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Șerdean, Călin, Alexandra Mihaela Popa, and Mario Codreanu. "Clinical-imagistic correlations in dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease." Practica Veterinara.ro 1, no. 1 (April 19, 2018): 23–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.26416/pv.30.1.2018.1588.

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Myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD; degenerative valvular disease, endocardiosis, chronic valvular disease) is one of the most common acquired cardiac disease of dogs (75-80% from the cardiac diseases), characterized by mitral valve insufficiency. Pathologically, it is characterized by myxomatous degeneration of leaflets which does not have a congenital aspect, and that can progress to prolapse of one or both leaflets toward the left atrium during systole, and severe heart failure. It seems that the diseases is age and breed dependent. In most of the cases, MMVD occurs in dogs older than 5-8 years old and progresses as the dogs get older. The most predispose breed is Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, followed by Poodle (miniature and toy), Bichon, Lhassa Apso, Shih Tzu, Miniature Schnauzer, Cocker Spaniel, Chihuahua, Fox Terrier, Beagle, Pekinese, Dachshund, Yorkshire Terrier and Boston Terrier. This study aims to correlate the clinical and paraclinical examinations with the changes found in the echocardiographic examination.

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Elie, M., and M. Hoenig. "Canine immune-mediated diabetes mellitus: a case report." Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association 31, no. 4 (July 1, 1995): 295–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.5326/15473317-31-4-295.

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A four-year-old, spayed female toy fox terrier presented with hyperglycemia and severe anemia. A diagnosis of immune-mediated diabetes mellitus was made based upon the finding of beta-cell specific antibodies. Immune-mediated hemolytic anemia was diagnosed based on findings of a regenerative anemia, spherocytosis, hyperbilirubinemia, hemoglobinuria, and bilirubinuria. The anemia resolved following two months of immunosuppressive therapy. The diabetes was treated with insulin for four months, after which time treatment was no longer necessary. However, the dog remained positive for beta-cell antibodies which may be a predictive marker for the recurrence of diabetes mellitus in the future.

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Wilson, Bethany, Alicia Kasbarian, Navneet Dhand, and Paul McGreevy. "Battle of the Sexes in Best of Breed: Sex Influences Dogs’ Success in the Show Ring." Animals 8, no. 12 (December 18, 2018): 240. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani8120240.

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Much of the research on pedigree dog breeding has been directed towards understanding the implications of reduced genetic diversity and the prevalence of inherited disorders. An example is the potential role of the popular sire effect in perpetuating genetic defects. If male dogs are more likely than bitches to be identified as examples of members of a breed that align with breed standard, they may be selected for breeding earlier. This may contribute to the influence of individual males and contribute to popular sire effect. Conversely, if breed standards are written in a sex-neutral fashion, and if dogs are entered, exhibited, and judged in a sex-neutral fashion, then we would expect the success of female dogs in the show ring to be equal to that of their male counterparts. With a focus on toy and giant breeds, the current pilot study collated samples of dog show results to explore relationships between sex and the likelihood of success in the show ring. It focused on toy and giant breeds to explore any differences in equity, if it existed, at either end of the size and concomitant age-at-maturation spectrum. For the purpose of this study, toy breeds were those that weigh < 10 kg at maturity while giant breed dogs were those that exceed 45 kg. Within these two clusters, the least (n = 3) and most popular (n = 3) breeds were then selected to explore any potential role of sex on success in the show ring. The popularity of breeds was determined using the numbers of dogs registered with the Australian National Kennel Council. Using results from dog shows (n = 18) from 2015 to 2016, data on 1,080 dogs were obtained. Within these 12 breeds for the 18 shows, there were 137 Best of Breed (BOB) titles awarded: Pug (n = 18), Toy Poodle (n = 18), Bullmastiff (n = 14), Rottweiler (n = 17), Fox Terrier (Smooth) (n = 18), Bloodhound (n = 3), Schnauzer (miniature) (n = 15), Great Dane (n = 17), Norfolk Terrier (n = 10), Norwich Terrier (n = 5), Central Asian Shepherd Dog (n = 2). Despite the near parity of male and female dogs being exhibited, of these 137 titles, 86 (62.8%) were awarded to male dogs (at least 41 individuals) and 51 (37.2%) to female dogs (at least 32 individuals) showing that male dogs are more likely to win BOB titles (χ2 = 9.4455, df = 1, p-value = 0.002117). Among the toy subset of breeds, this effect was higher (χ2 = 6.798, df = 1, p-value = 0.009126) than among the giant breed subset, for whom the advantage to male dogs did not reach statistical significance versus χ2 = 3.0967, df = 1, p-value = 0.07845). This suggests that judges find the male dogs more appealing, presumably because they are more aligned with breed standards.

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Fyfe, John C., Kit Kampschmidt, Van Dang, Brian A. Poteet, Qianchuan He, Charles Lowrie, Peter A. Graham, and Virginia M. Fetro. "Congenital Hypothyroidism with Goiter in Toy Fox Terriers." Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine 17, no. 1 (January 2003): 50–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-1676.2003.tb01323.x.

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Books on the topic "Toy fox terrier"

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J, Flamholtz Cathy, and OTR Publications (Firm), eds. OTR Publications presents the Toy fox terrier. Ft. Payne, Ala: OTR Publications, 1988.

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Davidson, John L. The toy fox terrier, wired for action. Loveland, CO: Alpine Publications, 2006.

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Beauchamp, Richard G. Toy Fox Terrier. Kennel Club Books, 2003.

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Kreuger, Sherry Baker, and Sherry Baker-Kreuger. Toy Fox Terriers. Thomasson Grant & Howell, 1993.

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Toy Fox Terrier Americas Dog. Bearport Publishing, 2010.

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Publishing, Dogfather. My Patronus Is Toy Fox Terrier: 100 Page Toy Fox Terrier Notebook ~ Journal. Independently Published, 2020.

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Davidson, John F. The Toy Fox Terrier: Wired for Action. Alpine Publications, 2006.

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Know Your Toy Fox Terrier (Know Your Pet Lib). Main Line Book Co, 1986.

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Publishing, Dogfather. I Solemnly Swear That I Am up to No Good with My Toy Fox Terrier: 100 Page Toy Fox Terrier Notebook ~ Journal. Independently Published, 2020.

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Publishing, Toy Fox Terrier. This Girl Loves Her Toy Fox Terrier: Lined Journal, 120 Pages, 6 X 9, Funny Toy Fox Terrier Gift Idea, Black Matte Finish. Independently Published, 2019.

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Book chapters on the topic "Toy fox terrier"

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Mannes, Aaron. "Qualitative Analysis & Computational Techniques for the Counter-Terror Analyst." In Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism, 83–97. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5311-6_5.

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"Toy Fox Terrier." In Veterinary Medical Guide to Dog and Cat Breeds, 461–62. Teton NewMedia, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b16185-164.

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"Smooth Fox Terrier." In Veterinary Medical Guide to Dog and Cat Breeds, 438–39. Teton NewMedia, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b16185-154.

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"Wire Fox Terrier." In Veterinary Medical Guide to Dog and Cat Breeds, 482–83. Teton NewMedia, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b16185-171.

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Monroe, Kristen Renwick. "Tony: Rescuer." In Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide. Princeton University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691151373.003.0003.

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This chapter relates an interview with Tony, who was a young Dutch cavalry officer when the war began. Tony was bourgeois, with conservative social values and strong feelings of support for the Dutch monarchy. He credits some of his empathic worldview to his wartime experience; he saw heavy fighting during the Nazi invasion of Holland. His narrative is presented in as unadorned a form as possible, with limited editing and no analytical comment, to facilitate the reader's entering into Tony's head, to understand how Tony's ethical framework, and particularly his perceptions of himself in relation to others, worked to limit the choices Tony found available.

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"TERROR/POWER:." In Waiting for the Sky to Fall, 147–79. Ohio State University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvpbnnzt.9.

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Schechter, Ronald. "Conceptions of Terror in the European Enlightenment." In Facing Fear. Princeton University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691153599.003.0003.

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This chapter examines the images, feelings, connotations, and concepts that the word “terreur” evoked during the European Enlightenment. It first looks at a few definitions of terror before discussing the views of Paul-Henri Dietrich, Baron d'Holbach, a wealthy German nobleman who epitomized the Enlightenment war on terror. In particular, it considers Holbach's claim that philosophy is the cure for the psychological suffering caused by fear. It then explores the conception of terror as an attribute of God, which in turn associated it with majesty and justice, along with the practice of characterizing monarchs and nations as terrors. It also analyzes terror's connection to military science and law and punishment, including death penalty. Finally, it assesses the aesthetics of terror. The chapter shows that while the Enlightenment frequently railed against terror, its relationship to terror was highly ambivalent.

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"Prologue: Producing Panic, Pleading for Power." In From Trafficking to Terror, 17–25. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203795378-8.

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White, Robert E. "Soil and the Environment." In Soils for Fine Wines. Oxford University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195141023.003.0003.

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English has no exact translation for the French word terroir. But terroir is one of the few words to evoke passion in any discussion about soils. One reason may be that wine is one product of the land where the consumer can ascribe a direct link between subtle variations in the character of the product and the soil on which it was grown. Wine writers and commentators now use the term terroir routinely, as they might such words as rendezvous, liaison, and café, which are completely at home in the English language. French vignerons and scientists have been more passionate than most in promoting the concept of terroir (although some such as Pinchon (1996) believe that the word terroir has been abused for marketing, sentimental, and political purposes). Their views range from the metaphysical—that “alone, in the plant kingdom, does the vine make known to us the true taste of the earth” (quoted by Hancock 1999, p. 43)—to the factual: “terroir viticole is a complex notion which integrates several factors . . . of the natural environment (soil, climate, topography), biological (variety, rootstock), and human (of wine, wine-making, and history)” (translated from van Leeuwen 1996, p. 1). Others recognize terroir as a dynamic concept of site characterization that comprises permanent factors (e.g., geology, soil, environment) and temporary factors (variety, cultural methods, winemaking techniques). Iacano et al. (2000) point out that if the temporary factors vary too much, the expression of the permanent factors in the wine (the essence of terroir) can be masked. The difference between wines from particular vineyards cannot be detected above the “background noise” (Martin 2000). A basic aim of good vineyard management is not to disguise, but to amplify, the natural terroir of a site. Terroir therefore denotes more than simply the relationship between soil and wine. Most scientists admit they cannot express quantitatively the relationship between a particular terroir and the characteristics of wine produced from that terroir. Nevertheless, the concept of terroir underpins the geographical demarcation of French viticultural areas: the Appellation d’Origine Contrôllée (AOC) system, which is based on many years’ experience of the character and quality of individual wines from specific areas.

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Stead, Henry. "The Only Tone for Terror: Tony Harrison and the Gorgon’s Gaze." In New Light on Tony Harrison, 205–20. British Academy, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266519.003.0017.

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This chapter introduces the reader to Tony Harrison’s audiovisual poetry, composed for and broadcast on British television through the late 1980s and 1990s. Harrison has to date made twelve full documentary film-poems, and one film-poem feature, entitled Prometheus (1998). They all brim with the darker side of European history, current affairs and class politics, and explore what limits of what poetry might do, and how it might do it, in the televisual age. The chapter sets Harrison’s film poetry in its cultural context by paying attention to the poet’s major influences in the experimental medium (John Grierson’s GPO film unit and early Soviet filmmaking), before homing in on his 1992 film-poem The Gaze of the Gorgon as a species of social psychotherapy. The act of gazing at the Medusa-like and thus usually petrifying image of twentieth-century atrocity is offered here not as a ‘dope’ to mankind, but a stimulant towards its cure. The film-poem draws explicitly on Nietzsche’s concept of ‘Dionysiac art’ and Simone Weil’s pacifist notion of ‘force’, and Robert Jay Lifton’s work on trauma and the holocaust. Harrison’s hugely ambitious and uniquely accessible film-poems are currently publically unavailable. Are they the ‘missing link’ in the evolution of contemporary film and video poetry?

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Conference papers on the topic "Toy fox terrier"

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McBarron, Martha, Jim Cassidy, and Louise Hutton. "Benefits of Low Resolution Gamma Spectroscopy (LRGS) in Assessment and Remediation of Alpha Contamination." In ASME 2009 12th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2009-16023.

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The legacy of alpha contamination in an exterior disused storage area at the Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR) presented difficult challenges with regard to assessment and remediation. The area was heavily overgrown, with degraded remnant surfaces and debris from past demolition activities. The use of conventional field instruments and/or an extensive intrusive sampling programme were precluded as being impractical, the latter prohibitively costly and not expeditious. This paper describes the identification of a cost-effective alternative for the initial site assessment and the role of LRGS in the subsequent remediation work. It includes: 1 identification and selection of a field instrumentation/system for investigating the site. 2 details of the TERRIER™ system, incorporating the SAM935 Low Resolution Gamma Spectrometer (LRGS) with the capability of real time identification of nuclides. 3 use of the TERRIER™ for a non-intrusive survey of the site, with rapid transformation of field data into informative plots useful for remediation planning. 4 use of the TERRIER™ during remediation work, including assay of arisings. 5 benefits and limitations of using LRGS to support remediation of alpha contamination. 6 application of the instrumentation/system to other radiological investigations.

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Chasteen, Larry. "Using scenario planning to predict/prevent future terror attacks." In 2016 IEEE Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ths.2016.7568887.

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Strickland, W. S., Mark Anderson, and Dov Dover. "Blast-Resistant Window Concepts." In ASME 2003 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2003-1831.

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Terrorist bombs threaten American civilians and military personnel both at home and abroad. Analysis of data from previous terror attacks indicates the largest number of injuries result from projected glass shards from shattered windows and facades. Three key issues have led to increased interest in new window materials, as well as changes in building design codes: (1) actual terror attacks; (2) the threat of future terror attacks; and (3) monetary losses due to hurricanes. New protective products include a wide variation of films and laminated glasses for retrofit / replacement. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) research has shown that these protective films will reduce the fragmentation of the enclosed glass. However, protective films that are not anchored will not provide retention of the film/glass system under the severe blast loadings expected from terror bombs. The paper introduces the Flex window, a patent-pending blast-resistant window developed at AFRL, along with key design concepts. In addition, the paper presents results from actual blast tests of the Flex window. Tabular data and photo-documentation is used to illustrate the ability of the Flex window to handle blast pressures a full order of magnitude greater than the typical commercial “blast proof” window. New AFRL methods for modeling both exterior and interior loading functions are presented. In addition, possible response modes are discussed, based on observations of high-speed video recordings.

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Uslu, Kamil. "Strategic Resource Oil and Terror Relationship." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c12.02428.

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The September 11 events provided an opportunity for the US administration, initiating strong policies to better understand the region. It also reminded the world of America's political-military control capacity. The terrorist attacks on September 11 were not a real surprise. Indeed, 9/11 looked like the wild fantasies they needed to justify a new military role developed by American strategic analysts and military and intelligence planners. Terrorism is intended to intimidate or coerce individuals, societies or governments by a person or an organized group with the threat of threat or use of force. Terrorism is an illegal act, usually for ideological or political reasons. Oil is not an object, but also contains many positives and negatives. Turkey is a neighbor with its geopolitical position as the world's proven oil and natural gas reserves, with three-quarters of the country. It takes part in many important projects, including a natural "Energy Center" between the energy-rich Caspian, Central Asian, Middle Eastern countries and consumer markets in Europe. It supports these projects. As long as the strategic resource, oil and scarce brand are available, terrorism will not end. political instability in the oil belt of countries in the immediate vicinity of Turkey brings many disadvantages. This situation also adversely affect the Turkish economy, itself non-threatening terrorism and conflict of interest due to the large states to support terrorism in Turkey has led to more cautious.

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Caruntu, Dumitru I., and Christopher Shove. "Overview of Payload Vibration Isolation Systems." In ASME 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2005-82138.

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This paper is an overview of recent spacecraft payload vibration isolation systems for further possible application to reusable launch vehicles sub-orbital missions. A summary of vibro-acoustic environment of Orbital Science and Kistler Aerospace’s small launch vehicles indicated a severe level of random vibrations, shock and acoustics that the payload must endure. The same level of random vibrations has been found for an entire family of sounding rockets: Black Brant, Orion, Nike-Orion, Taurus-Orion and Terrier-Orion. This paper also presents recent flight experiments designed to test either launch isolation or on-orbit isolation systems. While the on-orbit vibration isolation systems were active-passive systems, which lately used smart structures and new control algorithms including adaptive neural network-based, launch isolation systems evolved from passive to active-passive systems which were lately tested during the VALPE-2 experiment. Launch active-passive systems provided a vibration reduction 10 to 1 versus up to 5 to 1 provided by passive systems. Also, on-orbit active-passive systems provided a vibration reduction of about 10 to 1. Suborbital missions became very important due to the growing number of research projects dedicated to remote sensing of high resolution and effects of microgravity. The number of orbital and especially suborbital reusable launch missions is estimated to increase considerably in the near future as vehicles develop. The actual tendency is to reduce payload weight and mission costs, and to improve the payload environment. This requires more efficient vibration isolation systems that will guarantee payload safety and better operational performance for reusable launch vehicles.

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KhudaBukhsh, Ashiqur R., Shriphani Palakodety, and Jaime G. Carbonell. "Harnessing Code Switching to Transcend the Linguistic Barrier." In Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Seventeenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-PRICAI-20}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/602.

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Code mixing (or code switching) is a common phenomenon observed in social-media content generated by a linguistically diverse user-base. Studies show that in the Indian sub-continent, a substantial fraction of social media posts exhibit code switching. While the difficulties posed by code mixed documents to further downstream analyses are well-understood, lending visibility to code mixed documents under certain scenarios may have utility that has been previously overlooked. For instance, a document written in a mixture of multiple languages can be partially accessible to a wider audience; this could be particularly useful if a considerable fraction of the audience lacks fluency in one of the component languages. In this paper, we provide a systematic approach to sample code mixed documents leveraging a polyglot embedding based method that requires minimal supervision. In the context of the 2019 India-Pakistan conflict triggered by the Pulwama terror attack, we demonstrate an untapped potential of harnessing code mixing for human well-being: starting from an existing hostility diffusing hope speech classifier solely trained on English documents, code mixed documents are utilized to perform cross-lingual sampling and retrieve hope speech content written in a low-resource but widely used language - Romanized Hindi. Our proposed pipeline requires minimal supervision and holds promise in substantially reducing web moderation efforts. A further exploratory study on a new COVID-19 data set introduced in this paper demonstrates the generalizability of our cross-lingual sampling technique.

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Oboimov, Anton, Oleg Zolotarev, Ivan Cheremisenov, E. Fedoseeva, A. Tokarev, E. Razina, and A. Galieva. "Assessing the risk of a nuclear power plant in a terrorist attack. Application of physical protection systems. Ray-tracing technology optimization techniques." In International Conference "Computing for Physics and Technology - CPT2020". ANO «Scientific and Research Center for Information in Physics and Technique», 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30987/conferencearticle_5fd755c05b7c88.92154155.

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Terrorism today is one of the main threats to human civilization. In recent years, international terror has proved its extreme cruelty, its readiness to stop at nothing in order to achieve its goals. As a result of committing terrorist acts, innocent people, children, women and old people suffer. For a terrorist, human life has no value. With the modern variety of potentially dangerous objects and their functional orientation, it is impossible to ensure safety with standard solutions, using uniform strategies, tactical schemes and techniques, and the same type of equipment. If we simply follow the path of ensuring the maximum level of safety, it may turn out that at most facilities the cost of the applied technological means will be many times greater than the cost of the technological equipment of the facility and even the facility itself. Hence, it follows that in order to create effective physical protection systems or to effectively modernize existing physical protection systems, it is necessary to analyze these systems, to identify the weakest and most protected places that need strengthening. At the same time, an important difference must be taken into account between physical protection systems and other safety systems used to protect against natural disasters (such as earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc.) and against abnormal operating conditions (such as fire, malfunctions in electrical equipment, etc.). Unlike human violators, security breaches are subject to strict laws and do not happen without reason. For example, the fire of a fire can only burn while there is fuel and oxygen. If one of these elements is removed, the fire will go out. Also, a fire cannot decide where and when it will occur, and how it will progress. Conversely, the human adversary (intruder) has the ability to decide whether to attack, when and how to attack, can adjust to the measures of the physical protection system to counter it, and possibly even outwit and defeat them. All this introduces a significant element of uncertainty into the process of analyzing and evaluating the effectiveness of the physical protection system. Taking into account the above, the task of developing a methodological approach to risk assessment when committing a terrorist attack using physical protection systems, taking into account the optimization of calculations of cost-intensive algorithms in real time, becomes more and more urgent. In this article, the authors attempt to create this approach.

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Kunze, Jay F., James M. Mahar, Kellen M. Giraud, and Carl W. Myers. "Underground Siting of Nuclear Power Plants: Enhancing Safety and Reducing Construction Cost." In 2014 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone22-31179.

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It has been shown, in a number of papers presented by the authors, that the construction of a nuclear power park underground, involving a number (six or more) of conventional Generation III+ LWR units, plus reprocessing, fuel re-manufacturing, and waste storage facilities is cost effective (both capital construction cost and operating costs) compared to the construction of similar facilities above ground (even if all such facilities are co-located). These papers have addressed the protection provided for both security from domestic acts of terror and natural hazards, and the ultimate containment of nuclear contamination in the event of accidents. However, as a result of the Fukushima tsunami and its effect on the six reactors at that location, issues are raised concerning the worst possible accident scenarios that could occur as a result of siting of nuclear plants underground. This paper addresses those highly unlikely events, with extremely low probabilities of occurrence, and shows that the effect of underground siting has advantages has over at ground locations.

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Li, Zhimeng, and Atsushi Sakuma. "Error Reduction and Performance Improvement of Palpation for Human Soft Tissues Based on 3D Indentation System." In ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2014-39736.

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In recent years, breast cancer has been a terror killer for women because of the high incidence rate. More and more researchers began to study breast cancer and made an effort to search an effective method for diagnosing breast cancer accurately. The stage achievement was reported by Li et al for AFM indentation study of breast cancer cells [1], which provided a famous method about measuring the elastic modulus to detect breast cancer. In addition, there are some common methods for the diagnosis of breast cancer, such as finger palpation, echo and mammography. However, due to the inaccuracy and pain, these methods have defects very obviously. Furthermore, it is said that palpation is most important method to reduce the mortality of the cancer in early diagnosis. However, the practical realization of the mechanical palpation system is desired since the palpation by human contains inaccuracy. Especially, three-dimensional evaluation is useful for precise diagnosis which can evaluate human body. Sakuma et al. firstly recommended Young’s modulus measurement using equivalent indentation strain in spherical indentation testing for soft flat material [2], which is also applied to evaluate the human skin successfully [3]. In this paper, three-dimensional palpation method for human body tissue based on Hertzian contact theory is proposed at first, and error reduction procedure of the method is also discussed for the improvement of identification ability of it.

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Cherubini, N., A. Dodaro, G. Gandolfo, L. Lepore, G. A. Marzo, E. Piccinelli, and R. Remetti. "The Neutron Active Interrogation System for In-Field Detection of Transuranic-Based Radioactive Dispersal Devices for Security Applications." In 2018 26th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone26-81422.

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The increasing of terror menace in recent years led the international community to enhance the efforts to minimize threats to people in everyday life by developing devices, techniques, and procedures targeted to improve the collective security. In this framework the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) developed a new device to improve CBRNe resilience, the Neutron Active Interrogation system (NAI). It has been conceived and optimized to identify transuranic-based Radioactive Dispersal Devices potentially hidden in packages, envisaging its utilization in field applications. NAI is based on the detection of neutrons from induced fission on small amount, of the order of a few grams, of fissile material. The device exploits a portable neutron generator based on d-t fusion reaction, a polyethylene structure for reducing the neutron energy in order to maximize the fission cross-section, and an array of 3He proportional counters. Fissile material detection is made using the Differential Die-Away time Analysis (DDAA), an active neutron technique based on the difference among the die-away times of fast interrogation neutrons and prompt fission neutrons induced by thermal neutrons in the moderating system. The original experimental setup was tested on the field during the live demo open to the public at the EDEN Project Demonstration occurred in September 2015 at ENEA Frascati Research Centre in Rome. Since then, the setup has been modified to improve the device detection capabilities. NAI performances have been tested within different environmental conditions, e.g. open field geometry vs. bunker-like geometry, to study the effects of scattering phenomena. The optimized configuration here presented is transportable, lightweight, and able to detect 2 grams of 235U contained in a salt of depleted uranium in real time, independently from the measurement environmental conditions.

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