This paper reviews how the health of humans is affected by the world's soils, an association
that to date has been under appreciated and under reported. Soils significantly influence a …

Background Smoking is a known lung cancer cause, but no detailed quantitative systematic
review exists. We summarize evidence for various indices. Methods Papers published …

This report summarizes the developments in radiation science in the years leading up to the
new millennium, drawn on the main conclusion of the scientific assessments of the United …

Objective To determine the risk of lung cancer associated with exposure at home to the
radioactive disintegration products of naturally occurring radon gas Design Collaborative …

Substantial knowledge is available on the association of the indoor school environment and
its effect among schoolchildren. In the same context, the SINPHONIE (School indoor …

Objective and design: To relate UK national trends since 1950 in smoking, in smoking
cessation, and in lung cancer to the contrasting results from two large case-control studies …

Background: Underground miners exposed to high levels of radon have an excess risk of
lung cancer. Residential exposure to radon is at much lower levels, and the risk of lung …

Cohort studies have consistently shown underground miners exposed to high levels of
radon to be at excess risk of lung cancer, and extrapolations based on those results indicate …

Objectives Studies seeking direct estimates of the lung cancer risk associated with
residential radon exposure lasting several decades have been conducted in many …

The Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science contains 350 alphabetically arranged entries.
The topics include cave and karst geoscience, cave archaeology and human use of caves …