Recent measurements of the lifetimes and semileptonic branching fractions of beauty baryons at LEP and the Tevatron are reviewed and new world averages are presented. There remains some discrepancy between the theoretical predictions for the lifetimes of beauty baryons and the observed values.

BEAUTY (BLAST enhanced alignment utility) is an enhanced version of the NCBI's BLAST data base search tool that facilitates identification of the functions of matched sequences. We have created new data bases of conserved regions and functional domains for protein sequences in NCBI's Entrez data base, and BEAUTY allows this information to be incorporated directly into BLAST search results. A Co...

The concept of beauty is closely linked to gender in contemporary society; in this study, the concept of beauty was explored by the use of phenomenological techniques. For this purpose, an in-depth semi-structured interview was conducted among 35 young female students in Tehran. the sample of study was chosen by theoretical sampling model and the interviews were continued up to the point of  ga...

PURPOSE Traditionally, oral estrogens have been used for hormone replacement therapy. However, in Japan, additional estrogen formulations have been used, including transdermal patches and transdermal gels. The latter have a unique commonality with cosmetics because both of them are applied to the skin. Beauty care is one of the most important lifestyle factors for women, and it has been reporte...

Correspondence to: Tam Hunt; Email: [email protected] Submitted: 04/29/13; Accepted: 04/29/13 Citation: Hunt T. Survival of the beautiful: A conversation with David Rothenberg about evolution and beauty. Commun Integr Biol 2013; 6: e24857; http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/cib.24857 With respect to beauty, there is a growing awareness that even though determinations of beauty in particular ca...

The Problem Sleeping Beauty will participate in an experiment in which she will be put into a deep sleep on Sunday night. She will be awakened during the experiment either once or twice depending on the toss of a fair coin. In either case she will be awakened on Monday. She will be unaware upon awakening that it is Monday, but subsequently will be told that it is Monday and then given drugs to ...

background and aims: beauty salons are considered as the places which the environmental health and renovation are adhered too. they can improve the society’s health and influence controlling the diseases. not considering this issue causes the spread of skin and hair diseases and infections and louse. this study was aimed to determine the health status of beauty salons of kashan in 2014. methods...

In this paper, based on the contemporary theory of cognitive metaphor, the metaphoric functions of Jamal (Beauty) and the clusters of images related to it, namely the world, man, face, sun, mirror, etc. in Mawlavi's lyrics are explained. In theology, the motif of conceptual metaphor of Jamal is Ro'yat (vision). Finding its way into mysticism, "vision" is expressed in the metaphor of B...

Like other scholars who hold that film is an important conversation partner with the perspectives of faith, Robert K. Johnston proposes to put film and Christian Scripture—and, specifically, Ecclesiastes—in a creative two-way dialogue. What makes Useless Beauty notable and well worth reading, however, is Johnston’s effort to resist the usual methods of Christian movie critique. Frequently, he c...