We demonstrate that exclusive B decays to P-wave charmonium factorize in the non-relativistic limit provided that colour-octet contributions are taken into account , and estimate the branching fractions. Although there are very large uncertainties , we find reasonable parameter choices, where the main features of the data – large corrections to (naive) factorization and suppression of the χ c2 ...

Let now φ be an instance of 3SAT with n variables x1, . . . , xn and m clauses. For each variable xi, let occi be the number of occurrences of xi, that is, the number of clauses that involve the literal xi or the literal x̄i. We write xi ∈ Cj if the variable xi occurs in clause Cj . Notice that ∑n i=1 occi = 3m. For each i, construct a 1-expander graph Gi = (Vi, Ei) where Vi has occi vertices, o...

Several studies have proven that comparative judgment (CJ) is a reliable and valid assessment method for variety of competences, expert assessment, peer CJ emerging as possible approach to help maintain standards over time. For consecutive pairs student works (representations) assessors are asked judge which representation better. It has been shown random construction leads very inefficient ass...

The efforts of Roy-Sridhar-Close-Cho-Wise-Trivedi to resolve the CDF ψ ′ anomaly with cascades from above-threshold χ ′ c states require well defined signatures [a small total width and a large branching fraction for χ ′ cJ → γ+ψ ′ ] for the solution to be viable. Here we estimate the production of such states from BR(B → χ ′ cJ +X)BR(χ ′ cJ → γψ ′) and γγ production of χ ′ c2 at CLEO II, and c...

Inclusive production of cJ in e + e ? annihilation is an excellent probe of the role of higher Fock states in the production of heavy quarkonia. Within the non-relativistic QCD approach, contributions from the short-distance production of colour-octet c c pairs are signiicantly larger than those from colour-singlet production. At the same time, cJ production rates are signiicantly smaller than ...

Variation in cellular biochemical functions controlled by cytoplasmic genes was studied in relation to phenotypic differences between progeny of reciprocal hybrid female mice. Least squares procedures were used to test for differences in mitochondrial respiratory metabolism and in capacity for ATP synthesis, and differences in growth of progeny of hybrid dams. Under identical nuclear influences...

Experiments were conducted to characterize the metabolism of ezlopitant alkene (CJ-12,458), an active metabolite of ezlopitant, in human liver microsomes. In incubations with human liver microsomes and cofactors required for cytochrome P450 (CYP) activity, CJ-12,458 was converted to two metabolites: a diol (CP-611,781) and a 1 degrees alcohol (CP-616,762). In human liver microsomes, apparent K(...

PURPOSE This in vitro study aimed to gain insight into the function of fibroblast growth factor 10 (FGF10) on the ocular surface, especially its effect on mRNA expression of the mucins Muc1, Muc4, and Muc5ac, and mucin protein synthesis. METHODS We isolated primary cultured rat conjunctival epithelial cells (Cj-ECs) and treated them with FGF10 (1 ng/ml, 10 ng/ml, 100 ng/ml, and 200 ng/ml) and...