There are numerous commercial radiotherapy systems capable of delivering single fraction spine radiosurgery/SBRT. We aim to compare the capabilities of several of these systems to deliver this treatment when following standardized criteria from a national protocol. Four distinct target lesions representing various case presentations of spine metastases were contoured in both the thoracic and lu...

In this paper, we present problem–dependent prolongation and problem–dependent restriction for a multigrid solver for the three-dimensional Biot poroelasticity system, which is solved in a multilayered domain. The system is discretized on a staggered grid using the finite volume method. During the discretization, special care is taken of the discontinuous coefficients. For the efficient multigr...

OBJECTIVE Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS) constitute the most common eating disorder among those seeking treatment at eating disorder facilities; they are even more common among persons with eating disorders the community. This study compares the impact of applying the revised diagnostic criteria proposed by the DSM-5 workgroup, and the broad categories for the diagnosis of eati...

Award Number: W81XWH-11-2-0075 TITLE: Effects of Enhanced Oxygen Delivery by Perfluorocarbons in Spinal Cord Injury PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Bruce E. Mathern, MD CONTRACTING ORGANIZATION: Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Richmond, VA 23298-0631 REPORT DATE: January 2013 TYPE OF REPORT: Annual PREPARED FOR: U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702...

Demand side management (DSM) consists of planning, executing, and controlling activities to reduce electricity consumption. By using demand response (DR), customers help during peak times. Consumer participation in DSM depends on his behaviour. behaviour is determined by factors such as lifestyle, price, consumption tariff, contract type etc. Thus, affecting the consumer's should be considered ...

Background: Researchers and clinicians within the field of trauma have to choose between different diagnostic descriptions of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the DSM-5 and the proposed ICD-11. Several studies support different competing models of the PTSD structure according to both diagnostic systems; however, findings show that the choice of diagnostic systems can affect the estimated...