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AUTHOR
A. Soriano
User behavior in Smart and Sustainable Offices (SSO)
Smart and Sustainable Offices (SSO) require synergies between technologies and users behaviors. The sociotechnical approach considers users’ motives, attitudes, cognitions and behaviors when designing work environments. This note will describe those phenomena in office environments. It will also present a set of tools to assess those phenomena and will provide guidelines to improve them.
High quality genome sequence reveals important events during domestication of White Lupin
Prod 2019-88m BAP GEAPSI INRA; International audience; White lupin (Lupinus albus; 2n=50) is the only crop producing cluster roots, an outstanding developmental adaptation to low phosphate soils. We report a high-quality chromosome-scale assembly of white lupin genome, together with an extensive transcriptome data from ten different organs. We used singlemolecule real-time technology, in combination with short-reads sequencing and optical and genetic maps to have a successful assembly. The final assembly size is 443 Mb with a N50 of 17 Mb. About 98% of the assembled genome is included on the 25 pseudo-chromosomes. The structural annotation identified 38258 coding genes and 3,129 ncRNA, bein…
Ageing studies of TPB in noble gas detectors for dark matter and neutrinoless ββ decay searches
Noble gases (Xe, Ar, Kr) are very attractive as detector media in Dark Matter search and neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments. However, the detection of their scintillation light (in the VUV spectral region) requires shifting the VUV light to visible light, where standard photosensors are more efficient. Tetraphenyl butadiene (TPB) is widely used as wavelength shifter, absorbing the VUV light and re-emitting in the blue region (~430nm). TPB is an organic molecule that may degrade due to exposure to environmental agents and also to ultraviolet light. In this work, we present TPB ageing studies due to exposure to VUV light, aiming at quantifying the reduction of the absolute fluorescenc…
Calibration of a thermoluminescent dosimeter worn over lead aprons in fluoroscopy guided procedures
Fluoroscopy guided interventional procedures provide remarkable benefits to patients. However, medical staff working near the scattered radiation field may be exposed to high cumulative equivalent doses, thus requiring shielding devices such as lead aprons and thyroid collars. In this situation, it remains an acceptable practice to derive equivalent doses to the eye lenses or other unprotected soft tissues with a dosimeter placed above these protective devices. Nevertheless, the radiation backscattered by the lead shield differs from that generated during dosimeter calibration with a water phantom. In this study, a passive personal thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) was modelled by means of …