Search Results - "McKone, Thomas E"

Phthalate Exposure and Risk Assessment in California Child Care Facilities by Gaspar, Fraser W, Castorina, Rosemary, Maddalena, Randy L, Nishioka, Marcia G, McKone, Thomas E, Bradman, Asa

“…Approximately 13 million U.S. children less than 6 years old spend some time in early childhood education (ECE) facilities where they may be exposed to…”
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Energy and Human Health by SMITH, Kirk R, FRUMKIN, Howard, McMICHAEL, Anthony J, SCHNEIDER, Mycle, BALAKRISHNAN, Kalpana, BUTLER, Colin D, CHAFE, Zoë A, FAIRLIE, Ian, KINNEY, Patrick, KJELLSTROM, Tord, MAUZERALL, Denise L, MCKONE, Thomas E

“…Energy use is central to human society and provides many health benefits. But each source of energy entails some health risks. This article reviews the health…”
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Indoor pollutants emitted by office equipment: A review of reported data and information needs by Destaillats, Hugo, Maddalena, Randy L., Singer, Brett C., Hodgson, Alfred T., McKone, Thomas E.

“…Computers, printers, copier machines and other electronic equipment are a common part of the home and office environments. However, human exposure to…”
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Indoor Air Pollutant Exposure for Life Cycle Assessment: Regional Health Impact Factors for Households by Rosenbaum, Ralph K, Meijer, Arjen, Demou, Evangelia, Hellweg, Stefanie, Jolliet, Olivier, Lam, Nicholas L, Margni, Manuele, McKone, Thomas E

“…Human exposure to indoor pollutant concentrations is receiving increasing interest in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). We address this issue by incorporating an…”
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Risk-Based High-Throughput Chemical Screening and Prioritization using Exposure Models and in Vitro Bioactivity Assays by Shin, Hyeong-Moo, Ernstoff, Alexi, Arnot, Jon A., Wetmore, Barbara A., Csiszar, Susan A., Fantke, Peter, Zhang, Xianming, McKone, Thomas E., Jolliet, Olivier, Bennett, Deborah H.

“…We present a risk-based high-throughput screening (HTS) method to identify chemicals for potential health concerns or for which additional information is…”
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Intake Fraction for the Indoor Environment: A Tool for Prioritizing Indoor Chemical Sources by Shin, Hyeong-Moo, McKone, Thomas E, Bennett, Deborah H

“…Reliable exposure-based chemical characterization tools are needed to evaluate and prioritize in a rapid and efficient manner the more than tens of thousands…”
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Applying the hierarchy of controls to oil and gas development by Deziel, Nicole C, McKenzie, Lisa M, Casey, Joan A, McKone, Thomas E, Johnston, Jill E, Gonzalez, David J X, Shonkoff, Seth B C, Morello-Frosch, Rachel

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A multivariate analysis of CalEnviroScreen: comparing environmental and socioeconomic stressors versus chronic disease by Greenfield, Ben K, Rajan, Jayant, McKone, Thomas E

“…The health-risk assessment paradigm is shifting from single stressor evaluation towards cumulative assessments of multiple stressors. Recent efforts to develop…”
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Pesticides in house dust from urban and farmworker households in California: an observational measurement study by Quirós-Alcalá, Lesliam, Bradman, Asa, Nishioka, Marcia, Harnly, Martha E, Hubbard, Alan, McKone, Thomas E, Ferber, Jeannette, Eskenazi, Brenda

“…Studies report that residential use of pesticides in low-income homes is common because of poor housing conditions and pest infestations; however, exposure…”
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Integrating Human Indoor Air Pollutant Exposure within Life Cycle Impact Assessment by Hellweg, Stefanie, Demou, Evangelia, Bruzzi, Raffaella, Meijer, Arjen, Rosenbaum, Ralph K, Huijbregts, Mark A. J, McKone, Thomas E

“…Neglecting health effects from indoor pollutant emissions and exposure, as currently done in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), may result in product or process…”
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BETR global – A geographically-explicit global-scale multimedia contaminant fate model by MacLeod, Matthew, von Waldow, Harald, Tay, Pascal, Armitage, James M., Wöhrnschimmel, Henry, Riley, William J., McKone, Thomas E., Hungerbuhler, Konrad

“…We present two new software implementations of the BETR Global multimedia contaminant fate model. The model uses steady-state or non-steady-state mass-balance…”
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Plant uptake of organic pollutants from soil: bioconcentration estimates based on models and experiments by McKone, T.E, Maddalena, R.L

“…The role of terrestrial vegetation in transferring chemicals from soil and air into specific plant tissues (e.g., stems, leaves, and roots) is still not well…”
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Indoor Particulate Matter of Outdoor Origin:  Importance of Size-Dependent Removal Mechanisms by Riley, William J, McKone, Thomas E, Lai, Alvin C. K, Nazaroff, William W

“…Adverse human health effects have been observed to correlate with levels of outdoor particulate matter (PM), even though most human exposure to PM of outdoor…”
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Assessing the Influence of Climate Variability on Atmospheric Concentrations of Polychlorinated Biphenyls Using a Global-Scale Mass Balance Model (BETR-Global) by MacLeod, Matthew, Riley, William J, Mckone, Thomas E

“…We introduce a new global-scale multimedia contaminant fate model (the Berkeley-Trent Global Model; BETR-Global) that integrates global climate data from the…”
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Organophosphate Urinary Metabolite Levels during Pregnancy and after Delivery in Women Living in an Agricultural Community by Bradman, Asa, Eskenazi, Brenda, Barr, Dana B., Bravo, Roberto, Castorina, Rosemary, Chevrier, Jonathan, Kogut, Katherine, Harnly, Martha E., McKone, Thomas E.

“…Little information has been published about pesticide exposures experienced by pregnant women. We measured six dialkyl phosphate (DAP) urinary metabolites of…”
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Determinants of organophosphorus pesticide urinary metabolite levels in young children living in an agricultural community by Bradman, Asa, Castorina, Rosemary, Barr, Dana Boyd, Chevrier, Jonathan, Harnly, Martha E, Eisen, Ellen A, McKone, Thomas E, Harley, Kim, Holland, Nina, Eskenazi, Brenda

“…Organophosphorus (OP) pesticides are used in agriculture and several are registered for home use. As young children age they may experience different pesticide…”
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Characterizing human health damage from ionizing radiation in life cycle assessment by Paulillo, Andrea, McKone, Thomas E, Fantke, Peter

“…Purpose Although a wide number of industrial processes routinely release radionuclides into the environment, the resulting potential impacts on human health…”
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Concentrations and loadings of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in dust from low-income households in California by Quirós-Alcalá, Lesliam, Bradman, Asa, Nishioka, Marcia, Harnly, Martha E., Hubbard, Alan, McKone, Thomas E., Eskenazi, Brenda

“…California residents may experience the highest polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardant exposures in the United States, the nation with the…”
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Using Information on Uncertainty to Improve Environmental Fate Modeling: A Case Study on DDT by Schenker, Urs, Scheringer, Martin, Sohn, Michael D, Maddalena, Randy L, McKone, Thomas E, Hungerbühler, Konrad

“…Present and future concentrations of DDT in the environment are calculated with the global multimedia model CliMoChem. Monte Carlo simulations are used to…”
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Tracking contributions to human body burden of environmental chemicals by correlating environmental measurements with biomarkers by Shin, Hyeong-Moo, McKone, Thomas E, Sohn, Michael D, Bennett, Deborah H

“…The work addresses current knowledge gaps regarding causes for correlations between environmental and biomarker measurements and explores the underappreciated…”
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