Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) along with hydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (OH-PBDEs) and methoxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (MeO-PBDEs) were found in plant and soil samples collected surrounding a seafood processing factory and a seafood market in China. The profiles of MeO-PBDE congeners were different between seafood processing factory and seafood market. The dete...

The main objective of this paper is to study the Distributed Scheduling (DS) problems in Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) environment using simulation model. This FMS is assumed to be single factory and multi factory which are analyzed by production capacity, throughput, utilization and work-in-process (WIP) by considering scheduling rules. The rules which are includes Largest processing tim...

People believe they experience the world objectively, but research continually demonstrates that beliefs influence perception. Emerging research indicates that beliefs influence the experience of eating. In three studies, we test whether beliefs about how animals are raised can influence the experience of eating meat. Samples of meat were paired with descriptions of animals raised on factory fa...

The B factories continue to dominate experimental publications on the τ. Since the previous edition of this Review, there have been 15 published papers that have contributed measurements to the τ Listings, including 6 from the BaBar Collaboration and 8 from the Belle Collaboration. Seven of these papers have provided new upper limits on the branching fractions for neutrinoless τ-decay modes. Of...

Software organizations are always looking for approaches that help improve the quality and productivity of developed software products. Quality software is easy to maintain and reduces the cost of software development. The Software Factories (SF) approach is one of the approaches to provide such benefits. In this paper, the quality and productivity benefits of the SF approach were examined and ...

The pattern language presented in this paper aims at helping designers to develop reusable building blocks that can be plugged together as needed by the application to be built. The patterns try to identify essential properties of reusable software. In particular, we show that extensive standardization is not a necessary prerequisite of reusability as long as interfaces are designed in a way th...

The highlights and conflicts at the B Factories are briefly reviewed. CP violation was established in 2001 in B → J/ψKS and related modes, which has now become a precision measurement of CP violation in B-B 0 mixing. However, the situation for the B → ππ and charmless b → s modes, which probe also CP violation in the decay amplitude, are not quite settled yet. They could be hinting at presence ...

We investigate the single-spin asymmetries in inclusive and exclusive processes of electron-proton scattering and electron-positron annihilation. In the decomposition of hadronic tensor, a Lorentz symmetric spin-dependent term is generally present. The existence of such a term implies single-spin asymmetries in these processes and these single-spin asymmetries for baryons can be understood in a...

Nonleptonic B to charmonium decays generally deviate from the factorization predictions. We study rescattering effects mediated by intermediate charmed mesons in this class of decay modes and, in particular, we consider B− → K−hc with hc the J PC = 1 c̄c meson, relating this mode to B− → K−χc0. We find B(B− → K−hc) large enough to be measured at the B factories, hence this process could be used ...

MONOLITH is a proposed massive (34 kt) magnetized tracking calorimeter at the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy, optimized for the detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos. The main goal is to establish (or reject) the neutrino oscillation hypothesis through an explicit observation of the full first oscillation swing. The ∆m sensitivity range for this measurement comfortably covers the complete Sup...