Assessing air quality index awareness and use in Mexico City

Assessing Water Quality in the Developing World: An Index for Mexico City

Impact of trash burning on air quality in Mexico City.

Air pollution experienced by expanding urban areas is responsible for serious health effects and death for millions of people every year. Trash burning is a common disposal method in poor areas, yet it is uncontrolled in many countries, and its contribution to air pollution is unclear due to uncertainties in its emissions. Here we develop a new trash burning emission inventory for Mexico City b...

A Systems Framework for Assessing Air Quality Impacts of Its: Application to Mexico City

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) – the application of communications and information technology to surface transportation systems – has the potential to improve transportation along several dimensions, from safety to emissions reductions to travel time and reliability. ITS has become a worldwide technology, and many cities in Latin America are currently deploying ITS, from individual te...

assessing metacognitive awareness and learning strategies as positive predictors in promoting l2 learners’ reading comprehension

the purpose of this thesis was to investigate how differently metacognitive, cognitive, and social/affective strategies affect l2 learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, the study employed a quasi-experimental design with a placement test as a proficiency test to find the homogeneity of groups. three classes were randomly selected as the experimental groups (n =90), and each class was tau...

Interpretation of Air Quality Data Using Air Quality Index for the City of Cochin, India

Under the National Ambient Air Quality (NAQM) Monitoring program, air quality in the city of Cochin is being regularly monitored by Central Pollution Control Board. Air quality management programme requires reliable information of air quality collected, evaluated and analysed regularly. This is of paramount importance in protecting man and his environment from damaging exposure to air pollution...