The first application of polarization-sensitive multiplex coherent antiStokes Raman spectroscopy (MCARS) in the absence of resonance enhancement to the resolution of the secondary structure of a protein in solution is reported. Polarization MCARS spectra of bovine albumin in D20 were obtained in the range 1370 to 1730 cm -I with the aid of the background suppression technique. The spectra were ...

We investigated the livestock farms surrounding the Waterberg Plateau Park in north-central Namibia to assess farmer attitudes, management techniques, financial impacts, as well as the potential benefits of tourism and trophy hunting, with respect to leopard Panthera pardus conservation. Farmers were asked about their use of six livestock husbandry techniques and farmers who employed at least o...

In light of the recent experimental results on decays B+ → fX(1300)K and B±(0) → J/ψK X (1430) from Belle, we study the B → P (V )S type decays, B±(0) → f0(1370)K and B±(0) → J/ψK 0 (1430), in comparison with the B → P (V )T type decays, B±(0) → f2(1270)K and B±(0) → J/ψK 2 (1430). We calculate the BRs for these decays by using the form factors obtained in the ISGW2 model [the improved version ...

The ATLAS and CMS experiments did not find evidence for Supersymmetry using close to 5/fb of published LHC data at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. We combine these LHC data with data on Bs → μ+μ− (LHCb experiment), the relic density (WMAP and other cosmological data) and upper limits on the dark matter scattering cross sections on nuclei (XENON100 data). The excluded regions in the constraine...

BACKGROUND People with type 1 diabetes may find diabetic control more difficult when working shifts. AIMS To investigate the proportion of people with type 1 diabetes in employment undertaking shift work and diabetic control as assessed by glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) among individuals undertaking shift work compared to those not doing so. METHODS A postal questionnaire sent to all thos...

Complex-mass (finite-width) 0 nonet and decouplet are discussed in exotic commutator method approach. Besides of the known mass formulae for real parts of the complex masses, one gets relations for total widths of the particles. It is shown that anomalies of the widths of f0(980) and a0(980) mesons do not justify rejecting the qq̄ structure for them; the reduction of their widths follows from an...

The aim of the present paper is to determine the beginning, order, median time, termination, dynamics, continuity and intensity of the permanent tooth eruption, as well as its calendar, in a sample of Zagreb children. The study included 2768 children (1398 boys and 1370 girls). All subjects were classified in one-year age groups. The continuity of tooth eruption occurs from 5.1 years to 14.97 y...

Infrared transmission measurements reveal the hybridization of graphene plasmons and the phonons in a monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) sheet. Frequency-wavevector dispersion relations of the electromagnetically coupled graphene plasmon/h-BN phonon modes are derived from measurement of nanoresonators with widths varying from 30 to 300 nm. It is shown that the graphene plasmon mode is spl...

We discuss the theoretical expectations and phenomenological evidence for the lightest glueballs and the members of the meson nonet with quantum numbers J = 0. We reconsider the recent evidence for candidate states with masses below ∼1700 MeV, but include also the results from earlier phase-shift analyses. Arguments are presented to classify the scalars f0(980) and f0(1500) as members of the 0 ...