unconscious event, until some particle of dust or chemical touches its surface. Then, a profuse secretion of tears occurs that dilutes and washes away the foreign substance. Like the eye, the gut secretes fluid, analogous to tears, unbeknownst to most of us until some event triggers an outpouring of large volumes of fluid necessary to flush out a microbe or deleterious chemical. This host defen...

1. introduction dust storm is an important atmospheric phenomenon. it has important environment, health, economic and social activities due to penetration of suspended particles of dust to the atmosphere. measurements resulting from earth and satellite stations show the fact that particles of dust in storms, remain in the nature for a long time. they can get far away by wind, hundreds of kilome...

The aim of this preliminary study was to assess exposure to various constituents of the organic dust generated during the processing of hemp in a small group of exposed workers. Airborne levels of inhalable dust, endotoxin and soluble protein, and the respirable, thoracic and inhalable fractions of fungal, bacterial and actinomycete contamination were measured in the personal breathing zone of ...

Atmospheric dust loadings play a crucial role in the global climate system. Southern South America is a key dust source, however, dust deposition rates remain poorly quantified since the last glacial termination (~17 kyr ago), an important timeframe to anticipate future climate changes. Here we use isotope and element geochemistry in a peat archive from Tierra del Fuego, to reconstruct atmosphe...

Iran is one of the world's arid regions and exposed to dust particles in the air. This is important in spatial and temporal terms as well as the affects human health. In this paper a day when due to the amount of dust particles visibility reduces to 5,000 m is considered the dusty day. In the spatial and temporal analysis of dusty days 38 synoptic stations were studied. In order to conduct data...

Iran is one of the world's arid regions and exposed to dust particles in the air. This is important in spatial and temporal terms as well as the affects human health. In this paper a day when due to the amount of dust particles visibility reduces to 5,000 m is considered the dusty day. In the spatial and temporal analysis of dusty days 38 synoptic stations were studied. In order to conduct data...

Networked sensors are becoming an increasingly important field of research as power and size requirements grow smaller and it becomes easier to embed thousands or millions of these devices in our environment. However, there is currently very little programming support for these and other event-based systems. In this paper, we focus on TinyOS, an event-based operating system for Smart Dust netwo...

as surfactants enhance the membrane transport of organic compounds, it has to be assumed that they decisively influence the absorption of pollutants from house dust. sampling sites for the surfactant analysis include housing areas, each location of which has different surroundings such as rural, urban, construction, and industrial area. three stations had been selected for each housing area and...

the aim of this study is to determine the area affected by dust storms in different wind speeds using satelliteimages. in the first step, windy conditions of the sistan plain were analyzed using wind statistics data. next, fivestormy days of zabol city, indicating different wind speeds and horizontal visibilities during those storms, wereselected. then, high temporal resolution modis data was u...

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