A5045219919- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
- Noise Effects and Management
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Asthma and respiratory diseases
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
- Odor and Emission Control Technologies
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Eosinophilic Esophagitis
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Climate variability and models
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
2015-2024
Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum
2004-2008
Leipzig University
1998
Institut für Hygiene und Umwelt
1990
TU Dresden
1986
Sensors are becoming ubiquitous in everyday life, generating data at an unprecedented rate and scale. However, models that assess impacts of human activities on environmental health, have typically been developed contexts where scarcity is the norm. Models essential tools to understand processes, identify relationships, associations causality, formalize stakeholder mental models, quantify effects prevention interventions. They can help explain data, as well inform deployment location sensors...
Globally, rapid urbanization accompanied by a great deal of anthropogenic heat emission, further led to severe urban island (UHI) effects, posing significant risk human and environmental health. Understanding the combined driving effects intra-urban temperature variation is vital UHI mitigation. Although previous studies have extensively revealed essential contribution two-dimensional (2D) three-dimensional (3D) architectural morphology land surface (LST), their seasonality on shaping LST...
Abstract Indoor VOC (volatile organic compound) exposure has been shown to be correlated with airway symptoms and allergic manifestations in children. An investigation was conducted within an ongoing birth cohort study (LISA: Lifestyle–Immune System–Allergy) of the association between maternal VOCs immune status at birth, particular cytokine secretion profile cord‐blood T cells. In a randomly selected group 85 neonates, cytokine‐producing cells were analyzed using intracellular detection....
People spend most of their daytime in indoor environments. Their activities influence the composition air by emitting volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The increasing number different VOCs became focus attention recent years as question arises from relationship between exposure to pollutants and diseases. present study flats Leipzig (Germany) is based on measurements 60 unique field quality due its enormous size samples (n = 2 242) questionnaire data. main purpose our analysis was identify...
Land surface temperature (LST) captures fundamental information on the spatiotemporal variation of energy balance at surface. The trade-off between spatial and temporal resolutions remote sensing images (retrieved LSTs), however, restricts fine-scale thermal environmental investigations. In this context, a novel dual-layer composite framework (DCF) for LST downscaling coupling autocorrelation heterogeneity was developed based two laws geography used to improve existing kernel-driven methods....
To assess the adverse health effects of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), epidemiological studies combine outcome individuals with their concomitant VOC exposure. While latter is representative studied period, might also be result long-term exposure or emerge in consequence a peak pollution throughout year. address these problems, additional information about spatiotemporal distribution VOCs necessary. The present paper aims at elucidating spatial and temporal variation concentrations...
The link between concentrations of particulate matter (PM) and respiratory morbidity has been investigated in numerous studies.The aim this study was to analyze the role different particle size fractions with respect health Beijing, China.Data on distributions from 3 nm 1 µm; PM10 (PM ≤ 10 µm), nitrogen dioxide (NO(2)), sulfur concentrations; meteorologic variables were collected daily March 2004 December 2006. Concurrently, counts emergency room visits (ERV) for diseases obtained Peking...
To cite this article: Herberth G, Hinz D, Röder S, Schlink U, Sack Diez Borte M, Lehmann I. Maternal immune status in pregnancy is related to offspring's responses and atopy risk. Allergy 2011; 66: 1065–1074. Background: The influence of maternal on children's competence the development atopic diseases later life are poorly understood. determine potential effects maturation system resulting disease risks, we analysed mother–child pairs a prospective birth cohort study. Methods: Within...