The treatment of elastic final state interactions (FSI) under a symmetry group is presented. The proposed method is based on Watson’s theorem, i.e. on symmetry properties of the S-matrix and on its unitarity. This theorem provides an easy way to introduce rescattering effects by defining final state interactions mixing matrices. A symmetry group fixes the structure of such mixing matrices, and ...

In this work, the impact of modeling techniques on predicting the mechanical behaviors of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is systematically investigated. The fluid-structure interaction (FSI) model for simultaneously capturing the transient interaction between blood flow dynamics and wall mechanics was compared with its simplified techniques, that is, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) or compu...

The observation of the enhanced production of like–sign particle pairs by LEP experiments at Z does not insure that the observed correlations owe their origin to Bose-Einstein correlations(BEC). They could, for example, arise from final state interactions(FSI) between pions with small relative momenta. (we recommend not to call BEC and/or Colour Reconnection as ’FSI effects’ as it is generally ...

Though nothing is known for B → ππ,Kπ,KK, we might conjecture that the FSI phases diminish as the initial mass increases. Meanwhile the relative FSI phase is known for the ggg and ”γ” decay amplitudes of the J/ψ decays: 3 ∆δ ≈ 90 and 75 for J/ψ → 00 and 01, respectively. Therefore, if the FSI phases diminish with the increasing initial mass, it should start diminishing somewhere between mJ/ψ an...

BACKGROUND Ascorbic acid (AA) modulates catecholaminergic activity, decreases stress reactivity, approach anxiety and prolactin release, improves vascular function, and increases oxytocin release. These processes are relevant to sexual behavior and mood. METHODS In this randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled 14 day trial of sustained-release AA (42 healthy young adults; 3000 mg/day Ceteb...

This study examines the relationship between dating violence, forced sexual intercourse (FSI), and four measures of sexual risk taking (i.e., age at first sex, number of recent (within the last three months) sex partners, alcohol/drug use at last sex, and condom use at last sex) among a sample of 1124 ethnically diverse sexually active adolescents in Illinois. Given conflicting reports regardin...

This article is a response to Hermann Künzel’s article ‘Beware of the “telephone effect”: the influence of telephone transmission on the measurement of formant frequencies’ (Forensic Linguistics 8(1), 80–99). There, he shows convincingly that the evaluation of formant frequencies, notably F1, is affected by the band-pass filter effect of telephone transmission. This response does not question h...