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Ari Ahlqvistin esitys Kansalliskirjaston kirjastoverkkopalveluiden järjestämässä Asiantuntijaseminaarissa 23.4.2013 Helsingissä.

Tietokantojen yhdistäminen järjestelmän rajapintoja hyödyntäen

Tässä työssä on pyritty kartoittamaan mahdollisuudet omatoimiseen Voyager-kirjastojärjestelmän aineistotietokantojen ja asiakasrekisterien yhdistelyyn. Lähtökohtana on ollut oletus, että kohdejärjestelmän tietokantaan ei ole oikeuksia eikä sopimusteknistä mahdollisuuttakaan kirjoittaa tietoja suoraan kyselykielellä. Järjestelmän dokumentaatiota sekä verkostoa hyödyntämällä olen pyrkinyt kartoittamaan mahdollisuudet kaiken toiminnallisuuden vaatiman datan siirtoon. Hyödyntämällä järjestelmän rajapintoja, voidaan saavuttaa kustannussäästöjä sekä joustavuutta työn suorittamisen aikataulutukseen. Bibliografisen datan siirtoon Voyager-kirjastojärjestelmässä on mahdollisuus hyödyntää palvelimella eräajona suoritettavaa ohjelmaa. Tässä eräajossa voidaan siirtää sekä bibliografiset tietueet että varastotietueet. Nidetietojen kirjoittamiseksi kohteena olevaan tietokantaan käytetään Visual Studio -sovellusta, joka hyödyntää luettelointirajapintaa. Asiakastietojen siirtoon on mahdollista hyödyntää palvelimella suoritettavaa eräajoa, jonka syötteeksi kirjoitetaan määrämittainen syötetiedosto. Asiakastietueisiin sidotut lainatiedot voidaan siirtää kohdetietokantaan asiakasohjelman offline-lainaustoiminnolla.

Artiva-lomakkeen tilannekatsaus

Artturi Lehikoisen esitys ARTIVA-seminaarissa Helsingissä 5.2.2014

Ajankohtaista replikoinnissa

Minttu Hurmeen esitys Asiantuntijaseminaarissa Helsingissä 13.2.2014

Tietolinja 2/1994

Tieteellisten kirjastojen atk-yksikön 20-vuotisjuhlanumero

La télémédecine en radiothérapie : développement d’un modèle et analyse des coûts

But : La radiothérapie (RT) est disponible seulement dans les grandes villes au Québec. Les patients atteints de cancer vivant en zone rurale doivent voyager pour obtenir ces soins. Toute proportion gardée, moins de ces patients accèdent à la RT. L’accessibilité serait améliorée en instaurant de petits centres de RT qui dépendraient de la télémédecine (téléRT). Cette étude tente (1) de décrire un modèle (population visée et technologie) réaliste de téléRT; (2) d’en estimer les coûts, comparativement à la situation actuelle où les patients voyagent (itineRT). Méthode : (1) À l’aide de données probantes, le modèle de téléRT a été développé selon des critères de : faisabilité, sécurité, absence de transfert des patients et minimisation du personnel. (2) Les coûts ont été estimés du point de vue du payeur unique en utilisant une méthode publiée qui tient compte des coûts en capitaux, de la main d’oeuvre et des frais généraux. Résultats : (1) Le modèle de téléRT proposé se limiterait aux traitements palliatifs à 250 patients par année. (2) Les coûts sont de 5918$/patient (95% I.C. 4985 à 7095$) pour téléRT comparativement à 4541$/patient (95%I.C. 4351 à 4739$) pour itineRT. Les coûts annuels de téléRT sont de 1,48 M$ (d.s. 0,6 M$), avec une augmentation des coûts nets de seulement 0,54 M$ (d.s. 0,26 M$) comparativement à itineRT. Si on modifiait certaines conditions, le service de téléRT pourrait s’étendre au traitement curatif du cancer de prostate et du sein, à coûts similaires à itineRT. Conclusion : Ce modèle de téléRT pourrait améliorer l’accessibilité et l’équité aux soins, à des coûts modestes.

Bob and Jane go to Argentina: The Ethics of Cross-Border Care

Étude de cas / Case study

Strange attractors in the Saturn ring system

The theory of deterministic chaos is used to study the three rings A, B, and C of Saturn and the French and Cassini divisions in between them. The data set comprises Voyager photopolarimeter measurements. The existence of spatially distributed strange attractors is shown, implying that the system is open, dissipative, nonequilibrium, and non-Markovian in character.

Analysis of Phytochemical Composition and Chemoprotective Capacity of Rocket (Eruca sativa and Diplotaxis tenuifolia) Leafy Salad Following Cultivation in Different Environments

Consumption of green leafy vegetables is associated with reduced risk of several types of cancer and cardiovascular disease. These beneficial effects are attributed to a range of phytochemicals including flavonoids and glucosinolates, both of which are found in high levels in Brassicaceous crops. Rocket is the general name attributed to cultivars of Eruca sativa and Diplotaxis tenufolia, known as salad rocket and wild rocket, respectively. We have shown that different light levels during the cultivation period of these crops have a significant impact on the levels of flavonoids present in the crop at harvest, with over 15-fold increase achieved in quercetin, isorhamnetin, and cyanidin in high light conditions. Postharvest storage further affects the levels of both flavonoids and glucosinolates, with cyanidin increasing during shelf life and some glucosinolates, such as glucoiberverin, being reduced over the same storage period. In vitro assays using human colon cell lines demonstrate that glucosinolate-rich extracts of Eruca sativa cv. Sky, but not Diplotaxis tenufolia cv. Voyager, confer significant resistance to oxidative stress on the cells, which is indicative of the chemoprotective properties of the leaves from this species. Our findings indicate that both pre and postharvest environment and genotypic selection, when developing new lines of Brassicaceous vegetables, are important considerations with the goal of improving human nutrition and health.

The science case for an orbital mission to Uranus: Exploring the origins and evolution of ice giant planets

Giant planets helped to shape the conditions we see in the Solar System today and they account for more than 99% of the mass of the Sun’s planetary system. They can be subdivided into the Ice Giants (Uranus and Neptune) and the Gas Giants (Jupiter and Saturn), which differ from each other in a number of fundamental ways. Uranus, in particular is the most challenging to our understanding of planetary formation and evolution, with its large obliquity, low self-luminosity, highly asymmetrical internal field, and puzzling internal structure. Uranus also has a rich planetary system consisting of a system of inner natural satellites and complex ring system, five major natural icy satellites, a system of irregular moons with varied dynamical histories, and a highly asymmetrical magnetosphere. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have explored Uranus, with a flyby in 1986, and no mission is currently planned to this enigmatic system. However, a mission to the uranian system would open a new window on the origin and evolution of the Solar System and would provide crucial information on a wide variety of physicochemical processes in our Solar System. These have clear implications for understanding exoplanetary systems. In this paper we describe the science case for an orbital mission to Uranus with an atmospheric entry probe to sample the composition and atmospheric physics in Uranus’ atmosphere. The characteristics of such an orbiter and a strawman scientific payload are described and we discuss the technical challenges for such a mission. This paper is based on a white paper submitted to the European Space Agency’s call for science themes for its large-class mission programme in 2013.

Fathoming solar effects in Neptune’s atmosphere

Long-duration observations of Neptune’s brightness in two visible wavelengths provide a disk-averaged estimate of its atmospheric aerosol. Brightness variations were previously associated with the 11-year solar cycle, through solar-modulated mechanisms linked with either ultra-violet (UV) or galactic cosmic ray (GCR) effects on atmospheric particles. Here we use a recently extended brightness dataset (1972-2014), with physically realistic modelling to show that rather than alternatives, UV and GCR are likely to be modulating Neptune’s atmosphere in combination. The importance of GCR is further supported by the response of Neptune's atmosphere to an intermittent 1.5 to 1.9 year periodicity, which occurred preferentially in GCR (not UV) during the mid-1980s. This periodicity was detected both at Earth, and in GCR measured by Voyager 2, then near Neptune. A similar coincident variability in Neptune’s brightness suggests nucleation onto GCR ions. Both GCR and UV mechanisms may occur more rapidly than the subsequent atmospheric particle transport.

Qualidade nutricional e esverdeamento pós-colheita de tubérculos de cultivares de batata

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar as características físico-químicas, a qualidade nutricional e a suscetibilidade ao esverdeamento pós-colheita de tubérculos de cultivares de batata. Utilizou-se o delineamento experimental de blocos ao acaso, com cinco repetições. Os tratamentos consistiram de 11 cultivares (Ágata, Ambra, Annabelle, Asterix, Atlantic, Cupido, Daisy, Fontane, Innovator, Markies e Voyager). As cultivares Ágata, Ambra, Annabelle, Cupido e Voyager apresentam tubérculos com polpa de menor firmeza (6,82 a 8,25 N) e baixos teores de matéria seca (14,46 a 17,57%), carboidratos (10,97 a 12,51%) e amido (10,21 a 12,26%), adequados para o mercado fresco, a preparação de massas e o uso culinário. Já as cultivares Atlantic, Fontane e Innovator apresentam polpa firme (9,14 a 9,55 N) e elevados teores de matéria seca (19,68 a 21,63%), carboidratos (14,49 a 15,90%) e amido (14,29 a 15,74%), adequados para fritura. As cultivares Asterix e Markies apresentam teores intermediários dessas características e são indicadas para o preparo de massas e fritura. As cultivares Innovator e Markies apresentam melhor qualidade nutricional, com elevados teores de minerais (P, K, Mg, Cu e Mn) e de proteína, enquanto as cultivares Ágata e Ambra apresentam menor qualidade nutricional e proteica. A cultivar Voyager apresenta maior esverdeamento pós-colheita que as cultivares Annabelle, Fontane, Markies, Ambra e Atlantic.

Dynamical evolution of Saturn's F ring dust particles

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Moonlets wandering on a leash-ring

Since the Voyager flybys, embedded moonlets have been proposed to explain some of the surprising structures observed in Saturn's narrow F ring. Experiments conducted with the Cassini spacecraft support this suggestion. Images of the F ring show bright compact spots, and seven occultations of stars by the F ring, monitored by ultraviolet and infrared experiments, revealed nine events of high optical depth. These results point to a large number of such objects, but it is not clear whether they are solid moonlets or rather loose particle aggregates. Subsequent images suggested an irregular motion of these objects so that a determination of their orbits consistent with the F ring failed. Some of these features seem to cross the whole ring. Here we show that these observations are explained by chaos in the F ring driven mainly by the 'shepherd' moons Prometheus and Pandora. It is characterized by a rather short Lyapunov time of about a few hundred orbital periods. Despite this chaotic diffusion, more than 93 per cent of the F-ring bodies remain confined within the F ring because of the shepherding, but also because of a weak radial mobility contrasted by an effective longitudinal diffusion. This chaotic stirring of all bodies involved prevents the formation of 'propellers' typical of moonlets, but their frequent ring crossings explain the multiple radial 'streaks' seen in the F ring. The related 'thermal' motion causes more frequent collisions between all bodies which steadily replenish F-ring dust and allow for ongoing fragmentation and re-accretion processes (ring recycling).

Some comments on the F ring-Prometheus-Pandora environment

The system formed by the F ring and two close satellites, Prometheus and Pandora, has been analysed since the time that Voyager visited the planet Saturn. During the ring plane crossing in 1995 the satellites were found in different positions as predicted by the Voyager data. Besides the mutual effects of Prometheus and Pandora, they are also disturbed by a massive F ring. Showalter et al. [Icarus 100 (1992) 394] proposed that, the core of the ring has a mass which corresponds to a moonlet varying in size from 15 to 70 kin in radius which can prevent the ring from spreading due to dissipative forces, such as Poynting-Robertson drag and collisions. We have divided this work into two parts. Firstly we analysed the secular interactions between Prometheus-Pandora and a massive F ring using the secular theory. Our results show the variation in eccentricity and inclination of the satellites and the F ring taking into account a massive ring corresponding to a moonlet of different sizes. There is also a population of dust particles in the ring in the company of moonlets at different sizes [Icarus 109 (1997) 304]. We also analysed the behaviour of these particles under the effects of the Poynting-Robertson drag and radiation pressure. Our results show that the time scale proposed for a dust particle to leave the ring is much shorter than predicted before even in the presence of a coorbital moonlet. This result does not agree with the confinement model proposed by Dermott et al. [Nature 284 (1980) 309]. In 2004, Cassini mission will perform repeated observations of the whole system, including observations of the satellites and the F ring environment. These data will help us to better understand this system. (C) 2003 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.