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Environment International, 2022 Single-use or disposable facemasks have been widely used by the public for personal protection against the spread of COVID-19. The majority of disposable facemasks are made of synthetic polymers such as polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate (as ...
Krishnamoorthi Vimalkumar +2 more
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Sri Lanka Journal of Medicine, 2022 Background: Correct facemask usage and disposal is crucial to prevent COVID-19 infection spread and environmental pollution. Objectives: To assess the knowledge and practises on facemask usage among the employees of University of Colombo during the ...
S. Majeed +3 more
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Efficacy Assessment of Newly-designed Filtering Facemasks during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2020 The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic resulted in shortages of production and test capacity of FFP2-respirators. Such facemasks are required to be worn by healthcare professionals when performing aerosol-generating procedures on COVID-19 patients.
Bob Boogaard +10 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 The real protection offered by facemasks to control the transmission of respiratory viruses is still undetermined. Most of the manufacturing regulations, as well as scientific studies, have focused on studying the filtration capacity of the fabrics from ...
Pedro J. Benito +2 more
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Potential biodegradable face mask to counter environmental impact of Covid-19
Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 2021 On the eve of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a tremendous increase in the production of facemasks across the world. The primary raw materials for the manufacturing of the facemasks are non-biodegradable synthetic polymers derived from ...
Pintu Pandit +6 more
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Wearing Facemasks and Maintaining Social Distancing during COIVD-19 among people in the U.S.
Jurnal Aspikom, 2023 This survey of 502 U.S. residents explored how people practiced wearing facemasks and maintaining social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rashmi Thapaliya, Shugofa Dastgeer
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Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 2018 Background Facemasks are increasingly worn during air pollution episodes in China, but their protective effects are poorly understood. We aimed to evaluate the filtration efficiencies of N95 facemasks and the cardiopulmonary benefits associated with ...
Tianjia Guan +7 more
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Prolonged facemask wearing among hospital workers and dry eye – a mixed-methods study
BMC Ophthalmology, 2023 Background Prolonged facemask wearing may have negatively affected essential workers with dry eye. We conducted a mixed-methods study to examine and understand the associations of the ocular surface, periocular environment, and dry eye-related symptoms ...
Tianjing Li +13 more
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Individual and population level protection from particulate matter exposure by wearing facemasks
Environment International, 2021 Because of the severe air pollution in northern China, facemasks have gained popularity in this area in recent years. Although the results of previous studies have shown the effectiveness of wearing facemasks for intercepting particles, the individual ...
Huizhong Shen +11 more
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The impact of facemasks on emotion recognition, trust attribution and re-identification
Scientific Reports, 2021 Covid-19 pandemics has fostered a pervasive use of facemasks all around the world. While they help in preventing infection, there are concerns related to the possible impact of facemasks on social communication. The present study investigates how emotion
Marco Marini +4 more
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