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University of Patras
Education•Pátrai, Greece•
About: University of Patras is a education organization based out in Pátrai, Greece. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Catalysis. The organization has 13372 authors who have published 31263 publications receiving 677159 citations. The organization is also known as: Panepistímio Patrón.
Topics: Population, Catalysis, Finite element method, Nonlinear system, Graphene
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TL;DR: The currently established knowledge on the involvement of KLK proteolytic cascades in the regulation of physiological and pathological processes in prostate tissue and in skin is reviewed, with emphasis on the activation of plasmin and its implications in prostate cancer.
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TL;DR: In this article, molecular dynamics simulations have been performed on a dense polymer melt adsorbed on a solid substrate on the one side and exposed to vacuum on the other, and the MD simulation data have been analyzed to provide information about the spatial dependence of the short-time dynamical properties (conformational relaxation) o...
Abstract: Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been performed on a dense polymer melt adsorbed on a solid substrate on the one side and exposed to vacuum on the other. As a model system, a thin film of polyethylene (PE) melt supported by a crystalline graphite phase on its one side (the other surface of the film is free) has been examined. Most simulations have been carried out with unentangled PE melt systems, such as C78 and C156, in the NPT statistical ensemble at T = 450 K and P = 0 atm for times up to 100 ns, using a multiple-time step MD algorithm and by incorporating the correct dependence of the long-range contribution to the energy and stress tensor on the density profile. To increase the statistical accuracy of the results, large systems have been employed in the MD simulations, such as a 200-chain C78 melt consisting of 15 600 carbon atoms. The MD simulation data have been analyzed to provide information about the spatial dependence of the short-time dynamical properties (conformational relaxation) o...
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TL;DR: A review of the current literature on the biogenesis of HDL and its proposed functions in atheroprotection is provided and the significance of both HDL quality and quantity in assessing cardiovascular risk is discussed.
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TL;DR: A sentiment analysis system for automatic recognition of emotions in text, using an ensemble of classifiers based on the notion of combining knowledge-based and statistical machine learning classification methods aiming to benefit from their merits and minimize their drawbacks.
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TL;DR: It is argued that the negative trends can be explained, at least in part, by an increased effort in fire management and prevention after the big fires of the 1980’s, while positive trends may be related to recent socioeconomic transformations leading to more hazardous landscape configurations, as well as to the observed warming of recent decades.
Abstract: Forest fires are a serious environmental hazard in southern Europe. Quantitative assessment of recent trends in fire statistics is important for assessing the possible shifts induced by climate and other environmental/socioeconomic changes in this area. Here we analyse recent fire trends in Portugal, Spain, southern France, Italy and Greece, building on a homogenized fire database integrating official fire statistics provided by several national/EU agencies. During the period 1985-2011, the total annual burned area (BA) displayed a general decreasing trend, with the exception of Portugal, where a heterogeneous signal was found. Considering all countries globally, we found that BA decreased by about 3020 km2 over the 27-year-long study period (i.e. about -66% of the mean historical value). These results are consistent with those obtained on longer time scales when data were available, also yielding predominantly negative trends in Spain and France (1974-2011) and a mixed trend in Portugal (1980-2011). Similar overall results were found for the annual number of fires (NF), which globally decreased by about 12600 in the study period (about -59%), except for Spain where, excluding the provinces along the Mediterranean coast, an upward trend was found for the longer period. We argue that the negative trends can be explained, at least in part, by an increased effort in fire management and prevention after the big fires of the 1980's, while positive trends may be related to recent socioeconomic transformations leading to more hazardous landscape configurations, as well as to the observed warming of recent decades. We stress the importance of fire data homogenization prior to analysis, in order to alleviate spurious effects associated with non-stationarities in the data due to temporal variations in fire detection efforts.
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Thomas J. Meyer | 120 | 1078 | 68519 |
Thoralf M. Sundt | 112 | 755 | 55708 |
Chihaya Adachi | 112 | 908 | 61403 |
Eleftherios P. Diamandis | 110 | 1064 | 52654 |
Roland Siegwart | 105 | 1154 | 51473 |
T. Geralis | 99 | 808 | 52221 |
Spyros N. Pandis | 97 | 377 | 51660 |
Michael Tsapatsis | 77 | 375 | 20051 |
George K. Karagiannidis | 76 | 653 | 24066 |
Eleftherios Mylonakis | 75 | 448 | 21413 |
Matthias Mörgelin | 75 | 332 | 18711 |
Constantinos C. Stoumpos | 75 | 194 | 27991 |
Raymond Alexanian | 75 | 211 | 21923 |
Mark J. Ablowitz | 74 | 374 | 27715 |
John Lygeros | 73 | 667 | 21508 |