Air Pollution

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 1-Hydroxypyrene levels in coal-handling workers at a coke oven. 
  • A genome-wide trans-ethnic interaction study links the PIGR-FCAMR locus to coronary atherosclerosis via interactions between genetic variants and residential exposure to traffic. 
  • A method of assessing air toxics concentrations in urban areas using mobile platform measurements. 
  • Acute decreases in proteasome pathway activity after inhalation of fresh diesel exhaust or secondary organic aerosol. 
  • Acute pulmonary toxicity of particulate matter filter extracts in rats: coherence with epidemiologic studies in Utah Valley residents. 
  • Air Pollution and Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Nested Case-Control Study among Members of a Northern California Health Plan. 
  • Air Pollution and the microvasculature: a cross-sectional assessment of in vivo retinal images in the population-based multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA). 
  • Air Pollution in Patients With Heart Failure: Lessons From a Mechanistic Pilot Study of a Filter Intervention. 
  • Air impacts of increased natural gas acquisition, processing, and use: a critical review. 
  • Air pollution and China's ageing society. 
  • Air pollution and morbidity: a further analysis of the Los Angeles student nurses data. 
  • Air pollution effects on ventilatory function of US schoolchildren. Results of studies in Cincinnati, Chattanooga, and New York. 
  • Air pollution in China, with Junfeng (Jim) Zhang by Ashley Ahearn. 
  • Air pollution: clean up our skies. 
  • Air quality impacts and health-benefit valuation of a low-emission technology for rail yard locomotives in Atlanta Georgia. 
  • Ambient particulate matter and lung function growth in Chinese children. 
  • An evaluation of the effectiveness of a recirculating laboratory hood. 
  • Analysis of a workplace air particulate sample by synchronous luminescence and room-temperature phosphorescence. 
  • Assessing exposure metrics for PM and birth weight models. 
  • Assessment of human exposure to ambient particulate matter. 
  • Association between air pollution and suicide in South Korea: a nationwide study. 
  • Association between changes in air pollution levels during the Beijing Olympics and biomarkers of inflammation and thrombosis in healthy young adults. 
  • Association of Ozone Exposure With Cardiorespiratory Pathophysiologic Mechanisms in Healthy Adults. 
  • Association of air pollution sources and aldehydes with biomarkers of blood coagulation, pulmonary inflammation, and systemic oxidative stress. 
  • Associations among plasma metabolite levels and short-term exposure to PM2.5 and ozone in a cardiac catheterization cohort. 
  • Associations between Environmental Quality and Mortality in the Contiguous United States, 2000-2005. 
  • Associations of environmental factors with elderly health and mortality in China. 
  • Biofiltration of high loads of ethyl acetate in the presence of toluene. 
  • Biogas Stoves Reduce Firewood Use, Household Air Pollution, and Hospital Visits in Odisha, India. 
  • Boundary layer model for air pollutant concentrations due to highway traffic. 
  • Cardiorespiratory biomarker responses in healthy young adults to drastic air quality changes surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympics. 
  • Cardiovascular outcomes and the physical and chemical properties of metal ions found in particulate matter air pollution: a QICAR study. 
  • Case study of the effects of atmospheric aerosols and regional haze on agriculture: an opportunity to enhance crop yields in China through emission controls? 
  • Characterization of Spatial Air Pollution Patterns Near a Large Railyard Area in Atlanta, Georgia. 
  • Childhood respiratory symptoms, hospital admissions, and long-term exposure to airborne particulate matter. 
  • Chronic exposure to air pollution particles increases the risk of obesity and metabolic syndrome: findings from a natural experiment in Beijing. 
  • Comparison of different packing materials for the biofiltration of air toxics. 
  • Comparison of gene expression profiles induced by coarse, fine, and ultrafine particulate matter. 
  • Concentrations and source characteristics of airborne carbonyl compounds measured outside urban residences. 
  • Concentrations of urinary 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine and 8-isoprostane in women exposed to woodsmoke in a cookstove intervention study in San Marcos, Peru. 
  • Construction and economics of a pilot/full-scale biological trickling filter reactor for the removal of volatile organic compounds from polluted air. 
  • Controlled human exposures to ambient pollutant particles in susceptible populations. 
  • County-level cumulative environmental quality associated with cancer incidence. 
  • Cross influences of ozone and sulfate precursor emissions changes on air quality and climate. 
  • Curbing the U.S. carbon deficit. 
  • Current approaches used in epidemiologic studies to examine short-term multipollutant air pollution exposures. 
  • Data quality from a longitudinal study of adolescent health at schools near industrial livestock facilities. 
  • Determination of elemental baseline using peltigeralean lichens from Northeastern Canada (Québec): Initial data collection for long term monitoring of the impact of global climate change on boreal and subarctic area in Canada. 
  • Differences between particulate and peptide stimuli on activation of oxidant production in alveolar macrophages. 
  • Differences in Birth Weight Associated with the 2008 Beijing Olympics Air Pollution Reduction: Results from a Natural Experiment. 
  • Diffuse alveolar damage after exposure to an oil fly ash. 
  • Discovery and ramifications of incidental Magnéli phase generation and release from industrial coal-burning. 
  • Dramatic increase in autism prevalence parallels explosion of research into its biology and causes. 
  • Economic evaluation of the benefits of reducing acute cardiorespiratory morbidity associated with air pollution. 
  • Effect of starvation on the performance and re-acclimation of biotrickling filters for air pollution control. 
  • Effects of air pollution on children's respiratory health in three Chinese cities. 
  • Effects of air pollution on respiratory health of adults in three Chinese cities. 
  • Effects of well spacing on geological storage site distribution costs and surface footprint. 
  • Environmental factors in cancer: focus on air pollution. 
  • Environmental health in China: progress towards clean air and safe water. 
  • Estimating personal exposures from ambient air pollution measures: using meta-analysis to assess measurement error. 
  • Estimations of historical atmospheric mercury concentrations from mercury refining and present-day soil concentrations of total mercury in Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Exploration of NO2 and PM2.5 air pollution and mental health problems using high-resolution data in London-based children from a UK longitudinal cohort study. 
  • Exposure to concentrated ambient particles (CAPs): a review. 
  • Exposure to traffic pollution, acute inflammation and autonomic response in a panel of car commuters. 
  • Field investigation of roadside vegetative and structural barrier impact on near-road ultrafine particle concentrations under a variety of wind conditions. 
  • Fine particle components and health--a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological time series studies of daily mortality and hospital admissions. 
  • Genetic Variants in the Bone Morphogenic Protein Gene Family Modify the Association between Residential Exposure to Traffic and Peripheral Arterial Disease. 
  • Global air quality and health co-benefits of mitigating near-term climate change through methane and black carbon emission controls. 
  • Global perspectives of emerging occupational and environmental lung diseases. 
  • Health benefits from large-scale ozone reduction in the United States. 
  • Hormesis, Hotspots and Emissions Trading 
  • Human exposure assessment in air pollution systems. 
  • Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) and the Clean Air Act. 
  • Impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympics on the risk of pregnancy complications. 
  • Implications of shale gas development for climate change 
  • In vitro metabolism of the brominated flame retardants 2-ethylhexyl-2,3,4,5-tetrabromobenzoate (TBB) and bis(2-ethylhexyl) 2,3,4,5-tetrabromophthalate (TBPH) in human and rat tissues. 
  • Increasing forest carbon sequestration through cooperation and shared strategies between China and the United States. 
  • Irritant symptoms and immunologic responses to multiple chemicals: importance of clinical and immunologic correlations. 
  • Los Angeles student nurse study. Daily symptom reporting and photochemical oxidants. 
  • Low-Level Air Pollution Associated With Death: Policy and Clinical Implications. 
  • Making the environmental justice grade: the relative burden of air pollution exposure in the United States. 
  • Mapping urban pipeline leaks: methane leaks across Boston. 
  • Maternal exposure to particulate matter increases postnatal ozone-induced airway hyperreactivity in juvenile mice. 
  • Measurement of inflammation and oxidative stress following drastic changes in air pollution during the Beijing Olympics: a panel study approach. 
  • Measuring environmental change in forest ecosystems by repeated soil sampling: a north american perspective. 
  • Meeting report: Estimating the benefits of reducing hazardous air pollutants--summary of 2009 workshop and future considerations. 
  • Modeling of a foamed emulsion bioreactor: I. Model development and experimental validation. 
  • Modeling study of air pollution due to the manufacture of export goods in China's Pearl River Delta. 
  • New Orleans asthma. II. Relationship of climatologic and seasonal factors to outbreaks. 
  • Outdoor air pollution and respiratory health in Asia. 
  • Outdoor air pollution: a global perspective. 
  • Outdoor air pollution: overview and historical perspective. 
  • Ozone trends in Atlanta, Georgia: have emission controls been effective? 
  • PM2.5 constituents and oxidative DNA damage in humans. 
  • Panel discussion review: session four--assessing biological plausibility of epidemiological findings in air pollution research. 
  • Peak expiratory flow, breath rate and blood pressure in adults with changes in particulate matter air pollution during the Beijing Olympics: a panel study. 
  • Perspectives on air quality policy issues in Europe and North America. 
  • Place-based stressors associated with industry and air pollution. 
  • Pollutant particles produce vasoconstriction and enhance MAPK signaling via angiotensin type I receptor. 
  • Population Exposure to Ambient PM2.5 at the Subdistrict Level in China. 
  • Prenatal air pollution exposure induces sexually dimorphic fetal programming of metabolic and neuroinflammatory outcomes in adult offspring. 
  • Protecting the environment can boost the economy. 
  • Quantification of 1-aminopyrene in human urine after a controlled exposure to diesel exhaust. 
  • Quantifying the health impacts of air pollution under a changing climate-a review of approaches and methodology. 
  • Quantifying the health impacts of ambient air pollutants: recommendations of a WHO/Europe project. 
  • Quantitative systematic review of the associations between short-term exposure to nitrogen dioxide and mortality and hospital admissions. 
  • Reduce short-lived climate pollutants for multiple benefits. 
  • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting agricultural management for climate change in developing countries: providing the basis for action. 
  • Reducing the energy penalty costs of postcombustion CCS systems with amine-storage. 
  • Regulating the ultimate sink: managing the risks of geologic CO2 storage. 
  • Removal of ammonia from contaminated air in a biotrickling filter - denitrifying bioreactor combination system. 
  • Respiratory and cardiovascular responses to walking down a traffic-polluted road compared with walking in a traffic-free area in participants aged 60 years and older with chronic lung or heart disease and age-matched healthy controls: a randomised, crossover study. 
  • Respiratory effects of exposure to diesel traffic in persons with asthma. 
  • Respiratory epithelial cells demonstrate lactoferrin receptors that increase after metal exposure. 
  • Retrofitting existing chemical scrubbers to biotrickling filters for H2S emission control. 
  • SO2 levels and perturbations in mortality. A study in the New York-New Jersey metropolis. 
  • Satellite-based estimates of long-term exposure to fine particulate matter are associated with C-reactive protein in 30 034 Taiwanese adults. 
  • Scale-up and cost evaluation of a foamed emulsion bioreactor. 
  • Seeking natural capital projects: Forest fires, haze, and early-life exposure in Indonesia. 
  • Short-term effects of air temperature on plasma metabolite concentrations in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. 
  • Should a coal-fired power plant be replaced or retrofitted? 
  • Simultaneously mitigating near-term climate change and improving human health and food security. 
  • Single-source impact analysis using three-dimensional air quality models. 
  • Space-time data fusion under error in computer model output: an application to modeling air quality. 
  • Spatial-temporal characteristics of haze and vertical distribution of aerosols over the Yangtze River Delta of China. 
  • Spatial-temporal modeling of the association between air pollution exposure and preterm birth: identifying critical windows of exposure. 
  • Spatially refined aerosol direct radiative forcing efficiencies. 
  • Synthesis of environmental evidence: nitrogen dioxide epidemiology studies. 
  • The Clean Air Act: science, policy, and politics. 
  • The Health Impacts of Environmental Policy: The North Carolina Clean Smokestacks Act. 
  • The complexities of air pollution regulation: the need for an integrated research and regulatory perspective. 
  • The control of mercury vapor using biotrickling filters. 
  • The discoloration of the Taj Mahal due to particulate carbon and dust deposition. 
  • The global atmospheric environment for the next generation. 
  • The outdoor air pollution and brain health workshop. 
  • The public health benefits of air pollution control. 
  • The removal of H2S from process air by diffusion into activated sludge. 
  • The role of air quality management programs in improving public health: a brief synopsis. 
  • The triggering of myocardial infarction by fine particles is enhanced when particles are enriched in secondary species. 
  • Thermophilic biotrickling filtration of ethanol vapors. 
  • Treatment of mixtures of toluene and n-propanol vapours in a compost-woodchip-based biofilter. 
  • Treatment of mixtures of toluene and n-propanol vapours in a compost-woodchip-based biofilter. 
  • U.S. air quality management: local, regional and global approaches. 
  • Uncertainty, imprecision, and the precautionary principle in climate change assessment. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Deshusses, Marc, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Huang, Yuh-Chin Tony, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
  • Shindell, Drew Todd, Nicholas Professor of Earth Science, Earth and Ocean Sciences
  • Winner, William E., Professor of Environmental Science at Duke Kunshan University, DKU Faculty