When the gluino is light and long lived, missing energy is a poor signature for both squarks and gluinos. Instead, SqS ∗ q production in ee and pp̄ collisions characteristically results in events with ≥ 4 jets. Methods are proposed for deciding whether an observed excess of 4-jet events is due to SqS ∗ q production. The recent report by ALEPH of observation of 14 4-jet events when 7 were expecte...

We investigated what factors would be related to students’ achievement in mathematics courses offered at a virtual high school. This was an attempt to understand why some succeed and some do not as well as to suggest what should be done to help with student success. Seventy-two students responded to a self-report survey on motivation (ie, selfefficacy, intrinsic value), mathematics achievement ...

One can expect accessible lower bounds for dark matter detection rate due to restrictions on masses of the SUSY-partners. To explore this correlation one needs a new-generation large-mass detector. The absolute lower bound for detection rate can naturally be due to spin-dependent interaction. Aimed at detecting dark matter with sensitivity higher than 10 event/day/kg an experiment should have a...

s | 75 Methods: International, multicenter, retrospective, observational study. Outcomes presented are patient characteristics, reason for PP initiation and hospitalization data. Results: 84 patients were analyzed: Mean age (years) at first psychotic episode was 23.8(SD2.6), 23.9(SD2.6) at first antipsychotic treatment and 24.1(SD2.7, range 19–29) at PP initiation. Time between first antipsycho...

s | 75 Methods: International, multicenter, retrospective, observational study. Outcomes presented are patient characteristics, reason for PP initiation and hospitalization data. Results: 84 patients were analyzed: Mean age (years) at first psychotic episode was 23.8(SD2.6), 23.9(SD2.6) at first antipsychotic treatment and 24.1(SD2.7, range 19–29) at PP initiation. Time between first antipsycho...

s | 75 Methods: International, multicenter, retrospective, observational study. Outcomes presented are patient characteristics, reason for PP initiation and hospitalization data. Results: 84 patients were analyzed: Mean age (years) at first psychotic episode was 23.8(SD2.6), 23.9(SD2.6) at first antipsychotic treatment and 24.1(SD2.7, range 19–29) at PP initiation. Time between first antipsycho...

This contribution defines the psychological processing of the artistic, cultural, and communication aspects of agents in information interfaces and characters in media entertainment (i.e. video games) as a new research topic in communication studies and computer science. It offers a theory of what personifications such as (intelligent) adaptive navigation assistants for Web environments can ach...

The base rates and co-morbidity of pathological bias as a clinical problem were examined with 159 psychotherapy outpatients. Ratings were assigned for the Outgroup Hostility Scale (OHS), Outgroup Empathy Scale (OES), DSM-IV diagnoses, the MMPI2, Gough’s Pr scale, and MINI. 11.6% of the psychotherapy patients evidenced aversive and 12.6% empathic outgroup concerns. Outgroup aversive patients rem...

Studies of plasma from mice, rats, and human volunteers evaluated methods for the extraction and quantification of the positron emission tomography ligand [F]8-cyclopentyl-3-(3-fluoropropyl)1-propylxanthine ([F]CPFPX) and identification of its metabolites in plasma by thin-layer chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Analysis of human, mouse, and rat plasma extracts b...

34 Insufficient nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability plays an important role in endothelial dysfunction and 35 arterial stiffening with aging. Supplementation with sodium nitrite, a precursor of NO, 36 ameliorates age-related vascular endothelial dysfunction and arterial stiffness in mice, but 37 effects on humans, including the metabolic pathways altered, are unknown. The purpose of this 38 study...