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Advantages and limitations of navigation‐based multicriteria optimization (MCO) in selectively sparing pharyngeal constrictor muscles in head and neck radiotherapy treatment planning

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Sparing pharyngeal constrictor muscles (PCMs) during radiotherapy improves patient‐reported swallowing function. This study aimed to explore the feasibility of integrating knowledge‐based planning (KBP) with multicriteria optimization (MCO) in Eclipse v18.0 to selectively spare PCM, quantify the required trade‐off in prophylactic ...
Laura K. Howard, Simon J. P. Meara, Ehab M. Ibrahim, Carl G. Rowbottom   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stoics against stoics in Cudworth's "A Treatise of Freewill" [PDF]

, 2012
In his 'A Treatise of Freewill', Ralph Cudworth argues against Stoic determinism by drawing on what he takes to be other concepts found in Stoicism, notably the claim that some things are ‘up to us’ and that these things are the product of our choice ...
Anon, Arnim H. von, Bobzien S., Bobzien S., Bruns I., Chadwick H., Cudworth R., Cudworth R., Cudworth R., Cudworth R., Dobbin R., Graeser A., Hadot P., Hobbes T., John Sellars, Kahn C. H., Kassler J. C., Kenny A., Long A. A., Mintz S. I., Morani M., Passmore J. A., Rogers G. A., Salles R., Salles R., Sharples R. W., Sorabji R., Sorabji R., Spencer W., Thillet P., Zarka Y.-C.   +30 more
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An Inchoate Universe: James's Probabilistic Underdeterminism [PDF]

, 2018
In this paper, I challenge the traditional narrative that William James’s arguments against determinism were primarily motivated by his personal struggles with depression.
Bromhall, Kyle
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Is Time Travel Too Strange to Be Possible? Determinism and Indeterminism on Closed Timelike Curves

, 2017
Notoriously, the Einstein equations of general relativity have solutions in which closed timelike curves (CTCs) occur. On these curves time loops back onto itself, which has exotic consequences.
Brown, André EX, Ch'ng, Quee-Lim, Currie, Michael, Grundy, Laura J, Hokanson, Jim, Javer, Avelino, Kerr, Rex, Lee, Chee Wai, Li, Chris, Li, Kezhi, Schafer, William R, Yemini, Eviatar   +11 more
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Hard Determinism, Remorse, and Virtue Ethics [PDF]

, 2004
When hard determinists reject the claim that people deserve particular kinds of treatment because of how they have acted, they are left with a problem about remorse.
Vilhauer, Ben
core   +1 more source

Determinism/Environmental Determinism

, 2009
Contains fulltext : 78388.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Ernste, H., Philo, C.
openaire   +2 more sources

Determinants of menarche [PDF]

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, 2010
Menarche is a milestone in a woman's life as it denotes the start of reproductive capacity. Aim of this report is to review the recent developments and the current knowledge in the neuroendocrinology of pubertal onset and the factors, genetic and environmental, that influence menarcheal age.
Karapanou, Olga, Papadimitriou, Anastasios   +1 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Między determinizmem a prawdopodobieństwem – analiza poglądów Jana Łukasiewicza [PDF]

Argument, 2014
In the contemporary philosophical debate about probability, one of the main problems concerns the relation between objective probability and determinism. Is it possible for objective probability and determinism to co‑exist?
Paweł PRUSKI
doaj  

Tunnel Parsing with Ambiguous Grammars

Cybernetics and Information Technologies, 2023
The article proposes an addition to the tunnel parsing algorithm that enables it to parse grammars having countable repetitions and configurations of grammar elements generating empty words without refactoring the grammar.
Handzhiyski Nikolay, Somova Elena
doaj   +1 more source

Reliance on Conspiracy Theories Among Lithuanian Population

Politologija, 2022
This  article analyses the statistical validity of popular explanations for peoples‘s tendency to rely on conspiracy theories in Lithuanian public discourse.
Arvydas Grišinas, Ainius Lašas, Ignas Kalpokas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source