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Economic choices can be made using only stimulus values
Decision-making often involves choices between different stimuli, each of which is associated with a different physical action. A growing consensus suggests that the brain makes such decisions by assigning a value to each available option and then comparing them to make a choice. An open question in decision neuroscience is whether the brain computes these choices by comparing the values of stimuli directly in goods space or instead by first assigning values to the associated actions and then making a choice over actions. We used a functional MRI paradigm in which human subjects made choices between different stimuli with and without knowledge of the actions required to obtain the different stimuli. We found neural correlates of the value of the chosen stimulus (a postdecision signal) in ventromedial prefrontal cortex before the actual stimulusâaction pairing was revealed. These findings provide support for the hypothesis that the brain is capable of making choices in the space of goods without first transferring values into action space
Scenery from the Top: Study of the Third Generation Squarks at CERN LHC
In the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) properties of the third
generation sfermions are important from the viewpoint of discriminating the
SUSY breaking models and in the determination of the Higgs boson mass. If
gluinos are copiously produced at CERN LHC, gluino decays into tb through stop
and sbottom can be studied using hadronic decays of the top quark. The
kinematical endpoint of the gluino decays can be evaluated using a W sideband
method to estimate combinatorial backgrounds. This implies that fundamental
parameters related to the third generation squarks can be reliably measured.
The top-quark polarization dependence in the decay process may also be
extracted by looking at the b jet distribution near the kinematical endpoint.Comment: 4 pages in PRL format, 4 Postscript figures, uses revtex
A Detailed Study of the Gluino Decay into the Third Generation Squarks at the CERN LHC
In supersymmetric models a gluino can decay into tb\tilde{\chi}^{\pm}_1
through a stop or a sbottom. The decay chain produces an edge structure in the
m_{tb} distribution. Monte Carlo simulation studies show that the end point and
the edge height would be measured at the CERN LHC by using a sideband
subtraction technique. The stop and sbottom masses as well as their decay
branching ratios are constrained by the measurement. We study interpretations
of the measurement in the minimal supergravity model. We also study the gluino
decay into tb and \tilde{\chi}^{\pm}_2 as well as the influence of the stop
left-right mixing on the m_{bb} distribution of the tagged events.Comment: revtex, 20 pages in PRD format, 35 eps file
Study of the Gauge Mediation Signal with Non-pointing Photons at the CERN LHC
In this paper we study the gauge mediation signal with the ATLAS detector at
the CERN LHC. We focus on the case where the NLSP is the long-lived lightest
neutralino () which decays dominantly into a photon
() and a gravitino (). A non-pointing photon from the
neutralino decay can be detected with good position and time resolutions by the
electormagnetic calorimeter (ECAL), while the photon momentum would be
precisely measured if the photon is converted inside the inner tracking
detector before reaching the ECAL. A new technique is developed to determine
the masses of the slepton () and the neutralino from events with
a lepton and a converted non-pointing photon arising from the cascade decay
. A Monte Carlo
simulation at a sample point shows that the masses would be measured with an
error of 3% for (100) selected pairs. Once the sparticle
masses are determined by this method, the decay time and momentum of the
neutralino are solved using the ECAL data and the lepton momentum only, for all
pairs without the photon conversion. We estimate the sensitivity
to the neutralino lifetime for cm to (10) m.Comment: 19 page, 7 figures, revte
Discriminating Minimal SUGRA and Minimal Gauge Mediation Models at the Early LHC
Among various supersymmetric (SUSY) standard models, the gravity mediation
model with a neutralino LSP and the gauge mediation model with a very light
gravitino are attractive from the cosmological view point. These models have
different scales of SUSY breaking and their underlying physics in high energy
is quite different. However, if the sparticles' decay into the gravitino is
prompt in the latter case, their collider signatures can be similar: multiple
jets and missing transverse momentum. In this paper, we study the
discrimination between these models in minimal cases at the LHC based on the
method using the significance variables in several different modes and show the
discrimination is possible at a very early stage after the discovery.Comment: 29 pages, 3 figures, captions improved, typos corrected, appendix
added, version published in JHE
Physics at the e+ e- Linear Collider
A comprehensive review of physics at an e+e- Linear Collider in the energy
range of sqrt{s}=92 GeV--3 TeV is presented in view of recent and expected LHC
results, experiments from low energy as well as astroparticle physics.The
report focuses in particular on Higgs boson, Top quark and electroweak
precision physics, but also discusses several models of beyond the Standard
Model physics such as Supersymmetry, little Higgs models and extra gauge
bosons. The connection to cosmology has been analyzed as well.Comment: 179 pages, plots and references updated, version to be published at
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Towards a Pervasive Access Control within Video Surveillance Systems
Part 1: Cross-Domain Conference and Workshop on Multidisciplinary Research and Practice for Information Systems (CD-ARES 2013)International audienceThis paper addresses two emerging challenges that multimedia distributed systems have to deal with: the userâs constant mobility and the informationâs sensitivity. The systems have to adapt, in real time, to the userâs context and situation in order to provide him with relevant results without breaking the security and privacy policies. Distributed multimedia systems, such as the oneproposed by the LINDO project, do not generally consider both issues. In this paper, we apply an access control layer on top of the LINDO architecture that takes into consideration the userâs context and situation and recommends alternative resources to the user when he is facing an important situation. The proposed solution was implemented and tested in a video surveillance use case
Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Quality and Safety in Clams
The aim of the research is to estimate the potential demand for certified clams in Italy and to investigate the determinants of maximum amount that respondents are willing to pay for this product. Quantitative analysis was used based on 1,067 face-to-face interviews collected in 3 Italian regions in the north bordering the Adriatic Sea (Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna) carried out during 2008. The consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) is measured using a contingent valuation method. In order to estimate separately the determinants of the probability that respondents are willing to pay and the maximum that they are willing to pay, a generalization of Tobit model was adopted. The results indicate that consumers are willing to pay a premium price mainly to purchase better quality products. The research provides some initial insight into consumers' WTP that can be useful for certified fish farming. © 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
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