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Problems with the dating of sediment core using excess (210)Pb in a freshwater system impacted by large scale watershed changes by Baskaran, Mark, Nix, Joe, Kuyper, Clark, Karunakara, N

“…Pb-210 dating of freshwater and coastal sediments have been extensively conducted over the past 40 years for historical pollution reconstruction studies,…”
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Sensitivity estimation of indium oxide thin film for gamma sensing by Aparna, C., Shetty, Pramoda Kumara, Mahesha, M. G., Yashodhara, I., Karunakara, N.

“…This article aims to study the modification in the structural, optical and electrical properties of indium oxide thin film after gamma irradiation and…”
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Development of a “222Rn incremented method” for the rapid determination of air exchange rate using soil gas by Kumara, K. Sudeep, Karunakara, N., Mayya, Y.S.

“…The air exchange rate (AER) is a critical parameter that governs the levels of exposure to indoor pollutants impacting occupants’ health. It has been…”
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Structural, optical and sensitivity study of optimized indium oxide thin film for gamma sensing applications by Aparna, C., Shetty, Pramoda Kumara, Mahesha, M.G., Karunakara, N., Yashodhara, I.

“…Measurement of radiation dose has the utmost importance in the field of medicine and research. This work aims the estimation of the sensitivity of Indium oxide…”
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Environmental transfer parameters of strontium for soil to cow milk pathway for tropical monsoonal climatic region of the Indian subcontinent by Ujwal, P., Yashodhara, I., Sudeep Kumara, K., Ravi, P. M., Karunakara, N.

“…The radionuclide transfer between compartments is commonly described by transfer parameters representing the ratio of concentrations of an element in two…”
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Assessment of concentration of radium, thorium, and potassium in soils of Rohtak and Jind districts of Haryana by Mehta, Vimal, Kumar, Amit, Shikha, Deep, Kapil, Chandan, Dahiya, Sunita, Kumara, Sudeep, Karunakara, N.

“…The study assessed natural radioactivity in Rohtak and Jind districts, Haryana, India. Concentrations of radionuclides in soil and building materials were…”
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Quantification of excess Carbon-14 specific activity in terrestrial biota in the off-site locations of the PHWR nuclear power plant at Kaiga, India by Karunakara, N., D'Souza, Renita Shiny, Nayak, S. Rashmi, Bharath, S., Krishnan, K. Arya, Dileep, B.N., Ravi, P.M.

“…This is the first detailed study on 14C activity in the environment surrounding a nuclear facility in India. Samples of food matrices and wild plants from the…”
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Thorium promotes lung, liver and kidney damage in BALB/c mouse via alterations in antioxidant systems by Chaudhury, Debajit, Sen, Utsav, Sahoo, Bijay Kumar, Bhat, Nagesh N., Kumara K, Sudeep, Karunakara, N., Biswas, Siddhartha, Shenoy P, Sudheer, Bose, Bipasha

“…Thorium (232Th), long lived (14.05 billion years) most stable thorium isotope, is thrice naturally abundant than uranium. 232Th occurs as rocky deposits and…”
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High uranium dose from the groundwater in a granitic terrain in the eastern part of Karnataka, India by Jindal, Manoj Kumar, Pandit, S. A., Karunakara, N., Chandrashekara, M. S., Kumara, Sudeep, Kumar, Vipin, Salim, Deepak, Srinivasan, R.

“…Very high uranium concentrations of ⁓3000 μgL −1 or more have been found in groundwater held in the granitic aquifers of four villages in eastern Karnataka,…”
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GAMMA DOSE RATES IN THE HIGH BACKGROUND RADIATION AREA OF MANGALORE REGION, INDIA by Al-Azmi, Darwish, Kumara, Sudeep, Mohan, M P, Karunakara, N

“…Abstract Elevated levels of natural background radiation due to scattered patches of monazite sand around the beaches of Mangalore, India, have been reported…”
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125I labelling of C-reactive protein for the development of Radioimmunoassay (RIA) by Ghodke, Tanhaji Sandu, Manupriya, B. R., Kadwad, Vijay, Paradkar, Shalaka, Karunakara, N., Bhasker Shenoy, K.

“…Radioimmunoassay (RIA) for C-reactive protein (CRP) is a clinical tool to quantify CRP, a cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) marker, in human serum. Development of…”
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Development of a magnetizable cellulose particle-based immunoradiometric assay for quantification of C-peptide in rat serum by Manupriya, B. R., Paradkar, Shalaka, Ghodke, Tanhaji Sandu, Kadwad, Vijay, Karunakara, N., Shenoy, K. Bhasker

“…Immunoassays employed to measure C-peptide in rat serum neither have high sensitivity nor good range. Hence, the aim of this work was to develop a sensitive…”
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Special issue of Journal of Environmental Radioactivity on 2nd International Conference on Po and radioactive Pb isotopes by Karunakara, N, Baskaran, Mark

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Site-specific transfer parameters for the tritium transport model at a tropical site, Tarapur, west coast of India by Baburajan, A., Gaikwad, R.H., Sudheendran, V., Shah, C.A., Saradhi, I.V., Kumar, A Vinod, Ravi, P.M., Karunakara, N.

“…The study of the fate of atmospheric release and transport of Tritium requires an understanding of the exchange/transfer of Tritium (HTO) from within the…”
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Baseline study on radiological and mineralogical investigations of heavy mineral depositions on the south–west coast of India by Shetty, Trilochana, Shetty, Ateeth, Anil Kumar, A., Mohan, K. G., Mohan, M. P., Karunakara, N., Prasad, Mukesh, Janik, M., Jayappa, K. S., Somashekarappa, H. M.

“…Pristine depositions of beach sediments containing heavy minerals (HM) along the shorelines of Mangalore, south–west coast of India is reported in the study…”
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Soil to rice transfer factors for (226)Ra, (228)Ra, (210)Pb, (40)K and (137)Cs: a study on rice grown in India by Karunakara, N, Rao, Chetan, Ujwal, P, Yashodhara, I, Kumara, Sudeep, Ravi, P M

“…India is the second largest producer of rice (Oryza sativa L.) in the world and rice is an essential component of the diet for a majority of the population in…”
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An advanced method for quick detection of heavy water leak in steam generators of pressurized heavy water reactors by Dileep, B.N., Ravi, P.M., Sangamesh, Managanvi, Karunakara, N.

“…[Display omitted] •Developed Cerenkov counter for D2O leak detection online for steam generators.•Successfully employed for leak detection in a PHWR during…”
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Thermoluminescence dosimetric attributes of Yb 3+ -doped BaO-ZnO-LiF-B 2 O 3 glass material after Er 3+ co-doping by Prabhu, Nimitha S, Sharmila, K, Karunakara, N, Almousa, Nouf, Sayyed, M I, Kamath, Sudha D

“…Motivated by our previous study on Sm ions as thermoluminescence (TL) sensitizers to the BaO-ZnO-LiF-B O -Yb O glass system, in the current study we examined…”
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Carbon-14 emission from the pressurized heavy water reactor nuclear power plant at Kaiga, India by Bharath, Arya Krishnan, K., D'Souza, Renita Shiny, Rashmi Nayak, S., Dileep, B.N., Ravi, P.M., Mangavi, S.S., Salunke, G.S., Veerendra, D., Karunakara, N.

“…This is a detailed study on oxide (CO2) and reduced (hydrocarbons, CnHm) forms of 14C releases through gaseous effluents from the Kaiga nuclear power plant…”
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How Long a Tropical Mountainous Lake Can Survive? Inferences from Geochemistry and Radiometric Measurements of Pookode Lake, Kerala, India by Gopinath, Girish, Resmi, T. R., Karunakara, N., Manjula, P., Jesiya, N. P., Sudeep Kumara, K., Srinivas, Reji

“…Pookode, the freshwater lake in the Western Ghats, is a well-known tourist place in southern India, and human interference has turned the otherwise serene…”
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