Leicester’s ITS provides a rich source of data (from traffic detectors, monitored both in real-time and archived, Air Quality Monitoring Stations, weather stations and meteorological services) which is integrated in an Air Quality Modelling Systems framework. The MESSAGE Project’s ‘Grid enabled’ “e-Science” infrastructure demonstration shows how additional data from pervasive environmental sens...

introduction: during radiotherapy, high accuracy in the dose delivery is required because there is a strong  relationship between the absorbed dose, local tumor control and particularly the normal tissue damage. in  many institutions, in vivo dosimetry using diodes is performed to check the actual dose delivered. in general,  the uncertainty in the dose delivered should fall within  ± 5% of the...

Particulate matter is defined as a mixture of airborne solid particles and liquid droplets that can be inhaled and may cause serious health problems. Such elements are currently measured utilizing air quality monitoring devices that provide information on PM 10 and PM 2.5 levels giving information on pollution levels. However, many difficulties are encountered in the determination of nanosized ...

background: measuring and monitoring of air pollutants are one of environmental and all' pollution controls tools. due to lack of widespread data in iran, this study was performed to estimate the trends of major pollutant emissions to atmosphere in the uk from 1980 to 1996. methods: this investigation is a retrospective study that the data were collected from the departments of environment, tra...

polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pahs) which are toxic pollutants are released by various sources of urban combustion. ahvaz in iran with around a million population and the industrial and oil centers, has encountered air quality problems. samples of dibenzo (a,h) antheracen were collected from six stations in ahvaz particle and gas phase in summer 2010. dibenzo(a,h) antheracen were collected ...

The responses relative to an air background of carbon black/polymer composite vapor detectors have been determined as a function of the concentration of a homologous series of alcohols (n-CnH2n+1OH, 1 < or = n < or = 8), a homologous series of alkanes (n-CnH2n+2, 5 < or = n < or = 10 and n = 12, 14), and a set of diverse solvent vapors. In all cases, the steady-state relative differential resis...

UNLABELLED Residential air exchange rates (AERs) are vital in understanding the temporal and spatial drivers of indoor air quality (IAQ). Several methods to quantify AERs have been used in IAQ research, often with the assumption that the home is a single, well-mixed air zone. Since 2005, Health Canada has conducted IAQ studies across Canada in which AERs were measured using the perfluorocarbon ...

background: in the past few decades, indoor air pollution (iap) has become a primary concern to the point. it is increasingly believed to be of equal or greater importance to human health compared to ambient air. however, due to the lack of comprehensive indices for the integrated assessment of indoor air quality (iaq), we aimed to develop a novel, fuzzy-based indoor air quality index (fiaqi) t...

Various radiation detectors including electronic personal emergency radiation detectors (PERDs), radiochromic film cards and thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs) were used to validate a subset of the radiological test requirements listed in the American National Standards Institute/The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (ANSI/IEEE) N42.49 standard. The subset of tests included the ...