The impact of environmental degradation on well-being is largely ignored in terms of economic costs of development. Due in large part to measurement difficulties, the environment in the daily welfare of the world's poorest remains inadequately accounted for in development polici…
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The aims of the work reported in this thesis are: (1) To investigate the application of a Wave Analysis Approach in the study of the acoustics of small rooms where the conditions for a Geometrical Statistical Analysis are not valid.
This paper aims to take an in-depth analysis of the impact of adopting the Urea Deep Placement method to apply nitrogen fertilizer in rice on the local environment, including both greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and water pollution. UDP is a farming technology which is used mostl…
Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) contributed to 4.1 million premature deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, 91% of which occurred in low‐ and middle‐income countries. Yet, the mechanisms of how PM chemical characteristics drive adverse health outcomes a…
Bangladeshi women are exposed to the toxic metal cadmium (Cd) through consumption of contaminated foods, and exposure to tobacco products. At high levels of vitamin D supplementation, increasing gastrointestinal uptake of Cd may occur. Cd exposure could lead to renal dysfunction…
Ethiopia has long been among the most rabies-affected countries in the world with an annual incidence rate of 1.6/100,000 population. Domestic dogs serve as the principal reservoir for rabies transmission however, little information exists regarding the genetic diversity of RABV…
Greywater is increasingly reused for agricultural irrigation in the Middle East. However, there is a dearth of data regarding antibiotics, herbicides, and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in household greywater reuse systems. Additionally, there are minimal data assessing consumer …
Background: Chronic arsenic (As) exposure in a global public health concern. Arsenic exposure through drinking water affects over 140 million people in at least 70 countries, including 40 million people in Bangladesh. In the United States (US), 2.4 million people rely on private…
For nearly 250 years, European settlers have been interfering with the natural course and condition of the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz, California. This disturbance has caused ecological and environmental damage and has had long-term effects on people living near the river a…
Zoonotic diseases, diseases that can be transmitted between humans and animals which account for the majority of emerging infectious diseases, pose a consistent health burden on the human population. Transmission of zoonotic pathogens is driven by a complex interface between hum…
Organic contaminant exposure is a concern for both humans and wildlife due to long lasting and potential harmful effects. The research presented here investigates to organic contaminant exposure in both humans and wildlife. Sample preparation, instrument methods, and data proces…
Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) are native to Europe and were first reported in North America in the late 1980s at Lake St. Clair in Michigan. They negatively impact ecosystems, recreation, and facilities that use surface water such as public water supply plants, power gene…
Worldwide, almost 630,000 women died from breast cancer last year. North American women face a lifetime risk for breast cancer of one in eight, with nearly 500 new breast cancer diagnoses each week in Canada. The overall global incidence of breast cancer continues to rise. Five …
The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill was the largest oil spill in U.S. history and to mitigate this oil spill, 2.1 million gallons of chemical dispersant were applied. Vibrio parahaemolyticus is gram-negative halophilic bacteria present in the estuarine and marine environment. …
The forced extraction of raw materials and life forms from the Earth’s biosphere sustains human feats of modernity. From precious metals to fossil fuels, from copper to uranium, and the rare earth minerals essential to modern infrastructure and electronics, the history of mining…
Places matter to people, especially the familiar places that embody their personal and cultural histories and support the social interactions and routines of everyday life. My primary goal in this dissertation is to show how the mattering of places to people is at root an aesthe…
Introduction: The incidence rates of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) and cutaneous malignant melanoma are rapidly increasing. While inhaled particulate matter (PM) has been classified as a lung carcinogen, the associations between ambient PM (either PM2.5 and PM10) and skin canc…