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Cardiac Modelling Techniques to Predict Future Heart Function and New Biomarkers in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Fundamental to treatment planning for patients that have suffered myocardial infarction are predictive biomarkers and risk factors. Important among these in terms of a patient’s treatment plan or prognosis are the contractility of the damaged myofibers, final infarct volume, and poor infarct healing rate. Proposed and developed in this thesis are techniques to predict these biomarkers and risk factors using cardiac biomechanical modelling. One of the developed techniques was a CT compatible shape optimization technique which can predict the contraction force of healthy, and stunned myofibers within 6.3% and the distribution of potentially necrotic myofibers within 10% accuracy. The second study involved development of infarct healing network proposed to reduce the complexity of modeling hearts with myocardial infarction while also staging the healing rate and measure collagen concentration in the infarct region reasonably accurately. Finally, an evaluation of how best to measure cardiac output by indicator dilution theory was executed
Microscopic description of the surface dipole plasmon in large Na_N clusters (950 < N < 12050)
Fully microscopic RPA/LDA calculations of the dipole plasmon for very large
neutral and charged sodium clusters, Na_N^Z+, in the size range 950
< N < 12050 are presented for the first time. 60 different sizes are
considered altogether, which allows for an in-depth investigation of the
asymptotic behavior of both the width and the position of the plasmon.Comment: Latex/Revtex, 4 pages with 4 Postscript figures, accepted for
publication in Physical Review
Apparent oxygen utilization rates calculated from tritium and helium-3 profiles at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site
© The Author(s), 2012. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Biogeosciences 9 (2012): 1969-1983, doi:10.5194/bg-9-1969-2012.We present three years of Apparent Oxygen Utilization Rates (AOUR) estimated from oxygen and tracer data collected over the ocean thermocline at monthly resolution between 2003 and 2006 at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site. We estimate water ages by calculating a transit time distribution from tritium and helium-3 data. The vertically integrated AOUR over the upper 500 m, which is a regional estimate of export, during the three years is 3.1 ± 0.5 mol O2 m−2 yr−1. This is comparable to previous AOUR-based estimates of export production at the BATS site but is several times larger than export estimates derived from sediment traps or 234Th fluxes. We compare AOUR determined in this study to AOUR measured in the 1980s and show AOUR is significantly greater today than decades earlier because of changes in AOU, rather than changes in ventilation rates. The changes in AOU are likely a methodological artefact associated with problems with early oxygen measurements.Support from this work came from the National Science
Foundation (OCE-0221247, OCE-0623034, and OCE-1029676)
and from the WHOI Penzance Endowed Fund in Support of
Assistant Scientists
Anomalous Exponent of the Spin Correlation Function of a Quantum Hall Edge
The charge and spin correlation functions of partially spin-polarized edge
electrons of a quantum Hall bar are studied using effective Hamiltonian and
bosonization techniques. In the presence of the Coulomb interaction between the
edges with opposite chirality we find a different crossover behavior in spin
and charge correlation functions. The crossover of the spin correlation
function in the Coulomb dominated regime is characterized by an anomalous
exponent, which originates from the finite value of the effective interaction
for the spin degree of freedom in the long wavelength limit. The anomalous
exponent may be determined by measuring nuclear spin relaxation rates in a
narrow quantum Hall bar or in a quantum wire in strong magnetic fields.Comment: 4 pages, Revtex file, no figures. To appear in Physical Revews B,
Rapid communication
Charge and current oscillations in Fractional quantum Hall systems with edges
Stationary solutions of the Chern-Simons effective field theory for the
fractional quantum Hall systems with edges are presented for Hall bar, disk and
annulus. In the infinitely long Hall bar geometry (non compact case), the
charge density is shown to be monotonic inside the sample. In sharp contrast,
spatial oscillatory modes of charge density are found for the two circular
geometries, which indicate that in systems with compact geometry, charge and
current exist also far from the edges.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures Revte
Anomalous tunneling conductances of a spin singlet \nu=2/3 edge states: Interplay of Zeeman splitting and Long Range Coulomb Interaction
The point contact tunneling conductance between edges of the spin singlet
quantum Hall states is studied both in the
quasiparticle tunneling picture and in the electron tunneling picture. Due to
the interplay of Zeeman splitting and the long range Coulomb interaction
between edges of opposite chirality novel spin excitations emerge, and their
effect is characterized by anomalous exponents of the charge and spin tunneling
conductances in various temperature ranges. Depending on the kinds of
scatterings at the point contact and the tunneling mechanism the anomalous
interaction in spin sector may enhance or suppress the tunneling conductances.
The effects of novel spin excitation are also relevant to the recent NMR
experiments on quantum Hall edges.Comment: Revtex File, 7 pages: To be published in Physical Reviews
Effect of isospin dependent cross-section on fragment production in the collision of charge asymmetric nuclei
To understand the role of isospin effects on fragmentation due to the
collisions of charge asymmetric nuclei, we have performed a complete
systematical study using isospin dependent quantum molecular dynamics model.
Here simulations have been carried out for , where n
varies from 47 to 59 and for , where m varies from 14
to 23. Our study shows that isospin dependent cross-section shows its influence
on fragmentation in the collision of neutron rich nuclei
Sharp and Smooth Boundaries of Quantum Hall Liquids
We study the transition between sharp and smooth density distributions at the
edges of Quantum Hall Liquids in the presence of interactions. We find that,
for strong confining potentials, the edge of a liquid is described by
the Fermi Liquid theory, even in the presence of interactions, a
consequence of the chiral nature of the system. When the edge confining
potential is decreased beyond a point, the edge undergoes a reconstruction and
electrons start to deposit a distance magnetic lengths away from the
initial QH Liquid. Within the Hartree-Fock approximation, a new pair of
branches of gapless edge excitations is generated after the transition. We show
that the transition is controlled by the balance between a long-ranged
repulsive Hartree term and a short-ranged attractive exchange term. Such
transition also occurs for Quantum Dots in the Quantum Hall Regime, and should
be observable in resonant tunneling experiments. Electron tunneling into the
reconstructed edge is also discussed.Comment: 28 pages, REVTeX 3.0, 18 figures available upon request,
cond-mat/yymmnn
Supercurrent through a single transverse mode in nanowire Josephson junctions
Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor materials are fueling research in
mesoscopic physics and quantum technology. Recently demonstrated smooth
-Sn superconductor shells, due to the increased induced gap, are
expanding the available parameter space to new regimes. Fabricated on
quasiballistic InSb nanowires, with careful control over the hybrid interface,
Sn shells yield critical current-normal resistance products exceeding
temperature by at least an order of magnitude even when nanowire resistance is
of order 10k. In this regime Cooper pairs travel through a purely 1D
quantum wire for at least part of their trajectory. Here, we focus on the
evolution of supercurrent in magnetic field parallel to the nanowire. Long
decay up to fields of 1T is observed. At the same time, the decay for higher
occupied subbands is notably faster in some devices but not in others. We
analyze this using a tight-binding numerical model that includes the Zeeman,
orbital and spin-orbit effects. When the first subband is spin polarized, we
observe a dramatic suppression of supercurrent, which is also confirmed by the
model and suggests an absence of significant triplet supercurrent generation
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