The production of W or Z bosons in association with two jets is an important background to the Higgs boson search in vector-boson fusion at the LHC. The purely electroweak component of this background is dominated by vector-boson fusion, which exhibits kinematic distributions very similar to the Higgs boson signal. We consider the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the electroweak product...

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We construct and study a class of translation planes with kernel K ∼= GF (q), order q, and n > 2. These planes generalize the j-planes discovered by Johnson, Pomareda and Wilke in [14]. We show these planes are actually jj · · · j-planes. Hence, most of the results obtained in this article are on jj · · · j-planes. In fact, our study shows that these planes are either nearfield or new. An infin...

Accumulation of unconjugated bilirubin (UCB) in the brain causes bilirubin encephalopathy. Pgp (ABCb1) and Mrp1 (ABCc1), highly expressed in the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCSFB) respectively, may modulate the accumulation of UCB in brain. We examined the effect of prolonged exposure to elevated concentrations of UCB on expression of the two transporters in...