Peptide agonists and antagonists of both bradykinin (BK) B(1) and B(2) receptors (B(1)R, B(2)R) are known to tolerate to a certain level N-terminal sequence extensions. Using this strategy, we produced and characterized the full set of fluorescent ligands by extending both agonists and antagonist peptides at both receptor subtypes with 5(6)-carboxyfluorescein (CF) and the ε-aminocaproyl (ε-ACA)...

Lattice calculations of matrix elements relevant for kaon decays, and in particular for ε/ε, are reviewed. The rôle of the strange quark mass is also discussed. A comparison with other non-perturbative approaches used to compute kaon decay amplitudes is made. † Presented by G. Martinelli.

The present theoretical status of the parameter for direct CP violation ε/ε in the Standard Model is reviewed and compared with most recent experimental measurements of the same quantity. After collecting the basic expressions for ε/ε, the situation of hadronic matrix element calculations is summarised. The matrix elements constitute the dominant source of uncertainty for theoretical determinat...

This paper proposes an infeasible interior-point algorithm with full Nesterov-Todd step for second-order cone programming, which is an extension of the work of Roos (SIAM J. Optim., 16(4):1110–1136, 2006). The polynomial bound coincides with that of infeasible interior-point methods for linear programming, namely, O(l log l/ε).

This paper proposes an infeasible interior-point algorithm with full Nesterov-Todd step for semidefinite programming, which is an extension of the work of Roos (SIAM J. Optim., 16(4):1110– 1136, 2006). The polynomial bound coincides with that of infeasible interior-point methods for linear programming, namely, O(n log n/ε).

I shortly review the present status of the theoretical calculations of ε/ε and the comparison with the present experimental results. I discuss the role of higher order chiral corrections and in general of non-factorizable contributions for the explanation of the ∆I = 1/2 selection rule and direct CP violation in kaon decays. Still lacking satisfactory lattice calculations, analytic methods and ...

The list decoding problem for a code asks for the maximal radius up to which any ball of that radius contains only a constant number of codewords. The list decoding radius is not well understood even for well studied codes, like Reed-Solomon or Reed-Muller codes. Fix a finite field F. The Reed-Muller code RMF(n, d) is defined by n-variate degree-d polynomials over F. In this work, we study the ...

We review the present theoretical status of the CP violating ratio ε/ε in the Standard Model (SM) and confront its estimates with the most recent data. In particular we review the present status of the most important parameters ms, B (1/2) 6 , B (3/2) 8 , Λ (4) MS and Ωη+η′ . While the sign and the order of magnitude of SM estimates for ε/ε agree with the data, for central values of these param...