We study contributions of quark-squark-gluino interactions in Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) to B → PP (PP = Kπ, ππ,KK) decays using QCD improved factorization method for the evaluation of the hadronic matrix elements and taking into account renormalization group running of the Wilson coefficients from SUSY scale (≈ mq̃) to the low energy scale (= mb) applicable to B decays. Using ...

Climatic conditions may have affected the incidence of influenza during the pandemic of 2009 as well as at other times. This study evaluated the effects of climatic conditions on influenza incidence in Okinawa, a subtropical region in Japan, during the 2009 pandemic using surveillance data from rapid antigen test (RAT) results. Weekly RAT results performed in four acute care hospitals in th...

Migratory work extends traditional mobile work with an innate awareness of, and adaptability to, both technical and social surroundings. We are designing a technical framework, Émigré, that is based on the use of architectural meta-level representations to support rapid development and semi-automated run-time adaptation of migratory work applications.

The bitopological unstability of RR-pairwise paracompactness in presence of pairwise Hausdorff separation axiom is caused by a bitopological property which is much weaker and more local than RR-pairwise paracompactness. We slightly generalize some Michael’s constructions and characterizeRR-pairwise paracompactness in terms of bitopological θ-regularity, and some other weaker modifications of pa...

In 1995, Camillo and Yu showed that an exchange ring has stable range 1 if and only if every regular element is unit regular. An element m in a module RM is called regular if (mλ)m = m for some λ ∈ hom(M,R). In this paper we define stable modules and show that if M has the finite exchange property then M is stable if and only if, for every regular element m ∈ M, (mγ)m = m where γ : M → R is epi...

We consider compactifications of type II string theory in which a d-dimensional torus is fibered over a base X. In string theory, the transition functions of this fibration need not be simply diffeomorphisms of T d but can involve elements of the T-duality group Spin(d, d,Z). We precisely define the notion of a T-fold with NSNS flux. Given such a T-fold, we define the Z2-graded cohomology theor...