Background: A field study on the transfer of primordial radionuclides 238U, 232Th, 40K and fallout radionuclides 210Po in different plant species in tropical forest of western Ghats environment is presented. Material and Methods: The Top storey, Second storey, Shrubs and epiphytic plant species were chosen and concentration of these radionuclides in plant and soil were measured by employing gam...

AbstractBackground: Around the world, one of the main concerns and risky behaviors among youths ismethamphetamine consumption. Since the age of onset of methamphetamine use is decreasing, therefore, itis important to identify the effective factors on the age of onset of methamphetamine consumption. In the<sp...

Using 103,133 news items collected from Daum News, the second most popular news portal in South Korea, we provide multidimensional analyses of gender and age differences in news consumption. We quantify such differences in four different dimensions: 1) by actual news items; 2) by topic 3) by issue; and 4) by angle. We found that angle preferences can better explain the difference of news consum...

Breadth of the interproximal wear facet between lower P2 and M1 and between lower M1 and M2 was measured in human skeletal samples representing the Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods of Tennessee River Valley prehistory, with the aim of assessing relative magnitudes of applied masticatory forces. When stratified by level of occlusal wear, mean interproximal facet breadth was consisten...