A recent report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) found no evidence to support claims that cancer patients undergoing pricey proton beam radiation therapy (PRT) achieve better outcomes or experience fewer side effects than patients receiving traditional photon radiation. In the report's wake, proton therapy practitioners are pushing for the fi rst trial comparing the tw...

The performance and analysis of three different substrate fabrics such as cotton, felt, jeans for the wearable textile antenna are presented in this paper. dielectric constants between 1 2 only. two arcs one circle slot created on a hexagonal patch. Wi-Fi shape is designed WBAN (Wireless Body Area Network) applications. simulated results radiation pattern return loss VSWR aforementioned antenna...

A polymer is a macromolecule formed by the combination of simple molecules, monomers, of low molecular weight. A polymer molecule usually has at least 2000 atoms linked by covalent bonds. In general, polymers can be divided into inorganic and organic, and also into naturally occurring and synthetically produced. Polymers may contain additives such as dyes, fi llers, antioxidants, fl ame retarda...

A hidden Markov model (HMM) solved recursively by the Viterbi algorithm can be configured to search for persistent, quasimonochromatic gravitational radiation from an isolated or accreting neutron star, whose rotational frequency is unknown and wanders stochastically. Here existing HMM analysis pipeline generalized track phase simultaneously, modeling intrastep evolution according a phase-wrapp...

The history of life is fi lled with examples of one species diverging into several, even thousands, each with unique traits geared to the demands of its ecological niche. In the textbook case of adaptive radiation, an ancestral fi nch species landed on the Galapagos Islands just a few million years ago, and evolved into 13 new species with specialized beaks adapted to exploiting the various see...