We propose a new method that fixes the coupling to two photons of the recently found lightest QCD resonance, the σ. This coupling provides crucial information for discriminating the yet unknown nature of this special state. Our method uses available data on the nucleon polarizabilities together with analyticity and unitarity. Taking into account all the uncertainties, our result is Γpole = 1.2±...

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common cause of chronic cough. For the diagnosis and treatment of GERD, it is desirable to quantify the temporal correlation between cough and reflux events. Cough episodes can be identified on esophageal manometric recordings as short-duration, rapid pressure rises. The present study aims at facilitating the detection of coughs by proposing an algori...

This study addressed the relationships between organizational processing and acquisition /forgetting processes. Twenty-two young and 22 older adults were tested using three study andfree-recall test trials involving related or unrelated words. Performances in all trials wereanalyzed in terms of the number of words recalled, clustering measures (PF and ARC), and wordsgained and l...

This paper considers the problem of computing certain performance parameters of stochastic networks that have Markovian routing but are not otherwise Jackson networks. A scheme using this model for approximating address-based routing is described. The method relies on generalizing the traffic equation to special subsets of the flows in the network.

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