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Children’s rights are part of our DNA: The right to development and Smoke-Free Generation

open access: yesTobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2020
The right to grow up smoke-free is defended by various articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, where the right to health (art. 24 CRC) and the right to life, survival and development (art. 6 CRC) are essential.
Danielle van Kalmthout
doaj   +1 more source

Interface decoration of exfoliated MXene ultra-thin nanosheets for fire and smoke suppressions of thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer.

open access: yesJournal of Hazardous Materials, 2019
Thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) has broad applications as lightweight materials due to its multiple advantages and unique properties. Nevertheless, toxicity emission under fire conditions remains a major concern, particularly in building fire scenarios.
Bin Yu   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry analysis of Anbarnesa smoke and its antiviral activity

open access: yesAdvanced Biomedical Research, 2022
Background: Anbarnesa is the female donkey dung typically collected after the labor and in early springtime. Materials and Methods: The chemical composition of the smoke collected from Anbarnesa was evaluated by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC ...
Siavash Iravani   +3 more
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Tobacco and the coronavirus

open access: yesTobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2020
A comparison of the data available until 1 May 2020 shows that during its first six months the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in much less human life lost than smoking – both globally and in Bulgaria. However, the reactions in society, state institutions and
Pavel Antonov, Hristo Ivanov
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Project RISE: Recognizing Industrial Smoke Emissions

open access: yes, 2020
Industrial smoke emissions pose a significant concern to human health. Prior works have shown that using Computer Vision (CV) techniques to identify smoke as visual evidence can influence the attitude of regulators and empower citizens to pursue ...
Dille, Paul   +9 more
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Interpersonal and intrapersonal differences among adolescent nonsmokers, ex-smokers, and smokers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: A large body of research has traced tobacco dependence among adolescents to a series of intrapersonal and interpersonal factors. However, there are remaining questions regarding the differences on these factors related to tobacco use ...
Baiocco, Roberto   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Plant-Derived Smoke Ameliorates Salt Stress in Wheat by Enhancing Expressions of Stress-Responsive Genes and Antioxidant Enzymatic Activity

open access: yesAgronomy, 2021
Abiotic stresses are the biggest threat to the increasing population worldwide. Salt stress is one of the most significant abiotic stresses, affecting 20% of the crop production around the world.
Nailla Hayat   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does smoke derived from Victorian native vegetation stimulate germination of dormant soil-stored seed? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The effectiveness of Victorian (local) plant-derived smoke in stimulating germination of soil-stored seeds was compared with that of commercial sources from Western Australia and South Africa, for soil samples from a Eucalyptus baxteri (Bentham) Maiden ...
Enright, N.J., Kintrup, A.
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A Smoke Free Generation in Belgium

open access: yesTobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2019
The goal of the Alliance for a Smoking Society and the Campaign "Smoke Free Generation" campaign is to create a society where every child born as of 2019 has the right to grow up in a smoke free environment and will not start smoking. To achieve this, we
Danielle van Kalmthout
doaj   +1 more source

Black carbon lofts wildfire smoke high into the stratosphere to form a persistent plume

open access: yesScience, 2019
Up in smoke Extensive and intense wildfires in the Pacific Northwest of the United States in 2017 injected large quantities of smoke into the stratosphere. Yu et al.
P. Yu   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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