Sentence examples for metals and human from inspiring English sources

However, the use of wastewater can also have negative effects, such as increased soil salinity, excessive leaching of nutrients and heavy metals, and human health risks from exposure to pathogens (Qadir and Oster2004).

Sewage sludge, a by-product generated in enormous quantity from various biological, chemical and physical treatment processes, may create environmental concerns in its disposal due to the presence of soil contaminants such as organic compounds, heavy metals and human pathogens (Singh and Agrawal 2008).

The CWM compost contained the minimum concentrations of the heavy and trace elements (i.e. zinc, copper, manganese, lead, nickel, chromium and cadmium) as well as Salmonella sp. and E. coli populations, whereas the control (C) contained the maximum contents of the heavy metals and human pathogens.

Animal teratogenesis by a variety of heavy metals and human teratogenesis by at least lead and mercury are long established [ 55].

Accumulated knowledge of heavy metal teratology is quite extensive; animal teratogenesis by a variety of heavy metals, and human teratogenesis by, at minimum, lead and mercury, are long established [ 34].

While thousands of fans enjoy an afternoon in the stadium, writers navigate toxic slush, rusty metal, and human excrement just steps away in order to paint at any hour of the day.

This study applied factor analysis and landscape indices of 55 sampling sites in Changhua county in Taiwan to characterize the factor patterns of eight soil heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb and Zn) and the interrelation patterns of these soil heavy metals, landscape and human activities.

Over the last few years, surface water and groundwater resources are among the most important environmental issues due to heavy metals contamination and human industrial activities (Vodela et al. 1997; Öztürk et al. 2009; Marcovecchio et al. 2007; Khodabakhshi et al. 2011; Ghasemi et al. 2011).

In spite of their different structures and divalent metals, yPDE1 and human PDEs may share a common mechanism for hydrolysis of cAMP and cGMP.

A prism coupler type nanobioplasmonic device consisting of a prism, gold (Au) metal film and human skin tissue as a biosample has been investigated with the use of admittance loci method in angular interrogation mode.

The present study attempts to analyze whether and how a connection can be made between macroscopical control and microcosmic analysis, to estimate the impacts of human activities on heavy metals in soil, and to determine a way to describe the spatial relationship between heavy metals in soil and human activities, by means of landscape geochemical theories and methods.