Figure 11 compiles the individual data calculated for 13?¢s for all
Rongelap residents and is referenced to June 1, 1957.
The individual maximum
"os daily activity ingestion rate was approximately 4 times the population
mean value.
The standard deviation observed for the adult activity ingestion
rate distribution was 41% of the mean value, 39% of the mean value for young
adults, 48% for adolescents, 38% for children, and 544 for infants.
Adolescents
and infants exhibited a broader distribution than adults, while children showed
a fractional variation in activity ingestion rate similar to that of adults.
Breast feeding versus coconut sap supplements would have contributed to the
greater variation observed in infants.
Adolescents and young adults were the
population subgroups which have been observed to move frequently between atolls.
This mobility would lead to greater variations in the daily activity ingestion
rates relative to those observed in the more stationary population subgroups.
Figure 12 also exhibited a wave pattern; however, a distinct difference between males and females was indicated.
etary rate constants
This difference arose from the use of di-
listed in Table 3 which were derived from urine data for
male and female residents at Rongelap Atoll.
equivalent rate,
Its major impact was on the dose
not on the total dose equivalent; and its effect was to cause
the dose equivalent rate for males to risg, and decline more rapidly than for
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females.
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Figures 13a and 13b summarize the individual data for
Rongelap residents and were referenced to June 1,
1957.
90
Sr for all
A bimodal shape was
observed for the distributions which contained both sexes, thus reflecting the
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difference in the
indicated that
90
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Sr dietary rate constants.
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the observed difference between the male and female values
was not significant.
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Data from urine breaeeay anratys:S
for K,
A t-test was peformed between consecutive urine measure28
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