Preface
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- Yukio Takizawa
- Director-General, NIMD
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Welcome Address
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- Ryo Takagi
- Section Chief, Environmental Health Department, Ministry of the Environment
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Presentation Section
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- Analytical Technique for the Evaluation of the Environmental Factors
influencing the Dynamics of Mercury in Aquatic Systems with particular
Emphasis on Tropical Areas
- Hirokatsu Akagi (NIMD)
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- The Impact of Mercury Mining on the Environment and Human Health
- Milena Horvat (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
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- A Review on the Investigations of Mercury Contamination Using Biological
Indicators along the Brazilian Coast
- Monica Costa (Departamento de Oceanograjia da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.
Cidade Universitaria)
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- Mercury in Fresh Water Systems - A Synopsis
- J.R.lkingura (University of Dar es Salaam, Faculty of Science, Tanzania)
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- Mercury Species Over Europe - MOE. Project Overview and Highlights
from Atmospheric Measurements
- John Munthe (IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute)
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- Recent Research on Missing Sources an∼ •Sinks in the Global Hg
Cycle: The Role of the Arctic as a Sink
- S. E. Lindberga (Dept. of Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, USA)
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- The Mercury Bio-Geochemical Cycle: Site Specificity and Data Interpretation
- Ricardo Melamed (Dept. of Coordination of Mineral Processing, CETEM-Center
for Mineral Technology, Brazil)
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- Mercury Contaminated Sites: A Review of Remedial Solutions
- Marcello M. Veiga (Dept. of Mining and Mineral Process Engineering, University
of British Columbia, Canada)
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- Health Effect-Epidemiology of Chronic Low-Dose Exposure
- Makoto Futatsuka (Department of Public Health, Kumamto University School
of Medicine, Japan)
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- The Effects of Aging on the Neurological Findings of Minamata Disease Patients
and Inhabitants of Methylmercury Polluted and Non-Polluted Areas
- Kimiyoshi Arimura (The Third department of Internal Medicine, Kagoshima
University, Japan)
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- Effects of Long-Term and Low-Dose Methylmercury Exposure in the Experimental
Mice
- Hiroshi Satoh (Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences, Tohoku University
Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
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- Research to Improve Mercury Risk Assessments
- Ronald E. Wyzga (Dept. of Environment, Electric Power Research Institute,
USA)
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- Use of modelling in Mercury Pollution Studies with Two Case Studies: Gulf
of Trieste and Yatsushiro Sea
- Rudi Rajar (Factory of Civil Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
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- Atmospheric Cycling of Mercury in Polar Regions
- Ralf Ebinghaus (GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht, Institute for Coastal
Research/Physical and Chemical Analysis, Germany)
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- Mercury Environmental and Human Contamination in Brazilian Amazon:
An Overview
- Olaf Maim (Program of Environmental Biophysics and Radioisotopes Laboratory
Biophysics Institute Carlos Chagas Filho, Brazil)
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