A review of relevant parameters for assessing indoor air quality in educational facilities.

Indoor air quality (IAQ) in educational facilities is crucial due to the extended time students spend in those environments, affecting their health, academic performance, and attendance. This paper aimed to review relevant parameters (building characteristics and factors related with occupancy and activities) for assessing IAQ in educational facilities, and to identify the parameters to consider when performing an IAQ monitoring campaign in schools. It also intended to identify literature gaps and suggest future research directions.

Risk mitigation for indoor air quality using the example of construction products - efforts towards a harmonization of the health-related evaluation in the EU.

In Europe, the Construction Products Regulation sets harmonized conditions for the marketing of construction products with the objective of protecting the building users' health. Until now only three European countries have implemented requirements for the assessment of VOC emissions from construction products. Therefore, the European Commission is planning the issue of a delegated act on the communication of VOC emissions from construction products in the form of VOC classes.

Bivalent bendamustine and melphalan derivatives as anticancer agents.

The alkylating agents bendamustine and melphalan are currently used in the treatment of various tumoral diseases. In order to increase their antitumor potency and tumor selectivity both compounds were integrated in structure-activity relationship studies including new drug carrier systems. Here we describe the synthesis and the cytotoxicity of new bivalent bendamustine and melphalan derivatives.

Optimization of the N-lost drugs melphalan and bendamustine: synthesis and cytotoxicity of a new set of dendrimer-drug conjugates as tumor therapeutic agents.

Bendamustine and melphalan are very promising alkylating drugs with applicability in the treatment of various tumoral diseases, e.g., chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or breast cancer.

[Treatment of choroidal neovascular membranes].

Purpose: The purpose is to present our experience in diagnosis and treatment of choroidal neovascular membranes of various etiology.

Material And Methods: This is a retrospective study consisting of 165 patients that were diagnosed with choroidal neovascular membranes (CNM). From this patients, 62 were treated between 2001-2005 for CMN of different etiology: age-related macular degeneration (AMD), myopia, presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome, angioid streaks, viteliform dystrophy.