Environmental heavy metal pollution and effects on child mental development : risk assessment and prevention strategies

Environmental Heavy Metals and Mental Disorders of Children in Developing Countries ..................................................................................... 1 to Eliminate or Reduce the Exposure to Critical Receptors.............................. 27 Maria de Lurdes Dinis and Antَnio Fiْza Heavy Metals Activity Mechanisms at Cellular Level and Possible Evolving Understanding of the Relationship between Mercury Exposure Thomas A. Lewandowski Hearing Changes in Children Exposed to Arsenic in Neurotoxicity Lead Occurrence in Children’s Biological Fluids from Baia Mare Area, Vasile Oros, Simona Roman, Mirela Coman and Anca Diana Oros Gyula Dura, Tamلs Pلndics and Péter Rudnai Analytical Approaches for Sampling and Sample Preparation Action on Children Bodies................................................................................ 51 and Autism ........................................................................................................ 65 Context .............................................................................................................. 85 Romania .......................................................................................................... 101 Changing Children’s Blood Lead Level in Hungary 1986–2006.................... 123 for Heavy Metals Analysis in Biological Materials ........................................ 129Camelia Draghici, Cristina Jelescu, Carmen Dima, Gheorghe Coman and Elisabeta Chirila Lubomir Simeonov, Biana Simeonova and Christoph Schmitt Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (flame, electrothermal, vapour In Situ Elemental and Isotopic Analyses of Heavy Metals in Environmental Biana Simeonova, Lubomir Simeonov and Christoph Schmitt A Heavy Metal Environmental Threat Resulting from Combustion Marta Pogrzeba, Jacek Krzy؟ak, Aleksandra Sas-Nowosielska, W³odzimierz Majtkowski, Eugeniusz Ma³kowski and Andrzej Kita Mihail Kochubovski Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination in Soils around Kremikovtsi Anna Dimitrova, Momtchil Sidjimov, Valery Metodiev and Alexander Spasov Fokion Vosniakos, Gabriela Vasile, Triantafyllos Albanis, Jana Petre, Elena Stanescu, Liliana Cruceru, Margareta Nicolau, Mihail Kochubovski, Dragan Gjorgjev, Konstantinos Nikolaou, Mariana Golumbeanu, Konstantinos Vosniakos and George Vasilikiotis Atmospheric Heavy Metals Pollution: Exposure and Prevention Policies Heavy Metals Determination in Environmental and Biological Samples....... 145 Analyses of Heavy Metal Mixtures in the Environmental Media................... 159 generation) in Environmental, Biological, and Food Analysis ....................... 171 Water Solutions............................................................................................... 203 of Biofuels of Plant Origin.............................................................................. 213 Heavy Metals as Persistent Problem for Balkan Countries............................. 227 Dimiter L. Tsalev Comparison Study of Physicochemical Parameters Evaluation Mahmoud A. Hassanien between Danube River Delta and AXIOS-VARDAR River Valley Smelter (Bulgaria)........................................................................................... 245 (2003-2009) .................................................................................................... 257 in Mediterranean Basin ................................................................................... 287The Problem of Heavy Metal Pollution in the Republic of Armenia: Overview and Strategies of Balancing Socioeconomic and Ecological Yuri Suvaryan, Vardan Sargsyan and Arman Sargsyan Eugeniusz Ma³kowski and Hanna Sas-Nowosielska NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmental Heavy Metal Lubomir Simeonov, Mihail Kochubovski, Biana Simeonova, Camelia Draghici, Elisabeta Chirila and Richard Canfield Aleksandra Sas-Nowosielska, Marta Pogrzeba, Andrzej Kita, Pollution and Effects on Child Mental Development: Discussion, Development ................................................................................................... 309 How to Grow Environmental-Sound Biofuels ................................................ 317 Conclusions and Recommendations ............................................................... 331 Subject Index................................................................................................... 343