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Application of Finite Elastic Theory to the Deformation of Rubbery Materials
The purpose of this discussion, then, is to show how the nature of
the strain energy function can be deduced from experiments on rubbery materials
Gamma-ray Luminosity and Photon Index Evolution of FSRQ Blazars and Contribution to the Gamma-ray Background
We present the redshift evolutions and distributions of the gamma-ray
luminosity and photon spectral index of flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) type
blazars, using non-parametric methods to obtain the evolutions and
distributions directly from the data. The sample we use for analysis consists
of almost all FSRQs observed with a greater than approximately 7 sigma
detection threshold in the first year catalog of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space
Telescope's Large Area Telescope, with redshfits as determined from optical
spectroscopy by Shaw et al. We find that FSQRs undergo rapid gamma-ray
luminosity evolution, but negligible photon index evolution, with redshift.
With these evolutions accounted for we determine the density evolution and
luminosity function of FSRQs, and calculate their total contribution to the
extragalactic gamma-ray background radiation, resolved and unresolved, which is
found to be 16(+10/-4)%, in agreement with previous studies.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figures, Accepted to Ap
Muon anomalous magnetic moment from effective supersymmetry
We present a detailed analysis on the possible maximal value of the muon
(g-2) (= 2 a_mu) within the context of effective SUSY models with R parity
conservation. First of all, the mixing among the second and the third family
sleptons can contribute at one loop level to the a_mu(SUSY) and tau -> mu gamma
simultaneously. One finds that the a_mu(SUSY) can be as large as (10-20)*10^-10
for any tan beta, imposing the upper limit on the tau -> mu gamma branching
ratio. Furthermore, the two-loop Barr-Zee type contributions to a_mu(SUSY) can
be significant for large tan beta, if a stop is light and mu and A_t are large
enough (O(1) TeV). In this case, it is possible to have a_mu(SUSY) upto
O(10)*10^-10 without conflicting with tau -> l gamma. We conclude that the
possible maximal value for a_mu(SUSY) is about 20*10^-10 for any tan beta.
Therefore the BNL experiment on the muon a_mu can exclude the effective SUSY
models only if the measured deviation is larger than \sim 30*10^-10.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
Contribution of through the QCD anomaly in exclusive decays and
We compute the decay rates for the exclusive decays and in a QCD-improved factorization framework by including the
contribution from the process through
the QCD anomaly. This method provides an alternative estimate of the
contribution to these decays as
compared to the one using the intrinsic charm content of the
and mesons determined through the decays . The resulting branching ratios are compared with the CLEO
data on and
and predictions are made for the rest.Comment: 16 pages including 4 postscript figures; uses epsfig. The most recent
branching ratios from CLEO, ref. [5], are taken into account. The theory part
is unchange
Methylation of CpG island is not a ubiquitous mechanism for the loss of oestrogen receptor in breast cancer cells.
Methylation has been shown to play an important role in the down-regulation of oestrogen receptors (ER) in breast cancer cells. One critical question that remains unclear is whether methylation can account for the loss of ER expression in cells derived from an ER-positive cell line. This laboratory has established an in vitro cell system using long-term growth of human ER-positive breast cancer cell line T47D in oestrogen-free medium. A clonal cell line, T47D:C4:2 (C4:2), has been characterized. Unlike T47D:A18 (A18), which is a T47D line maintained in oestrogen medium, C4:2 has lost the expression of ER and hormone responsiveness. DNA fingerprinting and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis results confirmed that C4:2 was of the same lineage as A18. These cell lines provide an invaluable system to study the mechanism of ER expression and regulatory pathways leading to hormone-independent growth. The results here clearly demonstrate that the ER CpG island in C4:2 cells remains unmethylated. The loss of ER in the cell line must be due to mechanisms other than methylation. We also evaluated the ER CpG island in the MDA-MB-231:10A (10A) cell line, which is a clone from the MDA-MB-231 line obtained from ATCC and the DNA from the MDA-MB-231 cell line used in the original report. Unlike the cell line from the report, which showed a full methylation pattern in the island, the 10A line only showed a partial methylation pattern in the CpG island. Possible mechanisms pertaining to the heterogeneous methylation pattern of the ER CpG island in the breast cancer cells are discussed
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