We introduce a noncommutative binary operation on matroids, called free product. We show that this operation respects matroid duality, and has the property that, given only the cardinalities, an ordered pair of matroids may be recovered, up to isomorphism, from its free product. We use these results to give a short proof of Welsh’s 1969 conjecture, which provides a progressive lower bound for t...

We study CP violation in B → K∗l+l− using generalized Dalitz plot asymmetries in the angular distribution. These new kind of asymmetries are constructed by adding B and B̄ events, and do not require flavor or time tagging, nor is the presence of strong phases needed. Using this method one requires about 2 × 108/η B’s to measure the CP violating parameter η in the Standard model. The two–Higgs do...

A large scale experimental program using vertical and batter model piles in sand subjected to pull out loads has been carried out in a model tank of size 1m x 1m x 1m. Mild steel pipes of varying diameters, lengths, and shapes are used as model piles. A poorly graded river sand having specific gravity G= 2.67, Uniformity coefficient= 3.53, emax = 0.81, emin = 0.54 has been used as foundation me...

We have developed a scheme to generate, control, transmit and measure entangled photonic qutrits (two photons each of dimension d = 3). A Bell test of this source has previously been reported elsewhere [1], therefore, here we focus on how the control of the system is realized. Motivated by these results, we outline how the scheme can be used for two specific quantum protocols, namely key distri...

We present the exact O(α) correction to the process e+e− → f f̄ + γ, f 6= e, for ISR⊕FSR at and beyond LEP2 energies. We give explicit formulas for the completely differential cross section. As an important application, we compute the size of the respective sub-leading corrections of O(αL) to the f f̄ cross section, where L is the respective big logarithm in the renormalization group sense so tha...

We present the exact O(α) correction to the process e+e− → f f̄ + γ, f 6= e, for ISR⊕FSR at and beyond LEP2 energies. We give explicit formulas for the completely differential cross section. As an important application, we compute the size of the respective sub-leading corrections of O(αL) to the f f̄ cross section, where L is the respective big logarithm in the renormalization group sense so tha...

We study the cooling (heating) of a glue-parton gas due to production (destruction) of particles and determine the associated production of entropy. We incorporate sharing of the system energy among a changing number of particles. We find that the entropy of an evolving glue-parton gas changes in an insignificant range once the initial high temperature state has been formed, despite a great cha...

Background: The cervical sympathetic trunk-submandibular gland (CST-SMG) axis plays an important role in inflammation. An immunoregulatory heptapeptide, submandibular gland peptide T (SGP-T), was isolated from submandibular glands, and several of its biological activities have been identified. Results: SGP-T reduced shockinduced hypotension and allergen-induced disruption of migrating myoelectr...

We consider a model of communication via a fully quantum jammer channel with quantum jammer, quantum sender and quantum receiver, which we dub quantum arbitrarily varying channel (QAVC). Restricting to finite dimensional user and jammer systems, we show, using permutation symmetry and a de Finetti reduction, how the random coding capacity (classical and quantum) of the QAVC is reduced to the ca...

Markov and quantum information processing models are compared with respect to their capability of explaining two different puzzling findings from empirical research on human inference and decision making. Both findings involve a task that requires making an inference about one of two possible uncertain states, followed by decision about two possible courses of action. Two conditions are compare...