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Environmental air pollution: near-source air pollution

2023
Current Trends and Future Developments on (Bio-) Membranes: Membrane Technologies in Environmental Protection and Public Health- Challenges and Opportunities illustrates the application of membrane technology used in separation processes, along with the advantages of membranes in comparison with other types of separation methods.
Allegrini I., Ianniello A., Valentini F.
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Environmental Air Pollution, Emphysema and Ionized Air

Diseases of the Chest, 1966
SUMMARY 1.The present evidence would indicate that both community air pollution and personal air pollution are important factors in some people developing pulmonary emphysema. We feel that cigarette smoking is the more significant factor at the present time in the development of emphysema as compared to community air pollution.
HURLEY L. MOTLEY   +2 more
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Environmental control of indoor air pollution

Medical Clinics of North America, 1992
Indoor air pollution is becoming an increasing problem in industrialized countries. Most people spend their time indoors which results in chronic exposure to indoor allergens and irritants. New products have been introduced to the environment to which humans are not immunologically adapted.
E, Fernández-Caldas, R W, Fox
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Environmental Air Pollution

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2000
The effects of air pollution on health have been recognized for many hundreds of years. In London, during December 1952, a particularly bad smog, which involved extreme elevations of both SO 2 and black smoke, was associated with more than 1,000 extra deaths during a 5-d period (1).
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Cough and environmental air pollution in China

Pulmonary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2015
With fast-paced urbanization and increased energy consumption in rapidly industrialized modern China, the level of outdoor and indoor air pollution resulting from industrial and motor vehicle emissions has been increasing at an accelerated rate. Thus, there is a significant increase in the prevalence of respiratory symptoms such as coughing, wheezing ...
Qingling, Zhang   +3 more
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH IMPACTS OF AIR POLLUTION

2008
Air pollution is known to have a range of effects, including those on human health, crop production, soil acidification, visibility and corrosion of materials. This Chapter focuses on the two major impacts of air pollution that have most strongly influenced the development of policies to reduce emissions: those on the natural environment and on human ...
Ashmore, M.R.   +8 more
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[Environmental characterization: air pollution].

Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Mikrobiologie und Hygiene. Serie B, Umwelthygiene, Krankenhaushygiene, Arbeitshygiene, praventive Medizin, 1988
During the years of the epidemiological group-diagnostic examination (1982-1986) it was attempted to characterize the atmospheric air pollution in the industrial Rhine-Main area (Wiesbaden and Frankfurt) and, in comparison, in two control areas (Freiburg with the adjacent High Black Forest and the Starnberg area).
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