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Drag coefficients for partially inflated flat circular parachutes
Free-body tests of flat circular parachutes and determination of aerodynamic drag coefficients during partial inflatio
Distribution of Time-Averaged Observables for Weak Ergodicity Breaking
We find a general formula for the distribution of time-averaged observables
for systems modeled according to the sub-diffusive continuous time random walk.
For Gaussian random walks coupled to a thermal bath we recover ergodicity and
Boltzmann's statistics, while for the anomalous subdiffusive case a weakly
non-ergodic statistical mechanical framework is constructed, which is based on
L\'evy's generalized central limit theorem. As an example we calculate the
distribution of : the time average of the position of the particle,
for unbiased and uniformly biased particles, and show that exhibits
large fluctuations compared with the ensemble average .Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Using a Fermionic Ensemble of Systems to Determine Excited States
We discuss a new numerical method for the determination of excited states of
a quantum system using a generalization of the Feynman-Kac formula. The method
relies on introducing an ensemble of non-interacting identical systems with a
fermionic statistics imposed on the systems as a whole, and on determining the
ground state of this fermionic ensemble by taking the large time limit of the
Euclidean kernel. Due to the exclusion principle, the ground state of an
-system ensemble is realized by the set of individual systems occupying
successively the lowest states, all of which can therefore be sampled in
this way. To demonstrate how the method works, we consider a one-dimensional
oscillator and a chain of harmonically coupled particles.Comment: 14 pages, Latex + 4 eps figure
A non-perturbative determination of Z_V and b_V for O(a) improved quenched and unquenched Wilson fermions
By considering the local vector current between nucleon states and imposing
charge conservation we determine, for improved Wilson fermions, its
renormalisation constant and quark mass improvement coefficient. The
computation is performed for both quenched and two flavour unquenched fermions.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figures, Lattice(2002)(improve
A scalable PC-based parallel computer for lattice QCD
A PC-based parallel computer for medium/large scale lattice QCD simulations
is suggested. The Eotvos Univ., Inst. Theor. Phys. cluster consists of 137
Intel P4-1.7GHz nodes. Gigabit Ethernet cards are used for nearest neighbor
communication in a two-dimensional mesh. The sustained performance for
dynamical staggered(wilson) quarks on large lattices is around 70(110) GFlops.
The exceptional price/performance ratio is below $1/Mflop.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, Lattice2002(machines
Impact of caregiver burden on health-related quality of life and family functioning of carers of children with epilepsy at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, South Africa
Background. The impact of caring for a child with a chronic disease on caregivers and their family functioning contributes to the child’s adaptation to the disease. Objectives. To determine the impact of caregiver burden on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and family functioning of carers of children with epilepsy (CWE), and to determine factors associated with a high impact of caregiver burden. Method. A cross-sectional study was conducted among primary caregivers of CWE attending the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, South Africa. Participants had been involved in childcare for at least 6 months before study enrolment and all gave informed consent. Data regarding sociodemographic and epilepsy-related variables were obtained from questionnaires, including the 36-item family impact module of the Pediatric Quality of Life assessment tool. Scores in the lower quartile were considered indicative of a negative impact on HRQOL and poor family functioning. Results. Participants identified as experiencing a high impact of paediatric epilepsy care reported raw scores ≤31.3 for both caregiver burden and family functioning. The family functioning score correlated strongly with the caregivers’ HRQOL score (p=0.78; p<0.001). Multivariate analysis identified a low level of education among caregivers and a high seizure frequency in patients as independent predictors of caregiver burden associated with a negative impact. Conclusion. Our findings suggest that the burden of caregiving in paediatric epilepsy among our study population impacts negatively on family functioning. The burden of care was associated with a low level of caregiver education and a high seizure frequency in their children
Finite size effects on in QCD from Chiral Perturbation Theory
We present a determination of the shift due to the finite
spatial box size by means of Chiral Perturbation Theory and
L\"uscher's formula. The range of applicability of the chiral prediction is
discussed.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, Lattice2002(spectrum
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