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Karakteristik Perdarahan Antepartum Dan Perdarahan Postpartum
: The most important cause of hemorrhage in pregnancy and parturition are antepartum hemorrhage and postpartum hemorrhage. The purpose of this research is to investigate the characteristics of antepartum hemorrhage and postpartum hemorrhage at Prof DR. R.D Kandou General Hospital Manado in 2011. This research used a retrospective descriptive through medical records at BLU RSUP Prof dr R.D Kandou Manado in January 2011 to December 2011. From 4155 parturition case in 2011, there were 60 cases (1,44%) of antepartum hemorrhage and 36 case (0,86%) of postpartum hemorrhage. The highest sociodemographic distribution found : in mother's age between 35-39 years old, in highschool students, and housewives . The highest medico obstetric distribution found: 17 cases (28,3%) of first parity and 17 cases (28,3%) second parity of antepartum hemorrhage and 18 cases (50%) of first parity in postpartum hemorrhage, in gestational age between 37-42 week, 32 cases (53,3%) of antepartum hemorrhage and 30 cases (83,3%) of postpartum hemorrhage. The perabdominal parturition (caesarean section), there were 55 cases (91,7%) of antepartum hemorrhage and 22 case (61,1%) of pervaginam in postpartum hemorrhage. The causes of antepartum hemorrhage were placenta previa in 59 cases (98,3%) and retained placenta in 10 cases (27,8%). The most number of antenatal care check ups were ≥4x check ups on antepartum hemorrhage cases and <4x on postpartum hemorrhage cases. These high incidents needs to be noted by all parties. Pregnant women who are in risk for antepartum hemorrhage and postpartum hemorrhage need to be routinety and checked up and carefulle for their pregnancy
The Advanced X-ray Timing Array (AXTAR)
AXTAR is an X-ray observatory mission concept, currently under study in the
U.S., that combines very large collecting area, broadband spectral coverage,
high time resolution, highly flexible scheduling, and an ability to respond
promptly to time-critical targets of opportunity. It is optimized for
submillisecond timing of bright Galactic X-ray sources in order to study
phenomena at the natural time scales of neutron star surfaces and black hole
event horizons, thus probing the physics of ultradense matter, strongly curved
spacetimes, and intense magnetic fields. AXTAR's main instrument is a
collimated, thick Si pixel detector with 2-50 keV coverage and 8 square meters
collecting area. For timing observations of accreting neutron stars and black
holes, AXTAR provides at least an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity
over both RXTE and Constellation-X. AXTAR also carries a sensitive sky monitor
that acts as a trigger for pointed observations of X-ray transients and also
provides continuous monitoring of the X-ray sky with 20 times the sensitivity
of the RXTE ASM. AXTAR builds on detector and electronics technology previously
developed for other applications and thus combines high technical readiness and
well understood cost.Comment: 4 pages with 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of "A Decade of
Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsars", Amsterdam, April 2008, eds. R. Wijnands
et al. (AIP Conf. Proc.). Footnote and references adde
Recurrent very-long type-I X-ray bursts in the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53
Two flares with a duration of several hours are reported for the low-mass
X-ray binary 4U 1636-53. The characteristics of these flares (i.e., decay time
scales, spectral softening, fluences) are very similar to the very long type-I
X-ray bursts recently found in several other low-mass X-ray binaries,
suggesting that the flares in 4U 1636-53 are also very long type-I X-ray
bursts. This would make this source the fifth to exhibit this phenomenon and
the first one for which multiple bursts have been found. Interestingly, all
five sources accrete at approximately 10% of the Eddington mass accretion rate.
Although a chance coincidence or a selection effect cannot be ruled-out at
present, this correlation is suggestive and might indicate that only at a
narrow range of mass accretion rate such very long type-I X-ray bursts can
occur.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letter
X-ray variability during the quiescent state of the neutron-star X-ray transient in the globular cluster NGC 6440
The globular cluster NGC 6440 is known to harbor a bright neutron-star X-ray
transient. We observed the globular cluster with Chandra on two occasions when
the bright transient was in its quiescent state in July 2000 and June 2003
(both observations were made nearly 2 years after the end of their preceding
outbursts). The quiescent spectrum during the first observation is well
represented by a two component model (a neutron-star atmosphere model plus a
power-law component which dominates at energies above 2 keV). During the second
observation (which was roughly of equal duration to the first observation) we
found that the power-law component could no longer be detected. Our spectral
fits indicate that the effective temperature of the neutron-star surface was
consistent between the two observations. We conclude that the effect of the
change in power-law component caused the 0.5-10 keV flux to be a factor of ~2
lower during the second observation compared to the first observation. We
discuss plausible explanations for the variations, including variable residual
accretion onto the neutron star magnetosphere or some variation in the
interaction of the pulsar wind with the matter still outflowing from the
companion star.Comment: 18 pages, 3 color figs, 1 b&w figures, 3 tables; discussion expanded;
accepted for publication in Ap
RXTE observations of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 17+2: correlated X-ray spectral and timing behavior
We have analyzed ~600 ks of Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer data of the neutron
star low-mass X-ray binary and Z source GX 17+2. A study was performed of the
properties of the noise components and quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) as a
function of the spectral properties, with the main goal to study the relation
between the frequencies of the horizontal branch and upper kHz QPOs. It was
found that when the upper kHz QPO frequency is below 1030 Hz these frequencies
correlate, whereas above 1030 Hz they anti-correlate. GX 17+2 is the first
source in which this is observed. We also found that the frequency difference
of the high frequency QPOs was not constant and that the quality factors (Q
values) of the HBO, its second harmonic, and the kHz QPOs are similar, and vary
almost hand in hand by a factor of more than three. Observations of the normal
branch oscillations during two type I X-ray bursts showed that their absolute
amplitude decreased as the flux from the neutron star became stronger. We
discuss these and other findings in terms of models that have been proposed for
these phenomena. We also compare the behavior of GX 17+2 and other Z sources
with that of black hole sources and consider the possibility that the mass
accretion rate might not be driving force behind all spectral and variability
changes.Comment: 35 pages, including 14 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ.
Revised discussion, one new figure, and some minor figure changes with
respect to old versio
Interrelationships of child appetite, weight and snacking among Hispanic preschoolers
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Beam profile investigation of the new collimator system for the J-PET detector
Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomograph (J-PET) is a multi-purpose detector
which will be used for search for discrete symmetries violations in the decays
of positronium atoms and for investigations with positronium atoms in
life-sciences and medical diagnostics. In this article we present three methods
for determination of the beam profile of collimated annihilation gamma quanta.
Precise monitoring of this profile is essential for time and energy calibration
of the J-PET detector and for the determination of the library of model signals
used in the hit-time and hit-position reconstruction. We have we have shown
that usage of two lead bricks with dimensions of 5x10x20 cm^3 enables to form a
beam of annihilation quanta with Gaussian profile characterized by 1 mm FWHM.
Determination of this characteristic is essential for designing and
construction the collimator system for the 24-module J-PET prototype.
Simulations of the beam profile for different collimator dimensions were
performed. This allowed us to choose optimal collimation system in terms of the
beam profile parameters, dimensions and weight of the collimator taking into
account the design of the 24 module J-PET detector.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figure
Searches for discrete symmetries violation in ortho-positronium decay using the J-PET detector
In this paper we present prospects for using the J-PET detector to search for
discrete symmetries violations in a purely leptonic system of the positronium
atom. We discuss tests of CP and CPT symmetries by means of ortho-positronium
decays into three photons. No zero expectation values for chosen correlations
between ortho-positronium spin and momentum vectors of photons would imply the
existence of physics phenomena beyond the Standard Model. Previous measurements
resulted in violation amplitude parameters for CP and CPT symmetries consistent
with zero, with an uncertainty of about 10-3. The J-PET detector allows to
determine those values with better precision thanks to a unique time and
angular esolution combined with a high geometrical acceptance. Achieving the
aforementioned is possible due to application of polymer scintillators instead
of crystals as detectors of annihilation quanta.Comment: in Nukleonika 201
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