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Theory of Lattice and Electronic Fluctuations in Weakly Localized Spin-Peierls Systems
A theoretical approach to the influence of one-dimensional lattice
fluctuations on electronic properties in weakly localized spin-Peierls systems
is proposed using the renormalization group and the functional integral
techniques. The interplay between the renormalization group flow of correlated
electrons and one-dimensional lattice fluctuations is taken into account by the
one-dimensional functional integral method in the adiabatic limit. Calculations
of spin-Peierls precursor effects on response functions are carried out
explicitely and the prediction for the temperature dependent magnetic
susceptibility and nuclear relaxation is compared with available experimental
data for (TMTTF)PF.Comment: 15 pages, 7 Encapsulated Postscript figure
User Guide: A Guide to Disability Statistics from the Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System
This User Guide contains information on the Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System (BRFSS). The BRFSS is a state-based system of health surveys that collects information on health risk behaviors, preventive health practices, and health care access primarily related to chronic disease and injury. The survey is conducted by the state health departments with technical and methodological assistance provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The BRFSS is an annual cross-sectional telephone-based survey that provides national, state, and limited county-level data. It is designed to allow the CDC, state health departments, and other health and education agencies to monitor risk behaviors related to chronic diseases, injuries and death, identify emerging health problems, establish and track health objectives, and develop and evaluate public health policies and programs. The core survey includes two questions that are used to identify the population with disabilities with other optional modules that target disability-related issues
Neuropsychological evidence for three distinct motion mechanisms
Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Lett. 2011 May 16; 495(2): 102–106. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2011.03.048.We describe psychophysical performance of two stroke patients with lesions in distinct cortical regions in
the left hemisphere. Both patients were selectively impaired on direction discrimination in several local
and global second-order but not first-order motion tasks. However, only patient FD was impaired on a
specific bi-stable motion task where the direction of motion is biased by object similarity. We suggest
that this bi-stable motion task may be mediated by a high-level attention or position based mechanism
indicating a separate neurological substrate for a high-level attention or position-based mechanism.
Therefore, these results provide evidence for the existence of at least three motion mechanisms in the
human visual system: a low-level first- and second-order motion mechanism and a high-level attention
or position-based mechanism.Accepted manuscrip
Incommensurate nodes in the energy spectrum of weakly coupled antiferromagnetic Heisenberg ladders
Heisenberg ladders are investigated using the bond-mean-field theory
[M.Azzouz, Phys. Rev. B 48, 6136 (1993)]. The zero inter-ladder coupling energy
gap, the uniform spin susceptibility and the nuclear magnetic resonance
spin-relaxation rate are calculated as a function of temperature and magnetic
field. For weakly coupled ladders, the energy spectrum vanishes at
incommensurate wavevectors giving rise to nodes. As a consequence, the spin
susceptibility becomes linear at low temperature. Our results for the single
ladder successfully compare to experiments on SrCu_2O_3 and (VO)_2P_2O_7
materials and new predictions concerning the coupling to the magnetic field are
made.Comment: 4 revtex pages, 3 figures available upon reques
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