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[en] This issue is the collection of the papers presented at the 16th National Institute of Radiological Science Seminar on Environmental Research. The 18 of the presented papers are indexed individually. (J.P.N.)

[en] This book shows some aspects and the effects of several types of accidents in the victims, including the psychological considerations, changes in theirs behaviour, concepts, clinical diagnostic, etc. Victims of nuclear, transit terrorism and work accidents are studied. (C.G.C.)

[en] To determine the physical standards of the Reference Korean, research has been initiated in Korea within the framework of the IAEA Coordinated Research Programme ''Compilation of Anatomical, Physiological and Metabolic Characteristics for a Reference Asian Man''. The physical data of 21,406 Koreans, corresponding to 0.05% of the total Korean population, were compiled. All the data were divided into small groups according to age and sex. Data on the mass of internal organs from 1,921 Koreans (1,344 male and 577 female) were collected. All the data are given in a tabulated form. It was shown that the anatomical parameters of Reference Korean were, as usual, similar to those of Reference Japanese but different from those of ICRP Reference Man from Publication 23. However, the weights of several internal organs (liver, pancreas) were different from those of Japanese. 11 refs, 4 figs, 24 tabs

[en] The extent to which man of modern times destroys nature has reached a breathtaking speed nowadays. The language of facts is clear. The author of the present study considers a radical change of the present conception of the world and the human being as the only salvation from a total catastrophe. 'Crisis of the environment' is, however, no technical but a religious and an intellectual problem. This open-minded and explosive book does just as little stop at false moving forces of Christianity with regard to its anthorpocentric philosophy as it stops at the modern type of man being atheistic in his basic nature. (orig.)

[en] This paper shows the effects of the nuclear accident in the victims, in their lives, changes in the behaviour, neurosis including all the psychological aspects. The author compare the victims with nuclear accident like AIDS patients, in terms of people's discrimination. There is another kind of victims. They are the people who gave helpness, for example physicians, firemen and everybody involved with the first aids that suffer together with the victims trying to safe them and to diminish their suffering, combating the danger, the discrimination and the no information. (L.M.J.)

[en] The effect of radiation depends on radiation exposures and doses. Acute exposures may be followed by haemopoietic, gastrointestinal and central nervous system damage, while the chronic exposures cause carcinogenesis, life shortening and cataract

[en] Radioimmunofixation of human ferritin following isoelectric focusing of serum was developed to study the microheterogeneity of this protein in native serum without previous purification or concentration. This method requires only 2-10 μl of serum and can be used with levels of ferritin as low as 10 μg/l. In this way, the extensive microheterogeneity of this protein was revealed, since in some cases it produced as many as 35 bands with isoelectric points in a pH range of 4.95-5.9. Very different isoelectric focusing patterns (spectrotypes) of ferritin were observed during the investigation of pathological sera. The high sensitivity of this technique makes it useful for the investigation of serum ferritin in diseases involving modifications of the metabolism of this protein. (orig.)

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