Sentences with phrase «airborne chemicals»

They also play a role in the formation of secondary organic aerosols — air pollutants produced when sunlight, organic molecules and airborne chemicals come together and interact.

Children are much closer to the ground, and as a result, breathe in more of the heavier airborne chemicals than do adults.

The project monitors women's exposures to airborne chemicals during pregnancies and tests their babies as soon as they are born.

Pheromones are considered to be airborne chemical signaling molecules that are released by humans, animals, and plants into the environment and they can affect the physiology and or behavior of other members of the same species.

Conley teamed with Ryerson, who pioneered techniques for assessing oil spills with airborne chemical sampling during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the 2012 Elgin rig blowout in the North Sea.

The communication signals are in the form of airborne chemicals released mainly from the leaves.»

Their report emphasizes the utility of rapid - response airborne chemical sampling in providing leak rate data, and it reveals how single vulnerabilities in the natural gas infrastructure can impact local and federal climate policies.

at McMaster University, an animal behavior student, Isvarya Venu, discovered that fruit fly larvae are attracted to airborne chemicals released by the bacteria in their guts; the appealing scent may draw the larvae toward one another.

Anything that you can smell you are also inhaling, so minimise airborne chemicals by not using air fresheners, cleaning agents, insecticides or even perfumes.

For decades scientists suspected that the sense of smell (that is, airborne chemical detection) probably plays an important role in human sexual attraction, just as it does in other mammals.

University Professor of Applied Physics Stephen Arnold and his team at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering have made a discovery that could lead to Star Trek - like biosensor devices capable of flagging the barest presence in blood of a specific virus or antibody, or protein marker for a specific cancer; or sniffing out airborne chemical warfare agents while they are still far below toxic levels.

Much of theevidence that people exchange and respond to airborne chemical messagesis inferential.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, previously discovered that these shrubs send out airborne chemical cues from their foliage and branches that play a vital role in protecting the plants against insect attack.

To test whether the fava plants were truly communicating through the roots, the researchers covered all three groups of plants in polyester bags, preventing them from talking via airborne chemicals — another way plants can exchange information.

Like vehicles and power plants, trees emit airborne chemicals called volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which in the presence of sunlight react with nitrogen oxides in vehicle fumes to form ozone, one of the components in smog that makes it a health threat.

A significant number of people are becoming increasingly sensitive to low exposures to 2,4 - D and many other chemicals.16 This increasing sensitivity may be due to a combination effect of simultaneous exposure to estrogenic nonylphenols15 mixed with locally sprayed herbicides, which are also highly estrogenic, and to antiandrogenic wind drift fungicides, 17 as well as to many other airborne chemicals.

They have discovered and described certain airborne chemicals that can trap incoming sunlight and warm the climate, while others cool the planet by blocking the Sun's rays.

In a recent decision in In re Paulsboro Derailment Cases, the Third Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a case brought by plaintiffs who alleged that they had been exposed to airborne chemicals following a train derailment.

Supervise and / or perform field studies including airborne chemical monitoring, noise monitoring, indoor...

Preti is hot on the scent of the human armpit because he believes that secretions from the so - called axillary region harbor pheromones, airborne chemical signals that influence mating, dominance, familyties, and maturation in other species of the animal kingdom.

Residues of cigarette smoke deposited on indoor surfaces can turn carcinogenic when they react with airborne chemicals.

They've pioneeredequipment that confines puffs of airborne chemicals to that area, southof the smell sensors in the olfactory epithelium.

Due to their developing bodies and height they breathe in the heavier airborne chemicals.

The new study did not track where the airborne chemicals came from, but it suggests that personal care products are a major source since D5 was the dominant compound in both indoor and outdoor air samples.

The electrical resistance of the polymers changes when they come into contact with the airborne chemicals that make up odours.

Androstadienone, a component of male sweat, has been suggested to function as a human pheromone, an airborne chemical signal causing specific responses in conspecifics.

She soon discovers she has been confined in a bomb shelter bunker by Howard (Goodman), a survivalist who is convinced that an airborne chemical or nuclear attack has killed everyone above ground, and they were the only survivors.

Elliot is also puzzled about the diminishment of affection in his marriage to Alma (Zooey Deschanel), who doesn't need an airborne chemical toxin or bacterial outbreak — or whatever the blazes it is — to feel jumpy.

Birds, especially smaller songbirds, can be extraordinarily sensitive to airborne chemicals or particles, and they can actually experience malnutrition on a diet consisting exclusively of bird seed.

Birds are especially susceptible to airborne chemicals and can easily become sickened.

Some dogs (like some people) are more sensitive to smoke than others, also the type of smoke and any airborne chemicals may also cause more severe symptoms.

Spray aerosols or any heavily fragranced products should not be sprayed around birds, as they are especially sensitive to airborne chemicals.

Allergic rhinitis, known as hay fever, is caused by pollens of specific seasonal plants, airborne chemicals and dust particles in people who are allergic to these substances.

Tens of thousands of cleanup workers, Coast Guard members, fishers and coastal residents were within range of the airborne chemicals, and many of them were sprayed directly with Corexit, which when mixed with crude, is 52 times more toxic than crude alone.

The airborne chemicals were so difficult to find and eliminate that Enbridge decided it would be better to simply buy some of the homes that were evacuated, preventing the residents from ever returning.

Each device monitors five aspects that determine air quality — temperature, humidity, CO2, airborne chemicals, and dust.

Health audits included monitoring for exposures to airborne chemical and physical hazards; safety audits focused on ca...