Ninth European Research Articles

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EUROTHERM 20249th European Thermal Sciences ConferenceBled, Slovenia, June 10 - 13, 2024This Conference Volume contains the papers presented at the Ninth European Thermal Sciences Conference (EUROTHERM 2024) held at Bled, Slovenia, from June 10 - 13, 2024, and accepted for proceedings published in the IOP Journal of Physics: Conference Series.The conference was chaired by Prof Božidar Šarler, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovenia, and co-chaired by Prof Laura Vanoli, Department of Engineering, Parthenope University of Naples, Italy.List of Editors, Scientific Advisory Board and Organising Committee are available in this Pdf.

Abstracts from the Ninth European Students Conference of the Charité

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Stock‐flow thinking: A difficult concept to grasp

Systems Research and Behavioral ScienceVolume 37, Issue 6 p. 886-891 BRIEF RESEARCH SUMMARY Stock-flow thinking: A difficult concept to grasp Martina Curran, Corresponding Author Martina Curran m.curran8@nuigalway.ie School of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland Correspondence Martina Curran, School of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland. Email: m.curran8@nuigalway.ieSearch for more papers by this authorEnda Howley, Enda Howley School of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, IrelandSearch for more papers by this authorJim Duggan, Jim Duggan School of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, IrelandSearch for more papers by this author Martina Curran, Corresponding Author Martina Curran m.curran8@nuigalway.ie School of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland Correspondence Martina Curran, School of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland. Email: m.curran8@nuigalway.ieSearch for more papers by this authorEnda Howley, Enda Howley School of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, IrelandSearch for more papers by this authorJim Duggan, Jim Duggan School of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, IrelandSearch for more papers by this author First published: 14 January 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2757Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume37, Issue6Special Issue: Addressing Public Health and Security Challenges with System Dynamics Selected papers from the Ninth European System Dynamics Workshop, at National University of Ireland Galway, IrelandNovember/December 2020Pages 886-891 RelatedInformation

Navigating through the unknown: How conjoint analysis reduces uncertainty in energy consumer modelling

Systems Research and Behavioral ScienceVolume 37, Issue 6 p. 880-885 BRIEF RESEARCH SUMMARY Navigating through the unknown: How conjoint analysis reduces uncertainty in energy consumer modelling Merla Kubli, Corresponding Author Merla Kubli merla.kubli@unisg.ch Institute of Sustainable Development, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland Institute for Economy and the Environment, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland Correspondence Merla Kubli, Institute for Economy and the Environment, University of St. Gallen, Müller-Friedbergstrasse 6/8, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland. Email: merla.kubli@unisg.chSearch for more papers by this author Merla Kubli, Corresponding Author Merla Kubli merla.kubli@unisg.ch Institute of Sustainable Development, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland Institute for Economy and the Environment, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland Correspondence Merla Kubli, Institute for Economy and the Environment, University of St. Gallen, Müller-Friedbergstrasse 6/8, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland. Email: merla.kubli@unisg.chSearch for more papers by this author First published: 14 January 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2756Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume37, Issue6Special Issue: Addressing Public Health and Security Challenges with System Dynamics Selected papers from the Ninth European System Dynamics Workshop, at National University of Ireland Galway, IrelandNovember/December 2020Pages 880-885 RelatedInformation

Best Abstracts from the Ninth European Congress on Emergency Medicine held in Torino, Italy, 10 to 14 October 2015

Best Abstracts from the Ninth European Congress on Emergency Medicine held in Torino, Italy, 10 to 14 October 2015

Highlights from the ninth European breast cancer conference, glasgow, 19-21 march 2014.

The Ninth European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-9), one of the largest breast cancer conferences in the world, was held in Glasgow in March 2014, and brought together the voices of doctors, researchers, nurses, and patients. All the major breast cancer advocacy groups and institutions were united in one forum (Europa Donna, the EORTC Breast Cancer group, and EUSOMA).The Scientific Programme for EBCC-9 highlighted a holistic picture of breast cancer, including research, prevention, treatment, advocacy, and care. Participants were able to discover the most up-to-date developments and findings within the field for implementation into daily practice. Improvements in treatment, as well as enhanced access to care, underlie the sustained decreases in breast cancer mortality seen in 30 European countries from 1989 to 2010.

The Potential Use of Biomarkers and New Diagnostic Tools in the Management of Acute Pain

187 ISSN 1758-1869 10.2217/PMT.12.11 © 2012 Future Medicine Ltd Pain Manage. (2012) 2(3), 187–190 Biomarkers – or to be more precise, the research into their discovery – have recently received a lot of attention. This is not only reflected by an increasing number of working groups or meetings regarding the topic, but also the sheer number of publications (more than 500,000) tells its own story. Why is it that scientists and clinicians alike regard this as such an important topic worth spending money, time and potentially careers on? At least in part, the overwhelming interest might be rested on the current revitalization of an old concept in medicine – personalized healthcare, but undeniably also because of recent breathtaking advances in diagnostic technology. Most readers today, when asked what biomarkers are, would probably answer with a term belonging to ‘omics’ research: genomics, metabonomics or proteomics. Although that takes them straight to one of the most prosperous and best known branches in biomarker research, they have not provided a concise definition of what biomarkers are. Is there such a definition? The Biomarkers Definitions Working Group [1] def ined biological markers (biomarkers) as “A characteristic that is objectively measured and evaluated as an indicator of normal biological processes, pathogenic processes, or pharmacologic responses to a therapeutic intervention.” However, this definition has been criticized as being too broad and the Ninth European Federation of Pharmaceutical Sciences Conference on Optimising Drug Development recommended a seven-point mechanistic classification of biomarkers [2].

Report on the Ninth European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies Conference: "Hope: A Form of Delusion? Buddhist and Christian Perspectives"

Report on the Ninth European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies Conference:"Hope: A Form of Delusion? Buddhist and Christian Perspectives" Elizabeth J. Harris, President of the Network Can we hope in a world that is shot through with suffering? Should hope be shunned as a form of attachment? Should we affirm our hope or let go of it? And, if we embrace hope, what should we hope for and what can inspire us? Between sixty and seventy people, from sixteen countries, came together to address questions such as these at the ninth conference of the European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies, held in glorious weather at Liverpool Hope University in England, between 30 June and 4 July 2011. At the heart of the conference were ten keynote presentations on five crucial aspects of the theme of hope: "Hope and the Critique of Hope," "Hope in Pastoral Situations," "Embodiments of Hope," "Hope in Situations of Hopelessness: Engaged Buddhism and Liberation Theology," and "Eschatologies of Hope." Dr. Sybille Fritsch-Oppermann (Church of Southern Hesse) gave the introductory lecture, which suggested that hope can be seen both as a utopian ideal within and beyond living religions, and a working hypothesis, through which humans can strive toward truth and transcendence. Each theme was addressed from a Buddhist and a Christian perspective, followed by a plenary to enable dialogue between the speakers, and between speakers and participants. Addressing the first theme, "Hope and the Critique of Hope," from a Buddhist perspective, Richard Gombrich (Balliol College, Oxford) robustly argued that hope was not a category relevant to Theravada Buddhism, distinguishing between hope and confidence, and hope and expectation. Werner Jeanrond (Glasgow University), taking the Christian perspective, suggested that a critical theology of hope—an inter-hope dialogue—is necessary, within a critique of other key concepts such as salvation, faith, and love. [End Page 135] Within the session titled "Hope in Pastoral Situations," Dr. Hiroshi Munehiro Niwano (Rissho Kosei-kai, Japan) focused on Rissho Kosei-kai's pastoral work, most movingly its response to the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Notto Thelle (Oslo University), speaking from a Christian viewpoint, sensitively explored pastoral situations caused by life experiences that seem to question and make a mockery of hope, drawing on decades of Buddhist-Christian encounter. Peggy Morgan (Mansfield College, Oxford), addressing the third theme, "Embodiments of Hope," concretized her brief by focusing on a contemporary embodiment of hope capable of emboldening Christians: Rosemary Radford Ruether and her listening dialogue with Buddhism. Mitsuya Dake (Ryukoku University, Japan), on the other hand, chose Amida Buddha as his empowering embodiment of the wisdom, compassion, and non-dualism that lies at the heart of Buddhism, focusing on Shinran's understanding. The theme "Hope in Situations of Hopelessness" was opened to the public in an evening session. Sallie King (James Madison University, USA), using examples such as the Sarvodaya Movement in Sri Lanka and the Dalai Lama's peace work, argued that Buddhism is "loaded" with hope, from an Engaged Buddhist perspective. Buddhist hope, at one level, is an amalgam of acceptance, lawful change, and effort. At another level, it is the conviction that everyone has the potential to change and that truth has power. Sathianathan Clarke (Wesley Theological College, Washington, D.C.) movingly examined Dalit liberation theology, suggesting that hope within this context could be seen as a proxy topos that extends faith into life, an alter-wisdom where love can enrich life, and an energy, a verb, leading to transformative action. Addressing the last theme, "Eschatologies of Hope," Anthony Kelly (Australian Catholic University) recognized a contemporary crisis of hope and, distinguishing between hope as an emotion and hope as a virtue, explored a paradox: that Christian hope is rooted in the resurrection of the crucified Jesus but that this event is described in a varied rhetoric of negations. Justin Ritzinger (Oberlin College, USA), noting that endings are hard to find in Buddhist literature, examined the coming of Maitreya, the future Buddha, as a possible candidate for a Buddhist eschaton. He concluded that the similarities to Christian eschatology are superficial, with the exception of a contemporary reinvention of the Maitreyan tradition in China. In addition to invited keynote speakers, a...

China's Urban-Rural Integration Policies

The analysis presented here is based on the keynote speech discussing the most recent developments in rural policy on urban-rural integration in China delivered in Chinese by Professor Ye Xingqing at the Ninth European Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development in China (ECARDC9) held at the University of Leeds in the UK on 3–5 April 2009. Professor Ye's paper provides a comprehensive overview of the main initiatives, their rationale and their context, including some of the debates surrounding them. Professor Ye, who is an invited keynote speaker of ECARDC9 and the director-general of the Department for Rural Economy, Research Office of the State Council, People's Republic of China, has been personally involved in the process of formulating these policy initiatives. This translation of his paper seeks to convey properly the author's meanings and to strike a balance between documenting the official perspective and rationales, including the use of concepts, on the one hand and ease of comprehension on the other. The translator's notes are intended only for the clarification of, not commentary on, the content.

Ninth European Congress on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis – ECCEO 9 – IOF

Ninth European Congress on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis – ECCEO 9 – IOF

Ninth European Congress on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis – ECCEO 9 – IOF

Ninth European Congress on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis – ECCEO 9 – IOF

Ninth European Congress on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis – ECCEO 9 – IOF

Ninth European Congress on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis – ECCEO 9 – IOF

Ninth European Congress on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis – ECCEO 9 – IOF

Ninth European Congress on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis – ECCEO 9 – IOF

Europt(r)ode IX: Ninth European conference on optical chemical sensors and biosensors

Scientific program The conference started on Sunday evening with a welcome cocktail, the scientific program started on Monday morning with guest speaker Otto S. Wolfbeis (University of Regensburg, Germany) talking about “Optical chemical sensors and biosensors: where are we going to?” emphasizing both new developments and pioneering work. After closing his talk with the words “Let’s go for it! There’s much to be done” he was honored for his outstanding research on chemical sensors and biosensors with the Křižik Medal (Fig. 1). Five plenary lectures, 10 invited lectures and 34 oral presentations from all over the world covered the scientific fields of fluorescence methods, high-throughput sensors, interferometric sensors, sensor arrays, immunosensors, nanostructures for sensing, gas sensors, bioreceptors, and surface chemistry.

Proceedings of the Symposium on Brain Mechanisms of Taste Recognition Memory and Neural Plasticity Held at the Ninth European Congress of Psychology on 6 July 2005

Research on the neurobiological substrates of taste-related learning and memory is a broad and rapidly evolving multidisciplinary field. Historically, research on taste aversion learning has contributed critically both to the behavioral and the neurobiological assessment of learning systems. Since the discovery by Garcia et al. (1955) of conditioned taste aversion and its peculiar features, such as one-trial and long-delay learning, taste aversion learning represented a challenge for learning theorists and contributed decisively to the development of modern learning theories. Also, the search for the brain circuit responsible of taste‐illness association has revealed a complex interaction among a variety of areas located at different brain levels from brain stem to cortex. During the ninth European Congress of Psychology, a symposium was held where 5 speakers discussed the recent developments in the brain mechanisms of taste memory and neural plasticity. Their talks reflected how the research field has widened both in the types of processes and brain areas studied as well as levels of analysis aimed and technical approaches applied. First, an increased interest in the study of the neurobiological mechanisms not only of taste aversion but also of the safe taste memory was evident because the effect of nonrewarded taste exposure on habituation of neophobia and latent inhibition were issues of interest for the speakers. This is consistent with wider theoretical approaches to taste memory, such as that proposed

Tine forces established by a two-level model and the draught requirement of rigid and flexible tines

To investigate the force requirement of flexible and rigid tines a field experiment was conducted on a clay loam soil at two different sites. One site comprised no-tilled soil, and the other site newly ploughed loose soil compacted with a roller. The tines used were rigid straight tines, flexible straight tines and flexible S-tines. The draught force and the tine deflection were measured with a frequency of 32 Hz. The driving speeds were around 1 m s −1 and 2 m s −1. Analysis showed that the tines mostly experienced peak force or trough force levels. Based on the peak and trough forces a two-level model was therefore introduced. Such a model assumes that the tines are either subjected to a peak force or a trough force. Testing of the model confirmed its validity. In order to compare the draught requirement of the different tines, the peak and trough forces had to be related to a term containing both tilling depth and tine speed. A combined depth-velocity term provided by Godwin and O’Dogherty [Godwin, R.J., O’Dogherty, M.J., 2003. Integrated soil-tillage force predictions model. In: Ninth European Conference of the International Society of Terrain Vehicle Systems, Harpur Adams University College, Newport, England.] met this requirement. Relating the peak and trough forces to this term clarified the effect of tine flexibility. Compared to rigid straight tines, the two flexible straight tines gave a draught reduction in no-tilled soil according to tine flexibility, while flexible S-tines gave a draught reduction only due to a lower rake angle. At both driving speeds the greatest draught reduction due to tine flexibility occurred at the highest magnitude of the depth-velocity term, i.e., the greatest tilling depth. The magnitude of this draught reduction was approximately 10% at the low driving speed and approximately 20% at the high driving speed ( * P < 0.05). In tilled soil only the softest flexible straight tine gave a draught reduction. The other flexible straight tine and the flexible S-tines did not give any draught reduction compared to rigid straight tines. In addition, the peak and trough forces and the corresponding tine speeds were found to deviate by just one standard deviation from the mean draught force and mean tine speed. This greatly simplifies the application of the model.

Use of biomarkers from drug discovery through clinical practice: report of the Ninth European Federation of Pharmaceutical Sciences Conference on Optimizing Drug Development.

Use of biomarkers from drug discovery through clinical practice: report of the Ninth European Federation of Pharmaceutical Sciences Conference on Optimizing Drug Development.

Gadolinium-containing contrast media for radiographic examinations: a position paper.

Recently, it has been suggested that gadolinium-based contrast media could be used for radiological examinations in patients with significant renal impairment, previous severe generalized reaction to iodinated contrast media or thyroid disease about to undergo radioactive iodine treatment; however, the indications for and risks of using gadolinium agents in this way are not well known; hence, the Contrast Media Safety Committee of The European Society of Urogenital Radiology reviewed the literature to issue a position paper on this subject. A comprehensive literature review was performed and the resulting report was discussed at the Ninth European Symposium on Urogenital Radiology in Genoa, Italy, June 2002. Review of the literature indicates that according to experimental data on animals gadolinium-based contrast media have more nephrotoxic potential than iodinated contrast media in equivalent X-ray attenuating doses; therefore, gadolinium-based contrast media should not replace iodinated contrast media in patients with renal insufficiency for radiographic examinations. For patients with previous severe generalized reactions to iodinated contrast media, and in patients about to undergo thyroid treatment with radioactive iodine gadolinium-based contrast media in approved intravenous doses, up to 0.3 mmol/kg body weight will not give diagnostic radiographic information in most cases. Gadolinium-based contrast media are not approved for radiographic examinations.

White Dwarfs in Wide Binaries and the Age of the Galaxy

We present a photometric study of wide binaries with suspected white dwarf (WD) components. These systems were initially identified on the basis of their reduced proper motions and colors by W. J. Luyten (Proper Motion Survey with the Forty-Eight Inch Schmidt Telescope [Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press, 1963–]) and H. L. Giclas et al. (Lowell Proper Motion Survey, Northern Hemisphere [Flagstaff: Lowell Obs., 1971], Lowell Proper Motion Survey, Southern Hemisphere [Flagstaff: Lowell Obs., 1978]). These systems usually contain a WD and a main-sequence star; however, a few contain more than two components. We obtained BVRI CCD images for approximately 475 of the 512 systems in our sample. These systems were determined by a concurrent low-resolution spectroscopy program to contain about 325 relatively cool WDs. We use this sample to determine the WD luminosity function (WDLF) and, by inference, the minimum age of the Galaxy. The WDLF was constructed using the 1/Vmax technique (M. Schmidt, ApJ, 151, 393 [1968]), as modified by T. Oswalt & J. A. Smith (Proc. Ninth European Workshop on White Dwarfs, ed. D. Koester & K. Werner [Berlin: Springer, 1995], p. 24) to correct for sample incompleteness. Error estimates were determined using the conservative approach used by J. Liebert, C. C. Dahn, & D. G. Monet (ApJ, 332, 891 [1988]). Of the spectroscopically identified WDs, 152 met the selection and completeness criteria for our study and were included in the final sample used to derive the WDLF. Most stars will end their lives as white dwarfs, slowly radiating their stored thermal energy and cooling to invisibility. The cooling timescale, calibrated using pulsating WDs, is on the order of 10 Gyr to cool to . This cooling log (L/L ) ≈ 5 , rate is slow enough that the remnants of the first epoch of star formation in the solar neighborhood are still visible. Comparison of the observed WDLF with age-dependent WDLFs integrated numerically by M. A. Wood (Proc. Ninth European Workshop on White Dwarfs [Berlin: Springer, 1995], p. 41) suggests a lower limit age of the local Galactic disk of Gyr. Assuming a ∼1 Gyr delay between the big bang 0.9 9.7 0.8 and galaxy formation, and allowing for main-sequence evolutionary times, this minimum Galactic disk age then implies a lower limit to the age of the universe of about 11 Gyr. Newly revised ages derived from globular cluster studies (B. Chaboyer, P. Demarque, P. J. Kernan, & L. M. Krauss, ApJ, 494, 96 [1998]) and recently derived cosmological ages, corrected for Hipparcos data (M. W. Feast & R. M. Catchpole, MNRAS, 286, L1 [1997]), now agree with our age determination to within 1 j. Furthermore, our age estimate is in accord with those derived from nuclear-cosmochronology studies (e.g., C. Sneden, J. J. Cowen, D. L. Burris, & J. W. Truran, ApJ, 496, 235 [1998]) and meteoritic sample analyses (e.g., L. R. Nittler & R. Cowsik, Phys. Rev. Lett., 78, 175 [1997]). Our data show no clear observational evidence for an increase in the WDLF at crystallization, , so there is log (L/L ) ≈ 3.8 ,

Ninth European Symposium on Organic Chemistry. Warsaw, Poland. June 18‐23, 1995

Ninth European Symposium on Organic Chemistry. Warsaw, Poland. June 18‐23, 1995