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Pharmacological methods of therapy in Parkinson’s disease
The review concerns modern pharmacological methods of Parkinson's disease treatment. The basic drugs used in practice are levodopa, dopamine receptor agonists, MAO-B inhibitors, anticholinergics, COMT inhibitors, and amantadine drugs. The article considers main features, assessment methods and targets of the differentiated therapy, presents benefits and drawbacks of each drug, and describes the problem of generics. According to the study, there is a preferences to use long-acting drugs. The choice of a drug for Parkinson's disease treatment depends on such characteristics as the patient's age, the character of Parkinson's disease, the severity of movement disorder, concomitant diseases, the drug price, the patient's individual sensitivity to different drugs. Finally, the article presents recommendations on initial treatment of Parkinson's disease
Diffusive Radiation in One-dimensional Langmuir Turbulence
We calculate spectra of radiation produced by a relativistic particle in the
presence of one-dimensional Langmuir turbulence which might be generated by a
streaming instability in the plasma, in particular, in the shock front or at
the shock-shock interactions. The shape of the radiation spectra is shown to
depend sensitively on the angle between the particle velocity and electric
field direction. The radiation spectrum in the case of exactly transverse
particle motion is degenerate and similar to that of spatially uniform Langmuir
oscillations. In case of oblique propagation, the spectrum is more complex, it
consists of a number of power-law regions and may contain a distinct
high-frequency spectral peak. %at \omega=2\omega\pe \gamma^2. The emission
process considered is relevant to various laboratory plasma settings and for
astrophysical objects as gamma-ray bursts and collimated jets.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, accepted for Phys. Rev.
Diagnostics and therapy of peripheral neuropathy (literature review)
The review is devoted to diagnostics and treatment of neuropathic pain in patients with peripheral nervous system diseases. Main assessment tools are shown including Visual analog Scale (VAS), Neuropathic Pain Scale (NPS), Leeds Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs (LANSS), self-report version of the Leeds Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs (S-LANSS), Neuropathic Pain Questionnaire (NPQ), Questionnaire Douleur Neuropathique 4 (DN-4), pain DETECT Questionnaire, Standardized Evaluation of Pain (StEP), identification pain questionnaire (ID-pain), clinical investigation (quantitative sensorial test are included), neurophysiological studies (electroneuromyography, evoked potentials) and MRI. Novel therapy in neuropathic pain disorders is described including both medicamentous and additional therapeutics methods
Ladders for Wilson Loops Beyond Leading Order
We set up a general scheme to resum ladder diagrams for the quark-anti-quark
potential in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, and do explicit calculations at the
next-to-leading order. The results perfectly agree with string theory in
AdS(5)xS(5) when continued to strong coupling, in spite of a potential
order-of-limits problem.Comment: 18 pages, 5 figure
Relativistic Effects in S-Wave Quarkonium Decay
The decay widths of S-wave quarkonia (\etc,\etb\to \gg{~~and~~}
\J,\U\to\ee) are calculated on the basis of a quasipotential approach. The
nontrivial dependence on relative quark motion of decay amplitude is taken into
consideration via quarkonium wave function. It is shown that relativistic
corrections may be large (10-50 %) and comparable with QCD corrections.Comment: 10 pages, no figure
Equilibration processes in the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium
The Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) is thought to contribute about 40-50
% to the baryonic budget at the present evolution stage of the universe. The
observed large scale structure is likely to be due to gravitational growth of
density fluctuations in the post-inflation era. The evolving cosmic web is
governed by non-linear gravitational growth of the initially weak density
fluctuations in the dark energy dominated cosmology. Non-linear structure
formation, accretion and merging processes, star forming and AGN activity
produce gas shocks in the WHIM. Shock waves are converting a fraction of the
gravitation power to thermal and non-thermal emission of baryonic/leptonic
matter. They provide the most likely way to power the luminous matter in the
WHIM. The plasma shocks in the WHIM are expected to be collisionless.
Collisionless shocks produce a highly non-equilibrium state with anisotropic
temperatures and a large differences in ion and electron temperatures. We
discuss the ion and electron heating by the collisionless shocks and then
review the plasma processes responsible for the Coulomb equilibration and
collisional ionisation equilibrium of oxygen ions in the WHIM. MHD-turbulence
produced by the strong collisionless shocks could provide a sizeable
non-thermal contribution to the observed Doppler parameter of the UV line
spectra of the WHIM.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Space Science
Reviews, special issue "Clusters of galaxies: beyond the thermal view",
Editor J.S. Kaastra, Chapter 8; work done by an international team at the
International Space Science Institute (ISSI), Bern, organised by J.S.
Kaastra, A.M. Bykov, S. Schindler & J.A.M. Bleeke
On the similarity of dust flows in the inner coma of comets
The atmosphere of a comet is formed by the sublimation, due to solar illumination, of its volatile component and the dust particles ejected from its nucleus and entrained by the gas flow. Contemporary dusty-gas coma models take into account numerous physical processes occurring in the coma and a complex geometry of the nucleus. For the description of the dusty-gas flow in the coma, such models introduce a large number of governing parameters characterizing physical properties and processes. The relative role of these processes is not easy to ascribe therefore a relevant inter-comparison of model results becomes difficult. The present work introduces a set of universal, dimensionless parameters, which characterize the dust motion in the inner cometary coma. This approach allows one to: (i) reduce the number of parameters for analysis; (ii) reveal dust flows similarities; (iii) rescale the available numerical solutions. The present work demonstrates application of this approach to a realistic coma model. Description of dust motion with dimensionless parameters allows us to make a parametric study for a broad range of conditions and to find simple analytic approximations (via a polynomial function) of the numerical results suitable for rough estimations of dust density in the coma
Single impurity operators at critical wrapping order in the beta-deformed N=4 SYM
We study the spectrum of one single magnon in the superconformal
beta-deformed N=4 SYM theory in the planar limit. We compute the anomalous
dimensions of one-impurity operators O_{1,L}= tr(phi Z^{L-1}), including
wrapping contributions at their critical order L.Comment: LaTeX, feynmf, Metapost, 20 pages, 11 figures, v2: results up to 11
loops completed, appendix on integral calculation extende
Coherent radiation from neutral molecules moving above a grating
We predict and study the quantum-electrodynamical effect of parametric
self-induced excitation of a molecule moving above the dielectric or conducting
medium with periodic grating. In this case the radiation reaction force
modulates the molecular transition frequency which results in a parametric
instability of dipole oscillations even from the level of quantum or thermal
fluctuations. The present mechanism of instability of electrically neutral
molecules is different from that of the well-known Smith-Purcell and transition
radiation in which a moving charge and its oscillating image create an
oscillating dipole.
We show that parametrically excited molecular bunches can produce an easily
detectable coherent radiation flux of up to a microwatt.Comment: 4 page
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