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1. Mining conflicts in Peru: Condition critical

Author

Bradshaw, Sarah and Pfeifer, Kimberly

Subjects
Natural resources, Governance and citizenship, Rights, Private sector, Conflict and disasters
Abstract

"Peru now faces a crisis. At stake is the long-term viability of the mining sector as it is today. The Peruvian government, the mining industry, international donors, and civil society must take immediate action to help the country break the current cycle of conflict and ensure that mining helps reduce poverty and contributes to Peru’s development."

Published
2019

2. CaLP Case Study: Shop vouchers for hygiene kits in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Author

Brady, Carol, Creti, Pantaleo, Ridsdel, Breanna, and Kukrety, Nupur

Subjects
Conflict and disasters
Abstract

In the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Oxfam’s Public Health Promotion team used a voucher programme to provide beneficiaries with essential hygiene items through local shops., The voucher system was chosen so that beneficiaries could access hygiene items in a normal and dignified way, and in order to pilot an innovative approach to dealing with the challenges of in-kind distributions in an urban setting., This case study documents the programme with a focus on drawing out lessons learned.

Published
2015

3. Market Analysis for Preparedness and Development: Piloting innovation in Guatemala

Author

Brady, Carol, Henderson, Emily, Hayles, Davina, and Morchain, Daniel

Subjects
Conflict and disasters, Food and livelihoods
Abstract

Oxfam, among other NGOs, has often operated with a ‘programming’ divide between humanitarian and development departments. This has several fundamental implications., Firstly, while development programmes focus on the ‘market ready’, those people with some assets and who are able to make use of market opportunities, emergency relief programmes tend to assist the most vulnerable in a crisis affected population, who often have very few assets and limited livelihood options., This gap means that, in practice, longer-term programmes do not regularly target or provide sustained support for poorer populations, nor are they often able or ready to deal with crises that arise during interventions. Moreover, few emergency programmes regularly develop into longer term work. This effectively reduces the chance of longer term thinking and programme design for the more vulnerable members of society. If we are serious about building resilience and addressing vulnerability and poverty – this needs to be dealt with., This case study charts the process, successes and learning from Oxfam's pilot joint market analysis in Guatemala.

Published
2014

4. Market analysis for preparedness: the urban informal settlements of Nairobi

Author

Brady, Carol and Mohanty, Sumananjali

Subjects
Conflict and disasters, Food and livelihoods
Abstract

The last few years have seen a significant change in the way humanitarian organisations approach response design. Partly spurred on by the growth in cash transfer programming and market-based programming, the practice of working through and supporting local markets is now widely considered best practice in the humanitarian field., Undertaking market analysis as part of preparedness and contingency planning could significantly improve the readiness to respond to crises. This market assessment was focused on the informal settlement of Mukuru, an urban area in Kenya that has current Oxfam programming. The objectives of the assessment were to: To identify through a rapid market analysis appropriate responses (cash/in-kind/market support/advocacy) to meet emergency and early livelihood-recovery needs. Strengthen Oxfam GB’s national capacity in market analysis and in its use in response analysis and design as well as disaster risk reduction, preparedness and contingency planning; To build Oxfam’s understanding of existing coping mechanisms and to inform programming on ways of reinforcing these mechanisms.

Published
2013

5. An Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis Study: Liberia's slow onset crisis

Author

Brady, Carol, Kamara, Nanthilde, Vorbohle, Tessa, Henderson, Emily, and Young, Philippa

Subjects
Humanitarian, Conflict and disasters, Food and livelihoods
Abstract

Humanitarian interventions today are very different to those in the past. There has been a growing recognition of the central role that markets play in people's lives through giving them access to basic needs, jobs, and income generating opportunities. Based on the need to develop a rapid market assessment tool, Oxfam GB, the International Rescue Committee, and Practical Action, in consultation with other agencies, developed and piloted the Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis (EMMA) toolkit. Following an influx of refugees to Liberia fleeing from instability in neighbouring Cote d'Ivoire, the EMMA toolkit was used to understand specific market systems in depth, and the analysis used to design appropriate response options.

Published
2012

6. An Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis Case Study: Changing Responses to the Haiti Earthquake

Author

Brady, Carol, Henderson, Emily, and Young, Philippa

Subjects
Humanitarian, Aid, Conflict and disasters, Food and livelihoods
Abstract

In 2007, and based on the value chain development framework, the Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis (EMMA) toolkit was designed to help staff to understand, work with and support critical markets in sudden onset emergencies. Oxfam GB and the International Rescue Committee have now used this assessment tool in a number of emergency responses. This case study looks at the EMMA that was undertaken in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, and the emergency responses implemented as a result of this, by both the IRC and OGB.

Published
2012

7. Social Assistance and Successful Advocacy in Georgia: A social protection case study

Author

Beesley, Jane, Brady, Carol, and Kukrety, Nupur

Subjects
Governance and citizenship
Abstract

This case study provides information about Oxfam's social protection project that began in Georgia in 2005. Oxfam worked with the Association of Young Economists of Georgia (AYEG) to gather information about household poverty levels, and to advocate for change in the government’s social aid system. This system - income support (cash transfers) and free health care – was previously failing to reach some of the country’s poorest people., Through monitoring, research and advocacy, AYEG and Oxfam were able to influence social policy, and as a result, the poorest and most vulnerable people’s access to state benefits. Adjustments were made to the scoring methodology, as a consequence of this work, which resulted in an additional 34,000 families being included in the national social assistance system.

Published
2012

8. Whose Economy? Seminar papers (complete series)

Author

Trebeck, Katherine, Danson, Mike, Sinfield, Adrian, Boyd, Stephen, McKendrick, John H, McCartney, Gerry, Collins, Chik, Carlisle, Sandra, Hanlon, Phil, Hamilton, Kathy, Mooney, Gerry, Paton, Kirsteen, Welford, Sarah, Walsh, David, Braunholtz-Speight, Tim, and Hastings, Annette

Subjects
Governance and citizenship, Food and livelihoods, Private sector, Rights
Abstract

This series of papers resulted from the Whose Economy? seminars, held in Scotland in 2010 – 2011, whose purpose was to provide a space for researchers, representative organisations, policy-makers and people with experience of poverty to come together and explore the causes of poverty and inequality in today’s Scotland. The document includes the following papers: “Whose Economy? An introduction” by Mike Danson and Katherine Trebeck; “Whose Welfare State Now?” by Adrian Sinfield; “The Scottish Economy” by Stephen Boyd; “Desperately Seeking Poverty (Alleviation): towards poverty sensitive budgeting in local government” by John H McKendrick; “Rethinking Good and Bad Jobs in Glasgow” by Chris Warhurst; “Health Inequalities in Scotland: Looking beyond the blame game” by Gerry McCartney and Chik Collins; “Wellbeing, Consumer Culture and the ‘New Poor’” by Sandra Carlisle and Phil Hanlon; “Stigmatising Poverty? The ‘Broken Society’ and reflections on anti-welfarism in the UK today” by Gerry Mooney; “Housing, Class and Regeneration: exploring the ‘new’ inequalities” by Kirsteen Paton; “The Experience of Poverty in an Unequal Society” by Sarah Welford; “To What Extent Does Poverty Explain Scotland’s Poor Health Profile?” by David Walsh; “Community Ownership Through Land Reform? A review of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003” by Tim Braunholtz-Speight; “Can Public Services ‘Protect The Vulnerable’ in the Age of Austerity? Considering the evidence on streetcleaning services in the age of growth” by Annette Hastings; and “Conclusion: Our Economy” by Mike Danson and Katherine Trebeck.

Published
2011

9. Community Ownership Through Land Reform?

Author

Braunholtz-Speight, Tim and Macleod, Calum

Subjects
Food and livelihoods, Inequality, Rights
Abstract

This paper focuses on the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, which gave communities legal powers to take land into collective ownership. It explains the two different rights to buy and reports communities’ experiences with these two different mechanisms. The author concludes that though it is unclear whether the Act will be reformed by the new Scottish government or not, there is a lobby pressuring the government to simplify the Act and make it more practically useful. This paper is part of a series of papers which have resulted from the Whose Economy? seminar series, held in Scotland in 2010 – 2011, whose purpose was to provide a space for researchers, representative organisations, policy-makers and people with experience of poverty to come together and explore the causes of poverty and inequality in today’s Scotland.

Published
2011

10. Walking the Talk: Cash transfers and gender dynamics

Author

Brady, Carol

Subjects
Humanitarian, Conflict and disasters, Gender
Abstract

Concern Worldwide (Concern) and Oxfam GB (Oxfam) jointly commissioned this report to look at the impacts of cash transfers (CTs) on gender dynamics both within households and communities. This report was commissioned because of the agencies’ concerns that while CTs, now being used in many different emergency contexts, are expected to benefit women and contribute towards their empowerment, there was little evidence being collected to see whether this was in fact happening. The learning from this report will inform future gender sensitive CT programmes. The research included a literature review, programme evaluations from non governmental organisations (NGOs) and three country studies. These were Indonesia (rapid onset, earthquake), Kenya (rapid onset, food price spikes) and Zimbabwe (protracted crisis). In all three contexts women were the primary beneficiaries of the cash.

Published
2011

11. Rethinking Disasters: Why death and destruction is not natures fault but human failure

Author

Bray, Ian, Kenny, Sean, and Chughtai, Shaheen

Subjects
Climate change, Conflict and disasters, Economics
Abstract

A destructive combination of earthquakes, floods, droughts and other hazards make South Asia is the world’s most disaster-prone region. The effects are aggravated by climate change, unsuitable social and development policies, and environmental degradation. The effect is to slow or block development and keep millions trapped in poverty. It does not have to be this way. Oxfam's experience shows that successful disaster risk reduction policies, integrated into development work, save lives and money, making vulnerable communities more resilient and protecting development gains. This report examines how to achieve those goals – and the cost of failure.

Published
2008

12. Uprooted by Climate Change: Responding to the growing risk of displacement

Author

Richards, Julie-Anne and Bradshaw, Simon

Subjects
Climate change
Abstract

Climate change is already forcing people from their land and homes, and putting many more at risk of displacement in the future. Supercharged storms, more intense droughts, rising seas and other impacts of climate change all magnify existing vulnerabilities and the likelihood of displacement – disproportionately affecting low-income countries, women, children and Indigenous peoples. This paper describes the effects on communities and how responding to these growing realities demands far stronger action towards ending global climate pollution, supporting resilient communities, ensuring rights for people on the move and developing long-term strategies to ensure that those who are forced to move in the future are able to do so safely and with dignity.

Published
2017
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13. Breaking the Standoff: Post-2020 climate finance in the Paris agreement

Author

Bradshaw, Simon, Carvalho, Annaka, Gore, Tim, Hanks, Kiri, and Kowalzig, Jan

Subjects
Climate change
Abstract

Climate finance is fundamental to a fair and effective global climate agreement. Too few countries have delivered on their obligations. As a result, the world’s poorest people have not benefitted from the necessary investment, and climate finance has been a major obstacle to achieving a global climate change agreement., This paper suggests a new approach that recognizes the failings of the current climate finance regime and is better informed by needs and opportunities at the national level. It could break the current standoff and trigger a collaborative effort that delivers effective investment at scale in both mitigation and adaptation. Along with ambitious emissions reduction pledges by developed countries, this is key to success in the 2015 Paris climate negotiations., See also Stockholm Environment Institute discussion brief ‘Estimating International Mitigation Finance Needs: A top-down perspective’

Published
2014

14. Executive brief: Engaging with markets in humanitarian responses

Author

Henderson, Emily, Brady, Carol, Bauer, Jean-Martin, and Sanogo, Issa

Subjects
Humanitarian, Education, Economics, Food and livelihoods
Abstract

In late 2012, Oxfam and WFP undertook joint research to understand how humanitarian agencies are engaging with markets. This brief represents the views of Oxfam and WFP on the main findings of this research and from other ongoing initiatives.

Published
2013

15. The Right to be Heard Framework: A learning companion

Author

Hopkins, Adrienne, Brady, Carol, Brownlie, Ali, Debere, Stephanie, and Rowlands, Jo

Subjects
Gender, Governance and citizenship, Inequality, Rights
Abstract

The Revised Edition of the Right to be Heard is about people claiming their right to a better life. This Learning Companion aims to guide work and strengthen focus in this area., The Right to Be Heard is a critical part of Oxfam's vision of a just world without poverty. Effective Right to be Heard work is necessarily complex and multi-dimensional. This Learning Companion aims to guide work and strengthen focus in this important area. It is designed to help the reader think through the complexity and make decisions about the combination of approaches to use to achieve their goals. It is aimed primarily at programme staff but will also be useful across humanitarian operations and campaigning.

Published
2012

16. Eye on the Ball: Medicine regulation - not IP enforcement - can best deliver quality medicine

Author

Brant, Jennifer and Malpani, Rohit

Subjects
Health
Abstract

Poor-quality medicines pose a serious threat to patients and public health in developing countries. The World Health Organisation estimates nearly one-third of all countries lack adequate drug-regulatory capacity to monitor medicines safety. Under the guise of addressing this problem, some rich countries are pushing for new intellectual-property rules and a reliance on police action to keep substandard medicines out of reach. Such an approach will not ensure consistent medicine quality. Worse, it threatens to undermine access to legitimate, affordable generic medicines. Donors and developing countries must prioritize building competent regulatory authorities – not expand intellectual-property enforcement – so that patients can be assured that the medicines they take are safe and effective.

Published
2011

17. Slamming the Door on Development: Analysis of the EU's response to the Pacific's EPA negotiating proposals

Author

Coates, Barry and Braxton, Nick

Subjects
Trade
Abstract

In 2000, the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries signed the Cotonou Partnership Agreement with the European Union (EU) that bound the signatories to renegotiate their trading relationship in a manner that would “promote and expedite the economic, cultural and social development of the ACP States…[and] centred on the objective of reducing and eventually eradicating poverty”. The EU has long been actively involved in the Pacific, initially through colonial rule and influence by its member states. As a number of EU states have pulled back from the Pacific, the executive arm of the EU, the European Commission (EC), has played a stronger role in managing development funding through successive European Development Funds (EDFs). This funding has been welcomed by governments and many civil society organisations (termed Non-State Actors by the EU). The EU has pledged to continue its development cooperation activities irrespective of the outcomes of the current EPA negotiations.

Published
2010

18. Africa and the Doha Round: Fighting to keep development alive

Author

Brant, Jennifer

Subjects
Education
Abstract

As a result of unfair trade rules and falling commodity prices, Africa has suffered terms-of-trade losses and increasing marginalisation. Ten years after the Uruguay Round, the poorest continent on earth, which captures only one per cent of world trade, risks even further losses, despite promises of a 'development round' of trade negotiations. This would be a great injustice. There cannot and should not be any new round without an assurance of substantial gains for Africa.

Published
2010

19. Robbing the Poor to Pay the Rich? How the United States keeps medicines from the world’s poorest

Author

Brant, Jennifer

Subjects
Health, Trade
Abstract

Impressive advances in medicine and technology have boosted health and extended life expectancy – but not for everyone. Vital new medicines for diseases such as HIV/AIDS are priced out of reach of the millions of sick people in the developing world, in part due to global patent rules which restrict the availability of affordable generic versions of patented medicines. In 2001, all members of the World Trade Organization adopted the ‘Doha Declaration’, promising to prioritize public health over private patent rights and to promote ‘access to medicines for all’. This paper examines how the government of the United States is contravening this commitment by using technical assistance, bilateral and regional trade agreements, and the threat of trade sanctions to ratchet up patent protection in developing countries. This policy benefits the influential U.S. pharmaceutical industry while pushing medicines further out of the reach of poor people.

Published
2003

20. تأثير تطبيق %1 Tropicamide الموضعي على الضغط داخل المقلة

Author

Bra,ah Qbily, Kahtan Jalloul, and Mahmoud Rajab

Subjects
Medicine
Abstract

هدف الدراسة : تقييم تأثير توسيع الحدقة باستخدام تروبيكاميد1% على قيمة الضغط داخل المقلة. الطرائق : هذه الدراسة المقطعية ضمت 104عيون ل 70مريض في المجموعة العمرية بين 18-60 سنة. تم استبعاد حالات معروفة من مرضى زرقيين، زاوية مغلقة، وجود عمليات جراحية وأمراض عينية. بعد أخذ قصة مفصلة وإجراء الفحص، تم قياسIOP ثم تم تطبيق التروبيكاميد1%. بعد توسع الحدقة تم إعادة قياس IOP. تم جمع البيانات وتحليلها على مقياسSPSS 21 . متوسطات قيم IOP تمت مقارنتها قبل وبعد توسيع الحدقة. النتائج : اخذنا 104 عين ل 70مريض الذين كان منهم ذكور 18(25.7%) و إناث 52 ( 74.3%). متوسط أعمارهم كان 40.2±13.4، العيون السديدة22 (12.2%) ،العيون المديدة 50(48.1%) والعيون الحسيرة 32 (30.8%) . متوسط الضغط داخل المقلة قبل توسيع الحدقة 0.9±13.43 وبعد التوسيع 0.5±13.6 ملم ز . تمت مقارنة متوسطات قيم الضغط داخل المقلة قبل وبعد توسيع الحدقة عند كل من السديدين والمديدين والحسيرين. الخلاصة : لم تكن هناك أهمية إحصائية في تغير قيمة الضغط داخل المقلة بعد توسيع الحدقة بالتروببكاميد 1%. الكلمات المفتاحية : توسيع الحدقة ،الضغط داخل المقلة ،التروبيكاميد.

Published
2022

21. Effect of some plant extracts on hardwood cuttings of Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis)

Author

Mustafa, Hemn Abdalla, Ahmad, Tariq Abubakr, Mohammed, Aram Akram, Lazim, Zainab Sabah, Ibrahim, Chopi Omer, bra, Roshna Faeq Kak, and Salih, Shvan Ramzi

Subjects
Quantitative Biology - Other Quantitative Biology
Abstract

The study was conducted at the Collage of Agricultural Engineering Sciences, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region-Iraq so as to investigate response hardwood cuttings of Callistemon viminalis to some plant extracts. The hardwood cuttings were taken on 11 March 2021 and soaked separately in 3 and 6 g/L aqueous extracts of moringa leaf, licorice root, willow shoot, fenugreek seed and cinnamon bark for 1 hour. They were compared to the cuttings dipped in 3000 ppm IBA for 10s and control cuttings which were soaked in distilled water for 1 hour. The experiment laid out in CRD with three replications in a greenhouse, and each replication included six cuttings which planted in a mixture of sand and rice husk medium. The results showed that the highest (86.66%) rooting was achieved in the cuttings treated with 6 g/L licorice extract and they were significantly different with control cuttings (53.33%), but they were not significantly different with 3000 ppm IBA (66.66%). Cinnamon 3g/L and fenugreek 3g/L extracts gave the lowest (6.66% and 33.33%, respectively) rooting and other studied parameters. The cuttings dipped in 3000 ppm IBA gave the highest (18.91) root number and the highest (66.66%) survival cuttings after transplanting. The longest root (15.54 cm) was found in cuttings were treated with 6 g/L moringa extract. The longest (5.83 cm) shoot was observed in treated cuttings with 3 g/L willow extract. The highest chlorophyll a and b (10.08 and 4.62 mg/L, respectively) were observed in cuttings treated with 6 g/L willow extract. Moreover, 3000 ppm IBA gave the highest (20.23%) total carbohydrate and (1.77 mg/g) IAA content along with 6 g/L licorice, moringa and fenugreek extracts, after 30 days from planting of the cuttings. Licorice root extract at 6 g/L fairly improved the measurements similar to 3000 ppm IBA throughout the study.

Published
2023

23. Study of $\chi_{bJ}(nP) \rightarrow \omega \Upsilon(1S)$ at Belle

Author

Belle Collaboration, Abdesselam, A., Adachi, I., Adamczyk, K., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Said, S. Al, Arinstein, K., Arita, Y., Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Ban, Y., Barberio, E., Barrett, M., Bauer, M., Behera, P., Beleño, C., Belous, K., Bennett, J., Bernlochner, F., Bessner, M., Besson, D., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bilka, T., Bilokin, S., Biswal, J., Bloomfield, T., Bobrov, A., Bodrov, D., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bra\v, M., Branchini, P., Braun, N., Breibeck, F., Browder, T. E., Budano, A., Campajola, M., Cao, L., Caria, G., \v, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Chao, Y., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, K. -F., Chen, Y., Chen, Y. -T., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, H. E., Cho, K., Cho, S. -J., Chobanova, V., Choi, S. -K., Choi, Y., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Crnkovic, J., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Das, S., Dash, N., De Nardo, G., De Pietro, G., Dhamija, R., Di Capua, F., Dingfelder, J., Dole\v, Z., Dong, T. V., Dossett, D., Drásal, Z., Dubey, S., Ecker, P., Eidelman, S., Epifanov, D., Feindt, M., Ferber, T., Frey, A., Fulsom, B. G., Garg, R., Gaur, V., Gabyshev, N., Garmash, A., Gelb, M., Gemmler, J., Getzkow, D., Giordano, F., Giri, A., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Gong, G., Graziani, E., Greenwald, D., Perdekamp, M. Grosse, Grygier, J., Gu, T., Guan, Y., Gudkova, K., Guido, E., Guo, H., Haba, J., Hadjivasiliou, C., Halder, S., Hamer, P., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hartbrich, O., Hasenbusch, J., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Hazra, S., He, X. H., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., Heffernan, D., Heider, M., Heller, A., Villanueva, M. Hernandez, Higuchi, T., Hirose, S., Hoshina, K., Hou, W. -S., Hsiung, Y. B., Hsu, C. -L., Huang, K., Huschle, M., Igarashi, Y., Iijima, T., Imamura, M., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jacobs, W. W., Jaegle, I., Jang, E. -J., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joffe, D., Joo, C. W., Joo, K. K., Julius, T., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Kang, J. H., Kang, K. H., Kapusta, P., Karyan, G., Kataoka, S. U., Kato, Y., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Keck, T., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, C. H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. -J., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. -H., Kim, K. T., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. J., Kim, Y. -K., Kimmel, T., Kindo, H., Kinoshita, K., Kleinwort, C., Klucar, J., Kobayashi, N., Kody\v, P., Koga, Y., Komarov, I., Konno, T., Korobov, A., Korpar, S., Kovalenko, E., Kri\v, P., Kroeger, R., Krohn, J. -F., Krokovny, P., Kronenbitter, B., Kuhr, T., Kulasiri, R., Kumar, M., Kumar, R., Kumara, K., Kumita, T., Kurihara, E., Kuroki, Y., Kuzmin, A., Kvasni\v, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Lai, Y. -T., Lalwani, K., Lange, J. S., Laurenza, M., Lee, I. S., Lee, J. K., Lee, J. Y., Lee, S. C., Leitgab, M., Leitner, R., Levit, D., Lewis, P., Li, C. H., Li, H., Li, J., Li, L. K., Li, Y. B., Gioi, L. Li, Libby, J., Lieret, K., Limosani, A., Liptak, Z., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liventsev, D., Loos, A., Louvot, R., Lubej, M., Luo, T., MacNaughton, J., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matvienko, D., McNeil, J. T., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Miyabayashi, K., Miyachi, Y., Miyake, H., Miyata, H., Miyazaki, Y., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Mohanty, S., Moon, H. K., Moon, T. J., Mori, T., Morii, T., Moser, H. -G., Mrvar, M., Müller, T., Muramatsu, N., Mussa, R., Nagasaka, Y., Nakahama, Y., Nakamura, I., Nakamura, K. R., Nakano, E., Nakano, T., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Nanut, T., Natkaniec, Z., Natochii, A., Nayak, L., Nayak, M., Ng, C., Niebuhr, C., Niiyama, M., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nitoh, O., Ogawa, A., Ogawa, K., Ogawa, S., Ohshima, T., Okuno, S., Olsen, S. L., Ono, H., Onuki, Y., Oskin, P., Ostrowicz, W., Oswald, C., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Pal, B., Pang, T., Panzenböck, E., Pardi, S., Park, C. -S., Park, C. W., Park, H., Park, K. S., Park, S. -H., Passeri, A., Patra, S., Paul, S., Pedlar, T. K., Peng, T., Pes\', L., Pestotnik, R., Peters, M., Piilonen, L. E., Podobnik, T., Popov, V., Prasanth, K., Prencipe, E., Prim, M. T., Prothmann, K., Purohit, M. V., Rabusov, A., Rauch, J., Reisert, B., Resmi, P. K., Ribe\v, E., Ritter, M., R\", M., Rostomyan, A., Rout, N., Rozanska, M., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sakai, Y., Salehi, M., Sandilya, S., Santel, D., Santelj, L., Sanuki, T., Sasaki, J., Sasao, N., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Schmolz, P., Schneider, O., Schnell, G., Schram, M., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwenker, B., Seidl, R., Seino, Y., Semmler, D., Senyo, K., Seon, O., Seong, I. S., Sevior, M. E., Shang, L., Shapkin, M., Sharma, C., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shibuya, H., Shinomiya, S., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J. B., Sinha, R., Smith, K., Sokolov, A., Soloviev, Y., Solovieva, E., Stani\v, S., Stari\v, M., Steder, M., Stottler, Z. S., Strube, J. F., Stypula, J., Sugihara, S., Sugiyama, A., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Sutcliffe, W., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, S. Y., Takeichi, H., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Taniguchi, N., Tao, Y., Taylor, G. N., Tenchini, F., Teramoto, Y., Thampi, A., Tiwary, R., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Ueda, I., Uehara, S., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, K., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., Van Hulse, C., Van Tonder, R., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Varvell, K. E., Vervink, K., Vinokurova, A., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Wagner, M. N., Waheed, E., Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, D., Wang, E., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Watanuki, S., Wedd, R., Wehle, S., Werbycka, O., Widmann, E., Wiechczynski, J., Won, E., Xu, X., Yabsley, B. D., Yamada, S., Yamamoto, H., Yamashita, Y., Yan, W., Yang, S. B., Yashchenko, S., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yin, J. H., Yook, Y., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zhang, C. C., Zhang, J., Zhang, L. M., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, L., Zhilich, V., Zhukova, V., Zhulanov, V., Zivko, T., Zupanc, A., and Zwahlen, N.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report results from a study of hadronic transitions of the $\chi_{bJ}(nP)$ states of bottomonium at Belle. The $P$-wave states are reconstructed in transitions to the $\Upsilon(1S)$ with the emission of an $\omega$ meson. The transitions of the $n=2$ triplet states provide a unique laboratory in which to study nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics, as the kinematic threshold for production of an $\omega$ and $\Upsilon(1S)$ lies between the $J=0$ and $J=1$ states. A search for the $\chi_{bJ}(3P)$ states is also reported.

Published
2021

24. Measurement of branching fractions and search for $CP$ violation in $D^{0}\to\pi^{+}\pi^{-}\eta$, $D^{0}\to K^{+}K^{-}\eta$, and $D^{0}\to\phi\eta$ at Belle

Author

Belle Collaboration, Li, L. K., Schwartz, A. J., Kinoshita, K., Adachi, I., Aihara, H., Said, S. Al, Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Babu, V., Bahinipati, S., Behera, P., Bennett, J., Bessner, M., Bilka, T., Biswal, J., Bobrov, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bra\v, M., Branchini, P., Browder, T. E., Budano, A., Campajola, M., \v, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, Y. Q., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, H. E., Cho, K., Cho, S. -J., Choi, S. -K., Choi, Y., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Cunliffe, S., Das, S., Dash, N., De Nardo, G., De Pietro, G., Dhamija, R., Di Capua, F., Dole\v, Z., Dong, T. V., Eidelman, S., Epifanov, D., Ferber, T., Fulsom, B. G., Garg, R., Gaur, V., Giri, A., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Graziani, E., Gu, T., Guan, Y., Hadjivasiliou, C., Halder, S., Hayasaka, K., Hou, W. -S., Inami, K., Ishikawa, A., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, E. -J., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joo, K. K., Kang, K. H., Karyan, G., Kiesling, C., Kim, C. H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, K. -H., Kim, S. H., Kim, Y. -K., Kody\v, P., Konno, T., Korobov, A., Korpar, S., Kovalenko, E., Kri\v, P., Kroeger, R., Krokovny, P., Kuhr, T., Kumar, M., Kumara, K., Kuzmin, A., Kwon, Y. -J., Lalwani, K., Laurenza, M., Lee, S. C., Li, C. H., Gioi, L. Li, Libby, J., Lieret, K., Liventsev, D., Masuda, M., Matvienko, D., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Miyabayashi, K., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Mori, T., Nakao, M., Natkaniec, Z., Natochii, A., Nayak, L., Nayak, M., Niiyama, M., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Ono, H., Oskin, P., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Pardi, S., Park, S. -H., Passeri, A., Paul, S., Pedlar, T. K., Pestotnik, R., Piilonen, L. E., Podobnik, T., Popov, V., Prencipe, E., Prim, M. T., Rout, N., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sakai, Y., Sandilya, S., Sangal, A., Santelj, L., Sanuki, T., Savinov, V., Schnell, G., Schwanda, C., Seino, Y., Senyo, K., Shapkin, M., Sharma, C., Shen, C. P., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sokolov, A., Solovieva, E., Stari\v, M., Stottler, Z. S., Sumihama, M., Sumiyoshi, T., Takizawa, M., Tanida, K., Tenchini, F., Uchida, M., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, K., Uno, S., Vahsen, S. E., Van Tonder, R., Varner, G., Vinokurova, A., Waheed, E., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanuki, S., Won, E., Yabsley, B. D., Yan, W. B., Yang, S. B., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yin, J. H., Yusa, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhilich, V., and Zhukova, V.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We measure the branching fractions and $CP$ asymmetries for the singly Cabibbo-suppressed decays $D^{0}\to\pi^{+}\pi^{-}\eta$, $D^{0}\to K^{+}K^{-}\eta$, and $D^{0}\to\phi\eta$, using 980 fb$^{-1}$ of data from the Belle experiment at the KEKB $e^+e^-$ collider. We obtain \begin{eqnarray} \mathcal{B}(D^{0}\to\pi^{+}\pi^{-}\eta) & = & [1.22\pm 0.02\,({\rm stat})\pm 0.02\,({\rm syst})\pm 0.03\,(\mathcal{B}_{\rm ref})]\times 10^{-3}\,, \nonumber \\ \mathcal{B}(D^{0}\to K^{+}K^{-}\eta) & = & [1.80\,^{+0.07}_{-0.06}\,({\rm stat})\pm 0.04\,({\rm syst})\pm 0.05\,(\mathcal{B}_{\rm ref})]\times 10^{-4}\,, \nonumber \\ \mathcal{B}(D^{0}\to\phi\eta) & = & [1.84\pm 0.09\,({\rm stat})\pm 0.06\,({\rm syst})\pm 0.05\,(\mathcal{B}_{\rm ref})]\times 10^{-4}\,, \nonumber \end{eqnarray} where the third uncertainty ($\mathcal{B}_{\rm ref}$) is from the uncertainty in the branching fraction of the reference mode $D^{0}\to K^{-}\pi^{+}\eta$. The color-suppressed decay $D^{0}\to\phi\eta$ is observed for the first time, with very high significance. The results for the $CP$ asymmetries are \begin{eqnarray} A_{CP}(D^{0}\to\pi^{+}\pi^{-}\eta) & = & [0.9\pm 1.2\,({\rm stat})\pm 0.5\,({\rm syst})]\%\,, \nonumber \\ A_{CP}(D^{0}\to K^{+}K^{-}\eta) & = & [-1.4\pm 3.3\,({\rm stat})\pm 1.1\,({\rm syst})]\%\,, \nonumber \\ A_{CP}(D^{0}\to\phi\eta)&= & [-1.9\pm 4.4\,({\rm stat})\pm 0.6\,({\rm syst})]\%\,. \nonumber \end{eqnarray} The results for $D^{0}\to\pi^{+}\pi^{-}\eta$ are a significant improvement over previous results. The branching fraction and $A_{CP}$ results for $D^{0}\to K^{+}K^{-}\eta$, and the $A_{CP}$ result for $D^{0}\to\phi\eta$, are the first such measurements. No evidence for $CP$ violation is found in any of these decays., Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures

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2021
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27. Prediction of peritoneal soiling in acute appendicitis with simple clinical and laboratory data. Prospective, multicenter, cohort study of 2,645 adult patients nationwide

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Afonso, N., Aguilella, V., Aguiló, J., Alados, J.C., Alberich, M., Apio, A.B., Balongo, R., Bra, E., Bravo-Gutiérrez, A., Briceño, F.J., Cabañas, J., Cánovas, G., Caravaca, I., Carbonell, S., Carrera-Dacosta, E., Castro E, E., Caula, C., Choolani-Bhojwani, E., Codina, A., Corral, S., Cuenca, C., Curbelo, Y., Delgado-Morales, M.M., Delgado-Plasencia, L., Doménech, E., Estévez, A.M., Feria, A.M., Gascón-Domínguez, M.A., Gianchandani, R., González, C., González, M.A., Hevia, R.J., Hidalgo, J.M., Lainez, M., López, F., López-Fernández, J., López-Ruíz, J.A., Lora-Cumplido, P., Madrazo, Z., Marchena, J., Marenco de la Cuadra, B., Martín, S., Martínez Casas, I., Martínez, P., Mena-Mateos, A., Morales-García, D., Mulas, C., Muñoz-Forner, E., Naranjo, A., Navarro-Sánchez, A., Oliver, I., Ortega, I., Ortega-Higueruelo, R., Ortega-Ruiz, S., Osorio, J., Padín, M.H., Pamies, J.J., Paredes, M., Pareja-Ciuró, F., Pérez-Guarinós, C.V., Pérez-Saborido, B., Pintor-Tortolero, J., Plua-Muñiz, K., Rey, M., Rodríguez, I., Ruiz, C., Ruíz, R., Ruiz, S., Sánchez, A., Sánchez, D., Sánchez, R., Sánchez-Cabezudo, F., Sánchez-Santos, R., Santos, J., Serrano-Paz, M.P., Soria-Aledo, V., Taccogna, L., Tallón-Aguilar, L., Valdivia-Risco, J.H., Vallverdú-Cartié, H., Varela, C., Villar-del-Moral, J., Zambudio, N., Lluís, N., Parra, J., Villodre, C., Zapater, P., Jalali, A., Cantó, M., Mena, L., Ramia, J.M., and Lluís, F.

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2022
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28. Simplified risk-prediction for benchmarking and quality improvement in emergency general surgery. Prospective, multicenter, observational cohort study

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Afonso, N., Aguilella, V., Aguiló, J., Alados, J.C., Alberich, M., Apio, A.B., Balongo, R., Bra, E., Bravo-Gutiérrez, A., Briceño, F.J., Cabañas, J., Cánovas, G., Caravaca, I., Carbonell, S., Carrera-Dacosta, E., Castro E, E., Caula, C., Choolani-Bhojwani, E., Codina, A., Corral, S., Cuenca, C., Curbelo-Peña, Y., Delgado-Morales, M.M., Delgado-Plasencia, L., Doménech, E., Estévez, A.M., Feria, A.M., Gascón-Domínguez, M.A., Gianchandani, R., González, C., Hevia, R.J., González, M.A., Hidalgo, J.M., Lainez, M., Lluís, N., López, F., López-Fernández, J., López-Ruíz, J.A., Lora-Cumplido, P., Madrazo, Z., Marchena, J., Marenco de la Cuadra, B., Martín, S., Casas, I. Martínez, Martínez, P., Mena-Mateos, A., Morales-García, D., Mulas, C., Muñoz-Forner, E., Naranjo, A., Navarro-Sánchez, A., Oliver, I., Ortega, I., Ortega-Higueruelo, R., Ortega-Ruiz, S., Osorio, J., Padín, M.H., Pamies, J.J., Paredes, M., Pareja-Ciuró, F., Parra, J., Pérez-Guarinós, C.V., Pérez-Saborido, B., Pintor-Tortolero, J., Plua-Muñiz, K., Rey, M., Rodríguez, I., Ruiz, C., Ruíz, R., Ruiz, S., Sánchez, A., Sánchez, D., Sánchez, R., Sánchez-Cabezudo, F., Sánchez-Santos, R., Santos, J., Serrano-Paz, M.P., Soria-Aledo, V., Tallón-Aguilar, L., Valdivia-Risco, J.H., Vallverdú-Cartié, H., Varela, C., Villar-del-Moral, J., Zambudio, N., Villodre, C., Taccogna, L., Zapater, P., Cantó, M., Mena, L., Ramia, J.M., and Lluís, F.

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2022
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29. Association of adolescent lipoprotein subclass profile with carotid intima-media thickness and comparison to adults: Prospective population-based cohort studies

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Staudt, Anna, Bernar, Benoît, Winder, Bernhard, Reiter, Carmen, Burger, Christina, Hochmayr, Christoph, Brössner, Gregor, Stuppner, Hermann, Klingenschmid, Julia, Marxer, Julia, Stock, Katharina, Asare, Mandy, Mayr, Manuel, Bock-Bartl, Manuela, Kothmayer, Martina, Bohl, Maximilian, Pircher, Maximilian, Knoflach, Michael, Gande, Nina, Pechlaner, Raimund, Geiger, Ralf, Sturm, Sonja, Kiechl, Sophia J., Kiechl, Stefan, Heisinger, Tatjana, Kiechl-Kohlendorfer, Ursula, Friedrich, Nele, Bernar, Benoît, Griesmacher, Andrea, Petersmann, Astrid, Budde, Kathrin, Dörr, Marcus, Schminke, Ulf, Cannet, Claire, Fang, Fang, Schäfer, Hartmut, Spraul, Manfred, and Nauck, Matthias

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2022
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30. TAKINGS AND HOMEOWNERS' EXPECTATIONS IN TIMES OF RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE.

Author

de Bra, Gijs

Subjects
CLIMATE change adaptation, FOREST fire prevention & control, HURRICANE Idalia, 2023, EXTREME weather, FOREST fires, LEGAL positivism, INSURED losses, HOMEOWNERS insurance, FINANCIAL risk
Abstract

The article in the Cornell Law Review discusses the impact of rapid climate change on homeowners' expectations and regulatory takings. It highlights the effects of Hurricane Idalia in 2023, record-breaking weather events, and the response of the insurance industry to natural disasters. The article argues for a redefinition of reasonable investment-backed expectations in times of climate change, emphasizing the need for dynamic expectations, informed by disasters and investor behavior, and influenced by local customs. It suggests a shift towards a per se rule in areas prone to climate change-related disasters to limit property interests. [Extracted from the article]

Published
2024

31. TRATAMENTO CIRÚRGICO DE CERATOCISTO EM MANDÍBULA ATRÓFICA: RELATO DE CASO.

Author

PIRES SILVA, NÁDIA MARIA, DE MOURA BATISTA, THÁLISON RAMON, CIPRIANO DE CARVALHO, LARA CRISTINA, RAMOS XAVIER, MATHEUS FEITOSA, DA SILVA NETO, JOSÉ ALEXANDRE, DE SOUSA BRA, RAYSSA, DA SILVA FIRMINO, BRUNNA, and ARAÚJO MOREIRA, THAÍS CRISTINA

Abstract

Copyright of Brazilian Journal of Surgery & Clinical Research is the property of Master Editora and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Published
2024

35. Measurement of the Lepton Forward-Backward Asymmetry in $B \rightarrow X_s \ell^+ \ell^-$ Decays with a Sum of Exclusive Modes

Author

Sato, Y., Ishikawa, A., Yamamoto, H., Abdesselam, A., Adachi, I., Adamczyk, K., Aihara, H., Asner, D. M., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Bakich, A. M., Bala, A., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bra\v, M., Browder, T. E., \v, D., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Cheon, B. G., Cho, I. -S., Cho, K., Chobanova, V., Choi, Y., Cinabro, D., Dalseno, J., Danilov, M., Dole\v, Z., Drásal, Z., Drutskoy, A., Dutta, D., Dutta, K., Eidelman, S., Farhat, H., Fast, J. E., Ferber, T., Gaur, V., Garmash, A., Gillard, R., Goh, Y. M., Golob, B., Haba, J., Hara, T., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., He, X. H., Hoshi, Y., Hou, W. -S., Hyun, H. J., Iijima, T., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, Y., Iwashita, T., Jaegle, I., Julius, T., Kang, J. H., Kato, E., Kato, Y., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Kichimi, H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, J. B., Kim, J. H., Kim, M. J., Kim, Y. J., Kinoshita, K., Klucar, J., Ko, B. R., Kody\v, P., Korpar, S., Kri\v, P., Krokovny, P., Kuhr, T., Kumita, T., Kuzmin, A., Kwon, Y. -J., Lee, S. -H., Li, Y., Libby, J., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liu, Z. Q., Liventsev, D., Lukin, P., Miyata, H., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Moll, A., Mussa, R., Nakao, M., Natkaniec, Z., Nayak, M., Nedelkovska, E., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nitoh, O., Ogawa, S., Pakhlov, P., Park, H., Park, H. K., Pedlar, T. K., Peng, T., Pestotnik, R., Petri\v, M., Piilonen, L. E., Ribe\v, E., Ritter, M., Röhrken, M., Rostomyan, A., Sahoo, H., Saito, T., Sakai, Y., Sandilya, S., Santel, D., Santelj, L., Sanuki, T., Savinov, V., Schneider, O., Schnell, G., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Seidl, R., Semmler, D., Senyo, K., Sevior, M. E., Shapkin, M., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Sohn, Y. -S., Sokolov, A., Solovieva, E., Stani\v, S., Stari\v, M., Sumiyoshi, T., Tamponi, U., Tatishvili, G., Teramoto, Y., Trabelsi, K., Uchida, M., Uehara, S., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., Van Hulse, C., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Varvell, K. E., Vorobyev, V., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, Y., Won, E., Yamaoka, J., Yamashita, Y., Yashchenko, S., Yook, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhilich, V., Zhulanov, V., and Zupanc, A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the lepton forward-backward asymmetry ${\cal A}_{\rm FB}$ as a function of the squared four-momentum of the dilepton system, $q^2$, for the electroweak penguin process $B \rightarrow X_s \ell^+ \ell^-$ with a sum of exclusive final states, where $\ell$ is an electron or a muon and $X_s$ is a hadronic recoil system with an $s$ quark. The results are based on a data sample containing $772\times10^6$ $B\bar{B}$ pairs recorded at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB $e^+ e^-$ collider. ${\cal A}_{\rm FB}$ for the inclusive $B \rightarrow X_s \ell^+ \ell^-$ is extrapolated from the sum of 10 exclusive $X_s$ states whose invariant mass is less than 2 GeV/$c^2$. For $q^2 > 10.2$ GeV$^2$/$c^2$, ${\cal A}_{\rm FB} < 0$ is excluded at the 2.3$\sigma$ level, where $\sigma$ is the standard deviation. For $q^2 < 4.3$ GeV$^2$/$c^2$, the result is within 1.8$\sigma$ of the Standard Model theoretical expectation., Comment: 13 pages, 23 figures, Belle Preprint 2014-1, KEK preprint 2013-60

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2014
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36. Process Mining Online Assessment Data

Author

International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, Pechenizkiy, Mykola, Trcka, Nikola, Vasilyeva, Ekaterina, van der Aalst, Wil, and De Bra, Paul

Abstract

Traditional data mining techniques have been extensively applied to find interesting patterns, build descriptive and predictive models from large volumes of data accumulated through the use of different information systems. The results of data mining can be used for getting a better understanding of the underlying educational processes, for generating recommendations and advice to students, for improving management of learning objects, etc. However, most of the traditional data mining techniques focus on data dependencies or simple patterns and do not provide a visual representation of the complete educational (assessment) process ready to be analyzed. To allow for these types of analysis (in which the process plays the central role), a new line of data-mining research, called "process mining", has been initiated. Process mining focuses on the development of a set of intelligent tools and techniques aimed at extracting process-related knowledge from event logs recorded by an information system. In this paper we demonstrate the applicability of process mining, and the ProM framework in particular, to educational data mining context. We analyze assessment data from recently organized online multiple choice tests and demonstrate the use of process discovery, conformance checking and performance analysis techniques. (Contains 6 figures and 4 footnotes.) [Funding was provided by the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO). For the complete proceedings, "Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (2nd, Cordoba, Spain, July 1-3, 2009)," see ED539041.]

Published
2009

37. Angular analysis of $B^0 \to \phi K^{*}$ decays and search for CP violation at Belle

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Belle Collaboration, Prim, M., Adachi, I., Aihara, H., Asner, D. M., Aushev, T., Bakich, A. M., Bala, A., Bhuyan, B., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bra\v, M., Browder, T. E., \v, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, P., Cheon, B. G., Chistov, R., Cho, K., Chobanova, V., Choi, Y., Cinabro, D., Danilov, M., Dole\v, Z., Drásal, Z., Dutta, D., Eidelman, S., Farhat, H., Feindt, M., Ferber, T., Frey, A., Gaur, V., Ganguly, S., Gillard, R., Goh, Y. M., Golob, B., Hayashii, H., Heider, M., Hoshi, Y., Hou, W. -S., Hsiung, Y. B., Iijima, T., Inami, K., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Jaegle, I., Julius, T., Kah, D. H., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. O., Kim, J. B., Kim, J. H., Kim, M. J., Kim, Y. J., Kinoshita, K., Klucar, J., Ko, B. R., Kody\v, P., Kri\v, P., Krokovny, P., Kronenbitter, B., Kuhr, T., Kumita, T., Kwon, Y. -J., Lange, J. S., Lee, S. -H., Li, J., Libby, J., Lukin, P., Matvienko, D., Miyabayashi, K., Miyata, H., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Moll, A., Muramatsu, N., Mussa, R., Nakamura, I., Nakano, E., Nakao, M., Nayak, M., Nedelkovska, E., Niebuhr, C., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nitoh, O., Onuki, Y., Pakhlova, G., Park, H., Park, H. K., Pedlar, T. K., Pestotnik, R., Petri\v, M., Piilonen, L. E., Ritter, M., Röhrken, M., Rostomyan, A., Rozanska, M., Sahoo, H., Saito, T., Sakai, Y., Sandilya, S., Sanuki, T., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Schneider, O., Schnell, G., Schwanda, C., Semmler, D., Senyo, K., Sevior, M. E., Shapkin, M., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shiu, J. -G., Sibidanov, A., Sohn, Y. -S., Sokolov, A., Solovieva, E., Stari\v, M., Steder, M., Sumiyoshi, T., Tamponi, U., Tatishvili, G., Teramoto, Y., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Uehara, S., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., Van Hulse, C., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Vorobyev, V., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Williams, K. M., Won, E., Yamashita, Y., Yashchenko, S., Zhang, Z. P., Zhilich, V., and Zupanc, A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report the measurements of branching fractions and CP violation asymmetries in $B^0 \to \phi K^{*}$ decays obtained in an angular analysis using the full data sample of $772 \times 10^6 B\bar{B}$ pairs collected at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^+ e^-$ collider. We perform a partial wave analysis to distinguish among scalar [$B^0 \to \phi(K\pi)^{*}_{0}$], vector [$B^0 \to \phi K^{*}(892)^{0}$] and tensor [$B^0 \to \phi K^{*}_{2}(1430)^{0}$] components, and determine the corresponding branching fractions to be $\mathcal{B}[B^0 \to \phi(K\pi)^{*}_{0}] = (4.3 \pm 0.4 \pm 0.4) \times 10^{-6}$, $\mathcal{B}[B^0 \to \phi K^{*}(892)^{0}] = (10.4 \pm 0.5 \pm 0.6) \times 10^{-6}$ and $\mathcal{B}[B^0 \to \phi K^{*}_{2}(1430)^{0}] = (5.5 ^{+0.9}_{-0.7} \pm 1.0) \times 10^{-6}$. We also measure the longitudinal polarization fraction $f_L$ in $B^0 \to \phi K^{*}(892)^{0}$ and $B^0 \to \phi K^{*}_{2}(1430)^{0}$ decays to be $0.499 \pm 0.030 \pm 0.018$ and $0.918 ^{+0.029}_{-0.060} \pm 0.012$, respectively. The first quoted uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. In total, we measure 26 parameters related to branching fractions, polarization and CP violation in the $B^0 \to \phi K^{*}$ system. No evidence for CP violation is found., Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures, to be submitted to PRD

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2013
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39. Study of the Hadronic Transitions $\Upsilon$(2S)$\rightarrow (\eta,\pi^0)\Upsilon$(1S) at Belle

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Belle Collaboration, Tamponi, U., Mussa, R., Adachi, I., Aihara, H., Asner, D. M., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Bakich, A. M., Barrett, M., Bhuyan, B., Bondar, A., Bozek, A., Bra\v, M., Browder, T. E., Chen, A., Chen, P., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, I. -S., Cho, K., Choi, Y., Dalseno, J., Dole\v, Z., Drásal, Z., Dutta, D., Eidelman, S., Epifanov, D., Esen, S., Farhat, H., Fast, J. E., Frey, A., Gaur, V., Gillard, R., Goh, Y. M., Golob, B., Hayasaka, K., Horii, Y., Hoshi, Y., Hyun, H. J., Iijima, T., Ishikawa, A., Iwasaki, Y., Jaegle, I., Kang, J. H., Kawasaki, T., Kim, H. O., Kim, J. H., Kim, K. T., Kim, M. J., Kim, Y. J., Klucar, J., Ko, B. R., Kody\v, P., Korpar, S., Kouzes, R. T., Kri\v, P., Krokovny, P., Kumita, T., Kuzmin, A., Lee, S. -H., Li, Y., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liu, Z. Q., Liventsev, D., Miyata, H., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Moll, A., Muramatsu, N., Nakao, M., Natkaniec, Z., Ng, C., Nishida, S., Nitoh, O., Ogawa, S., Ohshima, T., Okuno, S., Olsen, S. L., Onuki, Y., Pakhlov, P., Park, H. K., Park, K. S., Pedlar, T. K., Pestotnik, R., Petri\v, M., Piilonen, L. E., Röhrken, M., Sakai, Y., Sandilya, S., Santel, D., Santelj, L., Sanuki, T., Schneider, O., Schnell, G., Schwanda, C., Senyo, K., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Simon, F., Smerkol, P., Sohn, Y. -S., Sokolov, A., Solovieva, E., Stari\v, M., Sumiyoshi, T., Tanida, K., Taniguchi, N., Tatishvili, G., Teramoto, Y., Trabelsi, K., Uehara, S., Uno, S., Van Hulse, C., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Williams, K. M., Won, E., Yabsley, B. D., Yamashita, Y., Yuan, C. Z., Zhang, Z. P., Zhilich, V., Zhulanov, V., and Zupanc, A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We study the rare hadronic transitions $\Upsilon(2S)\rightarrow \Upsilon(1S)\eta$ and $\Upsilon(2S)\rightarrow \Upsilon(1S)\pi^0$ using a sample of 158 $\times 10^6$ $\Upsilon(2S)$ decays collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^+ e^-$ collider. We observe the $\eta$ meson decay to $\gamma\gamma$ and $\pi^+\pi^-\pi^0$ final states; the $\Upsilon(1S)$ is reconstructed in the $\mu^+\mu^-$ and $e^+e^-$ decay modes. We measure the ratios of branching fractions (${\mathcal B}$) $\frac{{\mathcal B}(\Upsilon(2S)\rightarrow\Upsilon(1S)\eta)}{{\mathcal B}(\Upsilon(2S)\rightarrow\Upsilon(1S)\pi^+\pi^-)}$ = (1.99$\pm$0.14 (stat) $\pm$0.11 (syst)) $\times 10^{-3}$ and $\frac{{\mathcal B}(\Upsilon(2S)\rightarrow\Upsilon(1S)\pi^0)}{{\mathcal B}(\Upsilon(2S)\rightarrow\Upsilon(1S)\pi^+\pi^-)} < 2.3 \times 10^{-4}$ at the 90% confidence level (CL). Assuming the value ${\mathcal B}(\Upsilon(2S) \rightarrow \Upsilon(1S)\pi^-\pi^+)$ = (17.92$\pm$0.26)%, we obtain $ {\mathcal B}(\Upsilon(2S)\rightarrow\Upsilon(1S)\eta) = (3.57 \pm 0.25 ({\rm stat})\ \pm 0.21 ({\rm syst}))\times 10^{-4} $ and $ {\mathcal B}(\Upsilon(2S)\rightarrow\Upsilon(1S)\pi^0) < 4.1\times 10^{-5}\ ({\rm 90%\ CL}). $, Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRD(RC)

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2012
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40. External memory bisimulation reduction of big graphs

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Luo, Yongming, Fletcher, George H. L., Hidders, Jan, Wu, Yuqing, and De Bra, Paul

Subjects
Computer Science - Databases, Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms
Abstract

In this paper, we present, to our knowledge, the first known I/O efficient solutions for computing the k-bisimulation partition of a massive directed graph, and performing maintenance of such a partition upon updates to the underlying graph. Ubiquitous in the theory and application of graph data, bisimulation is a robust notion of node equivalence which intuitively groups together nodes in a graph which share fundamental structural features. k-bisimulation is the standard variant of bisimulation where the topological features of nodes are only considered within a local neighborhood of radius $k\geqslant 0$. The I/O cost of our partition construction algorithm is bounded by $O(k\cdot \mathit{sort}(|\et|) + k\cdot scan(|\nt|) + \mathit{sort}(|\nt|))$, while our maintenance algorithms are bounded by $O(k\cdot \mathit{sort}(|\et|) + k\cdot \mathit{sort}(|\nt|))$. The space complexity bounds are $O(|\nt|+|\et|)$ and $O(k\cdot|\nt|+k\cdot|\et|)$, resp. Here, $|\et|$ and $|\nt|$ are the number of disk pages occupied by the input graph's edge set and node set, resp., and $\mathit{sort}(n)$ and $\mathit{scan}(n)$ are the cost of sorting and scanning, resp., a file occupying $n$ pages in external memory. Empirical analysis on a variety of massive real-world and synthetic graph datasets shows that our algorithms perform efficiently in practice, scaling gracefully as graphs grow in size., Comment: 17 pages

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2012

41. Study of Three-Body Y(10860) Decays

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Adachi, I., Adamczyk, K., Aihara, H., Arinstein, K., Arita, Y., Asner, D. M., Aso, T., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Aziz, T., Bakich, A. M., Ban, Y., Barberio, E., Barrett, M., Bay, A., Bedny, I., Belhorn, M., Belous, K., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bischofberger, M., Blyth, S., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bra\v, M., Brodzicka, J., Brovchenko, O., Browder, T. E., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Chao, Y., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, K. -F., Chen, P., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Chistov, R., Cho, I. -S., Cho, K., Choi, K. -S., Choi, S. -K., Choi, Y., Crnkovic, J., Dalseno, J., Danilov, M., Dingfelder, J., Dole\v, Z., Drásal, Z., Drutskoy, A., Dungel, W., Dutta, D., Eidelman, S., Epifanov, D., Esen, S., Fast, J. E., Feindt, M., Frey, A., Fujikawa, M., Gaur, V., Gabyshev, N., Garmash, A., Goh, Y. M., Golob, B., GrossePerdekamp, M., Guo, H., Haba, J., Hamer, P., Han, Y. L., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hasegawa, Y., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Heffernan, D., Higuchi, T., Horii, Y., Hoshi, Y., Hoshina, K., Hou, W. -S., Hsiung, Y. B., Hyun, H. J., Igarashi, Y., Iijima, T., Imamura, M., Inami, K., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwabuchi, M., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwashita, T., Iwata, S., Jaegle, I., Jones, M., Julius, T., Kah, D. H., Kakuno, H., Kang, J. H., Kapusta, P., Kataoka, S. U., Katayama, N., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. O., Kim, J. B., Kim, J. H., Kim, K. T., Kim, M. J., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. J., Kinoshita, K., Klucar, J., Ko, B. R., Kobayashi, N., Koblitz, S., Kody\v, P., Koga, Y., Korpar, S., Kouzes, R. T., Kreps, M., Kri\v, P., Krokovny, P., Kronenbitter, B., Kuhr, T., Kumar, R., Kumita, T., Kurihara, E., Kuroki, Y., Kuzmin, A., Kvasni\v, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Kyeong, S. -H., Lange, J. S., Lee, M. J., Lee, S. -H., Leitgab, M., Leitner, R., Li, J., Li, X., Li, Y., Libby, J., Lim, C. -L., Limosani, A., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liu, Z. Q., Liventsev, D., Louvot, R., MacNaughton, J., Marlow, D., Matvienko, D., Matyja, A., McOnie, S., Mikami, Y., Miyabayashi, K., Miyachi, Y., Miyata, H., Miyazaki, Y., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Mohapatra, D., Moll, A., Mori, T., Müller, T., Muramatsu, N., Mussa, R., Nagamine, T., Nagasaka, Y., Nakahama, Y., Nakamura, I., Nakano, E., Nakano, T., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Natkaniec, Z., Nayak, M., Nedelkovska, E., Negishi, K., Neichi, K., Neubauer, S., Ng, C., Niiyama, M., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nitoh, O., Nozaki, T., Ogawa, A., Ogawa, S., Ohshima, T., Okuno, S., Olsen, S. L., Onuki, Y., Ostrowicz, W., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Palka, H., Panzenböck, E., Park, C. W., Park, H., Park, H. K., Park, K. S., Peak, L. S., Pedlar, T. K., Peng, T., Pestotnik, R., Peters, M., Petri\v, M., Piilonen, L. E., Poluektov, A., Prim, M., Prothmann, K., Reisert, B., Ritter, M., Röhrken, M., Rorie, J., Rozanska, M., Ryu, S., Sahoo, H., Sakai, K., Sakai, Y., Sandilya, S., Santel, D., Santelj, L., Sanuki, T., Sasao, N., Sato, Y., Schneider, O., Schnell, G., Schönmeier, P., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwenker, B., Seidl, R., Sekiya, A., Senyo, K., Seon, O., Sevior, M. E., Shang, L., Shapkin, M., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shibuya, H., Shinomiya, S., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J. B., Sinha, R., Smerkol, P., Sohn, Y. -S., Sokolov, A., Solovieva, E., Stani\v, S., Stari\v, M., Stypula, J., Sugihara, S., Sugiyama, A., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, S. Y., Takeichi, H., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Taniguchi, N., Tatishvili, G., Taylor, G. N., Teramoto, Y., Thorne, F., Tikhomirov, I., Trabelsi, K., Tse, Y. F., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Uchida, T., Uchida, Y., Uehara, S., Ueno, K., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., Vanhoefer, P., VanHulse, C., Varner, G., Varvell, K. E., Vervink, K., Vinokurova, A., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Wang, C. H., Wang, J., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Wedd, R., White, E., Wicht, J., Widhalm, L., Wiechczynski, J., Williams, K. M., Won, E., Yabsley, B. D., Yamamoto, H., Yamaoka, J., Yamashita, Y., Yamauchi, M., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zander, D., Zhang, C. C., Zhang, L. M., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, L., Zhilich, V., Zhou, P., Zhulanov, V., Zivko, T., Zupanc, A., Zwahlen, N., and Zyukova, O.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report preliminary results on the analysis of the three-body Y(10860)=> B barB pi, Y(10860) => (B barB* + c.c.) pi and Y(10860)=> B* barB* pi decays including an observation of the Y(10860)=> Zb(10610)+- pi-+ => [B barB*+c.c]+- pi-+ and Y(10860)=> Zb(10650)+- pi-+ => [B* barB*]+- pi-+ decays as intermediate channels. We measure branching fractions of the three-body decays to be Br(Y(10860)=> [B barB*+c.c.]+- pi-+)=(28.3+-2.9+-4.6)x10^{-3} and Br(Y(10860)=> [B* barB*]+- pi-+)=(14.1+-1.9+-2.4)x10^{-3} and set 90% C.L. upper limit Br(Y(10860)=> [B barB]+- pi-+)<4.0x10^{-3}. We also report results on the amplitude analysis of the three-body Y(10860)=>Y(nS)pi+pi-, n=1,2,3 decays and the analysis of the internal structure of the three-body Y(10860)=>hb(mP)pi+pi-, m=1,2 decays. The results are based on a 121.4 1/fb data sample collected with the Belle detector at a center-of-mass energy near the Y(10860)., Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures

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2012

42. Evidence for B- -> Ds+ K- l- nubar and search for B- -> Ds*+ K- l- nubar

Author

Belle Collaboration, Stypula, J., Rozanska, M., Adachi, I., Adamczyk, K., Aihara, H., Asner, D. M., Aushev, T., Bakich, A. M., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bischofberger, M., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bra\v, M., Browder, T. E., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, P., Cheon, B. G., Chistov, R., Cho, I. -S., Cho, K., Choi, Y., Dalseno, J., Danilov, M., Dingfelder, J., Dole\v, Z., Drásal, Z., Drutskoy, A., Eidelman, S., Farhat, H., Fast, J. E., Gaur, V., Gabyshev, N., Gillard, R., Goh, Y. M., Golob, B., Haba, J., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Horii, Y., Hoshi, Y., Hou, W. -S., Hsiung, Y. B., Hyun, H. J., Iijima, T., Inami, K., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwabuchi, M., Iwasaki, Y., Julius, T., Kang, J. H., Kapusta, P., Kawasaki, T., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, H. J., Kim, J. B., Kim, J. H., Kim, K. T., Kim, Y. J., Kinoshita, K., Ko, B. R., Kody\v, P., Korpar, S., Kouzes, R. T., Kri\v, P., Krokovny, P., Kuhr, T., Kumita, T., Kuzmin, A., Kwon, Y. -J., Lee, S. -H., Li, J., Li, Y., Libby, J., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liu, Z. Q., Liventsev, D., Louvot, R., Miyabayashi, K., Miyata, H., Miyazaki, Y., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Moll, A., Muramatsu, N., Nakano, E., Nakao, M., Natkaniec, Z., Ng, C., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nitoh, O., Nozaki, T., Ogawa, S., Ohshima, T., Okuno, S., Olsen, S. L., Onuki, Y., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Park, C. W., Park, H., Park, H. K., Pedlar, T. K., Pestotnik, R., Petri\v, M., Piilonen, L. E., Ritter, M., Röhrken, M., Ryu, S., Sahoo, H., Sakai, Y., Sandilya, S., Santel, D., Sanuki, T., Sato, Y., Schneider, O., Schwanda, C., Senyo, K., Seon, O., Sevior, M. E., Shapkin, M., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shiu, J. -G., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Smerkol, P., Sohn, Y. -S., Sokolov, A., Solovieva, E., Stani\v, S., Stari\v, M., Sumihama, M., Sumiyoshi, T., Teramoto, Y., Uchida, M., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Usov, Y., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Varvell, K. E., Vorobyev, V., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Wiechczynski, J., Williams, K. M., Won, E., Yabsley, B. D., Yamamoto, H., Yamashita, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhilich, V., Zhulanov, V., and Zupanc, A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report measurements of the decays B- -> Ds(*)+ K- l- nubar in a data sample containing 657x10^6 BBbar pairs collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. We observe a signal with a significance of 6 sigma for the combined Ds and Ds* modes and find the first evidence of the B- -> Ds+ K- l- nubar decay with a significance of 3.4 sigma. We measure the following branching fractions: BF(B- -> Ds+ K- l nubar) = (0.30 +/- 0.09(stat) +0.11 -0.08(syst)) x 10^-3 and BF(B- -> Ds*+ K- l- nubar) = (0.59 +/- 0.12(stat) +/- 0.15(syst)) x 10^-3 and set an upper limit BF(B- -> Ds*+ K- l- nubar) < 0.56 x 10^-3 at the 90% confidence level. We also present the first measurement of the Ds+K- invariant mass distribution in these decays, which is dominated by a prominent peak around 2.6 GeV/c^2., Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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2012
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43. Evidence for a Zb0(10610) in Dalitz analysis of Y(5S) -> Y(nS) pi0 pi0

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Adachi, I., Adamczyk, K., Aihara, H., Arinstein, K., Arita, Y., Asner, D. M., Aso, T., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Aziz, T., Bakich, A. M., Ban, Y., Barberio, E., Barrett, M., Bay, A., Bedny, I., Belhorn, M., Belous, K., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bischofberger, M., Blyth, S., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bra\v, M., Brodzicka, J., Brovchenko, O., Browder, T. E., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Chao, Y., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, K. -F., Chen, P., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Chistov, R., Cho, I. -S., Cho, K., Choi, K. -S., Choi, S. -K., Choi, Y., Crnkovic, J., Dalseno, J., Danilov, M., Dingfelder, J., Dole\v, Z., Drásal, Z., Drutskoy, A., Dungel, W., Dutta, D., Eidelman, S., Epifanov, D., Esen, S., Fast, J. E., Feindt, M., Fujikawa, M., Gaur, V., Gabyshev, N., Garmash, A., Goh, Y. M., Golob, B., Perdekamp, M. Grosse, Guo, H., Haba, J., Han, Y. L., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hasegawa, Y., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Heffernan, D., Higuchi, T., Horii, Y., Hoshi, Y., Hoshina, K., Hou, W. -S., Hsiung, Y. B., Hyun, H. J., Igarashi, Y., Iijima, T., Imamura, M., Inami, K., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwabuchi, M., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwashita, T., Iwata, S., Jaegle, I., Jones, M., Julius, T., Kah, D. H., Kakuno, H., Kang, J. H., Kapusta, P., Kataoka, S. U., Katayama, N., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. O., Kim, J. B., Kim, J. H., Kim, K. T., Kim, M. J., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. J., Kinoshita, K., Klucar, J., Ko, B. R., Kobayashi, N., Koblitz, S., Kody\v, P., Koga, Y., Korpar, S., Kouzes, R. T., Kreps, M., Kri\v, P., Krokovny, P., Kronenbitter, B., Kuhr, T., Kumar, R., Kumita, T., Kurihara, E., Kuroki, Y., Kuzmin, A., Kvasni\v, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Kyeong, S. -H., Lange, J. S., Lee, M. J., Lee, S. -H., Leitgab, M., Leitner, R ., Li, J., Li, X., Li, Y., Libby, J., Lim, C. -L., Limosani, A., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liu, Z. Q., Liventsev, D., Louvot, R., MacNaughton, J., Marlow, D., Matvienko, D., Matyja, A., McOnie, S., Mikami, Y., Miyabayashi, K., Miyachi, Y., Miyata, H., Miyazaki, Y., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Mohapatra, D., Moll, A., Mori, T., Müller, T., Muramatsu, N., Mussa, R., Nagamine, T., Nagasaka, Y., Nakahama, Y., Nakamura, I., Nakano, E., Nakano, T., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Natkaniec, Z., Nayak, M., Nedelkovska, E., Negishi, K., Neichi, K., Neubauer, S., Ng, C., Niiyama, M., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nitoh, O., Nozaki, T., Ogawa, A., Ogawa, S., Ohshima, T., Okuno, S., Olsen, S. L., Onuki, Y., Ostrowicz, W., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Palka, H., Park, C. W., Park, H., Park, H. K., Park, K. S., Peak, L. S., Pedlar, T. K., Peng, T., Pestotnik, R., Peters, M., Petri\v, M., Piilonen, L. E., Poluektov, A., Prim, M., Prothmann, K., Reisert, B., Ritter, M., Röhrken, M., Rorie, J., Rozanska, M., Ryu, S., Sahoo, H., Sakai, K., Sakai, Y., Sandilya, S., Santel, D., Santelj, L., Sanuki, T., Sasao, N., Sato, Y., Schneider, O., Schönmeier, P., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Seidl, R., Sekiya, A., Senyo, K., Seon, O., Sevior, M. E., Shang, L., Shapkin, M., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shibuya, H., Shinomiya, S., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J. B., Sinha, R., Smerkol, P., Sohn, Y. -S., Sokolov, A., Solovieva, E., Stani\v, S., Stari\v, M., Stypula, J., Sugihara, S., Sugiyama, A., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, S. Y., Takeichi, H., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Taniguchi, N., Tatishvili, G., Taylor, G. N., Teramoto, Y., Thorne, F., Tikhomirov, I., Trabelsi, K., Tse, Y. F., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Uchida, T., Uchida, Y., Uehara, S., Ueno, K., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Varvell, K. E., Vervink, K., Vinokurova, A., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Wang, C. H., Wang, J., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Wedd, R., White, E., Wicht, J., Widhalm, L., Wiechczynski, J., Williams, K. M., Won, E., Yabsley, B. D., Yamamoto, H., Yamaoka, J., Yamashita, Y., Yamauchi, M., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zander, D., Zhang, C. C., Zhang, L. M., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, L., Zhilich, V., Zhou, P., Zhulanov, V., Zivko, T., Zupanc, A., Zwahlen, N., and Zyukova, O.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report the first observation of Y(5S) -> Y(1,2S) pi0 pi0 decays. Evidence for the Zb0(10610) with 4.9sigma significance is found in a Dalitz plot analysis of Y(5S) -> Y(2S) pi0 pi0 decays. The results are obtained with a 121.4 fb^-1 data sample collected with the Belle detector at the Y(5S) resonance at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider., Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures

Published
2012

44. Evidence for CP Violation in the Decay $D^+\rightarrow K^0_S\pi^+$

Author

Ko, B. R., Won, E., Adachi, I., Aihara, H., Asner, D. M., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Aziz, T., Bakich, A. M., Belous, K., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bischofberger, M., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bra\v, M., Browder, T. E., Chang, M. -C., Chen, A., Chen, P., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, I. -S., Cho, K., Choi, Y., Dole\v, Z., Drásal, Z., Eidelman, S., Fast, J. E., Gaur, V., Gabyshev, N., Goh, Y. M., Golob, B., Haba, J., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Horii, Y., Hoshi, Y., Hou, W. -S., Hyun, H. J., Iijima, T., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwabuchi, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwashita, T., Julius, T., Kang, J. H., Kawasaki, T., Kiesling, C., Kim, H. O., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. T., Kim, M. J., Kim, Y. J., Kinoshita, K., Koblitz, S., Kody\v, P., Korpar, S., Kri\v, P., Krokovny, P., Kuhr, T., Kuzmin, A., Kwon, Y. -J., Lange, J. S., Lee, S. -H., Li, J., Li, Y., Libby, J., Lim, C. -L., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liu, Z. Q., Liventsev, D., Louvot, R., Miyazaki, Y., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Moll, A., Mori, T., Muramatsu, N., Nagasaka, Y., Nakano, E., Nakao, M., Nakazawa, H., Natkaniec, Z., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nitoh, O., Ogawa, S., Ohshima, T., Okuno, S., Olsen, S. L., Onuki, Y., Ostrowicz, W., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Park, C. W., Park, H. K., Park, K. S., Pedlar, T. K., Pestotnik, R., Petri\v, M., Piilonen, L. E., Poluektov, A., Ritter, M., Röhrken, M., Ryu, S., Sahoo, H., Sakai, K., Sakai, Y., Sanuki, T., Sato, Y., Schneider, O., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Seidl, R., Senyo, K., Sevior, M. E., Shapkin, M., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Smerkol, P., Sohn, Y. -S., Sokolov, A., Solovieva, E., Stani\v, S., Stari\v, M., Sumiyoshi, T., Tanaka, S., Tatishvili, G., Teramoto, Y., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Uehara, S., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Varner, G., Varvell, K. E., Vinokurova, A., Vorobyev, V., Wang, C. H., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Yamamoto, H., Yamashita, Y., Yuan, C. Z., Zhang, C. C., Zhang, Z. P., Zhulanov, V., and Zupanc, A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We observe evidence for CP violation in the decay $D^+\rightarrow K^0_S\pi^+$ using a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 977 fb$^{-1}$ collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB $e^+e^-$ asymmetric-energy collider. The CP asymmetry in the decay is measured to be $(-0.363\pm0.094\pm0.067)%$, which is 3.2 standard deviations away from zero, and is consistent with the expected CP violation due to the neutral kaon in the final state., Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures

Published
2012
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45. COVID-19 Vaccination Among Diverse Population Groups in the Northern Governorates of Iraq

Author

Gubari, Mohammed Ibrahim Mohialdeen, primary, Wadi, Falah, additional, Hama-Ghareeb, Khalid Anwar, additional, Fatah, Fatah H., additional, Hosseini, Mostafa, additional, Wale, Karzan Rafiq, additional, Hipgrave, David, additional, Ali, Sazan Raouf, additional, Mahmood, Shaho Osman, additional, Ezzat Khadium, Waleed, additional, Mohammed, Hayman Hasan, additional, Jaafer, Sara Feal, additional, Al Saadi, Najeeb Mohammed, additional, Mohammed, Kardar Anwar, additional, Saeed, Shireen Salih, additional, Mohammad, Mohammad Yousif, additional, Khudhur, Waleed Hamid, additional, Wael Saleh, Mohammed, additional, Sheat, Yousra Saadi, additional, Ibrahim, Khaldoon Khaleel, additional, Nabeil Salah, Marwa, additional, Abdullah, Abdulmonem Hazim, additional, Omer, Dashne Shamall, additional, Ghafur, Rafeeq Naseraldeen, additional, Mustafa, Kashma Ali, additional, Faraj, Aryan Othman, additional, Ali, Trifa Bhjat, additional, Aziz Enayat, Kamal, additional, Wahab, Ronak Assi, additional, Ali Al-Jaf, Ibrahim Ahmed, additional, Hama Amin, Nazanin Hama, additional, Jaff, Dina Dlshad, additional, Bra, Aram Mohammed, additional, Ahmed, Shwan Kanabi, additional, Rasool, Banaz Nabi, additional, Jamal, Fatimah Khalis, additional, Mohammed, Tango Dhahir, additional, and Azeez, Maryam Arab, additional

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2023
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46. A toolbox of machine learning software to support microbiome analysis

Author

Marcos-Zambrano, Laura Judith, primary, López-Molina, Víctor Manuel, additional, Bakir-Gungor, Burcu, additional, Frohme, Marcus, additional, Karaduzovic-Hadziabdic, Kanita, additional, Klammsteiner, Thomas, additional, Ibrahimi, Eliana, additional, Lahti, Leo, additional, Loncar-Turukalo, Tatjana, additional, Dhamo, Xhilda, additional, Simeon, Andrea, additional, Nechyporenko, Alina, additional, Pio, Gianvito, additional, Przymus, Piotr, additional, Sampri, Alexia, additional, Trajkovik, Vladimir, additional, Lacruz-Pleguezuelos, Blanca, additional, Aasmets, Oliver, additional, Araujo, Ricardo, additional, Anagnostopoulos, Ioannis, additional, Aydemir, Önder, additional, Berland, Magali, additional, Calle, M. Luz, additional, Ceci, Michelangelo, additional, Duman, Hatice, additional, Gündoğdu, Aycan, additional, Havulinna, Aki S., additional, Kaka Bra, Kardokh Hama Najib, additional, Kalluci, Eglantina, additional, Karav, Sercan, additional, Lode, Daniel, additional, Lopes, Marta B., additional, May, Patrick, additional, Nap, Bram, additional, Nedyalkova, Miroslava, additional, Paciência, Inês, additional, Pasic, Lejla, additional, Pujolassos, Meritxell, additional, Shigdel, Rajesh, additional, Susín, Antonio, additional, Thiele, Ines, additional, Truică, Ciprian-Octavian, additional, Wilmes, Paul, additional, Yilmaz, Ercument, additional, Yousef, Malik, additional, Claesson, Marcus Joakim, additional, Truu, Jaak, additional, and Carrillo de Santa Pau, Enrique, additional

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2023
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47. Assessment of Minor Disorders among Pregnant Women Attending Malafandi Primary Health Care Centre/Erbil-City

Author

Aram M. Bra, Dara A. Al-Banna, Samir M. Othman, and Ayad A. Rashid

Subjects
General Medicine
Abstract

Minor disorder are the discomforts as associated with the pregnancy such as nausea, vomiting, backache, heart burn, constipation, varicose vein, haemorrhoids, frequency of urination, fatigue, and leg cramps. Many women experience some minor disorder during pregnancy; these discomforts should be adequately as they may occur due to hormonal changes and postural changes. The aim of this study was to assess the minor disorder among pregnant women. A descriptive study was conducted in Malafandi Primary Health Care Centre, in December 2020 to January 2021, one hundred pregnant were taken and the data were collected by direct interview. The highest percentage of them within age group between 25–34 years old, graduated from high school with middle economic status. All of them had minor disorders as nausea and vomiting, backache, heart burn, leg cramps, varicose vein, haemorrhoids, fatigue, frequency of urination, constipation, and loss of appetite. There is a statistical significant association between age group with nausea and vomiting, and haemorrhoids (P- value ≤ 0.001 and 0.002 respectively). The findings of this study indicated that most common minor disorder in pregnancy came from fatigue while the lowest came from constipation.

Published
2023

48. Web-CS: Infrastructure for Web-Based Competitions.

Author

Aerts, A. T. M., Bierhoff, P. F. M., and De Bra, P. M. E.

Abstract

This paper presents a World Wide Web-based infrastructure for cooperation between many different parties. The infrastructure is designed for Web-based competitions involving an editorial board, designers of assignments or events, evaluators, different organizational layers, and contestants. Web-CS is entirely Web-based: all the communication between the cooperating parties is achieved through communicating Web-browsers and Web-servers (augmented with Java-applets on the client side and a database system on the server side). The first section of the paper introduces the organizational structure of Web-based competitions in general. The second section describes the Hungarian KoMaL (Kozepiskolai Matematikai es Fizikai Lapok, i.e., a mathematical and physical journal for secondary schools) competition, the requirements for Web-CS, and comparable systems. The third section presents the Web-CS architecture, including system components, basic module structure, and document formats and file-uploading. (Author/MES)

Published
1999

49. WebNet 99 World Conference on the WWW and Internet Proceedings (Honolulu, Hawaii, October 24-30, 1999).

Author

Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Charlottesville, VA., De Bra, Paul, and Leggett, John

Abstract

The 1999 WebNet conference addressed research, new developments, and experiences related to the Internet and World Wide Web. The 394 contributions of WebNet 99 contained in this proceedings comprise the full and short papers accepted for presentation at the conference. Major topics covered include: commercial, business, professional, and community applications; educational applications; electronic publishing and digital libraries; ergonomic, interface, and cognitive issues; general Web tools and facilities; medical applications of the Web; personal applications and environments; societal issues, including legal, standards, and international issues; and Web technical facilities. An author index is included. Most papers contain references. (MES)

Published
1999

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