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Effectiveness of Social Work Supervision: A Qualitative Case Study and a Framework of Structure–Relationship–Power Analysis
With a background of rapid advancement of social work professionalism, the effectiveness of social work supervision has become one of the key factors restricting the quality of social work service in China. Ta...
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Chapter
Lower Gastrointestinal Malignancies
Lower GI cancers present a particular problem for multidisciplinary care. Concurrent chemoradiotherapy is the standard of care, but with it comes a host of treatment-related toxicities. For rectal cancer, preo...
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Chapter
Proton Treatment Delivery Techniques
The chapter describes the various components of the proton treatment delivery techniques. It includes an introduction of the main equipments for a proton treatment systems, e.g., the accelerator, the beam tran...
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Chapter
Sarcoma
Radiation therapy plays an integral role in sarcoma management. Proton therapy with its advantageous dose distribution provides the potential for dose escalation and reduced integral dose and normal tissue rad...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design of Special Welding Machine Based on Open CNC System
The Motion control card is used to design the rotational parts of the welding machine. The motion control card or the entire CNC unit is inserted into the expansion slot of general PC. PC is used for file mana...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Development of Visual Analysis System Based on Visual Basic
Based on finite element theory, ANSYS software was encapsulated by VB software. The visual analysis system for structure field and flow field of high-parameter gate-valve was developed through their seamless i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Design and Development of Test Platform for Wheat Precision Seeding Based on Image Processing Techniques
The test platform of wheat precision seeding based on image processing techniques is designed to develop the wheat precision seed metering device with high efficiency and precision. Using image processing tech...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automated Tuning in Parallel Sorting on Multi-core Architectures
Empirical search is an emerging strategy used in systems like ATLAS, FFTW and SPIRAL to find the parameter values of the implementation that deliver near-optimal performance for a particular machine. However, ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Increasing Software-Pipelined Loops in the Itanium-Like Architecture
The Itanium architecture (IPF) contains features such as register rotation to support efficient software pipelining. One of the drawbacks of software pipelining is its high register requirement, which may lead...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Overcoming Static Register Pressure for Software Pipelining in the Itanium Architecture
Software pipelining techniques have been shown to significantly improve the performance of loop-intensive scientific programs. The Itanium architecture contains many features to enhance parallel execution, suc...
