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The Eclipse (2009) Review
April 4, 2014 by Eric S. Leave a Comment
Synopsis: An Irish town hosts its annual literature and poetry festival, and widower Michael Farr (the incomparable Ciarán Hinds) volunteers to serve as a driver for Lena Morrell (Iben Hjejle), a horror/ghost novelist who has seen ghosts since she was a child. When Farr begins to see the ghost of his father-in-law (very much alive), he begins to question his sanity.
Leslie's Review: Amazon lists this as a horor film. IMDB lists this as a horror film. Though it made me jump (more than once), it's really more atmospheric than scary. I would describe it as a bittersweet ghost story about a family trying to heal after the loss of their wife and mother. I even teared up toward the end.
Though it's not traditionally horrifying, the solid camera work gives the film a creepy vibe. From noticeably stark angles to a concentrated use of silhouettes, it's a beautifully shot film. I don't suppose it hurts that it was filmed on location at the Irish seaside.
Don't get me wrong. There's blood (copious amounts at one point), and zombie-like ghosts, but the plot and emotions of the main characters supersede the supernatural elements. My only complaint is character development. By the end, I had no questions about Farr, but I wanted to know more about Morrell's past, more about the ghosts she sees and about why. Additionally, the antagonist, Nicholas Holden (played by the always delightful Aidan Quinn) was a run of the mill, belligerent, drunk, cheating, pompous guy. I wish his character had more depth. it's cool that he's terrible, but I want more motivation for his terribleness.
This film is free for Prime members right now, so if you like Ciarán Hinds and like your horror movies sans horror, give it a go. Otherwise, skip it.
Director: Conor McPherson
Origin: Ireland
This post was originally written by Leslie Shaip. You can follow her rants and movie reviews on her blog: Gallimaufry
Filed Under: British Horror Movies


A Jillian Vance Design: Backdrop Dies: How to Use Them!
Backdrop Dies: How to Use Them!
Jillian here. It's been a crazy weekend of volunteering at Bunbury, a music festival in Cincinnati. Today, I don't have a card, but I do have a video explaining my backdrop dies and how they work. There is some confusion sometimes among the dies, so I thought I would explain how they work and why I love them so much! I had to take the video down, as it wasn't working, so sorry about that! But here is a little breakdown of the different backdrops.
The Basic Backdrop, with the Stitched Dot Backdrop die on top.
The largest Basic Backdrop, Diagonal Stripe Cover Plate (the same size as the largest Stitched Dot/Polka Dot Backdrop) on an A2 card.


BigPanda is another one of our long-time clients. We've been working together for over four years now. Almost from their start. Over the years, we were BigPanda's website developers, conducting over five different versions of their main website, trying to reach the optimal conversion rates with each new version.
Working closely with BigPanda's design and UX team is both interesting and has taught has a lot. BigPanda is one of the most professional companies we've ever worked with.


Arizona Prison Watch: Deaths in Custody: Pete Calleros.
Phoenix, Ariz - Inmate Pete Calleros 143778, 28, died while in Arizona Department of Corrections custody Tuesday after apparently committing suicide.
Calleros, serving 22 years for second degree murder for the 2007 slaying of a man found behind a Goodwill store, was pronounced dead at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Calleros came to ADC July 14, 2009 and was held at the Cimarron Unit, ASPC-Tucson.
pete calleros did NOT commit suicide,he would never do that to himself REGARDLESS of how much time he had to serve..and he was a happy person all the time no matter what he always had a smile on his face..
Please check my post for Sat 8/15, where I responded to your concerns about Petey. There are probably others who need that information too; another suicide was just announced today. I'm very sorry for what you and your family must be going through. Do take care of yourselves and eachother.
i know for a fact that Pete would of never done that to him self. but we will keep an eye out, and Pete i know u are with me.


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Yana Djin (born Yana Nodarovna Dzhindzhikhashvili, 1969, in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Georgian- American poet.

Life
In 1980, she emigrated to the United States where she studied philosophy.  Her first book of poetry Bits and Pieces of Conversations was published in the US in 1994. Her father is a writer Nodar Djin.

Her Russian translation poems were first published in 1997 in the Literaturnaya Gazeta under the heading "The New Literary Star" followed by the publications in the literary magazines Druzhba Narodov and Novy Mir.
Her translations of Vladimir Gandelsman appeared in Metamorphoses, and an anthology.

In 2000, Yana Djin's book of poetry (in English and Russian) Inevitable was published in Moscow to critical acclaim. In 2003 her third book of poetry Realm of Doubts was published by the OGI publishing house. She wrote a biweekly social-political column "Letters from America" for the English language Moscow News.

She lived in Washington, D.C., and appeared at DCAC. She lives in New York.

Works
"Untitled and Unrhymed or a Bit Too Personal", Произведения в системе Литсовет. 2002
Bits and Pieces of Conversations, Poetry, H. A. Frager & Company, 1994,
''Yana Djin, Poem Hunter, 2009
Стихи Яны Джин из сборников «Неизбежное» и «Неприкаянность» в переводах Нодара Джина (Yana Djin. Inevitable. Moscow: Podkova, 2000; Realm of Doubts. Moscow: OGI, 2002).

Anthologies
High, John (ed) Crossing Centuries, Small Press Distribution, 1/9/2000,

References

External links
Yana Djin
Author's blog
"Feast of the Spirit", The Moscow Times Archive, 29 April 2000, Julia Flyagina

1969 births
Living people
Soviet emigrants to the United States
American women poets
21st-century American poets
American people of Georgian-Jewish descent
21st-century American women writers

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GLAM Program Closes, But Its Impact Lives On
Global Luxury Management
By Lea Hart
Poole College of Management recently made the difficult decision to close its dual degree Global Luxury and Management (GLAM) graduate program with the last class set to graduate this year.
The GLAM program is not ending due to a lack of success, but rather because of a shift in the long-term goals of the college, due in part to the pandemic and resulting global economic depression, Poole College Dean Frank Buckless announced in a statement.
Steve Allen, associate dean with Poole College of Management, noted the GLAM program attracted hundreds of strong students who went on to launch successful careers.
GLAM students at the SKEMA Business School in Paris
Students during the New York City trip
"They also had a great experience visiting New York and Paris to get first-hand exposure to the luxury industry," he said. "The benefits of a Master of Management from NC State will last them a lifetime."
While the news was tough to hear for students, alumni, board members, faculty and staff, there's an optimistic outlook for the future as alumni talk about the rich network they've built and the knowledge and skills GLAM graduates will continue to bring to the luxury industry.
"You have a group of alumni in this niche, an elite group that have pursued this degree and parlayed it into a career and into an opportunity that they never dreamed of," said Bill Humphries, chair of GLAM's Industry Advisory Board. "It's given them the skills, the opportunities, and the doors opened to achieve great things."
The history of the GLAM program
The GLAM program launched in 2012 and graduated its first class in 2013. It's a unique, accelerated dual degree Master's program in which students receive a Master of Management with a concentration in Global Luxury from NC State, and a Master of Science in Global Luxury Management from SKEMA Business School in Paris, France. They spend the fall semester in Raleigh and the spring semester in Paris, followed by four months of combined thesis and professional work.
"It was a result of NC State and Poole College of Management realizing that employers, specifically in the luxury industry, needed talent who could understand the intricacies and the nuances of the luxury industry and its consumers," said Kristie McGowan, director of the GLAM program. "The luxury industry needed employees with a global and also a holistic understanding of the business of luxury, with a focus on all three luxury sectors."
The program's focus on the three sectors of luxury – personal, experiential and transportation – is also unique. In the United States in particular, and often in luxury programs outside the U.S., McGowan said the focus tends to be predominantly on fashion or on just one sector of luxury.
"We really wanted to be able to support the business of luxury," she said. "As a result, we partnered with SKEMA France and together we offered this one-year, dual-degree program."
McGowan became involved in 2013 as a PhD student. The former director, Nancy Cassill, built the GLAM program from the ground up, McGowan said, and she went to work for Cassill as a graduate assistant. When Cassill left for an Associate Dean role in the College of Textiles, McGowan moved into the director role.
"The one thing about NC State's GLAM team is that we are small and mighty, with an emphasis on both of those things," McGowan said.
The program is run and maintained by McGowan, along with an assistant director – a role most recently held by Allison Anthony – and GLAM's own internal career management support. It is also advised and bolstered by its Industry Advisory Board, with board members who have significant experience spanning all three sectors of luxury.
"We had one of the most engaged, dedicated and passionate industry advisory boards," McGowan said. "All of them participated in a board mentorship program that I started a few years ago, where each student was paired with a board member.
We had one of the most engaged, dedicated and passionate industry advisory boards. All of them participated in a board mentorship program that I started a few years ago, where each student was paired with a board member.
"Board mentors approached those relationships not just for the year, but saw them as an opportunity to provide career-long relationships and mentoring."
Humphries said he got almost as much out of his board experience as the students did from the GLAM program.
"I got to see Kristie grow and build this program to where it is from where it started; the whole staff is incredible," he said. "And these students were so inspiring."
"We attracted students who were interested in the double major but were also go-getters. These were students that didn't leave anything on the field."
Together, the GLAM staff, faculty and the board led the program through many successes over the years. Graduates of the program, including this year's class, number 355. Those alumni are working at luxury companies large and small across every sector of luxury and all over the globe, McGowan said.
"Almost any luxury company or brand you can think of, we probably have alumni working there," she said. "Students have benefitted from the niche cross-cultural aspect of the program."
The program served as a differentiator for NC State and Poole College as well as the only master's program in the United States that focused on the business of luxury.
"We really took the NC State Think and Do motto to a whole new level," McGowan said. "It has been such an academic and experiential program."
Students at the GLAM welcome event in Raleigh
Students from the SKEMA Business School posing with Mr. and Mrs. Wuf
McGowan said she's proud of so many aspects of the GLAM program.
"I'm proud to have been part of something that was literally built from the ground up," she said. "There was no formula to follow – it was just a matter of being creative, resourceful, resilient, entrepreneurial, passionate and dedicated."
"It was a constant evaluation and re-evaluation as to how to provide the best to our students while simultaneously building and maintaining luxury relationships."
Of the current 43 students, 22 different undergraduate universities are represented
The unique nature of the program allowed Poole College to attract new and diverse students to NC State. In the current cohort of 43 students, 22 different undergraduate universities are represented, she said.
McGowan is especially proud of the program's students and alumni. The luxury industry can be unforgiving, she said, and the GLAM program prepared students for that.
"They enrolled with the hope that it would launch the career of their dreams," she said. "So many had not even travelled outside the US, or been exposed to the luxury industry and they found themselves working and living abroad and being immersed in the luxury industry."
GLAM is also unique in that it has also been a predominantly female business graduate program, often with roughly 75 percent of a cohort being female.
75 percent of an average cohort being female
"It was empowering and it was distinctive for our students," McGowan said. "Companies would often comment on it when we'd travel to New York."
In addition, often 35 to 40 percent of students were underrepresented minorities, she said.
35 to 40 percent of students were underrepresented minorities
"The breadth and depth of experience that each of the students brought into the cohort was almost as important as the education that we were providing to them," McGowan said.
Alumni and Industry Advisory Board members reflect
The impact of the GLAM program on the lives of its alumni continues to resonate. The program provided a truly unique opportunity to pursue what many would call their dream careers.
Emily Byerly ('15) has a unique perspective as both an alumna and Industry Advisory Board member. Today, she works across the transportation and experiential luxury sectors with Burgess Yachts.
"What prepared me most, especially in the industry I'm in now, was the projects we did in the GLAM program and the global influence of the program," she said.
As a board member, Byerly's role has, in large part, been about educating current GLAM students about life post-graduation. She gives them a realistic view of what it's like to work in the luxury industry, noting that it can take work to reach their ultimate goals.
"I knew I wanted to be in yachting, but my first job was in home furnishings," she said. "I knew I had to keep working hard and progressing to get to where I wanted.
"I do tell them, right after graduation, you may have to swallow the hard pill, but you will get there."
Marquelle Turner-Gilchrist ('14) grew up in rural North Carolina and says with a laugh, that he always wanted to get away from there. He did that and much more. Following the GLAM program, he lived in New York City where he worked for Hugo Boss before moving to Qatar to continue working in the luxury industry. Today, he's back in New York working for Gucci as the merchandising manager for Gucci's men's ready-to-wear line.
The GLAM program provided him access to the luxury industry in a time when it was difficult to get through the door as an underrepresented minority, he said. It also provided a global view, exposing him to many walks of life.
"Two of my closest friends in the program were from China," Turner-Gilchrist said. "For me, coming from this small town in North Carolina, it was so important to have that type of exposure because the fashion and luxury industry is such a global industry."
"It helped me understand the ways different people work and present. I feel much more comfortable and prepared in my profession because of that exposure."
Grace Isley '20 and her fellow GLAM classmates
Marquelle Turner-Gilchrist, GLAM class of 2014
Reina Robinson '19 outside of the Versailles Palace
Ericah Rogers ('18) studied fashion in her undergraduate degree, but wasn't quite sure where she wanted to go from there. The GLAM program helped her find her focus.
"I always correlated fashion with luxury and the GLAM program helped put all that together for me," she said. "It helped me understand what I loved and why I loved it."
After working for luxury brands including Louis Vuitton and Givenchy, today she's a client relationship manager for The Webster, a luxury multi-brand fashion house.
"The range of classes in the GLAM program definitely prepared me for the work I do now," Rogers said. "I can see the full scope of what's going on, from supply chain to leadership to merchandising."
Reina Robinson ('19) was already an NC State undergraduate in the Wilson College of Textiles when she heard about the GLAM program. She knew she wanted a future in fashion, but wasn't sure in what direction she wanted to go. Today, she works for Nordstrom Corporate in Seattle, where she was hired into the company's merchant-in-training rotational program.
GLAM Class of 2020 Nordsrtom Corporate Tour
GLAM students outside of a Ralph Lauren store
GLAM Class of 2019 at the One Thousand Museum presentation
"The GLAM program helped me feel really confident in who I was and what I knew," she said. "Coming out of undergrad, I wasn't sure what I could bring to the table – I had a great education and degree but didn't know how to speak to it.
"GLAM helped me hone in on my skills."
Grace Isley ('20) is among the most recent graduates, finishing the GLAM program in 2020. She is also an NC State undergraduate from the Wilson College of Textiles.
"When senior year was approaching, I knew I wanted to continue my education and pursue a master's degree," Isley said. "I was invested in the luxury fashion industry but wanted to expand my knowledge on personal, experiential, and luxury transportation.
"GLAM was the perfect avenue to explore luxury as a whole through its 360-degree view of the industry."
Isley worked for Michael Kors as an undergraduate, and then interned with Louis Vuitton and Luxury Institute during her time with the GLAM program. She was one of a number of GLAM students and alumni impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, starting her internship at a time when brick-and-mortar stores weren't necessarily operating as usual.
Following her internships in luxury fashion and luxury consulting, Isley accepted a marketing and operations role with the Natural Diamond Council, which promotes natural diamond jewelry.
"At the Natural Diamond Council, we're able to use our luxury media brand Only Natural Diamonds to create emotional dreams by sharing inspiring stories about natural diamonds 365 days a year," she said.
After working six years in the fashion industry, it's not where she originally imagined she'd end up in the luxury industry, but Isley said that's where the benefits of the GLAM program really stand out.
"Through GLAM, we were able to explore and develop our individual strengths," Isley said. "Through curated workshops with our directors and professors, classes, and industry visits, we were able to evolve our talents and watch them flourish throughout the program."
Carrying the program's success forward
As McGowan succinctly puts it, "the program is ending, but the industry isn't."
The GLAM program provided students with core strategic management skills with a focus on an understanding of the global luxury industry, she said. Those are skills that will be carried forward by alumni in their careers and will continue to impact business and industry for years to come.
It also provided a unique network of GLAM alumni who will remain connected.
Students of the GLAM class of 2015 sitting front row at a show during London Fashion Week
GLAM alumni at a networking event
GLAM class of 2014 students at the Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva Switzerland
Rogers said she feels uniquely connected to her cohort and knows that won't change.
"We all knew each other's hopes and dreams, and we still encourage each other," she said. "We're in constant communication because we're curious and care about each other's lives.
"I am still learning from the projects my classmates are doing and the things they're posting."
Robison also talks about the connections she made, along with the networking and communication skills she developed while in the program.
Equally impactful were the experiences the program provided, she said.
"To be able to immerse myself with my classmates in Paris; to visit the world headquarters of all of these luxury businesses," Robinson said. "Being a part of the GLAM program really expanded my horizons. It made me feel like so many more opportunities were possible."
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WEDNESDAY, July 11, 2007 (HealthDay News) -- Most American babies are now routinely tested at birth for an array of lethal or disabling genetic conditions, a new study from the March of Dimes finds.
In the last year, 88 percent of the nation's 4 million newborns received 21 or more of the 29 screening tests now recommended by the American College of Medical Genetics. Two years ago, just 38 percent of newborns received these tests.
"We're in the home stretch of a campaign for all babies to be screened for 20 or more genetic disorders," said Jennifer Howse, president of the March of Dimes. This testing is critical, she said, because the conditions involved are often treatable and "essentially the effects can be reversed if caught quickly."
Sickle cell anemia, congenital hypothyroidism, cystic fibrosis, hearing loss, phenyiketonuria (PKU, an enzyme deficiency), congenital adrenal hyperplasia, and galactosemia (another enzyme deficiency) are some of the most common genetic conditions included in the American College of Medical Genetic's list of 29 recommended screenings.
The screening test for 28 of the conditions involves taking a drop of blood from a newborn's heel before the baby leaves the hospital. Functional hearing loss -- which may affect as many as three to four newborns per thousand -- requires a separate assessment by a specialist, Howse explained.
The March of Dimes' Newborn Screening Report Card, released Tuesday, notes that 13 states -- Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia and Wyoming -- plus the District of Columbia currently mandate all 29 newborn screenings. Three more states -- Montana, Kansas and West Virginia -- are in the process of implementing a 29-test system.
Progress is being made in upgrading mandatory programs in states such as Montana, because "the 21st Century is the century of the Human Genome Project and the technology is there to be able to develop the tests to find the disorders," said Denise Higgins, supervisor of newborn screening for Montana's Public Health Laboratory.
Montana expects to have its 29-condition mandatory screening program in place by the beginning of 2008, Higgins added. Until now, the state has required newborn screening tests for only four types of genetic disorders, although additional testing has been available at parents' requests. Montana is already is screening almost all of its 12,000 newborns each year and in about one-third of the cases parents have asked for expanded screening.
Pennsylvania, with nine tests required, and Arkansas, which requires seven tests, will be the only remaining states requiring newborn screening for less than 10 conditions. Washington State, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Massachusetts and New Hampshire's programs now mandate between 10 and 20 tests.
"The ironic thing is that in the states that don't do all these screens, when babies show up in the ER in dire circumstances, treatment -- although too little, too late -- is automatically provided," Howse added. It makes little fiscal sense not to screen, she said, because treatment for these conditions is expensive. Even more important, "babies can die or are terribly, terribly disabled for a long period of time," Howse said.
Treatments are simple and cheap for some conditions. Dr. Mariana Glusman, a pediatrician at Children's Memorial Pediatric Uptown Clinic in Chicago, said that she has seen cases of congenital hypothyroidism caught early through newborn screening.
After treatment with a thyroid hormone, such as Synthroid, the babies develop normally, Glusman said. Without such treatment, their growth and brain development would have been retarded. "These are very rare diseases," Glusman said, referring to the 29 conditions on the screening list. "Catching them early really makes a difference."
Five of the states that screen for 28 conditions do not automatically screen for functional hearing loss, although such screening is offered. Seven other states that mandate screening for 28 conditions do not require testing for cystic fibrosis, which has a prevalence of more than one in 5,000 babies, according to the March of Dimes data. The March of Dimes only recently has begun to recommend newborn screening for cystic fibrosis.
Dr. Shari Brasner, an assistant clinical professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive science at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in New York City, suspects that some states may not require cystic fibrosis screening in newborns because so many parents have themselves tested before the baby is born.
"We tests for cystic fibrosis in almost all our [newborn] patients regardless of ethnicity," she said, because there is a significant prevalence in every single ethnic group.
For more on newborn screening, head to the March of Dimes.


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Q: React Datepicker won't shrink to parent container I'm having a difficult time getting react-datepicker to shrink to its parent container within my code. I have found suggestions on giving it a new stylesheet here, but I'm not sure what is the recommended way for styling a pre-made react component. Here is my code block:

<Card style={{height: '96%'}}>
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Release Date Range:

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                                            <DatesForm dateFilter={this.state.dateFilter} logDates={this.logDates}
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                                            <DatesForm dateFilter={this.state.dateFilter} logDates={this.logDates}
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A: So after messing with the datepicker's css for a bit and making no progress I looked into the code for creating the component. The component creates an input element as a 'portal' for people to click on. The input completely ignores any css from it's parent because it's given none on creation. To fix this problem I went into node modules->react-datepicker->es->index.js
Then I edited this line (at the time of writing this comment):
var customInput = _this.props.customInput || React.createElement("input", { type: "text" });

and changed it to give the input element that is created it's own width style, which I set to 100% so it will fill the parent container.
var customInput = _this.props.customInput || React.createElement("input", { type: "text" ,style: {width: "100%"}});

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HEY ROCCO READY TO HEAD ON THEIR DEBUT UK TOUR!
Kicking off at the infamous Brixton Windmill, via a showcase Club NME gig at Koko, before shooting around a list of some of the UK's most famous breakthrough-band venues, the band are jumping into the UK's music scene with both feet.
And with highly-regarded backing from the likes of Huw Stephens, Clash Magazine, NYLON and the NME, attention should swiftly start to turn onto the South-Carolina trio as they unleash their punchy, grungy and finely-crafted songs over the next four weeks.


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Nonmedical stimulant use among young Asian-Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and mixed-race individuals aged 12-34 years in the United States.
Wu, Li-Tzy
Swartz, Marvin S
Brady, Kathleen T
Blazer, Dan G
Hoyle, Rick H
NIDA AAPI Workgroup
There are concerns over nonmedical use of prescription stimulants among youths, but little is known about the extent of use among young Asian-Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders (NHs/PIs), and mixed-race individuals-the fastest growing segments of the U.S. population. We examined prevalences and correlates of nonmedical stimulant use (NMSU) and disorder (StiUD) for these underrecognized groups. Whites were included as a comparison. Data were from young individuals aged 12-34 years in the 2005-2012 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health. We used logistic regression to estimate odds of past-year NMSU status. Significant yearly increases in lifetime NMSU prevalence were noted in Whites only. NHs/PIs (lifetime 7.33%, past-year 2.72%) and mixed-race individuals (10.20%, 2.82%) did not differ from Whites in NMSU prevalence (11.68%, 3.15%). Asian-Americans (lifetime 3.83%, past-year 0.90%) had lower prevalences than Whites. In each racial/ethnic group, "Methamphetamine/Desoxyn/Methedrine or Ritalin" was more commonly used than other stimulant groups; "got them from a friend/relative for free" and "bought them from a friends/relative" were among the most common sources. Females had greater odds than males of NMSU (among White, NH/PI, mixed-race individuals) and StiUD (among mixed-race individuals). Young adults (aged 18-25) had elevated odds of NMSU (White, NH/PI); adolescents had elevated odds of StiUD (White, mixed-race). Other substance use (especially marijuana, other prescription drugs) increased odds of NMSU and StiUD. NHs/PIs and mixed-race individuals were as likely as Whites to misuse stimulants. Research is needed to delineate health consequences of NMSU and inform prevention efforts for these understudied, rapidly-growing populations.
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10.1016/j.jpsychires.2014.09.004
Wu, Li-Tzy; Swartz, Marvin S; Brady, Kathleen T; Blazer, Dan G; Hoyle, Rick H; & NIDA AAPI Workgroup (2014). Nonmedical stimulant use among young Asian-Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and mixed-race individuals aged 12-34 years in the United States. Journal of psychiatric research, 59. pp. 189-199. 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2014.09.004. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/19954.
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Daniel German Blazer
J. P. Gibbons Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
I am currently semi-retired. Most of my recent work has been focused on roles with the National Academy of Medicine (former Institute of Medicine). I have chaired three committees during the past four years, one on the mental health and substance use workforce, one on cognitive aging, and one on hearing loss in adults. I currently also chair the Board on the Health of Select Populations for the National Academies. In the past I have been PI on a number of research
Rick Hoyle
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Research in my lab concerns the means by which adolescents and emerging adults manage pursuit of their goals through self-regulation. We take a broad view of self-regulation, accounting for the separate and interactive influences of personality, environment (e.g., home, school, neighborhood), cognition and emotion, and social influences on the many facets of goal management. Although we occasionally study these influences in controlled laboratory experiments, our preference is to study the pu
Marvin Stanley Swartz
My major research interest is in examining the effectiveness of services for severely mentally ill individuals, including factors that improve or impede good outcomes. Current research includes: the effectiveness of involuntary outpatient commitment, psychiatric advance directives, criminal justice outcomes for persons with mental illnesses, violence and mental illness and antipsychotic medications. I also served as member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mandate
Li-Tzy Wu
Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Education/Training: Pre- and post-doctoral training in mental health service research, psychiatric epidemiology (NIMH T32), and addiction epidemiology (NIDA T32) from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health (Maryland); Fellow of the NIH Summer Institute on the Design and Conduct of Randomized Clinical Trials.Director: Duke Community Based Substance Use Disorder Research Program.Research interests: COVID-19, Opioid misuse, Opioid overdose, Opioid use disorder
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The theme of this year's show is Latitude / Longitude in recognition of the expansiveness of both our interior and exterior worlds. Artists interested in submitting work should contact Marie-Claire at programs[at]kiac.ca or stop by the KIAC office for more info and to pick up a submission form.
Submission forms are also available here for download.
DEADLINE to submit: Aug 5, 2016.


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"The Venice of New Jersey" proposed artwork for Cranford Station Windscreen, NJ Transit, Cranford, NJ
windscreen comprised of 26 3.5' x 7' laminated ¼"safety glass panels with a printed interlayer
A canoe, imprinted with a map of the tree-lined Rahway River, appears to glide above downtown on a river of Cranford street names, and features historic tile imagery, including color scheme and typical silhouettes, along with lanterns reminiscent of past river festivals and the Cranford Canoe Club.
Brookland Middle School: banners and paving inserts
Ten banners of varying lengths hang perpendicular to the school facade, each pair featuring an element-oriented color scheme.
As one gets closer, it becomes clear that the color of each pair may be similar, but the surface pattern is not. One "wing", or grouping of five banners, appears to have flowing parallel lines reminiscent of feathers, while the other "wing", or grouping of five banners, has photographic views of the actual element associated with that particular color; each of these banners displays degrees of magnification, similar to the Eames' Powers of Ten film, in which each view is taken closer than the previous one.
As one walks by, the colors of the banners seem to shift; the elements/colors are different on each side, making for a transformative viewing experience depending on the direction of one's approach.
A large paving insert in the form of an abstracted feather, with veins on the feather made up of Brookland street names, will be inlaid in bronze within a concrete or exterior terrazzo surface. Every street name in the neighborhood, small or large, will be represented within this, as a way of acknowledging the history of Brookland.
When reading about the development of Brookland's name through its earliest inhabitants, it became clear how much the names of past residents and the names of streets interconnect. Those whose surnames are not reflected here still have a connection to the name of the place they were raised. Because Brookland is a neighborhood school, it is likely that every student will recognize at least one of these street names as theirs, and others belonging to their friends, their route to school, etc. While many of the students who start school this year will most likely move on some day, the street names will always be relevant to new students as well as those from the past.
Using the feather, and its obvious relationship to wings, as a way of listing these meaning-laden names, rather than a map, directs the focus to each street equally, without than injecting some sort of hierarchy. With the conceptual essence of the world swaying on the wing-like banners above, and the feather like fossilized personal evidence below, the macro and the micro, the past, present and future, are visually connected.
Brookland Middle school: OUTDOOR CLASSROOM Solar wings
One of the prominent features of the outdoor classroom is the area at the south end provided for solar panels as a learning tool. The view from here is invigorating, and seems to invite some sort of visual call and response. A pair of solar powered wings which hover above the classroom and are illuminated a brilliant turquoise at night, visible for blocks around when viewed from the east, will unite these two features of the space. Both the school identity, and its sustainable design, would be broadcast through a form that has always been romantic and elusive to humans, a great pair of wings. When students want to identify which school they attend, they can immediately respond with pride, "I go to the one with the wings".
brookland middle school: ENTRY PLAZA Water tank supply indicator and wind vanes
The Brookland entry plaza is never totally unoccupied; both wind and water pass through all year long. A series of wind vanes that reflect the direction, consistency, and force of the wind will express this ebb and flow, and make it tangible to students, Vane ornaments will feature silhouettes of Pegasus, the school mascot, varying in height from ten to fifteen feet high, and would be scattered along the length of the plaza sidewalk parallel to the school façade. The casual, somewhat linear layout of these verticals will appear to support a pre-flight, nearly alight, herd of Pegasus. Depending on the wind conditions, the direction the herd faces will change, ranging from orderly alignments to colorful disarray. The wind's behavior will be immediately visible due to the coloration of the Pegasus ornaments. Just as students wait for rain or snow and announce their earliest sighting to the class, defined wind direction will become another window gazing sport. The slightly maze-like arrangement of poles can provide entertainment, a spatial organizing device, or something to lean on for both students and parents waiting for pick up connections and transportation.
pollinating denver: proposal for garrison lightrail station
This artwork focuses on pollination as both a metaphor for the role of residents in the greater Denver community and as an important component of local environmental stewardship. Just as plants depend on insect pollinators to stimulate growth, cities depend on commuters and public transportation to create a rich and diverse urban entity.
The Eiber neighborhood's emphasis on an agricultural past and current xeriscaping and sustainability issues means that plant pollination has always been and continues to be an integral part of local life. An interest in developing indigenous pollinators, partly by planting the native species that attract them, in the face of diminishing honey bee populations is especially urgent. The Garrison station provides an opportunity to support symbiotic relationships on both the macro and micro level.
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" I dreamed...in Bayonne"
A spire-topped steel pyramid display stand, which echoes the architecture of the existing train station, features porcelain enamel 'postcards' displayed on the station's main plaza. Postcard images from the Bayonne Public Library collection will be featured, each with a citizen's silhouette superimposed on it, reflecting the city's past while echoing the Maidenform ad campaign of the 60s and 70s.
Swoop: maze project for artlantic
"Swoop" consists of a translucent enclosure with a dramatic undulating profile, reminiscent of waves. Its double circle footprint, similar to the symbol for infinity, allows visitors to navigate their way through its maze-like interior.
The entire structure features a positive 'green' message as well. The translucent walls of the entire structure, built of plastic bottles recycled by the local community and encased in plastic netting to create patterns of shifting hues, suggest reflections in water as they encircle the wooden frame. Dramatically lit at night, these parallel bands will glow with rich color, functioning as a magical lantern in downtown Atlantic City.
"CON-TRIBUTARIES", a proposal for the Riverscaping Competition
"Con-tributaries" is an initially benign illustration of the river, as a set of tributaries that merge, and yet it reflects the grim reality of human activity as it converges with extreme wet weather events and physically overflows into the Connecticut River.
In echoing Dr. Seuss' stylistic treatment of peripatetic plumbing, Con-Tributaries creates an inviting and playful approach to lure newcomers to the river from downtown Springfield, MA. Once visitors have identified a path to the riverbank, the stage is set for presenting the story of Springfield's current relationship to the river. Upon arrival, the scenic presence of the river speaks for itself, and yet the typical resident's understanding of the river's health and use, by their very own community, may not be so immediate. This is where the awareness of Springfield's continued use of CSOs comes into play, as the sculpture element in the competition-designated site educates visitors to this continued and destructive reliance on the river as a convenient removal device for human waste. Familiar recycled materials are incorporated into the artwork to further emphasize needed reconsideration of conventional approaches to the communal waste stream.


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Chanel was first diagnosed with sickle cell at the age of nine months and has relied on regular blood transfusions to keep her alive ever since.
Mum-of-one Chanel Taylor, aged 36, from Wandsworth was first diagnosed with sickle cell at the age of nine months.
"As a baby, my nan would look after me and one night my temperature was boiling like a kettle. She called the ambulance and I was rushed to hospital where I received an emergency blood transfusion. At that point it was a matter of life or death – that blood transfusion saved my life." She said.
"I got older, I was in and out of hospital and on various medications, but my body was weak and fatigued. I was also a single parent and I felt weighed down from balancing motherhood with sickle cell."
In 2019, Chanel made the decision to stop drug treatments and look into exchange transfusions. She booked in for her first exchange transfusion in 2019.
"Having that first exchange transfusion honestly changed my life. I had a newfound spring in my step, I was so happy and energised that I had to tell myself to calm down as I knew I couldn't over-exert myself." She said.
She now receives 7 units of blood every 5 weeks at St George's Hospital.
If it wasn't for the donors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm able to be a role model to my child and for that, I'm extremely grateful. I want to say a massive thank you to all the donors.
"The exchange transfusions have significantly enhanced my quality of life. My relationship with my daughter has also really improved. I now have the energy to take her out to after school clubs, social activities and generally spend more time with her. I'm able to instil structure in my life and have a better routine." She said.
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Ernie's Bar & Pizza will raffle off a New Belgium cruiser tonight
Laura Shunk | July 18, 2011 | 12:26pm
New Belgium is a bike-focused brewery, which organizes two-wheeled tours, encourages people to turn in their cars for cycles, and even has custom bikes made. But unless you work at New Belgium, where those cruisers are stored and gifted for years of service, the only way to get one is to win it.
Tonight you've got a chance at Ernie's Bar & Pizza.
The restaurant, which has become a real go-to spot in the Highland neighborhood, is teaming up with the brewery to hold Ride Your Bike to Ernie's Night. If you walk in the door after 3:30 p.m. today, you'll be given a raffle ticket to win the custom-made bicycle.
The winner won't be announced until between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m., and you must be present to win. Fortunately, Ernie's menu has plenty to keep you busy -- including excellent selections of both pizza and beer, that time-honored combination.
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It might not have meant too much at either end of the table, with the play-offs all but beyond North End and Ipswich already relegated.
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Emergency services attended and the woman, in her 50s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Preston North End midfielder Josh Harrop has taken a big step forward in his recovery from a ruptured cruciate ligament by returning to full training.
Harrop posted on Twitter on Sunday that he had taken part in his first full training session that morning.
Ask any Preston North End fan for their best memory of a game against Wigan and it would be the 1-0 victory at the JJB Stadium in April 2000.
The pair scored twice each in the 4-0 win as North End found their form after the recent results dip.
Robinson took his tally for the season to 13, while in Nmecha's case he doubled his goals for the campaign.
A stroll in the sunshine ended Preston's run of three defeats on the bounce with an emphatic 4-0 win against already-relegated Ipswich.
Two goals each from Callum Robinson and Lukas Nmecha ensured that the horrors of the last four games were put to one side as North End played some good football against, an admittedly, under par Ipswich outfit.
And it seems some away fans were desperate to get in.
Chorley FC were hosting Stockport County in a National League North game, kicking off at 1pm.
Many saw it as a title decider with Chorley one point behind first place Stockport with three games to go.
Lytham and Fleetwood Coastguard raced to the scene after reports of the incident in Freckleton creek.
A passer-by had helped the woman to safety early on Saturday evening.
But her dog was missing.
One of the questions on the hit BBC show, featuring Ian Hislop and Paul Merton, was about Preston.
Thugs chucked a tin of white gloss paint at somebody's front window in Garstang Road, Claughton, police said.
"This not only caused distress and upset ... but also rebounded, causing further damage to the stationary car on the drive," an officer said.
Officers were called to Meadow Street, Deepdale, at around 8am on Saturday.
A Lancashire Constabulary spokesman confirmed they had been notified of a death outdoors.
At this stage there is no indication of anything suspicious.
Chorley FC returned to the top of the National League North thanks to a 2-0 win over title rivals Stockport County.
At 1pm the Magpies were a point behind County with three games to go.
Brockholes Nature Reserve came to the rescue as Hayley and Simon Keogh desperately scoured Lancashire looking for a last minute replacement.
Preston Police said today on Facebook: "In the early hours a burglary was committed at Lancashire Fire Station on Blackpool Road, Preston.
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Media release: "When a child is hungry; when they aren't sure where home will be at the end of the day; when they don't have adequate clothing; it's very hard for them to focus on learning," says Wozney. "The evidence is clear that on average, children living in poverty experience worse academic outcomes and are twice as likely to drop out of school. They also have a much higher chance of developing a mental health issue."
Media release: Deep cuts to Options and Opportunities (O2) Program detrimental to students
The NSTU has received word that funding and staffing for the Options and Opportunities (O2) program has been cut at some high schools next year. O2 is a co-op program that provides young people with guidance and on-the-job experience to help them positively transition into the workforce.
Media release: Cuts to Early Literacy Support Program will impact hundreds of children
News release: NSTU President Paul Wozney says the elimination of at least 20 Early Literacy Support (ELS) teaching positions will impact hundreds of students. He is again calling on Education Minister Zach Churchill to release the full list of schools across the province experiencing a reduction in ELS next year.
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News release: The NSTU is calling on the government to release a full list of schools across the province where Early Literacy Support teaching positions have been cut.
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NSTU president Paul Wozney: "Nova Scotians are tired of the petty political battle that has overwhelmed our education system and demoralized teachers. It's time to change the narrative and begin a constructive conversation about what needs to be done to make Nova Scotia Canada's leader in delivering quality public education."
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Teachers Union president Paul Wozney is not impressed with the first meeting of the government-appointed Provincial Advisory Council on Education (PACE). Presented as somewhat of a a replacement for disbanded school boards, it turns out PACE's 'meetings will not be public, and based on the sparse minutes of its first meeting the government intends to limit any actual influence the group can have on its decision making process and sweeping power over public schools.
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Nova Scotia Teachers Union president Paul Wozney writes on the intricacies of reporting on class size caps, and offers suggestions on improving transparency in terms of that important issue. "Now that elected school boards are gone, it's imperative that parents are armed with the knowledge they need to advocate on behalf of their children. They must have the facts so they can hold the government directly accountable and ensure commitments that impact their children are met," writes Wozney.
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News release: With the abolition of elected school boards, Nova Scotia now has the least accountable and transparent education system in Canada, says NSTU President Paul Wozney.
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The provincial government is engaged in an orchestrated effort to move education jobs out of the union sphere. 1000 school principals, 200 or more school psychologists and speech and language pathologists, social workers and new positions in the expanding Schools Plus program will no longer be unionized. "While this may be a less sensational way of weakening the unions than, say, imposing wage freezes and concessions that force teachers and other education workers out onto the picket line, it poses no less a threat to their very existence," writes John McCracken.


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\section{Introduction}
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A variety of theories beyond the Standard Model (BSM), as Pati-Salam model \cite{Pati:1974yy}, grand unification theories \cite{Georgi:1974sy} and BSM composite dynamics \cite{Pelaggi:2017wzr}, predict the existence of hypothetical particles carrying both lepton and baryon number, the so-called leptoquarks (LQs). These particles caught recently a special attention from the high energy physics community, since they represent the best candidates \cite{Fajfer:2012jt, Alonso:2015sja, Fajfer:2015ycq, Barbieri:2015yvd, Becirevic:2016yqi, Cai:2017wry, Aebischer:2019mlg, Angelescu:2018tyl, Calibbi:2017qbu, Alvarez:2018gxs}  to explain anomalies in flavor physics observed by  experiments on $B$-meson decays:  Belle \cite{Huschle:2015rga, Hirose:2016wfn, Sato:2016svk, Abdesselam:2016cgx}, Babar \cite{Lees:2012xj, Lees:2013uzd} and by LHCb \cite{Aaij:2015yra, Aaij:2014ora, 1705.05802}. In particular, the experiments find the indication of  lepton flavor universality violation in the ratio observables $R_{D^{(*)}}$, at about 4$\sigma$ level (by combining the results of the different experiments), and $R_{K^{(*)}}$. The most precise measurement of $R_{K^{(*)}}$ to date, by LHCb \cite{Aaij:2019wad}, shows a deviation of 2.5$\sigma$ from the Standard Model prediction.
 It is really appealing that the anomalies can be explained simultaneously by models with LQs in the TeV range \cite{DiLuzio:2017chi}, thus in the reach of the LHC.  The optimization of the search strategies for LQs at the LHC is thus very important to enlighten the physics behind the flavor anomalies and in general for seeking BSM physics.\\

\section{Simplified models for leptoquarks}
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Motivated by the $B$-physics anomalies, we focus on two representative models: (i) the scalar LQ $S_3=(\mathbf{\bar{3}},\mathbf{3},1/3)$, where we indicate the SM quantum numbers, $(SU(3)_c,SU(2)_L,U(1)_Y)$, with the electric charge, $Q=Y+T_3$, and the (ii) vector LQ $U_1=(\mathbf{3},\mathbf{1},2/3)$, which we describe now in detail:

\begin{itemize}
\item[•] $\underline{S_3=(\mathbf{\bar{3}},\mathbf{3},1/3)}$:

The $S_3$ LQ has been considered in models addressing the $B$-physics anomalies with two scalar LQs~\cite{Becirevic:2018afm,Marzocca:2018wcf}. The Yukawa Lagrangian of the simplified model for $S_3$ reads~\cite{Dorsner:2016wpm}
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:S3model}
\mathcal{L}_{S_3}  = y_L^{ij} \, \overline{Q^C_{i}} i \tau_2 ( \tau_k S^k_3) L_{j}+\mathrm{h.c.}\,,
\end{equation}
\noindent where $\tau_k$ ($k=1,2,3$) denote the Pauli matrices, $S_3^k$ are the LQ triplet component and $y_L$ is a generic Yukawa matrix. It is assumed that an appropriate symmetry forbids LQ couplings to diquarks, which are tightly constrained by experimental limits on the proton lifetime. If we recast the above expression in terms of charge eigenstates, we obtain:
\begin{align}
\begin{split}\label{eq:lag-S3}
\mathcal{L}_{S_3} = &- y_L^{ij} \, \overline{d^C_{L\,i}} \nu_{L\,j}\, S_3^{(1/3)}-\sqrt{2} \, y_L^{ij} \, \overline{d^C_{L\,i}} \ell_{L\,j}\, S_3^{(4/3)}\\[0.4em]
&+\sqrt{2}\,\left(V^\ast y_L\right)^{ij}\, \overline{u^C_{L\,i}} \nu_{L\,j}\, S_3^{(-2/3)}-\left(V^\ast y_L\right)^{ij} \overline{u^C_{L\,i}} \ell_{L\,j}\, S_3^{(1/3)}+\mathrm{h.c.}\,,
\end{split}
\end{align}
where $V$ is the CKM matrix. The superscript denotes the electric charge of the LQ states.
Note that the model allows for the LQ interaction with muon and bottom and with  muon and strange, which can mediate a process accounting for the anomaly in $R_{K^{(*)}}$, and also an $S_3$ interaction with a top and a neutrino, which is relevant for the LQ search at colliders. This latter interaction leads to a $S_3 \to t\bar \nu$ decay with a branching fraction:
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:br-s3}
\mathcal{B}(S_3^{(2/3)}\to t \bar{\nu}) \simeq \dfrac{(y_L \cdot y_L^\dagger)_{33}}{\displaystyle\sum_{i}\big{(}y_L \cdot y_L^\dagger \big{)}_{ii}}\, ,
\end{equation}
where we adopted a compact notation, $(y_L \cdot y_L^\dagger)_{ii}\equiv \sum_j |y_{L}^{ij}|^2$.

\item[•] $\underline{U_1=(\mathbf{3},\mathbf{1},2/3)}$:

The $U_1$ model attracted a lot of attention because it can provide a simultaneous explanation to the anomalies in $b\to s$ and $b\to c$ transitions, with a single mediator~\cite{Buttazzo:2017ixm}. The most general Lagrangian consistent with the SM gauge symmetry allows couplings to both left-handed and right-handed fermions. If we neglect the interactions to right-handed fields, we have, in the mass eigenstate basis:

\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}^{L}_{U_1}= \left(V^\ast x_L\right)^{ij}  \bar{u}_{L\,i} \gamma_\mu U_1^\mu \nu_{L\,j} + x^{ij}_L \bar{d}_{L\,i} \gamma_\mu U_1^\mu \ell_{L\,j} + \mathrm{h.c.} \ ,
\end{equation}

where $x_L^{ij}$ are Yukawa couplings, and we obtain that
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{B}(U_1^{(2/3)}\to t \bar{\nu}) \simeq \mathcal{B}(U_1^{(2/3)}\to b \bar{\tau}) \simeq \frac{1}{2}\, \dfrac{(x_L \cdot x_L^\dagger)_{33}}{\displaystyle\sum_{i}\big{(}x_L \cdot x_L^\dagger \big{)}_{ii}}\,,
\end{equation}
where we neglected fermion masses, similarly to Eq.~\eqref{eq:br-s3}.

The $U_1$ QCD interactions that control the $U_1$ pair production at colliders are determined by the kinetic terms:
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}^{kin}=-\frac{1}{2} U_1^{\dagger\mu\nu} U^{1}_{\mu\nu}- i \, g_s \, k \, U^{\dagger\mu}_{1} T^{a} U_{1}^{\nu} G^a_{\mu\nu} \, ,
\end{equation}
where $U^{\mu\nu}_1$ denotes the $U_1$ strength tensor and $k$ is a dimensionless parameter which depends on the ultraviolet completion of the model. We can identify the two scenarios of minimal coupling (MC), $k=0$, and the Yang-Mills (YM) case, $k=1$.
\end{itemize}

 In Table \ref{tab:lq-states}, we list different LQ states that can decay to $t\bar{\nu}$,  along with the corresponding operator, which can arise via interactions with a lepton doublet ($L$), or a right-handed neutrino ($\nu_R$). The third column of Table~\ref{tab:lq-states} indicates the maximal value of $\mathcal{B}(\mathrm{LQ}\to t\bar{\nu})$ allowed by gauge symmetry.
In the following, we will assume that the dominant interactions are the ones to third-generation left-handed fermions, as suggested by the $B$-physics anomalies. In this case, the branching fractions to $t\nu$ will be $100\%$ for $S_3$ and $50\%$ for $U_1$, which are the most optimistic values.

\begin{table}[htbp!]
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.7}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}\hline
Field  & Spin & Quantum Numbers &   Operators & $\mathcal{B}(\mathrm{LQ}\to t\bar{\nu})$ \\ \hline\hline
$R_2$  & $0$ & $(\mathbf{3},\mathbf{2},7/6)$ &  $\overline{u_R} R_2 i \tau_2 L$ & $\leq 0.5$ \\
$\widetilde{R_2}$  & $0$ & $(\mathbf{3},\mathbf{2},1/6)$ &  $\overline{Q} \widetilde{R_2} \nu_R$ & $\leq 1$ \\
$\bar{S}_1$  & $0$ & $(\overline{\mathbf{3}},\mathbf{1},-2/3)$ &  $\overline{u_R^C} \bar{S}_1 \nu_R$ & $\leq 1$ \\
$S_3$  & $0$ & $(\overline{\mathbf{3}},\mathbf{3},1/3)$ &  $\overline{Q^C} i \tau_2 \vec{\tau}\cdot \vec{S}_3L$ & $\leq 1$\\ \hline
$U_1$  & $1$ & $(\mathbf{3},\mathbf{1},2/3)$ &  $\overline{Q}\gamma_\mu U_1^\mu L\,,$~$\overline{u_R}\gamma_\mu U_1^\mu \nu_R$ & $\leq 0.5\,,~1$ \\
$\widetilde{V_2}$  & $1$ & $(\overline{\mathbf{3}},\mathbf{2},-1/6)$ & $\overline{u_R^C}\gamma_\mu \widetilde{V}^{\mu}_2 i \tau_2 L$\,,~$\overline{Q^C}\gamma_\mu i \tau_2 \widetilde{V}^\mu_2 \nu_R$  & $\leq 0.5\,,~1$ \\
$U_3$  & $1$ & $(\mathbf{3},\mathbf{3},2/3)$ & $\overline{Q}\gamma_\mu \vec{\tau}\cdot \vec{U}^\mu_3 L$  & $\leq 0.5$  \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{ \small Classification of the LQ states that can decay to $t\bar{\nu}$, in terms of the SM quantum numbers, $(SU(3)_c,SU(2)_L,Y)$, with $Q=Y+T_3$. We adopt the same notation of Ref.~\cite{Dorsner:2016wpm} and we omit color, weak isospin and flavor indices for simplicity. The last column corresponds to the maximal value of $\mathcal{B}(\mathrm{LQ}\to t \bar{\nu})$, as allowed by gauge symmetries. In the cases where interactions to lepton doublets ($L$) and right-handed neutrinos ($\nu_R$) are both allowed, i.e.~for the models $U_1$ and $\widetilde{V}_2$, we give the maximal branching fraction assuming only interactions to $L$ or $\nu_R$, respectively.}
\label{tab:lq-states}
\end{table}

\section{LQ phenomenology at hadron colliders}

 The general LQ phenomenology at hadron colliders has been
 explored in \cite{Mohapatra:1984aq} and more recently in \cite{Dorsner:2016wpm, Dorsner:2018ynv, Diaz:2017lit}. The relevant processes at the LHC are pair production of LQs driven by QCD interactions, single production mediated by model-dependent couplings of the LQs to leptons and quarks, $y\backslash x$, and the LQ exchange in the $t$-channel leading to high-$p_T$ dilepton final states, which depends quadratically on the couplings $y\backslash x$. Since the three processes depend differently on the $y\backslash x$ couplings, they can provide complementary probes at the LHC of different regions of the coupling-mass parameter space of the LQ models.
Several searches, which give bounds on the LQ masses, have been performed by ATLAS and CMS so far. The strongest limits on 2/3-charged third-generation LQs are currently set by the CMS analysis in \cite{Sirunyan:2019xwh}, which considered pair produced LQs each decaying to a neutrino and a top, bottom, or light-flavor quark and used 137 fb$^{-1}$ of data at a center of mass energy $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV.  A vector LQ decaying 50\% to $t\nu$ is excluded by this analysis for masses below 1550 GeV, in the Yang-Mills (YM) case, and for masses below 1225 GeV in the minimal coupling (MC) scenario. A scalar LQ decaying 100\% to $t\nu$ is excluded up to masses of 1140 GeV.
In the following, we summarize the main results of the analysis in \cite{Vignaroli:2018lpq}, which tried to improve the search strategy for LQs and estimated the sensitivity of the LHC at a collision energy of 14 TeV and at high luminosity.
The study  in \cite{Vignaroli:2018lpq}  considers pair produced vector and scalar LQs each decaying into a top and a neutrino, leading to a final state of two tops plus missing energy. This channel, due to  a peculiar topology and to the possibility of exploiting the top tagging to disentangle the signal from the background, proves to be very powerful and it represents one of the best channels to probe LQs involved in the explanation of the flavor anomalies.

\section{Search strategy in the $\bf t \bar{t}$ plus missing energy channel}
\label{sec:search}

We summarize in this section the main results of the study  in \cite{Vignaroli:2018lpq}, which outline a search strategy at the 14 TeV LHC for pair-produced scalar and vector LQs, decaying each into a top quark and a neutrino. In particular, the analysys considers the $U_1$ and $S_3$ LQs introduced in section \ref{sec:setup}, assuming a decay branching ratio into $t\nu$ of 50\% for $U_1$ and of $100\%$ for $S_3$. The final state is given by two tops decaying hadronically plus missing energy.
The main background consists of $Z+\mathrm{jets}$ events where the $Z$ decays to neutrinos and leads to missing energy. Minor backgrounds come from $W+\mathrm{jets}$ and $t\bar t$ events, where a leptonic decaying $W$ leads to missing energy from the neutrino and a lost lepton \cite{Sirunyan:2018kzh}.

Signal and background events are simulated at leading order with MadGraph5\_aMC@NLO \cite{Alwall:2014hca}. Events are then passed to Pythia \cite{Sjostrand:2006za} for showering and hadronization. A smearing to the jet momenta is also applied in order to mimic detector effects \cite{Ovyn:2009tx}. Signal events are generated via UFO files \cite{Degrande:2011ua}, created by using Feynrules \cite{Christensen:2008py}. For the case of the scalar LQ $S_3$, correction factors to the cross section values are applied, which account for QCD next-to-leading-order effects. They are calculate by using the code in \cite{Dorsner:2018ynv}. Jets are clustered with Fastjet \cite{Cacciari:2011ma} by using an anti-kt algorithm \cite{Cacciari:2008gp}. A large cone size, $R=1.0$, is chosen in order to optimize the top reconstruction procedure.

The signal is characterized by large missing transverse energy, $\slashed{E}_T$, and at least two fat-jets, coming from the hadronic decays of the two tops. Considering these signal features, as a first step of the analysis, the events are accepted if they satisfy the conditions:
\begin{equation}
\slashed{E}_T > 250 \, \text{GeV}\,, \qquad n_j\geq2 \; \, (p_T \, j > 30 \,  \text{GeV} \, , \,  |\eta_j|<5)  \, ,\qquad \ \textsf{lep veto}\,,
\end{equation}
with $n_j$ denoting the number of jets satisfying the $p_T$ and rapidity requirements. Events are rejected if at least one isolated lepton, either a muon or an electron, with $p_T>$ 10 GeV and in the central region $|\eta|<$ 2.5 is found (\textsf{lep veto}).

A crucial part of the search strategy in \cite{Vignaroli:2018lpq} relies on the reconstruction of both of the two tops in the final state. A simple reconstruction procedure is applied, which basically consists on cutting the fat-jets invariant mass around the top mass. Indeed, since the jets are clustered on a relatively large cone size and the tops in the signal are boosted, most of the top decay products are collected in a single fat-jet. Details are provided in \cite{Vignaroli:2018lpq}. The efficiency of the top pair tagging is of about 20\% for the signal, while the background is rejected by a factor of about 1.4$\cdot 10^3$. Only the events with two top tagged jets are then selected. Once having identified the two tops,
several observables are constructed based on them, which can efficiently discriminate the LQ signals from the background. The selection is then completed by applying cuts on these ``top observables". One of these observables is inspired by the $M_{T2}$ variable commonly used by experimental searches \cite{Sirunyan:2017kqq}. In \cite{Vignaroli:2018lpq} it is constructed upon the tops, instead on jets, and it is defined as
\begin{align}\label{eq:MT2}
\begin{split}
& M_{T2} \equiv \text{max} \left\{ M_{T\, t(1)} , M_{T \, t(2)} \right\}\,, \\
&\\[-0.2cm]
M_{T\, t(i)} & = \sqrt{ 2   \slashed{E}_T  \,  p_T \, t(i)\,  \big( 1- \Delta\phi(\slashed{E}\, , t(i))/\pi \big) }\,, \qquad i=1,2\,,
\end{split}
\end{align}
where $p_T \, t(1,2)$ is the transverse momentum of the top $t (1,2)$ and $\Delta\phi(\slashed{E} \, , t(1,2))$ denotes the azimuthal angular separation between the missing energy vector and the top $t (1,2)$. Other ``top observables" used as signal-to-background discriminants are the invariant mass of the system made of the two tops, $M_{tt}$, and the transverse momenta of the tops.
The signal selection is thus refined by imposing the cuts:

\begin{equation}\label{eq:cut-main}
\slashed{E}_T > 500 \, \text{GeV} \quad M_{tt} > 800 \, \text{GeV}
\end{equation}

\noindent which exploits the large missing energy and the large invariant mass of the top pair system in the signal events, and the two set of cuts on the transverse momenta of the tops and on the $M_{T2}$ variable:

\begin{align}\label{eq:ref-cuts}
\begin{split}
& \text{\it loose}: \qquad M_{T2}>800 \, \text{GeV} \quad p_T \, t(1) > 500  \, \text{GeV} \quad p_T \, t(2) > 300 \,  \text{GeV} \,, \\
& \text{\it tight}: \qquad M_{T2}>1100 \, \text{GeV} \quad p_T \, t(1) > 700  \, \text{GeV} \quad p_T \, t(2) > 500 \,  \text{GeV} \,,
\end{split}
\end{align}

\noindent where the {\it loose}  ({\it tight})  selection is applied to signals with masses up to (above) 1.4 TeV.

\section{HL-LHC reach}
\label{sec:reach}

Fig. \ref{fig:reach}, taken from \cite{Vignaroli:2018lpq}, indicates the HL-LHC reach on vector and scalar LQs derived from the analysis summarized in the previous section. The results in \cite{Vignaroli:2018lpq} show that with 3 ab$^{-1}$ (300 fb$^{-1}$) the HL-LHC can exclude a vector LQ $U_1$ up to 1.96 TeV (1.72 TeV) or observe at 3$\sigma$ the corresponding signal for masses up to 1.83 TeV (1.6 TeV) in the YM case. In the MC scenario, $U_1$ LQs  up to 1.62 TeV (1.4 TeV) can be excluded with 3 ab$^{-1}$ (300 fb$^{-1}$). For the scalar LQ $S_3$, the exclusion reach extends up to 1.54 TeV (1.3 TeV) with 3 ab$^{-1}$ (300 fb$^{-1}$), while $S_3$ as heavy as 1.41 TeV (1.16 TeV) can be observed at 3$\sigma$. The study in \cite{Vignaroli:2018lpq} thus shows that the identification of the tops in the final state and the use of ``top observable" for the signal-to-background discrimination is very efficient to improve the LHC sensitivity to LQs.
Furthermore, the study applies a simple cut-and-count analysis so that we expect that these results are conservative. A more refined top reconstruction, making use for example of substructure techniques as ``jettiness" \cite{Thaler:2010tr, Stewart:2010tn} or a statistical analysis of the shape of the relevant distributions considered in \cite{Vignaroli:2018lpq} could augment the reach of the HL-LHC.

\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{S3-reach} \\ [0.2cm]
\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{U1-reach-ym}~\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{U1-reach-mc}
\caption{\small HL-LHC reach. Integrated luminosity required to exclude at 95\% C.L. (black line) or to observe at 3$\sigma$ (blue dashed line) a scalar LQ $S_3$ (upper plot) and a vector LQ $U_1$ (lower plots) as a function of their mass. For $U_1$, the plot on the left (right) refers to the YM (MC) scenario with $k=1 (0)$.}
\label{fig:reach}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusions}
\label{sec:conclusions}

LQs are interesting particles to be searched for at colliders. They are predicted in appealing BSM models and they represent the best candidates to accomodate $B$-physics anomalies.
The  $t\bar t$  plus missing energy channel from pair production of third-generation LQs proves to be one of the most efficient to discover LQs.
A dedicated search in the channel at the LHC, relying on the $t\bar t$ tagging, can significantly extend the reach. In particular,
``top observables" constructed upon the tagged tops are useful to both discriminate the signal from the background and to characterize the signal.
The HL-LHC reach is wide on the parameter space of interesting models and in particular on the LQ models that can explain the flavor anomalies, as shown in \cite{Vignaroli:2018lpq}.

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