Previous work showed higher levels of PBDEs in Californians relative to other US residents and that Californians are exposed to a broad range of FRs in house dust.
As far as we know, this is the first study to analyze for such a broad range of FRs in house dust and to analyze samples collected in the same home at two different time periods.
The application of the particular method of SFE with CO2 can help to extract and analyze a broad range of low volatile organic compounds in dust of indoor environments, which can lead effectively to a more complete characterization.
Mr. Groner said that medical studies by the Fire Department and the Mount Sinai Medical Center had linked trade center dust to a broad range of respiratory and gastrointestinal ailments.
Several clinical studies have drawn strong connections between exposure to the dust and a broad range of respiratory ailments, but they suggest that after an initial spike in the number of people reporting illnesses, incidence rates in later time periods have returned more or less to normal for certain diseases.
The lack of infrared glow from the galaxy across a broad range of wavelengths, however, suggests that there's very little dust there to absorb and then re-radiate the stars' radiation, the team notes.
Moreover, B. cereus sl occurrence has been widely reported in a broad range of environments, such as many types of soils, sediments, dust, and plants (see [ 8– 15, 15] for reviews).
The extent and brightness of reflection nebulae show conclusively that dust grains are excellent reflectors in the broad range of wavelengths extending from the ultraviolet (as determined from observations from space) through the visible.
The new design of Lunar Dust eXplorer (LDX) is well suited for lunar or asteroid landers with a broad range of particle charges (0.1 10 fC), speeds (few m s−1 to few km s−1) and sizes (0.1 10 μm).
For example, [ 27] included in their multivariable model a scale calculated from a broad range of items measuring the reported level of annoyance due to various environmental factors, such as heat, cold, dust and light.
