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Addressing ecological effects of radiation on populations and ecosystems to improve protection of the environment against radiation : agreed statemen…
2016
This paper reports the output of a consensus symposium organized by the International Union of Radioecology in November 2015. The symposium gathered an academically diverse group of 30 scientists to consider the still debated ecological impact of radiation on populations and ecosystems. Stimulated by the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters' accidental contamination of the environment, there is increasing interest in developing environmental radiation protection frameworks. Scientific research conducted in a variety of laboratory and field settings has improved our knowledge of the effects of ionizing radiation on the environment. However, the results from such studies sometimes appear contrad…
Distributed n-player approachability via time and space average consensus
2012
Abstract In this paper we consider repeated coalitional games with transferable utilities (TU) over networks. Namely, we consider a set of n players that have to distribute among themselves a vector of rewards (one for each player). In our network version there is no coordinator allocating the rewards, but the agents have to agree on a common time-averaged vector by updating the local estimates of the reward vector. The common time-averaged reward vector has to approach a suitable constraint set, called core of the game, that guarantees that no agents benefit from quitting the grand coalition. We propose a doubly (over time and space) averaging distributed algorithm. At every iteration, eac…
Distributed $n$-player approachability and consensus in coalitional games
2015
We study a distributed allocation process where, at each time, every player: i) proposes a new bid based on the average utilities produced up to that time, ii) adjusts such allocations based on the inputs received from its neighbors, and iii) generates and allocates new utilities. The average allocations evolve according to a doubly (over time and space) averaging algorithm. We study conditions under which the average allocations reach consensus to any point within a predefined target set even in the presence of adversarial disturbances. Motivations arise in the context of coalitional games with transferable utilities (TU) where the target set is any set of allocations that makes the grand …
Skąd Kościół? Od teologii liberalnej do Antona Vögtle
2015
W artykule przedstawiono najważniejsze etapy dyskusji wokół początków Kościoła od teologii liberalnej do Antona Vögtle. Autorzy „pierwszego consensusu” szkoły historyczno-liberalnej (Harnack, Loisy) zakwestionowali obecność jakiejkolwiek formy zorganizowanego Kościoła w życiu i nauczaniu Jezusa. „Nowy consensus” szkoły eschatologiczno-nowotestamentalnej (Cullmann, Oepke, Beetz) określił Kościół jako Lud Boży czasów ostatecznych, którego fundamenty mają swoje źródło w życiu i nauczaniu ziemskiego Jezusa. Ostateczne ukonstytuowanie się Kościoła dokonało się w wydarzeniach Jego śmierci i zmartwychwstania, a potwierdzone zostało eschatologicznym darem Ducha Świętego w dniu Pięćdziesiątnicy. Suk…
Appropriate management of growth hormone deficiency during the age of transition: an Italian Delphi consensus statement
2022
Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) describes the impairment of growth hormone (GH) secretion by the pituitary somatotroph cells. GHD may be congenital, with causes, including genetic alterations and structural brain malformations, or acquired, including midline tumours, cranial irradiation, traumatic brain injury, central nervous system infections and inflammatory conditions. GHD in children is characterised by short stature, delayed bone maturation and abnormalities in substrate metabolism, body composition, physical and psychosocial functioning, all of which improve with recombinant human GH (rhGH) therapy. The diagnosis of GHD is based on clinical signs and symptoms, biochemistry and imagin…
Diagnosis and treatment of chronic synovitis in patients with haemophilia: consensus statements from the Italian Association of Haemophilia Centres
2022
Although synovitis is recognized as a marker of joint disease activity, its periodic assessment is not included in routine clinical surveillance of patients with haemophilia (PwH). In order to evaluate the current knowledge and to identify controversial issues, a preliminary literature search by the Musculoskeletal Committee of the Italian Association of Haemophilia Centres (AICE) has been conducted. Statements have been established and sent to the Italian AICE members to collect their level of agreement or disagreement by a Delphi process. Thirty-seven consensus recommendations have been drafted. We found a general agreement on the indication to consider the presence of synovitis as a mark…
easyPAC: A Tool for Fast Prediction, Testing and Reference Mapping of Degenerate PCR Primers from Alignments or Consensus Sequences
2012
Video abstract A video abstract by the authors of this paper is available. video-abstract8870.mov
Ensemble deep clustering analysis for time window determination of event-related potentials
2023
Objective Cluster analysis of spatio-temporal event-related potential (ERP) data is a promising tool for exploring the measurement time window of ERPs. However, even after preprocessing, the remaining noise can result in uncertain cluster maps followed by unreliable time windows while clustering via conventional clustering methods. Methods We designed an ensemble deep clustering pipeline to determine a reliable time window for the ERP of interest from temporal concatenated grand average ERP data. The proposed pipeline includes semi-supervised deep clustering methods initialized by consensus clustering and unsupervised deep clustering methods with end-to-end architectures. Ensemble clusterin…
Dialog luterańsko-rzymskokatolicki – odkrywanie katolickości
2018
Artykuł podejmuje próbę interpretacji przebiegu i rezultatów dialogu luterańsko-rzymskokatolickiego jako wzajemnego odkrycia, że konfesyjnie uwarunkowane dziedzictwo doktryny i wiary jest wyrazem „katolickości” Kościoła. W tym celu dokonano najpierw syntetycznej analizy pojęcia katolickości w perspektywie historycznej i ekumenicznej oraz odniesiono się do problemu konfesjonalizacji chrześcijaństwa. Proces ten nastąpił zwłaszcza w okresie poreformacyjnym i skutkował zawężeniem ujęć chrześcijańskiej doktryny w podzielonych Kościołach oraz utratą ich zdolności do akceptacji „katolickiej” wielości i różnorodności. Następnie zaprezentowano proces „odkrywania katolickości” w dialogu luterańsko-rz…
The rose and the name: the unresolved debate on biotechnological terms
2020
The largest survey on the perception of synthetic biology‐related disciplines (Porcar et al., 2019,EMBO Rep 20) recently revealed that the Spanish society does not have a very positive perception of the term synthetic biology. On the other hand, the terms biotechnology and even genetic engineering received relatively higher scores. The issue of nomenclature and perception is a classical one in science perception studies. Synthetic biologists have been debating their neologism (Synthetic Biology, from now on SB) for years. Even in a 2006 blog, Rob Carlson discussed the various labels for the new field, such as intentional biology, constructive biology, natural engineering, synthetic genomics…