TFTR experience with D-T operation

The TFTR Advanced Performance Project: A Proposal to Extend the Deuterium- Tritium Phase of TFTR Operation

The Safety Case for JET D–T Operation

Wall conditioning with impurity pellet injection on TFTR

Solid lithium and boron pellets have been injected into TFTR plasmas to improve plasma performance by coating the graphite inner wall bumper limiter with a small amount of lower Z pellet material, which reduces the influx of carbon from the walls and reduces the edge electron density. This new wall conditioning technique has been applied successfully when continued He conditioning discharges, w...

Ross operation: 16-year experience.

OBJECTIVE We performed a review of a consecutive series of 487 patients undergoing the Ross operation to identify surgical techniques and clinical parameters that affect outcome. METHODS We performed a prospective review of consecutive patients from August 1986 through June 2002 and follow-up through August 2004. Patient age was 2 days to 62 years (median, 24 years), and 197 patients were les...

Randomized RANSAC with T(d, d) test

Many computer vision algorithms include a robust estimation step where model parameters are computed from a data set containing a significant proportion of outliers. The RANSAC algorithm is possibly the most widely used robust estimator in the field of computer vision. In the paper we show that under a broad range of conditions, RANSAC efficiency is significantly improved if its hypothesis eval...