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Prevention of folate deficiency by food fortification
The antimegaloblastic effect of cooked folic acid-fortified maize meal was tested by feeding the meal to 5 lactating patients with folate-deficient megaloblastic anaemia. The dose of folic acid in the meal before cooking varied from 100 to ·500 µg daily. One patient who received 100 µg daily had a suboptimal haematological response. Meal containing 300 µg and 500 µg daily produced optimal haematological response in all 4 patients so treated, and there was no secondary reticulocyte response in the 2 patients subsequently given pharmacological doses of folic acid. It is concluded that the fortified meal after cooking is an effective antimegaloblastic agent.S. Afr. Med. J., 48, 1795 (1974)
Localization of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate in a bichromatic optical lattice
By numerical simulation and variational analysis of the Gross-Pitaevskii
equation we study the localization, with an exponential tail, of a dipolar
Bose-Einstein condensate (DBEC) of Cr atoms in a three-dimensional
bichromatic optical-lattice (OL) generated by two monochromatic OL of
incommensurate wavelengths along three orthogonal directions. For a fixed
dipole-dipole interaction, a localized state of a small number of atoms () could be obtained when the short-range interaction is not too attractive
or not too repulsive. A phase diagram showing the region of stability of a DBEC
with short-range interaction and dipole-dipole interaction is given
Are there approximate relations among transverse momentum dependent distribution functions?
Certain exact relations among transverse momentum dependent parton
distribution functions due to QCD equations of motion turn into approximate
ones upon the neglect of pure twist-3 terms. On the basis of available data
from HERMES we test the practical usefulness of one such
``Wandzura-Wilczek-type approximation'', namely of that connecting
h_{1L}^{\perp(1)a}(x) to h_L^a(x), and discuss how it can be further tested by
future CLAS and COMPASS data.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
Differences Between an Aerobic and Yoga Group Exercise on Measures of Mood, Stress, and Group Cohesion
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Ecological theatre and the evolutionary game: how environmental and demographic factors determine payoffs in evolutionary games
In the standard approach to evolutionary games and replicator dynamics, differences in fitness can be interpreted as an excess from the mean Malthusian growth rate in the population. In the underlying reasoning, related to an analysis of "costs" and "benefits", there is a silent assumption that fitness can be described in some type of units. However, in most cases these units of measure are not explicitly specified. Then the question arises: are these theories testable? How can we measure "benefit" or "cost"? A natural language, useful for describing and justifying comparisons of strategic "cost" versus "benefits", is the terminology of demography, because the basic events that shape the outcome of natural selection are births and deaths. In this paper, we present the consequences of an explicit analysis of births and deaths in an evolutionary game theoretic framework. We will investigate different types of mortality pressures, their combinations and the possibility of trade-offs between mortality and fertility. We will show that within this new approach it is possible to model how strictly ecological factors such as density dependence and additive background fitness, which seem neutral in classical theory, can affect the outcomes of the game. We consider the example of the Hawk-Dove game, and show that when reformulated in terms of our new approach new details and new biological predictions are produced
Measurement of Lagrangian velocity in fully developed turbulence
We have developed a new experimental technique to measure the Lagrangian
velocity of tracer particles in a turbulent flow, based on ultrasonic Doppler
tracking. This method yields a direct access to the velocity of a single
particule at a turbulent Reynolds number . Its dynamics is
analyzed with two decades of time resolution, below the Lagrangian correlation
time. We observe that the Lagrangian velocity spectrum has a Lorentzian form
, in agreement
with a Kolmogorov-like scaling in the inertial range. The probability density
function (PDF) of the velocity time increments displays a change of shape from
quasi-Gaussian a integral time scale to stretched exponential tails at the
smallest time increments. This intermittency, when measured from relative
scaling exponents of structure functions, is more pronounced than in the
Eulerian framework.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures. to appear in PR
Production of entanglement in Raman three-level systems using feedback
We examine the theoretical limits of the generation of entanglement in a
damped coupled ion-cavity system using jump-based feedback. Using Raman
transitions to produce entanglement between ground states reduces the necessary
feedback bandwidth, but does not improve the overall effect of the spontaneous
emission on the final entanglement. We find that the fidelity of the resulting
entanglement will be limited by the asymmetries produced by vibrations in the
trap, but that the concurrence remains above 0.88 for realistic ion trap sizes.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figure
Increase in superficial dose in whole-breast irradiation with Halcyon straight-through linac compared with traditional C-arm linac with flattening filter: In vivo dosimetry and planning study
The phase diagram of L\'evy spin glasses
We study the L\'evy spin-glass model with the replica and the cavity method.
In this model each spin interacts through a finite number of strong bonds and
an infinite number of weak bonds. This hybrid behaviour of L\'evy spin glasses
becomes transparent in our solution: the local field contains a part
propagating along a backbone of strong bonds and a Gaussian noise term due to
weak bonds. Our method allows to determine the complete replica symmetric phase
diagram, the replica symmetry breaking line and the entropy. The results are
compared with simulations and previous calculations using a Gaussian ansatz for
the distribution of fields.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figure
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