Information and Training on the Use of Telemedicine in Pediatric Population: Consensus Document of the Italian Society of Telemedicine (SIT), of the Italian Society of Preventive a... by Susanna Esposito, Cristiano Rosafio, Francesco Antodaro, Alberto Argentiero, Marta Bassi, Paolo Becherucci, Fabio Bonsanto, Andrea Cagliero, Giulia Cannata, Fabio Capello, Fabio Cardinale, Tiziana Chiriaco, Alessandro Consolaro, Angelica Dessì, Giuseppe Di Mauro, Valentina Fainardi, Vassilios Fanos, Alfredo Guarino, Giada Li Calzi, Elisa Lodi, Mohamad Maghnie, Luca Manfredini, Emanuela Malorgio, Nicola Minuto, Maria Grazia Modena, Rossano Montori, Andrea Moscatelli, Elisa Patrone, Elena Pescio, Marco Poeta, Angelo Ravelli, Maddalena Spelta, Agnese Suppiej, Sergio Vai, Luca Villa, Rinaldo Zanini, Renato Botti, Antonio Vittorino Gaddi

“…Furthermore, medical skills can also be integrated with the skills of various professionals (engineers, physicists, statisticians, and mathematicians) to birth a new category of health professionals responsible for building new semiotics, identifying criteria for predictive models to be integrated into clinical practice, standardizing clinical and research databases, and defining the boundaries of social networks and new communication technologies within health services.…”
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Detecting Associations between Archaeological Site Distributions and Landscape Features: A Monte Carlo Simulation Approach for the R Environment by Richard J. Hewitt, Francis F. Wenban-Smith, Martin R. Bates

“…Monte Carlo simulation, devised in the late 1940s by mathematical physicists, offers a way to approach this problem. In this paper, we apply a Monte Carlo approach to test for association between Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites in Hampshire and Sussex, UK, and quarries recorded on historical maps. …”
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Using 2D CNN with Taguchi Parametric Optimization for Lung Cancer Recognition from CT Images by Cheng-Jian Lin, Shiou-Yun Jeng, Mei-Kuei Chen

“…The experimental results show that the average classification accuracy of the 2D CNN with Taguchi parameter optimization and the original 2D CNN in lung cancer recognition are 91.97% and 98.83% on the Lung Image Database Consortium and Image Database Resource Initiative (LIDC-IDRI) dataset, and 94.68% and 99.97% on the International Society for Optics and Photonics with the support of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (SPIE-AAPM) dataset, respectively. …”
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Evaluating the distribution of research in radiation sciences as published in general medical physics journals by Banafsheh Zeinali-Rafsanjani, Mohammad Amin Mosleh-Shirazi, Mahdi Saeedi-Moghadam, Sepideh Sefidbakht

“…Conclusion: According to the results, radiation oncology physics and medical imaging were the most popular issues among medical physicists. This study suggests that more attention should be given to non-ionizing radiation topics, radiobiology, and radiation protection. …”
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Protein Structure Prediction: Challenges, Advances, and the Shift of Research Paradigms by Bin Huang, Lupeng Kong, Chao Wang, Fusong Ju, Qi Zhang, Jianwei Zhu, Tiansu Gong, Haicang Zhang, Chungong Yu, Wei-Mou Zheng, Dongbo Bu

“…These researchers adopt various research paradigms to attack the same structure prediction problem: biochemists and physicists attempt to reveal the principles governing protein folding; mathematicians, especially statisticians, usually start from assuming a probability distribution of protein structures given a target sequence and then find the most likely structure, while computer scientists formulate protein structure prediction as an optimization problem — finding the structural conformation with the lowest energy or minimizing the difference between predicted structure and native structure. …”
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Focus on the emerging new fields of network physiology and network medicine by Plamen Ch Ivanov, Kang K L Liu, Ronny P Bartsch

“…This ‘focus on’ issue contains 26 articles representing state-of-the-art contributions covering diverse systems from the sub-cellular to the organism level where physicists have key role in laying the foundations of these new fields.…”
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A Mobile App (AMOR Mama) for Women With Breast Cancer Undergoing Radiation Therapy: Functionality and Usability Study by Flávia Oliveira de Almeida Marques da Cruz, Edison Tostes Faria, Pabblo Cardelino Ghobad, Leandro Yukio Mano Alves, Paula Elaine Diniz dos Reis

“…MethodsThe evaluation process of the mobile app was performed in 2 steps with 8 professionals, including nurses, physician, medical physicists, and communication networks engineer. The first step was the focus group, which allowed obtaining suggestions proposed by the participants regarding the improvement of the mobile app. …”
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Identification of Key Elements in Prostate Cancer for Ontology Building via a Multidisciplinary Consensus Agreement by Amy Moreno, Abhishek A. Solanki, Tianlin Xu, Ruitao Lin, Jatinder Palta, Emily Daugherty, David Hong, Julian Hong, Sophia C. Kamran, Evangelia Katsoulakis, Kristy Brock, Mary Feng, Clifton Fuller, Charles Mayo, BDSC Prostate Cancer

“…Conclusions: This expert consensus on PCa-specific KDEs has served as a foundation for a professional society-endorsed, publicly available operational ontology developed by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Big Data Sub Committee (BDSC).…”
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Generalized volume-complexity for RN-AdS black hole by Meng-Ting Wang, Hong-Yue Jiang, Yu-Xiao Liu

“…Abstract The connection between quantum information and quantum gravity has captured the imagination of physicists. Recently, a broad new class of gravitational observables have been proposed to provide new possibilities for holographic complexity [1], which is an extension of volume in the Complexity=Volume proposal. …”
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Théorie cinétique de l’équilibre chimique by Lazerges, Mathieu, Marque, Sylvain

“…The chemical potential, a quantity ascribed to every chemical species, represents the driving force of a chemical reaction. Chemists and physicists use since the beginning of the 20th century Gibbs and Boltzmann model to express the evolution laws of chemical reactions and phase transitions. …”
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Application of error classification model using indices based on dose distribution for characteristics evaluation of multileaf collimator position errors by Heesoon Sheen, Han-Back Shin, Hojae Kim, Changhwan Kim, Jihun Kim, Jin Sung Kim, Chae-Seon Hong

“…Cases from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 119 were planned, and systematic and random MLC position errors were simulated. …”
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Developing a Radiation-Savvy Public Health Workforce by Adela Salame-Alfie, Robert C. Whitcomb, CAPT Lynn Evans, George Howard, Johanna Gilstrap, Adrienne Gill, Harold Hardrick

“…The TEP program is comprised of staff across CDC programs with a variety of specialties such as epidemiologists, clinicians, data managers, communicators, environmental health specialists, at risk population specialists and health physicists.Key TEP activities include the preparation of the CDC Nuclear/Radiological Incident Response and Recovery Annex that describes CDC's roles and responsibilities in the event of a nuclear/radiological incident; establishment of an Incident Management System (IMS) structure to reflect an agency-wide response consistent with CDC's All Hazards Plan; and completion of nuclear/radiological public health preparedness and response training and exercises. …”
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Toward a terahertz-driven electron gun by Nanni, Emilio Alessandro, Ravi, Koustuban, Hong, Kyung-Han, Fallahi, Arya, Wong, Liang Jie, Keathley, Phillip D., Zapata, Luis E., Huang, Wenqian Ronny, Kaertner, Franz X.

“…Femtosecond electron bunches with keV energies and eV energy spread are needed by condensed matter physicists to resolve state transitions in carbon nanotubes, molecular structures, organic salts, and charge density wave materials. …”
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Focus on the physics of biofilms by Lecuyer, Sigolene, Stocker, Roman, Rusconi, Roberto

“…We are pleased to present a collection of research papers that discuss some of the latest developments in many of the areas to which physicists can contribute a deeper understanding of biofilms, both experimentally and theoretically. …”
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The renaissance of black phosphorus by Ling, Xi, Wang, Han, Huang, Shengxi, Xia, Fengnian, Dresselhaus, Mildred

“…One hundred years after its first successful synthesis in the bulk form in 1914, black phosphorus (black P) was recently rediscovered from the perspective of a 2D layered material, attracting tremendous interest from condensed matter physicists, chemists, semiconductor device engineers, and material scientists. …”
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Keep Focusing on the Air: COVID-19 and the Historical Value of an Atmospheric Sensibility by Robert-Jan Wille

“…Dealing with the atmosphere is useful for another reason too: in the current age, atmosphere physicists and chemists have become key architects of the Anthropocene concept, and the meteorological sciences are increasingly claiming a stake in the environmental humanities. …”
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Jean Pecquet (1622–1674). To the 400th anniversary of the birth by T. A. Fominykh, S. A. Kutia, A. N. Zakharova, A. E. Malov

“…Throughout his life, Pecquet collaborated with many prominent scientists of that time (Jacques Mentel, Louis Gayant, Jean Riolan (the Younger)), including not only physicians and anatomists, but also physicists such as Blaise Pascal, Edme Mariotte, Marin Mersenne and Evangelista Torricelli. …”
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Correcting for the heterogeneous boron distribution in a tumor for BNCT dose calculation by Yi-Chiao Teng, Jiang Chen, Wan-Bing Zhong, Yuan-Hao Liu

“…Therefore, the way how medical physicists and clinicians process the TNR in gross tumor volume should be refined, and the method demonstrated in the work provides a good reference.…”
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Commissioning validation of a brachytherapy treatment planning system with egsnrc monte carlo code and EBT3 GAFChromic film by Mohammed Lahlabou, Rachid Khelifi

“…Aims: Most brachytherapy treatment planning system (TPS) commissioning requires data input based on the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group-43 formalism. The commissioning accuracy is very important for dose calculation. …”
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Pediatric craniospinal irradiation – The implementation and use of normal tissue complication probability in comparing photon versus proton planning by S Balasubramanian, M K Shobana

“…Conclusion: The NTCP and tumor control probability (TCP) model-based plan ranking along with dosimetric indices will help the clinical practitioner or medical physicists to choose the best treatment plan for each patient based on their anatomical or clinical challenges.…”
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