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    The linear no-threshold model (LNT) is a dose-response model used in radiation protection to estimate stochastic health effects such as radiation-induced...
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    In mathematical or statistical modeling a threshold model is any model where a threshold value, or set of threshold values, is used to distinguish ranges...
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    the more generally accepted linear no-threshold model (LNT), which states that the radiation dose-risk relationship is linear across all doses, so that...
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    globe. Such numbers are based on the heavily contested linear no-threshold model. This no-threshold epidemiology problem is not unique to Chernobyl, and...
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    probability of eventually developing fatal cancer based on the disputed linear no-threshold model of ionizing radiation exposure. To calculate the value of stochastic...
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    the commonly accepted model of dose response in radiobiology is the linear no-threshold model (LNT), which assumes a strictly linear dependence between the...
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    known as a bias (loosely corresponding to the threshold potential), before being passed through a non-linear function known as an activation function or...
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  • staunch opponent of the so-called Linear no-threshold model (LNT) which postulates there exists no safe threshold for radiation exposure. His view which...
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    body are not linear, and with obvious thresholds. The WHO reports that the radiation levels from the accident were below the thresholds for deterministic...
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    firing threshold the voltage is reset to a value Vr below the firing threshold. The reset value is one of the important parameters of the model. The simplest...
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    doubt on the use of the linear no threshold model to predict cancer rates from Chernobyl. The article claimed that the threshold for radiation damage was...
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    States) has published a documentary series on the origins of the linear no-threshold (LNT) model though the society has not adopted a policy on LNT." Logarithmic...
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  • quantitative models predicting the level of risk remain controversial.[citation needed] The most widely accepted model, the Linear no-threshold model (LNT),...
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    argued that no threshold dose of radiation existed that did not produce mutagenesis, which led to the adoption of the linear no-threshold model of radiation...
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  • In machine learning, a linear classifier makes a classification decision for each object based on a linear combination of its features. Such classifiers...
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    did not suffer a higher incidence of cancer mortality, as the linear no-threshold model would predict, but suffered a lower cancer mortality than the...
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  • of the linear no-threshold model for exaggerating the effects of low radiation doses. The most frequently cited alternatives are the "linear quadratic"...
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    the Earth's magnetosphere: calculations using the (disputed) linear no-threshold model of radiation damage showed that the fallout from each takeoff...
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    Chernobyl disaster (category CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no))
    worldwide, excluding thyroid cancer. These figures are based on a linear no-threshold model, which the International Commission on Radiological Protection...
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  • Non-linear least squares is the form of least squares analysis used to fit a set of m observations with a model that is non-linear in n unknown parameters...
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  • of radiation received and the duration of exposure, using the linear no-threshold model (LNT). Sex, age, race, culture, occupation, class, location, and...
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  • deaths as a result of worldwide Chernobyl fallout by assuming a linear no-threshold model for very low doses. A Greenpeace report puts this figure at 200...
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  • it a 5.5% chance of eventually developing cancer based on the linear no-threshold model. This calculation starts with the absorbed dose. To represent...
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    this threshold of 100 mSv will produce a direct increase in probability of incurring cancer. This dose-response model is known as 'linear-non-threshold' or...
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  • theoretically NOAEL and LOAEL do not exist as there is no safe dose for the carcinogens. A linear no-threshold model is commonly used for illustrating the probability...
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    growing scientific confidence in the linear no-threshold model for ionising radiation. The linear no-threshold model is used by Green to assert "Nuclear...
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    in life. According to the controversial but commonly applied linear no-threshold model, any exposure to ionizing radiation, even at doses too low to...
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    the generally accepted linear no-threshold model of radiation toxicity. Cohen estimated that one pound of plutonium could kill no more than 2 million people...
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    Colossal Man. Carcinogenesis DNA damage (naturally occurring) Linear no-threshold model Papavramidou N, Papavramidis T, Demetriou T (March 2010). "Ancient...
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    in that they both look for linear combinations of variables which best explain the data. LDA explicitly attempts to model the difference between the classes...
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