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Symptomatic heart failure is the most important clinical correlate of impaired quality of life, anxiety, and depression in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator patients:A single centre, cross-sectional study in 610 patients
Symptomatic heart failure is the most important clinical correlate of impaired quality of life, anxiety, and depression in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator patients:A single centre, cross-sectional study in 610 patients
ENERGY LEVEL AND STRATEGY OF FEEDING FOR DAIRY COWS IN THE DRY PERIOD
Djelovanje strategije hranidbe u suhostaju na proizvodnju i zdravlje istaživalo se u dva pokusa što su obuhvatila 80 i 96 mliječnih krava. U pokusu br. 1 ispitivalo se djelovanje razine energije (normalna i visoka (1.5 x N) i djelovanje dnevnog sagorjevanja kratkolančanih masnih kiselina (KLMK) u preživača (+ i -) u zadnja četiri tjedna suhostaja. U pokusu br. 2 uključeno je samo sagorjevanje KLMK. Šesnaest je krava zaklano radi ruminalnog pregleda. Sagorjevanje KLMK je inducirano davanjem 4.5 kg ječma u jutro i kabaste hrane (roughage) na večer. Nakon telenja koncentracija je postepeno povećavana do razine od 9 kg ST a sliaža trave bila ad lib. u obje skupine. Sagorjevanje KLMK povećalo je uzimanje silaže trave u prvih pet tjedana post parfum u pokusu br. 1, ali ne u pokusu br. 2. U pokusu br. 1 postojalo je međusobno djelovanje između razine hranjena i sagorjevanja KLMK na proizvodnju mlijeka, dok u pokusu br. 2 nije primijenjena nikakva razlika. U krava s pojačanim sagorjevanjem KLMK došlo je do rjeđe pojave ketoze i probavnih smetnji u prvom pokusu ali ne u drugom, te je postojala tendencija povećanja aktivnosti u mukozi rumena, no bez makroskopskih razlika. Zaključeno je da se sagorjevanjem KLMK ne postiže nikakvo ili samo neznatno pozitivno djelovanje u suhostaju na uzimanje hrane, proizvodnju, zdravlje i reprodukciju.The effect of feeding strategy in the dry period on performance and health was investigated in two experiments comprising 80 and 96 dairy cows. In exp. 1 the effect of energy level (Normal and High (1.5 x N) and the effect of a daily ruminal SCFA-burst (+ and -) in the last 4 weeks of the dry period were examined. In exp. 2. only SCFA-burst was included. Sixteen cows were slaughtered for ruminal examination. SCFA-burst was induced by allocating 4.5 kg barley in the morning and roughage in the evening. After calving concentrate was gradually increased to a level of 9 kg DM and grass silage was ad. lib in all groups. The SCFA-burst increased grass silage intake in the first 5 weeks post partum in exp. 1 but not in exp. 2. In exp. I there was an interaction between feeding level and SCFA-burst on milk production, while no difference between treatments were seen in exp. 2. The SCFA bursted cows had a lover incidence of ketose and digestive disorders in the first experiment but not in the second, and there was a tendency to increased activity in the ruminal mucosa but without any macroscopical differences. It is concluded that none or only small benefits are obtained from SCFA- bursts in the dry period on feed intake, performance, health, and reproduction
Ab initio investigation of VOSeO3, a spin gap system with coupled spin dimers
Motivated by an early experimental study of VOSeO3, which suggested that it
is a quasi-2D system of weakly coupled spin dimers with a small spin gap, we
have investigated the electronic structure of this material via
density-functional calculations. These ab initio results indicate that the
system is better thought of as an alternating spin-1/2 chain with moderate
interchain interactions, an analog of (VO)2P2O7. The potential interest of this
system for studies in high magnetic field given the presumably small value of
the spin gap is emphasized.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law in a Large-N Solution of the t-J Model
We show that the Wiedemann-Franz law, which holds for Landau Fermi liquids,
breaks down in a large-n treatment of the t-J model. The calculated ratio of
the in-plane thermal and electrical conductivities agrees quantitatively with
experiments on the normal state of the electron-doped Pr_{2-x}Ce_xCuO_4 (x =
0.15) cuprate superconductor. The violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law in the
uniform phase contrasts with other properties of the phase that are Fermi
liquid like.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Typos corrected, one added reference, revised
discussion of experiment on 214 cuprate material (x = 0.06
Modeling of complex oxide materials from the first principles: systematic applications to vanadates RVO3 with distorted perovskite structure
"Realistic modeling" is a new direction of electronic structure calculations,
where the main emphasis is made on the construction of some effective
low-energy model entirely within a first-principle framework. Ideally, it is a
model in form, but with all the parameters derived rigorously, on the basis of
first-principles electronic structure calculations. The method is especially
suit for transition-metal oxides and other strongly correlated systems, whose
electronic and magnetic properties are predetermined by the behavior of some
limited number of states located near the Fermi level. After reviewing general
ideas of realistic modeling, we will illustrate abilities of this approach on
the wide series of vanadates RVO3 (R= La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Yb, and Y)
with distorted perovskite structure. Particular attention will be paid to
computational tools, which can be used for microscopic analysis of different
spin and orbital states in the partially filled t2g-band. We will explicitly
show how the lifting of the orbital degeneracy by the monoclinic distortion
stabilizes C-type antiferromagnetic (AFM) state, which can be further
transformed to the G-type AFM state by changing the crystal distortion from
monoclinic to orthorhombic one. Two microscopic mechanisms of such a
stabilization, associated with the one-electron crystal field and electron
correlation interactions, are discussed. The flexibility of the orbital degrees
of freedom is analyzed in terms of the magnetic-state dependence of interatomic
magnetic interactions.Comment: 23 pages, 13 figure
A novel integrated biomarker index for the assessment of hematological responses in MPNs during treatment with hydroxyurea and interferon-alpha2
The nil Hecke ring and singularity of Schubert varieties
We give a criterion for smoothness of a point in any Schubert variety in any
G/B in terms of the nil Hecke ring.Comment: AMSTE
Halogen-mediated exchange in the coupled-tetrahedra quantum spin systems Cu2Te2O5X2 (X=Br,Cl)
Motivated by recent discussion on possible quantum critical behavior in the
coupled Cu-tetrahedra system Cu2Te2O5Br2, we present a comparative ab initio
study of the electronic properties of Cu2Te2O5Br2 and the isostructural
Cu2Te2O5Cl2.
A detailed investigation of the copper-copper interaction pathes reveals that
the halogen-ions play an important role in the inter-tetrahedral couplings via
X_4-rings (X=Br, Cl).
We find that, contrary to initial indications, both systems show a similar
electronic behavior with long range exchange pathes mediated by the X_4-rings.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figure
Strangeness Enhancement in and Interactions at SPS Energies
The systematics of strangeness enhancement is calculated using the HIJING and
VENUS models and compared to recent data on , and
collisions at CERN/SPS energies (). The HIJING model is used to
perform a {\em linear} extrapolation from to . VENUS is used to
estimate the effects of final state cascading and possible non-conventional
production mechanisms. This comparison shows that the large enhancement of
strangeness observed in collisions, interpreted previously as possible
evidence for quark-gluon plasma formation, has its origins in non-equilibrium
dynamics of few nucleon systems. % Strangeness enhancement %is therefore traced
back to the change in the production dynamics %from to minimum bias
and central collisions. A factor of two enhancement of at
mid-rapidity is indicated by recent data, where on the average {\em one}
projectile nucleon interacts with only {\em two} target nucleons. There appears
to be another factor of two enhancement in the light ion reaction relative
to , when on the average only two projectile nucleons interact with two
target ones.Comment: 29 pages, 8 figures in uuencoded postscript fil
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