Asian rust of soybean [ (L.) Merril] is one of the most important fungal diseases of this crop worldwide. The recent introduction of Syd. & P. Syd in the Americas represents a major threat is extremely aggressive under favorable weather conditions, causing rapid plant defoliation. Epidemiological studies, under both controlled and natural environmental conditions, have been done for several dec...

The EU Strategy on adaptation to climate change (2013) called the attention that climate change might potentially increase the seasonality and duration of allergic disorders like hay fever or asthma. Because it is of high importance to evaluate the pollen exposure of population living in different geographical and climatic regions in order to adjust information and adaptive measures, tools for ...

The altarpiece of the Seville Cathedral was built between 1481 and 1565 and has a total perimeter of 20.10 m and 23.41 m height, which makes this altarpiece the largest in the world. The last restoration was performed in 1977, centered on ensuring its structural stability and consolidation of wood structures and polychromy. A new intervention to appraise the state of conservation is currently i...

The present study shows the results of monitoring the atmospheric pollen in the atmosphere of an area of natural vegetation, the Hornachuelos Natural Park, Cordoba, southern Spain, during a six years (1998-2003). Special attention was paid in the seasonal and intra-diurnal characteristics of airborne allergenic pollen. During this period, 31 pollen types were described, some of them rare in aer...

background and objective: bioaerosols are particles of microbes, viruses and derivatives; they exist in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and can be measured with different air samplers. the purpose of this study is the determination of bacterial aerosol in the air of hospitals and the determination of contaminated areas for disinfection proceedings by hospital health care teams, by selecting ...

Epidemic thunderstorm asthma (ETSA) is a global health problem that can strike without sufficient warning and have catastrophic consequences. Because of climate change, future events are likely to become more common, disastrous, unpredictable. To prevent loss life avoid surge on care infrastructure, identifying at-risk individuals their potential biomarkers the most prophylactic approach be tak...

Dispersal and deposition of pollen of creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.) was estimated by using CALPUFF, a complex model originally developed to simulate dispersal of particulates and other air pollutants. In fi eld experiments, peak pollen emission rates (8 × 106 pollen grains per min per m2 of a creeping bentgrass stand) occurred between 1000 and 1200 h. Pollen survival under outdoo...