Displacement as a predictor of functional impairment in tsunami‐exposed children

Thirty months after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004, thousands of families in Aceh Province, Indonesia, remained in temporary barracks while sanitation conditions and non‐governmental organisation support deteriorated. This study sought to determine the factors associated with functional impairment in a sample of 138 displaced and non‐displaced Acehnese children. Using multivariate linear regression models, it was found that displacement distance was a consistent predictor of impairment using the Brief Impairment Scale. Exposure to tsunami‐related trauma markers was not significantly linked with impairment in the model. Paternal employment was a consistent protective factor for child functioning. These findings suggest that post‐disaster displacement and the subsequent familial economic disruption are significant predictors of impaired functioning in children's daily activities. Post‐disaster interventions should consider the disruption of familiar environments for families and children when relocating vulnerable populations to avoid deleterious impacts on children's functioning.     

Numerical simulation and optimization study of surface pressure and flow field around a triangular prism behind a porous fence

Environmental Fluid Mechanics - The flow structure around upright porous fences and a triangular prism was numerically investigated by using the RNG k-ε turbulence model. The numerical method...     

Species identification and mutation breeding of silicon-activating bacteria isolated from electrolytic manganese residue

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - A strain of silicon-activating bacteria was isolated from electrolytic manganese residue (EMR); identified as a species of Ochrobactrum by integrated...     

Reducing the reproductive toxicity activity of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum: a review of mechanisms and prospects

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Food pollution can cause a variety of negative effects on human health, especially reproductive toxicity. Common food contaminants include biological...     

Study on microstructure and extinction characteristics of particulate matter in diesel engine fueled with different biodiesels

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Biodiesel combustion particulate matter (PM) is different from diesel combustion PM in terms of microscopic morphology, which directly affects the...     

What adverse health effects will environmental heavy metal co-exposure bring us: based on a biological monitoring study of sanitation workers

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - To investigate the relationship between health effect profile and co-exposure to heavy metal, 254 sanitation workers from Guangzhou, China, were...     

Heavy metal exposure has adverse effects on the growth and development of preschool children

Environmental Geochemistry and Health - The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations between levels of lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), and manganese (Mn) in the PM2.5 and...     

Improved biogas production from rice straw by co-digestion with kitchen waste and pig manure

In order to investigate the effect of feedstock ratios in biogas production, anaerobic co-digestions of rice straw with kitchen waste and pig manure were carried out. A series of single-stage batch mesophilic (37 ± 1 °C) anaerobic digestions were performed at a substrate concentration of 54 g/L based on volatile solids (VS). The results showed that the optimal ratio of kitchen waste, pig manure, and rice straw was 0.4:1.6:1, for which the C/N ratio was 21.7. The methane content was 45.9–70.0% and rate of VS reduction was 55.8%. The biogas yield of 674.4 L/kg VS was higher than that of the digestion of rice straw or pig manure alone by 71.67% and 10.41%, respectively. Inhibition of biogas production by volatile fatty acids (VFA) occurred when the addition of kitchen waste was greater than 26%. The VFA analysis showed that, in the reactors that successfully produced biogas, the dominant intermediate metabolites were propionate and acetate, while they were lactic acid, acetate, and propionate in the others.     

浸水条件下环氧微表处与沥青路面层间抗剪性能的试验研究∗

微表处在工程应用过程中受水与车辆荷载作用,容易产生推移或整片剥落。为此,在微表处中添加适量不同种类的水性环氧树脂(Water-borne Epoxy Resin,WER)形成环氧微表处,通过拉伸试验和自主设计的45°斜剪试验,研究WER对环氧微表处在浸水条件下层间抗剪性能的影响。试验结果表明:胶结料在掺入刚性较大的WER后,随浸水时间增加,胶结料塑性变形能力削弱,弹塑性阶段与塑性阶段减短,脆性增加,而掺加柔性的WER,塑性阶段持续时间较长;浸水状态下,环氧微表处与沥青路面的层间抗剪强度影响因素主次顺序为油石比WER掺量WER掺加方式,而切向变形率的影响因素主次顺序为WER掺量WER掺加方式油石比。在工程应用中,建议采用油石比7%、WER掺量8%～12%且将环氧树脂与固化剂预先调和后加入水中,然后与集料进行拌合。