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Concomitant microbial generation of palladium nanoparticles and hydrogen to immobilize chromate.
Oxidation-Reduction Palladium Abstract: The catalytic properties of various metal nanoparticles have led to their use in environmental remediation. Our aim is to develop and apply an efficient bioremediation method ...
Biodiversity and human health: mechanisms and evidence of the positive health effects of diversity in nature and green spaces.
developed methods are needed to quantify short- and long-term health effects of exposure to perceived and objectively measured species diversity, including health effects of nature-based solutions and ...
A novel approach to model 4 decades of marine chemical data
Within more than 40 years of pollution data, variability is much larger, and multiple issues should be tackled to intercalibrate the data: changes in sampling locations and analyses methods over time, ...
4DEMON: Centralization and valorization of 4 decades of biota contaminant data in the Belgian Part of the North Sea
variability in the dataset is large and various issues have to be addressed to intercalibrate the data: sampling locations and species changed over time, major method changes occurred and essential metadata ...
Childhood leukemia near nuclear sites in Belgium: An ecological study at small geographical level.
the statistical sector. This offers the advantage to reduce the potential misclassification due to large geographical scales. METHODS: The current study performed for the period 2006-2016 uses Poisson ...
In utero exposure to parabens and early childhood BMI z-scores- Associations between placental ethyl paraben, longitudinal BMI trajectories and cord blood metabolic biomarkers.
utero paraben exposure on early childhood trajectories of BMI z-scores. METHODS: Placental concentrations of four parabens [methyl (MeP), ethyl (EtP), propyl (PrP), and butyl (BuP)] were measured by ...
Disentangling the Link between Built/Non-Built Environment and Mental Health in Brussels
“ NAMED ” which aim to investigate the impact of the (non-)built environment on mental health in Belgium, one of the most urbanized countries in Europe. Methods Research focuses on the inhabitants of ...
Urban environment and mental health: the NAMED project, protocol for a mixed-method study.
residential environment. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Following a mixed-method approach, this project combines quantitative and qualitative research. In the quantitative part, we analyse among the Brussels urban population ...
The effect of a cluster-randomized controlled trial on lifestyle behaviors among families at risk for developing type 2 diabetes across Europe: the Feel4Diabetes-study.
the participating countries: Belgium, Finland, Greece, Spain, Hungary and Bulgaria. METHODS: Families were recruited through schools, located in low socio-economic status areas. In total, 4484 families ...
The influence of lifestyle choices (food, alcohol, smoking) on the blood concentration of Cd, Pb and Hg of newborns, adolescents and adults from Wallonia
examined the associations of Cd, total Hg and Pb with habitual intakes of fish and alcohol and other possible determinants such as age, sex and smoking. MATERIAL AND METHODS We analysed blood concentrations ...