The Walter A Rosenblith New Investigator Award provided funding to explore new statistical approaches for air pollution research. This report reviews and summarizes the methodologic and substantive contributions to time-series analyses of air pollution and mortality that this award made possible. The review is organized according to the following general topics: (1) semiparametric methods for t...

BACKGROUND With the rapid development of China's economy, air pollution has attracted public concern because of its harmful effects on health. METHODS The source apportioning of air pollution, the spatial distribution characteristics, and the relationship between atmospheric contamination, and the risk of exposure were explored. The in situ daily concentrations of the principal air pollutants...

Protection Agency (EPA) for kindly providing additional data from their study on county-level PM2.5 concentrations vs. lung cancer incidence and mortality in North Carolina. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Goran Krstić at [email protected]. Uncertainties, limitations and biases may impede the correct application of concentration-response linear functions...

The incidence of allergic respiratory diseases and bronchial asthma appears to be increasing worldwide, and people living in urban areas more frequently experience these conditions than those living in rural areas. One of the several causes of the rise in morbidity associated with allergic respiratory diseases is the increased presence of outdoor air pollutants resulting from more intense energ...

Development disorders may be arisen from the unavoidable maternal exposure to particulate air pollution during the prenatal life that can be affected not only periconceptional period but also postnatal life. A kind of chemical material categorized as air pollutants are present in the urine, blood and semen of exposed men and may decline sperm count and affect sperm quality. Environment toxic ca...

An industrial complex specially located in coastal area seriously affect on air quality near residential area. Gwang-yang bay, where is the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, is one of the densely accumulated industrial areas. And air pollution over the area also increase with the density of industrial complex. Since petrochemical industry occupied major part of the Gwang-yang bay complex, ...

background: the air dispersion models are widely used to evaluate and predict the pollutants emissions from air pollution sources such as incinerators. this study attempts to predict the heavy metal pollutants dispersion emitted by an incineration plant impacting its surrounding area. methods: several scenarios of emission rates coupled with the meteorological conditions were investigated using...