Sentences with phrase «of the air quality around»

It works to both inform the user of the air quality around them and also to inform the scientists collecting the data about local air pollution.

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Those concerned about keeping staff healthy and productive, however, should perform regular assessments of air quality and check for mould around windows, says Monika Gibson, the Ontario representative at the Allergy / Asthma Information Association.

If the quality is not good, buying fine particle filters is a partial solution — so is looking for the root causes of the air pollution around you and trying to avoid them.

The biggest selling point of the Sealy Soybean Foam - Core Mattress is that this product is a GREENGUARD certified mattress that means it not only keeps the air quality in your child's bed safe to breathe, it can actually help the air quality all around them.

Healthy Schools Network recommends simple activities such as: • Adopting Guiding Principles of School Environmental Quality as a policy for your School; • Distributing information related to Green Cleaning or Indoor Air Quality (IAQ); • Writing a letter or visiting your Principal or Facility Director to ask about cleaning products or pest control products; • Walking around your school: looking for water stains, cracks in outside walls, broken windows or steps, and overflowing dumpsters that are health & safety problems that need attention.

He is presently representing residents around Kennedy Airport who are suing the Port Authority on air quality issues, due to the high incidence of asthma and other respiratory diseases in the area.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation is out with the results of its second air quality study for the West Side Buffalo neighborhoods around the Peace Bridge.

The IBM «Think» exhibit analyzes data to create virtual representations of wasted drinking water, solar - energy potential, traffic snarls, air quality and credit card transactions in and around New York City

These bacterial beings have been around since the origin of life and still are running the soil and the air and affecting water quality.

Nordenskiöld's record of the haze was among the first evidence that air pollution around the northern hemisphere can travel toward the pole and degrade air quality in the Arctic.

The 2011 UNEP / WMO assessment and the related article by Shindell et al. in Science in 2012 indicate that an aggressive program to limit emissions of these substances could relatively inexpensively cut projected warming between the present and 2050 in half while also having tremendous co-benefits for health, air quality, and improved energy efficiency, in the US and around the world.

But according to the American Lung Association (ALA), even though air quality around the country is improving overall, some 175 million Americans — 58 percent of the population — still live in places where pollution levels can cause breathing difficulties or worse.

In addition to providing real - time air quality data above and around the leak site to state regulators, the measurements will allow researchers the opportunity to check the accuracy of greenhouse gas measurements made using remote sensing systems such as satellites.

It's a simple means to reduce stress, improve your intake of clean, quality air and to be truly present with what is around you.

Today we know that the quality of our water and air — the two basic needs for survival — are less than ideal in most places around the globe.

The attendant 5.1 DTS - HD MA track proves that Zemeckis is still capable of turning on the afterburners with regards to mixing set - pieces (there's an almost musical quality to the Blitz as bombs clobber the subwoofer and hails of gunfire flank the viewer), yet when I think of Allied, I think of its restrained use of score — much of the music is diegetic — and of how Zemeckis finds a remarkable number of variations in the sound of the air around Max and Marianne's loaded silences.

In light of the cross committee super inquiry, schools should expect more pressure from parents in the near future, as awareness around the effects of poor air quality on their children's health grows, and the need for fast, effective solutions becomes all the more apparent and urgent.

Much of the focus on education facilities typically revolves around large, holistic concepts such as sustainability; safety and security; daylighting; energy efficiency; indoor air quality and healthy schools.

To my eyes, it seemed that there was still quite a lot of turbulent air flowing around the body of the Civic, but the quality of my aerodynamic analysis could be one of the reasons why I shoot cars for a living rather than design them.

The air nozzle panels and the central panel around the navigation system with an aluminium - look are now flush - mounted in the instrument panel and thus accentuate the high - end quality of the interior.

But the combined city / highway EPA fuel economy rating hovers right around 20 mpg, and the vehicle doesn't pass stringent air quality standards of California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

The trim also includes Mercedes» Airmatic air suspension as standard, which makes for decent ride quality, particularly around town, and lessens the impact of that extra quarter of a tonne of weight the hybrid system adds over a standard four - cylinder petrol model.

A senior research fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and a board member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, serving thousands of publishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital distribution.

Despite the surge of new companies offering better opportunities for authors interested in self - publishing, companies that produce high - quality print editions or who give authors a valid distribution channel for their digital editions, it still seems as though the entire literary world feels the need to put air - quotes around the word author whenever a writer chooses to independently publish.

The Parador de Puebla de Sanabria offers luxurious high - quality accommodation in friendly surroundings, allowing guests to enjoy the fresh mountain air of the spell - binding Lago de Sanabria Nature Reserve and potter around this medieval town, visiting its magnificent castle.

By partnering with Korean Air, a leading airline recognized by travelers around the world for its quality service, we can support the travel pursuits of our members — helping them earn more miles with every stay and travel faster to destinations in Asia and beyond.

Now onto the Single player mode or the «single player upgrade» if you've purchased the multiplayer edition, this is basically the same as a private match in multiplayer, you play one of the multiplayer selections against AI on top of that you have survival mode which was rather confusing, my idea of the game was a normal FPS game with zombies implemented so you can't camp, when you're playing the survival mode the full area has some sort of gas which will kill you if you don't get out of it, you get sent to different air pockets which open up in a set area per round, this meaning you have to camp in the air bubble and take on the hordes of zombies approaching, I've played a few zombie fps games in my days and always wanted to move around, create a train and take them out, on top of that ammo drops or weapon drops are in said bubbles and lack in quality, I wasn't impressed with the survival mode implementation and wouldn't advise any horde fans to even look at it.

For instance the upgradeable engine components includes the cylinder head porting, electronic control unit, air filter, exhaust and high quality oil with every component within each category having the potential to increase acceleration, braking power, top speed or handling from their initial quality of around between 5 to 7 gradually improving towards the maximum quality of 10 as well as increasing the maximum power, maximum torque and some component upgrades even reducing the weight of the bike.

These sculptures have a quality of making the air around them feel energised.

The second part of the exhibit showcases her series, Man Made (2013 - 15) interactive video paintings inspired during an art residency in Beijing where the World Air Quality Index on a clear day hovers around 350 (Los Angeles is 75 on a bad day).

Still, given the fact that China is rapidly becoming a world leader in clean tech industries, that it is flexing its muscle in terms of international climate leadership, and that other cities around the world suffer from the same types of diesel - driven air quality problems that China has become known for, I think we can expect China's success story to translate into rapid adoption elsewhere.

One effort, which at the time was touted as being the world's largest air purifier, has yielded a 7 - meter tall Smog Free Tower in Rotterdam, but when your country boasts of some of the worst air quality around, you have to go bigger.

There is a lot of activity around those wells and that has an impact on air quality... The EPA will soon be coming out with regulations to deal with the air quality around natural gas production.

A TSB - funded post-occupancy evaluation of the Wimbish passive house development for Hastoe Housing found that occupants were happy with air quality, «occupied» CO2 levels were generally around or below 1000 ppm, and humidity was «within normal limits» (although marginally low in some houses at the end of each winter).5

This product primarily exploits high - quality measurements of air samples collected at tens of sites around the world by various laboratories (119 sites for CO2, 30 sites for CH4 and 127 sites for N2O), in combination with a numerical model of atmospheric tracer transport (Chevallier et al. 2010, Bergamaschi et al. 2013, Thompson et al. 2014).

[22] A 2011 study for the city of Fort Worth, Texas, examining air quality around natural gas sites «did not reveal any significant health threats.»

«In addition, safeguarded farmland will continue providing healthy local produce and mitigating climate - change impacts of transporting food around the globe, while conserved wetlands improve the quality of our air and water and serve as buffers from potentially catastrophic storm surges predicted under current climate - change scenarios,» he added.

Of the 1,600 cities around the globe monitored by the World Health Organisation (WHO), air quality was only considered «safe» in 30 %.

The worsening quality of air around the world is set to become the leading cause illness and death of over half of the world's population by end of the century, a study published in Nature Climate Change said.

In short, communities around the world (in developing and developed countries) are confronted by a reality that falls far short of recommended air quality standards.

In recognition of both the gravity of the issue and the importance of the energy sector in its resolution, the International Energy Agency (IEA) is to publish its first special report on the role of the energy sector in air quality around the world.

In the field of transport, Volvo pledged to end the sale of conventional internal combustion engine cars, as auto giants around the world rushed to electrify their fleets in response to tightening air quality rules and mounting consumer interest.

Join activists on the frontlines of the fight against pollution around the world as they share insights from their local clean - up efforts, innovative solutions to improving air quality and more.

The end result is a filtration system hundreds of times more efficient than standard ventilation systems, capable of providing the homeowner and occupants with the best possible indoor air quality no matter what is happening in the environment around them.

CAMS outputs are used around the world to support local air - quality applications, particularly within the framework of the World Meteorological Organization's Global Atmosphere Watch programme.

In cities around the world, forward - thinking governments, spurred often as not by more immediate crises and exercising their intrinsic subsidiarity, have found their way to sustainable solutions to problems of energy use, transportation, air quality, resilience and waste.

This has an immense impact on urban air quality by not only reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, but also the amount of air - borne particulates, NOx, SOx, and CO that afflict so many cities around the world.

To get around the local pollution problems and to adhere to the new air quality regulations, the industry started building tall stacks to disperse the pollution instead of reducing it.

By 2020, China hopes to reduce coal from around 66 % of its energy consumption to 62 % which should also improve air quality.

The current Mayor of London objects, noting that «A new runway at Heathrow will be devastating for air quality across London — air pollution around the airport is already above legal levels of NO2.»