BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Etiology and symptomatology in pontine infarction extending to the basal surface are supposed to be different from those in deep pontine infarction of the lacunar type. The aim of this study was to compare the infarct size and location, vascular lesions, risk factors, and neurological deficits in three different types of acute pontine infarction. METHODS We studied isol...

Recent measurements of the CP -violating asymmetry parameter sin2β by the BABAR [1] and BELLE [2] collaborations established CP violation in the B system. These measurements, as well as updated preliminary results [3, 4], are consistent with the Standard Model expectation based on measurements and theoretical estimates of the elements of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa [5] (CKM) quark-mixing matr...

Because the B d → J/ψK S asymmetry determines only sin 2β, a discrete ambiguity in the true value of β remains. This note reviews how the ambiguity can be removed. Extractions of the CKM angle α are discussed next. Some of the methods require very large data samples and will not be feasible in the near future. In the near future, semi-inclusive CP-violating searches could be undertaken, which a...

The most general Two Higgs Doublet Model potential without explicit CP violation depends on 10 real independent parameters. Excluding spontaneous CP violation results in two 7 parameter models. Although both models give rise to 5 scalar particles and 2 mixing angles, the resulting phenomenology of the scalar sectors is different. If flavour changing neutral currents at tree level are to be avoi...

More than 100 CT and 15 MR studies of infarcts in the cerebellum and brainstem were reviewed to define the most typical distribution of infarcts in the different vascular territories. Posterior inferior cerebellar artery and anterior inferior cerebellar artery territories are variable in size and are in a sort of equilibrium with each other. The posterior inferior cerebellar artery territory in...

We attempt to extract the angle γ of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix by the inclusive B → Xd l+ l decay in the Standard Model. An independent information for the angle is coming out from the non-trivial contribution due to CP violation factor, which induces CP asymmetry in the channel. The decay rate and asymmetries are examined with including the long-distance contributions due to vector-...

We consider the strong rescattering effects that can occur in the decays such as B → Kπ, Kπ, Kρ . . . and their impact on direct CP violation in these modes. First we discuss, in general, how the CPT theorem constrains the resulting pattern of partial rate asymmetries leading to different brands of direct CP. Traditional discussions have centered around the absorptive part of the penguin graph ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Conventional MR imaging permits subcategorization of brain stem tumors by location and focality; however, assessment of white matter tract involvement by tumor is limited. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a promising method for visualizing white matter tract tumor involvement supratentorially. We investigated the ability of DTI to visualize and quantify white matter trac...

The molecular cues that regulate neurite morphology within the target environment are key to the formation of complex neural circuitry. During development of the ponto-cerebellar projection, pontine fibers sprout and form elaborate arbors within the inner cerebellar layer prior to arrival of their target cells, the cerebellar granule neurons. Here, we describe the biochemical fractionation of t...

The most general Two Higgs Doublet Model potential without explicit CP violation depends on 10 real independent parameters . Excluding spontaneous CP violation results in two 7 parameter models. Although both models give rise to 5 scalar particles and 2 mixing angles, the resulting phenomenology of the scalar sectors is different. If flavour changing neutral currents at tree level are to be avo...