One thing all the attendees agreed on was that extensive air quality monitoring is crucial to ensuring public health.
In 2006, new safe drinking water standards were introduced that increase the water quality monitoring parameters from 35 to 106 items.
The scales, known as the Smart Body Analyzer, are the first-ever smart scale to feature heart rate measurement and air quality monitoring.
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There were also discussions around innovation that would be more relevant to utility markets such as smart metering, leak detection, pressure regulation, water quality monitoring and more.
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In Edinburgh, 18 out of 38 air quality monitoring sites breached acceptable levels of the pollutant, while Aberdeen Council expressed concern over meeting the target near busy roads, the charity said.
"Nevertheless, as a responsible neighbour that has been operating in this community since 1995, we have welcomed additional air quality monitoring currently being carried out by the Environment Agency, " he said.
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Surfers have been campaigning for years for beach water quality monitoring, and they -- and the rest of the ocean-going public -- took a step forward April 22 when the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed the B.
Meanwhile, there was a lack of clarity about the role of the regional health authority in monitoring quality and when concerns were brought to its attention the authority was too ready to put its faith in the hospital's management.
Countries bordering the Danube have reinforced water quality controls and are monitoring the concentration of heavy metals.
Chinese banking authorities may say they are monitoring loan quality, but there is nothing they can do because the Politburo is calling the tune and goosing the economy.
The aim of the visit was to check whether they had taken action to meet essential standards in the management of medicines, and assessing and monitoring the quality of service provision.
And he argued that the current model for monitoring the quality of teaching in universities would need to be radically overhauled, as it was "too vague, too slow and too distant from the student".
For over 20 years now, the Foundation has provided thousands of grants to schools and environmental organizations that promote hands-on environmental education such as gardens in schools, recycling programs, restoring wetlands, planting trees, and testing and monitoring water quality.
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Stolz said state and federal agencies failed to do detailed reviews, so a Duquesne team has been monitoring water quality and surveying households in the Woodlands, in what is one of the most in-depth surveys of alleged impacts of gas drilling in the nation.
Although it's currently just in the proof-of-concept, prototype stage (like, it still needs to be plugged into the wall, making it less than ideal for outdoor applications), future versions of the project will sport batteries (of course), sensors for monitoring water quality, cameras for peeping stuff, and even bacteria for breaking down pollutants (think: Exxon Valdez).
What requires higher-order thinking is the task of dietary budgeting--monitoring both the quality and quantity of food to ensure that one gets the necessary nourishment without overeating.
So we are preparing for that scenario by increasing our support to the Coast Guard and our other federal -- and very importantly our state partners -- in ramping up the monitoring of air quality.
The first job is for the environmental assistant and the gas checker to walk through the tunnels monitoring ventilation and air quality.
And it ended with a veiled warning - a call for "a mechanism for monitoring and reporting on the provision and quality" of all religious broadcasting.
R. 999, is designed to establish uniform criteria for testing, monitoring and notifying the public of beach water quality.
"With monitoring and control tighter than ever before, quality of food served in schools has risen, not fallen, " she added.
It was found that bathing water quality at Portrush West Strand has been consistently excellent since monitoring began in 1988.
We saw a bevy of new gadgets and gizmos hitting the scene this week such as intelliPaper, which recently found a way to transform tiny scraps of paper into fully functional USB drives and programmable documents and CitiSense, a portable pollution monitoring system that allows you to check nearby air quality on your smartphone.
Wearable body sensors and remote monitoring can keep chronic patients out of hospitals and improve their quality of life while significantly reducing admission expenses.
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AAPIs also need accessible, high quality, and culturally and linguistically competent resources for prevention, treatment, and monitoring.
She underlined the devastating impact of conflicts on the right to education and its quality -- drawing attention to the conclusions of UNESCO's groundbreaking 2011 Global Monitoring Report on Education for All on this hidden crisis.
For other women, the anxiety of recurrence and monitoring the opposite breast may be enough to put a serious dent in their quality of life.
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Long-term monitoring requires expertise that comes only with years on the job, so the quality of data from new entrants is always a bit suspect.
By monitoring the line voltage, frequency and power factor, you can check the quality of the electricity you are being charged for and yell at the utility for delivering a shoddy product if it is below specification (not that it will do you any good).
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