Sentence examples for exterior soil from inspiring English sources

In general, the concentrations of contaminants are greater in house dust compared with exterior soil.

This has motivated the researchers at the University of Cincinnati Department of Environmental Health to be guided by a theoretical model for movement of lead from distal sources (exterior soil or dust and paint lead) to proximal sources (interior dust lead) and then finally to biologic outcomes (handwipe and blood lead).

Estimates of the contribution of exterior soil to indoor dust range from 20 30% (Culbard et al. 1988; Davies et al. 1985; Rutz et al. 1997) to as high as 85% (Fergusson and Kim 1991; Roberts et al. 1991; Trowbridge and Burmaster 1997).

As part of the National Human Exposure Assessment Survey NHEXASS) in Maryland, we collected indoor air, carpet dust, exterior soil, and duplicate diet samples from a stratified random sample of 80 individuals to evaluate aggregate daily exposure, contributions of specific pathways of exposure, and temporal variation in exposure to chlorpyrifos.

It was found that some exterior parts of soil-burrowing animals have geometrical rough structures, which was one of the reasons why soil-burrowing animals do not stick to the soil so much.

The bottom of the pile was fixed into the FE model to simulate the embedment of the pile into rock below a depth of 20.12 m and the exterior surface of the soil cylinder was fixed to model the confinement of the soil at its limits as shown in Fig. 5.

The bottom of the pile was fixed into the FE model to simulate the embedment of the pile into rock below a depth of 14.94 m and the exterior surface of the soil cylinder was fixed to model the confinement of the soil at its limits as shown in Fig. 4.

Respective situations exist in automotive and aircraft engineering (soiling, icing, exterior water management), industrial processes (coating, fire suppression), environmental flows (river and lake hydrodynamics, atmospheric flows), and natural hazards (floods, avalanches, debris flow).

Pipeline leak events provide potential for entry of open drains into the treated water; and permits faecal indicators and microbial pathogens present in the soil and water exterior to enter the distribution system (LeChevallier et al. 2003).

Table 1 shows the values of the modulus of subgrade reaction used in the full bridge model for exterior and interior springs for the soil behind the abutments and under the approach slabs.

The bricks on the exterior are the shade of the plowed soil in the surrounding landscape during the winter, which can be seen through floor-to-ceiling windows.