The lifetimes of B + and B 0 mesons have been measured using a sample of 400,000 hadronic Z 0 decays collected by the SLD experiment at the SLC between 1993 and 1998. This inclusive topological measurement includes 250,000 hadronic Z 0 decays collected since 1996 with the SLD upgrade vertex detector. A high statistics sample of 30028 19636 charged neutral vertices with good charge purity is obt...

This paper documents benchmark tests implemented within the DARPA Spoken Language Program during the period November, 1992 January, 1993. Tests were conducted using the Wall Street Journal-based Continuous Speech Recognition (WSJ-CSR) corpus and the Air Travel Information System (ATIS) corpus collected by the Multi-site ATIS Data COllection Working (MADCOW) Group. The WSJ-CSR tests consist of t...

BACKGROUND Evidence for an increased prevalence of candidaemia and for high associated mortality in the 1990s led to a number of different recommendations concerning the management of at risk patients as well as an increase in the availability and prescription of new antifungal agents. The aim of this study was to parallel in our hospital candidemia incidence with the nature of prescribed antif...

following the hospitalization of 195 individuals due to the spider bite in 1995 and three cases of recorded death in the year of 1993 which were referred to emam reza hospital in mashad, the present study was undertaken on bionomics and medical importance of lathrodectus spp in khorasan province, during 1995-2005. a total cases of 195 bites were studied composing of 70.8 % males and 29.2% femal...

Naturally, deformed rocks commonly contain crack arrays (joints) forming patterns with systematic relationships to the large-scale deformation. Kinematically, joints can be mode-1, -2 or -3 or combinations of these, but there is no overarching theory for the development of the patterns. We develop a model motivated by dislocation pattern formation in metals. The problem is formulated in one dim...

We extend the mechanism for noise-induced phase transitions proposed by Ibañes et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 020601 (2001)] to pattern formation phenomena. In contrast with known mechanisms for pure noise-induced pattern formation, this mechanism is not driven by a short-time instability amplified by collective effects. The phenomenon is analyzed by means of a modulated mean field approximation ...

Abstract Aim In 1993, a study of 1000 automotive workers in Sweden and France looked into national differences cardiovascular disease. Here, we evaluate the proportion Swedish cohort that suffered stroke or died over 25-year period associated risk factors. Subject methods Data from 1993 included life-style questionnaire, health examination laboratory data. Figures on survival status up until en...

N arrative and life history methods in occupational therapy offer practitioners an OppOrtuniry to undemand what might otherwise remain an unspoken and informal part of therapeutic imeraction. In contrast to the formal information about a patient's medical and psychosocial condition, therapists often gain insight into the patient's inner life (e.g., family background, favorite music, holiday and...

During a large screening of Swedish individuals presumed to be infected by subtypes other than the common B subtype (unpublished material), two unrelated individuals were found to carry virus of a previously unknown HIV-1 subtype. Blood samples were collected in Sweden from two HIV-1 infected immigrants from Zaire. Sample SE7022 was obtained in December 1993 from a female who was asymptomatic b...