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Metal Speciation, Mixtures and Environmental Health Impacts
(2015-10-16)
Numerous applications of heavy metal have caused to their wide contamination in the environmental system and raised serious concerns over potential harmful effects on public health and the environment. Water, sediment, and ...
Prenatal Metals Exposure and Child Birth and Growth in Bangladesh
(2015-04-24)
The objective of this dissertation is to contribute to ongoing research on prenatal metals exposure, in terms of arsenic, lead, and manganese, and infant health and growth, and to deepen the understanding of the complexity ...
From the Inside Out – Application of the Mass Balance Model for PM Exposure Assessment in Residential Settings Under the Influences of Indoor and Outdoor Factors
(2015-09-30)
The application of the widely used mass balance model in determining portable air purifier (PAP) effectiveness in particulate matter (PM) removal was not validated in occupied residential settings. The corresponding ...
Moving Away From the Traditional Desktop Computer Workstations: Identifying Opportunities to Improve Upper Extremity Biomechanics
(2015-09-15)
Statement of Problem: Office computer workers have elevated risks of adverse health outcome such as musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) associated with computer work. Although they now have many alternatives, these modern ...
Fine Particulate Exposure and Cardiac Autonomic Effects in Boilermakers
(2015-04-27)
Background: Heart Rate Variability (HRV) as a research outcome has the potential for misclassification due to its inability to account for changes in the heart rate. HRV can be parsed into Acceleration Capacity (AC) and ...
Linking the Exposure to Engineered Nanoparticles Released From Nano-Enabled Products to Toxicology: a Case Study of Laser Printers
(2015-04-27)
A research gap in the fields of exposure assessment and toxicology that remains unaddressed is the assimilation of experimental conditions to those of the real world human exposure. Currently, there is a lack of understanding ...