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Coordination of Care by Primary Care Practices: Strategies, Lessons and Implications
Documents successful strategies for coordinating care within primary care settings, including family and caregivers; with specialists; with hospital settings; and with community-based services. Discusses challenges, lessons learned, and implications
New Poll: Adults Working With Youths Say Minority Children Face More Obstacles to Health and Success than White Counterparts
Minority children and teenagers have fewer opportunities than white counterparts to be healthy, obtain a quality education and achieve economic success, according to aĀ national surveyĀ of adults whose jobs involve children's education, health and economic well-being. The groundbreaking poll was released by the independent W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which sought to gauge the level of disparities affecting children of color
Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the reasons for non-use of Cornell University's installation of DSpace
This article reports on a three-part evaluative study of institutional repositories. We describe the contents and participation in Cornell's DSpace and compare these results with seven university DSpace installations. Through in-depth interviews with eleven faculty members in the sciences, social sciences and humanities, we explore their attitudes, motivations, and behaviors for non-participation in institutional repositories
Relaxation dynamics of the Lieb-Liniger gas following an interaction quench: A coordinate Bethe-ansatz analysis
We investigate the relaxation dynamics of the integrable Lieb-Liniger model
of contact-interacting bosons in one dimension following a sudden quench of the
collisional interaction strength. The system is initially prepared in its
noninteracting ground state and the interaction strength is then abruptly
switched to a positive value, corresponding to repulsive interactions between
the bosons. We calculate equal-time correlation functions of the nonequilibrium
Bose field for small systems of up to five particles via symbolic evaluation of
coordinate Bethe-ansatz expressions for operator matrix elements between
Lieb-Liniger eigenstates. We characterize the relaxation of the system by
comparing the time-evolving correlation functions following the quench to the
equilibrium correlations predicted by the diagonal ensemble and relate the
behavior of these correlations to that of the quantum fidelity between the
many-body wave function and the initial state of the system. Our results for
the asymptotic scaling of local second-order correlations with increasing
interaction strength agree with the predictions of recent generalized
thermodynamic Bethe-ansatz calculations. By contrast, third-order correlations
obtained within our approach exhibit a markedly different power-law dependence
on the interaction strength as the Tonks-Girardeau limit of infinitely strong
interactions is approached.Comment: 19 pages, 10 figures. v3: Final version. Typos fixed, and other minor
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High-throughput sequencing reveals suppressors of Vibrio cholerae rpoE mutations: one fewer porin is enough
Analyses of suppressor mutations have been extremely valuable in understanding gene function. However, techniques for mapping suppressor mutations are not available for most bacterial species. Here, we used high-throughput sequencing technology to identify spontaneously arising suppressor mutations that enabled disruption of rpoE (which encodes ĻE) in Vibrio cholerae, the agent of cholera. The alternative sigma factor ĻE, which is activated by envelope stress, promotes expression of factors that help preserve and/or restore cell envelope integrity. In Escherichia coli, rpoE is an essential gene that can only be disrupted in the presence of additional suppressor mutations. Among a panel of independent V. cholerae rpoE mutants, more than 75% contain suppressor mutations that reduce production of OmpU, V. choleraeās principal outer membrane porin. OmpU appears to be a key determinant of V. choleraeās requirement for and production of ĻE. Such dependence upon a single factor contrasts markedly with regulation of ĻE in E. coli, in which numerous factors contribute to its activation and none is dominant. We also identified a suppressor mutation that differs from all previously described suppressors in that it elevates, rather than reduces, ĻEās activity. Finally, analyses of a panel of rpoE mutants shed light on the mechanisms by which suppressor mutations may arise in V. cholerae
Geodesic geometry of 2+1-D Dirac materials subject to artificial, quenched gravitational singularities
The spatial modulation of the Fermi velocity for gapless Dirac electrons in
quantum materials is mathematically equivalent to the problem of massless
fermions on a certain class of curved spacetime manifolds. We study null
geodesic lensing through these manifolds, which are dominated by curvature
singularities, such as nematic singularity walls (where the Dirac cone flattens
along one direction). Null geodesics lens across these walls, but do so by
perfectly collimating to a local transit angle. Nevertheless, nematic walls can
trap null geodesics into stable or metastable orbits characterized by repeated
transits. We speculate about the role of induced one-dimensionality for such
bound orbits in 2D dirty d-wave superconductivity.Comment: 36 pages, 16 figure
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