137 research outputs found
The multiple uses of telemedicine during the pandemic: the evidence from a cross-sectional survey of medical doctors in Brazil
Mobile health use predicts self-efficacy and self-management in adolescents with sickle cell disease
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is associated with significant health challenges that often worsen during adolescence. Living with SCD requires a substantial amount of self-management and mobile health (mHealth) holds considerable promise for assessing and changing behaviors to improve health outcomes. We integrated a mobile app as an adjunct to a group intervention (SCThrive) and hypothesized that more engagement with the mHealth app would increase self-management and self-efficacy for adolescents and young adults (AYA) with SCD. Twenty-six AYA ages 13–21 years (54% female; 46% HbSS genotype; all African-American/Black) received six weekly group sessions (three in-person, three online). Participants were provided with the mobile app (iManage for SCD) to record progress on their self-management goals and log pain and mood symptoms. The Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire (TRAQ-5) assessed self-management skills and the Patient Activation Measure (PAM-13) assessed self-efficacy at baseline and post-treatment. Logging on to the app more frequently was associated higher mood ratings (r = .54, CI[.18, .77], p = .006) and lower pain ratings (r = −.48, CI[−.77, −.02], p = .04). Regression analyses demonstrated that after controlling for scores at baseline, the number of logins to the app predicted self-management skills (p = .05, η2 = .17) and possibly self-efficacy (p = .08, η2 = .13). Our study findings indicate that it can be challenging to maintain engagement in mHealth for AYA with SCD, but for those who do engage, there are significant benefits related to self-management, self-efficacy, and managing pain and mood
Supertwistor space for 6D maximal super Yang-Mills
6D maximal super Yang-Mills on-shell amplitudes are formulated in superspace
using 6 dimensional twistors. The 3,4,5-point tree amplitudes are obtained by
supersymmetrizing their bosonic counterparts and confirmed through the BCFW
construction. In contrast to 4D this superspace is non-chiral, reflecting the
fact that one cannot differentiate MHV from in 6D. Combined
with unitarity methods, this superspace should be useful for the study of
multi-loop D dimensional maximal super Yang-Mills and gravity amplitudes.
Furthermore, the non-chiral nature gives a natural framework for an off-shell
construction. We show this by matching our result with off-shell D=4 N=4 super
Yang-Mills amplitudes, expressed in projective superspace.Comment: 6 figures 28 pages. with better sign
Monodromy--like Relations for Finite Loop Amplitudes
We investigate the existence of relations for finite one-loop amplitudes in
Yang-Mills theory. Using a diagrammatic formalism and a remarkable connection
between tree and loop level, we deduce sequences of amplitude relations for any
number of external legs.Comment: 24 pages, 6 figures, v2 typos corrected, reference adde
No triangles on the moduli space of maximally supersymmetric gauge theory
Maximally supersymmetric gauge theory in four dimensions has a remarkably
simple S-matrix at the origin of its moduli space at both tree and loop level.
This leads to the question what, if any, of this structure survives at the
complement of this one point. Here this question is studied in detail at one
loop for the branch of the moduli space parameterized by a vacuum expectation
value for one complex scalar. Motivated by the parallel D-brane picture of
spontaneous symmetry breaking a simple relation is demonstrated between the
Lagrangian of broken super Yang-Mills theory and that of its higher dimensional
unbroken cousin. Using this relation it is proven both through an on- as well
as an off-shell method there are no so-called triangle coefficients in the
natural basis of one-loop functions at any finite point of the moduli space for
the theory under study. The off-shell method yields in addition absence of
rational terms in a class of theories on the Coulomb branch which includes the
special case of maximal supersymmetry. The results in this article provide
direct field theory evidence for a recently proposed exact dual conformal
symmetry motivated by the AdS/CFT correspondence.Comment: 39 pages, 4 figure
Three particle superstring amplitudes with massive legs
On-shell superspaces and associated spinor helicity techniques give an
efficient formulation of the Ward identities of on-shell supersymmetry for
scattering amplitudes and supply tools to construct their solutions. Based on
these techniques in this paper the general solutions of the Ward identities are
presented for three particle scattering amplitudes with one, two or three
massive legs for simple supersymmetry in ten and eight dimensions. It is shown
in examples how these solutions may be used to obtain concrete amplitudes for
the closed (IIB) and open superstring in a flat background. Explicit results
include all three point amplitudes with one massive leg whose functional form
is shown to be dictated completely by super-Poincare symmetry. The resulting
surprisingly simple series only involves massive superfields labelled by
completely symmetric little group representations. The extension to more
general explicit three and higher point amplitudes in string theory is
initiated. In appendices the field content of the fundamental massive
superfields of the open and closed superstring are listed in terms of the
Dynkin labels of a variety of groups which may be of independent interest.Comment: 45 pages. v2: typos corrected, references adde
A manifestly MHV Lagrangian for N=4 Yang-Mills
We derive a manifestly MHV Lagrangian for the N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills
theory in light-cone superspace. This is achieved by constructing a canonical
redefinition which maps the N=4 superfield and its conjugate to a new pair of
superfields. In terms of these new superfields the N=4 Lagrangian takes a
(non-polynomial) manifestly MHV form, containing vertices involving two
superfields of negative helicity and an arbitrary number of superfields of
positive helicity. We also discuss constraints satisfied by the new
superfields, which ensure that they describe the correct degrees of freedom in
the N=4 supermultiplet. We test our derivation by showing that an expansion of
our superspace Lagrangian in component fields reproduces the correct gluon MHV
vertices.Comment: 37 pages, 1 figure. v2: minor changes, references adde
R^4 counterterm and E7(7) symmetry in maximal supergravity
The coefficient of a potential R^4 counterterm in N=8 supergravity has been
shown previously to vanish in an explicit three-loop calculation. The R^4 term
respects N=8 supersymmetry; hence this result poses the question of whether
another symmetry could be responsible for the cancellation of the three-loop
divergence. In this article we investigate possible restrictions from the coset
symmetry E7(7)/SU(8), exploring the limits as a single scalar becomes soft, as
well as a double-soft scalar limit relation derived recently by Arkani-Hamed et
al. We implement these relations for the matrix elements of the R^4 term that
occurs in the low-energy expansion of closed-string tree-level amplitudes. We
find that the matrix elements of R^4 that we investigated all obey the
double-soft scalar limit relation, including certain
non-maximally-helicity-violating six-point amplitudes. However, the single-soft
limit does not vanish for this latter set of amplitudes, which suggests that
the E7(7) symmetry is broken by the R^4 term.Comment: 33 pages, typos corrected, published versio
Simple superamplitudes in higher dimensions
We provide simple superspaces based on a formulation of spinor helicity in
general even dimensions. As a distinguishing feature these spaces admit a
fermionic super-momentum conserving delta function solution to the on-shell
supersymmetry Ward identities. Using these solutions, we present beautifully
simple formulae for the complete three, four and five point superamplitudes in
maximal super Yang-Mills theory in eight dimensions, and for the three and four
point superamplitudes in ten dimensional type IIB supergravity. In addition, we
discuss the exceptional kinematics of the three point amplitude, and the
supersymmetric spinorial BCFW recursion, in general dimensions.Comment: 34 page
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