19 research outputs found
Proposta di esame PiTrAv per valutare le competenze professionalizzanti nel CL in Fisioterapia: la prospettiva di studenti e tutor clinici.
No full textNel CL in Fisioterapia (CLF) l’esame di tirocinio del III anno deve garantire la competenza professionale.[1] Presso il CLF del nostro Ateneo applichiamo una modalità di esame finale di tirocinio definita PiTrAv. L’acronimo sintetizza le sue tre fasi: Pianificazione, Trattamento, AutoValutazione. Esso valuta l’abilità di risoluzione di un problema clinico e le abilità gestuali e relazionali che gli studenti adottano per risolvere efficacemente un problema in situazione reale. L’indagine qualitativa ha lo scopo di evidenziare le opinioni dei tutor clinici e degli studenti partecipanti all’esame per verificarne la validità “di facciata” in qualità di esame abilitante alla professione fisioterapista. MATERIALI E METODISono stati auto-somministrati dei questionari individuali, anonimi, a risposta aperta breve rivolti agli studenti e ai tutor clinici-valutatori nell’esame PiTrAV. La somministrazione è avvenuta prima della comunicazione agli studenti del voto ottenuto. Le risposte ai questionari sono state analizzate da due fisioterapisti indipendenti, ricorrendo ad un terzo parere in caso di disaccordo. RISULTATIStudenti: PiTrAv è stato giudicato completo e globale, facendo emergere competenze professionali di ragionamento clinico e presa in carico del paziente e rendendo evidenti le competenze mancanti. Le criticità sollevate riguardano l’elevato stress percepito e la emotività vissuta nella situazione. I tempi di esame sono stati giudicati da molti studenti inadeguati per esprimere pienamente le competenze professionali e le abilità di ragionamento clinico. Tutor clinici: PiTrAv è stato giudicato in grado di far emergere competenze professionalizzanti di presa in carico, di ragionamento clinico e relazionali. Le criticità evidenziate riguardano la mancanza di un livello accettabile di performance oggettivo, univoco e condiviso, la durata complessiva dell’esame e l’ingente impegno organizzativo. CONCLUSIONIPiTrAV sembra essere un valido strumento per certificare l’acquisizione di abilità professionalizzanti degli studenti fisioterapisti. Esso misura l’abilità di integrazione delle conoscenze teoriche e tecnico-comportamentali, finalizzata a risolvere problemi attraverso il ragionamento clinico
Biological and clinical relevance of anti-prothrombin antibodies.
No full textAnti-prothrombin (anti-PT) antibodies are recently identified antibodies directed toward a phospholipid-binding protein (prothrombin), which deserve attention for the reported clinical and pathogenic relevance in antiphospholipid syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We have recently carried out a longitudinal study on the predictive value of anti-PT antibodies in SLE showing that they have a higher diagnostic accuracy for thrombosis than anti-beta(2)-GPI and anticardiolipin antibodies, and, along with LAC activity, are the best predictors of thromboembolic events in SLE patients
Welfare benefits and family-size decisions of never-married women
No full textSince the 1970s, the out-of-wedlock birthrate has been increasing rapidly in the United States and has prompted several states to propose (and in some cases, enact) legislation to deny access to higher AFDC benefits for families in which the mother gives birth while receiving AFDC. The authors investigate whether AFDC benefit levels are systematically related to the family-size decisions of never-married women. Using a Poisson Regression model, applied to Current Population Survey data from the years 1980-1988, they find that the basic benefit level positively influences family size for white and Hispanic women, but not for black women. Incremental benefits for larger families, however, do not affect family-size decisions, suggesting that reducing (or eliminating) this differential will not necessarily reduce the number of illegitimate births. The basic benefit level positively affects the family-size decision of high school dropouts, but not of high school graduates. This suggests that to discourage nonmarital births, policymakers should consider altering the AFDC benefit structure in such a way as to encourage single mothers to complete high school. However, being a high school dropout might be a proxy for some other underlying characteristic of the woman, and inducing women to complete high school who otherwise would not might have no effect whatsoever on nonmarital births.
Angiogenesis in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
No full textAngiogenesis is a crucial component of lung pathophysiology, not only in cancer but also in other disorders, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In COPD angiogenesis is definitely able to control and orchestrate the progression of airway remodeling. Herein, we provide several remarkable translational aspects of angiogenesis in COPD, exploring both basic and clinical research in this field. Indeed, we present a number of pro- and anti-angiogenic factors, which can be also used as potential biomarkers to monitor disease progression. 

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Managed Bumblebees Outperform Honeybees in Increasing Peach Fruit Set in China: Different Limiting Processes with Different Pollinators
No full text© 2015 Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The file attached is the published version of the article.NHM Repositor
The changing epidemiology of Burkholderia species infection at an adult cystic fibrosis centre
No full textBackground: This study reviews the impact of changing infection control practices at the Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre (MACFC) upon the epidemiology of Burkholderia species infections.Methods: We reviewed strain and genomovar typing of all available Burkholderia isolates at our centre between 1983-2006.Results: The incidence/prevalence of infection with Burkholderia species between 1983-1990 was below 5%/9% each year. There was a rise in incidence/prevalence of Burkholderia species between 1991 and 1994 with a peak of 16.3%/31.2% in 1992. Following complete cohort segregation, the incidence has fallen to below 3% for all but one year and the prevalence has gradually reduced to 9.3% in 2005. Currently, there is all increase in the prevalence to 10.6% for the first time since 1994, predominantly due to patients with unique infections transferring into the unit from referring centres. The presence Of unique strains now exceeds transmissible strains for the first time since 1991.Conclusions: Infection control Measures including patient segregation have controlled spread of transmissible B. cenocepacia strains, but not the acquisition of unique strains. Unique Strains of Burkholderia species now account for the majority of new infections at the Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre. Crown Copyright (C) 2008 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of European Cystic Fibrosis Society. All rights reserved.</p
Política de remuneração e carreira dos professores da rede estadual de ensino de Santa Catarina (2011-2014): a parcialidade na implementação do piso nacional e a (des)valorização docente
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Florianópolis, 2014Com a reforma educacional iniciada na década de 1990, o professor tornou-se alvo de políticas públicas educacionais voltadas tanto para a formação e capacitação, quanto para a remuneração e carreira. No Brasil, o Fundo de Manutenção e Desenvolvimento do Ensino Fundamental e de Valorização do Magistério (Fundef), substituído pelo Fundo de Manutenção e Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica e Valorização dos Profissionais da Educação (Fundeb), define a destinação de verbas para a remuneração dos professores de escolas públicas. Em 2008, foi implantado o Piso Salarial Profissional Nacional (PSPN), estipulando um valor mínimo para o vencimento básico de professores com jornada de trabalho de 40 horas semanais, ou proporcional para as demais cargas horárias, e com formação em nível médio. Apesar da elaboração do PSPN, as redes de ensino públicas brasileiras possuem autonomia para definir o plano de carreira dos professores, visto que não há um plano de âmbito nacional. Diversas redes estão implementando políticas de remuneração e carreira baseadas em avaliações de desempenho docente, que consistem em pagamento de bonificações e definição de avaliações para a progressão na carreira, seguindo a recomendação de Organismos Multilaterais. Diante desse panorama nacional, o objetivo desta pesquisa é investigar a política de remuneração e carreira dos professores da rede estadual de ensino básico de Santa Catarina, no período que compreende o governo de Raimundo Colombo (2011-2014), em correlação com elementos da reforma educacional, iniciada na década de 1990. A análise da legislação servirá de apoio para se entender os conflitos políticos presentes na realidade em estudo. Os procedimentos metodológicos são: análise documental, balanço nas produções acadêmicas, entrevistas semiestruturadas e análise de dados quantitativos. Microdados do Censo Escolar de 2012 são usados para caracterizar a Rede Estadual de Ensino de Santa Catarina (REESC), e os dados de vencimento básico dos professores complementam as análises. Entrevistas semiestruturadas foram realizadas com um representante do Sindicato dos Trabalhadores em Educação de Santa Catarina (Sinte/SC) e outro da Secretaria Estadual de Educação de Santa Catarina (SED/SC). A pesquisa constatou que, mesmo sem haver uma consolidação da política de remuneração e carreira docente baseada na meritocracia, existe um contexto de influência formado pela recomendação de mudança na remuneração e carreira docente da Organização para a Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico (OCDE) e pela proposta do governo de Santa Catarina. Percebemos a existência de disputas, resistências e parcialidades explícitas em relação à implementação da Lei do Piso na REESC. Concluímos ainda que, mesmo sendo critério definido no Plano de Cargos e Carreiras para progressão salarial, a política de remuneração em curso não valoriza o tempo de serviço e a formação dos professores da REESC.Abstract: Brazil's 1990s education reform placed public school teachers at the center of education policies intended to improve teaching training, qualification, salary and career development. At the federal level, the Fund for Maintenance and Development of the Fundamental Education and Valorization of Teaching (Fundef), replaced by the Fund for the Development of Basic Education and Appreciation of the Teaching Profession (Fundeb), manages the allocation of resources for public school teachers pay. In 2008, the establishment of the National Professional Wage Floor (PSPN) provided a federal base salary for teachers working 40-hour week, or paid accordingly to the teacher's workload and degree. Despite the creation of PSPN, Brazilian public schools have autonomy to design their own career plan for teachers, given the non-existence of a nationwide plan. Following recommendations from Multilateral Agencies, several school networks have been introducing teacher evaluation programs that include bonus payments and performance-linked career ladder progression. Facing this situation, this research seeks to investigate, in line with the 1990s education reform, the policy for teacher compensation and career development in the primary schools of Santa Catarina state, during the government of Raimundo Colombo (2011-2014). An analysis of the legislation concerning this issue will support our understanding of the ongoing political conflicts shown in this study. The methodological approach is based on document analysis, search for supporting scholarly research, semi-structured interviews and quantitative data analysis. Microdata from the 2012 School Census are used to characterize the Santa Catarina State Education Network (REESC), and data from teachers' base salary will complement our analysis. The semi-structured interviews were conducted with a representative of the local Education Workers Union (Sinte/SC) and the HR Director of the Santa Catarina Department of Education (SED/SC). The research found out that, even without establishing a merit-based compensation and career ladder, the government of Santa Catarina is building up a context of influence based on teaching policy changes and the education reform recommendations from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). We also realized the existence of entrenched disputes and explicit biases over the enforcement of the wage floor legislation in Santa Catarina public schools. We have concluded that, even if the ongoing pay policy is a criteria set in the Career Action Plan for salary progression, it values neither the length of service nor the level of education of the teachers at REESC
Observations of solar system objects
No full textThis work presents results from the European Space Agency (ESA) space mission Gaia. Gaia data are being processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC). Funding for the DPAC is provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia MultiLateral Agreement (MLA). The Gaia mission website is https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia. The Gaia archive website is https://archives.esac.esa.int/gaia. The Gaia mission and data processing have financially been supported by, in alphabetical order by country: – the Algerian Centre de Recherche en Astronomie, Astrophysique et Géophysique of Bouzareah Observatory; – the Austrian Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) Hertha Firnberg Programme through grants T359, P20046, and P23737; – the BELgian federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) through various PROgramme de Développement d’Expériences scientifiques (PRODEX) grants and the Polish Academy of Sciences - Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek through grant VS.091.16N; – the Brazil-France exchange programmes Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) and Coordenação de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) - Comité Français d’Evaluation de la Coopération Universitaire et Scientifique avec le Brésil (COFECUB); – the Chilean Dirección de Gestión de la Investigación (DGI) at the University of Antofagasta and the Comité Mixto ESO-Chile; – the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) through grants 11573054 and 11703065; – the Czech-Republic Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports through grant LG 15010, the Czech Space Office through ESA PECS contract 98058, and Charles University Prague through grant PRIMUS/SCI/17; – the Danish Ministry of Science; – the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research through grant IUT40-1; – the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme through the European Leadership in Space Astrometry (ELSA) Marie Curie Research Training Network (MRTN-CT-2006-033481), through Marie Curie project PIOF-GA-2009-255267 (Space AsteroSeismology & RR Lyrae stars, SAS-RRL), and through a Marie Curie Transfer-of-Knowledge (ToK) fellowship (MTKD-CT-2004-014188); the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme through grant FP7-606740 (FP7-SPACE-2013-1) for the Gaia European Network for Improved data User Services (GENIUS) and through grant 264895 for the Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training (GREAT-ITN) network; – the European Research Council (ERC) through grants 320360 and 647208 and through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through grants 670519 (Mixing and Angular Momentum tranSport of massIvE stars – MAMSIE) and 687378 (Small Bodies: Near and Far); – the European Science Foundation (ESF), in the framework of the Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training Research Network Programme (GREAT-ESF); – the European Space Agency (ESA) in the framework of the Gaia project, through the Plan for European Cooperating States (PECS) programme through grants for Slovenia, through contracts C98090 and 4000106398/12/NL/KML for Hungary, and through contract 4000115263/15/NL/IB for Germany; – the European Union (EU) through a European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for Galicia, Spain; – the Academy of Finland and the Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation; – the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) through action “Défi MASTODONS”, the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the L’Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) “Investissements d’avenir” Initiatives D’EXcellence (IDEX) programme Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL*) through grant ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02, the ANR “Défi de tous les savoirs” (DS10) programme through grant ANR-15-CE31-0007 for project “Modelling the Milky Way in the Gaia era” (MOD4Gaia), the Région Aquitaine, the Université de Bordeaux, and the Utinam Institute of the Université de Franche-Comté, supported by the Région de Franche-Comté and the Institut des Sciences de l’Univers (INSU); – the German Aerospace Agency (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., DLR) through grants 50QG0501, 50QG0601, 50QG0602, 50QG0701, 50QG0901, 50QG1001, 50QG1101, 50QG1401, 50QG1402, 50QG1403, and 50QG1404 and the Centre for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) at the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden for generous allocations of computer time; – the Hungarian Academy of Sciences through the Lendület Programme LP2014-17 and the János Bolyai Research Scholarship (L. Molnár and E. Plachy) and the Hungarian National Research, Development, and Innovation Office through grants NKFIH K-115709, PD-116175, and PD-121203; – the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) through a Royal Society - SFI University Research Fellowship (M. Fraser); – the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) through grant 848/16; – the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) through contracts I/037/08/0, I/058/10/0, 2014-025-R.0, and 2014-025-R.1.2015 to the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), contract 2014-049-R.0/1/2 to INAF dedicated to the Space Science Data Centre (SSDC, formerly known as the ASI Sciece Data Centre, ASDC), and contracts I/008/10/0, 2013/030/I.0, 2013-030-I.0.1-2015, and 2016-17-I.0 to the Aerospace Logistics Technology Engineering Company (ALTEC S.p.A.), and INAF; – the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) through grant NWO-M-614.061.414 and through a VICI grant (A. Helmi) and the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA); – the PolishNational Science Centre through HARMONIA grant 2015/18/M/ST9/00544 and ETIUDA grants 2016/20/S/ST9/00162 and 2016/20/T/ST9/00170; – the Slovenian Research Agency through grant P1-0188; – the Spanish Ministry of Economy (MINECO/FEDER, UE) through grants ESP2014-55996-C2-1-R, ESP2014-55996-C2-2-R, ESP2016-80079-C2-1-R, and ESP2016-80079-C2-2-R, the Spanish Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad through grant AyA2014-55216, the Spanish Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (MECD) through grant FPU16/03827, the Institute of Cosmos Sciences University of Barcelona (ICCUB, Unidad de Excelencia ’María de Maeztu’) through grant MDM-2014-0369, the Xunta de Galicia and the Centros Singulares de Investigación de Galicia for the period 2016-2019 through the Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (CITIC), the Red Española de Supercomputación (RES) computer resources at MareNostrum, and the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) through activities AECT-2016-1-0006, AECT-2016-2-0013, AECT-2016-3-0011, and AECT-2017-1-0020; – the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB/Rymdstyrelsen); – the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation through the ESA PRODEX programme, the Mesures d’Accompagnement, the Swiss Activités Nationales Complémentaires, and the Swiss National Science Foundation; – the United Kingdom Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, the United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) through grant ST/L006553/1, the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) through grant ST/N000641/1 and ST/N001117/1, as well as a Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council Grant PP/C503703/1. Our work was eased considerably by the use of the data handling and visualisation software TOPCAT, and STILTS Taylor (2005). This publication makes use of data products from NEOWISE, Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. In addition to the currently active DPAC (and ESA science) authors of the peer-reviewed papers accompanying Gaia DR2, there are large numbers of former DPAC members who made significant contributions to the (preparations of the) data processing. Among those are, in alphabetical order: Christopher Agard, Juan José Aguado, Alexandra Alecu, Peter Allan, France Allard, Walter Allasia, Carlos Allende Prieto, Antonio Amorim, Kader Amsif, Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Sonia Antón, Vladan Arsenijevic, Rajesh Kumar Bachchan, Angelique Barbier, Mickael Batailler, Duncan Bates, Mathias Beck, Antonio Bello García, Vasily Belokurov, Philippe Bendjoya, Hans Bernstein†, Lionel Bigot, Albert Bijaoui, Françoise Billebaud, Nadejda Blagorodnova, Thierry Bloch, Klaas de Boer, Marco Bonfigli, Giuseppe Bono, François Bouchy, Steve Boudreault, Guy Boutonnet, Pascal Branet, Elme Breedt Lategan, Scott Brown, Pierre-Marie Brunet, Peter Bunclark†, Roberto Buonanno, Robert Butorafuchs, Joan Cambras, Heather Campbell, Christophe Carret, Manuel Carrillo, César Carrión, Fabien Chéreau, Jonathan Charnas, Ross Collins, Leonardo Corcione, Nick Cross, Jean-Charles Damery, Eric Darmigny, Peter De Cat, Céline Delle Luche, Markus Demleitner, Sékou Diakite, Carla Domingues, Sandra Dos Anjos, Laurent Douchy, Pierre Dubath, Yifat Dzigan, Sebastian Els, Wyn Evans, Guillaume Eynard Bontemps, Fernando de Felice, Agnès Fienga, Florin Fodor, Aidan Fries, Jan Fuchs, Flavio Fusi Pecci, Diego Fustes, Duncan Fyfe, Emilien Gaudin, Yoann Gérard, Anita Gómez, Ana González-Marcos, Andres Gúrpide, Eva Gallardo, Daniele Gardiol, Marwan Gebran, Nathalie Gerbier, Andreja Gomboc, Eva Grebel, Michel Grenon, Eric Grux, Pierre Guillout, Erik Høg, Gordon Hopkinson†, Albert Heyrovsky, Andrew Holland, Claude Huc, Jason Hunt, Brigitte Huynh, Giacinto Iannicola, Mike Irwin, Yago Isasi Parache, Thierry Jacq, Laurent Jean-Rigaud, Isabelle Jégouzo-Giroux, Asif Jan, Anne-Marie Janotto, François Jocteur-Monrozier, Paula Jofré, Anthony Jonckheere, Antoine Jorissen, Ralf Keil, Dae-Won Kim, Peter Klagyivik, Jens Knude, Oleg Kochukhov, Indrek Kolka, Janez Kos, Irina Kovalenko, Maria Kudryashova, Ilya Kull, Alex Kutka, Frédéric Lacoste-Seris, Valéry Lainey, Claudia Lavalley, David LeBouquin, Vassili Lemaitre, Thierry Levoir, Chao Liu, Davide Loreggia, Denise Lorenz, Ian MacDonald, Marc Madaule, Tiago Magalhães Fernandes, Valeri Makarov, Jean-Christophe Malapert, Hervé Manche, Mathieu Marseille, Christophe Martayan, Oscar Martinez-Rubi, Paul Marty, Benjamin Massart, Emmanuel Mercier, Frédéric Meynadier, Shan Mignot, Bruno Miranda, Marco Molinaro, Marc Moniez, Alain Montmory, Stephan Morgenthaler, Ulisse Munari, Jérôme Narbonne, Anne-Thérèse Nguyen, Thomas Nordlander, Markus Nullmeier, Derek O’Callaghan, Pierre Ocvirk, Joaquín Ordieres-Meré, Patricio Ortiz, Jose Osorio, Dagmara Oszkiewicz, Alex Ouzounis, Fabien Péturaud, Max Palmer, Peregrine Park, Ester Pasquato, Xavier Passot, Marco Pecoraro, Roselyne Pedrosa, Christian Peltzer, Hanna Pentikäinen, Jordi Peralta, Bernard Pichon, Tuomo Pieniluoma, Enrico Pigozzi, Bertrand Plez, Joel Poels†, Ennio Poretti Merate, Arnaud Poulain, Guylaine Prat, Thibaut Prod’homme, Adrien Raffy, Serena Rago, Piero Ranalli, Gregory Rauw, Andrew Read, José Rebordao, Philippe Redon, Rita Ribeiro, Pascal Richard, Daniel Risquez, Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange, Nicolas de Roll, Siv Rosén, Idoia Ruiz-Fuertes, Federico Russo, Jan Rybizki, Damien Segransan, Arnaud Siebert, Helder Silva, Dimitris Sinachopoulos, Eric Slezak, Riccardo Smareglia, Michael Soffel, Danuta Sosnowska, Maxime Spano, Vytautas Straižys, Dirk Terrell, Stephan Theil, Carola Tiede, Brandon Tingley, Scott Trager, Licia Troisi, Paraskevi Tsalmantza, David Tur, Mattia Vaccari, Frédéric Vachier, Pau Vallès, Walter Van Hamme, Mihaly Varadi, Sjoert van Velzen, Lionel Veltz, Teresa Via, Jenni Virtanen, Antonio Volpicelli, Jean-Marie Wallut, Rainer Wichmann, Mark Wilkinson, Patrick Yvard, and Tim de Zeeuw. In addition to the DPAC consortium, past and present, there are numerous people, mostly in ESA and in industry, who have made or continue to make essential contributions to Gaia, for instance those employed in science and mission operations or in the design, manufacturing, integration, and testing of the spacecraft and its modules, subsystems, and units. Many of those will remain unnamed yet spent countless hours, occasionally during nights, weekends, and public holidays, in cold offices and dark clean rooms. At the risk of being incomplete, we specifically acknowledge, in alphabetical order, from Airbus DS (Toulouse): Alexandre Affre, Marie-Thérèse Aimé, Audrey Albert, Aurélien Albert-Aguilar, Hania Arsalane, Arnaud Aurousseau, Denis Bassi, Franck Bayle, Pierre-Luc Bazin, Emmanuelle Benninger, Philippe Bertrand, Jean-Bernard Biau, François Binter, Cédric Blanc, Eric Blonde, Patrick Bonzom, Bernard Bories, Jean-Jacques Bouisset, Joël Boyadjian, Isabelle Brault, Corinne Buge, Bertrand Calvel, Jean-Michel Camus, France Canton, Lionel Carminati, Michel Carrie, Didier Castel, Philippe Charvet, François Chassat, Fabrice Cherouat, Ludovic Chirouze, Michel Choquet, Claude Coatantiec, Emmanuel Collados, Philippe Corberand, Christelle Dauga, Robert Davancens, Catherine Deblock, Eric Decourbey, Charles Dekhtiar, Michel Delannoy, Michel Delgado, Damien Delmas, Emilie Demange, Victor Depeyre, Isabelle Desenclos, Christian Dio, Kevin Downes, Marie-Ange Duro, Eric Ecale, Omar Emam, Elizabeth Estrada, Coralie Falgayrac, Benjamin Farcot, Claude Faubert, Frédéric Faye, Sébastien Finana, Grégory Flandin, Loic Floury, Gilles Fongy, Michel Fruit, Florence Fusero, Christophe Gabilan, Jérémie Gaboriaud, Cyril Gallard, Damien Galy, Benjamin Gandon, Patrick Gareth, Eric Gelis, André Gellon, Laurent Georges, Philippe-Marie Gomez, José Goncalves, Frédéric Guedes, Vincent Guillemier, Thomas Guilpain, Stéphane Halbout, Marie Hanne, Grégory Hazera, Daniel Herbin, Tommy Hercher, Claude Hoarau le Papillon, Matthias Holz, Philippe Humbert, Sophie Jallade, Grégory Jonniaux, Frédéric Juillard, Philippe Jung, Charles Koeck, Marc Labaysse, Réné Laborde, Anouk Laborie, Jérôme Lacoste-Barutel, Baptiste Laynet, Virginie Le Gall, Julien L’Hermitte, Marc Le Roy, Christian Lebranchu, Didier Lebreton, Patrick Lelong, Jean-Luc Leon, Stephan Leppke, Franck Levallois, Philippe Lingot, Laurant Lobo, Céline Lopez, Jean-Michel Loupias, Carlos Luque, Sébastien Maes, Bruno Mamdy, Denis Marchais, Alexandre Marson, Benjamin Massart, Rémi Mauriac, Philippe Mayo, Caroline Meisse, Hervé Mercereau, Olivier Michel, Florent Minaire, Xavier Moisson, David Monteiro, Denis Montperrus, Boris Niel, Cédric Papot, Jean-François Pasquier, Gareth Patrick, Pascal Paulet, Martin Peccia, Sylvie Peden, Sonia Penalva, Michel Pendaries, Philippe Peres, Grégory Personne, Dominique Pierot, Jean-Marc Pillot, Lydie Pinel, Fabien Piquemal, Vincent Poinsignon, Maxime Pomelec, André Porras, Pierre Pouny, Severin Provost, Sébastien Ramos, Fabienne Raux, Florian Reuscher, Nicolas Riguet, Mickael Roche, Gilles Rougier, Bruno Rouzier, Stephane Roy, Jean-Paul Ruffie, Frédéric Safa, Heloise Scheer, Claudie Serris, André Sobeczko, Jean-François Soucaille, Philippe Tatry, Théo Thomas, Pierre Thoral, Dominique Torcheux, Vincent Tortel, Stephane Touzeau, Didier Trantoul, Cyril Vétel, Jean-Axel Vatinel, Jean-Paul Vormus, and Marc Zanoni; from Airbus DS (Friedrichshafen): Jan Beck, Frank Blender, Volker Hashagen, Armin Hauser, Bastian Hell, Cosmas Heller, Matthias Holz, Heinz-Dieter Junginger, Klaus-Peter Koeble, Karin Pietroboni, Ulrich Rauscher, Rebekka Reichle, Florian Reuscher, Ariane Stephan, Christian Stierle, Riccardo Vascotto, Christian Hehr, Markus Schelkle, Rudi Kerner, Udo Schuhmacher, Peter Moeller, Rene Stritter, Jürgen Frank, Wolfram Beckert, Evelyn Walser, Steffen Roetzer, Fritz Vogel, and Friedbert Zilly; from Airbus DS (Stevenage): Mohammed Ali, David Bibby, Leisha Carratt, Veronica Carroll, Clive Catley, Patrick Chapman, Chris Chetwood, Tom Colegrove, Andrew Davies, Denis Di Filippantonio, Andy Dyne, Alex Elliot, Omar Emam, Colin Farmer, Steve Farrington, Nick Francis, Albert Gilchrist, Brian Grainger, Yann Le Hiress, Vicky Hodges, Jonathan Holroyd, Haroon Hussain, Roger Jarvis, Lewis Jenner, Steve King, Chris Lloyd, Neil Kimbrey, Alessandro Martis, Bal Matharu, Karen May, Florent Minaire, Katherine Mills, James Myatt, Chris Nicholas, Paul Norridge, David Perkins, Michael Pieri, Matthew Pigg, Angelo Povoleri, Robert Purvinskis, Phil Robson, Julien Saliege, Satti Sangha, Paramijt Singh, John Standing, Dongyao Tan, Keith Thomas, Rosalind Warren, Andy Whitehouse, Robert Wilson, Hazel Wood, Steven Danes, Scott Englefield, Juan Flores-Watson, Chris Lord, Allan Parry, Juliet Morris, Nick Gregory, and Ian Mansell. From ESA, in alphabeticalorder: Ricard Abello, Ivan Aksenov, Matthew Allen, Salim Ansari, Philippe Armbruster, Alessandro Atzei, Liesse Ayache, Samy Azaz, Jean-Pierre Balley, Manuela Baroni, Rainer Bauske, Thomas Beck, Gabriele Bellei, Carlos Bielsa, Gerhard Billig, Carmen Blasco, Andreas Boosz, Bruno Bras, Julia Braun, Thierry Bru, Frank Budnik, Joe Bush, Marco Butkovic, Jacques Candeé, David Cano, Carlos Casas, Francesco Castellini, David Chapmann, Nebil Cinar, MarkClements, Giovanni Colangelo, Peter Collins, Ana Colorado McEvoy, Vincente Companys, Federico Cordero, Sylvain Damiani, Fabienne Delhaise, Gianpiero Di Girolamo, Yannis Diamantidis, John Dodsworth, Ernesto Dölling, Jane Douglas, Jean Doutreleau, Dominic Doyle, Mark Drapes, Frank Dreger, Peter Droll, Gerhard Drolshagen, Bret Durrett, Christina Eilers, Yannick Enginger, Alessandro Ercolani, Matthias Erdmann, Orcun Ergincan, Robert Ernst, Daniel Escolar, Maria Espina, Hugh Evans, Fabio Favata, Stefano Ferreri, Daniel Firre, Michael Flegel, Melanie Flentge, Alan Flowers, Steve Foley, Jens Freihöfer, Rob Furnell, Julio Gallegos, Philippe Garé, Wahida Gasti, José Gavira, Frank Geerling, Franck Germes, Gottlob Gienger, Bénédicte Girouart, Bernard Godard, Nick Godfrey, César Gómez Hernández, Roy Gouka, Cosimo Greco, Robert Guilanya, Kester Habermann, Manfred Hadwiger, Ian Harrison, Angela Head, Martin Hechler, Kjeld Hjortnaes, John Hoar, Jacolien Hoek, Frank Hoffmann, Justin Howard, Arjan Hulsbosch, Christopher Hunter, Premysl Janik, José Jiménez, Emmanuel Joliet, Helma van de Kamp-Glasbergen, Simon Kellett, Andrea Kerruish, Kevin Kewin, Oliver Kiddle, Sabine Kielbassa, Volker Kirschner, Kees van ’t Klooster, Jan Kolmas, Oliver El Korashy, Arek Kowalczyk, Holger Krag, Benoît Lainé, Markus Landgraf, Sven Landstroem, Mathias Lauer, Robert Launer, Laurence Tu-Mai Levan, Mark ter Linden, Santiago Llorente, Tim Lock, Alejandro Lopez-Lozano, Guillermo Lorenzo, Tiago Loureiro, James Madison, Juan Manuel Garcia, Federico di Marco, Jonas Marie, Filip Marinic, Pier Mario Besso, Arturo Martín Polegre, Ander Martínez, Monica Martínez Fernández, Marco Massaro, Paolo de Meo, Ana Mestre, Luca Michienzi, David Milligan, Ali Mohammadzadeh, David Monteiro, Richard Morgan-Owen, Trevor Morley, Prisca Mühlmann, Jana Mulacova, Michael Müller, Pablo Munoz, Petteri Nieminen, Alfred Nillies, Wilfried Nzoubou, Alistair O’Connell, Karen O’Flaherty, Alfonso Olias Sanz, Oscar Pace, Mohini Parameswaran, Ramon Pardo, Taniya Parikh, Paul Parsons, Panos Partheniou, Torgeir Paulsen, Dario Pellegrinetti, José-Louis Pellon-Bailon, Joe Pereira, Michael Perryman, Christian Philippe, Alex Popescu, Frédéric Raison, Riccardo Rampini, Florian Renk, Alfonso Rivero, Andrew Robson, Gerd Rössling, Martina Rossmann, Markus Rückert, Andreas Rudolph, Frédéric Safa, Jamie Salt, Giovanni Santin, Fabio de Santis, Rui Santos, Giuseppe Sarri, Stefano Scaglioni, Melanie Schabe, Dominic Schäfer, Micha Schmidt, Rudolf Schmidt, Ared Schnorhk, Klaus-Jürgen Schulz, Jean Schütz, Julia Schwartz, Andreas Scior, Jörg Seifert, Christopher Semprimoschnig, Ed Serpell, Iñaki Serraller Vizcaino, Gunther Sessler, Felicity Sheasby, Alex Short, Heike Sillack, Swamy Siram, Christopher Smith, Claudio Sollazzo, Steven Straw, Pilar de Teodoro, Mark Thompson, Giulio Tonelloto, Felice Torelli, Raffaele Tosellini, Cecil Tranquille, Irren Tsu-Silva, Livio Tucci, Aileen Urwin, Jean-Baptiste Valet, Martin Vannier, Enrico Vassallo, David Verrier, Sam Verstaen, Rüdiger Vetter, José Villalvilla, Raffaele Vitulli, Mildred Vögele, Sergio Volonté, Catherine Watson, Karsten Weber, Daniel Werner, Gary Whitehead, Gavin Williams, Alistair Winton, Michael Witting, Peter Wright, Karlie Yeung, Marco Zambianchi, and Igor Zayer, and finally Vincenzo Innocente from CERN. In case of errors or omissions, please contact the Gaia Helpdesk.Context. The Gaia spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been securing observations of solar system objects (SSOs) since the beginning of its operations. Data Release 2 (DR2) contains the observations of a selected sample of 14,099 SSOs. These asteroids have been already identified and have been numbered by the Minor Planet Center repository. Positions are provided for each Gaia observation at CCD level. As additional information, complementary to astrometry, the apparent brightness of SSOs in the unfiltered G band is also provided for selected observations. Aims. We explain the processing of SSO data, and describe the criteria we used to select the sample published in Gaia DR2. We then explore the data set to assess its quality. Methods. To exploit the main data product for the solar system in Gaia DR2, which is the epoch astrometry of asteroids, it is necessary to take into account the unusual properties of the uncertainty, as the position information is nearly one-dimensional. When this aspect is handled appropriately, an orbit fit can be obtained with post-fit residuals that are overall consistent with the a-priori error model that was used to define individual values of the astrometric uncertainty. The role of both random and systematic errors is described. The distribution of residuals allowed us to identify possible contaminants in the data set (such as stars). Photometry in the G band was compared to computed values from reference asteroid shapes and to the flux registered at the corres
Measurement of the Nuclear Modification Factor and Prompt Charged Particle Production in and Collisions at =5 TeV
No full textThe production of prompt charged particles in proton-lead collisions and in proton-proton collisions at the nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy is studied at LHCb as a function of pseudorapidity () and transverse momentum () with respect to the proton beam direction. The nuclear modification factor for charged particles is determined as a function of between {-4.8sNN=5 TeV is studied at LHCb as a function of pseudorapidity (η) and transverse momentum (pT) with respect to the proton beam direction. The nuclear modification factor for charged particles is determined as a function of η between -4.8<η<-2.5 (backward region) and 2.0<η<4.8 (forward region), and pT between 0.2<pT<8.0 GeV/c. The results show a suppression of charged particle production in proton-lead collisions relative to proton-proton collisions in the forward region and an enhancement in the backward region for pT larger than 1.5 GeV/c. This measurement constrains nuclear PDFs and saturation models at previously unexplored values of the parton momentum fraction down to 10-6.The production of prompt charged particles in proton-lead collisions and in proton-proton collisions at the nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy {\sqrt{s_{\scriptscriptstyle\mathrm{NN}}}=5\,\mathrm{TeV}}\etap_{\mathrm{T}}\eta{-4.8<\eta<-2.5}{2.0<\eta<4.8}p_{\mathrm{T}}{0.2<p_{\mathrm{T}}<8.0\,\mathrm{GeV}/c}p_{\mathrm{T}}1.5\,\mathrm{GeV}/c10^{-6}$
Fraction of decays in prompt production measured in collisions at
No full textThe fraction of and decays in the prompt yield, , is measured by the LHCb detector in Pb collisions at TeV. The study covers the forward (1.5χc1 and χc2 decays in the prompt J/ψ yield, Fχc→J/ψ=σχc→J/ψ/σJ/ψ, is measured by the LHCb detector in pPb collisions at sNN=8.16 TeV. The study covers the forward (1.5<y*<4.0) and backward (-5.0<y*<-2.5) rapidity regions, where y* is the J/ψ rapidity in the nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass system. Forward and backward rapidity samples correspond to integrated luminosities of 13.6±0.3 and 20.8±0.5 nb-1, respectively. The result is presented as a function of the J/ψ transverse momentum pT,J/ψ in the range 1<pT,J/ψ<20 GeV/c. The Fχc→J/ψ fraction at forward rapidity is compatible with the LHCb measurement performed in pp collisions at s=7 TeV, whereas the result at backward rapidity is 2.4σ larger than in the forward region for 1<pT,J/ψ<3 GeV/c. The increase of Fχc→J/ψ at low pT,J/ψ at backward rapidity is compatible with the suppression of the ψ(2S) contribution to the prompt J/ψ yield. The lack of in-medium dissociation of χc states observed in this study sets an upper limit of 180 MeV on the free energy available in these pPb collisions to dissociate or inhibit charmonium state formation.The fraction of \chi_{c1}\chi_{c2}J/\psiF_{\chi c}=\sigma_{\chi_c \to J/\psi}/\sigma_{J/\psi}\sqrt{s_{NN}}=8.161.5<y^*<4.0-5.0<y^*<-2.5y^*J/\psi\pm^{-1}\pm^{-1}J/\psip_{T,J/\psi}<p_{T, J/\psi}<20cF_{\chi c}pp\sqrt{s}=7\sigma1<p_{T, J/\psi}<3cF_{\chi c}p_{T, J/\psi}\psiJ/\psi\chi_c$ states observed in this study sets an upper limit of 180 MeV on the free energy available in these pPb collisions to dissociate or inhibit charmonium state formation
