HOJAS y SEMILLAS DE SACHA INCHI (Plukenetia volubilis L.); OLEAMIDA
2021
El estudio se realiza con el objeto de identificar el tipo de alcaloide, protoalcaloide opseudoalcaloide, que puedan ser cuantificables en las hojas y en la torta desemillas tostadas y desengrasadas de la especie Plukenetia volubilis L. y demostrar que su presencia no representa un riesgo para la salud. La metodología utilizada está basada en protometría de acuerdo a la Farmacopea Francesa y Europea, así como la utilización de técnicas de UHPLC-MS/MS y GC-MS que han permitido identificar y cuantificar un compuesto endógeno que revela las características de la cis-9-octadecenamida (oleamida), estructura similar a la anandamida; ligando endógeno de receptores cannabinoides en concentraciones …
Presence of mycotoxins in Tunisian infant foods samples and subsequent risk assessment
2018
Abstract A study on a set of cereal and cereal-based products (n = 117) intended for infant consumption was performed to determine the natural presence of twenty different mycotoxins by both liquid chromatography and gas chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). Analytical data showed that 67% of analyzed samples were contaminated by at least one mycotoxin at variable levels. Deoxynivalenol presented the highest incidence (38%) and reached a maximum level of 240 ng/g in a bsissa sample (oat product), higher than the maximum level set for DON in cereal products (200 ng/g). While, enniatin B was found in 25 samples with a maximum level of 316 ng/g found also in a bsissa samp…
Does better education mitigate risky health behavior? A mendelian randomization study.
2022
Education and risky health behaviors are strongly negatively correlated. Education may affect health behaviors by enabling healthier choices through higher disposable income, increasing information about the harmful effects of risky health behaviors, or altering time preferences. Alternatively, the observed negative correlation may stem from reverse causality or unobserved confounders. Based on the data from the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study linked to register-based information on educational attainment and family background, this paper identifies the causal effect of education on risky health behaviors. To examine causal effects, we used a genetic score as an instrument for year…
Prevalence, knowledge, attitudes and practices towards body art in university students: body art as an indicator of risk taking behaviours?
2010
<p><strong>Background</strong>: Young people are attracted by body art and consider it as a way of being “different”. Body art (tattoos, piercing, etc.) represents an important socio-cultural phenomenon which is not risk free for health. Existing literature, moreover, points out that deviant behaviours and unhealthy lifestyles are significantly associated with body art.</p><p><strong>Objective and methods</strong>: The research was aimed to describe the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of university students towards body art, highlighting the association between body art and some demographic variables, deviant behaviours, unhealthy lifestyles, kn…
Narażenie na zanieczyszczenia zawarte w pyłach PM10 i PM2,5 drogami wchłaniania: inhalacyjną, dermalną i pokarmową
2022
W artykule zaprezentowano wyniki pomiarów stężeń pyłu PM10 w powietrzu atmosferycznym wraz z zawartymi metalami ciężkimi (arsenem, kadmem, niklem i ołowiem). Przeanalizowano dane z okresu 2016-2020 dla ośmiu stacji monitoringu jakości powietrza zlokalizowanych w województwie śląskim. Wyniki pomiarów dotyczyły stężeń średniorocznych uzyskanych z rejestru Głównego Inspektoratu Ochrony Środowiska. Najwyższe stężenia pyłu PM10 odnotowano w latach 2016 i 2017, sięgały one 160 μg/m3 przekraczając tym samym wartość dopuszczalną (40 μg/m3) prawie 4-krotnie. Spośród przeanalizowanych metali, dla arsenu w roku 2016 zaobserwowano przekroczenia wartości dopuszczalnej, która wynosi 6 ng/m3. Spośród sied…
A CASE STUDY OF THE INDOOR AIR QUALITY IN SCHOOLS BELONGING TO AN AREA OF THE SICILIAN ISLAND INTERESTED BY THE PRESENCE OF PETROCHEMICAL REFINERIES
2021
The indoor environmental quality is a topic particularly relevant for schools; this category of confined environments is, indeed, occupied by subjects (i.e. children), which are thought to be more vulnerable than adults to the negative health effects of poor indoor air quality, and whose learning process has long been recognized to be influenced by the quality of the indoor environment. This paper presents results of a study concerning the inside air quality of schools in four small towns sited in the southern part of Sicily, interested by the presence of a petrochemical refinery in the surrounding territory. The performed analysis made it possible to highlight the main criticalities regard…
Usefulness of biomarkers as intermediate endpoints in health risks posed by occupational lead exposure
2015
The article concerns potential harmful effects of exposure to lead. Although the occurrence of severe lead poisoning has receded in several countries, occupational exposure resulting in moderate and clinically symptomatic toxicity is still common. An earlier and precise characterization of an individual response is obligatory in order to assess the possible risks for human health. Biomarkers may fill important gaps in the path from exposure to a disease. Specifically speaking, emerging (DNA double strand breaks and telomeric DNA erosion) and validated (micronuclei induction and chromosomal aberrations) biomarkers of genotoxicity seem to provide evidence for the assessment of molecular and c…
Impact of the environment on the health: From theory to practice
2021
The Erice 56 Charter titled "Impact of the environment on the health: from theory to practice" was unanimously approved at the end of the 56th course of the "International School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine G. D'Alessandro" held from 3th to 7th November 2019 in Erice - Sicily (Italy) and promoted by the Study Group of "Environment and Health" of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health. The course, that included lectures, open discussions and guided working groups, was aimed to provide a general training on epidemiological and toxicological aspects of the environmental health impact, to be used by public health professionals for risk assessment, with…