Results on jet production and quark fragmentation are presented from the five detectors at the PEP e+estorage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center: DELCO (Caltech-SLAC-Stanford), I-IRS (ArgonneIndiana-LBL-Michigan-Purdue-SLAC), MAC (ColoradoFrascati-Houston-Northeastern-SLAC-Stanford-UtahWisconsin), MARK II (SLAC-LBL-Harvard), and TPC (LBL-Johns Hopkins-UCLA-UC Riverside-Yale). All da...

We summarize the status of next-to-leading order perturbative quantum chromodynamics (pQCD) calculations of the cross sections for the production of squarks, gluinos, neutralinos, charginos, and sleptons as a function of the produced sparticle masses in proton-antiproton collisions at the hadronic center-of-mass energy 2 TeV. I. PERTURBATIVE QCD RESULTS The possibility of supersymmetry (SUSY) a...

Data on nasal articulation obtained through real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are jointly used with acoustic analyses of the speech signal to analyze nasal production differences in read and spontaneous speech, especially focusing on the details of acoustic spectral reduction. In this exploratory study, vowel-nasal-vowel (VNV) segments from one speaker were examined and measures corres...

The LHCb detector covers the forward angular region complementary to the angular coverage by the general purpose LHC experiments. With the first data, measurements of inclusive charged particle production and V 0 production will be performed and compared to particle production models. Focusing on ratios, such as positives/negatives or lambda-bar/lambda, many systematic effects cancel and publis...

The elementary production cross sections π∆ → Y K (Y = Σ, Λ) and πN → Y K are needed to describe kaon production in heavy ion collisions. The πN → Y K reactions were studied previously by a resonance model. The model can explain the experimental data quite well [8]. In this article, the total cross sections π∆ → Y K at intermediate energies (from the kaon production threshold to 3 GeV of π∆ cen...

17 Quantifying rates of microbial carbon transformation in peatlands is essential for gaining 18 mechanistic understanding of the factors that influence methane emissions from these systems, 19 and for predicting how emissions will respond to climate change and other disturbances. In this 20 study, we used porewater stable isotopes collected from both the edge and center of a 21 thermokarst bog...

Luara Ferreira dos Santos, Rehabilitation Robotics Group (TU Berlin/ Fraunhofer IPK), Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Industrial Automation Technology, Germany Thomas Schüler, SALT AND PEPPER, Software Solution Center & University of Osnabrück, Germany Simon Hoermann, Department of Medicine (DSM) & Department of Information Science, University of Otago, New Zealand Henning Schmidt,...

background: acinetobacter baumannii, is an opportunistic pathogen and is responsible for numerous nosocomial infections. in recent years, this microorganism has been resistant to a wide range of antibiotics. one of the most important mechanisms of resistance in this microorganism is production of metallo-beta-lactamases (mbls). objectives: the aim of this study was to detect vim- and imp-type m...

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is charged with restoring and protecting anadromous Pacific salmon stocks in all habitats of U.S. waters, including their period of residence in estuarine and oceanic waters. Recent studies have implicated the estuarine and coastal phase of the salmon life cycle as being of equal importance to the freshwater phase in determining production. Evaluatio...