52,692 research outputs found
Australian Fathers\u27 Study: What influences paternal engagement with antenatal care?
This mixed-methods study explores factors associated with and levels of engagement of fathers in antenatal care. One hundred expectant fathers were recruited from antenatal clinics and community settings in Western Australia. They completed validated questionnaires. Eighty-three percent of expectant fathers reported a lack of engagement with antenatal care. Factors significantly associated with lack of engagement in multivariate analysis were working more than 40 hours a week and lack of adequate consultation by antenatal care staff. In qualitative analysis, 6 themes emerged in association with a lack of engagement. They were role in decision making, time pressures, the observer effect, lack of knowledge, barriers to attendance, and feeling unprepared or anxious. Care providers should involve fathers in consultations to improve paternal engagement
A 233 km Tunnel for Lepton and Hadron Colliders
A decade ago, a cost analysis was conducted to bore a 233 km circumference
Very Large Hadron Collider (VLHC) tunnel passing through Fermilab. Here we
outline implementations of , , and collider
rings in this tunnel using recent technological innovations. The 240 and 500
GeV colliders employ Crab Waist Crossings, ultra low emittance damped
bunches, short vertical IP focal lengths, superconducting RF, and low
coercivity, grain oriented silicon steel/concrete dipoles. Some details are
also provided for a high luminosity 240 GeV collider and 1.75 TeV
muon accelerator in a Fermilab site filler tunnel. The 40 TeV
collider uses the high intensity Fermilab source, exploits high cross
sections for production of high mass states, and uses 2 Tesla ultra
low carbon steel/YBCO superconducting magnets run with liquid neon. The 35 TeV
muon ring ramps the 2 Tesla superconducting magnets at 9 Hz every 0.4 seconds,
uses 250 GV of superconducting RF to accelerate muons from 1.75 to 17.5 TeV in
63 orbits with 71% survival, and mitigates neutrino radiation with phase
shifting, roller coaster motion in a FODO lattice.Comment: LaTex, 6 pages, 1 figure, Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop,
Austin, TX, 10-15 June 201
In-plane ferromagnetism in charge-ordering
The magnetic and transport properties are systematically studied on the
single crystal with charge ordering and divergency in
resistivity below 50 K. A long-range ferromagnetic ordering is observed in
susceptibility below 20 K with the magnetic field parallel to Co-O plane, while
a negligible behavior is observed with the field perpendicular to the Co-O
plane. It definitely gives a direct evidence for the existence of in-plane
ferromagnetism below 20 K. The observed magnetoresistance (MR) of 30 % at the
field of 6 T at low temperatures indicates an unexpectedly strong spin-charge
coupling in triangle lattice systems.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Thermal Bremsstrahlung Radiation in a Two-Temperature Plasma
In the normal one-temperature plasma the motion of ions is usually neglected
when calculating the Bremsstrahlung radiation of the plasma. Here we calculate
the Bremsstrahlung radiation of a two-temperature plasma by taking into account
of the motion of ions. Our results show that the total radiation power is
always lower if the motion of ions is considered. We also apply the
two-temperature Bremsstrahlung radiation mechanism for an analytical
Advection-Dominated Accretion Flow (ADAF) model; we find the two-temperature
correction to the total Bremsstrahlung radiation for ADAF is negligible.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in CHJAA. Some
discussions and references adde
Angular-dependent Magnetoresistance Oscillations in NaCoO Single Crystal
We report measurements of the c-axis angular-dependent magnetoresistance
(AMR) for a NaCoO single crystal, with a magnetic field of 10 T
rotating within Co-O planes. Below the metal-insulator transition temperature
induced by the charge ordering, the oscillation of the AMR is dominated by a
two-fold rotational symmetry. The amplitudes of the oscillation corresponding
to the four- and six-fold rotational symmetries are distinctive in low
temperatures, but they merge into the background simultaneously at about 25 K.
The six-fold oscillation originates naturally from the lattice symmetry. The
observation of the four-fold rotational symmetry is consistent with the picture
proposed by Choy, et al., that the Co lattice in the charge ordered state will
split into two orthorhombic sublattice with one occupied by Co ions and
the other by Co ions. We have also measured the c-axis AMR for
NaCoO and NaCoO single crystals, and found no
evidence for the existence of two- and four-fold symmetries.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to PR
Evidence of s-wave pairing symmetry in layered superconductor LiNbO from the specific heat measurement
A high quality superconducting LiNbO polycrystalline sample was
synthesized by deintercalation of Li ions from LiNbO. The field
dependent resistivity and specific heat were measured down to 0.5 K. The upper
critical field is deduced from the resistivity data and
is estimated to be T. A notable specific heat jump is
observed at the superconducting transition temperature K at zero
field. Below , the electronic specific heat shows a thermal activated
behavior and agrees well with the theoretical result of the BCS s-wave
superconductors. It indicates that the superconducting pairing in
LiNbO has s-wave symmetry.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Unparticle effects in rare (t -> c g g) decay
Rare (t -> c g g) decay can only appear at loop level in the Standard Model
(SM), and naturally they are strongly suppressed. These flavor changing decays
induced by the mediation of spin-0 and spin-2 unparticles, can appear at tree
level in unparticle physics. In this work the virtual effects of unparticle
physics in the flavor-changing (t -> c g g) decay is studied. Using the SM
result for the branching ratio of the (t -> c g g) decay, the parameter space
of d_U and Lambda_U, where the branching ratio of this decay exceeds the one
predicted by the SM, is obtained. Measurement of the branching ratio larger
than 10^(-9) can give valuable information for establishing unparticle physics.Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures, LaTeX formatte
BDGS: A Scalable Big Data Generator Suite in Big Data Benchmarking
Data generation is a key issue in big data benchmarking that aims to generate
application-specific data sets to meet the 4V requirements of big data.
Specifically, big data generators need to generate scalable data (Volume) of
different types (Variety) under controllable generation rates (Velocity) while
keeping the important characteristics of raw data (Veracity). This gives rise
to various new challenges about how we design generators efficiently and
successfully. To date, most existing techniques can only generate limited types
of data and support specific big data systems such as Hadoop. Hence we develop
a tool, called Big Data Generator Suite (BDGS), to efficiently generate
scalable big data while employing data models derived from real data to
preserve data veracity. The effectiveness of BDGS is demonstrated by developing
six data generators covering three representative data types (structured,
semi-structured and unstructured) and three data sources (text, graph, and
table data)
Interpolation function of the genocchi type polynomials
The main purpose of this paper is to construct not only generating functions
of the new approach Genocchi type numbers and polynomials but also
interpolation function of these numbers and polynomials which are related to a,
b, c arbitrary positive real parameters. We prove multiplication theorem of
these polynomials. Furthermore, we give some identities and applications
associated with these numbers, polynomials and their interpolation functions.Comment: 14 page
- …