She consulted frequently with her hand mirror, another fixture on the dining-room table, alongside the pristine place settings.
Amphibian mortality events in relatively pristine and protected settings cause particular concern because they may be linked to larger scale, off-site factors that interact with local landscape features.
Even areas of the country in settings often considered pristine are proving to have problems with ozone.
Exposure to ENPs in consumer or environmental settings may either be to the original, pristine ENPs, or more likely, to ENPs that have been incorporated into products, released, aged and transformed.
Direct exposure to pristine manufactured nanomaterials is most likely for workers in industrial settings when handling nanomaterials without protection measures or by accidental release from enclosed automatic production systems.
But they seem equally at home in a pristine gallery space, and often are, having been exhibited in museum settings from London to Berlin.
These findings point to the challenges of identifying pristine, uncontaminated control sites for field studies of water sources located in rural settings, where a variety of agricultural and other human and animal activities can introduce pollutants into the surrounding environment.
Noteworthy, Meliandou is not located in or near a pristine forest, but in a heavily human-modified landscape dominated by plantations, which represents "modern" African settings.
