The 90Sr and 137Cs contamination in Polish surface waters has been monitoring since 1994. Surface water samples from six lakes and the Vistula and Oder Rivers were collected in spring and autumn 2012 and 2013. The mean 90Sr and 137Cs concentrations were 3.92 ± 0.40 and 4.49 ± 2.00 mBq L-1, respectively. Correlations were identified between the radionuclide concentrations and meteorological cond...

This work treats the case of expert-originated hypotheses which are to be modified or refined by training event data. The method accepts the hypotheses in the form of weighted VL, expressions and uses the probabilistic rule generator, PRG. The theory of operation, verified by experimental results, provides for any degree of hypothesis modification, ranging from minor perturbation to complete re...

The epistemology of disagreement concerns the normative question of how you ought to revise your beliefs in a very specific epistemic context. Imagine that you and a peer form an opinion in isolation about whether P in response to mutually shared evidence, and you take your peer to be just as reliable as you about matters of this kind. How are you to respond should you subsequently discover tha...

The cerebellum has been proven to be connected to the brain network, as in the default-mode network (DMN), among healthy subjects and patients with psychiatric disorders. However, whether or not abnormal cerebellar DMN connectivity exists and what its clinical significance is among drug-naive patients with somatization disorder (SD) at rest remain unclear.A total of 25 drug-naive patients with ...

BACKGROUND Numerical study of angulation effects of renal arteries on blood flow has been of great interest for many researchers. Objective : This paper aims at numerically determining the angulation effects of stenosed renal arteries on blood flow velocity and renal mass flow. METHOD An anatomically realistic model of abdominal aorta and renal arteries is reconstructed from CT-scan images an...

[Purpose] To assess the changes in falling risk depending on the induced axis direction of astigmatism using cylindrical lenses in a static posture. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty subjects (10 males, 10 females; mean age, 23.4 ± 2.70 years) fully corrected by subjective refraction participated. To induce myopic simple astigmatism conditions, cylindrical lenses of +0.50, +1.00, +1.50, +2.00, +3.0...