School children's personal exposure to ultrafine particles in the urban environment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 113-120

  Mazaheri, Mandana ^a   Clifford, Sam ^a,c   Jayaratne, Rohan ^a   Megat Mokhtar, Megat Azman ^a   Fuoco, Fernanda ^b   Buonanno, Giorgio ^a,b   Morawska, Lidia ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^c Ctr Health Equity Res/Train/Eval   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEACHING;

BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODEL; BAYESIAN REGRESSION; MICROENVIRONMENTS; OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES; PERSONAL EXPOSURES; RELATIVE INTENSITY; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

EXPOSURE CONTROLS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHILD HEALTH; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; METROPOLITAN AREA; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; STUDENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BODY REGIONS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOME; HUMAN; MICROENVIRONMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; STUDENT; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; AUSTRALIA; CITY; COOKING; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AUSTRALIA; BRISBANE; QUEENSLAND;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CITIES; COOKING; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; QUEENSLAND; SCHOOLS;

EID: 84891775523     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es403721w     Document Type: Article

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