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Programa de rehabilitaciĂłn cardĂaca mediante un entrenamiento de tenis adaptado
The aims of this study were to determine the effect of a cardiac rehabilitation program, based on the adjustment of a sports modality (tennis), on differentes laboratory analysis variables (triglycerides, cholesterol,cholesterol LDL, cholesterol HDL and glucose ) And and on an exercise stress test (metabolics equivalent-METs-, time of effort, systolic pressure, dyastolic pressure, maximum cardiac frecuencia and double product). The study involved 7 patients with low risk myocardial heart attack. The ages was include between 48 and 63 years old. By the end of the program, which has lasted 3 months, triglycerides, cholesterol, exercise capacity and double product had improved significantly (p<.005 for all).Los objetivos de este estudio son evaluar los efectos de nuestro programa de rehabilitaciĂłn cardiaca, basado en la adaptaciĂłn de una modalidad deportiva (tenis), sobre diferentes variables del perfil lipĂdico (triglicĂ©ridos, colesterol, cLDL, cHDL, y glucosa) asĂ como en la prueba de esfuerzo (MET, tiempo de esfuerzo, presiĂłn sistĂłlica, presiĂłn diastĂłlica, frecuencia cardĂaca máxima y doble producto). Analizamos a 7 pacientes con infarto agudo de miocardio de bajo riesgo. Las edades estaban comprendidas entre los 48 y 63 años. Tras la realizaciĂłn del programa, que ha tenido 3 meses de duraciĂłn, se han producido mejoras significativas a nivel de triglicĂ©ridos, colesterol, capacidad funcional valorada en equivalentes metabĂłlicos y doble producto (p<.005 para todos)
Phase-Locking of Vortex Lattices Interacting with Periodic Pinning
We examine Shapiro steps for vortex lattices interacting with periodic
pinning arrays driven by AC and DC currents. The vortex flow occurs by the
motion of the interstitial vortices through the periodic potential generated by
the vortices that remain pinned at the pinning sites. Shapiro steps are
observed for fields B_{\phi} < B < 2.25B_{\phi} with the most pronouced steps
occuring for fields where the interstitial vortex lattice has a high degree of
symmetry. The widths of the phase-locked current steps as a function of the
magnitude of the AC driving are found to follow a Bessel function in agreement
with theory.Comment: 5 pages 5 postscript figure
Commensurate and Incommensurate Vortex Lattice Melting in Periodic Pinning Arrays
We examine the melting of commensurate and incommensurate vortex lattices
interacting with square pinning arrays through the use of numerical
simulations. For weak pinning strength in the commensurate case we observe an
order-order transition from a commensurate square vortex lattice to a
triangular floating solid phase as a function of temperature. This floating
solid phase melts into a liquid at still higher temperature. For strong pinning
there is only a single transition from the square pinned lattice to the liquid
state. For strong pinning in the incommensurate case, we observe a multi-stage
melting in which the interstitial vortices become mobile first, followed by the
melting of the entire lattice, consistent with recent imaging experiments. The
initial motion of vortices in the incommensurate phase occurs by an exchange
process of interstitial vortices with vortices located at the pinning sites. We
have also examined the vortex melting behavior for higher matching fields and
find that a coexistence of a commensurate pinned vortex lattice with an
interstitial vortex liquid occurs while at higher temperatures the entire
vortex lattice melts. For triangular arrays at incommensurate fields higher
than the first matching field we observe that the initial vortex motion can
occur through a novel correlated ring excitation where a number of vortices can
rotate around a pinned vortex. We also discuss the relevance of our results to
recent experiments of colloidal particles interacting with periodic trap
arrays.Comment: 8 figure
Commensurate and Incommensurate Vortex States in Superconductors with Periodic Pinning Arrays
As a function of applied field, we find a rich variety of ordered and
partially-ordered vortex lattice configurations in systems with square or
triangular arrays of pinning sites. We present formulas that predict the
matching fields at which commensurate vortex configurations occur and the
vortex lattice orientation with respect to the pinning lattice. Our results are
in excellent agreement with recent imaging experiments on square pinning arrays
[K. Harada et al., Science 274, 1167 (1996)].Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures. Accepted to Physical Review
A mechanism for morphogen-controlled domain growth
Many developmental systems are organised via the action of graded distributions of morphogens. In the Drosophila wing disc, for example, recent experimental evidence has shown that graded expression of the morphogen Dpp controls cell proliferation and hence disc growth. Our goal is to explore a simple model for regulation of wing growth via the Dpp gradient: we use a system of reaction-diffusion equations to model the dynamics of Dpp and its receptor Tkv, with advection arising as a result of the flow generated by cell proliferation. We analyse the model both numerically and analytically, showing that uniform domain growth across the disc produces an exponentially growing wing disc
Anisotropic vortex pinning in superconductors with a square array of rectangular submicron holes
We investigate vortex pinning in thin superconducting films with a square
array of rectangular submicron holes ("antidots"). Two types of antidots are
considered: antidots fully perforating the superconducting film, and "blind
antidots", holes that perforate the film only up to a certain depth. In both
systems, we observe a distinct anisotropy in the pinning properties, reflected
in the critical current Ic, depending on the direction of the applied
electrical current: parallel to the long side of the antidots or perpendicular
to it. Although the mechanism responsible for the effect is very different in
the two systems, they both show a higher critical current and a sharper
IV-transition when the current is applied along the long side of the
rectangular antidots
PopStar Evolutionary Synthesis Models II: Optical emission-line spectra from Giant H{\sc ii} regions
This is the second paper of a series reporting the results from the PopStar
evolutionary synthesis models. Here we present synthetic emission line spectra
of H{\sc ii} regions photoionized by young star clusters, for seven values of
cluster masses and for ages between 0.1 and 5.2 Myr. The ionizing Spectral
Energy Distributions (SEDs) are those obtained by the PopStar code
\citep*{mgb09} for six different metallicities, with a very low metallicity
set, Z=0.0001, not included in previous similar works. We assume that the
radius of the H{\sc ii} region is the distance at which the ionized gas is
deposited by the action of the mechanical energy of the winds and supernovae
from the central ionizing young cluster. In this way the ionization parameter
is eliminated as free argument, since now its value is obtained from the
cluster physical properties (mass, age and metallicity) and from the gaseous
medium characteristics (density and abundances). We discuss our results and
compare them with those from previous models and also with a large and data set
of giant H{\sc ii} regions for which abundances have been derived in a
homogeneous manner. The values of the [OIII] lines (at 4363,
4959, 5007\AA) in the lowest metallicity nebulae are found to be very weak and
similar to those coming from very high metallicity regions (solar or
over-solar). Thus, the sole use of the oxygen lines is not enough to
distinguish between very low and very high metallicity regions. In these cases
we emphasize the need of the additional support of alternative metallicity
tracers, like the [SIII] lines in the near-\textit{IR}.Comment: 20 pages, 26 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Main Journa
Transverse Phase Locking for Vortex Motion in Square and Triangular Pinning Arrays
We analyze transverse phase locking for vortex motion in a superconductor
with a longitudinal DC drive and a transverse AC drive. For both square and
triangular arrays we observe a variety of fractional phase locking steps in the
velocity versus DC drive which correspond to stable vortex orbits. The locking
steps are more pronounced for the triangular arrays which is due to the fact
that the vortex motion has a periodic transverse velocity component even for
zero transverse AC drive. All the steps increase monotonically in width with AC
amplitude. We confirm that the width of some fractional steps in the square
arrays scales as the square of the AC driving amplitude. In addition we
demonstrate scaling in the velocity versus applied DC driving curves at
depinning and on the main step, similar to that seen for phase locking in
charge-density wave systems. The phase locking steps are most prominent for
commensurate vortex fillings where the interstitial vortices form symmetrical
ground states. For increasing temperature, the fractional steps are washed out
very quickly, while the main step gains a linear component and disappears at
melting. For triangular pinning arrays we again observe transverse phase
locking, with the main and several of the fractional step widths scaling
linearly with AC amplitude.Comment: 10 pages, 14 postscript figure
Phase Locking, Devil's Staircases, Farey Trees, and Arnold Tongues in Driven Vortex Lattices with Periodic Pinning
Using numerical simulations, we observe phase locking, Arnold tongues, and
Devil's staircases for vortex lattices driven at varying angles with respect to
an underlying superconducting periodic pinning array. This rich structure
should be observalble in transport measurments. The transverse curves
have a Devil's staircase structure, with plateaus occurring near the driving
angles along symmetry directions of the pinning array. Each of the plateaus
corresponds to a different dyanmical phase with a distinctive vortex structure
and flow pattern.Comment: accepted to Physical Review Letter
Using radio astronomical receivers for molecular spectroscopic characterization in astrochemical laboratory simulations: A proof of concept
We present a proof of concept on the coupling of radio astronomical receivers
and spectrometers with chemical reactorsand the performances of the resulting
setup for spectroscopy and chemical simulations in laboratory astrophysics.
Several experiments including cold plasma generation and UV photochemistry were
performed in a 40\,cm long gas cell placed in the beam path of the Aries 40\,m
radio telescope receivers operating in the 41-49 GHz frequency range interfaced
with fast Fourier transform spectrometers providing 2 GHz bandwidth and 38 kHz
resolution.
The impedance matching of the cell windows has been studied using different
materials. The choice of the material and its thickness was critical to obtain
a sensitivity identical to that of standard radio astronomical observations.
Spectroscopic signals arising from very low partial pressures of CH3OH,
CH3CH2OH, HCOOH, OCS,CS, SO2 (<1E-03 mbar) were detected in a few seconds. Fast
data acquisition was achieved allowing for kinetic measurements in
fragmentation experiments using electron impact or UV irradiation. Time
evolution of chemical reactions involving OCS, O2 and CS2 was also observed
demonstrating that reactive species, such as CS, can be maintained with high
abundance in the gas phase during these experiments.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics in September
21, 2017. 16 pages, 18 figure
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