ESCAPEing from bad-quality air: a cleaner air, from Europe to elsewhere.
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There are many areas of life we don’t fully understand: how do babies learn to speak? Why do we sometimes laugh while reading? Why did Peter Sellers never receive an Oscar? Making the connections is not always easy. In a similar way, seasoned respiratory experts often say there are two types of respiratory research that are intrinsically difficult: anything related to tobacco, and environmental epidemiology.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The European respiratory journal
دوره 45 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015