The purpose of this study was to describe the development of a clinical model for lung cancer patients treated with stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) within a knowledge-based algorithm for treatment planning, and to evaluate the model performance and applicability to different planning techniques, tumor locations, and beam arrangements. 105 SBRT plans for lung cancer patients previously tre...

Finite β effects on impurity transport are studied through local linear gyrokinetic simulations with gyro [J. Candy and E. Belli, General Atomics Report GA-A26818 (2011)]; in particular we investigate the parametric dependences of the impurity peaking factor (zero-flux density gradient) and the onset of the kinetic ballooning modes (KBM). We find that electromagnetic effects even at low β can h...

OBJECTIVE Kindness-based meditation (KBM) is a rubric covering meditation techniques developed to elicit kindness in a conscious way. Some techniques, for example, loving-kindness meditation and compassion meditation, have been included in programs aimed at improving health and well-being. Our aim was to systematically review and meta-analyze the evidence available from randomized controlled tr...

An analysis is performed to study the heat transfer characteristics of steady mixed convection flow over a permeable vertical flat plate embedded in an anisotropic fluid-saturated porous medium. The effects of uniform suction and injection on the flow field and heat transfer characteristics are numerically studied by employing an implicit finite difference Keller-box method. It is found that du...

A steady three-dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) boundary layer viscous flow and heat transfer due to a permeable stretching sheet with prescribed surface heat flux is studied in presence of a uniform applied magnetic field transverse to the flow. Using the implicit finite-difference scheme, known as the Keller-box method, the nonlinear ordinary differential equations are solved. The veloci...

   An investigation is carried out on MHD stagnation point flow of water-based nanofluids in which the heat and mass transfer includes the effects of slip and convective boundary conditions. Employing the similarity variables, the governing partial differential equations including continuity, momentum, energy, and concentration have been reduced to ordinary ones and solved by using...

An accurate numerical method which is applicable to systems of differentio-integral equations with quite general boundary conditions has been developed. The method is a useful extension of the Keller box scheme designed to facilitate the solution of differential systems involving integral operators which naturally arise in multiphase flows. A combination of merging and reduction procedures is i...