b --> s g g decay in the two and three Higgs doublet models with CP violating effects

We study the decay width and CP-asymmetry of the inclusive process b--> s g g (g denotes gluon) in the three and two Higgs doublet models with complex Yukawa couplings. We analyse the dependencies of the differential decay width and CP-asymmetry to the s- quark energy E_s and CP violating parameter \theta. We observe that there exist a considerable enhancement in the decay width and CP asymmetry is at the order of 10^{-2}. Further, it is possible to predict the sign of C_7^{eff} using the CP asymmetry.Comment: 15 pages, 7 Figures (required epsf style

Effects of feed restriction and diet nutrient density during re-alimentation on growth performance, carcass traits, organ weight, blood parameters and the immune response of broilers

Two hundred and ten one-day-old male chickens of the Ross 308 strain were randomly allocated to one of seven treatments (five replicates of six birds per treatment). The control birds were fed ad libitum throughout the whole experimental period. In the remaining treatments (T15-5, T15-10 and T15-15, and T30-5, T30-10 and T30-15), the feed restriction was 15 and 30% ad libitum intake between 8 and 14 days of age (starting period), whereas during growing (15-28 days) and finishing periods (20-42 days), the feeds contained 5, 10 and 15% higher energy and protein contents than the respective control feeds. Compared with the controls, T15 and T30 chickens suffered 12% and 20% body weight reduction at the end of the starting period, but both groups were heavier (P<0.05) than the controls at the end of the experimental period, mainly due to a higher (P<0.05) body weight gain during the finishing period, irrespective of the diet nutrient density. When the whole experimental period was considered, the feed restricted broilers showed a lower (P<0.05) feed conversion ratio than the controls and no negative effects were observed on carcass traits. The abdominal fat relative to carcass weight was higher (P<0.05) in the T15 broilers than in the controls and the T30 broilers. A positive correlation (P<0.05) was observed between the total, HDL and LDL cholesterol contents in the blood and abdominal fat percentage. The dietary treatments had no or a low impact on the relative weight of the organs and immune response of the broilers

CP violation in the inclusive b -> s g decay in the framework of multi Higgs doublet models

We study the decay width and CP asymmetry of the inclusive process b--> s g (g denotes gluon) in the multi Higgs doublet models with complex Yukawa couplings, including next to leading QCD corrections. We analyse the dependencies of the decay width and CP asymmetry on the scale \mu and CP violating parameter \theta. We observe that there exist an enhancement in the decay width and CP asymmetry is at the order of 10^{-2}.Comment: 11 pages, 8 Figure

Functional properties of navy bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) protein concentrates obtained by pneumatic tribo-electrostatic separation

The final publication is available at Elsevier via https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2019.01.031 © 2019. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/A sustainable, chemical-free dry tribo-electrostatic separation approach was employed to fractionate navy bean flour. The resulting protein-enriched fractions had 36–38% protein on a moisture free basis, accounting for 43% of the total available protein. SDS-PAGE analysis of the dry-enriched protein fractions showed a similar protein profile to that of the original navy bean flour. The functional properties of these fractions were examined and compared with the commercial soybean protein concentrate as well as navy bean protein isolate obtained by a conventional wet fractionation process. These electrostatically separated protein fractions exhibited superior solubility at their intrinsic pH as well as superior emulsion stability (ES), foam expansion (FE) and foam volume stability (FVS) compared to the wet-fractionated navy bean protein isolate that was almost depleted of albumins, exhibiting poor solubility and foaming properties. These results suggest electrostatic separation as a promising route to deliver functional protein concentrates as novel food formulation ingredients.Growing Forward 2Mitacs CanadaOntario Centres of ExcellenceNatural Sciences and Engineering Researcdh CouncilHoward UniversityAdvanced CERT CanadaAgricultural Adaptation Counci

LCrowdV: Generating Labeled Videos for Simulation-based Crowd Behavior Learning

We present a novel procedural framework to generate an arbitrary number of labeled crowd videos (LCrowdV). The resulting crowd video datasets are used to design accurate algorithms or training models for crowded scene understanding. Our overall approach is composed of two components: a procedural simulation framework for generating crowd movements and behaviors, and a procedural rendering framework to generate different videos or images. Each video or image is automatically labeled based on the environment, number of pedestrians, density, behavior, flow, lighting conditions, viewpoint, noise, etc. Furthermore, we can increase the realism by combining synthetically-generated behaviors with real-world background videos. We demonstrate the benefits of LCrowdV over prior lableled crowd datasets by improving the accuracy of pedestrian detection and crowd behavior classification algorithms. LCrowdV would be released on the WWW