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Phenomenology of a lepton triplet
The most general phenomenological model involving a lepton triplet with
hypercharge is constructed. A distinctive feature of this model is the
prediction of a doubly charged lepton, and a new heavy Dirac neutrino. We study
the phenomenology of these exotic leptons in both low-energy experiments and at
the LHC. The model predicts FCNC processes such as rare muon decays, which are
studied in detail in order to constrain the model parameters. All the decay
channels of the exotic leptons are described for a wide range of parameters. It
is found that, if the mixing parameters between the exotic and light leptons
are not too small (), then they can be observable to a
statistical significance at the 7 TeV LHC with 10-50 fb luminosity for a
400 GeV mass, and 14 TeV with 100-300 fb luminosity for a 800 GeV mass.Comment: 28 pages, 17 figures. Version to appear in PR
Prevalence and predictors of inadequate patient medication knowledge
© 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Objectives: To assess medication knowledge in adult patients and to explore its determinants. Method: Cross-sectional study. Medication knowledge was the primary outcome and was assessed using a previously validated questionnaire. A multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to explore the association between medication knowledge and the factors included in the model. Results: Seven thousand two hundred seventy-eight patients participated in the study. 71.9% (n = 5234) (95% CI: 70.9%–73.0%) of the surveyed patients had an inadequate knowledge of the medication they were taking. The dimensions obtaining the highest level of knowledge were the ‘medication use process’ and ‘therapeutic objective of medication’. The items ‘frequency’ (75.4%), ‘dosage’ (74.5%) and ‘indication’ (70.5%) had the highest percentage of knowledge. Conversely, ‘medication safety’ represented the dimension with the lowest scores, ranging from 12.6% in the item “contraindications” to 15.3% in the item ‘side effects’. The odds ratio (OR) of having an inadequate medication knowledge increased for unskilled workers (OR: 1.33; 85% CI:1.00–1.78; P = 0.050), caregivers (OR:1.46; 95% CI:1.18–1.81; P < 0.001), patients using more than one medication (OR: 1.14; 95% CI: 1.00–1.31; P = 0.050) and patients who did not know the name of the medication they were taking (OR: 2.14, 95% CI: 1.71–2.68 P < 0.001). Conclusion: Nearly three quarters of the analysed patients had inadequate knowledge regarding the medicines they were taking. Unskilled workers and caregivers were at a higher risk of lacking of medication knowledge. Other factors that correlated with inadequate medication knowledge were the use of more than one drug and not knowing the name of the medication dispensed
Resonance expansions in quantum mechanics
The goal of this contribution is to discuss various resonance expansions that
have been proposed in the literature.Comment: 10 pages and 1 figure; presented at the Istanbul workshop on
pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian
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