137 research outputs found

    P3-062: Wood-smoke exposure as a survival predictor in non-small cell lung cancer with response to erlotinib: an open label phase II study

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    This paper explores the opportunity for New Zealand to establish and sustain an internationally competitive sheep dairy industry. As part of this it evaluates the role of responsible innovation (RI) within the New Zealand sheep dairy (NZSD) industry and whether this can assist in achieving a sustainable competitive advantage. In the context of agrifood supply chains RI has received little attention despite the fact that these industries have significant environmental, ethical and social impacts. The research also addresses the lack of evidence as how to put RI into practice and the claim that the practical applicability of RI is not possible. The French sheep dairy industry was used as a comparative case study for the New Zealand industry. Information was gathered through a literature search, the comparative case study and interviews with New Zealand and French industry experts. Comparisons were made between the strategic capabilities and structural forces of the sheep dairy industries in both France and New Zealand. The study found that for the NZSD industry to achieve a competitive advantage it would need to pursue a differentiation strategy that focused on customer responsiveness, innovation, sustainability and quality. Furthermore, the study identified that RI had the potential to assist the NZSD industry by providing distinctive competencies to develop a competitive advantage. This is because there were existing resources and capabilities that provided a platform for differentiation. There were also strategic and economic drivers in the NZSD industry that encouraged RI as a competitive strategy. This indicated that for RI to occur there needed to be economic incentives that encouraged companies to pursue this strategy

    Aplicación de los principios éticos en las psicologías

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    El propósito de este libro es ofrecer material útil para la reflexión sobre la ética pensada y aplicada en psicología. El planteamiento se centra en responder las siguientes preguntas: ¿Cómo se entienden o asumen los principios psicoéticos de beneficencia, autonomía respeto y justicia desde los presupuestos teóricos en psicología que cada autor de capítulo profesa? y, ¿cómo se visibiliza su uso en el ejercicio de la profesión? La integración de varias perspectivas y experiencias configura un caleidoscopio que recrea las miradas desde los postulados epistemológicos, antropológicos y sus finalidades en el ejercicio profesional sea el clínico, investigativo, social, etcétera.ITESO. A.C

    Helium identification with LHCb

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    International audienceThe identification of helium nuclei at LHCb is achieved using a method based on measurements of ionisation losses in the silicon sensors and timing measurements in the Outer Tracker drift tubes. The background from photon conversions is reduced using the RICH detectors and an isolation requirement. The method is developed using pppp collision data at s=13TeV\sqrt{s}=13\,{\rm TeV} recorded by the LHCb experiment in the years 2016 to 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.5fb15.5\,{\rm fb}^{-1}. A total of around 10510^5 helium and antihelium candidates are identified with negligible background contamination. The helium identification efficiency is estimated to be approximately 50%50\% with a corresponding background rejection rate of up to O(1012)\mathcal O(10^{12}). These results demonstrate the feasibility of a rich programme of measurements of QCD and astrophysics interest involving light nuclei

    Enhanced production of Λb0\Lambda_{b}^{0} baryons in high-multiplicity pppp collisions at s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV

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    International audienceThe production rate of Λb0\Lambda_{b}^{0} baryons relative to B0B^{0} mesons in pppp collisions at a center-of-mass energy s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV is measured by the LHCb experiment. The ratio of Λb0\Lambda_{b}^{0} to B0B^{0} production cross-sections shows a significant dependence on both the transverse momentum and the measured charged-particle multiplicity. At low multiplicity, the ratio measured at LHCb is consistent with the value measured in e+ee^{+}e^{-} collisions, and increases by a factor of 2\sim2 with increasing multiplicity. At relatively low transverse momentum, the ratio of Λb0\Lambda_{b}^{0} to B0B^{0} cross-sections is higher than what is measured in e+ee^{+}e^{-} collisions, but converges with the e+ee^{+}e^{-} ratio as the momentum increases. These results imply that the evolution of heavy bb quarks into final-state hadrons is influenced by the density of the hadronic environment produced in the collision. Comparisons with a statistical hadronization model and implications for the mechanisms enforcing quark confinement are discussed

    Charge-dependent curvature-bias corrections using a pseudomass method

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    International audienceMomentum measurements for very high momentum charged particles, such as muons from electroweak vector boson decays, are particularly susceptible to charge-dependent curvature biases that arise from misalignments of tracking detectors. Low momentum charged particles used in alignment procedures have limited sensitivity to coherent displacements of such detectors, and therefore are unable to fully constrain these misalignments to the precision necessary for studies of electroweak physics. Additional approaches are therefore required to understand and correct for these effects. In this paper the curvature biases present at the LHCb detector are studied using the pseudomass method in proton-proton collision data recorded at centre of mass energy s=13\sqrt{s}=13 TeV during 2016, 2017 and 2018. The biases are determined using Zμ+μZ\to\mu^+\mu^- decays in intervals defined by the data-taking period, magnet polarity and muon direction. Correcting for these biases, which are typically at the 10410^{-4} GeV1^{-1} level, improves the Zμ+μZ\to\mu^+\mu^- mass resolution by roughly 20% and eliminates several pathological trends in the kinematic-dependence of the mean dimuon invariant mass

    Search for CP\textit{CP} violation in the phase space of D0KS0K±πD^{0} \rightarrow K_{S}^{0} K^{\pm} \pi^{\mp} decays with the energy test

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    International audienceA search for CP\textit{CP} violation in D0KS0K+πD^{0} \rightarrow K_{S}^{0} K^{+} \pi^{-} and D0KS0Kπ+D^{0} \rightarrow K_{S}^{0} K^{-} \pi^{+} decays is reported. The search is performed using an unbinned model-independent method known as the energy test that probes local CP\textit{CP} violation in the phase space of the decays. The data analysed correspond to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 5.4~fb1^{-1} collected in proton-proton collisions by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13\sqrt{s}=13~TeV, amounting to approximately 950000 and 620000 signal candidates for the D0KS0Kπ+D^{0} \rightarrow K_{S}^{0} K^{-} \pi^{+} and D0KS0K+πD^{0} \rightarrow K_{S}^{0} K^{+} \pi^{-} modes, respectively. The method is validated using D0Kπ+ππ+D^{0} \rightarrow K^{-} \pi^{+} \pi^{-} \pi^{+} and D0KS0π+πD^{0} \rightarrow K_{S}^{0} \pi^{+} \pi^{-} decays, where CP\textit{CP}-violating effects are expected to be negligible, and using background-enhanced regions of the signal decays. The results are consistent with CP\textit{CP} symmetry in both the D0KS0Kπ+D^{0} \rightarrow K_{S}^{0} K^{-} \pi^{+} and the D0KS0K+πD^{0} \rightarrow K_{S}^{0} K^{+} \pi^{-} decays, with pp-values for the hypothesis of no CP\textit{CP} violation of 70% and 66%, respectively

    Enhanced production of Λb0\Lambda_{b}^{0} baryons in high-multiplicity pppp collisions at s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV

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    International audienceThe production rate of Λb0\Lambda_{b}^{0} baryons relative to B0B^{0} mesons in pppp collisions at a center-of-mass energy s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV is measured by the LHCb experiment. The ratio of Λb0\Lambda_{b}^{0} to B0B^{0} production cross-sections shows a significant dependence on both the transverse momentum and the measured charged-particle multiplicity. At low multiplicity, the ratio measured at LHCb is consistent with the value measured in e+ee^{+}e^{-} collisions, and increases by a factor of 2\sim2 with increasing multiplicity. At relatively low transverse momentum, the ratio of Λb0\Lambda_{b}^{0} to B0B^{0} cross-sections is higher than what is measured in e+ee^{+}e^{-} collisions, but converges with the e+ee^{+}e^{-} ratio as the momentum increases. These results imply that the evolution of heavy bb quarks into final-state hadrons is influenced by the density of the hadronic environment produced in the collision. Comparisons with a statistical hadronization model and implications for the mechanisms enforcing quark confinement are discussed

    Measurement of forward charged hadron flow harmonics in peripheral PbPb collisions at sNN=5.02\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02 TeV with the LHCb detector

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    International audienceFlow harmonic coefficients, vnv_n, which are the key to studying the hydrodynamics of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in heavy-ion collisions, have been measured in various collision systems, kinematic regions, and using various particle species. The study of flow harmonics in a wide pseudorapidity range is particularly valuable to understand the temperature dependence of the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio of the QGP. This paper presents the first LHCb results of the second- and the third-order flow harmonic coefficients of charged hadrons as a function of transverse momentum in the forward region, corresponding to pseudorapidities between 2.0 and 4.9, using the data collected from PbPb collisions in 2018 at a center-of-mass energy of 5.025.02 TeV. The coefficients measured using the two-particle angular correlation analysis method are smaller than the central-pseudorapidity measurements at ALICE and ATLAS from the same collision system but share similar features
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