introduction: secondary radiation such as photoelectrons, auger electrons and characteristic radiations cause a local boost in dose for a tumor when irradiated with an external x-ray beam after being loaded with elements capable of activating the tumor, e.g.; i and gd. materials and methods:  in this investigation, the mcnpx code was used for simulation and calculation of dose enhancement facto...

in this study, the isothermal reduction of iron oxide pellets, made of iranian chadormalo, gole-gohar, and sangan iron ores, was investigated in the temperature range of 900-1100°c. tabas, pabdana, babnizoo, karmozd, and shahrood domestic coals were used as reductants. parametric studies were performed and the effects of such factors as temperature, average particle size of iron ore and coal fi...

The work is the report about stearic acid sol-gel synthesis method, magnetically, electricalcharacterization and activation energy of copper manganese oxide nanostructures. The CuMn2O4 nanostructures are synthesized at a temperature of 600°C using the sol-gel method. The structural analysis using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Scherrer equation show that the crystallite size of CuMn2O4 is ab...

quorum-based power saving (qps) protocols allow “asynchronous” wireless hosts, operating in a multi-hop ad-hoc network, to tune to the low power mode conceived in ieee 802.11 mac standard. qps schemes guarantee that the wake-up schedule for every two neighboring hosts would ultimately overlap within a bounded latency so as to be able to accomplish their reciprocal “unicast” communications. a ma...

proton transfer (pt) and methyl group transfer (mgt) occurring in small biomimetic systems, formamide-formamidic acid (fa-fi), and n-formyl-n-methylformamide-(e)-methyl n-formylformimidate (nmfa-nmfi) are investigated in the gas phase and in single-walled carbon nanotubes by using the density functional theory and the oniom approach. it is shown that pt reaction is disfavoured in single-walled ...

in this study thin layer drying of corn in a convective dryer was investigated at air temperatures of 50, 60 and 70ºc and air flow rates of 1, 1.4 and 1.8 kg min-1. experiments were performed in completely randomized design (crd). the effect of air temperature and flow rate on drying time, drying rate, effective diffusivity coefficient and activation energy were studied. results showed that the...

obesity is an important public health problem and major risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer. adipose tissue is the major component involved in the control of the metabolism through energy homeostasis, adipocyte differentiation, insulin sensitivity and the activation of anti-inflammatory metabolic and immune pathways. leptin and adiponectin pathways are involved in proliferation process...

a highly practical and efficient preparation of pyrano[3,2-c]pyridone and pyrano[3,2-c]quinoline derivatives was developed via an ionic liquid mediated and promoted multi-component reaction of malononitrile, aldehyde, and 4-hydroxyquinolin-2(1h)-one or 4-hydroxy-6-methylpyridin-2(1h)-one. the combinatorial syntheses were achieved for the first time without applying extra activation energy at am...