150 research outputs found
Cognitive Influences On Preschoolers’ And Adults’ Eyewitness Memory In Response To Misleading Questions
The present study investigated cognitive influences on the malleability of memory for an eyewitness event, specifically focusing on age, executive function, and divided attention. Preschoolers (3- to 5-year-olds) and adults completed an executive function (EF) battery, witnessed an event either under divided attention (DA) or full attention (FA), following this, participants were asked a series of questions, the majority of which were misleading from the Video Suggestibility Scale for Children. This study supports previous findings that children are more suggestible than adults to misleading questions. However, there was no influence of EF on suggestibility in either children or adults. Lastly, level of attention was related to suggestibility in yield 1 scores, where those in the DA condition had higher suggestibility scores than those in the FA condition, supporting previous findings in adult literature and extending these findings to the preschool age
Search for charged Higgs decays of the top quark using hadronic tau decays
We present the result of a search for charged Higgs decays of the top quark,
produced in collisions at 1.8 TeV. When the charged
Higgs is heavy and decays to a tau lepton, which subsequently decays
hadronically, the resulting events have a unique signature: large missing
transverse energy and the low-charged-multiplicity tau. Data collected in the
period 1992-1993 at the Collider Detector at Fermilab, corresponding to
18.70.7~pb, exclude new regions of combined top quark and charged
Higgs mass, in extensions to the standard model with two Higgs doublets.Comment: uuencoded, gzipped tar file of LaTeX and 6 Postscript figures; 11 pp;
submitted to Phys. Rev.
Inclusive jet cross section in collisions at TeV
The inclusive jet differential cross section has been measured for jet
transverse energies, , from 15 to 440 GeV, in the pseudorapidity region
0.10.7. The results are based on 19.5 pb of data
collected by the CDF collaboration at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The data
are compared with QCD predictions for various sets of parton distribution
functions. The cross section for jets with GeV is significantly
higher than current predictions based on O() perturbative QCD
calculations. Various possible explanations for the high- excess are
discussed.Comment: 8 pages with 2 eps uu-encoded figures Submitted to Physical Review
Letter
Measurement of Dijet Angular Distributions at CDF
We have used 106 pb^-1 of data collected in proton-antiproton collisions at
sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV by the Collider Detector at Fermilab to measure jet angular
distributions in events with two jets in the final state. The angular
distributions agree with next to leading order (NLO) predictions of Quantum
Chromodynamics (QCD) in all dijet invariant mass regions. The data exclude at
95% confidence level (CL) a model of quark substructure in which only up and
down quarks are composite and the contact interaction scale is Lambda_ud(+) <
1.6 TeV or Lambda_ud(-) < 1.4 TeV. For a model in which all quarks are
composite the excluded regions are Lambda(+) < 1.8 TeV and Lambda(-) < 1. 6
TeV.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, LaTex, using epsf.sty. Submitted to
Physical Review Letters on September 17, 1996. Postscript file of full paper
available at http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/physics/pub96/cdf3773_dijet_angle_prl.p
Genetics of migraine and pharmacogenomics: some considerations
Migraine is a complex disorder caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors
Multispectral tracing in densely labeled mouse brain with nTracer
Summary: This note describes nTracer, an ImageJ plug-in for user-guided, semi-automated tracing of multispectral fluorescent tissue samples. This approach allows for rapid and accurate reconstruction of whole cell morphology of large neuronal populations in densely labeled brains. Availability: nTracer was written as a plugin for the open source image processing software ImageJ. The software, instructional documentation, tutorial videos, sample image and sample tracing results are available at https://www.cai-lab.org/ntracer-tutorial. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online
Genetic complexity of miscanthus cell wall composition and biomass quality for biofuels
BACKGROUND: Miscanthus sinensis is a high yielding perennial grass species with great potential as a bioenergy feedstock. One of the challenges that currently impedes commercial cellulosic biofuel production is the technical difficulty to efficiently convert lignocellulosic biomass into biofuel. The development of feedstocks with better biomass quality will improve conversion efficiency and the sustainability of the value-chain. Progress in the genetic improvement of biomass quality may be substantially expedited by the development of genetic markers associated to quality traits, which can be used in a marker-assisted selection program. RESULTS: To this end, a mapping population was developed by crossing two parents of contrasting cell wall composition. The performance of 182 F1 offspring individuals along with the parents was evaluated in a field trial with a randomized block design with three replicates. Plants were phenotyped for cell wall composition and conversion efficiency characters in the second and third growth season after establishment. A new SNP-based genetic map for M. sinensis was built using a genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) approach, which resulted in 464 short-sequence uniparental markers that formed 16 linkage groups in the male map and 17 linkage groups in the female map. A total of 86 QTLs for a variety of biomass quality characteristics were identified, 20 of which were detected in both growth seasons. Twenty QTLs were directly associated to different conversion efficiency characters. Marker sequences were aligned to the sorghum reference genome to facilitate cross-species comparisons. Analyses revealed that for some traits previously identified QTLs in sorghum occurred in homologous regions on the same chromosome. CONCLUSION: In this work we report for the first time the genetic mapping of cell wall composition and bioconversion traits in the bioenergy crop miscanthus. These results are a first step towards the development of marker-assisted selection programs in miscanthus to improve biomass quality and facilitate its use as feedstock for biofuel production
Search for New Particles Decaying to Dijets in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV
We have used 19 pb**-1 of data collected with the Collider Detector at
Fermilab to search for new particles decaying to dijets. We exclude at 95%
confidence level models containing the following new particles: axigluons with
mass between 200 and 870 GeV, excited quarks with mass between 80 and 570 GeV,
and color octet technirhos with mass between 320 and 480 GeV.Comment: Submitted to Physical Review Letters in December 199
Measurement of and in collisions at TeV
We present a measurement of and in proton - antiproton collisions at TeV
using a significantly improved understanding of the integrated luminosity. The
data represent an integrated luminosity of 19.7 pb from the 1992-1993
run with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). We find ~nb and ~nb.Comment: Uses Latex, Article 12 point, figure appended as uuencoded file The
full PostScript available via WWW at
http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/physics/pub95/cdf3312_sigma_1a_prl_v3.p
Ratios of bottom meson branching fractions involving J/psi mesons and determination of b quark fragmentation fractions
We report a measurement of the ratios of the decay rates of the B^+, B^0 and
B^0_s mesons into exclusive final states containing a J/psi meson. The final
states were selected from 19.6 pb^{-1} of p-pbar collisions recorded by the
Collider Detector at Fermilab. These data are interpreted to determine the
bquark fragmentation fractions f_u, f_d and f_s. We also determine the
branching fractions for the decay modes B^+ --> J/psi K^+, B^+ --> J/psi
K^*(892)^+, B^0 --> J/psi K^0, B^0 --> J/psi K^*(892)^0 and B_s^0 --> J/psi
phi(1020). We discuss the implications of these measurements to B meson decay
models.Comment: 40 pages with 5 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D. PostScript also
available at http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/physics/pub96/cdf3609_bfrag_br_prd.p
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