OBJECTIVES Outdoor air pollution has consistently been shown to predict mortality. The finding that this association is stronger in infants than in children or adults raises the question whether air pollution could also be related to pregnancy outcomes--such as birthweight and stillbirth. The association between outdoor air pollution and stillbirths and low birthweight in the Czech Republic, wh...

Introduction: A hallmark of sepsis is early onset microvascular dysfunction. However, the mechanism responsible for maldistribution of capillary blood flow is not understood. Evidence suggests red blood cells (RBC) can sense local oxygen (O2) conditions and signal the vasculature, via adenosine triphosphate (ATP), to increase capillary flow. We hypothesized that sepsis impaired microvascular au...

The effects of SO2 and H2O on the low-temperature selective catalytic reduction (SCR) activity over MnOx/ZrO2/MWCNTs and MnOx/ZrO2/MWCNTs catalysts modified by Ce or Y was studied. MnCeZr and MnYZr catalysts reached nearly 100% and 93.9% NOx conversions at 200 ◦C and 240 ◦C, respectively. They displayed a better SO2 tolerance, and the effect of H2O was negligible. The structural properties of t...

BACKGROUND Maptaphut Industrial Estate (MIE) was established with a single factory in 1988, increasing to 50 by 1998. This development has resulted in undesirable impacts on the environment and the health of the people in the surrounding areas, evidenced by frequent complaints of bad odours making the people living there ill. In 1999, the Bureau of Environmental Health, Department of Health, Mi...

Dr. Yusuf G (Debo) Adewuyi is a Professor of Chemical, Biological and Bioengineering Department at North Carolina A&T State University, where his research is in sustainable production of energy & chemical products; synthesis of nanoscale materials for energy and environmental applications; sonochemistry, cavitation and advanced oxidation processes for pollution treatment; liquid-phase chemistry...