321 research outputs found
Information system for monitoring, estimates and forecastes the main vital parameters of neonatal status
Certain categories of people, as well as newborn babies require constant monitoring signs of their life in hospitals or at home. The most common reason for this observation - apnea. Apnea - a condition accompanied by a lack of respiratory movements for more than 20 seconds. Caused by various factors such as the depletion of blood carbon dioxide caused by excessive ventilation, diseases such as bronchial asthma, various pulmonary diseases, snoring. This observation is particularly relevant for their newborn children. In the light of these provisions, the relevance of this work is evident and the need to address the information system for monitoring vital parameters, estimates and forecasts status of newborns as the problems of the complex. In order to observe these main basic parameters of life, we need a punctual device, which helps monitor newborns, on the one hand and, on the other hand to obtain a correct solution with respect to time in an emergency without the need for specialist or doctor. An artificial intelligence tool, which depends on machine learning, is the best modern method for this kind of information system
A cluster version of the GGT sum rule
We discuss the derivation of a ``cluster sum rule'' from the
Gellmann-Goldberger-Thirring (GGT) sum rule as an alternative to the
Thomas-Reiche-Kuhn (TRK) sum rule, which was used as the basis up to now. We
compare differences in the assumptions and approximations. Some applications of
the sum rule for halo nuclei, as well as, nuclei with a pronounced cluster
structure are discussed.Comment: 14 pages, to be published in Nucl. Phys.
Centerscope
Centerscope, formerly Scope, was published by the Boston University Medical Center "to communicate the concern of the Medical Center for the development and maintenance of improved health care in contemporary society.
Galaxy Assembly Bias on the Red Sequence
Using samples drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we study the
relationship between local galaxy density and the properties of galaxies on the
red sequence. After removing the mean dependence of average overdensity (or
"environment") on color and luminosity, we find that there remains a strong
residual trend between luminosity-weighted mean stellar age and environment,
such that galaxies with older stellar populations favor regions of higher
overdensity relative to galaxies of like color and luminosity (and hence of
like stellar mass). Even when excluding galaxies with recent star-formation
activity (i.e., younger mean stellar ages) from the sample, we still find a
highly significant correlation between stellar age and environment at fixed
stellar mass. This residual age-density relation provides direct evidence for
an assembly bias on the red sequence such that galaxies in higher-density
regions formed earlier than galaxies of similar mass in lower-density
environments. We discuss these results in the context of the age-metallicity
degeneracy and in comparison to previous studies at low and intermediate
redshift. Finally, we consider the potential role of assembly bias in
explaining recent results regarding the evolution of post-starburst (or
post-quenching) galaxies and the environmental dependence of the type Ia
supernova rate.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRA
Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics
The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that many authors trace back to
the traditional works of Fourier (1824), Tyndall (1861), and Arrhenius (1896),
and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a
fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump
driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively
equilibrated to the atmospheric system. According to the second law of
thermodynamics such a planetary machine can never exist. Nevertheless, in
almost all texts of global climatology and in a widespread secondary literature
it is taken for granted that such mechanism is real and stands on a firm
scientific foundation. In this paper the popular conjecture is analyzed and the
underlying physical principles are clarified. By showing that (a) there are no
common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the
fictitious atmospheric greenhouse effects, (b) there are no calculations to
determine an average surface temperature of a planet, (c) the frequently
mentioned difference of 33 degrees Celsius is a meaningless number calculated
wrongly, (d) the formulas of cavity radiation are used inappropriately, (e) the
assumption of a radiative balance is unphysical, (f) thermal conductivity and
friction must not be set to zero, the atmospheric greenhouse conjecture is
falsified.Comment: 115 pages, 32 figures, 13 tables (some typos corrected
A mass spectrometry guided approach for the identification of novel vaccine candidates in gram-negative pathogens
Vaccination is the most effective method to prevent infectious diseases. However, approaches to identify novel vaccine candidates are commonly laborious and protracted. While surface proteins are suitable vaccine candidates and can elicit antibacterial antibody responses, systematic approaches to define surfomes from gram-negatives have rarely been successful. Here we developed a combined discovery-driven mass spectrometry and computational strategy to identify bacterial vaccine candidates and validate their immunogenicity using a highly prevalent gram-negative pathogen, Helicobacter pylori, as a model organism. We efficiently isolated surface antigens by enzymatic cleavage, with a design of experiment based strategy to experimentally dissect cell surface-exposed from cytosolic proteins. From a total of 1,153 quantified bacterial proteins, we thereby identified 72 surface exposed antigens and further prioritized candidates by computational homology inference within and across species. We next tested candidate-specific immune responses. All candidates were recognized in sera from infected patients, and readily induced antibody responses after vaccination of mice. The candidate jhp_0775 induced specific B and T cell responses and significantly reduced colonization levels in mouse therapeutic vaccination studies. In infected humans, we further show that jhp_0775 is immunogenic and activates IFN gamma secretion from peripheral CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells. Our strategy provides a generic preclinical screening, selection and validation process for novel vaccine candidates against gram-negative bacteria, which could be employed to other gram-negative pathogens
Weak Decays Beyond Leading Logarithms
We review the present status of QCD corrections to weak decays beyond the
leading logarithmic approximation including particle-antiparticle mixing and
rare and CP violating decays. After presenting the basic formalism for these
calculations we discuss in detail the effective hamiltonians for all decays for
which the next-to-leading corrections are known. Subsequently, we present the
phenomenological implications of these calculations. In particular we update
the values of various parameters and we incorporate new information on m_t in
view of the recent top quark discovery. One of the central issues in our review
are the theoretical uncertainties related to renormalization scale ambiguities
which are substantially reduced by including next-to-leading order corrections.
The impact of this theoretical improvement on the determination of the
Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix is then illustrated in various cases.Comment: 229 pages, 32 PostScript figures (included); uses RevTeX, epsf.sty,
rotate.sty, rmpbib.sty (included), times.sty (included; requires LaTeX 2e);
complete PostScript version available at
ftp://feynman.t30.physik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/preprints/tum-100-95.ps.gz or
ftp://feynman.t30.physik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/preprints/tum-100-95.ps2.gz
(scaled down and rotated version to print two pages on one sheet of paper
Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134
The first science run of the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors
presented the opportunity to test methods of searching for gravitational waves
from known pulsars. Here we present new direct upper limits on the strength of
waves from the pulsar PSR J1939+2134 using two independent analysis methods,
one in the frequency domain using frequentist statistics and one in the time
domain using Bayesian inference. Both methods show that the strain amplitude at
Earth from this pulsar is less than a few times .Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the Proceedings of the 5th Edoardo
Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, Tirrenia, Pisa, Italy, 6-11 July
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