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Berto Jongman: Suspect Screening, Prioritization, and Confirmation of Environmental Chemicals in Maternal-Newborn Pairs from San Francisco

Our proof-of-concept study develops a suspect screening workflow to identify and prioritize potentially ubiquitous chemical exposures in matched maternal/cord blood samples, a critical period of development for future health risks. We applied liquid chromatography–quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry (LC-QTOF/MS) to perform suspect screening for ∼3500 industrial chemicals on pilot data from 30 paired maternal and …

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Berto Jongman: UN World Water Development Report

The United Nations World Water Development Report (UN WWDR) is an annual and thematic report that focuses on different strategic water issues each year and aims to provide decision-makers with the tools to implement sustainable use of our water resources. It also includes regional aspects, hotspots, examples and stories, making the report relevant to a …

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Berto Jongman: 2020 Political Violence Year in Review

ACLED 2020: THE YEAR IN REVIEW KEY FINDINGS Overall conflict levels decreased. Political violence decreased by approximately 22% — or 24,539 events — compared to 2019. ACLED records 113,170 events in 2019, relative to 88,631 in 2020. Political violence decreased in every region of the world covered by ACLED, except for Africa. Fatalities from political violence …

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Berto Jongman: Cybersecurity Trend – Personalized Attack

2021 Cybersecurity Trends: The Emergence of the Personalised Attack Chain Attackers’ tactics will evolve as personal islands of security form Deepfakes will make feature in enterprise attacks 5G will leads to the biggest denial-of-service (DDos) attack yet Insiders will crack under pandemic-led pressure and make bad decisions Read full article.