Decay time characteristics of La2O2S:Eu and La2O2S:Tb for use within an optical sensor for human skin temperature measurement

We focus on the development of a remote temperature sensing technology, i.e., an optical laser-based sensor, using thermographic phosphors for medical applications, particularly within an electromagnetically hostile magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) environment. A MRI scanner uses a strong magnetic field and radio waves to generate images of the inside of the body. The quality of the image improves with increasing magnetic resonance; however, the drawback of applying a greater magnetic strength is the inducement of heat into the body tissue. Therefore, monitoring the patient’s temperature inside MRI is vital, but until now, a practical solution for temperature measurement did not exist. We show europium doped lanthanum oxysulphide (La2O2S∶Eu) and terbium doped lanthanum oxysulphide (La2O2S∶Tb) are both temperature sensitive to a low temperature range of 10–50 °C when under ultraviolet (UV) excitation. The emission spectra and decay time characteristics of these phosphors were demonstrated. The results indicate that La2O2S∶Eu has a quenching rate of 13:7m°C−1 and 4m°C−1 at 512nm and 538 nm, respectively. In addition, La2O2S∶Tb has a lower quenching rate of 4:19m°C−1 at 548nm due to its faster decay time

Auf Spurensuche im Archiv. Ein Arbeitsbericht Das Projekt Digital Formalism

Auf Spurensuche im Archiv. Ein Arbeitsbericht Das Projekt Digital Formalism will Dziga Vertovs formale Verfahren untersuchen, und sie vor dem Hintergrund historischer Debatten über die sogenannte formale Methode positionieren. Den Korpus der Untersuchung bildet die Vertov-Samm-lung im Österreichischen Filmmuseum (ÖFM) – die dort konservierten Filmkopien, aber auch fi lmbezogene Artefakte wie Skizzen, Montagepläne, schriftliche und bildliche Zeugnisse von Vertovs Werk, sowie dessen Rezeption in den 1920er bis 1970er Jahren. Aufgabe des ÖFM ist es, Filme für die digitale Analyse und die fi lm-wissenschaftliche Annotation bereitzustellen, film-philologische Recherchen über weltweit verfügbare Materialien anzustellen, und die Anwendbarkeit von Projekter-gebnissen für fi lmarchivarische und fi lmmuseale Tätigkeiten zu prüfen. Für den transdisziplinären Austausch zwischen Archiv und Wissenschaft bedeu-tet dies eine einmalige Chance. Im Archiv und in der Filmwissenschaft gibt es, im Unterschied zu früher, Gelegenheit, die Filme, oder zumindest was davon überliefert ist, zu sehen: ein nicht zu unterschätzender Fortschritt, da sich viele der vorlie-genden Beschreibungen, Interpretationen und Analysen auf zum Teil widersprüch-liches, zum Teil verlorenes Quellenmaterial stützen, ganz zu schweigen von dem Problem des »abwesenden Bildes«, mit dem sich die Filmanalyse in ihrer »Nachzeitlichkeit« (eine Zusammenschau von Analyse und fi lmischem »Primärtext« war 1 Das ÖFM hält als Filmarchiv eine der größten Sammlungen von Vertov-Filmkopien, die aus unterschiedlichen Quellen seit 1968 erworben wurde. Vgl. dazu Österreichisches Filmmuseum/ Th omas Tode/Barbara Wurm (Hg.), Dziga Vertov: Die Vertov-Sammlung im Österreichischen Film-museum, Wien: Synema 2006, S. 274–285

Effects of spiritual care training for palliative care professionals

Little is known about the effects of spiritual care training for professionals in palliative medicine. We therefore investigated prospectively the effects of such training over a six-month period. All 63 participants of the three and a half-day training were asked to fill out three questionnaires: before and after the training, as well as six months later. The questionnaires included demographic data, numeric rating scales about general attitudes towards the work in palliative care, the Self-Transcendence Scale (STS), the spiritual subscale of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT-Sp) and the Idler Index of Religiosity (IIR). Forty-eight participants (76) completed all three questionnaires (91 women, median age 49 years; 51 nurses, 16 hospice volunteers, 14 physicians).Significant and sustained improvements were found in self-perceived compassion for the dying (after the training: P =0.002; 6 months later: P=0.025), compassion for oneself (P < 0.001; P =0.013), attitude towards one's family (P =0.001; P =0.031), satisfaction with work (P < 0.001; P =0.039), reduction in work-related stress (P < 0.001; P =0.033), and attitude towards colleagues (P =0.039; P =0.040), as well as in the FACIT-Sp (P < 0.001; P =0.040). Our results suggest that the spiritual care training had a positive influence on the spiritual well-being and the attitudes of the participating palliative care professionals which was preserved over a six-month period

Primäres zerebelläres T-Zell-Lymphom

Zusammenfassung: Primäre T-Zell-Lymphome des zentralen Nervensystems (ZNS) sind selten. Sie müssen differenzialdiagnostisch von reaktiven Läsionen unterschieden werden. Die Diagnosestellung sollte integrativ unter Verwendung von immunhistochemischen, molekulargenetischen und/oder zytogenetischen Methoden erfolgen. Wir beschreiben den Fall eines 50-jährigen Mannes, bei welchem ein primäres zerebelläres T-Zell-Lymphom diagnostiziert und eine klonale T-Zell-Rezeptorgen-Umlagerung nachgewiesen wurde. Nach 2Zyklen Chemotherapie entwickelte der Patient eine Pneumozystis-carinii-Pneumonie und verstarb 10Wochen nach Diagnosestellung. Die Autopsie ergab keinen Residualtumor im ZN

Organizational culture, internal marketing, and perceived organizational support in portuguese higher education institutions

Changes imposed on public higher education institutions try to adopt some management practices in public organizations. In this study, we intend to understand how organizational culture (support, innovation, goals, rules) and internal marketing can contribute to the organizational support of employees of higher education institutions. The study was developed with a sample of 635 employees. The results show that organizational culture and internal marketing contribute to the explanation of perceived organizational support (POS). Then, through a structural equation model, it was possible to confirm the contribution of support culture and internal marketing to the explanation of POS. More studies are necessary taking students' point of view into account. These results reveal the importance of the fact that organizations need to implement a culture of support and appropriate internal communication networks that allow employees to perceive social support.FCT-Foundation for Science and Technology [UID/SOC/04020/2013

EDUCAÇÃO A DISTÂNCIA: UMA ANÁLISE ESTATÍSTICA DOS FATORES RELACIONADOS À EVASÃO E À PERMANÊNCIA

O maior desafio que as organizações enfrentam nos dias atuais está relacionado à adoção de medidas adequadas para lidar com a grande velocidade de inovação. A Educação a Distância (EaD), com a utilização das novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TICs), tem viabilizado o acesso a um número cada vez maior de sujeitos. Uma das vantagens frequentemente citada da EaD é permitir ao aluno estudar onde quer que esteja e quando lhe for mais conveniente. Junte-se a essa liberdade a utilização de computadores cada vez mais velozes e o desenvolvimento de novos aplicativos, propiciando o crescimento da educação a distância. Entretanto, essa expansão e o uso das tecnologias, por si só, não são capazes de evitar a ocorrência de evasão. Evitar o aumento da evasão e levantar as suas causas é atividade relevante para as instituições que tenham a capacidade de dar apoio aos estudantes durante o desenvolvimento de seu curso. Para identificar as questões que mais retratam as facilidades e dificuldades enfrentadas pelo alunado em cursos EaD, optou-se pela técnica da Análise Fatorial Exploratória, aplicada em duas categorias de alunos, uma delas constituída pelos alunos matriculados e alunos formados e a outra categoria composta de alunos que abandonaram o curso em um polo de apoio presencial do município de Itabira – MG

A combined study of heat and mass transfer in an infant incubator with an overhead screen

The main objective of this study is to investigate the major physical processes taking place inside an infant incubator, before and after modifications have been made to its interior chamber. The modification involves the addition of an overhead screen to decrease radiation heat losses from the infant placed inside the incubator. The present study investigates the effect of these modifications on the convective heat flux from the infant’s body to the surrounding environment inside the incubator. A combined analysis of airflow and heat transfer due to conduction, convection, radiation and evaporation has been performed, in order to calculate the temperature and velocity fields inside the incubator before and after the design modification. Due to the geometrical complexity of the model, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) applications were used to generate a computer-based model. All numerical calculations have been performed using the commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) package FLUENT, together with in-house routines used for managing purposes and User-Defined Functions (UDFs) which extend the basic solver capabilities. Numerical calculations have been performed for three different air inlet temperatures: 32, 34 and 36ºC. The study shows a decrease of the radiative and convective heat losses when the overhead screen is present. The results obtained were numerically verified as well as compared with results available in the literature from investigations of dry heat losses from infant manikins

The Popes\u27 Veneration of the Torah

Franz Wasner examines the origins and theological significance of the pope\u27s veneration of the Torah on the day of his coronation

The Popes\u27 Veneration of the Torah

Franz Wasner examines the origins and theological significance of the pope\u27s veneration of the Torah on the day of his coronation