The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential benefits of using triple-arc volumetric-intensity modulated arc radiotherapy (RapidArc (RA)) for the treatment of early-stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). A comprehensive evaluation was performed including plan quality, integral doses, and peripheral doses. Twenty cases of stage I or II NPC were selected for this study. Nine-field sl...

The pore-forming hemolysin of Escherichia coli (HlyA), an important virulence factor in extraintestinal E. coli infections, causes thromboxane generation and related vasoconstriction in perfused rabbit lungs (Seeger, W., H. Walter, N. Suttorp, M. Muhly, and S. Bhakdi. 1989. J. Clin. Invest. 84:220). We investigated the influence of pulmonary vascular "priming" with endotoxin on the responsivene...

Granularity is an integral feature of temporal data. For instance, a person’s age is commonly given to the granularity of years and the time of their next airline flight to the granularity of minutes. A granularity creates a discrete image, in terms of granules, of a (possibly continuous) time-line. We present a formal model for granularity in temporal operations that is integrated with tempora...

Three different magnetic samples with particle sizes ranging from 10 to 30 nm were prepared by wet chemical methods. The powders were heated at 100, 150, 200, and 250 °C during 30 min under air. Ferrous and total iron contents were determined immediately after the synthesis and after the thermal treatments. All samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission and integral low-energ...

The Local Effect Model (LEM) represents an integral part of the heavy ion treatment planning software TRiP98 to calculate the biologically equivalent dose. Recently, the incorporation of cluster effects of single strand breaks at large local doses around the center of ion tracks was shown to be of particular importance for the prediction of the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of the ini...

background: the assessment of rbe quantity in the treatment of cancer tumors with proton beams in treatment planning systems (tps) is of high significance. given the significance of the issue and the studies conducted in the literature, this quantity is fixed and is taken as equal to 1.1. objective: the main objective of this study was to assess rbe quantity of proton beams and their variations...

in this paper we consider a nonlinear two-phase stefan problem in one-dimensional space. the problem is mapped into a nonlinear volterra integral equation for the free boundary.

  ABSTRACT Background: Invasion  by  different  kinds  of  ballast  water  microorganisms  is  one  of  the  most important  marine  environment  problems  around  the  world therefore  preventing the  invasion  of  these  unwanted  and  harmful  stowaways  is  one  of  the  main strategies  of  responsible  agencies.  Some  of  these  methods  such  as  ocean excha...

In this paper, we will compare a Homotopy perturbation algorithm and Taylor series expansin method for a system of second kind Fredholm integral equations. An application of He’s homotopy perturbation method is applied to solve the system of Fredholm integral equations. Taylor series expansin method reduce the system of integral equations to a linear system of ordinary differential equation.