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Decay channels and charmonium mass-shifts
The discovery in the last few years of the and states of the
extended charmonium family has highlighted the importance of the closeness of
decay channels to an understanding of these mesons. We aid this debate by
illustrating a simple calculational procedure for including the effect of open
and nearby closed channels.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures Revised version: (1) corrected 2 typos in Table
II, (2) additional text in penultimate paragraph to clarify the calculation
of mass-shifts for and . We thank colleagues for pointing
out confusing wording of previous tex
Visual Communications on the Road in Arkansas: Analysis of Secondary Students Videos
In the summer of 2010, the Visual Communications on the Road in Arkansas: Creative Photo and Video Projects to Promote Agriculture program was initiated. The program consisted of a two-week agricultural communications curriculum that would be taught by agricultural science teachers in Arkansas. The curriculum was composed of lessons about photography, writing, and videography, and the program introduced students to digital photography and videography equipment and the proper uses of equipment. Once the curriculum was taught in secondary schools, a mobile classroom unit—consisting of a travel trailer, photography and videography equipment, and laptop computers equipped with editing software—would visit the school to assist students with the creation of short promotional videos about agriculture. The student-created videos were used as a hands-on extension of the curriculum learned in the classroom. Completed videos were posted to YouTube and then analyzed to assess student application of competencies taught in the curriculum. The researchers created a coding sheet to systematically assess all posted videos and inter- and intrarater reliability was maintained. An analysis of data gathered from the video assessment showed that secondary students were able to effectively apply many of the techniques taught in the curriculum through the agricultural videos created. Additional findings and recommendations for application and future research are presented
Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Learning
Complex environmental problem solving depends on cross-disciplinary collaboration among scientists. Collaborative research must be preceded by an exploratory phase of collective thinking that creates shared conceptual frameworks. Collective thinking, in a cross-disciplinary setting, depends on the facility with which collaborators are able to learn and understand each others’ perspectives. This paper applies three perspectives on learning to the problem of enabling cross-disciplinary collaboration: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, constructivism, and organizational learning. Application of learning frameworks to collaboration provides insights regarding receptive environments for collaboration, and processes that facilitate cross-disciplinary interactions. These environments and interactions need time to develop and require a long phase of idea generation preceding any focused research effort. The findings highlight that collaboration is itself a complex system of people, scientific theory, and tools that must be intentionally managed. Effective management of the system requires leaders who are facilitators and are capable of orchestrating effective environments and interactions
The Relationship of Stress Levels to Wellness Practices Among U.S. Radiologic Technology Program Directors
The purpose of this modified replication study is to examine the relationship between the stress levels and the wellness practices of U.S. radiologic technology program directors and to determine if correlations exist between wellness practices and stress levels of the group. Additionally, relaxation activities and the feelings, characteristics, and symptoms associated with stress were considered. The design of the study was ex post facto correlational. The population of the study was U.S. radiologic technology program directors working in JRCERT accredited programs. The electronic instrument was distributed to 635 program directors through e-mail, with 424 (66.7%) usable returns. Significant associations were found between the management of stress and the balance of wellness practices for the RT program directors. It was concluded that while program directors showed significant control in stressful events and issues, continued efforts are needed to promote wellness practices into their busy lives
Structure of the lightest scalar meson from the 1/Nc expansion of Unitarized Chiral Perturbation Theory and Regge Theory
One-loop unitarized Chiral Perturbation Theory (UChPT) calculations, suggest
a different Nc behaviour for the sigma or f_0(600) and rho(770) mesons: while
the rho meson becomes narrower with Nc, as is expected for a q-qbar meson, the
sigma becomes broader, and its contribution to the total cross section is less
and less important. On the other hand, local duality requires a cancellation
between the sigma and rho amplitudes, but if there is a different Nc behaviour
for them, there is a possible contradiction between the Inverse Amplitude
Method (IAM) and local duality for large Nc. However, next to next to leading
order UChPT calculations suggested a subdominant q-qbar component for the sigma
with a mass around 1.2 GeV. In this work, we show that this subdominant q-qbar
component is indeed needed to ensure local duality.Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of the Hadron09 International
Conference. 29th Nov-4th Dec. 2009. Tallahassee, FL, USA. 5 page
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Historic Seismicity in and Around the Texas Panhandle
At least twenty earthquakes have occurred in the Texas Panhandle north of 34°N since 1907. The largest earthquakes had magnitudes up to 4.8, and the intensities throughout the Panhandle have ranged from IV to VI (Modified Mercalli), corresponding to accelerations from 6.8 cm/s² to over 31.6 cm/s².
The record of seismicity in the Texas Panhandle dates back to 1907 when the first reported event occurred near Amarillo. Since then, numerous events have been reported or instrumentally recorded from the Panhandle. In the most complete survey of seismicity in the Panhandle (north of 34° latitude) to be undertaken, 20 earthquakes were identified from 1907 through July 1982. Slightly more than half of the events have locations determined from felt reports, and the others from instrumental locations.
During the process of identifying earthquakes, contemporary newspaper accounts, weather bulletins, seismological reports, and other sources were reviewed. Several reported events were found to be in error. Specifically, the published locations of some events are erroneous by tens or hundreds of kilometers, one event was, in fact, a sonic boom, and one "event" near the Panhandle resulted from spurious data reported from seismological observatories nearby.
The largest earthquakes in the Texas Panhandle had magnitudes of 4.7 to 4.8 (determined by maximum intensity and felt areas); there were five such events between 1917 and 1951. Since instrumental recording became widespread in about 1962, only two events of magnitude greater than 4.0 have occurred. Although some of the earthquakes reported have been assigned magnitudes of 3.0 or less, the detection threshold is probably considerably higher. As evidence, it is noted that a magnitude 3.4 event in 1983 would have been undetected by conventional procedures, had there not been a specific interest in modern seismicity. Since this interest did not exist until recently, it is probable that many earthquakes of magnitude up to 3.5 have gone unrecognized, and it is likely that some larger events have been missed as well.Bureau of Economic Geolog
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Using the Andersen Behavioral Model to assess factors associated with treatment and medication adherence trajectories among Texas Medicaid women with postpartum depression
Mental health conditions are a leading cause of maternal mortality, but many women with depression do not receive treatment. This dissertation identified factors associated with the receipt of postpartum depression (PPD) treatment and antidepressant medication adherence patterns in the year after delivery.
This retrospective database analysis of Texas Medicaid claims (1/2018-6/2022) included women aged 12-55 with a delivery and continuous enrollment 84 days pre- and 12 months post-delivery. Dependent variables included PPD treatment within 12 months after delivery and antidepressant adherence for 270 days post-initiation. The independent variables included predisposing (age, race/ethnicity), enabling (urbanicity, prenatal care, postpartum care), and need (depression/anxiety, substance use disorder [SUD], cesarean delivery, preterm birth, pregnancy complications) factors. Multivariable and multinomial logistic regression examined the relationships between these factors and receipt of depression treatment and adherence trajectory group membership.
Included patients (N=113,922) were 26.5±5.9 years and 51.4% were Hispanic. Most resided in urban counties (83.6%), and had 6.2±3.3 prenatal, 2.7±2.2 postpartum care visits, and 1.3±0.9 pregnancy complications. Nearly one-fifth (17.1%) had depression/anxiety, 9.8% had SUD, 33.4% had cesarean delivery, 12.1% had preterm birth. Three-fourths (76.2%) of women with PPD received treatment. The likelihood of receipt of treatment was significantly associated with age (25-29: odds ratio [OR]=1.155, 95% confidence interval 1.039-1.284, 30-34: OR=1.186, 1.058-1.330, >34: OR=1.295, 1.134-1.479; reference-9 visits: OR=1.406, 1.217-1.625; reference-0 visits), SUD (OR=1.302,1.193-1.422), and cesarean delivery (OR=1.099,1.032-1.173). Group-based trajectory modeling revealed 5 adherence groups: consistent (19.0%), fluctuating (22.5%), slowly decreasing (13.3%), and rapidly decreasing (21.8%) adherence, and early and consistent nonadherence (23.4%). Increasing age, non-Black race, urban residence, increasing postpartum care visits, and depression/anxiety were associated with the consistent adherence trajectory compared to lower adherence trajectories. SUD and preterm birth were associated with lower adherence trajectories compared to the consistent adherence trajectory.
While over 75% of women received treatment, efforts to increase PPD treatment should be focused on younger, Black, and urban women. Adherence interventions should be tailored to patients who are younger, Black, live in rural counties, have SUD or preterm birth.Pharmaceutical Science
QCD Green functions in a gluon field
We formulate a dressed perturbative expansion of QCD, where the standard
diagrams are evaluated in the presence of a constant external gluon field whose
magnitude is gaussian distributed. The approach is Poincar{\'e} and gauge
invariant, and modifies the usual results for hard processes only by power
suppressed contributions. Long distance propagation of quarks and gluons turns
out to be inhibited due to a branch point singularity instead of a pole at
in the quark and gluon propagators. The dressing keeps the (massless)
quarks in q qbar fluctuations of the photon at a finite distance from each
other.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures. Minor modifications in text. Version to be
published in JHE
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