New approach for particulate exposure monitoring: determination of inhaled particulate mass by 24 h real-time personal exposure monitoring

Proposed new signal for real-time stress monitoring: Combination of physiological measures

Human stress is a physiological tension that appears when a person responds to mental, emotional, or physical chal-lenges. Detecting human stress and developing methods to manage it, has become an important issue nowadays. Au-tomatic stress detection through physiological signals may be a useful method for solving this problem. In most of the earlier studies, long-term time window was considere...

Particulate Matter Exposure in Agriculture

Exposure to Particulate Matter and its Health Impacts (an AirQ Approach)

Background & Aims of the Study: Recent studies indicated that particulate matter can have the lung irritation, chronic lung diseases, lung tissue, etc. The aim objective of this study was to assess the mortality associated with exposure to PM10 concentrations in Ilam, Iran, during 2013. Materials & Methods: PM10 data were taken from Ilam's ...

Within-microenvironment exposure to particulate matter and health effects in children with asthma: a pilot study utilizing real-time personal monitoring with GPS interface

BACKGROUND Most particulate matter (PM) and health studies in children with asthma use exposures averaged over the course of a day and do not take into account spatial/temporal variability that presumably occurs as children move from home, into transit and then school microenvironments. The objectives of this work were to identify increases in morning PM exposure occurring within home, transit ...

Web & Mobile Application for Particulate Fungi Monitoring

According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), 22.4% of Puerto Ricans suffer from asthma and that percentage increases to 25.3% in children between the ages of 5 and 14. In the case of allergic asthma, asthma, attacks are commonly caused by pollen and fungal spores in outdoor air. These particles can trigger a reaction in the immune system that controls how the body defends itself. This pap...