Objective: To investigate the feasibility of hippocampal-sparing whole-brain radiotherapy and reduction in neurocognitive function impairment after radiotherapy. Methods: Forty-three patients with brain metastases were selected. Whole-brain radiotherapy was performed in 22 patients, with 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy in parallel opposed fields. Twenty-one patients had significant differe...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to evaluate objective cosmetic outcomes and factors related to breast-conserving therapy (BCT) using the BCCT.core software. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty-one patients who received BCT with informed consent were evaluated using the BCCT.core software. Patients were divided into two groups based on the BCCT score: excellent or good (n=42) vs. fair or poor (n=...

A new method of accurately calculating the capacitance of realistic ice particles is described: such values are key to accurate estimates of deposition and evaporation (sublimation) rates in numerical weather models. The trajectories of diffusing water molecules are directly sampled, using random ‘walkers’. By counting how many of these trajectories intersect the surface of the ice particle (wh...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the reproducibility of speed corresponding to specific lactate markers during incremental treadmill running of normal and prolonged stage durations. DESIGN Nineteen healthy participants (14 male, 5 female) performed repeated, incremental treadmill running trials of 4 and 8 min stages on separate days to examine the test-retest reproducibility of speed at lactate...

In this paper, we propose to use multiple allowable numbers of partial data burst discards (Dmax) for different classes of traffic in optical burst switched-networks. Different levels of protection are therefore given to different traffic classes when the system is heavily loaded. From the simulations, we observe that effective service differentiation can be provided.

A new method of accurately calculating the capacitance of realistic ice particles is described: such values are key to accurate estimates of deposition and evaporation (sublimation) rates in numerical weather models. The trajectories of diffusing water molecules are directly sampled, using random ‘walkers’. By counting how many of these trajectories intersect the surface of the ice particle (wh...

It is shown that the two-sided jet proper motions observed from the galactic microquasars GRS 1915+105 and GRO J1655-40 in practice only allow us to place lower limits on the Lorentz factors of the outflows. As a consequence, it is not possible to rule out the possibility that jets from X-ray binaries are just as relativistic as those from active galactic nuclei (AGN). This results from the fac...

Microparticle adsorption and self-assembly at fluid interfaces are strongly affected by the particle three-phase contact angle θ. On the single-particle level, θ can be determined by several techniques, including colloidal-probe AFM, the gel-trapping technique (GTT) and the freeze-fracture shadow-casting (FreSCa) method. While GTT and FreSCa provide contact angle distributions measured over man...