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Mapping Air Quality Risk in Cape Town, South Africa: Implications for Environmental Justice

GeoHealth, Volume 10, Issue 4, April 2026.
Abstract Air pollution disproportionately impacts socially vulnerable communities, yet spatial analyzes that integrate social vulnerability and air quality indicators are limited in low‐ and middle‐income countries. This study provided the first comprehensive spatial assessment of air pollution risk in Cape Town, South Africa, combining air quality ...
Meryl Jagarnath, Lerato Shikwambana
wiley   +1 more source

The construction and validity assessment of the respiratory air quality health index (AQHI) based on the analytic hierarchy process in Tianjin, China

BMC Public Health
Background Air quality health index (AQHI), as a developed air quality risk communication tool, has been proved to be more accurate in predicting air quality related health risks than air quality index (AQI) by previous studies.
Qiang Zeng, Yu Bai, Mengnan Zhang, Yang Ni   +3 more
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Air Quality Prediction Using Improved PSO-BP Neural Network

IEEE Access, 2020
Predicting urban air quality is a significant aspect of preventing urban air pollution and improving the living environment of urban residents. The air quality index (AQI) is a dimensionless tool for quantitatively describing air quality.
Yuan Huang, Yuxing Xiang, Ruixiao Zhao, Zhe Cheng   +3 more
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In Search of a “Social-AQI”

South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2023
Globally, datafication is being adopted as a solution for socio-environmental issues, with the belief that it will democratize decision-making by simplifying knowledge through data.
Ruchi Dwivedi, Muzamil Yaqoob, Aasim Khan, Praveen Priyadarshi, Saad Ahmad, Sudhir Attri, Raghava Mutharaju   +6 more
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A Temporally Disentangled Contrastive Diffusion Model for Spatiotemporal Imputation

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, Volume 11, Issue 2, Page 548-563, April 2026.
ABSTRACT The analysis of spatiotemporal data is essential across many fields, such as transportation, meteorology and healthcare. Data gathered in practical applications often suffer from incompleteness due to device failures and network disruptions.
Yakun Chen, Kaize Shi, Zhangkai Wu, Juan Chen, Xianzhi Wang, Julian McAuley, Guandong Xu, Shui Yu   +7 more
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Do meteorological variables impact air quality differently across urbanization gradients? A case study of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China

Heliyon
Air pollution has become a major challenge to global urban sustainable development, necessitating urgent solutions. Meteorological variables are key determinants of air quality; however, research on their impact across different urban gradients remains ...
Bohan Wu, Shuang Zhao, Yuxiang Liu, Chunyan Zhang   +3 more
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Apprising the local and global implication of ambient air Quality Index of Kaduna Metropolis, Nigeria [PDF]

Zbornik radova Departmana za geografiju, turizam i hotelijerstvo, 2020
This study apprises the local and global implication of ambient air quality index of Kaduna Metropolis, Nigeria. With the point of investigating the spatial and transient dissemination of the Air Quality Index (AQI) of Carbon monoxide (CO), Sulfur ...
Daful Mwanret Gideon, Adewuyi Taiye Oluwafemi, Dadan-Garba Aliyu, Akinwumi Oluwole Olumide, Muhammad Muktar Namadi, Ezeamaka Cyril Kanayochuku   +5 more
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Green Entrepreneurial Mindset for a Sustainable Future: Does Environmental Dynamism Have a Say?

Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 3760-3773, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The study investigates the influence of green entrepreneurial behaviour on the ever‐increasing concern to design a sustainable supply chain. The standard scales are utilized for the study, and data collected through online channels are tested for reliability and validity.
Rose Antony, Mahak Sharma, Alessio Ishizaka   +2 more
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Breathable Cities: Dynamic Machine Learning Modelling Approaches for Advanced Air Pollution Control

Applied Sciences
This paper discusses air quality index (AQI) representation using a fuzzy logic framework to cover the blurry areas of AQI where indices are in between ranges of values.
Roba Zayed, Maysam Abbod
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The long-run economic consequences of high-stakes examinations : evidence from transitory variation in pollution [PDF]

, 2016
Cognitive performance during high-stakes exams can be affected by random disturbances that, even if transitory, may have permanent consequences. We evaluate this hypothesis among Israeli students who took a series of matriculation exams between 2000 and ...
Ebenstein, Avraham, Lavy, Victor, Roth, Sefi   +2 more
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