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Mehnaz .,Sami-ud-Din Ahmad
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Recent events at Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS), the Chernobyl disaster and the Three Miles Island (TMI) accident revealed the importance of Human and Organizational Factors for the safe and reliable operation of Nuclear Power Plants (NPP...
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Ramzi M. Kafoury and James Kelley
Ozone, a highly reactive oxidant gas is a major component of photochemical smog. As an inhaled toxicant, ozone induces its adverse effects mainly on the lung. Inhalation of particulate matter has been reported to cause airway inflammation in humans and a...
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Anna Feleki, Ioannis D. Apostolopoulos, Serafeim Moustakidis, Elpiniki I. Papageorgiou, Nikolaos Papathanasiou, Dimitrios Apostolopoulos and Nikolaos Papandrianos
Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI) has played a central role in the non-invasive identification of patients with Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). Clinical factors, such as recurrent diseases, predisposing factors, and diagnostic tests, also play a vital ro...
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Da-In Choi, Jee-Young Choi, Jee-Bum Lee, Sook-Jung Yun, Byung-Kwon Moon, Yong-Gook Ahn, Sook-Young Lee and Seung-Chul Lee
Dermal papilla cells (DPCs) are a rich source of nutrients and secrete multiple growth factors that can affect hair growth. As oxidative stress leads to hair loss in humans, it is considered to be one of the factors that can impair the function of DPCs. ...
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Sascha Samadi
This article reviews the literature on the past cost dynamics of various renewable, fossil fuel and nuclear electricity generation technologies. It identifies 10 different factors which have played key roles in influencing past cost developments accordin...
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Chongchong Guo and Wenhua Wu
Marine nuclear power platforms can continuously supply electricity and fresh water for marine resource exploration and surrounding islands. China?s first marine nuclear power platform uses a soft yoke multi-joint connect mode as the mooring positioning d...
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Yifan Zuo, Liye Zou, Mu Zhang, Lee Smith, Lin Yang, Paul D. Loprinzi and Zhanbing Ren
The purpose of this study is to explore the spatial distribution pattern and influencing factors of the Chinese marathon. Geographic Information System (GIS) related spatial analysis tools were used to calculate the following?averaged nearest neighbor in...
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Itaru Miura, Masato Nagai, Masaharu Maeda, Mayumi Harigane, Senta Fujii, Misari Oe, Hirooki Yabe, Yuriko Suzuki, Hideto Takahashi, Tetsuya Ohira, Seiji Yasumura and Masafumi Abe
Predictive factors including risk perception for mid-term mental health after a nuclear disaster remain unknown. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between perceived radiation risk and other factors at baseline and mid-term mental h...
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Rubavel M
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A person has to balance the work and life in all walks of his life. Due to social change in the society, the type of households is changing from the joint family to nuclear family. The family, work, and society demand equal attention and obligation. The ...
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Xin Chen, Linfei Li, Xiaofeng Li, Jianyu Kang, Xiang Xiang, Honglian Shi and Xingwei Ren
The mechanical and hydraulic properties of soils are largely governed by their soil-water characteristics, which are influenced by factors such as pore size distribution (PSD). While biochar is commonly used as an additive to alter soil properties, its e...
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Akira Hitachi
Biexcitonic collision kinetics with prescribed diffusion in the ion track core have been applied for scintillation response due to heavy ions in liquid argon. The quenching factors q = EL/E, where E is the ion energy and EL is the energy expended for lum...
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Ryo Yamawaki, Akiyo Tei, Kengo Ito and Jun Kikuchi
Bio-based polymers have been considered as an alternative to oil-based materials for their ?carbon-neutral? environmentally degrative features. However, degradation is a complex system in which environmental factors and preparation conditions are involve...
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ABUBAKAR SADIQ ALIYU,AHMAD TERMIZI RAMLI,MUNEER AZIZ SALEH
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA) short-range atmospheric dispersion model (AERMOD, v. 12345) is a good candidate for the calculation of offsite radiation doses to the general public, and its advanced capability should provide be...
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Zipeng Wang, Yue Zhu, Zhenxue Jiang, Houjian Gong, Yu Yang, Bo Wang and Xin Wang
The continental shale oil resource in China exhibits significant potential and serves as a crucial strategic alternative to the country?s conventional oil and gas reserves. The efficacy of shale oil exploration and production is heavily contingent upon t...
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Natalia Zarubina
Impact of the accident on Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on pollution of fungi within the 30-km alienation zone and within the Kiev region has been studied. Fungi accumulate practically all radionuclides produced by the accident. Dynamics of the accumulat...
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Hanna Miettinen, Malin Bomberg and Minna Vikman
Crystalline bedrock has been chosen for deep geologic long-term storage of used nuclear fuel in Finland. The risks generated by the deep subsurface microbial communities in these disposal sites need to be well characterised in advance to ensure safety. D...
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Michele Laraia
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Entombment is not a novel decommissioning strategy in the history of the nuclear industry. Several projects based on this strategy have been implemented. Despite a significant potential for dose, radioactive waste and cost reduction, entombment h...
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Madalina Tronea,Cantemir Ciurea
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The paper presents an overview of the lessons learned from past nuclear reactor accidents and their relevance for the development of nuclear safety culture. Although the term "safety culture" emerged after the Chernobyl accident, the factors that contrib...
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Xiyang He, Chengyu Liu, Xiangxiang Zhang, Changyu Wu and Zhiyu Weng
In South China, due to climatic factors, highly weathered granite is distributed across a large area and easily disintegrates after encountering water, causing many geological disasters and other problems. To determine the disintegration mechanism of hig...
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Bo?idar Ra?kovic, Vesna Poleksic, Gorica Vukovic, Bojana ?pirovic Trifunovic, Gavrilo Bo?ic, Dejana Cupic Miladinovic, Zoran Markovic and Dragica Brkic
S-metolachlor is one of the most frequently used herbicides worldwide. However, toxicity studies of this herbicide to aquatic organisms are scarce. In the present study, two experiments were conducted to test the effects of S-metolachlor on common carp, ...
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