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Analysis to efficiency discrete covering worker organ when clearing vegetable raw material
In article is executed analysis to efficiency of the functioning the cleansing equipment for different type vegetable cheese: potatoes, carrot, pommel and the other type potatoes. He is indicative of that that much of the cleansing equipment uses as worker organ abrasive put, which improvement is one of the directions of increasing to his efficiency and improvements of his field-performance data. Classical model of the motion club is considered In process of the analysis in camera of the cleansing machine. For optimization of the process peelings is installed path of the motion and is calculated corner of the flight club with cone-shaped chalice. When shaping the models is considered apart taken tuber of the potatoes. Expecting his uniform sphere and without regard influence upon it other club, have defined the path of his motion on cone-shaped chalice and corner, under which tuber flies to wall. The Corner of the slopping cone chalices 30 degrees took to horizon. Integrating equation on time, got the equation of the energy balance, from which possible select required for peelings time. The Further analysis conducted the methods of the numerical experiment in system Mathcad. Got in this experiment results allow to optimize the drawing a fixing abrasive bands, taking into consideration designed methods of the shaping for such object, as worker organs cleansing machines, technology of the intermittent fixing covering. The Following stage of modeling expected consideration of the process peelings for collection cleaned club, on which expected the separate cleaned objects (for instance, potato tubers) springy element, changing their (in flat production) hard disk united between itself springy spring. Consideration this elaborated models have allowed to install the frequencies of the free fluctuations of this system and, accordingly, moments of the osculation worker organ that in significant measure defines the topology of the abrasive covering
New time-type and space-type non-standard quantum algebras and discrete symmetries
Starting from the classical r-matrix of the non-standard (or Jordanian)
quantum deformation of the sl(2,R) algebra, new triangular quantum deformations
for the real Lie algebras so(2,2), so(3,1) and iso(2,1) are simultaneously
constructed by using a graded contraction scheme; these are realized as
deformations of conformal algebras of (1+1)-dimensional spacetimes. Time-type
and space-type quantum algebras are considered according to the generator that
remains primitive after deformation: either the time or the space translation,
respectively. Furthermore by introducing differential-difference conformal
realizations, these families of quantum algebras are shown to be the symmetry
algebras of either a time or a space discretization of (1+1)-dimensional (wave
and Laplace) equations on uniform lattices; the relationship with the known Lie
symmetry approach to these discrete equations is established by means of twist
maps.Comment: 17 pages, LaTe
Self-Reported Occupational Exposure to HIV and Factors Influencing its Management Practice: A Study of Healthcare Workers in Tumbi and Dodoma Hospitals, Tanzania.
Blood borne infectious agents such as hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immune deficiency virus (HIV) constitute a major occupational hazard for healthcare workers (HCWs). To some degree it is inevitable that HCWs sustain injuries from sharp objects such as needles, scalpels and splintered bone during execution of their duties. However, in Tanzania, there is little or no information on factors that influence the practice of managing occupational exposure to HIV by HCWs. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of self-reported occupational exposure to HIV among HCWs and explore factors that influence the practice of managing occupational exposure to HIV by HCWs in Tanzania. Self-administered questionnaire was designed to gather information of healthcare workers' occupational exposures in the past 12 months and circumstances in which these injuries occurred. Practice of managing occupational exposure was assessed by the following questions: Nearly half of the HCWs had experienced at least one occupational injury in the past 12 months. Though most of the occupational exposures to HIV were experienced by female nurses, non-medical hospital staff received PEP more frequently than nurses and doctors. Doctors and nurses frequently encountered occupational injuries in surgery room and labor room respectively. HCWs with knowledge on the possibility of HIV transmission and those who knew whom to contact in event of occupational exposure to HIV were less likely to have poor practice of managing occupational exposure. Needle stick injuries and splashes are common among HCWs at Tumbi and Dodoma hospitals. Knowledge of the risk of HIV transmission due to occupational exposure and knowing whom to contact in event of exposure predicted practice of managing the exposure. Thus provision of health education on occupational exposure may strengthen healthcare workers' practices to manage occupational exposure
Multispecies reaction-diffusion systems
Multispecies reaction-diffusion systems, for which the time evolution
equation of correlation functions become a closed set, are considered. A formal
solution for the average densities is found. Some special interactions and the
exact time dependence of the average densities in these cases are also studied.
For the general case, the large time behaviour of the average densities has
also been obtained.Comment: LaTeX file, 15 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev.
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Analysis of enriched rare variants in JPH2-encoded junctophilin-2 among Greater Middle Eastern individuals reveals a novel homozygous variant associated with neonatal dilated cardiomyopathy.
Junctophilin-2 (JPH2) is a part of the junctional membrane complex that facilitates calcium-handling in the cardiomyocyte. Previously, missense variants in JPH2 have been linked to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; however, pathogenic "loss of function" (LOF) variants have not been described. Family-based genetic analysis of GME individuals with cardiomyopathic disease identified an Iranian patient with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) as a carrier of a novel, homozygous single nucleotide insertion in JPH2 resulting in a stop codon (JPH2-p.E641*). A second Iranian family with consanguineous parents hosting an identical heterozygous variant had 2 children die in childhood from cardiac failure. To characterize ethnicity-dependent genetic variability in JPH2 and to identify homozygous JPH2 variants associated with cardiac disease, we identified variants in JPH2 in a worldwide control cohort (gnomAD) and 2 similar cohorts from the Greater Middle East (GME Variome, Iranome). These were compared against ethnicity-matched clinical whole exome sequencing (WES) referral tests and a case cohort of individuals with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) based on comprehensive review of the literature. Worldwide, 1.45% of healthy individuals hosted a rare JPH2 variant with a significantly higher proportion among GME individuals (4.45%); LOF variants were rare overall (0.04%) yet were most prevalent in GME (0.21%). The increased prevalence of LOF variants in GME individuals was corroborated among region-specific, clinical WES cohorts. In conclusion, we report ethnic-specific differences in JPH2 rare variants, with GME individuals being at higher risk of hosting homozygous LOF variants. This conclusion is supported by the identification of a novel JPH2 LOF variant confirmed by segregation analysis resulting in autosomal recessive pediatric DCM due to presumptive JPH2 truncation
The Assessment of Elastic Follow-Up Effects on Cyclic Accumulation of Inelastic Strain Under Displacement-Control Loading
A Longitudinal Electromyography Study of Complex Movements in Poststroke Therapy. 1: Heterogeneous Changes Despite Consistent Improvements in Clinical Assessments
Poststroke weakness on the more-affected side may arise from reduced corticospinal drive, disuse muscle atrophy, spasticity, and abnormal coordination. This study investigated changes in muscle activation patterns to understand therapy-induced improvements in motor-function in chronic stroke compared to clinical assessments and to identify the effect of motor-function level on muscle activation changes. Electromyography (EMG) was recorded from five upper limb muscles on the more-affected side of 24 patients during early and late therapy sessions of an intensive 14-day program of Wii-based Movement Therapy (WMT) and for a subset of 13 patients at 6-month follow-up. Patients were classified according to residual voluntary motor capacity with low, moderate, or high motor-function levels. The area under the curve was calculated from EMG amplitude and movement duration. Clinical assessments of upper limb motor-function pre- and post-therapy included the Wolf Motor Function Test, Fugl-Meyer Assessment and Motor Activity Log Quality of Movement scale. Clinical assessments improved over time (p < 0.01) with an effect of motor-function level (p < 0.001). The pattern of EMG change by late therapy was complex and variable, with differences between patients with low compared to moderate or high motor-function levels. The area under the curve (p = 0.028) and peak amplitude (p = 0.043) during Wii-tennis backhand increased for patients with low motor-function, whereas EMG decreased for patients with moderate and high motor-function levels. The reductions included movement duration during Wii-golf (p = 0.048, moderate; p = 0.026, high) and Wii-tennis backhand (p = 0.046, moderate; p = 0.023, high) and forehand (p = 0.009, high) and the area under the curve during Wii-golf (p = 0.018, moderate) and Wii-baseball (p = 0.036, moderate). For the pooled data over time, there was an effect of motor-function (p = 0.016) and an interaction between time and motor-function (p = 0.009) for Wii-golf movement duration. Wii-baseball movement duration decreased as a function of time (p = 0.022). There was an effect on Wii-tennis forehand duration for time (p = 0.002), an interaction of time and motor-function (p = 0.005) and an effect of motor-function level on the area under the curve (p = 0.034) for Wii-golf. This study demonstrated different patterns of EMG changes according to residual voluntary motor-function levels, despite heterogeneity within each level that was not evident following clinical assessments alone. Thus, rehabilitation efficacy might be underestimated by analyses of pooled data
(1+1) Schrodinger Lie bialgebras and their Poisson-Lie groups
All Lie bialgebra structures for the (1+1)-dimensional centrally extended
Schrodinger algebra are explicitly derived and proved to be of the coboundary
type. Therefore, since all of them come from a classical r-matrix, the complete
family of Schrodinger Poisson-Lie groups can be deduced by means of the
Sklyanin bracket. All possible embeddings of the harmonic oscillator, extended
Galilei and gl(2) Lie bialgebras within the Schrodinger classification are
studied. As an application, new quantum (Hopf algebra) deformations of the
Schrodinger algebra, including their corresponding quantum universal
R-matrices, are constructed.Comment: 25 pages, LaTeX. Possible applications in relation with integrable
systems are pointed; new references adde
Twist maps for non-standard quantum algebras and discrete Schrodinger symmetries
The minimal twist map introduced by B. Abdesselam, A. Chakrabarti, R.
Chakrabarti and J. Segar (Mod. Phys. Lett. A 14 (1999) 765) for the
non-standard (Jordanian) quantum sl(2,R) algebra is used to construct the twist
maps for two different non-standard quantum deformations of the (1+1)
Schrodinger algebra. Such deformations are, respectively, the symmetry algebras
of a space and a time uniform lattice discretization of the (1+1) free
Schrodinger equation. It is shown that the corresponding twist maps connect the
usual Lie symmetry approach to these discrete equations with non-standard
quantum deformations. This relationship leads to a clear interpretation of the
deformation parameter as the step of the uniform (space or time) lattice.Comment: 16 pages, LaTe
Multiparametric quantum gl(2): Lie bialgebras, quantum R-matrices and non-relativistic limits
Multiparametric quantum deformations of are studied through a
complete classification of Lie bialgebra structures. From them, the
non-relativistic limit leading to harmonic oscillator Lie bialgebras is
implemented by means of a contraction procedure. New quantum deformations of
together with their associated quantum -matrices are obtained and
other known quantizations are recovered and classified. Several connections
with integrable models are outlined.Comment: 21 pages, LaTeX. To appear in J. Phys. A. New contents adde
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