Photodynamic therapy (PDT) of cancer involves the use of a photosensitizer that can be light-activated to eradicate tumors via direct cytotoxicity, damage to tumor vasculature and stimulating the body's immune system. Treatment outcome may vary between individuals even under the same regime; therefore a non-invasive tumor response monitoring system will be useful for personalization of the trea...

We present a generalization of the RBF-FD method that allows full control of the overlap between RBF-FD stencils. We accomplish this by introducing a continuous overlap parameter δ ∈ [0, 1] such that δ = 1 recovers the standard RBF-FD method and δ = 0 results in a full decoupling of the RBF-FD stencils. We show with a simple example that global interpolation with both RBFs and RBFs augmented wi...

This paper presents a model reference adaptive PD control scheme based on RBF neural network for the greenhouse climate control problem. A model of nonlinear conservation laws of enthalpy and matter between numerous system variables affecting the greenhouse climate is used to validate the proposed control scheme. Compared with the conventional adaptive PD control scheme based on RBF neural netw...

This paper presents a new method for on-board fault diagnosis for the air-path of spark ignition (SI) engines. The method uses an adaptive radial basis function (RBF) neural network to classify pre-defined possible faults from engine measurements to report the type and size of the fault. The RBF fault classifier adapts its widths and weights to model the time-varying dynamics of the engine and ...

Renal hemodynamics and renal function were evaluated in rats at 3, 24, and 48 hours and at 7 days after the induction of acute renal failure (ARF) by glycerol injection. Three hours after induction of ARF, creatinine clearance was 0.04 ml/min/100 g; renal blood flow (RBF), 1.99 ml/min/100 g; and filtration fraction, 3.7%. All were abnormally low. Although the administration of isotonic saline (...

To investigate changes in systemic and regional hemodynamics during the development of human hypertension, we simultaneously measured cardiac index (CI) by the indocyanine green (ICG) dye dilution method, hepatosplanchnic blood flow (HBF) by the ICG clearance method using a two-compartment model, and renal blood flow (RBF) by the p-aminohippurate clearance method in patients with borderline and...

This paper will demonstrate how European and American option prices can be computed under the jump-diffusion model using the radial basis function (RBF) interpolation scheme. The RBF interpolation scheme is demonstrated by solving an option pricing formula, a one-dimensional partial integro-differential equation (PIDE). We select the cubic spline radial basis function and adopt a simple numeric...

movement of sediment in the river causes many changes in the river bed. these changes are called bedform. river bedform has significant and direct effects on bed roughness, flow resistance, and water surface profile. thus, having adequate knowledge of the bedform is of special importance in river engineering. several methods have been developed by researchers for estimation of bed form dimensio...