Air Pollution Exposure in European Cities: the EXPOLIS Study pot

... (Prague) Final report /Air Pollution Exposure in European Cities: the EXPOLIS Study TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Personal Air Pollution Exposure 1.1.1. Definition ... Final Report: Air Pollution Exposure in European Cities: the EXPOLIS Study Coordinator: Matti J. Jantunen, KTL, Department of Environmen...

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... in the City-Delta project were also taken into account. 9 Methodology Air pollution at street level in European cities The methodology followed in calculating air pollution levels at hotspot ... across European cities largely follows the findings and the work performed during 2003–2004 in the ETC/ACC SEC project (Annex A). The work presented in this repo...

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... postnatal exposure levels were lower than prenatal exposure levels. This can be explained by the decreasing trend in air pollution levels throughout the study period. Mean air pollution exposure ... temporal variation in air pollution concentrations. The individual exposure estimates can be used in further epidemiologi - cal studies that examine air pollut...

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... spring-time agricultural burning in Eastern Europe peaked in March in the year 2002 and in April in the years 2001 and 2003, whereas in all three years there was very little burning in May. In ... intruded into the European Arctic and caused the most severe air pollution episodes ever recorded there. This paper confirms that biomass burning (BB) was indeed the s...

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... meet local needs in dealing with SHS. 152) CONCLUSION Healthy indoor air is a fundamental right for people studying in schools, working in offices and living in residences. Indoor air quality plays ... phthalates were detected predominantly in indoor air samples. 93) The dominant path of phtha- lates intake was the ingestion of foodstuffs com- pared to inhalation of indoor...

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... and 787 deliv- ered a live, singleton infant. Exposure to outdoor NO 2 was assessed for 785 of the 787 mother-child pairs in the study, thus making up the final study p opulation. Deliveries ... Prenatal exposure to traffic-related air pollution may reduce fetal growth. Findings from this study provide further evidence of the need for developing strategies to reduce ai...

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... variance is included. Rather than including a single estimate of  2 , the Bayesian method permits incorporating the whole posterior distribution of  2 . In this way, all the information about the variability ... by the empirical evidence of how well the approach works in the current setting. Another advantage of the two-stage approach is its potential for application in...

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... 2002). One should therefore be cautious in the interpretation of the results from the present analysis. 28 III.2.4. Determining baseline emissions Following the emissions inventory (CAM, ... cost include the initial scrappage subsidy (1,500 USD) and the incremental cost to the taxi owner from the purchase of a new vehicle. The O&M costs include the value of...

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... role in achieving this. Since the majority of Asian countries are adopting existing technology rather than creating new technology, one of the central tasks in developing urban transport is finding ... refinement, cost reduction through economies of scale, development of supporting infrastructure, marketing, and penetration of the existing fleet. 6 Heywood and 4. The Air...

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