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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Healthy Foods for Healthy Living
Act''.
SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE GRANTS TO PROMOTE GREATER CONSUMPTION
OF FRESH FRUITS, FRESH VEGETABLES, AND OTHER HEALTHY
FOODS IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES.
(a) Grants Authorized.--T... | Healthy Foods for Healthy Living Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to community-based organizations and local redevelopment agencies operating in low-income communities to: (1) assist in purchasing appropriate equipment or in hiring and training personnel to expand the inventory of fresh frui... |
the canonical x - ray afterglow light curve containing five components after the prompt emission phase is a great finding of swift ( chincarini et al .
2005 ; nousek et al . 2006 ; obrien et al . 2006 ; zhang et al .
2006 ; zhang 2007 ) .
the first of the five is the so - called `` steep decay phase '' which generally ... | we explore the influence of the full curvature effect on the flux of early x - ray afterglow of gamma - ray bursts ( grbs ) in cases when the spectrum of the intrinsic emission is a power - law .
we find that the well - known @xmath0 curve is present only when the intrinsic emission is extremely short or the emissio... |
Police have charged Blaec Lammers, 20, of Bolivar, Mo., with plotting a mass shooting at a weekend screening of the new 'Twilight' movie or at a local Walmart. (Photo: Bolivar, Mo., Police Department)
A 20-year-old Missouri man was charged Friday with planning a mass shooting this weekend at either a screening of t... | – A worried mother may have prevented a mass shooting in Missouri, reports USA Today. Police in Bolivar, Mo., say 20-year-old Blaec Lammers admitted buying assault weapons with the intent to kill people at a showing of the new Twilight movie tonight. At some point, Lammers changed his plan and instead intended to shoot... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Puerto Rico
Democracy Act of 2006''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Sec. 3. Federally sanctioned process for Puerto... | Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2006 - Directs the Puerto Rico State Elections Commission to conduct a plebiscite in Puerto Rico during the 110th Congress, giving voters the option to vote for continued U.S. territorial status or for a path toward a constitutionally viable permanent nonterritorial status. Provides for sub... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Protection and Advocacy for Veterans
Act of 2016''.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF GRANT PROGRAM TO IMPROVE MONITORING OF MENTAL
HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT PROGRAMS OF
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.
(a) Establishment.-... | Protection and Advocacy for Veterans Act of 2016 This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a five-year grant program to improve the monitoring of VA mental health and substance abuse treatment programs. The VA shall award grants to four protection and advocacy systems under which each reci... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Outdoor Lighting Efficiency Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds as follows:
(1) Of all the electricity generated in the United States,
4.4 percent is consumed for outdoor lighting.
(2) Outdoor lighting represents ... | Outdoor Lighting Efficiency Act - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include as "covered equipment" outdoor luminares and outdoor high light output lamps, as defined in this Act.
Specifies the lighting efficiency, lumen maintenance, and light level production capability required for each outdoor luminare... |
recently , single - particle properties of electrons in quasi - one - dimensional ( q1d ) electron systems have attracted considerable interest . with the theoretical calculations of quasiparticle renormalization factor@xcite and the momentum distribution function around the fermi surface , hu and
das sarma@xcite have ... | we report a theoretical study on the inelastic coulomb scattering rate of an injected electron in two coupled quantum wires in quasi - one - dimensional doped semiconductors .
two peaks appear in the scattering spectrum due to the optical and the acoustic plasmon scattering in the system .
we find that the scatte... |
it is a well - known fact that an emitting source moving at a velocity exceeding the wave - propagation velocity in the medium will induce a shock - wave .
prime examples of this phenomenon are the sonic boom emitted by a super - sonic airplane , a bow - wave from a moving ship , and cherenkov radiation emitted by an e... | very energetic cosmic rays entering the atmosphere of the earth will create a plasma cloud moving with almost the speed of light .
the magnetic field of the earth induces an electric current in this cloud which is responsible for the emission of coherent electromagnetic radiation .
we propose to search for a new e... |
SECTION 1. LAW ENFORCEMENT POWERS OF INSPECTOR GENERAL AGENTS.
(a) In General.--Section 6 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5
U.S.C. App.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(e)(1) In addition to the authority otherwise provided by this
Act, each Inspector General appointed under section 3,... | Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to permit each Inspector General, any Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, and any special agent supervised by such an Assistant Inspector General to be authorized by the Attorney General to: (1) carry a firearm while engaged in official duties or as expressly authori... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``American Fighter Aces Congressional
Gold Medal Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) An American Fighter Ace is a fighter pilot who has served
honorably in a United States military service and who has destroyed
5 ... | American Fighter Aces Congressional Gold Medal Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a single congressional gold medal in honor of the American Fighter Aces, collectively, in recognition of their heroic military service a... |
endoscopic evaluation of the gastrointestinal tract offers both diagnostic and therapeutic options and has become the preferred procedure for the evaluation of gastrointestinal disorders .
presented here are an illustrative example and a review of the world literature , with a focus on diagnostic and management optio... | injury to the spleen during routine colonoscopy is an extremely rare injury .
diagnosis and management of the injury has evolved with technological advances and experience gained in the management of splenic injuries sustained in trauma . of the 37 reported cases of colonoscopic splenic injury , 12 had a history of p... |
if unrecognized and left untreated , can lead to ischemia , necrosis and potential need for amputation . to our knowledge ,
we present the first reported case of hypothyroid - induced compartment syndrome in all four extremities .
a 49-year - old female presented with the sudden onset of bilateral lower and upper e... | acute compartment syndrome ( acs ) is an uncommon complication of uncontrolled hypothyroidism . if unrecognized , this can lead to ischemia , necrosis and potential limb loss .
a 49-year - old female presented with the sudden onset of bilateral lower and upper extremity swelling and pain . the lower extremity anterio... |
the mass of the @xmath0 boson , @xmath3 , is one of the fundamental parameters of the standard model . as is well known @xcite , a precise measurement of @xmath3 , along with other precision electroweak measurements , will lead , within the standard model , to a strong indirect constraint on the mass of the higgs boso... | we explore the ability of the large hadron collider to measure the mass of the @xmath0 boson .
we believe that a precision better than @xmath1 mev could be attained , based on a year of operation at low luminosity ( @xmath2 ) .
if this is true , this measurement will be the world s best determination of the @xmat... |
to obtain the reaction rates relevant for the nuclear astrophysics , experimental data should be extrapolated to the very low - energy region ( the gamow window ) .
the cross section depends strongly on the energy and therefore is expressed in terms of the astrophysical @xmath13 factor @xmath14 in the system of units ,... | background : : : the information about the @xmath0li@xmath1he reaction rates of astrophysical interest can be obtained by extrapolating direct data to lower energies , or by indirect methods . the indirect trojan horse method , as well as various r - matrix and polynomial fits to direct data , estima... |
Demonstrators stand together as they wait for a Republican response to a new city income tax on the wealthy that was approved earlier by the Seattle City Council Monday, July 10, 2017, in Seattle. Seattle's... (Associated Press)
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle's wealthiest would become the only Washington state residents to... | – Supporters waved "Tax the Rich" signs Monday as Seattle's city council voted unanimously to do exactly that. By a vote of 9-0, the council approved an income tax that only applies to wealthy residents, with the 2.25% tax starting at income above $250,000 for individuals and above $500,000 for married couples filing j... |
laser excited rydberg atoms @xcite stored in large spacing optical lattices @xcite or magnetic trap arrays @xcite offer unique possibilities for implementing scalable quantum information processors . in such a setup single atoms can be loaded and kept effectively frozen at each lattice site , with long - lived atomic g... | following feynman and as elaborated on by lloyd , a universal quantum simulator ( qs ) is a controlled quantum device which reproduces the dynamics of any other many particle quantum system with short range interactions .
this dynamics can refer to both coherent hamiltonian and dissipative open system evolution .
... |
consider a data set where each data point is a vector of @xmath1 quantitative variables and one categorical variable with @xmath2 levels .
ideally , several of the quantitative variables are real - valued . according to the categorical variable
, we will view the data set as @xmath2 not necessarily distinct collections... | we extend the work of robinson and turner to use hypothesis testing with persistence homology to test for measurable differences in shape between point clouds from three or more groups . using samples of point clouds from three distinct groups , we conduct a large - scale simulation study to validate our proposed exte... |
however , its administration is associated with problems , such as the
adjustments needed to maintain an effective blood concentration .
in addition , dietary
restrictions are necessary , because vitamin k levels influence warfarin s efficacy . in
recent years , novel oral anticoagulants ( noacs )
those have ... | objective : oral anticoagulants are widely administered to patients with
atrial fibrillation in order to prevent the onset of cardiogenic embolisms . however ,
intracranial bleeding during anticoagulant therapy often leads to fatal outcomes .
accordingly , the use of novel oral anticoagulants ( noacs ) , which le... |
cisplatin ( cis - diamminedichloroplatinum ii , cp ) as a potent antitumor drug is commonly used for a wide variety of tumors , including head and neck , lung , testis , ovary , and breast tumors .
however , it has many side effects like ototoxicity , gastrotoxicity , myelosuppression , and allergic reactions .
cp ... | introduction .
nephrotoxicity is one the side effect of cisplatin therapy and erythropoietin has been candidate as a nephroprotectant agent .
however , its nephroprotective effect when it is accompained with estrogen has not been studied in female . methods . 27 ovariectomized female wistar rats divided into five g... |
the renormalization group properties of quantum chromodynamics were the reason of acceptance of this theory as the theory of strong interactions .
the central rle played by the qcd @xmath0-function , calculated at the one- @xcite , two- @xcite , three- @xcite and finally at the four - loop @xcite level , can not be ove... | the four - loop @xmath0-function of quantum chromodynamics is calculated and agreement is found with the previous result .
the anomalous dimensions of the quark - gluon vertex , and quark , gluon and ghost fields are given for a general compact simple lie group . |
field epidemiology involves the application of epidemiological methods to often unexpected public health events where rapid on - site investigations and timely interventions are necessary . with global transformations in politics , economics and culture ,
the health of populations is increasingly more vulnerable to t... | field epidemiology involves the implementation of quick and targeted public health interventions with the aid of epidemiological methods . in this article
, we share our practical experiences in outbreak management and in safeguarding the population against novel diseases . given that cities represent the financial n... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Indian Country Educational
Empowerment Zone Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) A unique legal and political relationship exists
between the United States and Indian tribes that is reflected
... | Indian Country Educational Empowerment Zone Act -Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a program of repaying the student loans for any borrower who obtains employment in Indian country. |
in this paper , we first study natural filtrations on the full theta lifts for any real reductive dual pairs .
we will use these filtrations to calculate the associated cycles and therefore the associated varieties of harish - chandra modules of the indefinite orthogonal groups which are theta lifts of unitary lowest w... | in this paper we first construct natural filtrations on the full theta lifts for any real reductive dual pairs .
we will use these filtrations to calculate the associated cycles and therefore the associated varieties of harish - chandra modules of the indefinite orthogonal groups which are theta lifts of unitary low... |
a total of 31 patients were diagnosed with lumbar and lumbosacral tuberculosis from august 2012 to august 2013 based upon radiological findings ( mri ) and histopathology reports ( sample obtained by computed tomography [ ct ] guided biopsy ) .
of these , 13 patients developed progressive neurological deterioration o... | backgroundfor surgical treatment of lumbar and lumbosacral tuberculosis , the anterior approach has been the most popular approach because it allows direct access to the infected tissue , thereby providing good decompression
. however , anterior fixation is not strong , and graft failure and loss of correction are fr... |
yoga originated around 3000 years b.c . , under mystical and philosophical concepts in the hindu tradition .
its principles rest in metaphysics , which are hard to understand in western countries and for those who do not practice it .
some authors , who have gone deep into its study and practice , have tried to exp... | yoga is an ancient oriental discipline that emerged from mystical and philosophical concepts .
today it is practiced in the west , partly due to the promotion of its benefits to improve the lifestyle and overall health . as compared to non - hatha yoga ( hy ) practitioners , healthier and better - eating patterns
h... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Health Insurance Tax Credit
Assistance Act of 2007''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Health care spending in the United States has grown
rapidly to a rate of approximately 10 percent a year.
... | Health Insurance Tax Credit Assistance Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for charitable contributions to tax-exempt charities which subsidize health insurance premiums and pharmacy co-payments of uninsured individuals or individuals who cannot otherwise afford health insurance or drug... |
Spirits were high inside the House chamber on Thursday, November 16, when, in the early afternoon, the gavel fell and a measure to rewrite the American tax code passed on a partisan tally of 227 to 205. As the deciding votes were cast—recorded in green on the black digital scoreboard suspended above the floor—the speak... | – Paul Ryan could be leaving Congress by the end of 2018—if not much sooner. Politico spoke to three dozen people close to Ryan, and none of them believed the speaker of the House would still be in Congress after 2018. On the verge of passing tax reform—one of his major goals since entering Congress in 1999—sources say... |
ongoing optical surveys have discovered new classes of supernovae ( sne ) , including sub - luminous ( e.g. , * ? ? ? * ; * ? ? ?
* ; * ? ? ?
* ) and super - luminous ( e.g. , * ? ? ?
* ; * ? ? ?
* ) events .
many of these events are difficult to explain in the context of standard models for which radioactive decay pow... | some fraction of the material ejected in a core collapse supernova explosion may remain bound to the compact remnant , and eventually turn around and fall back .
we show that the late time ( @xmath0 days ) power associated with the accretion of this `` fallback '' material may significantly affect the optical light ... |
_ purely functional programming _ ( pfp ) has a chance of becoming very popular for the simple reason that we now have laptops with four cores and more .
the promise of pfp is that because there are no side - effects , no destructive updates , and no shared mutable state , partitioning a program into pieces that run in... | the idea of functional programming has played a big role in shaping today s landscape of mainstream programming languages .
another concept that dominates the current programming style is dijkstra s structured programming .
both concepts have been successfully married , for example in the programming language scal... |
random walk metropolis ( rwm ) algorithms are widely used generic markov chain monte carlo ( mcmc ) algorithms .
the ease with which rwm algorithms can be constructed has no doubt played a pivotal role in their popularity .
the efficiency of a rwm algorithm depends fundamentally upon the scaling of the proposal density... | we consider the optimal scaling problem for high - dimensional random walk metropolis ( rwm ) algorithms where the target distribution has a discontinuous probability density function .
almost all previous analysis has focused upon continuous target densities .
the main result is a weak convergence result as the d... |
dilute suspensions of the same nipa particles used in the tube packings were placed between glass coverslips such that the gap between coverslips was approximately the diameter of the nipa particles , creating a quasi-2d monolayer .
videos of these particles diffusing in two dimensions were taken using a 100@xmath3 oil... | the phase behavior of helical packings of thermoresponsive microspheres inside glass capillaries is studied as a function of volume fraction .
stable packings with long - range orientational order appear to evolve abruptly to disordered states as particle volume fraction is reduced , consistent with recent hard sphe... |
creatinine kinase ( ck ) and cardiac troponin is used for diagnostic evaluation of myocardial damage in patients with acute myocardial infarction ( ami ) .
ck is an established noninvasive measure of myocardial infarct size and severity and has been accepted as a reliable prognostic marker in ami patients undergoin... | summarybackgroundthis study was designed to clarify the significance of washout rate ( wr ) determined from 99mtc - sestamibi myocardial scintigraphic images and the levels of cardiac enzymes in patients with acute myocardial infarction ( ami ) after percutaneous coronary intervention ( pci).material / methodsa total o... |
As President Barack Obama kicks off an all-out push for a strike on Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry came under fire on Monday for saying any attack would be “unbelievably small” and suggesting the Syrian ruler still had a week to give up his chemical weapons to avoid a U.S. assault - a remark Kerry’s spokeswoman l... | – Russia made the surprise move today of prodding ally Syria to hand over its chemical weapons, just hours after John Kerry suggested that Bashar al-Assad and Co. could avoid a military strike if they did exactly that within a week. "If the establishment of international control over chemical weapons in that country wo... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Palestinian and United Nations Anti-
Terrorism Act of 2014''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) On April 23, 2014, representatives of the Palestinian
Liberation Organization and Hamas, a designated terroris... | Palestinian and United Nations Anti-Terrorism Act of 2014 - States that it shall be U.S. policy to: (1) deny U.S. assistance to any entity or international organization that collaborates with Hamas until Hamas agrees to recognize Israel, renounces violence, disarms, and accepts prior Israeli-Palestinian agreements; (2)... |
the x - ray source grs 1915 + 105 was discovered by the granat observatory in 1992 ( castro - tirado _
et al._1992 ) .
it is one of the several galactic objects observed to produce superluminal jets ( mirabel _ et al._1994 ) . as the first galactic superluminal jet source , the so - called microquasar " ,
grs 1915 +... | we present results from the analysis of x - ray power density spectra and coherence when grs 1915 + 105 is in soft states .
we use three data sets that belong to @xmath0 , @xmath1 and @xmath2 classes in belloni _
et al._(2000 ) .
we find that the power density spectra appear to be complex , with several features... |
low energy electron transport across the interface between normal metals and superconductors ( ns ) is provided by the mechanism of andreev reflection @xcite .
this mechanism involves conversion of a subgap quasiparticle entering the superconductor from the normal metal into a cooper pair together with simultaneous cre... | we derive an effective action for contacts between superconducting terminals with arbitrary transmission distribution of conducting channels . in the case of normal - superconducting ( ns ) contacts
we evaluate interaction correction to andreev conductance and demonstrate a close relation between coulomb effects and... |
a total of 781 consecutive diabetic patients , mean sem age 59 0.5 years and diabetes duration 11.8 0.4 years , treated at the diabetes outpatient clinic of the university clinics of vienna from 1 january 2006 to 17 february 2007 were studied . upon entry in the study , a careful medical history with special focus o... | objectivethe increased cardiovascular risk in diabetes has been linked to endothelial and renal dysfunction .
the aim of this study was to investigate the role of stable fragments of the precursors of adrenomedullin , endothelin-1 , vasopressin , and atrial natriuretic peptide in progression of cardiovascular disease... |
SECTION 1. DEFINITION.
In this Act, the term ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of
the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
SEC. 2. MAINTAINING RISK PREMIUM RATES FOR PROPERTIES PURCHASED AFTER
THE DATE OF ENACTMENT OF THE BIGGERT-WATERS FLOOD
INSURANCE REFORM ACT OF 2012.
... | Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to repeal the prohibition against provision of flood insurance by the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to prospective insureds at rates less than standard estimates for property purchased after enactment of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance... |
spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma ( sseh ) represents 0.3 - 0.9% of spinal epidural space - occupying lesions .
the clinical course has characteristics : without preceding trauma , patients experience an acute onset of local discomfort or pain , sometimes with radicular paresthesia . within hours ,
signs of spin... | we present two patients who had acute paraplegia with sensory loss due to spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma ( sseh ) .
one had myocardial infraction and the other had deep vein thrombosis , and the former was treated with anticoagulants and the latter was treated with thrombolytic agent .
we analyzed the neurolo... |
the triceps tendon usually ruptures when there is fall on an outstretched hand with the elbow in incomplete extension with or without a concomitant blow to the posterior aspect of the elbow.1 acute rupture of triceps following trauma usually occurs at the osteotendinous junction whereas a rupture at the myotendinous ju... | chronic triceps insufficiency , causing prolonged disability , occurs due to a missed diagnosis of an acute rupture .
we report a 25 year old male with history of a significant fall sustaining multiple injuries . since then , he had inability in extending his right elbow for which he sought intervention after a year ... |
polarization is one of the clearest signatures of synchrotron radiation , if this is produced by electrons gyrating in a magnetic field that is at least in part ordered .
for this reason , polarization measurements can provide a crucial test of the synchrotron shock model @xcite , the leading scenario for the productio... | we present the recent discovery of linear polarization of the optical afterglow of grb 990510 .
effects that could introduce spurious polarization are discussed , showing that they do not apply to the case of grb 990510 , which is then intrinsically polarized .
it will be shown that this observation constrains t... |
the experimental realization of annular trapping potentials @xcite has recently led to the observation of persistent superfluid flow in a multiply - connected geometry @xcite .
the question of the stability of these superfluid currents is a complex matter and depends on the nature of the dynamical excitations availab... | we analyze the mean - field yrast spectrum of a two - component bose gas in the ring geometry with arbitrary interaction asymmetry . of particular interest
is the possibility that the yrast spectrum develops local minima at which persistent superfluid flow can occur . by analyzing the mean - field energy functional ... |
balancing flows over different routes , commonly referred to as _ multipath routing _
, bears important advantages .
first , it makes the network more robust , because in case of a link failure , the flow can still use bandwidth on its other routes .
also , under multipath routing the resources of the network are used ... | in this paper we study coordinated multipath routing at the flow - level in networks with routes of length one . as a first step the static case is considered , in which the number of flows is fixed .
a clustering pattern in the rate allocation is identified , and we describe a finite algorithm to find this rate all... |
Story highlights The fossil is 520 million years old and was found in China
Using multiple images of the animal, the researchers discovered the nervous system
They also saw the brain was like those of today's spiders, scorpions
The work shows the early evolutionary differences, researcher says
The ancie... | – Scientists digging through old fossils have identified a 520-million-year-old mega-claw with an almost completely preserved nervous system—the oldest such find ever, the LA Times reports. The specimen belongs to the Alalcomenaeus family, which is part of a larger group of "megacheirans," meaning roughly "mega-claw" o... |
let @xmath0 be the group of permutations of @xmath4 .
any permutation @xmath5 has a unique cycle decomposition , which partitions the set @xmath6 into orbits under the natural action of @xmath7 .
the cycle structure of @xmath7 is the integer partition of @xmath1 associated with this set partition , in other words , the... | let @xmath0 be the permutation group on @xmath1 elements , and consider a random walk on @xmath0 whose step distribution is uniform on @xmath2-cycles .
we prove a well - known conjecture that the mixing time of this process is @xmath3 , with threshold of width linear in @xmath1 .
our proofs are elementary and pur... |
the rise in the prevalence of childhood obesity has precipitated the need for simple but accurate methods for determining adiposity in paediatric populations .
the adolescent years are a period of rapid growth in both the fat ( fm ) and fat - free mass ( ffm ) compartments . despite the recognized importance of mea... | simple methods to assess both fat ( fm ) and fat - free mass ( ffm ) are required in paediatric populations . several bioelectrical impedance instruments ( bias ) and anthropometric equations
have been developed using different criterion methods ( multicomponent models ) for assessing fm and ffm . through childhood ,... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``UNRWA Humanitarian Accountability
Act.''
SEC. 2. UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNRWA.
Section 301 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended by
striking subsection (c) and inserting the following new subsection:
``(c)(1) Withholding.--Contri... | UNRWA Humanitarian Accountability Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to withhold U.S. contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) or to any successor or related entity unless the Secretary of State certifies to Congress that: (1) no UNRWA offi... |
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white man accused of fatally shooting nine black parishioners at a Charleston church last year was allowed to act as his own attorney in his federal death penalty trial Monday.
Dylann Roof's request came against his lawyers' advice, and U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel said he would relu... | – Dylann Roof may have the chance to question the very people he is accused of shooting when he stands trial for the murders of nine black worshippers at a South Carolina church. Judge Richard Gergel on Monday granted a surprise request from Roof to defend himself against 33 federal charges, with his lawyers serving as... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Transparent Review of the
Affordability and Cost of Electricity (TRACE) Renewable Energy Act of
2010''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) Federal energy-specific subsidies and support to all
forms of energy were e... | Transparent Review of the Affordability and Cost of Electricity (TRACE) Renewable Energy Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary of Energy, acting through the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, to prepare and publish an annual report setting f... |
A marine biologist at Cal State Long Beach has set out to identify the species and provenance of all the shells on the Watts Towers in South L.A. ||||| More than 100,000 Egyptians from all walks of life gathered on Saturday at the central square in Cairo, as military officers stationed in the area embraced the proteste... | – Protesters in Cairo once again defied curfew today, but this time the police largely stood by and let them do it, the LA Times reports. The military meanwhile seems to have switched sides; as protesters swarmed over Cairo’s central square, the officers stationed there threw off their helmets and joined them, crying, ... |
the world health organization predicts that by the year 2020 , depression will be the first cause of invalidity in the world followed by cardiovascular disease .
although various psychological and pharmacological treatments exist for the treatment of depression ( for a review , see ) , difficult access to psychothera... | the self - help industry generates billions of dollars yearly in north america . despite the popularity of this movement ,
there has been surprisingly little research assessing the characteristics of self - help books consumers , and whether this consumption is associated with physiological and/or psychological marke... |
in order to recapitulate the lytic is in an alignment suitable for super - resolution imaging , we utilized glass coated with antibodies directed against the nk cell activating receptor nkp30 and adhesion receptor cd18 , as described previously .
the human nk cell line , nk92 , was prepared in single cell suspension ... | natural killer ( nk ) cells are innate immune effectors that eliminate diseased and tumorigenic targets through the directed secretion of specialized secretory lysosomes , termed lytic granules .
this directed secretion is triggered following the formation of an immunological synapse ( is ) , which is characterized b... |
during the first toronto sars outbreak in march 2003 , 69 healthcare workers at risk for sars were interviewed a median of 1.2 months ( range 1 to 1.5 months ) after exposure ( 3 ) .
five months ( range 4.8 to 5.3 months ) after participating in this initial study , 30 of these healthcare workers were asked to partic... | we reinterviewed healthcare workers who had been exposed to a patient with severe acute respiratory syndrome ( sars ) in an intensive care unit to evaluate the effect of time on recall reliability and willingness to report contact activities and infection control precautions .
healthcare workers reliably recalled eve... |
the lunar cherenkov ( lc ) technique , in which radio - telescopes search for pulses of microwave - radio radiation produced via the askaryan effect @xcite from uhe particle interactions in the lunar regolith , is a promising method for detecting the highest energy cosmic rays ( cr ) and neutrinos .
proposed by dagkesa... | lunaska ( lunar uhe neutrino astrophysics with the square kilometre array ) is a theoretical and experimental project developing the lunar cherenkov technique for the next generation of giant radio - telescope arrays .
here we report on a series of observations with atca ( the australia telescope compact array ) .
... |
University of Westminster suspends all student union events deemed sensitive just days after ‘Jihadi John’ was unmasked as a former student and amid controversy over attendance of controversial preacher
The university attended by Mohammed Emwazi, the Islamic State extremist known as “Jihadi John”, has suspended any... | – After the Islamic State terrorist known as Jihadi John was unmasked as Mohammed Emwazi, Sky News unearthed a photo of him from his days at the University of Westminster in London. Much to the dismay of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Emwazi is wearing a team hat. "It is absolutely sickening to everyone within the Pirates org... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Phantom Fuel Reform Act''.
SEC. 2. CELLULOSIC BIOFUEL REQUIREMENT.
(a) Provision of Estimate of Volumes of Cellulosic Biofuel.--
Section 211(o)(3)(A) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(3)(A)) is
amended--
(1) by striking ``Not later tha... | Phantom Fuel Reform Act This bill amends the Clean Air Act to revise the renewable fuel standard program. Beginning on January 1, 2015, the renewable fuel that is required to be blended into gasoline must be advanced biofuel, which cannot be ethanol derived from corn starch. This bill revises the renewable fuel standar... |
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