Mobile air quality studies (MAQS) in inner cities: particulate matter PM10 levels related to different vehicle driving modes and integration of data into a geographical information program [PDF]
, 2012 : BACKGROUND: Particulate matter (PM) is assumed to exert a major burden on public health. Most studies that address levels of PM use stationary measure systems.
Fischer, Axel +10 more
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Socioeconomic deprivation status and air pollution by PM10 and NO2: an assessment at municipal level of 11 years in Italy [PDF]
, 2019 The aim of this observational study was to assess the relationship between environmental risk factors and some aspects of social economic status (SES) of the population in different Italian municipalities.
Ciarlo, Immacolata +6 more
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SEASONAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION OF PM10 IN AN URBAN AREA FROM ROMANIA [PDF]
, 2019 The cyclic variance of PM10 mass concentration in the urban area in the South-East of Romania has been analysed in the article. SE of Romania is considered to be a territory which has medium level of pollution for a period of last ten years, from 2009 ...
Dragomir Balanica, Mariana Carmelia +5 more
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Multivariate space-time modelling of multiple air pollutants and their health effects accounting for exposure uncertainty [PDF]
, 2018 The long-term health effects of air pollution are often estimated using a spatio-temporal ecological areal unit study, but this design leads to the following statistical challenges: (1) how to estimate spatially representative pollution concentrations ...
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Evaluation of the performance of four chemical transport models in predicting the aerosol chemical composition in Europe in 2005 [PDF]
, 2016 © Author(s) 2016.Four regional chemistry transport models were applied to simulate the concentration and composition of particulate matter (PM) in Europe for 2005 with horizontal resolution 20 km.
Butler, Tim +16 more
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"Safety health impacts of particulate matter from excavation work sites" [PDF]
, 2012 Gli studi epidemiologici hanno evidenziato una relazione lineare tra il particolato aerodisperso e gli effetti sulla salute dell'uomo. E' dunque interessante comprendere quale sia realmente il rischio a cui va incontro la popolazione esposta ad ...
G. Pizzo, M. Clerico
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Comparison of PM2.5 and PM10 monitors [PDF]
Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 2000 An extensive PM monitoring study was conducted during the 1998 Baltimore PM Epidemiology-Exposure Study of the Elderly. One goal was to investigate the mass concentration comparability between various monitoring instrumentation located across residential indoor, residential outdoor, and ambient sites.
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Cardiovascular disease and air pollution in Scotland: no association or insufficient data and study design? [PDF]
, 2012 <p><b>Background:</b> Coronary heart disease and stroke are leading causes of mortality and ill health in Scotland, and clear associations have been found in previous studies between air pollution and cardiovascular disease. This study
Bhaskar, A. +8 more
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Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2023 Wei Tang,1,2 Lixia Sun,3 Jie Wang,4 Kaijie Li,5 Shuhan Liu,5 Mingwei Wang,6 Yongran Cheng,7 Lili Dai1 1Department of Otolaryngology, Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of ...
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Indoor particulate matter in developing countries: a case study in Pakistan and potential intervention strategies [PDF]
, 2013 Around three billion people, largely in low and middle income countries, rely on biomass fuels for their household energy needs. The combustion of these fuels generates a range of hazardous indoor air pollutants and is an important cause of morbidity and
Ian Colbeck +4 more
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