Colorectal Cancer Screening

The USPSTF gives Colorectal Cancer screening a Grade A recommendation, beginning at age 50 years and continuing until age 75 years. Screening colonoscopies are proven to show dramatic decreased incidence and mortality from colorectal cancer. This project evaluates the percentage of patients at Stowe Family Practice and Community Health Services of Lamoille Valley who are meeting these guidelines. Using chart reviews and patient interviews, the project seeks ways to increase screening rates through provider-patient shared decision making tools and educational materials for the office.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fmclerk/1264/thumbnail.jp

Circular Coloring of Random Graphs: Statistical Physics Investigation

Circular coloring is a constraints satisfaction problem where colors are assigned to nodes in a graph in such a way that every pair of connected nodes has two consecutive colors (the first color being consecutive to the last). We study circular coloring of random graphs using the cavity method. We identify two very interesting properties of this problem. For sufficiently many color and sufficiently low temperature there is a spontaneous breaking of the circular symmetry between colors and a phase transition forwards a ferromagnet-like phase. Our second main result concerns 5-circular coloring of random 3-regular graphs. While this case is found colorable, we conclude that the description via one-step replica symmetry breaking is not sufficient. We observe that simulated annealing is very efficient to find proper colorings for this case. The 5-circular coloring of 3-regular random graphs thus provides a first known example of a problem where the ground state energy is known to be exactly zero yet the space of solutions probably requires a full-step replica symmetry breaking treatment.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures, 3 table

Construction and Test of New Precision Drift-Tube Chambers for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer

ATLAS muon detector upgrades aim for increased acceptance for muon triggering and precision tracking and for improved rate capability of the muon chambers in the high-background regions of the detector with increasing LHC luminosity. The small-diameter Muon Drift Tube (sMDT) chambers have been developed for these purposes. With half of the drift-tube diameter of the MDT chambers and otherwise unchanged operating parameters, sMDT chambers share the advantages of the MDTs, but have an order of magnitude higher rate capability and can be installed in detector regions where MDT chambers do not fit in. The chamber assembly methods have been optimized for mass production, minimizing construction time and personnel. Sense wire positioning accuracies of 5 ?micons have been achieved in serial production for large-size chambers comprising several hundred drift tubes. The construction of new sMDT chambers for installation in the 2016/17 winter shutdown of the LHC and the design of sMDT chambers in combination with new RPC trigger chambers for replacement of the inner layer of the barrel muon spectrometer are in progress

Walter Lippmann\u27s Search for a Sustainable Liberalism

Walter Lippmann’s intellectual journey represents the journey of American liberalism in the 20th century: an attempted return from infatuation with the progressive ideals of inevitable historical development and scientific progress to the stability of human rights and freedom. America’s path to defining its brand of liberalism finds expression in the philosophical works of Lippmann, who was at the center of this struggle. Lippmann was a defender of the liberal democratic state whose value as a thinker derives from his attempt to understand the problem of political freedom (are people competent to self-rule in a mass democracy?) throughout this critical time period. In this struggle Lippmann remains a nuanced, though fierce exponent of political freedom as he sought to verify the foundations of political legitimacy and authority on which true political freedom depends. He began his quest as a progressive, averring scientific realism against entrenched dogmas and traditions, but, by remaining consistent on this question of political freedom (insofar as he sought to preserve and expand it), was led to conclude his quest arguing for a sustainable liberalism characterized by an attentiveness to the human person

Number-theoretic properties of the binomial distribution with applications in arithmetic geometry

2014 Summer.Alina Bucur et al. showed that the distribution of the number of points on a smooth projective plane curve of degree d over a finite field of order q is approximated by a particular binomial distribution. We generalize their arguments to obtain a similar theorem concerning hypersurfaces in projective m-space. We briefly describe Bucur and Kedlaya's generalization to complete intersections. We then prove theorems concerning the probability that a binomial distribution yields an integer of various certain properties, such as being prime or being squarefree. Finally, we show how to apply such a theorem, concerning a property P, to yield results concerning the probability that the numbers of points on random complete intersections possess property P

Modular group and modular forms

2010 Summer.Includes bibliographic references.Covers not scanned.Print version deaccessioned 2022.We prove some results about the structure of SL2(Z) and related groups. We define modular forms for this group and develop the basic theory. We then use the theory of lattices to construct examples of modular forms

Junior Recital: Eric Schmidt, Percussion

Kemp Recital Hall Saturday Afternoon February 29, 1992 4:00p.m