New methods of analysis for water quality monitoring to detect inorganic substances are required to meet the demands of determining concentration, particularly at low detection limits, analysing speciation and even identifying the pollution source. Such information is essential to inform public health decisions and to comply with more stringent legislation. This paper concentrates on two case s...

Front-side connected, N-channel, normally-off, chemical field effect transistor (ChemFET) microsensors including a SiO2/Si3N4 pH-sensitive gate have been fabricated using a standard P-well silicon technology. The fabrication and packaging processes are described and sensor properties and performances are demonstrated through pHmeasurements. Finally, the front-side connected ChemFETs microsensor...

Traditional flicker detection methods accurately extract the amplitude envelope as the premise, the complexity of large amount of computation. This paper presents a new real-time detection of voltage flicker method, analysis method with recursive frequency carrier signal frequency; use of the adjacent three-point sampling data, the frequency carrier signal frequency, sampling frequency voltage ...

The physical world can be monitored by ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) devices through participatory sensing by which a huge amount of data is collected and analyzed in the cloud for hazard detection and response. In this paper, we propose a Trust as a Service (TaaS) cloud utility leveraging a cloud hierarchy for assessing service trustworthiness of IoT devices so as filter out untrustworth...

OBJECTIVES To examine nonylphenol (NP) and 4-t-octylphenol (OP) concentrations and general water quality indicators along a river in the greater Tokyo area and to specify the distribution and origin of alkylphenols. METHODS Water was sampled from the Edogawa River, a main river in the greater Tokyo area, which is a source of public drinking water; and the Sakagawa River system, a tributary of...

We compared the effectiveness of three PCR protocols for the detection of Bifidobacterium adolescentis and one PCR protocol for detecting Bacteroidales as indicators of human fecal pollution in environmental samples. Quantitative PCR indicated that a higher concentration of B. adolescentis DNA was recovered from sewage samples on the 0.2 mum filters compared to the 0.45 mum filters, and there w...

We report a novel molecular assay, based on helicase-dependent amplification (HDA), for the detection of enterococci as markers for fecal pollution in water. This isothermal assay targets the same Enterococcus 23S rRNA gene region as the existing quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assays of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Methods 1611 and 1609 but can be entirely performed on a ...

esters of phthalates, mainly applied as plasticizer, cause several human health and environment    hazards. phthalates are widely used in pharmaceutical products, cosmetics, as well as other plastic commercial products, and can penetrate in foods, water dusts, and air leading to ingestion and inhalation exposure followed by skin absorption for human. these compounds cause serious adverse effect...

Air pollution is a global problem all over the world. Bioindicator approach is a modern and progressive way how to determinate an amount of damage caused by pollution in nature. Presented paper deals with processing of electron-microscope images of needles pores of Norway spruce. These needles have usually miscellaneous structure of epidermis. But if the tree grows in polluted air the needles s...

objective: the world is currently facing with various problems including water and soil pollution as well as a major threat to the health of the citizens due to the advancement at human civilization, technology development, pesticides and chemical fertilizers application, the increasing exploitation of natural resources by the agricultural sector and the increasing usage of fossil energy. there...