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Relative damping factor, RDF (RDFin = indoor occupancy and RDFout = outdoor occupancy), of air kerma rate 1 m above ground level as a function of burial depth of 137Cs deposition obtained from fitting bi-exponential decay functions to simulated data provided from19 and21.