Mercury 2001 conference Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois 2001 October 4-5

Department of Veterinary Pathology WEDNESDAY SLIDE CONFERENCE 2001 - 2002 CONFERENCE 6 17 October 2001 Conference Moderator

October, 2001

We study the two-body and three-body charmful baryonic B decays: B 0 → Λc p̄ and B → Λc p̄ π(ρ). The factorizable W -exchange contribution to B 0 → Λc p̄ is negligible. Applying the bag model to evaluate the baryon-to-baryon weak transition matrix element, we find B(B → Λc p̄) <∼ 2.5 × 10−5|gB0pΣ+b /8| 2 with gB0pΣ+ b being a strong coupling for the decay Σb → B 0 p and hence the predicted branchin...

UNJ October 2001

Urinary diversion involves providing an alternate path for urine to exit the body other than the normal ureter, bladder, urethra route. This can be accomplished by creating a pouch for collecting urine that then exits through a stoma, or by diverting the ureters to a stoma and allowing urine to free-flow through an opening in the abdomen. The first urinary diversion involved creation of a fistu...

Research Activities #254, October 2001

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows dramatic increases in outpatient complete mastectomies in five States. In Colorado, for instance, outpatient complete mastectomies jumped from under 1 percent in 1990 to 22 percent in 1996. Claudia Steiner, M.D., M.P.H., of AHRQ’s Center for Organization and Delivery Studies, and her colleagues Caroline Case, M.D., of Georgetown University, and M...

USAHA Newsletter, Vol. 28, No. 5, October 2001

Articles • President’s Corner ..................................... 2 • Strategies to address wildlife diseases ........ 2 • Epizootic hemorrhagic disease of deer ......3 • Chronic wasting disease of deer & elk ........ 3 • Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in finches .......... 4 • Bovine tuberculosis in Michigan’s deer ....... 4 • Wildlife rabies control ................................. 5 • This ne...