background: investigation on the natural radionuclides 238u, 232th, 40k and natural fallout radionuclide 210po in the prominent plants species of western ghats tropical forest near kotagiri have been carried out as a part of baseline background radiation studies in the forest environment. materials and methods: the prominent plants species of the region evodia roxburghiana and eleaocarpus oblan...

Methods for genetic risk prediction have been widely investigated in recent years. However, most available training data involves European samples, and it is currently unclear how to accurately predict disease risk in other populations. Previous studies have used either training data from European samples in large sample size or training data from the target population in small sample size, but...

Assessment of public exposure to background radiation was performed in Manyoni, Tanzania address concerns following the discovery uranium deposits their neighborhoods. Results show that highest concentrations radionuclides are 112, 95 and 463 Bq.kg-1 for 226Ra, 232Th 40K, respectively. The annual effective dose is 2.91 mSv.y-1 with a mean value 1.29 mSv.y-1. Authorities may use these results as...

The concentrations of primordial radionuclides (226Ra, 232Th and 40K) in commonly used building materials (brick, cement and sand), the raw materials of cement and the by-products of coal-fired power plants (fly ash) collected from various manufacturers and suppliers in Bangladesh were determined via gamma-ray spectrometry using an HPGe detector. The results showed that the mean concentrations ...

The present study was carried out to determine the activity concentrations of 40K, 226Ra and 232Th in surface soil samples collected from twenty five different locations of Industrial Yanbu city located in western region of Saudi Arabia, using a NaI(Tl) gamma-ray spectrometer. The activity concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th and 40K in the soil samples from the studied area ranged from 25.21 Bq kg t...