[PDF] Top 20 Children exposure to indoor ultrafine particles in urban and rural school environments

... UFPs in order to increase their dimensions to detectable sizes (Jenkins et ...0 to 5 × 105 particles/cm3 and the particle size range from ...0.02 to 1 μm. Instruments were ... See full document

... wave and wind power, and solar energy for the production of food and goods, to an industrial and urban society, which became to rely on the burning of fossil ...factories ... See full document

... UFP, in order to better understand the extent of UFP concentrations on indoor air of 10 schools, the results were compared with previously published studies (Table ...concentrations, in three ... See full document

... Children indoor exposures to (ultra)fine particles in an urban area: comparison between school and home environments.. Klara Slezakova a,b , Cátia Texeira a , Simone Morais b , Maria do[r] ... See full document

... on ultrafine particles in various indoor and outdoor micro-environments (canteens, classrooms, gymnasiums, outdoor) of urban and rural ...sources and ... See full document

... January and March 2014, UFP were sampled in 10 public primary ...(S1 to S10) were in Porto, which is the second largest city in Portugal, located in the north of the country ... See full document

... contribute to the assessment of children’s exposure to particles and bioburden, EDC was exposed for an extended period to collect dust in two home locations and at ... See full document

... importance to perform effective monitoring of nanosized particles in several microen- vironments, which may include ambient air, indoor air, and also occupational ... See full document

... symptom in childhood and has been associated with air pollution. Children spend a large part of their time in school, this being the most important indoor environment apart from ... See full document

... Children’s exposure patterns are unlike those of adults (Nieuwenhuijsen et ...2006). Children are more vulnerable, mainly due to their not fully developed immune and respiratory systems, their ... See full document

... - ultrafine particles (UFPs) have a greater potential to cause adverse health effects than larger ...as particles with aerodynamic diameter smaller than 100 nm. Due to their small ... See full document

... (USEPA) and WHO, as one of the priority pollutants that has a high potential to induce various adverse health effects to human health (increased morbidity and mortality rates due to the ... See full document

... processes to support every-day life, technology on every sort has also been progressing towards the mitigation of the unfavourable consequences of pollution upon the ...Smog in London in 1952, that ... See full document

... A and NMDA receptors in certain brain regions. The connection to α2-agonist receptors in the locus coeruleus (LC) also causes sedation, however without reaching a deep level of ...operate ... See full document

... presented indoor fungi different from the ones identified ...Regarding particles’ contamination, PM2.5, PM5.0 and PM10 had a statistically significant difference (Mann-Whitney U test) between the ... See full document

... (61%) children had at least one ritual before sleep: drinking milk, demanding lights or TV on, take an object to bed (Fig ...(2.3%) children p re- sented all the three rituals before ...bedtime ... See full document

... agglomeration, and aggrega- tion in di fferent environmental and biological ...help to satisfy the challenges of regulatory NM de finitions such as those proposed by the European Commission ( ... See full document

... respiratory and intratho- racic organs (C30–C39), skin (C43–C44), mesothelial and soft tissue (C45–C49), breast (C50), female genital organs (C51–C58), male genital organs (C60–C63), ill-defined, secondary ... See full document

... the children reported physical ...surveys in North American samples and adjusting for potential responses and measurement ...females and 7.2% for males. Interestingly, 62% of caregivers ... See full document

... changed in the 2011 iteration of the survey, and thus we were unable to assess trends after ...resulted in an under-reporting of indoor SHS ...limited to past seven days, a ... See full document