Incorporating photovoltaic (PV) inverters in power distribution systems via static synchronous compensators (PV-STATCOM) during the nighttime has lately been described as a solution to improve network performance. Hunter prey optimization (HPO) is introduced this study for efficient PV-STATCOM device allocation systems. HPO generates numerous scenarios how animals could act when hunting, some o...

This article is intended to provide an overview of various aspects of clinical PET/CT. These include discussions of: (i) Important areas of clinical application; (ii) Opportunities in clinical research; (iii) Scanner and operating-mode considerations (e.g. BGO vs. LSO, LYSO or GSO scanners, 2D vs. 3D imaging). (iv) Study-specific considerations (e.g. patient preparation and positioning is...

Contemporary data is often supported by an irregular structure, which can be conveniently captured by a graph. Accounting for this graph support is crucial to analyze the data, leading to an area known as graph signal processing (GSP). The two most important tools in GSP are the graph shift operator (GSO), which is a sparse matrix accounting for the topology of the graph, and the graph Fourier ...

Methods to deal with Multimodal Optimization Problems (MMOP) can be classified in three main approaches, regarding the number and the type of desired solutions. In general, methods can be applied to find: (1) only one global solution; (2) all global solutions; and (3) all local solutions of a given MMOP. The simultaneous capture of several solutions of MMOPs without parameter adjustment is stil...

To meet an ever-growing demand for wideband multimedia services and electronic connectivity across the world, development of ubiquitous broadband multimedia systems is gaining a tremendous interest at both commercial and academic levels. Satellite networks will play an indispensable role in the deployment of such systems. A significant number of satellite communication constellations have been ...

The recent advances in cloud computing set up well established research in Distributed computing, virtualization, web services, utility computing, have offered many benefits in scalability, cost and efficiency for cloud service users. These advantages are further expected to fulfill the demands of cloud users for cloud services efficiently. This brings the problem of fault tolerance, scalabilit...

The accumulation of induced radioactivity within in-beam PET scanner scintillators is of concern for its long-term clinical usage in particle therapy. To estimate the effects on OpenPET which we are developing for in-beam PET based on GSOZ (Zi doped Gd2SiO5), we measured the induced radioactivity of GSO activated by secondary fragments in a water phantom irradiation by a (12)C beam with an ener...

Lutetium oxyorthosilicate Lu2( S iO4)O has two crystallographically independent lutetium sites. When it is doped with Ce, the dopant Ce is assumed to occupy two different sites and thus the existence of two activation centers (called “Cel” and “Ce2”) was proposed. UV and gamma-ray excited spectra clearly indicate that two activation centers exist in cerium-doped lutetium oxyorthosilicate Lu2(Si...

The Geological Survey Office (GSO) undertook a pilot study with the objective of assessing the ability of Survey data to support modern quantitative mineral potential modelling techniques. The Yarrol pilot project was designed to audit digital data sets routinely produced by the GSO, and to provide mineral assessment outputs relevant to both industry and Government decision-making processes. Th...