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Penilaian isiko radiologi bahan binaan konkrit di Semenanjung Malaysia
No full textPenggunaan bahan binaan yang mengandungi bahan radioaktif tabii (NORM) yang tinggi boleh meningkatkan kadar dos dedahan kepada penghuni di dalam sesebuah bangunan. Kebimbangan terhadap impak radiologi kepada penghuni menyebabkan perlunya dilakukan penilaian hazard radiologi yang berpunca daripada bahan binaan. Sehubungan itu, objektif kajian ini adalah untuk menentukan aras keradioaktifan tabii dalam bahan binaan di Malaysia serta menilai risiko radiologi yang diterima oleh penghuninya. Sebanyak 46 sampel pasir, 43 sampel kerikil dan 13 sampel simen Portland telah dianalisis menggunakan sistem spektrometri sinar gama. Hasil kajian mendapati kepekatan aktiviti bagi ketiga-tiga sampel bahan binaan berada pada julat 4.4 Bq kg-1 hingga 354.9 Bq kg-1, 2.4 Bq kg-1 hingga 263.9 Bq kg-1 dan 15.1 Bq kg-1 hingga 1931.7 Bq kg-1 bagi masing-masing 226Ra, 232Th dan 40K. Pengiraan kadar dos dedahan dalam bangunan mendapati semua sampel menghasilkan dos di bawah nilai 1500 ?Sv tahun-1, iaitu jumlah had dos yang disyorkan bagi bahan binaan. Hasil analisis ke atas nilai indeks aras perwakilan sinar gama, indeks hazard luaran dan indeks hazard dalaman mendapati sebahagian sampel memberikan bacaan melebihi nilai satu, iaitu had yang ditetapkan bagi bahan binaan. Penilaian risiko radiologi kepada penghuni dengan menggunakan kod komputer Resrad-Build mendapati kadar dos dedahan yang berpunca daripada simen Portland, pasir dan batu kerikil meningkat pada setiap tahun sepanjang tempoh 50 tahun
Determination of indoor doses and excess lifetime cancer risks caused by building materials containing natural radionuclides in Malaysia
No full textThe activity concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th, and 40K from 102 building materials samples were determined using a high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector. The activity concentrations were evaluated for possible radiological hazards to the human health. The excess lifetime cancer risks (ELCR) were also estimated, and the average values were recorded as 0.42 ± 0.24 × 10−3, 3.22 ± 1.83 × 10−3, and 3.65 ± 1.85 × 10−3 for outdoor, indoor, and total ELCR respectively. The activity concentrations were further subjected to RESRAD-BUILD computer code to evaluate the long-term radiation exposure to a dweller. The indoor doses were assessed from zero up to 70 years. The simulation results were 92 ± 59, 689 ± 566, and 782 ± 569 μSv y−1 for indoor external, internal, and total effective dose equivalent (TEDE) respectively. The results reported were all below the recommended maximum values. Therefore, the radiological hazards attributed to building materials under study are negligible. Keywords: Annual effective dose, Excess lifetime cancer risk, External dose, Internal dose, Total effective dose equivalen
Rapid selective removal of thorium via electrosorption towards efficiently managing rare-earth extraction residue
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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