Publications by authors named "Ecklund S"

We report e;{+}e;{-}-->bb[over ] cross section measurements by the BABAR experiment performed during an energy scan in the range of 10.54 to 11.20 GeV at the SLAC PEP-II e;{+}e;{-} collider.

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We report the results of a search for the bottomonium ground state etab(1S) in the photon energy spectrum with a sample of (109+/-1) million of Upsilon(3S) recorded at the Upsilon(3S) energy with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B factory at SLAC. We observe a peak in the photon energy spectrum at Egamma=921.2(-2.

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As the need for neonatal intensive care units (NICU) continues to increase, a growing body of evidence on the developmentally appropriate healing environment for neonates suggests that changes are needed in NICU design. The private room NICU model is emerging as an alternative to large multi-bed wards; however, some have suggested that such a radical design change may be difficult to implement. This article presents the experience of one unit in the design and transition from a traditional setting to the private room model.

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We present measurements of time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in neutral B decays to several CP eigenstates. The measurement uses a data sample of 23x10(6) Upsilon(4S)-->BbarB decays collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B Factory at SLAC. In this sample, we find events in which one neutral B meson is fully reconstructed in a CP eigenstate containing charmonium and the flavor of the other neutral B meson is determined from its decay products.

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Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) have recently been described in association with necrotizing glomerulonephritis, systemic vasculitis, and other autoimmune-mediated connective tissue diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and polychondritis. At least two distinct classes of ANCA have been described, differentiated by characteristic immunofluorescence patterns using neutrophils as substrate for indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA). A focal, centrally accentuated, finely granular cytoplasmic staining pattern (c-ANCA) is both sensitive and specific for Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) and is thus a useful clinical adjunct in the diagnosis and monitoring of disease activity in WG.

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