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Martinez-Sancho, Lou. "Impacts de l'optimisation du mix énergétique des villes de demain : vulnérabilité, éthique, santé publique et territoires durables." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Côte d'Azur, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024COAZ6045.

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La qualité de vie des citoyens est directement corrélée à l'énergie qui se transforme en travail et mouvement pour améliorer le IDH (indice de développement humain). En même temps, la production d'énergie détériore l'environnement, la santé humaine et l'écosystème global de la ville-santé. Cette thèse explore le dilemme énergétique, en étudiant l'impact de la transition vers des systèmes énergétiques à faible teneur en carbone sur la santé et les vulnérabilités urbaines. La recherche combine des méthodologies quantitatives, incluant la statistiques différentielle DOE (Design of Experiment) et

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Adams, Helen Sarah. "Exposure assessment of urban transport users to particulate air pollution." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246812.

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Strauss, Jillian. "Cyclist injury risk and pollution exposure at urban signalized intersections." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=107775.

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Cycling as a mode of travel is becoming more popular especially in urban areas like Montreal, Canada. With this reality come serious concerns for cyclist safety and health. These concerns have initiated the need to study the determinants of cyclist injury risk as well as cyclist exposure to traffic-related air pollution. These two issues are particularly important at intersections where cyclists are exposed to high vehicular traffic and as a result are exposed to the risk of collisions and air pollution. With the goal of improving road safety and reducing cyclist exposure to air pollution, thi

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Costa, Ana Margarida Lobo Lourenço da. "Microscale modelling of exposure to atmospheric pollutants in urban areas." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/11334.

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Doutoramento em Ciências Aplicadas ao Ambiente<br>A poluição atmosférica é considerada um dos maiores problemas ambientais, afectando em particular a saúde das populações urbanas. Esta problemática tem um impacto directo no ambiente exterior, mas assume especial relevância nos espaços interiores, onde a população dispende a maior percentagem do seu tempo. Para a avaliação dos impactos da poluição atmosférica na saúde das populações é necessário proceder à estimativa da exposição humana aos poluentes atmosféricos nos ambientes exterior e interior. Os principais objectivos deste trabalho

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MUDELE, OLADIMEJI EZEKIEL. "Modeling Urban Areas Epidemiological Risk Exposure Using Multispectral Spaceborne Data." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Pavia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11571/1436356.

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In recent decades, the world has been fast urbanizing. More than half of the world’s human population now live in urban areas. Such high density of urban population is resulting in air and water pollution, land degradation, and infectious diseases spread risks prominence. However, the increasing quality (in terms of finer spatial and temporal resolution)and quantity of Earth Observation (EO) satellite data provide new perspectives for analysing these phenomena. Within the specific domain of epidemiological risks dynamics in urban areas which is the focus of this work, the use of multispectral

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Burns, Emily. "Assessing exposure and risks of pharmaceuticals in an urban river system." Thesis, University of York, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20448/.

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Pharmaceuticals are ubiquitous in the freshwater environment, a result of an increasingly urbanised water cycle. Environmental risk assessments are available for a small proportion of the over 1900 pharmaceuticals in use, raising concern over the potential risks posed by pharmaceuticals with limited data, as effects on non-target organisms have been observed. Experimentally filling these gaps is a large, costly and likely unnecessary task. Risk-based prioritisation is a potential tool for addressing this challenge by identifying which pharmaceuticals may pose risks and are therefore a priority

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Defoe, Phillip Peterson. "Urban brownfields to gardens : minimizing human exposure to lead and arsenic." Diss., Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17584.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of Agronomy<br>Ganga M. Hettiarachchi<br>Urban gardens have been a popular re-use option in the transformation of brownfields—located in older industrialized cities and near peri-urban developments. They provide accessible, available, and affordable supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables, effectively reducing the enigma of “food deserts” across U.S. cities. However, direct (soil ingestion, inhalation) and indirect (soil-plant-human) human exposure concerns about real or perceived trace element contamination in urban soils persist due to previous use. Eleva

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Amin, Maryse R. "Lead Exposure and the Risk of Dental Caries in Urban Children." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406901155.

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Kennedy, Jason Forrest. "Estimating Pedestrian Crashes at Urban Signalized Intersections." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36308.

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Crash prediction models are used to estimate the number of crashes using a set of explanatory variables. The highway safety community has used modeling techniques to predict vehicle-to-vehicle crashes for decades. Specifically, generalized linear models (GLMs) are commonly used because they can model non-linear count data such as motor vehicle crashes. Regression models such as the Poisson, Zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP), and the Negative Binomial are commonly used to model crashes. Until recently very little research has been conducted on crash prediction modeling for pedestrian-motor vehicl

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Kousa, Anu. "PM2.5 and NO2 exposure assessment of urban population in the Helsinki metropolitan area and other European urban areas." Helsinki : University of Helsinki, 2002. http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/mat/fysik/vk/kousa/.

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Goveia, Danielle E. "An Analysis of the Potential Risk Exposure to Lead (Pb) through Urban Community Gardens." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/847.

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Community gardening in cities is increasing, driven by social interaction and food security. City soils are sinks for heavy metals; including neurotoxic lead (Pb). Exposure routes are primarily through inhalation/ingestion of soil, or second by ingestion of plants that have accumulated Pb. This research evaluates soil at three Liberty City, Florida sites estimating risk of Pb exposure through primary and secondary pathways. Soil cores were collected from Liberty City, and red Malabar spinach (Basella rubra) was grown in Pb soil treatments in a greenhouse. Total soil Pb levels and plant tissues

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Cannell, Robert J. "Radiation exposure in an urban dwelling following an accidental release of radioactivity." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/46984.

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Kaur, Surbjit. "Exposure assessment of urban street users to particulate matter & carbon monoxide." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430470.

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McKinley, Alex R. "Investigating erythemal UV exposure and vitamin D production in the urban canyon." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/26381/1/Alex_McKinley_Thesis.pdf.

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Exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UV) results in both damaging and beneficial health outcomes. Excessive UV exposure has been linked to many skin and eye problems, but moderate exposure induces vitamin D production. It has been reported that humans receive 90-95% of their vitamin D from production that starts after UV exposure. Although it is possible to acquire vitamin D through dietary supplementation, the average person receives very little in this manner. Therefore, since most people acquire their vitamin D from synthesis after exposure to UV from sunlight, it is very important to und

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McKinley, Alex R. "Investigating erythemal UV exposure and vitamin D production in the urban canyon." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/26381/.

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Exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UV) results in both damaging and beneficial health outcomes. Excessive UV exposure has been linked to many skin and eye problems, but moderate exposure induces vitamin D production. It has been reported that humans receive 90-95% of their vitamin D from production that starts after UV exposure. Although it is possible to acquire vitamin D through dietary supplementation, the average person receives very little in this manner. Therefore, since most people acquire their vitamin D from synthesis after exposure to UV from sunlight, it is very important to und

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Bourrier, Stefan Christian. "Take a hike! : the cognitive effects of exposure to natural and urban environments." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54719.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate links between attention restoration theory and executive function. A series of four experiments, each using a pre- versus post-test design, studied the influence of various interventions on executive function, as assessed by a backward digit span task and Raven’s progressive matrices. Experiment 1 began by testing the influence of cognitive strategy as manipulated through task instructions. Experiment 2 tested the influence of viewing slides of nature versus urban scenes, as predicted by attention restoration theory (Berman, et al., 2008). Experime

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Datema, Jason Alexander. "Human pulmonary function response to a controlled exposure to fine urban particulate matter." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0003/MQ45903.pdf.

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Tight, Miles Richard. "Accident involvement and exposure to risk for children as pedestrians on urban roads." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1987. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317615/.

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A detailed literature review reveals the need for further study of several aspects of road accidents to child pedestrians in urban areas. Some of these aspects are explored using data for selected residential parts of five urban areas in Britain. Road accidents in the five study areas are examined using Local Authority accident data, police accident reports, local knowledge, and data from the 1981 census of population. Variations in occurrence of these accidents are analysed using variables such as age and sex of the child, type of location, distance from home, severity, and time of occurrence

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Peel, Robert. "Towards the integrated assessment of human exposure to grass pollen in urban environments." Thesis, University of Worcester, 2013. http://eprints.worc.ac.uk/3056/.

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Pollen allergy affects a substantial proportion of the European population, and in many European countries the greatest rates of sensitisation are found for grass pollen allergen. Pollen allergy incidence rates tend to be greater in urban than in rural areas, likely due in part to the effects of urban air pollution on the allergy-causing potential of pollen grains. Background pollen concentrations measured at roof level monitoring stations are typically used as a proxy for exposure, but may differ considerably from the exposure experienced by allergy sufferers. In a 2003 report on phenology, t

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Antwi-Agyei, Prince. "Wastewater use in urban agriculture : an exposure and risk assessment in Accra, Ghana." Thesis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London), 2015. http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/2352419/.

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In order to minimize the health risks to agricultural workers, and consumers of wastewater irrigated produce, the World Health Organisation has developed guidelines for the safe use of wastewater in agriculture. This study sought to test the appropriateness of the current Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment model and the multiple-barrier approach advocated by the WHO guidelines. Over a one year period, over 500 produce and ready-to-eat salad samples were collected from fields, markets, and kitchens in Accra, Ghana, and over 300 soil and irrigation water samples were collected. All samples w

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Davis, Cindy. "Prolonged Exposure to non-school related media use and violence among urban youth." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2478.

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Youth violence is a pervasive and ongoing public health concern. Based on the paradigm of resilience, the purpose of this quantitative study was to test the relationship between prolonged (3 or more hours) of non-school related media use and youth violence. Secondary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were utilized for this study. Logistic and multiple regression models were used to test whether exposure to prolonged non-school related media (video games and TV) use was associated with violent behavior, and whether there was a relationship between prolonged exposure

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Thielen, Sharon Leanne. "Factors influencing urban students to major in agriculture." Diss., Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15044.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of Curriculum and Instruction<br>Steven Harbstriet<br>Colleges of agriculture across the country are challenged to produce more graduates in order to meet the increase in employment opportunities in the areas of agriculture, food, and renewable natural resources. To attract students from areas with the most growth, urban communities, this study identified factors such as exposures to agriculture, college factors, and career aspirations that influenced urban students to major in agriculture and enroll in the College of Agriculture at Kansas State University (

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Ampleman, Matthew D. "Inhalation and dietary exposure to PCBS in urban and rural cohorts via congener-specific airborne PCB measurements." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1532.

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Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a group of 209 persistent organic pollutants, whose documented carcinogenic, neurological and respiratory toxicities are expansive and growing. Existing inhalation estimates demonstrate ubiquitous exposure to World Health Organization (WHO) indicator PCBs and limited other PCB congeners in North America and Europe. However, inhalation exposure estimates of most lower-chlorinated congeners are lacking, and continuing release of PCBs from urban areas demands location-specific assessments of PCB exposure in ambient air and contaminated environments. Using pair

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Mueller-Anneling, Linda J. "Endotoxin in the urban and rural environment ambient concentration and biomarkers of pulmonary exposure /." Diss., University of Iowa, 2004. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/110.

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Matar, Hamad Bandar. "Indoor and outdoor exposure to PM10 in properties in the vicinity of urban streets." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3000.

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Occupants of buildings are exposed to indoor pollution from cooking and smoking and infiltrated outdoor pollution. The fabric of a building (doors, windows, ventilation etc.) has an influence on the infiltration of outdoor pollution into the building. In some studies, personal exposure has been investigated within homes and different transport modes. However, there is a lack of knowledge about pollution level variations along congested, busy and quiet roads in urban areas and its infiltration into the buildings located some distance from or along the roads. Only a few studies have investigated

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Ngwenya, Bigboy. "Heat exposure and adaptation strategies of outdoor informal sector workers in urban Bulawayo - Zimbabwe." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2019. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2183.

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Ambient temperatures have risen over the past few decades and are expected to increase even further due to climate change impacts. Extreme temperatures, accompanied by high humidity levels, will exacerbate occupational heat stress, heat related illnesses and mortality amongst vulnerable groups, particularly among outdoor workers in developing countries in the tropics. In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, a large portion of the population work outdoors in the informal sector as street vendors (hawkers) due to a lack of employment opportunities. These hawkers spend long hours in the sun or under makeshift she

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Leavey, Anna L. "Insights into the variables controlling human exposure to ultrafine particle concentrations in urban affinity zones." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508619.

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Goosey, Emma Rae. "Towards understanding the fate of perfluoroalkyl compounds (PFCs) within urban environments : implications for human exposure." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1052/.

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Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) have been detected across the globe in a variety of media. The toxicity of these compounds and other precursors has led to concern about human exposure. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the presence of perfluoroalkyl compounds (PFCs) in UK indoor and outdoor microenvironments and the impact this may have on human exposure. Both PFOS and PFOA were chosen for analysis (via LC-ESI-MS/MS) because of their highly persistent behaviour. Additionally, perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS), was chosen along with precursors to PF

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Wu, Hao. "Assessing urban air quality through measurements and modelling and its implications for human exposure assessment." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/28755.

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Outdoor air pollution is a major contributor to adverse health effects of citizens, in particular those living in urban environments. Air quality monitoring networks are set up to measure air quality in different environments in compliance with national and European legislation. Generally, only a few fixed monitoring sites are located within a city and thus cannot represent air pollutant concentrations in urban areas accurately enough to allow for a detailed human exposure assessment. Other approaches to derive detailed urban air pollutant concentration estimates exist, such as dispersion mode

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Boch, Samantha Jo. "Urban Youth Exposed to Parental Incarceration: the Biosocial Linkages in an Understudied Adverse Childhood Exposure." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu149255012078895.

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Slavin, Courtney Natasha. "The Relationship Between Traffic Signals and Pedestrian, Bicyclist and Transit User Exposure in Urban Areas." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/616.

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Improving the efficiency of traffic operations along arterials is currently a priority for many agencies as their roadway infrastructure is built out to the largest possible capacity within the urban environment. Many advanced systems are being implemented to optimize traffic signal timing. Air quality is typically not a consideration when these decisions are made. The relationship between exposure to air pollution and traffic signal timing has not been fully explored by other researchers. This study is the first research effort to combine detailed traffic signal timing data (at 5 second inter

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Tenailleau, Quentin. "Multi-exposition en milieu urbain : approche multi-echelle de l'exposition humaine au bruit et à la pollution atmosphérique." Thesis, Besançon, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BESA2052/document.

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Chaque jour, 15% des Européens sont exposés à des niveaux moyens de bruit ou de polluants atmosphériquesdépassant les valeurs seuils fixées par la législation européenne. L’intensité de la pollution de chaque polluant et sarépartition à l’échelle d’une agglomération dépendent des capacités d’émission des sources, des phénomènes dedispersion, et de l’environnement urbain. Il en résulte une variabilité spatiale du niveau de multi-exposition qui resteencore largement méconnue. L’objectif de ce travail de thèse est d’identifier et de caractériser les situations de multiexpositionsur la ville de Be

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Nyarku, Mawutorli. "Evaluation and application of emergent and wearable air monitors for assessment of personal exposure in urban microenvironments." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/192101/1/Mawutorli_Nyarku_Thesis.pdf.

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The aim of the project was to advance the scientific understanding of human exposure to air pollution. This included investigation of emerging monitors to measure personal exposure to air pollution in urban microenvironments, studies of ultrafine particles (UFPs) in a variety of microenvironments in Accra, Ghana and the assessment of schoolchildren's exposure to UFPs in this city. The thesis demonstrated the applicability conditions of commercially available low-cost sensors and mobile devices for monitoring personal exposure to air pollution and exposed the drivers behind high personal exposu

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Myers, Rachel Kathryn. "Childhood Witnessing of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) And Early Adulthood IPV Among Urban Women." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/377989.

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Public Health<br>Ph.D.<br>Annually, more than 15 million U.S. children witness intimate partner violence (IPV) in their homes between caregivers. Witnessing IPV during childhood has been associated with increased risk of adulthood IPV victimization, although this relationship has most commonly been examined among older populations of white adults (McKinney, Caetano, Ramisetty-Mikler, & Nelson, 2009; Straus, 1989; Whitfield, Anda, Dube, & Felitti, 2003), not minority women who experience a disproportionately high burden of IPV victimization (Breiding, Chen, & Black, 2014). It also is unclear wh

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Hess, Catherine. "Demographic differences in exposure to toxic trace elements in urban South Africa during the 20th century." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2013. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/21074/.

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Exposure to toxic elements is a significant threat to public and individual health worldwide. Toxic elements such as heavy metals are associated with increased mortality and morbidity in both men and women and are a substantial contributor to neurological deficits and developmental delay in children. Analysis of skeletal material yields important information regarding exposure to toxic elements in a given population. This project has investigated toxic element exposure in 215 adults living in urban South Africa who died between 1960 and 1999. Exposure to toxic elements, particularly exposure t

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Liu, Wenling. "L' écrit des enseignes commerciales : une écriture exposée chinoise dans l'espace urbain." Paris, EHESS, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008EHES0581.

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Cette thèse considère les enseignes commerciales chinoises comme écritures exposées dans l'espace urbain, tant à Pékin qu'à Paris. On analyse d'abord la dimension formelle et linguistique de l'enseigne au travers de plusieurs thèmes: l'usage de sémiotique de Peirce appliquée à l'enseigne; le nom propre et sa situiation d'étiquetage; la traduction des noms d'enseignes et la situation de digraphie existant en Chine. Une seconde partie adopte la perspective d'une socio-anthropologie de l'objet s'intéressant aux trajectoires sociales de l'enseigne et la situation de digraphie existant en Chine. Un

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Shilton, Vaughan Francis. "The significance of indoor:outdoor relationships, and physical and chemical composition in personal exposure to urban particulate matter." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/88474.

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Popoola, Olalekan Abdul Muiz. "Studies of urban air quality using electrochemical based sensor instruments." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/243620.

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Poor air quality has been projected to be the world’s top cause of environmental premature mortality by 2050 surpassing poor sanitation and dirty water (IGBP / IGAC press release, 2012 ). One of the major challenges of air quality management is how to adequately quantify both the spatial and temporal variations of pollutants for the purpose of implementing necessary mitigation measures. The work described in this thesis aims to address this problem using novel electrochemical based air quality (AQ) sensors. These instruments are shown to provide cost effective, portable, reliable, indicative m

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Steel, S. "A study of tuberculosis in an urban community with particular reference to sunlight exposure and Vitamin D status." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1358315/.

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This thesis presents a mixed method study of urban Tuberculosis, with reference to both social and physical factors. The initial study reports the social context of Tuberculosis in Brent, London. 104 subjects participated in focus group discussions from community organisations. Knowledge, perception and barriers to Tuberculosis treatment were explored. Participants included refugee, homeless and immigrant groups. A thematic analysis revealed stigma, memory of home life, knowledge of disease and Tuberculosis as ‘divine punishment’ as significant social factors. The professional groups reported

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VIDORNI, Giorgia. "DAMAGE PROCESSES ON STONES IN URBAN ENVIRONMENT: FIELD EXPOSURE TESTS AND LABORATORY ANALYSES CONTRIBUTING TO POLLUTION IMPACT EVALUATION." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Ferrara, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11392/2487873.

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Air pollution constantly threatens the conservation of carbonate stone monuments and built heritage mainly in urban areas. Even if different studies focused on the effect of pollution on stone materials, by analysing samples collected from historic buildings, performing tests in simulation chamber and/or in field and monitoring air quality (gases and aerosol) of the environment surrounding specific cultural heritage, lack of knowledge still remains in the quantitative correlation between the concentration of particular atmospheric pollutants and their damage induced to stone. Furthermore, the

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Klein, Achim. "Annoyance indicators for various urban road vehicle pass-by noises and urban road traffic noise combined with tramway noise." Thesis, Vaulx-en-Velin, Ecole nationale des travaux publics, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ENTP0002/document.

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La pollution sonore est un problème majeur pour les résidents des zones urbaines. La directive Européenne 2002/49/CE impose aux états membres l’établissement de cartes de bruit. Ces dernières sont construites sur la base de l’indice énergétique Lden, également utilisé dans les relations dose-effet établies pour prédire la gêne. Toutefois, pour l’évaluation de la gêne due au bruit dans les zones urbaines, la pertinence de cet indice est souvent remise en question. En effet, de nombreuses études ont montré que les caractéristiques temporelles et spectrales des bruits environnementaux influencent

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Yu, Haofei. "A Modeling Investigation of Human Exposure to Select Traffic-Related Air Pollutants in the Tampa Area: Spatiotemporal Distributions of Concentrations, Social Distributions of Exposures, and Impacts of Urban Design on Both." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4795.

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Increasing vehicle dependence in the United States has resulted in substantial emissions of traffic-related air pollutants that contribute to the deterioration of urban air quality. Exposure to urban air pollutants trigger a number of public health concerns, including the potential of inequality of exposures and health effects among population subgroups. To better understand the impact of traffic-related pollutants on air quality, exposure, and exposure inequality, modeling methods that can appropriately characterize the spatiotemporally resolved concentration distributions of traffic-related

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Zhao, Huijin. "Assessment of Personal Exposure to Particulate Matter Based on a Space-time Method for a Student Residing near a Large Urban Campus." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316462387.

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Boothe, Vickie L. "Effects of Estimated Exposure to Cumulative Traffic-Related Pollutants on Asthma, Cardiovascular, and Stroke Outcomes in an Urban Area." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/iph_theses/47.

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BACKGROUND: A growing body of research has suggested that exposure to traffic-related emissions is associated with numerous adverse health effects including prevalence and severity of symptoms of asthma, hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarctions, and cardiovascular-related mortality. No previous studies have assessed the association between proximity to traffic and respiratory and cardiovascular outcomes across all age groups. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the association between proximity to traffic emissions within the City of Atlanta and respiratory and cardiov

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Fisher-, Garibay Shelby Dax. "Urban Waterways, E. coli Levels, and the Surrounding Communities: An Examination of Potential Exposure to E. coli in Communities." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1606836406924766.

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Huang, Minjuan. "Risk assessments of human exposure to metal(loid)s via urban dust and airborne particles in Guangzhou, South China." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2013. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1494.

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Salimi, Farhad. "Characteristics of spatial variation, size distribution, formation and growth of particles in urban environments." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/69332/1/Farhad_Salimi_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis is the first comprehensive study of important parameters relating to aerosols' impact on climate and human health, namely spatial variation, particle size distribution and new particle formation. We determined the importance of spatial variation of particle number concentration in microscale environments, developed a method for particle size parameterisation and provided knowledge about the chemistry of new particle formation. This is a significant contribution to our understanding of processes behind the transformation and dynamics of urban aerosols. This PhD project included exte

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Crilley, Leigh R. "Investigations of the physical and chemical properties of ambient fine particles in urban schools." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/65336/1/Leigh_Crilley_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis reports a comprehensive study on the physical and chemical properties of airborne particles in Brisbane, especially around schools. The sources and potential toxicity of the particles were identified, enabling an assessment of the contributing factors to children's exposure at school. The results from this thesis give a quantitative estimate of the range of airborne particles that children are exposed to at urban schools with different traffic conditions.

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Nugent, Ayres Michelle V. "Spatial and Geochemical Techniques to Improve Exposure Assessment of Manganese in Windsor, Ontario." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20276.

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This study was conducted to investigate the urban geochemistry of the city of Windsor (Ontario) and to provide added source apportionment information to work being carried out by the Canadian government. The goal of this study was to investigate the distribution, spatial variation and sources of manganese in urban Windsor soil. The literature indicates that human exposure to high levels of manganese, via inhalation, can cause respiratory and/or neurological effects. At the outset of the present study it was first hypothesized that vehicular traffic was the dominant source of anthropogenic m

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Chapman, Peter Stuart. "Exposure to street level particulate pollution in urban Hong Kong and the associated health: application of tramsas a mobile monitor." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42980021.

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