The purpose of this study was to examine societal knowledge of stuttering, access to information sources, and the influence of information sources on knowledge of stuttering. 185 participants from Northwest Ohio were surveyed. Results of the study indicated that the general public varies in their knowledge of stuttering and that majority of participants had not accessed information about stutte...

Surface water sources play a vital role in numerous aspects of societal demand, including as drinking and used for agricultural industrial purposes [...]

We consider two SU(3) breaking parameters, R1(mB) and R2(mB), appearing in a relation between B → Kπ and B → ππ amplitudes, which plays an important role in determining the weak phase γ. We identify an isospin-related quantity R2(mD) measured in D decays, exhibiting large SU(3) breaking which is likely due to nonfactorizable effects. With a cautious remark about possible nonfactorizable SU(3) b...

Recent theoretical investigations (M. Beneke et al 1999 Phys. Rev. Lett. 83 1914) of two-body hadronic B decays have provided justification, at least to order α s , for the use of the factorization ansatz to evaluate the B decay matrix elements provided the decay meson containing the spectator quark is not heavy. Although data is now available on many charmless two-body B decay channels, it is ...

Since the mean characteristic of nucleate boiling is bubble formation and collapse near the heating surface, in this study attempts have been made to investigate heat transfer effects due to the bubbles ebullition and collapse cycle. All possible heat transfer mechanisms are studied qualitatively and quantitatively. For quantitative calculation of the heat transfer portion by each of the introd...

In left-right symmetric models, large contributions to the decay amplitude b → sγ can arise from the mixing of the WL and WR gauge bosons as well as from the charged Higgs boson. These amplitudes are enhanced by the factor mt/mb compared to the contributions in the standard model. We use the recent CLEO results on the radiative B decay to place constraints on the WL − WR mixing angle ζ and the ...

This is a study of how members of a collaborative group interested in promoting convivial civilisation in human society took up exchanging practice stories – stories of doing something or seeing something done as examples of convivial backyard civilisation – in order tacitly to create an informal learning environment where practices of such a convivial backyard civilisation could seem normal, d...

We discuss the implications of the recent measurement of the Bs −Bs oscillation frequency ∆Ms on the parameter space of R-parity violating supersymmetry. For completeness, we also discuss the bounds coming from leptonic, semileptonic, and nonleptonic B decay modes, and point out some possibly interesting channels at LHC.

In this paper the Regge pole model is applied to K*(890) photoproduction. Conspiracy relations, kinematic constraints, factorization, and the question of when to set m y = 0 are discussed. Predictions are obtained, in the limit of large s and small t, for ?a , the density matrix, and the K* decay angular distribution. (To be submitted to Physical Review) * Work supported by U. S. Atomic Energy ...