A novel, potential and efficient microwave direct contact hyperthermia applicator referred to as water-loaded box-horn for therapeutic heating of bio-medium is designed and developed at 915 and 2450 MHz. Also, theoretical expressions for fields in bio-medium as produced by a direct contact box-horn applicator have been derived using plane wave spectral technique. The box-horn is a special type ...

A novel approach for selecting an appropriate bin size for cell-based diversity assessment is presented. The method measures the sensitivity of the diversity index as a function of grid resolution, using a box-counting algorithm that is reminiscent of those used in fractal analysis. It is shown that the relative variance of the diversity score (sum of squared cell occupancies) of several common...

The authors apply the analogy of a ‘‘black box’’ from systems theory to epidemiologic problems. They highlight this process using the example of associations between sequential measures of body size and systolic blood pressure. Several other examples of the use of structural equation modeling or path analysis are described. Finally, the authors highlight several requirements for using these met...

We designed a 24-field array and an on-line control box that selects which and how many of 24 fields will conduct electrical charge during functional electrical stimulation. The array was made using a conductive microfiber textile, silver two-component adhesive, and the conductive ink imprint on the polycarbonate. The control box comprised 24 switches that corresponded one-to-one to the fields ...

This paper is on the aesthetic layout of n-ary trees with nodes of variable size, also referred to as generalized box-drawing. For this layout problem a few algorithms have been proposed, which differ in their runtime performance and the attained aesthetic criteria. We introduce a new approach to this layout problem, which is interesting because of both its simplicity and elegance, and which em...

The anti-slide packing is a packing of a number of three dimensional pieces of same size into a larger box such that none of them can slide in any direction. In this paper, we consider the problem of how to find a sparsest anti-slide packing. We give an IP formulation of this problem, and obtain the solutions for some small cases by using an IP solver. In addition, we give the upper and lower b...

We discuss the structure and geometrical characteristics of coherent vortices appearing as a result of the inverse cascade in two-dimensional turbulence in a finite box. We demonstrate that the universal velocity profile, established by J. Laurie et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 254503 (2014)], corresponds to the passive regime of flow fluctuations. We find the vortex core radius and the vortex si...

Text S11: Population size and mutation rate Daniel J. van der Post1,2,3,∗, Rineke Verbrugge, Charlotte K. Hemelrijk 1 Institute of Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, P. O. Box 407, 9700 AK, Groningen, The Netherlands 2 Behavioural Ecology and Self-Organization, University of Groningen, P. O. Box 11103, 9700 CC Groningen, The Netherlands 3 Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive ...

This study demonstrated how to use two simplified methods, the box and momentum methods, to simulate complex diffusers in room airflow modeling by computational fluid dynamics. The two methods require additional flow information that is not available from product catalogues of diffuser manufacturers. This information includes the distribution of discharge air velocity, box size, and flow direct...

Gene expression depends on the frequency of transcription events (burst frequency) and on the number of mRNA molecules made per event (burst size). Both processes are encoded in promoter sequence, yet their dependence on mutations is poorly understood. Theory suggests that burst size and frequency can be distinguished by monitoring the stochastic variation (noise) in gene expression: Increasing...