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A framework for measuring quality in the emergency department
There is increasing concern that medical care is of variable quality, with variable outcomes, safety, costs and experience for patients. Despite substantial efforts to improve patient safety, some studies suggest little evidence of reductions in adverse events. Furthermore, there is limited agreement about what outcomes are expected and whether increased expenditure results in a real improvement in outcome or experience. In emergency medicine, many countries have developed specific indicators to help drive improvements in patient care. Most of these are time based and there is a lack of consensus regarding which indicators are high priority and what an appropriate framework for measuring quality should look like
The Wilson loop CFT: Insertion dimensions and structure constants from wavy lines
We study operator insertions into the BPS Wilson loop in
SYM theory and determine their two-point coefficients, anomalous dimensions and
structure constants. The calculation is done for the first few lowest dimension
insertions and relies on known results for the expectation value of a smooth
Wilson loop. In addition to the particular coefficients that we calculate, our
study elucidates the connection between deformations of the line and operator
insertions and between the vacuum expectation value of the line and the CFT
data of the insertions.Comment: 23 pages. v2: minor correction
A profusion of BPS Wilson loops in Chern-Simons-matter theories
We initiate the study of BPS Wilson loops in
Chern-Simons-matter theories in three dimensions. We consider a circular or
linear quiver with Chern-Simons levels , and , and focus on loops
preserving one of the two subgroups of the -symmetry. In the cases
with no vanishing Chern-Simons levels, we find a pair of Wilson loops for each
pair of adjacent nodes on the quiver connected by a hypermultiplet (nodes
connected by twisted hypermultiplets have Wilson loops preserving another set
of supercharges). We expect this classical pairwise degeneracy to be lifted by
quantum corrections. In the case with nodes with vanishing Chern-Simons terms
connected by twisted hypermultiplets, we find that the usual BPS Wilson
loops are automatically enlarged to BPS, as happens also in 3-dimensional
Yang-Mills theory. When the nodes with vanishing Chern-Simons levels are
connected by untwisted hypermultiplets, we do not find any Wilson loops
coupling to those nodes which are classically invariant. Rather, we find
several loops whose supersymmetry variation, while non zero, vanishes in any
correlation function, so is weakly zero. We expect only one linear combination
of those Wilson loops to remain BPS when quantum corrections are included. We
analyze the M-theory duals of those Wilson loops and comment on their
degeneracy. We also show that these Wilson loops are cohomologically equivalent
to certain BPS Wilson loops whose expectation value can be evaluated by
the appropriate localized matrix model.Comment: 40 page
Michael Cooke Interview
Transcript of oral history interview with Michael Cooke by Michael Downs on his experiences during the Vietnam War on February 5, 1984
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