Introduction: One of the treatment choices in breast cancer is Intra operative electron beam radiation therapy (IOERT). Due to high dose delivery in this procedure, shielding disk is used to protect organs at risk (OARs). In this study, we evaluate the OARs dose in the breast IOERT using Monte Carlo simulation with and without shielding disk in RANDO phantom. Material and Methods: Simulation ...

Introduction: In this study, using the phenotypic and genotypic methods, oxacillin susceptibility in Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) strains isolated from patients at two government hospitals in Ilam, Iran was tested. Materials and methods: Out of 200 S. aureus isolates from different human clinical specimens consisting of blood (31%), wound (20%), urine (21%), catheters (7%), sputum (12...

In this paper, an analytical solution for computing the plastic & linear plastic stresses and critical angular velocity in a FGM hollow & solid rotating disk is developed. It has been assumed that the modulus of elasticity and yield strength were varying through thickness of the FGM material according to a power law relationship. The Poisson's ratio were considered constant throughout the thick...

The study of flow and heat transfer over rotating circular disks is of great practical importance in understanding the cooling of rotatory machinery such as turbines, electric motors and design and manufacturing of computer disk drives. This paper presents an analysis of the flow and heat transfer over a heated infinite permeable rough disk. Boundary-layer approximation reduces the elliptic Nav...

A toy model of a disk undergoing steady state accretion onto a black hole is presented. The disk is in a hydrostatic equilibrium for all radii r > rin, with the inner disk radius located between the marginally stable and marginally bound orbits: rms > rin > r mb. Matter flows from the disk through a narrow cusp at rms and falls freely into the black hole, carrying with it no thermal energy. At ...

background and objectives: methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) is a major cause of nosocomial and community acquired infections. detection of mrsa in laboratories is very important for treatment and appropriate infection control. the aim of this study was to evaluate cefoxitin disk diffusion method for detection of mrsa and comparison of this method with other conventional method...

Cache Fusion TM is a fundamental component of Oracle’s Real Application Cluster configuration, a shared-cache clustered-database architecture that transparently extends database applications from single systems to multi-node shared-disk clusters. In classic shared-disk implementations, the disk is the medium for data sharing and data blocks are shipped between nodes through disk writes and read...

Assessing disk I/O performance and power consumption associated with a given cloud workload is important especially for workloads that are bounded by disk I/O. Disk performance becomes a bottleneck for achieving higher performance and lower power consumption especially when memory size is not enough to process large blocks of data. This will lead to a negative impact on the Quality-of-Service (...

Simulation and modeling are useful tools in prototyping advances in many areas of technology. The performance of modern processors advances much faster than that of storage components making disk systems prime candidates for simulation. Simulating disk systems allows researchers to determine and quantify the performance impact of alternative file system designs and disk data rearrangement techn...

A disk graph is the intersection graph of disks in the plane, and a unit disk graph is the intersection graph of unit radius disks in the plane. We give upper and lower bounds on the number of labelled unit disk and disk graphs on n vertices. We show that the number of unit disk graphs on n vertices is n · α(n) and the number of disk graphs on n vertices is n · β(n), where α(n) and β(n) are Θ(1...