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Finite temperature effects on the antikaon optical potential
By solving the Bethe-Goldstone equation, we have obtained the
optical potential from the effective interaction in nuclear matter
at T=0. We have extended the model by incorporating finite temperature effects
in order to adapt our calculations to the experimental conditions in heavy-ion
collisions. In the rank of densities (), the finite temperature
optical potential shows a smooth behaviour if we compare it to the
T=0 outcome. Our model has also been applied to the study of the ratio between
and produced at GSI with around 70 MeV. Our results point at
the necessity of introducing an attractive optical potential.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of Mesons & Light
Nuclei '01 (2-6th July, Prague
Using mHealth to improve health care delivery in India: A qualitative examination of the perspectives of community health workers and beneficiaries.
BACKGROUND:mHealth technologies are proliferating globally to address quality and timeliness of health care delivery by Community Health Workers (CHWs). This study aimed to examine CHW and beneficiaries' perceptions of a new mHealth intervention (Common Application Software [CAS] for CHWs in India. The objectives of the study were to seek perspectives of CHWs and beneficiaries on the uptake of CAS, changes in CHW-beneficiary interactions since the introduction of CAS and potential barriers faced by CHWs in use of CAS. Further, important contextual factors related to CHW-beneficiary interface and dynamics that may have a bearing on CAS have been described. METHODS:A qualitative study was conducted in two states of India (Bihar and Madhya Pradesh) from March-April 2018 with CHWs (n = 32) and beneficiaries (n = 55). All interviews were conducted and recorded in Hindi, transcribed and translated into English, and coded and thematically analysed using Dedoose. FINDINGS:The mHealth intervention was acceptable to the CHWs who felt that CAS improved their status in the communities where they worked. Beneficiaries' views were a mix of positive and negative perceptions. The divergent views between CHWs and beneficiaries surrounding the use and impact of CAS highlight an underlying mistrust, socio-cultural barriers in engagement, and technological barriers in implementation. All these contextual factors can influence the perception and uptake of CAS. CONCLUSIONS:mHealth interventions targeting CHWs and beneficiaries have the potential to improve performance of CHWs, reduce barriers to information and potentially change the behaviors of beneficiaries. While technology is an enabler for CHWs to improve their service delivery, it does not necessarily help overcome social and cultural barriers that impede CHW-beneficiary interactions to bring about improvements in knowledge and health behaviors. Future interventions for CHWs including mHealth interventions should examine contextual factors along with the acceptability, accessibility, and usability by beneficiaries and community members
Understanding and Teaching Holocaust Education Authors : Paula Cowan & Henry Maitles London: Sage Publications (2017) pp. 120 Paperback Ā£20.00 ISBN 978-1473919341
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Adult-perpetrated Animal Abuse: Development of a Proclivity Scale
There is a clear discrepancy in the reporting of animal cruelty complaints, prosecutions and convictions suggesting that any prevalence figures of abuse are significant under-representations. Therefore, it can be inferred that there is a large number of animal abusers who are unapprehended. Currently there is no validated tool that assesses the proclivity or propensity to engage in animal abuse amongst members of the general public. Such a tool would enable researchers to study individuals who may think like animal abusers or may be unapprehended offenders themselves. This paper presents the newly developed Animal Abuse Proclivity Scale (AAPS) and some preliminary findings. The results from our two studies show that: (1) the psychometric properties of the AAPS indicate that the scale is a highly reliable measure; (2) the AAPS relates to measures assessing offence-supportive attitudes and reflects the gender differences seen in the literature; and (3) the AAPS demonstrates cross-national validity. These findings support that the AAPS, similar to other offending proclivity measures, is a tool that can be used to examine the factors most related to animal abuse propensity. We discuss how the AAPS can contribute to future developments in theory and practice in the field
The ARCADE Raman Lidar System for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based
very high energy gamma-ray instruments; the facility will be organized in two
arrays, one for each hemisphere. The atmospheric calibration of the CTA
telescopes is a critical task. The atmosphere affects the measured Cherenkov
yield in several ways: the air-shower development itself, the variation of the
Cherenkov angle with altitude, the loss of photons due to scattering and
absorption of Cherenkov light out of the camera field-of-view and the
scattering of photons into the camera. In this scenario, aerosols are the most
variable atmospheric component in time and space and therefore need a
continuous monitoring. Lidars are among the most used instruments in
atmospheric physics to measure the aerosol attenuation profiles of light. The
ARCADE Lidar system is a very compact and portable Raman Lidar system that has
been built within the FIRB 2010 grant and is currently taking data in Lamar,
Colorado. The ARCADE Lidar is proposed to operate at the CTA sites with the
goal of making a first survey of the aerosol conditions of the selected site
and to use it as a calibrated benchmark for the other Lidars that will be
installed on site. It is proposed for CTA that the ARCADE Lidar will be first
upgraded in Italy and then tested in parallel to a Lidar of the EARLINET
network in L'Aquila. Upgrades include the addition of the water vapour Raman
channel to the receiver and the use of new and better performing electronics.
It is proposed that the upgraded system will travel to and characterize both
CTA sites, starting from the first selected site in 2016
The Wisdom of Not-Knowing : essays on psychotherapy, Buddhism and life experience. Editors: Bob Chisholm and Jeff Harrison Axminster: Triarchy Press (2016) pp. 184 Paperback Ā£12.50 ISBN 978-1-909470-91-0
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VCU Media Lab
We propose the establishment of a VCU Media Lab ā a professional creative media technology unit whose mission is to support the development, design, production and delivery of innovative media, multimedia, computer-based instruction, publications and tools in support of VCU education, research and marketing initiatives. This centrally administered, budgeted and resourced facility will acknowledge, refine, focus and expand media services that are currently being provided at VCU in a decentralized manner
A minimaj-preserving crystal on ordered multiset partitions
We provide a crystal structure on the set of ordered multiset partitions,
which recently arose in the pursuit of the Delta Conjecture. This conjecture
was stated by Haglund, Remmel and Wilson as a generalization of the Shuffle
Conjecture. Various statistics on ordered multiset partitions arise in the
combinatorial analysis of the Delta Conjecture, one of them being the minimaj
statistic, which is a variant of the major index statistic on words. Our
crystal has the property that the minimaj statistic is constant on connected
components of the crystal. In particular, this yields another proof of the
Schur positivity of the graded Frobenius series of the generalization
due to Haglund, Rhoades and Shimozono of the coinvariant algebra . The
crystal structure also enables us to demonstrate the equidistributivity of the
minimaj statistic with the major index statistic on ordered multiset
partitions.Comment: 17 pages; v2 contains minor changes suggested by referee, references
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