Background: The aim of this work was to establish how well gel dosimeters performed, as substitutes for brain tissue compared with standard phantom materials such as water, polymethyl-methacrylate (or PMMA), A150 plastic and TE- liquid phantom material for dosimetry of neutron beams in boron neutron capture therapy. Materials and Methods: Thermal neutron fluence, photon dose and epithermal neu...

abc is a simple, yet powerful, textual musical notation. This paper presents abc::dt, a rule-based domain-specific language (Perl embedded), designed to simplify the creation of abc processing tools. Inspired by the Unix philosophy, those tools intend to be simple and compositional in a Unix filters’ way. From abc::dt’s rules we obtain an abc processing tool whose main algorithm follows a tradi...

We discuss the class of models for the term structure of forward interest rates when the dynamics involve the following stochastic evolution equation: dX(t) = [ AX(t) + F (t) ] dt+BdW (t), X(0) = X0, where X takes values in a separable Hilbert space H. Here A is the generator of a semigroup, B : H → H is a bounded linear operator, W (·) is an H-valued cylindrical Wiener process. This model incl...

Background: Miniature neutron sources with high neutron flux have abundant applications in medicine, industry and researches. The most important general characteristic of miniature neutron sources is their diameter which is 3mm in average. In this research, we have surveyed and designed an Am-Be miniature neutron source fabrication. Materials and Methods: This investigation resulted in creation...

The coupled evolution of the spin frequency, core temperature, and r–mode amplitude of an accreting neutron star is calculated. We focus on those conditions that can produce persistent gravitational radiation from the rmode. During X-ray quiescent phases of transient LMXBs, one may be able to identify the constant contribution of the gravitational wave emission to the spindown rate. Another sig...