Although a detailed examination of air pollution effects on indicators of asthma was not part of this study, our results for effects of O3 and PM2.5 on reported allergy persisted after controlling for current asthma.
Ships using American ports are inspected four times a year, but the typical inspection lasts only four to six hours and must cover fire drills, life-boat launchings and record checks along with examination of anti-pollution equipment.
The new report is the academy's third examination of marine oil pollution since 1975, but the first since the Exxon Valdez spill.
The NYCCAS fine-scale air pollution data enabled examination of spatial correlations across pollutants – and between pollution and social stressors – and provided fine-scale surfaces for validation of areal re-aggregations.
The criteria include the representativeness of a river system, compliance with water quality standards, supervision of water use, surveillance of pollution sources and examination of water quality changes.
Our results showed that the examination of parasympathetic effects of traffic pollution is not needed for all the participants.
In an examination of temporal patterns of indoor pollution, day-today variability of concentrations within individual households, although substantial, were smaller than concentration variations across households.
However, there has been little examination of the influence of air pollution on the associations observed between environmental noise exposure and children's health and cognition.
Our initial approach to developing microbial biomarkers of exposure to bioavailable contaminants focused on examination of microbial molecular diversity along pollution gradients.
This analysis represents the first examination of the relationship between air pollution exposure and otitis media in a large cohort study.
