Provable data possession (PDP) is a technique for ensuring the integrity of data in storage outsourcing. In this paper, we address the construction of an efficient PDP scheme for distributed cloud storage to support the scalability of service and data migration, in which we consider the existence of multiple cloud service providers to cooperatively store and maintain the clients’ data. We prese...

BACKGROUND Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) dosimetry verification is routinely conducted via integrated or individual field dosimetry using film or a matrix of detectors. Techniques and software systems are commercially available which use individual field dosimetry measurements as input into algorithms that estimate 3D patient dose distributions on CT scan derived target volumes a...

The electrochemical and optical properties of films prepared from two different Fe(II) coordination polymers (TPT[Fe(II)TPT](n)(PF(6))(2)(n) (TPT = terpyridine-phenyl-terpyridine) and CTPCT[Fe(II)CTPCT](n)(PF(6))(2)(n) (CTPCT = chiral terpyridine-phenyl-chiral terpyridine)) and a coordination polymer based on Cu(I) metal centers (PDP[Cu(I)PDP](n)(BF(4))(n)) (PDP = phenanthroline-dodecane-phenan...

O Processo de Desenvolvimento Produtos (PDP) ocorre e depende uma série etapas integradas, incorporando diversas tecnologias adequando-se aos padrões produção. Nesse sentido, a utilização ferramentas do Lean pode auxiliar melhorar continuamente os processos forma sistemática, garantindo que todos esses realmente agreguem valor ao produto. Aliado isso, implementação da Indústria 4.0 no aperfeiço...

In the current economic climate, law enforcement agencies are facing resource shortages. The e ective and e cient use of scarce resources is therefore of the utmost importance to provide a high standard public safety service. Optimization models speci cally tailored to the necessity of police agencies can help to ameliorate their use. The Multi-Criteria Police Districting Problem (MC-PDP) conce...

21st Century brings great challenges in the information and knowledge areas. The public health is intensified in Developing and Less Developed Countries on account of parasitic diseases as well as developed countries because emerging and reemerging diseases. This diseases associated with chronic or acute diseases can intensify causing a serious health problem as drugs resistance, neglected dise...

We propose a new strategy called the 'Protected DNA Probes (PDP) method' in which appropriately protected bases selectively bind to the complementary bases without the removal of their base protecting groups. Previously, we reported that 4-N-acetylcytosine oligonucleotides (ac(4)C) exhibited a higher hybridization affinity for ssDNA than the unmodified oligonucleotides. For the PDP strategy, we...

The purpose of this study is to determine the dependency of the planned dose perturbation (PDP) algorithm (used in Sun Nuclear 3DVH software) on spatial resolution of the MapCHECK 2 detectors. In this study, ten brain (small target), ten brain (large target), ten prostate, and ten head-and-neck (H&N) cases were retrospectively selected for QA measurement. IMRT validation plans were delivere...

Negative priming (NP), slowing down of the response for target stimuli that have been previously exposed, but ignored, has been reported in multiple psychological paradigms including the Stroop task. Although NP likely results from the interplay of selective attention, episodic memory retrieval, working memory, and inhibition mechanisms, a comprehensive theoretical account of NP is currently un...

This systematic review explores what is known about the relationships between characteristics of pedagogical development programmes (PDP) in higher education, context within which PDPs take place, and teacher outcomes. Thirty-one peer-reviewed articles were reviewed using Interconnected Model Professional Growth (IMPG) curriculum spiderweb. PDP characteristics, outcomes appeared to vary widely....