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An evaluation of a toothbrushing programme in schools
Purpose: This paper assesses the effectiveness of a toothbrushing intervention delivered in primary schools in Yorkshire and the Humber, a Northern district of England. The toothbrushing intervention was designed with the intention of improving the oral health of young children. The paper reports the effectiveness of the intervention and explores process issues related to its co-ordination and delivery. Design/methodology/approach: The evaluation had three data gathering approaches. These were: in-depth case studies of three selected schools participating in the toothbrushing programme; interviews with oral health programme leads; and a small scale questionnaire based survey which was sent to the 18 schools participating in the intervention. Findings: The intervention was accepted by children and they enjoyed participating in the toothbrushing scheme. Moreover, children had often become more knowledgeable about toothbrusing and the consequences of not regularly cleaning their teeth. The scheme was contingent on key staff in the school and the programme was more successful where schoolâs embraced, rather than rejected the notion of improving childrenâs health alongside educational attainment. Whether the intervention made differences to brushing in the home requires further investigation, but there is a possibility that children can act as positive âchange agentsâ with siblings and other family members. Practical implications: This paper suggests that schools can be an effective setting for implementing toothbrushing interventions. Originality/value: Toothbrushing in schools programmes are a relatively new initiative that have not been fully explored, especially using qualitative approaches or focussing on the views of children. This paper makes a particular contribution to understanding the process and delivery of toothbrushing interventions delivered in primary schools. The implications for programmes outside of the UK context are discussed
Particle number conservation in quantum many-body simulations with matrix product operators
Incorporating conservation laws explicitly into matrix product states (MPS)
has proven to make numerical simulations of quantum many-body systems much less
resources consuming. We will discuss here, to what extent this concept can be
used in simulation where the dynamically evolving entities are matrix product
operators (MPO). Quite counter-intuitively the expectation of gaining in speed
by sacrificing information about all but a single symmetry sector is not in all
cases fulfilled. It turns out that in this case often the entanglement imposed
by the global constraint of fixed particle number is the limiting factor.Comment: minor changes, 18 pages, 5 figure
Phase Diagram of the 1D Kondo Lattice Model
We determine the boundary of the fully polarized ferromagnetic ground state
in the one dimensional Kondo lattice model at partial conduction electron band
filling by using a newly developed infinite size DMRG method which conserves
the total spin quantum number. The obtained paramagnetic to ferromagnetic phase
boundary is below for the whole range of band filling. By this
we solve the controversy in the phase diagram over the extent of the
ferromagnetic region close to half filling.Comment: 6 pages, 4 EPS figures. Presented at MOS9
Magnetism in the dilute Kondo lattice model
The one dimensional dilute Kondo lattice model is investigated by means of
bosonization for different dilution patterns of the array of impurity spins.
The physical picture is very different if a commensurate or incommensurate
doping of the impurity spins is considered. For the commensurate case, the
obtained phase diagram is verified using a non-Abelian density-matrix
renormalization-group algorithm. The paramagnetic phase widens at the expense
of the ferromagnetic phase as the -spins are diluted. For the incommensurate
case, antiferromagnetism is found at low doping, which distinguishes the dilute
Kondo lattice model from the standard Kondo lattice model.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figure
Neurophysiology
Contains a report on a research project.Bell Telephone Laboratories, IncorporatedTeagle FoundationNational Science Foundatio
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