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PCV39 Interactive Probabilistic Cost Model For Comparison Remote Versus In-Office Monitoring For Cardiac Rhythm Device Patients, In A Specialized Cardiovascular Clinic In Colombia
The Higgs resonance shape in gluon fusion: Heavy Higgs effects
We study the influence of two--loop radiative corrections of enhanced
electroweak strength on Higgs production at the LHC. We consider Higgs
production by the gluon fusion mechanism, with the subsequent decay of the
Higgs boson into a pair of Z bosons, and incorporate the resonance shape
corrections up to order . We take into account the
full process and the
background, as well as the subsequent decay of the Z pair into leptons. We also
discuss the theoretical uncertainty related to the use of the equivalence
theorem in this process
P14 282. Endocarditis protésica. experiencia de 20 años
ObjetivosRevisamos la experiencia de nuestro centro en endocarditis protésica (EP).Material y métodosEntre 1990–2010, se intervienen 62 casos, que representaron el 23% de 276 casos totales de endocarditis y 2,46% de pacientes valvulares (precoces 0,58% con 20 casos, tardías 1,68% con 42 casos). No hubo diferencias en tipo ni localización de las prótesis, ni en incidencia entre las dos décadas (2,59% en 1990–2000 y 2,32% en 2000–2010). Edad media 59 años. Gérmenes: S. viridans 20,9%; S. epidermidis 16,1%; S. aureus 11,6%; C. burnetii 9,6%; enterococos 8%; difteroides 6,4%; hongos 6,4%. En un 8% de los casos se encontraron gérmenes raros aislados, mientras que no se identificó germen en 12,9%. Se intervinieron de forma urgente el 30% de pacientes (19 casos, el 45% de formas precoces y el 23% de formas tardías).ResultadosLa mortalidad precoz fue del 16%, a expensas sobre todo de EP precoz (12%). La supervivencia global a 10 años fue del 50%, con diferencias entre los dos grupos (EP precoz 15%; EP tardía 66%). El 70% de supervivientes se encuentra actualmente en clase funcional I-II/IV.ConclusiónLa EP sigue teniendo una incidencia relativamente elevada en nuestro medio. La EP precoz tiene una mortalidad muy elevada. La cirugía de la EP tardía tiene muy buenos resultados a largo plazo
Effect of Co-Inoculation with Mycorrhiza and Rhizobia on the Nodule Trehalose Content of Different Bean Genotypes
Studies on Rhizobium-legume symbiosis show that trehalose content in nodules under drought stress correlates positively with an increase in plant tolerance to this stress. Fewer reports describe trehalose accumulation in mycorrhiza where, in contrast with rhizobia, there is no flux of carbohydrates from the microsymbiont to the plant. However, the trehalose dynamics in the Mycorrhiza-Rhizobium-Legume tripartite symbiosis is unknown. The present study explores the role of this tripartite symbiosis in the trehalose content of nodules grown under contrasting moisture conditions. Three wild genotypes (P. filiformis, P. acutifolis and P. vulgaris) and two commercial genotypes of Phaseolus vulgaris (Pinto villa and Flor de Mayo) were used. Co-inoculation treatments were conducted with Glomus intraradices and a mixture of seven native rhizobial strains, and trehalose content was determined by GC/MS. The results showed a negative effect of mycorrhizal inoculation on nodule development, as mycorrhized plants showed fewer nodules and lower nodule dry weight compared to plants inoculated only with Rhizobium. Mycorrhizal colonization was also higher in plants inoculated only with Glomus as compared to plants co-inoculated with both microsymbionts. In regard to trehalose, co-inoculation negatively affects its accumulation in the nodules of each genotype tested. However, the correlation analysis showed a significantly positive correlation between mycorrhizal colonization and nodule trehalose content
The BCS-Bose Crossover Theory
We contrast {\it four} distinct versions of the BCS-Bose statistical
crossover theory according to the form assumed for the electron-number equation
that accompanies the BCS gap equation. The four versions correspond to
explicitly accounting for two-hole-(2h) as well as two-electron-(2e) Cooper
pairs (CPs), or both in equal proportions, or only either kind. This follows
from a recent generalization of the Bose-Einstein condensation (GBEC)
statistical theory that includes not boson-boson interactions but rather 2e-
and also (without loss of generality) 2h-CPs interacting with unpaired
electrons and holes in a single-band model that is easily converted into a
two-band model. The GBEC theory is essentially an extension of the
Friedberg-T.D. Lee 1989 BEC theory of superconductors that excludes 2h-CPs. It
can thus recover, when the numbers of 2h- and 2e-CPs in both BE-condensed and
noncondensed states are separately equal, the BCS gap equation for all
temperatures and couplings as well as the zero-temperature BCS
(rigorous-upper-bound) condensation energy for all couplings. But ignoring
either 2h- {\it or} 2e-CPs it can do neither. In particular, only {\it half}
the BCS condensation energy is obtained in the two crossover versions ignoring
either kind of CPs. We show how critical temperatures from the original
BCS-Bose crossover theory in 2D require unphysically large couplings for the
Cooper/BCS model interaction to differ significantly from the s of
ordinary BCS theory (where the number equation is substituted by the assumption
that the chemical potential equals the Fermi energy).Comment: thirteen pages including two figures. Physica C (in press, 2007
Irradiación corporal total (TBI) vs radioterapia volumétrica en arco (VMAT) aplicada en irradiación medular total (IMT)
La TBI es usada con el propósito de lograr ablación medular previa al trasplante de médula ósea. De mane-ra clásica, la geometría es descrita con dos campos paralelos opuestos con una dosis de 200 cGy/fxs en 6 fx, 2 fx/día, en donde la totalidad del cuerpo del pa-ciente es irradiada con dos campos laterales a una dis-tancia fuente superficie (DFS) de 400 cm sin proteger ningún órgano en riesgo (OIR). En este trabajo se pro-pone usar la técnica VMAT con tres isocentros y 10 Arcos completos con el sistema óseo como blanco y protegiendo los OIR sin sacrificar cobertura
Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Cryptosporidiosis in Children from 8 Low-income Sites : Results from the MAL-ED Study
Funding Information: The MAL-ED study is carried out as a collaborative project supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the NIH Fogarty International Center. This work was also supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the NIH (grant numbers K23 AI087910 to P. K. and K23 AI087910 to W. A. P.) and by the Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases Discovery Program (to P. D.).Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Strange particle production in proton-proton collisions at TeV with ALICE at the LHC
The production of mesons containing strange quarks (K, ) and both
singly and doubly strange baryons (, Anti-, and
+Anti-) are measured at central rapidity in pp collisions at
= 0.9 TeV with the ALICE experiment at the LHC. The results are
obtained from the analysis of about 250 k minimum bias events recorded in 2009.
Measurements of yields (dN/dy) and transverse momentum spectra at central
rapidities for inelastic pp collisions are presented. For mesons, we report
yields () of 0.184 0.002 stat. 0.006 syst. for K and
0.021 0.004 stat. 0.003 syst. for . For baryons, we find
= 0.048 0.001 stat. 0.004 syst. for , 0.047
0.002 stat. 0.005 syst. for Anti- and 0.0101 0.0020 stat.
0.0009 syst. for +Anti-. The results are also compared with
predictions for identified particle spectra from QCD-inspired models and
provide a baseline for comparisons with both future pp measurements at higher
energies and heavy-ion collisions.Comment: 33 pages, 21 captioned figures, 10 tables, authors from page 28,
published version, figures at
http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/387
Anisotropic flow of charged hadrons, pions and (anti-)protons measured at high transverse momentum in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV
The elliptic, , triangular, , and quadrangular, , azimuthal
anisotropic flow coefficients are measured for unidentified charged particles,
pions and (anti-)protons in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV
with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Results obtained with the
event plane and four-particle cumulant methods are reported for the
pseudo-rapidity range at different collision centralities and as a
function of transverse momentum, , out to GeV/.
The observed non-zero elliptic and triangular flow depends only weakly on
transverse momentum for GeV/. The small dependence
of the difference between elliptic flow results obtained from the event plane
and four-particle cumulant methods suggests a common origin of flow
fluctuations up to GeV/. The magnitude of the (anti-)proton
elliptic and triangular flow is larger than that of pions out to at least
GeV/ indicating that the particle type dependence persists out
to high .Comment: 16 pages, 5 captioned figures, authors from page 11, published
version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/186
Centrality dependence of charged particle production at large transverse momentum in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV
The inclusive transverse momentum () distributions of primary
charged particles are measured in the pseudo-rapidity range as a
function of event centrality in Pb-Pb collisions at
TeV with ALICE at the LHC. The data are presented in the range
GeV/ for nine centrality intervals from 70-80% to 0-5%.
The Pb-Pb spectra are presented in terms of the nuclear modification factor
using a pp reference spectrum measured at the same collision
energy. We observe that the suppression of high- particles strongly
depends on event centrality. In central collisions (0-5%) the yield is most
suppressed with at -7 GeV/. Above
GeV/, there is a significant rise in the nuclear modification
factor, which reaches for GeV/. In
peripheral collisions (70-80%), the suppression is weaker with almost independently of . The measured nuclear
modification factors are compared to other measurements and model calculations.Comment: 17 pages, 4 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 12,
published version, figures at
http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/284
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