Specific activites of natural (40K, 226Ra and 40Th) anthropogenic (137Cs) radionuclides in 30 glutinous rice samples bought from some local retailers department stores Songkhla Province have been measured analyzed. Experiment results were carried out by using a high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector gamma spectrometry analysis system at Radiation Laboratory Thailand Institute Nuclear Technology ...

BACKGROUND Kernel smoothing method is a non-parametric or graphical method for statistical estimation. In the present study was used a kernel smoothing method for finding the death hazard rates of patients with acute myocardial infarction. METHODS By employing non-parametric regression methods, the curve estimation, may have some complexity. In this article, four indices of Epanechnikov, Biqu...

This paper compares the Portuguese and Bulgarian consumer price indices (CPI) and attempts to identify some areas in which the CPI compilation methodology could be improved in the two countries. This work is organised into six sections. The first section briefly describes the organisational structure on which the production of the CPI is based in the two countries. The second section focuses on...

here have been many methodologies proposed for the risk assessment in the chemical process industries (CPI). Among them, the most notable ones are quantitative risk analysis, probabilistic safety analysis, worst-case methodology for risk assessment and optimal risk analysis. A critical review of these methodologies is available (1). The key points of these methods are: Quantitative risk analysi...

background: the concentrations of heavy metals in the tissues and organs of fishes indicate the concentrations of heavy metals in water and their accumulation in food chains. in the present study, the concentrations of zn, cu, cd, ni, v and pb in three common species of fish and the potential health risks to local residents via consumption of the fishes were estimated.  methods: the concentrati...

Although it is hard to predict wildfires, risky areas can be systematically assessed and managed. Some of the factors for decision-making are hazard, vulnerability, risk maps, which end product wildfire mapping. This study deals with analysis in Queensland, Australia. A review previous studies focusing on each aspect has been done used records from 2011 2019 Australia, compile required input mo...

wind erosion is a major environmental issue affecting land resources and socio-economic settings in iran. this paper outlines a study undertaken to provide a new tool to manage wind erosion from physical and economic perspectives. the southern part of the varamin plain in south of tehran is used as a case study. the focus of this study is on exploring the economic and physical impacts of 16 veg...

OBJECTIVES To examine the combined effects of childhood adversities and low adult socioeconomic status (SES) on the risk of future work disability. METHODS Included were 34 384 employed Finnish Public Sector study participants who responded to questions about childhood adversities (none vs any adversity, eg, parental divorce or financial difficulties) in 2008, and whose adult SES in 2008 was ...

Background Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a devastating neurodegenerative caused by propagation of abnormally folded prion proteins (PrPSc). Some fluid biomarkers have been reported to be associated with duration in CJD. Based on studies which found that protein (PrPC) played role erythrocytic hematopoiesis, we evaluated the association between peripheral red blood cell indices and survival...