69 research outputs found
Minimally invasive 'step-up approach' versus maximal necrosectomy in patients with acute necrotising pancreatitis (PANTER trial): design and rationale of a randomised controlled multicenter trial
Reference values for white blood-cell-based inflammatory markers in the Rotterdam Study
Novel prognostic inflammatory markers of cancer survival and cardiovascular disease are; the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and the systemic immune-
Kruiden effectief bij bestrijding wormen
Op het Praktijkcentrum Raalte is de werking van een kruidenmengsel getest bij vleesvarkens die kunstmatig besmet waren met infectieuze eieren van de varkens-spoelworm, Ascaris suum. Een deel van de varkens kreeg 1 % of 5 % kruiden in het voer. Het bleek dat de varkens die 5 % kruiden kregen na besmetting geen wormeieren uitscheidden en er werden bij de slacht geen wormen in de darm aangetroffen. Deze groep had tevens een betere groei dan varkens die geen of minder kruiden krege
KLN theorem, magnetic mass, and thermal photon production
We study the infrared singularities associated to ultra-soft transverse
gluons in the calculation of photon production by a quark-gluon plasma. Despite
the fact that the KLN theorem works in this context and provides cancellations
of infrared singularities, it does not prevent the production rate of low
invariant mass dileptons to be sensitive to the magnetic mass of gluons and
therefore the rate to be non perturbative.Comment: 9 pages Latex document, 5 postscript figures, modified figure 5 and
slightly updated section
Inspiring Womanhood: A re-interpretation of The Dawn
This thesis explores the diversity of content and ideas found in Louisa Lawsonâs The Dawn, Australiaâs first successful magazine âby women and for womenâ, showing that every element of the journal promoted a womanhood ideal for Australian women. Though remembered for the challenging arguments it made for womenâs rights, most of the journal was taken up by beauty tips, household hints, recipes, womenâs stories, health ideas, fashion articles and the like. This thesis examines such elements, noting how they served to help readers progress towards its womanhood ideal. It highlights the way that The Dawnâs discourse on womenâs right was integrated into this ideal. It also analyses some of the key themes and ideas central to the ideal constructed in The Dawn, such as motherhood, beauty, and success in work and study
Enhanced thermal production of hard dileptons by processes
In the framework of the Hard Thermal Loop effective theory, we calculate the
two-loop contributions to hard lepton pair production in a quark-gluon plasma.
We show that the result is free of any infrared and collinear singularity. We
also recover the known fact that perturbation theory leads to integrable
singularities at the location of the threshold for . It
appears that the process calculated here significantly enhances the rate of low
mass hard dileptons.Comment: 32 latex pages, 14 postscript figure
A Generalized Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem for Nonlinear Response Functions
A nonlinear generalization of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem (FDT) for
the n-point Green functions and the amputated 1PI vertex functions at finite
temperature is derived in the framework of the Closed Time Path formalism. We
verify that this generalized FDT coincides with known results for n=2 and 3.
New explicit relations among the 4-point nonlinear response and correlation
(fluctuation) functions are presented.Comment: 34 pages, Revte
Dimensional Reduction, Hard Thermal Loops and the Renormalization Group
We study the realization of dimensional reduction and the validity of the
hard thermal loop expansion for lambda phi^4 theory at finite temperature,
using an environmentally friendly finite-temperature renormalization group with
a fiducial temperature as flow parameter. The one-loop renormalization group
allows for a consistent description of the system at low and high temperatures,
and in particular of the phase transition. The main results are that
dimensional reduction applies, apart from a range of temperatures around the
phase transition, at high temperatures (compared to the zero temperature mass)
only for sufficiently small coupling constants, while the HTL expansion is
valid below (and rather far from) the phase transition, and, again, at high
temperatures only in the case of sufficiently small coupling constants. We
emphasize that close to the critical temperature, physics is completely
dominated by thermal fluctuations that are not resummed in the hard thermal
loop approach and where universal quantities are independent of the parameters
of the fundamental four-dimensional theory.Comment: 20 pages, 13 eps figures, uses epsfig and pstrick
Identity of the imaginary-time and real-time thermal propagators for scalar bound states in a one-generation Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model
By rigorous reanalysis of the results, we have proven that the propagators at
finite temperature for scalar bound states in one-generation fermion condensate
scheme of electroweak symmetry breaking are in fact identical in the
imaginary-time and the real-time formalism. This dismisses the doubt about
possible discrepancy between the two formalisms in this problem. Identity of
the derived thermal transformation matrices of the real-time matrix propagators
for scalar bound states without and with chemical potential and the ones for
corresponding elementary scalar particles shows similarity of thermodynamic
property between the two types of particles. Only one former inference is
modified, i.e. when the two flavors of fermions have unequal nonzero masses,
the amplitude of the composite Higgs particle will decay instead grow in time.Comment: 5 pages, revtex4, no figure
The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio is associated with mortality in the general population: The Rotterdam Study
Inflammation is a risk factor for morbidity and mortality in the elderly. The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is a marker of systemic inflammation that integrates the information of the leukocyte differentials into one variable. We aimed to assess whether the NLR is a risk indicator for overall and cause-specific mortality in the general population. We analyzed data (2002â2014) from the Rotterdam Study, a long-standing, population-based, prospective cohort study in a community-dwelling ageing population. The association between the NLR and time to all-cause mortality was assessed with Cox proportional hazard models. We additionally assessed cardiovascular, cancer and other mortality. The multivariable analyses were adjusted for age, gender, socio-economic status (SES), smoking status, body mass index, type 2 diabetes, and history of cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Data of 8715 individuals were included. The mean age was 65.9Â years (SD 10.5) and the majority were women (57.1%). The NLR was higher in men, higher age categories, smokers and among individuals with lower SES, prevalent diabetes, or a history of cancer or CVD. During the 11.7Â years follow-up period, 1641 individual
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