The increasing prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) poses a considerable socio-economic challenge. Decades of experimental research have not led to the development of effective disease modifying interventions. A deeper understanding of in vivo research might provide insights to inform future in vivo research and clinical trial design. We therefore performed a systematic review and meta-analys...

Anti-de Sitter supergravity models are considered in three dimensions. Precise asymptotic conditions involving a chiral projection are given on the Rarita-Schwinger elds. Together with the known boundary conditions on the bosonic elds, these ensure that the asymptotic symmetry algebra is the superconformal algebra. The classical central charge is computed and found to be equal to the one of pur...

The DLS collaboration has recently completed a high statistics study of dilepton production at the Bevalac. In particular, we have measured dielectrons (e+e-) from p-p and p-d collisions to understand the basic dilepton production mechanisms in the energy range from 1.05 4.9 GeV. These data can be used to determine the basic processes which contribute to nucleon-nucleon dilepton production such...

General Relativity with nonvanishing torsion has been investigated in the first order formalism of Poincaré gauge field theory. In the presence of torsion, either side of the Einstein equation has the nonvanishing covariant divergence. This fact turned out to be self-consistent in the framework under consideration. By using Noether’s procedure with the definition of the Lie derivative where the...

The associated production of a W boson with a jet originating from either a light parton or heavy-flavor quark is studied in the forward region using proton-proton collisions. The analysis uses data corresponding to integrated luminosities of 1.0 and 2.0 fb−1 collected with the LHCb detector at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, respectively. The W bosons are reconstructed using the W → μν...

We describe the simulation of tau decays in the Herwig++ event generator, which includes sophisticated modelling of the hadronic currents and full treatment of spin correlation effects. The structure of the simulation makes it easy to add new models of tau decay, change the parameters of the existing models, and use the models from tau decay for the decay of other particles. The results are com...

We discuss the uses of conversion electron pairs for extracting photon polarization information in weak radiative B decays. Both cases of leptons produced through a virtual and real photon are considered. Measurements of the angular correlation between the (Kπ) and (e+e−) decay planes in B → K∗(→ Kπ)γ(∗)(→ e+e−) decays can be used to determine the helicity amplitudes in the radiative B → K∗γ de...

BACKGROUND Stepped-wedge cluster randomised trials (SW-CRT) are increasingly being used in health policy and services research, but unless they are conducted and reported to the highest methodological standards, they are unlikely to be useful to decision-makers. Sample size calculations for these designs require allowance for clustering, time effects and repeated measures. METHODS We carried ...

The branching fractions for !ee, , and hh are measured using data collected with the, where the rst errors are statistical, the second systematic, and h refers either to a charged or K. Also measured is the tau mass, m=(1778.21.4) MeV. Lepton universality is aarmed by the resulting relative branching fractions (B/Be=0.97770.00630.0087, B h /Be=0.64840.00410.0060) and the charged-current gauge c...

BACKGROUND The use of cluster randomized trials (CRTs) is increasing, along with the variety in their design and analysis. The simplest approach for their sample size calculation is to calculate the sample size assuming individual randomization and inflate this by a design effect to account for randomization by cluster. The assumptions of a simple design effect may not always be met; alternativ...