Environmental health & biomedicine / edited by C. A. Brebbia . . . [et al].

CONTENT

Part 1: Environmental health
Section 1: Air pollution
Vegetation fires and releases 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 modelling for ozone occurrence during the 19996 Pas 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

Modelling vapour intrusion processes and evaluating risks using sub-slab data

Assessment of fungal contamination in a Portuguese maternity unit

Respiratory 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 toxicology studies of their biotransformation and potentials

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-bio sociocultural H5N1 disease model in Egypt

some aspects of reproductive health and metabolic disturbances in pregnant women and their new-born in ecologically injurious conditions of an industrial city in the Urals.

Section 8: Water quality
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?

Section 11: Simulation of physiological process
A dynamic model of the pregnant myometrial fasciculus

Inverse dynamic model of the pupil muscle plant in the simulation 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 functional properties of artery walls from pulse wave measured by photoplethysmography

References : p. 480 - 481 . _ Author index : p. 483 - 484