Radon Daughters
Natural distribution of environmental radon daughters in the different brain areas of an Alzheimer Disease victim
... moderate radon movement before radon decays in RAD; it may be even some variety of a prion protein of a chronic disease ...Since radon is a radioactive noble gas it transfers freely across the ...
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Assessment of Radon Concentration within Construction Materials Used in Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia
... lifetime, radon gas from natural sources can accumulate in buildings, especially, due to its high density, in low areas such as basements and crawl ...spaces. Radon can also occur in ground water for ...
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Increasing the accuracy and temporal resolution of two-filter radon–222 measurements by correcting for the instrument response
... The deconvolution technique performs best with a stable de- tector response function. Section 2.4 showed that a detector being operated outdoors has a small, but measurable, change in response which appears to be linked ...
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... of radon inhalation experiments involving animals and data on the effects of radon inhalation among underground uranium mine ...inhaling radon daughters found that animal study results ...
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Natural Radioactivity and Radon Exhalation in the Sediment River Used in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq, Dwellings
... gas radon itself, radon daughters are solids and stick to surfaces of dust particles in the ...this radon and its progenies depend on the geological and geographical condition too (more ...
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Theoretical Study on the effect of Radon emanation process in soil samples on the absolute efficiency of an HPGe detector
... Monte Carlo Calculations were performed using the MCNP5 Code to calculate the absolute full energy peak efficiency for an HPGe detector. The calculations were performed to investigate the effect of radon ...
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Accuracy Improvement Of A Pin Photodiode Radon Counter
... comprehensive radon measurement ...RAD7 radon monitor apparatus uses an air pump and a solid state alpha detector which consists of a semiconductor material that converts alpha radiation directly to an ...
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Measurement of Radon Concentration of Air Samples and Estimating Radiation Dose from Radon in SARI Province
... average radon concentration in the indoor air of America's homes is about ...20,000 radon-related lung cancers a year ...the radon level is between 2pCi/L and 4pCi/L for this population about 62 ...
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A theology of daughterhood: the challenges of modern biology to theology today
... messages from the monarch in the UK, whilst in 2011 there were 9,376. No longer do we expect to live for three score years and ten (Ps 90:10), but we soon will count ourselves unlucky if we do not reach one hundred. This ...
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A Radon-based Convolutional Neural Network for Medical Image Retrieval
... applying Radon to original data achieves better performance, compared with utilizing the Radon as a descriptor at the top of a retrieval system; (2) proposing a robust and accurate classification technique; ...
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Intention toward the continuation of female genital mutilation in Bale Zone, Ethiopia
... mutilation is accepted, it is practiced even by women who are educated up to the primary level. There is, however, a tendency for women with high school education and above to either be indifferent or disapprove of this ...
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A European-wide 222 radon and 222 radon progeny comparison study
... α and/or β activity is then measured in situ with dedicated detector systems. Since they normally consist of only a fil- ter head, counting electronics, and a pumping device, they are much more compact than two-filter ...
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Editorial
... For example, in India, in impoverished families, daughters, sons and daughters-in-law demand that family resources, including the incomes of older working women, are directed to the youn[r] ...
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Influence of radon protecting measures in children educational institutions on the radiation risk exposure to radon (an example of one of the schools in St. Petersburg)
... of radon and its DPR in the air of residential ...inhaled radon isotopes and ...the radon dose can greatly exceed the average for the region, as well as the geographic areas and neighborhoods ...
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Generalized Fourier Transforms, Inverse Problems, and Integrability in 4+2
... The Radon transform provides the mathematical foundation of Computerized Tomography as well as of Positron Emission Tomography, whereas the attenuated Radon transform provides the mathematical foun- dation ...
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Time-scale invariant changes in atmospheric radon concentration and crustal strain prior to a large earthquake
... in radon emanation associated with microcracking and changes in volumetric strain from uniaxial ...atmospheric radon concentration has not been studied in terms of the irreversible thermodynamic models and ...
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An apparatus for the purification of radon
... preflflure difference of a fe\,r centimetres of mercury, the sudden rush of gas so 1.nduced is sufficient to drive pe11ets of' mercury... of mercury tend to udhere to the ground joint, p[r] ...
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Introduction to Radioactive Materials
... Polonium was discovered by Marie Sklodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie in 1898 and was named after Marie's native land of Poland (Latin: Polonia). This element was the first one discovered by them while they were ...
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Radioactivity measurements in volcano-tectonic area for geodynamic process study
... in-soil radon gas carried out from 2001 until 2006 in the eastern flank of ...between radon concentration and geodynamic activity, in partic- ular magma ...vertical radon concentration profiles at ...
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Mapping of Radon (220Rn and 222Rn) Concentration Distribution in a Microclimate Condition Cellar Using Nuclear Track Methodology
... the radon concentration, data obtained are the basis for calculation of the dose and risk of cancer and the public ...of radon should be exhaustive and very accurate ...the radon concentration ...
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