In high energy exclusive processes involving leptons, QED corrections can be sensitive to infrared scales like the lepton mass and soft photon cut, resulting in large logarithms that need resummed all order $\ensuremath{\alpha}$. When considering ratio of between two different flavors, $R$ expressed terms factorized functions decoupled leptonic sectors. While some functional cancel, there remai...

In order to probe a possible time variation of the fine-structure constant ($\alpha$), we propose new method based on Strong Gravitational Lensing and Type Ia Supernovae observations. By considering class dilaton runaway models, where $\frac{\Delta \alpha}{\alpha}= - \gamma \ln{(1+z)}$, obtain constraints \alpha}{\alpha}$ at level $\gamma \approx 10^{-2}$ ($\gamma$ captures physical properties ...

This paper introduces a new concept within shadow segmentation for usage in shadow removal and augmentation through construction of an alpha overlay shadow model. Previously, an image was considered to consist of shadow and non-shadow regions. We construct a model that accounts for sunlit, umbra and penumbra regions. The model is based on theories about color constancy, daylight, and the geomet...

We report new results for a time-indexed formulation of nonpreemptive singlemachine scheduling problems. We give complete characterizations of all facet inducing inequalities with integral coefficients and right-hand side 1 or 2 for the convex hull of the set of feasible partial schedules, i.e., schedules in which not all jobs have to be started. Furthermore, we identify conditions under which ...

Objective(s): Hyperglycemia induces cellular senescence in various body cells, such as vascular endothelial cells. Since the vessels are highly distributed in the body and nourish all tissues, vascular damages cause diabetes complications such as kidney failure and visual impairment. Alpha-mangostin is a xanthone found in mangosteen fruit with protective effects in met...

The cytoarchitecture and morphometry of the neurons in the alpha E sector of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the rabbit have been studied. The preparation techniques used were those of Golgi-Adams and Klüver-Barrera. Our method was to subdivide the alpha E sector into three zones (superior, medial and inferior) and then to cut each zone along the horizontal, transverse and saggital pla...

A fuzzy logic-based color histogram analysis technique is presented for discriminating benign skin lesions from malignant melanomas in dermoscopy images. The approach extends previous research for utilizing a fuzzy set for skin lesion color for a specified class of skin lesions, using alpha-cut and support set cardinality for quantifying a fuzzy ratio skin lesion color feature. Skin lesion disc...

194 The aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT and AUDIT-C) in order to detect problems related to the consumption of alcohol in the university population. The sample consisted of 1309 students. A Weekly Alcohol Consumption Diary was used as a gold standard; Cronbach’s Alpha, the Kappa index, Spearman’s correlation ...