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    Linked Data Supported Content Analysis for Sociology

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    Philology and hermeneutics as the analysis and interpretation of natural language text in written historical sources are the predecessors of modern content analysis and date back already to antiquity. In empirical social sciences, especially in sociology, content analysis provides valuable insights to social structures and cultural norms of the present and past. With the ever growing amount of text on the web to analyze, also numerous computer-assisted text analysis techniques and tools were developed in sociological research. However, existing methods often go without sufficient standardization. As a consequence, sociological text analysis is lacking transparency, reproducibility and data re-usability. The goal of this paper is to show, how Linked Data principles and Entity Linking techniques can be used to structure, publish and analyze natural language text for sociological research to tackle these shortcomings. This is achieved on the use case of constitutional text documents of the Netherlands from 1884 to 2016 which represent an important contribution to the European cultural heritage. Finally, the generated data is made available and re-usable as Linked Data not only for sociologists, but also for all other researchers in the digital humanities domain interested in the development of constitutions in the Netherlands

    37th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (part 3 of 3)

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    Improving Power Quality Problems of Isolated MG Based on ANN Under Different Operating Conditions Through PMS and ASSC Integration

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    Microgrid (MG) technologies assist the power grid in evolving to become more efficient, less polluting, and more resilient by addressing the requirements of energy users. However, several technological issues arise as a result of the unpredictability and difficulty in estimating the efficacy and regulation of the many renewable energy resources (RERs) incorporated in MGs. Two of the most significant of these issues are maintaining system stability and power quality, which necessitate to get better the performance of the MGs. The most difficult challenge, system stability, can be achieved with successful Power Management System (PMS). This paper proposes an effective PMS for an AC MG equipped with a diesel generator (DG), a permanent magnet wind generator (PMWG), and a solar photovoltaic (PV) panel Based on an adaptable Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The ANN weights are properly tuned via the Enhanced Bald Eagle Search (EBES) optimization algorithm to produce a stable system during the whole training period, achieve MG energy balance, reduce the usage of fossil fuel DG and maintain MG voltage stability. In addition, for keeping power quality, an adaptive series shunt compensator (ASSC) is described in this work, along with a developed integrative PID controller, where the latter’s controller gains are ideally set utilizing the EBES optimization algorithm to perform adaptably with self-tuning when the operational circumstances of an MG change. various cases are displayed to test the strong of offered ASSC on harmonic mitigation, dynamic voltage stabilization, reactive power control and power factor correction. Moreover, comprehensive case study based on realistic on-site location for Zafarana region, Suez Gulf region of Egypt is proposed. Taking into account The changing nature of weather-related renewable energy, actual loads states and transient faults

    One-year angiographic follow-up after WEB-SL endovascular treatment of wide-neck bifurcation intracranial aneurysms

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    cited By 10International audienceBACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Endovascular coiling of wide-neck intracranial aneurysms is associated with low rates of initial angiographic occlusion and high rates of recurrence. The WEB intrasaccular device has been developed specifically for this indication. To date, there has been no report of the long-term follow-up of a series of patients with aneurysms treated with this type of device, to our knowledge. Our aim was to evaluate a 1-year follow-up of angiographic results in a prospective single-center series of patients treated with the WEB-Single-Layer (SL) device. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All patients treated with the WEB-SL device in our center between August 2013 and May 2014 were prospectively included. One-year angiographic outcomes were assessed. Results at follow-up were graded as complete occlusion, neck remnant, or residual aneurysm. RESULTS: Eight patients with 8 unruptured wide-neck aneurysms were enrolled in this study. Average dome width was 7.5 mm (range, 5.4-10.7 mm), and average neck size was 4.9mm(range, 2.6-6.5 mm). One-year angiographic follow-up obtained in all aneurysms included 1 complete aneurysm occlusion (12.5%), 6 neck remnants (75%), and 1 aneurysm remnant (12.5%). Of 8 aneurysms, worsening of aneurysm occlusion was observed in 2 (25%) by compression of the WEB device. There was no angiographic recurrence of initially totally occluded aneurysms. No bleeding was observed during the follow-up period. CONCLUSIONS: Endovascular therapy of intracranial aneurysms with the WEB-SL device allows treatment of wide-neck aneurysms with a high rate of neck remnant at 1 year, at least partially explained by WEB compression. Initial size selection and technologic improvements could be an option for optimization of aneurysm occlusion in WEB-SL treatment
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