REDUCTION OF LOCALIZED ABDOMINAL FAT IN MEN THROUGH THE PULSED AND CONTINUOUS APPLICATION OF COMBINED THERAPY ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF MEDIUM FREQUENCY EXCITOMOTOR CURRENT: RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL

O objetivo do estudo foi avaliar e comparar os efeitos da terapia combinada de modo contínuo e pulsado associado a corrente excitomotora de média frequência na redução de gordura localizada em homens, e sua influência no sistema nervoso autônomo, cardiovascular e na pressão arterial. Contendo uma população amostral de 18 participantes homens, com faixa etária entre 18 a 35 anos e com prega abdominal de até 4 cm. Divididos em dois grupos, o primeiro recebeu a aplicação da terapia combinada de maneira pulsada e o outro de maneira continua e ambos associados a corrente excitomotora de média frequência. Independentemente do modo do US não apresentou alterações na pressão arterial sistólica e diastólica, na avaliação do sistema nervoso autônomo foram encontrados valores significativos porém esperados

ESTUDO BIOMÉTRICO DE RATOS ALIMENTADOS COM DOIS TIPOS DE DIETA

A dieta hipercalórica é tida como fator de risco para o desenvolvimento de doenças cardiovasculares, sendo preocupante para a saúde pública mundial. O objetivo do presente estudo foi comparar a biometria de ratos alimentados por dois tipos de dieta. Para tanto, foram utilizados 24 ratos Wistar machos com 90 dias com oferta de ração e água à vontade; divididos em G1 recebendo dieta normocalórica e G2, dieta hipercalórica. A ingesta alimentar foi mensurada diariamente. Após 18 semanas foram eutanasiados, com prévia mensuração de massa corpórea, comprimento naso-anal e cáculo do índice de Lee. Os dados foram tratados por estatística descritiva, com uso do teste de normalidade de Kolmogorov-Smirnov seguido por ANOVA - One Way e pós-teste de Tukey; com significância de 5%. O grupo G2 apresentou maior ganho de peso e conseqüentemente índice de Lee superior ao G1, porém houve diminuição do consumo alimentar de G2 em comparação a G1

AVALIAÇÃO DO EQUILÍBRIO DE MULHERES COM CÂNCER DE MAMA

The objective of this study was to verify the balance of women with breast cancer. This cross-sectional study, tested balance of fifteen women, eight women with cancer and seven without cancer. The evaluation was performed through the Mini Balance Evaluation Systems (MiniBESTest), TUG with simple and dual- task. The mean of age was 59.2 ± 5 years for cancer group and 60.2 ± 5 years for the control group. Student's t-test for independent samples showed that there was no statistical difference (p> 0.05) between the groups for: MiniBESTest score, TUG with simple and dual-task. Women with cancer did not present balance impairments compared to control group according to MiniBESTest, and TUG with simple and dual-task.O objetivo desse estudo foi verificar o equilíbrio de mulheres com câncer de mama. Este estudo transversal avaliou o equilíbrio de quinze mulheres, sendo oito mulheres com câncer e sete sem câncer. Avaliação foi realizada através do Mini Balance Evaluation Systems (MiniBESTest), TUG simples e dupla tarefa. A média de idade foi de 59,2 ± 5 anos para o grupo de mulheres com câncer e 60,2 ± 5 anos para o grupo controle. Teste t Student para amostras independentes mostrou que não houve diferença estatística (p>0,05) entre os grupos para as variáveis: pontuação no MiniBESTest, tempo de realização do TUG simples e tempo de realização do TUG dupla tarefa. Mulheres com câncer não apresentaram alterações de equilíbrio comparadas ao grupo controle de acordo com o MiniBESTest, e TUG tarefa simples e dupla tarefa

Multiplicity dependence of jet-like two-particle correlations in p-Pb collisions at sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02 TeV

Two-particle angular correlations between unidentified charged trigger and associated particles are measured by the ALICE detector in p-Pb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV. The transverse-momentum range 0.7 $< p_{\rm{T}, assoc} < p_{\rm{T}, trig} <$ 5.0 GeV/$c$ is examined, to include correlations induced by jets originating from low momen\-tum-transfer scatterings (minijets). The correlations expressed as associated yield per trigger particle are obtained in the pseudorapidity range $|\eta|<0.9$. The near-side long-range pseudorapidity correlations observed in high-multiplicity p-Pb collisions are subtracted from both near-side short-range and away-side correlations in order to remove the non-jet-like components. The yields in the jet-like peaks are found to be invariant with event multiplicity with the exception of events with low multiplicity. This invariance is consistent with the particles being produced via the incoherent fragmentation of multiple parton--parton scatterings, while the yield related to the previously observed ridge structures is not jet-related. The number of uncorrelated sources of particle production is found to increase linearly with multiplicity, suggesting no saturation of the number of multi-parton interactions even in the highest multiplicity p-Pb collisions. Further, the number scales in the intermediate multiplicity region with the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions estimated with a Glauber Monte-Carlo simulation.Comment: 23 pages, 6 captioned figures, 1 table, authors from page 17, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/161

Effective Rheology of Bubbles Moving in a Capillary Tube

We calculate the average volumetric flux versus pressure drop of bubbles moving in a single capillary tube with varying diameter, finding a square-root relation from mapping the flow equations onto that of a driven overdamped pendulum. The calculation is based on a derivation of the equation of motion of a bubble train from considering the capillary forces and the entropy production associated with the viscous flow. We also calculate the configurational probability of the positions of the bubbles.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur

Multi-particle azimuthal correlations in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Measurements of multi-particle azimuthal correlations (cumulants) for charged particles in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions are presented. They help address the question of whether there is evidence for global, flow-like, azimuthal correlations in the p-Pb system. Comparisons are made to measurements from the larger Pb-Pb system, where such evidence is established. In particular, the second harmonic two-particle cumulants are found to decrease with multiplicity, characteristic of a dominance of few-particle correlations in p-Pb collisions. However, when a $|\Delta \eta|$ gap is placed to suppress such correlations, the two-particle cumulants begin to rise at high-multiplicity, indicating the presence of global azimuthal correlations. The Pb-Pb values are higher than the p-Pb values at similar multiplicities. In both systems, the second harmonic four-particle cumulants exhibit a transition from positive to negative values when the multiplicity increases. The negative values allow for a measurement of $v_{2}\{4\}$ to be made, which is found to be higher in Pb-Pb collisions at similar multiplicities. The second harmonic six-particle cumulants are also found to be higher in Pb-Pb collisions. In Pb-Pb collisions, we generally find $v_{2}\{4\} \simeq v_{2}\{6\}\neq 0$ which is indicative of a Bessel-Gaussian function for the $v_{2}$ distribution. For very high-multiplicity Pb-Pb collisions, we observe that the four- and six-particle cumulants become consistent with 0. Finally, third harmonic two-particle cumulants in p-Pb and Pb-Pb are measured. These are found to be similar for overlapping multiplicities, when a $|\Delta\eta| > 1.4$ gap is placed.Comment: 25 pages, 11 captioned figures, 3 tables, authors from page 20, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/87

Anisotropic flow of charged hadrons, pions and (anti-)protons measured at high transverse momentum in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=2.76 TeV

The elliptic, $v_2$, triangular, $v_3$, and quadrangular, $v_4$, azimuthal anisotropic flow coefficients are measured for unidentified charged particles, pions and (anti-)protons in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 2.76$ TeV with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Results obtained with the event plane and four-particle cumulant methods are reported for the pseudo-rapidity range $|\eta|<0.8$ at different collision centralities and as a function of transverse momentum, $p_{\rm T}$, out to $p_{\rm T}=20$ GeV/$c$. The observed non-zero elliptic and triangular flow depends only weakly on transverse momentum for $p_{\rm T}>8$ GeV/$c$. The small $p_{\rm T}$ dependence of the difference between elliptic flow results obtained from the event plane and four-particle cumulant methods suggests a common origin of flow fluctuations up to $p_{\rm T}=8$ GeV/$c$. The magnitude of the (anti-)proton elliptic and triangular flow is larger than that of pions out to at least $p_{\rm T}=8$ GeV/$c$ indicating that the particle type dependence persists out to high $p_{\rm T}$.Comment: 16 pages, 5 captioned figures, authors from page 11, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/186

Centrality dependence of charged particle production at large transverse momentum in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}} = 2.76 TeV

The inclusive transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) distributions of primary charged particles are measured in the pseudo-rapidity range $|\eta|<0.8$ as a function of event centrality in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}=2.76$ TeV with ALICE at the LHC. The data are presented in the $p_{\rm T}$ range $0.15<p_{\rm T}<50$ GeV/$c$ for nine centrality intervals from 70-80% to 0-5%. The Pb-Pb spectra are presented in terms of the nuclear modification factor $R_{\rm{AA}}$ using a pp reference spectrum measured at the same collision energy. We observe that the suppression of high-$p_{\rm T}$ particles strongly depends on event centrality. In central collisions (0-5%) the yield is most suppressed with $R_{\rm{AA}}\approx0.13$ at $p_{\rm T}=6$-7 GeV/$c$. Above $p_{\rm T}=7$ GeV/$c$, there is a significant rise in the nuclear modification factor, which reaches $R_{\rm{AA}} \approx0.4$ for $p_{\rm T}>30$ GeV/$c$. In peripheral collisions (70-80%), the suppression is weaker with $R_{\rm{AA}} \approx 0.7$ almost independently of $p_{\rm T}$. The measured nuclear modification factors are compared to other measurements and model calculations.Comment: 17 pages, 4 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 12, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/284

Charge separation relative to the reaction plane in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}= 2.76 TeV

Measurements of charge dependent azimuthal correlations with the ALICE detector at the LHC are reported for Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 2.76$ TeV. Two- and three-particle charge-dependent azimuthal correlations in the pseudo-rapidity range $|\eta| < 0.8$ are presented as a function of the collision centrality, particle separation in pseudo-rapidity, and transverse momentum. A clear signal compatible with a charge-dependent separation relative to the reaction plane is observed, which shows little or no collision energy dependence when compared to measurements at RHIC energies. This provides a new insight for understanding the nature of the charge dependent azimuthal correlations observed at RHIC and LHC energies.Comment: 12 pages, 3 captioned figures, authors from page 2 to 6, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/286

A note on comonotonicity and positivity of the control components of decoupled quadratic FBSDE

In this small note we are concerned with the solution of Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (FBSDE) with drivers that grow quadratically in the control component (quadratic growth FBSDE or qgFBSDE). The main theorem is a comparison result that allows comparing componentwise the signs of the control processes of two different qgFBSDE. As a byproduct one obtains conditions that allow establishing the positivity of the control process.Comment: accepted for publicatio