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Integrability of a Generalized Ito System: the Painleve Test
It is shown that a generalized Ito system of four coupled nonlinear evolution
equations passes the Painleve test for integrability in five distinct cases, of
which two were introduced recently by Tam, Hu and Wang. A conjecture is
formulated on integrability of a vector generalization of the Ito system.Comment: LaTeX, 5 page
ASRM case insulation design and development
This paper describes the achievements made on the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor (ASRM) case insulation design and development program. The ASRM case insulation system described herein protects the metal case and joints from direct radiation and hot gas impingement. Critical failure of solid rocket systems is often traceable to failure of the insulation design. The wide ranging accomplishments included the development of a nonasbestos insulation material for ASRM that replaced the existing Redesigned Solid Rocket Motor (RSRM) asbestos-filled nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) along with a performance gain of 300 pounds, and improved reliability of all the insulation joint designs, i.e., segmented case joint, case-to-nozzle and case-to-igniter joint. The insulation process development program included the internal stripwinding process. This process advancement allowed Aerojet to match to exceed the capability of other propulsion companies
The design of multiconfiguration axisymmetric optical systems
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Use of Devolved Controllers in Data Center Networks
In a data center network, for example, it is quite often to use controllers
to manage resources in a centralized man- ner. Centralized control, however,
imposes a scalability problem. In this paper, we investigate the use of
multiple independent controllers instead of a single omniscient controller to
manage resources. Each controller looks after a portion of the network only,
but they together cover the whole network. This therefore solves the
scalability problem. We use flow allocation as an example to see how this
approach can manage the bandwidth use in a distributed manner. The focus is on
how to assign components of a network to the controllers so that (1) each
controller only need to look after a small part of the network but (2) there is
at least one controller that can answer any request. We outline a way to
configure the controllers to fulfill these requirements as a proof that the use
of devolved controllers is possible. We also discuss several issues related to
such implementation.Comment: Appears in INFOCOM 2011 Cloud Computing Worksho
Towards the production of radiotherapy treatment shells on 3D printers using data derived from DICOM CT and MRI: preclinical feasibility studies
Background: Immobilisation for patients undergoing brain or head and neck radiotherapy is achieved using perspex or thermoplastic devices that require direct moulding to patient anatomy. The mould room visit can be distressing for patients and the shells do not always fit perfectly. In addition the mould room process can be time consuming. With recent developments in three-dimensional (3D) printing technologies comes the potential to generate a treatment shell directly from a computer model of a patient. Typically, a patient requiring radiotherapy treatment will have had a computed tomography (CT) scan and if a computer model of a shell could be obtained directly from the CT data it would reduce patient distress, reduce visits, obtain a close fitting shell and possibly enable the patient to start their radiotherapy treatment more quickly. Purpose: This paper focuses on the first stage of generating the front part of the shell and investigates the dosimetric properties of the materials to show the feasibility of 3D printer materials for the production of a radiotherapy treatment shell. Materials and methods: Computer algorithms are used to segment the surface of the patient’s head from CT and MRI datasets. After segmentation approaches are used to construct a 3D model suitable for printing on a 3D printer. To ensure that 3D printing is feasible the properties of a set of 3D printing materials are tested. Conclusions: The majority of the possible candidate 3D printing materials tested result in very similar attenuation of a therapeutic radiotherapy beam as the Orfit soft-drape masks currently in use in many UK radiotherapy centres. The costs involved in 3D printing are reducing and the applications to medicine are becoming more widely adopted. In this paper we show that 3D printing of bespoke radiotherapy masks is feasible and warrants further investigation
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