478 research outputs found
Adoption of healthcare information technology and the impact on clinician behavior
Thesis (S.M.)--Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 2009."June 2009." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-52).It is widely believed that healthcare information technology (health IT) can improve care and lower costs. However, the pattern and uptake of beneficial features of health IT is poorly understood, and is an important part of realizing the full benefits of health IT. This thesis examines the factors relating to adoption and use of reporting features within an outpatient practice management system. A retrospective observational study was performed utilizing web log data from a practice management and electronic health record system vendor. Two years of data were analyzed on the use of features within the system in two different scenarios: the use of a newly released custom reporting feature among existing clients, and the use of a physician-level monthly report among new clients. Among these two different populations and features, the first use and subsequent utilization exhibited similar patterns. Using the Bass model of technology diffusion to quantify the adoption of these features, it was found that adoption had a low social component (coefficient of imitation) and a high personal component (coefficient of innovation). One physician's use of a feature in his practice did not appear to influence whether a new physician joining the same practice would use the feature. In addition, the earliest users of a feature tended to utilize that feature more often. Practices and providers that used these features performed better across three of four operational and financial metrics. The purchase and installation of a health IT system by an organization does not ensure that individuals within it will fully utilize the system and realize all the benefits.(cont.) Incentives for health IT should focus on the advantages gained from these systems, and not merely on their purchase. Health IT vendors should be cognizant of the way they introduce new functionality to their clients in order to ensure maximal use.by Adam Weinstein.S.M
Spectral variational principle for Green's functions
For a suitable approximation ( q, q′, τ ) to the Dirac-Feynman Green's function of a quantummechanical system, the parameter is defined, where ℒ≡ i ∂/∂τ−ℋ. It is shown that Δ ≧0 and Δ →0 as K→K , the exact Green's function, thus providing a criterion on approximate Green's functions analogous in its role to the variational principle for wavefunctions. A second somewhat weaker criterion is also proposed, based on . Recipes are given for projecting out continuum contributions to Δ or ∑ and for analyzing for the discrete eigen-value spectrum. Um zu Näherungen ( q, q′, τ) für die Dirac-Feynman-Greensche Funktion eines quantenmechanischen Systems zu gelangen, wird der Parameter definiert, wobei ℒ≡ i ∂/∂τ−ℋ für iδ/δτ — ℋ steht. Es wird gezeigt, daß Δ ≧0 und Δ →0 wenn K→K , so daß damit ein Kriterium für Näherungen der Green'schen Funktion analog dem Variationsprinzip für Wellenfunktionen gefunden ist. Als zweites, wenn auch schwächeres Kriterium gründet sich auf . Hinweise für das Herausprojizieren der Beträge des Kontinuums aus Δ bzw. ∑ und für die Analyse des diskreten Spektrums werden gegeben.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/46453/1/214_2004_Article_BF01007554.pd
Molecular vibration in cold collision theory
Cold collisions of ground state oxygen molecules with Helium have been
investigated in a wide range of cold collision energies (from 1 K up to 10
K) treating the oxygen molecule first as a rigid rotor and then introducing the
vibrational degree of freedom. The comparison between the two models shows that
at low energies the rigid rotor approximation is very accurate and able to
describe all the dynamical features of the system. The comparison between the
two models has also been extended to cases where the interaction potential He -
O is made artificially stronger. In this case vibration can perturb rate
constants, but fine-tuning the rigid rotor potential can alleviate the
discrepancies between the two models.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure
Entanglement preparation using symmetric multiports
We investigate the entanglement produced by a multi-path interferometer that
is composed of two symmetric multiports, with phase shifts applied to the
output of the first multiport. Particular attention is paid to the case when we
have a single photon entering the interferometer. For this situation we derive
a simple condition that characterize the types of entanglement that one can
generate. We then show how one can use the results from the single photon case
to determine what kinds of multi-photon entangled states one can prepare using
the interferometer.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in European Journal of
Physics
Entanglement preparation using symmetric multiports
We investigate the entanglement produced by a multi-path interferometer that
is composed of two symmetric multiports, with phase shifts applied to the
output of the first multiport. Particular attention is paid to the case when we
have a single photon entering the interferometer. For this situation we derive
a simple condition that characterize the types of entanglement that one can
generate. We then show how one can use the results from the single photon case
to determine what kinds of multi-photon entangled states one can prepare using
the interferometer.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in European Journal of
Physics
Exploring \pp scattering in the \1N picture
In the large approximation to , the leading \pp scattering
amplitude is expressed as the sum of an infinite number of tree diagrams. We
investigate the possibility that an adequate approximation at energies up to
somewhat more than one can be made by keeping diagrams which involve the
exchange of resonances in this energy range in addition to the simplest chiral
contact terms. In this approach crossing symmetry is automatic but individual
terms tend to drastically violate partial wave unitarity. We first note that
the introduction of the meson in a chirally invariant manner
substantially delays the onset of drastic unitarity violation which would be
present for the {\it current algebra} term alone. This suggests a possibility
of local (in energy) cancellation which we then explore in a phenomenological
way. We include exchanges of leading resonances up to the region.
However, unitarity requires more structure which we model by a four derivative
contact term or by a low lying scalar resonance which is presumably subleading
in the \1N expansion, but may nevertheless be important. The latter two
flavor model gives a reasonable description of the phase shift up
until around , before the effects associated which the
threshold come into play.Comment: 27 LaTex pages + 13 figures (also available in hard-copy
Discrete Nonholonomic Lagrangian Systems on Lie Groupoids
This paper studies the construction of geometric integrators for nonholonomic
systems. We derive the nonholonomic discrete Euler-Lagrange equations in a
setting which permits to deduce geometric integrators for continuous
nonholonomic systems (reduced or not). The formalism is given in terms of Lie
groupoids, specifying a discrete Lagrangian and a constraint submanifold on it.
Additionally, it is necessary to fix a vector subbundle of the Lie algebroid
associated to the Lie groupoid. We also discuss the existence of nonholonomic
evolution operators in terms of the discrete nonholonomic Legendre
transformations and in terms of adequate decompositions of the prolongation of
the Lie groupoid. The characterization of the reversibility of the evolution
operator and the discrete nonholonomic momentum equation are also considered.
Finally, we illustrate with several classical examples the wide range of
application of the theory (the discrete nonholonomic constrained particle, the
Suslov system, the Chaplygin sleigh, the Veselova system, the rolling ball on a
rotating table and the two wheeled planar mobile robot).Comment: 45 page
Asymptotic Density of Eigenvalue Clusters for the Perturbed Landau Hamiltonian
We consider the Landau Hamiltonian (i.e. the 2D Schroedinger operator with
constant magnetic field) perturbed by an electric potential V which decays
sufficiently fast at infinity. The spectrum of the perturbed Hamiltonian
consists of clusters of eigenvalues which accumulate to the Landau levels.
Applying a suitable version of the anti-Wick quantization, we investigate the
asymptotic distribution of the eigenvalues within a given cluster as the number
of the cluster tends to infinity. We obtain an explicit description of the
asymptotic density of the eigenvalues in terms of the Radon transform of the
perturbation potential V.Comment: 30 pages. The explicit dependence on B and V in Theorem 1.6 (i) -
(ii) indicated. Typos corrected. To appear in Communications in Mathematical
Physic
Integrable structure of Ginibre's ensemble of real random matrices and a Pfaffian integration theorem
In the recent publication [E. Kanzieper and G. Akemann, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230201 (2005)], an exact solution was reported for the probability p_{n,k} to find exactly k real eigenvalues in the spectrum of an nxn real asymmetric matrix drawn at
random from Ginibre's Orthogonal Ensemble (GinOE). In the present paper, we offer a detailed derivation of the above result by concentrating on the proof of the Pfaffian integration theorem, the
key ingredient of our analysis of the statistics of real eigenvalues in the GinOE. We also initiate a study of the correlations of complex eigenvalues and derive a formula for the joint probability density function of all complex eigenvalues of a
GinOE matrix restricted to have exactly k real eigenvalues. In the particular case of k=0, all correlation functions of complex eigenvalues are determined
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