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Sublingual sufentanil tablet system (SSTS) versus a single shot peri-nervous injection of ropivacaine for the management of postoperative pain after total knee arthroplasty: a single-center randomized trial
For several years, ropivacaine has been the standard-of-care for establishing postoperative femoral nerve block in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) setting and is still widely in use but new approaches such as th...
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Open AccessThe Mercedes water Cherenkov detector
The concept of a small, single-layer water Cherenkov detector, with three photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), placed at its bottom in a $$120^{\circ...
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Author Correction: Proton acceleration in thermonuclear nova explosions revealed by gamma rays
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Proton acceleration in thermonuclear nova explosions revealed by gamma rays
Classical novae are cataclysmic binary star systems in which the matter of a companion star is accreted on a white dwarf1,2. Accumulation of hydrogen in a layer eventually causes a thermonuclear explosion on the ...
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The Effect of Infill Walls on the Structural Identification of an Existing RC Frame Building
A large number of Reinforced Concrete (RC) frames buildings containing unreinforced masonry infill walls are commonly used in structural system around the world. Earthquakes revealed that the performance of th...
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Gamma-ray astrophysics
High-energy photons are a powerful probe for astrophysics and for fundamental physics in extreme conditions. In recent years, our knowledge of the most violent phenomena in the Universe has impressively progre...
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Multi-criteria Analysis for Sustainable Buildings
Currently climate and housing standards in parallel with the energy savings govern the performance required to buildings. Consequently, innovative multi-functional components try to satisfy both the requiremen...
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The e-ASTROGAM mission
e-ASTROGAM (‘enhanced ASTROGAM’) is a breakthrough Observatory space mission, with a detector composed by a Silicon tracker, a calorimeter, and an anticoincidence system, dedicated to the study of the non-ther...
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Improving the Energy Efficiency of Heating Systems in Europe’s Residential Buildings
Although the ultimate solution is the complete energy-related renovation of building, upgrades of heating and air-conditioning system components represent the quickest and least costly way to reduce significan...
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Utilization of phase change materials (PCM) for energy recovery in the steelmaking industry
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the possibility of recovery of energy, efficiently, from the off-gases of an Electric Arc Furnace (EAF). The system adopted provides the utilization of a phase change m...
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The Impact of Land Use/Land Cover Changes on Land Degradation Dynamics: A Mediterranean Case Study
In the last decades, due to climate changes, soil deterioration, and Land Use/Land Cover Changes (LULCCs), land degradation risk has become one of the most important ecological issues at the global level. Land...
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Open AccessDesign concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy
Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has had a major breakthrough with the impressive results obtained using systems of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has a huge potenti...
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Open AccessPrecision measurement of the K S meson lifetime with the KLOE detector
Using a large sample of pure, slow, short lived K 0 mesons collected with KLOE detector at DAΦNE, we have measured the K S lifet...
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Open AccessA study of the b-quark fragmentation function with the DELPHI detector at LEP I and an averaged distribution obtained at the Z Pole
The nature of b-quark jet hadronisation has been investigated using data taken at the Z peak by the DELPHI detector at LEP. Two complementary methods are used to reconstruct the energy of weakly decaying b-had...
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Open AccessSearch for single top quark production via contact interactions at LEP2
Single top quark production via four-fermion contact interactions associated to flavour-changing neutral currents was searched for in data taken by the DELPHI detector at LEP2. The data were accumulated at cen...
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Domenico Pacini, uncredited pioneer of the discovery of cosmic rays
During a series of experiments performed between 1907 and 1911, the Italian physicist Domenico Pacini (Marino 1878-Roma 1934), at that time researcher at the Central Bureau of Meteorology and Geodynamics in Ro...
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Open AccessStudy of the dependence of direct soft photon production on the jet characteristics in hadronic Z 0 decays
An analysis of the direct soft photon production rate as a function of the parent jet characteristics is presented, based on hadronic events collected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP1. The dependences of the p...
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Open AccessMeasurements of CP-conserving trilinear gauge boson couplings WWV (V≡γ,Z) in e+e− collisions at LEP2
The data taken by Delphi at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV are used to place limits on the CP-conserving trilinear gauge boson couplings ...
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A limit on the variation of the speed of light arising from quantum gravity effects
Observations of the distant and short γ-ray burst GRB 090510 with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have provided an opportunity to test a central prediction of Einstein's special theory of relativity — the ...
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Open AccessCorrelations between polarisation states of W particles in the reaction e − e +→W − W + at LEP2 energies 189–209 GeV
In a study of the reaction e − e +→W − W + with the DELPHI detector,...
