1,266 research outputs found
Emotional Eating: A Virtually Untreated Risk Factor for Outcome Following Bariatric Surgery
Empirical investigations implicate emotional eating (EE) in dysfunctional eating behavior such as uncontrolled overeating and insufficient weight loss following bariatric surgery. They demonstrate that EE may be a conscious or reflexive behavior motivated by multiple negative emotions and/or feelings of distress about loss-of-control eating. EE, however, has not been targeted in pre- or postoperative interventions or examined as an explanatory construct for failed treatment of dysfunctional eating. Three cases suggest that cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) might alleviate EE. One describes treatment for distress provoked by loss-of-control eating. The first of two others, associated with negative emotions/life situations, link treatment of a super-super-preoperative obese individual's reflexive EE with 52% excess BMI (body mass index) loss maintained for the past year, 64 months after surgery. The second relates treatment of conscious/reflexive EE with 84.52% excess BMI loss 53 months after surgery. Implications for research and treatment are discussed
Radiation by a heavy quark in N=4 SYM at strong coupling
Using the AdS/CFT correspondence in the supergravity approximation, we
compute the energy density radiated by a heavy quark undergoing some arbitrary
motion in the vacuum of the strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills
theory. We find that this energy is fully generated via backreaction from the
near-boundary endpoint of the dual string attached to the heavy quark. Because
of that, the energy distribution shows the same space-time localization as the
classical radiation that would be produced by the heavy quark at weak coupling.
We believe that this and some other unnatural features of our result (like its
anisotropy and the presence of regions with negative energy density) are
artifacts of the supergravity approximation, which will be corrected after
including string fluctuations. For the case where the quark trajectory is
bounded, we also compute the radiated power, by integrating the energy density
over the surface of a sphere at infinity. For sufficiently large times, we find
agreement with a previous calculation by Mikhailov [hep-th/0305196].Comment: 22 page
The wake of a quark moving through a strongly-coupled supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma
The energy density wake produced by a heavy quark moving through a strongly
coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma is computed using gauge/string
duality.Comment: 4 pages, typos fixe
Jets in strongly-coupled N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory
We study jets of massless particles in N=4 super Yang-Mills using the AdS/CFT
correspondence both at zero and finite temperature. We set up an initial state
corresponding to a highly energetic quark/anti-quark pair and follow its time
evolution into two jets. At finite temperature the jets stop after traveling a
finite distance, whereas at zero temperature they travel and spread forever. We
map out the corresponding baryon number charge density and identify the generic
late time behavior of the jets as well as features that depend crucially on the
initial conditions.Comment: 21 pages, 12 figures. Added discussion regarding string profiles in
more than one spatial dimension. Refs adde
Fluctuation, dissipation, and thermalization in non-equilibrium AdS_5 black hole geometries
We give a simple recipe for computing dissipation and fluctuations
(commutator and anti-commutator correlation functions) for non-equilibrium
black hole geometries. The recipe formulates Hawking radiation as an initial
value problem, and is suitable for numerical work. We show how to package the
fluctuation and dissipation near the event horizon into correlators on the
stretched horizon. These horizon correlators determine the bulk and boundary
field theory correlation functions. In addition, the horizon correlators are
the components of a horizon effective action which provides a quantum
generalization of the membrane paradigm. In equilibrium, the analysis
reproduces previous results on the Brownian motion of a heavy quark. Out of
equilibrium, Wigner transforms of commutator and anti-commutator correlation
functions obey a fluctuation-dissipation relation at high frequency.Comment: 28 pages, 6 figure
Public Sector Collectice Bargaining in Ohio: Before and After Senate Bill No. 133
When 1983 ushered in a new administration more sensitive to the glaring absence of such legislation, the passage of a comprehensive public employees\u27 collective bargaining law was clearly imminent. This article will examine the inadequacies of Ohio\u27s law prior to the enactment of Senate Bill No. 133; summarize the provisions of this new statute; and note its impact on public employees and their employee organizations
Shining a Gluon Beam Through Quark-Gluon Plasma
We compute the energy density radiated by a quark undergoing circular motion
in strongly coupled supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma. If it
were in vacuum, this quark would radiate a beam of strongly coupled radiation
whose angular distribution has been characterized and is very similar to that
of synchrotron radiation produced by an electron in circular motion in
electrodynamics. Here, we watch this beam of gluons getting quenched by the
strongly coupled plasma. We find that a beam of gluons of momenta is attenuated rapidly, over a distance in
a plasma with temperature . As the beam propagates through the plasma at the
speed of light, it sheds trailing sound waves with momenta .
Presumably these sound waves would thermalize in the plasma if they were not
hit soon after their production by the next pulse of gluons from the
lighthouse-like rotating quark. At larger and larger , the trailing sound
wave becomes less and less prominent. The outward going beam of gluon radiation
itself shows no tendency to spread in angle or to shift toward larger
wavelengths, even as it is completely attenuated. In this regard, the behavior
of the beam of gluons that we analyze is reminiscent of the behavior of jets
produced in heavy ion collisions at the LHC that lose a significant fraction of
their energy without appreciable change in their angular distribution or their
momentum distribution as they plow through the strongly coupled quark-gluon
plasma produced in these collisions.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
Racism in Higher Education Ii: Challenging Racism And Promoting Multiculturalism In Higher Education Organizations
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51322/1/558.pd
White Men in Multicultural Coalitions
Also PCMA Working Paper #45.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51288/1/524.pd
Dobutamine stress MRI in pulmonary hypertension: relationships between stress pulmonary artery relative area change, RV performance, and 10-year survival
In pulmonary hypertension (PH), right ventricular (RV) performance determines survival. Pulmonary artery (PA) stiffening is an important biomechanical event in PH and also predicts survival based on the PA relative area change (RAC) measured at rest using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In this exploratory study, we sought to generate novel hypotheses regarding the influence of stress RAC on PH prognosis and the interaction between PA stiffening, RV performance and survival. Fifteen PH patients underwent dobutamine stress-MRI (ds-MRI) and right heart catheterization. RACREST, RACSTRESS, and ΔRAC (RAC STRESS – RAC REST) were correlated against resting invasive hemodynamics and ds-MRI data regarding RV performance and RV-PA coupling efficiency (n’vv [RV stroke volume/RV end-systolic volume]). The impact of RAC, RV data, and n’vv on ten-year survival were determined using Kaplan–Meier analysis. PH patients with a low ΔRAC (<−2.6%) had a worse long-term survival (log-rank P = 0.045, HR for death = 4.46 [95% CI = 1.08–24.5]) than those with ΔRAC ≥ −2.6%. Given the small sample, these data should be interpreted with caution; however, low ΔRAC was associated with an increase in stress diastolic PA area indicating proximal PA stiffening. Associations of borderline significance were observed between low RACSTRESS and low n’vvSTRESS, Δη’VV, and ΔRVEF. Further studies are required to validate the potential prognostic impact of ΔRAC and the biomechanics potentially connecting low ΔRAC to shorter survival. Such studies may facilitate development of novel PH therapies targeted to the proximal PA
- …