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INCREASING PATIENT DEMAND FOR HOME MEDICINES REVIEWS: A MARKETING PLAN
Campbell (2008)stated that “Consumer awareness of the program is of major concern” and concluded that “all stakeholders agreed that the Home Medicines Review (HMR) Program should be promoted more to consumers and carers.” Schwartzkoff et al (2004) recommended the implementation of a “national public awareness campaign to strengthen demand for HMR services from consumers who are likely to benefit”. Our research study (White & Clark, 2010; see poster 2) found that: There is very low awareness of HMRs amongst eligible non-recipient patients and carers There is an extremely high level of satisfaction amongst those who have experienced an HMR and very positive perceptions amongst those eligible patients and carers who have not had an HMR, after being informed of the service through the study.The goal of the marketing plan is to increase patient demand for HMRs by: 1. overcoming the lack of awareness, 2. facilitating patient self identification of eligibility and 3. instituting procedures that enhance the uptake of second and subsequent HMRs by HMR recipients where appropriate. All marketing strategies must be carefully targeted in order to attract only patients who meet the HMR eligibility criteria.Pharmacy Guild of Australi
Neutrino Spin Transitions and the Violation of the Equivalence Principle
The violation of the equivalence principle (VEP) causing neutrino
oscillations is of current interest. We study here the possibility of not only
flavor oscillation but spin flavor oscillation of ultra high energy ( 1
PeV) neutrinos emanating from AGN due to VEP and due to the presence of a large
magnetic field ( 1 Tesla) in AGN. In particular we look at the resonance
spin flavor conversion driven by the AGN potential. Interesting bounds on the
transition magnetic moment of neutrinos may therefore be obtained.Comment: Latex, 12 pages, no figures. To appear in Journal of Physics G:
Nuclear and Particle Physics. Two references adde
Energy Spectra, Altitude Profiles and Charge Ratios of Atmospheric Muons
We present a new measurement of air shower muons made during atmospheric
ascent of the High Energy Antimatter Telescope balloon experiment. The muon
charge ratio mu+ / mu- is presented as a function of atmospheric depth in the
momentum interval 0.3-0.9 GeV/c. The differential mu- momentum spectra are
presented between 0.3 and about 50 GeV/c at atmospheric depths between 13 and
960 g/cm^2. We compare our measurements with other recent data and with Monte
Carlo calculations of the same type as those used in predicting atmospheric
neutrino fluxes. We find that our measured mu- fluxes are smaller than the
predictions by as much as 70% at shallow atmospheric depths, by about 20% at
the depth of shower maximum, and are in good agreement with the predictions at
greater depths. We explore the consequences of this on the question of
atmospheric neutrino production.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D (2000
Dark Matter detection via lepton cosmic rays
Recent observations of lepton cosmic rays, coming from the PAMELA and FERMI
experiments, have pushed our understanding of the interstellar medium and
cosmic rays sources to unprecedented levels. The imprint of dark matter on
lepton cosmic rays is the most exciting explanation of both PAMELA's positron
excess and FERMI's total flux of electrons. Alternatively, supernovae are
astrophysical objects with the same potential to explain these observations. In
this work, we present an updated study of the astrophysical sources of lepton
cosmic rays and the possible trace of a dark matter signal on the positron
excess and total flux of electrons.Comment: 6 pages and 3 figures. Proceedings for PASCOS 2010, Valencia, Spai
Observability of Earth-skimming Ultra-high Energy Neutrinos
Neutrinos with energies above 10^8 GeV are expected from cosmic ray
interactions with the microwave background and are predicted in many
speculative models. Such energetic neutrinos are difficult to detect, as they
are shadowed by the Earth, but rarely interact in the atmosphere. Here we
propose a novel detection strategy: Earth-skimming neutrinos convert to charged
leptons that escape the Earth, and these leptons are detected in ground level
fluorescence detectors. With the existing HiRes detector, neutrinos from some
proposed sources are marginally detectable, and improvements of two orders of
magnitude are possible at the proposed Telescope Array.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Positron Propagation and Fluxes from Neutralino Annihilation in the Halo
Supersymmetric neutralinos are one of the most promising candidates for the
dark matter in the Universe. If they exist, they should make up some fraction
of the Milky Way halo. We investigate the fluxes of positrons expected at the
Earth from neutralino annihilation in the halo. Positron propagation is treated
in a diffusion model including energy loss. The positron source function
includes contributions from both continuum and monochromatic positrons. We find
that, for a "canonical" halo model and propagation parameters, the fluxes are
generally too low to be visible. Given the large uncertainties in both
propagation and halo structure, it is however possible to obtain observable
fluxes. We also investigate the shapes of the positron spectra, including fits
to a feature indicated by the results of the HEAT experiment.Comment: 16 pages, 19 figures, uses revte
Performance of the AMS-02 Transition Radiation Detector
For cosmic particle spectroscopy on the International Space Station the AMS
experiment will be equipped with a Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) to
improve particle identification. The TRD has 20 layers of fleece radiator with
Xe/CO2 proportional mode straw tube chambers. They are supported in a conically
shaped octagon structure made of CFC-Al-honeycomb. For low power consumption VA
analog multiplexers are used as front-end readout. A 20 layer prototype built
from final design components has achieved proton rejections from 100 to 2000 at
90% electron efficiency for proton beam energies up to 250 GeV with cluster
counting, likelihood and neural net selection algorithms.Comment: 11 pages, 25 figures, espcrc2.sty (elsevier 2-column
Observations of the Askaryan Effect in Ice
We report on the first observations of the Askaryan effect in ice: coherent
impulsive radio Cherenkov radiation from the charge asymmetry in an
electromagnetic (EM) shower. Such radiation has been observed in silica sand
and rock salt, but this is the first direct observation from an EM shower in
ice. These measurements are important since the majority of experiments to date
that rely on the effect for ultra-high energy neutrino detection are being
performed using ice as the target medium. As part of the complete validation
process for the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, we
performed an experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in
June 2006 using a 7.5 metric ton ice target, yielding results fully consistent
with theoretical expectations.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, minor correction
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