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On the GBM event seen 0.4 sec after GW 150914
In view of the recent report by Connaughton we analyse continuous TTE data of
Fermi-GBM around the time of the gravitational wave event GW 150914. We find
that after proper accounting for low count statistics, the GBM transient event
at 0.4 s after GW 150914 is likely not due to an astrophysical source, but
consistent with a background fluctuation, removing the tension between the
INTEGRAL/ACS non-detection and GBM. Additionally, reanalysis of other short
GRBs shows that without proper statistical modeling the fluence of faint events
is over-predicted, as verified for some joint GBM-ACS detections of short GRBs.
We detail the statistical procedure to correct these biases. As a result, faint
short GRBs, verified by ACS detections, with significances in the broad-band
light curve even smaller than that of the GBM-GW150914 event are recovered as
proper non-zero source, while the GBM-GW150914 event is consistent with zero
fluence.Comment: 13 pages, 12 figures, ApJL (acc.); subm. 2016 March 10, Apr 21 (1st
rev.), May 13 (2nd rev), Jun 1 (3rd rev), and editorial changes by Jun 2 (4th
rev), Jun 8 (5th rev): Our manuscript refers exclusively to
arXiv:1602.03920.v3 since we had no prior access to arXiv:1602.03920.v4/5
(2016 May 31). Note that JG and HFY are not co-authors on
arXiv:1602.03920.v4/
Integrated out-of-hours care arrangements in England: observational study of progress towards single call access via NHS Direct and impact on the wider health system
Objectives: To assess the extent of service integration achieved within general practice cooperatives and NHS Direct sites participating in the Department of Health’s national “Exemplar Programme” for single call access to out-of-hours care via NHS Direct. To assess the impact of integrated out-of-hours care arrangements upon general practice cooperatives and the wider health system (use of emergency departments, 999 ambulance services, and minor injuries units).
Design: Observational before and after study of demand, activity, and trends in the use of other health services.
Setting: Thirty four English general practice cooperatives with NHS Direct partners (“exemplars”) of which four acted as “case exemplars”. Also 10 control cooperatives for comparison.
Main Outcome Measures: Extent of integration achieved (defined as the proportion of hours and the proportion of general practice patients covered by integrated arrangements), patterns of general practice cooperative demand and activity and trends in use of the wider health system in the first year.
Results: Of 31 distinct exemplars 21 (68%) integrated all out-of-hours call management by March 2004. Nine (29%) established single call access for all patients. In the only case exemplar where direct comparison was possible, cooperative nurse telephone triage before integration completed a higher proportion of calls with telephone advice than did NHS Direct afterwards (39% v 30%; p<0.0001). The proportion of calls completed by NHS Direct telephone advice at other sites was lower. There is evidence for transfer of demand from case exemplars to 999 ambulance services. A downturn in overall demand for care seen in two case exemplars was also seen in control sites.
Conclusion: The new model of out-of-hours care was implemented in a variety of settings across England by new partnerships between general practice cooperatives and NHS Direct. Single call access was not widely implemented and most patients needed to make at least two telephone calls to contact the service. In the first year, integration may have produced some reduction in total demand, but this may have been accompanied by shifts from one part of the local health system to another. NHS Direct demonstrated capability in handling calls but may not currently have sufficient capacity to support national implementation
First record of an Odontaspidid shark in Ascension Island waters
The occurrence of the poorly understood shark species Odontapsis ferox is reported at an oceanic seamount in the central south Atlantic, within the Exclusive Economic Zone of Ascension Island. The presence of the species at this location is confirmed by the discovery of a tooth embedded in scientific equipment, and footage of at least one animal on autonomous underwater video. The new record of this shark species at this location demonstrates the knowledge gaps which still exist at many remote, oceanic structures and their candidacy for status as important conservation areas.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Bomb radiocarbon and tag-recapture dating of sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus)
The sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) was the cornerstone species of western North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico large coastal shark fisheries until 2008 when they
were allocated to a research-only fishery. Despite decades of fishing on this species, important life history
parameters, such as age and growth, have not been well known. Some validated age and growth information exists for sandbar shark, but more comprehensive life history information is needed. The complementary application of bomb radiocarbon and tag-recapture dating was used in this
study to determine valid age-estimation criteria and longevity estimates for this species. These two methods
indicated that current age interpretations based on counts of growth bands in vertebrae are accurate to 10 or 12 years. Beyond these years, we could not determine with certainty when such an underestimation of age begins; however, bomb radiocarbon and tag-recapture data indicated that large adult sharks were considerably older than the estimates derived from counts of growth bands. Three adult sandbar sharks were 20 to 26 years old based on bomb radiocarbon results and were a 5- to 11-year increase over the previous age estimates for these sharks. In support of
these findings, the tag-recapture data provided results that were consistent with bomb radiocarbon dating and
further supported a longevity that exceeds 30 years for this species
Scaling Solutions to 6D Gauged Chiral Supergravity
We construct explicitly time-dependent exact solutions to the field equations
of 6D gauged chiral supergravity, compactified to 4D in the presence of up to
two 3-branes situated within the extra dimensions. The solutions we find are
scaling solutions, and are plausibly attractors which represent the late-time
evolution of a broad class of initial conditions. By matching their near-brane
boundary conditions to physical brane properties we argue that these solutions
(together with the known maximally-symmetric solutions and a new class of
non-Lorentz-invariant static solutions, which we also present here) describe
the bulk geometry between a pair of 3-branes with non-trivial on-brane
equations of state.Comment: Contribution to the New Journal of Physics focus issue on Dark
Energy; 28 page
Mimicking transPlanckian effects in the CMB with conventional physics
We investigate the possibility that fields coupled to the inflaton can
influence the primordial spectrum of density perturbations through their
coherent motion. For example, the second field in hybrid inflation might be
oscillating at the beginning of inflation rather than at the minimum of its
potential. Although this effect is washed out if inflation lasts long enough,
we note that there can be up to 30 e-foldings of inflation prior to horizon
crossing of COBE fluctuations while still giving a potentially visible
distortion. Such pumping of the inflaton fluctuations by purely conventional
physics can resemble transPlanckian effects which have been widely discussed.
The distortions which they make to the CMB could leave a distinctive signature
which differs from generic effects like tilting of the spectrum.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figures; presented at PASCOS 03, TIFR, Mumbai, Indi
Brane Inflation from Rotation of D4 Brane
In this paper, a inflationary model from the rotation of D4-brane is
constructed. We show that for a very wide rage of parameter, this model
satisfies the observation and find that regarded as inflaton, the rotation of
branes may be more nature than the distance between branes. Our model offers a
new avenue for brane inflation.Comment: 6 pages, no figure
Franco-Americans of the State of Maine, U.S.A., and Their Achievements: Historical, Descriptive, and Biographical
This volume is published chiefly for the purpose of showing the achievements of the Franco-American citizens of Maine of to-day.
Written from an independent viewpoint, the work seeks to make famiar to English reading people the status of those of French-Canadian birth or parentage in the professions, business, religious and social affairs of our State
D-Brane Dynamics and NS5 Rings
We consider the classical motion of a probe D-brane moving in the background
geometry of a ring of NS5 branes, assuming that the latter are non-dynamical.
We analyse the solutions to the Dirac-Born-Infield (DBI) action governing the
approximate dynamics of the system. In the near horizon (throat) approximation
we find several exact solutions for the probe brane motion. These are compared
to numerical solutions obtained in more general cases. One solution of
particular interest is when the probe undergoes oscillatory motion through the
centre of the ring (and perpendicular to it). By taking the ring radius
sufficiently large, this solution should remain stable to any stringy
corrections coming from open-strings stretching between the probe and the
NS5-branes along the ring.Comment: 17 pages, Latex, 8 figures; References adde
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