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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Homefront Heroes Tax Relief Act of
2009''.
SEC. 2. CREDIT FOR CARE PACKAGES FOR MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES IN A
COMBAT ZONE.
(a) In General.--Subpart A of part IV of subchapter B of chapter I
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating t... | Homefront Heroes Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax credits for: (1) sending care packages to members of the Armed Forces serving in a combat zone; and (2) providing volunteer service to military families through the America Supports You program of the Department of Defense (DOD). |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Rural and Urban Health Care Act of
2001''.
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION OF H-1C NONIMMIGRANT NURSES.
(a) In General.--Section 212(m) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(m)) is amended to read as follows:
``(m)(1) The qualifi... | Rural and Urban Health Care Act of 2001 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) revise admission requirements for nonimmigrant alien nurses, including increasing the type of qualifying employer-facilities; and (2) increase the number of annual two-year foreign residency requirement waivers for aliens recei... |
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Buckingham Palace has said it is disappointed that footage from 1933 showing the Queen performing a Nazi salute has been released.
The Sun has published the film which shows the Queen aged about seven, with her mother, sister and uncle.
The palace said it was "disappointing that film... | – Buckingham Palace is seething today at images in the Sun of a young Queen Elizabeth raising her hand in the Nazi salute. Rupert Murdoch's tabloid obtained a short film clip of the royal family horsing around in 1933 or 1934, when Elizabeth was about 7 years old. In the clip, Elizabeth makes the gesture along with her... |
trace minerals such as zn , cu and mn are necessary for health in dairy cows because they play important roles in protein synthesis , body metabolism , formation of connective tissue and immune system function .
oxidative stress is an important pathogenic factor in many diseases that has also recently been found to... | to evaluate the effects of chelated zn / cu / mn on redox status , immune responses and hoof health in lactating holstein cows , 48 head in early lactation were divided into healthy or lame groups according to their gait score .
cows were fed the same amount of zn / cu / mn as sulfate salts or in chelated forms for 1... |
Investigators were examining evidence found in the car and talking with Mr. Ortega-Hernandez’s relatives, who told them that he appeared to have a fixation on the White House or President Obama , one official said. Another official said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had traced the origin of th... | – The 21-year-old drifter suspected of firing a semi-automatic rifle at the White House has been arrested in Pennsylvania, reports the AP. Police say they caught Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez at a hotel in the southwestern part of the state after an intense manhunt. His distinctive tattoos, including a prominent one of... |
As the election has drawn closer, Donald Trump's voice on Twitter has gotten louder. And progressively more insane.
Finally, he's getting called for his nonsense.
On NBC, Brian Williams said, Trump has "driven well past the last exit to relevance and veered into something closer to irresponsible."
Williams ... | – If you were watching ABC's election coverage last night, there was probably just one question on your mind: Is Diane Sawyer really drunk, or just tired? Gawker has an amusing video montage that seems to support what many assumed: She was smashed. The video pieces together clips of Sawyer slurring and stumbling over h... |
giant resonances of nuclei are a clear manifestation of the strong collective excitation modes in many - body quantum systems .
detailed experimental and theoretical studies have been devoted to find out all possible giant resonances with various multipole transitions @xcite .
inelastic @xmath1 scattering has been used... | isoscalar giant resonances and low spin states in @xmath0s have been measured with inelastic @xmath1 scattering at extremely forward angles including zero degrees at e@xmath2 = 386 mev . by applying the multipole decomposition analysis , various excited states
are classified according to their spin and parities ( j@... |
Technology reviews by website CNET have long been respected for their thoroughness and integrity, but that reputation has come under scrutiny after a top reporter quit over what he says is editorial interference by its parent company, CBS Corp.
The dispute centers on CNET's choice of best gadgets from last week's I... | – A CNET reporter has left the tech review site after owner CBS stepped in to alter a story. When the CNET team picked a Dish Network product as the best home theater and audio item at the Consumer Electronics Show, CBS rejected the choice. That's because CBS is in the midst of a legal battle with Dish, the AP reports.... |
The body of Sydney Loofe, 24, was found, according to her family. She’d been missing for more than two weeks after going on a date with a woman she met online. Lincoln Police Department Courtesy photo ||||| CLOSE “Ready for my date,” were the last four words anyone heard or read from Sydney Loofe on November 15th. Thre... | – Sydney Loofe sent friends a selfie on Snapchat on Nov. 15 with the caption, "Ready for my date." It was the last time friends would hear from Loofe, who went on a date with a woman she'd met on Tinder but didn't turn up for work the next day, police say, per the Washington Post. On Tuesday, their three-week search fo... |
yellow , blue and dark blue : this is the simple color palette used for painting and penning each of the two - sided nobel diplomas awarded to takaaki kajita @xcite and arthur b. mcdonald @xcite . on the left side , one can gaze at an artist s view sketched with a few broad strokes of the neutrino transformative tri... | within the standard @xmath0 mass - mixing framework , we present an up - to - date global analysis of neutrino oscillation data ( as of january 2016 ) , including the latest available results from experiments with atmospheric neutrinos ( super - kamiokande and icecube deepcore ) , at accelerators ( first t2k @xmath1 a... |
Chinese President Xi Jinping was greeted by Vice President Joe Biden after landing in Maryland on Thursday. (AP)
Chinese President Xi Jinping was greeted by Vice President Joe Biden after landing in Maryland on Thursday. (AP)
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday will announce a nationwide cap-and-trade progra... | – President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to make an announcement today on one of the few things they agree on. The White House says that at a joint press conference with Obama, Xi plans to announce a 2017 launch date for a national cap-and-trade program to cut emissions, reports the Guardian, which no... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Small Business Health Care Relief
Act of 2008''.
SEC. 2. REFUNDABLE CREDIT FOR SMALL BUSINESSES WHICH PROVIDE HEALTH
CARE COVERAGE FOR EMPLOYEES.
(a) In General.--Subpart C of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1
of the Internal Revenue ... | Small Business Health Care Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small business owners with 50 or fewer employees a refundable tax credit for the payment of a portion of the health care expenses of their employees. |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``TVA Distributor Self-Sufficiency Act
of 2001''.
SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY OF TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY.
Section 4 of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 (16 U.S.C.
831c) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(m)(1) Shall no... | TVA Distributor Self-Sufficiency Act of 2001 - Amends the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 to prohibit the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) from prohibiting, interfering with, or impairing any determination made or any activity conducted by a TVA distributor to build, acquire any interest in, operate, or purchase... |
the detection of planets outside of our solar system has opened up the possibility of answering several questions which have nagged the minds of philosophers for millennia .
these questions include : is the architecture of our solar system typical or unusual ?
how common are planets the size of the earth ?
how common i... | as we learn more about the frequency and size distribution of exoplanets , we are discovering that terrestrial planets are exceedingly common . the distribution of orbital periods in turn results in many of these planets being the occupants of the habitable zone of their host stars . here
we show that a conclusion o... |
understanding the statistical properties of a fully developed turbulent velocity field from the lagrangian point of view is a challenging theoretical and experimental problem .
it is a key ingredient for the development of stochastic models for turbulent transport in such diverse contexts as combustion , pollutant disp... | a detailed comparison between data from experimental measurements and numerical simulations of lagrangian velocity structure functions in turbulence is presented . by integrating information from experiments and numerics , a quantitative understanding of the velocity scaling properties over a wide range of time scales... |
Three days in Chicago: three kids shot, two killed
Police stand near a car in an alley between Kostner and Kenneth avenues while investigating a fatal shooting in North Lawndale. | Andy Grimm/Sun-Times
Three children were shot in Chicago in less than three days — two fatally — with the third still in critical c... | – A Chicago toddler was shot and killed on Tuesday in what police suspect was a "gang hit" on a man in a vehicle with him, just a few days after two young girls were shot in the head. It marked the latest spasm of violence in a city struggling to contain such attacks. Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Gugliel... |
human cancers rely on multiple overlapping signal transduction pathways to activate and regulate cellular proliferation , survival and migration programs .
the epithelial - to - mesenchymal transition ( emt ) is a critical process in embryonic development for metazoan organisms and a similar process has also been sho... | over 90% of all cancers are carcinomas , malignancies derived from cells of epithelial origin . as carcinomas progress
, these tumors may lose epithelial morphology and acquire mesenchymal characteristics which contribute to metastatic potential . an epithelial - to - mesenchymal transition ( emt )
similar to the p... |
over the last five years there has been unprecedented effort directed at quality and efficiency improvements in health care using health information technology ( hit ) .
such activities are now underway at the national , state , and local community levels . given the complexity and rapid pace of development and chang... | rising health information technology ( hit ) adoption and the increasing interoperability of health data have propelled the role of it in community - wide health transformations . disseminating the challenges and opportunities that the early adopters of community - wide hit interventions have experienced is critical fo... |
is generally used to refer how someone discerns and thinks about themselves , and it has persuasive influence in one 's life .
the concept of self is of major interest and is the indispensable human need .
the self - concept is unique to individual and changes over time with environmental context .
development ... | aim : the aim of the study was to assess the self - image of the patients with head and neck cancers ( hncs ) by using a mixed method research.subjects and methods : a mixed method approach and triangulation design was used with the aim of assessing the self - image of the patients with hncs .
data was gathered by us... |
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Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new... | – If you're bored on the University of Rochester campus after the bars let out, don't do as this student did: Police say 22-year-old Robert Cordaro Jr. hopped into a Rural Metro ambulance around 2:20am Thursday and drove a quarter of a mile until he crashed into a flower bed, per WHAM. Cordaro was charged with grand la... |
Two U.S. women suffered miscarriages after being infected with the Zika virus, according to officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The virus, which usually causes mil... | – Two pregnant American women infected with the Zika virus have miscarried, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday. It's the first potentially Zika-related miscarriages in the US, the Washington Post reports. According to ABC News, officials have been concerned the virus could cross through t... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Higher Education Affordability and
Fairness Act of 2005''.
SEC. 2. DEDUCTION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION EXPENSES.
(a) Increase in Dollar Limitation.--Subsection (b) of section 222
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to dollar limitations)
is amen... | Higher Education Affordability and Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the tax deduction for qualified higher education tuition and related expenses. Makes such tax deduction permanent. Increases adjusted gross income limits for purposes of determining the allowable amount of the Hope Sc... |
(CNN) Tonya Couch, the mother of so-called "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch, has posted bail after her bond was lowered from $1 million to $75,000.
Couch will be released Tuesday after she's fitted with an electronic ankle monitor, Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said.
Authorities have accused Tonya Couch of he... | – Tonya Couch, mom to "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch, will likely be released from jail in Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday after posting bond. A Tarrant County judge reduced her bond from $1 million to $75,000 on Monday after hearing that the government has frozen Couch's bank account, leaving her essentially broke, report... |
It has taken thousands of years, but a combination of 21st-century forensic science and luck has finally revealed what happened to Tutankhamun – the world's most famous pharaoh.
Mystery has surrounded the boy king ever since his death in 1323BC, aged 19. The mystery intensified when the archaeologist Lord Carnarvon... | – The story of King Tut's death—and what followed—just got even more interesting, all thanks to a single piece of flesh. That remnant of Tutankhamun is the only one of its kind known to exist outside Egypt, and British experts decided to analyze it after stumbling upon a decades-old record by one of the archaeologists ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``United States Export Promotion Act
of 2005''.
SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF FEES CHARGED FOR EXPORT PROMOTION PROGRAMS.
(a) Elimination of Fees.--The Secretary of Commerce, the
International Trade Administration, and the United States and Foreign
Commercial ... | United States Export Promotion Act of 2005 - Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce, the International Trade Administration, and the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service (USFCS) from charging fees to U.S. exporters, businesses, or persons for assistance provided to them under export promotion programs.
Revises the capital... |
during the last years , we have witnessed an increasing interest in the optical properties of metallic nanoparticles .
research in the area of plasmonic nanoelectronics explores the behavior of electromagnetic fields which are confined over dimensions smaller than the wavelength .
this field confinement is induced by i... | the electromagnetic behavior of plasmonic structures can be predicted after discretizing and solving a linear system of equations , derived from a continuous surface integral equation ( sie ) and the appropriate boundary conditions , using a method of moments ( mom ) methodology . in realistic large - scale optical pr... |
at zero temperature all degrees of freedom tend to freeze and usually a variety of different orders , such as superconductivity and magnetism , will develop in different materials .
however , in a quantum system with a large zero - point energy , one may expect a liquid - like ground state to exist even at @xmath6 . in... | due to strong geometric frustration and quantum fluctuation , @xmath0 quantum heisenberg antiferromagnets on the @xmath1 lattice has long been considered as an ideal platform to realize spin liquid ( sl ) , a novel phase exhibiting fractionalized excitations without any symmetry breaking .
a recent numerical study [... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011''.
SEC. 2. LEGISLATIVE STAY.
(a) Establishment of Standards.--In place of the rules specified in
subsection (b), and notwithstanding the date by which such rules would
otherwise be required to be promulgated, the Admin... | EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011 - Provides that the following rules shall have no force or effect and shall be treated as though they had never taken effect: (1) the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Major Sources: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters; (2) t... |
the dark matter particle explorer ( dampe ) is a space mission supported by the strategic space projects of the chinese academy of sciences with the contribution of swiss and italian institutions @xcite .
the rocket has been successfully launched on december 17 , 2015 and dampe presently flies regularly on a sun - syn... | the dampe ( dark matter particle explorer ) satellite was launched on december 17 , 2015 and started its data taking operation a few days later . dampe has a large geometric factor ( @xmath0 ) and provides good tracking , calorimetric and charge measurements for electrons , gammas rays and nuclei .
this will allo... |
The study found no link between consuming butter and an increased risk of heart disease or stroke, instead finding that butter might actually be slightly protective against type 2 diabetes. And although consuming butter was linked with an increased risk of early death, the increase in risk was extremely small, the rese... | – We might all owe Paula Deen an apology. A study published this week in PLOS ONE finds no connection between eating butter and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. On the contrary, researchers found eating butter might actually make people slightly healthier by reducing the risk of diabetes. Researchers from T... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Small Business Paperwork Relief Act
of 2001''.
SEC. 2. FACILITATION OF COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL PAPERWORK REQUIREMENTS.
(a) Requirements Applicable to the Director of OMB.--Section
3504(c) of title 44, United States Code (commonly referred to as the
``... | Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2001 - Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act to require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, annually, to publish in the Federal Register and make available on the Internet a list of the paperwork compliance resources available to small businesses. Requires the follow... |
glioblastomas are the most common and aggressive among primary brain tumors . in spite of the intensive basic and clinical studies ,
one - third of patients keep surviving no longer than one year from diagnosis , and average life expectancy remains dismal ( 1215 months ) , even when radical surgical resection , chemo... | glioblastomas are characterized by altered expression of several ion channels that have important consequences in cell functions associated with their aggressiveness , such as cell survival , proliferation , and migration .
data on the altered expression and function of the intermediate - conductance calcium - activa... |
it is characterized by a complex of neuropathological , biochemical , and behavioral symptoms , that gradually impair memory and the ability to learn , carry out daily activities and behavior .
in particular , ibotenic acid - induced lesions of the nbm in rats produce impairment in acquisition and retention phase of ... | background : alzheimer 's disease was known as a progressive neurodegenerative disorder in the elderly and is characterized by dementia and severe neuronal loss in the some regions of brain such as nucleus basalis magnocellularis .
it plays an important role in the brain functions such as learning and memory .
loss... |
recent discoveries have underlined a key role of astrophysics in the study of nature . in this paper
we are presenting a potential instrument for measuring high energy photon polarization with a proven detector technique which should allow preparation of a reliable tool for the space - borne observatory .
polarization ... | a high - energy photon polarimeter for astrophysics studies in the energy range from 20 mev to 1000 mev is considered .
the proposed concept uses a stack of silicon micro - strip detectors where they play the roles of both a converter and a tracker .
the purpose of this paper is to outline the parameters of such... |
the population in pakistan has a high risk of diabetes and coronary heart disease , and common risk factors related to the two conditions are present at early ages . this elevated risk amongst pakistanis
migrants from the indian subcontinent living in europe and america have higher rates of cardiovascular risk factor... | objectives . previous studies have shown that the norwegian - pakistanis had considerably higher prevalence for diabetes and obesity compared to norwegians .
we studied the additional risk of obesity , dyslipidemia , and hypertension among pakistanis in norway compared to pakistanis living in pakistan .
method .
... |
nanochains of metals @xcite , as well as of carbon , semiconductors and organic materials @xcite have recently been the subject of experimental and theoretical studies .
similar chains of many other chemical elements and compounds have not been studied . because of the present interest in nanotechnology these studies a... | thin nanowires of silicon oxide were studied by pseudopotential density functional electronic structure calculations using the generalized gradient approximation .
infinite linear and zigzag si - o chains were investigated . a wire composed of three - dimensional periodically repeated si@xmath0o@xmath1 units
was a... |
thioglycosides are
widely used as glycosyl donors in the synthesis
of complex oligosaccharides because their stability , ease of activation ,
and flexibility in the tuning of glycosyl coupling conditions .
numerous
thioglycosyl donors have been developed , resulting in both technological
advances and mechan... | in
this article , we evaluate glycosyl dithiocarbamates ( dtcs ) with
unprotected c2 hydroxyls as donors in -linked oligosaccharide
synthesis . we report a mild , one - pot conversion of glycals into -glycosyl
dtcs via dmdo oxidation with subsequent ring opening by dtc salts ,
which can be generated in situ f... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Expanding Exemptions to Enable More
Public Trust Act'' or the ``EXEMPT Act''.
SEC. 2. GENERAL EXEMPTIONS.
(a) Amendments.--Section 30113 of title 49, United States Code, is
amended--
(1) in subsection (b)(3)(B)--
(A) in ... | Expanding Exemptions to Enable More Public Trust Act or the EXEMPT Act This bill authorizes the Department of Transportation to exempt highly automated vehicles from certain motor vehicle safety standards if an exemption would facilitate the development or field evaluation of the safety features of such vehicles. |
advances in laboratory technologies and data analysis methodologies are permitting the exploitation of complex experimental data sets in ways that were unthinkable just a few years ago ( 13 ) .
however , although the number of scientific articles containing relevant data is steadily increasing , the majority of publi... | there is an increasing interest in developing ontologies and controlled vocabularies to improve the efficiency and consistency of manual literature curation , to enable more formal biocuration workflow results and ultimately to improve analysis of biological data .
two ontologies that have been successfully used for ... |
understanding how the order flow affects the dynamics of prices in financial markets is of utmost importance , both from a theoretical point of view ( why and how prices move ? ) and for practical / regulatory applications ( i.e trading costs , market stability , high frequency trading , ` tobin ' taxes , etc . ) .
the... | market impact is a key concept in the study of financial markets and several models have been proposed in the literature so far .
the transient impact model ( tim ) posits that the price at high frequency time scales is a linear combination of the signs of the past executed market orders , weighted by a so - called ... |
Authorities have arrested two eastern Ohio girls suspected of making social media threats against a West Virginia girl who accused two high school football players of raping her in a case that drew widespread attention.
Trent Mays, 17, left, gets a hug from his father, Brian Mays, after Trent and co-defendant Ma'Li... | – Police have arrested two 16-year-old girls for allegedly posting social media death threats against the victim of the Steubenville rape case, WTOC reports. The threats were made on Facebook and Twitter, the AP reports; CBS News quotes one of them as reading, "you ripped my family apart, you made my cousin cry, so whe... |
Story highlights President Barack Obama says Russia's actions will have costs, consequences
Russia's ambassador to the United States blames Kiev for the current escalation
Ukraine says it will reinstate compulsory military service in the fall
Donetsk rebel leader: Up to 4,000 Russians are fighting; some are... | – The UN Security Council is set to hold an emergency meeting this afternoon at the request of Lithuania to address what Ukraine is calling a Russian invasion across the border, reports the AP. At least 1,000 Russian troops were said to have entered Ukraine with "sophisticated equipment" and have already killed Ukraini... |
anisotropies in the cosmic background radiation ( cbr ) are a strong potential source of information on the cosmological model .
unfortunately , anisotropy observations are hard and significant measures were obtained only recently . as a matter of fact ,
the theory of cbr anisotropies is well understood ( see , e.g. , ... | we compute cbr anisotropies in mixed models with different hot components , including neutrinos or volatile hdm arising from the decay of heavier particles .
the cbr power spectra of these models exhibit a higher doppler peak than cdm , and the discrepancy is even stronger in volatile models when the decay gives ris... |
He Earned a Total of $2,500 in Scholarships, One for Best Single Photograph
San Francisco (June 24, 2015) — Winning college journalists in the National Photojournalism Championships were announced recently by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation‘s Journalism Awards Program.
Timothy Tai, a Missouri School of J... | – A University of Missouri photojournalist on freelance assignment for ESPN found himself in a confrontation with student activists Monday as they tried to ban him from the tent city they'd set up on campus in response to recent racial strife there, the New York Times reports. A tense video taken by Mark Schierbecker s... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Technology Export Review Act''.
SEC. 2. ANNUAL REVIEW OF CONTROLLED ITEMS.
Section 4 of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App.
2403) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(h) Control List Review.--
``(1) In gene... | Technology Export Review Act - Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to direct the Secretary of Commerce to conduct periodic reviews of national security and foreign policy export controls on goods and technology in order to ensure that requirements for validated licenses to export are periodically removed as su... |
formation of massive galaxies provides a critical test of theories of galaxy formation and evolution . before modern deep observations ,
the most massive galaxies known were local elliptical galaxies with no ongoing star formation . the classical model for these objects ( e.g. , * ? ? ? * ) was monolithic formation at ... | we analyze a sample of galaxies chosen to have @xmath0 and satisfy a certain irac color criterion .
irs spectra yield redshifts , spectral types , and pah luminosities , to which we add broadband photometry from optical through irac wavelengths , mips from 24 - 160 , 1.1 millimeter , and radio at 1.4 ghz .
stellar... |
SECTION 1. APPLICABILITY OF PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT TO FEDERAL TRUST FUNDS
AND OTHER FEDERAL ACCOUNTS.
(a) Protection of Federal Funds.--Notwithstanding any other
provision of law--
(1) no officer or employee of the United States may--
(A) delay the deposit of any amount i... | Prohibits a U.S. officer or employee from: (1) delaying the deposit or credit of any amount into any Federal fund, otherwise varying from normal procedures for making deposits or credits, or refraining from investments in public debt obligations of amounts in such fund if the purpose of such action or inaction is to n... |
Published 15 April 2015
The Liberal Democrat Party launched its 2015 election manifesto today (15 April) which included pledges to increase support for carers and invest in dementia research.
As well as this there was a commitment to continue to integrate health and social care systems and end the practice of '... | – The skinnier you are in middle age, the more likely you are to get dementia in your old age, according to British researchers who sound baffled by their own findings. In the largest study of its kind, the researchers looked at up to 20 years of medical records from almost 2 million people, average age 55, and found t... |
when probing small distances inside a hadron with a fixed momentum scale @xmath2 one resolves its constituents quarks and gluons .
as one increases the energy of the scattering process , the parton densities seen by the probe grow . at some energy much bigger than the hard scale
, the gluon density has grown so large t... | following the good - and - walker picture , hard diffraction in the high - energy / small@xmath0 limit of qcd can be described in terms of eigenstates of the scattering matrix off a color glass condensate . from the cgc non - linear evolution equations ,
it is then possible to derive the behavior of diffractive cros... |
the helicobacter pylori ( h. pylori ) bacterium is responsible for 5.5% of all infection - associated cancers and is the major cause of gastric cancer in consequence of chronic inflammation .
persistent gastric mucosa inflammation results in chronic gastritis and progresses through a multistep process to gastric at... | objective .
helicobacter pylori ( hp ) is recognized by tlr4 and tlr2 receptors , which trigger the activation of genes involved in the host immune response .
thus , we evaluated the effect of eradication therapy on tlr2 and tlr4 mrna and protein expression in h. pylori - infected chronic gastritis patients ( cg - ... |
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Everyone knows someone who met their spouse online. A friend of mine whom I hadn’t seen in years told me recently that she, too, met her husband on an Internet dating site. They’re happily married, just moved into a new house, and are now talking about starting a family.
When I asked he... | – Online dating could help you find your perfect match—but your chances aren't any better than they'd be at a bar, a study suggests. You can't tell much about the people listed on sites like Match.com. Browsing such lists "overloads people and they end up shutting down," the psychology professor behind the study tells ... |
in 1934 , baade and zwicky published a prophetic paper making a phenomenological connection between supernovae ( sns ) , the core - collapse of massive stars , and the formation of neutron stars ( then hypothetical ) ; all purely on grounds of energetics .
decades later their conjecture was first vindicated by the disc... | we report the discovery of pulsed x - ray emission from the compact source 1e 1841@xmath0045 , using data obtained with the _ advanced satellite for cosmology and astrophysics_. the x - ray source is located in the center of the small - diameter supernova remnant ( snr ) kes73 and is very likely to be the compact ste... |
this was a cross - sectional study with 321(190 men and 131 women ) participants waiting at the medical centers of tehran .
they were recruited through random cluster sampling from the second , third and seventh districts of tehran medical centers ( private , governmental and charity ) , hospitals and clinics .
the... | objectivethis study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire to measure waiting anxiety.methodsthis was a cross - sectional study .
extensive review of literature and expert opinions were used to develop and validate the waiting anxiety questionnaire .
a sample of 321 participants was recruited through random ... |
we focus on the logarithmic sobolev inequality for unbounded spin systems on the d - dimensional lattice @xmath1 ( @xmath2 ) with quadratic interactions .
the aim of this paper is to prove that when the single site measure without interactions ( consisting only of the phase ) @xmath3 satisfies the log - sobolev inequal... | we assume one site measures without a boundary @xmath0 that satisfy a log - sobolev inequality . we prove that if these measures are perturbed with quadratic interactions , then the associated infinite dimensional gibbs measure on the lattice always satisfies a log - sobolev inequality .
furthermore , we present exa... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Creating Access to Rehabilitation
for Every Senior (CARES) Act of 2013''.
SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF MEDICARE 3-DAY PRIOR HOSPITALIZATION REQUIREMENT
FOR COVERAGE OF SKILLED NURSING FACILITY SERVICES IN
QUALIFIED SKILLED NURSING FAC... | Creating Access to Rehabilitation for Every Senior (CARES) Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to coverage of extended care services without regard to the three-day prior hospitalization requirement (non-post-hospital extended care services). Restricts such coverage to no... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act shall be known as the ``Internet Gambling Study Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds as follows:
(1) Gambling is regulated primarily by State and tribal
governments and Federal statutes governing the interstate
p... | Internet Gambling Study Act - Requires the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a comprehensive study of Internet gambling, including the existing legal framework that governs such activities and transactions and the impact of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act on Interne... |
Image copyright James Gallagher Image caption Peter has Huntington's disease and his siblings Sandy and Frank also have the gene
The defect that causes the neurodegenerative disease Huntington's has been corrected in patients for the first time, the BBC has learned.
An experimental drug, injected into spinal fl... | – A woman who inherited Huntington's Disease is suing a London hospital for not divulging that her father had the degenerative illness, the Guardian reports. Still unidentified, the woman says she would have aborted her child if she'd known, and now worries for the future of her 8-year-old daughter—who has a 50% chance... |
an ambitious goal in cosmology is to understand how the universe evolved from its presumed beginning in the big bang to the familiar collection of stars and galaxies that we observe around us today .
the last decade has seen tremendous progress in understanding the large role that gravitational instability almost certa... | the advent of 8m - class telescopes has made galaxies at @xmath0 relatively easy to detect and study .
this is a brief and incomplete review of some of the recent results to emerge from surveys at these redshifts . after describing different strategies for finding galaxies at @xmath1 , and the differences ( and simi... |
in 2011 the kepler mission announced 997 stars with a total of 1235 planetary candidates that show transit - like signatures ( borucki et al .
it is estimated that more than 95% of these candidates are planets ( morton & johnson 2011 ) , although a much higher false positive rate of 35% for kepler close - in giant cand... | we present 100 year light curves of kepler planet - candidate host stars from the digital access to a sky century at harvard ( dasch ) project .
261 out of 997 host stars have at least 10 good measurements on dasch scans of the harvard plates .
109 of them have at least 100 good measurements , including 70% ( 73 o... |
A California State Parks ranger was placed on leave after he was found intoxicated and asleep in his patrol car with a beer between his legs, officials said.
A passerby stumbled upon the ranger, Tyson Young, on the afternoon of Aug. 15 in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, which is off Highway 101 south of Eureka, accor... | – Nothing like cracking open a brew and falling asleep ... at the wheel of your patrol car. That's apparently why California State Parks Ranger Tyson Young was found dozing in his parked vehicle on Aug. 15 in Northern California, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. A passerby (who's staying anonymous) found him passed... |
h. pylori eradication is strongly recommended in all patients with atrophic gastritis and peptic ulcer disease , but may also benefit subgroups of patients with dyspepsia , and patients who start with nsaid therapy [ 16 ] .
h. pylori eradication therapy is an important component of guidelines concerning these patient... | the treatment of choice of h. pylori infections is a 7-day triple - therapy with a proton pump inhibitor ( ppi ) plus amoxicillin and either clarithromycin or metronidazole , depending on local antibiotic resistance rates .
the data on efficacy of eradication therapy in a group of rheumatology patients on long - term... |
the realization of quantum communications relies on setting up entanglement of high fidelity between two far - away physical systems . in practice photons
are primarily used for the carrier of entanglement .
if one tries to establish entanglement by sending photons directly to a remote place , however , the range of co... | we present a quantum repeater protocol that generates the elementary segments of entangled photons through the communication of qubus in coherent states .
the input photons at the repeater stations can be in arbitrary states to save the local state preparation time for the operations .
the flexibility of the schem... |
Baby Gammy, one-year-old at centre of Thai surrogacy scandal, granted Australian citizenship
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Baby Gammy, who was at the centre of a surrogacy scandal in Thailand, has been granted Australian citizenship.
Born with Down syndrome via a surrogate mother in Thailand, Gammy was left behind while his heal... | – The baby who last year made international headlines in a surrogacy controversy is now a 1-year-old Australian citizen, though he still lives in Thailand. Gammy, who has Down syndrome and a heart condition, can now access Australian health care, the BBC reports. He has been a regular patient at a Thai hospital, the Sy... |
Image copyright EPA Image caption Rodrigo Duterte came to power in 2016 promising a crackdown on drug dealers
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has said he plans to withdraw his country from the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it began examining the country's drugs war.
"It is apparent that the ICC... | – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has had a bumpy relationship with the International Criminal Court. He once described it as "bulls---," then in February said he welcomed its preliminary investigation into allegations of crimes against humanity during Duterte's war on drugs. Now, he says he'll pull the Philippine... |
lead ( pb ) is a major environmental pollutant , and is highly toxic to the human body . since
the earliest recorded times
the metal has been
smelted , applied as a cosmetic , painted on buildings , and glazed on ceramic pots ( 1 ) . on the other hand , lead may be the oldest recognized chemical toxin ( 2 ) .
s... | lead is highly toxic to the human body and children are much more vulnerable to lead
toxicity than adults .
many studies have revealed that relatively low levels of blood lead
can adversely affect human health , especially childhood growth and development .
blood lead
levels ( bll ) of children and adults hav... |
big detectors at high energy colliders require the detection of electrons ( @xmath2 ) and muons ( @xmath3 ) with high efficiency , high purity and high precision for the reconstruction of the decays @xmath4 , @xmath5 , @xmath6 , @xmath7 , for the identification of @xmath8 lepton decays to @xmath2 and @xmath3 , for sear... | muons can be identified with high efficiency and purity and reconstructed with high precision is a detector with a dual readout calorimeter and a dual solenoid to return the flux without iron .
we shown cern test beam data for the calorimeter and calculations for the magnetic fields and the track reconstruction . fo... |
The political battle over whether to raise the U.S. debt ceiling will continue to rage in the halls of Congress as the country today hit its debt limit of $14.294 trillion and the stakes get higher.
The Republican leadership is facing increasing pressure from freshman members of Congress -- many of whom campaigned ... | – A rift between big business and the Tea Party movement is growing as the very real prospect of America defaulting on its debt looms, the Christian Science Monitor finds. The federal government hit the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling yesterday, and while Tea Party-backed lawmakers are sticking to their guns on cutting spe... |
with stainless steel implant of glenoid fossa attempted for the correction of ankylosis in the 1960s , total temporomandibular joint ( tmj ) replacement -- which minimizes foreign body reaction and consists of highly biocompatible materials such as cr - co - mo alloy , titanium , and ultra - high - molecular - weight p... | alloplastic total replacement of the temporomandibular joint ( tmj ) was developed in recent decades . in some conditions ,
previous studies suggested the rationale behind alloplastic tmj replacement rather than reconstruction with autogenous grafts .
currently , three prosthetic products are available and approved... |
approximately , 1.2% of all meningiomas of the central nervous system affect the spine , being relatively rare compared to those in the intracranial compartment .
it is important to emphasize that to reach the definitive diagnosis of extra - axial soft tissue lesions and properly manage the patient , histopathologica... | meningiomas are benign in nature and arise from the arachnoid cells .
they are mostly situated in the intracranial compartment , whereas spinal meningiomas are rare .
approximately , in 10% of cases , an extradural component is seen but an exclusively extradural meningioma is quite uncommon . however , who grade ii... |
by considering non equilibrium systems with a long - term stationary state that possess a spatio - temporally fluctuating intensive quantity , more general statistics can be formulated , called superstatistics @xcite .
selecting the temperature as a fluctuating quantity among various available intensive quantities ; in... | we consider a previously proposed non - extensive statistical mechanics in which the entropy depends only on the probability , this was obtained from a @xmath0 distribution and its corresponding boltzmann factor .
we show that the first term correcting the usual entropy also arises from several @xmath0 distributions... |
vertical banded gastroplasty ( vbg ) was one of the most commonly performed bariatric surgeries in the last decade .
however , in the following years the operation did not achieve optimum results as it was associated with long - term weight gain and some mechanical complications .
later , long - term studies have r... | background .
long - term studies have reported that the rate of conversion surgeries after open vbg ranged from 49.7 to 56% . this study is aiming to compare between lmgb and lrygb as conversion surgeries after failed open vbg with respect to indications and operative and postoperative outcomes .
methods . sixty pa... |
electric response of a high temperature superconductor ( htsc ) under magnetic field has been a subject of extensive experimental and theoretical investigation for years .
magnetic field in these layered strongly type - ii superconductors create magnetic vortices , which , if not pinned by inhomogeneities , move and le... | the time - dependent ginzburg - landau approach is used to investigate nonlinear response of a strongly type - ii superconductor .
the dissipation takes a form of the flux flow which is quantitatively studied beyond linear response . thermal fluctuations , represented by the langevin white noise , are assumed to be ... |
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Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been convicted of genocide and war crimes in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, and sentenced to 40 years in jail.
UN judges in The Hague f... | – A UN tribunal has found Radovan Karadzic, aka the "Butcher of Bosnia," guilty of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity and sentenced the 70-year-old to 40 years in prison. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia found the former Bosnian Serb leader "criminally responsible" for the 3.... |
Liam Neeson made a surprise appearance in the cold open to scold Vladimir Putin for moving troops into Crimea: "I hate it when things are taken."
Lena Dunham brought nudity, Scandal and more Girls to Saturday Night Live.
The show's money shot came when the first-time host debuted Girl, a spiritual sequel to SNL... | – Lena Dunham took to the stage of Saturday Night Live last night, working her way through an Opening Monologue interrupted by castmembers oversharing about their sex lives, and spoofing Girls with a Garden-of-Eden themed movie. "Can you please not apple shame me right now?" Dunham's Eve asks God. "Seriously, I know I ... |
Researcher Claudia Fugazza demonstrates the “do-as-I-do” method with her dog. (Photo by Mirko Lui)
Do you remember what you did last year on Thanksgiving? If so, that’s your episodic memory at work — you’re remembering an experience that happened at a particular time, in a particular place, maybe with particula... | – As researcher Claudia Fugazza tells NPR, "most dog owners at least suspected" their furry friends remember the times they've shared together. Now a study published Tuesday in Current Biology offers some scientific evidence to back that feeling up. Fugazza and her team used a training method she developed call "Do As ... |
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You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Global warming is not expected to end anytime soon, despite what Breitbart.c... | – The world is getting warmer—and Breitbart.com just got burned. The Weather Channel laid into the conservative site Tuesday for using one of its videos in what it says was a misleading article, which claimed the "last three years may eventually come to be seen as the final death rattle of the global warming scare." Th... |
NEW ORLEANS — A new website ranks popular restaurant chains in the United States based on the healthiness of their food, and aims to make it easier for people to find healthy options when they eat out.
The website, called Grellin, uses nutrition information from meals at 100 of the nation's restaurant chains, and r... | – A newly launched website called Grellin has crunched nutritional data from the menus of chain restaurants across the US to name the healthiest. Here are the top 10, with the number, or "Grellin grade," reflecting the proportion of meals that quality as "healthy," explains LiveScience: No. 1 (tie): Au Bon Pain (57) No... |
the issue of phase separation is currently one of the main topics of research in strongly correlated electron systems.@xcite phase separation ( ps ) fully develops in various manganese binary oxides , but there are also evidences of the key role played by clustered states in high tc superconductors.@xcite yet , after s... | we present a phenomenological model based on the thermodynamics of the phase separated state of manganites , accounting for its static and dynamic properties . through calorimetric measurements on la@xmath0pr@xmath1ca@xmath2mno@xmath3
the low temperature free energies of the coexisting ferromagnetic and charge order... |
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Today is Yosemite National Park’s birthday. The vast California park, to which 1.3 million visitors flock annually, is celebrating 123 years of sequoias, waterfalls and breathtaking vistas that stretc... | – The World War II Memorial in Washington is currently barricaded, thanks to the government shutdown, but that didn't stop a group of WWII vets from entering it today. The group, part of an honor flight program from Mississippi, had chartered an airplane and made plans too far in advance to change the trip. US Park Pol... |
copd was the tenth most common cause of disease - related deaths in japan in 2014 , and it was found that the number of copd - related deaths is increasing.1 an epidemiological survey in japanese population revealed that the prevalence of physician - diagnosed copd in japan is increasing , and ~8.6% of the patients age... | backgroundcopd - related deaths are increasing in japan , with ~5.3 million people at risk.methodsthe shine was a 26-week , multicenter , randomized , double - blind , parallel - group study that evaluated safety and efficacy of indacaterol ( ind)/glycopyrronium ( gly ) 110/50 g once daily ( od ) compared with gly 50 g... |
a 5-year - old cat was examined for vomiting and anorexia of 2 days duration .
histopathologic evaluation of ante - mortem ultrasound - guided needle biopsies of the right kidney was consistent with proliferative , necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis with fibrin thrombi , proteinaceous and red blood cell ca... | case summarya 5-year - old cat was examined for vomiting and anorexia of 2 days duration .
azotemia , hyperphosphatemia and hypoalbuminemia were the main biochemical findings .
serial analyses of the urine revealed isosthenuria , proteinuria and eventual glucosuria .
hyperechoic perirenal fat was detected surroun... |
windings of random walk trajectories are of considerable interest in various fields of condensed matter physics , from polymers and dna to superconductors and bose - einstein condensates ( see e.g. @xcite and references therein ) . in this paper , we consider the influence of winding on the internal degrees of freedom ... | we discuss persistent currents for particles with internal degrees of freedom .
the currents arise because of winding properties essential for the chaotic motion of the particles in a confined geometry .
the currents do not change the particle concentrations or thermodynamics , similar to the skipping orbits in a ... |
recent studies have shown that the power spectrum of the stock market fluctuations is inversely proportional to the frequency on some power , which points to self - similarity in time for processes underlying the market @xcite .
our knowledge of the random and/or deterministic character of those processes is however li... | the evolution of the probability distributions of japan and us major market indices , nikkei 225 and nasdaq composite index , and @xmath0/@xmath1 and @xmath1/@xmath2 currency exchange rates is described by means of the fokker - planck equation ( fpe ) . in order to distinguish and quantify the deterministic and rando... |
spider bite is endemic in parts of north america , mexico , tropical belt of africa and europe and can cause serious systemic manifestations .
loxosceles spiders belong to the family loxoscelidae / sicariidae . of the 13 species of loxosceles
loxosceles reclusa , or the brown recluse spider , is the spider most com... | spiders of the loxosceles species can cause dermonecrosis and acute kidney injury ( aki ) .
hemolysis , rhabdomyolysis and direct toxin - mediated renal damage have been postulated .
there are very few reports of loxoscelism from india .
we report a case of aki , hemolysis and a gravitational pattern of ulcerat... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Learning Opportunities With Creation
of Open Source Textbooks (LOW COST) Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The College Board reported that for the 2007 through
2008 academic years each student spent ... | Learning Opportunities With Creation of Open Source Textbooks (LOW COST) Act of 2009 - Requires each federal agency that expends more than $10 million in a fiscal year on scientific education and outreach to use at least 2% of such funds for collaboration on the development and implementation of open source materials a... |
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A former top aide to Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey revealed Monday that she would not hand over documents in response to a subpoena from a legislative panel investigating the controversial closing of lanes at the George Washington Bridge last fall, citing her Fifth ... | – A former Chris Christie aide at the center of the Fort Lee traffic scandal has refused to surrender subpoenaed documents; Bridget Anne Kelly is invoking the Fifth Amendment, protecting her from self-incrimination. Kelly, who penned the infamous email calling for "traffic problems in Fort Lee," is also pointing to the... |
as the number of total hip arthroplasties ( thas ) performed increases , so do the number of required revisions .
impaction bone grafting with wagner sl revision stem is a good option for managing bone deficiencies arising from aseptic osteolysis .
we studied the results of cementless diaphyseal fixation in femoral... | background : as the number of total hip arthroplasties ( thas ) performed increases , so do the number of required revisions .
impaction bone grafting with wagner sl revision stem is a good option for managing bone deficiencies arising from aseptic osteolysis .
we studied the results of cementless diaphyseal fixati... |
recently , simulations of compressing turbulent plasma demonstrated a sudden dissipation mechanism , which may enable a new paradigm for fast ignition inertial fusion @xcite .
a plasma with initial ( turbulent ) flow is compressed on a timescale that is much faster than the dissipation time of the flow .
this amplifie... | turbulent plasma flow , amplified by rapid 3d compression , can be suddenly dissipated under continuing compression .
this effect relies on the sensitivity of the plasma viscosity to the temperature , @xmath0 .
the plasma viscosity is also sensitive to the plasma ionization state .
we show that the sudden dissip... |
Editor’s note: Jamal Khashoggi is a Saudi journalist and author, and a columnist for Washington Post Global Opinions. Khashoggi’s words should appear in the space above, but he has not been heard from since he entered a Saudi consulate in Istanbul for a routine consular matter on Tuesday afternoon.
Read the Washing... | – The Washington Post has printed one of the most unusual op-ed pieces in its history. It consists of a byline—that of Jamal Khashoggi—and then is followed by blank space. In both its print and online versions, the space where Khashoggi's column should be has been left deliberately empty, reports the BBC. It's the news... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``State Sponsors of Terrorism Review
Enhancement Act''.
SEC. 2. MODIFICATIONS OF AUTHORITIES THAT PROVIDE FOR RESCISSION OF
DETERMINATIONS OF COUNTRIES AS STATE SPONSORS OF
TERRORISM.
(a) Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.--Sect... | State Sponsors of Terrorism Review Enhancement Act This bill amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Arms Export Control Act, and the Export Administration Act of 1979, with respect to the rescission of a determination of a country as a state sponsor of terrorism, to require that the President has submitted to C... |
the challenge in diagnosis is that there is no single definitive clinical symptoms or signs .
initial treatment approach to the patients with suspected acute bacterial meningitis depends on rapid diagnostic evaluation and emergent antimicrobial and adjunctive therapy .
once there is a suspicion , lumbar puncture sh... | meningitis and encephalitis are the neurological emergencies .
as the clinical findings lack specificity , once suspected , cerebrospinal fluid ( csf ) analysis should be performed and parenteral antimicrobials should be administered without delay .
lumbar puncture can be technically challenging in patients with an... |
Omaha police said three officers had no choice but to respond the way they did to an armed robbery at a fast-food restaurant Tuesday night that left the suspect and a television crew member dead.
At a news conference Wednesday, Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer identified the armed robbery suspect as Cortez Washin... | – Another high-profile police shooting is in the news, this time because a crew member of the reality TV show Cops got killed while filming it. Omaha police also killed a robbery suspect at a Wendy's restaurant during last night's shooting, reports the Omaha World-Herald. It all unfolded as officers responded to a robb... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Territorial Consultation and
Notification Act of 1994''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 of the Constitution,
also known as the territorial clause, grants Congress plenary
... | Territorial Consultation and Notification Act of 1994 - Requires all U.S. territories to conduct referendums on the sentiments of their citizens regarding territorial status at least every five years. Provides for reports on the results of such referendums and requires the President, after a vote in which a change reg... |
null | monolayers of transition
metal dichalcogenides are interesting
materials for optoelectronic devices due to their direct electronic
band gaps in the visible spectral range . here , we grow single layers
of mos2 on au(111 ) and find that nanometer - sized patches
exhibit an electronic structure similar to their... |
the 89 week old male osborne - mendel ( om ) and s5b / pl ( s5b ) rats used in these studies were bred in pennington biomedical research center breeding colonies .
rats were individually housed in an aaalac approved animal facility on a 12/12h light / dark cycle ( lights on at 0700 ) with food and water available .
... | backgroundosborne - mendel ( om ) rats are prone to obesity when fed a high fat diet , while s5b / pl ( s5b ) rats are resistant to diet - induced obesity when fed the same diet .
om rats have a decreased satiation response to fatty acids infused in the gastrointestinal tract , compared to s5b rats .
one possible e... |
Media and the left going crazy over Ted Nugent comments Wednesday, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:31 PM EDT
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Did Ted Nugent really threaten the life of the President or was he just trying to galvanize the crowd at the NRA to vote and encourage other conservatives to vote? Glenn, a frien... | – As if the Secret Service didn't have enough to deal with just now, agents are meeting today with shoot-from-the-lip rocker Ted Nugent. They're concerned about his comments that he'll be "dead or in jail" if President Obama wins reelection, apparently indicating some kind of violence. During the meeting he intends to ... |
CHENNAI: Scientists have tracked down a drug-resistant superbug that infects patients and causes multiple organ failure to Indian hospitals but doctors here see in it the germ of a move to damage the country's booming medical tourism industry.The 'superbug' resistant to almost all known antibiotics has been found in UK... | – A new superbug has emerged in UK hospitals, probably brought back to the country by people who traveled to India or Pakistan for cosmetic surgery, the BBC reports. About 50 cases have been cataloged in the UK, but researchers fear the newly christened NDM-1 (named after New Delhi, notes the Times of India, which quot... |
progeria is a genetic disorder rarely encountered and is characterized by features of premature aging .
it is also known as " hutchinson - gilford progeria syndrome " ( 1 ) .
although signs and symptoms vary in age of onset and severity , they are remarkably consistent overall . children with hgps usually appear no... | hutchinson - gilford progeria syndrome ( hgps ) is a rare condition originally described by hutchinson in 1886 .
death result from cardiac complications in the majority of cases and usually occurs at average age of thirteen years .
a 4-yr old boy had typical clinical findings such as short stature , craniofacial di... |
Some of the bruises found on actress Natalie Wood's body may have occurred before she drowned in the waters off California more than 30 years ago, according to a newly released coroner's report on one of Hollywood's most mysterious deaths.
Officials on Monday released an addendum to Wood's 1981 autopsy that cites u... | – Natalie Wood's body had bruises and scratches that she likely suffered before drowning in the Pacific Ocean on a November night in 1981, according to a new coroner's report. "The location of the bruises, the multiplicity of the bruises, lack of head trauma, or facial bruising support bruising having occurred prior to... |
caffeine is one of the most commonly consumed drugs throughout the world and has minimal health risks ( 10 ) .
since caffeine can be found in many foods and drinks , its effect on the body and cardiovascular system should not be overlooked .
caffeine has been shown to improve mood , enhance psychomotor performance ... | the purpose of this study is to determine how caffeine affects exercise blood pressure ( bp ) and active and passive recovery bp after vigorous intensity exercise in physically active college - aged females .
fifteen physically active , acsm stratified low - risk females ( age ( y ) : 23.53 4.07 , weight ( kg ) : 60... |
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