INTRODUCTION Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is enjoying explosive growth due to its ability to accurately stage many types of cancer and follow the progress of treatments. The facilities present unique challenges in shielding design due to the nature of the study, and the desire to place the facilities near other imaging and treatment clinics. A typical PET patient will receive 555 MBq (15 ...

A fast finite volume solver for hydrostatic multi-layered shallow water flows with mass exchange is investigated. In contrast to many models for multi-layered hydrostatic shallow water flows where the immiscible suppression is assumed, the present model allows for mass exchange between the layers. The multi-layered shallow water equations form a system of conservation laws with source terms for...

A general initial-boundary value problem of one-dimensional transient wave propagation in a multi-layered elastic medium due to arbitrary boundary or interface excitations (either prescribed tractions or displacements) is considered. Laplace transformation technique is utilised and the Laplace transform inversion is facilitated via an unconventional method, where the expansion of complex-valued...

N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 4 www.insidegnss.com Efficient power transmission and distribution would benefit from synchronized near–real-time measurements of voltage and current phasors at widely dispersed locations in an electric power grid. Such measurements also could enable effective realtime system monitoring and control, which are considered to be the key to preventing wide-sc...

We present Tempest, a synthesis tool to automatically create correct-by-construction reactive systems and shields from qualitative or quantitative specifications in probabilistic environments. A shield is special type of system used for run-time enforcement; i.e., enforces given specification running while interfering with its operation as little possible. Shields that enforce are called safety...

This paper describes the rapid fabrication of an organic/inorganic multi-layered composite film: Parylene-poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)-calcium carbonate (CaCO3) composite film. CaCO3 crystals on PVA film were sandwiched between Parylene films, and thermal bonding was carried out after folding the sandwiched crystals eight times. Using this method, a millimeterthick 48-layered organic/inorganic com...

We are concerned about the problem of transmitting constant quality video over the B-ISDN. A gain in channel utilization is achieved when several Variable Bit Rate video sources share a common ATM connection. To achieve such gain, the impact of cell losses on video quality degradation should be considered. Multi-layered video coding has proved to tolerate more cell losses than non-layered video...

A multi-layered neural network based on multi-valued neurons is considered in the paper. It is shown that using a traditional architecture of multi-layered feedforward neural network (MLF) and the high functionality of the multi-valued neuron, it is possible to obtain a new powerful neural network. Its training does not require a derivative of the activation function and its functionality is hi...