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Environmental public health tracking of childhood asthma using California health interview survey, traffic, and outdoor air pollution data. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
BackgroundDespite extensive evidence that air pollution affects childhood asthma, state-level and national-level tracking of asthma outcomes in relation to air pollution is limited.ObjectivesOur goals were to evaluate the feasibility of linking the 2001 ...
Balmes, John   +5 more
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Air pollution: the "classical" pollutants. [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 1981
Few disasters can have led to such great good as the four-day London "smog" of December 1952. Though its extreme concentrations of smoke and sulphur dioxide appear to have caused up to 4000 extra deaths,1 it provided the impetus for the Clean Air Act 1956.
openaire   +3 more sources

Advanced Surface Engineering and Passivation Strategies of Quantum Dots for Breaking Efficiency Barrier of Clean Energy Technologies: A Comprehensive Review

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review describes the different surface engineering strategies for quantum dots that addresses the challenges associated with surface defects, highlighting their role in enhancing the performance of solar energy conversion technologies. Abstract Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) have garnered significant attention for their unique potential in clean ...
Kokilavani S., Gurpreet Singh Selopal
wiley   +1 more source

Using recycled coffee grounds for the synthesis of ZIF-8@BC to remove Congo red in water

open access: yesEcotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022
Around 6.6 million tons of spent coffee is produced per year, resulting in resources loss and potential environmental risks. Hence, a green technique is required to reuse the spent coffee grains.
Yixuan Liang   +6 more
doaj  

Automotive air pollution : issues and options for developing countries [PDF]

open access: yes
Air pollution constitutes an ominous threat to human health and welfare. Its adverse effects are pervasive and may be disaggregated at three levels: (a) local, confined to urban and industrial centers; (b) regional, pertaining to transboundary transport ...
Faiz, Asif   +3 more
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From Spin to Star: Ultrafast Dual‐Gradient Centrifugal Microfluidics for Scalable High‐Throughput and Combinatorial Nanomaterial Synthesis

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A dual‐gradient centrifugal microfluidic platform enables ultrafast, high‐throughput screening of nanomaterials in 90 reaction chambers. Through siphon‐based aliquoting and automated gradient generation, the system achieves combinatorial synthesis of silver nanoparticles with diverse morphologies.
Hiep Van Nguyen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Short-term exposure to air pollution on peripheral white blood cells and inflammation biomarkers: a cross-sectional study on rural residents

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Effects of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on systemic immunological and inflammatory biomarkers in rural population have not been adequately characterized.
Yishu Yang   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do Political Institutions protect the poor? Intra Countries Health Inequalities and Air Pollution in Developing Countries [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the link between health inequalities, air pollution and political institutions. In health economics literature, many studies have assessed the association between environmental degradation and health outcomes.
Alassane Drabo
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