Health risk assessment and microplastic pollution in streams through accumulation and interaction by heavy metals by A.M. Sabilillah, F.R. Palupi, B.K. Adji, A.P. Nugroho

“…A thorough analysis of the extent of the health risks that people who consume fish from these rivers may experience is urgently needed. Hence, this study aimed to study microplastic pollution accumulated by fish in Code and Gajahwong streams, analyze the interactions with heavy metals, and assess the potential health risks.METHODS: Fish sample collection was conducted in three stations by considering the severity of plastic pollution. …”
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Toxicity of Nanoparticles in Biomedical Application: Nanotoxicology by Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Vijaykumar K. Parmar, Jaison Jeevanandam, Shahira M. Ezzat, Kingsley C. Patrick-Iwuanyanwu, Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji, Johra Khan, Eugene N. Onyeike, Chukwuemelie Zedech Uche, Muhammad Akram, Mervat S. Ibrahim, Nihal M. El Mahdy, Chinaza Godswill Awuchi, Kaliyaperumal Saravanan, Habibu Tijjani, Uchenna Estella Odoh, Mohammed Messaoudi, Jonathan C. Ifemeje, Michael C. Olisah, Nebechi Jane Ezeofor, Chukwudi Jude Chikwendu, Chinwe Gloria Ibeabuchi

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Preliminary Study of Eels (Anguilla) in Sumbawa Island According to the Knowledge of Local Communities: Distributions, Pattern of Fishing, and Utilizations by Neri Kautsari, Husain Latuconsina, Ilham Zulfahmi

“…Respondents (83.64%) did not know about the limited protection for several species of eels.…”
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AFRICAN UNION’S SHARED VALUES AND THE DILEMMA OF DEMOCRACY IN WEST AFRICA by BARILEDUM Kia, SUNNY OKORO ABEKI

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Database model for inventory and condition assessment of hydraulics infrastructure in Indonesia by Setiono, Wahyudi Agus Hari

“…A well-documented physical infrastructure will assist the government in maintaining and repairing the building if there is damage/disruption. …”
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Fuzzy Clustering-Based Ensemble Approach to Predicting Indian Monsoon by Moumita Saha, Pabitra Mitra, Arun Chakraborty

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Differences in specificity, development time and virulence between two acanthocephalan parasites, infecting two cryptic species of Gammarus fossarum by Bauer, Alexandre, Develay Nguyen, Lucie, Motreuil, Sébastien, Teixeira, Maria, Debrosse, Nelly, Rigaud, Thierry

“…The mortality of infected individuals increased significantly after several weeks of development of both parasite species. …”
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Analyzing the geomorphometric changes of Dana County due to the Sisakhat earthquake using the Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (D-InSAR) method. by Sayyd Morovat Eftekhari

“…These changes at the level of the region will not be the same and the amount will be different under the influence of several factors such as: earthquake intensity, landforms, geo-material, and structure geological... …”
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Multiscale Feature-Enhanced Water Body Detector of Truncated Gaussian Clutter in SAR Imagery by Bo Zhu, Yuli Xia, Yongsheng Zhou, Xiaoning Lv, Minqin Liu

“…The proposed TGCFeWD method effectively detects water bodies including seas, rivers, and lakes. Compared to several existing methods, TGCFeWD greatly improves water detection accuracy in complex environments. …”
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Reflections on Korea in 2010: Trials and prospects for recovery of common sense in 2011 by Paik Nak-chung

“…To make matters worse, the incompetence and sloppiness of the South Korean government in its initial response caused uneasiness among the citizens, and its belated displays of toughness and escalation of tension, proclaiming "readiness for a full-scale war," has added to South Korean people's sense of insecurity and even stirred their anger.Taking advantage of the security crisis, members of the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) on December 8 unilaterally and employing physical force rammed through the National Assembly the annual budget and other disputed bills. …”
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Waterlettuce Weevil Neohydronomus affinis Hustache, 1926 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Telmah Telmadarrehei, Carey R. Minteer

“…It infests slow-moving streams, waterways, lakes, and rivers, forming dense floating mats that are composed of several rosettes connected by stolons (runner stems). …”
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A Novel Excavation and Construction Method for an Extra-Long Underwater Tunnel in Soft Soils by Jian Wu, Zhifang Zhou, Wenjun Xia, Haixiao Wang, Zhongqiang Fang

“…In this method, a cofferdam of double-row steel sheet piles (DSSPs) was designed in order to divide the overlying excavation into several closed zones. During the construction, four zones were regarded as a unit, and different construction steps were carried out simultaneously in each zone. …”
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Improving Carbon Mitigation Potential through Grassland Ecosystem Restoration under Climatic Change in Northeastern Tibetan Plateau by Lin Huang, Xinliang Xu, Quanqin Shao, Jiyuan Liu

“…Then we estimated its potential of climate mitigation benefits to address the question of whether ecological restoration could be effective in reversing the decline of ecosystem carbon mitigation service. …”
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POVERTY AND NATIONAL SECURITY: AN OVERVIEW OF NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC by ADAMU MOHAMMED

“… Nigeria is now facing significant internal security difficulties, such as the Niger Delta militancy in the South-South geopolitical zone that includes Bayelsa and Rivers, and the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeastern regions of Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa. …”
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An Assessment of Landslides Occurrence and Its Implications on Local Community in Ibanda Sub County Kasese District, Uganda by Chris, Agaba

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Evaluating the potential of Nature-based solutions to mitigate land use and climate change impacts on the hydrology of the Gefersa and Legedadi watersheds in Ethiopia by Yared Bayissa, Raghavan Srinivasan, Johannes Hunink, Douglas Nyolei, Semu Moges, David de Andrade Costa, Dereje Tadesse, Assefa Melesse, Seifu Tilahun

“…Study region: Surface water supply source of Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, relies primarily on the small reservoirs in Gefersa and Legedadi water supply systems located upstream of Little and Big Akaki rivers. Thus, Gefersa and Legedadi are the study watersheds of this research. …”
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An Assessment of Landslides Occurrence and its Implications on Local Community in Ibanda Sub County Kasese District, Uganda by Agaba, Chris

“…Thirdly is that the socio-economic losses due to slope failures are great, ranging from destruction of infrastructure, displacement of residence, loss of property and siltation of rivers. Fourthly, the study established that farmers have adopted some responses in regard to landslides such as afforestation programmers, and adhering to warnings given by local government to re-locate to a safer ground. …”
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Multi-Disaster Hazard Analysis, The Case of Elazığ Province by Fethi Ahmet Canpolat

“…Various methods, such as the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and machine learning models, including the Random Forest algorithm, were employed to assess the severity and probability of exposure for each hazard type. …”
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Analysis of legislative acts in water management by J. Nesiba, R. Cuhlova

“…The presented research examines the statistical data of the number and type of legislative acts concerning to water protection issued in the Czech Republic during the period 1990-2019. Several types of legislative acts are followed in administrative law and statistically compared by the development in time and its type. …”
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Soil and Groundwater Characteristics of a Legacy Spill Site by A Adoki

“…The soil and groundwater of a legacy spill site in Eleme Local Government Authority Area of Rivers Stae were investigated. …”
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