Measurement of the ν_{e}-Nucleus Charged-Current Double-Differential Cross Section at ⟨E_{ν}⟩=2.4 GeV Using NOvA.

The inclusive electron neutrino charged-current cross section is measured in the NOvA near detector using 8.02×10^{20} protons-on-target in the NuMI beam. The sample of GeV electron neutrino interactions is the largest analyzed to date and is limited by ≃17% systematic rather than the ≃7.4% statistical uncertainties. The double-differential cross section in final-state electron energy and angle is presented for the first time, together with the single-differential dependence on Q^{2} (squared four-momentum transfer) and energy, in the range 1 GeV≤E_{ν}<6 GeV. Detailed comparisons are made to the predictions of the GENIE, GiBUU, NEUT, and NuWro neutrino event generators. The data do not strongly favor a model over the others consistently across all three cross sections measured, though some models have especially good or poor agreement in the single differential cross section vs Q^{2}.

Colaboración interdisciplinaria para la mejora de la adherencia y la seguridad del paciente en atención primaria / Interdisciplinary collaboration to improve adherence and patient safety in primary care

JUSTIFICACIÓN: se estima que aproximadamente la mitad de los pacientes crónicos en países desarrollados no son adherentes al tratamiento, lo que supone un problema de salud pública muy prevalente, pues afecta al éxito del tratamiento. Esta falta de adherencia, unida a la inercia clínica puede comprometer la seguridad del paciente. Ante esta situación, los grupos GIS y Seguridad del paciente de SEMERGEN y SEFAC respectivamente entendieron que la situación se presentaba como una oportunidad para que ambas profesiones sanitarias, médicos y farmacéuticos, participasen en una formación conjunta. De esta manera se puso en marcha el curso “Reto Adherencia terapéutica y Seguridad del paciente”(6,6 créditos de formación continuada), actividad basada en el concepto de gamificación donde los participantes obtienen puntos por cada entregable y tema superado, adquiriendo conocimientos y estableciéndose una clasificación con los mejores participantes semana a semana.OBJETIVO: mejorar el conocimiento de las diferentes competencias, así como buscar líneas de mejora conjuntas entre medicina y farmacia, logrando a su vez un mejor control de las patologías de nuestros pacientes.MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: se han incluido 8 retos en total, 1 tema por semana, entre enero y marzo del año en curso, incluyendo temas relacionados con concepto, prevalencia e importancia de la adherencia, métodos de diagnóstico, propuestas de mejora, inercia clínica, gestión del medicamento: conciliación y de prescripción, seguridad del paciente: conceptos generales y herramientas para la seguridad del paciente; seguridad del paciente en el uso de los medicamentos, coordinación asistencial en adherencia y seguridad. Además de contenidos teóricos y la bibliografía de apoyo. (AU)

Search for Active-Sterile Antineutrino Mixing Using Neutral-Current Interactions with the NOvA Experiment.

This Letter reports results from the first long-baseline search for sterile antineutrinos mixing in an accelerator-based antineutrino-dominated beam. The rate of neutral-current interactions in the two NOvA detectors, at distances of 1 and 810 km from the beam source, is analyzed using an exposure of 12.51×10^{20} protons-on-target from the NuMI beam at Fermilab running in antineutrino mode. A total of 121 of neutral-current candidates are observed at the far detector, compared to a prediction of 122±11(stat.)±15(syst.) assuming mixing only between three active flavors. No evidence for ν[over ¯]_{µ}→ν[over ¯]_{s} oscillation is observed. Interpreting this result within a 3+1 model, constraints are placed on the mixing angles θ_{24}<25° and θ_{34}<32° at the 90% C.L. for 0.05 eV^{2}≤Δm_{41}^{2}≤0.5 eV^{2}, the range of mass splittings that produces no significant oscillations at the near detector. These are the first 3+1 confidence limits set using long-baseline accelerator antineutrinos.

First measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters using neutrinos and antineutrinos by NOvA.

The NOvA experiment has seen a 4.4σ signal of ν[over ¯]_{e} appearance in a 2 GeV ν[over ¯]_{µ} beam at a distance of 810 km. Using 12.33×10^{20} protons on target delivered to the Fermilab NuMI neutrino beamline, the experiment recorded 27 ν[over ¯]_{µ}→ν[over ¯]_{e} candidates with a background of 10.3 and 102 ν[over ¯]_{µ}→ν[over ¯]_{µ} candidates. This new antineutrino data are combined with neutrino data to measure the parameters |Δm_{32}^{2}|=2.48_{-0.06}^{+0.11}×10^{-3} eV^{2}/c^{4} and sin^{2}θ_{23} in the ranges from (0.53-0.60) and (0.45-0.48) in the normal neutrino mass hierarchy. The data exclude most values near δ_{CP}=π/2 for the inverted mass hierarchy by more than 3σ and favor the normal neutrino mass hierarchy by 1.9σ and θ_{23} values in the upper octant by 1.6σ.

Publisher's Note: Identification of Nuclear Effects in Neutrino-Carbon Interactions at Low Three-Momentum Transfer [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 071802 (2016)].

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.071802.

Measurement of Final-State Correlations in Neutrino Muon-Proton Mesonless Production on Hydrocarbon at ⟨E_{ν}⟩=3 GeV.

Final-state kinematic imbalances are measured in mesonless production of ν_{µ}+A→µ^{-}+p+X in the MINERvA tracker. Initial- and final-state nuclear effects are probed using the direction of the µ^{-}-p transverse momentum imbalance and the initial-state momentum of the struck neutron. Differential cross sections are compared to predictions based on current approaches to medium modeling. These models underpredict the cross section at intermediate intranuclear momentum transfers that generally exceed the Fermi momenta. As neutrino interaction models need to correctly incorporate the effect of the nucleus in order to predict neutrino energy resolution in oscillation experiments, this result points to a region of phase space where additional cross section strength is needed in current models, and demonstrates a new technique that would be suitable for use in fine-grained liquid argon detectors where the effect of the nucleus may be even larger.

Antineutrino Charged-Current Reactions on Hydrocarbon with Low Momentum Transfer.

We report on multinucleon effects in low momentum transfer (<0.8 GeV/c) antineutrino interactions on plastic (CH) scintillator. These data are from the 2010-2011 antineutrino phase of the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab. The hadronic energy spectrum of this inclusive sample is well described when a screening effect at a low energy transfer and a two-nucleon knockout process are added to a relativistic Fermi gas model of quasielastic, Δ resonance, and higher resonance processes. In this analysis, model elements introduced to describe previously published neutrino results have quantitatively similar benefits for this antineutrino sample. We present the results as a double-differential cross section to accelerate the investigation of alternate models for antineutrino scattering off nuclei.

Measurement of Neutral-Current K

Neutral-current production of K^{+} by atmospheric neutrinos is a background in searches for the proton decay p→K^{+}ν[over ¯]. Reactions such as νp→νK^{+}Λ are indistinguishable from proton decays when the decay products of the Λ are below detection threshold. Events with K^{+} are identified in MINERvA by reconstructing the timing signature of a K^{+} decay at rest. A sample of 201 neutrino-induced neutral-current K^{+} events is used to measure differential cross sections with respect to the K^{+} kinetic energy, and the non-K^{+} hadronic visible energy. An excess of events at low hadronic visible energy is observed relative to the prediction of the neut event generator. Good agreement is observed with the cross section prediction of the genie generator. A search for photons from π^{0} decay, which would veto a neutral-current K^{+} event in a proton decay search, is performed, and a 2σ deficit of detached photons is observed relative to the genie prediction.

Constraints on Oscillation Parameters from ν_{e} Appearance and ν_{µ} Disappearance in NOvA.

Results are reported from an improved measurement of ν_{µ}→ν_{e} transitions by the NOvA experiment. Using an exposure equivalent to 6.05×10^{20} protons on target, 33 ν_{e} candidates are observed with a background of 8.2±0.8 (syst.). Combined with the latest NOvA ν_{µ} disappearance data and external constraints from reactor experiments on sin^{2}2θ_{13}, the hypothesis of inverted mass hierarchy with θ_{23} in the lower octant is disfavored at greater than 93% C.L. for all values of δ_{CP}.

Measurement of the Neutrino Mixing Angle θ_{23} in NOvA.

This Letter reports new results on muon neutrino disappearance from NOvA, using a 14 kton detector equivalent exposure of 6.05×10^{20} protons on target from the NuMI beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The measurement probes the muon-tau symmetry hypothesis that requires maximal θ_{23} mixing (θ_{23}=π/4). Assuming the normal mass hierarchy, we find Δm_{32}^{2}=(2.67±0.11)×10^{-3} eV^{2} and sin^{2}θ_{23} at the two statistically degenerate values 0.404_{-0.022}^{+0.030} and 0.624_{-0.030}^{+0.022}, both at the 68% confidence level. Our data disfavor the maximal mixing scenario with 2.6σ significance.

Evidence for Neutral-Current Diffractive π

The MINERvA experiment observes an excess of events containing electromagnetic showers relative to the expectation from Monte Carlo simulations in neutral-current neutrino interactions with mean beam energy of 4.5 GeV on a hydrocarbon target. The excess is characterized and found to be consistent with neutral-current π^{0} production with a broad energy distribution peaking at 7 GeV and a total cross section of 0.26±0.02(stat.)±0.08(sys.)×10^{-39} cm^{2}. The angular distribution, electromagnetic shower energy, and spatial distribution of the energy depositions of the excess are consistent with expectations from neutrino neutral-current diffractive π^{0} production from hydrogen in the hydrocarbon target. These data comprise the first direct experimental observation and constraint for a reaction that poses an important background process in neutrino-oscillation experiments searching for ν_{µ} to ν_{e} oscillations.

Evidence of Coherent K

Neutrino-induced charged-current coherent kaon production ν_{µ}A→µ^{-}K^{+}A is a rare, inelastic electroweak process that brings a K^{+} on shell and leaves the target nucleus intact in its ground state. This process is significantly lower in rate than the neutrino-induced charged-current coherent pion production because of Cabibbo suppression and a kinematic suppression due to the larger kaon mass. We search for such events in the scintillator tracker of MINERvA by observing the final state K^{+}, µ^{-}, and no other detector activity, and by using the kinematics of the final state particles to reconstruct the small momentum transfer to the nucleus, which is a model-independent characteristic of coherent scattering. We find the first experimental evidence for the process at 3σ significance.

Estudio comparativo entre la radiofrecuencia térmica o convencional y la radiofrecuencia pulsada en el tratamiento del dolor de origen en la artropatía facetaria lumbar / Comparative study of the thermal or conventional radiofrequency and pulsed radiofrequency in the treatment of pain in the lumbar facet origin arthropathy

Objetivo: Comparar los efectos de la Radiofrecuencia Térmica (RFT) versus la Radiofrecuencia Pulsada (RFP) sobre la rama media del ramo dorsal del nervio raquídeo en el tratamiento del dolor en la artropatía facetaria lumbar. Diseño: Prospectivo, comparado, aleatorio y ciego. Material y métodos: Elegimos veinte pacientes de una muestra total de 60 pacientes con dolor lumbar crónico procedente de las articulaciones, sin mejoría después de un tratamiento conservador de más de tres meses. Los pacientes serían asignados de forma aleatoria: 30 RFT y 30 RFP. Resultados: Se evaluaron los resultados de 12 pacientes en el grupo de RFT y 8 en el grupo de radiofrecuencia pulsada. No se observó ninguna diferencia en las características demográficas entre los dos grupos. Tres pacientes abandonaron el estudio. En el grupo de RFT se observó una disminución estadísticamente significativa de la Escala Visual Análoga (EVA) en todos los puntos de seguimiento (p < 0,005). Ninguno de los dos grupos mostró mejoría en el índice de incapacidad (ODI). A pesar de no ser estadísticamente significativo, se observó una disminución mantenida de las cifras del ODI en el grupo de RFT. En el grupo de RFP no se observaron reducción en las cifras del EVA y ODI. Conclusiones: Consideramos a la RFT como adecuada y segura para el tratamiento del dolor de origen en las articulaciones facetarias lumbares, no así a la RFP (AU)

Objective: To compare the effects of Radiofrequency Thermal (RFT) versus Pulsed Radiofrequency (RFP) on the middle branch of the dorsal ramus of the spinal nerve in the treatment of pain in the lumbar facet arthropathy. Design: Prospective, comparative, randomized and blind. Material and methods: We, initially, chose twenty patients of a total sample of 60 patients with chronic low back pain originating from the facet joints without improvement after conservative treatment of more than three months. Patients were randomly assigned 30 RFT and RFP 30. Results: Results 12 RFT group and 8 were evaluated in the group of pulsed radiofrequency. No difference was observed in demographic characteristics between the two groups. Three patients dropped out. In the RFT group, a statistically significant decrease in Visual Analog Scale (VAS) at every point tracking (p < 0.005) was observed. Neither group showed improvement in disability index (ODI). Although not statistically significant, sustained decrease in ODI figures in the group of RFT was observed. In the group of RFP were not observed reduction in the numbers of VAS and ODI. Conclusions: The RFT as suitable and safe for the treatment of pain originating from the lumbar facet joints, not to the RFP (AU)

Combinación de opioides / Opioid combination

La premisa básica de una combinación analgésica es que los dos fármacos actúen a través de diferentes mecanismos de acción; de esta manera, la combinación puede resultar una reducción de los efectos adversos relacionados con la dosis. Sin embargo, la utilidad de la administración conjunta de fármacos del mismo grupo farmacológico es un argumento controvertido pero resulta eficaz en algunas enfermedades, como la depresión y la epilepsia. La rápida necesidad de intensificar las dosis de opioides es un reto para los médicos y representa una fase crítica para los pacientes que tienen un mal control del dolor a pesar de recibir progresivamente crecientes dosis de opioides. La administración de pequeñas dosis de un segundo opioide en pacientes con una respuesta desfavorable durante la escalada con el opioide previo se ha encontrado eficaz en un informe preliminar donde se añadieron: morfina oral, fentanilo transdérmico y la metadona oral a fentanilo transdérmico, la morfina oral y morfina bucal, respectivamente. Así, aunque en la práctica clínica múltiples opioides se administran a menudo de forma simultánea por diferentes razones, hay pocos estudios que hayan evaluado este tema específico (AU)

The basic premise of an analgesic combination is that the two drugs act through different mechanisms of action; thus, the combination may be a reduction in adverse effects associated with the dose. However, the usefulness of the joint administration of drugs of the same pharmacological group is a controversial argument but is effective in some diseases, such as depression and epilepsy. The rapid need for increased doses of opioids is a challenge for physicians and represents a critical phase for patients who have a poor pain control despite receiving progressively increasing doses of opioids. The administration of small dose of a second opioid in patients with an unfavorable response during the escalation of the previous opioid has been found effective in a preliminary report which were added: oral morphine, transdermal fentanyl and oral methadone transdermal fentanyl oral morphine and oral morphine, respectively. Thus, although in clinical practice multiple opioids are often administered simultaneously for different reasons, few studies have evaluated this specific issue (AU)

Measurement of Electron Neutrino Quasielastic and Quasielasticlike Scattering on Hydrocarbon at ⟨E_{ν}⟩=3.6 GeV.

The first direct measurement of electron neutrino quasielastic and quasielasticlike scattering on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region of incident neutrino energy has been carried out using the MINERvA detector in the NuMI beam at Fermilab. The flux-integrated differential cross sections in the electron production angle, electron energy, and Q^{2} are presented. The ratio of the quasielastic, flux-integrated differential cross section in Q^{2} for ν_{e} with that of similarly selected ν_{µ}-induced events from the same exposure is used to probe assumptions that underpin conventional treatments of charged-current ν_{e} interactions used by long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The data are found to be consistent with lepton universality and are well described by the predictions of the neutrino event generator GENIE.

Identification of Nuclear Effects in Neutrino-Carbon Interactions at Low Three-Momentum Transfer.

Two different nuclear-medium effects are isolated using a low three-momentum transfer subsample of neutrino-carbon scattering data from the MINERvA neutrino experiment. The observed hadronic energy in charged-current ν_{µ} interactions is combined with muon kinematics to permit separation of the quasielastic and Δ(1232) resonance processes. First, we observe a small cross section at very low energy transfer that matches the expected screening effect of long-range nucleon correlations. Second, additions to the event rate in the kinematic region between the quasielastic and Δ resonance processes are needed to describe the data. The data in this kinematic region also have an enhanced population of multiproton final states. Contributions predicted for scattering from a nucleon pair have both properties; the model tested in this analysis is a significant improvement but does not fully describe the data. We present the results as a double-differential cross section to enable further investigation of nuclear models. Improved description of the effects of the nuclear environment are required by current and future neutrino oscillation experiments.

Cow, sheep and llama manure at psychrophilic anaerobic co-digestion with low cost tubular digesters in cold climate and high altitude.

The aim of this research is to evaluate the co-digestion of cow and llama manure combined with sheep manure, in psychrophilic conditions and real field low cost tubular digesters adapted to cold climate. Four digesters were monitored in cold climate conditions; one fed with cow manure, a second one with llama manure, the third one with co-digestion of cow-sheep manure and the fourth one was fed with llama-sheep manure. The slurry had a mean temperature of 16.6 °C, the organic load rate was 0.44 kgvs m(-3) d(-1) and the hydraulic retention time was 80 days. After one hundred days biogas production was stable, as was the methane content and the pH of the effluent. The co-digestion of cow-sheep manure results in a biogas production increase of 100% compared to the mono-digestion of cow manure, while co-digestion of llama-sheep manure results in a decrease of 50% in biogas production with respect to mono-digestion of llama manure.

Infiltración epidural de corticosteroides. ¿Sí o no? A propósito de una alerta / Epidural steroids injections. Yes or no? Analysis of US Food and Drug Administration warning letter

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Measurement of ratios of νµ charged-current cross sections on C, Fe, and Pb to CH at neutrino energies 2-20 GeV.

We present measurements of ν(µ) charged-current cross section ratios on carbon, iron, and lead relative to a scintillator (CH) using the fine-grained MINERvA detector exposed to the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The measurements utilize events of energies 2

Improvement through low cost biofilm carrier in anaerobic tubular digestion in cold climate regions.

The aim of this research is to evaluate the increase of biogas production with low cost tubular digesters in cold climates using PET rings inside the reactor. Two similar digesters have been operated and monitored in cold weather conditions and have been fed with cow manure. Digester 1 was filled with PET - rings as a biofilm carrier, Digester 2 was kept as a reference. Through the PET - rings the functional surface could be increased by a factor 4.2. The results show that 44% more biogas per Kg SV has been produced with the biofilm carrier in use (0.33 m(3)/kg SV) (reference digester -0.23 m(3)/kg SV), at an organic load rate of 0.26 kg SV/m(3)/d. The thermal performance shows that with an adaptation of the low cost tubular digester the slurry temperature can be raised up to 16.6°C (average) by surrounding temperature of 6.1°C (average) without using any active heating system.