background: the existence of some radionuclides in soil and some building materials produce a β-γ radiation field, which in some regions the exposure of these radionuclides to human is high. materials and methods: the air-absorbed dose, indoor and outdoor annual effective dose of soil and some building material samples (ceramic, granite, gypsum, etc.). the samples were collected from 35 differe...

background: due to the potential public health effects of releases of uranium to the environment, isotopic determination and measurement of this radionuclide in environmental samples is very important. achieving this goal, monitoring programs for this radionuclide seems necessary to be applied in many countries. materials and methods: the uranium was separated from the water samples using anion...

an efficient, rapid, simple, and highly selective dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction basedon solidification of floating organic drop (dllme-sfod), combined with flame atomicabsorption spectrometry was developed for preconcentration and determination of trace amountsof cobalt in water samples. in this method, an appropriate mixture of acetone and1-undecanol was injected rapidly into the aq...

background: natural radioactivity in materials under certain conditions can reach the hazardous radiological levels. so, it becomes necessary to study the natural radioactivity in different materials to assess the dose for the population in order to know the health risks and to have a baseline for future changes in the environmental radioactivity due to human activities. materials and methods: ...

background: the concentrations and distributions of natural and anthropogenic radioactive materials in soils of the site of rooppur nuclear power plant (rnpp) were investigated with the aim of evaluating the environmental radioactivity and radiation hazard. materials and methods: soil samples were collected from 40 locations in and around the proposed site of rooppur power plant and determined ...

background: the objective of this work was developing a simple and stable time-based on-line setup for assessing the potential of mercury (hg) vapor adsorption of the commercial sorbents used in air sampling and control operation followed by cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry (cvaas). methods: a special designed separation chamber was used where reduction of the injected hg (ii) solution...

information avalanche (overload or expansion) in various scientific fields is a novel issue turned out by a number of factors considered necessary to facilitate their record and registration. though, the biological science and its diverse fields like proteomics are not immune of this event and even may be as the event’s herald. on the other hand, time as the most valued anxiety of human has enc...

the aim of this study was to analyse polar lipids of candida species isolated from ahwaz (iran) by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (fab ms). nine isolates of candida sp. were identified by growth at 45°c, production of chlamydoconidia on cornmeal agar, colonial colour on chromagar candida, germ tube production and id 32c kits. then polar lipids were extracted from freeze-dried cultures ...