Stylistic examples of the net-benefit curve for the linear threshold model (in green) and the bi-threshold model (in blue). A model of human behavior finds that people will share information if enough ...

A series of developments from 1954 through 1972 marked the transition to adoption of the linear, no-threshold model as a predictive model of radiation injury in exposed populations. In 1954, the ...

World War II ended with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those bombings and the late effects of radiation on the development of cancers in those “survivors” spurred scientific inquiry into the ...