Prof. M. M. Mukhedkar Department of E&TC Engineering, DYPCOE, DYPCOE, Ambi, Talegaon Pune, India Abstract—One of the leading reasons for traffic accidents is distracted attention of driver. As day by day numbers of vehicles on road are increasing, the proportion of number of accidents is also increasing. Drivers with a low vigilance level suffer from marked decline in their abilities of percept...

The use of tetrachloroethylene as a dry cleaning agent, chemical intermediate, and metal degreasing agent has led to its release to the environment. It has also been shown to be produced naturally by several temperate and subtropical marine macroalgae, but the majority of exposure to tetrachloroethylene is still through anthropogenic sources. It is primarily released to the air where it is slow...

The feeding diversity of macroinvertebrates from the estuary of Mondego was estimated with Shannon–Wiener complementary evenness following the methodology presented in Gamito and Furtado (2009. Ecological Indicators, 9: 1009-1019). Results were compared with those from BAT (Benthic Assessment Tool; Teixeira et al., 2009. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 58: 1477-1786) applied to the same data set, ob...

Harbours are one of the most disturbed coastal ecosystems due to intensive anthropogenic pressures. This study aimed for first time compare impacts in three harbours from central coast Tunisia (Mediterranean Sea) employing analysis heavy metal contamination and ecological quality status (EcoQS). Sampling was carried out spring 2019 fishing harbour Teboulba, marina Monastir, commercial Sousse. T...

Designing IT is facing more challenges than ever. The increasingly pervasive and complex IT systems risk loosing their overall value if not designed more robustly and autonomous. In addition the IT colonization of most everyday practices requires a more adaptive assistance from the technology if the proliferation of IT is to be rendered meaningful. The challenges have been widely acknowledged w...

A great deal of concern has recently arisen regarding the safety of anaesthesia in infants and children. There is mounting and convincing preclinical evidence in rodents and non-human primates that anaesthetics in common clinical use are neurotoxic to the developing brain in vitro and cause long-term neurobehavioural abnormalities in vivo. An estimated 6 million children (including 1.5 million ...

Realistic assessments of the ecological status benthic habitats, as requested by European directives such Water Framework Directive and Marine Strategy Directive, require biotic indices capable detecting anthropogenic impact without having preliminary knowledge occurring pressures. In this context, a new general-purpose index (GPBI) based on deviation macrofauna community composition structure ...

Using recent indices developed, in part, for use under the European Water Framework Directive (AMBI, BENTIX, BOPA, BQI, I2EC and the trophic index ITI), the ecological quality status of two highly contaminated environments--the Bay of Seine and the Seine estuary (Eastern English Channel)--was determined on several spatial and temporal scales. Data from 604 observations gathered over a 14-year p...

The former-industrial site of Bagnoli (Naples, Southern Italy), the second Italian largest steelwork, has been negatively affected by discharges heavy metals and hydrocarbons that have markedly altered water sediment quality as well biota living therein. On basis benthic foraminiferal traditional morphology-based approach eDNA metabarcoding, we evaluate response foraminifera to pollution define...