OBJECTIVE Analytical dose calculation algorithms for Eclipse and Raystation treatment planning systems (TPS), as well as a Raystation Monte Carlo model are compared to corresponding measured point doses. METHOD The TPS were modeled with the same beam data acquired during commissioning. Thirty-five typical plans were made with each planning system, 31 without range shifter and four with a 5 cm...

This is the user’s manual of [email protected]. This package is a practical implementation, based upon the HERWIG event generator, of the recently proposed MC@NLO formalism for matching the next-to-leading order calculation of a QCD process with a parton-shower Monte Carlo simulation. The processes of standard-model vector boson pair production in hadronic collisions are available.

We review the use of Monte Carlo (MC) simulation to model backgrounds to top signal at the Tevatron experiments, CDF and D0, as well as the relevant measurements done by the experiments. We’ll concentrate on the modeling of W and Z boson production in association with jets, in particular heavy flavor jets (HF), and also comment on the Tevatron experience using matched MC.

In this study, we target the hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1-alpha) pathway by short hairpin RNA interference therapy targeting prolyl hydroxylase-2 (shPHD2). We use the minicircle (MC) vector technology as an alternative for conventional nonviral plasmid (PL) vectors in order to improve neovascularization after unilateral hindlimb ischemia in a murine model. Gene expression and transfe...

IDD-MC is a symbolic analysis tool for bounded stochastic Petri nets with extended arcs. Its engine is based on Interval Decision Diagrams and facilitate the validation of standard Petri net properties, model checking the Computation Tree Logic (CTL) and the Stochastic Continuous Logic (CSL). In this paper we give an informal overview of the currently implemented analysis techniques and report ...

We present a method for automatically generating test sequences to satisfy MC/DC like structural coverage criteria of software behavioral models specified in state-based formalisms. The use of temporal logic for characterizing test criteria and the application of model-checking techniques for generating test sequences to those criteria have been of interest in software verification research for...

While online technologies and applications are rapidly and widely utilized and adopted in e-commerce, it is extremely important to better understand the perceptions of consumers’ use, and acceptance in mobile commerce (MC). This paper adopts the extended technology acceptance model (TAM2) and integrated it with the innovation diffusion theory and the perceived risk variable to model users’ acce...

Mast cells (MCs)_are recognized for their functional role in wound-healing and allergic and inflammatory responses - host responses that are frequently detrimental to implanted biomaterials if extended beyond acute reactivity. These tissue reactions impact especially on the performance of sensing implants such as continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices. Our hypothesis that effective blockad...

We present the new method ‘‘multiconfigurational molecular dynamics with quantum transitions’’ ~MC-MDQT! for the simulation of processes involving multiple proton transfer reactions. MC-MDQT is a mixed quantum/classical molecular dynamics method that allows the quantum mechanical treatment of the nuclear motion of multiple hydrogen atoms and accurately describes branching processes ~i.e., proce...

Myotonia congenita (MC) is a genetic disease caused by mutations in the skeletal muscle chloride channel gene (CLCN1) encoding the skeletal muscle chloride channel (ClC-1). Mutations of CLCN1 result in either autosomal dominant MC (Thomsen disease) or autosomal recessive MC (Becker disease). The ClC-1 protein is a homodimer with a separate ion pore within each monomer. Mutations causing recessi...