In the study of high energy collisions involving hadrons, events in which isolated high-energy photons (often referred to as prompt photons if originating from quarks) are observed provide a direct probe of the underlying parton process, since the emission of these photons is unaffected by parton hadronisation. Isolated high-energy photon production has been studied in hadronic collisions[2] an...

The strong coupling αS is a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model. In comparison to parameters like αem, MZ and sin 2 θW it is relatively poorly known. However the precision of αS measurements has improved dramatically in recent years. More than twenty different types of process, from lattice QCD studies to the highest energy colliders, can be used to measure αS accurately. The most preci...

Pancreatic cancer is a malignant cancer common worldwide having poor prognosis, even when diagnosed at its early stage. Cell adhesion plays a critical role in cancer invasion and metastasis. Integrins are major mediators of cell adhesion and play an important role in invasion and metastatic growth of human pancreatic cancer cells. Snake disintegrins are the most potent ligands of several integr...

The overuse of its currency processing facilities by depository institutions (DIs) has motivated the Federal Reserve (Fed) to impose its new cash recirculation policy. This overuse is characterized by the practice of cross-shipping, where a DI both deposits and withdraws cash of the same denomination in the same business week in the same geographical area. Under the new policy, which came into ...

While we should celebrate our success at evolving many vital aspects of the human-technology interactive experience, we question the scope of this progress. Step back with us for a moment. What really matters? Everyday life spans a wide range of emotions and experiences – from improving productivity and efficiency to promoting wonderment and daydreaming. But our research and designs do not refl...

The results of recent phenomenological studies of unpolarized nuclear deep-inelastic scattering are discussed and applied to calculate neutrino charged-current structure functions and cross sections for a number of nuclei. Significant nuclear effects were discovered in charged-lepton (CL) deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) experiments (for a review see [1,2]). The experimental observations indicat...

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We predict the rate of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) events containing an identified forward π 0 that is expected in the experiments at the HERA electron-proton collider, in order to see if this process can be used as an indicator of the underlying small x dynamics. We determine the background due to deep inelastic events containing forward photons which are fragments of the forward jet. We c...

We propose a distributed mechanism, Dis-VoW, to detect wormhole attacks in under-water sensor networks. In Dis-VoW, every sensor reconstructs local network layout using multi-dimensional scaling. It detects the wormholes by visualising the distortions in edge lengths and angles among neighbouring sensors. The contributions include: • Dis-VoW does not depend on any special hardware • it provides...