Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México

About: Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México is a education organization based out in Mexico City, Mexico. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Large Hadron Collider & Standard Model. The organization has 2259 authors who have published 3981 publications receiving 109298 citations.

Observation of WZ Production

Abstract: We report the first observation of the associated production of a W boson and a Z boson. This result is based on 1.1 fb;-1 of integrated luminosity from pp collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. We observe 16 WZ candidates passing our event selection with an expected background of 2.7+/-0.4 events. A fit to the missing transverse energy distribution indicates an excess of events compared to the background expectation corresponding to a significance equivalent to 6 standard deviations. The measured cross section is sigma(pp-->WZ)=5.0(-1.6)(+1.8) pb, consistent with the standard model expectation.

Study of the associated production of photons and b-quark jets in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96TeV

Abstract: The cross section for photon production in association with at least one jet containing a b quark has been measured in proton antiproton collisions at {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV. The data sample used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 340 pb{sup -1} collected with the CDF II detector. Both the differential cross section as a function of photon transverse energy E{sub T}{sup {gamma}}and the total cross section are measured and compared to a next-to-leading order prediction for the process.

Steady-state nonlinear bifurcation analysis of a high-impact polystyrene continuous stirred tank reactor

Abstract: In this work the open-loop nonlinear bifurcation analysis of a continuous stirred tank reactor where the high-impact styrene polymerization takes place is performed. The effect of potential manipulated and disturbance variables is addressed. The effect of nonlinearities on reactor startup is also discussed. One of the multiplicity sources is identified, and the implications for operability are stressed. Using the bifurcation maps, some ways of removing potential undesired nonlinearities are also mentioned.

The sex-determination pattern in crocodilians: A systematic review of three decades of research.

Abstract: Sex in crocodilians is not determined by chromosomes, but by egg incubation temperature, where different temperatures produce different clutch sex ratios. Two patterns have been proposed to describe these changes in sex ratios: a 100% female proportion at low and high temperatures with male predominance at intermediate ones (FMF) or a simpler pattern with a single female-to-male transition (FM). Over the last three decades, researchers have provided empirical information to support either of these two patterns in different species; however, no consensus has been reached partly because data have not been analysed as a whole. Here, we aimed at gathering the existing data on these patterns to provide models of temperature-dependent sex determination in those crocodilians studied so far. Potentially relevant publications were searched on Web of Knowledge, Scopus, Scielo and Science Direct. Studies that reported results on the sexual identity of crocodilian hatchlings obtained from constant temperature incubation treatments were considered. Using statistical models varying in their underlying assumptions, we evaluated which sex-determination pattern was best supported for the studied crocodilians and constructed species-specific and latitude-specific models. Based on the 8,458 sexed hatchlings studied throughout 31 studies, we show that the evidence supports a shared FMF pattern in all the crocodilian species for which enough data are available. We find that such pattern changes between species and at different latitudes. These results suggest a lability of the FMF crocodilian sex-determination pattern, a key feature under the present climate change scenario.