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Rehabilitation Measures against radon gas entry
Revista Ingeniería de Construcción, 2011 Radon gas is a pathological agent for inhabitants of buildings where it is present. Due to its origin in uranium decay chain, it bears radioactive effects that inside human body lead to higher risks of developing lung cancer.
Borja Frutos Vázquez +3 more
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Zhongguo shipin weisheng zazhi, 2020 Objective To establish the basic parameters for exposure assessment of contact materials for nut-seed food in China. Methods The contact area method was used to study the contact materials of nut-seed food in this study. Based on the contact area values,
Nan JIANG +6 more
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Results in Engineering, 2022 In multi-storey buildings, Ra-226 in building materials is the main source of radon entry. Under low air exchange rate (e.g. in energy efficient buildings), radon concentration may exceed reference levels used for radiation protection purposes ...
Ilia V. Yarmoshenko +4 more
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Prioritizing Management of Invasive Alien Species of EU Concern—A Northern Perspective
Diversity, 2023 Invasive alien species (IAS) represent one of the major threats to biodiversity globally. Each member state in the EU is required to compile a management plan for IAS of Union concern.
Miia Jauni +3 more
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American Journal of Men's Health, 2023 Incarceration can lead to different risk behaviors often due to increased distress and disruption of social networks. It is not well known, however, how these associations may differ by age.
Jonathan Feelemyer +16 more
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Asian Journal of Internal Medicine, 2022 In the face of the rising incidence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes in low-income and middle-income countries in South Asia, the most cost-effective and equitable strategies for prevention of heart attacks, strokes and vascular ...
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BMC Medicine, 2021 Background Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is common and increasing in prevalence. It is possible to prevent or delay T2D using lifestyle intervention programmes. Entry to these programmes is usually determined by a measure of glycaemia in the ‘intermediate’ range.
Lauren R. Rodgers +9 more
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U.S. dog importations during the COVID-19 pandemic: Do we have an erupting problem?
PLoS ONE, 2021 Dog importation data from 2018-2020 were evaluated to ascertain whether the dog importation patterns in the United States changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically with regard to denial of entry. Dog denial of entry reports from January 1, 2018,
Emily G Pieracci +4 more
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Baseline HCV Antibody Prevalence and Risk Factors among Drug Users in China's National Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 BACKGROUND:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the most common viral infection among injecting drug users worldwide. We aimed to assess HCV antibody prevalence and associated risk factors among clients in the Chinese national methadone maintenance treatment (MMT)
Changhe Wang +7 more
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A manually annotated corpus in French for the study of urbanization and the natural risk prevention
Scientific Data, 2023 Land artificialization is a serious problem of civilization. Urban planning and natural risk management are aimed to improve it. In France, these practices operate the Local Land Plans (PLU – Plan Local d’Urbanisme) and the Natural risk prevention plans (
Maksim Koptelov +5 more
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