Visual Pollution: Unaesthetic Use of Land as Nuisance

Neighborhoods as Nuisance

Neighborhoods as Nuisance Parameters

Deviations from the center within a robust neighborhood may naturally be considered an innnite dimensional nuisance parameter. Thus, in principle, the semiparametric method may be tried, which is to compute the scores function for the main parameter minus its orthogonal projection on the closed linear tangent space for the nuisance parameter, and then rescale for Fisher consistency. We derive s...

Land use regression as method to model air pollution. Previous results for Gothenburg/Sweden

In the past 20 years, considerable progress has been made to improve urban air quality in the EU. However, road traffic still contributes considerably to the deterioration of urban air quality to below standards, which requires a method to measure properly and model pollution levels resulting from road traffic. In order to visualize the geographical distribution of pollution concentration reali...

Industrial atmospheric pollution, historical land use patterns and mortality.

BACKGROUND The measurement of atmospheric pollution for epidemiological studies is problematic. This study presents a new proxy measure of atmospheric pollution of industrial origin and uses it to determine, at electoral ward level, the relationship between atmospheric pollution and all-cause mortality. METHODS All-cause Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMR), all ages, and for persons under 65 ...

African land snail Achatina marginatus, as bioindicator of environmental pollution

Activity of xanthine oxidase, levels of lipid peroxidation and ascorbic acid were studied in African land snail (Achatina marginatus) from two sites with different pollution potentials. Lipid peroxidation was significantly higher in the snails from the polluted site compared to the value obtained from the same species from the control site. Similarly, the activity of xanthine oxidase in the sna...