deterministic effect

(dē-tĕr″mĭ-nis′tik)

An effect that has a threshold of chemical or radiation exposure below which are no measurable effects and above which the severity is dose-related.

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The author argues that depictions of gambling were influenced by evolutionism and DarwinEs ideas about the deterministic effect of chance.

Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel: 'A Leprosy Is O'er the Land' (reprint, 2003)

Yet Wojtyla's rejects the view that this "making of man" is nothing but the deterministic effect of one's cultural and social environment.

Karol Wojtyla. The Thought of the Man Who Became Pope John Paul II

The questions concerned reasons for referring for imaging procedures, knowledge and use of clinical imaging referral guidelines (CIGs), knowledge on radiation doses of 11 most prescribed medical imaging procedures, knowledge on stochastic and deterministic effects of radiation, the need of training on ionizing radiation, and the need of CIGs.

Knowledge on Irradiation, Medical Imaging Prescriptions, and Clinical Imaging Referral Guidelines among Physicians in a Sub-Saharan African Country (Cameroon)

* deterministic effects are dose related and acute such as skin burns and alopecia;

Image-I-Nation: medical imaging Nurses Association Australia National Conference, June 19-21, 2015

Dose thresholds are required for deterministic effects because large numbers of cells must be destroyed simultaneously to produce such effects.

A guide to radiation hazard evaluation, applied to Fukushima recovery workers

Deterministic effects occur when cells are killed; this will be clinically visible above a certain threshold dose.

Radiation dose to surgeons in theatre

These can be dependent on the total dose (deterministic effects) or independent of dose (stochastic effects).

The risk of radiation exposure to assisting staff in urological procedures: a literature review

Through these highly visible circular symbols, the director is undoubtedly emphasizing the deterministic effects of the environment and heredity and their influence on the destiny and future of the siblings.

Naturalism in Gregory Nava's film El Norte

A tentative finding is that deterministic effects are relatively more important than stochastic ones.

Is there seasonality in Pakistan's merchandise exports and imports? The univariate modelling approach

Further, since we have no need to neutralize the deterministic effects of a mechanistic, pre-deterministic natural world upon the possibility of our freedom, then we can avoid the radical subjectivist turn taken by Kant.

Relational creativity and the symmetry of freedom and nature

Therefore, CT does not appear to be a major cause of deterministic effects, except after excessive patient exposure.

The increasing use of CT and its risks

They cover basic radiation physics, chemistry and biology, sources of possible radiation exposure, effects on genetic materials, cancer induction and dose-responsive models, carginogenesis of specific sites, deterministic effects of radiation and effects in combination with other agents, exposure in utero, psychological perceptions about radiation, hormesis, effects on individuals, and comparisons of uranium, plutonium, and radium.