Air pollution and traffic noise: do they cause atherosclerosis?

Air pollution and traffic noise: do they cause atherosclerosis?

The great majority of the world’s population is continuously exposed to some level of air pollution from transportation, household sources, agriculture, and industry, and many are also exposed to ambient noise from the same sources. It has been estimated that globally 3 million premature deaths are attributable to outdoor air pollution each year, but it is the ubiquity of air pollution and ambi...

Can traffic-related air pollution cause asthma?

Are air pollution and traffic noise independently associated with atherosclerosis: the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study.

AIMS Living close to high traffic has been linked to subclinical atherosclerosis, however it is not clear, whether fine particulate matter (PM) air pollution or noise, two important traffic-related exposures, are responsible for the association. We investigate the independent associations of long-term exposure to fine PM and road traffic noise with thoracic aortic calcification (TAC), a reliabl...

Noise Pollution and Traffic Noise Index on Mashhad Main Streets during the Busiest Hours of Summer

Introduction: Among the environmental pollutions, noise is very important for its physiological  and psychological effects on human. Traffic noise is one of the most important pollutants and the  hospitals  are  one  of  the  critical  places  regarding  this  type  of  noise.  For  these  reasons,  in  the  summer  of  1382,  the  traffic  noise  of  Mashhad  main  streets  around  the  hospit...

Universal Grammar and Chaos/Complexity Theory: Where Do They Meet And Where Do They Cross?

  Abstract The present study begins by sketching "Chaos/Complexity Theory" (C/CT) and its applica-tion to the nature of language and language acquisition. Then, the theory of "Universal Grammar" (UG) is explicated with an eye to C/CT. Firstly, it is revealed that CCT may or may not be allied with a theory of language acquisition that takes UG as the initial state of language acquisition for ...