Deep inspirations (DIs) have a dilatory effect on airway smooth muscle (ASM) that helps to prevent or reduce more severe bronchoconstriction in healthy individuals. However, this bronchodilation appears to fail in some asthmatic patients or under certain conditions, and the reason is unclear. Additionally, quantitative effects of the frequency and magnitude of DIs on bronchodilation are not wel...

Recent measurements of the diffractive cross section in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) at HERA are presented. The data are used to investigate the factorisation properties of diffractive DIS and to examine its quantum chromodynamic (QCD) structure. Models based on the colour dipole approach to DIS are also tested. 1. Diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering At low x in DIS at HERA, approximately ...

Dysphoria is associated with persistence of attention on mood-congruent information. Longer time attending to mood-congruent information for dysphoric individuals (DIs) detracts from goal-relevant information processing and should reduce working memory (WM) capacity. Study 1 showed that DIs and non-DIs have similar WM capacities. Study 2 embedded depressive information into a WM task. Compared ...

Using the recent experimental data on the left right asymmetry in fragmentation of transversely polarized quarks and the theoretical calculation of the proton transver-sity distribution in the effective chiral quark soliton model we explain the azimuthal asymmetries in semi-inclusive hadron production on longitudinally (HERMES) and transversely (SMC) polarized targets with no free parameters. O...

An overview of DIS 2003 is given with a focus on small-x physics and the interrelationship between deep inelastic scattering and heavy ion physics which furnishes much of the basic information for understanding highdensity QCD matter. In addition to small-x physics, topics covered include single spin asymmetries, light-cone gauge choices, strange quarks in the proton and non-global observables ...

Market power and allegations of market power abuse are perhaps the most contentious contemporary issues concerning electricity markets. A number of industry observers and participants have made allegations regarding the abuse of market power. While some of these allegations may be well-founded, many others may be nothing more than an attempt by some to retroactively correct for their own bad bu...

Around 10% of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) events observed at HERA at small value of the Bjorken variable x are diffractive events [1, 2], when the incoming proton stays intact losing only a small fraction xIP of its initial momentum. A large rapidity gap is formed between the scattered proton (or its low mass excitation) and the diffractive system. The ratio of diffractive to total DIS cros...