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Maintaining high on-time performance and at the same time having high capacity utilization is a challenge for several railway traffic systems. The system becomes sensitive to disturbances and delays are easily propagating in the network. One way to handle this problem is to create more robust timetables; timetables that can absorb delays and prevent them from propagating. This paper presents an...

In this paper, we describe a toolset for managing the configuration and management of large-scale networks. In particular, we focus on managing limited processing and communication resources for coordinated network cyber-defense applications. Our implementation encompasses the complete cycle, from initial network modeling and extraction of the relevant constraints, through translation into a fo...

PURPOSE Linac parameters potentially influencing the delivery quality of IMRT and VMAT plans are investigated with respect to threshold ranges, consequently to be considered in a linac based quality assurance procedure. Three commercially available 2D arrays are used to further investigate the influence of the measurement device. METHODS Using three commercially available 2D arrays (Mx: Matri...

The term LION is an acronym for Long Ionization Chamber. This is a distributed ion chamber which is used to monitor secondary ionization along the shield walls of a beam line resulting from incorrectly steered charged particle beams in lieu of the use of many discrete ion chambers. A cone of ionizing radiation emanating from a point source as a result of incorrect steering intercepts a portion ...

Expressions for peak and average powers required to produce a given average gradient in an accelerator section are given. They are valid for both lossy and lossless (superconducting) sections, for both traveling wave and standing wave sections, and for pulsed or continuous wave rf input. The expressions are given in terms of structure parameters that are equally applicable to traveling wave or ...

We propose an optimization approach for determining both hardware and software parameters for the efficient implementation of a (family of) applications called dense stencil computations on programmable GPGPUs. We first introduce a simple, analytical model for the silicon area usage of accelerator architectures and a workload characterization of stencil computations. We combine this characteriz...

OBJECT The use of radiosurgery in the treatment of acoustic neuromas has increased substantially during the last decade. Most published experience relates to the use of the gamma knife. In this report, the authors review the methods and results of linear accelerator (LINAC) radiosurgery in 44 patients with acoustic neuromas who were treated between 1993 and 1997. METHODS Computerized tomograp...

Recent advances in induction accelerator technology make it possible to envision a single accelerator that can serve as an intense, precision multiple pulse x-ray source for advanced radiography. Through the use of solid-state modulator technology repetition rates on the order of 1 MHz can be achieved with beam pulse lengths ranging from 200 ns to 2 μsecs. By using fast kickers, these pulses ma...