The use of the moss, Calymperes Delessertii besch., as a bioindicator to airborne heavy metals

A detailed study on the accumulation of aerial heavy metals by the moss, Calymperes delessertii Besch. was conducted. Heavy metals studied were Zn, Cd, Ni, Fe, Mn, Pb and Cu. The suitability of the moss as a bioindicatoT to these aerial metals was also discussed

Linking Distributive and Procedural Justice to Employee Engagement Through Social Exchange: A Field Study in India

Research linking justice perceptions to employee outcomes has referred to social exchange as its central theoretical premise. We tested a conceptual model linking distributive and procedural justice to employee engagement through social exchange mediators, namely, perceived organizational support and psychological contract, among 238 managers and executives from manufacturing and service sector firms in India. Findings suggest that perceived organizational support mediated the relationship between distributive justice and employee engagement, and both perceived organizational support and psychological contract mediated the relationship between procedural justice and employee engagement. Theoretical and practical implications with respect to organizational functions are discussed

Measurement of CP observables in B± → D(⁎)K± and B± → D(⁎)π± decays

Measurements of CP observables in B ± →D (⁎) K ± and B ± →D (⁎) π ± decays are presented, where D (⁎) indicates a neutral D or D ⁎ meson that is an admixture of D (⁎)0 and D¯ (⁎)0 states. Decays of the D ⁎ meson to the Dπ 0 and Dγ final states are partially reconstructed without inclusion of the neutral pion or photon, resulting in distinctive shapes in the B candidate invariant mass distribution. Decays of the D meson are fully reconstructed in the K ± π ∓ , K + K − and π + π − final states. The analysis uses a sample of charged B mesons produced in pp collisions collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0, 1.0 and 2.0 fb −1 taken at centre-of-mass energies of s=7, 8 and 13 TeV, respectively. The study of B ± →D ⁎ K ± and B ± →D ⁎ π ± decays using a partial reconstruction method is the first of its kind, while the measurement of B ± →DK ± and B ± →Dπ ± decays is an update of previous LHCb measurements. The B ± →DK ± results are the most precise to date

First observation of forward Z→bbˉZ \rightarrow b \bar{b} production in pppp collisions at s=8\sqrt{s}=8 TeV

The decay Z→bb¯ is reconstructed in pp collision data, corresponding to 2 fb −1 of integrated luminosity, collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of s=8 TeV. The product of the Z production cross-section and the Z→bb¯ branching fraction is measured for candidates in the fiducial region defined by two particle-level b -quark jets with pseudorapidities in the range 2.220 GeV and dijet invariant mass in the range 4520$GeV and dijet invariant mass in the range$45 < m_{jj} < 165$GeV. From a signal yield of$5462 \pm 763$$Z \rightarrow b \bar{b}$events, where the uncertainty is statistical, a production cross-section times branching fraction of$332 \pm 46 \pm 59$pb is obtained, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. The measured significance of the signal yield is 6.0 standard deviations. This measurement represents the first observation of the$Z \rightarrow b \bar{b}$production in the forward region of$pp$ collisions

Localization of Staphylococcus Lugdunensis Clavicular Osteomyelitis Using FDG-PET/CT

10.1016/j.amjmed.2015.10.040American Journal of Medicine1293e9 - e11AJME

Impact of image reconstruction settings on texture features in 18F-FDG PET

10.2967/jnumed.115.156927Journal of Nuclear Medicine56111667 - 1673JNME

TYZ expansion for the Kepler manifold

The main goal of the paper is to address the issue of the existence of Kempf's distortion function and the Tian-Yau-Zelditch (TYZ) asymptotic expansion for the Kepler manifold - an important example of non compact manifold. Motivated by the recent results for compact manifolds we construct Kempf's distortion function and derive a precise TYZ asymptotic expansion for the Kepler manifold. We get an exact formula: finite asymptotic expansion of n-1 terms and exponentially small error terms uniformly with respect to the discrete quantization parameter m=1/h standing for Planck's constant and |x| tends to infinity x \in C^n. Moreover, the coefficients are calculated explicitly and they turned out to be homogeneous functions with respect to the polar radius in the Kepler manifold. We show that our estimates are sharp by analyzing the nonharmonic behaviour of T_m for m tending to infinity.The arguments of the proofs combine geometrical methods, quantization tools and functional analytic techniques for investigating asymptotic expansions in the framework of analytic-Gevrey spaces