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Purity as a witness for initial system-environment correlations in open-system dynamics
We study the dynamics of a two-level atom interacting with a Lorentzian
structured reservoir considering initial system-environment correlations. It is
shown that under strong system-reservoir coupling the dynamics of purity can
determine whether there are initial correlations between system and
environment. Moreover, we investigate the interaction of two two-level atoms
with the same reservoir. In this case, we show that besides determining if
there are initial system-environment correlations, the dynamics of the purity
of the atomic system allows the identification of the distinct correlated
initial states. In addition, the dynamics of quantum and classical correlations
is analyzed.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Research on Long-Term Care Homes for Older People in Brazil: Protocol for Scoping Review
LOTUS CONSORTIUM - Improving care in Long-term Care Institutions in Brazil and Europe through Collaboration and ResearchBackground
The fast growth of the ageing population in low and middle-income countries, such as Brazil, has allowed little time for social and health care systems to adapt. As the care needs for the most vulnerable and frail older people become increasingly complex, services and governments need to ensure that long term care homes deliver high-quality and evidence-based care to meet their healthcare needs.
Aim
To examine and map the range of research undertaken in Brazil regarding care homes published in peer reviewed journals.
Method
This scoping review will consider all relevant peer-reviewed primary studies fully or partly conducted in Brazilian care homes including those which consider workforce (for example, e.g. healthcare professionals, care staff, and management level staff) and care home residents (older people aged 60 years and above), using empirical and original research focused on any health related topic. The searches will be conducted using bibliographic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, LILACS and Google Scholar) and manual searching of the reference lists of relevant studies published in English, Portuguese or Spanish from inception up to 2018. Two authors will independently screen each document by title and abstract against the eligibility criteria. In case of disagreement, a third reviewer will be consulted. Data from the included studies will be extracted and reported using tables, graphs, and narrative accounts using elements of content analysis. The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool will be used to appraise the methodological quality of the included studies
Age-related differences in head posture between patients with neck pain and pain-free individuals
Head posture and neck pain of chronic nontraumatic origin: a comparison between patients and pain-free persons.SFRH/BD/30735/20
Spectra of weighted algebras of holomorphic functions
We consider weighted algebras of holomorphic functions on a Banach space. We
determine conditions on a family of weights that assure that the corresponding
weighted space is an algebra or has polynomial Schauder decompositions. We
study the spectra of weighted algebras and endow them with an analytic
structure. We also deal with composition operators and algebra homomorphisms,
in particular to investigate how their induced mappings act on the analytic
structure of the spectrum. Moreover, a Banach-Stone type question is addressed.Comment: 25 pages Corrected typo
The experiences of Portuguese physiotherapists when they assess head posture for patients with neck pain: A focus group study
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Begin, After, and Later: a Maximal Decidable Interval Temporal Logic
Interval temporal logics (ITLs) are logics for reasoning about temporal
statements expressed over intervals, i.e., periods of time. The most famous ITL
studied so far is Halpern and Shoham's HS, which is the logic of the thirteen
Allen's interval relations. Unfortunately, HS and most of its fragments have an
undecidable satisfiability problem. This discouraged the research in this area
until recently, when a number non-trivial decidable ITLs have been discovered.
This paper is a contribution towards the complete classification of all
different fragments of HS. We consider different combinations of the interval
relations Begins, After, Later and their inverses Abar, Bbar, and Lbar. We know
from previous works that the combination ABBbarAbar is decidable only when
finite domains are considered (and undecidable elsewhere), and that ABBbar is
decidable over the natural numbers. We extend these results by showing that
decidability of ABBar can be further extended to capture the language
ABBbarLbar, which lays in between ABBar and ABBbarAbar, and that turns out to
be maximal w.r.t decidability over strongly discrete linear orders (e.g. finite
orders, the naturals, the integers). We also prove that the proposed decision
procedure is optimal with respect to the complexity class
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