BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Notifying partners of HIV-infected persons and referring them for testing and treatment is an effective method of disease control and identification of undiagnosed STD and/or HIV. To improve partner elicitation interviews, disease intervention specialists (DIS) were placed in 3 HIV clinics during 2008 and 2009. METHODS We reviewed the Arizona state STD surveillance datab...

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A review of theoretical models of di ractive structure functions in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) is presented with a view to highlighting distinctive features, that may be distinguished experimentally. In particular, predictions for the behaviour of the di ractive structure functions F 2 ; F D L ; F D(charm) 2 are presented. The measurement of these functions at both small and high values of...

Various QCD analyzes of the world unpolarized and polarized deep-inelastic data on charged lepton–nucleon and neutrino–nucleus scattering were performed in order to measure the QCD scale ΛQCD, resp. αs(M 2 Z), from the scaling violations of the nucleon structure functions. In this note we give a brief overview on the status of these analyzes. Most of the analyzes performed in the past were of n...

In this talk I report on some work done in collaboration with Jochen Bartels and Mark Wüsthoff on forward-jet inclusive production in DIS in the small-xbj limit. We work in the HERA lab frame and examine the jet production rate and the lepton-jet azimuthal-angle correlation at small values of xbj .

In the initial architecture for distributed simulation, developed under the SIMNET program, all simulation nodes receive all information broadcast by all the others, and each receiving node is responsible for sorting out what information is relevant to the entities it supports. With the advent of ARPA’s Synthetic Theater of War (STOW) program and the continued development of Distributed Interac...

In the study of high energy collisions involving hadrons, events in which isolated high-energy photons (often referred to as prompt photons if originating from quarks) are observed provide a direct probe of the underlying parton process, since the emission of these photons is unaffected by parton hadronisation. Isolated high-energy photon production has been studied in hadronic collisions[2] an...

The strong coupling αS is a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model. In comparison to parameters like αem, MZ and sin 2 θW it is relatively poorly known. However the precision of αS measurements has improved dramatically in recent years. More than twenty different types of process, from lattice QCD studies to the highest energy colliders, can be used to measure αS accurately. The most preci...

Pancreatic cancer is a malignant cancer common worldwide having poor prognosis, even when diagnosed at its early stage. Cell adhesion plays a critical role in cancer invasion and metastasis. Integrins are major mediators of cell adhesion and play an important role in invasion and metastatic growth of human pancreatic cancer cells. Snake disintegrins are the most potent ligands of several integr...