13 research outputs found
Trigger and Aperture of the Surface Detector Array of the Pierre Auger Observatory
The surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory consists of 1600
water-Cherenkov detectors, for the study of extensive air showers (EAS)
generated by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. We describe the trigger hierarchy,
from the identification of candidate showers at the level of a single detector,
amongst a large background (mainly random single cosmic ray muons), up to the
selection of real events and the rejection of random coincidences. Such trigger
makes the surface detector array fully efficient for the detection of EAS with
energy above eV, for all zenith angles between 0 and
60, independently of the position of the impact point and of the mass
of the primary particle. In these range of energies and angles, the exposure of
the surface array can be determined purely on the basis of the geometrical
acceptance.Comment: 29 pages, 12 figure
Ultrahigh energy neutrinos at the Pierre Auger observatory
The observation of ultrahigh energy neutrinos (UHEνs) has become a priority in experimental astroparticle physics. UHEνs can be detected with a variety of techniques. In particular, neutrinos can interact in the atmosphere (downward-going ν) or in the Earth crust (Earth-skimming ν), producing air showers that can be observed with arrays of detectors at the ground. With the surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory we can detect these types of cascades. The distinguishing signature for neutrino events is the presence of very inclined showers produced close to the ground (i.e., after having traversed a large amount of atmosphere). In this work we review the procedure and criteria established to search for UHEνs in the data collected with the ground array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. This includes Earth-skimming as well as downward-going neutrinos. No neutrino candidates have been found, which allows us to place competitive limits to the diffuse flux of UHEνs in the EeV range and above.P. Abreu ... K. B. Barber ... J. A. Bellido ... R. W. Clay ... M. J. Cooper ... B. R. Dawson ... T. A. Harrison ... A. E. Herve ... V. C. Holmes ... J. Sorokin ... P. Wahrlich ... B. J. Whelan ... et al
Effect of therapeutic horseback riding on balance and gait of people with multiple sclerosis
Analysis of 339 pregnancies in 181 women with 13 different forms of inherited thrombocytopenia.
Pregnancy in women with inherited thrombocytopenias is a major matter of concern as both the mothers and the newborns are potentially at risk of bleeding. However, medical management of this condition cannot be based on evidence because of the lack of consistent information in the literature. To advance knowledge on this matter, we performed a multicentric, retrospective study evaluating 339 pregnancies in 181 women with 13 different forms of inherited thrombocytopenia. Neither the degree of thrombocytopenia nor the severity of bleeding tendency worsened during pregnancy and the course of pregnancy did not differ from that of healthy subjects in terms of miscarriages, fetal bleeding and pre-term births. The degree of thrombocytopenia in the babies was similar to that in the mother. Only 7 of 156 affected newborns had delivery-related bleeding, but 2 of them died of cerebral hemorrhage. The frequency of delivery-related maternal bleeding ranged from 6.8% to 14.2% depending on the definition of abnormal blood loss, suggesting that the risk of abnormal blood loss was increased with respect to the general population. However, no mother died or had to undergo hysterectomy to arrest bleeding. The search for parameters predicting delivery-related bleeding in the mother suggested that hemorrhages requiring blood transfusion were more frequent in women with history of severe bleedings before pregnancy and with platelet count at delivery below 50
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The K2-OjOS Project*New and revisited planets and candidates in K2 campaigns 5, 16, & 18
We present the first results of K2-OjOS, a collaborative project between professional and amateur astronomers primarily aimed to detect, characterize, and validate new extrasolar planets. For this work, 10 amateur astronomers looked for planetary signals by visually inspecting the 20 427 light curves of K2 campaign 18 (C18). They found 42 planet candidates, of which 18 are new detections and 24 had been detected in the overlapping C5 by previous works. We used archival photometric and spectroscopic observations, as well as new high-spatial resolution images in order to carry out a complete analysis of the candidates found, including a homogeneous characterization of the host stars, transit modelling, search for transit timing variations and statistical validation. As a result, we report four new planets (K2-355 b, K2-356 b, K2-357 b, and K2-358 b) and 14 planet candidates. Besides, we refine the transit ephemeris of the previously published planets and candidates by modelling C5, C16 (when available) and C18 photometric data jointly, largely improving the period and mid-transit time precision. Regarding individual systems, we highlight the new planet K2-356 b and candidate EPIC 211537087.02 being near a 2:1 period commensurability, the detection of significant TTVs in the bright star K2-184 (V = 10.35), the location of K2-103 b inside the habitable zone according to optimistic models, the detection of a new single transit in the known system K2-274, and the disposition reassignment of K2-120 b, which we consider as a planet candidate as the origin of the signal cannot be ascertained
Measurement of the Radiation Energy in the Radio Signal of Extensive Air Showers as a Universal Estimator of Cosmic-Ray Energy
We measure the energy emitted by extensive air showers in the form of radio emission in the frequency range from 30 to 80 MHz. Exploiting the accurate energy scale of the Pierre Auger Observatory, we obtain a radiation energy of 15.8\ub10.7(stat)\ub16.7(syst)\u2009\u2009MeV for cosmic rays with an energy of 1 EeV arriving perpendicularly to a geomagnetic field of 0.24 G, scaling quadratically with the cosmic-ray energy. A comparison with predictions from state-of-the-art first-principles calculations shows agreement with our measurement. The radiation energy provides direct access to the calorimetric energy in the electromagnetic cascade of extensive air showers. Comparison with our result thus allows the direct calibration of any cosmic-ray radio detector against the well-established energy scale of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Search for photons with energies above 1018eV using the hybrid detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory
A search for ultra-high energy photons with energies above 1EeV is performed
using nine years of data collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory in hybrid operation mode.
An unprecedented separation power between photon and hadron primaries is achieved by
combining measurements of the longitudinal air-shower development with the particle content
at ground measured by the fluorescence and surface detectors, respectively. Only three photon
candidates at energies 1\u20132EeV are found, which is compatible with the expected hadron induced
background. Upper limits on the integral flux of ultra-high energy photons of 0.027,
0.009, 0.008, 0.008 and 0.007 km 122 sr 121 yr 121 are derived at 95% C.L. for energy thresholds of
1, 2, 3, 5 and 10EeV. These limits bound the fractions of photons in the all-particle integral
flux below 0.1%, 0.15%, 0.33%, 0.85% and 2.7%. For the first time the photon fraction at EeV
energies is constrained at the sub-percent level. The improved limits are below the flux of
diffuse photons predicted by some astrophysical scenarios for cosmogenic photon production.
The new results rule-out the early top-down models 12 in which ultra-high energy cosmic rays
are produced by, e.g., the decay of super-massive particles 12 and challenge the most recent
super-heavy dark matter model
Search for ultrarelativistic magnetic monopoles with the Pierre Auger Observatory
We present a search for ultrarelativistic magnetic monopoles with the Pierre Auger observatory. Such
particles, possibly a relic of phase transitions in the early Universe, would deposit a large amount of energy
along their path through the atmosphere, comparable to that of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs).
The air-shower profile of a magnetic monopole can be effectively distinguished by the fluorescence
detector from that of standard UHECRs. No candidate was found in the data collected between 2004 and
2012, with an expected background of less than 0.1 event from UHECRs. The corresponding
90% confidence level (C.L.) upper limits on the flux of ultrarelativistic magnetic monopoles range from
10^ 1219(cm2 sr s)^ 121 for a Lorentz factor \u3b3 = 10^9 to 2.5
7 10 1221(cm2 sr s)^ 121 for \u3b3 = 10^12. These results\u2014the
first obtained with a UHECR detector\u2014improve previously published limits by up to an order of
magnitude
Nutrition and dietary intake and their association with mortality and hospitalisation in adults with chronic kidney disease treated with haemodialysis: protocol for DIET-HD, a prospective multinational cohort study.
INTRODUCTION: Adults with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) treated with haemodialysis experience mortality of between 15% and 20% each year. Effective interventions that improve health outcomes for long-term dialysis patients remain unproven. Novel and testable determinants of health in dialysis are needed. Nutrition and dietary patterns are potential factors influencing health in other health settings that warrant exploration in multinational studies in men and women treated with dialysis. We report the protocol of the "DIETary intake, death and hospitalisation in adults with end-stage kidney disease treated with HaemoDialysis (DIET-HD) study," a multinational prospective cohort study. DIET-HD will describe associations of nutrition and dietary patterns with major health outcomes for adults treated with dialysis in several countries.METHODS AND ANALYSIS: DIET-HD will recruit approximately 10,000 adults who have ESKD treated by clinics administered by a single dialysis provider in Argentina, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Turkey. Recruitment will take place between March 2014 and June 2015. The study has currently recruited 8000 participants who have completed baseline data. Nutritional intake and dietary patterns will be measured using the Global Allergy and Asthma European Network (GA(2)LEN) food frequency questionnaire. The primary dietary exposures will be n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid consumption. The primary outcome will be cardiovascular mortality and secondary outcomes will be all-cause mortality, infection-related mortality and hospitalisation.ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The study is approved by the relevant Ethics Committees in participating countries. All participants will provide written informed consent and be free to withdraw their data at any time. The findings of the study will be disseminated through peer-reviewed journals, conference presentations and to participants via regular newsletters. We expect that the DIET-HD study will inform large pragmatic trials of nutrition or dietary interventions in the setting of advanced kidney disease
Impacto del proyecto PERSECC en la productividad de las MYPES de calzado de la ciudad de Trujillo, 2017
RESUMEN
La presente investigación tiene como propósito determinar el impacto del proyecto creado por
la Oficina de Proyectos de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación de CITEccal Trujillo, el
“Proyecto de Reactivación del Sector Cuero y Calzado” en la productividad de las MYPES del
sector calzado en relación con la incidencia que tenga este con el comportamiento de las
ventas, producción y demás indicadores de las empresas que aplicaron a PERSECC durante el
año 2017, con la finalidad de demostrar la labor del Estado al tomar medidas orientadas a
elevar los niveles de competitividad de las empresas en estudio en relación a la reactivación de
dicho sector.
Para el desarrollo del presente trabajo de investigación, se utilizaron fuentes de información
primaria debido a que serán documentos directos que se obtendrán de la oficina de
Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación de CITEccal Trujillo. Para esto, se tuvo en cuenta el
análisis de la documentación de los datos recopilados del registro anual y evolución trimestral
de ventas, producción, capacidad instalada, capacidad productiva, inversión en I+D+i, recurso
humano, plan de acción del programa PERSECC, los cuales fueron facilitados directamente del
área de la oficina de proyectos I+D+i para la realización del proyecto. Luego, se recopilaron los
datos a través del análisis documental para ser procesados en tablas y gráficos, en seguida se
determinaron las medias usando la Prueba T - Student para datos relacionados (muestras
dependientes). Finalmente para medir la relación entre las variables en estudio se calculó el
valor de probabilidad estadístico por el cual se rechaza la hipótesis nula y se acepta la
hipótesis alternativa.
De esta manera, la investigación llega a la conclusión que existen diferencias estadísticamente
significativas entre los valores trimestrales de todos los indicadores analizados de las MYPES
de calzado de la ciudad de Trujillo anteriores y posteriores de la aplicación del proyecto
PERSECC, lo que significa que el proyecto PERSECC incide de manera significativa en la
evolución de los indicadores de la productividad de cada una de las empresas del sector
Calzado que aplicaron al proyecto. La principal recomendación que se hace al área de
Proyectos I+D+i, es que el jefe de Proyectos autorice la continuación de la aplicación anual del
Proyecto PERSECC con la finalidad de ampliar la participación de más MYPES, manteniendo
un continuo control del registro de la data con respecto a la evaluación y seguimiento de
indicadores en la mejora de su productividad y de esta manera, definir mejor el apoyo de la
labor que viene realizando el CITEccal Trujillo para el aumento de la competitividad de las
empresas del sector calzado.
Palabras clave: Proyecto, Soporte Productivo, I+D, Productividad, Mypes (Micro y Pequeñas
Empresas), Sector Calzado, Producción Calzado, Comercio Calzado.ABSTRACT
The purpose of this research is to determine the impact of the project created by the Research,
Development and Innovation Projects Office of CITEccal Trujillo, the "PERSECC" project in the
productivity of the MSEs of the footwear sector in relation to the impact that this has with the
behavior of sales, production and other indicators of the companies that applied to PERSECC
during the year 2017, in order to demonstrate the work of the State to take measures aimed at
raising the levels of competitiveness of companies under study in relation to the reactivation of
this sector.
For the development of this research work, primary information sources were used because
they will be direct documents that will be obtained from the Research, Development and
Innovation office of CITEccal Trujillo. For this, the analysis of the documentation of the annual
record and quarterly evolution of sales, production, installed capacity, productive capacity,
investment in R & D & I, human resources, action plan of the PERSECC program was taken
account, which were provided directly from the area of the R + D + i project office for the
realization of the project. Then, the data was collected through the documentary analysis to be
processed in tables and graphs, consequently sample means were determined using the T -
Student test for related data (dependent samples). Finally, to measure the relationship between
the variables under study, it has been estimated the statistical probability value by which the null
hypothesis is rejected and the alternative hypothesis is accepted.
The main recommendation made to the area of R + D + i Projects, is that the Project Manager
continues to authorize the application of the PERSECC Project in the coming years in order to
expand the participation of more MYPES, maintaining a continuous control of the registry of the
data with respect to the evaluation and monitoring of indicators to improve their productivity and,
in this way, better define the support of the work that CITEccal Trujillo has been doing to
increase the competitiveness of companies in the footwear sector