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How can airborne transmission of COVID-19 indoors be minimised? by Morawska, Lidia, Tang, Julian W., Bahnfleth, William, Bluyssen, Philomena M., Boerstra, Atze, Buonanno, Giorgio, Cao, Junji, Dancer, Stephanie, Floto, Andres, Franchimon, Francesco, Haworth, Charles, Hogeling, Jaap, Isaxon, Christina, Jimenez, Jose L., Kurnitski, Jarek, Li, Yuguo, Loomans, Marcel, Marks, Guy, Marr, Linsey C., Mazzarella, Livio, Melikov, Arsen Krikor, Miller, Shelly, Milton, Donald K., Nazaroff, William, Nielsen, Peter V., Noakes, Catherine, Peccia, Jordan, Querol, Xavier, Sekhar, Chandra, Seppänen, Olli, Tanabe, Shin-ichi, Tellier, Raymond, Tham, Kwok Wai, Wargocki, Pawel, Wierzbicka, Aneta, Yao, Maosheng

“…During the rapid rise in COVID-19 illnesses and deaths globally, and notwithstanding recommended precautions, questions are voiced about routes of transmission…”
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How to protect school children from the neurodevelopmental harms of air pollution by interventions in the school environment in the urban context by Rivas, Ioar, Querol, Xavier, Wright, John, Sunyer, Jordi

“…Recently, there has been a flurry of publications assessing the effect of air pollution on neurodevelopment. Here we present a summary of the results obtained…”
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Tracing surface and airborne SARS-CoV-2 RNA inside public buses and subway trains by Moreno, Teresa, Pintó, Rosa María, Bosch, Albert, Moreno, Natalia, Alastuey, Andrés, Minguillón, María Cruz, Anfruns-Estrada, Eduard, Guix, Susana, Fuentes, Cristina, Buonanno, Giorgio, Stabile, Luca, Morawska, Lidia, Querol, Xavier

“…•Surface and air samples from buses and subway trains were PCR-tested for SARS-CoV-2.•Evidence for fragments of viral RNA was found in 30 out of 82…”
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A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection by Morawska, Lidia, Allen, Joseph, Bahnfleth, William, Bluyssen, Philomena M, Boerstra, Atze, Buonanno, Giorgio, Cao, Junji, Dancer, Stephanie J, Floto, Andres, Franchimon, Francesco, Greenhalgh, Trisha, Haworth, Charles, Hogeling, Jaap, Isaxon, Christina, Jimenez, Jose L, Kurnitski, Jarek, Li, Yuguo, Loomans, Marcel, Marks, Guy, Marr, Linsey C, Mazzarella, Livio, Melikov, Arsen Krikor, Miller, Shelly, Milton, Donald K, Nazaroff, William, Nielsen, Peter V, Noakes, Catherine, Peccia, Jordan, Prather, Kim, Querol, Xavier, Sekhar, Chandra, Seppänen, Olli, Tanabe, Shin-Ichi, Tang, Julian W, Tellier, Raymond, Tham, Kwok Wai, Wargocki, Pawel, Wierzbicka, Aneta, Yao, Maosheng

“…Building ventilation systems must get much better There is great disparity in the way we think about and address different sources of environmental infection…”
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Green spaces and cognitive development in primary schoolchildren by Dadvand, Payam, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen, Mikel Esnaola, Joan Forns, Xavier Basagaña, Mar Alvarez-Pedrerol, Ioar Rivas, Mñónica Lñóópez-Vicente, Montserrat De Castro Pascual, Jason Su, Michael Jerrett, Xavier Querol, Jordi Sunyer

“…Exposure to green space has been associated with better physical and mental health. Although this exposure could also influence cognitive development in…”
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Effect of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on basal ganglia and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in primary school children by Mortamais, Marion, Pujol, Jesus, van Drooge, Barend L., Macià, Didac, Martínez-Vilavella, Gerard, Reynes, Christelle, Sabatier, Robert, Rivas, Ioar, Grimalt, Joan, Forns, Joan, Alvarez-Pedrerol, Mar, Querol, Xavier, Sunyer, Jordi

“…Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been proposed as environmental risk factors for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The effects of…”
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Short-term effects of particulate matter during desert and non-desert dust days on mortality in Iran by Shahsavani, Abbas, Tobías, Aurelio, Querol, Xavier, Stafoggia, Massimo, Abdolshahnejad, Mahsa, Mayvaneh, Fatemeh, Guo, Yuming, Hadei, Mostafa, Saeed Hashemi, Seyed, Khosravi, Ardeshir, Namvar, Zahra, Yarahmadi, Maryam, Emam, Baharan

“…[Display omitted] •Desert dust episodes were more intense and frequent in Ahvaz than in Tehran.•The effect of PM10 in mortality was higher for dust than…”
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Association between traffic-related air pollution in schools and cognitive development in primary school children: a prospective cohort study by Sunyer, Jordi, Esnaola, Mikel, Alvarez-Pedrerol, Mar, Forns, Joan, Rivas, Ioar, López-Vicente, Mònica, Suades-González, Elisabet, Foraster, Maria, Garcia-Esteban, Raquel, Basagaña, Xavier, Viana, Mar, Cirach, Marta, Moreno, Teresa, Alastuey, Andrés, Sebastian-Galles, Núria, Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark, Querol, Xavier

“…Air pollution is a suspected developmental neurotoxicant. Many schools are located in close proximity to busy roads, and traffic air pollution peaks when…”
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Increase in secondary organic aerosol in an urban environment by Via, Marta, Minguillón, María Cruz, Reche, Cristina, Querol, Xavier, Alastuey, Andrés

“…The evolution of fine aerosol (PM1) species as well as the contribution of potential sources to the total organic aerosol (OA) at an urban background site in…”
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Chemical characterization of humic-like substances (HULIS) in PM2.5 in Lanzhou, China by Tan, Jihua, Xiang, Ping, Zhou, Xueming, Duan, Jingchun, Ma, Yongliang, He, Kebin, Cheng, Yuan, Yu, Jianzhen, Querol, Xavier

“…Evaporative light scattering detection (ELSD) was applied to quantify HULIS (humic-like substances) for the first time in 2012 winter and 2013 summer at an…”
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Source apportionment of particle number size distribution in urban background and traffic stations in four European cities by Rivas, Ioar, Beddows, David C.S., Amato, Fulvio, Green, David C., Järvi, Leena, Hueglin, Christoph, Reche, Cristina, Timonen, Hilkka, Fuller, Gary W., Niemi, Jarkko V., Pérez, Noemí, Aurela, Minna, Hopke, Philip K., Alastuey, Andrés, Kulmala, Markku, Harrison, Roy M., Querol, Xavier, Kelly, Frank J.

“…•Ultrafine particle sources were identified and quantified in four European cities.•Common sources were Photonucleation, different Traffic sources, and…”
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Evaluation of chemical stabilisation methods of coal-petcoke fly ash to reduce the mobility of Mo and Ni against environmental concerns by Córdoba, Patricia, Ayora, Carlos, Querol, Xavier

“…Reducing the potential leaching of Mo and Ni from the fly ash (FA) of petroleum coke is an increasingly important issue as Asia and Europe’s demand is expected…”
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Copper aerosols inhibit phytoplankton growth in the Mediterranean Sea by Jordi, Antoni, Basterretxea, Gotzon, Tovar-Sánchez, Antonio, Alastuey, Andrés, Querol, Xavier

“…Aerosol deposition plays an important role in climate and biogeochemical cycles by supplying nutrients to the open ocean, in turn stimulating ocean…”
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Urban air quality: The challenge of traffic non-exhaust emissions by Amato, Fulvio, Cassee, Flemming R., Denier van der Gon, Hugo A.C., Gehrig, Robert, Gustafsson, Mats, Hafner, Wolfgang, Harrison, Roy M., Jozwicka, Magdalena, Kelly, Frank J., Moreno, Teresa, Prevot, Andre S.H., Schaap, Martijn, Sunyer, Jordi, Querol, Xavier

“…•Only few in vivo toxicity and epidemiological studies focused specifically on non-exhaust sources.•Further experiments are needed to better separate…”
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Ultrafine particles and PM2.5 in the air of cities around the world: Are they representative of each other? by de Jesus, Alma Lorelei, Rahman, Md Mahmudur, Mazaheri, Mandana, Thompson, Helen, Knibbs, Luke D., Jeong, Cheol, Evans, Greg, Nei, Wei, Ding, Aijun, Qiao, Liping, Li, Li, Portin, Harri, Niemi, Jarkko V., Timonen, Hilkka, Luoma, Krista, Petäjä, Tuukka, Kulmala, Markku, Kowalski, Michal, Peters, Annette, Cyrys, Josef, Ferrero, Luca, Manigrasso, Maurizio, Avino, Pasquale, Buonano, Giorgio, Reche, Cristina, Querol, Xavier, Beddows, David, Harrison, Roy M., Sowlat, Mohammad H., Sioutas, Constantinos, Morawska, Lidia

“…Can mitigating only particle mass, as the existing air quality measures do, ultimately lead to reduction in ultrafine particles (UFP)? The aim of this study…”
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Atmospheric dust deposition on soils around an abandoned fluorite mine (Hammam Zriba, NE Tunisia) by Djebbi, Chaima, Chaabani, Fredj, Font, Oriol, Queralt, Ignasi, Querol, Xavier

“…The present study focuses on the eolian dispersion and dust deposition, of major and trace elements in soils in a semi-arid climate, around an old fluorite…”
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Compositional changes of PM2.5 in NE Spain during 2009–2018: A trend analysis of the chemical composition and source apportionment by Veld, Marten in 't, Alastuey, Andres, Pandolfi, Marco, Amato, Fulvio, Pérez, Noemi, Reche, Cristina, Via, Marta, Minguillón, María Cruz, Escudero, Miguel, Querol, Xavier

“…In this work, time-series analyses of the chemical composition and source contributions of PM2.5 from an urban background station in Barcelona (BCN) and a…”
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Increasing atmospheric dust transport towards the western Mediterranean over 1948–2020 by Salvador, Pedro, Pey, Jorge, Pérez, Noemí, Querol, Xavier, Artíñano, Begoña

“…In this study, global reanalysis dataset fields of meteorological parameters (temperature and geopotential height at different atmospheric levels) in the…”
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The geology, mineralogy, petrography, and geochemistry of the Miocene Dursunbey coal within fluvio-lacustrine deposits, Balıkesir (Western Turkey) by Karayigit, Ali Ihsan, Bircan, Cüneyt, Oskay, Riza Görkem, Türkmen, İbrahim, Querol, Xavier

“…The Dursunbey coalfield, a typical example of coalfields in the western Anatolia, hosts a mineable coal seam (about 9.0-m coal thickness) with altered tuff…”
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Traffic-Related Air Pollution, Noise at School, and Behavioral Problems in Barcelona Schoolchildren: A Cross-Sectional Study by Forns, Joan, Dadvand, Payam, Foraster, Maria, Alvarez-Pedrerol, Mar, Rivas, Ioar, López-Vicente, Mònica, Suades-Gonzalez, Elisabet, Garcia-Esteban, Raquel, Esnaola, Mikel, Cirach, Marta, Grellier, James, Basagaña, Xavier, Querol, Xavier, Guxens, Mònica, Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J, Sunyer, Jordi

“…The available evidence of the effects of air pollution and noise on behavioral development is limited, and it overlooks exposure at schools, where children…”
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