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Int J Environ Res Public Health
Few studies have explored temperature-mortality relationships in China, especially at the multi-large city level. This study was based on the data of seven typical, large Chinese cities to examine temperature-mortality relationships and optimum temperature of China. A generalized additive model (GAM) was applied to analyze the acute-effect of temperature on non-accidental mortality, and meta-analysis was used to merge data. Furthermore, the lagged effects of temperature up to 40 days on mortality and optimum temperature were analyzed using the distributed lag non-linear model (DLNM). We found that for all non-accidental mortality, high temperature could significantly increase the excess risk (ER) of death by 0.33% (95% confidence interval: 0.11%, 0.56%) with the temperature increase of 1 \uc2\ub0C. Similar but non-significant ER of death was observed when temperature decreased. The lagged effect of temperature showed that the relative risk of non-accidental mortality was lowest at 21 \uc2\ub0C. Our research suggests that high temperatures are more likely to cause an acute increase in mortality. There was a lagged effect of temperature on mortality, with an optimum temperature of 21 \uc2\ub0C. Our results could provide a theoretical basis for climate-related public health policy.26950139PMC480894
On the screening of the potential between adjoint sources in
We calculate the potential between adjoint sources in pure gauge
theory in three dimensions. We investigate whether the potential saturates at
large separations due to the creation of a pair of gluelumps, colour-singlet
states formed when glue binds to an adjoint source.Comment: 3 pages, uuencoded Z-compressed postscript file, contribution to
Lattice '9
Adjoint bi-continuous semigroups and semigroups on the space of measures
For a given bi-continuous semigroup T on a Banach space X we define its
adjoint on an appropriate closed subspace X^o of the norm dual X'. Under some
abstract conditions this adjoint semigroup is again bi-continuous with respect
to the weak topology (X^o,X). An application is the following: For K a Polish
space we consider operator semigroups on the space C(K) of bounded, continuous
functions (endowed with the compact-open topology) and on the space M(K) of
bounded Baire measures (endowed with the weak*-topology). We show that
bi-continuous semigroups on M(K) are precisely those that are adjoints of a
bi-continuous semigroups on C(K). We also prove that the class of bi-continuous
semigroups on C(K) with respect to the compact-open topology coincides with the
class of equicontinuous semigroups with respect to the strict topology. In
general, if K is not Polish space this is not the case
Trans-nasal endoscopic and intra-oral combined approach for odontogenic cysts
Maxillary cysts are a common finding in maxillofacial surgery, dentistry and otolaryngology. Treatment is surgical; a traditional approach includes Caldwell-Luc and other intra-oral approaches. In this article, we analyse the outcomes of 9 patients operated on using a combined intra-oral and trans-nasal approach to the aforementioned disease. Although the number of patients is small, the good results of this study suggest that the combined approach might be a reliable treatment option
Mirror Inversion of Quantum States in Linear Registers
Transfer of data in linear quantum registers can be significantly simplified
with pre-engineered but not dynamically controlled inter-qubit couplings. We
show how to implement a mirror inversion of the state of the register in each
excitation subspace with respect to the centre of the register. Our
construction is especially appealing as it requires no dynamical control over
individual inter-qubit interactions. If, however, individual control of the
interactions is available then the mirror inversion operation can be performed
on any substring of qubits in the register. In this case a sequence of mirror
inversions can generate any permutation of a quantum state of the involved
qubits.Comment: 4 page
Baryonic Operators for Lattice Simulations
The construction of baryonic operators for determining the N* excitation
spectrum is discussed. The operators are designed with one eye towards
maximizing overlaps with the low-lying states of interest, and the other eye
towards minimizing the number of sources needed in computing the required quark
propagators. Issues related to spin identification are outlined. Although we
focus on tri-quark baryon operators, the construction method is applicable to
both mesons and penta-quark operators.Comment: 3 pages, poster presented at Lattice2003(spectrum), Tsukuba, Japan,
July 15-19, 200
Le sorti del procedimento di prevenzione nel caso di incapacità processuale del soggetto "proposto"
Nel dichiarare infondata la questione di legittimit\ue0 costituzionale sollevata dal Tribunale di Napoli, con la sentenza in commento la Corte costituzionale ha fornito le indicazioni necessarie per ricostruire la disciplina applicabile al procedimento di prevenzione nel caso di incapacit\ue0 del soggtto \u2018proposto\u2019 di parteciparvi coscientemente.
Due sono i pilastri che reggono il ragionamento seguito dal giudice delle leggi: da una parte la diversa rilevanza costituzionale della libert\ue0 personale e del patrimonio (rispettivamente incisi dalla sorveglianza speciale di pubblica sicurezza e dalla confisca); dall\u2019altra la particolare natura del procedimento di prevenzione per l\u2019applicazione di una misura patrimoniale.
Dopo aver ripercorso gli snodi motivazionali dell\u2019arresto, il presente contributo si propone di mettere in luce alcuni spunti di riflessione che si possono trarre dall\u2019incidente di costituzionalit\ue0
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