In this study, the tuned liquid damper (TLD) device was optimized by harmony search (HS) and adaptive algorithms (AHS). Using algorithm, seismic excitations were directed at single ten-story structures, TLD parameters to minimize building movement. To improve design parameters, optimization process repeated adapting factors of algorithm. For purpose, both memory consideration ratio (HMCR) fret ...

Second-order calibration and multivariate spectroscopic-kinetic measurements in the visible region are proposed to improve the Jaffé method for creatinine assay. Analyses performed on synthetic mixtures containing bilirubin, glucose, and albumin confirm that second-order calibration is useful for creatinine determination in human serum. Quantitative determinations of creatinine with the paralle...

This paper studies the DNS cache effects that occur on query distribution at the CN top-level domain (TLD) server. We first filter out the malformed DNS queries to purify the log data pollution according to six categories. A model for DNS resolution, more specifically DNS caching, is presented. We demonstrate the presence and magnitude of DNS cache effects and the cache sharing effects on the r...

In the early years, the routine personal dosimetry at the Nuclear Research CenterNegev was performed by using photographic films. In 1975, the TLD method was introduced. The routine personal dosimetry was performed by using the LiF:Mg, Ti phosphors (G-1 cards), and employing an automatic Harshaw 2271 reader. The heating of the phosphor was performed by a hot finger, and the integral light outpu...

The implementation of maximum likelihood parallel factor analysis (MLPARAFAC) in conjunction with the direct exponential curve resolution algorithm (DECRA) is described. DECRA takes advantage of the intrinsic exponential structure of some bilinear data sets to produce trilinear data by a simple shifting scheme, but this manipulation generates an error structure that is not optimally handled by ...

Spoken word recognition, during gating, appears intact in specific language impairment (SLI). This study used gating to investigate the process in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders plus language impairment (ALI). Adolescents with ALI, SLI, and typical language development (TLD), matched on nonverbal IQ listened to gated words that varied in frequency (low/high) and number of phonologic...

UNLABELLED In patients with a large, multinodular goiter (> 100 g), radiation absorbed doses in the thyroid, surrounding tissues and remainder of the body were estimated after therapeutic administration of 131I(3.7 MBq or 100 microCi/g of thyroid tissue retained at 24 hr). METHODS Thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) measurements were performed on 23 patients (12 euthyroid and 1I hyperthyroid; t...

background: radioiodine therapy has proven to be an effective method in the treatment of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma after thyroidectomy. the scope of this study is to describe a method to obtain the dose of organs using medical internal radiation dosimetry (mird) method. at the end, the results of mird calculations were compared with thermoluminescent dosimeter (tld-100). ma...

The Thermoluminescence Personal Dosimetry Laboratory of the University of Costa Rica provides dose measurements for around 90% of occupational radiation workers in the country. The assessment of doses to workers routinely exposed to external sources of radiation constitutes an integral part of any radiation protection programme and helps national authorities to ensure acceptably safe and satisf...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the absorbed organ dose and effective dose for a wide range of cone beam computed tomography scanners, using different exposure protocols and geometries. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two Alderson Radiation Therapy anthropomorphic phantoms were loaded with LiF detectors (TLD-100 and TLD-100 H) which were evenly distributed throughout the head and neck, covering all radiosensitiv...