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Recovery from psychosis : physical health, antipsychotic medication and the daily dilemmas for mental health nurses
This paper considers some of the dilemmas experienced by Mental Health Nurses everyday when faced with the seemingly conflicting relationships that exist between recovery, antipsychotics and the physical health of people experiencing psychosis. We examine the role of antipsychotics in the process of recovery from psychosis and argue that Mental Health Nursing’s laudable shift away from the medical model towards the concept of self-defined personal recovery should not result in overlooking the importance of physical health and medication management. Mental Health Nurses have a responsibility to help services users make an informed choice about treatment; this exchange of information should be based on the best available evidence rather than philosophical values or personal opinion
Monte Carlo methods and applications for the nuclear shell model
The shell-model Monte Carlo (SMMC) technique transforms the traditional
nuclear shell-model problem into a path-integral over auxiliary fields. We
describe below the method and its applications to four physics issues:
calculations of sdpf- shell nuclei, a discussion of electron-capture rates in
pf-shell nuclei, exploration of pairing correlations in unstable nuclei, and
level densities in rare earth systems.Comment: Proceedings of the Nuclear Structure '98 conference, Gatlinburg, TN,
10-15 August 199
Using large galaxy surveys to distinguish z~0.5 quiescent galaxy models
One of the most striking properties of galaxies is the bimodality in their
star-formation rates. A major puzzle is why any given galaxy is star-forming or
quiescent, and a wide range of physical mechanisms have been proposed as
solutions. We consider how observations, such as might be available in upcoming
large galaxy surveys, might distinguish different galaxy quenching scenarios.
To do this, we combine an N-body simulation and multiple prescriptions from the
literature to create several quiescent galaxy mock catalogues. Each
prescription uses a different set of galaxy properties (such as history,
environment, centrality) to assign individual simulation galaxies as quiescent.
We find how and how much the resulting quiescent galaxy distributions differ
from each other, both intrinsically and observationally. In addition to tracing
observational consequences of different quenching mechanisms, our results
indicate which sorts of quenching models might be most readily disentangled by
upcoming observations and which combinations of observational quantities might
provide the most discriminatory power.
Our observational measures are auto, cross, and marked correlation functions,
pro- jected density distributions, and group multiplicity functions, which rely
upon galaxy positions, stellar masses and of course quiescence. Although
degeneracies between models are present for individual observations, using
multiple observations in concert allows us to distinguish between all ten
models we consider. In addition to identifying intrinsic and observational
consequences of quiescence prescriptions and testing these quiescence models
against each other and observations, these methods can also be used to validate
colors (or other history and environment dependent properties) in simulated
mock catalogues.Comment: 20 pages, 14 figures. Version to appear in MNRAS, incorporating
helpful suggestions from referee and other
Checkerboard patterns in the t-J model
Using the density matrix renormalization group, we study the possibility of
real space checkerboard patterns arising as the ground states of the t-J model.
We find that checkerboards with a commensurate (pi,pi) background are not low
energy states and can only be stabilized with large external potentials.
However, we find that striped states with charge density waves along the
stripes can form approximate checkerboard patterns. These states can be
stabilized with a very weak external field aligning and pinning the CDWs on
different stripes.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Are there socioeconomic gradients in stage and grade of breast cancer at diagnosis? Cross sectional analysis of UK cancer registry data
Socioeconomic gradients in uptake of breast cancer screening in the United Kingdom should, intuitively, lead to socioeconomic gradients in disease progression at diagnosis. However, studies have found little evidence of such an effect. Although this could be interpreted as evidence that socioeconomic gradients in uptake of screening do not have clinically important consequences, all of the published studies have used data from before (pre-1988) or during the early stages (1988-95) of implementation of the national breast cancer screening programme. We investigated the relation between socioeconomic position and progression of breast cancer at diagnosis by using recent data from the Northern and Yorkshire Cancer Registry and Information Service (NYCRIS), which is estimated to achieve around 93% ascertainment
NASTRAN applications to aircraft propulsion systems
The use of NASTRAN in propulsion system structural integration analysis is described. Computer support programs for modeling, substructuring, and plotting analysis results are discussed. Requirements on interface information and data exchange by participants in a NASTRAN substructure analysis are given. Static and normal modes vibration analysis results are given with comparison to test and other analytical results
Ground State Phases of the Doped 4-Leg t-J Ladder
Using density matrix renormalization group techniques, we have studied the
ground state of the 4-leg t-J ladder doped near half-filling. Depending upon
J/t and the hole doping x, three types of ground state phases are found: (1) a
phase containing d_{x^2-y^2} pairs; (2) a striped CDW domain-wall phase, and
(3) a phase separated regime. A CDW domain-wall consists of fluctuating hole
pairs and this phase has significant d_{x^2-y^2} pair field correlations.Comment: 10 pages, with 6 Postscript figure
d_{x^2-y^2} Pair Domain Walls
Using the density matrix renormalization group, we study domain wall
structures in the t-J model at a hole doping of x=1/8. We find that the domain
walls are composed of d_{x^2-y^2} pairs and that the regions between the domain
walls have antiferromagnetic correlations that are pi phase shifted across a
domain wall. At x=1/8, the hole filling corresponds to one hole per two domain
wall unit cells. When the pairs in a domain wall are pinned by an external
field, the d_{x^2-y^2} pairing response is suppressed, but when the pinning is
weakened, d_{x^2-y^2} pair-field correlations can develop.Comment: 11 pages, with 3 Postscript figure
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