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Groundwater Contamination in Perspective of Different Elements, Water Quality Index and Health Implications 从不同元素、水质指数和健康影响的角度看地下水污染问题

Current World Environment Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.12944/cwe.19.1.9

Lovely Sarkar

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Land Use-Land Cover Changes and Associated Drivers: A Case of Salooni Block of Chamba 土地利用-土地覆盖变化及相关驱动因素：查姆巴萨洛尼区块的案例

Current World Environment Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.12944/cwe.19.1.40

Twinkle Vaid, Sanjay Singh Pathania

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Geographical Peculiarities of Pinus sibirica Du Tour Natural Regeneration as Related to its Seed Crops 西伯利亚杜鹃松自然再生的地理特征与其种子作物的关系

Current World Environment Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.12944/cwe.19.1.10

N. Tantsyrev, S. Shobairi, Vladimir А. Usol’tsev, Lingxiao Sun, Haiyan Zhang, Chunlan Li, He Jing, Samira Hemmati Roudbari, B. Beirami, Qirghizbek Ayombekov

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Mapping of Physicochemical Properties of Groundwater Using QGIS of Bhopal District of Madhya Pradesh, India 利用 QGIS 绘制印度中央邦博帕尔地区地下水物理化学特性图

Current World Environment Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.12944/cwe.19.1.34

Rajshekhar Kumar, Shailza Verma

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Trends in the Rainfall Pattern Over the Gangetic Plain 恒河平原降雨模式的变化趋势

Current World Environment Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.12944/cwe.19.1.14

Devendra Kumar Tiwari, P. Parth Sarthi

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Predictive Modeling of Extreme Weather Forecasting Events: an LSTM Approach 极端天气预报事件的预测建模：一种 LSTM 方法

Current World Environment Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.12944/cwe.19.1.17

Meena P Sarwade, Santhosh A Shinde, Vaishali S Patil

{"title":"Predictive Modeling of Extreme Weather Forecasting Events: an LSTM Approach","authors":"Meena P Sarwade, Santhosh A Shinde, Vaishali S Patil","doi":"10.12944/cwe.19.1.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12944/cwe.19.1.17","url":null,"abstract":"For a variety of industries, including agriculture, water resource management, and flood forecasting, accurate rainfall prediction is crucial. The purpose of this research work is to improve rainfall forecast system by employing the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based system. The LSTM utilized in the aforementioned study made predictions by using meteorological input variables such as temperature, humidity, and rainfall. Numerous elements affect the LSTM network's performance, such as the kind and volume of data, the suitability of the model architecture, and the tuning of hyperparameters. The dataset used for model training spans from January 2015 to December 2021 and includes rainfall data collected from the Zonal Agricultural Research Station (ZARS), Shenda Park, Kolhapur. Prior to model training, the input data undergoes rigorous preprocessing. This preprocessing involves data correction, achieved through moving averages, followed by feature scaling and normalization methods. These steps are crucial to align the dataset with the unique capabilities of the LSTM model. The total dataset has a R squared (R2) value 0.23517 and a mean squared error (MSE) value 92.1839, according to the simulated findings. These metrics affirm the robust performance of the LSTM model, suggesting a high probability of accurate rainfall predictions, particularly in non-linear and complex scenarios. Decision-makers in flood predictions, agriculture, and water resource management will find the knowledge gathered from this study to be useful. They emphasize how crucial it is to use cutting-edge techniques like LSTM to increase rainfall forecast accuracy and guide strategic planning in associated industries.","PeriodicalId":10878,"journal":{"name":"Current World Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140990529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Determination of Heavy Metals in Indoor Dust in the Vicinity of Kota Thermal Power Plant under Meteorological Influence at an Industrial City 工业城市气象影响下科塔热电厂附近室内灰尘中重金属的测定

Current World Environment Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.12944/cwe.19.1.24

Bharat Singh Meena, Chetan Meena, Priyank Singh Hada, Uttra Chandrawat, Manju Meena

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Metaanalysis of Public Wastewater Metagenomes: Revealing the Influence of Climatic Variations on the Abundance of the Bacterial Members 公共污水元基因组的元分析：揭示气候变异对细菌成员丰度的影响

Current World Environment Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.12944/cwe.19.1.11

R. Karmakar, Kaustav Mondal, Mahashweta Mitra Ghosh

{"title":"Metaanalysis of Public Wastewater Metagenomes: Revealing the Influence of Climatic Variations on the Abundance of the Bacterial Members","authors":"R. Karmakar, Kaustav Mondal, Mahashweta Mitra Ghosh","doi":"10.12944/cwe.19.1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12944/cwe.19.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"As per the present trend, earth may experience severe hike in temperature by 2040. Therefore, global surveillance is required to combat against the upcoming climatic extremities. Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are part of the key pressing issues which can affect millions of people worldwide. Wastewater associated metagenomic data representing the wastewater samples collected from sewer networks in Newcastle (United Kingdom); Zimbabwe (Africa) and West Bengal (India), available in public databases were collected. It was observed that of the top 10 abundant genera, the prevalent genera in samples from United Kingdom, Africa, India were Desulfitobacterium, Prevotella, Sulfurospirillum respectively. By comparing all the three samples under study; it was observed that three microbial genera Bacteroides, Dechloromonas and Faecalibacterium were common throughout the samples. Metagenome-wide association studies were conducted to link microbes in the sample to the host disorders. Our study could predict overexpression of several enriched pathways like Vancomycin resistance, Platinum drug resistance across the samples. These findings prove efficacies of the community genomics approach to serve as a public health monitoring tool through detection of spatial variation as well as degree of commonness in wastewater bacterial profiles and also through the prediction of the pathogenic quantum of wastewater systems.","PeriodicalId":10878,"journal":{"name":"Current World Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140990509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Contamination of Water by Heavy Metals and Treatment Methods – A Review 重金属对水的污染及处理方法 - 综述

Current World Environment Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.12944/cwe.19.1.2

S. K. Suja, S Almaas, A Prasanna Gracy, P Gowsika, K Jeyapradeepa, G Suba Sri, S Mathiya, K Berlin Asha

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Phytochemical Estimation of the Biocrude of Pedilanthus tithymaloides- A Petrocrop with Pharmacognostic Properties 具有药理特性的石油植物 Pedilanthus tithymaloides 生物原油的植物化学成分评估

Current World Environment Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.12944/cwe.19.1.32

Anshu Rani

{"title":"Phytochemical Estimation of the Biocrude of Pedilanthus tithymaloides- A Petrocrop with Pharmacognostic Properties","authors":"Anshu Rani","doi":"10.12944/cwe.19.1.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12944/cwe.19.1.32","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers have taken an interest in finding crop species as alternative sources of nonconventional energy as fossil fuels or petroleum-derived fuels are quickly being reduced with the economic and political development and increasing use of automobiles. Hence, there is a scarcity of petroleum-derived fuels and industrial feedstock it has become essential to search for renewable sources of organic compounds. Solar energy is transformed into a by-product by green plants which are at par with synthetic petrochemicals. Pedilanthus tithymaloides L. Poit (Euphorbiaceae) has considerable potential as hydrocarbon yielding plant with its pharmacognostic properties also. Analysis of latex has revealed the presence of a large number of secondary metabolites. Extraction of bio crude was done in hexane using Soxhlet apparatus followed by column chromatography using solvents serially on the basis of their increasing polarity. The solvents used were hexane, benzene, ethyl acetate, acetone, methanol and chloroform in a sequence. Twenty-one fractions were collected from the extract and analysis of fractions was done using GLC. Fraction obtained in hexane: benzene (1:1) showed four major peaks at retention time 4.90, 5.10, 6.76 and 8.86 minutes at chart speed 1.0 cm/per minute. Fraction obtained in benzene and fraction obtained in benzene: ethyl acetate in the ratio of 1:1 and 1:3 showed various peaks. Major peaks obtained were at 2.98, 4.36, 5.71, 6.79, 8.76 and 9.11 minutes at chart speed.1.0 cm/min. in the fraction obtained in pure ethyl acetate. Qualitative phytochemical analysis of the plants revealed flavonoid, triterpenoids, sterols, alkaloids, saponins and anthraquinones in all the three varieties of Pedilanthus tithymaloides i.e. var. green, cuculatus and variegates.","PeriodicalId":10878,"journal":{"name":"Current World Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140991713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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