<p>The Obama Administration argued that a publicly announced withdrawal timeline would help further US counterinsurgency (COIN) objectives in Afghanistan by incentivizing better behavior from the Karzai government and the ...
<p>Pro-urban bias in policy is a common phenomenon in many developing countries. Bates (1981) has famously argued the wish to industrialize paired with the political clout of urban residents results in distinctly anti-rural ...
<p>Positron Emission Tomography is a coincidence-detection-based nuclear imaging modality that has increased in clinical prevalence over the last two decades. Measures have recently been taken to improve the practice, ...
<p>Purpose: To demonstrate specific methods of small animal dosimetry and quality assurance through (1) machine-specific quality assurance and (2) target-specific quality assurance (QA) protocols for different types of ...
<p>The need for clinically intuitive quality assurance procedures has been well-documented; current QA methods such as 2D gamma analysis have been shown (Nelms, Zhen et al. 2011) to be inadequate in predicting clinically ...
<p><bold>Purpose:</bold> The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of using dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI to monitor early treatment-induced changes in pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters in head and neck cancer ...
<p>Objective: Approximately 85% of rural Haitian births happen at home, attended by family members or traditional birth attendants (TBAs). Our primary research question is: Are the TBAs in this study willing and/able to ...
<p>Abstract</p><p>Background</p><p>Significant delay occurs in initiating cancer treatment worldwide. In Uganda, there has been an increase in HIV/AIDS related malignancies due to the large number of people with HIV/AIDS. ...
<p>Purpose: The goal of this study is to investigate the necessity of adaptive radiation therapy (ART) for lung cancer patients treated with intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) by quantifying the change in the ...
<p>Non-thermal plasma (NTP) technology is an emerging method to degrade otherwise recalcitrant volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air. Here, a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) NTP was used to evaluate the degradation ...
<p>Both dynamic conformal arc therapy (DCAT) and three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT) are well-established techniques and have commonly been used for stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) treatment in brain ...
<p>Probabilistic planning is an evolving approach for tumor motion management in which reproducibility of probability distribution function (PDF) of tumor motion is critical yet unclear. Aim of the first study is to evaluate ...
<p>Turkish-Western relations have undergone a tremendous transformation over the last five years. This relationship has at times produced vast amounts of cooperation, while at other times, tension and non-cooperation has ...
<p>Adversarial risk analysis (ARA) attempts to apply statistical methodology</p><p>to game-theoretic problems and provides an alternative to the solution concepts in traditional game theory. Specifically, it uses a Bayesian ...
<p>Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos) faces a unique set of supply chain challenges for HIV and malaria control. Although the HIV and malaria prevalence rates are relatively low, the country has struggled to maintain ...
<p>The goals of this thesis are to identify pathogens that are present in the small mammal populations in urban environment of Singapore, the distribution of these pathogens throughout the island, and to the assess the ...
<p>Adolescent sexual health is a global concern because of its associations with HIV, STIs, early and unwanted pregnancies, and post-abortion complications. To address the health burdens associated with sexual and reproductive ...
<p>Forward masking is a phenomenon that occurs when one stimulus (masker) elevates the threshold for perception of a subsequent stimulus (probe). In cochlear implant listeners, it has been hypothesized that interactions ...
<p>Current synthetic aperture radars (SAR) are most effective in simple, open terrains where direct-path propagation can be assumed. For ground-vehicle based SAR from a moving platform, however, strong multipath scattering ...
<p>Universal software radio peripheral (USRP) was utilized to receive the radiation produced by lightning flashes in VHF and UHF bands, with the bandwidth ranging from 2MHz to 8MHz. The software radio was programmed to ...