introduction: radiation therapy following breast conserving surgery is one of the most common procedures performed in any radiation oncology department. a tangential parallel-opposed pair is almost always the technique of choice for this purpose. this technique is often performed based on 3d treatment planning. the aim of this study was to compare 3d treatment planning for two different energie...

Measles virus (MV) is a highly contagious agent which causes a major health problem in developing countries. We studied the effect of buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) on the replication of an AIK-HDC strain of MV and its induced apoptosis in Vero cell lines. Methods: In this study, toxicity of BSO on Vero cells was investigated first, resulted in determination of sub-lethal or non-toxic concentrati...

 Background: To analyze the dosimetric and radio biologic advantages between intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and 3 dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) and selection of optimal photon energy for IMRT treatments. Material and methods: 24 patients with localized prostate carcinoma were planned for 3DCRT and IMRT techniques. Radiation dose of 54 Gy with 2 Gy/fraction, was planned to ...

Intramembranous charge movement was measured in cut twitch fibers mounted in a double Vaseline-gap chamber with either a tetraethylammonium chloride (TEA.Cl) or a TEA2.SO4 solution (13-14 degrees C) in the central pool. Charge vs. voltage data were fitted by a single two-state Boltzmann distribution function. The average values of V (the voltage at which steady-state charge is equally distribut...

In the present paper, which is a sequel to [20, 4, 12], we investigate further the structure theory of quasi-MV algebras and √ ′quasi-MV algebras. In particular: we provide a new representation of arbitrary √ ′qMV algebras in terms of √ ′qMV algebras arising out of their MV* term subreducts of regular elements; we investigate in greater detail the structure of the lattice of √ ′qMV varieties, p...

In this paper we will introduce the variety of state MV-algebras by enlarging the language of MV-algebras with an unary operator σ, and by adding equations ensuring σ to satisfy some basic properties of a state on an MV-algebra in the sense of [4]. The main result of this paper says us that there is a standard way to define a state MV-algebra starting from a state on an MV-algebra and vice-vers...

Campylobacter is the leading cause of bacterial diarrheal disease worldwide. Although most episodes of campylobacteriosis are self-limiting, antibiotic treatment is usually needed in patients with serious enteritis, and especially in childrens or the elderly. In the last years, antibiotic resistance in Campylobacter has become a major public health concern and a great interest exists in develop...

The main aim of this talk is twofold. Firstly, to present an elementary method based on Farkas’ lemma for rationals how to embed any finite partial subalgebra of a linearly ordered MV-algebra into Q [0; 1] and then to establish a new elementary proof of the completeness of the Lukasiewicz axioms for which the MV-algebras community has been looking for a long time. Secondly, to present a direct ...