Tackling agricultural diffuse pollution: What might uptake of farmer-preferred measures deliver for emissions to water and air?

Modelling Agricultural Diffuse Pollution: CAP – WFD Interactions and Cost Effectiveness of Measures

Within the context of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the design of effective and sustainable agricultural and water resources management policies presents multiple challenges. This paper presents a methodological framework that will be used to identify synergies and trade-offs between the CAP and the WFD in relation to their economic and water reso...

Translational research: what does it mean, what has it delivered and what might it deliver?

PURPOSE OF REVIEW In this article, we review recent developments in translational research in the fields of acute lung injury, acute kidney injury and sepsis with a focus on emerging biomarkers and outline future advances in the field. RECENT FINDINGS There is currently a significant and unmet need for high quality translational research in critical care. The emergence of '-omics' technologie...

Air Pollution and its Control Measures

Air pollution are basically the foreign material in the air—can be manmade or occur naturally, and are concentrated where people are concentrated. Pollution is injurious to health and its prevention places an economic burden on the citizen. Further emission reductions from automobiles, and transportation measures and programs will be more difficult to accomplish, but the challenge has been pres...

How nutrition might modify the possible effects of air pollution on cardiovascular diseases risk?

Responses of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. longifolia) Against to Different Time Exposure of Air Pollution of Exhaust Emissions

The experiment was conducted in factorial test based on a completely randomized design with three replications in greenhouse of Isfahan University of Technology of Iran. Lettuce seedlings were exposed separately to the exhaust emissions in three different exposure times (10, 20 and 30 days) and after the exposure time, their morphological, physiological and anatomical traits were measured and c...