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H. Alperen Bulut and Remzi Sahin
A comprehensive evaluation of the results obtained according to the measurement of radon gas in buildings and concrete, which is the most consumed material in the world after water, in accessible studies carried out in the last 40 years is the main objec...
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Jing Chen
Long-term exposure to elevated indoor radon concentrations has been determined to be the second leading cause of lung cancer in adults after tobacco smoking. With the establishment of a National Radon Program in Canada in 2007 thousands of homes across t...
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Meritxell Martell, Tanja Perko, Katerina Navrátilová Rovenská, Ivana Fojtíková and Robbe Geysmans
Radon, a carcinogenic radioactive gas, is a leading cause of lung cancer according to the World Health Organization. European Member States are required to develop and implement National Radon Action Plans (RAPs) to address its dangerous health effects. ...
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Christian Di Carlo, Marco Ampollini, Sara Antignani, Mario Caprio, Carmela Carpentieri and Francesco Bochicchio
The performance of continuous radon monitors (CRMs) is usually evaluated under controlled conditions in a radon chamber during calibrations or intercomparison exercises. The impact of thoron on CRMs response is rarely evaluated; in case the evaluation is...
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Stephanie Foster and Sherry Everett Jones
Radon is a naturally occurring, colorless, odorless, and tasteless radioactive gas. Without testing, its presence is unknown. Using nationally representative data from the 2012 School Health Policies and Practices Study, we examined whether the prevalenc...
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Yehia Manawi, Ayesha Ahmad, Mosab Subeh, Mohammad Hushari, Sayed Bukhari and Huda Al-Sulaiti
The objective of this work is to give a holistic overview of the groundwater quality in Qatar in terms of its radon levels and provide a radiological risk assessment of elevated radon levels on human health. This study covered the analysis of groundwater...
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Zi-qi Cai, Xiang-yang Li, Bo Lei, Jing-fan Yuan, Chang-shou Hong and Hong Wang
It is the fact that there are lots of hazard incidents in underground uranium mines caused by radon but in-suit uranium samples were difficult to collect. Based on closed chamber method, three similar samples in different sealed ways were made in a labor...
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Christine E. Stauber, Dajun Dai, Sydney R. Chan, Jeremy E. Diem, Scott R. Weaver and Richard Rothenberg
While DeKalb County, Georgia, offers free radon screening for all eligible residents, portions of the county remain relatively under-sampled. This pilot study focused on 10% of the census tracts in the county with the lowest proportion of radon testing; ...
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Najeba F Salih, Hemn M Salh, Ari M. Hamad
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Introduction: Radon is a radioactive gas released from the normal decay of uranium in rocks and soil depending on local geology. Radioactive decay of uranium through radium produces radon. Materials and Methods: In the present work, seventeen plant (vege...
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Byong Wook Cho and Chang Oh Choo
Uranium concentrations (a total of 82 samples) in groundwater in Icheon, middle Korea, showed a wide range from 0.02 to 1640 µg/L with a mean of 56.77 µg/L, a median of 3.03 µg/L, and a standard deviation of 228.63 µg/L. Most groundwater samples had quit...
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Safet Dogjani, Ylber Muceku, Pranvera Lazo
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In this paper, we shortly are treating the results of the radon concentration in soil gas, which are obtained by a detailed study that was carried out during 2000-2005 years in the urban area of Tirana, Capital City of Albania. The field measurements wer...
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Héctor Alonso, Tatiana Cruz-Fuentes, Jesús G. Rubiano, Jonay González-Guerra, María Del Carmen Cabrera, Miguel A. Arnedo, Alicia Tejera, Alejandro Rodríguez-Gonzalez, Francisco J. Pérez-Torrado and Pablo Martel
222Rn has been detected in 28 groundwater samples from the northeast of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain) utilizing a closed loop system consisting of an AlphaGUARD monitor that measures radon activity concentration in the air by means of an ionizatio...
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Purushothama Ravikumar, Rayasamudra Kalegowda Somashekar
The concentration of radon in the air in buildings ranged from 1.87 ± 3.24 Bq/m3 to 14.27 ± 1.50 Bq/m3 with a mean of 6.31 ± 3.47 Bq/m3 while that of the progeny of radon varied from 0.007 to 0.057 WL (average: 0.025). The mean indoor concentration of ra...
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Urszula Radon, Pawel Zabojszcza and Milan Sokol
The main purpose of this paper is to compare the results of modal analysis for two types of domes. The first one is a low-rise Schwedler dome. The second one is a high-rise geodesic dome. The low-rise Schwedler dome is subjected to large displacement gra...
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Katarzyna Kubicka and Urszula Radon
The objective of the article involves examining the impact of the type of supporting steel truss on its reliability under the conditions of a fire. The paper uses the system reliability method. Its application was preceded by the identification of kinema...
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Pawel Zabojszcza and Urszula Radon
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Wojciech Mochocki and Urszula Radon
Failures and collapses of steel truss towers may be caused by various factors, which often occur simultaneously. The evaluation of truss tower reliability when single elements fail constitutes an important research area. It may happen that the failure of...
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Georgia Koukiou and Vassilis Anastassopoulos
The Radon transform constitutes the conventional tool for tomosynthesis, i.e., the composition of cross-sections of an object from its projections. It is actually a version of the Fourier Transform, which is accompanied by the appropriate digital high pa...
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An Ma, Jianguo Song, Yufei Su and Caijun Hu
Multiple reflection is a common interference wave in offshore petroleum and gas exploration, and the Radon-based filtering method is a frequently used approach for multiple removal. However, the filtering parameter setting is crucial in multiple suppress...
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Luigi Rinaldi, Fabrizio Ambrosino, Vincenzo Roca, Antonio D?Onofrio and Carlo Sabbarese
Using Monte Carlo (with Geant4) and COMSOL simulations, the authors have defined a useful tool to reproduce the alpha spectroscopy of 222Rn, 220Rn and their ionized daughters by measurement systems based on electrostatic collection on a silicon detector,...
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