The Serenity boards are ATCA custom used in the readout of Phase-II CMS detector. Each board can handle up to 144 optical serial links (up 25Gb/s each) and supports two high-performance FPGAs. In several applications is required aggregate raw events (Front-End data) from detector at every Accepted Level 1 trigger route this event fragment central DAQ system. architecture behavior DAQPATH firmwa...

Individual differences in affect intensity are typically assessed with the Affect Intensity Measure (AIM). Previous factor analyses suggest that the AIM is comprised of four weakly correlated factors: Positive Affectivity, Negative Reactivity, Negative Intensity and Positive Intensity or Serenity. However, little data exist to show whether its four factors relate to other measures differently e...

This qualitative research study with a content analysis approach aimed to explore families' experiences of an organ donation request after brain death. Data were collected through 38 unstructured and in-depth interviews with 14 consenting families and 12 who declined to donate organs. A purposeful sampling process began in October 2009 and ended in October 2010. Data analysis reached 10 categor...

A security pattern describes a particular recurring security problem that arises in specific contexts and presents a well-proven generic solution for it. This paper describes Untraceable Secret Handshakes, cryptographic protocols that allow two users to mutually verify another’s properties without revealing their identity or other sensitive information. The complex security solution is split in...

This paper reports on a descriptive qualitative study that explored the value and benefit of Serenity Spirituality Sessions programme for older nursing home residents. The research was carried out in six nursing homes in the Republic of Ireland. The facilitators of these sessions, who worked in the nursing homes, were interviewed about their experiences of delivering the programme and their vie...

OBJECTIVES To analyse the attitudes of medical personnel towards terminally ill patients and their right to be fully informed. DESIGN Self-administered questionnaire composed of 56 closed questions. SETTING Three general hospitals and eleven health centres in Granada (Spain). The sample comprised 168 doctors and 207 nurses. RESULTS A high percentage of medical personnel (24.1%) do not thi...

The scenarios of Ambient Intelligence introduce a new computing paradigm and set new challenges for the design and engineering of secure and dependable systems. This chapter describes SERENITY, a comprehensive approach to overcome those problems. The key to success in this scenario is to capture security expertise in such a way that it can be supported by automated means. SERENITY’s integral mo...