The possibility to determine sparticle masses in the 3l + no jets + Emiss T final states from ~ 1 ~ 02 pair production is studied. It is based on the kinematics of ~ 02 ! l+l ~ 01 and ~ 02 ! l ~l L;R ! l+l ~ 01 leptonic decays. The analysis is carried out within the framework of the minimal SUGRA model, where the mass measurement of the lightest neutralino ( ~ 01) allows to constrain the common...

Based on a theoretical framework on custodial and non-custodial sentencing, the paper provides econometric tests on the effectiveness of police, public prosecution and courts. Using a unique dataset covering German states for the period 1977-2001, a comprehensive system of criminal prosecution indicators is derived and subsequently related to the incidence of six major offence categories using ...

The following information is missing from the Funding section: the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council grant no. BB/D526896/1. The complete, correct Funding statement is: JW was supported by a studentship from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, grant no. BB/D526896/1 (BBSRC— www.bbsrc.ac.uk) and the University of Sussex, and also an Alumni Travel Gran...

?We used an allometric approach to compare the minimum nitrogen requirements (MNR) and the total endogenous nitrogen loss (TENL) of nectarand fruit-eating birds with those of omnivorous birds. These two parameters were 4x higher in omnivores than in nectarivores and frugivores. In nectarivorous frugivorous birds, MNR was 152.8 mg N kg-076 day-1; in omnivorous birds, it was 575.4 mg N kg-076 day...

GSN 069 is the first galactic nucleus where quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) have been identified. These are high-amplitude, soft X-ray bursts recurring every ~9 hr, lasting ~1 and during which count rate increases by up to two orders of magnitude with respect an otherwise stable quiescent level. The spectral properties long-term evolution in few years consistent a long-lived tidal disruption ev...

During September 1969 the author visited both Mauritius with peaks not much higher than 1000 latest technical developments on those two islands. The first comment that must be made is that at both places the hospitalilty of the officials of the sugar companies is overwhelming and there is real evidence of great progress in their industries. There is also a tremendous contrast between the two is...

The electronic kilogram project of NIST has improved the watt balance method to obtain a new determination of the Planck constant h by measuring the ratio of the SI unit of power W to the electrical realization unit W90, based on the conventional values for the Josephson constant KJ-90 and von Klitzing constant RK-90. The value h = 6.626 069 01(34)× 10−34 J s verifies the NIST result from 1998 ...

UNLABELLED AphidBase aims to (i) store recently acquired genomic resources on aphids and (ii) compare them to other insect resources as functional annotation tools. For that, the Drosophila melanogaster genome has been loaded in the database using the GMOD open source software for a comparison with the 17 069 pea aphid unique transcripts (contigs) and the 13 639 gene transcripts of the Anophele...