BACKGROUND The Belgian HIV epidemic is largely concentrated among men who have sex with men and Sub-Saharan Africans. We studied the continuum of HIV care of those diagnosed with HIV living in Belgium and its associated factors. METHODS Data on new HIV diagnoses 2007-2010 and HIV-infected patients in care in 2010-2011 were analysed. Proportions were estimated for each sequential stage of the ...

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This paper presents a new method for conducting a continuum shape sensitivity analysis of a crack in an isotropic, linear-elastic, functionally graded material. This method involves the material derivative concept from continuum mechanics, domain integral representation of the J-integral and direct differentiation. Unlike virtual crack extension techniques, no mesh perturbation is needed to cal...

Electromagnetic gyrokinetic simulation of high temperature plasma is required to predict confinement in magnetic fusion devices and has posed challenges for existing codes. In this paper, we demonstrate successful global the ion gradient-driven mode-kinetic ballooning mode transition a toroidal test case using mixed variables/pullback transformation (MV/PT) scheme with particle-in-cell codes XG...

We investigate the spectral function of Higgs mode in a two dimensional Bose gas, by using effective field theory zero temperature limit. Our approach explains experimental feature that peak is soft continuum rather than sharp peak, broadened and vanishing superfluid phase, which cannot be explained terms $O(2)$ model. also find scalar susceptibility same as longitudinal susceptibility.

Simple states, such as isobaric analog states or giant resonances, embedded into continuum are typical for mesoscopic many-body quantum systems. Due to the coupling to compound states in the same energy range, a simple mode acquires a damping width (“internal” dynamics). When studied experimentally with the aid of various reactions, such states reveal enhanced cross sections in specific channel...

Experiments of crack propagation in rubbers have shown that a discontinuous jump of crack propagation velocity can occur as energy release rate increases, which is known as the "mode transition" phenomenon. Although it is believed that the mode transition is strongly related to the mechanical properties, the nature of the mode transition had not been revealed. In this study, dynamic crack propa...

Starting from the tight-binding dielectric matrix in the random phase approximation we examine the collective modes and electron-hole excitations in a two-band electronic system. For long wavelengths (q → 0), for which most of the analysis is carried out, the properties of the collective modes are closely related to the symmetry of the atomic orbitals involved in the tight-binding states. In in...

gyrokinetic particle and continuum simulation D. R. Ernst, J. Lang, W. M. Nevins, M. Hoffman, Y. Chen, W. Dorland, and S. Parker Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 167 Albany Street, NW16-258, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,...