PURPOSE To assess the performance of a simple optimisation method for improving target coverage and organ-at-risk (OAR) sparing in intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for cervical oesophageal cancer. METHODS For 20 selected patients, clinically acceptable original IMRT plans (Original plans) were created, and two optimisation methods were adopted to improve the plans: 1) a base dose funct...

BACKGROUND Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is initiated when alloreactive donor T cells are primed by host APCs to undergo clonal expansion and maturation. Since there is a controversy regarding the role of nonhematopoietic cells in GVHD, we wanted to investigate the influence of MHC disparity on nonhematopoietic cells on the pathogenesis of GVHD in the MHC-haplomismatched C57BL/6 (H-2(b)) or ...

Recently, interest in collagen products has increased the industries However, that are taken orally have problem of being degraded by digestive enzymes. Therefore, a peptide buccal delivery film (C-BDF) was developed to enhance absorption without destruction and clinical trial conducted. A C-BDF as double layer permeation (CP) through swine mucosa investigated. This study performed on 43 health...

BACKGROUND Microalgal oil is a promising alternative feedstock for biodiesel fuel (BDF). Mixotrophic cultivation with glycerol, the primary byproduct of BDF production, may be used to optimize BDF production. This strategy would reduce costs through glycerol recycling and improve lipid productivity and biomass productivity by overcoming the growth retardation caused by decreased light penetrati...

In this paper a one parameter predictor–corrector method, which we call it A-EBDF, is introduced and analyzed. With a modification of A-BDF and EBDF methods we propose a multistep method whose region of absolute stability is larger than those of A-BDF and EBDF methods. © 2004 IMACS. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. MSC: 65L05

Solving Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) by using Partitioning Block Intervalwise (PBI) technique is our aim in this paper. The PBI technique is based on Block Adams Method and Backward Differentiation Formula (BDF). Block Adams Method only use the simple iteration for solving while BDF requires Newtonlike iteration involving Jacobian matrix of ODEs which consumes a considerable amount of...

Recognition of ore deposit genesis is still a controversial challenge for economic geologists. Here, this task was addressed by the virtue of Bayesian data fusion (BDF) implementing available proofs: semi-schematic examples with two (Cu and Pb + Zn) and three (Cu, Pb + Zn and Ag) evidences. The data, in current paper are just concentrations of indicated elements, were collected from Angouran’s ...

Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to present some convergence results of a class of Parallel Multivalue Hybrid Methods (PMHMs) for semi-explicit index-2 differential-algebraic equations. Some numerical examples confirm our theoretical results and show that the computed orders of the 2-step 2-order PMHM (PMHM2) and the 3-step 3-order PMHM (PMHM3) are higher than the corresponding theor...

Quasi-linear parabolic equations are discretised in time by fully implicit backward difference formulae (BDF) as well as by implicit–explicit and linearly implicit BDF methods up to order 5. Under appropriate stability conditions for the various methods considered, we establish optimal order a priori error bounds by energy estimates, which become applicable via the Nevanlinna-Odeh multiplier te...

We analyze stability properties of BDF methods of order up to 5 for linear parabolic equations as well as of implicit–explicit BDF methods for nonlinear parabolic equations by energy techniques; time dependent norms play also a key role in the analysis.