The pattern of well-known states in q 4 spectroscopy is quite different from CE and b 6. Because of the position of the heavy quark thresholds, the JP = lradial excitation ladder is well studied by formation in e+eexperiments and the L = 1 triplets are seen in 7 transitions. In the q p sector, however, the “leading” high-spin multiplets are best known (in both natural and unnatural f) and, sinc...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUnD: To determine whether the professional Omron HBP-1300 blood pressure (BP) monitor meets American Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) accuracy standards in Chinese children and adults. METHOD According to the AAMI protocol, simultaneous auscultatory measurements by two observers using a mercury manometer were obtained in participants using th...

Abstract Coherent optical memories will likely play an important role in future quantum communication networks. Among the different platforms, based on ladder-type orbital transitions atomic gasses offer high bandwidth (>100 MHz), continuous (on-demand) readout, and low-noise operation. Here we report upgraded setup of our previously-reported fast ladder memory, with improved efficiency life...

Let G be a connected noncompact simple Hermitian symmetric group with nite center. Let H() denote the geometric realization of an irreducible unitary highest weight representation with highest weight. Then H() consists of vector-valued holomorphic functions on G=K and the action of G on H() is given in terms of a factor of automorphy. For highest weights corresponding to ladder representations,...

We present two modelling approaches for the application of model checking to verify railway interlockings. The first translates so-called Ladder Logic into Scade language, the second models a segment of railway from scratch. The verification tool used is Scade.

A link between matroid theory and p-branes is discussed. The Schild type action for p-branes and matroid bundle notion provide the two central structures for such a link. We use such a connection to bring the duality concept in matroid theory to p-branes physics. Our analysis may be of particular interest in M-theory and in matroid bundle theory.

The chain ladder (volume-weighted average development factor) is perhaps the most widely used of the link ratio (age-to-age development factor) techniques, being popular among actuaries in many countries. The chain ladder technique has a number of interesting properties. We present one such property, which indicates that the chain ladder doesn’t distinguish between accident years and developmen...

The usual chain ladder metlwd is a deterministic claims reserving method. In the last years. o stochastic loglineor approximation to the chain ladder method hav been u~rl by several authors especially in order to quantify the variability of the estimated claims reserves. Although the reserves estimated by both merAo& are clenrly diflerent. rk logknenrapproxi-mation has been called " chain ladde...

The studies reported here demonstrate some of the factors affecting the binding of benzo(a)pyrene (BP) to macromolecules in cultured human bronchial mucosa. Bronchial specimens were obtained at either surgy or "immediate" autopsy from patients with and without lung cancer. Grossly normal-appearing pieces of bronchus were cultured in a chemically defined medium, i.e., CMRL 1066 medium containing...

A ladder lottery, known as “Amidakuji” in Japan, is a common way to choose one winner or to make an assignment randomly in Japan. Formally, a ladder lottery L of a permutation π = (x1, x2, . . . , xn) is a network with n vertical lines (lines for short) and many horizontal lines (bars for short) connecting two consecutive vertical lines. The top ends of lines correspond to π. See Fig. 1. Each n...