Abstract The earliest formulation of the Higgs naturalness argument has been criticized on grounds that it relies a particular cutoff-based regularization scheme. One response to this criticism circumvent worry by reformulating in terms renormalized, regulator-independent parametrization. An alternative is deny regulator dependence poses problem for argument, because nature itself furnishes par...

In [1], a most general higher curvature non-local gravity action was derived that admits particular $R^2$-like inflationary solution predicting the spectral index of primordial scalar perturbations $n_s(N)\approx 1-\frac{2}{N}$, where $N$ is number e-folds before end inflation, $N\gg 1$, any value tensor-to-scalar ratio $r(N)<0.036$ and tensor tilt $n_t(N)$ violating $r= -8n_t$ condition. this ...

We review the description of the lowest-energy nucleon excitation — the ∆(1232)-resonance. Much of the recent experimental effort has been focused on the precision measurements of the nucleon-to-∆ transition by means of electromagnetic probes. We confront the results of these measuremnts with the state-of-the-art calculations based on chiral effective-field theories (EFT), lattice QCD, large-Nc...

Vulnerability is discussed in the context of data processing and information management applications. It is argued that a new class of information technology applications must now be recognised, in which one or more organisations cooperate with small enterprises and private individuals. The term 'extra-organisational systems' is coined for such applications. Using illustrations arising from stu...

EWS encodes a ubiquitously expressed RNA binding protein with largely unknown function. In Ewing sarcoma family tumors (EFT), one allele is rearranged with an ETS gene. This is the first description of an EFT with a complete EWS deficiency in the presence of two copies of a rearranged chromosome 22 carrying an interstitial EWS-FLI1 translocation. Absence of EWS protein suggested that it is disp...

Disorders caused by defects in the mitochondrial translation system are clinically and genetically heterogeneous. The elongation phase of mitochondrial protein synthesis requires, among many other components, three nuclear-encoded elongation factors: EFTu (TUFM; 602389), EFTs (TSFM; 604723), and EFG1 (GFM1; 606639). Mutations have been identified in the genes encoding all three elongation facto...

The EWS/ETS fusion proteins associated with Ewings family tumors (EFTs) are thought to promote oncogenesis by acting as aberrant transcription factors. Uridine phosphorylase is a gene that is up-regulated by structurally distinct EWS/ETS fusions. Ectopic expression of uridine phosphorylase was able to support anchorage-independent cell growth, indicating that it plays an active role in the onco...

We analyze the power counting of two-body currents in nuclear effective field theories (EFTs). We find that the existence of nonperturbative physics at low energies, which is manifest in the existence of the deuteron and the ^{1}S_{0} NN virtual bound state, combined with the appearance of singular potentials in versions of nuclear EFT that incorporate chiral symmetry, modifies the renormalizat...