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Estado Confusional Agudo apĂłs Corticoterapia Inalada
Background: The connection between corticotherapy and neuropsychiatric symptoms is
widely known, being one of the first questions
we need to assess when presenting with first
episode psychiatric symptoms or confusional
state.
Aims: To date, data on cases related to inhaled
corticotherapy and neuropsychiatric effects is
scarce. In this paper we describe a rare case in
a young woman.
Methods: The clinical case presented led us
to try to understand the data published on the
subject in order to discuss it in greater length.
Results and Conclusions: We present and
discuss a 27-year-old patient’s case, with no
previous psychiatric disease, who was admitted to our Psychiatric ward after the onset of
severe acute behavioural disturbance characterized by aggressiveness, visual and auditory
hallucinatory activity, misidentification and
altered conscience status. It was later found
that seven days earlier she had been prescribed
inhaled corticotherapy for a minor respiratory
infection. A few days after corticotherapy withdrawal, the clinical symptoms improved significantly.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Domain wall description of superconductivity
In the present work we shall address the issue of electrical conductivity in
superconductors in the perspective of superconducting domain wall solutions in
the realm of field theory. We take our set up made out of a dynamical complex
scalar field coupled to gauge field to be responsible for superconductivity and
an extra scalar real field that plays the role of superconducting domain walls.
The temperature of the system is interpreted through the fact that the soliton
following accelerating orbits is a Rindler observer experiencing a thermal
bath.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, Latex. Version to appear in PL
Extração de nemátodes de quisto de amostras de solo: método de decantação e crivagem de Cobb vs. método de Fenwick
Potato cyst nematodes are a threat to several agricultural crops around the world with some species considered quarantine
pests and subjected to strict regulatory measures in many countries. Usually, cysts nematodes co-exist in the soil
with other species of plant-parasitic nematodes, so, a time and cost-efficient extraction technique becomes of primary
importance. The ideal extraction method should be able to obtain cysts as well as detecting the presence of other motile
plant-parasitic nematodes with a potential impact on potato farming (such as Meloidogyne sp. and Pratylenchus sp.). In
recent years, studies have been carried out to test the efficiency of various methods of nematode extraction but few
results have been published. Therefore, to test if a method that extracts simultaneously cysts and motile nematodes
can be used instead of the reference method that extracts cysts only, the efficiency of Cobb’s decanting and sieving
technique was compared to Fenwick’s technique. As a result, in the 74 samples evaluated, a greater number of cysts
were extracted from 24 samples using Fenwick’s method and from 11 samples employing Cobb’s decanting and sieving
technique. The statistics results showed a significance level of 0,05 using Fenwick’s can allowing to conclude that this
method is much more efficient than Cobb’s decanting and sieving technique, and confirming it should not be replaced
by alternative methods for cysts extractioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Finding the Dominant Zero of the Energy Probability Distribution
In this work, we present a method to locate the dominant zero of the Energy
Probability Distribution (EPD) Zeros method applied to the study of phase
transitions. The technique strongly reduces computer processing time and also
increases the accuracy of the results. As an example, we apply it to the 2D
Ising model, comparing with both the exact Onsager's results and the previous
EPD zeros method results. We show that, for large lattices, the processing time
is drastically reduced when compared to other EPD zeros search procedures,
whereas for small lattices the gain in accuracy allows very accurate
predictions in the thermodynamic limit.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures. Revised extended versio
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