Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision-making, we first illustrate key physiological and psychologi...

Numerous studies have observed health effects of particulate air pollution. Compared to early studies that focused on severe air pollution episodes, recent studies are more relevant to understanding health effects of pollution at levels common to contemporary cities in the developed world. We review recent epidemiologic studies that evaluated health effects of particulate air pollution and conc...

the outcomes of development of urbanization as pollution of air, water and urban environment are great threats to the health and safety of urban residents. nowadays, urban areas as centers of population and economic activities show high concentrations of pollutants; so that, inconvenient locations of irksome and pollutant jobs in metropolitans such as isfahan city have led to serious threats to...

Escalating air pollution is contributing to increased cardiovascular health problems currently witnessed in the world. Cardiac diseases such as ischaemic heart disease and strokes account for 80% of ambient air pollution-related early deaths [1]. Additionally, it is estimated that about 3 million deaths and 85 million disability adjusted live years (DALYs) resulted from particulate matter of am...

The SATURN project aimed at a better understanding of urban air pollution as a prerequisite for finding effective solutions to air quality problems and for a sustainable development in the urban environment. The results of this project, which was concluded at the end of 2002, constitute a significant improvement of the state-of-the-art in the science of urban air pollution: • Field experiments ...

BACKGROUND Air pollution has been linked to increased rates of mortality, but little is known about individual characteristics related to the increase in risk. AIMS To examine short term effects of air pollution on daily mortality in elderly people in Bordeaux and compare characteristics of subjects > or =65 years old who died with levels of particulate air pollution. METHODS Daily mortalit...

Outdoor air pollution has been associated with decrements in lung function and growth of lung function in school-age children. Lung function effects have not been examined in preschoolers, with the exception of one study on minute ventilation in newborns. Our goal was to assess the relationship between long- and short-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and interrupter resistance in ...

air pollution is the most important environmental problem of last century that threatens the health of living organisms, especially plants. so2 is one of the main air pollutants that can cause to imbalance in growth and physiological function of plant in high concentrations. symbiosis of rhizobium bacteria with alfalfa can cause increasing plant growth and plant resistance to abiotic stresses. ...