We investigate the parton distribution function (PDF) uncertainty in measurement of effective weak mixing angle $\sin^2\theta_{\text{eff}}^{\ell}$ at CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The PDF-induced is large proton-proton collisions LHC due to dilution effect. Drell-Yan forward-backward asymmetry ($A_{FB}$) can be used reduce PDF measurement. However, when including full mass range lepton pair...

A four-dimensional variational data assimilation (4DVAR) system was recently developed for the Navy CoastalOceanModel (NCOM). The systemwas tested in the first part of this study using synthetic surface and subsurface data. Here, a full range of real surface and subsurface data is considered following encouraging results from the preliminary test. The data include sea surface temperature and se...

Two independent studies failed to find evidence consistent with Council, Kirsch, and Hafner (1986), who argued that the repeatedly observed correlations between Tellegen's (1981) Absorption Scale (TAS) and hypnosis measures were artifacts of testing context, and de Groot, Gwynn, and Spanos (1988), who claimed evidence for a Gender x Context moderator effect. In the present studies, Ss completed...

We discuss the fundamental constants in the Standard Model of particle physics, in particular possible changes of these constants on the cosmological time scale. The Grand Unification of the observed strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions implies relations between time variations of the finestructure constant α and the QCD scale Λc. The astrophysical observation of a variation of α impli...

This paper deals with a family of balanced implicit methods for the stochastic delay integro-differential equations. It is shown that the balanced methods, which own the implicit iterative scheme in the diffusion term, give strong convergence rate of at least 1/2. It proves that the mean-square stability for the stochastic delay integro-differential equations is inherited by the strong balanced...

We have extended the formalism for the two-neutrino double beta decay by including the weak-magnetism term, as well as other second-forbidden corrections. The weak magnetism diminishes the calculated half-lives in ∼ 10%, independently of the nuclear structure. Numerical computations were performed within the pn-QRPA, for 76 Ge, 128 T e and 130 T e nuclei. No one of the second-forbidden correcti...

Two sequential camera source identification methods are proposed. Sequential tests implement a log-likelihood ratio test in an incremental way, thus enabling a reliable decision with a minimal number of observations. One of our methods adapts Goljan et al.’s to sequential operation. The second, which offers better performance in terms of error probabilities and average number of test observatio...

Two experiments were conducted to advance our understanding of the effects of forewarning on persuasion. In Experiment 1, personal involvement, warning of message content, and distraction during the forewarning-message interval were manipulated. The results indicated that if warned subjects were personally involved with the attitude issue, they became resistant to the persuasive appeal when the...

In this paper, we introduce a new class of local consistencies, called f -consistencies, for qualitative constraint networks. Each consistency of this class is based on weak composition ( ) and a mapping f that provides a covering for each relation. We study the connections existing between some properties of mappings f and the relative inference strength of f -consistencies. The consistency ob...