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James Milner, Ben Armstrong, Mike Davies, Ian Ridley, Zaid Chalabi, Clive Shrubsole, Sotiris Vardoulakis and Paul Wilkinson
A large proportion of particulate air pollution exposure in urban areas occurs due to the penetration of outdoor pollution into the residential indoor environment. Theoretical considerations suggest that quantifying health effects due to changes to indoo...
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Cristina Di Fiore, Pietro Pandolfi, Fabiana Carriera, Alessia Iannone, Gaetano Settimo, Vincenzo Mattei and Pasquale Avino
Indoor air quality has become a topic of great concern. Burning incense has recently been identified as one of the primary sources of volatile organic compounds, specifically benzene, in an indoor setting. The current paper aims to evaluate volatile orga...
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Teresa Baptista, Marina Almeida-Silva, Dário Silva, Carlos Diogo and Nuno Canha
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is a public and occupational health concern, as we are exposed to air pollutants daily given that we spend a great amount of our time in indoor environments. IAQ can be affected by numerous factors, from outdoor pollutants that g...
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Wen-Tien Tsai
The objective of this paper was to offer a preliminary overview of Taiwan?s success in green building material (GBM) efforts through legal systems and promotion measures, which are relevant to the contribution to indoor air quality (IAQ) due to sustainab...
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Wen-Tien Tsai
The objective of this paper was to offer a comparative analysis of currently implemented statutory and technical regulations in Taiwan and Japan for volatile organic compounds (VOC) in indoor atmospheres. The findings should help to manage indoor air qua...
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Sabrina Rovelli, Andrea Cattaneo, Camilla P. Nuzzi, Andrea Spinazzè, Silvia Piazza, Paolo Carrer and Domenico M. Cavallo
Indoor size-fractioned particulate matter (PM) was measured in seven schools in Milan, to characterize their concentration levels in classrooms, compare the measured concentrations with the recommended guideline values, and provide a preliminary assessme...
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Jing Chen
Long-term exposure to elevated indoor radon concentrations has been determined to be the second leading cause of lung cancer in adults after tobacco smoking. With the establishment of a National Radon Program in Canada in 2007 thousands of homes across t...
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Chunrong Jia and Stuart Batterman
Both the recent classification of naphthalene as a possible human carcinogen and its ubiquitous presence motivate this critical review of naphthalene?s sources and exposures. We evaluate the environmental literature on naphthalene published since 1990, d...
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Krystallia K. Kalimeri, John G. Bartzis and Dikaia E. Saraga
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Barbara Locher, André Piquerez, Manuel Habermacher, Martina Ragettli, Martin Röösli, Mark Brink, Christian Cajochen, Danielle Vienneau, Maria Foraster, Uwe Müller and Jean Marc Wunderli
Noise exposure prediction models for health effect studies normally estimate free field exposure levels outside. However, to assess the noise exposure inside dwellings, an estimate of indoor sound levels is necessary. To date, little field data is availa...
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Hai-Ying Liu, Daniel Dunea, Stefania Iordache and Alin Pohoata
Exposure to airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5) carries substantial health risks, particularly for younger children (0–10 years). Epidemiological evidence indicates that children are more susceptible to PM health effects than adults. We conduc...
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James C. Matthews, Asan Bacak, M. Anwar H. Khan, Matthew D. Wright, Michael Priestley, Damien Martin, Carl J. Percival and Dudley E. Shallcross
People spend the majority of their time indoors and therefore the quality of indoor air is worthy of investigation; indoor air quality is affected by indoor sources of pollutants and from pollutants entering buildings from outdoors. In this study, unique...
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Sungroul Kim, Jungeun Lee, Sujung Park, Guillaume Rudasingwa, Sangwoon Lee, Sol Yu and Dae Hyun Lim
Various studies have indicated that particulate matter <2.5 µm (PM2.5) could cause adverse health effects on pulmonary functions in susceptible groups, especially asthmatic children. Although the impact of ambient PM2.5 on children?s lower respiratory he...
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Ewa Bragoszewska and Izabela Biedron
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Nuno Canha, Joana Lage, Catarina Galinha, Susana Coentro, Célia Alves and Susana Marta Almeida
This study evaluated the emissions of specific indoor sources usually present in Portuguese dwellings in order to understand their impact on the indoor air quality. With this aim, three typical activities were studied including home heating using two typ...
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Dayoung Jung, Youngtae Choe, Jihun Shin, Eunche Kim, Gihong Min, Dongjun Kim, Mansu Cho, Chaekwan Lee, Kilyong Choi, Byung Lyul Woo and Wonho Yang
The 2014 Time-Use Survey of Statistics Korea revealed that office workers are increasingly spending more than eight hours at work. This study conducted an exposure assessment for office workers in Korea. Indoor and outdoor air pollutants were measured in...
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Zhi-Jie Tang, Xin Hu, Jun-Qin Qiao and Hong-Zhen Lian
20 sets of indoor and outdoor size-segregated aerosol (SSA) samples (180 foils) were collected synchronously by using two 8 Stage Non-Viable Cascade Impactor from an office room in the central region of the megacity-Nanjing, China in winter and spring in...
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Eliani Ezani and Peter Brimblecombe
Children are sensitive to air pollution and spend long hours in and around their schools, so the school day has an important impact on their overall exposure. This study of Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and its surroundings assesses exposure to PM2.5 and NO2, f...
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Emilia-Adela Salca, Tomasz Krystofiak, Barbara Lis and Salim Hiziroglu
The objective of this study was to evaluate the glossiness of black alder wood (Alnus glutinosa L.) samples coated with two varnish types as a function of exposure to dry heat and artificial aging. The chemical resistance of the coated samples to cold li...
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Cyril Catto, Simard Sabrina, Charest-Tardif Ginette, Rodriguez Manuel and Tardif Robert
In order to improve disinfection by-product (DBP) exposure assessment, this study was designed to document both water and air levels of these chemical contaminants in two indoor swimming pools and to analyze their within-day and day-to-day variations in ...
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