To investigate the relationship between air pollution and risk of death attributed to gastric cancer, a matched cancer case-control study was conducted using deaths that occurred in Taiwan from 2004 through 2008. Data for all eligible gastric cancer deaths were obtained and compared to a control group consisting of individuals who died from causes other than neoplasms and diseases that were ass...

A method to determine emissions from the actual car fleet under realistic driving conditions has been developed. The method is based on air quality measurements, traffic counts and inverse application of street air quality models. Many pollutants are of importance for assessing the adverse impact of the air pollution, e.g. NO2, CO, lead, VOCs and particulate matter. Aromatic VOCs are of special...

24 Kasım 2015’de Rus uçağımın düşürülmesi, Türkiye ve Rusya arasında politik kriz yaratmış ekonomik yaptırımlarla sonuçlanmıştır. Bu çalışmada, 15 Temmuz 2016 darbe kalkışması ile sonlanan bu problemli dönemin, Borsa İstanbul’un yaşanan eko-politik sorunlardan etkilenen sektörlerimizin ulusal uluslararası sistematik risk düzeyine etkileri araştırılmıştır. Haziran 2012-Haziran 2019 dönemi piyasa...

Portable negative air ion generator has been designed and tested. This device generates continuous emission of unipolar (negative) ions and it was evaluated by investigating its ability to remove respirable particles such as different smoke verities (mosquito coil smoke, cigarette smoke, petrol smoke) from indoor air environment. The experiment was carried out in closed glass container, decay r...

Cars with petrol-driven internal combustion engines are sources of air pollution. Until alternative car engines will replace petrol-driven engines, road transportation is a major source for emissions of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons, and many other organic compounds into the environment. There is a direct relation between the car’s emissions and its acceleration: an accelerating...

The Energy Tax Directive recently proposed by the European Commission envisages to tax fuels based on their energy content. By raising prices for diesel to a level higher than that of petrol, this proposal would eliminate the price advantage currently enjoyed by diesel in most EU Member States. To explore the implications of such a tax regime for automobile travel, the present analysis undertak...

Soil microbial communities play an important role in the biodegradation of different petroleum derivates, including hydrocarbons. Also other biological factors such as enzyme and respiration activities and microbial abundance are sensitive to contamination with petroleum derivates. The aim of this study was to evaluate the response of autochthonic microbial community and biological parameters (...