The measurements of the production of prompt D 0 , D + , D * + , and D + s mesons in proton-proton (pp) collisions at √ s = 5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are reported. D mesons were reconstructed at mid-rapidity (|y| < 0.5) via their hadronic decay channels

A simple independent-quark model based on the Dirac equation with logarithmic confining potential of the form V ( r ) = ( 1 + y o ) [ a In( r /b)] with a, b > 0 is used to calculate the magnetic moments of light, charmed, and b-flavored baryons. Not only do the results obtained for light baryons agree reasonably well with experiment, but also the overall predictions for the charmed and b-flavored baryons compare very well with other model predictions.

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The nucleon electromagnetic form factors Gg (q '), G&( q2), G,&( q '), and the axial-vector form factor G,(q2) are calculated in a simple independent-quark model based on the Dirac equation with a logarithmic confining potential of the form V ' ( r ) = ( 1 + y0)a ln(r/b). The respective rms radii associated with Gl(q2) and G ,~ (q2) come out as ( ( r 2 ); )1/2=0.938 fm and (r; )1'2=0.953 fm. The magnetic moments, charge radii, and axial-vector coupling-constant ratios for octet baryons are also calculated with the appropriate center-of-mass correction. The results so obtained are quite comparable to experimental data.

In this work, we present the post-steady state analysis of the TCA cycle and a closed form solution to the rate of label washout from the C4 carbon of glutamic acid through the transaminases and the malate-aspartate shuttle and then through alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase. We demonstrate using a model of this problem that the rate of label washout depends not only on the flux through alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, but most importantly on the activity of the malate-aspartate shuttle as determined by the forward and reverse fluxes through the transaminases and by the rate of transport of glutamate and alpha-ketoglutarate across the mitochondrial membrane.