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Xiang Liu, Jin Zhang, Wenqing Shi, Min Wang, Kai Chen and Li Wang
Understanding the drivers of macroinvertebrate community structure is fundamental for adequately controlling pollutants and managing ecosystems under global change. In this study, the abundance and diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates, as well as thei...
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Md Sharifuzzaman, Hong-Seok Mun, Keiven Mark B. Ampode, Eddiemar B. Lagua, Hae-Rang Park, Young-Hwa Kim, Md Kamrul Hasan and Chul-Ju Yang
Vietnam heavily relies on pork as its primary source of animal protein. Traditional farming methods, characterized by small-scale operations, dominate the industry. However, challenges such as rising feed costs, disease outbreaks, and market volatility a...
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Milton Speer, Joshua Hartigan and Lance M. Leslie
Flash droughts (FDs) are natural disasters that strike suddenly and intensify quickly. They occur almost anywhere, anytime of the year, and can have severe socio-economic, health and environmental impacts. This study focuses on a recent FD that began in ...
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Xinyi Ren, Elizabeth Pritchard, Caryn van Vreden, Sharon Newnam, Ross Iles and Ting Xia
Background: Fatigued driving is one of the leading factors contributing to road crashes in the trucking industry. The nature of trucking, prolonged working time, and irregular sleep patterns can negatively impact drivers? health and wellbeing. However, t...
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Rafiya Sohail, Yousaf Saeed, Abid Ali, Reem Alkanhel, Harun Jamil, Ammar Muthanna and Habib Akbar
Diabetes is a chronic disease that is escalating day by day and requires 24/7 continuous management. It may cause many complications, precisely when a patient moves, which may risk their and other drivers? and pedestrians? lives. Recent research shows di...
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Hongkun Zhao, Yaofeng Yang, Yajuan Chen, Huyang Yu, Zhuo Chen and Zhenwei Yang
In recent years, environmental degradation and the COVID-19 pandemic have seriously affected economic development and social stability. Addressing the impact of major public health events on residents? willingness to pay for environmental protection (WTP...
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Fuzheng Zhao, Qingmiao Yu and Xu-Xiang Zhang
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest challenges to public health and ecological safety in the 21st century. Urban wastewater treatment plants (UWTPs), as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB), sim...
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Joshua Ntajal, Britta Höllermann, Timo Falkenberg, Thomas Kistemann and Mariele Evers
Water pollution is a major issue in Ghana with direct impacts on human health. However, the underlying drivers of exposure and risks are not comprehensively explored and understood, while the diseases continue posing huge burdens. The key question addres...
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Quynh C. Nguyen, Tom Belnap, Pallavi Dwivedi, Amir Hossein Nazem Deligani, Abhinav Kumar, Dapeng Li, Ross Whitaker, Jessica Keralis, Heran Mane, Xiaohe Yue, Thu T. Nguyen, Tolga Tasdizen and Kim D. Brunisholz
Collecting neighborhood data can both be time- and resource-intensive, especially across broad geographies. In this study, we leveraged 1.4 million publicly available Google Street View (GSV) images from Utah to construct indicators of the neighborhood b...
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Kai Ilie Smith and Sara Shirowzhan
The outbreak of the Delta Variant of COVID-19 presents a natural experiment without modern precedent. As authorities scrambled to control the spread of the disease in Australia?s largest cities, construction workers were allowed to keep working on site w...
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