The SUSY signals in the dominant stau-neutralino coannihilation region at a 500(800) GeV linear collider are investigated. The region is consistent with the WMAP measurement of the cold dark matter relic density as well as all other current experimental bounds within the mSUGRA framework. The signals are characterized by an existence of very low-energy tau leptons in the final state due to smal...

The discovery of the tau lepton and the third generation of fermions came from the convergence of three physics streams in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. These streams were: the failed attempts by myself and others to understand the connection between the electron and the muon, the development of electron-positron storage rings, and the development of the theory of sequential leptons. In thi...

In this paper we propose the problem of finding the cyclic sequence which best represents a set of cyclic sequences. Given a set of elements and a precedence cost matrix we look for the cyclic sequence of the elements which is at minimum distance from all the ranks when the permutation metric distance is the Kendall Tau distance. In other words, the problem consists of finding a robust cyclic r...

Drought is one of the natural phenomena which occurs in all climates in different parts of the world. Iran is located in the dry belt of the world. The increase of desertification, drought reoccurrence, and destruction by human in this geographical region needs more studies on spatial and temporal trend of rainfall. In this study, trends of climatic drought during 1975-76/ 2004-05 in seasonal a...

This paper introduces nonparametric U-statistics for testing the curvature (e.g., linearity, concavity, or convexity) of an unknown regression function. The U-statistics are based on pairwise slopes in the data. No choice of smoothing parameters is required for the global version of the statistics or their (asymptotic) standard errors, making them simple to compute. The proposed tests are analo...

This paper presents a novel framework to determine the number of resolution levels in the application of a wavelet transformation to a rainfall time series. The rainfall time series are decomposed using the à trous wavelet transform. Then, multi-scale entropy (MSE) analysis that helps to elucidate some hidden characteristics of the original rainfall time series is applied to the decomposed rain...

Metopiron [2-methyl1,2-bis-3-pyridyl)-1 -propanone; Su 4885] inhibits 1 1--hydroxylation in the adrenal cortex, and this inhibition is reflected as an increased production of ACTH in the anterior pituitary. It was found by Liddle, Estep, Kendall, Williams, and Townes (1959) that the pituitary production of ACTH in man can be measured with aid of Metopiron and numerous clinical studies have sinc...

cortex leading to the discovery of cortisone (Mason, Myers and Kendall, 1936; Wintersteiner and Pfiffner, 1936 ; Reichstein, 1936). The beneficial effect of pregnancy on rheumatoid arthritis was first observed by Hench in 1938 but the antirheumatic arthritic action of cortisone was established as late as 1949 by Hench, Kendall and their collaborators. Since then beneficial effect of cortisone h...