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Formative Evaluation of Job Clubs Operated by Faith- and Community-Based Organizations: Findings From Site Visits and Options for Future Evaluation [PDF]

, 2014
Over the past several decades, job search support groups, commonly referred to as “job clubs,” have evolved into one of several important activities used by the public workforce system and faith- and community-based organizations to enhance worker ...
Barnow, Burt, O\u27Brien, Carolyn, Trutko, John, Wandner, Stephen   +3 more
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A review of dose prediction methods for tumor radiation therapy

Meta-Radiology
Radiation therapy (RT) is currently the main clinical treatment of tumors. Before treatment initiation, precise delineation of the planned target volume (PTV) and organs at risk (OAR) is essential.
Xiaoyan Kui, Fang Liu, Min Yang, Hao Wang, Canwei Liu, Dan Huang, Qinsong Li, Liming Chen, Beiji Zou   +8 more
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A retrospective study of automatic progressive optimization for lung cancer radiotherapy plans on the Halcyon and RayStation systems [PDF]

PeerJ
This study aims to evaluate the feasibility of using RayStation’s scripting function to generate automated radiotherapy plans for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients on a Varian Halcyon accelerator and to compare their dosimetric characteristics ...
Kainan Shao, Fenglei Du, Lingyun Qiu, Yinghao Zhang, Yucheng Li, Jieni Ding, Wenming Zhan, Weijun Chen   +7 more
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A Rigorous Evaluation of Family Finding in North Carolina [PDF]

, 2014
Child Trends evaluated Family Finding services in nine North Carolina counties through a rigorous impact evaluation and an accompanying process study. The impact evaluation involved random assignment of eligible children to a treatment or control group ...
Amy McKlindon, Karin Malm, Sarah Catherine Williams, Sharon Vandivere, Tiffany Allen   +4 more
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Demand response within the energy-for-water-nexus - A review. ESRI WP637, October 2019 [PDF]

, 2019
A promising tool to achieve more flexibility within power systems is demand re-sponse (DR). End-users in many strands of industry have been subject to research up to now regarding the opportunities for implementing DR programmes.
Bertsch, Valentin, Casey, Eoin, Kirchem, Dana, Lynch, Muireann A.   +3 more
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Advances in Automated Treatment Planning. [PDF]

Semin Radiat Oncol, 2022
Nguyen D, Lin MH, Sher D, Lu W, Jia X, Jiang S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Advisor and Student Experiences of Summer Support for College-intending, Low-income high school graduates [PDF]

, 2015
Summer melt occurs when students who have been accepted to college and intend to enroll fail to matriculate in college in the fall semester after high school.
Alexandra Chewning, Benjamin Castleman, Karen D. Arnold, Lindsay Page   +3 more
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IOE-based automated planning on Ethos vs. manual planning on Halcyon for pancreatic SBRT: a dosimetric, radiobiological, and plan verification study

European Journal of Medical Research
Purpose To compare automated treatment planning using the Ethos platform with manual planning on the Halcyon platform for pancreatic stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), and to disentangle the respective impacts of automated optimization and dose ...
Bin Zhang, Xiangyue Kong, Yutong Zhao, Zejun Jiang, Gongsen Zhang, Tianyuan Dai   +5 more
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Large-scale dose evaluation of deep learning organ contours in head-and-neck radiotherapy by leveraging existing plans

Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology
Background and purpose: Retrospective dose evaluation for organ-at-risk auto-contours has previously used small cohorts due to additional manual effort required for treatment planning on auto-contours.
Prerak Mody, Merle Huiskes, Nicolas F. Chaves-de-Plaza, Alice Onderwater, Rense Lamsma, Klaus Hildebrandt, Nienke Hoekstra, Eleftheria Astreinidou, Marius Staring, Frank Dankers   +9 more
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Development of a neuro-fuzzy technique for automated parameter optimization of inverse treatment planning

Radiation Oncology, 2009
Background Parameter optimization in the process of inverse treatment planning for intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is mainly conducted by human planners in order to create a plan with the desired dose distribution.
Wenz Frederik, Lohr Frank, Yan Hui, Stieler Florian, Yin Fang-Fang   +4 more
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