BACKGROUND Children with asthma in inner-city communities may be particularly vulnerable to adverse effects of air pollution because of their airways disease and exposure to relatively high levels of motor vehicle emissions. OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between fluctuations in outdoor air pollution and asthma morbidity among inner-city children with asthma. METHODS We analyzed d...

Though runoff from manure spread fields is recognized as an important mode of nonpoint-source pollution, there are no models that mechanistically describe transport from a field-spread manure-type source. A mechanistic, physically based model for pollutant release from a surface source, such as field-spread manure, was hypothesized, laboratory tested, and field-applied. The primary objective of...

Ambient air quality and traffic density measurements were conducted during January to December 2001 at four air monitoring sites in Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR). The ambient air pollutants included carbon monoxide (CO), particulate matter (PM10), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), ozone (O3) and benzene. The diurnal variations of air pollutant levels were generally identical to ...

This paper investigated the highway stormwater quality at two Texas cities-Austin and College Station. Two highways with high average daily traffic were monitored using passive stormwater samplers for collecting first-flush runoff during a 16-month period. Detailed traffic and weather data were collected at College Station sites, but only weather data were obtained at Austin sites. A stepwise r...

butions of exposure to environmental neuro-toxicant chemicals in the marked increase in neurodevelopmental disorders, including learning disabilities, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, and autism spectrum disorders (Szpir 2006). Despite the increasing recognition of the importance of evaluating developmental neurotoxicity in safety assessment (Claudio et al., the fact remains that, ...

The suitability of sentinel species to monitor environmental pollution is often hampered by an insufficient knowledge on pollutant trophodynamics. We simultaneously evaluated the influence of individuals' trophic position (as revealed by δ(15)N values) and dietary exploitation of particular systems (using δ(13)C and δ(34)S as proxies) on inorganic pollutant concentrations measured on fledglings...

In general, we should like to express our lack of sympathy for the expressed purpose of this Symposium, which is the planning of epidemiological studies for the evaluation of effects of major pollutants on humans. Carcinogenesis and leukemogenesis are two particularly worrisome long term effects which deserve consideration with respect to any pollutant. From our experience with ionizing radiati...

The aim of the paper is to compare results obtained by experiments and numerical analysis for vehicle exhaust pollutant emissions and concentrations in urban area. Special attention was plaid to problems of vehicle pollutant emission and dispersion caused by cold start. For description of emission sources a multi-point model was applying. In the model every vehicle is treated as a single moveab...

This paper presents (1) general considerations related to the development of two mathematical models for non-conservative transport of nitrate and ammonium under unsteady water flow conditions; (2) their application to predict the transport of pollutant in both customary and accidental pollutant release circumstances; and (2) a discussion related to models use in water quality management. The s...

Conventional approaches to stormwater quality evaluation combine continuous flow rate monitoring and automated sample collection for chemical analysis to derive an event mean concentration for each pollutant of concern. This approach requires expensive flow monitoring and automated sample collection equipment and the costly analysis of high numbers of water samples. Consequently, such monitorin...