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Simulation of haemodynamic flow in head and neck cancer chemotherapy
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In recent years, intra arterial chemotherapy has become an important component in head and neck cancer treatment. However, therapy success can vary significantly and consistent treatment guidelines are missing. The purpose of this study was to create a computer simulation of the chemical agent injection in the head and neck arteries to investigate the distribution and concentration of the chemical.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Realistic three dimensional patient specific geometry was created from image scan data. Pulsatile blood flow, turbulence, the chemical agent injection via a catheter, and the mixture between blood and the chemical were then simulated through the arterial network by computational fluid dynamics software.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The results show a consistent chemical distribution throughout all the arteries and this is ineffective. In addition, due to high wall shear stress and turbulence at the inner bifurcation wall, serious complications during the treatment could occur, for instance haemolysis or thrombosis.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The modelled catheter position is insufficient to provide a high chemical agent concentration in the desired tumour feeding artery, which is vital for therapy success.</p
Automatic structures for semigroup constructions
We survey results concerning automatic structures for semigroup
constructions, providing references and describing the corresponding automatic
structures. The constructions we consider are: free products, direct products,
Rees matrix semigroups, Bruck-Reilly extensions and wreath products.Comment: 22 page
Q Fever Update, Maritime Canada
Since the 1990s, reports of Q fever in Nova Scotia, Canada, have declined. Passive surveillance for Q fever in Nova Scotia and its neighboring provinces in eastern Canada indicates that the clinical manifestation of Q fever in the Maritime provinces is pneumonia and that incidence of the disease may fluctuate
Prevalence and Correlates of Smoking Status among Patients with Depression in VA Primary Care
The author presented findings from a study that aimed to determine the prevalence of smoking among Veterans with major depression in primary care and to identify demographic, psychiatric, psychosocial, and health care use correlates of smoking status
Self-control in decision-making involves modulation of the vmPFC valuation system
Every day, individuals make dozens of choices between an alternative with higher overall value and a more tempting but ultimately inferior option. Optimal decision-making requires self-control. We propose two hypotheses about the neurobiology of self-control: (i) Goal-directed decisions have their basis in a common value signal encoded in ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), and (ii) exercising self-control involves the modulation of this value signal by dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to monitor brain activity while dieters engaged in real decisions about food consumption. Activity in vmPFC was correlated with goal values regardless of the amount of self-control. It incorporated both taste and health in self-controllers but only taste in non–self-controllers. Activity in DLPFC increased when subjects exercised self-control and correlated with activity in vmPFC
T-Violation in Decay And Supersymmetry
Measurement of the transverse muon polarization in the decay will be attempted for the first time at the
ongoing KEK E246 experiment and also at a proposed BNL experiment. We provide a
general analysis of how is sensitive to the physical
-violating phases in new physics induced four-Fermi interactions, and then
we calculate the dominant contributions to from squark family
mixings in generic supersymmetric models. Estimates of the upper bounds on
are also given. It is found that a supersymmetry-induced
right-handed quark current from boson exchange gives an upper limit on
as large as a few per cent, whereas with
charged-Higgs-exchange induced pseudoscalar interaction, is no
larger than a few tenths of a per cent. Possible correlations between the muon
polarization measurements in and decays are discussed, and distinctive patterns of
this correlation from squark family-mixings and from the three-Higgs-doublet
model are noted.Comment: Revtex, 29 pages including 4 epsf figure
Detection of a glitch in the pulsar J1709-4429
We report the detection of a glitch event in the pulsar J17094429 (also
known as B170644) during regular monitoring observations with the Molonglo
Observatory Synthesis Telescope (UTMOST). The glitch was found during timing
operations, in which we regularly observe over 400 pulsars with up to daily
cadence, while commensally searching for Rotating Radio Transients, pulsars,
and FRBs. With a fractional size of ,
the glitch reported here is by far the smallest known for this pulsar,
attesting to the efficacy of glitch searches with high cadence using UTMOST.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figur
Adjoint "quarks" on coarse anisotropic lattices: Implications for string breaking in full QCD
A detailed study is made of four dimensional SU(2) gauge theory with static
adjoint ``quarks'' in the context of string breaking. A tadpole-improved action
is used to do simulations on lattices with coarse spatial spacings ,
allowing the static potential to be probed at large separations at a
dramatically reduced computational cost. Highly anisotropic lattices are used,
with fine temporal spacings , in order to assess the behavior of the
time-dependent effective potentials. The lattice spacings are determined from
the potentials for quarks in the fundamental representation. Simulations of the
Wilson loop in the adjoint representation are done, and the energies of
magnetic and electric ``gluelumps'' (adjoint quark-gluon bound states) are
calculated, which set the energy scale for string breaking. Correlators of
gauge-fixed static quark propagators, without a connecting string of spatial
links, are analyzed. Correlation functions of gluelump pairs are also
considered; similar correlators have recently been proposed for observing
string breaking in full QCD and other models. A thorough discussion of the
relevance of Wilson loops over other operators for studies of string breaking
is presented, using the simulation results presented here to support a number
of new arguments.Comment: 22 pages, 14 figure
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