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The impact of green marketing on consumers’ attitudes: A moderating role of green product awareness
This study aims to determine the impact of green marketing (green perceived value), green products (green buildings), and environmental concerns on Jordanian consumers’ attitudes toward buying green buildings in Jordan. The research population includes all consumers in Amman, the capital of Jordan, who might be interested in buying such buildings. A convenience sample is used to collect data from the respondents by distributing the questionnaire among 400 consumers using Google Forms. 357 questionnaires were found valid for statistical analysis. The results of the multiple regression test showed that R equals 0.815, which indicated that green marketing and consumers’ attitudes toward buying green buildings in Jordan are positively and highly correlated, with a percentage of 81.5%. R square equals 0.664, indicating that the variation in green marketing explains 66.4% of the variance in consumers’ attitudes toward green buildings in Jordan. Moreover, the hierarchical multiple regression test showed that there is an increase in R and R2 values in the existence of product awareness as a moderating variable between green marketing and consumers’ attitudes toward buying green buildings in Jordan
The Shaqadud Archaeological Project (Sudan): exploring prehistoric cultural adaptations in the Sahelian hinterlands
The authors present preliminary results from a new research project based in Jebel Shaqadud, Sudan. Their findings highlight the potential for this region's archaeological record to expand our understanding of the adaptation strategies used by human groups in arid north-east African environments away from rivers and lakes during the Holocene. Furthermore, they present exceptionally early radiocarbon dates that push postglacial human occupation in the eastern Sahel back to the twelfth millennium BP
How the recent BABAR data for P to \gamma\gamma* affect the Standard Model predictions for the rare decays P to l+l-
Measuring the lepton anomalous magnetic moments and the rare decays
of light pseudoscalar mesons into lepton pairs , serve as
important tests of the Standard Model. To reduce the theoretical uncertainty in
the standard model predictions, the data on the charge and transition form
factors of the light pseudoscalar mesons play a significant role. Recently, new
data on the behavior of the transition form factors at
large momentum transfer were supplied by the BABAR collaboration. There are
several problems with the theoretical interpretation of these data: 1) An
unexpectedly slow decrease of the pion transition form factor at high momenta,
2) the qualitative difference in the behavior of the pion form factor and the
and form factors at high momenta, 3) the inconsistency of
the measured ratio of the and form factors with the
predicted one. We comment on the influence of the new BABAR data on the rare
decay branchings.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure
LHC diphoton Higgs signal and top quark forward-backward asymmetry in quasi-inert Higgs doublet model
In the quasi-inert Higgs doublet model, we study the LHC diphoton rate for a
standard model-like Higgs boson and the top quark forward-backward asymmetry at
Tevatron. Taking into account the constraints from the vacuum stability,
unitarity, electroweak precision tests, flavor physics and the related
experimental data of top quark, we find that compared with the standard model
prediction, the diphoton rate of Higgs boson at LHC can be enhanced due to the
light charged Higgs contributions, while the measurement of the top quark
forward-backward asymmetry at Tevatron can be explained to within due
to the non-standard model neutral Higgs bosons contributions. Finally, the
correlations between the two observables are discussed.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figues. Version to appear in JHEP, some references adde
QCD corrections to plus -boson production at the LHC
The associated production at the LHC is an important process in
investigating the color-octet mechanism of non-relativistic QCD in describing
the processes involving heavy quarkonium. We calculate the next-to-leading
order (NLO) QCD corrections to the associated production at the
LHC within the factorization formalism of nonrelativistic QCD, and provide the
theoretical predictions for the distribution of the transverse
momentum. Our results show that the differential cross section at the
leading-order is significantly enhanced by the NLO QCD corrections. We conclude
that the LHC has the potential to verify the color-octet mechanism by measuring
the production events.Comment: 14 page revtex, 5 eps figures, to appear in JHEP. fig5 and the
corresponding analysis are correcte
Intrusion Detection in Industrial Networks via Data Streaming
Given the increasing threat surface of industrial networks due to distributed, Internet-of-Things (IoT) based system architectures, detecting intrusions in\ua0 Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems is all the more important, due to the safety implications of potential threats. The continuously generated data in such systems form both a challenge but also a possibility: data volumes/rates are high and require processing and communication capacity but they contain information useful for system operation and for detection of unwanted situations.In this chapter we explain that\ua0 stream processing (a.k.a. data streaming) is an emerging useful approach both for general applications and for intrusion detection in particular, especially since it can enable data analysis to be carried out in the continuum of edge-fog-cloud distributed architectures of industrial networks, thus reducing communication latency and gradually filtering and aggregating data volumes. We argue that usefulness stems also due to\ua0 facilitating provisioning of agile responses, i.e. due to potentially smaller latency for intrusion detection and hence also improved possibilities for intrusion mitigation. In the chapter we outline architectural features of IIoT networks, potential threats and examples of state-of-the art intrusion detection methodologies. Moreover, we give an overview of how leveraging distributed and parallel execution of streaming applications in industrial setups can influence the possibilities of protecting these systems. In these contexts, we give examples using electricity networks (a.k.a. Smart Grid systems).We conclude that future industrial networks, especially their Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs), should take advantage of data streaming concept by decoupling semantics from the deployment
Rapid-acting antidepressants and the regulation of TrkB neurotrophic signalling-Insights from ketamine, nitrous oxide, seizures and anaesthesia
Increased glutamatergic neurotransmission and synaptic plasticity in the prefrontal cortex have been associated with the rapid antidepressant effects of ketamine. Activation of BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) receptor TrkB is considered a key molecular event for antidepressant-induced functional and structural synaptic plasticity. Several mechanisms have been proposed to underlie ketamine's effects on TrkB, but much remains unclear. Notably, preliminary studies suggest that besides ketamine, nitrous oxide (N2O) can rapidly alleviate depressive symptoms. We have shown nitrous oxide to evoke TrkB signalling preferentially after the acute pharmacological effects have dissipated (ie after receptor disengagement), when slow delta frequency electroencephalogram (EEG) activity is up-regulated. Our findings also demonstrate that various anaesthetics and sedatives activate TrkB signalling, further highlighting the complex mechanisms underlying TrkB activation. We hypothesize that rapid-acting antidepressants share the ability to regulate TrkB signalling during homeostatically evoked slow-wave activity and that this mechanism is important for sustained antidepressant effects. Our observations urge the examination of rapid and sustained antidepressant effects beyond conventional receptor pharmacology by focusing on brain physiology and temporally distributed signalling patterns spanning both wake and sleep. Potential implications of this approach for the improvement of current therapies and discovery of novel antidepressants are discussed.Peer reviewe
Measurement of χ c1 and χ c2 production with s√ = 7 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS
The prompt and non-prompt production cross-sections for the χ c1 and χ c2 charmonium states are measured in pp collisions at s√ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC using 4.5 fb−1 of integrated luminosity. The χ c states are reconstructed through the radiative decay χ c → J/ψγ (with J/ψ → μ + μ −) where photons are reconstructed from γ → e + e − conversions. The production rate of the χ c2 state relative to the χ c1 state is measured for prompt and non-prompt χ c as a function of J/ψ transverse momentum. The prompt χ c cross-sections are combined with existing measurements of prompt J/ψ production to derive the fraction of prompt J/ψ produced in feed-down from χ c decays. The fractions of χ c1 and χ c2 produced in b-hadron decays are also measured
Single hadron response measurement and calorimeter jet energy scale uncertainty with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
The uncertainty on the calorimeter energy response to jets of particles is
derived for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). First, the
calorimeter response to single isolated charged hadrons is measured and
compared to the Monte Carlo simulation using proton-proton collisions at
centre-of-mass energies of sqrt(s) = 900 GeV and 7 TeV collected during 2009
and 2010. Then, using the decay of K_s and Lambda particles, the calorimeter
response to specific types of particles (positively and negatively charged
pions, protons, and anti-protons) is measured and compared to the Monte Carlo
predictions. Finally, the jet energy scale uncertainty is determined by
propagating the response uncertainty for single charged and neutral particles
to jets. The response uncertainty is 2-5% for central isolated hadrons and 1-3%
for the final calorimeter jet energy scale.Comment: 24 pages plus author list (36 pages total), 23 figures, 1 table,
submitted to European Physical Journal
Search for Charged Higgs Bosons at LEP
A search for pair-produced charged Higgs bosons is performed with the L3
detector at LEP using data collected at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and
209GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 629.4/pb. Decays into a
charm and a strange quark or into a tau lepton and its neutrino are considered.
No significant excess is observed and lower limits on the mass of the charged
Higgs boson are derived at the 95% confidence level. They vary from 76.5 to
82.7GeV, as a function of the H->tv branching ratio
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