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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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Chun Lin, Nicola Masey, Hao Wu, Mark Jackson, David J. Carruthers, Stefan Reis, Ruth M. Doherty, Iain J. Beverland and Mathew R. Heal
To reduce inaccuracies in the measurement of air pollutants by portable monitors it is necessary to establish quantitative calibration relationships against their respective reference analyser. This is usually done under controlled laboratory conditions ...
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Santiago Felici-Castell, Emilio Fernandez-Vargas, Jaume Segura-Garcia, Juan J. Perez-Solano, Rafael Fayos-Jordan and Jesus Lopez-Ballester
There is clear evidence of the effects of air pollution on health. In this paper, we present an innovative application designed to assess Air Quality (AQ) exposure based on the World Health Organization?s AQ Guidelines, analysing pollutants and their con...
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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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Dorothy L. Robinson, Nigel Goodman and Sotiris Vardoulakis
Low-cost optical sensors are used in many countries to monitor fine particulate (PM2.5) air pollution, especially in cities and towns with large spatial and temporal variation due to woodsmoke pollution. Previous peer-reviewed research derived calibratio...
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Rishikesh Karthikeyan, Satyanaryanan Seshadri, V Subramanya Sarma and M Kamaraj
India?s growing power demands and emission norms require more efficient coal-based power plants. The shifting of power plants from subcritical to ultra-supercritical (USC) steam conditions could improve efficiency by 12% and reduce CO2" role="presentatio...
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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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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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João Monteiro, Vitor Silva and Paulina Faria
The interest in restoration and maintenance of old masonries towards their durability is nowadays combined with the concept of sustainability and the need to implement more suitable materials for building heritage interventions. This has led to the impor...
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Clara Lei Xin Yong, Rosa Celia Poquita-Du, Danwei Huang and Peter Alan Todd
There is a growing interest in transplanting corals onto the intertidal section of artificial coastal defences (e.g., seawalls) as an ecological engineering strategy to enhance biodiversity on urban shores. However, this inevitably results in exposure to...
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Johan Nilsson Sommar, Christer Johansson, Boel Lövenheim, Anders Markstedt, Magnus Strömgren and Bertil Forsberg
This study aims to use dispersion-modeled concentrations of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and black carbon (BC) to estimate bicyclist exposures along a network of roads and bicycle paths. Such modeling was also performed in a scenario with increased bicycling. A...
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Hector Aguilar Vitorino, Roxana Yesenia Pastrana Alta and Priscila Ortega
Levels of lipid peroxidation in hepatopancreas (HP), gill (G), and hemolymph (HYM) of stone violaceous crab Platyxanthus orbignyi (Milne Edwards and Lucas (1843)) were performed to examine the effect of short exposure to air. After four hours animals wer...
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Israel Hinojosa-Baliño, Oscar Infante-Vázquez and Maite Vallejo
Modeling the spatial distribution of PM2.5 with personal monitors and an LUR approach may be useful for local authorities to make accountable public policy decisions.
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Liang Emlyn Yang, Peter Hoffmann, Jürgen Scheffran, Sven Rühe, Jana Fischereit and Ingenuin Gasser
Several approaches have been used to assess potential human exposure to environmental stresses and achieve optimal results under various conditions, such as for example, for different scales, groups of people, or points in time. A thorough literature rev...
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Liang Emlyn Yang, Peter Hoffmann, Jürgen Scheffran, Sven Rühe, Jana Fischereit and Ingenuin Gasser
Several approaches have been used to assess potential human exposure to environmental stresses and achieve optimal results under various conditions, such as for example, for different scales, groups of people, or points in time. A thorough literature rev...
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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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Luis Gerardo Ruiz-Suárez, Bertha Eugenia Mar-Morales, José Agustín García-Reynoso, Gema Luz Andraca-Ayala, Ricardo Torres-Jardón, José Santos García-Yee, Hugo Alberto Barrera-Huertas, Arturo Gavilán-García and Roberto Basaldud Cruz
In this work, we report the economic impact of exposure to high ozone concentrations on four important crops in the area of influence of the Mexico City Megalopolis. Estimated yield losses were as follows: maize: 3%; oats: 26%; beans: 14%; sorghum: 15%. ...
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Gergely Kristóf and Bálint Papp
While large eddy simulation has several advantages in microscale air pollutant dispersion modelling, the parametric investigation of geometries is not yet feasible because of its relatively high computational cost. By assuming an analogy between heat and...
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Jason Gilliland, Matthew Maltby, Xiaohong Xu, Isaac Luginaah and Tayyab Shah
Urban cyclists are exposed to many traffic-related air pollutants including particulate matter (PM) that may increase vulnerability to health effects. This study investigates second-by-second personal exposure to PM2.5 (fine particulate matter that is 2....
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Jason Gilliland, Matthew Maltby, Xiaohong Xu, Isaac Luginaah and Tayyab Shah
Urban cyclists are exposed to many traffic-related air pollutants including particulate matter (PM) that may increase vulnerability to health effects. This study investigates second-by-second personal exposure to PM2.5 (fine particulate matter...
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