This analysis concerned 54 pregnant women participating in the Puerto Rico Test site for Exploring Contamination Threats (PROTECT) project.
Leaders of this program, termed PROTEC T Puerto Rico Testsitefor Exploring Contamination Threats are José Cordero of the University of Puerto Rico, Akram Alshawabkeh of Northeastern University, and John Meeker and Rita Loch-Caruso of the University of Michigan.
The Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats (PROTECT) program is an ongoing prospective cohort study of pregnant women residing in Northern Puerto Rico, where preterm birth rates are the third highest in the world and hazardous waste sites are numerous.
Thus, our goal here is to build upon the work of Wright et al. (2004) by exploring contamination at the water source separately from contamination of household stored water (HSW), and examining whether factors such as water provenance, rural/urban setting, and indicator organism have a differential effect on contamination at each location.
Some important alternative hypotheses to explore are contamination of samples, false positive bioinformatic signals, and alternative evolutionary histories that generated the apparent recombinants.
We will also monitor use of the software and explore possible contamination during the process evaluation interviews.
Social scientists, whose mission is to understand human interaction and organization, explore how contamination comes in large part from human-caused activity and how it affects social, economic, and political aspects of everyday life beyond the physical environment and bodies.
We explored soil contamination in detail.
Therefore, to explore how soil contamination of different spatial heterogeneity affects population dynamics of soil invertebrates, we developed a spatially explicit individual-based model of the springtail, Folsomia candida, a standard test species for ecotoxicological risk assessment.
In addition, this study provides a method to relieve the contamination and explores the mechanism of contamination to find the possibility of further measures.
