background: the purpose of this study was to evaluate nodal irradiation with conventional three-field's technique. materials and methods: fifty patients with breast cancer were enrolled in this study. computed tomography scans in the supine treatment position were imported into a treatment planning system. levels i-iii axillary and supraclavicular nodes were identified and their depths to ...

This paper presents a method to process axial monocular image sequences for mobile robot obstacle detection. We do not aim to achieve a complete scene reconstruction, but only to evaluate the time to collision and surface orientation useful for robot obstacle avoidance. Using a planar facet representation we first calculate formally the velocity field generated by the camera motion. The apparen...

A novel shrouded wind-solar hybrid renewable energy and rain water harvester with an omni-directional-guide-vane (ODGV) for urban high-rise application is introduced. The ODGV surrounds the vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) and enhances the VAWT performance by increasing the on-coming wind speed and guiding it to an optimum flow angle before it interacts with the rotor blades. An ODGV scaled mo...

Summ~ry--A method is developed for representing the tangential displacements and tractions at the surface of the semi-infinite solid in terms of potential functions. In this form, a mathematical analogy is revealed between corresponding mixed boundary value problems involving tangential and normal surface displacements respectively. This analogy enables a general solution to be obtained to the ...