First Steps in the FTU Migration Towards a Modular and Distributed Real-Time Control Architecture Based on MARTe

The Fusion Advanced Studies Torus (FAST) experiment is being proposed by the Italian laboratories as a European satellite Tokamak that will enhance and facilitate the exploitation of ITER like scenarios and technologies. Its size and complexity is comparable to the largest fusion machine in the world: JET. As such, its real time control system will have to meet basic requirements such as a modular and distributed architecture, where different control subsystems can be easily integrated at different times and can operate either independently or in cooperation with other subsystems. Another important feature, which has to be taken into account, is the transparency regarding both the hardware interfacing and the adopted platform. As a test bed, we are currently planning to upgrade the architecture of the Frascati Tokamak Upgrade (FTU) real-time system in order to improve its flexibility and modularity and have decided to adopt the MARTe package to reach our goal. Currently, there are four systems under development at FTU: the LH-Power system; the gas puffing control system; the ODIN Equilibrium Reconstruction system; and the position and current feedback control system (currently in a design phase). This paper will describe the current status and first results of the previously referred systems integration

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Trame di parole. Studi in memoria di Clara Borrelli.

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Racial differences in systemic sclerosis disease presentation: A European Scleroderma Trials and Research group study

Racial factors play a significant role in SSc. We evaluated differences in SSc presentations between white patients (WP), Asian patients (AP) and black patients (BP) and analysed the effects of geographical locations. Methods: SSc characteristics of patients from the EUSTAR cohort were cross-sectionally compared across racial groups using survival and multiple logistic regression analyses. Results: The study included 9162 WP, 341 AP and 181 BP. AP developed the first non-RP feature faster than WP but slower than BP. AP were less frequently anti-centromere (ACA; odds ratio (OR) = 0.4, P < 0.001) and more frequently anti-topoisomerase-I autoantibodies (ATA) positive (OR = 1.2, P = 0.068), while BP were less likely to be ACA and ATA positive than were WP [OR(ACA) = 0.3, P < 0.001; OR(ATA) = 0.5, P = 0.020]. AP had less often (OR = 0.7, P = 0.06) and BP more often (OR = 2.7, P < 0.001) diffuse skin involvement than had WP. AP and BP were more likely to have pulmonary hypertension [OR(AP) = 2.6, P < 0.001; OR(BP) = 2.7, P = 0.03 vs WP] and a reduced forced vital capacity [OR(AP) = 2.5, P < 0.001; OR(BP) = 2.4, P < 0.004] than were WP. AP more often had an impaired diffusing capacity of the lung than had BP and WP [OR(AP vs BP) = 1.9, P = 0.038; OR(AP vs WP) = 2.4, P < 0.001]. After RP onset, AP and BP had a higher hazard to die than had WP [hazard ratio (HR) (AP) = 1.6, P = 0.011; HR(BP) = 2.1, P < 0.001]. Conclusion: Compared with WP, and mostly independent of geographical location, AP have a faster and earlier disease onset with high prevalences of ATA, pulmonary hypertension and forced vital capacity impairment and higher mortality. BP had the fastest disease onset, a high prevalence of diffuse skin involvement and nominally the highest mortality