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Analiza sposobów modelowania reaktora trójfazowego ze stałym złożem (TBR) z użyciem metod CFD
2018
Przedstawiono zagadnienia związane z zastosowaniem modelu wielofazowego Eulera do modelowania reaktora trójfazowego ze złożem stacjonarnym (TBR). Analizując równania modelu wyselekcjonowano parametry, które obliczane są w oparciu o dane dostępne w literaturze, a następnie przeprowadzono analizę czułości modelu na zmianę wartości wyselekcjonowanych parametrów. Przeanalizowano wpływ zmian zależności opisujących siły wzajemnych oddziaływań pomiędzy fazami oraz promieniowej zmiany porowatości wypełnienia na wyniki obliczeń numerycznych.
Modelling biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal with soluble microbial products (SMP) production-degradation processes
2011
Over the last two decades, Membrane Bioreactors (MBR) are increasingly used for wastewater treatment. Mathematical modelling of MBR systems has played a key role in order to better explain the effect of their peculiarities. Indeed, several MBR models have been presented in literature in order to improve the knowledge on MBR systems: biological models, hybrid models which include soluble microbial product (SMP) modelling, physical models able to describe the membrane fouling and integrated models which couple the hybrid models with the physical ones. However, among the existing MBR models only few integrated models have been developed which take into account the existing relationship between…
The model of governance of the professional football sector in Italy: a critical analysis
2012
The current model of governance of football in Italy has been formally followed by the clubs, but does not effectively address the manifestation of problems such as illegal betting or match fixing. By proposing a taxonomy of pathologies to which professional football is exposed, we highlight some gaps for the identification of tools and procedures useful for the reorientation of club management towards the satisfaction of sporting, economic, social and communicative dimensions.
Consistency of Independent Component Analysis for FMRI
2021
Background Independent component analysis (ICA) has been widely used for blind source separation in the field of medical imaging. However, despite of previous substantial efforts, the stability of ICA components remains a critical issue which has not been adequately addressed, despite numerous previous efforts. Most critical is the inconsistency of some of the extracted components when ICA is run with different model orders (MOs). New Method In this study, a novel method of determining the consistency of component analysis (CoCA) is proposed to evaluate the consistency of extracted components with different model orders. In the method, “consistent components” (CCs) are defined as those whic…
Tensor clustering on outer-product of coefficient and component matrices of independent component analysis for reliable functional magnetic resonance…
2019
Background. Stability of spatial components is frequently used as a post-hoc selection criteria for choosing the dimensionality of an independent component analysis (ICA) of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. Although the stability of the ICA temporal courses differs from that of spatial components, temporal stability has not been considered during dimensionality decisions. New method. The current study aims to (1) develop an algorithm to incorporate temporal course stability into dimensionality selection and (2) test the impact of temporal course on the stability of the ICA decomposition of fMRI data via tensor clustering. Resting state fMRI data were analyzed with two popu…
Ecologists overestimate the importance of predictor variables in model averaging: a plea for cautious interpretations.
2014
Abstract: Information-theory procedures are powerful tools for multimodel inference and are now standard methods in ecology. When performing model averaging on a given set of models, the importance of a predictor variable is commonly estimated by summing the weights of models where the variable appears, the so-called sum of weights (SW). However, SWs have received little methodological attention and are frequently misinterpreted. We assessed the reliability of SW by performing model selection and averaging on simulated data sets including variables strongly and weakly correlated to the response variable and a variable unrelated to the response. Our aim was to investigate how useful SWs are …
Una nota sobre crisis y estratificación social
2012
La crisis actual ha creado un colectivo específico de personas en riesgo de caer en la exclusión social. Básicamente se trata de jóvenes e inmigrantes. En ambos casos se agrava cuando coincide con escasa formación y cargas familiares. Su futuro es más que incierto y cabe predecir que la sociedad tardará en encontrarles acomodo pues ni el actual modelo productivo, ni el que pueda sustituirlo, van a generar empleo para esos perfiles. Pero es que tampoco el actual modelo de protección social, lento en sus reacciones y sesgado en favor de currícula laborales estables y continuados, les dará cobertura suficiente. La E.P.A. nos permite una aproximación al problema desde el ejemplo de la Comunidad…
Towards a General Definition of Modeling
2010
What is a model? Surprisingly, in philosophical texts, this question is asked (sometimes), but almost never – answered. Instead of a general answer, usually, some classification of models is considered. The broadest possible definition of modeling could sound as follows: a model is anything that is (or could be) used, for some purpose, in place of something else. If the purpose is “answering questions”, then one has a cognitive model. Could such a broad definition be useful? Isn't it empty? Can one derive useful consequences from it? I'm trying to show that there is a lot of them.
ShRNA-mediated knock-down of CXCL8 inhibits tumor growth in colorectal liver metastasis.
2018
CXCL8 belongs to proinflammatory chemokines that are predominantly involved in neutrophil chemotaxis and degranulation. Several studies have suggested that secretion of CXCL8 from cancer cells have a profound effect on tumor microenvironment. In this study, in continuation to our previous work of understanding the global picture of invasion related genes in colorectal liver metastases, we clearly show an up-regulation of CXCL8 expression in the tumor cells at the invasion front as compared to the tumor cells in the inner parts of the tumor. Furthermore, ShRNA mediated down-regulation of CXCL8 resulted in inhibition of cell proliferation, viability and invasion in vitro and a near complete g…
COX-2 expression in chondrosarcoma: A role for celecoxib treatment?
2010
Chondrosarcomas are resistant to conventional chemo- and radiotherapy. A subset of chondrosarcomas arises secondarily in the benign tumour syndromes enchondromatosis (EC) and multiple osteochondromas (MO), and prevention of tumour development would greatly improve prognosis. We therefore investigated the effect of selective COX-2 inhibition on chondrosarcoma growth. COX-2 expression was studied in central- and peripheral cartilaginous tumours. The effect of COX-2 inhibition was assessed in four high-grade chondrosarcoma cell lines using celecoxib and NS-398 treatment. COX-2 activity (prostaglandin E-2 (PGE(2)) ELISA) and cell viability were measured. The (prophylactic) effect of celecoxib o…