member of the weak-isospin doublet containing the bottom quark (see our review on the \Standard Model of Electroweak Interactions" for more information). This note summarizes its currently measured properties, and provides a discussion of the experimental and theoretical issues involved in the determination of its parameters (mass, production cross section, decay branching ratios, etc.). B. Top...

Particle ratios are an appropriate tool to study the characteristics of entropy production in heavy-ion collisions, as shown in Fig. 1. We investigate the impact parameter dependence of the S/A ratio (entropy S per net participating baryon A) by means of the Λ/p ratio and will find it a tool to distinguish between chemical equilibrium as assumed in hydrodynamics (here: the 3-fluid model [1]) an...

We investigate the four-body decays $B_{(s)} \rightarrow (K\pi)_{S/P} (K\pi)_{S/P}$ in $K\pi$-pair invariant mass region around $K^*(892)$ resonance perturbative QCD (PQCD) approach, where $(K\pi)_{S/P}$ denotes a $S$- or $P$-wave $K\pi$ configuration. The contributions from and possible $S$-wave components are included into parametrization of two-meson distribution amplitudes, which nonperturb...

The analysis of the momentum difference between charged hadrons in high-energy proton-proton collisions is performed in order to study coherent particle production. The observed correlation pattern agrees with a model of a helical QCD string fragmenting into a chain of ground-state hadrons. A threshold momentum difference in the production of adjacent pairs of charged hadrons is observed, in ag...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder and the most common form of dementia. Almost 47 million people suffer from dementia worldwide. AD accounts for approximately 60%–80% of all dementia cases. Three major pathologies characterize the disease: senile plaques, neurofibrillary tangles and inflammation. We review the literature on events contributing to the inflammat...

effects of three nutritional levels of beet root molasses, cheese permeate, wheat bran extract, rice bran extract and sabouraud,s dextrose broth (sdb) were evaluated for blastospore production by two isolates of beauveria bassiana sensu lato. at an interval of 24 h for seven days. depending on the isolate, maximum blastospore production was obtained in 12% rice bran extract and 20% cheese perme...