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The aim of the pollution reduction project is to facilitate exchange and evaluation of interventions on environment and health exposure reduction measures on a regional level, and promote implementation of successful initiatives in Hungarian-Romanian cross-border area. One of the problems addressed by the present project is the pollution caused by the improper management of domestic and agricultural waste in the neighbouring communities of the border area. The area is evaluated by the parteners as being of community importance and will be proposed to be included the exchange of useful practices in two key areas in environmental health policy: (1) the reduction of transport-related health hazards (air pollution and noise) and (2) the improvement of the indoor environment by reducing indoor exposure to environmental health hazards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this work is to analyse a case study regarding the evolution of a turfgrass surface from Timişoara (Timiş County, Romania, respectively the Queen Maria Park turfgrass. The data have been collected in 2011 year in five stages, respectively: 17 February, 18 March, 19 April, 19 May and 16 June. The observations have been realised visually using the NTEP Turfgrass Evaluation Guidelines. There have been considered the following NTEP indexes: density, texture, genetic colour, winter injury, pests and diseases resistance, drought stress and general aesthetic aspect. The ranking scale was from 0 to 9, where 0 represents the worst situation and 9 the best one. The conclusions of the research were the following: (i) the turf has bare soil spots remained after the winter, where at the beginning of spring are setting the weeds; (ii) the turf has many weeds, both monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous, their control being very difficult; (iii) presence of the weeds in turf is a consequence of the inadequate execution of the maintenance works. There is recommended to apply the maintenance work at the proper moment, mainly the over-seeding at the beginning of spring, fertilisation and mowing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]