The spotted sand bass (Paralabrax maculatofasciatus) is an important recreational sport and subsistence food fish within San Diego Bay, a large industrialized harbor in San Diego, California. Despite this importance, few studies examining the species life history relative to pollutant tissue concentrations and the consumptive fishery exist. This study utilized data from three independent spotte...

With the advent of multicity studies, uniform statistical approaches have been developed to examine air pollution-mortality associations across cities. To assess the sensitivity of the air pollution-mortality association to different model specifications in a single and multipollutant context, the authors applied various regression models developed in previous multicity time-series studies of a...

prediction of spatial and temporal variation of water quality is vital for managing pollutantsdisposal into the rivers. depletion of dissolved oxygen (do) takes place due to the consumption of oxygen bymicrobes to digest bio-degradable pollutants which enter a water course. reaeration takes place in a specificrate depending on do deficit. many investigators have formulated models as an alternat...

Pollutant emissions from diesel engines are significantly affected by fuel injection strategies that could reduce NOx and Soot emissions. For the first time and in this study, numerical simulations were performed to consider the influences of changing the injection duration in each pulse of the double injection strategies on in-cylinder parameters and pollutant emissions. Results confirmed that...

Environmental pollutants have recently emerged as potential risk factors for metabolic diseases, urging systematic investigation of pollutant effects on metabolic disease processes. To enable risk assessment of these so-called metabolic disruptors the use of stable, robust and well-defined cell based screening systems has recently been encouraged. Since beta-cell (dys)functionality is central i...

BACKGROUND Traffic exhaust, refineries and industrial facilities are major sources of air toxics identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) for their potential risk to human health. In utero and early life exposures to air toxics such as benzene and 1,3-butadiene, which are known leukemogens in adults, may play an etiologic role in childhood leukemia that comprises the ma...

The Greenidge Multi-Pollutant Control Project is being conducted at the 107-MW AES Greenidge Unit 4 as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Power Plant Improvement Initiative (PPII) to demonstrate an innovative combination of technologies that is well-suited for reducing emissions from the nation’s large fleet (~60 GW) of smaller coal-fired units. The technologies, which include a NOxO...

The acquisition of environmental data, like pollution and/or meteorological data require the processing of a huge amount of heterogeneous data from external field. As the number of monitoring points groves, we need a strategy to validate the acquired data and to efficiently utilize the transmission resources. An efficient way to obtain the validation-compression of the data sets is the adoption...

The race for engine consumption and pollutant emission reduction requires engines development time reduction and optimisation. These problems bring engine test bed to become measuring systems more and more powerful and versatile. This test bed functionalities enrichment drives automation system evolutions. One of these is the integration of real time simulation execution in MORPHEE 2 which make...