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Igrt After Prostatectomy: Evaluation Of Corrective Shifts And Toxicity Using Online Cone Beam Ct Vs. Weekly Port Films For Target Localization, H. B. Eldredge, M. Studenski, S. Keith, E. J. Trabulsi, A. Harvey, C. Lallas, L. Gomella, A. P. Dicker, T. N. Showalter

Bodine Journal

Purpose/Objective(s): Image guidance (IG) may permit higher radiotherapy (RT) doses (>65 Gy) after radical prostatectomy (RP) without increased toxicity, with improved accuracy and smaller margins. Conebeam (CBCT) allows IGRT with volumetric images. This study evaluated CBCT shifts and toxicity after conformal IGRT, compared to RT with port films.

American Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 52nd Annual Meeting October 31 - November 4, San Diego, CA

Dosimetric Comparison Of Vmat, Imrt And Proton Therapy For Post- Prostatectomy Radiation Therapy For Prostate Cancer, L. A. Doyle, M. Studenski, A. Harvey, A. P. Dicker, Y. Xiao, Y. Yu, T. N. Showalter, A. Harrison

Bodine Journal

Purpose/Objectives: Radiation therapy (RT) for the treatment of prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy (RP) is widely accepted. With technological advances, radiation treatment technique and dosimetry may vary. The purpose of this study is to quantify dosimetric difference of proton therapy versus VMAT and IMRT focusing on bladder and rectal dose sparing and target coverage.

American Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 52nd Annual Meeting October 31 - November 4, San Diego, CA

Dosimetric Evaluation Of Tumor Tracking In 4d Radiotherapy, I. Buzurovic, M. Werner-Wasik, T. Biswas, J. Galvin, A. Dicker, Y. Yu, T. Podder

Bodine Journal

Purpose: In some patients the tumors in lung, pancreas, liver, breast, and other organs move significantly during cardiac and breathing cycles. In this study we have investigated the dosimetric benefits of real-time tumor tracking for patients who were diagnosed with lung cancer.

American Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 52nd Annual Meeting October 31 - November 4, San Diego, CA

Feasibility Of Improving Cone Beam Ct Number Consistency With A Scatter-Correction Algorithm, J. Li, W. Yao, Y. Xiao, Y. Yu

Bodine Journal

Purpose: To explore the feasibility of improving Elekta cone beam CT (CBCT) number consistency using a scatter-correction algorithm, with the aim of using CBCT images for treatment planning with heterogeneity correction.

American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) 52nd Annual Meeting July 18-22, Philadelphia, PA

Performance Study Of Novel Accelerationenhanced Filters In The Prediction Of Normal And Irregular Respiration Motion, K. Huang, I. Buzurovic, M. Werner-Wasik, T. Biswas, A. Dicker, J. Galvin, Y. Yu, T. Podder

Bodine Journal

Purpose: To study the performance of the novel acceleration-enhanced (AE) filters in the prediction of normal and irregular respiration motion and compare them with those of traditional adaptive normalized least mean squares (nLMS) and adaptive neuron network (ANN) filters. This facilitates the real-time tumor tracking and dynamic delivery of radiation dose to the tumor.

American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) 52nd Annual Meeting July 18-22, Philadelphia, PA

Motion Control Consistency With Abdominal Compression Device From Daily 4d Cbct, Y. Cui, A. S. Harrison, Y. Xiao

Bodine Journal

Purpose: To investigate the effectiveness of abdominal compression in tumor motion control for lung cancer radiotherapy. To study the motion control consistency during radiation treatment course through 4D reconstruction of daily cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images.

American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) 52nd Annual Meeting July 18-22, Philadelphia, PA

Bodine Journal, Table Of Contents, Volume 3, Issue 1, Fall 2010

Bodine Journal

Table of Contents for Fall 2010 issue of Bodine Journal.

Action Research: Can It Be A Means For Helping Teacher Candidates Learn About Student Diversity?, Alisa Bates, Laura S. Pardo

i.e.: inquiry in education

This paper describes the use of action research in a teacher education course as a way to support novice teachers in meeting the learning needs of a diverse student population. Our experiences as instructors in teacher education courses led us to look for strategies that could support novices’ attempts to meet students’ diverse needs because students viewed this as one of their greatest challenges as beginning teachers. We explore action research as one such strategy to respond to this learning need. We examine this practice for supporting novice teachers and consider three cases of student learning as examples. Our findings …

Adapting Service Design Tools To Facilitate Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations, G. Teal, A. S. Macdonald, P. J. Moynihan

ServDes Conference Series

This paper describes an ongoing multidisciplinary research project which is developing and prototyping a new food service for older hospital patients. This is a multi-faceted project combining the skills of designers; food sensory scientists; dietitians; medical sociologists; ergonomists and technologists with a diverse group of end users and stakeholders to map the existing food service and identify opportunities for re-design. This paper describes how three design methods/tools conventionally used by designers have been adapted and used to collaborate with colleagues from different non-design disciplines.

Exploring Networked Innovation; Results Of An Exploration And The Setup Of An Empirical Study, Katinka Bergema, Rianne Valkenburg, Maaike Kleinsmann, Cees De Bont

ServDes Conference Series

The growing complexity of societal problems and the increasing need to co-design contexts together with the service or product; force companies to collaborate in innovation. This networked innovation requires people to design together; who not only come from different disciplines; but also come from different organisations and companies. The collaboration in networked innovation therefore adds another level of complexity in addition to the (better known) collaboration in mono- and multidisciplinary teams and introduces new issues.

The growing complexity of societal problems and the increasing need to co-design contexts together with the service or product; force companies to collaborate in innovation. …

A Literature Review On Crossbreeding In Dairy Cattle, Philip Owens

Dairy Science

The objective of the literature review was to determine whether or not crossbreeding is a profitable and a viable option for the dairymen of today by reviewing the literature and experiments that have been conducted throughout the world by today’s dairy professionals and leaders. The Dairy market today is increasingly competitive and more and more dairymen are considering crossbreeding to decrease health costs and increase profitability. Price premiums from cheese plants are given to milk producers for high components like protein and fat. In recent studies done by universities and research facilities around the world, results have found promising numbers …

Use Of An Activity Monitoring System As Part Of The Cal Poly Dairy Breeding Protocol, Trevor Nutcher

Dairy Science

The objective of this study, is to determine the effectiveness of an activity monitoring system as an integral part of the Cal Poly Dairy breeding protocol. Dairy herd reproductive efficiencies have dropped in the past 40 years. Increased milk production, and genetic advancements towards more milk production, have led to reproductive rates declining. An advanced breeding program is needed to become more efficient in this area. The study consisted of the evaluation of one option, Heatime™ by MICRO Dairy Logic, and comparing it to the commonly used programs in dairies today such as synchronization methods, pedometers, and other electronic detection …

Regalia-Induced Resistance In Powdery Mildew-Infected Grapevine Plants Correlates With The Induction Of Chalcone Synthase, Thomas Crottogini

Horticulture and Crop Science

No abstract provided.

Feasibility Study Of An Enomatic Wine Bar In San Luis Obispo, Eric Daniel Maida

Agribusiness

The purpose of this project was to determine whether it would be feasible to open an Enomatic Wine Bar in downtown San Luis Obispo.

There were two major costs involved in this project, the development of the facility and the operation of the business. Once all of the costs were determined, they were entered into an Excel spreadsheet providing the Enomatic Wine Bar Budget and the Income Statement. From the Enomatic Wine Bar Budget and the Income Statement a Return on Investment of 27% was realized.

Using the figures from the Enomatic Wine Bar Budget and the Income Statement, it …

Innovative Entrepreneurs' Workbook: A Guide For Innovators And Entrepreneurs, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Research Collection Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

This is a workbook for individuals who have decided to start their long winding entrepreneurial journey. It is organized into four parts. The first part introduces the aspiring entrepreneur to the process of identifying an innovation opportunity and refining for market readiness. The second part provides insights into a product or service development. The third part lays out the key steps involved in building a new company. This part includes IP strategy for a startups, a topic rarely discussed in many text books or workbooks. The last part will discuss the art of securing the early deals. This book was …

New Mexico Musician Vol 58 No 2 (Winter 2010)

New Mexico Musician

No abstract provided.

December 2010, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

What Planet Are You On? Six Steps to Simplify Remote Management Managing people and projects from different cities, states, time zones, or countries is infinitely more difficult. You might as well be on different planets. Jim Bain gives us some tips that can make sure that they are on the same planet as their remote team members

The Impact of Caregiving on Business Did you know that the average cost to employers per working caregiver is $2,110 per year. This costs U.S. employers $33 billion a year. However, programs designed to help employees deal with eldercare and other caregiving issues …

Daily Announcements December 2010, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Communications Office Daily Announcements

No abstract provided.

Intelligent Planning And Assimilation Of Auv-Obtained Measurements Within A Roms-Based Ocean Modeling System, Benjamin J. Davini

Master's Theses

Efforts to learn more about the oceans that surround us have increased dramatically as the technological ability to do so grows. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are one such technological advance. They allow for rapid deployment and can gather data quickly in places and ways that traditional measurement systems (bouys, profilers, etc.) cannot. A ROMS-based data assimilation method was developed that intelligently plans for and integrates AUV measurements with the goal of minimizing model standard deviation. An algorithm developed for this system is first described that optimizes paths for AUVs that seeks to improve the model by gathering data in high-interest …

United States – Definitive Anti-Dumping And Countervailing Duties On Certain Products From China, Sungjoon Cho

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Violence And Belonging: Land, Love, And Lethal Conflict In The North- West Frontier Province Of Pakistan By Are Knudsen; Reviewed By Cabeiri Robinson, Cabeiri Robinson

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

On Being Madhesi, Ramawatar Yadav

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

First Kepler Results On Compact Pulsators - Ii. Kic-010139564, A New Pulsating Subdwarf B (V361 Hya) Star With An Additional Low-Frequency Mode, S. D. Kawaler, Michael D. Reed, A. C. Quint, R. H. Østensen, R. Silvotti, A. S. Baran, S. Charpinet, S. Bloemen, D. W. Kurtz, For Complete List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

We present the discovery of non-radial pulsations in a hot subdwarf B star based on 30.5 d of nearly continuous time series photometry using the Kepler spacecraft. KIC-010139564 is found to be a short-period pulsator of the V361-Hya (EC-14026) class with more than 10 independent pulsation modes whose periods range from 130 to 190 s. It also shows one periodicity at a period of 3165 s. If this periodicity is a high-order g-mode, then this star may be the hottest member of the hybrid DW-Lyn stars. In addition to the resolved pulsation frequencies, additional periodic variations in the light curve …

First Kepler Results On Compact Pulsators - V. Slowly Pulsating Subdwarf B Stars In Short-Period Binaries, S. D. Kawaler, Michael D. Reed, R. H. Østensen, S. Bloemen, D. W. Kurtz, A. C. Quint, R. Silvotti, A. S. Baran, E. M. Green, For Complete List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

The survey phase of the Kepler Mission includes a number of hot subdwarf B (sdB) stars to search for non-radial pulsations. We present our analysis of two sdB stars that are found to be g-mode pulsators of the V1093-Her class. These two stars also display the distinct irradiation effect typical of sdB stars with a close M-dwarf companion with orbital periods of less than half a day. Because the orbital period is so short, the stars should be in synchronous rotation, and if so, the rotation period should imprint itself on the multiplet structure of the pulsations. However, we do …

First Kepler Results On Compact Pulsators - Iii. Subdwarf B Stars With V1093 Her And Hybrid (Dw Lyn) Type Pulsations, M. D. Reed, S. D. Kawaler, R. H. Østensen, S. Bloemen, A. Baran, J. H. Telting, R. Silvotti, S. Charpinet, A. C. Quint, For Complete List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

We present the discovery of non-radial pulsations in five hot subdwarf B (sdB) stars based on 27-d of nearly continuous time series photometry using the Kepler spacecraft. We find that every sdB star cooler than ≈27-500-K that Kepler has observed (seven so far) is a long-period pulsator of the V1093 Her (PG 1716) class or a hybrid star with both short and long periods. The apparently non-binary long-period and hybrid pulsators are described here. The V1093 Her periods range from 1 to 4.5-h and are associated with g-mode pulsations. Three stars also exhibit short periods indicative of p-modes with periods …

Skills Acquired Through Personal Narrative Writing Instruction, Samantha J. Martin

Education Masters

This study was focused on personal narrative writing instruction in the elementary grades. The purpose of this study was to determine the skills that students acquire during personal narrative writing instruction. The study was conducted in a rural fifth grade classroom and included six students of varying ability levels as well as the classroom teacher. samples. Data was collected through classroom observation, interviews, and student work The results of this study suggested that personal narrative writing instruction teaches students how to effectively organize a writing piece, include proper mechanics, vary word choice, and how to edit and revise. Educators need …

How Are Elementary Teachers Utilizing Technology To Enhance Their Instruction Of Literacy In The Classroom?, Alissa B. Hawkins

Education Masters

This study examined how elementary teachers used technology to enhance literacy instruction in the classroom. Research was conducted by observing and interviewing both teachers and students in two classrooms, one a blended 3rd/4th grade classroom and the other a 4th grade classroom, on how technology is utilized in the classroom for literacy instruction. The findings showed the use of technology to be highly beneficial for elementary students. The students demonstrated an increase in motivation, attention and engagement. The benefits provided by technology allow students to participate more fully in the educational opportunities of the 21st century and helped students gain …

Meet Lou T. Fisk!, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

Some Members Of The Olive Lodge 583, Jill Seaholm, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

Transfer Of Sorghum, Millet Production, Processing And Marketing Technologies In Mali Quarterly Report October 1, – December 31, 2010, Intsormil

USAID Mali Mission Awards

Table of Contents

Introduction.......................... 2

Executive Summary.......................... 3

Management Entity.......................... 6

Production-Marketing Activities ..........................29

Food Processing Activities ..........................91

Décrue Sorghum Activities ..........................99

Training Activities ..........................115