In their article "Ethical Dilemma and Nihilism in Munro's 'Passion'" Xiying Liu and Hongbin Dai discuss ethics in Alice Munro's short story "Passion." When attempting to escape the shackles of multiple ethical identities, the short story's protagonist Grace encounters dilemmas and in consequence makes wrong decisions with regard to the principle of ethics. The other protagonist of the story, Ne...

We have developed the system for the automatic computation of cross-sections, GRACE/SUSY , including the one-loop calculations for processes of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the the standard model. We discuss how to check our system for the one-loop calculations in comparison with the case for the tree-level calculations. For an application, we investigate the process e + e − → Z 0 h 0 .

Limiting factors for the precise orbit determination POD of low-earth orbit LEO satellite using dual-frequency GPS are nowadays mainly encountered with the in-flight phase error modeling. The phase error is modeled as a systematic and a random component each depending on the direction of GPS signal reception. The systematic part and standard deviation of random part in phase error model are, re...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are a common cause of intensive care unit (ICU) admission. Specific prognostic scores have been developed and validated for ACS patients and, among them, GRACE (Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events) has had the best performance. However, intensive care clinicians generally use prognostic scores developed from heterogeneous populations of ...

AIMS Elevated C-reactive protein level is a risk marker in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACSs), but current risk score systems do not consider this factor. We studied the incremental predictive value of adding C-reactive protein to the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) risk score. METHODS AND RESULTS Characteristics, treatments and 30-day mortality were recorded for 1...

The solid Earth deforms elastically in response to variations of surface atmosphere, hydrology, and ice/glacier mass loads. Continuous geodetic observations by Global Positioning System (CGPS) stations and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) record such deformations to estimate seasonal and secular mass changes. In this paper, we present the seasonal variation of the surface mass ch...

This work was produced under the auspices of the SERC funded project GR/G49531. Z, Z Method, OBJ, Abstract Datatypes, Safety Critical Systems, Initiality Z is a rich and expressive speci cation language. It is possible to use Z to produce clear, abstract and elegant speci cations; it is also possible to use Z to produce meaningless speci cations. One of the overall aims of the research work in ...

Supersymmetry (SUSY) between bosons and fermions at the unification-energy scale is one of the most promising hypothesis, which is expecteted to resolve the remaining problems in the standard model. In particular, the minimal supersymmetric extension of the the standard model (MSSM) [1] has been extensively studied in the last decade due to the simplicity. For more than ten years, we have been ...

BACKGROUND Acute coronary syndrome registries report the use of incomplete guideline therapies, especially among the highest risk patients. Whether this treatment gap results from misperceptions of risk by physicians is uncertain. METHODS AND RESULTS The Perceived Risk of Ischemic and Bleeding Events in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients (PREDICT) study was a prospective acute coronary syndrome...