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    Provision of services for rehabilitation of children and adolescents with congenital cardiac disease: a survey of centres for paediatric cardiology in the United Kingdom

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    A postal questionnaire survey of the 17 centres for paediatric cardiology in the UK investigated the attitudes of staff towards rehabilitation and the current level of provision. The majority of respondents (82%) believed they should provide rehabilitation for their patients, but only one centre had a programme for rehabilitation. Few respondents (18%) believed they were meeting the needs of their patients' for rehabilitation. Major barriers to providing rehabilitation were funding and the wide geographical catchment areas

    Nuclear liquid-gas phase transition within the lattice gas model

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    We study the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition on the basis of a two-component lattice gas model. A Metropolis type of sampling method is used to generate microscopic states in the canonical ensemble. The effective equation of state and fragment mass distributions are evaluated in a wide range of temperatures and densities. A definition of the phase coexistence region appropriate for mesoscopic systems is proposed. The caloric curve resulting from different types of freeze-out conditions are presented.Comment: 13 pages including 4 figure

    Frequency-dependent (ac) Conduction in Disordered Composites: a Percolative Study

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    In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. B{\bf57}, 3375 (1998)], we examined in detail the nonlinear (electrical) dc response of a random resistor cum tunneling bond network (RRTNRRTN, introduced by us elsewhere to explain nonlinear response of metal-insulator type mixtures). In this work which is a sequel to that paper, we consider the ac response of the RRTNRRTN-based correlated RCRC (CRCCRC) model. Numerical solutions of the Kirchoff's laws for the CRCCRC model give a power-law exponent (= 0.7 near p=pcp = p_c) of the modulus of the complex ac conductance at moderately low frequencies, in conformity with experiments on various types of disordered systems. But, at very low frequencies, it gives a simple quadratic or linear dependence on the frequency depending upon whether the system is percolating or not. We do also discuss the effective medium approximation (EMAEMA) of our CRCCRC and the traditional random RCRC network model, and discuss their comparative successes and shortcomings.Comment: Revised and reduced version with 17 LaTeX pages plus 8 JPEG figure

    Negative specific heat in a thermodynamic model of multifragmentation

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    We consider a soluble model of multifragmentation which is similar in spirit to many models which have been used to fit intermediate energy heavy ion collision data. In this model cvc_v is always positive but for finite nuclei cpc_p can be negative for some temperatures and pressures. Furthermore, negative values of cpc_p can be obtained in canonical treatment. One does not need to use the microcanonical ensemble. Negative values for cpc_p can persist for systems as large as 200 paticles but this depends upon parameters used in the model calculation. As expected, negative specific heats are absent in the thermodynamic limit.Comment: Revtex, 13 pages including 6 figure

    Model of multifragmentation, Equation of State and phase transition

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    We consider a soluble model of multifragmentation which is similar in spirit to many models which have been used to fit intermediate energy heavy ion collision data. We draw a p-V diagram for the model and compare with a p-V diagram obtained from a mean-field theory. We investigate the question of chemical instability in the multifragmentation model. Phase transitions in the model are discussed.Comment: Revtex, 9 pages including 6 figures: some change in the text and Fig.

    Data Transmission Over Networks for Estimation and Control

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    The pressure of QCD at finite temperatures and chemical potentials

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    The perturbative expansion of the pressure of hot QCD is computed here to order g^6ln(g) in the presence of finite quark chemical potentials. In this process all two- and three-loop one-particle irreducible vacuum diagrams of the theory are evaluated at arbitrary T and mu, and these results are then used to analytically verify the outcome of an old order g^4 calculation of Freedman and McLerran for the zero-temperature pressure. The results for the pressure and the different quark number susceptibilities at high T are compared with recent lattice simulations showing excellent agreement especially for the chemical potential dependent part of the pressure.Comment: 35 pages, 6 figures; text revised, one figure replace

    Statistical Models of Nuclear Fragmentation

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    A method is presented that allows exact calculations of fragment multiplicity distributions for a canonical ensemble of non-interacting clusters. Fragmentation properties are shown to depend on only a few parameters. Fragments are shown to be copiously produced above the transition temperature. At this transition temperature, the calculated multiplicity distributions broaden and become strongly super-Poissonian. This behavior is compared to predictions from a percolation model. A corresponding microcanonical formalism is also presented.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure

    Calculating the I=2 Pion Scattering Length Using Tadpole Improved Clover Wilson Action on Coarse Anisotropic Lattices

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    In an exploratory study, using the tadpole improved clover Wilson quark action on small, coarse and anisotropic lattices, the ππ\pi\pi scattering length in the I=2 channel is calculated within quenched approximation. A new method is proposed which enables us to make chiral extrapolation of our lattice results without calculating the decay constant on the lattice. Finite volume and finite lattice spacing errors are analyzed and the results are extrapolated towards the infinite volume and continuum limit. Comparisons of our lattice results with the new experiment and the results from Chiral Perturbation Theory are made. Good agreements are found.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figures, latex file typeset with elsart.cls, minor change
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