Reinforcing the insulation and airtightness of buildings and the use of building materials containing new chemical substances have caused indoor air quality problems. Use of sorptive building materials along with removal of pollutants, constant ventilation, bake-out, etc. are gaining attention in Korea and Japan as methods for improving such indoor air quality problems. On the other hand, sorpt...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to present a technique for estimating the effect of ambient air pollution mix on health outcomes. MATERIAL AND METHODS We created a technique of indexing air pollution mix as a cause of the increased odds of health problems. As an illustrative example, we analyzed the impact of pollution on the frequency of emergency department (ED) visits due to col...

Air quality index (AQI) also known as air pollution (API) is the way of describing ambient to assess health risk associated with pollution. With advent time, there have been several indexing systems starting from first Quality Index developed in 1966 by Marvin H. Green and various modifications made ever since improve accuracy measurement. Such can factors like concentration different pollutant...

Some relationships between economic development and pollutant discharge have been found to be represented by inverted U-shaped curves, namely the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), while S-shaped and N-shaped curves have also been found. There are several hard and soft measures to improve water quality in the rivers in Southeast Queensland. Socio-economic conditions related to river water envir...

BACKGROUND There is growing concern of health effects of exposure to pollutant mixtures. We initially proposed an Environmental Risk Score (ERS) as a summary measure to examine the risk of exposure to multi-pollutants in epidemiologic research considering only pollutant main effects. We expand the ERS by consideration of pollutant-pollutant interactions using modern machine learning methods. We...

The background of this research is that most the rural communities, one which Banyuajuh Village, Kamal, Bangkalan, utilizes clean water sources from ground water. However, people do not pay attention to how build wells with characteristics and distance pollutant source correctly. Therefore, study aims determine construction well source, quality parameters Temperature, pH, Turbidity, TDS, CaCOs,...

The present study represents a first insight into the Draa Lasfar min (Marrakech - Morocco) to assess the degree of polymetallic pollution caused by anthropogenic activities (like mine extraction) and consequently the possible diffusion of heavy metals and to predict the risk of their mobility in the surroundings of the mine area. The edaphologic parameters pH and electrical conductivity (EC) w...

The well-to-wheels assessment is widely used in the automotive sector to analyze the efficiency and competitiveness of different powertrain/fuel options. The paper proposes a global index that takes into account both the energy and environmental aspects on an uniform basis, through the assignment of the costs associated to the energy and to the pollutant emissions. The European market is analyz...