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Alexandros S Ioannidis, 1, 2 Marc Töteberg-Harms, 3 Timothy Hamann, 3 Christopher Hodge 1, 4, 5 1Vision Eye Institute Blackburn South, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; 2Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; 3Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 4Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 5Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaCorrespondence: Alexandros S IoannidisVision Eye Institute Blackburn South, 156 Canterbury Road, Blackburn South, VIC 3130, AustraliaTel +61 3 9877 6288Fax +61 3 9894 2691Email alexioannidis.ai@gmail.comPurpose: Simultaneous cataract and glaucoma surgery has traditionally been challenging for the anterior segment surgeon. The introduction of minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) in conjunction with cataract surgery appears safe and effective in lowering intraocular pressure. Although a significant visual impact leading from the combined procedure is unexpected, we aim to describe the refractive outcomes in a cohort of patients undergoing simultaneous cataract removal and iStent inject and discuss the potential implications of combined surgery in patients with co-existent glaucoma.Patients and Methods: This is a retrospective consecutive case series inclusive of patients undergoing combined femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery and the insertion of two trabecular micro-bypass stents (iStent inject). Visual acuity, refraction and astigmatic vector analysis were collated and analysed from the preoperative and 4 weeks postoperative visits.Results: One hundred and six eyes of 89 patients from 2 surgeons were included in the original cohort. The mean absolute difference from target refraction was 0.36 ± 0.25D. 73.9% of eyes were within ± 0.5D of the refractive target and 98.9% of eyes were within ± 1.00D. 73.8% of eyes had 0.5D or less residual refractive astigmatism following the procedure.Conclusion: We present a novel cohort of glaucoma patients undergoing combined trabecular micro-bypass stents (iStent inject) and cataract surgery achieving excellent refractive outcomes. The results of this study indicate that this second-generation device is refractively neutral.Keywords: glaucoma, cataract surgery, trabecular micro-bypass stents, astigmatism, intraocular lenses

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Colin Clement, 1– 4 Frank Howes, 5 Alexandros S Ioannidis, 6 Michael Shiu, 7 David Manning, 8 Jed Lusthaus, 3, 4, 9 Ridia Lim, 3, 10 Simon E Skalicky, 11 Todd Goodwin 12 1Eye Associates, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 2Fairfield Eye Surgery, Fairfield, NSW, Australia; 3Glaucoma Unit, Sydney Eye Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 4Discipline of Ophthalmology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 5Eye & Laser Centre, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia; 6Vision Eye Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; 7Laser Sight Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; 8Hunter Cataract & Eye Centre, Charlestown, NSW, Australia; 9Eyehaus, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 10Hunter St. Eye Specialists, Parramatta, NSW, Australia; 11Department of Surgery Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; 12NQ Eye Specialists, Currajong, QLD, AustraliaCorrespondence: Colin ClementEye Associates, Level 4, 187 Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, AustraliaTel +612 9247 9972Email colinandkylie@me.comPurpose: This multicenter study evaluated 2-year effectiveness and safety following implantation of two second-generation trabecular micro-bypass stents (iStent inject®) with phacoemulsification.Materials and Methods: This was a retrospective study of iStent inject implantation with phacoemulsification by nine surgeons across Australia. Eyes had mild to advanced glaucoma (predominantly primary open-angle/POAG, appositional angle-closure/ACG, or normal-tension/NTG) or ocular hypertension (OHT), and cataract. Evaluations included intraocular pressure (IOP); medications; proportions of eyes with 0 or ≥ 2 medications, reduced/stable medications versus preoperative, and IOP ≤ 15 mmHg; visual acuity; cup-to-disc ratio (CDR); visual fields (VF); adverse events; and secondary surgery.Results: A total of 340 eyes underwent surgery and had 24-month follow-up data. At 24 months, mean IOP decreased by 16% from 16.4± 4.7 mmHg preoperatively to 13.7± 3.1 mmHg (p< 0.001), and 77% of eyes achieved IOP of ≤ 15 mmHg versus 49% preoperatively (p< 0.001). Mean number of medications decreased by 67% to 0.49± 0.95 versus 1.49± 1.20 preoperatively (p< 0.001), with 74% of eyes medication-free versus 25% preoperatively (p< 0.001), and 14% of eyes on ≥ 2 medications versus 46% preoperatively (p< 0.001). Medication burden was reduced or stable in 98% of eyes versus preoperative. Stratified analyses showed significant IOP and medication reductions across glaucoma subtypes (POAG, ACG, NTG, OHT): 13– 22% for IOP (p< 0.01 for all) and 62– 100% for medication (p< 0.001 for all). Favorable safety included few adverse events; stable CDR, VF, and visual acuity; and filtering surgery in only 8 eyes (2.4%) over 2 years.Conclusion: This 340-eye multicenter dataset provides robust evidence of the safety and efficacy of iStent inject implantation with phacoemulsification, with significant and sustained IOP and medication reductions through 2 years. Results were similarly favorable across glaucoma subtypes (including POAG, ACG, NTG, OHT) and were attained across various glaucoma severities, clinical sites, and surgeons, highlighting the real-world versatility and utility of this treatment modality.Keywords: microinvasive glaucoma surgery, MIGS, glaucoma, iStent inject, intraocular pressure, second-generation, multicenter

Over the last decades, there is a constant experimentation on new organizational models and structures by many international companies aiming to overcome the difficulties of a highly competitive global market and satisfy the needs of the customers 24/7. As such, the companies have commonly adopted virtual team strategies using also the technological advancements. In order to optimally use their resources, they have also used matrix organizational structures. In such complex and demanding organizational models, the virtual managers face a lot of challenges in order to effectively lead their teams. Therefore, the required managerial competencies and skills related to an effective team performance are of great scientific interest. The objective of this thesis is twofold. Firstly, this thesis aims to examine how managerial competencies of a virtual manager in matrix organizations influence the performance of a team and what the most important skills of these competencies are. Secondly, it aims to identify the managerial skills that a virtual functional manager and a virtual project leader need in order to effectively manage their teams and compare these skillsets. This study adapts a survey strategy with the use of an online questionnaire and gathers responses from professional engineers that virtually work in matrix organizational schemes mainly based in Sweden and Switzerland. The descriptive analysis of the collected data shows that both type of virtual managers (functional and project) have similar managerial skills which are commonly found in managers working in more traditional organizational models. This is not in line with the findings of our study, since in our analysis we considered the virtuality dimension, for which our results show that it strongly affects the virtual team performance. Therefore, the required managerial competence is formed with skills that are more important in the virtual context than in other traditional models. A second finding is that a virtual functional manager requires different skills compared to the virtual project leader, which suggests that the companies should account for the management role in the hiring process of a specific type of virtual manager. A future research on virtual teams in matrix organizations taking into consideration the different levels of virtuality or broader sampling techniques or case studies per industry would be of a great interest.

Asclepias is a project between CERN/Zenodo, NASA ADS and AAS to promote scientific software into an identifiable, citable, and preservable object. We are focusing upon the needs of two of the most important roles researchers play in the scholarly ecosystem: authors of scholarly manuscripts and developers of scientific software. We are building a technical framework and promoting a set of social practices that will help to manage some of the problems associated with software citations, which include software versions, release specific authorship, synonymous object identifiers, and best practices for journal references markup. Our technical solution provides a flexible and reusable service that, as first step, will connect Zenodo[1] and ADS[2] systems using the Scholix[3] framework as the interoperability communication protocol to share scholarly PID-based links. [1] https://zenodo.org [2] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu [3] http://www.scholix.org

Make Data Countobserves that “Sharing data is time-consuming and researchers need incentives for undertaking the extra work. Metrics for data will provide feedback on data usage, views, and impact that will help encourage researchers to share their data”. At Zenodo, we have been working on the same principles and we have launched Zenodo Usage Statistics, a feature that exposes fine-grained up-to-date usage statistics in an easily accessible manner. Now, users can find the number of views and downloads on every record page, and they can also sort search results by most viewed. These statistics are “versioning aware”; by default we roll-up usage statistics for all versions of a record. However, it is also possible to see detailed usage statistics for the specific version of a record. We strongly believe in user’s right to privacy, thus we have spent a lot of time to design our system to ensure all tracking is completely anonymized. As well, our usage statistics are tracked according to industry standards such as the COUNTER Code of Practiceas well as the Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metricsand thus allows our users to compare metrics from Zenodo with other compliant repositories.

Our goal is to promote scientific software into an identifiable, citable, and preservable object. We are focusing on the needs of two of the most important roles researchers play in the scholarly ecosystem: authors of scholarly manuscripts and developers of scientific software. We are building a technical framework and promoting a set of social practices that will help to manage some of the problems associated with software citations, which include software versions, release specific authorship, synonymous object identifiers, and best practices for journal references markup.

Spring 2017 Zenodo launched a new DOI versioning scheme. Unlike DOI versioning schemes in other generic repositories, no semantic versioning information is included in the identifier string. Instead, DOIs for versions of the same resource are semantically linked in the DataCite metadata registered along with the DOI. Furthermore, an additional DOI representing all versions is also registered to provide an aggregated view for discovery systems. The poster presents use cases, user interface design considerations and implementation details of the new DOI versioning scheme on Zenodo.

Invenio is an open source framework, initially developed at CERN, but with many external users and contributors at this moment and prospects of growing even more in the future. Its nature as a digital library for large scale repositories renders it a very useful tool in other software projects, inside and out of CERN alike. The maintenance of Invenio's software falls under the responsibility of the IT-CDA-DR section. The big workload that the section has to manage combined with the currently inefficient work management when it comes to Invenio, results in Invenio falling behind, which affects badly not only the section, which makes great use of Invenio in various other projects, but also the Invenio community, which stays inactive. The goal of my two month internship at CERN was to fix this problem by developing a bot that would send reports to the maintainers of Invenio, concerning the Invenio related tasks they have to fulfil, thus helping them to organize their work and do it more efficiently. The bot was developed using the python programming language and various contemporary technologies, such as git, github and gitter APIs, pytest, travis CI, docker and sphinx. There currently exist two commands for the bot, "autobot report show", that shows the global report for all maintainers and"autobot report send", that sends the personalised reports to each corresponding maintainer. The end result was a basic prototype for the bot and a lot of work remains to be done in the future. Some ideas for the future work are: Adjust the features to the users’ needs and desires. Improve the implementation resource-wise (e.g. cache the reports). Include customization features (e.g. sorting and filtering of the reports). Add synchronization with GitHub.

Στα κεφάλαια που ακολουθούν παρατίθενται στοιχεία για το δίκτυο υψηλής και υπερυψηλής τάσης της Δυτικής Ελλάδας. Τα στοιχειά αυτά καλύπτουν ένα διάστημα 14 ετών. Γίνεται επεξεργασία των στοιχείων αυτών με στόχο να αξιολογηθεί η λειτουργία της γραμμής σε σύγκριση με τις προδιαγραφές κατασκευής.Επίσης εξάγονται και αλλά χρήσιμα συμπεράσματα ακόμα και για τις μεθόδους που χρησιμοποιούνται για την αξιολόγηση της λειτουργίας του δικτύου γενικότερα. Στο 1ο κεφάλαιο αναφέρονται τα είδη σφαλμάτων(χωρίζονται σε κατηγορίες με βάση τη χρονική τους διάρκεια και τις επιπτώσεις αυτών στο δίκτυο) που παρουσιάζονται στις γραμμές και γίνεται επεξεργασία αυτών. Οι κατηγορίες των σφαλμάτων είναι • Παροδικά • Παραμένοντα • Μόνιμα Τα κριτήρια κατηγοριοποίησης είναι η διάρκεια των σφαλμάτων και το ύψος της ζημιάς που προκαλούν. Βέβαια οι δυο αυτές ποσότητες είναι αλληλένδετες και ανάλογες. Μια ζημιά που θα καταστρέψει παραδείγματος χάρη έναν πυλώνα θα διαρκέσει ως βλάβη, στην καλύτερη περίπτωση, μερικές μέρες. Έτσι τα παροδικά σφάλματα διαρκούν το πολύ μερικά δευτερόλεπτα και το δίκτυο στο οποίο εμφανίζεται το σφάλμα επανέρχεται σε λειτουργία από μόνο του, δίχως την ανάγκη παρέμβασης. Τα μόνιμα σφάλματα είναι τα σοβαρότερα και τα πλέον απευκταία. Απαιτούν την παρέμβαση συνεργείου της Δ.Ε.Η. στη συντριπτική πλειονότητα των περιπτώσεων τους. Τα παροδικά είναι τα σφάλματα με χαρακτηριστικά κάπου ενδιάμεσα των δυο προηγούμενων κατηγοριών. Στο 2ο κεφάλαιο παρουσιάζονται τα αιτία που προκαλούν τα σφάλματα στις γραμμές και γίνεται εκτενέστερη αναφορά στις ατμοσφαιρικές υπερτάσεις. Όσον αφορά τις τελευταίες ακολουθεί μέσα στο κεφάλαιο ποιοτικη και ποσοτική ανάλυση των δεδομένων. Η πλειονότητα των σφαλμάτων προκαλείται εξαιτίας κακών ατμοσφαιρικών συνθηκών. Με τον όρο αυτό στη συγκεκριμένη περίπτωση εννοούμε κυρίως τα κεραυνικά πλήγματα πάνω σε μια γραμμη ή πολύ κοντά σε αυτή. Αρκετά πιο σπάνια μπορεί να προκαλέσει σοβαρό σφάλμα σε μια γραμμη ο δυνατός αέρας. Όχι πως και αυτό το ενδεχόμενο είναι απίθανο. Είναι δυνατό ο αέρας με την άσκηση δύναμης πάνω σε μια γραμμη είτε με άμεσο είτε με έμμεσο τρόπο (να ξεριζώσει ένα δέντρο και αυτό να πέσει πάνω στη γραμμη ) να προκαλέσει σοβαρή ζημιά στη γραμμη. Παρατηρείται πως ο αριθμός των σφαλμάτων εμφανίζει ομαλές αυξομειώσεις εκτός εξαιρετικών περιπτώσεων , όπως αποτελεί στην περίπτωση μας το έτος 1993 κατά το οποίο αυξάνονται ραγδαία τα σφάλματα ενώ το αμέσως επόμενο έτος επανέρχονται στα προ δυο ετών επίπεδά τους. Στο 3ο κεφάλαιο γίνεται σύντομη αναφορά στο κλίμα της Ελλάδας , στην κεραυνική συχνότητα και σε βασικά χαρακτηριστικά των γραμμών και των πυλώνων στο υπό εξέταση δίκτυο. Το κλίμα της Ελλάδος βέβαια δεν είναι ανεξάρτητο του κλίματος σε παγκόσμια κλίμακα. Επομένως , συνυπολογίζοντας τα δεδομένα που έχουν διαμορφωθεί τα τελευταία χρόνια με τις απότομες διακυμάνσεις του καιρού, είναι φυσιολογικό κάποιες παραδοχές που έχουμε κάνει στα πλαίσια της εργασίας αυτής να μην επιβεβαιώνονται πάντα. Ο χάρτης ισοκεραυνικών καμπύλων που παρατίθεται είναι μέρος του παγκοσμίου χάρτη ισοκεραυνικών καμπύλων. Και σε αυτήν την περίπτωση έχουν γίνει κάποιες παραδοχές και γενικεύσεις από τους επιστήμονες που έχουν σχεδιάσει αυτούς τους χάρτες και είναι λογικό να παρουσιάζονται αποκλίσεις στην πραγματικότητα. Τέλος τα χαρακτηριστικά του δικτύου είναι μια ευγενική παραχώρηση της Δ.Ε.Η. όπως βέβαια και όλα τα στοιχειά που εξετάζουμε. Στο 4ο κεφάλαιο παρουσιάζεται η μέθοδος ANACOM η οποία θα χρησιμοποιηθεί για την εξαγωγή θεωρητικών δεδομένων , τα οποία θα αντιπαρατεθούν στη συνέχεια με τα πραγματικα. Η μέθοδος αυτή είναι μια εξέλιξη παλαιοτέρων μεθόδων και χρησιμοποιείται ευρύτατα σε θέματα σφαλμάτων γραμμών μεταφοράς ρεύματος. Επίσης υπολογίζει τα σφάλματα θωράκισης καθώς και τα ανάστροφα σφάλματα. Κατά τον υπολογισμό των σφαλμάτων πρέπει να λάβουμε υπόψη μας πολλούς παράγοντες όπως αριθμό μονωτήρων ,αντίσταση γείωσης πυλώνων ,τάση δικτύου ,αριθμό αγωγών προστασίας ,ημέρες καταιγίδας ,μήκος της γραμμής αλλά ταυτόχρονα κάνουμε και ορισμένες παραδοχές όπως το ποσοστό των κεραυνών που παρακάμπτουν τον αγωγό προστασίας και πλήττουν τη γραμμη. Στο 5ο κεφάλαιο παρατίθεται αναλυτικά ο υπολογισμός σφαλμάτων σε όλα τα τμήματα του δικτύου. Το υπό εξέταση δίκτυο χωρίζεται σε μεγάλο αριθμό μικρότερων τμημάτων. Ακόμα και στην περίπτωση που το δίκτυο έχει ακριβώς τα ίδια χαρακτηριστικά εκατέρωθεν , ας πούμε , ενός υποσταθμού ,πάλι υπολογίζουμε ξεχωριστά τα αναμενομενα σφάλματα. Η τμηματοποίηση αυτή είναι απαραίτητη κυρίως γιατί έτσι είναι καταγεγραμμένα τα στοιχειά που έχουμε λάβει από τη Δ.Ε.Η.. Το κεφάλαιο αυτό είναι καθαρά υπολογιστικό αλλά είναι απολύτως απαραίτητο για να γίνει η περαιτέρω επεξεργασία των στοιχείων. Στο 6ο κεφάλαιο αναλύεται και εξηγείται η απόκλιση μεταξύ αναμενόμενων και πραγματικών σφαλμάτων. Στο τελικό αποτέλεσμα παρατηρούμε μια πολύ σημαντική απόκλιση μεταξύ των αναμενόμενων και των πραγματικών σφαλμάτων. Η απόκλιση αυτή έχει διάφορες αιτίες που την προκαλούν : • Όπως προαναφέραμε έχουν γίνει κάποιες παραδοχές και στρογγυλοποιήσεις οι τιμές των οποίων είναι πάντα μεγαλύτερες της μέσης εκτιμημένης. • Αρκετά τμήματα της γραμμής τέμνουν περισσότερες από μια ισοκεραυνικές καμπύλες. Αφενός είναι εξαιρετικά δύσκολο να βρούμε το ακριβές νούμερο ‘ήμερων καταιγίδας ‘ αφετέρου είναι προτιμότερο οποιαδήποτε στρογγυλοποίηση να μη γίνει χαμηλότερα του επιπέδου μέσης τιμής αλλά υψηλοτέρα αυτής αφού ασχολούμαστε με την προστασία πολύ ακριβών συσκευών και ενός κοινωνικού αγαθού όπως είναι το ηλεκτρικό ρεύμα. • Η τιμή της αντίστασης των πυλώνων θεωρείται σταθερή για όλο το μήκος κάθε τμήματος. Αυτό είναι ιδιαίτερα απίθανο. Η τιμή της αντίστασης του εδάφους μεταβάλλεται σε απόσταση μερικών μέτρων πόσο δε μάλλον σε αποστάσεις εκατοντάδων μέτρων όπως είναι το άνοιγμα μεταξύ των πυλώνων. Επίσης η ειδική τιμή της αντίστασης εδάφους μεταβάλλεται και κατά τη διάρκεια ενός έτους κυρίως λόγω της μεταβολής της υγρασίας του εδάφους. • Τέλος δεν πρέπει να ξεχνάμε ότι αναφερόμαστε σε ανθρώπινες κατασκευές οπότε δεν είναι εφικτό να πετύχουμε ακριβώς τα ίδια χαρακτηριστικά. Στο 7ο κεφάλαιο τέλος αναπτύσσεται διεξοδικότερα και με τη χρήση παραδείγματος ,ο ρόλος που παίζει η διαδρομή της γραμμής ( routing ) στην αντικεραυνική συμπεριφορά των γραμμών υψηλής τάσης. Το παράδειγμα σύγκρισης που παρατίθεται (Αχελώος- Δίστομο και Αχελώος – Πουρνάρι )είναι χαρακτηριστικό γιατί αφορά δυο τμήματα του δικτύου με πολλά κοινά χαρακτηριστικά. Ίδια τιμή αντίστασης γείωσης , ίδιο αριθμό πυλώνων , ίδια τάση μεταφοράς ,ίδιο τύπο και αριθμό αγωγών. Συν τοις άλλοις τα δυο αυτά τμήματα έχουν κοινό σημείο ‘ εκκίνησης’ τον Αχελώο απλά έχουν αντίθετες κατευθύνσεις. Οι μοναδικές διαφορές είναι τα μήκη των τμημάτων και ο αριθμός των ήμερων καταιγίδας,παράγοντες οι οποίοι βέβαια συνυπολογίζονται στη θεωρητική εκτίμηση των σφαλμάτων. Στην πράξη όμως αποδεικνύεται μια απόκλιση 15% υπέρ της γραμμής που είναι κατασκευασμένη σε πιο προστατευμένο περιβάλλον(Αχελώος – Δίστομο). Βρίσκεται σε πλαγιές ορεινών όγκων και όχι σε πεδιάδες. Επίσης κανένα κομμάτι δεν διέρχεται από κορυφή βουνού όπως συμβαίνει αναγκαστικά στη δεύτερη περίπτωση. In the capitals that follow are mentioned elements for the high voltage network of Western Greece. The elements cover one interval of 14 years. A treatment of these elements in order to evaluate the operation of line compared to its construction specifications. There are also exported useful conclusions even on the methods that are used for the evaluation of operation of network in general. In the 1st chapter are reported the types of faults (are separated in categories with base their time duration and the repercussions of these in the network) that are presented in the lines and takes place treatment of these. The categories of faults are • Transitory • Remaining the • Permanently The criteria of categorization are the duration of faults and the height of damage that they cause. Of course these two quantities are interrelated and proportional. A damage that will destroy for example pylon will last as damage, in better, case certain days. Thus the transitory faults lasts at maximum certain seconds and the network in which is presented the fault is back on line on his own, without the need of intervention. The permanent faults are most serious. They require the intervention of repair crew of Δ.Ε.Η. in the overwhelming majority of their cases. Transitory are the faults with characteristically somewhere in-between the two previous categories. In the 2nd chapter are presented the reason that cause the faults in the lines and becomes a more extensive report in the atmospheric hypertensions. With regard to the last ones follows in to the capital, qualitative and quantitative analysis of data. The majority of faults are caused because of the bad atmospheric conditions. With this term in the particular case we mainly mean the thunder strokes on a line or a lot near it. Enough more seldom it can cause serious fault in a line the strong air wind. It is possible the wind with the exercise of force on a line either with direct or with indirect way (it eradicates a tree and this it falls on the line) will cause serious damage in the line. It is observed that the number of faults presents smooth fluctuations except exceptional cases, as it constitutes in our case the year 1993 at which are increased rapidly the faults while the immediately next year falls down in the two years ago levels. In the 3rd chapter follows short report in the climate of Greece, in the thunder frequency and in basic characteristics of lines and pylons in the network under review. The climate of Greece of course is not independent of the climate in world scale. Consequently, taking under consideration the data that have been shaped in the past few years with the abrupt fluctuations of climate, it is logical that certain admissions that we have made in the frames of this work will not always be confirmed. The map of thunder density that is presented is part of a similar world map. In this case also there have been certain admissions and generalizations from the scientists that have drawn these maps and are the reason that are presented divergences in reality. Finally the characteristics of network are a polite concession of Δ.Ε.Η. as of course and the data that we examine. In the 4th chapter is presented the method ANACOM which will be used for the export of theoretical data, which afterwards will be compared with real data. This method is a development of older methods and is used very widely on issues concerning the faults in current transport lines. Also it calculates the faults of armoring as well as the backstroke faults. At the calculation of faults we should take into consideration a lot of factors such as number the ground resistance of pylons, the voltage of the network, the number of protection conductors, the days of storm, the length of line but simultaneously we must make certain admissions as the percentage the lightings that surpass the protection line and strike the line. In the 5th chapter is mentioned analytically the calculation of faults in all the departments of the network. The network under review is separated in a large number of smaller departments. Even in the case where the network has precisely the exact same characteristics at both sides, for example, of a substation, nevertheless we calculate separately the expected faults. This segmentation is essential mainly because thus it is organized the database that we have received from Δ.Ε.Η.. This capital is clearly a calculating one but is absolutely essential in order to precede the further analysis of data. In the 6th chapter is analyzed and is explained the divergence between expected and occurred faults. In the final conclusion we observe a very important divergence between the expected also real faults. This divergence has various reasons that cause it: As we mentioned before there have been certain admissions and approximations of the values. Enough departments of line go through from more than one thunder map lines. On one side it is exceptionally difficult to find a precise number `of days of storm ` on the other hand it is preferable any approximation not to lower than the level of medium price but greater than this considering that we deal with the protection of very expensive appliances and a social good such as the electric current. The level of resistance of pylons is considered constant for all the length of each department. This is particularly improbable. The price of resistance of ground is altered in distance of certain meters not to mention in distances of hundreds of meters as is the opening between the pylons. In the 7th chapter is developed more extensively with the use of example, the role that plays the path of the line (routing) in the protection of lines of high voltage. The example of comparison that is mentioned (Acheloos Distomo and Acheloos - Poyrnari) is characteristic because it concerns two departments of network with a lot of common characteristics. Same price of ground resistance, same number of pylons, same voltage level, same type and number of conductors. Plus this two departments have common point `of departure' Acheloos and simply have opposite directions. The sole differences are the lengths of departments and the number of days of storm, factors which of course are included in the theoretical estimate of faults. Into practice however is proved a divergence 15% in favor of the line that is manufactured in more protected environment (Acheloos - Distomo). It is found in the side of mountains and not in plains.