Interpreters improve access to care for patients with limited English proficiency (LEP), but some studies have reported poorer cultural understanding, relationship quality, and patient satisfaction than language-concordant care. Use of interpreter roles beyond linguistic conversion (clarifier, broker, or advocate/mediator) may enhance interpreter-mediated by improving understanding the therapeu...

The beam orbit system of the LEP electron-positron collider is able to store the beam position over 1000 turns following a deflection by a horizontal kicker. A precise analysis of such 1000-turn data for many beam position monitors was used to study the dependence of the tune on the horizontal amplitude. The horizontal tune shift with amplitude was determined from the decay of the beam oscillat...

ALEPH and DELPHI were the first experiments operating a silicon vertex detector at LEP. During the past 10 years of data taking the DELPHI Silicon Tracker was upgraded three times to follow the different tracking requirements for LEP 1 and LEP 2 as well as to improve the tracking performance. Several steps in the development of the pattern recognition software were done in order to understand a...

The LEP magnetic bending field and therefore the beam energy is changed by a current flow over the vacuum chamber. The current is created by trains travelling between the Geneva main station and destinations in France. Some of the rail current leaks into earth and returns to the power station via the LEP tunnel where the vacuum chamber is one of the conductors. Train leakage currents penetrate ...