The effect of a combination of lithotripter shock waves and cytotoxic drugs was examined in vitro. L1210 cells in suspension were exposed to shock waves during incubation with cisplatin, doxurubicin, daunorubicin, THP-doxorubicin, or aclacinomycin. Proliferation was determined using the 3-4,5 dimethyl-thiazol-2,5 diphenyl tetrazolium bromide assay. Dose enhancement ratios were calculated for ea...

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Dynamic response analysis of mechanical structures is usually performed by adopting numerical/analytical models. Finite element (FE) modeling as a numerical approach plays an important role in dynamic response analysis of complex structures. The calculated dynamic responses from FE analysis are only reliable if accurate FE models are used. There are many elements in real mechanical structures w...

THIS MONTH’S COLUMN reports on papers from the 2015 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, the 11th International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering, and the 2015 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. Feedback or suggestions are welcome. In addition, if you try or ...

Existing methods for structure discovery in time series data construct interpretable, compositional kernels for Gaussian process regression models. While the learned Gaussian process model provides posterior mean and variance estimates, typically the structure is learned via a greedy optimization procedure. This restricts the space of possible solutions and leads to over-confident uncertainty e...

This paper presents a method for measuring the entire three dimensional (3D) shape of object, which is applicable for 3D digitizing into a solid modeling CAD. The method measures the complete surface model of the object automatically and in the non-contact way. The method employs two range finders and a turn-table cooperatively: a fixed range finder using a turn table measures rough surface dat...

We study the growth rate of a cell population that follows an age-structured PDE with time-periodic coefficients. Our motivation comes from the comparison between experimental tumor growth curves in mice endowed with intact or disrupted circadian clocks, known to exert their influence on the cell division cycle. We compare the growth rate of the model controlled by a time-periodic control on it...

A system tbr lexical acquisition is presented where word meanings are represented by clusters of phrase patterns obtained from analysis of a text corpus. A sample of cases, in the form of a concordance of phrases in which a particular word occurs in the text, is used Ibr the basic analysis. Clustering techniques are used to group together cases having similar grammar and/or meaning. This view i...