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Ground-based radar sounders are used to characterize the dynamics and chemistry of Earth's upper atmosphere by using measurements of ionospheric peak electron density (NmF2) and its associated altitude (h(m)F(2)). Continuous sounder observations of the E and F regions of the ionosphere have been carried out regularly at dozens of stations worldwide since the midtwentieth century. A deep understanding of short- and long-term upper atmospheric variability depends on a fundamental understanding of these observational data. The manual analysis of historical analog (predigital age) ionograms to derive the plasma frequency profiles and the ionospheric parameters h(m)F(2) and NmF2 is a tedious procedure and susceptible to human error. In order to better understand this human error, a study is conducted in which ionograms from vertical sounders are manually scaled by a team of ionospheric researchers. The results of the study are then used to estimate the variability of the hand-scaled ionospheric parameters f(o)F(2) and f(o)E. Those results are then used to estimate the downstream impact on ionospheric models that use f(o)F(2) and f(o)E as input. The results demonstrate that there can be large variability in the manual scaling of f(o)F(2) and f(max)E from vertical incidence ionograms. However, the participants did typically better than 5% uncertainty for benign ionograms. A long-term analysis of h(m)F(2) modeling exhibits low sensitivity to statistical errors imposed on f(o)F(2) and f(o)E, but a short-term analysis showed that modeled h(m)F(2), neutral winds, and electron densities can be very different when small adjustments are made to f(o)F(2) and f(max)E.

Objectives: To describe the characteristics and clinical differences between institutionalised patients and those included in a home care program. Design: A descriptive, observational, cross-sectional, and multicentre study. Site Seville, 2016. Study subjects: A total 1857 elderly patients of similar characteristics (1441 institutionalised and 416 at home) in Seville in 2016. Measurements: The variables studied included gender, age, civil status, family support, pathologies, multiple pathology criteria, and medication prescriptions. Functional and cognitive status was evaluated using the Barthel index, and the Lawton-Brody and Pfeiffer scales. Results: The majority of patients (71.40%) were women. The fact of being institutionalised or being included in a home care program were statistically related to the following pathologies and categories: schizophrenia (p < .001), arterial hypertension (p = .012), diabetes mellitus (p = .001), atrial fibrillation (p < .001), and neoplasia (p = .012), A1 (p = .012), A2 (p < .001), B1 (p < .001), B2 (p = .002), C (p < .001), E1 (p < .001), E3 (p = .01), F2 (p < .01), G2 (p = .024), and H (p= .005). The mean Barthel index of the sample was 49.1 +/- 34.45 (95% confidence interval: 47.49-50.7). The mean Lawton-Brody scale in the case of patients included the home care program was 2.33 +/- 2.49 and in those institutionalised 1.59 +/- 2.12. The mean Pfeiffer scale was 4.93 +/- 3.53. Conclusions: Cognitive impairment was related to institutionalisation, being a result of possible neurological (E3 category) and psychiatric diseases. On the other hand, patient comorbidity was not related to it, because it is very high in patients included in a home care program, in whom functional and cognitive independency status is better. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier Espana, S.L.U.