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<Session 3: Biomedical Technology>Bio-Signal Electrodes Having Electro-Chemical Power Generation Capability Aimed for Operating Power of Intra-Corporeal Capsule-Telemeter Transmitter
19–22 May 2022 Kyoto, JapanPlease provide a brief abstract here of approximately 200 words. To distinguish it from the main text, please place the abstract in cursive text - font size 10, Times New Roman
Influence of estrus status on urinary chemical parameters related to urolithiasis
The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.
authorThe present study examines the urinary chemical parameters related to urolithiasis in healthy female volunteers during premenopause and menopause, and discusses the role of menopause in stone formation. We investigated 24-h urine parameters associated with urinary stones and focused upon estrus status. Participants comprised 30 healthy women, 15 childless, premenopausal women and 15 menopausal women without a history of urolithiasis. Our results showed that menopausal women have lower citrate and higher calcium excretion, which might enhance calcium stone crystallization. We propose that the estrus status of female patients should be considered when evaluating metabolic abnormalities
Update on Fermion Mass Models with an Anomalous Horizontal U(1) Symmetry
We reconsider models of fermion masses and mixings based on a gauge anomalous
horizontal U(1) symmetry. In the simplest model with a single flavon field and
horizontal charges of the same sign for all Standard Model fields, only very
few charge assignements are allowed when all experimental data, including
neutrino oscillation data, is taken into account. We show that a precise
description of the observed fermion masses and mixing angles can easily be
obtained by generating sets of the order one parameters left unconstrained by
the U(1) symmetry. The corresponding Yukawa matrices show several interesting
features which may be important for flavour changing neutral currents and CP
violation effects in supersymmetric models.Comment: 23 pages, 8 figure
Spin-polarized surface state of MnSb(0001)
Knowledge of the spin-dependent electronic structure at surfaces and interfaces plays an increasingly important role when assessing possible use of novel magnetic materials for spintronic applications. It is shown that spin- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy together with ab initio electronic structure methods provides a full characterization of the surface electronic structure of ferromagnetic MnSb(0 0 0 1). Two different surface reconstructions have been compared in spin- and angle-resolved valence-band photoemission. For annealing at elevated temperatures, the ( 1 x 1)-structure transforms into 2 x 2 and a majority-spin peak appears at - 1.7 eV inside a majority-spin bulk band gap at the surface Brillouin zone centre. Its sensitivity to oxygen supports an interpretation as magnetic compound surface state. Local spin density calculations predict at the same energy (- 1.75 eV) a prominent d(z)2 surface state of majority spin for ( 1 x 1)- Mn terminated MnSb(0 0 0 1) but no such feature for ( 1 x 1)-Sb termination. The calculation shows that neither the bulk nor the surface is half-metallic, in agreement with the expectation for the hexagonal NiAs structure
Punctal stenosis: definition, diagnosis, and treatment
Acquired punctal stenosis is a condition in which the external opening of the lacrimal canaliculus is narrowed or occluded. This condition is a rare cause of symptomatic epiphora, but its incidence may be higher in patients with chronic blepharitis, in those treated with various topical medications, including antihypertensive agents, and especially in patients treated with taxanes for cancer. The purpose of this review is to cover the medical literature, focusing in particular on definition, incidence, risk factors, etiology and treatment options.Uri Soiberman, Hirohiko Kakizaki, Dinesh Selva, Igal Leibovitc
Gauge Coupling Unification in GUT with Anomalous U(1) Symmetry
We show that in the framework of grand unified theory (GUT) with anomalous
gauge symmetry, the success of the gauge coupling unification in the
minimal SU(5) GUT is naturally explained, even if the mass spectrum of
superheavy fields does not respect SU(5) symmetry. Because the unification
scale for most realizations of the theory becomes smaller than the usual GUT
scale, it suggests that the present level of experiments is close to that
sufficient to observe proton decay via dimension 6 operators, .Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX, to appear in Phys.Rev.Let
Precise Calculation of the Relic Density of Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter in Universal Extra Dimensions
We revisit the calculation of the relic density of the lightest Kaluza-Klein
particle (LKP) in the model of Universal Extra Dimensions. The Kaluza-Klein
(KK) particle spectrum at level one is rather degenerate, and various
coannihilation processes may be relevant. We extend the calculation of
hep-ph/0206071 to include coannihilation processes with all level one KK
particles. In our computation we consider a most general KK particle spectrum,
without any simplifying assumptions. In particular, we do not assume a
completely degenerate KK spectrum and instead retain the dependence on each
individual KK mass. As an application of our results, we calculate the
Kaluza-Klein relic density in the Minimal UED model, turning on coannihilations
with all level one KK particles. We then go beyond the minimal model and
discuss the size of the coannihilation effects separately for each class of
level 1 KK particles. Our results provide the basis for consistent relic
density computations in arbitrarily general models with Universal Extra
Dimenions.Comment: 44 pages, 19 figures, typeset in JHEP styl
Search for Higgs bosons of the Universal Extra Dimensions at the Large Hadron Collider
The Higgs sector of the Universal Extra Dimensions (UED) has a rather
involved setup. With one extra space dimension, the main ingredients to the
construct are the higher Kaluza-Klein (KK) excitations of the Standard Model
Higgs boson and the fifth components of the gauge fields which on
compactification appear as scalar degrees of freedom and can mix with the
former thus leading to physical KK-Higgs states of the scenario. In this work,
we explore in detail the phenomenology of such a Higgs sector of the UED with
the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in focus. We work out relevant decay branching
fractions involving the KK-Higgs excitations. Possible production modes of the
KK-Higgs bosons are then discussed with an emphasis on their associated
production with the third generation KK-quarks and that under the cascade
decays of strongly interacting UED excitations which turn out to be the only
phenomenologically significant modes. It is pointed out that the collider
searches of such Higgs bosons face generic hardship due to soft end-products
which result from severe degeneracies in the masses of the involved excitations
in the minimal version of the UED (MUED). Generic implications of either
observing some or all of the KK-Higgs bosons at the LHC are discussed.Comment: 25 pages, 9 figures and 1 tabl
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