Complete study of four top quark production at the LHC in the SMEFT

We present a study of four top quark production at the LHC in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). The analysis is performed at the tree-level, including all terms from the mixed QCD-EW-coupling cross-section expansion and all the relevant dimension-six SMEFT operators. We find several cases in which formally subleading terms give rise to significant contributions. Moreover, we obtain limits on the SMEFT Wilson coefficients (WCs), including different collider setups, FCC-hh and HL-LHC, using a simplified chi-square fit. Through the latter, we also assessed the importance of including differential information in the fit.Comment: 9 pages. Contribution to the 41st International Conference on High Energy Physics - ICHEP2022. v2: 6 pages, reduced to fit PoS guidelines, v2 accepted by Po

Play Experience Enhancement Using Emotional Feedback

Innovations in computer game interfaces continue to enhance the experience of players. Affective games - those that adapt or incorporate a player’s emotional state - have shown promise in creating exciting and engaging user experiences. However, a dearth of systematic exploration into what types of game elements should adapt to affective state leaves game designers with little guidance on how to incorporate affect into their games. We created an affective game engine, using it to deploy a design probe into how adapting the player’s abilities, the enemy’s abilities, or variables in the environment affects player performance and experience. Our results suggest that affectively adapting games can increase player arousal. Furthermore, we suggest that reducing challenge by adapting non-player characters is a worse design choice than giving players the tools that they need (through enhancing player abilities or a supportive environment) to master greater challenges

Pengaruh Brain Gym terhadap Fungsi Kognitif pada Usia Lanjut

Cognitive function has a very important role in livelong human life. Elderly is a population that commonly has cognitive disorder. Brain gym has some certain movements that able to increase human body and brain functional quality. The aim of this study is to determine brain gym practice effect to cognitive function on the elderly population. The research is quasi experimental using the elderly home PENGHUNI Panti Sosial Tresna Werdha Budi Luhur, Kasongan, Yogyakarta as the subjects. Thirty respondents were divided into treatment and control group in the same number. The treatment group do the 8 brain gym movements which are cross crawl, positive point, thinking cap, balance buttons, earth buttons, space buttons, neck rolls and hooks up part 2. Control group do the routine elderly gymnastics. Both of them were do the exercise for 5 times a week in three weeks. Pre¬test andpost-test by Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) was performed to all respondents before and after intervention. The difference of MMSE score between post-test and pre-test was analyzed by independent t-test. Both of treatment and control group have normal data distribution. MMSE score ’s mean in control group is decrease about 2,33 point and treatment group ’s mean is increase about 1,40 point. Independent t-test gives significance level 0,001 (p 0,05) in 95% of confidence interval. The conclution is that brain gym practice gives significance effect to elderly cognitive function with MMSE score.Fungsi kognitif mempunyai peran yang sangat penting di sepanjang kehidupan manusia. Usia lanjut (usila) adalah populasi yang sering mengalami gangguan fungsi kognitif. Brain gym memiliki beberapa gerakan tertentu yang dapat meningkatkan kualitas fungsional otak dan tubuh manusia. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh pelaksanaan brain gym terhadap fungsi kognitif usia lanjut. Penelitian menggunakan metode kuasi eksperimental yang dilakukan di Panti Sosial Tresna Werdha (panti jompo) Budi Luhur, Yogyakarta. Tiga puluh responden dibagi ke dalam kelompok perlakuan dan kontrol dengan jumlah yang sama. Kelompok perlakuan mendapatkan 8 gerakan brain gym yaitu gerakan silang, titik positif, pasang telinga, tombol imbang, tombol bumi, tombol angkasa, putaran leher dan kait rileks. Kelompok kontrol mendapatkan senam rutin usila. Kedua kelompok menjalankan brain gym dan senam usila sebanyak 5 kali seminggu selama 3 pekan. Pre¬test dan post-test dengan menggunakan Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) dilakukan pada seluruh reponden sebelum dan sesudah intervensi. Selisih nilai MMSE saat post-test dan pre-test digunakan sebagai data yang diuji dengan independent t-test. Kelompok perlakuan dan kontrol mempunyai distribusi data yang normal. Rerata nilai MMSE pada kelompok kontrol mengalami penurunan sebanyak 2,33 poin dan kelompok perlakuan mengalami peningkatan sebanyak 1,40 poin. Independent t-test menghasilkan tingkat signifikansi sebesar 0,001 (p 0,05) pada tingkat kepercayaan 95%. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan pelaksanaan brain gym dengan fungsi kognitif usila

Fourier Series in a Non-polar Coordinate System

Numerical computations of functions in a grid on the surface of a sphere and the integration of corresponding partial differential equation are very important tasks among the researchers in the field of computational mathematics. Although the spherical polar coordinate system is the most elegant tool in this respect, the problems due to polar concentration near the North and South poles brings much difficulties to the computational scientists. Cubed sphere concept is one of the techniques used recently in the processing of searching remedies for such problems. In earlier works, the second author of this article has constructed weakly and fully orthogonal spherical harmonics in a non-polar coordinate system developed based on the 'cubed-sphere' concept Then, we established relational properties between the two sets of spherical harmonics and between the functions defined in the six faces of the cubed sphere. Fourier series techniques could be applied to a wide array of mathematical and physical problems. In mis work, we express the Fourier series of a spherical function in terms of the weakly orthogonal spherical harmonics of the non-polar coordinate system. Also, we discuss the method of finding the Fourier series coefficients efficiently using the relational properties established

Isolation and Molecular Detection of Gram Negative Bacteria Causing Urinary Tract Infection in Patients Referred to Shahrekord Hospitals, Iran

Background: Urinary Tract Infections (UTI), and their complications, cause serious health problems, which affect millions of people every year. Infections of the urinary tract are the second most common type of infection in the body and approximately 20% of women are especially prone to UTIs for reasons not yet well understood. Urinary Tract Infections in men are not as common as in women yet can be very serious when they do occur. Accurate identification of bacterial isolates is an essential task of the clinical microbiology laboratory. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence and variety of the causative microbial agents of UTIs in patients who had referred to a medical laboratory of Kashani and Hajar hospital in Shahrekord, Iran. Patients and Methods: In this cross-sectional study 147 urine samples of patients (urine test results were positive for UTIs) were examined during April to September 2013. A total of 147 urine samples of patients with clinical symptoms of UTI who had been referred to a medical laboratory of Kashani and Hajar hospital in Shahrekord (Iran), were collected and processed immediately for laboratory analysis. Results: Escherichia coli was identified as the most common causative agent of UTIs (51.70% of total isolates in both sexes), followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. Pneumoniae) (16.32%). Frequency of Proteus spp., Acinetobacter spp., Entrobacter spp., Citrobacter spp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) and Providencia spp. was 10.88%, 6.12%, 5.44%, 4.08%, 3.40% and 2.04%, respectively. Statistical analysis by Fisher exact test showed that there was no significant relationship between the type of bacteria and gender (P > 0.05). Chi square test showed that there was no significant relationship between the type of bacteria and the use of catheter and age group (P > 0.05). However, there was a significant relationship between the type of bacteria and the history of hospitalization (P > 0.05). Conclusions: Our findings implied that a wide range of bacteria could be involved in creating urinary tract infection in patients referred to a medical laboratory of Kashani and Hajar hospital in Shahrekord, Iran. Regardless of age, sex and the use of catheter, a wide range of bacteria could be involved in urinary tract infections

An application of Fourier series expansion of a function in a non-polar spherical coordinate system

Cubed sphere is one of the main tools used to avoid pole problems those arise in the selection of spherical polar coordinates. In this respect, earlier we considered a recently developed cubed sphere based on coordinate mapping over the cubed surface. The function on the sphere was treated as an ordered set of six-tuples. In that work, we established weakly orthogonal and completely orthogonal spherical harmonics of the system and developed corresponding symmetric and linear relations. Also, we found the norm of the orthogonal spherical harmonics. In this work, we explore the Fourier representation of a spherical function on this coordinate system in terms of weakly orthogonal spherical harmonics. The advantages of the linear relation between the two sets of spherical harmonics and diagonal property of the norm of the fully orthogonal spherical harmonics were in cooperated for this work. We also strength our work by giving an example to demonstrate how Fourier coefficients can be computed to represent a given spherical function in terms of the spherical harmonics of the coordinate system

An Additive Statistical Modeling Approach to the Analysis of Transport Infrastructure Flood Risk-Based Resilience

Australia is a very vulnerable region to flood events, and the frequency of flood events and damage has increased dramatically over the past decades. Although flood has impacted diverse types of buildings and built infrastructure, there has been limited research investigating flood risk management specific to transport infrastructure in Australia and the factors that might influence the resilience of the transport infrastructure to flooding. To develop an appropriate design management system for roads and bridges specific to risk assessment from flooding requires a multitude of factors to be identified and analyzed. In this study, we review the range of critical factors necessary to represent the resilience of bridges to extreme flood events and demonstrate a novel mathematical approach to evaluate the relationship between the bridge resilience and flood risk. We use additive statistical approach in arriving at a framework to evaluate the resilience of bridges. The findings confirm that metrological characteristics such as annual exceedance probability and probable maximum precipitation and structural integrity of the bridge represented by the structural age of the bridge and mechanical properties of the soils have a substantial impact on the resilience of the Australian transport infrastructure, particularly bridges located on main roads