Sentence examples for year of background from inspiring English sources

The new regulations will slow down exploration by, for example, requiring a year of background monitoring before drilling can begin.

Of the study population, 57% overestimated the amount of radiation in a chest radiograph, with 17.5% choosing the option that the radiation exposure would be equivalent to a dose greater than 1 year of background radiation.

Alternatively, it equates to 3 years of 'natural' background radiation we are all exposed to background radiation from the surroundings including the sun—(or 1 year of background radiation in some parts of the West of England, e.g. Cornwall).

After several years of background work and discussion, the Ministerial Council was able to meet for the first time in Algiers on 20 June 2010 and agreed to the creation of non-discriminatory and transparent access to the transmission system.

So with a worldwide network of listening devices planted on the ocean floor, you can track whale movements — if you want to listen to years of background noise and pick out the calls manually, that is.

Radiation dosage to patients in the study from exposure to the radiopharmaceutical and the attenuation CT scan of the head was 6.5 mSv, equivalent to approximately 3 years of background radiation exposure in the UK.

Cadonati explained that LIGO data analysts shifted strings of data over 30 million times to create what simulated 600 thousand years of background information for the detection.

Before 2001, most statistical aberration detection methods required at least 5 years of background data (1 – 6 ).

However, with the release of Bacillus anthracis in the U.S. mail shortly after the September 11 , 2001 World Trade Center attacks, substantial interest has emerged in public health tools that could be rapidly implemented without requiring years of background data.

Moreover, the radiation exposure is low, generally being comparable to that obtained from 1 year of natural background radiation.

The resulting radiation dose was assessed by the Radiation and Protection Advisor at APHP, using CT-Expo V 1.6 17 (Stamm and Nagel 2002) software, as being 2.6 mSv which is equivalent to 1 year of natural background radiation.