A summary is given of the present status of the theory and experiment of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. A difference between predicted and measured values is an indication of physics beyond the Standard Model. A new experimental measurement has produced a value which differs from a recent Standard Model prediction by 2.6 standard deviations. The experimental number differs from othe...

 Background: Physicians and medical students are at risk of exposure to a broad range of viral pathogens through percutaneous injury, contact of mucous membrane with blood, and other potentially infectious body fluids. The objective of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of physicians and medical students of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Iran...

This paper examines theories of impression formation which represent stimulus information as distributions on subjective dimensions rather than points along a continuum. These theories explain why unfavorable information often overrides favorable information. Subjects were asked to imagine hypothetical persons described by single adjectives or adjective combinations and to estimate the probabil...

The paper investigates tone realization in monosyllabic and disyllabic words in Cantonese, Cantonese-spoken Mandarin and Standard Mandarin, focusing on the deviations of tone realization in Cantonese-spoken Mandarin from standard Mandarin in monosyllabic and disyllabic words. The analysis on monosyllabic and disyllabic tone patterns shows that most of the tone deviations in Cantonese-accented M...

Heritabilities for milk, fat, and protein yields were estimated from first lactation data used for USDA-Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) genetic evaluations. Contemporary group assignments and standard deviations within herd-year were determined with the procedure used for national evaluations. Pedigree data were included for animals born since 1970; yield data were included for cows b...

Double sampling (DS) s charts are designed to allow quick detection of a small shift in process standard deviations and to provide a quick response in an agile manufacturing environment. However, current developed DS s charts assume that the sample standard deviations follow a normal distribution. Although valid for relatively large sample sizes, this assumption has limited the application of D...

The Internet infrastructure relies entirely on open standards for its routing protocols. However, the overwhelming majority of routers on the Internet are proprietary and closed-source. Hence, there is no straightforward way to analyze them. Specifically, one cannot easily and systematically identify deviations of a router’s routing functionality from the routing protocol’s standard. Such devia...

In primary and secondary education, formative assessment has become a common theme at conferences, a standard offering in test company catalogues, and a focus for teacher in-service training. A key reason for the popularity of formative assessment is, undoubtedly, the claims that have been made for its effectiveness. The most commonly cited quantitative claims are for effects between .4 and .7 ...

Methods Healthy controls and patients with heart failure related structural heart disease underwent a standard cardiac magnetic resonance examination. Right and left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) and end diastolic volumes (EDV) were traced from cine imaging. RVD was defined as RVEF less than mean minus 2 standard deviations of healthy gender matched controls. RVE was defined as either inde...

We combine the results of searches for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson based on the full CDF Run II data set obtained from sqrt[s]=1.96  TeV pp collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9.45  fb(-1). The searches are conducted for Higgs bosons that are produced in association with a W or Z boson, have masses in the range 90-150  GeV/c(2), and decay int...