Pesticides play a vital role in ensuring global food security amid a growing global population; however, their movement away from application sites can pose significant risks to the health of non-target species. Pollution of freshwater is a key contributor to the high extinction rates of freshwater species, which often face exposure to a complex "cocktail" of pollutants simultaneously. A better understanding of pesticide interactions will enable more targeted policies and land management practices to mitigate environmental damage while ensuring food security.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Concomitant chest wall resection for locally advanced lung cancer is traditionally performed via an open approach. The safety and effectiveness of minimally invasive approaches for chest wall resections are unknown.
Methods: We used the National Cancer Database to identify patients undergoing lobectomy/bi-lobectomy with concomitant chest wall resection from 2010 to 2020.
Groundwater flow and contaminant migration tracing is a vital method of identifying and characterising pollutant source-pathway-receptor linkages in karst aquifers. Bacteriophages are an attractive alternative tracer to non-reactive fluorescent dye tracers, as high titres (>10 pfu mL) can be safely released into the aquifer, offering improved tracer detectability. However, the interpretation of bacteriophage tracer breakthrough curves is complicated as their fate and transport are impacted by aquifer physicochemical conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Music is a highly complex acoustic stimulus in both spectral and temporal contents. Accurate representation and delivery of high-fidelity information are essential for music perception. However, it is unclear how well bone-anchored hearing implants (BAHIs) transmit music.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComparison of the severity, frequency and self-reporting of pollution incidents by water and sewerage companies is made difficult by differences in environmental and operational conditions. In England, the deterioration in pollution incident performance makes it important to investigate common trends that could be addressed to improve pollution management. This study presents the first external analysis of available national pollution incident data, obtained through Environmental Information Regulations 2004 requests to the English Environment Agency.
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