Institutional repositories are considered an important method of capturing research outputs and disseminating them to a wider public. Thus far, the initial focus of activity has been on the process of establishing repositories and handling issues associated with the deposit of academic research. Given the experimental nature of many of these projects, few are able to dedicate staff or funding t...

Anecdotal evidence surrounding Tibetans' and Sherpas' exceptional tolerance to hypobaric hypoxia has been recorded since the beginning of high-altitude exploration. These populations have successfully lived and reproduced at high altitude for hundreds of generations with hypoxia as a constant evolutionary pressure. Consequently, they are likely to have undergone natural selection toward a genot...

The British Sola Khumbu Expedition of 1959, led by Mr. J. H. Emlyn Jones, had as its objective the ascent ofAma'Dablam, an unclimbed Himalayan peak 22,400 ft. high, lying some ten miles south of Mount Everest. Secondary objectives of the expedition were to investigate the changes in the heart as shown by the electrocardiogram produced by climbing at high altitude, which is the subject of this p...

At the LHC and at an ILC, serious studies of new physics benefit from a proper simulation of signals and backgrounds. Using supersymmetric sbottom pair production as an example, we show how multi-particle final states are necessary to properly describe off-shell effects induced by QCD, photon radiation, or by intermediate on-shell states. To ensure the correctness of our findings we compare in ...

The Gaugephobic Higgs model provides an interpolation between three different models of electroweak symmetry breaking: Higgsless models, Randall-Sundrum models, and the Standard Model. At parameter points between the extremes, Standard Model Higgs signals are present at reduced rates, and Higgsless Kaluza-Klein excitations are present with shifted masses and couplings, as well as signals from e...