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Adaptive Stereotactic-body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) Planning for Lung Cancer

Qin, Yujiao (2013)

Purpose: Tumor size reduction has been observed for patients underwent lung stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). Adaptive planning has the potential to reduce normal tissue toxicity and/or escalate dose to target ...
The Effect of Warming on Phenology, Physiology, and Leaf Nitrogen in Six Deciduous Tree Species Over the Growing Season

Stine, Anne Walton (2013)

There is no consensus on climatic warming's effect on phenology, photosynthesis, and leaf nitrogen content in temperate deciduous tree species. A major question is whether or how these trees will utilize a longer growing ...
How Small and Medium Enterprises in North Carolina Respond to Supply Chain Pressure for Sustainable Practices

Fritze, Kevin William (2013)

More companies are beginning to manage the environmental impacts of their supply chain in addition to their own operations. Supply chain pressure has been shown to be generally effective at increasing practices with ...
Approximately Optimal Mechanisms With Correlated Buyer Valuations

Albert, Michael Joseph (2013)

Cremer and McLean 1985 shows that if buyers valuations are suciently correlated, there is a mechanism that allows the seller to extract the full surplus from the buyers. However, in practice, we do not see the Cremer-McLean ...
Investigation of Patient Positioning Accuracy in Lung Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

Turner, Kathryn (2013)

Purpose: It has been shown that patients' irregular breathing can cause variation in the delineation of the internal target volume (ITV) and affect the accuracy of four dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) and cone-beam ...
Establishing a Framework to Assess the Cost-Effectiveness of IIPH's Folic Acid Interventions for Women of Reproductive Age

Punjya, Shivam (2013)

There is a very high prevalence of folic acid deficiency in developing countries and women suffering from this deficiency during their pregnancies are at an increased risk of having a child with neural tube defects ...
Civil Resistance or Rebellion: The Impact of Country-Level Factors on Revolutionary Strategy

Carrington, Christopher (2013)

This paper constitutes a partial answer to the question of when politicalresistance campaigns that use primarily violent or nonviolent strategies occur. In doing so, it attempts to bridge the gap between discussions ...
Neutron Stimulated Emission Computed Tomography: Optimization of Acquisition Parameters Using Resolution and Dosimetry in the Context of Liver and Breast Cancers

Raterman, Gretchen Mary (2013)

Proposed is a method for investigating optimal acquisition parameters in NSECT, neutron stimulated emission computed tomography, for good image quality and low dose for diagnosing liver and breast cancers. These ...
How the Media Affect U.S. Foreign Aid Allocations? Evidence from the Aid Allocation Pattern to Muslim Countries

Kim, Seungjun (2013)

The previous literature fails to reach consensus on the role of media in the foreign aid allocation. My paper attempts to answer following questions by examining Muslim countries: Are there any media effects on the ...
Herbert Marcuse's Early Critique of Idealism

Dabrowski, Tomash Conrad (2013)

Herbert Marcuse's early essays and reviews written while under the tutelage of Martin Heidegger continue to suffer a poor reception. Even the most sympathetic of his critics widely focus on either his deviations from ...
The Need for Adaptive Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy Replanning in Head-and-Neck Patients with Anatomical Changes During Treatment

Rhee, Dong Joo (2013)

AbstractPurpose: The aim of this study is to quantify the effectiveness of adaptive radiation therapy (ART) when anatomical changes to the tumor and/or the organs are observed for head and neck patients during ...
The Effects of PET Reconstruction Parameters on Radiotherapy Response Assessment and an Investigation of SUV-peak Sampling Parameters

Rankine, Leith John (2013)

<bold>Purpose:</bold> Our primary goal was to examine the effect of PET image reconstruction parameters on baseline and early-treatment FDG-PET/CT quantitative imaging. Early-treatment changes in tumor metabolism in ...
The Contribution of Influenza to Pediatric Fever at Webuye District Hospital

Sen, Reeshi (2013)

We sought to understand the burden of influenza among febrile pediatric patients presenting to Webuye District Hospital in the municipality of Webuye, western Kenya. Overdiagnosis of malaria is a tremendous problem in ...
Regulation of Wee1 by PRMT5 in Brain Tumors

Tong, Meng (2013)

The eukaryotic cell cycle is characterized by a series of tightly orchestrated events during which cellular components are replicated and subsequently divided. In mammalian cells, the precise spatiotemporal control of ...
Media Manipulation of the Tragedy at Smoleńsk: Nasz Dziennik's and Gazeta Wyborcza's Coverage of the 2010 Crash

Guillette, Danielle Catherine (2013)

This project focuses on the debate over Poland's national significance and future political path argued in the Polish media in the wake of the 2010 Smoleńsk crash. It draws on the primary sources of <italic>Nasz ...
Malaria Trends and Diagnoses in Rural Health Facilities in Mvomero, Tanzania

DAI, Xiaochen (2013)

Malaria remains a significant global health challenge. In 2010, an estimated 660,000 people died from malaria and about 90% of all the deaths occurred in Africa. In Tanzania, malaria is the third most burdensome disease ...
The Proceduralist Case for Judicial Review

Charles, Jacob (2013)

This essay explores majority decisions to give up majority power. In particular, it analyzes a majority's decision to institute judicial review as a method of final decision-making on questions of constitutional rights ...
Studying Literary History with Latent Feature Models

Riddell, Allen (2013)

Novelistic genres--such as gothic novels, epistolary novels, and Bildungsromane--were an abiding feature of literary production in the nineteenth century. Their appearance, disappearance, and transmission across national ...
Evaluating Pre-treatment IMRT & VMAT QA Techniques Quantitatively Using Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) Analysis

Mitchell, Allison Lorraine (2013)

Purpose: Pre-treatment IMRT and VMAT QA techniques are often commissioned without knowledge of their sensitivity to clinically relevant delivery errors. The purpose of this work is to develop a method to quantify the ...
Supply, Demand, Connections, Legitimacy: Understanding the Waxing and Waning of the Protection Industry in Russia

Mohrig, Katherine (2013)

The literature on organized crime, while increasingly rich, has yet to create a paradigm to predict and explain the waxing and waning of the private protection industry. In the work that follows, I create a general model ...