BACKGROUND AND METHODS Idiopathic autism, suspected to be caused by exposure of genetically susceptible individuals to unknown environmental triggers, has increased dramatically in the past 25 years. The objectives of our study were to determine, using a linear regression model, whether the county prevalence of autism in the Pacific Northwest of the United States was associated with the source ...

By studying the impact of severe weather conditions on civil aviation flights at Iraqi international airports, data were obtained from General Authority for Meteorology and Seismic Monitoring, Civil Aviation Authority, Airways, as daily Baghdad International Airport, Erbil Sulaymaniyah Najaf Basra Airport. The frequency occurrence thunderstorms, dust storms, fog, snow was calculated analyzed de...

In the article, we point out need to measure mass concentration of particulate matter (PM) in central Europe a place residence (a city and small town), as PM has negative impact on human health, especially that children elderly. Since different amounts (mainly peaks) were measured at two locations distance 35 m from each other, control measurement was also performed verify conformity measuremen...

A severe haze pollution incident caused by unfavorable weather conditions and a northern air mass occurred in eastern, northern, northwestern, southwestern China from January 15 to 22, 2018. To comparatively analyze variations PM2.5 pollution, hourly monitoring data 24 h meteorological were collected. Air quality observations revealed large spatiotemporal variation concentrations Handan, Zhengz...

The development of traffic management and control strategies to improve traffic flows and road safety is necessary due to the high dynamism of traffic flows. The use of distributed intelligent systems can help the traffic organizations and the road operators to cope with possible incidents on the road network, especially when the incidents are related to adverse meteorological conditions. In th...