Welcome to volume two of the Journal of Bone Oncology, the first journal devoted to the multidisciplinary management of bone disease in cancer patients. During the past year, the importance of bone oncology in cancer care has continued to increase. This follows the emergence of further clinical data supporting the use of bone targeted treatments in the adjuvant treatment of early breast cancer ...

The traditional three-loop autopilot[11] suffers from coupling in pitch, yaws, roll channel as well as degraded performance due to huge aerodynamic uncertainties. Sliding mode control is applied to design autopilot for skid-to-turn missile (STT) missile systems to overcome the above stated difficulties. The design has two steps. The first step involves feedback linearization and the second stag...

The equations of motion of a missile under the air drag effects are constructed. The modified TD88 is surveyed. Using Lagrange’s planetary equations in Gauss form, the perturbations, due to the air drag in the orbital elements, are computed between the eccentric anomalies of the burn out and the reentry points Ebo, 2π −Ebo , respectively. The range equation is expressed as an infinite series in...

Enclosed weapon bays on modern aircraft interfere with prelaunch, Flight Termination System verification during training test launches. Range safety personnel need to verify the functionality of the flight termination system prior to missile launch. The missile telemetry RF is highly attenuated when the aircraft missile bay doors are closed, limiting the range for which the aircraft can fly dur...