Brachytherapy is the clinical use of radioactive isotopes to provide a highly conformal image-guided radiation therapy that takes advantage of the steep fall off dose characteristics and different energetic emanations to improve the therapeutic ratio. Historically it was the first mode of radiation therapy. The last...
Compared to many clinical methods and procedures,
electrocardiography is not particularly
new. The first human electrocardiogram was
recorded by Dr Augustus Desiré Waller in 1887.
Since that time, the development of electrocardiography
was not uniform. Several waves of
advancement of the physiologic understanding...
Social media is one of the most remarkable developments of the Internet revolution. One need look no further than Egypt, the United Kingdom, the United States, Syria, or Libya to view the influence that online communities have had in the political sphere. Now, this power has come to the business world, specifically the marketplace for equity...
My professional coding career has gone from large to small in a variety of ways. I
started on 3279 terminals at IBM, and with each professional move (from Ericsson to
Travelocity and others) I went to smaller machines and smaller companies. Now I
work on computers you can fit in your pocket and at a company of one:...
Over the past decade, regular expressions have experienced a remarkable rise in popularity.
Today, all the popular programming languages include a powerful regular expression
library, or even have regular expression support built right into the language.
Many developers have taken advantage of these regular...
Have you ever set foot in the kitchen with a certain hunger and found that you had no clue
as to how to make that dish? At such a time a cookbook is a wonderful thing. That's why I
appreciate this concept of a cookbook for workflows and services. At Microsoft when we build
products they are often chocked full of little known...
The personal computer (PC), which first hit the market over 30 years ago, has undergone
tectonic changes that, in turn, launched the PC era. PCs were primarily used in
the workplace where software was simple and optimized for use with the keyboard;
touching a screen was unheard of until recently. Slowly computers...
This is the book we wish we’d had when we were first introduced to agile
methods. We want to show how design and agile are a natural fit together.
How bringing together the people who build the products you design with the
people who use the products you design will lead to better decisions and better
customer...
“High Voltage Engineering” has been written for the undergraduate students in Electrical
Engineering of Indian and foreign Universities as well as the practising electrical
engineers.
The author developed interest in the field of High Voltage Engineering when he was a
student at the Govt. Engineering...
When migrating to the new wave of cloud-based applications, we now think about business logic, we think about automating processes, and we think about how we can make the systems better. Force.com is a cloud-based platform that is used to build and deploy enterprise applications on the cloud with minimum coding. Demand for Force.com experts...
The so-called “green wave”, triggered by a growing ecological awareness, has resulted in
an increased interest in herbal formulations throughout the world, particularly in the last
decade. The consumption of medicinal plants has almost doubled in the West during that
period. The efficacy of a number of herbal formulations...
In the past couple of years, cloud computing has emerged as a disruptive force in the information
technology (IT) industry. Its impact is of the same magnitude as the Internet and offshoring. Gartner
Research has identified cloud computing as one of the “top 10 disruptive technologies 2008–2012.”
According to...
