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National Nuclear Energy Commission
Government•Rio de Janeiro, Brazil•
About: National Nuclear Energy Commission is a government organization based out in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Dosimetry & Laser. The organization has 3816 authors who have published 4694 publications receiving 59951 citations.
Topics: Dosimetry, Laser, Neutron, Corrosion, Monte Carlo method
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TL;DR: Even for simple problems as spheres and uniform radiation sources, the set of parameters chosen by any Monte Carlo code significantly affects the final results of a simulation, demonstrating the importance of the correct choice of parameters in the simulation.
Abstract: Purpose: Radiopharmaceutical applications in nuclear medicine require a detailed dosimetry estimate of the radiation energy delivered to the human tissues. Over the past years, several publications addressed the problem of internal dose estimate in volumes of several sizes considering photon and electron sources. Most of them used Monte Carlo radiationtransport codes. Despite the widespread use of these codes due to the variety of resources and potentials they offered to carry out dose calculations, several aspects like physical models, cross sections, and numerical approximations used in the simulations still remain an object of study. Accurate dose estimate depends on the correct selection of a set of simulation options that should be carefully chosen. This article presents an analysis of several simulation options provided by two of the most used codes worldwide:MCNP and GEANT4. Methods: For this purpose, comparisons of absorbed fraction estimates obtained with different physical models, cross sections, and numerical approximations are presented for spheres of several sizes and composed as five different biological tissues. Results: Considerable discrepancies have been found in some cases not only between the different codes but also between different cross sections and algorithms in the same code. Maximum differences found between the two codes are 5.0% and 10%, respectively, for photons and electrons. Conclusion: Even for simple problems as spheres and uniform radiationsources, the set of parameters chosen by any Monte Carlo code significantly affects the final results of a simulation, demonstrating the importance of the correct choice of parameters in the simulation.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the sintering behavior of gadolinia-doped ceria powders was studied by the master Sintering curve (MSC) and the activation energy was found to be in the 218- 325 KJ/mol range, depending on the dopant content.
Abstract: The sintering behavior of gadolinia-doped ceria powders was studied by the master sintering curve (MSC). Dilatometric analyses of powders produced by a soft chemical method were performed to provide the experi- mental data set for the construction of the MSC. The assumed model provided good fittings of the MSC and the activation energy for the sintering of Ce1-xGdxO3-d, with x = 0, 0.05, 0.1, and 0.2 were found to be in the 218- 325 KJ/mol range, depending on the dopant content. The results supported that both the nanometric size of the par- ticles and the difference in ionic radii between Gd 3? and Ce 4? affects the sintering of Gd-doped CeO2.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed this kind of test in Brazilian coastal estuaries to evaluate total mercury and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contamination in sediments and oysters (native and caged Crassostrea rhizophorae).
Abstract: Nowadays, organisms are increasingly being used in biomonitoring to assess bioavailability and bioaccumulation of contaminants. This approach can use both native and transplanted organisms in order to accomplish this task. In Brazil, most of the studies related to bioaccumulation of contaminants in oysters deal with metals. The present work employs this kind of test in Brazilian coastal estuaries (Santos and Paranagua) to evaluate total mercury and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contamination in sediments and oysters (native and caged Crassostrea rhizophorae). The methodologies employed were based on known USEPA methods. Results have shown a significant contamination in Santos sediments and consequent bioavailability of organisms. Paranagua sediments presented lower contamination in sediments, but native oysters were able to accumulate total Hg. The experiments done with caged oysters did not show significant bioaccumulation of Hg and PAHs in the Paranagua site, but proved to be an excellent tool to assess bioavailability in the Santos estuary since they were able to bioaccumulate up to 1,600% of total PAH in the samples from the inner part of this estuary when compared to control organisms. Multivariate statistical analyses employed to these results have separated the sites evaluated and the most contaminated samples from the least contaminated.
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TL;DR: Both Lachesis muta muta venom and LmTX-I increase microvascular permeability by mechanisms involving in vivo mast cell activation and arachidonic acid metabolites, whether Lm TX-I-induced responses involve PAF or not.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the scattering of X-rays from a (NH 4 ) 2 SO 4 aqueous solution has been measured and analysed at 25°C and it was shown that the sample may be considered as a solution of sulphate ions in water.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Giorgio Parisi | 108 | 941 | 60746 |
Sergio Ferrara | 105 | 726 | 44507 |
Richard Wilson | 70 | 809 | 21477 |
Eliana B. Souto | 66 | 447 | 15706 |
Andrea Saltelli | 65 | 184 | 31540 |
Fausto Croce | 51 | 162 | 11753 |
Sílvia M. Rocha | 42 | 163 | 4934 |
Marcos Duarte | 41 | 122 | 5855 |
Luiz Gustavo Cançado | 41 | 106 | 13155 |
Ruggero Caminiti | 41 | 267 | 7296 |
Francesco Romanelli | 40 | 236 | 5756 |
Mario Molinaro | 39 | 111 | 5923 |
Giovanna Cenacchi | 38 | 217 | 4948 |
Claudio Pellegrini | 38 | 235 | 5885 |
Maria Manuela Silva | 37 | 324 | 5258 |