We report the observation of Higgs boson decays to WW based on an excess over background of 6.1 standard deviations in the dilepton final state, where the Standard Model expectation is 5.8 standard deviations. Evidence for the vector-boson fusion (VBF) production process is obtained with a significance of 3.2 standard deviations. The results are obtained from a data sample corresponding to an i...

The current research focuses on assessing the potential of municipal solid waste (MSW) conversion into biofuel using pyrolysis process. MSW samples were taken from Zaatari Syrian Refugee Camp. physical and chemical characteristics studied proximate elemental analysis. results showed that moisture content is 32.3%, volatile matter (VM) 67.99%, fixed carbon (FC) 5.46%, ash 24.33%. analysis was co...

K-shell fluorescence yields of low, medium Z and rare earth elements were determined using Si(PIN) detector and HPGe detector employing reflection geometry set up. Target atoms were excited using 59.5 keV gamma rays emerging from Am-241 source of strength 300 mCi. Background radiation and multiple scattering effects were minimized by properly shielding the detector. The elemental foils of unifo...

Because of the association of beta-sheet formation with the initiation and propagation of amyloid diseases, model systems have been sought to further our understanding of this process. WW domains have been proposed as one such model system. Whereas the folding of the WW domains from human Yes-associated protein (YAP) and Pin have been shown to obey single-exponential kinetics, the folding of th...

Coconut shell is one of the major agro-by products vis-a-vis agro-waste generated by coconut processing units. At present, shells are largely utilized as feed material for thermal power conversion various allied industrial sectors, which a highly energy inefficient and ecologically unfriendly process. The present study aimed to generate activated carbon dots/ nanomaterials with wide range poten...

The Eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, lives in shallow coastal waters and experiences many different environmental extremes including hypoxia, hypercapnia and air exposure and many oysters are infected with the protozoan parasite Perkinsus marinus. The effects of these conditions on oyster metabolism, as measured by oxygen uptake, were investigated. Mild hypercapnia had no effect on the ab...

Mammalian Nedd4 and its budding yeast orthologue Rsp5 are members of a large family of HECT-domain-containing ubiquitin ligases. Besides possessing a Ca(2+)/lipid-binding domain, both ligases have multiple protein-interacting modules termed WW domains. The C-terminal WW domains mediate interactions with substrates, but the function of the first WW domain remains unclear. We found that expressio...