The status and performance of the LHCb detector during the physics LHC physics run is described. The LHCb detector has a number of notable features including: 12 micron resolution in the transverse plane on 30-35 track primary vertices, pion and kaon separation from 1 to 100 GeV, and 1 MHz full readout of all subsystems. The detector is being operating above its design luminosity and is compris...

a Radiometrics, 4909 Nautilus Court North, Boulder, CO, USA b National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA c Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, USA d Center of Excellence for Severe Weather Forecast, L'Aquila, Italy e Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, Tito Scalo, Italy f Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA ...

Aerosol optical properties measured at the Pasadena, CA site during the CalNex field campaign in May eJune 2010 are summarized. Average measurements of PM2.5 aerosol extinction, scattering, absorption coefficients, and single scattering albedo (bext, bscat, babs and SSA) at l 1⁄4 532 nmwere 62 Mm 1, 58 Mm 1, 4 Mm 1, and 0.92, respectively. The aerosol optical densities were 5 times lower than d...

Cholera remains a major public health problem. To compare the relative contribution of strains from the environment with strains isolated from patients during outbreaks, we performed multilocus variable tandem repeat analyses on samples collected during the 2010 and 2011 outbreak seasons in 2 geographically distinct areas of Bangladesh. A total of 222 environmental and clinical isolates of V. c...

Astroviruses are globally known enteropathogens causing gastroenteritis and diarrhea, with eight well defined serotypes. Epidemiological studies have recognized serotype-1 as the most common subtype but no such data is available in Pakistan. During 2009-2010, we found astroviruses in 41 out of 535 (7%) samples collected from hospitalized children. Thirty one strains belonged to serotype-1 and c...

background: poisoning is a serious health problem in the world. in the intentional type, the person may attempt suicide by self-poisoning or may be poisoned by others in a criminal act. the present study was designed to investigate the causes and the frequency of poisoning cases referring to loqman hospital, tehran, iran, during summer 2010. methods: in this descriptive-analytical study, age, g...

background: diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder and its subsequent complications such as retinopathy, nephropathy, ulcers,disability, and amputation increase the burden of the disease. patient knowledge-improving programs are employed to prevent disease progression and to improve the quality of life of the patients. in this way, we need to characterize the groups of patients in urgent nee...

introduction: breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death among women. the aim of this study was to assess the pathologic findings of patients with breast cancer who were referred to the pathology ward in bandarabbas during 2002 to 2010. methods and materials: in this descriptive study in 2010, all patients with breast cancer who were referred to the pathology ward of bandara...

meteorological radars estimate the precipitation using a reflection-precipitation relation as z=arb with a, b coefficients. these coefficients will change from one precipitation to the other one. for the tehran radars they are considered as a=200 and b=1.6. these values are proper when we have moderate precipitations. this assumption causes an error in the estimation of different precipitation ...

the present study considered the situation of kilka stocks in last decades by using overfished biomass threshold, fishing effort ratio and fishing mortality proxy during 1991-2010. the cpue index of anchovy and mixed-species of kilka indicated an undepleted from 1991 to 2000. in 2000, the cpue ratio declined to close to the “in danger” region, and subsequently collapsed to “overfished” region f...