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Antithrombotic Treatment for Acute Extracranial Carotid Artery Dissections: A Meta-Analysis
IntroductionCarotid artery dissection is a leading cause of stroke in younger patients, with an associated prevalence of 2.6–3.0 per 100,000 population. This meta-analysis aims to determine whether in patients managed medically, treatment with anticoagulants or antiplatelet agents was associated with a better outcome with respect to mortality, ischaemic stroke, and major bleeding episodes.Patients and methodsA comprehensive search strategy was employed of the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE (January 1966 to March 2015), and EMBASE (January 1980 to March 2015) databases. Primary outcomes were death (all causes) or disability. Secondary outcomes were ischaemic stroke, symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage, and major extracranial haemorrhage during the reported follow-up period.ResultsNo completed randomized trials were found. Comparing antiplatelets with anticoagulants across 38 studies (1,398 patients), there were no significant differences in the odds of death (effects size, ES, −0.007, p = .871), nor in the death and disability comparison or across any secondary outcomes.ConclusionThere were no randomised trials comparing either anticoagulants or antiplatelets with control, thus there is no level 1 evidence to support their routine use for the treatment of carotid artery dissection. Also, there were no randomised trials that directly compared anticoagulants with antiplatelet drugs, and the reported non-randomised studies did not show any evidence of a significant difference between the two
Repulsion and attraction in high Tc superconductors
The influence of repulsion and attraction in high-Tc superconductors to the
gap functions is studied. A systematic method is proposed to compute the gap
functions using the irreducible representations of the point group. It is found
that a pure s-wave superconductivity exists only at very low temperatures, and
attractive potentials on the near shells significantly expand the gap functions
and increase significantly the critical temperature of superconductivity. A
strong on-site repulsion drives the gap into a gap. It is
expected that superconductivity with the symmetry reaches a high
critical temperature due to the cooperation of the on-site and the next-nearest
neighbor attractions.Comment: 4 pages, 5figure
Variability and Character Association in F2 Segregating Population of Different Commercial Hybrids of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)
The F2 segregating generations of exotic tomato hybrids were studied to
measure variability, character association and path coefficient
analysis. Analysis of variance for each trait showed significant
differences among the genotypes. Very little differences were observed
between phenotypic coefficients of variation (PCV) and genotypic
coefficients of variation (GCV) for the traits days to first flowering
(pcv=9.21, gcv=7.82), fruit length (pcv=17.14, gcv=14.84) and fruit
diameter (pcv=17.10, gcv=14.92). High heritability (>50%) was
observed for all the yield contributing characters except flowers per
cluster (47.83%). High heritability associated with high genetic
advance was observed for fruit clusters per plant (105.11), fruits per
plant (103.43), branches per plant (34.49), fruits per cluster (47.43),
individual fruit weight (77.73) and fruit yield per plant (108.25).
Selection for such traits might be effective for the fruit yield
improvement of tomato. Significant positive genotypic and phenotypic
correlation was observed between plant height at first flowering,
flowers per plant, fruits per cluster, fruit clusters per plant, fruits
per plant with fruit yield per plant. Fruits per plant showed the
highest positive direct effect (1.096) on fruit yield per plant
followed by individual fruits per plant (0.674). Direct selection may
be executed considering these traits as the main selection criteria to
reduce indirect effect of the other characters during the development
of high yielding tomato variety. @ JASE
Thin accretion disc with a corona in a central magnetic field
We study the steady-state structure of an accretion disc with a corona
surrounding a central, rotating, magnetized star. We assume that the
magneto-rotational instability is the dominant mechanism of angular momentum
transport inside the disc and is responsible for producing magnetic tubes above
the disc. In our model, a fraction of the dissipated energy inside the disc is
transported to the corona via these magnetic tubes. This energy exchange from
the disc to the corona which depends on the disc physical properties is
modified because of the magnetic interaction between the stellar magnetic field
and the accretion disc. According to our fully analytical solutions for such a
system, the existence of a corona not only increases the surface density but
reduces the temperature of the accretion disc. Also, the presence of a corona
enhances the ratio of gas pressure to the total pressure. Our solutions show
that when the strength of the magnetic field of the central neutron star is
large or the star is rotating fast enough, profiles of the physical variables
of the disc significantly modify due to the existence of a corona.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astrophysics & Space Scienc
The role of Hall diffusion in the magnetically threaded thin accretion discs
We study role of the Hall diffusion in the magnetic star-disc interaction. In
a simplified steady state configuration, the total torque is calculated in
terms of the fastness parameter and a new term because of the Hall diffusion.
We show the total torque reduces as the Hall term becomes more significant.
Also, the critical fastness parameter (at which the total torque is zero)
reduces because of the Hall diffusion.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Scienc
Single Atom and Two Atom Ramsey Interferometry with Quantized Fields
Implications of field quantization on Ramsey interferometry are discussed and
general conditions for the occurrence of interference are obtained.
Interferences do not occur if the fields in two Ramsey zones have precise
number of photons. However in this case we show how two atom (like two photon)
interferometry can be used to discern a variety of interference effects as the
two independent Ramsey zones get entangled by the passage of first atom.
Generation of various entangled states like |0,2>+|2,0> are discussed and in
far off resonance case generation of entangled state of two coherent states is
discussed.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures, revised version. submitted to Phys. Rev.
Magnetic flux inversion in Charged BPS vortices in a Lorentz-violating Maxwell-Higgs framework
We demonstrate for the first the existence of electrically charged BPS
vortices in a Maxwell-Higgs model supplemented with a parity-odd
Lorentz-violating (LV) structure belonging to the CPT-even gauge sector of the
standard model extension and a fourth order potential (in the absence of the
Chern-Simons term). The modified first order BPS equations provide charged
vortex configurations endowed with some interesting features: localized and
controllable spatial thickness, integer flux quantization, electric field
inversion and localized magnetic flux reversion. This model could possibly be
applied on condensed matter systems which support charged vortices carrying
integer quantized magnetic flux, endowed with localized flipping of the
magnetic flux.Comment: 6 Latex 2e pages, 5 figures. To appear in Physics Letters
Gibbs' paradox and black-hole entropy
In statistical mechanics Gibbs' paradox is avoided if the particles of a gas
are assumed to be indistinguishable. The resulting entropy then agrees with the
empirically tested thermodynamic entropy up to a term proportional to the
logarithm of the particle number. We discuss here how analogous situations
arise in the statistical foundation of black-hole entropy. Depending on the
underlying approach to quantum gravity, the fundamental objects to be counted
have to be assumed indistinguishable or not in order to arrive at the
Bekenstein--Hawking entropy. We also show that the logarithmic corrections to
this entropy, including their signs, can be understood along the lines of
standard statistical mechanics. We illustrate the general concepts within the
area quantization model of Bekenstein and Mukhanov.Comment: Contribution to Mashhoon festschrift, 13 pages, 4 figure
A Honeycomb Proportional Counter for Photon Multiplicity Measurement in the ALICE Experiment
A honeycomb detector consisting of a matrix of 96 closely packed hexagonal
cells, each working as a proportional counter with a wire readout, was
fabricated and tested at the CERN PS. The cell depth and the radial dimensions
of the cell were small, in the range of 5-10 mm. The appropriate cell design
was arrived at using GARFIELD simulations. Two geometries are described
illustrating the effect of field shaping. The charged particle detection
efficiency and the preshower characteristics have been studied using pion and
electron beams. Average charged particle detection efficiency was found to be
98%, which is almost uniform within the cell volume and also within the array.
The preshower data show that the transverse size of the shower is in close
agreement with the results of simulations for a range of energies and converter
thicknesses.Comment: To be published in NIM
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