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Increasing trends of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) in temperate forests under recovery from acidification in Flanders, Belgium Ghent University
Temporal trends of radio-frequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure in everyday environments across European cities Ghent University
The future of urban sound environments : impacting mobility trends and insights for noise assessment and mitigation Ghent University
Trends in radical prostatectomy risk group distribution in a European multicenter analysis of 28 572 patients : towards tailored treatment Ghent University
Modern contraceptive use among adolescents in Benin: trends, determinants and prospects Institute of Tropical Medicine
Modern contraceptive use is increasing more slowly among younger generations in Benin. The present study analyses trends, determinants of contraceptive use, and their mechanisms of action among adolescent girls. Socio-ecological and intersectional approaches were adopted, with a mixed method approach focusing on sexually active, non-pregnant adolescents aged 15 to 19. The quantitative component used data from Benin's five demographic and health ...
Long-term trends in phytoplankton composition in the western and central Baltic Sea Flanders Marine Institute
The phytoplankton biomass data of the period 19792005 of the Belt Sea area and the Baltic Proper, separated into spring, summer and autumn data, were checked for trends, together with the relevant abiotic factors (temperature, salinity, and nutrient concentrations). The MannKendall test was used for detecting monotonic trends over the whole investigation period or, if trend breaks occurred, over the period before and after the trend breaks. The ...
Additive modelling reveals spatiotemporal PCBs trends in marine sediments Flanders Marine Institute Ghent University
We developed generalised additive mixed models (GAMMs) to infer spatiotemporal trends of environmental PCB concentrations from an extensive dataset (n = 1219) of PCB concentrations measured between 1991 and 2010 in sediments of the Belgian Coastal Zone (BCZ) and the Western Scheldt estuary. A GAMM with time, geographical zone, periodicity and the organic carbon - water partition coefficient as covariates explained 49% of the variability in the ...
Detecting trends in Twitter time series Ghent University
Detecting underlying trends in time series is important in many settings, such as market analysis (stocks, social media coverage) and system monitoring (production facilities, networks). Although many properties of the trends are common across different domains, others are domain-specific. In particular, modelling human activities such as their behaviour on social media, often leads to sharply defined events separated by periods without events. ...
Organophosphate esters (OPEs) in a heavily polluted river in South China: Occurrence, spatiotemporal trends, sources, and phase distribution Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In the past decade, organophosphate esters (OPEs) undergo rapid increase in production and use. Meanwhile, owing to their additive property, OPEs exhibit liability to escape from related products and therefore ubiquity in various environments. Moreover, numerous researches verify their bioavailability and negative effects on biota and human, hence their occurrence and associated risks have caught much concern, particularly those in aquatic ...