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Clinical Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, Safety and Efficacy of Liposomal Amphotericin B
Item does not contain fulltextSince its introduction in the 1990s, liposomal amphotericin B (LAmB) continues to be an important agent for the treatment of invasive fungal diseases caused by a wide variety of yeasts and molds. This liposomal formulation was developed to improve the tolerability of intravenous amphotericin B, while optimizing its clinical efficacy. Since then, numerous clinical studies have been conducted, collecting a comprehensive body of evidence on its efficacy, safety, and tolerability in the preclinical and clinical setting. Nevertheless, insights into the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of LAmB continue to evolve and can be utilized to develop strategies that optimize efficacy while maintaining the compound's safety. In this article, we review the clinical pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, safety, and efficacy of LAmB in a wide variety of patient populations and in different indications, and provide an assessment of areas with a need for further clinical research
Radiative and Collisional Energy Loss, and Photon-Tagged Jets at RHIC
The suppression of single jets at high transverse momenta in a quark-gluon
plasma is studied at RHIC energies, and the additional information provided by
a photon tag is included. The energy loss of hard jets traversing through the
medium is evaluated in the AMY formalism, by consistently taking into account
the contributions from radiative events and from elastic collisions at leading
order in the coupling. The strongly-interacting medium in these collisions is
modelled with (3+1)-dimensional ideal relativistic hydrodynamics. Putting these
ingredients together with a complete set of photon-production processes, we
present a calculation of the nuclear modification of single jets and
photon-tagged jets at RHIC.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, contributed to the 3rd International Conference
on Hard and Electro-Magnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard
Probes 2008), typos corrected, published versio
The Sphaleron Rate in SU(N) Gauge Theory
The sphaleron rate is defined as the diffusion constant for topological
number NCS = int g^2 F Fdual/32 pi^2. It establishes the rate of equilibration
of axial light quark number in QCD and is of interest both in electroweak
baryogenesis and possibly in heavy ion collisions. We calculate the
weak-coupling behavior of the SU(3) sphaleron rate, as well as making the most
sensible extrapolation towards intermediate coupling which we can. We also
study the behavior of the sphaleron rate at weak coupling at large Nc.Comment: 18 pages with 3 figure
The Differential Effects of Sleep Quality and Quantity on the Relationship between SES and Health
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Electrically Charged Sphalerons
We investigate the possibility that the Higgs sector of the Weinberg-Salam
model admits the existence of electrically charged, sphaleron states. Evidence
is provided through an asymptotic and numerical perturbative analysis about the
uncharged sphaleron. By introducing a toy model in two dimensions we
demonstrate that such electrically charged, unstable states can exist.
Crucially, they can have a comparable mass to their uncharged counterparts and
so may also play a role in electroweak baryogenesis, by opening up new channels
for baryon number violating processes.Comment: 12 pages, 4 Postscript figure
Radiative and Collisional Jet Energy Loss in a Quark-Gluon Plasma
We calculate radiative and collisional energy loss of hard partons traversing
the quark-gluon plasma created at RHIC and compare the respective size of these
contributions. We employ the AMY formalism for radiative energy loss and
include additionally energy loss by elastic collisions. Our treatment of both
processes is complete at leading order in the coupling, and accounts for the
probabilistic nature of jet energy loss. We find that a solution of the
Fokker-Planck equation for the probability density distributions of partons is
necessary for a complete calculation of the nuclear modification factor
for pion production in heavy ion collisions. It is found that the
magnitude of is sensitive to the inclusion of both collisional and
radiative energy loss, while the average energy is less affected by the
addition of collisional contributions. We present a calculation of for
at RHIC, combining our energy loss formalism with a relativistic
(3+1)-dimensional hydrodynamic description of the thermalized medium.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, contributed to Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur, Indi
Strong Approximation of Empirical Copula Processes by Gaussian Processes
We provide the strong approximation of empirical copula processes by a
Gaussian process. In addition we establish a strong approximation of the
smoothed empirical copula processes and a law of iterated logarithm
From lean production to Industrie 4.0: More autonomy for employees?
The article examines the relationship between lean production and Industrie 4.0 focusing on the question of autonomy in the work process. In contrast to the claim made by official Industrie 4.0 concepts that the autonomy of the employees would increase, we see in the current implementation projects a tendency towards greater standardization and control of work. This is in continuity with concepts of lean production, but neglects the participation-oriented elements of lean production such as teamwork and shop-floor-based improvement activities. Our argument is developed by analyzing practical examples from three relevant fields (digital assistance systems, data-based process management, modular assembly). The conclusions of this article also discuss the extent to which the concept of individual autonomy is suitable for the assessment of Industrie 4.0 concepts, given the high levels of interdependence already achieved in production processes
String Equations for the Unitary Matrix Model and the Periodic Flag Manifold
The periodic flag manifold (in the Sato Grassmannian context) description of
the modified Korteweg--de Vries hierarchy is used to analyse the translational
and scaling self--similar solutions of this hierarchy. These solutions are
characterized by the string equations appearing in the double scaling limit of
the symmetric unitary matrix model with boundary terms. The moduli space is a
double covering of the moduli space in the Sato Grassmannian for the
corresponding self--similar solutions of the Korteweg--de Vries hierarchy, i.e.
of stable 2D quantum gravity. The potential modified Korteweg--de Vries
hierarchy, which can be described in terms of a line bundle over the periodic
flag manifold, and its self--similar solutions corresponds to the symmetric
unitary matrix model. Now, the moduli space is in one--to--one correspondence
with a subset of codimension one of the moduli space in the Sato Grassmannian
corresponding to self--similar solutions of the Korteweg--de Vries hierarchy.Comment: 21 pages in LaTeX-AMSTe
Non-Critical Liouville String Escapes Constraints on Generic Models of Quantum Gravity
It has recently been pointed out that generic models of quantum gravity must
contend with severe phenomenological constraints imposed by gravitational
Cerenkov radiation, neutrino oscillations and the cosmic microwave background
radiation. We show how the non-critical Liouville-string model of quantum
gravity we have proposed escapes these constraints. It gives energetic
particles subluminal velocities, obviating the danger of gravitational Cerenkov
radiation. The effect on neutrino propagation is naturally flavour-independent,
obviating any impact on oscillation phenomenology. Deviations from the expected
black-body spectrum and the effects of time delays and stochastic fluctuations
in the propagation of cosmic microwave background photons are negligible, as
are their effects on observable spectral lines from high-redshift astrophysical
objects.Comment: 15 pages LaTeX, 2 eps figures include
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