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    Leptogenesis from Pseudo-Scalar Driven Inflation

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    We examine recent claims for a considerable amount of leptogenesis, in some inflationary scenarios, through the gravitational anomaly in the lepton number current. We find that when the short distances contributions are properly included the amount of lepton number generated is actually much smaller.Comment: JHEP style, 11 pages. Corrected typ

    Assessment of the Availability and Accessibility of Emergency Obstetric Care Services in Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital, Kano, Nigeria

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    Background: The availability of emergency obstetric care services is measured by the number of facilities that perform all the signal functions in relation to the size of the population. When personnel have carried out the seven signal functions of basic emergency obstetric care services in the 3-month period before the assessment, the facility is considered to be a fully functioning basic facility. This study assessed the availability and accessibility of Emergency Obstetrics Care (EmOC) Service provision.Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital among 246 women presenting with obstetric emergency using client exit interview, check list and record review from an adapted UNDP/WHO/UNICEF EMOC performance standard for hospital. Data analysis was done with SSPS version 20 and Permission was obtained from the hospital and consent from the clients.Result: The study revealed that the laboratory was in good shape with a score of 11 out of the 15 points. In the labour ward, the percentage availability was 63.3%. In the theatre, percentage availability was 85.4%. The hospital offers comprehensive EmOC service. The Obstetrics and Gynaecology department had only 11 medical doctors, 126 nurse-midwives training, 1 anaesthesiologist, 1 pharmacist and few other auxiliary workers. Out of the total of 204 health personnel in this department, only 13 (6.4%) were trained in EmOC service.Conclusion: The human resources availability and equipments needed for the provision of EmOC services were inadequate when compared with the performance standard adopted. Geographical access was poor as majority of the respondents had to travel over long distances to utilize the facility. Therefore, there is need for the staff to be trained on EmOC among others

    Accelerated expansion of the universe driven by tachyonic matter

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    It is an accepted practice in cosmology to invoke a scalar field with potential V(ϕ)V(\phi) when observed evolution of the universe cannot be reconciled with theoretical prejudices. Since one function-degree-of-freedom in the expansion factor a(t)a(t) can be traded off for the function V(ϕ)V(\phi), it is {\it always} possible to find a scalar field potential which will reproduce a given evolution. I provide a recipe for determining V(ϕ)V(\phi) from a(t)a(t) in two cases:(i) Normal scalar field with Lagrangian L=(1/2)aϕaϕV(ϕ){\cal L} = (1/2)\partial_a\phi \partial^a\phi - V(\phi) used in quintessence/dark energy models. (ii) A tachyonic field with Lagrangian L=V(ϕ)[1aϕaϕ]1/2{\cal L} = -V(\phi) [ 1- \partial_a\phi \partial^a\phi]^{1/2} , motivated by recent string theoretic results. In the latter case, it is possible to have accelerated expansion of the universe during the late phase in certain cases. This suggests a string theory based interpretation of the current phase of the universe with tachyonic condensate acting as effective cosmological constant.Comment: 4 pages; uses revtex

    On the Initial Conditions for Brane Inflation

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    String theory gives rise to various mechanisms to generate primordial inflation, of which ``brane inflation'' is one of the most widely considered. In this scenario, inflation takes place while two branes are approaching each other, and the modulus field representing the separation between the branes plays the role of the inflaton field. We study the phase space of initial conditions which can lead to a sufficiently long period of cosmological inflation, and find that taking into account the possibility of nonvanishing initial momentum can significantly change the degree of fine tuning of the required initial conditions.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figure

    Absence of self-averaging in the complex admittance for transport through random media

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    A random walk model in a one dimensional disordered medium with an oscillatory input current is presented as a generic model of boundary perturbation methods to investigate properties of a transport process in a disordered medium. It is rigorously shown that an admittance which is equal to the Fourier-Laplace transform of the first-passage time distribution is non-self-averaging when the disorder is strong. The low frequency behavior of the disorder-averaged admittance, 1ωμ -1 \sim \omega^{\mu} where μ<1\mu < 1, does not coincide with the low frequency behavior of the admittance for any sample, χ1ω\chi - 1 \sim \omega. It implies that the Cole-Cole plot of appears at a different position from the Cole-Cole plots of χ\chi of any sample. These results are confirmed by Monte-Carlo simulations.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, published in Phys. Rev.

    Inflation and Brane Gases

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    We investigate a new way of realizing a period of cosmological inflation in the context of brane gas cosmology. It is argued that a gas of co-dimension one branes, out of thermal equilibrium with the rest of the matter, has an equation of state which can - after stabilization of the dilaton - lead to power-law inflation of the bulk. The most promising implementation of this mechanism might be in Type IIB superstring theory, with inflation of the three large spatial dimensions triggered by ``stabilized embedded 2-branes''. Possible applications and problems with this proposal are discussed.Comment: 7 pages, uses REVTeX, version to appear in Phys. Rev.

    Survival and residence times in disordered chains with bias

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    We present a unified framework for first-passage time and residence time of random walks in finite one-dimensional disordered biased systems. The derivation is based on exact expansion of the backward master equation in cumulants. The dependence on initial condition, system size, and bias strength is explicitly studied for models with weak and strong disorder. Application to thermally activated processes is also developed.Comment: 13 pages with 2 figures, RevTeX4; v2:minor grammatical changes, typos correcte

    Can the clustered dark matter and the smooth dark energy arise from the same scalar field ?

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    Cosmological observations suggest the existence of two different kinds of energy densities dominating at small (500 \lesssim 500 Mpc) and large (1000\gtrsim 1000 Mpc) scales. The dark matter component, which dominates at small scales, contributes Ωm0.35\Omega_m \approx 0.35 and has an equation of state p=0p=0 while the dark energy component, which dominates at large scales, contributes ΩV0.65\Omega_V \approx 0.65 and has an equation of state pρp\simeq -\rho. It is usual to postulate wimps for the first component and some form of scalar field or cosmological constant for the second component. We explore the possibility of a scalar field with a Lagrangian L =- V(\phi) \sqrt{1 - \del^i \phi \del_i \phi} acting as {\it both} clustered dark matter and smoother dark energy and having a scale dependent equation of state. This model predicts a relation between the ratio r=ρV/ρDM r = \rho_V/\rho_{\rm DM} of the energy densities of the two dark components and expansion rate nn of the universe (with a(t)tna(t) \propto t^n) in the form n=(2/3)(1+r)n = (2/3) (1+r) . For r2r \approx 2, we get n2n \approx 2 which is consistent with observations.Comment: Revised to match the published version. Minor changes and a reference adde

    Supersymmetry Breaking and Dilaton Stabilization in String Gas Cosmology

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    In this Note we study supersymmetry breaking via gaugino condensation in string gas cosmology. We show that the same gaugino condensate which is introduced to stabilize the dilaton breaks supersymmetry. We study the constraints on the scale of supersymmetry breaking which this mechanism leads to.Comment: 11 page

    The second and third Sonine coefficients of a freely cooling granular gas revisited

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    In its simplest statistical-mechanical description, a granular fluid can be modeled as composed of smooth inelastic hard spheres (with a constant coefficient of normal restitution α\alpha) whose velocity distribution function obeys the Enskog-Boltzmann equation. The basic state of a granular fluid is the homogeneous cooling state, characterized by a homogeneous, isotropic, and stationary distribution of scaled velocities, F(c)F(\mathbf{c}). The behavior of F(c)F(\mathbf{c}) in the domain of thermal velocities (c1c\sim 1) can be characterized by the two first non-trivial coefficients (a2a_2 and a3a_3) of an expansion in Sonine polynomials. The main goals of this paper are to review some of the previous efforts made to estimate (and measure in computer simulations) the α\alpha-dependence of a2a_2 and a3a_3, to report new computer simulations results of a2a_2 and a3a_3 for two-dimensional systems, and to investigate the possibility of proposing theoretical estimates of a2a_2 and a3a_3 with an optimal compromise between simplicity and accuracy.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures; v2: minor change
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