Like many elements, fluorine (which generally occurs in nature as fluoride) is beneficial to human health in trace amounts, but can be toxic in excess. The links between low intakes of fluoride and ...dental protection are well known; however, fluoride is a powerful calcium-seeking element and can interfere with the calcified structure of bones and teeth in the human body at higher concentrations causing dental or skeletal fluorosis. One of the main exposure routes is via drinking water and the World Health Organisation currently sets water quality guidelines for the element. In Central Europe, groundwater resources that exceed the guideline value of 1.5 mg l-¹ are widespread and effects on health of high fluoride in water have been reported. The aim of the current project was to develop a geographic information system (GIS) to aid the identification of areas where high-fluoride waters and fluorosis may be a problem; hence, where water treatment technologies should be targeted. The development of the GIS was based upon the collation and digitisation of existing information relevant to fluoride risk in Ukraine, Moldova, Hungary and Slovakia assembled for the first time in a readily accessible form. In addition, geochemistry and health studies to examine in more detail the relationships between high-fluoride drinking waters and health effects in the population were carried out in Moldova and Ukraine demonstrating dental fluorosis prevalence rates of 60-90% in adolescents consuming water containing 2-7 mg l-¹ fluoride.
PP04. Osteoporosis in men Povoroznyuk, V.; Musiienko, A.; Dzerovych, N.
Revista Portuguesa de Endocrinologia, Diabetes e Metabolismo,
June 2016, Letnik:
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Journal Article
Paper considers magnetic properties of the transition metals at nanoscale level, the total energies of the several collinear spin-configurations are calculated by using VASP software package. Energy ...of the film formation and the magnetic moment values were obtained for trilayer structures Ni/Cu(001)/Ni, Ni/Cu(111)/Ni and Co/Cu(001)/Co as a function of the convergence parameters and taking into account the relaxation effects, and magnetic film thickness. An influence of various Ni atom positions (ontop, bridge, fcc) and additional Cu cap layers on Ni/Cu/Ni system total energy was investigated. The exchange interaction parameters for Co/Cu(001)/Co and Fe/Cr(001)/Fe structures were calculated within a classical Heisenberg model. The finite temperature magnetism of these structures was studied by Monte-Carlo simulations with the use of the exchange interaction parameters obtained from the ab initio results.
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