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Structure of the doublet bands in doubly odd nuclei: The case of
The structure of the doublet bands in is
investigated within the framework of the Interacting Vector Boson Fermion Model
(IVBFM). A new, purely collective interpretation of these bands is given on the
basis of the used boson-fermion dynamical symmetry of the model. The energy
levels of the doublet bands as well as the absolute and
transition probabilities between the states of both yrast and yrare bands are
described quite well. The observed odd-even staggering of both and
values is reproduced by the introduction of an appropriate interaction
term of quadrupole type, which produces such a staggering effect in the
transition strengths. The calculations show that the appearance of doublet
bands in certain odd-odd nuclei could be a consequence of the realization of a
larger dynamical symmetry based on the non-compact supersymmetry group
.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure
Consumer Response to Genetically Modified Foods
The consumer trait and characteristic identification, and corresponding relationship to the genetically modified food product's negative reactions was determined from a 354 respondent, 130 item mailed survey. The survey and partially mediated model from Mowen's 3M Model of Personality and Motivation explained how personality traits influence genetically modified food reactions.Consumer/Household Economics,
The Mean Ultraviolet Spectrum of a Representative Sample of Faint z~3 Lyman Alpha Emitters
We discuss the rest-frame ultraviolet emission line spectra of a large (~100)
sample of low luminosity redshift z~3.1 Lyman alpha emitters (LAEs) drawn from
a Subaru imaging survey in the SSA22 survey field. Our earlier work based on
smaller samples indicated that such sources have high [OIII]/[OII] line ratios
possibly arising from a hard ionising spectrum that may be typical of similar
sources in the reionisation era. With optical spectra secured from VLT/VIMOS,
we re-examine the nature of the ionising radiation in a larger sample using the
strength of the high ionisation diagnostic emission lines of CIII]1909,
CIV1549, HeII1640, and OIII]1661,1666 in various stacked subsets. Our analysis
confirms earlier suggestions of a correlation between the strength of Ly-alpha
and CIII] emission and we find similar trends with broad band UV luminosity and
rest-frame UV colour. Using various diagnostic line ratios and our stellar
photoionisation models, we determine both the gas phase metallicity and
hardness of the ionisation spectrum characterised by xi_ion - the number of
Lyman continuum photons per UV luminosity. We confirm our earlier suggestion
that xi_ion is significantly larger for LAEs than for continuum-selected Lyman
break galaxies, particularly for those LAEs with the faintest UV luminosities.
We briefly discuss the implications for cosmic reionisation if the metal-poor
intensely star-forming systems studied here are representative examples of
those at much higher redshift.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRA
The Princess and the Pea: The Assurance of Voluntary Compliance Between the Texas Attorney General and Aetna\u27s Texas HMOs and Its Impact on Financial Risk Shifting by Managed Care
The Texas Attorney General attempts to regulate managed care organizations and their shifting of financial risk by utilizing Assurance Voluntary Compliance to make the costs associated with the provisions of health insurance more transparent. A primary technique used to shift financial risk to providers of healthcare services is through the use of downstream entities which are commonly provider-sponsored organizations. It is the relationship between the downstream entity and the individual physicians that ultimately affects patient care, the doctor-patient relationship, and the quality of care. The regulatory community throughout the United States has made the regulation of downstream entities its number one priority.
It was in this context that then-Texas Attorney General Dan Morales filed suit against six health maintenance organizations (“HMO”) in December 1998, which ultimately led to the creation of Assurance Voluntary Compliance. The Assurance Voluntary Compliance led to HMO’s introducing “consumer driven” health plans. These new health plans call for the consumer to bear a greater responsibility of risk. In effect, the consumer is being called upon to assume the role of insurer in the consumer’s own health care expenditures. In the long term, it is unlikely that consumers will be able to manage risk, control costs, and ensure quality better than the managed care industry, employers, and health care providers that the consumers will be forced to replace
Feasibility of using teleradiology to improve tuberculosis screening and case management in a district hospital in Malawi.
Malawi has one of the world's highest rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (10.6%), and southern Malawi, where Thyolo district is located, bears the highest burden in the country (14.5%). Tuberculosis, common among HIV-infected people, requires radiologic diagnosis, yet Malawi has no radiologists in public service. This hinders rapid and accurate diagnosis and increases morbidity and mortality
Can Specialized Pathogens Colonize Distantly Related Hosts? Schistosome Evolution as a Case Study
Designing and Implementing a Longitudinal Study of Children with Neurological, Genetic, or Metabolic Conditions: \u3cem\u3eCharting the Territory\u3c/em\u3e
Background: Children with progressive metabolic, neurological, or chromosomal conditions and their families anticipate an unknown lifespan, endure unstable and often painful symptoms, and cope with erratic emotional and spiritual crises as the condition progresses along an uncertain trajectory towards death. Much is known about the genetics and pathophysiology of these diseases, but very little has been documented about the trajectory of symptoms for children with these conditions or the associated experience of their families. A longitudinal study design will help to close this gap in knowledge.
Methods/Design: Charting the Territory is a longitudinal descriptive, correlational study currently underway with children 0–19 years who are diagnosed with progressive neurological, metabolic, or chromosomal conditions and their families. The purpose of the study is to determine and document the clinical progression of the condition and the associated bio psychosocial spiritual experiences of these parents and siblings age 7–18 years. Approximately 300 families, both newly diagnosed children and those with established conditions, are being recruited in six Canadian cities. Children and their families are being followed for a minimum of 18 months, depending on when they enroll in the study. Family data collection will continue after the child’s death if the child dies during the study period. Data collection includes monthly parental assessment of the child’s symptoms; an annual functional assessment of the child; and completion of established instruments every 6 months by parents to assess family functioning, marital satisfaction, health status, anxiety, depression, stress, burden, grief, spirituality, and growth, and by siblings to assess coping and health. Impact of participation on parents is assessed after 1 year and at the end of the study. Chart reviews are conducted at enrollment and at the conclusion of the study or at the time of the child’s death.
Discussion: Knowledge developed from this study will provide some of the first ever detailed descriptions of the clinical symptom trajectory of these non-curable progressive conditions and the bio-psychosocial spiritual aspects for families, from diagnosis through bereavement. Information about developing and implementing this study may be useful to other researchers who are interested in designing a longitudinal study
The Lyman Continuum Escape Survey: Ionizing Radiation from [O III]-Strong Sources at a Redshift of 3.1
We present results from the LymAn Continuum Escape Survey (LACES), a Hubble
Space Telescope (HST) program designed to characterize the ionizing radiation
emerging from a sample of Lyman alpha emitting galaxies at redshift . As many show intense [O III] emission characteristic of
star-forming galaxies, they may represent valuable low redshift analogs of
galaxies in the reionization era. Using HST Wide Field Camera 3 / UVIS
to image Lyman continuum emission, we investigate the escape fraction of
ionizing photons in this sample. For 61 sources, of which 77% are
spectroscopically confirmed and 53 have measures of [O III] emission, we detect
Lyman continuum leakage in 20%, a rate significantly higher than is seen in
individual continuum-selected Lyman break galaxies. We estimate there is a 98%
probability that of our detections could be affected by foreground
contamination. Fitting multi-band spectral energy distributions (SEDs) to take
account of the varying stellar populations, dust extinctions and metallicities,
we derive individual Lyman continuum escape fractions corrected for foreground
intergalactic absorption. We find escape fractions of 15 to 60% for individual
objects, and infer an average 20% escape fraction by fitting composite SEDs for
our detected samples. Surprisingly however, even a deep stack of those sources
with no individual detections provides a stringent upper limit on the
average escape fraction of less than 0.5%. We examine various correlations with
source properties and discuss the implications in the context of the popular
picture that cosmic reionization is driven by such compact, low metallicity
star-forming galaxies.Comment: 26 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
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