Transfer of K40 from soil to plants in an agricultural field and its EDE from milk ingestion

A large fraction of radiation exposure experienced by individuals through ingestion of food, is from natural occurring radionuclides such as K40. In order to find the environmental radioactive background of K40 in Ninevah, Iraq, governorate and its transfer factor from soil to plant and then the effective dose equivalent from milk ingestion, the concentrations of K40 were measured in soil , plant and milk collected from 41 agricultural fields in Ninevah governorate in May/ June 2001.

Plant role in contemporary architecture to increase shading & as alternative energy

plants plays an important function in alive environment and generally in architecture, and it has an important function in the formation of constructional spaces that the constructional masses appears in their real scales and it is interrelated with natural elements that addresses the sharp architectural lines and the harsh texture. Plants and trees have important functions in all social economic environmental aspects, in addition to their great function in controlling sunshine and changing many hard climatic conditions, and they have a great function in dilution the global warming which has become a global phenomenon that the whole world is seeking to solve.