We review the result of SUSY parameter fits based on frequentist analyses of experimental constraints from electroweak precision data, (g−2)μ, B physics and cosmological data. We investigate the parameters of the constrained MSSM (CMSSM) with universal soft supersymmetry-breaking mass parameters, and a model with common non-universal Higgs mass parameters in the superpotential (NUHM1). Shown ar...

There has been an exponential growth in stress research in recent years in relation to health and employment. The formidable methodological problems confronting both epidemiological and psychobiological studies in this area have been amply demonstrated to oncologists in the difficulty of adequately testing hypotheses about the role of stress in carcinogenesis and disease progression. Some of th...

Kahneman and Tversky's (1979) "prospect theory" has demonstrated that the way in which a decision problem is formulated, or "framed," can have strong and predictable effects on the perceived attractiveness of the options it offers. At times, the relative attractiveness of two options may be reversed as the result of a reframing that should make no difference at all, according to traditional eco...

1. Predicting the profitability and/or market share for proposed new product concepts given the current offering of competitors. 2. Predicting the impact of new competitor products on profits or market share if we make no change in our competitive position. 3. Predicting customer switch rates either from our current products to new products we offer (cannibalism), or from our competitors’ produ...

formation of asphaltene deposition during oil production, processing and synthesis is known as a fundamental problem of petroleum reservoir worldwide. asphaltene is a petroleum fraction that can lead to increasing the operating costs in these industries. variations in operational pressure, temperature and fluid composition are generally the significant cause of asphaltene precipitation. in this...

In the cloud computing environment, according to the predicting average response time of service, it can adjust to the follow-up system, so that the response time of the system is acceptable. The traditional methods of predicting average response time of serve mainly include the method of gray predicting and neural network model, but the two methods face several problems, such as longer process...

This systematic review addresses 2 questions pertinent to the need for pretreatment liver biopsy in patients with chronic hepatitis C: how well do liver biopsy results predict treatment outcomes for chronic hepatitis C? How well do biochemical blood tests and serologic measures of fibrosis predict the biopsy findings in chronic hepatitis C? Medline and other electronic databases were searched f...

Despite the increasing number of protein-RNA complexes in structure databases, few data resources have been made available which can be readily used in developing or testing a method for predicting either protein-binding sites in RNA sequences or RNA-binding sites in protein sequences. The problem of predicting protein-binding sites in RNA has received much less attention than the problem of pr...

When required to predict sequential events, such as random coin tosses or basketball free throws, people reliably use inappropriate strategies, such as inferring temporal structure when none is present. . We investigate the ability of human observers predict sequential events in dynamically changing environments, where there is an opportunity to detect true temporal structure. In two experiment...