Analyzing Biodiversity Management Challenges in the Sorkhabad Protected Area of the Zanjan Province, using a Grounded Theory study by Parvaneh Safarialamouti, Esmail Karamidehkordi, Jaber Aazami

“…A sample of participants consisting of 15 experts from the Environmental Protection Administration and the Natural Resources and Watershed Management Administration in the Zanjan Province were selected through a theoretical and snowball sampling and the data were collected by semi-structured interviews. …”
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Turning Food Waste into Value-Added Resources: Current Status and Regulatory Promotion in Taiwan by Wen-Tien Tsai

“…Based on the joint efforts by the central governing authorities (including the Environmental Protection Administration, the Council of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs), this study also examined the regulatory promotions for utilizing food waste as an available resource for the production of value-added resources (i.e., organic fertilizer, pig feed, and bioenergy). …”
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Dynamic System Approach for Improved PM_2.5 Prediction in Taiwan by Larry Lin, Chih-Yuan Chen, Hsien-Yueh Yang, Zhezhuang Xu, Shih-Hau Fang

“…To evaluate the predictive performance of the proposed models, large-scale databases established by Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration, and Central Weather Bureau were used; these databases include hourly data from 77 air quality monitoring stations and 580 weather stations over a 1-year period. …”
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Hybrid Time-Series Framework for Daily-Based PM_2.5 Forecasting by Pei-Wen Chiang, Shi-Jinn Horng

“…The experimental dataset with 76 monitoring stations from the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration is applied for comparison of the baseline and the proposed models. …”
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Effectiveness of SOx, NOx, and Primary Particulate Matter Control Strategies in the Improvement of Ambient PM Concentration in Taiwan by Jiun-Horng Tsai, Ming-Ye Lee, Hung-Lung Chiang

“…This could be underestimated by 24% in comparison with data from the ambient air quality monitoring stations of the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (TEPA). The results of the simulation of the PM_2.5 concentration showed high PM_2.5 concentrations in central and southwestern Taiwan, especially in Taichung and Kaohsiung. …”
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Accumulation and degradation of anionic surfactant linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS) by Spirulina platensis(钝顶螺旋藻对阴离子表面活性剂(LAS)的富集与降解) by LIHao-xiang(李昊翔), JIANGXiao-long(蒋小龙), CHENFeng(陈锋), CHENHong(陈红)

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In-situ Measurement of Aerosol Water Content in an Urban Area Using a Sequential Aerosol-Water Measurement System (SAWMS) by Shao-En Sun, Shih-Yu Chang, Shuenn-Chin Chang, Chung-Te Lee

“…In this study, the sequential aerosol-water measurement system (SAWMS) was applied to measure AWC at the Xiaogang air-quality monitoring site of the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration, located in an industrialized seaport city. …”
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Source Apportionment of Heavy Metal Contamination in Urban-Agricultural-Aquacultural Soils near the Bohai Bay Coast, Using Land-Use Classification and Google Satellite Tracing by Ling Zeng, Shan Jiang, Linhai Jing, Yuan Xue

“…The contamination distributions by OCK mapping were then graded based on the standards of the China National Environmental Monitoring Center and the Chinese Environmental Protection Administration, which showed that Cu and As contaminations in parts of this area were over the natural level but not polluted, Cr contamination was omnipresent over the natural level in this area and even reached the polluted level in parts of this area. …”
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The Tendency of Eutrophication Level Prediction in Chengchinghu Reservoir, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan by Marsha Savira Agatha Putri, Rizky Rahadian Wicaksono, Yasmin Zafirah, Yu-Chun Wang

“…Method: The CTSI (Carlson’s Trophic States Index, which calculated from Chl-a, TP, and transparency) datasets in winter (December-February), spring (March-May), summer (June-August), and fall (September-November) from 2000 to 2017 was collected from Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (EPA). This study used the Classification and Regresiion Tree (CART) model provides the explicit categorical rules for Chengchinghu Reservoir. …”
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Long-range transport of Asian dust and air pollutants to Taiwan: observed evidence and model simulation by C.-Y. Lin, Z. Wang, W.-N. Chen, S.-Y. Chang, C. C. K. Chou, N. Sugimoto, X. Zhao

“…Based on hourly measurements of Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (TEPA) air quality monitoring stations, Lidar and in-situ IC, a significant long-range transport dust and air pollutants event on 18 March 2005 has been identified. …”
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Influence of Interior Decorations on Indoor Air Quality in Fitness Centers by Po-Yen Kuo, Chiung-Yao Chen, Tzu-Yu Wu

“…In order to understand the air quality of fitness centers according to the Environmental Protection Administration’s “Indoor Air Quality Standards”, as well as to discuss how fitness center air-conditioning ventilation systems can effectively remove indoor air pollutants, this study focused on six Taichung fitness centers in a seven-sample air quality investigation, employing handheld precision instruments in space air testing and using linear regression analyses of the concentrations of indoor chemical pollutants, including factors such as temperature, relative humidity, CO₂, O₃, CO, CH₂O, TVOC, PM2.5, and PM10. …”
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Determining Planetary Boundary Layer Height by Micro-pulse Lidar with Validation by UAV Measurements by Yueh-Chen Wang, Sheng-Hsiang Wang, Jasper R. Lewis, Shuenn-Chin Chang, Stephen M. Griffith

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Influence of Land Use and Land Cover Change on the Formation of Local Lightning by Sanjib Kumar Kar, Yuei-An Liou

“…In this paper a long-term study has been carried out taking cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning data (1998⁻2012) from Tai-Power Company, and particulate matter (PM10), sulfur dioxide (SO₂) data (2003⁻2012) from the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) of Taiwan, in order to investigate the influence of LULC change through urbanization on CG lightning activity over Taipei taking into account in situ data of population growth, land use change and mean surface temperature (1965⁻2010). …”
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Association between PM2.5 exposure and risk of Parkinson’s disease in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Taiwan: a nested case-control study by Ci-Wen Luo, Yu-Hsiang Kuan, Wen-Ying Chen, Chun-Jung Chen, Frank Cheau-Feng Lin, Stella Chin-Shaw Tsai

“…METHODS Data from the National Health Research Institutes of Taiwan were used in this study. The Environmental Protection Administration of Taiwan established an air quality monitoring network for monitoring Taiwan’s general air quality. …”
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Spatiotemporal analysis of air pollution and asthma patient visits in Taipei, Taiwan by Lin I-Feng, Chen Mei-Lien, Chan Ta-Chien, Lee Cheng-Hua, Chiang Po-Huang, Wang Da-Wei, Chuang Jen-Hsiang

“…</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We analyzed daily outpatient and emergency visit data from the Taiwan Bureau of National Health Insurance and air pollution data from the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration during 2000–2002. In general, children (aged 0–15 years) had the highest number of total asthma visits. …”
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Comparison of the effects of air pollution on outpatient and inpatient visits for asthma: a population-based study in Taiwan. by Hui-Hsien Pan, Chun-Tzu Chen, Hai-Lun Sun, Min-Sho Ku, Pei-Fen Liao, Ko-Hsiu Lu, Ji-Nan Sheu, Jing-Yang Huang, Jar-Yuan Pai, Ko-Huang Lue

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Health care services for asthma and ambient air pollution data were obtained from the National Health Insurance Research database and Environmental Protection Administration from 2000 through 2009, respectively. …”
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Prenatal Exposure to Air Pollution and Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study by Hsin-Chien Yen, Chien-Heng Lin, Ming-Chih Lin, Ming-Chih Lin, Ming-Chih Lin, Ming-Chih Lin, Ming-Chih Lin, Ya-Chi Hsu, Yi-Hsuan Lin

“…Levels of prenatal exposure to air pollutants were obtained from 71 Environmental Protection Administration monitoring stations across Taiwan according to the maternal residence during pregnancy. …”
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Ambient sulfur dioxide could have an impact on testicular volume from a observational study on a population of infertile male by Yu-An Chen, Yi-Kai Chang, Yann-Rong Su, Hong-Chiang Chang

“…Data were acquired on the concentration of ambient pollutants, namely particulate matters of diameter < 2.5 μm, sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and ozone (O3), measured on daily and hourly basis, from the Environmental Protection Administration Executive Yuan, Taiwan. Individual exposure to pollutants was estimated based on the reported residential address of each participant. …”
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Characteristics of trace metals in traffic-derived particles in Hsuehshan Tunnel, Taiwan: size distribution, potential source, and fingerprinting metal ratio by Y.-C. Lin, C.-J. Tsai, Y.-C. Wu, R. Zhang, K.-H. Chi, Y.-T. Huang, S.-H. Lin, S.-C. Hsu

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Analysis and Forecasting of Air Pollution on Nitrogen Dioxide and Sulfur Dioxide Using Deep Learning by Cheng-Hong Yang, Po-Hung Chen, Cheng-San Yang, Li-Yeh Chuang

“…The data used in this study were obtained from the Environmental Protection Administration of Taiwan. These data include Nitrogen Dioxide and Sulfur Dioxide air pollution measurements obtained between 2005 and 2021 from various monitoring stations in Tai-wan. …”
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