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Using the US National Air Toxics Assessment to benchmark the USEtox inhalation-mediated carcinogenic impacts of air emissions
PurposeRegional air quality models generate a high-resolution prediction of pollutant concentrations using sophisticated treatments of atmospheric...
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A pruned feed-forward neural network (pruned-FNN) approach to measure air pollution exposure
Environmental epidemiology studies require accurate estimations of exposure intensities to air pollution. The process from air pollutant emission to...
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Prospects for International Management of Intercontinental Air Pollution Transport
The recognition of the intercontinental transport of air pollution continues a historic trend towards greater awareness and management of air...
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Urban Areas and Air Pollution: Causes, Concerns, and Mitigation
Urbanization has proven to be a catalyst for global economic growth. However, the concomitant progress in economic development has led to a...
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Update on air pollution control strategies for coal-fired power plants
AbstractCoal is expected to remain a significant power supply source worldwide and shifting to carbon-neutral fuels will be challenging because of...
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The Health Effects of Indoor Air Pollution
This chapter brings a global clinical perspective to the health consequences of indoor air pollution. Its sections are provided in an order that is...
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The Health Effects of Indoor Air Pollution
This chapter brings a global clinical perspective to the health consequences of indoor air pollution. Its sections are provided in an order that is...
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Current practice and recommendations for advancing how human variability and susceptibility are considered in chemical risk assessment
A key element of risk assessment is accounting for the full range of variability in response to environmental exposures. Default dose-response...
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Advancing Integration of CSR and Social Life Cycle Assessment in the Textile and Fashion Industry
This chapter shows how Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) could be integrated with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to monitor the challenges...
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Methods for the assessment of health risk induced by contaminants in atmospheric particulate matter: a review
Air pollution is a major issue for human health with more than 7 million premature deaths per year due to indoor and outdoor air pollution. Exposure...
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Exploring Communication Framing Methods that Link Changes in Air Pollution Exposure and COVID-19 to Promote Post-pandemic Sustainability Policy
This is a stock-taking piece on the role of COVID-19 social distancing measures in reducing urban air pollution and subsequent policy changes to...
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Probabilistic human health risk assessment and contributions to ozone and SOA formation potentials associated with BTEX and formaldehyde emissions in a tropical city (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil)
The BTEX compounds (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes) and formaldehyde (FA) have harmful impacts on human health and are also important...
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Methodology for social life cycle impact assessment enhanced with gender aspects applied to electric vehicle Li-ion batteries
PurposeThe objective of this study is to assess the potential social risks and benefits of EV Li-ion batteries by combining the S-LCA framework with...
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Probabilistic approach for health hazard assessment of trihalomethanes through successive showering events
Trihalomethanes (THMs) are common disinfection by-products in chlorinated tap waters. They can cause various cancers and non-cancer health hazards....
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Bushfire smoke plume composition and toxicological assessment from the 2019–2020 Australian Black Summer
Many of the population centres in southeast Australia were swathed in bushfire smoke during the 2019–2020 austral summer. Bushfires burning during...
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Recent advances in biological systems for improving indoor air quality
Studies on human exposure to indoor air pollution reveal that indoor environments could be at least twice as polluted as outdoor environments. Indoor...
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Jakarta, Indonesia
The site of Jakarta was developed by colonial powers and involved the structural dilemmas of flooding and disease from the start. The problems of...
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Geostatistical Methods and Framework for Pollution Modelling
In recent years, pollution has become an important global issue due to its impact on people’s lives and the environment and has caused severe...
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Particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in typical urban of Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau: Characterization, sources and risk assessment
Monthly particle-phase ambient samples collected at six sampling locations in Yuxi, a high-altitude city on the edge of Southeast Asia, were measured...
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Residential Proximity to Metal-Emitting Industries and Toenail Metal Concentration in the US Gulf States
The US Gulf region is heavily reliant on metal-emitting petrochemical and manufacturing industries. We sought to characterize associations between...
