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Radiation-hygienic monitoring and assessment of the doses of the public residing on the radioactively contaminated territories of the Tula region

Радиационная гигиена, 2019
Aim of the study: analysis of the results of the radiation-hygienic monitoring of the territories of the Tula region, contaminated due to the Chernobyl NPP accident; concentration of 137Cs and 90Sr in the locally produced food products and analysis of ...
A. E. Lomovtsev, T. E. Sheveleva, A. S. Karpukhin, A. I. Volodicheva   +3 more
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Optimising Wave Energy Plant Location Through Neutrosophic Multi‐Criteria Group Decision‐Making

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global shift towards sustainable energy has intensified research into renewable sources, particularly wave energy. Pakistan, with its long coastline, holds significant potential for wave energy development. However, identifying optimal locations for wave energy plants involves evaluating complex, multi‐faceted criteria.
Hafiz Muhammad Athar Farid, Ayesha Razzaq, Muhammad Riaz, Tapan Senapati, Sarbast Moslem   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Muroid rodent communities in areas with varying degrees of fire damage: the Chernobyl polygons

Theriologia Ukrainica
As a result of climate change, forest fires are becoming a common factor in the dynamics of ecosystems in the forest zone of Ukraine, but the assessment of the consequences of this shift in the ecological situation is in the process of pilot studies.
Denys Vyshnevskyi
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Policy voting, projection, and persuasion: an application of balance theory to electoral behavior [PDF]

, 1994
In this article differences between rational, policy-based, and rationalized voting are discussed, and it is argued that these forms of electoral decision making are not properly analyzed in existing electoral studies.
Visser, Max
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Dwelling in a post‐fallout landscape: re‐shaping and sustaining life in a former evacuation zone in Fukushima Habiter après la catastrophe : redonner forme au monde et entretenir la vie dans une ancienne zone évacuée à Fukushima

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
wiley   +1 more source

Soviet Chernobyl vs American Three Mile Island: Information Space as a Factor in Social Crisis

Київські історичні студії
The article is devoted to the study of the features of communication and information policy during the periods of the two most famous nuclear accidents of the 20th century: at the Three Mile Island NPP in the USA (1979) and at the Chernobyl NPP in the ...
Svyatoslav Yusov
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Indicators of caesium 137 concentration in forest litter and health status of pines (Pinus sylvestris L.) in the Chernobyl zone

Central European Forestry Journal, 2022
We analyse the concentration of caesium-137 (137Cs) in forest litter in relation to forest site conditions. The research was carried out in 2004–2019 in the Krasnogorsk district of the Bryansk region (the Russian Federation).
Osipova Valentina, Benin Dmitrii, Semenycheva Irina, Volkova Irina   +3 more
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Education matters: the emergence of social media and scepticism towards science

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses General Social Survey (United States) data and provides evidence that the advent of Facebook and other social media platforms has widened the gap in scepticism towards science between low‐educated Americans and their more highly educated counterparts.
Gianluca Cerruti
wiley   +1 more source

Detailed plan for the COMET WP3 initial research activity - list of research projects and goals, participants and timing [PDF]

, 2013
Detailed plan for the COMET Work Package (WP ...
Barnett, Catherine L., Beresford, Nick, Bradshaw, Clare, Brown, Justin, Calmon, Philippe, Chmielewka, Izabela, Duffa, Céline, Fevrier, Laureline, Gaschak, Sergey, Iosjpe, Mikhail, Kaspparov, Valery, Lahtinen, Juhani, Liland, Astrid, Michalik, Boguslaw, Mora Candas, Juan Carlos, Nanbu, Kenji, Outola, Iisa, Real, Almudena, Robles, Beatriz, Salbu, Brit, Simon-Cornu, Marie, Skipperud, L., Stark, Karolina, Steiner, Martin, Thorring, Håvard, Vandenhove, Hildegarde, Vanhoudt, Nathalie, Vives i Battle, Jordi   +27 more
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A survey of environmental problems in Eastern Europe [PDF]

, 1991
This paper deals with the increasing interaction of economic and environmental issues in Eastern Europe. The paper starts with a discussion of environmental problems in these formerly centrally planned economies.
Steenge, Albert E.
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