Despite the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region's impressive economic growth, over 1 billion of its people still lack access to electricity and modern cooking solutions. To achieve universal access to modern energy by 2030, this book exhorts EAP countries to advance simultaneousl…
Carbon monoxide toxicity
The scope of this book is broad, encompassing a wide sweep of topics from the history of CO studies, to CO detector technology, to clinical management of CO poisoning around the world, to our emerging understanding of the largely hidden threat of chronic low-level CO exposure to…
Public interest in the health impacts of carbon monoxide (CO) has been increasing rapidly during the past decade. And rightly so: it is the most ubiquitous environmental poison. Car exhaust fumes, furnaces, gas-powered engines, home water heaters, smoke from all types of fire, a…
Carbon Monoxide (CO) is an important atmospheric trace gas that affects the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere by being a major sink of the hydroxyl radical. Ice cores may preserve a record of past atmospheric CO for analysis and interpretation; therefore, a new analytical sys…
Occupational noise induced hearing loss (occupational NIHL) is one of the leading causes of permanent hearing impairments not only in developing countries since developed countries such as the US also have a large number of employees who are at risk of occupational NIHL. A numbe…