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Radiotherapy students' perceptions of support provided by clinical supervisors
Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of radiotherapy students on clinical placement, specifically focussing on the provision of well-being support from clinical supervisors.
Materials and methods: Twenty-five students from the University of the West of England and City University of London completed an online evaluation survey relating to their experiences of placement, involving Likert scales and open-ended questions.
Results: The quantitative results were generally positive; however, the qualitative findings were mixed. Three themes emerged: (1) provision of information and advice; (2) an open, inclusive and supportive working environment; and (3) a lack of communication, understanding, and consistency.
Findings: Students' experiences on placement differed greatly and appeared to relate to their specific interactions with different members of staff. It is suggested that additional training around providing well-being support to students may be of benefit to clinical supervisors
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Learning with reinforcement prediction errors in a model of the Drosophila mushroom body
Effective decision making in a changing environment demands that accurate predictions are learned about decision outcomes. In Drosophila, such learning is orchestrated in part by the mushroom body, where dopamine neurons signal reinforcing stimuli to modulate plasticity presynaptic to mushroom body output neurons. Building on previous mushroom body models, in which dopamine neurons signal absolute reinforcement, we propose instead that dopamine neurons signal reinforcement prediction errors by utilising feedback reinforcement predictions from output neurons. We formulate plasticity rules that minimise prediction errors, verify that output neurons learn accurate reinforcement predictions in simulations, and postulate connectivity that explains more physiological observations than an experimentally constrained model. The constrained and augmented models reproduce a broad range of conditioning and blocking experiments, and we demonstrate that the absence of blocking does not imply the absence of prediction error dependent learning. Our results provide five predictions that can be tested using established experimental methods
Spectra of a recent bright burst measured by CGRO-COMPTEL: GRB 990123
CGRO-COMPTEL measures gamma-ray burst positions, time-histories and spectra in the 0.1â30 MeV energy range, in both imaging âtelescopeâ and single detector âburst spectroscopyâ mode. GRB 990123, one of the most recent bright bursts seen by COMPTEL, was caught in the optical while the gamma-ray emission was ongoing. The burst spectral shape can be characterized by a peak in ÎœâFÎœ just below 1 MeV and a power-law tail above(photonâindexâŒâ2.4,) and flattening below. There is also spectral evolution by downward movement of the peak and/or softening of the power laws. We present light-curves, time resolved spectra and an image map for this burst
High accuracy calculation of 6s -> 7s parity nonconserving amplitude in Cs
We calculated the parity nonconserving (PNC) 6s -> 7s amplitude in Cs. In the
Dirac-Coulomb approximation our result is in a good agreement with other
calculations. Breit corrections to the PNC amplitude and to the Stark-induced
amplitude are found to be -0.4% and -1% respectively. The weak charge
of Cs is in agreement with the standard model.Comment: 4 pages, LaTeX2e, uses revtex4.cls, submitted to PR
Multiparticle entanglement with quantum logic networks: Application to cold trapped ions
We show how to construct a multi-qubit control gate on a quantum register of
an arbitrary size N. This gate performs a single-qubit operation on a specific
qubit conditioned by the state of other N-1 qubits. We provide an algorithm how
to build up an array of networks consisting of single-qubit rotations and
multi-qubit control-NOT gates for the synthesis of an arbitrary entangled
quantum state of N qubits. We illustrate the algorithm on a system of cold
trapped ions. This example illuminates the efficiency of the direct
implementation of the multi-qubit CNOT gate compared to its decomposition into
a network of two-qubit CNOT gates.Comment: 13 pages, Revtex4, 10 eps figures, 2 tables, to appear in Phys. Rev.
The contribution of specific non-communicable diseases to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 3.4 in Peru
Background
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have received political attention and commitment, yet surveillance is needed to measure progress and set priorities. Building on global estimates suggesting that Peru is not on target to meet the Sustainable Development Goal 3.4, we estimated the contribution of various NCDs to the change in unconditional probability of dying from NCDs in 25 regions in Peru.
Methods
Using national death registries and census data, we estimated the unconditional probability of dying between ages 30 and 69 from any and from each of the following NCDs: cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated the contribution of each NCD to the change in the unconditional probability of dying from any of these NCDs between 2006 and 2016.
Results
The overall unconditional probability of dying improved for men (21.4%) and women (23.3%). Cancer accounted for 10.9% in men and 13.7% in women of the overall reduction; cardiovascular diseases also contributed substantially: 11.3% in men) and 9.8% in women. Consistently in men and women and across regions, diabetes moved in the opposite direction of the overall reduction in the unconditional probability of dying from any selected NCD. Diabetes contributed a rise in the unconditional probability of 3.6% in men and 2.1% in women.
Conclusions
Although the unconditional probability of dying from any selected NCD has decreased, diabetes would prevent Peru from meeting international targets. Policies are needed to prevent diabetes and to strengthen healthcare to avoid diabetes-related complications and delay mortality
Test for entanglement using physically observable witness operators and positive maps
Motivated by the Peres-Horodecki criterion and the realignment criterion we
develop a more powerful method to identify entangled states for any bipartite
system through a universal construction of the witness operator. The method
also gives a new family of positive but non-completely positive maps of
arbitrary high dimensions which provide a much better test than the witness
operators themselves. Moreover, we find there are two types of positive maps
that can detect 2xN and 4xN bound entangled states. Since entanglement
witnesses are physical observables and may be measured locally our construction
could be of great significance for future experiments.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, revtex4 styl
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