Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Applied Physics: Proceedings of the First International Meeting on Applied Physics (APHYS-2003)

The 1st International Meeting on Applied Physics (APHYS-2003) succeeded in creating a new international forum for applied physics in Europe, with specific interest in the application of techniques, training, and culture of physics to research areas usually associated with other scientific and engineering disciplines. This book contains a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at APHYS-2003, held in Badajoz (Spain), from 15th to 18th October 2003, which included the following Plenary Lectures: * Nanobiotechnology - Interactions of Cells with Nanofeatured Surfaces and with Nanoparticles * Radiation Protection of Nuclear Workers - Ethical Issues * Chaotic Data Encryption for Optical Communications

Table of Contents:
Absorption of RF Radiation in Confocal and Uniformly Shelled Ellipsoidal Biological Cell Models Chernobyl Clean-Up Workers: 17 Years of Follow-Up in Latvia Three-Dimensional Dose Distribution Around Air and Bone in Tissue Measured by MRI-Based Polymer Gel Dosimeter Determination of the V Function for CR-39 by Atomic Force Microscope The Role of 238Pu/239 + 240Pu Activity Ratios as Isotopic Signature of Plutonium Origin in Environmental Samples: Quality Assurance in Pu Determination by Alpha-Particle Spectrometry Making Predictions On The Evolution Of Radioactive Spots In The Ocean. Validation In The Baltic Sea HYPERION NET - A Distributed Measurement System for Monitoring Background Ionizing Radiation Automatic Diagnostic Of Plasmas With Finite Positive Ion Temperature Biophysical Device For The Treatment Of Neurodegenerative Diseases New Facility at the Portuguese Research Reactor for Irradiation with Fast Neutrons Patient Doses from Conventional Diagnostic Radiology Procedures in Serbia and Montenegro Analysis of the Background Levels of Tritium in Precipitation in Valladolid (Spain) Continuous Monitoring Of Environmental Radioactivity In Belgrade Variations of 7Be and 210Pb (1992-1999) In Air At a Sampling Station On The Mediterranean Coast The Radioactivity Levels and Physical-Chemical Properties In Public Water Supplies Of Malaga Spectral Analysis and Measurements of Exposure to Magnetic Fields (up to 32 kHz) in Private and Public Transport Photophysical Properties and Phototoxicity Effect of Supramolecular Sensitizers Determination of Punica granatum L. Carpellary Membrane Elastic Properties Using Atomic Force Microscopy Micro-fabrication with nanoparticles: Assembling DNA molecules by a focused laser Metrologic Assessment of High Power Laser Generated Surface Roughness by Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Characterization Of Membrane Distillation Membranes By Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscopy Software For Practical Training In Medical Biophysics Reactive Element Effect Studied by Laser Ablation Analysis of Sea-Land Breeze Around the City of Huelva (Spain) Analysis of the Electromagnetic Behaviour of a Variable-Waveform-Supplied Iron Core Inductor, Modelled with Finite Elements The PHOTONS - AERONET Network Stations in Spain Application of ICP-MS for Measuring Soil Metal Cations from Sequential Extraction Fractal Plotter: Visual Tools for Non-Linear Dynamical Systems Study Parameterizing non-linear magnetic cores for PSpice Simulation Obtaining the Electrical Model of a Power Transformer by Means of Finite Element Software Forced Low-Frequency Cell Oscillations In Human Blood Suspensions Very Low Gamma-Ray Activity Portable Instrument for the Determination of %Pb on Pb-Zn Ore Surface Microscopic Optical Interferometry Study of the Cottrell Atmospheres in Si-Doped GaAs An Edge-Based Data Structure for Navier-Stokes Equations Resolution Radiofrequency Ablation on Heart-equivalent Phantom. Functionality Testing of Percutaneous Single-use Catheter. Determination of Synchronization of Electrical Activity in the Heart by Shannon Entropy Measure Neural Network Control In A Wastewater Treatment Plant Time Series Prediction With Neural Networks. Application To Electric Energy Demand Five Years Tumor Therapy with Heavy Ions at GSI Darmstadt Ionizing Radiation as a Tool for Detoxification of Whole Effluents Sequence of Phase Transitions of Li-Na Niobate Solid Solutions in the High Temperature Region Study of kinetic friction of solid using driven lattice of quantized vortex in high-temperature superconductors – a new route to study microscopic tribology – Novel Algorithms for Estimating Motion Characteristics within a Limited Sequence of Images A Formalism for Quantum Computing and a Satisfiability Problem A Novel High-Voltage Power Generator for Diesel Exhaust Gas Treatment Numerical Calculation of a Liquid Bridge Equilibrium Contour between Noncircular Supports Hydrodynamic Lattice-Boltzmann Simulation of a Thermoplastic Fluid Film for Holographic Recording Diagnostics of a Pulsed Plasma Discharge Critical Evaluation of Scattering Models Within the Full Band Monte Carlo Simulation Framework Magneto-acoustic and Barkhausen Emission in Wide Ribbons of One Magnetic Glass Template Mediated Nanofibrous Structure: Novel Chitosan/Polyethylene Glycol Scaffold for Tissue Engineering CoSi2 formation with a thin Ti interlayer-Ti capping layer and Ti capping layer Roughness Measurement by Speckle Correlation Interferometer with a Phase Shifting by Geometrical Phase Control Structural Features in Granular and Amorphous Microwires Mechanical Alloying of Fe100-xBx Compounds: A Structural Study Pericardial Biomechanical Adaptation to Low Frequency Noise Stress The Onset to Criticality in a Sheared Granular Medium Electro-Optic Effect Induced In Glass Waveguides Containing A Charge-Trapping Layer A Novel Method Of Measuring Light Absorption On A Self-Assembled Single Quantum Dot Radiative Exciton Lifetimes in Indium Arsenide Self-Assembled Quantum Wires Radiative Exciton Lifetimes on Different Shape Self-Assembled Semiconductor Nanostructures Tissue-equivalent TL Sheet Dosimetry System for Gamma-ray Spatial Dose Distribution Measurement Active Thermography Applied for Quantitative Determination of Stomatal Resistance Local Characterization Of Multicrystalline Silicon Wafers And Solar Cells Contributions of Steady Heat Conduction to the Rate of Chemical Reaction Dynamic Force Spectroscopy: Looking at the Total Harmonic Distortion Optical Fiber Sensors For Nuclear Environments Measurement Of The Salinity In Water Through Long-Period Gratings Arc-Induced In Pure-Silica-Core Fibers Characterization of Cement Mortars with Ultrasonic Testing Topographical investigation of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant lung tumor cells H69 by scanning near-field optical microscopy Iron Oxide Thin Films Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy as a Tool for Electrical and Structural Characterizations of Membranes in Contact with Electrolyte Solutions Effect of Titanium/Oxygen Compositional Gradient on Adhesion of Titanium-Oxygen System Film deposited onto Titanium-based Alloy by Reactive DC Sputtering Ground Level Air Radioactivity Monitoring in Belgrade Urban Area Modelling and Simulation of an Absorption Solar Cooling System with Low Grade Heat Source in Alicante Precooling Time Estimation and Measurement Methods in Forced Air Precooling Systems Cleaning Noising from An ECG Experimental and modelling study on the uptake kinetics of radionuclides by SPM. Discussion on box-models applications Kinetically controlled radionuclide sorption by sediment cores from two different environments. Experimental studies using 133Ba as a tracer. Development and Production of Iodine-125 Seeds for Brachytherapy Quartz Crystal Microbalance And Electrical Impedance Characterization Of Nickel Dissolution Process. Electrical Properties Of Poly(Neutral Red) Deposited On Polycrystalline Nickel On the topology of two dimensional generalized cell systems Effect of Reaction Parameters on Morphology of Synthesized MFI Ipen Environmental Monitoring Programme: Assessment of the Gamma Radiation Levels with Thermoluminescence Dosimeters Working With A Neutron Activation Analyzer Behavior of Irradiated BICMOS Components for Space Applications Unexploded Ordnance Discrimination Using Neutrons Optical Effects In Gaussian Pulse Reflection And Transmission By Linearly Accelerated Interfaces Feasibility Of (Pb1-xCax)TiO3 Thin Films With x ~0.5 For Electronic Applications Acceleration and mixing in the radiometric dating of recent sediments: A further discussion supported by the IMZ model. A new theoretical treatment of sediment compaction: a reviewed basis for the radiometric dating of recent sediments with compaction and time-dependent fluxes Solar Radiation Map of Extremadura from Other Weather Data Controlling Nano Sized Particles Obtained Via Emulsion Polymerization Using a Polymeric Surfactant and a Water Soluble Initiator Extraction Of Informative Features From The Images Of Diagnostic Structures In Dried Drops Of Biological Liquids Computing the Differential Invariants for Second-Order ODEs The Role Of Electrochemical Etching Conditions In The Growth Of Porous Silicon Layers Future Trends in Nuclear Medical Imaging Decontamination of 137Cs Radioactive Liquid Wastes by Membrane Technology Application of the Unscear 2000 Report in the Valencian Breast Cancer Screening Program Single Conductor DC Magnetic Field Reduction Evaluation of Healthy Bone by a Method Based on Image Analysis A Method to Improve the Characterization of Bone Tumors from Digitalized Radiographs Neutronic Time-step Size And Direct Heating Influence On Power Peak Obtained By TRAC/BF1-NOKIN Coupled Code Uranium-Isotopes Determinations In Waters From Almonte-Marismas Aquifer (Southern Spain) Track Like Structures in CR-39 Detector from Alpha Particles with Incident Angles Close to and Below the Critical Angles Quality Control of a Pencil Ionization Chamber Gamma-ray measurements of naturally occurring radioactive isotopes in Lesvos Island Igneous rocks (Greece) Measurements of Track Parameters in CR-39 Detector Using Surface Profilometry Non linear effects of harmful agents: application of α irradiation and taxol on human cancer cells in vitro Envirad: A Collaboration Between Infn and Secondary School for the Study of Radon Calculation of Scattered Radiation Around a Patient Subjected to the X-Ray Diagnostic Examination A Pulsed Fast Neutron Analysis for the Detection of Plastic Explosives Study Of Two Sequential Extraction Methods And Its Application To Environmental Radioactivity Measures Investigation On The Soil Profile Around DU Projectile Three Years After Contamination Radioactive Disequilibrium of Naturally Occurring Radionuclides in Mineral Waters of Metamorfic Rock Balkan Area Absolute Activity Measurement Of Thallium-204 By Efficiency – Tracing Method A Method For C-14 Specific Activity Detection In Gas – Graphite Reactor Moderators Based On CO2 “in situ” Generation And Trapping. Radioactive Iodine Waste Treatment using Electrodialysis with an Anion Exchange Paper Membrane Determination Of Naturally Occurring Ra Isotopes In Ubatuba-SP, Brazil To Study Coastal Dynamics And Groundwater Input Calibration Procedures for Hand-Foot Contamination Monitors Analysis of Water, Soil and Fruit Quality from Eco-Locations in Serbia Using Nuclear and Chemical Methods Modeling Irradiation-Induced Charging-Annealing Dynamics in Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Devices New Simplified Technique for Determination of lead-210 in Environmental Samples Using 212Bi as Tracer of Chemical Yield Neutron Flux Measurements in Radiation Damage Experiments of ND-FE-B magnets by High Energy Electrons Measurement of Radon Concentration in Different Construced Houses and Terrestrial Gamma Radiation in Elazig, Turkey The Statistical Analysis of the Radioactivity Concentration of the Water Data in Malatya City, Turkey Dosimetric Characterization Of A Novel Ternary Crystal With Europium Radon Data From Different Laboratories: An Italian Intercomparison Peculiarities of cesium sorption-desorption on bottom sediments Influence of particle size distribution on the behavior of 137Cs in the Baltic Sea Modelling Angular Distribution Of Light Emission In Granular Scintillators Used In X-Ray Imaging Detectors The Formation of Peroxide Compounds as One of the Ways of TransformingOxygen-Containing Anions Under Radiolysis Determination of 90Sr impurities in 89Sr solutions, Intended for Medical Use Microwave Effects Upon Vegetal Cell Cultures The Critical Nature of Electromigration Correlationship Between Microscopic Observations and Electrochemical Behaviour of Different Kind of Galvanized Steel. Actin- & Tubulin-Based Structures Under Low Frequency Noise Stress Low Frequency Noise Exposure and Biological Tissue: Reinforcement of Structural Integrity?