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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Treatment optimization"”.
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Computational Modelling and Treatment Optimization of Acute Endovascular and Respiratory Conditions
… clinical design process to optimize treatment for acute endovascular and respiratory conditions. Specifically, focus is placed on optimizing treatment for two acute pathologies: (1) the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and (2) Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA). In light of the …
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Heat treatment optimization in the manufacture of Wilson Rockwell steel hardness test blocks
The heat-treatment process in the manufacture of Wilson Rockwell steel hardness test blocks often produces parts which are inconsistent in the mean hardness and hardness uniformity. In this thesis, the sources of variation in the mean hardness and hardness uniformity of the test blocks are …
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Effect of alkali treatment conditions optimization on kenaf fiber polyester composite characterization
This study was conducted to evaluate the alkali treatment conditions optimization impact on kenaf fiber and its short random oriented kenaf fiber reinforced polyester matrix composite mechanical properties characterization. The selected treatment conditions are alkali solution concentration (2% w/v …
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Materials testing and development of functionally graded composite fuel cladding and piping for the Lead-Bismuth cooled nuclear reactor
… included microstructural characterization, heat treatment optimization, creep and tensile testing, diffusion testing, and long term static corrosion tests. Although the composite fuel cladding was not available at the time of this study, all of the results from the piping material …
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Temporally Feathered Radiation Therapy under Uncertainty
… therapy planning through novel stochastic optimization models that account for biological heterogeneity and uncertainty in organ-at-risk (OAR) responses. Building on the temporally feathered radiation therapy (TFRT) strategy, we develop a personalized, biologically informed treatment …
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Optimising therapeutic strategies for chronic rhinosinusitis
… There is often a marked variation in treatment response in those afflicted with chronic rhinosinusitis, both within and between patients, attributable in part to different disease phenotypes/endotypes, poor awareness of treatment optimization options, and trivialization of symptoms by …
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Erectile dysfunction in clinical practice. - With special focus on the correlation to myocardial infarction, lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), treatment cost and optimization -
… LUTS (lower urinary tract symptoms), ED treatment costs and optimization. A group of 100 patients under the age of 70 years who had suffered their first MI and an age matched control group without MI answered a questionnaire regarding ED and concomitant diseases. The aim was to evaluate …
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Development and Applications of Neuromusculoskeletal Modeling Software for Personalized Treatment Design
… unemployment, health care). Therefore, improving treatment for walking impairment conditions is a high rehabilitation priority and an important public health problem. Clinicians and researchers have explored various neurorehabilitation treatments in search of effective approaches for maximizing …
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Removal of Total Organic Carbon and Emerging Contaminants in an Advanced Water Treatment process using Ozone-BAC-GAC
… if planned accordingly. Depending on the pretreatment implemented for potable reuse, emerging contaminants; such as pharmaceuticals, personal care products, industrial solvents, bacterial/viral pathogens, and disinfection byproducts, might be present in source water and difficult to remove …
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An Exploration of the Feasibility of Combining Radiation Therapy with Psoralen Phototherapy
… therapy (RT) has been a standard-of-care treatment for many localized cancers for decades. Despite being an effective treatment modality for many clinical presentations, the efficacy of RT against cancer can be limited due to local recurrence, metastatic spread, and radiation resistance …
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Ensemble Tree-Based Machine Learning for Imaging Data
… progress, and monitoring the effectiveness of treatments to decision-making processes. The detailed information generated by medical imaging has enabled physicians to provide more comprehensive care. Although numerous machine learning algorithms, especially those used for imaging data, have …
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Treatment patterns of antiepileptic drugs and economic outcomes in patients with potential refractory epilepsy in the Texas Medicaid Program
… demographic and clinical characteristics, treatment patterns (i.e., medication adherence, persistence, addition, and switching), and healthcare utilization and cost (i.e., all-cause and epilepsy-related) associated with refractory or non-refractory epilepsy. The study used Texas Medicaid …
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Fabrication, Kinetics and Crystallography of Lithium Disilicate Glass-Ceramics
… of compositional design of parent glass and heat treatment optimization. The second objective is to understand the nucleation mechanism and crystallization kinetics of lithium disilicate glasses by in situ and real-time observations of phase transition using X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique with …
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Vibration as a method for muscular stimulation
… group through the subject body. To customize WBV treatments, surface electromyography (SEMG) signals are often used to reveal the best stimulation frequency for each subject. Use of SEMG concise parameters, such as root mean square values of the recordings, is also a common practice; frequently a …
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Υπολογιστικές προσομοιώσεις διαγνωστικών και θεραπευτικών τεχνικών που αφορούν σε φυσιολογικά και παθολογικά κυτταρικά συστήματα
Η διατριβή αφορά την ανάπτυξη και υλοποίηση ενός τετραδιάστατου, διακριτού μοντέλου προσομοίωσης της συμπεριφοράς καρκινικών κυτταρικών συστημάτων σε ελεύθερη ανάπτυξη και της απόκρισής τους σε χημειοθεραπευτική ή και ακτινοθεραπευτική αγωγή. Υλοποιήθηκαν δύο εκδοχές του μοντέλου: η χωρική και η μη …
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Infrastructure Condition Assessment and Prediction under Variable Traffic Demand and Management Scenarios
… dissertation introduces an integrated simulation-optimization framework that accounts for the combined effects of pavement conditions and traffic management decision-making strategies. The research focuses on exploring the range of possible performance outcomes resulting from this integrated …