Diurnal Air Quality Monitoring in Khumaltar Area, Lalitpur, Nepal

Mass survey of leprosy in Lalitpur district, Nepal.

An intense mass survey of leprosy in Lalitpur District, Nepal, was carried for the period 1986 to 1990. This was the first such large scale survey in Nepal; 85% of the total population was examined. The 5-year case detection rate was 13 per 10,000; the 5-year child detection rate was 4 per 10,000. By the end of the survey the prevalence rate was 6.8 per 10,000; at the end of 1992 this had dropp...

Academic detailing at KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, Nepal: initial experiences.

Academic detailing (AD) has been defined as a form of continuing medical education in which a trained health professional (physician or pharmacist) visits physicians in their offices to provide evidence-based information about medicines and therapeutics.1 Academic detailing is common in developed countries. In Nepal however, it is not at all common, so a pilot study to determine the impact of A...

Arduair: Air Quality Monitoring

Air pollution and quality monitoring is extremely important in today’s world as it has a direct impact on human health. Air pollution is on the rise due to a number of anthropogenic activities and its monitoring is of vital importance to mitigate certain measures to control it. In this paper we put forward a low-cost and low-power sensor based system for air quality monitoring. This sensor base...

CMAQ aerosol size distributions

Evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model v5.0 against size-resolved measurements of inorganic particle composition across sites in North America C. G. Nolte, K. W. Appel, J. T. Kelly, P. V. Bhave, K. M. Fahey, J. L. Collett Jr., L. Zhang, and J. O. Young Atmospheric Modeling and Analysis Division, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, ...

Monitoring the Quality of Air