Strategic planning is integral to any operation but complexity varies immensely and therefore the effort necessary to create the optimal plan. The previous three reports have discussed individual conduits and herein is an attempt to present approaches to common situations which the author favors. Although much has been learned over 45 years about use and subsequent behavior of venous and arteri...

Mortality due to fibrinous pneumonia (shipping fever) can be a significant problem in beef feedlots. Determining whether the disease clusters within specific management groups is an important step towards understanding the epidemiology of the disease and planning preventive strategies. There is anecdotal evidence for the existence of, in the vernacular of feedlot personnel, "wreck pens" or "wre...

DETA adopted its current Program Evaluation Strategy in August 2005. The strategy is part of the agency’s corporate governance framework and outlines the requirements for the planning, conducting and reporting of program evaluations. The aim of the strategy is to deliver a robust and inclusive evaluation framework based on a rolling a three year schedule. It includes supporting documentation, a...

College campuses are complex social systems. They are defined by the relationships between faculty, staff, students, and alumni; bureaucratic procedures embodied by institutional policies; structural frameworks; institutional missions, visions, and core values; institutional history and traditions; and larger social contexts (Hurtado, Milem, Clayton-Pederson, & Allen, 1998). Academic communitie...

In this paper, we evaluate the expectation values of four-quark operators for the inclusive beauty decays from the differences in the inclusive total decay rates, assuming that the heavy quark expansion converges at O(1/m). The obtained expectation values values yeilds the ratio τ(Λb)/τ(B) close to the experimental value. We further point out that the quark-hadron duality violation would be rat...

The inclusive edge (vertex, mixed) connectivity of a vertex v is the minimum number of edges (vertices, graph elements) whose removal yields a subgraph in which v is a cutvertex. Stability under edge addition, in which the value of the parameter remains unchanged with the addition of any edge, is investigated. In particular we examine relationships between stability of the inclusive vertex conn...

In considering the full depth of inclusion in care and work environments (and developing inclusive engagement skills for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning [LGBTQ] patients and their families), professional development leaders must bring these discussions and shared learnings into the open. Understanding the LGBTQ population's unique needs is essential to providing person...

Inclusive cross sections for pion production in pp collisions are calculated for the first time fully based on unintegrated gluon, quark and antiquark distributions (uPDF). We use recently developed Kwieciński uPDF’s and different phenomenological fragmentation functions (FF) from the literature. In addition to the gg → g diagram we include also gq → q and qg → q diagrams for inclusive parton p...

In this article, I review the recent results for inclusive and exclusive measurements for b → sγ and b → dγ decays from B factories Belle and Babar. I describe the measurement of branching fraction and direct CP violating asymmetry for inclusive B → Xsγ decay. For results of b→ dγ process, I introduce the measurement of branching fraction of exclusive b → dγ modes, the first measurement for CP ...

We calculate the leading preasymptotic correction to the inclusive width b → ¯ ccs (two massive quarks in the final state) due to the operator σ H. It is found that this correction tends to cancel the 1/N c part of the inclusive width calculated using naive factorization. The absolute value of the effect is of order 0.25. We also discuss how quark-hadron duality is realized in the inclusive dec...