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3D Simulation of Ship Motions to Support the Planning of Rescue Operations on Damaged Ships
AbstractThe paper describes a software system to simulate the ship motions in a crisis situation. The scenario consists of a damaged ship subjected to wave excitation forces generated by a random sea state. The simulation is displayed in an interactive Virtual Environment allowing the visualization of the ship motions. The numerical simulation of the sea surface and ship motions requires intensive computation to maintain the real-time or even the fast-forward simulations, which are the only ones of interest for these situations. Dedicated tools to analyse the ship behaviour in time are also described. The system can be useful to evaluate the responses of the ship to the current sea state, namely the amplitude, variations and tendencies of ship motions, and help the planning and coordination of rescue operations
Massive lower gastrointestinal bleeding from idiopathic ileocolonic varix: report of a case
Dis Colon Rectum. 2006 Apr;49(4):524-6.
Massive lower gastrointestinal bleeding from idiopathic ileocolonic varix: report of a case.
Lopes LM, Ramada JM, Certo MG, Pereira PR, Soares JM, Ribeiro M, Areias J, Pinho C.
SourceGastroenterology Department, Hospital Geral Santo António, Porto, Portugal. [email protected]
Abstract
Idiopathic varices of the entire colon are very rare. We report on a 64-year-old patient with massive lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage from an extensive ileocolonic varix. Diagnosis was established by colonoscopy. The patient underwent an emergency ileocolectomy with satisfactory results. This rare case shows the importance of colonoscopy in the evaluation of patients with lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage and reminds us that sometimes the diagnosis is not what we expect. Recognition of this abnormality is important because varices may be the cause of massive lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
PMID: 16395635 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE
Radiative B decays to the axial mesons at next-to-leading order
We calculate the branching ratios of at next-to-leading
order (NLO) of where is the orbitally excited axial vector
meson. The NLO decay amplitude is divided into the vertex correction and the
hard spectator interaction part. The one is proportional to the weak form
factor of transition while the other is a convolution between
light-cone distribution amplitudes and hard scattering kernel. Using the
light-cone sum rule results for the form factor, we have \calB(B^0\to
K_1^0(1270)\gamma)=(0.828\pm0.335)\times 10^{-5} and \calB(B^0\to
K_1^0(1400)\gamma)=(0.393\pm0.151)\times 10^{-5}.Comment: 17pages, 4 figures. Minor changes, typos corrected. PRD accepted
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Sources of CP Violation in the Two-Higgs Doublet Model
Assuming CP violation arises solely through the Higgs potential, we develop
the most general two-Higgs doublet model. There is no discrete symmetry that
distinguishes the two Higgs bosons. It is assumed that an approximate global
family symmetry sufficiently suppresses flavor-changing neutral scalar
interactions. In addition to a CKM phase, neutral boson mixing, and superweak
effects, there can be significant CP violation due to charged Higgs boson
exchange. The value of due to this last effect could be as
large as in the standard model.Comment: 8 pages, RevTex, (appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, (1994) 1762 ),
CMU-HEP94-1
Nonfactorization and the decays and
In six chosen scenarios for the dependence of the form factors involved
in transition, we have determined the allowed domain
of and from the experimentally measured
ratios and in a scheme that uses the value of the phenomenological parameter and includes nonfactorized
contribution. We find that the experimentally measured values of and
from semileptonic decays of favor solutions which have significant
nonfactorized contribution, and, in particular, favors solutions in
scenarios where is either flat or decreasing with .Comment: 15 pages, Latex, four figure (available on request)
Nonfactorization and Color-Suppressed Decays
Using value of the parameter but including a modest
nonfactorized amplitude, we show that it is possible to understand all data,
including polarization, for color-suppressed
decays in all commonly used models of form factors. We show that for decay one can define an effective , which is process-dependent and,
in general, complex; but it is not possible to define an effective for
decay. We also explain why nonfactorized amplitudes do not
play a significant role in color-favored B decays.Comment: 13 pages, Latex, one figure (not included
Form factors of heavy-to-light B decays at large recoil
General relations between the form factors of B decays to light mesons are
derived using the heavy quark and large recoil expansion. On their basis the
complete account of contributions of second order in the ratio of the light
meson mass to the large recoil energy is performed. Both ground and excited
final meson states are considered. It is shown that most of the known form
factor relations remain valid after the inclusion of quadratic mass
corrections. The validity of some of such relations requires additional
equalities for the helicity amplitudes. It is found that all these relations
and equalities are fulfilled in the relativistic quark model based on the
quasipotential approach in quantum field theory. The contribution of 1/m_b
corrections to the branching fraction of the rare radiative B decay is
discussed.Comment: 23 pages, revte
Virtual O(\a_s) corrections to the inclusive decay
We present in detail the calculation of the O(\a_s) virtual corrections to
the matrix element for b \to s \g. Besides the one-loop virtual corrections
of the electromagnetic and color dipole operators and , we include
the important two-loop contribution of the four-Fermi operator . By
applying the Mellin-Barnes representation to certain internal propagators, the
result of the two-loop diagrams is obtained analytically as an expansion in
. These results are then combined with existing O(\a_s)
Bremsstrahlung corrections in order to obtain the inclusive rate for B \to X_s
\g. The new contributions drastically reduce the large renormalization scale
dependence of the leading logarithmic result. Thus a very precise Standard
Model prediction for this inclusive process will become possible once also the
corrections to the Wilson coefficients are available.Comment: 29 pages, uses epsfig.sty, 12 postscript figures include
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