Supersymmetric extension of the QCD (SQCD) is considered, and the scale dependence of some important parameters, i.e., strong coupling αs and b-quark running mass mb, is studied with the help of three-loop renormalization group equations. Fiveavour QCD is considered as a lowenergy effective theory of SQCD, and two-loop decoupling (threshold) effects are taken into account. Variations in running...

The impact of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on frailty among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected adults has not been well described. HIV-infected participants aged ≥40 years with initial ART receipt through a randomized, controlled AIDS Clinical Trials Group trial completed a frailty assessment. Ordinal logistic regression models examined factors associated with frailty. Of 1016 particip...

4.1 Historical Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1012 4.2 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1014 4.3 Waldhausen...

A retrospective review was carried out of the radiographic features of 1016 adults admitted to hospital with acute asthma over a 4-year time period. The radiographic features were classified into five groups: (I) normal, 536 patients (52.9%); (II) features compatible with obstructive lung disease, 323 patients (31.8%); (III) complications of asthma including infection, segmental or greater atel...

We report the x-ray photocurrent response of a coplanar chemical vapor deposition diamond detector fabricated using a metal-less graphitic ohmic contact. Ion implantation of 70 keV boron ions to a dose of 2 1016 cm−2 was performed through a patterned photoresist to produce a coplanar graphitic contact structure. The device photocurrent showed a fast response to pulsed x-ray irradiation, and sho...

We present statistical analysis of blocks in the binary expansions of Feigenbaum constants a and d for the logistic map. The analysis is carried out on both 1016 and 3400 bit expansions. A w test is applied for lumping data and a serial test is applied on gliding data. Contrary to a previous research by Karamanos and Kotsireas, our test results did not indicate any evidence to reject randomness...

We present an approach to modelling the effect of the laser focal spot size on the acceleration of protons from ultra-thin foil targets irradiated by ultra-short laser pulses of intensity 1016–1018 W cm−2. An expression is introduced for the proton acceleration time, which takes account of the time taken for the laser-accelerated electrons, which expand laterally at the rear surface of the targ...

A new ultrahigh vacuum-compatible ( 10 11 mbar) "reaction microscope" was built to investigate multiple ionization of atoms and molecules in ultra-short (23 fs), intense laser pulses (1014 1016 W/cm2, 795 nm) . In first experiments ion momentum distributions for single and double ionization of noble gas atoms in the nonsequential and sequential intensity regime were measured using linearly pola...

Lithium niobate (LiNbO3, LN) channel and ridge waveguides have been successfully fabricated by He ion implantation, which has energy of 500 keV fluence 1.5×1016 ions/cm2 is combined with lithography the precise diamond dicing technique. The refractive index profile annealed LN planar waveguide was reconstructed. propagation loss a width 10 µm that widths 25 15 were investigated end-face couplin...