557 research outputs found
Living with vulval lichen sclerosus: a systematic review
Lichen sclerosus (LS) is an under‐researched disorder, particularly from the perspective of individuals who have the condition. A recent James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership identified uncertainties in many aspects of the condition, including its impact on quality of life which was ranked within the ‘Top 10’ future research priorities.1,2 We set out to systematically review the qualitative literature exploring the lived experience of vulval LS (for the full protocol see PROSPERO ID:CRD42018106947)
Assessment of Biosignals for Managing a Virtual Keyboard
In this paper we propose an assessment of biosignals for handling an
application based on virtual keyboard and automatic scanning. The aim of this
work is to measure the effect of using such application, through different interfaces
based on electromyography and electrooculography, on cardiac and electrodermal
activities. Five people without disabilities have been tested. Each
subject wrote twice the same text using an electromyography interface in first
test and electrooculography in the second one. Each test was divided into four
parts: instruction, initial relax, writing and final relax. The results of the tests
show important differences in the electrocardiogram and electrodermal activity
among the parts of tests.Junta de Andalucía p08-TIC-363
Outcome domains in lichen sclerosus
Lichen Sclerosus (LS) is a chronic inflammatory dermatosis predominantly affecting the genitals. It can affect men, women and children. LS affecting female genitalia typically presents with itchy patches that impact on physical and psychosocial‐sexual functioning1,2. Symptoms in men include difficulty urinating due to urethral narrowing, difficulty in foreskin retraction due to scarring, and dyspareunia. Complications include loss of anatomy and malignant transformation
Exact beta function from the holographic loop equation of large-N QCD_4
We construct and study a previously defined quantum holographic effective
action whose critical equation implies the holographic loop equation of large-N
QCD_4 for planar self-avoiding loops in a certain regularization scheme. We
extract from the effective action the exact beta function in the given scheme.
For the Wilsonean coupling constant the beta function is exacly one loop and
the first coefficient agrees with its value in perturbation theory. For the
canonical coupling constant the exact beta function has a NSVZ form and the
first two coefficients agree with their value in perturbation theory.Comment: 42 pages, latex. The exponent of the Vandermonde determinant in the
quantum effective action has been changed, because it has been employed a
holomorphic rather than a hermitean resolution of identity in the functional
integral. Beta function unchanged. New explanations and references added,
typos correcte
Galaxy Zoo Builder: Four-component Photometric Decomposition of Spiral Galaxies Guided by Citizen Science
Multicomponent modeling of galaxies is a valuable tool in the effort to quantitatively understand galaxy evolution, yet the use of the technique is plagued by issues of convergence, model selection, and parameter degeneracies. These issues limit its application over large samples to the simplest models, with complex models being applied only to very small samples. We attempt to resolve this dilemma of "quantity or quality"by developing a novel framework, built inside the Zooniverse citizen-science platform, to enable the crowdsourcing of model creation for Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies. We have applied the method, including a final algorithmic optimization step, on a test sample of 198 galaxies, and examine the robustness of this new method. We also compare it to automated fitting pipelines, demonstrating that it is possible to consistently recover accurate models that either show good agreement with, or improve on, prior work. We conclude that citizen science is a promising technique for modeling images of complex galaxies, and release our catalog of models
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