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A model for the submarine depthkeeping team
The most difficult task the depthkeeping team must face occurs during periscope-depth operations during which they may be required to maintain a submarine several hundred feet long within a foot of ordered depth and within one-half degree of ordered pitch. The difficulty is compounded by the facts that wave generated forces are extremely high, depth and pitch signals are very noisy and submarine speed is such that overall dynamics are slow. A mathematical simulation of the depthkeeping team based on the optimal control models is described. A solution of the optimal team control problem with an output control restriction (limited display to each controller) is presented
Gaugino production in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV
Motivated by hints for a light Standard Model-like Higgs boson and a shift in
experimental attention towards electroweak supersymmetry particle production at
the CERN LHC, we update in this paper our precision predictions at
next-to-leading order of perturbative QCD matched to resummation at the
next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy for direct gaugino pair production in
proton-proton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. Tables of total
cross sections are presented together with the corresponding scale and parton
density uncertainties for benchmark points adopted recently by the experimental
collaborations, and figures are presented for up-to-date model lines attached
to them. Since the experimental analyses are currently obtained with parton
showers matched to multi-parton matrix elements, we also analyze the precision
of this procedure by comparing invariant-mass and transverse-momentum
distributions obtained in this way to those obtained with threshold and
transverse-momentum resummation.Comment: 28 pages, 7 figures, 9 tables; version to appear in JHE
Measuring treatment satisfaction in MS: Is the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication fit for purpose?
BACKGROUND: The Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM) was designed to assess patient treatment satisfaction in chronic diseases. Its performance has not been examined in multiple sclerosis (MS). The 14 items of the TSQM cover four domains: Effectiveness, Side Effects, Convenience, and Global Satisfaction. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate performance of the TSQM in patients with relapsing MS, using data collected from the TENERE study (NCT00883337), in which 324 patients received oral teriflunomide or subcutaneous interferon beta-1a for ⩾48 weeks. METHODS: Five measurement properties were examined using traditional psychometric methods: data completeness, scale-to-sample targeting, scaling assumptions, reliability (including test-retest), and construct validity (internal: item-level scaling success, confirmatory factor analysis, and exploratory factor analysis; external: convergence, discrimination, and group differences). RESULTS: There were few ( 0.90). Internal validity tests supported item groupings. Correlations supported convergent and discriminant construct validity; hypothesis testing supported group differences validity. CONCLUSION: This investigation found the TSQM to be a useful tool, exhibiting good psychometric measurement properties in patients with relapsing MS in the TENERE study
Differential Cross Sections for Higgs Boson Production at Tevatron Collider Energies
The transverse momentum distribution is computed for inclusive Higgs
boson production at TeV. We include all-orders resummation of
large logarithms associated with emission of soft gluons at small . We
provide results for Higgs boson and masses from to 200 GeV. The
relatively hard transverse momentum distribution for Higgs boson production
suggests possibilities for improvement of the signal to background ratio.Comment: 12 pages, latex, 7 figure
Genotype-environment interaction for age at first calving in Limousine and Charolais cattle raised in Italy, employing reaction norm model
Slepton pair production in the POWHEG BOX
We present an implementation for slepton pair production at hadron colliders
in the POWHEG BOX, a framework for combining next-to-leading order QCD
calculations with parton-shower Monte-Carlo programs. Our code provides a SUSY
Les Houches Accord interface for setting the supersymmetric input parameters.
Decays of the sleptons and parton-shower effects are simulated with PYTHIA.
Focussing on a representative point in the supersymmetric parameter space we
show results for kinematic distributions that can be observed experimentally.
While next-to-leading order QCD corrections are sizable for all distributions,
the parton shower affects the color-neutral particles only marginally.
Pronounced parton-shower effects are found for jet distributions.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figure
Next-to-leading order predictions for Z gamma+jet and Z gamma gamma final states at the LHC
We present next-to-leading order predictions for final states containing
leptons produced through the decay of a Z boson in association with either a
photon and a jet, or a pair of photons. The effect of photon radiation from the
final state leptons is included and we also allow for contributions arising
from fragmentation processes. Phenomenological studies are presented for the
LHC in the case of final states containing charged leptons and in the case of
neutrinos. We also use the procedure introduced by Stewart and Tackmann to
provide a reliable estimate of the scale uncertainty inherent in our
theoretical calculations of jet-binned Z gamma cross sections. These
computations have been implemented in the public code MCFM.Comment: 30 pages, 10 figure
Heritability and genetic correlation of body weight and Kleiber ratio in Limousin and Charolais beef cattle breeds
Supersymmetry and Generic BSM Models in PYTHIA 8
We describe the implementation of supersymmetric models in PYTHIA 8,
including production and decay of superparticles and allowing for violation of
flavour, CP, and R-parity. We also present a framework for importing generic
new-physics matrix elements into PYTHIA 8, in a way suitable for use with
automated tools. We emphasize that this possibility should not be viewed as the
only way to implement new-physics models in PYTHIA 8, but merely as an
additional possibility on top of the already existing ones. Finally we address
parton showers in exotic colour topologies, in particular ones involving colour
epsilon tensors and colour sextets.Comment: 20 page
Kleiber ratios and growth curves of African Black and Red Neck ostrich breeds and their crossbreeds
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