Nova Excerpts

Preface; Experimental Steps for Calibrating a Radon Meter for Use in Environmental Studies; The Influence of Regional and Global Geophysical Characteristics on the Volumetric Activity of Radon in Gorno-Altaisk (Russia); Features of Radon Distribution over Kimberlite Pipes of the Arkhangelsk Diamondiferous Province: Possible Directions for the Study of the Structure Near-Pipe Space and Development of the Emanometric Method for the Search for Kimberlites; Study of Fault Traces in Taiwan Using Soil-Gas Geochemistry: An Overview; Radon Exposure and Measurement; Estimation of Radon Activity in Soil and Exhalation of Radon from Soil in Bakreswar-Tantloi Geothermal Region of West Bengal and Jharkhand, India; Radon Based Biometric Characterization for Person Identification; Radon Exposure: Health Effects and Protection; Estimation of Radon and Environmental Radioactivity; Dynamics of 222RN and 220RN Decay Products and Their Deposition Based Measurement Technique; Radon Risk and Remediation: A Psychological Perspective; Indoor Radon Gas and Assessment of Health Risk; A Proposal for Actuation with Measurements of Radon Activity Concentrations in Working Places; Role of Radon as a Precursor to Earthquakes: An Appraisal; Natural Radioactivity Survey on Rocks Found on Jammu Kashmir National Highway, Himalayas, India; Seasonal Variation Analysis of Soil Radon Data; Analysis of Meteorological Influence on Exhalation of 222Rn and 220Rn Gases at Mat Fault; Radon Testing and Mitigation in Schools of Shillong City, Meghalaya; Calibration Factor for LR-115 Type II Detector for Soil-Gas Radon Measurement; Atmospheric Corrosion in the Canary Islands; Perspectives of Atmospheric Sciences in the Azores: History of Meteorology and Climate Change; Bioglass Prepared via a Mineral Water-Assisted Sol-Gel Route; The Red Sea: A Newborn Ocean; Mineral Resources in the Red Sea/Gulf of Aden: Polymetallic-Barite Mineralizations at Wadi Masilah Basin (Yemen); Current Status of the Sudanese Red Sea Fisheries Resource Management; Dating the Last Deglaciation: Geochronologic Methods Used to Assign Temporal Constraints to the Retreat of Late Pleistocene Ice Sheets; The Influence of Deglaciations in the Mid-Latitude European Climate; Deglaciation of the Late Weichselian Barents Sea Ice Sheet; Introduction: The Andes: Geography, Diversity, and Sociocultural Impacts; Droughts and Floods in Northern Argentinean Patagonia; Statistical Evaluation of Experimental Models for the Prediction of Snow in the Central Andes; Palpa and Lucanas: Cultural Development Under Changing Climatic Conditions on the Western Slope of the Andes in Southern Peru; The Yungas of the South Andes and Their Key Role for the Onset of Early Pre-Columbian Villages; Trading Up: Interregional Exchange and Inter-Household Wealth Differentiation in Two Highland Bolivian Villages; Piassaba Broom Production and Fiber Harvest Amid Challenging Conditions in the Lower Andes: A Case from Peru; Index.