Plasma lipid profiles discriminate bacterial from viral infection in febrile children

Fever is the most common reason that children present to Emergency Departments. Clinical signs and symptoms suggestive of bacterial infection ar

Integrated analysis of capture-recapture-resighting data and counts of unmarked birds at stop-over sites

The models presented in this paper are motivated by a stop-over study of semipalmated sandpipers, Callidris pussila. Two sets of data were collected at the stop-over site: a capture-recapture-resighting data set and a vector of counts of unmarked birds. The two data sets are analysed simultaneously by combining a new model for the capture-recapture-resighting data set with a binomial likelihood for the counts. The aim of the analysis is to estimate the total number of birds that used the site and the average duration of stop-over. The combined analysis is shown to be highly efficient when just 1% of birds are recaptured, and is recommended for similar investigations

TRAGALDABAS. First results on cosmic ray studies and their relation with the solar activity, the Earth magnetic field and the atmospheric properties

Cosmic rays originating from extraterrestrial sources are permanently arriving at Earth atmosphere, where they produce up to billions of secondary particles. The analysis of the secondary particles reaching to the surface of the Earth may provide a very valuable information about the Sun activity, changes in the geomagnetic field and the atmosphere, among others. In this article, we present the first preliminary results of the analysis of the cosmic rays measured with a high resolution tracking detector, TRAGALDABAS, located at the Univ. of Santiago de Compostela, in Spain

TRAGALDABAS. First results on cosmic ray studies and their relation with the solar activity, the Earth magnetic field and the atmospheric properties

Cosmic rays originating from extraterrestrial sources are permanently arriving at Earth atmosphere, where they produce up to billions of secondary particles. The analysis of the secondary particles reaching to the surface of the Earth may provide a very valuable information about the Sun activity, changes in the geomagnetic field and the atmosphere, among others. In this article, we present the first preliminary results of the analysis of the cosmic rays measured with a high resolution tracking detector, TRAGALDABAS, located at the Univ. of Santiago de Compostela, in Spain

The TRASGO Project. Present Status and Results

International audienceThe TRASGO project develops high resolution tracking detectors, sensitive to single electrons and muons as well as to bundles of both kinds of particles. Two detectors are now operative and two more stations will start taking data for atmospheric studies soon. Thanks to the identification capability of the detectors, they are well suited to estimate the arrival rates of primary cosmic rays with different energy thresholds. This is validated after performing several simulations and opens new possibilities in the research of cosmic rays from ground-based detectors