vestigation on this relationship, including new populations at-risk. Selecting the proper site for disposing of solid waste is one of the serious environmental and public health concerns in metropolises. This multifaceted issue encompasses environmental, economic, social, geographical, technical, and legal criteria. Some of these criteria, however, are less influenced by experts' subjective judgments because they display scientific specifications. This study drew on a novel, integrated method for the selection of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills in the Iranian metropolis, Shiraz; the study relied on the GIS and multi-criteria decision-making methods, which helped to reduce the number of comparisons in collecting experts' opinions, simplified the selection process, and enhanced the assessment method. The method proposed was regulated by DEMATEL and ANP. SFRP antagonist Primarily 13 criteria were identified in five groups through the Delphi method. Next, using the integrated method, the weight of each criterion was determined and was assigned to the corresponding layer in ArcGIS 10.5. By combining these layers through a fuzzy logic, the sites satisfying the disposal conditions were identified. The sites were then divided into six areas through the k-means clustering algorithm, while MOORA, WASPAS and COPRAS methods were used to discover the best sites based on their priorities. Finally, to confirm the reliability of the results, compare and verify them, and conduct sensitivity analysis on them, 13 scenarios were used. The measurement of nanoparticle size, and size distribution, is important to the development of pharmaceutical nanoparticle products and their manufacturing processes. In this work we report on the use of four widely-used liquid-phase techniques, DLS, DCS, PTA, and TRPS to measure four different batches of AZD2811NPs. The techniques rely on different physical principles to measure nanoparticle size. The batches cover a range of different manufacturing scales and different sites of manufacture, and were made to support toxicity, clinical, and engineering studies. The results from the different techniques and different batches are compared in terms of the average size, and size distribution, measured. In addition, we discuss the suitability of techniques for different applications e.g. QC and process understanding. With increasing freshwater scarcity and greater use of seawater, fluctuating salinities are becoming common in water treatment systems. This can be challenging for salinity-sensitive processes like nitrification, especially in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), where maintaining nitrification efficiency is crucial for fish health. This study was undertaken to determine if prior exposure to seawater (priming) could improve nitrification in moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBR) under salinity increase from freshwater to seawater. The results showed that seawater-primed freshwater MBBRs had less than 10% reduction in nitrification activity and twice the ammonia oxidation capacity of the unprimed bioreactors after seawater transfer. The primed biofilms had different microbial community composition but the same nitrifying taxa, suggesting that priming promoted physiological adaptation of the nitrifiers. Priming may also have strengthened the extrapolymeric matrix protecting the nitrifiers. In MBBRs started up in brackish water (12‰ salinity), seawater priming had no significant impact on the nitrification activity and the microbial community composition. These bioreactors were inherently robust to salinity increase, likely because they were already primed to osmotic stress by virtue of their native salinity of 12‰. The results show that osmotic stress priming is an effective strategy for improving salinity acclimation in nitrifying biofilms and can be applied to water treatment systems where salinity variations are expected. In this study, the distribution and migration of 237Np and 239+240Pu in soils in the vicinity ( less then 5 km) of Qinshan and Tianwan Nuclear Power Plants in China were studied, which is the first specific study of global fallout 237Np in Chinese soils. The 237Np and 239+240Pu concentrations in surface soils showed large spatial inhomogeneity. A remarkable 239+240Pu concentration (4.783 mBq/g) was observed in a surface soil near Qinshan NPP and stands for the ever reported highest value in the Chinese soils. The inventories of 239+240Pu in two Qinshan and Tianwan soil cores were estimated to be 128.8 Bq/m2 and 121.0 Bq/m2, respectively; while the 237Np inventories were 0.039 Bq/m2 and 0.035 Bq/m2 at these sites, respectively. The 240Pu/239Pu atomic ratios in these soils indicated that the global fallout is the main source of Pu in these regions. However, the non-isotopic 237Np/239Pu atomic ratio in environmental soil is not a sensitive indicator for source identification. Furthermore, we conducted pilot study on the migration behaviors of 237Np and 239+240Pu in soil core at Qinshan site with the Convection-Dispersion Equation (CDE) model. The obtained apparent dispersion coefficients of 237Np (2.82 ± 2.06 cm2/y) was 5 times higher than that of 239+240Pu (0.57 ± 0.16 cm2/y), proving that 237Np has stronger migration ability than Pu isotopes in the Qinshan soil. Finally, we predicted that with the increase of migration time, both 237Np and 239+240Pu concentration in the soil will gradually become more evenly distributed among different soil layers due to the dominant dispersion effects. Rhizobacterial dynamics, relating to pollutant degradation mechanisms, over the course of plant lifespan have rarely been reported when using phytoremediation technologies for pharmaceutical-contaminated wastewater treatment. This study investigated the rhizobacterial dynamics of Typha angustifolia in constructed wetlands to treat ibuprofen (IBP)-polluted wastewater throughout plant development from seedling, vegetative, bolting, mature, to senescent stages. It was found that conventional pollutant and IBP removals increased with plant development, reaching to the best performance at bolting or mature stage (removal efficiencies 92% organics, 52% ammonia, 60% phosphorus and 76% IBP). In the IBP-stressed wetlands, the rhizobacterial diversity during plant development was adversely affected by IBP accompanied with a reduced evenness. The bacterial communities changed dynamically at different developmental stages and showed significant differences compared to the control wetlands (free of IBP). The dominant bacteria colonized in the rhizosphere was the phylum Actinobacteria, having a final relative abundance of 0.