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Recollections of Professor Otto Meyerhof
Professor Meyerhof\u27s laboratory represented the Institute approach with all of the workers devoting their attention to the several aspects of the single problem of muscle metabolism. The number of papers (Meyerhof, 1930) and the great contributions from this laboratory represent the results of the dominant personality of one man. The tributes (Nachmansohn, 1950) paid to him in 1950 were published in Metabolism and Function. Comparable tributes are now being given to Dr. Fischer upon his retirement
A natural simple projection with norm ⩽ √n
AbstractLet V be an n-dimensional subspace of a Banach space X. There is a natural, easily constructed projection from X onto V with norm ⩽ √n
Minnesota Youth in Care: Voices of Wisdom
Adolescents currently make up the largest proportion of young people entering substitute care in the state of Minnesota. In this exploratory project, eleven young adults with a history of out of home placement in two Minnesota counties were interviewed. Participants shared their perceptions on the degree of influence they feel they had when decisions regarding their placements were made. They provided advice for youth currently entering the system and for practitioners working with adolescents in care. A review of the literature exploring the relationship between empowerment theories and youth participation in service provision provides a foundation for the study. Literature on psychosocial development in adolescence is reviewed and related to potential developmental benefits available to young people from care when they are provided with a wider range of opportunities for active participation in decisions about their care
EFFICIENT ANALYTIC COMPUTATION OF HIGHER-ORDER QCD AMPLITUDES
We review techniques simplifying the analytic calculation of one-loop QCD
amplitudes with many external legs, for use in next-to-leading-order
corrections to multi-jet processes. Particularly useful are the constraints
imposed by perturbative unitarity, collinear singularities and a
supersymmetry-inspired organization of helicity amplitudes. Certain sequences
of one-loop helicity amplitudes with an arbitrary number of external gluons
have been obtained using these constraints.Comment: Talk given at Beyond the Standard Model IV, December 13-18 1994, Lake
Tahoe, CA. Latex, 4 pages, no figures
Path-Integral Quantization of the (2,2) String
A complete treatment of the (2,2) NSR string in flat (2+2) dimensional
space-time is given, from the formal path integral over N=2 super Riemann
surfaces to the computational recipe for amplitudes at any loop or gauge
instanton number. We perform in detail the superconformal gauge fixing, discuss
the spectral flow, and analyze the supermoduli space with emphasis on the gauge
moduli. Background gauge field configurations in all instanton sectors are
constructed. We develop chiral bosonization on punctured higher-genus surfaces
in the presence of gauge moduli and instantons. The BRST cohomology is
recapitulated, with a new space-time interpretation for picture-changing. We
point out two ways of combining left- and right-movers, which lead to different
three-point functions.Comment: 36 pages, LaTeX; published version (typos & eq.(7.12) corrected
The quality of advice provided by pharmacists to patients taking direct oral anticoagulants: A mystery shopper study
Pharmacists report being less confident in their knowledge of direct acting oral anticoagulants (DOACs) than of vitamin K antagonists, which may influence their ability to detect and manage complications arising from DOAC use. In a mystery shopper study, patient agents were sent into community pharmacies with symptom or product-related requests related to common complications that might arise during treatment with oral anticoagulants, with each visit being assessed for the preferred outcome. Only 10/41 (24.4%) visits resulted in the preferred outcome. A complete history-taking process, obtaining a medical history, patient characteristics and pharmacist involvement were strong predictors of the preferred outcome being achieved. The preferred outcome was not consistently achieved without pharmacist involvement. The potential for strategies that support comprehensive pharmacist involvement in over-the-counter requests should be considered to ensure the provision of optimal care to patients taking high-risk medications such as DOACs
Three-dimensional subspace of l∞(5) with maximal projection constant
AbstractLet V be an n-dimensional real Banach space and let λ(V) denote its absolute projection constant. For any N∈N, N⩾n, defineλnN=sup{λ(V):dim(V)=n,V⊂l∞(N)} andλn=sup{λ(V):dim(V)=n}. A well-known Grünbaum conjecture (p. 465 in [B. Grünbaum, Projection constants, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 95 (1960) 451–465]) says thatλ2=4/3. In this paper we show thatλ35=5+427 and we determine a three-dimensional space V⊂l∞(5) satisfying λ35=λ(V). In particular, this shows that Proposition 3.1 from [H. König, N. Tomczak-Jaegermann, Norms of minimal projections, J. Funct. Anal. 119 (1994) 253–280] (see p. 259) is incorrect. Hence the proof of the Grünbaum conjecture given in [H. König, N. Tomczak-Jaegermann, Norms of minimal projections, J. Funct. Anal. 119 (1994) 253–280] which is based on Proposition 3.1 is incomplete
Aspirated capacitor measurements of air conductivity and ion mobility spectra
Measurements of ions in atmospheric air are used to investigate atmospheric
electricity and particulate pollution. Commonly studied ion parameters are (1)
air conductivity, related to the total ion number concentration, and (2) the
ion mobility spectrum, which varies with atmospheric composition. The physical
principles of air ion instrumentation are long-established. A recent
development is the computerised aspirated capacitor, which measures ions from
(a) the current of charged particles at a sensing electrode, and (b) the rate
of charge exchange with an electrode at a known initial potential, relaxing to
a lower potential. As the voltage decays, only ions of higher and higher
mobility are collected by the central electrode and contribute to the further
decay of the voltage. This enables extension of the classical theory to
calculate ion mobility spectra by inverting voltage decay time series. In
indoor air, ion mobility spectra determined from both the novel voltage decay
inversion, and an established voltage switching technique, were compared and
shown to be of similar shape. Air conductivities calculated by integration
were: 5.3 +- 2.5 fS/m and 2.7 +- 1.1 fS/m respectively, with conductivity
determined to be 3 fS/m by direct measurement at a constant voltage.
Applications of the new Relaxation Potential Inversion Method (RPIM) include
air ion mobility spectrum retrieval from historical data, and computation of
ion mobility spectra in planetary atmospheres.Comment: To be published in Review of Scientific Instrument
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