To minimize renal radiation in abdomical radiotherapy, shielding of the kidneys is essential. IVP-simulator is used as an standard method. In this study, we used 99mTc-DMSA to localize and shield the Kidneys and we compared this method with IVP-simulator. The size of the kidneys was proven to be larger as compared with IVP method. The mean of the overlap percentage was 81.88 in right and ...

A framework was developed for preliminary evaluation of the relative media replacement costs of three alternative column configurations used for adsorption systems with two vessels, such as those serving small systems. The media replacement cost is the cost of fresh media and the replacement service cost (including transportation, labor, and other non-material costs). Cost normalization methods...

This paper proposes a virtual driving system for enhancing efficient driving style. We compared fuel economies and levels of consumable wear on three driving simulation test (none, visual, visual+auditory). The test results show that higher fuel economy can be achieved and consumable wear be reduced when they received feedback from the proposed system compared to driving without eco-driving tra...

We present an automatic mortality prediction scheme based on the unstructured textual content of clinical notes. Proposing a convolutional document embedding approach, our empirical investigation using the MIMIC-III intensive care database shows significant performance gains compared to previously employed methods such as latent topic distributions or generic doc2vec embeddings. These improveme...

Emotional contagion has been defined as a tendency to mimic the emotions and non-verbal expressions of others, thus becoming ‘infected’ with another’s emotional state. In an organisational context, emotional contagion has been examined from both a group and leadership perspective. Previous authors have examined emotional contagion from leaders to followers, but no study to date has examined emo...

1 College of Art and Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia. 2 School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. 3 Department of Mathematics, School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. 4 Department of Technology Management, Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering and Technology Management, ...