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SECTION 1. ENHANCEMENT OF TRANSITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
(a) Compulsory Participation in Program.--Effective not later than
one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of
Defense shall ensure the following:
(1) That each member of the Armed Forces who is discharged,
r... | Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to ensure that: (1) each member of the Armed Forces who is discharged, released, or otherwise separated from service participates in DOD's Transition Assistance Program; and (2) such Program's programs and services are also accessible by all members of the National Guard and reser... |
A Niagara Regional Police officer is in stable condition in a Hamilton hospital after being shot by a fellow police officer in Pelham, Ont., the service says.
Around noon Thursday, several officers were investigating a collision that had happened days before in the area of Effingham Street and Roland Road in the ru... | – A Canadian police officer is hospitalized in stable condition after a fellow cop shot him numerous times during a Thursday altercation, reports the CBC. Det. Sgt. Shane Donovan and Const. Nathan Parker of Niagara Regional Police Services were conducting a follow-up investigation at the scene of a DUI crash in Pelham,... |
traditionally , a string is a sequence of letters taken from some alphabet @xmath4 .
since we discuss indeterminate strings " in this paper , we begin by generalizing the definition as follows : [ defn - string ] a with base alphabet @xmath4 is either empty or else a sequence of nonempty subsets of @xmath4 . a 1-el... | an integer array @xmath0 $ ] is said to be if and only if @xmath1 = n$ ] and , for every @xmath2 , @xmath3 \le n\+ 1 $ ] .
a string is said to be if and only if at least one of its elements is a subset of cardinality greater than one of a given alphabet @xmath4 ; otherwise it is said to be .
a feasible array is sa... |
the sapho syndrome was first coined and introduced in 1987 by french rheumatologist chamot to a symptom complex consisting of synovitis acne pustulosis hyperostosis osteitis , which till then was known by more than a dozen names over the previous 50 years .
although it can occur at any age , it commonly presents ... | sapho syndrome ( synovitis , acne , pustulosis , hyperostosis , osteitis ) , a rare inflammatory disorder , is an association of distinct skin disorders with pustules with osteoarticular inflammation .
its etiology remains unclear , and various treatment regimens frequently fail to control the disease .
an 18-year ... |
the anti de sitter / conformal field theory ( ads / cft ) correspondence is a powerful method to investigate strongly coupled theories . an interesting application of such duality is the study of systems at finite temperature and density of some conserved quantum number .
this is the typical situation in condensed matt... | we investigate holographic models of superfluids and superconductors in which the gravitational theory includes a dilatonic field .
dilaton extensions are interesting as they allow us to obtain a better description of low temperature condensed matter systems .
we focus on asymptotically ads black hole configuratio... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``John P. Smith Act''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF SECRETARY.
In this Act, the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the
Interior.
SEC. 3. APPLICATION OF CATEGORICAL EXCLUSIONS TO CERTAIN TRIBAL
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.
(a) Definition... | John P. Smith Act (Sec. 3) This bill modifies the approval process under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for tribal transportation safety projects to categorically exclude qualifying projects from requirements to conduct environmental assessments and environmental impact statements. A tribal transport... |
this disease is named after thomas addison , who first described patients affected by this disorder in 1855 , in the book titled on the constitutional and local effects of the disease of supra renal capsule .
addison 's disease can present as a life - threatening crisis , because it is frequently unrecognized in its... | addison 's disease is a rare endocrinal disorder , with several oral and systemic manifestations .
a variety of pathological processes may cause addison 's disease .
classically , hyperpigmentation is associated with the disease , and intraoral pigmentation is perceived as the initial sign and develops earlier than... |
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's David Willey says the Pope seems serene about his last 12 days in office
Tens of thousands of pilgrims have attended St Peter's Square in Rome for one of the final public appearances of Pope Benedict XVI.
He is stepping down on 28 February.
... | – Pope Benedict XVI is blessing the faithful from his window overlooking St. Peter's Square for the first time since announcing his resignation, cheered by an emotional crowd of tens of thousands of well-wishers from around the world. Speaking in Spanish, Reuters notes that Benedict implored the crowd, "I beg you to co... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Green Communities Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES; DEFINITIONS.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) Landscaping adds to the economic value and sales appeal
of commercial real estate and increases office occupancy rates... | Green Communities Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce, through the Economic Development Administration, to make grants to municipalities to promote community greening initiatives (defined as programs increasing economic development through environmental improvements).
Directs the Secretary to select 80 municipalit... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Financial Literacy for Homeowners
Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) While expanded access to credit from both prime and
subprime lenders has contributed to the highest homeownership
rates in the... | Financial Literacy for Homeowners Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to make grants to state and local governments and nonprofit organizations to implement anti-predatory lending activities, including: (1) consumer education programs; (2) certified home ownership counseling programs; and (3) referral servic... |
fistulation from aorta to gastric conduit after ivor - lewis oesophagectomy is a rare and life threatening condition .
reported cases have occurred early post operatively , with a mean post - operative day of presentation of 46 in a review of 23 cases .
the majority of these patients presented with a herald bleed (... | a 71 year old lady was treated for a squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus with neo - adjuvant chemotherapy followed by a two phase ivor - lewis oesophagectomy with two field lymphadenectomy .
she presented four years later with life threatening bleeding from a fistula between the thoracic aorta and the gastric c... |
NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt An artist's conception of a free-floating planet that has roughly the mass of Jupiter. Sumi et al. show that these lone worlds, perhaps ejected from the planetary systems of their birth, are probably more common than stars in our galaxy
The bitterly fought Pluto wars of a few years back... | – They're outcasts on a galactic scale, rebels without a star: Astronomers think they have discovered 10 massive planets that defy a standard definition of what it means to be a planet: They orbit no star. What's more, the astronomers believe there are many, many more roaming free about the Milky Way, possibly twice th... |
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The nasal flu vaccine spray, preferred by millions of anxious parents looking for a needle-free way to get their children immunized against the flu, as well as by adults who would rather not get a flu shot, is ineffective and should not be used in the upcoming flu season.
That is the recommendation of the... | – Bad news for needle-hating kids and their accommodating parents: the popular flu vaccine nasal spray FluMist is “ineffective and should not be used in the upcoming flu season," the New York Times reports. That's according to an advisory committee's recommendation to the CDC on Wednesday. FluMist accounts for about a ... |
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, shown at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., in 2012, said of Moira Smith’s groping allegation: “This claim is preposterous and it never happened.” (Michael Dwyer/AP)
The 25th anniversary of Justice Clarence Thomas’s confirmation to the Supreme Court has featured te... | – Another accuser says she decided to come forward because of Donald Trump's remarks about woman—but she's accusing Clarence Thomas, not Trump, of groping her. Alaska lawyer Moira Smith says she was a 23-year-old Truman Foundation scholar in Washington when the Supreme Court justice touched her inappropriately at a din... |
A new photograph-analyzing tool quantifies changes made by digital airbrushers in the fashion and lifestyle industry, where image alteration has become the psychologically destructive norm.
"Publishers have legitimate reasons to alter photographs to create fantasy and sell products, but they've gone a little too fa... | – Highly altered images of models and celebrities in fashion magazines have come under increasing scrutiny, with France even proposing that all airbrushed pictures come packaged with a health warning. A new tool could make that easier, as it analyzes photographs to detect digital retouching, Wired reports. Publishers h... |
SECTION 1. MARKET LOSS ASSISTANCE.
(a) Assistance Authorized.--The Secretary of Agriculture (referred
to in this Act as the ``Secretary'') shall, to the maximum extent
practicable, use $4,622,240,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit
Corporation to make a market loss assistance payment to owners and
producers o... | Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use specified Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds for a market loss assistance payment to farm owners and producers who are eligible for a final FY 2001 production flexibility contract payment (such payment to be proportional to total 2001 flexibility contract payments recei... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``FCC Reorganization Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) The Communications Act of 1934 grants the Federal
Communications Commission permission to organize ``integrated
bureaus'' and ``other division... | FCC Reorganization Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to organize its staff into integrated bureaus based on the purposes of the regulations to be administered by such bureau.
Requires the following bureaus within the FCC: (1) spectrum management; (2) gove... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans Long-Term Care Security Act
of 2006''.
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR REPORT TO CONGRESS BEFORE IMPLEMENTATION OF
REDUCTION IN PER DIEM RATES FOR CARE PROVIDED TO VETERANS
IN STATE HOMES.
(a) Requirement for Report.--Subs... | Veterans Long-Term Care Security Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to the congressional veterans' committees a detailed justification of any proposal to implement a reduction in per diem payments to state nursing homes for care provided to veterans.
Directs the Secretary to pay for nur... |
it is well - known that hiv - coinfection accelerates the progression of hepatitis c virus ( hcv)-related liver disease .
in fact , while some studies have yielded discordant results , most reports and two metaanalyses of nine ( graham cs 2001 ) and 29 studies ( deng l 2009 ) , respectively , have proven a strong ass... | the overall effect of haart on the liver is the result of the balance between hepatotoxicity and the consequences of immunoreconstitution on the evolution of hiv - associated liver diseases , particularly viral hepatitis .
haart may lead to the emergence of acute toxic hepatitis , steatosis , steatohepatitis , liver ... |
groups of galaxies are weak enhancements in the projected galaxy distribution .
velocity information from redshift surveys confirms , however , that they are indeed true spatial density enhancements ( e.g. @xcite ; @xcite ; ramella , geller & huchra 1989 ; ramella , pisani & geller 1997 ) , although probably still far ... | this is the third paper in a series which combines @xmath0-body simulations and semi - analytic modelling to provide a fully spatially resolved simulation of the galaxy formation and clustering processes .
here we extract mock redshift surveys from our simulations : a cold dark matter model with either @xmath1 ( @xm... |
the crl-2302 ( arpe-19 ) ( atcc , usa ) was used for this study .
these human retinal pigment epithelial cells were cultured in dulbecco 's modified eagle 's medium ( dmem ) ( sigma , st louis , mo , usa ) , which is composed of 10% fetal bovine serum ( fbs ) , penicillin ( 100 u / ml ) , streptomycin ( 100 u / ml ) ... | purposeto evaluate the protective effects of epigallocatechin gallate ( egcg ) against uv irradiation in cultured human retinal pigment epithelial ( rpe ) cells.methodsuv irradiation was produced by a uv lamp for 30 seconds with an irradiance of 3.3 mw / cm2 .
after 5 minutes and 1 hour , we administered different co... |
CHICAGO — A Chicago couple used their health care business to bilk Medicare out of millions of dollars while also conspiring to force a housekeeper to work against her will, according to an indictment returned in federal court in Chicago.
RICHARD TINIMBANG and his wife, MARIBEL TINIMBANG, participated in a $45 mill... | – File under Appearances Can Be Deceiving: A Chicago-area couple whose 5,000-square-foot home came complete with a bevvy of luxury SUVs built their empire "on a lie," reports the Chicago Tribune. Richard and Maribel Tinimbang, 38 and 40, are being charged with various counts of conspiracy, paying kickbacks, money laund... |
traditionally , the presence of antibodies against human leukocyte antigen ( hla)-c and dp was considered to be associated with only a low risk of antibody - mediated rejection ( abmr ) in kidney transplantation ( kt ) , because the antigenicities of these proteins are weak .
however , the clinical effects of hla - c... | abstractbackground : traditionally , the presence of antibodies against human leukocyte antigen ( hla)-c and dp was considered to be associated with only a low risk of antibody - mediated rejection ( abmr ) in kidney transplantation ( kt ) , because the antigenicities of these proteins are weak . however , the clinical... |
absorbing states , i.e. , states which systems may fall into but never escape from , and phase transitions into them are expected to be ubiquitous in nature . for instance , spreading or contamination processes like fires or epidemics exhibit such transitions when the propagation rate changes : initially active ( infec... | this is a comprehensive report on the phase transition between two turbulent states of electroconvection in nematic liquid crystals , which was recently found by the authors to be in the directed percolation ( dp ) universality class [ k. a. takeuchi _
et al . _ ,
phys .
rev .
lett . * 99 * , 234503 ( 2007 ) ]... |
The investigative podcast that became a cultural phenomenon is finally coming back with a brand new season.
Serial initially explored the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and the subsequent imprisonment of her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed. Its sophomore season followed American Army soldier Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who was hel... | – Serial is taking on the criminal courts. Breaking from its format for the first two seasons of focusing on a single story, the investigative podcast will follow several cases from inside the Cleveland criminal court system for its third season, per Entertainment Weekly. Some stories will be wrapped up in one episode ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Access to Competitive Power Act of
2007''.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF EQUAL ACCESS AND TREATMENT WITH RESPECT TO
FEDERAL POWER RESOURCES.
Section 212(i) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824k(i)) is
amended--
(1) by redesigna... | Access to Competitive Power Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Power Act to authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to order transmission service by the administrator or board of directors of the Bonneville, Southeastern, Western Area, and Southwestern Power Administrations, and the Tennessee Valley Aut... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Valley Forge Museum of the American
Revolution Act of 1998''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(1)(A) Valley Forge National Historical Park, formerly a
State park, was established in 1976 as a unit ... | Valley Forge Museum of the American Revolution Act of 1998 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, in administering the Valley Forge National Historical Park, to enter into an agreement with the Valley Forge Historical Society to facilitate the planning, construction, and operation of the Valley Forge Museum of the... |
most of the endodontic failures occur due to the microorganisms which persists after the conventional treatment or due to the entry of the same through coronal leakage.1 the success of surgical endodontics is again determined by the apical seal which prevents the entry of microorganisms and the tissue fluid in the peri... | background : the study was aimed to evaluate the microleakage of biodentine using two different manipulation methods by dye penetration.materials and methods : a total of 60 single - rooted human maxillary permanent teeth were cleaned and obturated with gutta - percha using lateral condensation method .
standardized ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans Educational Opportunities
Enhancement Act of 2001''.
SEC. 2. PERMITTING AN ELECTION TO REDUCE BASIC PAY OVER A PERIOD OF TWO
YEARS.
(a) In General.--The first sentence of sections 3011(b) and 3012(c)
of title 38, United States C... | Veterans Educational Opportunities Enhancement Act of 2001 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to allow the basic pay reduction for entitlement to veterans educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to be taken over two years (currently one year).Allows the withdrawal of an election not to receive s... |
this work was mostly funded by the inserm , france , the university of fribourg , switzerland , and by grants from the european community ( r - gnosis , fp7/health - f3 - 2011 - 282512 , and magic - bullet , fp7/health - f3 - 2001 - 278232 ) .
| we report here the first identification of the worldwide spread of klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-2-producing and carbapenem - resistant k. pneumoniae clone st258 in turkey , a country where the distantly - related carbapenemase oxa-48 is known to be endemic .
worryingly , this isolate was also resistant to col... |
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers slowed their hiring in July, adding 157,000 jobs, a solid gain but below the healthy pace they maintained in the first half of this year.
The Labor Department says the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.9 percent from 4 percent. That's near an 18-year low of 3.8 percent reached in M... | – US employers slowed their hiring in July, adding 157,000 jobs, a solid gain but below the healthy pace they maintained in the first half of this year and down from expectations of 190,000 jobs. The Labor Department says the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.9% from 4%. That's near an 18-year low of 3.8% reached in M... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Interstate Transportation of
Municipal Waste Act of 1993''.
SEC. 2. INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF MUNICIPAL WASTE.
Subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6941 et seq.)
is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
... | Interstate Transportation of Municipal Waste Act of 1993 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize a State Governor to prohibit the disposal of out-of-State municipal waste in any landfill or incinerator in the State.
Exempts from a Governor's authority to prohibit the disposal of out-of-State waste: (1) lan... |
the existence of variability in the x - ray emission from active galactic nuclei ( agns ) , on time - scales of days to years , was established roughly three - decades ago ( e.g. * ? ? ?
* and references therein ) .
variations on time - scales shorter than this are also common .
the launch of _ exosat _ , with its long... | the tartarus database contains products for 529 _ asca _ observations of active galactic nuclei .
we have been updating tartarus to include observing sequences conducted after 1999 january .
the revised database will contain products for 375 objects , with a total of 614 observing sequences .
we have begun a sys... |
hepatitis c virus ( hcv ) is a small , hepatotropic , positive - strand rna virus with a genome of approximately 9.6 kb in length.1,2 the hcv genome consists of a single open reading frame that encodes viral proteins and a 5 and 3 noncoding region ( ncr ) .
the 5 ncr contains the internal ribosome entry site that ini... | hepatitis c virus ( hcv ) infection is a major global health problem .
there is no effective vaccine and the current treatment regimen with pegylated interferon and ribavirin is associated with significant adverse events .
therefore , there is an urgent need to identify new antiviral targets for hcv therapy . in r... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Children Against Crime
Act of 2003''.
SEC. 2. NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR CHILD ABDUCTION AND SEX CRIMES.
(a) Statute of Limitations.--
(1) In general.--Chapter 213 of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by adding ... | Protecting Children Against Crime Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide that no statute of limitations shall apply for specified child abduction and sex offenses.Amends the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act to provide for the registration in the ... |
GRAND JUNCTION — Investigators say the device at the center of a fatal bungee accident at an indoor recreation park in western Colorado was functioning properly.
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment worked with the manufacturer to test the device and is now inves... | – Authorities in Colorado are investigating how a 20-year-old nurse died in a bungee jump accident—when the equipment was apparently working properly. Ciara Romero died after a fall Jan. 4 at the 70-foot Get Air attraction at the Silo Trampoline Park in Grand Junction, the Denver Post reports. The jump requires partici... |
one of the important results in the theory of derivations in banach bimodules is the theorem of j. r. ringrose on automatic continuity of every derivation acting on a @xmath1-algebra @xmath0 with values in a banach @xmath0-bimodule @xcite .
this theorem extends the well - known result that every derivation of a @xmath1... | we prove that every derivation acting on a von neumann algebra @xmath0 with values in a quasi - normed bimodule of locally measurable operators affiliated with @xmath0 is necessarily inner . |
a 65-year - old lady referred to our center for managing an abdominal pain she had for a 6 months period and right side adnexal mass .
imaging studies revealed a solid and cystic mass in right adnexa m. 1086564 mm indistinguishable from uterine border .
total hysterectomy with bilatereal salpigo - oopherectoy in as... | endometrial polyps are common pathologic findings in gynecologic pathology practice . although malignant changes in these lesions are uncommon , numerous studies confirmed this association especially with endometrial serous and clear cell carcinoma .
two cases of malignant endometrial polyps in association with presu... |
three charged leptons are known , the electron and the heavier @xmath0 and @xmath1 leptons @xcite . relations between their mass values have been proposed @xcite .
it is therefore interesting to note that the empirical formula @xmath2 , where @xmath3 is the mass of the electron , gives @xmath4 mev / c@xmath5 ... | for integer values of its free parameter , an empirical formula reproduces fairly well the mass values of the @xmath0 and @xmath1 leptons as if they were excited states of the electron .
trident production might possibly be due to constituent collisions .
pacs : 14.60.cd , 14.60.ef , 14.60.fg , 14.60.hi |
SECTION 1. OVERSIGHT OF BROKERS AND DEALERS.
(a) Definitions.--Title I of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is
amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``SEC. 110. DEFINITIONS.
``For the purposes of this title, and notwithstanding section 2:
``(1) Audit.--The term `audit' means an ex... | Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to extend the regulatory jurisdiction of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to audit reports prepared by a domestic registered or foreign public accounting firm regarding issuers, brokers and dealers, and any companies subject to securities laws (currently only issuers a... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Health Freedom for Seniors Act''.
SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF REQUIRED MINIMUM DISTRIBUTION FROM RETIREMENT PLAN
TO HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNT.
(a) Transfer From Retirement Plan.--
(1) Individual retirement accounts.--Section 408(d) of suc... | Health Freedom for Seniors Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax-free transfers of required distributions after age 70 1/2 from an individual retirement account (IRA) and other tax-exempt retirement accounts to a health savings account. Exempts such transfers from the excise tax on excess contributi... |
neisseria gonorrhoeae ( ngo ) or gonococcus , a gram - negative diplococcus , is the etiological agent of the sexually transmitted bacterial infection ( sti ) gonorrhoea .
gonorrhea is the second most frequent sti worldwide , where the total number of new cases of gonorrhea in adults was estimated to be 106.1 million... | neisseria gonorrhoeae ( ngo ) has developed multiple immune evasion mechanisms involving the innate and adaptive immune responses .
recent findings have reported that ngo reduces the il-1 secretion of infected human monocyte - derived macrophages ( mdm ) . here
, we investigate the role of adenosine triphosphate ( ... |
thyroid nodules are common in the general population with a prevalence of 5% - 7% ( by palpation ) .
the estimated prevalence of clinically inapparent thyroid nodules ( by ultrasound ) is even higher , around 20% to 76% with similar prevalence in autopsy studies .
the initial evaluation of thyroid nodules commonly ... | thyroid nodules are common in the general population with a prevalence of 5 - 7% the initial evaluation of thyroid nodules commonly involves thyroid function tests , an ultrasound ( usg ) and fine needle aspiration biopsy ( fnab ) .
the optimal management of patients with thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology i... |
electromagnetic production of strange baryons has long been of interest because of the fact that such data can provide unique information about the flavor dependence of nucleon excited states , eventually leading to a better understanding of the theory of qcd .
unfortunately , progress in understanding the production m... | we report measurements of cross sections for the reaction @xmath0(@xmath1,@xmath2)y , for both the @xmath3 and @xmath4 hyperon states , at an invariant mass of @xmath5=1.84 gev and four - momentum transfers @xmath6 ( gev / c)@xmath7 .
data were taken for three values of virtual photon polarization @xmath8 , allowin... |
a range of ii - vi semiconductor nanoheterostructures has been synthesized , including spherical core - shell particles , seeded nanorods , and seeded tetrapods .
these heterostructures allow for sophisticated manipulation of photons and carriers at the nanoscale and exhibit many interesting phenomena , including ext... | we demonstrate a method for the synthesis of multicomponent nanostructures consisting of cds and cdse with rod and tetrapod morphologies . a seeded synthesis strategy is used in which spherical seeds of cdse
are prepared first using a hot - injection technique . by controlling the crystal structure of the seed to be ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Disaster Recovery Improvement Act''.
SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL MITIGATION ASSISTANCE.
Section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(d) Additional Miti... | Disaster Recovery Improvement Act - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to increase the maximum total contributions for a major disaster by 5% under such Act if, at the time of a declaration of a major disaster, the affected state has in effect and is ac... |
three demographic and health surveys ( dhs ) were conducted in ethiopia , in 2000 , 2005 and 2011 .
results of these surveys were reported at the national level ( 13 ) , allowing examinations of demographic patterns ( 49 ) and topic - specific analyses ( 10,11 ) .
however , the demographic impacts of population mob... | backgroundthis study aims to examine the possible impacts of resettlement on birth rates by using the length of stay variable in the 2000 demographic and health survey ( dhs).methodsdata in all three rounds of gambella administrative region 's demographic and health surveys ( dhs ) are analyzed .
the neighboring admi... |
but the role of submucous fibroids which are reported in 5%-18% of patients as a causal factor for infertility is likely .
submucous fibroids are postulated to cause menometrorrhagia , preterm delivery , postpartum hemorrhage , and puerperal infection . in their submucosal location
, myomas can be treated exclusive... | background : submucosal myomas are associated with infertility and may be treated by hysteroscopic resection.objective:the aim of this retrospective study was to analyze 37 subfertile patients who unnderwent hysteroscopic myomectomy in a tertiary care center with particular regard to their postprocedure reproductive ou... |
antibiotic resistance
is a public health problem that , arguably ,
has the potential to destroy the efficacy of all antibiotics in the
next 1020 years .
there is , therefore ,
an urgent need for new drugs , especially ones that might be more resistance - resistant .
one possible approach to achieving this... | we report the discovery of a series
of new drug leads that have
potent activity against mycobacterium tuberculosis as well as against other bacteria , fungi , and a malaria parasite .
the compounds are analogues of the new tuberculosis ( tb ) drug sq109
( 1 ) , which has been reported to act by inhibiting a tra... |
for approximately the past three decades , analysis of collisionally - excited forbidden lines in the optical / uv wavelength region has been the primary means of determining the physical conditions and element abundances in regions and planetary nebulae ( pne ) .
studies of these emission lines have been a fundamenta... | we present new long - slit ccd spectra of permitted lines and [ ] forbidden lines in the ring nebula ngc 6720 .
these observations provide spatially - resolved information on both and [ ] over the 70@xmath0 diameter of the main shell .
we find significant differences in the spatial distribution of the lines an... |
lanthanum carbonate ( lc ) is a non - calcium , non - aluminum phosphate binder used to treat hyperphosphatemia in end - stage renal disease .
there , this cation binds with phosphate to produce lanthanum phosphate , which is excreted with the feces .
it has been reported that lanthanum is absorbed and deposited in... | lanthanum carbonate ( lc ) is an orally administered phosphate binder .
its absorption is generally thought to be minimal .
we report here the case of an 81-year - old woman who underwent subtotal gastrectomy for gastric cancer after receiving hemodialysis for 1 year and taking lc for 7 months .
lanthanum phospha... |
A Winona State University student and gymnast who died late Monday at a Fountain City restaurant was remembered Tuesday for her warm, outgoing personality, a smile that brightened the darkest room and the competitive drive she’d use to encourage her teammates.
Brooke Baures, 21, was found dead Monday night in a Fou... | – A college gymnast is dead after what appears to be a freak accident at the restaurant where she worked: Brooke Baures was found in its dumbwaiter, reports NBC Chicago. The body of the 21-year-old senior at Winona State University in Minnesota was discovered Monday evening in the food elevator of the WingDam Saloon & ... |
as cataract and refractive surgery are increasingly performed , the surgeons ' skills as well as the precision of ocular measurements are important in order to satisfy patients ' expectations .
central corneal thickness ( cct ) is critical in designing vision correction surgeries such as laser in situ keratomileusis ... | purpose . to compare between a new optical biometer ( al - scan , nidek co. , aichi , japan ) and an anterior segment optical coherence tomographer ( visante as - oct , carl zeiss meditec , dublin , usa ) for measuring central corneal thickness ( cct ) , anterior chamber depth ( acd ) , and aqueous depth ( ad )
. met... |
it has been known for over a decade that the star - formation rate density in the universe peaked around redshifts @xmath20 ( e.g. , * ? ? ? * ; * ? ? ?
more recently , the advent of bolometer arrays in the sub - millimeter ( sub - mm ) as well as the _
spitzer space telescope _ , have established that the contribution... | we present high - spatial resolution imaging obtained with the submillimeter array ( sma ) at 880@xmath0 m and the keck adaptive optics ( ao ) system at @xmath1-band of a gravitationally lensed sub - millimeter galaxy ( smg ) at @xmath2 discovered in the _ herschel _ astrophysical terahertz large area survey .
th... |
A former cop believed to be Golden State Killer may have been arrested but the Bay Area still has some serial killers on the loose.
A 72-year-old former officer, Joseph James DeAngelo, may now face consequences for at least some of the 12 murders and roughly 50 rapes he allegedly committed across California in the ... | – The San Francisco Police Department might be close to finally catching the Doodler, a 1970s serial killer more savage than his nickname might suggest. The killer is believed to have killed at least five gay men and possibly up to 14 in 1974 and 1975, SF Weekly reports. Police say the killer would approach men in bars... |
extrahepatic biliary duct duplication , also commonly called duplicated common bile duct ( dcbd ) , is exceptionally rare and mostly turn to be unexpected finding during surgery exposing surgeons to unusual surprises leading to iatrogenic bile duct injuries ( bdi ) .
this anomaly has been reported to be associated wi... | abstractduplicated common bile duct , often associated with conditions like lithiasis , biliary cysts and pancreatobiliary maljunction , could result in highly morbid and potentially fatal biliary injuries .
precise preoperative diagnosis and classification still remain a challenge . a female patient undergoing emerg... |
lipids play key roles in many biological processes ; ranging from a structural role in membranes to signaling , in addition to being sources of metabolic energy ( bohdanowicz and grinstein 2013 ; van meer and sprong 2004 ; van meer et al . , 2008 ) .
malaria infection is initiated when plasmodium sporozoites enter ... | summaryduring invasion , plasmodium , the causative agent of malaria , wraps itself in a parasitophorous vacuole membrane ( pvm ) , which constitutes a critical interface between the parasite and its host cell . within hepatocytes ,
each plasmodium sporozoite generates thousands of new parasites , creating high deman... |
anxiety disorders ( ads ) are the most common type of psychiatric disorders , with a mean incidence of 18.1% and a lifetime prevalence of 28.8% ( kessler et al 2005 ) .
ads results in a great economic burden as it was estimated that they account for a $ 42.3 billion annual cost in the united states , with over 50% of... | anxiety disorders ( ads ) are the most common type of psychiatric disorders , with a mean incidence of 18.1% and a lifetime prevalence of 28.8% .
pharmacologic options studied for treating ads may include benzodiazepines , tricyclic antidepressants ( tca ) , selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ( ssris ) , noradre... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Commission on the Accountability and
Review of Federal Agencies Act''.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMISSION.
(a) Establishment.--There is established the Commission on the
Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies (hereafter in this Act
referred to... | Commission on the Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies Act - Establishes the Commission on the Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies to: (1) evaluate executive agencies and their programs; and (2) submit to Congress a plan recommending agencies and programs that should be realigned or eliminated and pr... |
a wealth of observational evidence indicates the existence of considerably more mass in galaxies and clusters of galaxies than we see in stars and gas .
the source of the missing mass has been a problem since zwicky s 1937 measurement of the masses of extragalactic systems @xcite . given the evidence from galaxy cluste... | we consider the consequences of a neutral dark - matter particle with a nonzero electric and/or magnetic dipole moment .
theoretical constraints , as well as constraints from direct searches , precision tests of the standard model , the cosmic microwave background and matter power spectra , and cosmic gamma rays , a... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National Security Letter Reform Act
of 2005''.
SEC. 2. JUDICIAL REVIEW OF NATIONAL SECURITY LETTERS.
(a) In General.--Chapter 223 of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by inserting after section 3510 the following:
``Sec. 3511. Judicial review of... | National Security Letter Reform Act of 2005 - Establishes procedures for judicial review of national security letters (NSLs). Authorizes: (1) the recipient of a request for records or other information under federal criminal code provisions concerning counterintelligence access to telephone toll and electronic communic... |
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s mother, Dorothy Howell Rodham, died Tuesday morning, shortly after midnight. She was 92.
Clinton canceled trips to London and Turkey Monday in order to stay by her sick mother’s side in Washington, D.C., and was with her mother when she died.
... | – Dorothy Rodham, Hillary Clinton’s mother, died shortly after midnight, surrounded by her family at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, the Clinton family announced today. She was 92, and had been living with her daughter in Washington since 2006. Clinton canceled a planned trip to London and Istanbul to be ... |
It's here!!
Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill have finally blessed us with their sexy spread for GQ's October issue!
And besides the two claiming they're not actually engaged, it seems this editorial is really what's going to convince people to take their relationship seriously.
Related: Nicki Shows Off Her Killer ... | – Though they should have known what they were in for the moment they hired her, the producers of Lindsay Lohan's upcoming Lifetime movie are reportedly "hysterical" over the actress' recent car crash and exhaustion incident. Sources tell TMZ the producers are particularly worried they may lose their insurance over the... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Greenhouse Gas Observation and
Analysis System Act''.
SEC. 2. PURPOSES.
The purposes of this Act are--
(1) to establish a comprehensive national greenhouse gas
observation and analysis system to support verification of
gree... | Greenhouse Gas Observation and Analysis System Act - Directs the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish a greenhouse gas observation and analysis system that will offer the resolution and widespread coverage required to verify reduction and mitigation of greenhouse gase... |
the parent compounds of iron pnictide superconductors such as bafe@xmath7as@xmath7 and srfe@xmath7as@xmath7 exhibit a tetragonal - to - orthorhombic structural transition at @xmath0 followed by development of collinear antiferromagnetic ( af ) order along the @xmath12-axis of the orthorhombic lattice below @xmath10 [ l... | we use neutron resonance spin echo and larmor diffraction to study the effect of uniaxial pressure on the tetragonal - to - orthorhombic structural ( @xmath0 ) and antiferromagnetic ( af ) phase transitions in iron pnictides bafe@xmath1ni@xmath2as@xmath3 ( @xmath4 ) , srfe@xmath5ni@xmath6as@xmath7 , and bafe@xmath7(as... |
in the ` standard ' model of long - duration , soft - spectrum gamma - ray bursts ( grbs ; e.g. @xcite ) , the prompt high - energy emission arises in ultra - relativistic ( bulk lorentz factor @xmath2 ) , highly collimated ( opening half - angle of a few degrees ) jets .
the high lorentz factors are inferred from the ... | when a magnetically dominated super fast - magnetosonic long / soft gamma - ray burst ( grb ) jet leaves the progenitor star , the external pressure support will drop and the jet may enter the regime of ballistic expansion , during which additional magnetic acceleration becomes ineffective .
however , recent numeri... |
in the context of cold dark matter dominated ( cdm ) , hierarchical clustering cosmology , large galaxies are formed from the merging and accretion of small , less massive progenitors ( clumps ) .
the exact role played by this substructure in the formation of galaxies is still unclear , and there remain unresolved seve... | the evolution of substructure embedded in non - dissipative dark halos is studied through n - body simulations of isolated systems , both in and out of initial equilibrium , complementing cosmological simulations of the growth of structure .
we determine by both analytic calculations and direct analysis of the n - b... |
for the purpose of this study we used a high - resolution simulation of a two - component dwarf galaxy orbiting in the gravitational potential of the milky way ( klimentowski et al .
2007 , 2009a ) .
the dwarf progenitor of total mass @xmath1 consisted of a baryonic disk embedded in a dark matter halo . the initial mas... | using a high resolution @xmath0-body simulation of a two - component dwarf galaxy orbiting in the potential of the milky way , we study two effects that lead to significant biases in mass estimates of dwarf spheroidal galaxies . both are due to the strong tidal interaction of initially disky dwarfs with their host .
... |
a central model behind the theoretical description of competition among dissimilar species was introduced by @xcite . in the model ,
species are characterized by their niche position @xmath0 , which measures a trait being relevant for the exploitation of a distributed resource . as examples ,
the niche value @xmath0 ma... | a central model in theoretical ecology considers the competition of a range of species for a broad spectrum of resources .
recent studies have shown that essentially two different outcomes are possible . either the species surviving competition are more or less uniformly distributed over the resource spectrum , or
... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``District of Columbia Economic
Recovery Act''.
SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON INCOME TAX IMPOSED ON INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE
RESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
(a) In General.--Subchapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 (relatin... | District of Columbia Economic Recovery Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth a limitation on the income tax imposed on individuals who are residents of the District of Columbia. Specifies that the limitation is the sum of: (1) 15 percent of so much District-sourced income as exceeds the exemption amoun... |
among the important ( yet ill - understood ) diagnostics of stellar nucleosynthesis and the subsequent chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium ( ism ) is the @xmath5n/@xmath0n isotopic ratio .
the production of @xmath5n is thought to involve a combination of secondary sources , such as the cold cno cycle in main... | we report the first detection of c@xmath0n in diffuse molecular gas from a detailed examination of cn absorption lines in archival vlt / uves spectra of stars probing local diffuse clouds .
absorption from the c@xmath0n isotopologue is confidently detected ( at @xmath1 ) in three out of the four directions studied a... |
a 23-year - old healthy female was admitted to our hospital with a new - onset tender bulge in her left groin , associated with subjective fevers and chills .
four days prior to presentation , she noted a sudden protrusion in her left groin with associated pain . given worsening pain and intermittent nausea , she pre... | endometriosis is a common gynecologic disorder wherein ectopic endometrial glands and stroma are found at extrauterine sites .
extrapelvic endometriosis is a well - documented , yet rare , disease entity that can affect almost any organ system .
inguinal endometriosis is an extremely rare disease entity characteriz... |
gamma - rays are an important tool for studying the cosmos ; unlike cosmic rays ( crs ) , they point back to their sources and can identify remote acceleration regions .
air cherenkov telescopes have identified numerous sources of high - energy ( @xmath8 tev ) gamma - rays ( see e.g. @xcite ) : within our galaxy , gamm... | gamma - ray induced air showers are notable for their lack of muons , compared to hadronic showers .
hence , air shower arrays with large underground muon detectors can select a sample greatly enriched in photon showers by rejecting showers containing muons .
icecube is sensitive to muons with energies above @xmat... |
Art is a cry of distress from those who live out within themselves the destiny of humanity … Inside them turns the movement of the world; only an echo of it leaks out – the work of art Arnold Schoenberg, 1910.
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, like many gifted artists throughout history, suffered for his art. Po... | – The idea that rock stars die young is actually true, according to a new study out of Australia. Though most rock stars don't enter the so-called "27 Club," whose members all died at that age (Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison), the study finds that they do die much earlier than the ... |
MOLALLA, Ore. – Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts apologized Thursday after one of his deputies shot and killed a family’s pony last month.
“We made a mistake,” Roberts said in a statement. “Other actions could and should have been taken.”
At about 9 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, a deputy was called to an area a... | – A beloved elderly pony that escaped from his barn stall and went for a stroll one night was shot dead by police for no good reason, according to a furious family in Oregon. A neighbor called police after she found Gir, a 30-year-old American Miniature Horse, lying in her yard in Clackamas County last month. Police sa... |
this is particularly true during early childhood as oral health can influence overall health and well - being .
keeping primary teeth healthy is essential as those who suffer from caries in their preschool years are more likely to experience caries throughout childhood and adolescence [ 2 , 3 ] .
early childhood ca... | objectives . several groups in manitoba , canada , experience early childhood caries ( ecc ) , including aboriginal , immigrant , and refugee children and those from select rural regions . the purpose of this pilot study was to explore the views of parents and caregivers from four cultural groups on early childhood ora... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Empowering Our Local Communities Act
of 2007''.
SEC. 2. CERTAIN KILLINGS BY ILLEGAL ALIENS.
(a) In General.--Chapter 51 of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 1123. Certain killings by illegal aliens
... | Empowering Our Local Communities Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a minimum mandatory prison term of five years and a maximum term of 40 years on any illegal alien who commits manslaughter while operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol.
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act... |
describing accurately the thermodynamics and structure of fluids with short ranged inter - particle potentials has been a long standing problem in liquid state theory .
various methods have been developed to attack the problem .
they can be divided into two categories .
one category is based on integral equation theory... | the coupling parameter expansion in thermodynamic perturbation theory of simple fluids is generalized to include the derivatives of bridge function with respect to coupling parameter .
we applied seventh order version of the theory to square - well ( sw ) and lennard - jones(lj)fluids using sarkisov bridge function ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Civil War Sesquicentennial
Commission Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The American Civil War was a defining experience in the
development of the United States.
... | Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission to plan, develop, and carry out programs and activities appropriate to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, and to carry out other specified duties.
Directs the National... |
The year 2015 will be slightly longer after the Paris Observatory announced it was adding a leap second to clocks this summer.
On June 30, dials will read 11:59:60 as clocks hold their breath for a second to allow the Earth’s rotation to catch up with atomic time.
Atomic time is constant, but the Earth’s rotati... | – The powers that be in the world of time management have decreed that the world needs to gain an extra second this year. More precisely, the folks at the International Earth Rotation Service in Paris have decided to add one second to June 30, 2015, to sync our atomic clocks to the Earth's slowing rotation, reports Phy... |
however despite the introduction of more advanced surgical techniques , there remains a significant risk of complications and death from surgical procedures ( 1 ) .
previous studies have shown that over 50% of surgical complications are avoidable ( 2 ) .
in addition , the importance of effective teamwork has been e... | the world health organisation ( who ) launched the surgical safety checklist in 2008 . the introduction of this checklist resulted in a significant reduction in the incidence of complications and death in patients undergoing surgery .
consequently , the who surgical safety checklist is recommended for use by the nati... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National Discovery Trails Act of
1996''.
SEC. 2. NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM ACT AMENDMENTS.
(a) National Discovery Trails Established.--Section 3(a) of the
National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1242(a)) is amended by inserting
after paragraph (4) the foll... | National Discovery Trails Act of 1996 - Amends the National Trails System Act (the Act) to provide that national discovery trails established under the Act shall be components of the National Trails System. Provides that such trails shall be extended, continuous interstate trails located so as to provide for outdoor r... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``First-Time Homebuyer Affordability
Act of 2001''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND POLICY.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
(1) it is desirable to make funds available from individual
retirement plans to encourage first time home owners... | First-Time Homebuyer Affordability Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the tax on prohibited transactions inapplicable to a qualified home equity participation arrangement (one in which up to $10,000 in an individual retirement plan is used to acquire an ownership interest in a dwelling unit that is ... |
magnetars are a class of neutron stars powered by the decay of their ultrastrong magnetic fields ( duncan & thompson 1992 ) . if they are isolated , magnetars are believed to appear as persistent pulsars in the x - rays , with occasional episodes of bursting activity in the hard x - rays / soft @xmath0-rays .
anomalous... | a number of anomalous x - ray pulsars ( axps ) have recently been detected in the optical / ir wavelengths .
we use their inferred brightness to place general constraints on any model for this emission within the magnetar framework .
we find that neutron - star surface emission can not account for the observations... |
the problem of a random walk on a two - dimensional lattice with a single interior source point and absorbing boundaries was first considered by courant _
_ @xcite in 1928 where general properties of the solution were discussed .
this problem was solved exactly in 1940 @xcite for the case of random walks on a square la... | the problem of a random walk on a finite triangular lattice with a single interior source point and zig - zag absorbing boundaries is solved exactly .
this problem has been previously considered intractable .
# 1 epsf.sty |
gout is a disease characterized by joint and kidney inflammation caused by high levels of uric acid in the bloodstream and tissues .
uric acid is water soluble and is normally eliminated by the kidneys in quantities between 600 and 700 mg / day when the organism receives a normal diet .
plasma concentrations of ur... | urate oxidase ( ec 1.7.3.3 ) is an enzyme involved in purine metabolism which is used in the treatment of gout and as diagnostic reagent for detection of uric acid . in order to produce this enzyme in large quantities for biotechnological purposes ,
the gene coding for the bacillus subtilis urate oxidase was cloned a... |
transverse pattern formation , autosolitons and cavity solitons have been the subject of intense research in nonlinear optics in the last two decades since their original predictions @xcite . unlike in other fields of science ,
transverse patterns and dissipative solitons find useful applications in photonics such as o... | spatio - temporal dynamics of singly resonant optical parametric oscillators with external seeding displays hexagonal , roll and honeycomb patterns , optical turbulence , rogue waves and cavity solitons .
we derive appropriate mean - field equations with a sinc@xmath0 nonlinearity and demonstrate that off - resonanc... |
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith was charged Wednesday with three felony counts of illegal possession of an assault weapon in a case stemming from a party at his home in June 2012.
The Santa Clara County district attorney's office said in announcing the charges that Smith, 24, is ex... | – Embattled 49ers star Aldon Smith has been charged with three counts of illegally possessing assault weapons, stemming from a party-turned-shootout at his San Jose-area abode last year. According to prosecutors, Smith, 24, was hosting upward of 100 people at his home last June when someone pulled a gun on the party's ... |
the possibility of pion condensation in nuclear medium was suggested by a. b. migdal for the first time in the 1970s @xcite .
thereafter , many studies @xcite of `` in - medium '' pion properties have been performed due to the important consequences in subnuclear physics @xcite , in the physics of neutron stars @xcit... | we have studied the phenomenology of pion condensation in 2-flavor neutral quark matter at finite density with nambu jona - lasinio ( njl ) model of qcd .
we have discussed the role of the bare quark mass @xmath0 and the electric chemical potential @xmath1 in controlling the condensation .
the central result of t... |
helium is the second most abundant element in the universe , and its emission and opacity help determine the structure of any interstellar cloud .
its abundance relative to hydrogen can be measured within a few percent since the emissivities of h i and he i lines have similar dependences on temperature and density .
th... | we calculate the he i case b recombination cascade spectrum using improved radiative and collisional data .
we present new emissivities over a range of electron temperatures and densities .
the differences between our results and the current standard are large enough to have a significant effect not only on the in... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Yemen Security and Humanity Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) Yemen, a country that has been plagued by violence and
insurgency for many years, has been locked in a devastating
civil war since 2015.
... | Yemen Security and Humanity Act This bill expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) addressing the famine conditions in Yemen is in U.S. national security interests, (2) U.S.-supported interventions to advance national security should consider the impact of military engagement on humanitarian operations, and (3) burea... |
KRASNODAR, September 16 (RIA Novosti) – A 36-year-old Russian woman has been detained on suspicion of murdering a 21-year-old woman for dancing with her boyfriend at a birthday party, investigators said Monday.
The suspect became jealous when she saw her boyfriend dancing with a 21-year-old guest at a birthday part... | – A spate of odd news today concerning attacks in Russia: one on a dance floor, three in a cemetery, and another over a philosopher. Two 20-something men in line for beers at a festival in southern Russia, got in a heated dispute about 18th-century philosopher Immanuel Kant. The feud "deteriorated into a fistfight," po... |
catharanthus roseus ( l. ) g. don ( formerly vinca rosea l. , apocynaceae ) is commonly known as the madagascar periwinkle .
it is a perennial ever green herb , 30 - 100 cm tall originally native to the island of madagascar but now widely dispersed in the tropics ( 1 ) .
the significance of this plant is its abilit... | free radicals play an important role in pathological processes such as aging and developing cancer ; hence , natural products inhibit free radical production , and can play an important role in preventing diseases .
we aimed to evaluate the scavenging activity of free radicals , reducing power , inhibition of lipid p... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``United States Agricultural Products
Market Access Act of 1997''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES.
(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The export of agricultural products is of vital
importance to the economy of the ... | United States Agricultural Products Market Access Act of 1997 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to direct the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to identify those foreign countries that: (1) deny fair and equitable market access to U.S. agricultural products or apply standards for the importation of U.S. agricultu... |
According to court documents, Bagley lost control of a Range Rover she was driving in the desert 17 miles east of Battle Mountain, Nev., on Dec. 27, 2011, when she hit a big sagebrush, causing the vehicle to flip upside down.
Her husband was thrown from the vehicle and suffered severe injuries. The 55-year-old was ... | – This part makes sense: A woman in Utah named Barbara Bagley is suing the driver who caused a car crash that killed her husband. This part is screwy: Bagley herself is that same driver. As the Salt Lake Tribune explains, Bagley is playing dual roles here in the bizarre lawsuit—as the representative of her husband's es... |
galaxies are not expected to form a poisson sampling of the distribution of matter in the universe .
indeed , it has been known for some time that different populations of galaxies demonstrate different clustering strengths @xcite , showing that they can not all have a simple relationship linking their distribution wit... | it has been known for a long time that the clustering of galaxies changes as a function of galaxy type .
this galaxy bias acts as a hindrance to the extraction of cosmological information from the galaxy power spectrum or correlation function .
theoretical arguments show that a change in the amplitude of the clust... |
turbulent convection is ubiquitous in nature and in many engineering applications .
rayleigh - bnard convection ( rbc ) in which fluid confined between two plates is heated from below and cooled on the top is an idealized yet an important paradigm to understand convective turbulence .
the dynamics of rbc is governed by... | we present a numerical study of the reversals and reorientations of the large scale circulation ( lsc ) of convective fluid in a cylindrical container of aspect ratio one .
we take prandtl number to be 0.7 and rayleigh numbers in the range from @xmath0 to @xmath1 .
it is observed that the reversals of the lsc are ... |
attempts to construct a quantum model of gravity starting from the geometrical description of classical case in general relativity may be characterized as very poor in its possible consequences .
the classical limit has not any clear physical mechanism of formation of the metric , and it is similar to the newtonian ver... | some results of author s work in a non - geometrical approach to quantum gravity are reviewed here , among them : a quantum mechanism of classical gravity giving a possibility to compute the newton constant ; asymptotic freedom at short distances ; interaction of photons with the graviton background leading to the imp... |
solar eruptive events , including flares , filament eruptions , and coronal mass ejections ( cmes ) are due to magnetic reconnection or loss of equilibrium in the solar corona ( see , e.g. , a recent review by webb & howard 2012 ) . from time sequence magnetograph observations , irreversible and rapid changes of surfac... | rapid , irreversible changes of magnetic topology and sunspot structure associated with flares have been systematically observed in recent years .
the most striking features include the increase of horizontal field at the polarity inversion line ( pil ) and the co - spatial penumbral darkening . a likely explanation... |
hyperglycaemia is frequently seen following renal transplantation , due to the effects of immunosuppressant regimens , particularly glucocorticoids , on glucose metabolism , and the presence of preexisting diabetes .
there is limited evidence for a specific postoperative blood glucose ( bg ) range following surgery o... | background .
optimal glycaemic targets following transplantation are unknown . understanding the impact of dm and posttransplant diabetes mellitus ( ptdm ) may improve patient and graft survival in transplant recipients . aim . to determine the perioperative and one - year outcomes after renal transplantation and whe... |
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