This article develops and assesses novel indicators of respiratory and other morbidity and mortality following London's lethal smog in the winter of 1952. Public health insurance claims, hospital admission rates for cardiac and respiratory disease, pneumonia cases, mortality records, influenza reports, temperature, and air pollutant concentrations are analyzed for December-February 1952-1953 an...

OBJECTIVE To assess the readability of online tracheostomy care resources. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Academic center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A Google search was performed for "tracheostomy care" in January 2014. The top 50 results were categorized into major versus minor websites and patient-oriented versus professional-oriented resources. These websites were evaluated wit...

Over the past decade, major cities in China have suffered from severe air pollution, which is also known as smog. Despite lay considerations that smog might pose risks for psychopathology, it remains unknown whether it is only linked to affective psychopathology or to a broader range of symptomologies. Moreover, whether individual differences in emotion regulation, a transdiagnostic risk factor...

Some measures to counter car accident have been taken from various angels in recent times, while their epidemiological consideration has not sufficiently been given. The presentation here is a study on the latter problem. Three elements have to be taken into account when car accident is to be investigated epidemiologically; first, car traffic itself, secondly what is related to main constituent...

Some important discrepancies in weather forecast for urban area during frontal zones’ transitional periods are constantly observed, when air pollution is combined with electromagnetic smog. Often the days’ lasting phenomenon is due to an unstable phase in humidity transition, which is generated by electromagnetic smog stimulation of anthropogenic aerosol aggregation. This result is a fog-like c...

We present SMOG, a mechanism to build and maintain a highly accurate centralised full network topology model in wireless sensor networks. We evaluate its scalability, accuracy, and reactivity in simulations and a testbed. Our findings show SMOG achieves high accuracy with low overhead.

Spectral characterization of super-Earth atmospheres for planets orbiting in the habitable zone of M dwarf stars is a key focus in exoplanet science. A central challenge is to understand and predict the expected spectral signals of atmospheric biosignatures (species associated with life). Our work applies a global-mean radiative-convective-photochemical column model assuming a planet with an Ea...