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A perturbative determination of the parameters of an anisotropic quark action
The parameters of a 3+1 anisotropic quark action with Symanzik-improved glue
are determined at 1-loop in perturbation theory.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures. Talk presented at Lattice2004(improved),
Fermilab, June 21-26, 200
Four-momentum boosted Fermion fields
A formulation of the fermion action is discussed which includes an explicit
four momentum boost on the field prior to discretisation. This is used to shift
the zero of lattice momentum to lie near one of the on-shell quark poles. The
positive pole is selected if we wish to describe a valence quark, and negative
pole for a valence anti-quark. Like NRQCD, the typical lattice momenta involved
in hadronic correlation functions can be kept small: of order , rather than even when describing heavy quarks. If we expand
around the particle pole, the anti-particle correlator will be poorly described
for large . However, in that case the anti-particle will be far off
shell and will only affect unphysical, renormalization factors. The formulation
produces the correct continuum limit, and preliminary results have been
obtained (for an unimproved action) of both the one-loop self energy and a
non-perturbative correlation function.Comment: Talk presented at Lattice2003(heavy). 3 pages, 1 figur
Charmonium Spectrum on dynamical anisotropic lattices
We present a first study of the charmonium spectrum on N_f=2 dynamical,
anisotropic lattices. We take advantage of all-to-all quark propagators to
build spatially extended interpolating operators to increase the overlap with
states not easily accessible with point propagators such as radially excited
states of eta_c, psi, and chi_c, D-waves and hybrid states.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, Lattice 2005 Conferenc
The clinical and financial implications of a decade of prostate biopsies in the NHS : analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics data 2008â2019
© 2020 Wiley. This is the accepted version of the following article: Tamhankar, A.S., ElâTaji, O., Vasdev, N., Foley, C., Popert, R. and Adshead, J. (2020), "The clinical and financial implications of a decade of prostate biopsies in the NHS: analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data 2008â2019". BJU Int., which has been published in final form at https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bju.15062.Objective: To evaluate the clinical and financial implications of a decade of prostate biopsies performed in the UK National Health Service (NHS) through the transrectal (TR) vs the transperineal (TP) route. Methods: We conducted an evaluation of the TR vs the TP biopsy approach in the context of 28 days post-procedure complications and readmissions. A secondary evaluation of burden of expenditure in NHS hospitals over the entire decade (2008â2019) was conducted through examination of national Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data. Results: In this dataset of 486 467 prostate biopsies (387 879 TR and 98 588 TP biopsies), rates of infection and sepsis were higher for the TR compared to the TP cohort (0.53% vs 0.31%; P < 0.001, confidence interval 99%). Rates of sepsis have more than doubled for TR biopsies in the last 2 years compared to the previous decade (1.12% vs 0.53%). Infective complications were the main reasons for readmissions in the TR cohort, whereas urinary retention was the predominant reason for readmission in the TP cohort. Over the last decade, non-elective (NEL) readmissions seem higher for the TP group; however, in the last 2 years these have reduced compared to the TR group (3.54% vs 3.74%). The cost estimates for NEL readmissions for the entire decade were ÂŁ33,589,527.00 and ÂŁ7,179,926.00 respectively, for TR and TP cohorts (P < 0.001). Estimated costs per patient readmission were ÂŁ2,225.00 and ÂŁ1,758.00 in the TR and TP groups (P < 0.001). Conclusions: Evaluation of nearly half a million prostate biopsies in the NHS over the entire decade gives sufficient evidence for the distinct advantages of the TP route over the TR route in terms of reduced infections and burden of expenditure. In addition, there is a potential for savings both in upstream and downstream costs if biopsy is performed under a local anaesthetic.Peer reviewe
Status of Lattice Flavor Physics
This talk reviews recent lattice QCD calculations relevant for quark flavor
physics. Since lattice results must be accurate and precise to play a
definitive role in phenomenology, the focus is on unquenched results of
quantities which can be calculated most reliably.Comment: Invited talk delivered at Lattice2004(plenary), Fermilab, June 21-26,
2004. 10 pages. v2: Corrected caption to Figure 4, updated reference
Status of heavy quark physics from the lattice
In this short review, I present a summary of various methods used to simulate
heavy quarks on the lattice. I mainly focus on effectives theories, and give
some physical results.Comment: Talk given at QCD06, Montpellier July 06, 6 pages, 2 figures,
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Perception and management of fever in infants up to six months of age: A survey of US pediatricans
Size and shape constancy in consumer virtual reality
With the increase in popularity of consumer virtual reality headsets, for research and other applications, it is important to understand the accuracy of 3D perception in VR. We investigated the perceptual accuracy of near-field virtual distances using a size and shape constancy task, in two commercially available devices. Participants wore either the HTC Vive or the Oculus Rift and adjusted the size of a virtual stimulus to match the geometric qualities (size and depth) of a physical stimulus they were able to refer to haptically. The judgments participants made allowed for an indirect measure of their perception of the egocentric, virtual distance to the stimuli. The data show under-constancy and are consistent with research from carefully calibrated psychophysical techniques. There was no difference in the degree of constancy found in the two headsets. We conclude that consumer virtual reality headsets provide a sufficiently high degree of accuracy in distance perception, to allow them to be used confidently in future experimental vision science, and other research applications in psychology
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