background: in the current study the effect of shielded colpostat on rectum received dose was calculated in cervical brachytherapy using monte carlo (mc) method. materials and methods: two 60co sources of gzp6 brachytherapy unit used for intracavitary treatments were simulated using mcnpx monte carlo code. also the two types of colpostats including shielded and unshielded were simulated inside ...

Current relighting applications often constrain one or several factors of the rendering equation to keep the rendering speed real-time. For example, visibility is often precalculated and animations are not allowed, changes in lighting are limited to simple rotation or the lighting is not very detailed. Other techniques compromise on quality and often coarsely tabulate BRDF functions. In order t...

co-channel interference is a major factor in limiting the capacity and link quality in cellular communications. as the co-channel interference is modeled by lognormal distribution, sum of the co-channel interferences of neighboring cells is represented by the sum of lognormal random variables (rvs) which has no closed-form expression. assuming independent, identically distributed (iid) rvs, the...

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Distributed generation (DG) has been widely used in distribution network to reduce the energy losses, improve voltage profile and system reliability, etc.  The location and capacity of DG units can influence on probability of protection mal-operation in distribution networks. In this paper, a novel model for DG planning is proposed to find the optimum DG location and sizing in radial distr...

A necessary condition for monitoring and control of a Power System (PS) is possessing a credible model of this system. The PS model for a need of dispatchers in national control centre is created in real time. An important element of such a model is a topology model. PS Topology Verification (PSTV) is an important problem in PS engineering. Often this problem is solved together with PS state es...

Low-angle X-ray diffraction arising from 40 to 50 A particles within wet frog retinal receptor disk membranes at 26°C was not consistent with a planar crystalline lattice of the particles within the disk membranes. The nature of the diffraction suggested the possibility of a planar liquid-like arrangement of the particles. Such an arrangement is supported by the observation that the planar orde...

The paper describes the use of radial basis function neural networks with Gaussian basis functions to classify incomplete feature vectors. The method exploits the fact that any marginal distribution of a defined Gaussian joint distribution can be determined from the mean vector and covariance matrix of the joint distribution. The method is discussed in the context of complete and incomplete tra...