893 research outputs found
Opportunities to demonstrate expertise and job satisfaction of community pharmacists in Japan and England
Background: In response to anticipated increased health needs as a consequence of aging populations, and associated rising co-morbidity and medicines use, in both Japan and the UK potential extended roles for community pharmacy are part of health policy agendas. It is widely perceived that community pharmacists do not fully utilize their expertise, which may limit their contribution to health care in their communities and also impact negatively on their own job satisfaction. Purpose: The aim of this qualitative study was to identify operations that are perceived as opportunities to demonstrate expertise (ODE) and/or sources of job satisfaction by pharmacists in Japan and England, and explore associated system and contextual factors. Methods: Data were gathered with purposively selected pharmacists in Japan and England. An initial questionnaire was forwarded which guided subsequent face-to-face semi-structured interviews. These were audio-recoded to enable qualitative analytical procedures. Results: There were 18 participants in England and 13 in Japan. There was a notable association between ODE and job satisfaction. However, ODE was not a sufficient condition for job satisfaction. Conclusion: In order for pharmacists to be satisfied with their jobs, not only ODE but also additional contextual factors, i.e. recognition of professionalism, autonomy and positive collaboration were also needed. The findings can inform initiatives in the development of pharmacy services that would be positive for pharmacists whilst potentially contributing to wider public health objectives
The Black Di-Ring: An Inverse Scattering Construction
We use the inverse scattering method (ISM) to derive concentric
non-supersymmetric black rings. The approach used here is fully
five-dimensional, and has the modest advantage that it generalizes readily to
the construction of more general axi-symmetric solutions.Comment: v3: 2 subsections added, typos fixed, more refs, journal version. v4:
a transcription error in the ADM mass fixe
Vacuum effects in an asymptotically uniformly accelerated frame with a constant magnetic field
In the present article we solve the Dirac-Pauli and Klein Gordon equations in
an asymptotically uniformly accelerated frame when a constant magnetic field is
present. We compute, via the Bogoliubov coefficients, the density of scalar and
spin 1/2 particles created. We discuss the role played by the magnetic field
and the thermal character of the spectrum.Comment: 17 pages. RevTe
Intra-molecular coupling as a mechanism for a liquid-liquid phase transition
We study a model for water with a tunable intra-molecular interaction
, using mean field theory and off-lattice Monte Carlo simulations.
For all , the model displays a temperature of maximum
density.For a finite intra-molecular interaction ,our
calculations support the presence of a liquid-liquid phase transition with a
possible liquid-liquid critical point for water, likely pre-empted by
inevitable freezing. For J=0 the liquid-liquid critical point disappears at
T=0.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Coiling Instability of Multilamellar Membrane Tubes with Anchored Polymers
We study experimentally a coiling instability of cylindrical multilamellar
stacks of phospholipid membranes, induced by polymers with hydrophobic anchors
grafted along their hydrophilic backbone. Our system is unique in that coils
form in the absence of both twist and adhesion. We interpret our experimental
results in terms of a model in which local membrane curvature and polymer
concentration are coupled. The model predicts the occurrence of maximally tight
coils above a threshold polymer occupancy. A proper comparison between the
model and experiment involved imaging of projections from simulated coiled
tubes with maximal curvature and complicated torsions.Comment: 11 pages + 7 GIF figures + 10 JPEG figure
Analysis of Supersymmetric Effects on B -> phi K Decays in the PQCD Approach
We study the effects of the MSSM contribution on B -> phi K decays using the
perturbative QCD approach. In this approach, strong phases can be calculated,
so that we can predict the values of CP asymmetries with the MSSM contribution.
We predict a large relative strong phase between the penguin amplitude and the
chromomagnetic penguin amplitude. If there is a new CP violating phase in the
chromomagnetic penguin amplitude, then the CP asymmetries may change
significantly from the SM prediction. We parametrize the new physics
contributions that appear in the Wilson coefficients. We maximize the new
physics parameters up to the point where it is limited by experimental
constraints. In the case of the LR insertion, we find that the direct CP
asymmetries can reach about 85% and the indirect CP asymmetry can reach about
-30%.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures, REVTeX, Minor changes, Version to appear in
Phys. Rev.
Boundary lubrication properties of materials with expansive freezing
We have performed molecular dynamics simulations of solid-solid contacts
lubricated by a model fluid displaying many of the properties of water,
particularly its expansive freezing. Near the region where expansive freezing
occurs, the lubricating film remains fluid, and the friction force decreases
linearly as the shear velocity is reduced. No sign of stick-slip motion is
observed even at the lowest velocities. We give a simple interpretation of
these results, and suggest that in general good boundary lubrication properties
will be found in the family of materials with expansive freezing.Comment: Version to appear in Phys. Rev. Let
The Ultimate Fate of Supercooled Liquids
In recent years it has become widely accepted that a dynamical length scale
{\xi}_{\alpha} plays an important role in supercooled liquids near the glass
transition. We examine the implications of the interplay between the growing
{\xi}_{\alpha} and the size of the crystal nucleus, {\xi}_M, which shrinks on
cooling. We argue that at low temperatures where {\xi}_{\alpha} > {\xi}_M a new
crystallization mechanism emerges enabling rapid development of a large scale
web of sparsely connected crystallinity. Though we predict this web percolates
the system at too low a temperature to be easily seen in the laboratory, there
are noticeable residual effects near the glass transition that can account for
several previously observed unexplained phenomena of deeply supercooled liquids
including Fischer clusters, and anomalous crystal growth near T_g
Molecular structural order and anomalies in liquid silica
The present investigation examines the relationship between structural order,
diffusivity anomalies, and density anomalies in liquid silica by means of
molecular dynamics simulations. We use previously defined orientational and
translational order parameters to quantify local structural order in atomic
configurations. Extensive simulations are performed at different state points
to measure structural order, diffusivity, and thermodynamic properties. It is
found that silica shares many trends recently reported for water [J. R.
Errington and P. G. Debenedetti, Nature 409, 318 (2001)]. At intermediate
densities, the distribution of local orientational order is bimodal. At fixed
temperature, order parameter extrema occur upon compression: a maximum in
orientational order followed by a minimum in translational order. Unlike water,
however, silica's translational order parameter minimum is broad, and there is
no range of thermodynamic conditions where both parameters are strictly
coupled. Furthermore, the temperature-density regime where both structural
order parameters decrease upon isothermal compression (the structurally
anomalous regime) does not encompass the region of diffusivity anomalies, as
was the case for water.Comment: 30 pages, 8 figure
Study of pure annihilation type decays
In this work, we calculate the rare decays and in perturbative QCD approach with Sudakov resummation.
We give the branching ratio of for , which will
be tested soon in factories.
The decay has a very small branching ratio at
, due to the suppression from CKM matrix elements . It may be sensitive to new physics contributions.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figur
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