Sentences with phrase «term effects of radiation»

Reducing exposure as soon and as drastically as possible, Buddemeier says, will also help stave off the long - term effects of radiation, such as cancer or genetic mutations.

Not exact matches

Comprehensive medical research has never been done to determine the health effects of long - term radiation exposure.

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.

As a result, several thousand of Fukushima's 2 million residents have been thrust into the middle of a vigorous scientific debate about the health effects of long - term exposure to low levels of radiation.

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.

Plant workers are being exposed to much higher levels of radiation than the general population, and will be monitored for long - term health effects.

«This is a useful estimate of the long term effects of global fall - out on the population of the US, but it is only part of the story,» says Dudley Goodhead, a leading radiation specialist with the Medical Research Council in Harwell, UK.

Researchers found that shorter course of radiation therapy may provide lesser side effects for early stage breast cancer patients compared to the long - term treatments.

The long - term health effects of exposure to atomic bomb radiation on survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not as severe as once thought.

His research concentrates on the long - term biological effects of low - dose radiation exposure.

Tomatoes are rich in the antioxidant lycopene, which has been proven to provide long - term protection against the effects of UV radiation.

New radiation technologies and techniques have revolutionized treatment of brain cancers (including pituitary tumors that cause feline acromegaly), allowing for a non-invasive approach to treatment that has few, if any, short term side effects.

New radiation technologies and techniques have revolutionized treatment of heart base tumors, allowing for a non-invasive approach to treatment, that has few (if any) short term side effects (such as a transient cough).

Potential benefits of stereotactic radiation therapy include fewer visits to the hospital for radiation treatments, fewer anesthetic events, and a lower risk of short - term side effects.

The effect of long - term travel in interplanetary space is unknown, but scientists estimate an added risk of between 1 % and 19 % (one estimate is 3.4 %) for men to die of cancer because of the radiation during the journey to Mars and back to Earth.

Spencer + Braswell have shown that over the tropics on a shorter - term basis, the net overall feedback from clouds with warming is negative; this is largely due to an increase in reflection of incoming radiation by increased clouds with a smaller effect from the reduction of energy trapping high altitude clouds, which slow down outgoing radiation by absorbing and re-radiating energy.

In terms of the cooling effect of clouds, the immediacy of feeling that effect is due to the blocked incoming radiation from the sun, just as it would be if you stepped beneath a large shade tree.

In terms of building physics, this increases the probability that condensation might form on the outer surface of the façade due to the cooling effect of long - wave radiation of heat during the night.

When Alarmists say that ENSO's short term effects must balance to zero over the long run they are doing a priori science using the assumptions of the «radiation - only» model.

Yes, «greenhouse» is a poor term, but is unfortunately established now (means Tyndall effect, relates to the absorption of infrared radiation).

The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that, despite global side effects and long - term consequences, geoengineering techniques involving solar radiation management (SRM) should be maintained:

Thus, long - term variations of TSI (with account for their direct and secondary, based on feedback effects, influence) are the main fundamental cause of climate changes since variations of the Earth climate is mainly determined by a long - term imbalance between the energy of solar radiation entering the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere and the total energy emitted from the Earth back to space.»

[NB: To avoid the vexing issue of the effects of the down - welling infrared radiation, it is easiest to think of long - term zero energy imbalance, as measured by satellites at the top of the atmosphere — after the underlying atmosphere adjusts.

Thus an understanding of the mechanisms distributing water vapor through the atmosphere and of water vapor's effects on atmospheric radiation and circulation is vital to estimating long - term changes in climate.

«Effect» is here defined in terms of radiative forcing (RF), which is (loosely) the change in the amount of incoming (to Earth) versus outgoing (to space) radiation / energy, measured in watts per square metre (w / m2).

The irony is that although he claims to have gotten rid of «back radiation» by coming up with a different interpretation of the terms in the equation governing radiative transfer between two bodies, he has in fact done nothing to change any numerical result using those equations... including all of the numerical results that support the existence of the greenhouse effect!

The popular explanation of the greenhouse effect as the result of the LW atmospheric absorption of the surface radiation and the surface heating by the atmospheric downward radiation is incorrect, since the involved flux terms (AA and ED) are always equal.

In simple terms it seems that the effect of downwelling LR radiation is not to heat the ocean directly, but to turn the thin cool skin layer into a thermal insulating barrier and thus increase OHC by reducing heat transmission to the atmosphere.

According to the Food and Drug Administration, because the problem went undetected for so long, patients may be at an increased risk of long term effects from radiation exposure.