The research field of End-User Development (EUD) has evolved, during recent years, to a certain degree of internal structure, problem awareness and consistency. Both academia and industry have begun to consider it an important field for research and development. In order to let EUD research contribute to the Information Societies, research and development must continue in a consolidated and wel...

BACKGROUND The radiobiological models describe the effects of the radiation treatment on cancer and healthy cells, and the radiobiological effects are generally characterized by the tumor control probability (TCP) and normal tissue complication probability (NTCP). AIM The purpose of this study was to assess the radiobiological impact of RapidArc planning techniques for prostate cancer in term...

Background . Radiation therapy for high-risk prostate cancer presents a challenge radiotherapists. The improvement of treatment outcomes is associated with radiation dose escalation and prophylactic irradiation lymph nodes, therefore, the development new schemes needed. Simultaneous integrated boost technique based on volumetric modulated arc most efficient option. Material Methods anatomical d...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the applicator-guided volumetric-modulated arc therapy (AGVMAT) solution as an alternative to high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDR-BRT) treatment of the vaginal vault in patients with gynecological cancer (GC). AGVMAT plans for 51 women were developed. The volumetric scans used for plans were obtained with an implanted CT-compatible vaginal cylinder which ...

Sulcal depth that is one of the quantitative measures of cerebral cortex has been widely used as an important marker for brain morphological studies. Several studies have employed Euclidean (EUD) or geodesic (GED) algorithms to measure sulcal depth, which have limitations that ignore sulcal geometry in highly convoluted regions and result in under or overestimated depth. In this study, we propo...

Context: This paper addresses one of t h e major end-user deve lopment (EUD) challenges, namely, h o w to pack today’s EUD suppor t tools wi th composable e lements . This would give end users be t te r access to m o r e componen t s which they can use t o build a solut ion tailored to their o w n needs . The success of later end-user software engineering (EUSE) activities largely depends on h ...

Introduction: The current study aimed to compare the performance of radiobiological models in predicting acute esophagitis (AE) complications after three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT). Material and Methods: Out of a total of 100 patients, 50 patients with concurrent chemotherapy and 50 patients without such therapy wer...

The nature of the construction business makes the industry one of the most litigious. Most recent studies of dispute settlement assistant system have applied case-based reasoning (CBR) models to identify similar dispute cases that may be used as references in dispute settlements. Typically, either Euclidean distance (EUD) or cosine angle distance (CAD) has been employed in CBR to measure simila...

abstraCt The chapter presents a case study following the activities of super users and local developers during the adoption of a new business application by an accounting firm in Scandinavia (referred to as the Company). The Company launched a program to train super users to help with this process because of the complexity of the new system, a generic, multipurpose application system replacing ...