Health effects of air pollution

Bernstein, Jonathan A.; Alexis, Neil E.; Barnes, Charles S.; Bernstein, I. Leonard; Nel, André E.; Peden, David B.; Díaz-Sánchez, David; Tarlo, Susan M.; Williams, P. Brock

doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2004.08.030

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“…Atmospheric pollutants are known to negatively affect human health (Bernstein et al, 2004;Manahan, 1999), but they also affect the permanence of materials (Kucera and Fitz, 1995).…”

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Volatile aldehydes in libraries and archives

Fenech

Strlič

Cigić

et al. 2010

Atmospheric Environment

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Volatile aldehydes are produced during degradation of paper-based materials. This may result in their accumulation in archival and library repositories. However, no systematic study has been performed so far. In the frame of this study, passive sampling was carried out at ten locations in four libraries and archives. Despite the very variable sampling locations, no major differences were found, although air-filtered repositories were found to have lower concentrations while a non-ventilated newspaper repository exhibited the highest concentrations of volatile aldehydes (formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, furfural and hexanal). Five employees in one institution were also provided with personal passive samplers to investigate employees' exposure to volatile aldehydes. All values were lower than the presently valid exposure limits.The concentration of volatile aldehydes, acetic acid, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in general was also compared with that of outdoor-generated pollutants. It was evident that inside the repository and particularly inside archival boxes, the concentration of VOCs and acetic acid was much higher than the concentration of outdoor-generated pollutants, which are otherwise more routinely studied in connection with heritage materials. This indicates that further work on the pro-degradative effect of VOCs on heritage materials is necessary and that monitoring of VOCs in heritage institutions should become more widespread.

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“…Atmospheric pollutants are known to negatively affect human health (Bernstein et al, 2004;Manahan, 1999), but they also affect the permanence of materials (Kucera and Fitz, 1995).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Volatile aldehydes in libraries and archives

Fenech

Strlič

Cigić

et al. 2010

Atmospheric Environment

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“…It is particular in developing cities, particularly cities in China and India. Many epidemiologic studies [1][2][3] reported that air pollution problems are often associated with adverse human respiratory health effects, particularly to susceptible individuals. For example, ozone has been attributed to cause inflammation in airway and elevate airway response to inhaled allergens.…”

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Short-Term Prediction of Air Pollution in Macau Using Support Vector Machines

Vong

Wong

et al. 2012

Journal of Control Science and Engineering

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Forecasting of air pollution is a popular and important topic in recent years due to the health impact caused by air pollution. It is necessary to build an early warning system, which provides forecast and also alerts health alarm to local inhabitants by medical practitioners and the local government. Meteorological and pollutions data collected daily at monitoring stations of Macau can be used in this study to build a forecasting system. Support vector machines (SVMs), a novel type of machine learning technique based on statistical learning theory, can be used for regression and time series prediction. SVM is capable of good generalization while the performance of the SVM model is often hinged on the appropriate choice of the kernel.

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“…En los últimos años, se ha prestado considerable atención a los efectos adversos de la contaminación atmosférica sobre la salud 1 . Aunque puede afectar diferentes sistemas y órganos, la atención se ha centrado en el incremento de la morbi-mortalidad en patologías respiratorias y cardiovasculares 2 .…”

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