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HONOSCA IN AN ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENT UNIT: AN EXPLORATION OF OUTCOME MEASURES
Routine Outcome Measures (ROM) are important tools, increasingly used to assess both patient progress and service-provider
efficacy. The Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA) is a clinician- and patient-rated ROM
which summarises a patient’s global functioning within behaviour, impairment, symptoms and social domains. Recent literature
suggests that consistent disparity exists between the patients’ self-ratings and the clinicians’ ratings on HoNOSCA. We analysed
HoNOSCA data for our own adolescent inpatient unit and report similar findings. Studies have also shown significant differences in
both physical and mental health outcomes based on the patient-clinician dynamic and effective communication. We thus investigated
the predictive utility of the two HoNOSCA scores, and the disparity between them, with respect to other outcomes measures (CGAS,
length of stay and improvement on HoNOSCA). HoNOSCA disparity scores were significantly associated with both patient- and
clinician-rated HoNOSCA improvement scores. Moreover, higher admission HoNOSCA scores were associated with greater
HoNOSCA improvement scores, for both patient and clinician ratings. We report admission and discharge HoNOSCA scores
comparable to other child and adolescent psychiatric inpatient facilities
Higgs self-coupling in the MSSM and NMSSM after the LHC Run 1
Measuring the Higgs self-coupling is one of the crucial physics goals at the
LHC Run-2 and other future colliders. In this work, we attempt to figure out
the size of SUSY effects on the trilinear self-coupling of the 125 GeV Higgs
boson in the MSSM and NMSSM after the LHC Run-1. Taking account of current
experimental constraints, such as the Higgs data, flavor constraints,
electroweak precision observables and dark matter detections, we obtain the
observations: (1) In the MSSM, the ratio of
has been tightly constrained by the LHC
data, which can be only slightly smaller than 1 and minimally reach 97\%; (2)
In the NMSSM with , a sizable reduction of
can occur and minimally reach 10\%
when the lightest CP-even Higgs boson mass is close to the SM-like
Higgs boson due to the large mixing angle between the singlet and
doublet Higgs bosons; (3) In the NMSSM with , a large enhancement
or reduction can occur,
which is accompanied by a sizable change of coupling. The
future colliders, such as the HL-LHC and ILC, will have the capacity to test
these large deviations in the NMSSM.Comment: 28 pages, discussions and references added, matched to journal
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Transient quantum transport in double-dot Aharonov-Bohm interferometers
Real-time nonequilibrium quantum dynamics of electrons in double-dot
Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometers is studied using an exact solution of the
master equation. The building of the coherence between the two electronic paths
shows up via the time-dependent amplitude of the AB oscillations in the
transient transport current, and can be enhanced by varying the applied bias on
the leads, the on-site energy difference between the dots and the asymmetry of
the coupling of the dots to the leads. The transient oscillations of the
transport current do not obey phase rigidity. The circulating current has an
anti-symmetric AB oscillation in the flux. The non-degeneracy of the on-site
energies and the finite bias cause the occupation in each dot to have an
arbitrary flux dependence as the coupling asymmetry is varied.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure
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