VOL. 15, No. 2, April 2015 AEROSOL AND AIR QUALITY RESEARCH CONTENTS - Aerosol Physics and Instrumentation Are There Generalizable Trends in the Release of Airborne Synthetic Clay Nanoparticles from a Jet Milling 365 Process? Ehsan Majd Faghihi, Darren Martin, Samuel Clifford, Grant Edwards, Congrong He, Christof Asbach, Lidia Morawska Inter and Intra-Annual Variability in Aerosol Characteristics over Northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plain Atinderpal Singh, Neeraj Rastogi, Deepti Sharma, Darshan Singh - Aerosol and Atmospheric Chemistry Size-Differentiated Chemical Composition of Re-Suspended Soil Dust from the Desert Southwest United States Nabin Upadhyay, Andrea L. Clements, Matthew P. Fraser, Michael Sundblom, Paul Solomon, Pierre Herckes Experimental Measurements of Particulate Matter Deliquescence and Crystallization Relative Humidity: Application in Heritage Climatology Marco Casati, Grazia Rovelli, Luca D’Angelo, Maria Grazia Perrone, Giorgia Sangiorgi, Ezio Bolzacchini, Luca Ferrero 376 387 399 Chemical Composition of Fine and Coarse Aerosol Particles in the Central Mediterranean Area during Dust 410 and Non-Dust Conditions Antonella Malaguti, Mihaela Mircea, Teresa M.G. La Torretta, Chiara Telloli, Ettore Petralia, Milena Stracquadanio, Massimo Berico - Aerosol Chemistry and Urban Air Quality Measurement and Analysis of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) in Urban Areas of Pakistan Anjum Rasheed, Viney P. Aneja, Anantha Aiyyer, Uzaira Rafique 426 Characterization and Elemental Composition of Atmospheric Aerosol Loads during Springtime Dust Storm in Western Saudi Arabia Mansour A. Alghamdi, Mansour Almazroui, Magdy Shamy, Maria Ana Redal, Abdulrahman K. Alkhalaf, Mahmoud A. Hussein, Mamdouh I. Khoder 440 Investigation of Desert Dust Contribution to Source Apportionment of PM10 and PM2.5 from a Southern Mediterranean Coast Hassen Kchih, Cinzia Perrino, Semia Cherif 454 Characterization of Black Carbon Aerosols over Darjeeling - A High Altitude Himalayan Station in Eastern India Chirantan Sarkar, Abhijit Chatterjee, Ajay Kumar Singh, Sanjay Kumar Ghosh, Sibaji Raha 465 Hospital out-and-in-Patients as Functions of Trace Gaseous Species and Other Meteorological Parameters in Chiang-Mai, Thailand Siwatt Pongpiachan, Tassanee Paowa 479 Particulate Matter Distributions in China during a Winter Period with Frequent Pollution Episodes (January 2013) Jingkun Jiang, Wei Zhou, Zhen Cheng, Shuxiao Wang, Kebin He, Jiming Hao 494 Particulate Characterization and Size Distribution in the Exhaust of a Gasoline Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition Engine Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Tarun Gupta, Jithin Lukose, Akhilendra Pratap Singh 504 Seasonal Variations and Sources of Carboxylic Acids in PM2.5 in Wuhan, China Haotian Guo, Jiabin Zhou, Lei Wang, Ying Zhou, Jinpeng Yuan, Rusong Zhao 517 Water Soluble Ionic Components in Particulate Matter (PM10) during High Pollution Episode Days at Mohal and Kothi in the North-Western Himalaya, India Jagdish Chandra Kuniyal, Manum Sharma, Kesar Chand, Chandra Shekhar Mathela 529 Predicting Common Air Quality Index – The Case of Czech Microregions Petr Hajek, Vladimir Olej 544 - Air Toxics Monitoring, Source Identification and Health Risks of Air Toxics in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. Ilias G. Kavouras, David W. DuBois, George Nikolich, Vic Etyemezian - Bioaerosols and Health Effects Seasonal and Diurnal Variations of Fluorescent Bioaerosol Concentration and Size Distribution in the Urban Environment Sampo Saari, JarkkoV. Niemi, Topi Rönkkö, Heino Kuuluvainen, Anssi Järvinen, Liisa Pirjola, Minna Aurela, Risto Hillamo, Jorma Keskinen 556 572 Inhalation Risk Assessment of PAH Exposure Due to Combustion Aerosols Generated from Household Fuels Mahesh Tiwari, Sanjay Kumar Sahu, Gauri Girish Pandit 582 UV-Tolerant Culturable Bacteria in an Asian Dust Plume Transported over the East China Sea Kazutaka Hara, Daizhou Zhang, Hiromi Matsusaki, Yasuhiro Sadanaga, Keisuke Ikeda, Sayuri Hanaoka, Shiro Hatakeyama 591 Enhancement of Air Filter with TiO2 Photocatalysis for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Removal Chuleewan Thunyasirinon, Pipat Sribenjalux, Sitthisuntorn Supothina, Paradee Chuaybamroong 600 - Air Pollution Modeling Using Radon-222 as an Indicator of Atmospheric Mixing Depth in ME-2 for PM2.5 Source Apportionment Jagoda Crawford, Scott Chambers, David D. Cohen, Alan Griffiths, Alastair Williams, Eduard Stelcer 611 Numerical Simulation of Air Flow inside Acoustic Cyclone Separator Vladas Vekteris, Vytautas Strishka, Darius Ozarovskis, Vadim Mokshin 625 Particulate Matter and Its Source Apportionment in Peshawar, Northern Pakistan Khan Alam, Naheed Rahman, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Bibi Safia Haq, Said Rahman 634 Modeling Penetration through Fibrous Filter during Dynamic Filtration Bichao Bao, Weilang He, Huan Zhao, Bin Xu, Zhongping Lin 648 - Optical/Radiative Properties and Remote Sensing Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Aerosol and Cloud Properties over Sindh Using MODIS Satellite Data and a HYSPLIT Model Fozia Sharif, Khan Alam, Sheeba Afsar Long-Term Trends in Visibility and Its Relationship with Mortality, Air-Quality Index, and Meteorological Factors in Selected Areas of Korea Jeong-Young Lee, Wan-Kuen Jo, Ho-Hwan Chun 657 673 Discrimination of Aerosol Types and Validation of MODIS Aerosol and Water Vapour Products Using a Sun 682 Photometer over Central India Hareef Baba Shaeb Kannemadugu, Alappat O. Varghese, Sivaprasad R. Mukkara, Ashok K. Joshi, Sanjiv V. Moharil - Control Techniques and Strategy Analyzing the Relationship between CO2 Emission and Economic Efficiency by a Relaxed Two-Stage DEA Model Je-Liang Liou, Ching-Ren Chiu, Fung-Mey Huang, Wan-Yu Liu 694 PCDD/Fs Inhibition by Sludge Decomposition Gases: Effects of Sludge Dosage, Treatment Temperature and 702 Oxygen Content Tong Chen, Ming-Xiu Zhan, Xiao-Qing Lin, Jian-Ying Fu, Sheng-Yong Lu, Xiao-Dong Li, Alfons Buekens, Jian-Hua Yan - Review A Review: Microalgae and Their Applications in CO2 Capture and Renewable Energy Worasaung Klinthong, Yi-Hung Yang, Chih-Hung Huang, Chung-Sung Tan 712 - Technical Note New Technique for Ranking of Air Pollution Monitoring Stations in the Urban Areas Based upon Spatial Representativity (Case Study: PM Monitoring Stations in Berlin) Hamid Taheri Shahraiyni, Sahar Sodoudi, Andreas Kerschbaumer, Ulrich Cubasch 743