Hazard Index (HI)
Hazard index maps for woody material recruitment and transport in alpine catchments
... (b) Identification of the preferential recruitment paths (PRP) These areas were extracted from the hazard index maps for debris flows and overbank sedimentation processes. The preferential recruitment paths ...
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A Comparison Study of Radioactivity and Radiation Hazard Index between Legal and Illegal Cigarettes
... Abstract: Radioactive nuclide which emits radiation and damages biological tissue is found in the cigarette. Illegal cigarettes are reported to contain higher toxic levels of the nuclide as compared to the legal ...
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Proposal of development of welding health hazard index (WHI) for small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
... health-hazard index for welders because the index ranks the state of the environment in terms that the public and companies management can comprehend ...
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Multi Element Analysis of Cow Milk: Geographical Origin Determination and Potential Health Risk Assessment
... Mislabeling and adulteration are other serious issues in the dairy industry in Bangladesh; these not only cause major financial losses but also pose a significant risk to human health. Generally, high quality products ...
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Mapping outdoor habitat and abnormally small newborns to develop an ambient health hazard index
... comparable patterns in spatial relationships to the haz- ard indices. HR 4822/AZ PAS had highly negative cor- relations with all indices, suggesting that factors other than the outdoor environment may be more important ...
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A decision tree for assessing effects from exposures to multiple substances
... HI: Hazard Index: The sum of the hazard quotients when dose addition is assumed; HQ: Hazard Quotient: The ratio of the dose of a chemical reaching an individual human or a population of ...
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Evaluation of Radioactivity Level and Its Radiological Impact in Soil Samples Around Transmission Company of Nigeria
... internal hazard index, the external hazard index, the annual gonadal dose equivalent, the representative gamma level index and the radium equivalent observed in this study are all less ...
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Assessment of Natural Radioactivity Concentration and Dose in Surface Soil Samples from Atbara
... external hazard index from the measured samples with the corresponding world accepted upper limit (Hex = 1) are calculated in Table ...external hazard index values from sample are under the ...
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Processing of Landsat 8 Imagery and Ground Gamma Ray Spectrometry for Geologic Mapping and Dose Rate Assessment, Wadi Diit along the Red Sea Coast, Egypt
... external hazard index for the wadi sediments, costal-eolian sabkhas, sandy conglomerates, sand dunes and sheets and mud cracks remain in safe side and within maximum permissi- ble safe radiation dose rate, ...
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The Effect of Soil Radioactivity in Pollution
... As there were few data about on natural ecosystem of Chahbahar, in Sistan & Baluchistan of Iran, Knowledge about radioactivity was important in improving people health. The aims of this study is to determine ...
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Environmental health risks and benefits of the use of mosquito coils as malaria prevention and control strategy
... The Hazard Index of the respective pollutants characterized over a lifetime exposure scenario was low (< 1 for each pollutant), which suggests that the concentrations of the specific chemicals and ...
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Environmental Radiation Measurement and Assessment of Natural Radioactivity in Soil, Water and Vegetation
... radiation hazard index (Hex), internal radiation hazard in- dex (Hin) and absorbed dose rate (D) for the area under study were deter- mined as ...
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Assessment of Natural Radioactivity Levels and Radiation Hazards for Soil Samples Used in Erbil Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan
... and external hazard index are under than unity. The annual effective doses for indoor and outdoor are below than the action level of ICRP. The values obtained in the study are within the recommended safety ...
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Drought Hazard Assessment and Mapping in Upper Seonath Sub-Basin Using GIS
... variability. Hazard index produced by sum overlaying of the drought thematic maps and flood thematic maps, for a time period of 30 ...This hazard index integrates the annual drought theme and ...
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Effect of Radioactive Minerals Potentiality and Primordial Nuclei Distribution on Radiation Exposure Levels within Muscovite Granite, Wadi Nugrus, Southeastern Desert, Egypt
... The value of the external and internal hazard index calculated using Equations 6 & 7 was represented in Table 3, which shows that, for the external hazard index Hex the averages from all[r] ...
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Bio Accretion of Heavy Metals by Okra and Eggplant Grown in Polluted Areas of Jaipur City and Associated Health Risks
... ABSTRACT: Heavy metal pollution in soil has severe consequences on the sustainability of ecological equilibrium. This study emphasizes the effect of heavy metal contaminated soil on okra and eggplant grown in Sanganer ...
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Evaluation of Natural Radioactivity in Marine Sand Deposits from Offshore China
... gamma index (Ig), external radiation hazard index (Hex), internal rad- iation hazard index (Hin), representative level index (RLI), excess lifetime can- cer risk (ELCR) and ...
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Natural radioactivity and the resulting radiation doses in some kinds of commercially marble collected from different quarries and factories in Egypt
... The use of a material in the construction of dwellings is considered safe when the maximum value of the internal hazard index is less than unity Hin ≤ 1, As the marble are widely used as[r] ...
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Investigation of Radionuclide Levels in Groundwater Around Transmission Company of Nigeria for Environmental Impact Assessment
... internal hazard index, external hazard index, annual gonadal dose equivalent, and representative gamma index and radium equivalent are presented in Table ...internal hazard ...
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A Multi-Hazard Extreme Climate Index across Europe
... multi-hazard index which has been developed in the context of the eXtreme Climate Facilities (XCF) project lead by ARC (African Risk Capacity) with the objective of detecting the occurrence of climate ...
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