217 research outputs found
Renormalizations in softly broken N=1 theories: Slavnov-Taylor identities
Slavnov-Taylor identities have been applied to perform explicitly the
renormalization procedure for the softly broken N=1 SYM. The result is in
accordance with the previous results obtained at the level of supergraph
technique.Comment: Latex, 17 pages, one statement about soft gauge beta function has
been change
Towards integrated surveillance of zoonoses : spatiotemporal joint modeling of rodent population data and human tularemia cases in Finland
Abstract
Background
There are an increasing number of geo-coded information streams available which could improve public health surveillance accuracy and efficiency when properly integrated. Specifically, for zoonotic diseases, knowledge of spatial and temporal patterns of animal host distribution can be used to raise awareness of human risk and enhance early prediction accuracy of human incidence.
Methods
To this end, we develop a spatiotemporal joint modeling framework to integrate human case data and animal host data to offer a modeling alternative for combining multiple surveillance data streams in a novel way. A case study is provided of spatiotemporal modeling of human tularemia incidence and rodent population data from Finnish health care districts during years 1995–2012.
Results
Spatial and temporal information of rodent abundance was shown to be useful in predicting human cases and in improving tularemia risk estimates in 40 and 75% of health care districts, respectively. The human relative risk estimates’ standard deviation with rodent’s information incorporated are smaller than those from the model that has only human incidence.
Conclusions
These results support the integration of rodent population variables to reduce the uncertainty of tularemia risk estimates. However, more information on several covariates such as environmental, behavioral, and socio-economic factors can be investigated further to deeper understand the zoonotic relationship
Spontaneous R-Parity violation bounds
We investigate bounds from tree-level and one-loop processes in generic
supersymmetric models with spontaneous R-parity breaking in the superpotential.
We analyse the bounds from a general point of view. The bounds are applicable
both for all models with spontaneous R-parity violation and for explicit
bilinear R-parity violation based on general lepton-chargino and
neutrino-neutralino mixings. We find constraints from semileptonic B, D and K
decays, leptonic decays of the mu and tau, electric dipole moments, as well as
bounds for the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.Comment: 22 page
Realistic constraints on the doubly charged bilepton couplings from Bhabha scattering with LEP data
Upper limits on doubly charged bilepton couplings and masses are extracted
from LEP data for Bhabha scattering at energy range GeV
using standard model program ZFITTER which calculates radiative corrections. We
find that at 95% C.L. for scalar and
vector bileptons.Comment: 5 pages, 1 EPS figur
Characteristic slepton signal in anomaly mediated SUSY breaking models via gauge boson fusion at the LHC
We point out that slepton pairs produced via gauge boson fusion in anomaly
mediated supersymmetry breaking (AMSB) model have very characteristic and
almost clean signal at the Large Hadron Collider. In this article, we discuss
how one lepton associated with missing energy and produced in between two
high- and high-mass forward jets can explore quite heavy sleptons in this
scenario.Comment: Version to appear in Physical Review
Incidence and seroprevalence of tularaemia in Finland, 1995 to 2013 : regional epidemics with cyclic pattern
We studied the incidence of reported tularaemia by year and region and the prevalence of antibodies against Francisella tularensis in the adult general population in Finland. Moreover, we assessed the correlation between vole population cycles and human tularaemia outbreaks. The seroprevalence study made use of serum samples from a nationwide population-based health survey (Health 2000). The samples of 1,045 randomly selected persons, representative for the Finnish population in each region, were screened with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the presence of IgG antibodies against F. tularensis, and positive results were further confirmed by immunoblotting. A serological response to F. tularensis was found in 2% (95% confidence interval: 1.1-3.5) of the population. Incidence and seroprevalence were highest in the same areas, and vole population peaks clearly preceded tularaemia outbreaks one year later.Peer reviewe
Incidence and seroprevalence of tularaemia in Finland, 1995 to 2013 : regional epidemics with cyclic pattern
We studied the incidence of reported tularaemia by year and region and the prevalence of antibodies against Francisella tularensis in the adult general population in Finland. Moreover, we assessed the correlation between vole population cycles and human tularaemia outbreaks. The seroprevalence study made use of serum samples from a nationwide population-based health survey (Health 2000). The samples of 1,045 randomly selected persons, representative for the Finnish population in each region, were screened with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the presence of IgG antibodies against F. tularensis, and positive results were further confirmed by immunoblotting. A serological response to F. tularensis was found in 2% (95% confidence interval: 1.1-3.5) of the population. Incidence and seroprevalence were highest in the same areas, and vole population peaks clearly preceded tularaemia outbreaks one year later.Peer reviewe
Classical N=2 W-superalgebras From Superpseudodifferential Operators
We study the supersymmetric Gelfand-Dickey algebras associated with the
superpseudodifferential operators of positive as well as negative leading
order. We show that, upon the usual constraint, these algebras contain the N=2
super Virasoro algebra as a subalgebra as long as the leading order is odd. The
decompositions of the coefficient functions into N=1 primary fields are then
obtained by covariantizing the superpseudodifferential operators. We discuss
the problem of identifying N=2 supermultiplets and work out a couple of
supermultiplets by explicit computations.Comment: 19 pages (Plain TeX), NHCU-HEP-94-1
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