One of the main goals of the LHC will be the search of the Higgs boson, the only piece of the otherwise thoroughly tested Standard Model (SM) of which we miss experimental evidence. Regardless of the existence of the Higgs boson, LHC will likely shed light on the physics Beyond-the-SM (BSM), which should be within reach, as LEP results and solar and atmospheric neutrino data suggest. In this co...

Under the trend of globalization and advancement of information technology, the operational patterns and industrial environments have changed, hence, traditional industries are facing the impact of the new era. Sustainable operation thus becomes their priority concern. This study treated consumers of traditional industries as subjects, and Buddhist Systems Methodology (BSM) and the quantitative...

We have recently proposed a phase diagram for mixtures of porcine brain sphingomyelin (BSM), cholesterol (Chol), and 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine (POPC) on the basis of kinetics of carboxyfluorescein efflux induced by the amphipathic peptide delta-lysin. Although that study indicated the existence of domains, phase separations in the micrometer scale have not been observed by fluore...

Natural selection operating in protein-coding genes is often studied by examining the ratio (omega) of the rates of nonsynonymous to synonymous nucleotide substitution. The branch-site method (BSM) based on a likelihood ratio test is one of such tests to detect positive selection for a predetermined branch of a phylogenetic tree. However, because the number of nucleotide substitutions involved ...

Forty-five workers at 11 paving sites across the United States were evaluated for exposure to paving asphalt (bitumen) fumes. Traditional measures of exposure such as total particulate matter (TPM) and benzene soluble matter (BSM) were monitored. In addition, total organic matter (TOM), which includes both the BSM residue and the more volatile components that pass through the filter and are col...

We investigated the mechanisms underlying muscarinic excitation-contraction coupling in canine airway smooth muscle using organ bath, fura 2 fluorimetric, and patch-clamp techniques. Cyclopiazonic acid (CPA) augmented the responses to submaximal muscarinic stimulation in both tracheal (TSM) and bronchial smooth muscles (BSM), consistent with disruption of the barrier function of the sarcoplasmi...

Methods We studied 41 patients with persistent AF (6 women, age 56+/-12 years). Patients underwent LGE CMR using an respiratory navigated and inversion recovery prepared 3D turbo FLASH sequence with fat saturation (pixel size 1.25×1.25×2.5mm), as well as non-invasive BSM during atrial fibrillation using a 256-electrode vest, enabling real-time panoramic mapping of atrial electrical activation. ...

--The lubricating properties of commercially available mucins originating from different animal organs, namely bovine submaxillary mucin (BSM) and porcine gastric mucin (PGM), have been characterized at polymeric surfaces for biomedical applications. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) and pin-on-disk tribometry have been employed for tribological studies at nanoscale and macroscale contacts, respect...

ion: the functional view on the semantics of mental state transformer provides a powerful abstraction for BSM agent program. Mental state transformer facilitates encapsulation of a set of particular interdependent objects stored in agent’s knowledge bases together with the dynamics associated with them, a part of agent’s overall behaviour. The construct of mst thus provides a similar abstract c...