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Realistic D-Brane Models on Warped Throats: Fluxes, Hierarchies and Moduli Stabilization
We describe the construction of string theory models with semirealistic
spectrum in a sector of (anti) D3-branes located at an orbifold singularity at
the bottom of a highly warped throat geometry, which is a generalisation of the
Klebanov-Strassler deformed conifold. These models realise the Randall-Sundrum
proposal to naturally generate the Planck/electroweak hierarchy in a concrete
string theory embedding, and yielding interesting chiral open string spectra.
We describe examples with Standard Model gauge group (or left-right symmetric
extensions) and three families of SM fermions, with correct quantum numbers
including hypercharge. The dilaton and complex structure moduli of the geometry
are stabilised by the 3-form fluxes required to build the throat. We describe
diverse issues concerning the stabilisation of geometric Kahler moduli, like
blow-up modes of the orbifold singularities, via D term potentials and gauge
theory non-perturbative effects, like gaugino condensation. This local
geometry, once embedded in a full compactification, could give rise to models
with all moduli stabilised, and with the potential to lead to de Sitter vacua.
Issues of gauge unification, proton stability, supersymmetry breaking and
Yukawa couplings are also discussed.Comment: 46 pages, 13 figures (figures 3 and 13 corrected
Surveying Standard Model Flux Vacua on
We consider the SU(2)LxSU(2)R Standard Model brane embedding in an
orientifold of T6/Z2xZ2. Within defined limits, we construct all such Standard
Model brane embeddings and determine the relative number of flux vacua for each
construction. Supersymmetry preserving brane recombination in the hidden sector
enables us to identify many solutions with high flux. We discuss in detail the
phenomenology of one model which is likely to dominate the counting of vacua.
While Kahler moduli stabilization remains to be fully understood, we define the
criteria necessary for generic constructions to have fixed moduli.Comment: 30 pages, LaTeX, v2: added reference
Type IIB orientifolds on Gepner points
We study various aspects of orientifold projections of Type IIB closed string
theory on Gepner points in different dimensions. The open string sector is
introduced, in the usual constructive way, in order to cancel RR charges
carried by orientifold planes. Moddings by cyclic permutations of the internal
N=2 superconformal blocks as well as by discrete phase symmetries are
implemented. Reduction in the number of generations, breaking or enhancements
of gauge symmetries and topology changes are shown to be induced by such
moddings. Antibranes sector is also considered; in particular we show how non
supersymmetric models with antibranes and free of closed and open tachyons do
appear in this context. A systematic study of consistent models in D=8
dimensions and some illustrative examples in D=6 and D=4 dimensions are
presented.Comment: 67 pages, no figures References added, typos correcte
Comparison of the Hemostatic Efficacy of Pathogen-Reduced Platelets vs Untreated Platelets in Patients With Thrombocytopenia and Malignant Hematologic Diseases: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Importance: Pathogen reduction of platelet concentrates may reduce transfusion-transmitted infections but is associated with qualitative impairment, which could have clinical significance with regard to platelet hemostatic capacity.
Objective: To compare the effectiveness of platelets in additive solution treated with amotosalen-UV-A vs untreated platelets in plasma or in additive solution in patients with thrombocytopenia and hematologic malignancies.
Design, Setting, and Participants: The Evaluation of the Efficacy of Platelets Treated With Pathogen Reduction Process (EFFIPAP) study was a randomized, noninferiority, 3-arm clinical trial performed from May 16, 2013, through January 21, 2016, at 13 French tertiary university hospitals. Clinical signs of bleeding were assessed daily until the end of aplasia, transfer to another department, need for a specific platelet product, or 30 days after enrollment. Consecutive adult patients with bone marrow aplasia, expected hospital stay of more than 10 days, and expected need of platelet transfusions were included.
Interventions: At least 1 transfusion of platelets in additive solution with amotosalen-UV-A treatment, in plasma, or in additive solution.
Main Outcomes and Measures: The proportion of patients with grade 2 or higher bleeding as defined by World Health Organization criteria.
Results: Among 790 evaluable patients (mean [SD] age, 55 [13.4] years; 458 men [58.0%]), the primary end point was observed in 126 receiving pathogen-reduced platelets in additive solution (47.9%; 95% CI, 41.9%-54.0%), 114 receiving platelets in plasma (43.5%; 95% CI, 37.5%-49.5%), and 120 receiving platelets in additive solution (45.3%; 95% CI, 39.3%-51.3%). With a per-protocol population with a prespecified margin of 12.5%, noninferiority was not achieved when pathogen-reduced platelets in additive solution were compared with platelets in plasma (4.4%; 95% CI, -4.1% to 12.9%) but was achieved when the pathogen-reduced platelets were compared with platelets in additive solution (2.6%; 95% CI, -5.9% to 11.1%). The proportion of patients with grade 3 or 4 bleeding was not different among treatment arms.
Conclusions and Relevance: Although the hemostatic efficacy of pathogen-reduced platelets in thrombopenic patients with hematologic malignancies was noninferior to platelets in additive solution, such noninferiority was not achieved when comparing pathogen-reduced platelets with platelets in plasma.
Trial Registration: clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01789762
Reconstruction of volume structure of carbon-based conductive polymer composites
Conductive polymer composites with different carbon fillers are under intensive investigation nowadays due to their unique properties and possible applications in different areas of science and technology. The percolation character of the conductivity behaviour in these materials and influence of nanoscale structure of conductive filler on macroscopic characteristics of composites make it important to determine the 3D structure of the components. Various electrical methods of atomic force microscopy (AFM) are efficient tools for visualization of a conductive network on a sample surface. In this work, we use a combination of AFM methods and ultramicrotomy for the 3D reconstruction of the filler structure in graphene-polystyrene and carbon black-epoxy-amine composites. Common features of the various composites, such as the formation of clusters with similar conductivity and limited number of filler particles forming a conductive network, are discussed
Responses to calcified seaweed in managed grassland
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Eco-physiology of mysids (Crustacea; Peracarida) in the River Tamar estuary
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Epidemiological typing of Listeria monocytogenes
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