BACKGROUND While in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia, higher education and research institutions are widely engaged with the Athena SWAN Charter for Women in Science to advance gender equality, empirical research on this process and its impact is rare. This study combined two data sets (free- text comments from a survey and qualitative interviews) to explore the range of experiences a...

ATHENA AUTOMATED TOOL FOR HARDWARE EVALUATION: SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT FOR FAIR AND COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC HARDWARE USING FPGAS Venkata Amirineni, MS George Mason University, 2010 Thesis Director: Dr. Kris Gaj Fair comparison of the hardware efficiency of cryptographic algorithms, modeled in Hardware Description Languages and implemented using FPGAs, is a complex tas...

Introduction: Spatially resolved images provide the ability to examine both the surface and the shape of planetary objects. Observing from Earth provides limited spatial or shape information for most asteroids due to their small extent. However, remote sensing has advanced by leaps and bounds our understanding of the largest asteroids [e.g. 1,2]. We observed 2 Pallas with Hubble Space Telescope...

Two methods are considered for the improvement of the ephemerides of the asteroids observed by the Hipparcos satellite. They utilize different combinations of ground-based and space-based data. In particular, we develop a method based on an analysis of the variance matrix in the least-squares solution of Hipparcos observations taken alone. Application and comparison of the results for (2) Palla...

The Athena Startup Kit (ask), is an interactive front-end to the Atlas software framework (athena). Written in python, a very effective “glue” language, it is build on top of the, in principle unrelated, code repository, build, configuration, debug, binding, and analysis tools. Ask automates many error-prone tasks that are otherwise left to the end-user, thereby pre-empting a whole category of ...

BACKGROUND The first antiarrhythmic drug to demonstrate a reduced rate of cardiovascular hospitalization in atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF/AFL) patients was dronedarone in a placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel arm Trial to assess the efficacy of dronedarone 400 mg bid for the prevention of cardiovascular Hospitalization or death from any cause in patiENts with Atrial fibrillation/atrial...

BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia. It occurs in 1%-2% of the general population and its prevalence increases with age. Dronedarone, a noniodinated benzofuran similar to amiodarone, was developed as an antiarrhythmic agent for patients with atrial fibrillation. The aim of our systematic review was to critically evaluate randomized controlled trials that ...

Athena used to think that neonates are altogether a different species than Homo sapiens. For example, they are poikilothermic in contrast to homeothermic adult human beings. Inguinal hernia is yet another proof of this philosophical assertion. Herniotomy, a minor affair in grown-up children, is often a serious issue in newborn especially when they are premature. Neonatal inguinal hernia is also...