chronic radiation dose
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chronic radiation dose a dose of ionizing radiation received either continuously or intermittently over a prolonged period of time.
A chronic radiation dose may be high enough to cause radiation sickness and death, but if received at a low-dose rate, a significant portion of the acute cellular damage will be repaired.
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Hell with a harpoon. (Opinion Histories).(history of whaling captain William Scoresby)
Magazine article from: New Scientist; 5/18/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...great whaling heroes, Captain William Scoresby in a new light. This arch of...harbour in Yorkshire celebrates Scoresby's success. But it could equally...he drove to extinction. WHEN William Scoresby sailed home to Whitby in the...
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Port honours Arctic explorer with plaque
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 6/21/2004; 440 words
; ...even invented the crow's nest. And now William Scoresby senior has had a plaque unveiled outside his...the address of 13, Bagdale was confirmed as Scoresby's. The house was built by Scoresby along with two properties next door and it...
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Undaunted
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/11/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Just shy of 40, she married William Scoresby Routledge, a dashing Australian...East Africa (now Kenya). While Scoresby amassed tribal artifacts and plant...this time to Easter Island. Scoresby saw the promise of riches: The...
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Farmers who sailed the seven seas
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 1/15/2007; 689 words
; ...and elsewhere in the district. William Scoresby was born at Cropton, near Pickering...ship had reached at the time. Scoresby senior also invented the crow...bears at Whitby - in the 1820s William Scoresby junior had to catch an escaped...
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A note on 'Moby-Dick''s "Cetology" chapter.
Magazine article from: ANQ; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...conflates them into one, following Scoresby, although he does give the common...information could only have come from Scoresby, much as Melville would begrudge...Smithsonian Books, 1984. Scoresby, William. An Account of the Arctic Regions...
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Flight into Fancy: Poe's Discovery of the Right Brain.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Southern Literary Journal; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...creative period--the period of "William Wilson," "Ligeia," "The Fall...Poe mined material for Pym from William Scoresby, Jr.'s Journal of a Voyage...Dameron shows that Poe referred to Scoresby twice in his writing and points...
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Taking the waters
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 7/26/2008; ; 689 words
; ...s nest was invented in 1807 by Captain William Scoresby, Whitby?s greatest whaler. Scoresby designed a canvascovered frame with a hatch...voyage. They kept them in baskets, and once Scoresby had invented his look-out post, the crows...
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Stamp of approval for a swan song
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 1/16/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...title was a scholarly biography of William Scoresby Junior, the Whitby whaler and...scientist. Alongside a portrait of Scoresby on the dust jacket was an image...to everyone, was first drawn by Scoresby.Caedmon of Whitby proceeded to...
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You say tomato ...; Beautifying results
Newspaper article from: The Press; 10/12/2002; 418 words
; ...tomatoes grown in New Zealand was Scoresby Dwarf. Apart from being a...and you picked the fruit. Scoresby plants have been spotted in...supermarkets and garden centres. Old Scoresby hands recommend putting a thick...Merit: Tourism House, Sir WIlliam Pickering Drive; Tait Electronics...
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AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Midday, Jan 9
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 1/9/2006; 700+ words
; ...dead at 1.20pm (AEST). Scoresby (MELBOURNE) Victoria's acting...diverting money set aside for the Scoresby tollway to projects outside...the fire broke out. Royals William (LONDON) Prince WILLIAM has joined his younger brother...
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William Scoresby
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
William Scoresby , 1789-1857, English arctic explorer and scientist. He made yearly...made a voyage to Australia (1856) to study terrestrial magnetism. Scoresby's several books on his arctic experiences helped lay the foundations...
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Scoresby, William (1789-1857)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Scoresby, William (1789-1857) British Arctic explorer...mesmeric passes over him. Sources: Scoresby, William. Journal of a Voyage to Australia...Stamp, Tom, and Cordelia Stamp. William Scoresby, Arctic Scientist. Whitby, U...
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Discovery Investigations
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...series of commissions between 1925 and 1939, the crews of the Discovery (replaced by Discovery II in 1929) and the William Scoresby carried out thousands of routine oceanographic observations, undertook a number of whale-marking cruises, completed...
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whaling
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...rendered with try works to extract the oil. One of the most famous accounts of 19th-century whaling was written by William Scoresby Jr. (1789–1857). He undertook some of the first oceanographic observations in the Arctic to try and...
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