Environmental Health & Biomedicine

Contents Part 1 - Environmental Health Section 1: Air pollution Vegetation fires and release of radioactivity into the air; Assessment of diesel particulate matter exposure among underground mine workers; An investigation into the association of ozone with traffic-related air pollutants using a quantile regression approach; A choice experiment approach to the valuation of air pollution in Mashhad, Iran Section 2: Risk prevention and monitoring Multiscale comparison of air quality modeling for an ozone occurrence during the 1996 Paso Del Norte Ozone Campaign; Breaking the connections: reducing and removing environmental health risk in the Canadian nuclear power industry; Disaster management and generational complacency: five crucial lessons; Generic mapping of human activity-based exposure scenarios to petroleum hydrocarbon contaminants in an oil producing area of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria; The development of a model of pandemic preparedness planning utilizing critical success factors from the United States and the European Union Section 3: The built environment and health Thermal comfort in operating rooms: a case study; Modeling vapor intrusion processes and evaluating risks using subslab data; Assessment of fungal contamination in a Portuguese maternity unit; Respiratory toxicity of Aspergillus versicolor: the most common indoor mould in Slovakia; Environmental health issues in the wake of a major earthquake in West Sumatra, Indonesia Section 4: Toxicology analysis Breath odor characteristics after drinking alcoholic beverages and health monitoring; Cell-based bioassay for compounds with prooxidant activity; Synthetic musks fragrances in the aquatic environment: in vitro toxicological studies of their biotransformation and potential negative effects Section 5: Food safety Evaluation of QMRA performance for Listeria monocytogenes in cold smoked salmon; Study of mutagenic effects of a packaging system with oxygen absorbers on sweet bakery products Section 6: Occupational health Work conditions and occupational morbidity in Latvia; Occupational exposure to volatile organic compounds in the Portuguese printing industry; Dioxins in remediation workers Section 7: Ecology and health Eco-biosociocultural H5N1 disease model in Egypt; Some aspects of reproductive health and metabolic disturbances in pregnant women and their newborn in ecologically injurious conditions of an industrial city in the Urals Section 8: Water quality issues Groundwater quality on a waste disposal area due to sand mining activities in Sao Paulo State, Brazil; Ecological effects of underwater destruction of detonators in Lake Ormtjarn, Sweden: the impact from lead Part 2 - Biomedicine Section 9: Cardiovascular system Correlation of morphological parameters with likelihood of thrombus formation in intracranial aneurysms; Dominant EEG frequencies of patients undergoing dobutamine stress test; Numerical evaluation of the slope and intercept of end-systolic pressure-volume relation; Modelling of embolus transport and embolic stroke Section 10: Biomechanics Indoor motion analysis of a subject wearing prosthesis for adaptive snowboarding; Do lateral dominance, body mass, body height and direction of perturbation influence the Lehr's damping ratio, which characterizes the balancing ability on an unstable oscillatory platform?; Synthetic organs for transplant and bio-mimic reactors for process intensification using nano-structured micro-porous materials Section 11: Simulation of physiological processes A dynamic model of the pregnant myometrial fasciculus; Inverse dynamic model of the pupil muscle plant in the simulation of response to sound, stimuli and hippus Section 12: Orthopaedics and bone mechanics Identification of landmarks on lower limb joint from CT images for kinematics studies: a totally semi-automatic procedure; The effect of time on the results of children's spine examinations Section 13: Data acquisition and analysis Association rule derivation for side effects of medical supplies and its application; Estimation of biophysical and functional properties of artery walls from pulse wave measured by photoplethysmography; Statistical parameter estimation and signal classification in cardiovascular diagnosis; MRI: a tool for measuring turbulent intensities in flow systems