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An exceptional cause of drug-induced colitis: cholestyramine.
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Aproveitamento de vĂĄrzeas.
Distribuição das vårzeas. Natureza dos problemas em vårzeas. Caracterização dos principais solos de vårzeas. Recuperação de vårzeas. ModificaçÔes ambientais. ConclusÔes. Necessidade de pesquisas futuras
A sociodemographic and neuropsychological characterization of an illiterate population
The objectives of this article are to characterize the performance and to discuss the performance differences between literate and illiterate participants in a well-defined study population. We describe the participant-selection procedure used to investigate this population. Three groups with similar sociocultural backgrounds living in a relatively homogeneous fishing community in southern Portugal were characterized in terms of socioeconomic and sociocultural background variables and compared on a simple neuropsychological test battery; specifically, a literate group with more than 4 years of education (n = 9), a literate group with 4 years of education (n = 26), and an illiterate group (n = 31) were included in this study. We compare and discuss our results with other similar studies on the effects of literacy and illiteracy. The results indicate that naming and identification of real objects, verbal fluency using ecologically relevant semantic criteria, verbal memory, and orientation are not affected by literacy or level of formal education. In contrast, verbal working memory assessed with digit span, verbal abstraction, long-term semantic memory, and calculation (i.e., multiplication) are significantly affected by the level of literacy. We indicate that it is possible, with proper participant-selection procedures, to exclude general cognitive impairment and to control important sociocultural factors that potentially could introduce bias when studying the specific effects of literacy and level of formal education on cognitive brain function
Thermodynamical properties of an ideal gas in a traversable wormhole
In this work, we analyze the thermodynamic properties of non--interacting
particles under influence of the gravitational field of a traversable wormhole.
In particular, we investigate how the thermodynamic quantities are affected by
the Ellis wormhole geometry, considering three different regions to our study:
asymptotically far, close to the throat, and at the throat. The thermodynamic
quantities turn out to depend strongly on parameter that controls the wormhole
throat radius. By varying it, there exist an expressive modification in the
thermodynamic state quantities, exhibiting both usual matter and dark
energy--like behaviors. Finally, the interactions are regarded to the energy
density and it seems to indicate that it "cures" the dark energy--like
features.Comment: 29 pages and 18 figure
Initial measurements of black hole spin in GX 339-4 from Suzaku spectroscopy
We report on a deep Suzaku observation of the stellar-mass black hole GX 339-4 in outburst. A clear, strong, relativistically shaped iron emission line from the inner accretion disk is observed. The broadband disk reflection spectrum revealed is one of the most sensitive yet obtained from an accreting black hole. We fit the Suzaku spectra with a physically motivated disk reflection model, blurred by a new relativistic line function in which the black hole spin parameter is a variable. This procedure yielded a black hole spin parameter of a p. Joint modeling of these Suzaku spectra and prior XMM-Newton spectra obtained in two different 0.89 +/- 0.04 outburst phases yields a spin parameter of a = 0.93 +/- 0.01. The degree of consistency between these results suggests that disk reflection models allow for spin measurements that are not strongly biased by scattering effects. We suggest that the best value of the black hole spin parameter is a = 0.93 +/- 0.01 (statistical) +/- 0.04 (systematic). Although preliminary, these results represent the first direct measurement of nonzero spin in a stellar-mass black hole using relativistic line modeling
On the determination of the spin of the black hole in Cyg X-1 from X-ray reflection spectra
The spin of Cygnus X-1 is measured by fitting reflection models to Suzaku
data covering the energy band 0.9-400 keV. The inner radius of the accretion
disc is found to lie within 2 gravitational radii (r_g=GM/c^2) and a value for
the dimensionless black hole spin is obtained of 0.97^{+0.014}_{-0.02}. This
agrees with recent measurements using the continuum fitting method by Gou et
al. and of the broad iron line by Duro et al. The disc inclination is measured
at 23.7^{+6.7}_{-5.4} deg, which is consistent with the recent optical
measurement of the binary system inclination by Orosz et al of 27+/-0.8 deg. We
pay special attention to the emissivity profile caused by irradiation of the
inner disc by the hard power-law source. The X-ray observations and simulations
show that the index q of that profile deviates from the commonly used,
Newtonian, value of 3 within 3r_g, steepening considerably within 2r_g, as
expected in the strong gravity regime.Comment: 7 pages, 10 figures, MNRAS in pres
Qualidade da silagem prĂ©-secada de Capim-TIFTON 85 cortado em trĂȘs idades e trĂȘs tempos de emurchecimento.
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