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Surface finishing
A surface of an article adapted for relative motion with a fluid environment is finished by coating the surface with a fluid adhesive. The adhesive is covered with a sheet of flexible film material under tension, and the adhesive is set while maintaining tension on the film material
Manipulation of Retrograde Shear in the Superficial Femoral Artery in Recreationally Active and Exercise-Trained Men
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Structural, electrical, and optical characterization of as grown and oxidized zinc nitride thin films
Zinc Nitride (Zn3N2) films were grown by DC sputtering of a Zn target in a N2 plasma under a
variety of different growth conditions, which resulted in the deposition of films with variable
compositions. The as deposited films exhibited a polycrystalline Zn3N2 structure, which was
converted to a ZnO-based structure after several weeks of ambient exposure. Zn3N2 films that were
N-poor exhibited electrical properties indicative of a natively doped semiconductor and reached a
minimum carrier concentration in the order of 1018 cm3 at compositions, which approached the stoichiometric
ratio of Zn3N2. A maximum carrier mobility of 33 cm2 V1 s
1 was obtained in N-rich
films due to an improved microstructure. The Zn3N2 films had an optical band gap of 1.31–1.48 eV
and a refractive index of 2.3–2.7. Despite a wide range of Zn3N2 samples examined, little variation of
its optical properties was observed, which suggests that they are closely related to the band structure
of this material. In contrast to the as grown films, the oxidized film had a band gap of 3.44 eV and the
refractive index was 1.6–1.8, similar to ZnO and Zn(OH)2
Physical Function, Cognitive Function, and Aortic Stiffness in Older Adults
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Intermediate Tail Dependence: A Review and Some New Results
The concept of intermediate tail dependence is useful if one wants to
quantify the degree of positive dependence in the tails when there is no strong
evidence of presence of the usual tail dependence. We first review existing
studies on intermediate tail dependence, and then we report new results to
supplement the review. Intermediate tail dependence for elliptical, extreme
value and Archimedean copulas are reviewed and further studied, respectively.
For Archimedean copulas, we not only consider the frailty model but also the
recently studied scale mixture model; for the latter, conditions leading to
upper intermediate tail dependence are presented, and it provides a useful way
to simulate copulas with desirable intermediate tail dependence structures.Comment: 25 pages, 1 figur
Fishmeal supplementation during ovine pregnancy and lactation protects against maternal stress-induced programming of the offspring immune system
Background: Prenatally stressed offspring exhibit increased susceptibility to inflammatory disorders due to in utero programming. Research into the effects of n-3 PUFAs shows promising results for the treatment and prevention of these disorders. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether maternal fishmeal supplementation during pregnancy and lactation protects against programming of the offspring\u27s immune response following simulated maternal infection. Methods: In order to accomplish this, 53 ewes were fed a diet supplemented with fishmeal (FM; rich in n-3 PUFA) or soybean meal (SM; rich in n-6 PUFAs) from day 100 of gestation (gd 100) through lactation. On gd135, half the ewes from each dietary group were challenged with either 1.2 μg/kg Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) endotoxin to simulate a bacterial infection, or saline as the control. At 4.5 months of age the offspring\u27s dermal immune response was assessed by cutaneous hypersensitivity testing with ovalbumin (OVA) and candida albicans (CAA) 21 days after sensitization. Skinfold measurements were taken and serum blood samples were also collected to assess the primary and secondary antibody immune response. Results: Offspring born to SM + LPS mothers had a significantly greater change in skinfold thickness in response to both antigens as well as a greater secondary antibody response to OVA compared to all treatments. Conclusions: Supplementation during pregnancy with FM appears to protect against adverse fetal programming that may occur during maternal infection and this may reduce the risk of atopic disease later in life
Evidence for CP Violation in B0 -> D+D- Decays
We report measurements of the branching fraction and CP violation parameters
in B0 -> D+D- decays. The results are based on a data sample that contains 535
x 10^6 BBbar pairs collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance, with the Belle
detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. We obtain [1.97 +- 0.20
(stat) +- 0.20 (syst)] x 10^(-4) for the branching fraction of B0 -> D+D-. The
measured values of the CP violation parameters are: S = -1.13 +- 0.37 +- 0.09,
A = 0.91 +- 0.23 +- 0.06, where the first error is statistical and the second
is systematic. We find evidence of CP violation in B0 -> D+D- at the 4.1 sigma
confidence level. While the value of S is consistent with expectations from
other measurements, the value of the parameter A favors large direct CP
violation at the 3.2 sigma confidence level, in contradiction to Standard Model
expectations.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PR
Search for the h_c meson in B^+- ->h_c K^+-
We report a search for the meson via the decay chain , \etac \gamma with and
. No significant signals are observed. We obtain upper limits on the
branching fractions for in bins of the
invariant mass. The results are based on an analysis of 253
fb of data collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB
collider.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Evidence of time-dependent CP violation in the decay B0 to D*+D*-
We report a measurement of the CP-odd fraction and the time-dependent CP
violation in B0 to D*+D*- decays, using 657.10^6 BBbar events collected at the
Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy
e+e- collider. We measure a CP-odd fraction of
Rperp=0.125+/-0.043(stat)+/-0.023(syst). From the distributions of the
proper-time intervals between a B0to D*+D*- decay and the other B meson in the
event, we obtain evidence of CP violation with measured parameters
AD*+D*-=0.15+/-0.13(stat)+/-0.04(syst) and
SD*+D*-=-0.96+/-0.25(stat)-0.16+0.13(syst).Comment: Published in PR
Observation of B_s to phi gamma and Search for B_s to gamma gamma Decays at Belle
We search for the radiative penguin decays B_s to phi gamma and B_s to gamma
gamma in a 23.6 fb-1 data sample collected at the Upsilon(5S) resonance with
the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- asymmetric-energy collider. We observe for
the first time a radiative penguin decay of the B_s meson in the B_s to phi
gamma mode. No significant B_s to gamma gamma signal is observed.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted by Physics Review Letter
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