Time to Reject the Linear-No Threshold Hypothesis and Accept Thresholds and Hormesis

Linear No-Threshold Model VS. Radiation Hormesis.

The atomic bomb survivor cancer mortality data have been used in the past to justify the use of the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for estimating the carcinogenic effects of low dose radiation. An analysis of the recently updated atomic bomb survivor cancer mortality dose-response data shows that the data no longer support the LNT model but are consistent with a radiation hormesis model when a...

An improvement to the linear accept/reject algorithm

on the effect of linear & non-linear texts on students comprehension and recalling

چکیده ندارد.

Accept-Reject Decisions and Probabilistic Failure Prediction

The purpose of this paper is to discuss recent progress in the development of an NDE decision formalism applied to the case of brittle fracture in ceramics. The on-line input into the formalism is a set of nondestructive (ND) measurements and the on-line output is the probability of failure conditioned on the above measurements. The final accept-reject decision depends only upon the comparison ...

Radiation Hormesis: an Evolutionary Expectation Invalidating the Linear No-threshold (lnt) Premise

Organisms survive best, or show high fitness, in the habitats in which they most commonly occur, a phenomenon referred to as hormesis in the literature of toxicology. Examples of hormesis accumulate rapidly in the literature. However, a lack of underlying models has led many to doubt its existence, especially for ionizing radiation. The evolutionary model developed here indicates that all poten...