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A Temperate Alpine Glacier as a Reservoir of Polychlorinated Biphenyls: Model Results of Incorporation, Transport, and Release

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A comprehensive environmental assessment of petrochemical solvent production

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A network perspective reveals decreasing material diversity in studies on nanoparticle interactions with dissolved organic matter

scientific article published on 21 February 2017

A physiologically based pharmacokinetic model for ionic silver and silver nanoparticles

scientific article published on 02 September 2013

A tiered approach to estimate inventory data and impacts of chemical products and mixtures

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Addressing the complexity of water chemistry in environmental fate modeling for engineered nanoparticles

scientific article published on 27 January 2015

An occupational chemical priority list for future life cycle assessments

Assessing the Eco-efficiency of End-of-Pipe Technologies with the Environmental Cost Efficiency Indicator

scientific article published in 2005

Assessing the persistence, bioaccumulation potential and toxicity of brominated flame retardants: data availability and quality for 36 alternative brominated flame retardants

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Assessment of nonoccupational exposure to DDT in the tropics and the north: relevance of uptake via inhalation from indoor residual spraying

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Assessment of the environmental persistence and long-range transport of endosulfan

scientific article published on March 23, 2011

Assessments of direct human exposure: the approach of EU risk assessments compared to scenario-based risk assessment

scientific article published in August 2007

Bioaccumulation of perfluorinated alkyl acids: observations and models

scientific article published on 25 April 2014

Bioconcentration of Perfluorinated Alkyl Acids: How Important Is Specific Binding?

scientific article published on June 18, 2013

Bisphenol a: how the most relevant exposure sources contribute to total consumer exposure

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Blast from the past: melting glaciers as a relevant source for persistent organic pollutants

scientific article published on November 2009

Bridging data gaps in environmental assessments: Modeling impacts of fine and basic chemical production

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Chiral modification of platinum by co-adsorbed cinchonidine and trifluoroacetic acid: origin of enhanced stereocontrol in the hydrogenation of trifluoroacetophenone

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Comparative assessment of the environmental hazards of and exposure to perfluoroalkyl phosphonic and phosphinic acids (PFPAs and PFPiAs): Current knowledge, gaps, challenges and research needs

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

Comparing measured and modelled PFOS concentrations in a UK freshwater catchment and estimating emission rates

scientific article published on 28 May 2014

Comprehensive Toxic Plants-Phytotoxins Database and Its Application in Assessing Aquatic Micropollution Potential

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Concentrations in ambient air and emissions of cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes in Zurich, Switzerland

scientific article published on 4 March 2013

Concentrations of cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes in European cosmetics and personal care products: prerequisite for human and environmental exposure assessment

scientific article published on 31 October 2013

Confronting workplace exposure to chemicals with LCA: examples of trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene in metal degreasing and dry cleaning

scientific article published in October 2005

Contribution of volatile precursor substances to the flux of perfluorooctanoate to the Arctic

scientific article published in May 2008

Cumulative energy demand as predictor for the environmental burden of commodity production

scientific article published in March 2010

Dependence of persistence and long-range transport potential on gas-particle partitioning in multimedia models

scientific article published in May 2008

Describing the environmental fate of diuron in a tropical river catchment

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Direct and Air-Mediated Transfer of Labeled SVOCs from Indoor Sources to Dust

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Do Persistent Organic Pollutants Reach a Thermodynamic Equilibrium in the Global Environment?

Dynamic Transgenerational Fate of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Dioxins/Furans in Lactating Cows and Their Offspring

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Ecological footprint accounting in the life cycle assessment of products

article published in 2008

Emissions of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in Zurich, Switzerland, determined by a combination of measurements and modeling

scientific article published on February 2014

Emissions of polychlorinated biphenyls in Switzerland: a combination of long-term measurements and modeling

scientific article published on 27 January 2015

Emissions of polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, and polychlorinated dibenzofurans during 2010 and 2011 in Zurich, Switzerland

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Empirical investigation of the Junge variability-lifetime relationship using long-term monitoring data on polychlorinated biphenyl concentrations in air.

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Enantioselection on Heterogeneous Noble Metal Catalyst: Proline-Induced Asymmetry in the Hydrogenation of Isophorone on Pd Catalyst

scientific article published on 2 September 2015

Environmental Assessment of Waste-Solvent Treatment Options

scientific article published in 2008

Environmental Assessment of Waste-Solvent Treatment Options

scientific article published in 2007

Environmental Risks of Medium-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins (MCCPs): A Review

Environmental and economic assessment of lactic acid production from glycerol using cascade bio- and chemocatalysis

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Environmental assessment of chemicals: methods and application to a case study of organic solvents

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Envisioning Nano Release Dynamics in a Changing World: Using Dynamic Probabilistic Modeling to Assess Future Environmental Emissions of Engineered Nanomaterials

scientific article published on 3 February 2017

Estimating consumer exposure to PFOS and PFOA.

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Estimating enthalpy of vaporization from vapor pressure using Trouton's rule

scientific article published in April 2007

Estimating the aquatic emissions and fate of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) into the river Rhine

scientific article published in December 2011

Estimation of human body concentrations of DDT from indoor residual spraying for malaria control

scientific article published on 8 June 2012

Estimation of the source strength of polybrominated diphenyl ethers based on their diel variability in air in Zurich, Switzerland

scientific article published in June 2010

Exchange of Elemental Mercury between the Oceans and the Atmosphere

Exposure of the Irish population to PBDEs in food: consideration of parameter uncertainty and variability for risk assessment

scientific article published on June 6, 2011

First investigations of mountainous cold condensation effects with the CliMoChem model

scientific article published on 27 July 2005

Fluorinated alternatives to long-chain perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (PFCAs), perfluoroalkane sulfonic acids (PFSAs) and their potential precursors

scientific article published on October 2013

Global emission inventories for C4-C14 perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acid (PFCA) homologues from 1951 to 2030, Part I: production and emissions from quantifiable sources

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Global emission inventories for C4-C14 perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acid (PFCA) homologues from 1951 to 2030, part II: the remaining pieces of the puzzle

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Global production, use, and emission volumes of short-chain chlorinated paraffins - A minimum scenario

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Good modeling practice guidelines for applying multimedia models in chemical assessments

scientific article published on 29 March 2012

Heteroaggregation of titanium dioxide nanoparticles with model natural colloids under environmentally relevant conditions

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Historical emissions of octachlorodibenzodioxin in a watershed in Queensland, Australia: estimation from field data and an environmental fate model

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Import, use, and emissions of PCBs in Switzerland from 1930 to 2100.

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Including degradation products of persistent organic pollutants in a global multi-media box model

scientific article published in May 2007

Input-dependent life-cycle inventory model of industrial wastewater-treatment processes in the chemical sector

scientific article published in August 2007

Insights into PBDE Uptake, Body Burden, and Elimination Gained from Australian Age-Concentration Trends Observed Shortly after Peak Exposure

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Integrated waste management in batch chemical industry based on multi-objective optimization

scientific article published in March 2013

Intrinsic human elimination half-lives of polychlorinated biphenyls derived from the temporal evolution of cross-sectional biomonitoring data from the United Kingdom

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Inversion Approach to Validate Mercury Emissions Based on Background Air Monitoring at the High Altitude Research Station Jungfraujoch (3580 m).

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

Investigating the global fate of DDT: model evaluation and estimation of future trends

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Investigating the mechanics of multimedia box models: how to explain differences between models in terms of mass fluxes?

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Joint persistence of transformation products in chemicals assessment: case studies and uncertainty analysis

scientific article published in February 2003

Levels, fluxes and time trends of persistent organic pollutants in Lake Thun, Switzerland: combining trace analysis and multimedia modeling

scientific article published in August 2010

Life Cycle Inventory for Use of Waste Solvent as Fuel Substitute in the Cement Industry - A Multi-Input Allocation Model (11 pp)

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Life cycle inventory for thermal treatment of waste solvent from chemical industry: a multi-input allocation model

Life-cycle inventory of waste solvent distillation: statistical analysis of empirical data

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Local organochlorine pesticide concentrations in soil put into a global perspective

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Measurement and modeling of diel variability of polybrominated diphenyl ethers and chlordanes in air.

scientific article published in May 2008

Measures of overall persistence and the temporal remote state

scientific article published in November 2004

Measuring and modeling short-term variability of PCBs in air and characterization of urban source strength in Zurich, Switzerland

scientific article published on February 2009

Migration of silver from commercial plastic food containers and implications for consumer exposure assessment

scientific article published on February 13, 2013

Modeling Waste Incineration for Life-Cycle Inventory Analysis in Switzerland

Modeling aerosol suspension from soils and oceans as sources of micropollutants to air.

scientific article published on 21 August 2009

Modeling the environmental fate of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs): the importance of photolysis for the formation of lighter PBDEs

scientific article published in December 2008

Modeling the global levels and distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls in air under a climate change scenario

scientific article published in August 2009

Molecular-structure-based models of chemical inventories using neural networks

scientific article published in September 2008

Mountain Cold-Trapping Increases Transfer of Persistent Organic Pollutants from Atmosphere to Cows’ Milk

scientific article published on August 8, 2013

Mycotoxins in the environment: I. Production and emission from an agricultural test field

scientific article published on 6 December 2012

Mycotoxins in the environment: II. Occurrence and origin in Swiss river waters

scientific article published on 28 November 2012

Occurrence and concentrations of isothiazolinones in detergents and cosmetics in Switzerland

scientific article published on 14 November 2016

Occurrence and mass balance of isoflavones on an experimental grassland field

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Occurrence and origin of estrogenic isoflavones in Swiss river waters

scientific article published in August 2009

Organic UV filters in personal care products in Switzerland: A survey of occurrence and concentrations

scientific article published on September 29, 2012

Organic pollutant removal versus toxicity reduction in industrial wastewater treatment: the example of wastewater from fluorescent whitening agent production

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PBDE exposure from food in Ireland: optimising data exploitation in probabilistic exposure modelling

scientific article published on July 28, 2010

Polychlorinated Biphenyls in a Temperate Alpine Glacier: 2. Model Results of Chemical Fate Processes

scientific article published on 3 December 2015

Polychlorinated biphenyls in glaciers. 2. Model results of deposition and incorporation processes

scientific article published on 7 July 2014

Prediction of nanoparticle transport behavior from physicochemical properties: machine learning provides insights to guide the next generation of transport models

scholarly article by Eli Goldberg et al published 2015 in Environmental science. Nano

Prediction of overall persistence and long-range transport potential with multimedia fate models: robustness and sensitivity of results

scientific article published in January 2004

Probabilistic modelling of engineered nanomaterial emissions to the environment: a spatio-temporal approach

Quantification of five isoflavones and coumestrol in various solid agroenvironmental matrices using ¹³c₃-labeled internal standards

scientific article published on 4 January 2011

Quantification of sources of PCBs to the atmosphere in urban areas: a comparison of cities in North America, Western Europe and former Yugoslavia

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Quantifying Diffuse and Point Inputs of Perfluoroalkyl Acids in a Nonindustrial River Catchment

scientific article published on October 28, 2011

Recommendations for Evaluating Temporal Trends of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Breast Milk

scientific article published on 15 December 2015

Reduction of occupational exposure to perchloroethylene and trichloroethylene in metal degreasing over the last 30 years: influences of technology innovation and legislation

scientific article published on September 2003

Relationships between Atmospheric Transport Regimes and PCB Concentrations in the Air at Zeppelin, Spitsbergen

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Response to Comment on Screening for PBT Chemicals among the “Existing” and “New” Chemicals of the EU

scientific article published on May 13, 2013

Screening for PBT Chemicals among the “Existing” and “New” Chemicals of the EU

scientific article published on May 11, 2012

Sediment record and atmospheric deposition of brominated flame retardants and organochlorine compounds in Lake Thun, Switzerland: lessons from the past and evaluation of the present

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Short-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins in Zurich, Switzerland--Atmospheric Concentrations and Emissions

scientific article published on 30 July 2015

Site-dependent fate assessment in LCA: transport of heavy metals in soil

Spatial Distribution of Atmospheric PCBs in Zurich, Switzerland: Do Joint Sealants Still Matter?

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Temporal trends of chlorinated paraffins and polychlorinated biphenyls in Swiss soils

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The Environmental Importance of Energy Use in Chemical Production

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The Missing Piece: Sediment Records in Remote Mountain Lakes Confirm Glaciers Being Secondary Sources of Persistent Organic Pollutants

scientific article published on November 15, 2010

The effect of export to the deep sea on the long-range transport potential of persistent organic pollutants

The influence of past research on the design of experiments with dissolved organic matter and engineered nanoparticles.

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The origin and significance of short-term variability of semivolatile contaminants in air.

scientific article published on May 2007

Time-dependent life-cycle assessment of slag landfills with the help of scenario analysis: the example of Cd and Cu

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Total consumer exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers in North America and Europe

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Tracking SVOCs' Transfer from Products to Indoor Air and Settled Dust with Deuterium-Labeled Substances

scientific article published on 28 March 2016

Uncertainty Analysis in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Case Study on Plant-Protection Products and Implications for Decision Making (9 pp + 3 pp)

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Unexplained gonad alterations in whitefish (Coregonus spp.) from Lake Thun, Switzerland: levels of persistent organic pollutants in different morphs

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Use Patterns of Leave-on Personal Care Products among Swiss-German Children, Adolescents, and Adults

scientific article published on 03 July 2013

Using Standard Statistics to Consider Uncertainty in Industry-Based Life Cycle Inventory Databases (7 pp)

article by Hirokazu Sugiyama et al published 31 May 2005 in International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Using conditional inference trees and random forests to predict the bioaccumulation potential of organic chemicals.

scientific article published in April 2013

Using information on uncertainty to improve environmental fate modeling: a case study on DDT.

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Variability assessment of groundwater exposure to pesticides and its consideration in life-cycle assessment

scientific article published in August 2004

Waste-Solvent Management as an Element of Green Chemistry: A Comprehensive Study on the Swiss Chemical Industry

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What Factors Determine the Retention Behavior of Engineered Nanomaterials in Saturated Porous Media?

scientific article published on 31 January 2017

What determines PCB concentrations in soils in rural and urban areas? Insights from a multi-media fate model for Switzerland as a case study

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