INFLATION, SYMMETRY, AND B-MODES

Inflation, symmetry, and B-modes

We examine the role of using symmetry and effective field theory in inflationary model building.We describe the standard formulation of starting with an approximate shift symmetry for a scalar field, and then introducing corrections systematically in order to maintain control over the inflationary potential.We find that this leads to models in good

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Hospital survey on patient safety culture (HSOPSC): a multi-method approach for target-language instrument translation, adaptation, and validation to improve the equivalence of meaning for cross-cultural research

Abstract read more Background The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) is widely utilized in multiple languages across the world.Despite culture and language variations, research studies from Latin America use the Spanish language HSOPSC validated for Spain and the United States.Yet, these studies fail to report the translation method

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Training strategy in patients with hypertension

A training strategy in 40 patients with hypertension, belonging to the health area of the Municipal Teaching Polyclinic in Santiago de Cuba, was carried out from read more January to December, 2014, who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria elaborated to such an effect, aimed at evaluating the fundamental results obtained with the implemen

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