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Abelian Decomposition and Weyl Symmetric Effective Action of SU(3) QCD
We show how to calculate the effective potential of SU(3) QCD which tells
that the true minimum is given by the monopole condensation. To do this we make
the gauge independent Weyl symmetric Abelian decomposition of the SU(3) QCD
which decomposes the gluons to the color neutral neurons and the colored
chromons. In the perturbative regime this decomposes the Feynman diagram in
such a way that the conservation of color is explicit. Moreover, this shows the
existence of two gluon jets, the neuron jet and chromon jet, which can be
verified by experiment. In the non-perturbative regime, the decomposition puts
QCD to the background field formalism and reduces the non-Abelian gauge
symmetry to a discrete color reflection symmetry, and provides us an ideal
platform to calculate the one-loop effective action of QCD. Integrating out the
chromons from the Weyl symmetric Abelian decomposition of QCD gauge invariantly
imposing the color reflection invariance, we obtain the SU(3) QCD effective
potential which generates the stable monopole condensation and the mass gap. We
discuss the physical implications of our result, in particular the possible
existence of the vacuum fluctuation mode of the monopole condensation in QCD.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1606.0237
Awareness, interest, and preferences of primary care providers in using point-of-care cancer screening technology
Well-developed point-of-care (POC) cancer screening tools have the potential to provide better cancer care to patients in both developed and developing countries. However, new medical technology will not be adopted by medical providers unless it addresses a population’s existing needs and end-users’ preferences. The goals of our study were to assess primary care providers’ level of awareness, interest, and preferences in using POC cancer screening technology in their practice and to provide guidelines to biomedical engineers for future POC technology development. A total of 350 primary care providers completed a one-time self-administered online survey, which took approximately 10 minutes to complete. A $50 Amazon gift card was given as an honorarium for the first 100 respondents to encourage participation. The description of POC cancer screening technology was provided in the beginning of the survey to ensure all participants had a basic understanding of what constitutes POC technology. More than half of the participants (57%) stated that they heard of the term “POC technology” for the first time when they took the survey. However, almost all of the participants (97%) stated they were either “very interested” (68%) or “somewhat interested” (29%) in using POC cancer screening technology in their practice. Demographic characteristics such as the length of being in the practice of medicine, the percentage of patients on Medicaid, and the average number of patients per day were not shown to be associated with the level of interest in using POC. These data show that there is a great interest in POC cancer screening technology utilization among this population of primary care providers and vast room for future investigations to further understand the interest and preferences in using POC cancer technology in practice. Ensuring that the benefits of new technology outweigh the costs will maximize the likelihood it will be used by medical providers and patients
Implementing scrambling in Korean : a principles and parameters approach
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 57).by Franklin S. Cho.M.Eng
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