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Enhancing indoor air quality –The air filter advantage
Air pollution has become the world's single biggest environmental health risk, linked to around 7 million deaths in 2012 according to a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report.
Vannan Kandi Vijayan+3 more
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Max Fast Fourier Transform (maxFFT) Clustering Approach for Classifying Indoor Air Quality
Air pollution is a severe problem for the global environment. Most people spend 80% to 90% of the day indoors; therefore, indoor air pollution is as important as outdoor air pollution. The problem is more severe on school campuses. There are several ways
Ka-Ui Chu, Yao-Hua Ho
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Outdoor-indoor air pollution in urban environment: Challenges and opportunity
With the continual improvement in our quality of life, indoor air quality has become an important area of concern in the 21st century. Indoor air quality is affected by many factors including the type and running conditions of indoor pollution sources ...
Dennis Y.C. eLeung
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Conducted by the nonprofit organization Breathe Mongolia—Clean Air Coalition, this study investigated ambient air pollution in Ulaanbaatar, focusing on the significant role of coal briquette combustion within ger areas.
Ana Maria Carmen Ilie+6 more
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Impact of Indoor Air Pollution in Pakistan—Causes and Management
This state-of-the-art review is designed to provide a factual analysis of indoor air pollution in Pakistan. Primarily, the main sources of indoor air pollution and related air pollutants were analyzed.
Ayesha Kausar+3 more
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Genetic susceptibility to asthma increases the vulnerability to indoor air pollution
Introduction Indoor air pollution and maternal smoking during pregnancy are associated with respiratory symptoms in infants, but little is known about the direct association with lung function or interactions with genetic risk factors.
A. Hüls+10 more
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Current State of Indoor Air Phytoremediation Using Potted Plants and Green Walls
Urban civilization has a high impact on the environment and human health. The pollution level of indoor air can be 2–5 times higher than the outdoor air pollution, and sometimes it reaches up to 100 times or more in natural/mechanical ventilated ...
Samaneh Bandehali+3 more
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Indoor air pollution is a major problem in our daily life. Efficient corrective methods are urgently needed to combat the problem of Indoor air quality Virus Bacteria pollen grains, smoke, humidity, chemical substances and gases released in anthropogenic activity have adverse health effects in humans .
G. Záray, V.G. Mihucz
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Adaptation to indoor air pollution
Abstract The change in the perception of polluted air was studied during the first 15 min of exposure in climate chambers. Subjects, 16 female and 16 male, ages 18–30 y, served as air quality judges during 42 exposures. They were exposed to different concentrations of human bioeffluents (500–4000 μL/L CO 2 ), tobacco smoke (0.25–2.5 μL/L CO), and ...
Gunnarsen, Lars Bo, Fanger, P.O.
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Indoor Air Pollution was Nonnegligible during COVID-19 Lockdown
COVID-19 spread globally in the past months and caused hundreds of thousands of people dead Many countries took lockdown policy to restrict human activities and industry to slow down the virus spread The implementation of stringent lockdown resulted in ...
W. Du, Gehui Wang
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