Design of clean energy systems is highly complex due to the existence of a variety of CO2 abatement and integration options. In this study, an effective decision-making methodology has been developed for facilitating the selection of lowest energy or lowest cost intensity systems, from a portfolio of flowsheet configurations with different decarbonisation strategies. The fundamental aspect of t...

In this paper we present the results of a dosimetric evaluation of a 2D ionization chamber array with the objective of its implementation for quality assurance in clinical routine. The pixel ionization chamber MatriXX (Scanditronix Wellhofer, Germany) consists of 32x32 chambers with a distance of 7.6 mm between chamber centres. The effective depth of measurement under the surface of the detecto...

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RF plasma was applied for the reduction of human blood and bovine blood in which essential proteins to lives were included. Atomic oxygen and singlet molecular oxygen are significantly important for the treatment of protein by RF oxygen plasma. The reduction rate of the protein was analysed by FTIR spectra, and the light emitted from oxygen plasma was detected by spectrometer. The ratio of emis...

A 30-year-old female reported sporadic paresthesia and tremors in the left hand, hemiface, and hemibody. MRI showed a lesion in the left pontomesencephalic junction (Figure 1), with brushlike enhancement after gadolinium administration, well depicted with maximum intensity projection (MIP) technique (Figure 2). Despite its unusually large dimensions, the lesion was diagnosed as a capillary tela...

Background/introduction Anti-tumor immune response caused by High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) therapy has been a subject of controversy. Most agree that the response is more likely to be induced by mechanical, rather than thermal effects of HIFU. The goal of the current work was to study the effect of HIFU-induced liquefaction of a tumor on tumor-specific and non-specific T-cell mediate...