116 research outputs found
Determination of sex using cephalo-facial dimensions by discriminant function and logistic regression equations
Abstract:The aim is to bring together the new anthropological techniques and knowledge about populations that are least known. The present study was performed on 901 healthy Gujarati volunteers (676 males, 225 females) within the age group of 21–50years with the aim to examine whether any correlation exists between cephalofacial measures naming maximum head length, maximum head breadth, bizygomatic breadth, bigonial diameter, morphological facial length, physiognomic facial length, biocular breadth and total cephalofacial height and sex determination. Also, discriminant function and logistic regression methods were verified to check the best accuracy level for sex determination. Mean values of cephalofacial dimensions were higher in males than in females. Best reliable results were obtained by using logistic regression equations in males (92%) and discriminant function in females (80.9%). Our study conclusively establishes the existence of a definite statistically significant sexual dimorphism in Gujarati population using cephalo-facial dimensions
Aspects of Nucleon Compton Scattering
We consider the spin-averaged nucleon forward Compton scattering amplitude in
heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory including all terms to order . The chiral prediction for the spin-averaged forward Compton scattering
amplitude is in good agreement with the data for photon energies MeV. We also evaluate the nucleon electric and magnetic Compton
polarizabilities to this order and discuss the uncertainties of the various
counter terms entering the chiral expansion of these quantities.Comment: 17 pp, TeX, 7 figures available from the authors, preprint CRN-93/5
Linear Collider Capabilities for Supersymmetry in Dark Matter Allowed Regions of the mSUGRA Model
Recent comparisons of minimal supergravity (mSUGRA) model predictions with
WMAP measurements of the neutralino relic density point to preferred regions of
model parameter space. We investigate the reach of linear colliders (LC) with
and 1 TeV for SUSY in the framework of the mSUGRA model. We find
that LCs can cover the entire stau co-annihilation region provided \tan\beta
\alt 30. In the hyperbolic branch/focus point (HB/FP) region of parameter
space, specialized cuts are suggested to increase the reach in this important
``dark matter allowed'' area. In the case of the HB/FP region, the reach of a
LC extends well past the reach of the CERN LHC. We examine a case study in the
HB/FP region, and show that the MSSM parameters and can be
sufficiently well-measured to demonstrate that one would indeed be in the HB/FP
region, where the lightest chargino and neutralino have a substantial higgsino
component.Comment: 29 pages, 15 EPS figures; updated version slightly modified to
conform with published versio
Genome-wide association study for systemic lupus erythematosus in an egyptian population
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) susceptibility has a strong genetic component. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) across trans-ancestral populations show both common and distinct genetic variants of susceptibility across European and Asian ancestries, while many other ethnic populations remain underexplored. We conducted the first SLE GWAS on Egyptians–an admixed North African/Middle Eastern population–using 537 patients and 883 controls. To identify novel susceptibility loci and replicate previously known loci, we performed imputation-based association analysis with 6,382,276 SNPs while accounting for individual admixture. We validated the association analysis using adaptive permutation tests (n = 109). We identified a novel genome-wide significant locus near IRS1/miR-5702 (Pcorrected = 1.98 × 10−8) and eight novel suggestive loci (Pcorrected 0.8) with lead SNPs from four suggestive loci (ARMC9, DIAPH3, IFLDT1, and ENTPD3) were associated with differential gene expression (3.5 × 10−95 < p < 1.0 × 10−2) across diverse tissues. These loci are involved in cellular proliferation and invasion—pathways prominent in lupus and nephritis. Our study highlights the utility of GWAS in an admixed Egyptian population for delineating new genetic associations and for understanding SLE pathogenesis
Elliptic flow of charged particles at midrapidity relative to the spectator plane in Pb–Pb and Xe–Xe collisions
Measurements of the elliptic flow coefficient relative to the collision plane defined by the spectator neutrons v2{ SP} in collisions of Pb ions at center-of-mass energy per nucleon–nucleon pair √ 2.76 TeV and Xe ions at √ sNN = sNN =5.44 TeV are reported. The results are presented for charged particles produced at midrapidity as a function of centrality and transverse momentum for the 5–70% and 0.2–6 GeV/c ranges, respectively. The ratio between v2{ SP} and the elliptic flow coefficient relative to the participant plane v2{4}, estimated using four-particle correlations, deviates by up to 20% from unity depending on centrality. This observation differs strongly from the magnitude of the corresponding eccentricity ratios predicted by the TRENTo and the elliptic power models of initial state fluctuations that are tuned to describe the participant plane anisotropies. The differences can be interpreted as a decorrelation of the neutron spectator plane and the reaction plane because of fragmentation of the remnants from the colliding nuclei, which points to an incompleteness of current models describing the initial state fluctuations. A significant transverse momentum dependence of the ratio v2{ SP}/v2{4} is observed in all but the most central collisions, which may help to understand whether momentum anisotropies at low and intermediate transverse momentum have a common origin in initial state f luctuations. The ratios of v2{ SP} and v2{4} to the corresponding initial state eccentricities for Xe–Xe and Pb–Pb collisions at similar initial entropy density show a difference of (7.0 ±0.9)%with an additional variation of +1.8% when including RHIC data in the TRENTo parameter extraction. These observations provide new experimental constraints for viscous effects in the hydrodynamic modeling of the expanding quark–gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC
First measurement of Ωc0 production in pp collisions at s=13 TeV
The inclusive production of the charm–strange baryon 0 c is measured for the first time via its hadronic √ decay into −π+ at midrapidity (|y| <0.5) in proton–proton (pp) collisions at the centre-of-mass energy s =13 TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The transverse momentum (pT) differential cross section multiplied by the branching ratio is presented in the interval 2 < pT < 12 GeV/c. The pT dependence of the 0 c-baryon production relative to the prompt D0-meson and to the prompt 0 c-baryon production is compared to various models that take different hadronisation mechanisms into consideration. In the measured pT interval, the ratio of the pT-integrated cross sections of 0 c and prompt + c baryons multiplied by the −π+ branching ratio is found to be larger by a factor of about 20 with a significance of about 4σ when compared to e+e− collisions
Learning to detect cells using non-overlapping extremal regions.
Cell detection in microscopy images is an important step in the automation of cell based-experiments. We propose a machine learning-based cell detection method applicable to different modalities. The method consists of three steps: first, a set of candidate cell-like regions is identified. Then, each candidate region is evaluated using a statistical model of the cell appearance. Finally, dynamic programming picks a set of non-overlapping regions that match the model. The cell model requires few images with simple dot annotation for training and can be learned within a structured SVM framework. In the reported experiments, state-of-the-art cell detection accuracy is achieved for HandE stained histology, fluorescence, and phase-contrast images
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