The asymmetries Ak ≡ [Γ(t → Wdk)−Γ(t̄ → Wd̄k)]/[Γ(t → Wdk)+Γ(t̄ → Wd̄k)] in the partial widths of the top quark decays are discussed within the Standard Model (SM), the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM) and supersymmetric extensions of the SM (SSM). The leading contributions to these asymmetries in the SM and in the 2HDM are induced by the up-type quark self-energy diagrams and are found to be very sm...

Many inference methods have been proposed to reconstruct unknown Gene Regulatory Networks (GRN) using microarray datasets. State Space Model (SSM) is a method that can be used to infer GRNs from a time series dataset. However, there exist two difficulties in SSM when it is applied for GRN reconstruction: how to estimate initial values of parameters and how to learn the genegene interactions in ...

BACKGROUND Axillary lymph node (AN) status is the primary prognostic discriminant in patients with breast cancer (BC). Although axillary dissection represents the method of choice for obtaining such information, less invasive procedures have been suggested. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of 99mTc-sestamibi scintimammography (SSM) in detecting AN involvement in patients wit...

To support the operational use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) earth observation systems, the European Space Agency (ESA) is developing Sentinel-1 radar satellites operating in C-band. Much like its SAR predecessors (Earth Resource Satellite, ENVISAT, and RADARSAT), the Sentinel-1 will operate at a medium spatial resolution (ranging from 5 to 40 m), but with a greatly improved revisit period,...

Microwave observations at low frequencies exhibit more sensitivity to surface and subsurface properties with little interference from the atmosphere. The objective of this study is to develop a global land emissivity product using passive microwave observations from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer – Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) and to investigate its sensitivity to land surface pr...

By comparing the neutrino spectra measured by SNO and Super Kamiokande, we obtain inequalities between the ratios of observed rate to SSM rate for the two experiments. These inequalities apply to a possibly energy-dependent reduction of the SSM flux and to the case of neutrino oscillations. We use them to examine the relationship between the two experiments expected for the MSW and “Just-So” os...

IP version 4 (IPv4) addresses in the 232/8 (232.0.0.0 to 232.255.255.255) range are designated as source-specific multicast (SSM) destination addresses and are reserved for use by sourcespecific applications and protocols. For IP version 6 (IPv6), the address prefix FF3x::/32 is reserved for source-specific multicast use. This document defines an extension to the Internet network service that a...

There is no effective method to support IP level Internet wide multisource multicast sessions, that can be easily used from almost every ISP There are several protocols implementing the necessary functionality, but the penetration of them is really low recently. The most obvious work all-round is using SSM – Source Specific Multicasting, in which, the IP multicast session is identified by the m...