Lancaster University

About: Lancaster University is a education organization based out in Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 13080 authors who have published 44563 publications receiving 1692277 citations. The organization is also known as: The University of Lancaster & Lancaster University.

Evidence for a particle produced in association with weak bosons and decaying to a bottom-antibottom quark pair in higgs boson searches at the tevatron

Abstract: We combine searches by the CDF and D0 Collaborations for the associated production of a Higgs boson with a W or Z boson and subsequent decay of the Higgs boson to a bottom-antibottom quark pair. The data, originating from Fermilab Tevatron p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV, correspond to integrated luminosities of up to 9.7 fb(-1). The searches are conducted for a Higgs boson with mass in the range 100-150 GeV/c(2). We observe an excess of events in the data compared with the background predictions, which is most significant in the mass range between 120 and 135 GeV/c(2). The largest local significance is 3.3 standard deviations, corresponding to a global significance of 3.1 standard deviations. We interpret this as evidence for the presence of a new particle consistent with the standard model Higgs boson, which is produced in association with a weak vector boson and decays to a bottom-antibottom quark pair.

Towards the Learning Company

Abstract: INTRODUCTION The concept of the Learning Company is beginning to attract those concerned with the development of people in organisations. Having been stirred up by the prescriptions of In Search of Excellence in terms of how to organise for action and innovation (Peters and Waterman, 1982), this theme is the one most likely to preoccupy managers in the next few years. Even before the notion has been thoroughly defined and explored it has entered the mainstream. For example, Item 6 in the new Charter Group Initiative’s ’Code of Practice’ uses the term ’Learning Organisation’ (FME/CBI/BIM, 1987, p. 5) as does a recent survey report from Ashridge to designate the coming phase of training and development in organisations (Barham et al., 1988, p. 49, et seq.). The Learning Company is the new frontier and the scouts are busy bringing back reports. However, while many people are talking about it no-one has, as yet, claimed to be able to offer a working model of what a Learning Company is. There is both excitement about the possibilities and a lack of clarity about what it looks like. In short we are now standing at the ’vision’ end of the vision-to-reality sequence in bringing the idea into being. In October 1987, we began a 6-month pilot project entitled ’Developing The Learning Company’ with funding from the Manpower Services Commission. The aim was to define and test the feasibility of the idea as

Three‐way interactions between plant pathogenic fungi, herbivorous insects and their host plants

Abstract: 652 ( I ) Direct effects of non-vector herbivores 653 (2) Indirect effects, mediated through the host 654 IV. Root-shoot interactions 657 ( I ) Above-ground insects and below-ground fungi 657 (2) Above-ground fungi and below-ground insects 658 . . . . . . 11. The effect of plant pathogenic fungi on herbivorous insects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (c) Effects on insects . . . . . . . . . . . . 648 . . . . . . 111. The effect of herbivorous insects on plant pathogenic fungi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V. Induced resistance a common defence against pest and pathogen ? . . . . 660 ( I ) The hypersensitive response and lignification . . . . . . . . 661 ( 2 ) Phytoalexins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662 (3) Proteinase inhibitors 663 (4) Lipoxygenase 664