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Insulin resistance and HCV virologic response to peg-interferons (Peg-IFN) with ribavirin (RBV) in HIV/HCV co-infected patients
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Analysis of the effect of geometrical and operational parameters on solute transport in hollow fiber dialyzers with a two-dimensional transport model
Effective gluon mass and infrared fixed point in QCD
We report on a special type of solutions for the gluon propagator of pure
QCD, obtained from the corresponding non-linear Schwinger-Dyson equation
formulated in the Feynman gauge of the background field method. These solutions
reach a finite value in the deep infrared and may be fitted using a massive
propagator, with the crucial characteristic that the effective ``mass''
employed depends on the momentum transfer. Specifically, the gluon mass falls
off as the inverse square of the momentum, as expected from the
operator-product expansion. In addition, one may define a dimensionless
quantity, which constitutes the generalization in a non-Abelian context of the
universal QED effective charge. This strong effective charge displays
asymptotic freedom in the ultraviolet whereas in the low-energy regime it
freezes at a finite value, giving rise to an infrared fixed point for QCD.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, Talk given at QCD@work 2007, Martina Franca,
Italy, 16-20 June 200
Secondary Baryon Asymmetry in pi(+-)p Collisions
The process of secondary baryon production in pi(+-)p collisions at high
energies in the central and forward fragmentation regions is considered in the
framework of the Quark-Gluon String Model. The contribution of the
string-junction mechanism to the baryon production is analysed. The results of
numerical calculations are in reasonable agreement with the experimental data
on the Lambda/bar(Lambda) and p/bar(p)$ asymmetries.Comment: Contribution to the Proceedings of QCD@Work 2007, International
Workshop on Quantum Chromodynamics, Theory and Experiment, Martina
Franca-Valle d'Itria, Italy, June 16-20, 2007 (6 pages and 4 figures
Quantificação da microbiota de diferentes profundidades de um solo situado em uma área de transição entre Cerrado e Mata Atlântica em Sete Lagoas-MG.
Efficacy and toxicity of bevacizumab in recurrent ovarian disease: an update meta-analysis on phase III trials
Background: To analyze the efficacy and toxicity of bevacizumab on survival outcomes in recurrent ovarian cancer.
Results: Bevacizumab was associated with significant improvement of PFS and OS compared with standard treatment with HRs of 0.53 (95% CI 0.44 - 0.63; p < 0.00001) and 0.87 (95% CI, 0.77 to 0.99; p = 0.03), respectively.
Bevacizumab increased the incidence of G3/G4 hypertension (RR 19.01, 95% CI 7.77 - 46.55; p < 0.00001), proteinuria (RR 17.31, 95% CI 5.42 - 55.25; p < 0.00001), arterial thromboembolic events (ATE) (RR 4.99, 95% CI 1.29 - 19.27; p = 0.02) and bleeding (RR 3.14, 95% CI 1.35 - 7.32; p = 0.008).
Materials and Methods: Three randomized phase III trials representing 1502 patients were identified.
Pooled hazard ratio (HR), odd ratio (OR), risk ratio (RR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated using fixed or random effects model.
Conclusions: Adding bevacizumab to standard chemotherapy improved ORR, PFS and OS, and it had a higher, but manageable, incidence of toxicities graded 3 to 4
The Missing Matter Problem: From the Dark Matter Search to Alternative Hypotheses
Dark matter is among the most important open problems in both astrophysics
and particle physics. We review the status of art of dark matter search at
theoretical and experimental level discussing also alternative hypotheses
Spin precession in the Schwarzschild spacetime: circular orbits
We study the behavior of nonzero rest mass spinning test particles moving
along circular orbits in the Schwarzschild spacetime in the case in which the
components of the spin tensor are allowed to vary along the orbit, generalizing
some previous work.Comment: To appear on Classical and Quantum Gravity, 200
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