Presentation of radon potential maps to the public: A case history for Portland, Oregon

1998 ◽  
pp. 43-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott F. Burns ◽  
Stuart G. Ashbaugh ◽  
Ray Paris ◽  
George Toombs
Keyword(s):  
Case History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Radon Potential

scholarly journals Hypertension among coal mining workers associated with parental hypertension in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
pp. 100-107
Author(s):  
Kurnia Ardiansyah Akbar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Case History ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Public ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Prevention Of Hypertension

Hypertension is a chronic disease with its prevalence increasing from 2013 to 2018 among population of Indonesia. In 2013 the prevalence of hypertension was 25.8%, and in 2018 it increased to 34.1%. Therefore, the participation of all related parties, both doctors and health professionals from various fields of hypertension specialization, government, the private sector, and the public, is needed to control hypertension. One of the private parties that has the authority to participate in the prevention of hypertension in Indonesia is business. One sector that has a large workforce is the coal mining sector. This study aimed to look at the influence exerted by hypertension in parents’ case history on risks of incidence withhypertension among coal mining workers. This study is a cross-sectional one with two variables, namely hypertension in parents’ case histories and hypertension among coal mining workers performed on a sampling including 360 coal mining workers. The results showed that if a father had hypertension in his case history the risk of incidence with hypertension among coal mining workers was 3.143 times higher because OR = 3.143; 95% CI (1.568 <OR <6.229), while if a mother had hypertension in her case history the risk of incidence with hypertension among coal mining workers is 6.519 times higher because OR = 6.519; 95% CI (3,267 <OR <13,008) and if parents have hypertension in their case history, the risk of incidence with hypertension among coal mine workers is 6.061 times higher because OR = 6.061; 95% CI (2,910 <OR <12,625). The Conclusion is enough to prove that hereditary or genetic factors play a role in the increased risk of hypertension in coal mining workers.

‘The dancing front’: dance music, dancing, and the BBC in World War II

Popular Music ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTINA BAADE
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Case History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
National Service ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Dance ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World

This paper offers a case history of the BBC's ambivalent engagement with dance music during the Second World War. It examines what ‘dance music’ meant to the BBC, musicians, and the public, and how they contested and performed those meanings in the context of new social dance practices and the growing popularity of what became known as ‘swing’ in Britain. Although broadcasting in effect disembodied music closely associated with the physical, the BBC was a primary way for people to access dance music which supported their bodily acts of leisure and regimentation. The BBC's study and regulation of dance music centred around two goals: pleasing important groups in national service and broadcasting morale-boosting music. The problem of whether these goals were congruent lay at the heart of the issue, for the youth active in national service emerged as the primary audience for the two genres – ‘swing’ and ‘sentimentality’ – about which the BBC felt most dubious.

scholarly journals The dilemma of the forensic psychiatrist

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 333-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwen Adshead ◽  
Jeanette Smith
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Case History ◽  
Real Case ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
Require Information

Forensic psychiatrists have particular ethical duties in relation to the protection of the public, which few other doctors have. Part of the fulfillment of that duty is the assessment of risk, upon which many ethical decisions rest. But comprehensive risk assessment may require information which is not available, leaving the forensic psychiatrist in a dilemma between her duty to the patient and to the public. This case history is based on a real case.

scholarly journals Geological controls on radon potential in Scotland

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Scheib ◽  
J. D. Appleton ◽  
J. C. H. Miles ◽  
B. M. R. Green ◽  
T. S. Barlow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radioactive Decay ◽  
Biotite Granite ◽  
Fracture Permeability ◽  
Red Sandstone ◽  
The Public ◽  
Total Radiation Dose ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Orcadian Basin ◽  
Radon Potential ◽  
The Uk

Synopsis222Rn, a natural radioactive gas produced by the radioactive decay of 238U, accounts for about 50% of the total radiation dose to the average person in the UK. Geology is the most important factor controlling the source and distribution of radon; which has been linked to an increased risk of lung cancer. In order to prevent the public receiving high exposures to radon, it is necessary to identify those areas most at risk. We present results of new mapping of radon potential for Scotland using a method that allows the spatial variation in radon potential to be delineated both within and between geological groupings.The main geological and geochemical associations with moderate to high radon potential areas are described. The highest radon potential values in Scotland are associated with U-rich, highly evolved Siluro-Devonian biotite granite intrusions, notably those clustered within a zone to the west of Aberdeen and at Helmsdale, in Caithness. U mineralization plays a role in areas including the Helmsdale granite and the Middle Old Red Sandstone of the Orcadian Basin. Elevated radon potential is also associated with limestones – where fracture permeability is influential – and with Ordovician–Silurian greywackes. The radon potential of unconsolidated deposits, and how this affects the radon potential of the underlying bedrock, reflects both their permeabilities and their compositions.

scholarly journals Hypertension among coal mining workers associated with parental hypertension in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
pp. 100-107
Author(s):  
Kurnia Ardiansyah Akbar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Case History ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Public ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Prevention Of Hypertension

Hypertension is a chronic disease with its prevalence increasing from 2013 to 2018 among population of Indonesia. In 2013 the prevalence of hypertension was 25.8%, and in 2018 it increased to 34.1%. Therefore, the participation of all related parties, both doctors and health professionals from various fields of hypertension specialization, government, the private sector, and the public, is needed to control hypertension. One of the private parties that has the authority to participate in the prevention of hypertension in Indonesia is business. One sector that has a large workforce is the coal mining sector. This study aimed to look at the influence exerted by hypertension in parents’ case history on risks of incidence withhypertension among coal mining workers. This study is a cross-sectional one with two variables, namely hypertension in parents’ case histories and hypertension among coal mining workers performed on a sampling including 360 coal mining workers. The results showed that if a father had hypertension in his case history the risk of incidence with hypertension among coal mining workers was 3.143 times higher because OR = 3.143; 95% CI (1.568 <OR <6.229), while if a mother had hypertension in her case history the risk of incidence with hypertension among coal mining workers is 6.519 times higher because OR = 6.519; 95% CI (3,267 <OR <13,008) and if parents have hypertension in their case history, the risk of incidence with hypertension among coal mine workers is 6.061 times higher because OR = 6.061; 95% CI (2,910 <OR <12,625). The Conclusion is enough to prove that hereditary or genetic factors play a role in the increased risk of hypertension in coal mining workers.

scholarly journals Documenting/Performing the Vulnerable Body: Pain and Agency in Works by Boris Mikhailov and Petr Pavlensky

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 85-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Nordgaard
Keyword(s):  
Case History ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Public ◽  
Body Pain ◽  
Political Function ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Body ◽  
Contemporary Media

This article explores the concepts of pain and agency in the photography series Case History (1997–1998) by the Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov, and in four performance-actions (2012–2014) by the Russian performance-activist Petr Pavlensky. Although they represent different generations and respond to different historical contexts, Mikhailov and Pavlensky share a focus on the wounded body. Taking both the documentary and performative aspects of these artworks into account, Nordgaard argues that the wounded body stands forth as a body of agency which also reflects the social, political, and historical settings in which it exists. The relational consideration of the two artists therefore offers important insights for understanding post-Soviet Ukraine and present-day Russia, and reflects on the correlation between the private and the public body. By placing Mikhailov and Pavlensky in dialogue with a broader discussion on spectatorship and the role and significance of “shock imagery” and spectacle in contemporary media, the article further suggests why artworks depicting the body in pain have both an ethical and political function.

Replications can cause distorted belief in scientific progress

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Białek
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
The Public ◽  
Psychological Science

AbstractIf we want psychological science to have a meaningful real-world impact, it has to be trusted by the public. Scientific progress is noisy; accordingly, replications sometimes fail even for true findings. We need to communicate the acceptability of uncertainty to the public and our peers, to prevent psychology from being perceived as having nothing to say about reality.

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