26 research outputs found
Het elektrisch gedrag van een lood-zwavelzuuraccu in een elektrisch voertuig
No full textEen mathematisch model is ontwikkeld om de ontladingsduur van een lood-zwavelzuuraccu te kunnen berekenen voor een gegeven patroon van ontlaad- en laadstromen. De gegevens van metingen aan de ontlaadtijd van een accu voor tractiedoeleinden, fabrikaat Chloride type 6ILF7, zijn gebruikt om het model te verifiëren. Het verloop van de inwendige weerstand van de accu bij ontladen en laden is aan de hand van de meetgegevens bepaald. Hiermee zijn de interne verliezen bij ontladen berekend. Daarna is het energierendement gerelateerd aan de standaardontlading bepaald voor continue en intermitterende ontlading.Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer ScienceVakgroep Automatische Verkeerssysteme
Een half-duplex communicatie-kanaal tussen een voertuig en walapparatuur
No full textKorte inhoud: (A) Ontwerp van een systeem t.b.v. informatie-uitwisseling tussen een voertuig en wegapparatuur; (B) De bouw van daartoe benodigde communicatieapparatuur.Applied SciencesElectrotechniekAutomatische Verkeerssysteme
Benchmarking of Monte Carlo model of Siemens Oncor® linear accelerator for 18MV photon beam: Determination of initial electron beam parameters
No full textOBJECTIVE: This study aims to benchmark a Monte Carlo (MC) model of the 18 MV photon beam produced by the Siemens Oncor® linac using the BEAMnrc and DOSXYZnrc codes. METHODS: By matching the percentage depth doses and beam profiles calculated by MC simulations with measurements, the initial electron beam parameters including electron energy, full width at half maximum (spatial FWHM), and mean angular spread were derived for the 10�10 cm2 and 20�20 cm2 field sizes. The MC model of the 18 MV photon beam was then validated against the measurements for different field sizes (5�5, 30�30 and 40�40 cm2) by gamma index analysis. RESULTS: The optimum values for electron energy, spatial FWHM and mean angular spread were 14.2 MeV, 0.08 cm and 0.8 degree, respectively. The MC simulations yielded the comparable measurement results of these optimum parameters. The gamma passing rates (with acceptance criteria of 1/1 mm) for percentage depth doses were found to be 100 for all field sizes. For cross-line profiles, the gamma passing rates were 100, 97, 95, 96 and 95 for 5�5, 10�10, 20�20, 30�30 and 40�40 cm2 field sizes, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: By validation of the MC model of Siemens Oncor® linac using various field sizes, it was found that both dose profiles of small and large field sizes were very sensitive to the changes in spatial FWHM and mean angular spread of the primary electron beam from the bending magnet. Hence, it is recommended that both small and large field sizes of the 18 MV photon beams should be considered in the Monte Carlo linac modeling. © 2019-IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved
Benchmarking of Monte Carlo model of Siemens Oncor® linear accelerator for 18MV photon beam: Determination of initial electron beam parameters
No full textOBJECTIVE: This study aims to benchmark a Monte Carlo (MC) model of the 18 MV photon beam produced by the Siemens Oncor® linac using the BEAMnrc and DOSXYZnrc codes. METHODS: By matching the percentage depth doses and beam profiles calculated by MC simulations with measurements, the initial electron beam parameters including electron energy, full width at half maximum (spatial FWHM), and mean angular spread were derived for the 10×10 cm2 and 20×20 cm2 field sizes. The MC model of the 18 MV photon beam was then validated against the measurements for different field sizes (5×5, 30×30 and 40×40 cm2) by gamma index analysis. RESULTS: The optimum values for electron energy, spatial FWHM and mean angular spread were 14.2 MeV, 0.08 cm and 0.8 degree, respectively. The MC simulations yielded the comparable measurement results of these optimum parameters. The gamma passing rates (with acceptance criteria of 1/1 mm) for percentage depth doses were found to be 100 for all field sizes. For cross-line profiles, the gamma passing rates were 100, 97, 95, 96 and 95 for 5×5, 10×10, 20×20, 30×30 and 40×40 cm2 field sizes, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: By validation of the MC model of Siemens Oncor® linac using various field sizes, it was found that both dose profiles of small and large field sizes were very sensitive to the changes in spatial FWHM and mean angular spread of the primary electron beam from the bending magnet. Hence, it is recommended that both small and large field sizes of the 18 MV photon beams should be considered in the Monte Carlo linac modeling. © 2019-IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved
Management of epilepsy
No full textFigures for the incidence of epilepsy in Malta are not available. The overall figure for epilepsy given by the Royal College of General Practitioners (Reid 1960) is 4.82 per 1,000 population. As there is no reason to expect and difference in the incidence in these Islands, one can expect that there are at least 1,500 epileptics in Malta. This would mean that all general practitioners would, at some time, come across a patient with epilepsy.peer-reviewe
High-Pressure Synthesis of Ultra-Incompressible, Hard andSuperconducting Tungsten Nitrides
No full text[EN] Transition metal nitrides, particularly those of 5d metals, are known for their outstanding properties, often relevant for industrial applications. Among these metal elements, tungsten is especially attractive given its low cost. In this high-pressure investigation of the W-N system, two novel ultra-incompressible tungsten nitride superconductors, namely W2N3 and W3N5, are successfully synthesized at 35 and 56 GPa, respectively, through a direct reaction between N2 and W in laser-heated diamond anvil cells. Their crystal structure is determined using synchrotron single-crystal X-ray diffraction. While the W2N3 solid's sole constituting nitrogen species are N3- units, W3N5 features both discrete N3- as well as N24- pernitride anions. The bulk modulus of W2N3 and W3N5 is experimentally determined to be 380(3) and 406(7) GPa, and their ultra-incompressible behavior is rationalized by their constituting WN7 polyhedra and their linkages. Importantly, both W2N3 and W3N5 are recoverable to ambient conditions and stable in air. Density functional theory calculations reveal W2N3 and W3N5 to have a Vickers hardness of 30 and 34 GPa, and superconducting transition temperatures at ambient pressure (50 GPa) of 11.6 K (9.8 K) and 9.4 K (7.2 K), respectively. Additionally, transport measurements performed at 50 GPa on W2N3 corroborate with the calculations.The authors acknowledge the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
(ESRF), the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), and Advanced
Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory for the provision of
beamtime at the ID11, ID15B, P02.2, and 13IDD beamlines, respectively.
D.L. thanks the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (MR/V025724/1) for financial support. M.B. acknowledges the support of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG Emmy-Noether project BY112/2-1). G.K. thanks the
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom for a Ph.D. scholarship with
Funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). B.M.
and R.S.M. acknowledge the European Research Council (ERC) under
the European Union s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program
(Grant Agreement No. 101002868). Portions of this work were performed
at GeoSoilEnviroCARS (University of Chicago, Sector 13), GeoSoilEnviroCARS was supported by the National Science Foundation Earth Sciences
(EAR-1634415). This research used resources from the Advanced Photon
Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. F.T. acknowledge support from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (Wallenberg Scholar
grant no. KAW-2018.0194). I.O. and M.P.A. thank UKRI Future Leaders fellowship Mrc-Mr/T043733/1 for the financial support. L.-T.S. acknowledges
the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (Grant No.
2022a1515110404). Computations were enabled by resources provided
by the National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden
(NAISS) and the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC)
using Dardel at the PDC Center for High-Performance Computing, KTH
Royal Institute of Technology and LUMI at the IT Center for Science (CSC),
Finland partially funded by the Swedish Research Council through grant
agreements no. 2022 06725 and no. 2018 05973. For the purpose of
open access, the author had applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC
BY) license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this
submission.Liang, A.;Osmond, I.;Krach, G.;Shi, L.;Brüning, L.;Ranieri, U.;Spender, J.... (2024). High-Pressure Synthesis of Ultra-Incompressible, Hard andSuperconducting Tungsten Nitrides. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(32). https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202313819S343
Population genetic analysis of two species of non-indigenous riparian weeds in northeast England in the context of their spatial ecology
No full textThe population genetic structure of two species of invasive non-indigenous riparian weeds in the Northeast of England was investigated using microsatellite markers. Heracleum mantegazzianum and Impatiens glandulifera were introduced into the UK from Asia. The first records of the species in the Tees, Tyne and Wear catchment areas were in 1944 and 1892 respectively. Both species have spread rapidly, and are present over a wide area of the catchments. The pattern of genetic variation was investigated in order to determine the importance of anthropogenic introduction, and life-history and dispersal strategies to the distribution of the species. Twelve populations of each species were sampled from the Tees, Tyne and Wear catchments as well as an independent population for comparison. Genomic libraries were constructed and screened for dinucleotide repeat microsatellite loci. Four polymorphic loci of H. mantegazzianum and three of I. glandulfera were identified, and each species was also screened for variation using one universal chloroplast microsatellite locus. A large amount of variation was found in both species as the loci of H. mantegazzianum had between nine and twenty alleles and those of I. glandulifera between eight and sixteen alleles. Results revealed greater overall variation between populations from different catchments than those in the same catchment. Within a catchment, there was evidence of isolation by distance for both species in one out of two catchments examined. Populations of I. glandulifera showed greater temporal variation and there was more variation both overall and within a catchment in this species. This is likely to be due to the larger number of individuals present, and the wider distribution of this species. Low levels of chloroplast variation were found in both species. This may reflect a lack of variation in the material introduced into the UK
Otoneurologia: definições e terapias baseadas em evidências - Resultados do I Fórum Brasileiro de Otoneurologia
No full textNeurotology is a rapidly expanding field of knowledge. The study of the vestibular system has advanced so much that even basic definitions, such as the meaning of vestibular symptoms, have only recently been standardized. To present a review of the main subjects of neurotology, including concepts, diagnosis and treatment of Neurotology, defining current scientific evidence to facilitate decision-making and to point out the most evidence-lacking areas to stimulate further new research. This text is the result of the I Brazilian Forum of Neurotology, which brought together the foremost Brazilian researchers in this area for a literature review. In all, there will be three review papers to be published. This first review will address definitions and therapies, the second one will address diagnostic tools, and the third will define the main diseases diagnoses. Each author performed a bibliographic search in the LILACS, SciELO, PubMed and MEDLINE databases on a given subject. The text was then submitted to the other Forum participants for a period of 30 days for analysis. A special chapter, on the definition of vestibular symptoms, was translated by an official translation service, and equally submitted to the other stages of the process. There was then a in-person meeting in which all the texts were orally presented, and there was a discussion among the participants to define a consensual text for each chapter. The consensual texts were then submitted to a final review by four professors of neurotology disciplines from three Brazilian universities and finally concluded. Based on the full text, available on the website of the Brazilian Association of Otorhinolaryngology and Cervical-Facial Surgery, this summary version was written as a review article. Result: The text presents the official translation into Portuguese of the definition of vestibular symptoms proposed by the Bárány Society and brings together the main scientific evidence for each of the main existing therapies for neurotological diseases. This text rationally grouped the main topics of knowledge regarding the definitions and therapies of Neurotology, allowing the reader a broad view of the approach of neurotological patients based on scientific evidence and national experience, which should assist them in clinical decision-making, and show the most evidence-lacking topics to stimulate further study. © 2019 Associação Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia Cérvico-Facial86213914
Androgen levels of premenopausal females are not observably associated with body composition and physical performance, but may interact with hormonal contraceptive use
No full textAbstract
Purpose:
The role of androgen levels in physiological characteristics of females is poorly understood, as previous research has mainly focused on testosterone and females not using hormonal contraceptives. Our aim was to investigate whether androgen levels are associated with body composition and physical performance in recreationally active and trained premenopausal females.
Methods:
The study examined two phases of the menstrual/combined oral contraceptive (COC) cycle of healthy eumenorrheic (EUM) and COC using females (age 19–35 years, n = 83). Total and free serum testosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone, androstenedione, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), DHEA-sulfate, and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) levels were analyzed. Linear mixed-effects models were used to examine the associations between androgen levels and fat-free mass (FFM), fat mass (FM), counter movement jump (CMJ), maximal isometric force production, and aerobic capacity (VO2peak).
Results:
None of the measured androgens were significantly associated with body composition or physical performance outcomes in the pooled sample. However, significant androgen–COC-use interactions indicated that the associations between DHEA and FFM (β = 0.23, p = 0.017), SHBG and FFM-FM-adjusted CMJ (β = 0.72, p = 0.041), and total testosterone and unadjusted VO2peak (β = − 0.27, p = 0.016) differed according to COC-use. A significant association between SHBG and CMJ (β = − 0.66, p = 0.047) and total testosterone and VO2peak (β = 0.15, p = 0.044) was found only in EUM; however, adjustment for FFM eliminated this statistical significance.
Conclusion:
Serum androgen levels were not robustly associated with body composition or physical performance outcomes in healthy, recreationally active and trained premenopausal females. Hormonal contraceptive status may attenuate the associations between androgens and performance, driven potentially by FFM and individuals with high androgen levels.Abstract
Purpose:
The role of androgen levels in physiological characteristics of females is poorly understood, as previous research has mainly focused on testosterone and females not using hormonal contraceptives. Our aim was to investigate whether androgen levels are associated with body composition and physical performance in recreationally active and trained premenopausal females.
Methods:
The study examined two phases of the menstrual/combined oral contraceptive (COC) cycle of healthy eumenorrheic (EUM) and COC using females (age 19–35 years, n = 83). Total and free serum testosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone, androstenedione, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), DHEA-sulfate, and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) levels were analyzed. Linear mixed-effects models were used to examine the associations between androgen levels and fat-free mass (FFM), fat mass (FM), counter movement jump (CMJ), maximal isometric force production, and aerobic capacity (VO2peak).
Results:
None of the measured androgens were significantly associated with body composition or physical performance outcomes in the pooled sample. However, significant androgen–COC-use interactions indicated that the associations between DHEA and FFM (β = 0.23, p = 0.017), SHBG and FFM-FM-adjusted CMJ (β = 0.72, p = 0.041), and total testosterone and unadjusted VO2peak (β = − 0.27, p = 0.016) differed according to COC-use. A significant association between SHBG and CMJ (β = − 0.66, p = 0.047) and total testosterone and VO2peak (β = 0.15, p = 0.044) was found only in EUM; however, adjustment for FFM eliminated this statistical significance.
Conclusion:
Serum androgen levels were not robustly associated with body composition or physical performance outcomes in healthy, recreationally active and trained premenopausal females. Hormonal contraceptive status may attenuate the associations between androgens and performance, driven potentially by FFM and individuals with high androgen levels
The PLATO mission
No full textHeike Rauer et al.PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA’s M3 mission designed
to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and perform asteroseismic monitoring
of a large number of stars. PLATO will detect small planets (down to <2REarth)
around bright stars (<11 mag), including terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of
solar-like stars. With the complement of radial velocity observations from the ground,
planets will be characterised for their radius, mass, and age with high accuracy (5%,
10%, 10% for an Earth-Sun combination respectively). PLATO will provide us with
a large-scale catalogue of well-characterised small planets up to intermediate orbital
periods, relevant for a meaningful comparison to planet formation theories and to
better understand planet evolution. It will make possible comparative exoplanetology
to place our Solar System planets in a broader context. In parallel, PLATO will study
(host) stars using asteroseismology, allowing us to determine the stellar properties
with high accuracy, substantially enhancing our knowledge of stellar structure and
evolution. The payload instrument consists of 26 cameras with 12cm aperture each. For
at least four years, the mission will perform high-precision photometric measurements.
Here we review the science objectives, present PLATO‘s target samples and fields,
provide an overview of expected core science performance as well as a description
of the instrument and the mission profile towards the end of the serial production of
the flight cameras. PLATO is scheduled for a launch date end 2026. This overview
therefore provides a summary of the mission to the community in preparation of the
upcoming operational phases.This work presents results from the European Space Agency (ESA) space mission PLATO. The PLATO payload, the PLATO Ground Segment, and PLATO data processing are joint developments of ESA and the PLATO Mission Consortium (PMC). Funding for the PMC is provided at national levels, in particular by countries participating in the PLATO Multilateral Agreement (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, and United Kingdom) and institutions from Brazil. Members of the PLATO Consortium can be found at https://platomission.com/. The ESA PLATO mission website is https://www.cosmos.esa.int/plato. We thank the teams working for PLATO for all their work. The authors gratefully thank David Ciardi and an unknown referee for carefully reading this publication and providing many helpful comments for clarifying the current status of PLATO to a large readership. Specific acknowledgements: The German PMC, PDC, DPS, and F-FEE team members are supported by the German Aerospace Agency (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, e.V., DLR) grant numbers 50OO1401, 50OP2001, 50OP2103, 50OP2104, 50OP2101, 50OP1902, and 50OP2102. The DLR team members acknowledge the funding by the Research and Development Department of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, e.V., DLR). M.L. acknowledges support of the Swiss National Science Foundation under grant number PCEFP2_194576. The contribution of M.L. has been carried out within the framework of the NCCR PlanetS supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under grants 51NF40_182901 and 51NF40_205606. The research and results presented in this paper have received funding from the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) through various PRODEX grants for PLATO development and from the KU Leuven Research Council (grant C16/18/005: PARADISE). This project was supported by the KKP-137523 "SeismoLab" Élvonal grant of the Hungarian Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH) and by the Lendület Program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences under project No. LP2018-7. Project no. C1746651 has been implemented with the support provided by the Ministry of Culture and Innovation of Hungary from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, financed under the NVKDP-2021 funding scheme. This work was supported by the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office grants OTKA K131508 and KH-130526, and the Élvonal grant KKP-143986. Authors acknowledge the financial support of the Austrian-Hungarian Action Foundation (101"ou13, 112"ou1). This work was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through research grants UIDB/04434/2020 and UIDP/04434/2020. This work was supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia through national funds and by FEDER through COMPETE2020 - Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização by these grants: UIDB/04434/2020; UIDP/04434/2020 and co-funded by the European Union (ERC, FIERCE, 101052347). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. This work was (partially) supported by the Spanish MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF A way of making Europe” by the “European Union” through grant PID2021-122842OB-C21, and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences University of Barcelona (ICCUB, Unidad de Excelencia ‘María de Maeztu’) through grant CEX2019-000918-M. This work is part of the project Advanced technologies for the exploration of the Universe and its components, of the area of Astrophysics and High Energy Physics, within the frame of the R&D &I Complementary Plans of the Spanish Government that are part component 17 of the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism. This contract is funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU (MICIN/PRTR funds) and by Generalitat de Catalunya. We acknowledge financial support from the Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the ERDF "A way of making Europe" through project PID2021-125627OB-C31, from the Centre of Excellence "María de Maeztu" award to the Institut de Ciéncies de l’Espai (CEX2020-001058-M) and from the Generalitat de Catalunya/CERCA programme. Funding for the Stellar Astrophysics Centre was provided by The Danish National Research Foundation (Grant DNRF106). Support from PLATO ASI-INAF agreements n. 2022-28-HH.0. Giampaolo Piotto, Marco Montalto, Luca Malavolta, Valerio Nascimbeni, Luca Borsato, Giacomo Mantovan, Valentina Granata: Support from PLATO ASI-INAF agreements n. 2022-28-HH.0. This study is supported by the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence funding scheme, project number 223272 (CEED) and 332523 (PHAB). Brazilian participation on the PLATO mission is funded by Fundação de Amparo á Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) under grant 2016/13750-6. The team at IAC acknowledges support from the Spanish Research Agency of the Ministry of Science and Innovation (AEI-MICINN) under grant ’Contribution of the IAC to the PLATO Space Mission’ with reference PID2019-107061GB-C66, DOI: 10.13039/501100011033. U.C.Kolb and C.A. Haswell were supported by grant ST/T000295/1 from STFC. C.A. Haswell was supported by grant ST/X001164/1 from STFC. NW, SA, PB, GB, FDA, DWE, DF, DLH, SH, JI, NM, MR, GR, LS, MW have been fully or partly supported by grant funding from the UK Space Agency through grants ST/R004838/1 and ST/X001571/1. The PDPC-C hardware is largely provided through the UK STFC IRIS digital research infrastructure (https://www.iris.ac.uk) project. D.M.B. gratefully acknowledges a senior postdoctoral fellowship from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO; grant number [1286521N]), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) in the form of a Frontier Research grant under the UK government’s ERC Horizon Europe funding guarantee (SYMPHONY; grant number [EP/Y031059/1]), and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (grant number: URF\R1\231631). PK and MK would like to acknowledge the funding of the CZ contribution to PLATO mission from ESA PRODEX under PEA-4000127913 contract. MS and RK would like to acknowledge the funding from the LTT-20015 grant of the MEYS. UH, OK, TO acknowledge support from the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA/Rymdstyrelsen). I.L. and A.B. extend their gratitude to the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal) for the financial support provided to the Center for Astrophysics and Gravitation (CENTRA/IST/ULisboa) under Grant Project No. UIDB/00099/2020. The work of the Porto team was supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia through national funds by grants: UIDB/04434/2020; UIDP/04434/2020. The Portuguese team thanks the Portuguese Space Agency for the provision of financial support in the framework of the PRODEX Programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) under contracts number 4000133026, 4000140773, and 4000124770. CAB and INTA authors are funded by Spanish MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 grants PID2019-107061GB -C61 and -C62. JPG, MLM, JRR, ARB, and RGH acknowledge financial support from project PID2019-107061GB-C63 from the ’Programas Estatales de Generación de Conocimiento y Fortalecimiento Científico y Tecnológico del Sistema de I+D+i y de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad. E.A.’s work has been carried out within the framework of the NCCR PlanetS supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under grants 51NF40 182901 and 51NF40
205606. RA acknowledges funding from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) through Consolidated Grant ST/W000857/1. Paul Beck acknowledges support by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation with the Ramón y Cajal fellowship number RYC-2021-033137-I and the number MRR4032204. S.M. acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) with the Ramón y Cajal fellowship no. RYC-2015-17697, the grant no. PID2019-107187GB-I00, and through AEI under the Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence Programme 2020–2023 (CEX2019-000920-S). JMMH is funded by Spanish MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 grant PID2019-107061GB-C61. M.L.M. acknowledge financial support from the Severo Ochoa grant CEX2021-001131-S funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. J.P.G. acknowledge financial support from the Severo Ochoa grant CEX2021-001131-S funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. C.P.M. acknowledge financial support from the Severo Ochoa grant CEX2021-001131-S funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. F.J.P. acknowledge financial support from the Severo Ochoa grant CEX2021-001131-S funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. J.R.G. acknowledge financial support from the Severo Ochoa grant CEX2021-001131-S funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. M.A.S.C. acknowledge financial support from the Severo Ochoa grant CEX2021-001131-S funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. R.S.M. acknowledge financial support from the Severo Ochoa grant CEX2021-001131-S funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. M.V.A. acknowledge financial support from the Severo Ochoa grant CEX2021-001131-S funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. B.A.M. acknowledge financial support from the Severo Ochoa grant CEX2021-001131-S funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. A.C. acknowledge financial support from the Severo Ochoa grant CEX2021-001131-S funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. J.M.G.L. acknowledge financial support from the Severo Ochoa grant CEX2021-001131-S funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. Juan Carlos Morales acknowledge financial support from the Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the ERDF "A way of making Europe" through project PID2021-125627OB-C31, from the Centre of Excellence "María de Maeztu" award to the Institut de Ciéncies de l’Espai (CEX2020-001058-M) and from the Generalitat de Catalunya/CERCA programme. Ignasi Ribas acknowledges financial support from the Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the ERDF "A way of making Europe" through project PID2021-125627OB-C31, from the Centre of Excellence "María de Maeztu" award to the Institut de Ciéncies de l’Espai (CEX2020-001058-M) and from the Generalitat de Catalunya/CERCA programme. Aldo Serenelli acknowledge financial support from the Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the ERDF "A way of making Europe" through project PID2021-125627OB-C31, from the Centre of Excellence "María de Maeztu" award to the Institut de Ciéncies de l’Espai (CEX2020-001058-M) and from the Generalitat de Catalunya/CERCA programme. DJA is supported by UKRI through the STFC (ST/R00384X/1) and EPSRC (EP/X027562/1). SLC acknowledges funding from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) through an Ernest Rutherford Research Fellowship ST/R003726/1. PPA acknowledges the support of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia FCT/MCTES, Portugal, through national funds by the following grants UIDB/04434/2020, UIDP/04434/2020.FCT, 2022.03993.PTDC. Tiago Campante is supported by FCT in the form of a work contract (CEECIND/00476/2018). MC acknowledges the support of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia FCT/MCTES, Portugal, through national funds by these grants UIDB/04434/2020, UIDP/04434/2020.FCT, 2022.06962.PTDC.FCT, 2022.03993.PTDC and CEECIND/02619/2017. ZsB acknowledges support by the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Gy. M. Szabó acknowledges support from the PRODEX Experiment Agreement No. 4000137122. Róbert Szabó: Lendület Program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, project No. LP2018-7/2022. Róbert Szabó: KKP-137523 "SeismoLab" Élvonal grant of the Hungarian Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH). Róbert Szabó: MW-Gaia COST Action (CA18104). KV was supported by the Bolyai János Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and by the Bolyai+ grant ÙNKP-22-5-ELTE-1093. Thibault Merle is granted by the BELSPO Belgian federal research program FED-tWIN under the research profile Prf-2020-033 BISTRO. Thierry Morel acknowledges financial support from Belspo for contract PRODEX PLATO mission development. S.N.B acknowledges support from PLATO ASI-INAF agreement n. 2015-019-R.1-2018. DLB acknowledges support from NASA through the Astrophysics Science Smallsat Studies program (80NSSC20K1246) and the TESS GI Program (80NSSC21K0334). DBdeF acknowledges financial support from the Brazilian agency CNPq-PQ2 (Grant No. 305566/2021-0). Research activities of STELLAR TEAM of Federal University of Ceará are supported by continuous grants from the Brazilian agency CNPq. J. K. gratefully acknowledges the support of the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA; DNR 2020-00104) and of the Swedish Research Council (VR: Etableringsbidrag 2017-04945). AJM acknowledges support from the Swedish Research Council (grant 2017-04945) and the Swedish National Space Agency (grant 120/19C). Support for MC is provided by ANID grants ICN12_009 (Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, FB10003 (Basal-CATA2), and 1231637 (FONDECYT). CD acknowledges SNSF under grant TMSGI2
211313. MK acknowledges the support from ESA-PRODEX PEA-4000127913. TL was supported by a grant from the Branco Weiss Foundation. PM acknowledges support from STFC research grant number ST/M001040/1. F.J.P. acknowledges financial support from the grant CEX2021-001131-S funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033. BR-A acknowledges funding support from FONDECYT Iniciación grant 11181295 and ANID Basal project FB210003. A.R.G.S. acknowledges the support by FCT through national funds and by FEDER through COMPETE2020 by these grants: UIDB/04434/2020 & UIDP/04434/2020. A.R.G.S. is supported by FCT through the work contract No. 2020.02480.CEECIND/CP1631/CT0001. CdB acknowledges support from a Beatriz Galindo senior fellowship (BG22/00166) from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. This work was also supported by the NKFIH excellence grant TKP2021-NKTA-64. This work on the PLATO space mission was supported by CNES by The French teams acknowledge support by the Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES), on both the payload and the PDC development, through various grants.With funding from the Spanish government through the "María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence" accreditation (CEX2019-000918-M)With funding from the Spanish government through the "María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence" accreditation (CEX2020-001058-M)With funding from the Spanish government through the "Severo Ochoa Centre of Excelence" accreditation (CEX2019-000920-S)With funding from the Spanish government through the "Severo Ochoa Centre of Excelence" accreditation (CEX2021-001131-S)Peer reviewe
