Environmental Heavy Metal Pollution and Effects on Child Mental Development : Risk Assessment and Prevention Strategies - Simeonov, Lubomir I.; Kochubovski, Mihail V.; Simeonova, Biana G.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011)
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Environmental Heavy Metals and Mental Disorders of Children in Developing Countries -- Exposure Assessment to Heavy Metals in the Environment. Measures to Eliminate or Reduce the Exposure to Critical Receptors -- Heavy Metals Activity Mechanisms at Cellular Level and Possible Action on Children Bodies -- Evolving Understanding of the Relationship between Mercury Exposure and Autism -- Hearing Changes in Children Exposed to Arsenic in Neurotoxicity Context -- Lead Occurrence in Children's Biological Fluids from Baia Mare Area, Romania -- Changing Children's Blood Lead Level in Hungary -- Analytical Approaches for Sampling and Sample Preparation for Heavy Metals Analysis in Biological Materials -- Heavy Metals Determination in Environmental and Biological Samples -- Analyses of Heavy Metal Mixtures in the Environmental Media -- Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (flame, electrothermal, vapor generation) in Environmental, Biological, and Food Analysis -- In Situ Elemental and Isotopic Analyses of Heavy Metals in Environmental Water Solutions -- A Heavy Metal Environmental Threat Resulting from Combustion of Biofuels of Plant Origin -- Heavy Metals as Persistent Problem for Balkan Countries -- Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination in Soils around Kremikovtzi Smelter (Bulgaria) -- Comparison Study of Physicochemical Parameters Evaluation between Danube River and AXIOS-VARDAR River Valley (2003-2009) -- Atmospheric Heavy Metals Pollution: Exposure and Prevention Policies in Mediterranean Basin -- The Problem of Heavy Metal Pollution in the Republic of Armenia: Overview and Strategies of Balancing Socioeconomic and Ecological Development -- How to Grow Environmentally-Sound Biofuels -- NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmental Heavy Metal Pollution and Effects on Child Mental Development - Risk Assessment and Prevention Strategies: Discussion, Conclusions and Recommendations -- Subject Index.
Keywords: Environmental chemistry; Environmental health; Analytical chemistry; Ecotoxicology; Pollution prevention; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; Analytical Chemistry; Ecotoxicology; Industrial Pollution Prevention