Psychosocial components of patient compliance

This literature review reflects the current understanding of patient compliance as a general medical problem. The main psychosocial factors that improve or worsen compliance considered using examples of specific nosological forms. It shown that it is precisely in the satisfaction of the patient's motives that the key moment of the “doctor-patient” system consistency lies, without which it is impossible to build an adequate patient compliance to treatmentВ представленном литературном обзоре отражены современные представления о пациентском комплаенсе как общемедицинской проблеме. Рассмотрены основные психосоциальные факторы, улучшающие либо ухудшающие комплаенс, с приведением примеров конкретных нозологических форм. Показано, что именно в удовлетворении мотивов пациента лежит ключевой момент конгруэнтности системы «врач-пациент», без чего невозможно построение адекватного медикаментозного пациентского комплаенс

The Boltzmann equation for colourless plasmons in hot QCD plasma. Semiclassical approximation

Within the framework of the semiclassical approximation, we derive the Boltzmann equation describing the dynamics of colorless plasmons in a hot QCD plasma. The probability of the plasmon-plasmon scattering at the leading order in the coupling constant is obtained. This probability is gauge-independent at least in the class of the covariant and temporal gauges. It is noted that the structure of the scattering kernel possesses important qualitative difference from the corresponding one in the Abelian plasma, in spite of the fact that we focused our study on the colorless soft excitations. It is shown that four-plasmon decay is suppressed by the power of $g$ relative to the process of nonlinear scattering of plasmons by thermal particles at the soft momentum scale. It is stated that the former process becomes important in going to the ultrasoft region of the momentum scale.Comment: 41, LaTeX, minor changes, identical to published versio

Sensors, Instrumentation and Methods to Monitor Two- and Three-phase Flows: from Cryogenics to Oil Production

This paper is a review of our works on implementation of measuring systems for two-phase helium, hydrogen, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and oil production. In principle, two-phase flow-meters combining void fraction radio-frequency (RF) sensors and narrowing devices are considered in details. In particular, they can be applied for superconducting accelerators cooled with two-phase helium, refueling hydrogen system for space ships and some applications in LNG production industry. To produce these cryogenic two-phase flow-meters it is necessary to combine such devices as low temperature sensors, cryogenic void fraction sensors, sensors responsive to average velocity of the two-phase flow, pressure sensors and electronics to measure their signals. The measuring systems for two-phase liquefied natural gas (LNG), and oil-formation/salty water flows are also presented. These systems are based on combination of a gamma-densitometer and a narrowing device. It is shown as well that the experience gained allows separationless flow-meter for three-phase oil-gas- formation water flows to be produced