As a stringent test of the nonrelativistic QCD factorization approach for inclusive heavy-quarkonium production in high-energy hadron collision, the polarized heavyquarkonium production at the Tevatron is discussed. The polarization of prompt J/ψ at the Tevatron is predicted within the nonrelativistic QCD factorization framework. The contribution from radiative decays of P-wave charmonium state...

Anja Kaczmarczyk1,2, Bryn Funnekotter1,2, Akshay Menon1,2, Pui Ye Phang1,2, Arwa Al-Hanbali1,2, Eric Bunn2,3 and Ricardo L. Mancera1 1Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Western Australian Biomedical Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth 2Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, Fraser Avenue, West Perth 3School of Plant Biology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Univers...

A brief review of CP violation in K and B decays is given. While the observables ε and Re(ε/ε) describing CP violation in neutral K decays do not allow a powerful test of the CKM mechanism of CP violation, rare K → πνν decays and in particular the B-meson system are much more promising in this respect. After a brief look at the K system, selected aspects of CP-violating effects in B decays are ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia. It places an enormous burden on the patients, caregivers, and the society at large. While the main themes in the care of an AF patient have not changed over the years and continue to focus on stroke prevention, control of the ventricular, rate and rhythm maintenance, there have been a number of new developments in each of...

The state of liver transplantation continues to evolve. This article focuses on 3 separate yet important issues within this field. First, there is a proposal to change the allocation of donor livers in the United States. The fundamental premise of this proposal is to equalize access to donor livers across the country. To accomplish this goal, the proposal is to increase the geographic area of l...

As supervisor of the banks, the Reserve Bank has been likened to the shepherd tending his flock. Keeping the flock intact over the past decade, after the regulatory fences came down, has had its moments. A couple have wandered off, and a couple have lost more than their tails. But no carcasses litter the landscape. Indeed, the flock today is looking stronger and healthier than it has for some t...

Parasitic diseases constitute the most common infections among the poorest billion people, entailing high mortality rates and leading to long-term infirmities and poverty. Although the setting-up of public health programs implies many ethical consequences, the range of specific questions in parasitology that can be attributed to bioethics remains, to a large extent, unexplored. From the present...

In recent years, DC microgrid has attracted considerable attention of the research community because of the wide usage of DC power-based appliances. However, the acceptance of DC microgrid by power utilities is still limited due to the issues associated with the development of a reliable protection scheme. The high magnitude of DC fault current, its rapid rate of rising and absence of zero cros...