Two years ago oday we have a whole new crop of freshly educated animal doctors, many of whom will continue to disregard the cumulative
effects of radiation in favor of their bottom line.
All the stories I hear about
the effects of the radiation in the ocean and diseased shrimp from farm raised leaves me scratching my head about what's safe!
Not exact matches
The 10 - year, $ 25 million toxicological studies are the most comprehensive assessments to date
of health
effects and exposure to radio frequency
radiation in rats and mice, according to the online notice from the National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences, a unit
of the National Institutes
of Health, the U.S. medical research agency.
Either they necessitate a deceptive «God», e.g. creating starlight «
in transit» which means that for some light the star that supposedly sent said light would never have actually existed, or they would cause
effect that should be evident but are not, e.g. temporarily fast starlight would effectively cook many things, such as life on earth, if the required light (and attendant gamma
radiation) were compressed into a significantly shorter time frame (think
of the
radiation from the apparent 13 billion years
of the universe arriving at the same time, or even over a 1000 years).
These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines
in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level
radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden
of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands
of years.
As a physics teacher, I teach the therapeutic
effects of gamma
radiation in radiotherapy, along with the associated dangers (
radiation can cause cells to become cancerous as well as kill cells that are already cancerous), but a common misconception among students is that cancer cells are rather like viruses or bacteria, a sort
of alien cell that has entered the body, growing out
of control with little relation to the surrounding cells.
How about cosmic microwave background
radiation, time dilation
in supernovae light curves, the Hubble deep field, the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich
effect, the Integrated Sachs - Wolfe
effect, the hom.ogeneity
of stars and galaxies, etc, etc...
chiltepíns planted
in the open, without nurse trees, usually die from the
effects of direct solar
radiation.
Protection from UV
Radiation: The anthocyanin anti-oxidants
in blueberries help protect us from the damaging
effects of UV
radiation exposure.
Parents who are concerned about the
effects of baby monitor
radiation should also make sure no cell phones, cordless phones, or wifi devices are
in their home.
For example, Dr. Hugh S. Taylor, professor and chief
of the Division
of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
in the Department
of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale University, studied the
effects of non-ionizing
radiation on the fetuses
of pregnant mice.
Earlier studies on the sensitivity
of tropical cyclones to past climates have only analyzed the
effect of changes
in the solar
radiation from orbital forcing on the formation
of tropical cyclones, without considering the feedbacks associated to the consequent greening
of the Sahara.
«That's an advantage, particularly
in younger patients, who are more sensitive to the
effects of radiation,» says Fishman.
«What we found is that the addition
of radiation therapy after prostatectomy does lead to a noticeable increase
in GI [gastrointestinal] and GU [genitourinary] side
effects.
It's well established,
of course, that environmental
effects like
radiation, which alter the genetic sequences
in a sex cell's DNA, can leave a mark on subsequent generations.
Important news for men receiving treatment for prostate cancer: Two new studies from the University
of Virginia School
of Medicine have upended the widely held view that it's best to delay
radiation treatment as long as possible after the removal
of the prostate
in order to prevent unwanted side
effects.
Berinstain has a Bachelor's degree
in chemistry and biochemistry and a doctorate
in chemistry, specializing
in the
effects of radiation on biological systems.
«Urologists tend to prefer to forgo adjuvant
radiation therapy, because they fear the side
effects, and
radiation oncologists tend to prefer offering adjuvant
radiation therapy because they fear the risk
of metastasis [cancer spreading to other sites
in the body],» Showalter said.
Both treatment schedules were similar
in terms
of controlling cancer, but doctors reported slightly more mild side
effects in patients getting the shorter
radiation schedule.
For men with intermediate risk prostate cancer, side
effects at two years following
radiation therapy (RT) were comparable for extremely - hypofractionated treatment, which was delivered
in seven fractions across two and a half weeks, and conventional treatment
of 39 fractions across eight weeks, according to research presented at the 58th Annual Meeting
of the American Society for
Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).
We also showed by theoretical calculations that such a system is capable
of probing the quantum
effects of horizons,
in particular Hawking
radiation.
Ms Alice Koechlin, from the International Prevention Research Institute
in Lyon, France, told the meeting that people who were at highest risk
of dying from melanoma were those born between 1900 and 1960 when not only were the dangerous
effects of exposure to ultraviolet (UV)
radiation from sunlight largely unknown, but also health professionals believed that sunshine was positively beneficial.
Current astronauts are not as exposed to the damaging
effects of radiation, Davis says, because the International Space Station flies
in an orbit low enough that the Earth's magnetic field continues to provide protection.
The
radiation exposure
of the general population «is too small to give a statistically significant increase
in stochastic
effects such as cancer,» argues Ohtsura Niwa, professor emeritus
of radiation biology at Kyoto University.
«
In theory, then, in some of these conditions it should be possible for healthy donated stem cells to outcompete native cells, without exposing patients to the toxic effects of radiation or alkylating agents.&raqu
In theory, then,
in some of these conditions it should be possible for healthy donated stem cells to outcompete native cells, without exposing patients to the toxic effects of radiation or alkylating agents.&raqu
in some
of these conditions it should be possible for healthy donated stem cells to outcompete native cells, without exposing patients to the toxic
effects of radiation or alkylating agents.»
The trio decided to apply «target theory» — a central concept
in the study
of the
effects of radiation — to genes.
A new study suggests cell phone
radiation may actually have a beneficial biological
effect — two hours
of exposure a day staved off Alzheimer's disease
in mice.
The second visualization was a movie captured at 23,000 - times magnification that revealed the movements
of a group
of nanoparticles reacting to an electron beam, which mimics the
effects of the infrared
radiation used
in cancer therapies.
But if it interacted with
radiation in the early universe, it could have an
effect similar to that
of relativistic particles, changing how the energy
in the early universe is divided up among its components.
And
in May, a week after Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with a glioma, The EMR Policy Institute, a Marshfield, Vt. — based nonprofit organization that supports research on the
effects of electromagnetic
radiation, released a statement linking his tumor to heavy cell phone use.
Results
of research on the voles, presented at the annual meeting
of the Society for the Study
of Evolution
in Montreal last month, raises questions about the full
effect of radiation on animal populations and on humans.
However, it is the precise understanding
of the intermediate steps that is very important for the prediction and design
of radiation effects in matter.
Stephen has made some
of the biggest breakthroughs
in this area, showing that quantum
effects can allow black holes to emit
radiation, so black holes are actually gray.
Golge, a dual citizen who had been studying the
effects of radiation on astronauts, was swept up
in a crackdown that followed Turkey's 2016 failed military coup.
Their nanoparticles also have potential to protect astronauts from long - term exposure to
radiation in space and perhaps even slow the
effects of aging, they reported.
They had succeeded
in cloaking a small cylindrical object — shielding it not from visible light but from microwaves, a form
of electromagnetic
radiation with a substantially longer wavelength, which makes the cloaking
effect considerably easier to achieve.
In extreme cases, the application
of X-rays is limited by these side
effects, known as «
radiation damage».
By far the most rigorously researched
of the Tintin stories, it features nuclear fission, the
effects of gravitation
in space and why meteorites make lunar craters, as well as side references
in Professor Calculus's log book to the «constant
of solar
radiation» and the «limits
of the solar spectrum
in the ultraviolet».
The greenhouse
effect is the process
in which the emission
of infrared
radiation by the atmosphere warms a planet's surface.
It mimics the
effects of vacuum as well as those
of sunlight and
radiation in space.
Fleischer is also interested
in the
effects of radiation on glass.
Mice have been kept aboard the ISS for up to 91 days, during which time they were used to study a loss
in blood quality called flight anaemia, and the
effects of cosmic
radiation on fertility.
The agency's last research project on primates began
in the early 1970s, when NASA and the US air force studied the
effect of radiation on cataract formation
in rhesus monkeys.
There has been a decrease
in side
effects due to the development
of better treatments, limiting the use
of radiation.
To date, the only animal research on the neurological
effects of space
radiation has been done
in rodents.
An international team led by researchers at Nagoya University, along with US and Swiss colleagues, has identified a new type
of solar event and dated it to the year 5480 BC; they did this by measuring carbon - 14 levels
in tree rings, which reflect the
effects of cosmic
radiation on the atmosphere at the time.
R. S. Sharma, a public health specialist on the panel from the Indian Council
of Medical Research, writes
in the report that, «the hot tropical climate
of the country, the low body mass index; low fat content
of an average Indian as compared to European countries and high environmental concentration
of radio frequency
radiation may place Indians under risk
of radio frequency
radiation adverse
effect.»
A practical dirty bomb's main
effects would be from fear, not
radiation, with both the Department
of Homeland Security and the American Institute
of Physics predicting few deaths from cancer or
radiation poisoning, even
in densely populated areas.
These include the behaviour
of the Italian government
in the aftermath
of Chernobyl, the basis
of decision - making
in civil nuclear power
in Switzerland and France, and the controversy over the supposed
effects of radiation doses to fathers on their offspring at Sellafield (a large case control study, which has recently been published, contradicts the views
in the book), and the Black enquiry into childhood leukaemias
in the vicinity
of the plant.
At the same time, here
in Kiev physicist Elena Bakhanova at the Research Center for
Radiation Medicine is adapting the principles used to three - dimensionally model
radiation fields at Chernobyl to help investigate the health
effects of medical
radiation.