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We calculated the energy spectra of the neutron-rich He $\Lambda$ hypernuclei with $A=6$ to 9 within the framework of an $\alpha + \Lambda +Xn$ ($X=1$--4) cluster model using the cluster orbital shell model. The employed constituent particles reproduce their observed properties. For resonant states of core nuclei such as $^5$He, $^6$He, and $^7$He, the complex scaling method is employed to obtain energies and decay widths. The calculated ground states of $^6_{\Lambda}$He and $^7_{\Lambda}$He are in good agreement with published data. The energy levels of $^8_{\Lambda}$He and $^9_{\Lambda}$He are predicted. In $^9_{\Lambda}$He, we find one deeply bound state and two excited resonant states, which are proposed to be produced at the Japan proton accelerator research complex (J-PARC) by the double-charge-exchange reaction $(\pi^-, K^+)$ using a $^9$Be target., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, typos corrected

Background The Xpert® MTB/RIF assay has been recommended for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). However, there are limited data from the South-East Asian region. Setting This study was carried out at a tertiary-level children's hospital in Mandalay, Myanmar. Objective To evaluate the performance of Xpert as a diagnostic test for PTB in children. Methods A cross-sectional descriptive study of children with suspected PTB. Gastric lavage aspirate samples were tested using Xpert, solid culture and smear microscopy. The performance of Xpert, solid culture and smear microscopy were evaluated using the revised National Institute of Health classification for intrathoracic TB in children as the reference standard. Results TB was bacteriologically confirmed in 38 (16.5%) of 231 children with suspected PTB. Of the 38 children with confirmed TB, 36 cases were identified using Xpert, 16 using solid culture and 12 using smear microscopy. With confirmed TB as the reference standard, the sensitivity of Xpert, solid culture and smear microscopy was respectively 94.7% (95%CI 80.9-99.1), 42.1% (95%CI 26.7-59.1) and 31.6% (95%CI 18.0-48.8). Conclusion Xpert has improved the bacteriological confirmation of PTB among hospitalised children in Myanmar.

The Xpert® MTB/RIF assay has been recommended for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). However, there are limited data from the South-East Asian region.This study was carried out at a tertiary-level children's hospital in Mandalay, Myanmar.To evaluate the performance of Xpert as a diagnostic test for PTB in children.A cross-sectional descriptive study of children with suspected PTB. Gastric lavage aspirate samples were tested using Xpert, solid culture and smear microscopy. The performance of Xpert, solid culture and smear microscopy were evaluated using the revised National Institute of Health classification for intrathoracic TB in children as the reference standard.TB was bacteriologically confirmed in 38 (16.5%) of 231 children with suspected PTB. Of the 38 children with confirmed TB, 36 cases were identified using Xpert, 16 using solid culture and 12 using smear microscopy. With confirmed TB as the reference standard, the sensitivity of Xpert, solid culture and smear microscopy was respectively 94.7% (95%CI 80.9-99.1), 42.1% (95%CI 26.7-59.1) and 31.6% (95%CI 18.0-48.8).Xpert has improved the bacteriological confirmation of PTB among hospitalised children in Myanmar.

Background Adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) face significant barriers to screening participation. We determined predictors for regular cardiovascular health screening at baseline among adults with ID in Singapore, and evaluated the effectiveness of a 3-month screening intervention. Methods The study population involved all adults with ID aged ≥40 years receiving services from the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS), the largest such provider in Singapore. Over 3 months in 2011, adult clients not screened regularly at baseline for hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia were offered free and convenient blood pressure, fasting blood glucose and lipid testing; data on other cardiovascular disease risk factors were also collected. Chi-square and logistic regression identified predictors of regular screening at baseline. Results Participation was 95.0% (227/239). At baseline, among adults with ID, 61.8% (118/191), 24.8% (52/210) and 18.2% (34/187) had gone for regular hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia screening respectively; post intervention, rates rose to 96.9%, 89.5% and 88.8% respectively. Prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors (22.5% with hypertension, 10.6% with diabetes, 34.8% with dyslipidaemia, 10.7% obese and 90.6% lacking regular exercise) was high compared against the general population. While receiving residential services was associated with regular hypertension screening, receiving non-residential services and being independently mobile were associated with regular participation in fasting blood tests (all P

The firewall is widely known as a brandmauer (security-edge gateway). To provide the demanded security, the firewall has to be appropriately adjusted, i.e. be configured. Unfortunately, when configuring, even the skilled administrators may make mistakes, which result in decreasing level of a network security and network infiltration undesirable packages.The network can be exposed to various threats and attacks. One of the mechanisms used to ensure network security is the firewall.The firewall is a network component, which, using a security policy, controls packages passing through the borders of a secured network. The security policy represents the set of rules.Package filters work in the mode without inspection of a state: they investigate packages as the independent objects. Rules take the following form: (condition, action). The firewall analyses the entering traffic, based on the IP address of the sender and recipient, the port number of the sender and recipient, and the used protocol. When the package meets rule conditions, the action specified in the rule is carried out. It can be: allow, deny.The aim of this article is to develop tools to analyse a firewall configuration with inspection of states. The input data are the file with the set of rules. It is required to submit the analysis of a security policy in an informative graphic form as well as to reveal discrepancy available in rules. The article presents a security policy visualization algorithm and a program, which shows how the firewall rules act on all possible packages. To represent a result in an intelligible form a concept of the equivalence region is introduced.Our task is the program to display results of rules action on the packages in a convenient graphic form as well as to reveal contradictions between the rules. One of problems is the large number of measurements. As it was noted above, the following parameters are specified in the rule: Source IP address, appointment IP address, port of a source, port of destination, protocol.

The first conclusive evidence of a dipole resonance in 11Li having isoscalar character observed from inelastic scattering with a novel solid deuteron target is reported. The experiment was performed at the newly commissioned IRIS facility at TRIUMF. The results show a resonance peak at an excitation energy of 1.03±0.03 MeV with a width of 0.51±0.11 MeV (FWHM). The angular distribution is consistent with a dipole excitation in the distorted-wave Born approximation framework. The observed resonance energy together with shell model calculations show the first signature that the monopole tensor interaction is important in 11Li. The first ab initio calculations in the coupled cluster framework are also included.

Adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) face significant barriers to screening participation. We determined predictors for regular cardiovascular health screening at baseline among adults with ID in Singapore, and evaluated the effectiveness of a 3-month screening intervention.The study population involved all adults with ID aged ≥40 years receiving services from the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS), the largest such provider in Singapore. Over 3 months in 2011, adult clients not screened regularly at baseline for hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia were offered free and convenient blood pressure, fasting blood glucose and lipid testing; data on other cardiovascular disease risk factors were also collected. Chi-square and logistic regression identified predictors of regular screening at baseline.Participation was 95.0% (227/239). At baseline, among adults with ID, 61.8% (118/191), 24.8% (52/210) and 18.2% (34/187) had gone for regular hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia screening respectively; post intervention, rates rose to 96.9%, 89.5% and 88.8% respectively. Prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors (22.5% with hypertension, 10.6% with diabetes, 34.8% with dyslipidaemia, 10.7% obese and 90.6% lacking regular exercise) was high compared against the general population. While receiving residential services was associated with regular hypertension screening, receiving non-residential services and being independently mobile were associated with regular participation in fasting blood tests (all P 0.05).Cardiovascular disease risk factors are common among adults with ID and clinicians should proactively screen such populations. Provision of free and convenient screening for cardiovascular disease risk improved screening participation.

A new and simple discription of the three‐body scattering states, which is based on the Lippmann‐Schwinger equation and the complex scaling method, is developed. As applications of this method, the energy distribution of the E1 transition strength for 6He is calculated. It is also shown that the correlations of subsystems in 6He are well reproduced.

This paper presents a novel, portable and cost-effective balance trainer with the necessary important features to improve the reach of rehabilitation to the masses. There are three factors that contribute to a person's ability to maintain standing balance: Proprioceptive feedback (from the joints), vision, and the vestibular system. These systems can be affected by injury, infection, or brain damage caused by stroke. One example of such injuries is ankle injury. A large focus of the physiotherapy and sports medicine community is using postural-control tasks to prevent, assess and rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, there are presently two extreme ends of balance training devices. On one end, there is high-end equipment which only large hospitals are capable of buying. On the other end are the simple balance boards which offer limited features. To develop the new balance trainer - the Pro.Balance - therapists at the Singapore General Hospital drafted a new 'wish list' of requirements. The prototype was built at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and was commercialized by Lab Rehab Pte Ltd as the Pro.Balance. The device has a small footprint, incorporating only the most important and frequently used functions. These functions include being able to provide different levels of difficulty, setting different difficulties in different directions, the storing of a patient's performance, real-time visual feedback to aid the patient and different types of modes for different purposes. Springs are used to vary the amount of supporting moments, thus varying the difficulty levels. This paper describes the design and features of the Pro.Balance.

Coulomb breakup strengths of 11Li are studied in the complex scaling method. The dipole resonances are not found, and the strength from the continuum states explains the RIKEN data well. We also investigate the tensor correlation in 6He with the extended three‐body model, in which the tensor suppression is seen in the 02+ resonant state.

A new calculational method of continuum level density (CLD) at unbound energies is studied in the complex scaling method (CSM). It is shown that the CLD can be calculated by employing the discretization of continuum states in the CSM without any smoothing technique.

With the core+n+n three‐body cluster model, we investigated 11Li and 10He. By using a 9Li‐n interaction which reproduce the degeneracy of single particle s1/2‐ and p1/2‐orbital states above the 9Li+n threshold, a low‐lying excited resonance is predicted in 11Li together with the ground state, and they are found to be partners in mixed configurations of (0p1/2)2 and (1s1/2)2. The observed three‐body resonance in 10He is considered to be the two valence neutrons mainly in the p‐orbit, (0p1/2)2. In addition to a solution of the two valence neutrons in the p‐orbit, we obtained a solution of the two valence neutrons mainly in the s‐orbit, (1s1/2)2, as the ground state. Experimentally, such a state has not yet been observed. This newly predicted state of 10He with the main component of (1s1/2)2 would corresponds to the ground state of 11Li with a halo structure.

We discuss the role of unbound resonant and continuum states on the transition strength by applying the complex scaling method (CSM). We decompose the transition strength into the contributions from bound, resonance and continuum terms, and as a specific example we analyze the mechanism of the Coulomb breakup reaction of 11Be. It is confirmed that the breakup is direct but does not take place through resonances.

We propose a new mechanism to explain the disappearance of the N = 8 shell gap in 10,11Li with the tensor correlation. We first take into account the tensor correlation fully in the 9Li core in the so-called tensor-optimized shell model. In 10,11Li, the tensor correlations in 9Li are Pauli-blocked by additional two neutrons, which makes the p-state configurations pushed up in energy. As the final result including the pairing correlations, by solving the coupled 9Li+n+n problem, the N = 8 shell gap naturally disappears in 10,11Li, such as the s2 component with around 50% in 11Li.

The effect of acute non-fatal haemorrhage on adrenocortical function was assessed in 19 Burmese subjects. The results indicated that acute non-fatal haemorrhage as produced by blood donation stimulated the adrenal cortex to increase its secretion.