Sentences with phrase «radiation increased by»

For every hundred feet of altitude, the annual dose from radiation increases by 1 millirem per year.

The power of the surface radiation increases by the Stefan - Boltzmann law until it (over time) compensates for the atmospheric absorption.»

When the Earth's temperature increases from 1 to 1 + p, the total radiation increases by a factor of (1 + p) ^ 4, Outgoing radiation increase at all wavelengths, but the PERCENTAGE increase at short wavelengths, which are not affected by CO2, increases at a much larger rate.

Not exact matches

Marshalling convincing scientific data, they tell us that the environmental degradation caused by massive pollution of air water and land, threatens the very life of earth — fast depletion of non renewal resources, indeed of species themselves, the thinning of the ozone layer that exposes all living creatures to the danger of radiation, the build up of gases creating the greenhouse effect, increasing erosion by the sea — all these are brought out through their research.

Whether you go to a tanning bed, get a tan indirectly by forgetting to wear sunscreen outside, or you're deliberately trying to increase your pregnancy glow - UV radiation from indoor tanning or outdoor tanning, is the leading cause of skin cancer.

It's found out that natural UV radiation from the sun may increase by about 25 % at the beach, as it is reflected by the water and yellow sand.

Lots of conspiracy theories about how the increase in radiation on the US west coast because of massive, continuing nuclear leakage from Fukushima is not being reported by the mainstream media.

Along the way, according to a 2013 study, you'd get dosed with the radiation equivalent of a whole - body CT scan every five to six days, increasing your lifetime cancer risk above the limits set by NASA.

In an ideal SRM geoengineering scenario, even as humans warm the Earth by releasing increasing amounts of heat - trapping gases, that warmth would be counterbalanced, since more heat - causing radiation would also be reflected.

«In an earlier phase I clinical study, our group has shown that increasing the dose of radiation delivered daily with high precision and using image guidance may offset the need for chemotherapy in improving survival, and it may also improve quality of life measures by reducing treatment periods in half.

According to USGS calculations, buying a house in a stack shadow — in this case within 0.6 mile [one kilometer] of a coal plant — increases the annual amount of radiation you're exposed to by a maximum of 5 percent.

Hotspots of radiation from the nuclear disaster are still likely to cause localized, small increases in cancer risk, according to a new report by the World Health Organization

Parton and colleagues suggest, however, that periods of increased rainfall were not driven by mid-high latitude deglaciations every ~ 100,000 years, but by periods of maximum incoming solar radiation every ~ 23,000 years.

The recent declines and disappearances of many frogs, toads, and salamanders have been blamed on a number of causes, including pathogenic infection, pesticides, pollutants, increased UV radiation from ozone depletion, and local drought spurred by climate change.

«It is likely that very few Americans will be killed directly, suffer radiation sickness, or even have a measurably increased risk for cancer from an attack,» Peter D. Zimmerman and Cheryl Loeb write in «Dirty Bombs: The Threat Revisited,» a report published by the Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University.

As well as its ability to pierce armour plating, DU has the unfortunate tendency to ignite on impact, creating clouds of uranium oxide dust — facilitating its spread in the environment and increasing the danger posed by the alpha radiation it emits.

Creating the ability to more quickly and accurately forecast space weather would give satellite operations teams, space programs and others technologies that rely on assets in Earth's space environment the ability to reposition satellites and / or shut down noncritical components as well as defer critical operations — such as uploading new software or orbital maneuvers — that might be adversely affected by storm effects, such as increased penetrating radiation.

But even if evaporating black holes were abundant enough in the early universe, the reduction of the dark matter in PBHs could be compensated by an increase of radiation.

Hodgkin lymphoma survivors who received certain radiation and chemotherapy regimens were at increased risk of subsequently developing stomach cancer, according to a study by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health.

A final possibility is that there has been increased formation of the hydroxyl radical in the atmosphere — perhaps caused by the thinning of the ozone layer, which allows more ultraviolet radiation to reach low levels.

During the dry season, with no fog layer to reflect sunlight, the smaller cloud cover allows plants to receive much higher radiation, increasing evaporation and photosynthesis rates, another process missed by the GCMs.

Such clouds show a strong increase in cooling due to the reflected short waves, but that effect is partly cancelled out by the enhanced, trapped, long - wave radiation coming from underneath.

A new study by UCLA scientists has found that women diagnosed with breast cancer and treated with a one - week regimen of partial breast radiation after the surgical removal of the tumor, or lumpectomy, saw no increase in cancer recurrence or difference in cosmetic outcomes compared to women who received radiation of the entire breast for a period of up to six weeks after surgery.

Those data showed increased infrared radiation coming from several volcanic regions and was interpreted by a NASA - funded team as evidence that the rocks there formed from lava flows within the past million years — recently, on a geological timescale.

The increase in medical radiation exposure (from 0.53 mSv to 3.0 mSv) stemmed primarily from a rise in the use of computer tomography (CT) scans (which use x-rays to create cross sectional images of inside the body to spot tumors, clogged arteries, among other things), and nuclear imaging tests, which involve injecting radioactive chemicals into the bloodstream that can be picked up by special instruments and used to create images of the body's inner structures.

While an increase in the amount of radiation the Earth receives by trapping outgoing IR would increase surface temps, would the increased surface temp not increase the convection and evaporation rates introducing a negative feedback?

[6] In the MSLT - 1 trial, patients with isolated nodal recurrence had more total lymph nodes involved by melanoma than patients randomized to SLN biopsy who had a positive biopsy (all of whom were to have CLND; an average of 3.2 lymph nodes involved with metastatic melanoma vs only 1.4 positive nodes, respectively; P <.0001), [2] and were more likely to meet established criteria for adjuvant radiation, [7] which further increases the risk of postoperative lymphedema.

By combining local radiation therapy and anti-cancer vaccines with checkpoint inhibitors, researchers from the University of Chicago, working with mice, were able to increase the response rate for these new immunotherapy...

June 13, 2016 Radiation and vaccination can magnify effects of immunotherapy By combining local radiation therapy and anti-cancer vaccines with checkpoint inhibitors, researchers from the University of Chicago, working with mice, were able to increase the response rate for these new immunotherapy agents.

However, the total increase in cell death is low compared to enhancement in radiation - induced cell death induced by U0126 and LY294002.

While natural global warming during the ice ages was initiated by increased solar radiation caused by cyclic changes to Earth's orbital parameters, there is no evident mechanism for correcting Anthropogenic Global Warming over the next several centuries.

It is believed that the PETM was likely initiated by changes of the orbital parameters of the Earth (eccentricity, obliquity and precession of axis) causing an increase in the intensity and distribution of solar radiation reaching the earth (Sexton et al, 2011).

This change was made to combat the charge transfer efficiency (CTE) losses caused by radiation damage that the two WFC CCDs have suffered since being put into orbit by artificially increasing the background in the dark images.

There could be three evolutionary processes could explain this adaptive radiation of hominins: 1) the occupation of novel niches for species living in a highly productive but spatially constrained region when there are deep fresh water lakes in the EARS [46] and 2) the lakes themselves creating spatial structure producing population isolation and vicariance and 3) repeated periods of increased resource availability stimulated adaptation and radiation followed by periods of environmental stress when the lakes rapidly dried up imposing strong selection pressures [28].

A 2015 article in the International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology sums up the findings of multiple studies on ketogenic diets and cancer with the following: «there is increasing evidence that the ketogenic diet may also be beneficial as an adjuvant cancer therapy by potentiating the antitumor effect of chemotherapy and radiation treatment.»

Free radicals are formed naturally in the body, but their production is increased by factors such as smoking, alcohol, air pollution, infection, stress, excessive sunlight, and toxins like radiation and asbestos.

«The premenopausal breast is highly sensitive to radiation, each 1 rad exposure [per mammogram] increasing breast cancer risk by about 1 percent, with a cumulative 10 percent increased risk for each breast over a decade's screening.»

But, the required dose of radiation delivered to the chest is so high that a young woman getting just a single scan, for example, may increase her lifetime risk of breast cancer and lung cancer by between around 1 and 4 %.

«The premenopausal breast is highly sensitive to radiation, each 1 rad exposure increasing breast cancer risk by about 1 percent, with a cumulative 10 percent increased risk for each breast over a decade's screening...»

In fact, while autophagy may help cancer cells avoid death from chemotherapy or radiation therapy, 7 the cellular pathways affected by intermittent fasting in the schematic from the last post (reference) happen to also increase cancer sensitivity to conventional treatment, like radiation therapy.

Chances of your pet's survival increase if the surgery is followed by combinations of radiation therapy and immunotherapy.

According to the American Veterinary Dental College, the use of digital x-ray equipment significantly reduces your pet's exposure to increased levels of radiation by a third of the amount, making it safer for your pet as well as the staff involved.

My own prediction is that, as temperatures fail to increase over the next five years, attention will turn to Ray Ladbury's «bite» — the resonant absorption of outgoing radiation by CO2 and H2O in the radiation spectrum viewed from space.

As the frequency of the electric field of the infrared radiation approaches the frequency of the oscillating bond dipole and the two oscillate at the same frequency and phase, the chemical bond can absorb the infrared photon and increase its vibrational quantum number by +1.

Furthermore while the increased radiation down from the layer will eventually (in equilibrium) warm the layers below enough to cause a matching increase in radiation upward from below, it is not true that this radiation will all be absorbed by (and warm) the layer.

Absorption of thermal radiation cools the thermal spectra of the earth as seen from space, radiation emitted by de-excitation is what results in the further warming of the surface, and the surface continues to warm until the rate at which energy is radiated from the earth's climate system (given the increased opacity of the atmosphere to longwave radiation) is equal to the rate at which energy enters it.

As it's unlikely that the sudden rise is anything to do with an increase in GHG emissions (CO2 is only 295 ppm in 1900 as quoted by Prof Mann on this site) it would seem to be caused by an increase in solar radiation.

Since Milankovitch factors are excluded as small, BUT they do exist and by ignoring them you are introducing an increasing underestimation of the incoming solar radiation (& its impact on solar irradiance and on water vapor etc feedbacks), then why is there not an uncertainty estimate for this or better yet an actual estimate of what the under estimation is?

Allowing for that falling on the oceans, and further decline due to angle of incidence as distance from equator increases, less the amount required by vegetation for photosynthesis, we are left with how much energy for conversion of solar radiation to heat / electricity / catalytic reaction to other fuels?

According to one theory, the increased radiation received by hundreds of thousands of citizens will cause an increase in their cancer rate — but an increase too tiny to detect amid the large number of cancers that will occur anyway.