Background: In this study, the health risk associated with three types of drinking waters (fissure, underground treated and surrounding waters) from two mines in South Africa were assessed. Materials and Methods: The measurement of the radionuclides concentration was carried out by liquid scintillation counter and alpha spectrometer. The estimated radiological risk pose to the people consuming ...

depending on the moisture contents, the soil behavior is revealed as solid, semisolid, plastic and liquid states. liquid limit is an important property of fine-grained soils and casagrande and cone penetrometer are two different methods employed for the determination of liquid limit of the soil. in forest environment, the casagrande method is the classic method for liquid limit determination, b...

in this paper a novel process monitoring scheme for reducing the type і and type іі error rates in the monitoring phase is proposed. first, the proposed approach uses an augmented data matrix to implement the process dynamic. then, we apply independent component analysis (ica) transformation to the augmented data matrix, and eliminate the outliers using the local outlier factor (lof) algorithm....