Heavy quark decays serve as a powerful tool for testing the Standard Model and, since it probes the quarks of all three generations, provide invaluable possibilities to study CP violation. However, the interpretation of experimental observables in terms of fundamental parameters is often less than clear. Rare hadronic decays of B mesons, for example, proceed through both tree level Cabibbo-supp...

Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems have various applications in engineering and biology, where two dynamics, fluid flow and deformable structure, are considered in one system. Simulations of blood flow, tidal current turbines and gas explosions in pipelines are some well-known applications in this research area [2, 6, 9, 16, 20, 21]. FSI problems concern the mutual influence between two...

The autonomic nervous system plays a leading role in the control of fetal homeostasis. Fetal heart rate variability (HRV) analysis is a reflection of its activity. We developed a new index (the Fetal Stress Index, FSI) reflecting parasympathetic tone. The objective of this study was to evaluate this index as a predictor of fetal acid-base status. This was an experimental study on chronically in...

Do final state interactions obscure short range correlation effects in quasielastic A(e, e ′ p) scattering ? A b s t r a c t Are short range correlations in the ground state of the target nucleus (initial state correlations ISC) observable in experiments on quasielastic A(e, e ′ p) scattering at large missing momentum p m ? Will the missing momentum spectrum observed at CEBAF be overwhelmed by ...

Management of unstructured data is viewed as one of the major unsolved problems. Nearly eighty percentage of enterprise data resided in unstructured formats such as text files, email, customer profile information, external information, video documents and audio samples in various fields including search, prediction, business intelligence, financial service industry – FSI and in sematic web, whi...

We analyzed amniotic fluid from 91 pregnancies (estimated gestational age range 31 to 41 weeks), using the Lumadex-FSI Fetal Lung Maturity test (Beckman Instruments), and also determining phosphatidylglycerol content, the lecithin/sphingomyelin ratio, and foam stability index by the "shake test," and compared results with newborn outcome. Five of 64 babies born within 72 h of testing developed ...