Radiation Protection & Radiobiology Notes Human Biology Human Response To Ionizing Radiation Early Effects of Radiation: When response occurs within minutes or days after exposure. Late Effects of Radiation: When response is not observed for many months or years after exposure. Effects of fetal irradiation: Death‚ malformation‚ malignancy‚ diminished growth. Composition of Human Body Cell Theory: 85% of the body is hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen: 60% Oxygen: 25.7% Carbon: 10.7% Nitrogen:
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In the short story “The Veldt‚” Ray Bradbury illustrates what is to come to a child without the proper guidance from their parental figures. The lack of parental guidance in the story is brought about by the machinery and technology that relieves the parents and children from daily chores and abilities that may seem tiresome‚ such as making dinner‚ cleaning the house and even tying their shoes. As they are relying on this technology‚ the parents are slowly beginning to lose their purpose as a parental
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In the story “Veldt” by Ray Bradbury‚ The parents‚ George and Lydia‚ (Who were expatriate) are to blame for their own deaths because they are the ones who let the kids (Peter and Wendy) be addicted‚ instead of minimizing the use of all the technology in their home. In the beginning of the story George and Lydia bought a smart house‚ so the machines could accomplish all their multiple chores for them. George and Lydia bought a VR house so that they didn’t have to do anything for their kids. This
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In Ray Bradbury’s “August 2002: Night Meeting”‚ two beings have a random encounter that leads them to dispute the existence and reality of the other. Tomás Gomez is an Earthling living on Mars on his way to a party. While taking a break from driving‚ Tomás encounters a Martian named Muhe Ca. The two are unable to communicate until Muhe Ca learns English by touching Tomás’ head. When Tomás tries to hand Muhe Ca a cup of coffee‚ their hands fall through each other “like mist”‚ and the other person
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Interview with Academic Report – Professor Chris Sorrell Background Professor Chris Sorrell is an academic staff of the School Of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Professor Sorrell specifies in Ceramics Engineering‚ which is a branch of materials science that researches substances that are made from metals that are non-metals and not organic. Professor Sorrell’s main research currently focuses on photocatalytic usage in various applications such as in the biomedical
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In the “Illustrated Man”‚ Ray Bradbury demonstrates that when one is obsessed with something negative‚ consequences are bound to happen. In “The Veldt”‚ Peter and Wendy are obsessed with the nursery and as a result get into a fight with their parents‚ which lead to their parent’s death. When the parents threaten to shut the nursery off‚ their obsession becomes obvious‚ as they lock their parents into the nursery and say‚ “Don’t let them switch off the nursery and the house”. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley
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#1‚ #2‚ #3 In Bradbury’s story‚ There Will Come Soft Rains‚ he personifies many objects in the house. He described the cleaning animals as having eyes and sucking at dust. He personified the clock as being afraid that no one would hear it. At one point he describes the house as being self protective and bordering on paranoia. The door also recognized the dog’s voice. By giving the house and all of its machines a personality‚ he makes the house appear to be the main character. Bradbury gives many
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Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury How plausible is the future envisioned in this novel? The large screen televisions are believable - in fact‚ technology is currently leaning towards 48‚ 56" TVs that nearly fill up the whole wall. When this book was written‚ it seemed like an obscure possibility that TVs would ever be that big. The Seashell earphones are like CD players. People can be listening to them in one ear and having a somewhat normal interaction with the half of their brain that’s not listening
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Silliman University is known for its quality of education and also the expensiveness of the school compare to the other school inside Negros Oriental. This is because Silliman University is a private school that does not get money from the government and that is run by a group of individuals. Silliman University has an average tuition fee of thirty-eight thousand five hundred seventy pesos (₱38‚570). This is according to the official website of the University. Base on this‚ the expensiveness of the
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X-ray Powder Diffraction Analysis: Principles‚ Instrumentation and Applications M.S.Pandian Department of Earth Sciences‚ Pondicherry University‚ Puducherry-605014 Introduction X-ray powder diffraction analysis (XRD) is perhaps the most widely used X-ray based analytical techniques for characterizing materials. As the name suggests‚ the sample is usually in a powdery form‚ consisting of fine grains of crystalline material to be studied. The term ’powder’ really means that the crytalline domains
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