Cancer is a complex group of diseases with multiple eventual causes. The underlying causes are not fully known. Thus, learning more about the known causes of cancer is an important issue. Moreover, among these factors, infection and its association to cancers is controversial. Although, it seems that the genome instability of the cells can initiate cancer development. The purpose of this review...

The endogenous contrast in thermoacoustic imaging is due to the water and ionic content in tissue. This results in poor tissue specificity between high water content tissues. As a result, exogenous contrast agents have been employed to improve tissue specificity and also increase the SNR. An investigation into the sources of contrast produced by several exogenous contrast agents is described. T...

We present an extension of the non-linear two-step estimation algorithm originally developed for the calibration of solid-state strapdown magnetometers. We expand the algorithm to include nonorthogonality within a sensor set for both two and three axis sensors. Non-orthogonality can result from manufacturing issues, installation geometry, and in the case of magnetometers, soft iron bias errors....

We adopt the decision-theoretic principle of expected utility maximization as a paradigm for designing autonomous rational agents operating in multi-agent environments. We use the formalism of partially observable Markov decision processes and generalize it to include the presence of other agents. Under common assumptions, beliefstate MDP can be defined using agents’ beliefs that include the ag...