AMAZON RIPARIAN PEOPLE’S EXPOSURE TO LEGACY ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES AND METHYLMERCURY FROM CATFISH (AGENEIOSUS BREVIFILIS) INTAKE

Amazon Riparian People’s Exposure to Legacy Organochlorine Pesticides and Methylmercury from Catfish (Ageneiosus brevifilis) Intake

The worldwide massive use of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and mercury (Hg) is taken as an environmental threat due to their high toxicity, potential for long-range transport, bioaccumulation and persistence.Both, OCPs and Hg, were widely used in the Brazilian Amazon region and deserve more attention in terms of environmental and public health.F

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Lessons learnt from recent citizen science initiatives to document floods in France, Argentina and New Zealand

New communication and digital image technologies have enabled the public to produce and share large quantities of flood observations.Valuable hydraulic data such as water levels, flow rates, inundated areas, etc., can be extracted from photos and movies taken by citizens and help improve the analysis and modelling of flood hazard.We introduce recen

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Triple‐State Invisible Photonic Crystal Pattern Encrypted in Hollow‐Silica/Polyurethane Film for Anticounterfeiting Applications

An invisible photonic crystal (PC) pattern encrypted at the dry state and decrypted by solvent is a new anticounterfeiting material system, but its diversity and complexity in response are still required to be increased to enhance the anticounterfeiting effect.Herein, a triple‐state invisible pattern encrypted in hollow‐silica/polyurethane (h

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Towards a World Wide Web powered by generative AI

Abstract Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a cutting-edge technology capable of producing text, images, and various media content leveraging generative models and user prompts.Between 2022 and 2023, generative AI surged in popularity with a plethora of applications spanning from AI-powered movies to chatbots.This paper investigates the pot

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