The widely occurring degradation product aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) is a result of glyphosate and amino-polyphosphonate degradation. Massive use of the parent compounds leads to the ubiquity of AMPA in the environment, and particularly in water. The purpose of this review is to summarize and discuss current insights into AMPA formation, transport, persistence and toxicity. In agricultura...

A total of 834 individual aerosol particles were collected during October and November 2010 in urban Shanghai, China. Particles were sampled under different weather and air quality conditions. Morphologies, compositions and mixing states of carbonaceous aerosols were investigated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) coupled with energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX). Structures of some particles w...

Different wipe materials and wetting agents have been traditionally used to collect pesticide residues from indoor surfaces in human exposure assessments. Such methods were developed to estimate human pesticide exposure through skin contact. From an environmental point of view, wiping methods may be also applied to predict the runoff potential of pesticides on urban impervious surfaces. Since l...

The absorption properties of ambient urban aerosols as well as their size distributions were measured in real-time using a dual wavelength optical particle spectrometer (DWOPS). A photoacoustic spectrometer (PAS) was simultaneously used to directly measure light absorptivity of the particles in question along with an Aethalometer and a commercial optical particle counter (OPC). The sizing perfo...

The delivery and distribution of very small particles throughout rooms and enclosures has become an important component of military and security operations in the urban environment. However, the effectiveness of an RNP deployment will be significantly affected by entity-entity collisions and the evolution of the particle size distribution. It is essential therefore to understand the mechanisms ...

Introduction: Early detection and treatment of breast cancer may be helping to save the lives of patients. Many new techniques have been urban to detect breast cancer. One of them is the use of nano-particles for accuracy and early diagnosis after photo transfer. In this study, rod gold nano particles was used according their ability to change light source transfer intensity. ...

US military personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan have been variably exposed to desert dusts, smoke from burn pits, and urban particulate matter, and some have developed constrictive bronchiolitis. We performed FE-SEM/EDS and LA-ICP-MS analyses as part of a larger blinded study to identify the particle types present, count numbers of particles of different types, and map the distribution o...

Data from the urban renewal experience in Syracuse, New York are used to examine the impact of race on patterns of intra-urban migration. The results show that, overall, the migration patterns exhibited an exponential decay in frequency with increasing distance. Both blacks and whites display this pattern, but blacks tend to cluster more closely around the point of origin. Indirect evidence is ...