Personal measurement of exposure to black carbon and ultrafine particles in schoolchildren from PARIS cohort (Paris, France).

abstract：:The photolysis of HONO has been found to be the oxidation driver through OH formation in the indoor air measurement campaign SURFin, an extensive campaign carried out in July 2012 in a classroom in Marseille. In this study, the INCA-Indoor model is used to evaluate different HONO formation mechanisms that have been us...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Mendez M,Blond N,Amedro D,Hauglustaine DA,Blondeau P,Afif C,Fittschen C,Schoemaecker C

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Indoor exposures to allergens, mold spores, and endotoxin have been suggested as etiological agents of asthma; therefore, accurate determination of those exposures, especially in young children (6-36 months), is important for understanding the development of asthma. Because use of personal sampling equipment...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Wang Z,Shalat SL,Black K,Lioy PJ,Stambler AA,Emoekpere OH,Hernandez M,Han T,Ramagopal M,Mainelis G

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This paper presents the experimental and numerical modeling of contaminant dispersion in a full-scale environmental chamber with different room air distribution systems. For the experimental modeling, an area source with uniform emissions of a hypothetical contaminant (SF6) from the entire floor surface is d...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： He G,Yang X,Srebric J

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most important indoor air pollutants have already been addressed with individual national guidelines or recommendations. However, an international set of guidelines or recommendations for indoor air quality (IAQ) is needed for these pollutants based on general and uniform rules for setting such standards. A major ...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Mølhave L

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This paper reports the abundance in indoor air and dust of eleven organophosphate esters and six phthalate esters. Both groups of these semi-volatile compounds are widely incorporated as additives into plastic materials used in the indoor environment, thus contributing to indoor exposure to industrial chemic...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Bergh C,Torgrip R,Emenius G,Ostman C

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports the results of an investigation, based on fundamental fluid dynamics and mass transfer theory, carried out to obtain a general understanding of the mechanisms involved in the emissions from building materials in ventilated rooms. In addition, a generally applicable method for the prediction of sur...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Topp C,Nielsen PV,Heiselberg P

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formaldehyde emission from wood-based building materials is usually determined in large chambers at a defined temperature, humidity and ventilation rate. In this article, a simpler method, the Field and Laboratory Emission Cell (FLEC), is described for determination of the formaldehyde emission and it is compared ...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Risholm-Sundman M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, houses in the US have been ventilated by passive infiltration in combination with active window opening. However in recent years, the construction quality of residential building envelopes has been improved to reduce infiltration, and the use of windows for ventilation also may have decreased due to a n...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Sherman MH,Hodgson AT

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper characterizes the relationship between occupant activities and indoor air particulate levels in a non-smoking office building. Occupant activities were recorded on video. Particulate concentrations were monitored by three optical particle counters (OPCs) in five size ranges at three heights. Particulate mas...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Luoma M,Batterman SA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Early-life exposure to microbial agents may play a protective role in asthma and allergies development. Geographical differences in the prevalence of these diseases exist, but the differences in early-life indoor microbial agent levels and their determinants have been hardly studied. We aimed to describe the...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Casas L,Tischer C,Wouters IM,Valkonen M,Gehring U,Doekes G,Torrent M,Pekkanen J,Garcia-Esteban R,Hyvärinen A,Heinrich J,Sunyer J

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The indoor environmental quality in classrooms can largely affect children's daily exposure to indoor chemicals in schools. To date, there has not been a comprehensive study of the concentrations of semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in French schools. Therefore, the French Observatory for Indoor Air Quality (OQAI...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Wei W,Dassonville C,Sivanantham S,Gregoire A,Mercier F,Le Bot B,Malingre L,Ramalho O,Derbez M,Mandin C

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:  Ingestion of indoor dust has been acknowledged as an important route of exposure to organic contaminants (OCs). We investigated the presence of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), novel brominated flame retardants (NBFRs), organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and ...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Ali N,Van den Eede N,Dirtu AC,Neels H,Covaci A

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Meteorological factors such as relative humidity directly correlate with airborne fungal levels outdoors and indoors. While dehumidification alone is effective at reducing moisture necessary for mold growth, it is inadequate as a single intervention as it does not remove viable and non-viable fungal spores t...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Bernstein JA,Levin L,Crandall MS,Perez A,Lanphear B

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the dust from heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) filters is a promising long-term sampling method to characterize airborne particle-bound contaminants. This filter forensics (FF) approach provides valuable insights about differences between buildings, but does not allow for an estimation of ...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Givehchi R,Maestre JP,Bi C,Wylie D,Xu Y,Kinney KA,Siegel JA

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While household air pollution from biomass fuel combustion has been linked to cardiovascular disease, the effects on cardiac structure and function have not been well described. We sought to determine the association between biomass fuel smoke exposure and cardiac structure and function by transthoracic echocardiograp...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Burroughs Peña MS,Velazquez EJ,Rivera JD,Alenezi F,Wong C,Grigsby M,Davila-Roman VG,Gilman RH,Miranda JJ,Checkley W

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:In the two decades since the first issue of Indoor Air, there have been over 250 peer-reviewed publications addressing chemical reactions among indoor pollutants. The present review has assembled and categorized these publications. It begins with a brief account of the state of our knowledge in 1991 regardin...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Weschler CJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airborne ultrafine particles (UFP) have been related to adverse health effects, but exposure in vulnerable population groups such as children is still not well understood. We aim to review the scientific literature regarding personal exposure to UFP in different microenvironments in populations until 18 years of age. ...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： García-Hernández C,Ferrero A,Estarlich M,Ballester F

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal stratification is established when warmer air rises and cooler air descends under thermal buoyancy. It occurs in indoor environment situations including large warehouse-type buildings, buoyancy-driven ventilated spaces with displacement, underfloor ventilation, and/or natural ventilation, and enclosure fires w...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Wang LL,Zhang X,Qi D

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The effects of the human convective boundary layer (CBL), room airflow patterns, and their velocities on personal exposure are examined. Two pollutants are studied which simulate particles released from the feet and generated at distances of 2 and 3 m by a human cough. A thermal manikin whose body shape, siz...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Licina D,Melikov A,Pantelic J,Sekhar C,Tham KW

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:In studying productivity, effects of environmental factors have focused only on performance. However, previous studies of the impact of the environment upon performance of mental tasks generally conclude that productivity research is somewhat confusing because the results are sometimes conflicting. In experi...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Tanabe S,Nishihara N

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is produced from the exhausts of vehicles and gas appliances and is known to pose certain health risks. In this study, we characterize the exposure to this substance during the first year of life, which is an important period of development. To this end, we used passive samplers to mea...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Esplugues A,Ballester F,Estarlich M,Llop S,Fuentes V,Mantilla E,Iñiguez C

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Continuous emission of unipolar ions has been shown to improve the performance of respirators and stationary filters challenged with non-biological particles. In this study, we investigated the ion-induced enhancement effect while challenging a low-efficiency heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) ...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Huang R,Agranovski I,Pyankov O,Grinshpun S

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our study conducts a series of investigations in five office buildings chosen according to the types of construction, ventilation, and building age. Formaldehyde was measured by continuous photoacoustic Multi-Gas monitor Type 1302 (Brüel & Kjaer). The 8-h average concentrations in working hours were used to estimate t...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Wu PC,Li YY,Lee CC,Chiang CM,Su HJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outdoor traffic-related airborne particles can infiltrate a building and adversely affect the indoor air quality. Limited information is available on the effectiveness of high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filtration of traffic-related particles. Here, we investigated the effectiveness of portable HEPA air cleaner...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Cox J,Isiugo K,Ryan P,Grinshpun SA,Yermakov M,Desmond C,Jandarov R,Vesper S,Ross J,Chillrud S,Dannemiller K,Reponen T

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial content of air has as yet been little described, despite its public health implications, and there remains a lack of environmental microbial data on airborne microflora in enclosed spaces. In this context, the aim of this study was to characterize the diversity and dynamics of airborne microorganisms in ...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Gaüzère C,Moletta-Denat M,Blanquart H,Ferreira S,Moularat S,Godon JJ,Robine E

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This paper reports on an investigation of the adequacy of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), using a standard Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) model, for predicting dispersion of neutrally buoyant gas in a large indoor space. We used CFD to predict pollutant (dye) concentration distribution in a water...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Finlayson EU,Gadgil AJ,Thatcher TL,Sextro RG

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The present paper outlines a modeling approach, which has been developed to model the internal dynamics of heat and moisture transfer in an imperfectly mixed ventilated airspace. The modeling approach, which combines the classical heat and moisture balance differential equations with the use of experimental ...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Janssens K,Van Brecht A,Zerihun Desta T,Boonen C,Berckmans D

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:In this study, single-particle characterization of aerosol particles collected at an underground shopping area was performed for the first time. A quantitative single-particle analytical technique, low-Z particle electron probe X-ray microanalysis, was used to characterize a total of 7900 individual particle...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Maskey S,Kang T,Jung HJ,Ro CU

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are an important contributor to adverse health effects associated with ambient air pollution. Despite infiltration of ROS from outdoors, and possible indoor sources (eg, combustion), there are limited data available on indoor ROS. In this study, part of the second phase of Air Composition...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Eftekhari A,Fortenberry CF,Williams BJ,Walker MJ,Dang A,Pfaff A,Ercal N,Morrison GC

更新日期：2021-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Moisture accumulation in building structures, the microbial ecology of water-damaged sites and human exposure to biological contaminants are complex phenomena and may result in various types of indoor air pollution and adverse health outcomes. Commonly reported are building-related irritation symptoms, respi...

journal_title：Indoor air

authors： Nevalainen A,Seuri M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00