STUDY OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of induction concurrent chemoradiotherapy (cCRT) on pulmonary function and postoperative acute respiratory complications (PARCs). DESIGN A retrospective review of our patients treated with induction cCRT to determine the impact on pulmonary function and identify predictors of PARCs. Correlations were sought between patient demographics, clinical charact...

In the present paper, we will apply the predictive and reactive control systems (PARCS) theory as a framework that integrates competing theories of neural substrates of awareness by describing the "default mode network" (DMN) and anterior insula (AI) as parts of two different behavioral and homeostatic control systems. The DMN, a network that becomes active at rest when there is no external sti...

The work completed had the following objectives: i) To compute pulse width (full width at half maximum-FWHM) of the power curves for the Three Mile Island Unit 1 Pressurized Water Reactor (TMI-1 PWR) core model in the event of a super-prompt-critical rod ejection accident (REA) at Hot Zero Power (HZP) in the central fuel assembly (Rod 7A) at both EOC and BOC for various control rod worths and d...

In this research, the TRACE/PARCS model of Lungmen ABWR has been developed for verification of ultimate response guideline (URG) efficiency. This ultimate measure was named as DIVing plan, abbreviated from system depressurization, water injection and containment venting. The simulation initial condition is 100% rated power/100% rated core flow. This research focuses on the estimation of the tim...

1 Contribution of NIST, an agency of the US government; not subject to copyright in the United States Abstract Knowledge of the magnetic field is required to determine the quadratic Zeeman bias of a cesium frequency standard. The small magnetic fields (C-field) used in PARCS (PARCS is the primary atomic reference clock in space project), may have sufficient inhomogeneity that it is not practica...

To shed new light on the long-standing debate about the (in)dependence of sensitivity to weak stimuli and overreactivity to strong stimuli, we examined the relation between these tendencies within the neurobehavioral framework of the Predictive and Reactive Control Systems (PARCS) theory (Tops et al., 2010, 2014). Whereas previous studies only considered overreactivity in terms of the individua...