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SPECIAL APPLICATIONS OF IRREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS
… developments and applications in the field of Irreversible Thermodynamics which enables one to efficiently treat phenomena that are spatially and temporally non-equilibrium ones, and therefore thermodynamically irreversible. The unavoidable facts that all industrial processes experience …
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Effects of Irreversible Electroporation and High-Frequency Irreversible Electroporation for the Treatment of Breast Cancer
… are being investigated for the treatment of BC. Irreversible Electroporation (IRE) delivers a series of long, monopolar electrical pulses via electrodes inserted directly into the targeted tissue which disrupt cellular membranes by creating nano-scale pores, killing the cells via loss of …
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Irreversible Effects of Pressure and Shear
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On the theory of irreversible processes
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 1947.
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Finite element modeling of high frequency irreversible electroporation
High frequency irreversible electroporation (HFIRE) is a minimally invasive, non-thermal method of soft tissue ablation that has potential to effectively treat tumors and atrial fibrillation without the severe muscular contractions that occur with monophasic pulses. The technology is relatively …
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Essays On Oil Price Volatility And Irreversible Investment
… I investigate the impact of volatility on firms' irreversible investment decisions using real options theory. Cost incurred in oil drilling is considered sunk cost, thus irreversible. I collect detailed data on onshore, development oil well drilling on the North Slope of Alaska from 2003 to 2014. …
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Random matrices, quantum chaos and irreversible classical dynamics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 1996.
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Optimizing Irreversible Perturbations of the Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm
… by numerical schemes. This thesis investigates irreversible perturbations of overdamped Langevin dynamics, aiming to accelerate mixing while controlling discretization error. Irreversible perturbations introduce skew-symmetric drift terms that preserve the target distribution while inducing …
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DEVELOPMENT OF A GENERAL LETHAL CRITERION FOR IRREVERSIBLE ELECTROPORATION
Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is a non-thermal and promising technique for tumor ablation that generates an ablation zone producing permanent nanopores in the membrane of cells, thus leading to cell death. The ablation zone is determined with a designed treatment plan, including a selection of …
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Application of Irreversible Thermodynamics to Biological Membrane Transport Phenomena
An application of Onsager's Theory is made to biological transport phenomena. By transforming the coefficient matrix (the Onsager L matrix) to the diagonal form we obtain a new relation between the entropy production and the state parameters (flows or forces) of the system. Active transport across …
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Irreversible Actions in Assistance Games with a Dynamic Goal
… one particular impact measure: the frequency of irreversible actions that an agent takes. We study this impact measure using a time-varying model of the principal’s preferences. This choice was motivated by two primary considerations. First, many real-world scenarios consist of a principal with …
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Cell Death Characterization In Tumor Constructs Using Irreversible Electroporation
… to help manage and prevent these cancers. Irreversible electroporation is a new non-thermal focal ablation therapy utilizing short, pulsed electric fields to damage cell membranes leading to cell death. The therapy is minimally invasive, involving the insertion of needle electrodes into the …
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Advancements in Irreversible Electroporation for the Treatment of Cancer
Irreversible electroporation has recently emerged as an effective focal ablation technique. When performed clinically, the procedure involves placing electrodes into, or around, a target tissue and applying a series of short, but intense, pulsed electric fields. Oftentimes, patient specific …
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Irreversible Electroporation for the Treatment of Aggressive High-Grade Glioma
… improve survival over the last seven decades. Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is a new non-thermal focal tissue ablation technique that uses low-energy electric pulses to destabilize cell membranes, thus achieving tissue death. The procedure is minimally invasive and is performed through …
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Quantitative functional brain imaging with Positron Emission Tomography and irreversible tracers
… quantification of PET data investigated with<br/>irreversible-uptake tracers. SAIF has been designed in order to maintain<br/>the main advantages of SA but providing a superior robustness to measurement<br/>noise. The final aim was to create a reliable and flexible PET<br/>quantification tool, …
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An analysis of the thermoelectric effect in copper using irreversible thermodynamics
(First paragraph) The treatment of thermodynamics may be classified from two different points of view: the thermodynamic and the statistical mechanical. In the thermodynamic treatment the system as a whole is described by its macroscopic properties, whereas in the statistical treatment the system …
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Photoinduced phase transitions and irreversible dynamics studied with single-shot spectroscopy
… femtosecond spectroscopy was developed to study irreversible processes and materials far from equilibrium. It was then applied to investigate photoinduced phase transitions in semimetals and manganites. The dual-echelon single-shot instrument was developed, and noise sources, experimental …
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Reversible and irreversible adsorption of naphthalene and α-naphthol to soil
… diffusive processes contributed to the apparent irreversible adsorption of these compounds. The purposes of this research were to: (1) investigate the processes which cause the irreversible adsorption of organic contaminants to soil~ (2) gauge the impact that these different adsorption processes …
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Reversible and Irreversible Effects of Magneto-Ionic Gating: Exchange, Anisotropy, and Magnetization
… systems, focusing on the reversible and irreversible intricacies of the voltage-control of magnetic properties. In the initial exploration of Pd/Co/Pd trilayers via solid-state hydrogen-ion gating, the mechanism which toggles magnetic anisotropy is proven and quantitative values for the …
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