... concentrations of multiple indoorairpollutants It is used as a complementary indicator to decrease indoor pollution level in total and achieve healthy indoorair environment.109) The indoorair concentration ... fuels for heating and cooking.52) Biological Pollutants Dander, mold, dust, and other organisms carried into by animals and people are biological airpollutants in buildings Airpollutants are related ... removal of gaseous and particulate contaminantsIndoor Air, 18, 44–50 Otsuki, C (2008) Indoor environment of a nursery school Indoor Environ., 11, 33–35 (in Japanese) Furusawa, H., Nagamine, M and...
... building pathologists and other professionals, financiers and developers, is necessary There is a very wide range of potential indoorair pollution sources, the effects of which may impinge on ... (EPA) 1990 and the Water Resources Act 1991 consider environment and pollution The indoorair quality and the health and comfort in the workplace environment depends upon a number of factors ... aspects, occupancy atad use of the building and the building environment The following set of questionnaires may be helpful in identifying some of the causes and symptoms and the information gained...
... outdoors and indoors in the different microenvironments and the time spent in each of these environments, commonly called Table Sourcesand characteristics of varied indoorairpollutantsand associated ... substances; and from emissions of construction materials and furniture.7 Indoor concentrations ofpollutants depend on the quantity of emissions, the volume of the polluted space, and the rate of exchange ... indoorair Therefore, indoor exposure, including that in occupational settings, dominates total exposure for many pollutantsIndoorsourcesofair pollution can be categorized by type of source and...
... questionnaire is short and quick to administer (5-10 min) and welladapted for studies in general populations Strategy for identification of type and determinants of missingness The type of missingness ... administration of this questionnaire In this large representative sample of the French population the proportion of missing items varied between 2% and 7% The type of missingness was missing at random ... GH4, RE2 and all items of VT, SF and MH subscales) and missing not at random for the others (items PF2-10, RP2, RP4, BP1, GH2, GH3, GH5, RE1 and RE3) No item was missing completely at random (MCAR)...
... lack of objectiveness and incoherency of opinions and attitudes of the respondents, possibly caused by ignorance and misinformation brought about by school education (and education in general) and ... Mts in the north of CR), a highland area (Pasecká skála in the Czech-Moravian Highlands in the central part of CR) and a lowland forest (Knížecí les in the south-eastern part of CR by the Svratka ... the forest function of timber production which is, nevertheless, significantly limited and even impaired by their demands as they increase the costs of timber production and lower the revenues...
... distribution of SCE frequencies andsourcesof variation MATERIALS AND METHODS Subjects A total of 24 healthy animals were analyzed, females and 15 males, from different farms and belonging to breeds and ... the (1984) and our results may be sensitivity of their lymphocyte populations Sourcesof variation in SCE frequency The results of the analysis of variance indicate that group, animal and treatment ... acted for the last 26 h of the culture and was added to a final concentration of Ilgjml (16 11M) for cultures of treatment and to a serum variable concentration for cultures of treatment 2, so that...
... The report is called "Fuel for Life: Household Energy and Health." It can be found on the World Health Organization Web site at w-h-o dot i-n-t (who.int) ... search box at the top This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Lawan Davis Read and listen to our reports at voaspecialenglish.com I’m Steve Ember ...
... K (1998) Airtightness of commercial and institutional buildings: blowing holes in the myth of tight buildings Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology ... comparison of measured and simulated air pressure conditions of a detached house in a cold climate Journal of Building Physics, 32(1), 67-89 [31] Juodis, E (2000) Energy saving and airtightness of blocks ... [14] Table provides an estimate of the dispersion ofair leakage across different elements of a building as cited in the ASHRAE handbook of fundamentals [17] Table Air leakage distribution across...
... peak and off-peak levels of PM10, PM2.5 and PM1 in air- conditioned train coaches On the other hand, in non air- conditioned coaches a significant difference was documented only for PM2.5 and PM1 ... interaction between pollutants from SHS and vehicular emissions [10] They measured the number concentration and size distribution of UFP and other airpollutants such as CO, CO2 and PM2.5 inside ... between fresh air vs circulating air conditioning systems or the types of cars It may be suggested that the use of the car air conditioning system can improve certain parameters ofindoorair quality...
... 3.1 Profile of sampled households ples and 2, respectively, had five years of schooling as the highest education level About 23 and 31 percent of sample households and 26 and 36 percent of the ... world The major sourcesofindoorair pollution worldwide include combustion of fuels, tobacco, and coal; ventilation systems; furnishings; and construction materials (Table 1) These sources vary ... provided in the glossary 1.3 Indoorair pollutant levels in biomass using households—concentrations and exposures Some of the earliest studies to determine levels ofindoorairpollutants associated...
... Bibliography Annex A - Range of levels of small particles (PM10 ) and carbon monoxide found in studies ofindoorair pollution in developing countries, and WHO and USEPA air quality guidelines for ... the overall body of research on the effects ofair pollution on human and animal health 14 | Addressing the Impact of Household Energy andIndoorAir Pollution on the Health of the Poor Implications ... Impact of Household Energy andIndoorAir Pollution on the Health of the Poor Implications for Policy Action and Intervention Measures 5.2 Intersectoral Action The fact that indoorair pollution and...
... revisions of existing plants The Four Philosophies Most of all air pollution regulations are based directly or indirectly on these four philosophies (a) Emission standards (b) Air quality standards ... coal Air Quality Standard Philosophy • The air quality standard is logically called a “Zero-damage” philosophy • This is based on assumption that the true situation for most major airpollutants ... Unknown Flexibility Poor Fair Unnecessary Unknown Evolutionary ability Fair Fair Good Good Emission Standard Philosophy • “There is some maximum possible (or practical) degree of emission control.”...
... most of their time indoors (in industrialized countries, as the USA, up to almost 90 percent [3]) but also because the indoor concentration ofpollutants is often much higher [4] The wide range of ... focus on the effect of different window positions and different air vent or air- conditioning modes on the particle concentration of PM10, PM2.5 and PM1 To study the influence of different driving ... products and their concentration of deeply into the airways depositing PM-fractions (PM10, PM2.5 and PM1) must be stated The tobacco smoke particles andindoorair quality study (ToPIQS) will...
... air, the stronger fan will take command and outside air will enter the room through the weaker fan system When there are multiple exhaust hoods and no makeup air, with one hood off, outside air ... area to be exhausted and total exhaust is thereby reduced Relative cost of the hood is low and since less air is exhausted, air conditioning costs are low Air conditioning and fume removal effectiveness ... an outside air inlet for each laboratory Correct selection of the type of makeup air system can be made only by an engineering analysis and flow sheet of the hood exhaust system One of the most...
... dissatisfied and preferring less air movement Figure 5.54 Comparison of the percentage of subjects preferring more air 158 movement and the percentage of subjects dissatisfied and preferring more air ... both mixing and displacement ventilation systems, air inhaled by occupants is the mixing of outdoor airand ambient air (although outdoor air at different levels of the two types of ventilation), ... at room air temperature of 26ºC and personalized air temperature 23.5ºC Each line end indicates the highest and lowest of equivalent temperature 82 Figure 4.16d Ranges of the segmented and whole-body...
... impact ofair temperature and outdoor air supply rate on workers’ perception of thermal comfort and other indoor environmental variables, acceptability ofair quality and the incidence of SBS ... influence of different types ofindoor contaminants, level of contamination and ventilation design and operation that lead to negative health effects and the phenomena of SBS symptoms However, most of ... indoorair quality and subsequently, Woods (1989) mentioned that increasing productivity of 20% of the workforce could be achieved by improving the indoorair quality of offices Wyon (2004) and...
... The location of the line of sight and the back wall reflection is very dependent on the specific arrangement of transmitter and receiver, and therefore, over a large number of rooms and locations, ... idea of the multipath properties of a wider band of microwave frequencies for indoor applications It is likely that channel parameters will differ for other frequency bands (like the 900 MHz and ... vertical dB beam width of about 30◦ and null to null beam width of nearly 60◦ Using the modified antenna, a number of the sets of data were repeated A comparison of one of the data sets taken...
... biodegradability of CAAs regardless of the number of attached chlorine atoms The purposes of this research are to investigate the effect of the number of attached chlorine atoms on the reaction mechanism of ... Effect of reaction time on the content change of products from DCAA and TCAA by o hydrothermal reaction at 250 C and MPa Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol.1, No.2, 2003 acid, % of ... can be seen from the - 221 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol.1, No.2, 2003 results of TOC and DOC In case of TCAA, more than 70 % of TOC and CODCr were mineralized within as...
... 45 Upper layer Lower layer of weir (cm) (cm) (cm) Akadama sand (5) Pit sand (40) Pit sand (45) Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol.3, No.2, 2005 water and Overflow water were measured ... content in pit sand The initial nitrogen content of Akadama sand in Tank A was higher than that of pit sand of Tank B The nitrogen content in both Tanks increased with time In both Tank A and B, the ... number of antecedent days of no rain (days), and x4 is average of rainfall intensity (mm/hr) 1.0 × ~1000mm (cumulative rainfall) 0.8 Overflow runoff ratio, ro overflow runoff Ratio(% overflow runoff...