Since marine and environmental pollution is a major problem for the maritime industry, preventive implementations are constantly being developed. In this context, this research aimed to determine the dominant factors in ships detected to have pollution prevention deficiencies in port state control (PSC). A total of 12,530 PSC reports carried out by Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) region between 2017 and 2023 were analyzed with the association rule mining. The Apriori algorithm was performed to reveal hidden and meaningful relationships in the inspections. The dominant variables for inspections that detected pollution prevention deficiencies were ship flag, classification society, number of deficiencies, and inspection type. Association rules revealed that pollution prevention deficiency areas differed interestingly according to geographical region, classification society, and ship age. The findings may be a guide for stakeholders for pollution prevention during ship inspections, and contribute to the achievement of maritime-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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BMC Public Health
December 2024
Department of Hospital Infection Control, Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200065, China.
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Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China; Research Center of Public Health, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China; Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention & NHC Specialty Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment and Standard Development, Wuhan 430079, China; Hubei Key Laboratory of Biomass Resource Chemistry and Environmental Biotechnology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China. Electronic address:
Prenatal exposure to hazardous environmental pollutants is a critical global concern due to their confirmed presence in umbilical cord blood, indicating the ability of pollutants to cross the placental barrier and expose the fetus to harmful compounds. However, the transplacental transfer efficiencies (TTEs) of many pollutants remain underexplored. Herein, we developed a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method to quantitatively analyze 91 environmental pollutants, including 13 bisphenols (BPs), 18 organophosphorus flame retardants (OPFRs), 7 brominated and other flame retardants (BFRs), 34 phthalates (PAEs), and 19 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), in paired maternal and cord serums.
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December 2024
School of Environment, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China; Jiangsu Province Engineering Research Center of Environmental Risk Prevention and Emergency Response Technology, Nanjing 210023, China. Electronic address:
It is challenging to explore the complex interactions between perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and microplastics in lake sediments. The partnership of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and microplastics in lake sediments are difficult to determine experimentally. This study utilized sediment cores from Taihu Lake to reconstruct the coexistence history and innovatively reveal the collaboration between PFASs and microplastics by using post-hoc interpretable machine learning methods.
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December 2024
College of Management, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518073, China; Center for Marine Development,Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, 999078, China; Shenzhen International Maritime Institute, Shenzhen 518081, China. Electronic address:
Ships generate large amounts of air pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide (NO) that profoundly impacts air quality and poses serious threats to human health. It is crucial to understand the dynamics and drivers of ship-induced NO concentrations in China to support the prevention and control of fine particulate matter (PM) and ozone (O) pollution. This study built Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) to reveal the nonlinear effects of meteorological factors and ship emissions on ship-induced NO concentrations based on the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) satellite data, AIS based emission model and meteorological data.
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State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science, Beijing 100012, China; State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Environment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science, Beijing 100012, China; State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China. Electronic address:
Identifying and differentiating human activities is crucial for effectively preventing the threats posed by environmental pollution to aquatic ecosystems and human health. Machine learning (ML) is a powerful analytical tool for tracking human impacts on river ecosystems based on high-through datasets. This study employed an ML framework and 16S rRNA sequencing data to reveal microbial dynamics and trace human activities across China.
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