Scintillation light detection in the 6-m drift-length ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon TPC.

DUNE is a dual-site experiment for long-baseline neutrino oscillation studies, neutrino astrophysics and nucleon decay searches. ProtoDUNE Dual Phase (DP) is a 6   6   6 m liquid argon time-projection-chamber (LArTPC) that recorded cosmic-muon data at the CERN Neutrino Platform in 2019-2020 as a prototype of the DUNE Far Detector. Charged particles propagating through the LArTPC produce ionization and scintillation light.

The ParlaMint corpora of parliamentary proceedings.

This paper presents the ParlaMint corpora containing transcriptions of the sessions of the 17 European national parliaments with half a billion words. The corpora are uniformly encoded, contain rich meta-data about 11 thousand speakers, and are linguistically annotated following the Universal Dependencies formalism and with named entities. Samples of the corpora and conversion scripts are available from the project's GitHub repository, and the complete corpora are openly available via the CLARIN.

Exercise testing as a screening measure for ability to walk with aprosthesis after transfemoral amputation due to peripheral vascular disease.

Purpose: To establish at which exercise-power level is the vascular response, as measured by oxygen uptake, closest to the response during the 6-min walk test (6 MWT) in people after lower-limb amputation due to peripheral vascular disease (PVD).

Method: A prospective exploratory cohort study was conducted. 6 MWT and exercise testing using a hand-wheel ergometer (starting at 10 W and increasing the workload by 10 W) were performed in 101 consecutively recruited participants after transfemoral amputation due to PVD.

The diagnostic importance of exercise testing in developing appropriate rehabilitation programmes for patients following transfemoral amputation.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine whether an arm ergometry exercise test can successfully predict a clinician's decision for prosthetic fitting, and to define what other factors are also important predictors of a patient's ability to walk with a prosthesis.

Methods: The study included 63 patients who had undergone transfemoral amputation due to peripheral vascular disease and who had been admitted for primary inpatient rehabilitation. Participating patients went through standard admission procedures and performed an intermittent sub maximal arm ergometry exercise test in the first week after admission consisting of a two-minute exercise routine with a one-minute pause in-between by means of the Angio V2.

Postocclusive reactive hyperemia in healthy volunteers and patients with peripheral vascular disease measured by three noninvasive methods.

Postocclusive reactive hyperemia (PORH) was evaluated in three healthy volunteers and in three patients with different etiologies and suffering from peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD). Three noninvasive methods were used: transcutaneous oximetry (TcPO2), near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), and laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF). Changes in perfusion and oxygenation of tissue were measured on foot before, during, and after arterial occlusion on thigh.

Parameters of postocclusive reactive hyperemia measured by near infrared spectroscopy in patients with peripheral vascular disease and in healthy volunteers.

The main purpose of our study was to determine the parameters of the postocclusive reactive hyperemia test that could help and provide the clinician with information about the tissue oxygenation, the severity of the disease, and the results of the applied therapies. Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) proved to be a valid noninvasive trend monitor useful for investigating the physiology of oxygen transport to tissue. Important advantages of NIRS over transcutaneous oximetry (TcpO2) are: (a) a more dynamic nature of the NIRS signals which reflects more closely the actual response of the peripheral vasculature to the occlusive provocation; (b) larger sampling volume; and (c) the ability of assessing tissue oxygenation at deeper tissue levels.

Effects of respiratory muscle training and electrical stimulation of abdominal muscles on respiratory capabilities in tetraplegic patients.

Thirteen tetraplegic patients were included in the study of the effects of respiratory muscle training and of electrical stimulation of the abdominal muscles on their respiratory capabilities. Each patient was subjected for three 1 month lasting periods of the study: for inspiratory muscle training, expiratory muscle training and for a period without training. The sequence of these three periods was random for each patient.