Cancer patients treated with radiotherapy (RT) could develop severe late side effects that affect their quality of life.Long-term bowel complications after RT are mainly characterized by a transmural fibrosis that could lead to intestinal obstruction.Today, Balloons Jumbo Latex surgical resection is the only effective treatment.However, preoperativ
Taxes, Leverage, and Profit Shifting in Banks
The goal of this research is to investigate whether taxation affects the leverage decisions of banks and if the response of leverage to tax increases depends on profit-shifting opportunities available to individual banks.This topic remains controversial since it is often believed that banking regulation is such an essential driver of leverage Fish
Evaluation and Comparison of Various 3-D Conformal and Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy Techniques for Treatment of Parotid Gland Cancer
Background: In Lenses this study, a comparison between various types of radiotherapy treatment for parotid gland cancer was performed to achieve the optimal treatment technique.Methods: Treatment planning and countering performed with TiGRT software for 15 patents with parotid gland cancer.Six techniques were performed and compared.Finally, by comp
Multi-Objective Non-Fragile Robust Attitude Control for Flexible Microsatellite Close-Proximity Inspection
In Fish this paper, the non-fragile robust attitude control problem is investigated for flexible microsatellite close-proximity inspection, with external disturbances, parameter uncertainties and input constraints.Firstly, the attitude motion model of microsatellite with flexible appendages is established.Secondly, a non-fragile robust dynamic outp
The evolutionary dynamics of metabolic protocells.
Protocell multilevel selection models have been proposed to study the evolutionary dynamics of vesicles encapsulating a set of replicating, competing and mutating sequences.The frequency of the different sequence types determines protocell survival Inserts through a fitness function.One of the defining features of these models is the genetic load g