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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
Act of 2014''.
SEC. 2. GREAT LAKES RESTORATION INITIATIVE.
Section 118(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33
U.S.C. 1268(c)) is amended by striking paragraph (7) and inserting the
following:
`... | . Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize the Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative for FY2015-FY2019. Requires that the Initiative carry out programs and projects for Great Lake... |
gastric volvulus is defined as rotation of the stomach or part of the stomach by more than 180 creating a closed - loop obstruction .
the most common type in adults is the organoaxial type , which means that the stomach rotates along the longitudinal axis .
acute intrathoracic gastric volvulus occurs when the stoma... | acute intrathoracic gastric volvulus occurs when the stomach undergoes organoaxial torsion in the chest due to either concomitant enlargement of the hiatus or a diaphragmatic hernia .
iatrogenic diaphragmatic hernia can occur after hiatal hernia repair and other surgical procedures , such as nephrectomy , esophagogas... |
for a smooth , projective curve @xmath4 with a choice @xmath5 of marked points , and an assignment @xmath6 of parabolic subgroups @xmath7 to these points , a quasi - parabolic principal bundle of type @xmath8 is a principal bundle @xmath9 on @xmath10 and a choice @xmath11_{p_i}$ ] from the fiber of the @xmath12 associa... | we study a toric degeneration of the cox ring of the moduli of principal @xmath0 bundles on the projective line , with quasi parabolic data given by the the stabilizer of the highest weight vector in @xmath1 and its dual @xmath2 .
the affine semigroup algebra resulting from this degeneration is described using the @... |
while analytic solutions for isolated black holes ( bhs ) have a long history , the dynamics of bh binaries has been solved only recently and through computationally - expensive numerical - relativity ( nr ) calculations [ see @xcite for a review ] . despite the mathematical complexity of the problem
, many results of... | knowledge of the spin of the black hole resulting from the merger of a generic black - hole binary is of great importance for studying the cosmological evolution of supermassive black holes .
several attempts have been made to model the spin via simple expressions exploiting the results of numerical - relativity sim... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Northern Border States Council
Act''.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF COUNCIL.
(a) Establishment.--There is established a council to be known as
the Northern Border States-Canada Trade Council (hereafter in this Act
referred to as the ``Council'').
(b) M... | Northern Border States Council Act - Establishes the Northern Border States-Canada Trade Council.
Sets forth the duties of the Council, including: (1) advising the President, the Congress, the United States Trade Representative, the Secretary of Commerce, and other appropriate Federal and State officials with respect... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``The HAMP Termination Act of 2011''.
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) According to the Department of the Treasury--
(A) the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP)
i... | HAMP Termination Act of 2011 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to terminate the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide new mortgage modification assistance under the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), except with respect to existing obligations on behalf of homeow... |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration's approval of the final permit to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean clashes with the message President Barack Obama will deliver when he visits Alaska to emphasize the dangers of climate change, some environmental groups say.
FILE - In this April 17, 2015 file photo, with ... | – President Obama has disappointed a slew of environmental activists by giving Shell the green light yesterday to drill deeper in the Arctic for oil, Quartz reports. The approval issued by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement expands the oil company's current permissions, allowing it to drill even further... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National Estuarine Reserve System
Act of 2003''.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL ESTUARINE RESERVE SYSTEM.
(a) Policy.--Section 303 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972
(16 U.S.C. 1452) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (5) by striking ... | National Estuarine Reserve System Act of 2003 - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to rename the National Estuarine Research Reserve System the National Estuarine Reserve System, and designates existing sanctuaries as part of the System.Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to designate additional areas as p... |
Researchers in Aalto University have developed a new concept for computing, using water droplets as bits of digital information. This was enabled by the discovery that upon collision with each other on a highly water-repellent surface, two water droplets rebound like billiard balls.
In the work, published in th... | – Could the future of computers be water? Researchers in Finland may have laid the groundwork by converting water droplets into digital data. The concept came out of a discovery that water droplets on a water-repellent surface ricochet off each other like billiard balls, reports Science Daily. Scientists added tracks a... |
New numbers actually show a decline over the past 30 years.
America's infertility rate is not rising, according to new government data. (Photo: Getty Images/Comstock Images) Story Highlights Data fly in the face of popular wisdom about infertility
More talk about infertility may make it seem like it's on the ri... | – Good news for women planning to have a baby later in life: Infertility is actually on the decline, even as average marriage ages climb. A new report shows that of married women, aged 15 to 44, just 6% are infertile, down 2.5% since 1982. For women 35 to 44, the number is quite a bit higher at 27%, but that still mark... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Major Drug Trafficking Prosecution
Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Since the enactment of mandatory minimum sentencing for
drug users, the Federal Bureau of Prisons budget increased from
... | Major Drug Trafficking Prosecution Act of 2009- Requires the Attorney General's prior written approval for a federal prosecution of an offense under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) or the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (CSIEA), or for any conspiracy to commit such an offense, where the offense involves... |
this work was supported by the deutsche forschungsgemeinschaft through research unit 945 .
computing time at the leibniz computing center in garching is gratefully acknowledged .
we thank martin hck for fruitful discussions . | the characterization and manipulation of deposited magnetic clusters or molecules on surfaces is a prerequisite for future utilization . for this purpose spin - flip inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy using a scanning tunneling microscope proved to be very precise in determining e.g. exchange constants in depos... |
the development of heavy quark theory started in the 1980 s , has essentially been completed . while at the early stages the main emphasis was placed on the symmetry aspects ( the so - called heavy quark symmetry ) , the present ( mature ) stage deals with dynamical aspects .
a formalism based on wilson s operator prod... | the t hooft model ( two - dimensional qcd in the limit of large number of colors ) is used as a laboratory for exploring various aspects of the heavy quark expansions in the nonleptonic and semileptonic decays of heavy flavors .
we perform a complete operator analysis and construct the operator product expansion ( ... |
let us consider a classical spin-1/2 ising system with nearest - neighbor ferromagnetic interactions , in the presence of an external magnetic field @xmath2 , on a finite @xmath1-dimensional lattice of @xmath3 sites .
the partition function can be written as @xmath4 .
\label{isipf}\ ] ] here @xmath5 denotes an ising sp... | we have extended , in most cases through 24th order , the series expansions of the dimer density in powers of the activity in the case of bipartite ( ( hyper)-simple - cubic and ( hyper)-body - centered - cubic ) lattices of dimensionalities @xmath0 . a numerical analysis of these data yields estimates of the exponent... |
Simon Monjack's Cause of Death: 'Just Like Brittany'
Email This The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office has determined that Simon Monjack died from acute pneumonia and severe anemia, which eerily are the same two conditions that caused the death of his wife, Brittany Murphy, late last year.
Monjack, a Briti... | – It was eerie enough when Simon Monjack died just a few months after his wife, Brittany Murphy—it was even eerier when it was reported he died of the exact same cause, pneumonia. Now officials believe mold in their home may have contributed to their deaths, law enforcement sources tell TMZ. The investigation has been ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Agricultural Work Force Stability
and Protection Act''.
SEC. 2. CONSIDERATIONS IN THE APPROVAL OF H-2A PETITIONS.
Section 218(a) (8 U.S.C. 1188(a)) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as pa... | Agricultural Work Force Stability and Protection Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the admission of temporary agricultural (H-2A visa) workers and related labor certification provisions. |
SECTION 1. CREDIT TO HOLDERS OF INDIAN TRIBAL PRISON FACILITY BONDS.
(a) In General.--Part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to credits against tax) is
amended by adding at the end the following new subpart:
``Subpart H--Nonrefundable Credit for Holders of Indian Tr... | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable tax credit for investment in Indian tribal prison facility bonds. Requires that 95 percent of the proceeds of such bonds be used for the construction, acquisition, rehabilitation, expansion, or operating expenses of Indian tribal prison facilities and that the t... |
despite their humble appearances , the dwarf spheroidal ( dsph ) satellites of the milky way provide a source of persistent intrigue .
mysteries concerning their origin , evolution , mass density , and dynamical state make it difficult to know where to place these common galaxies in the context of standard ( e.g. cold ... | thanks to instrumental advances , new , very large kinematic datasets for nearby dwarf spheroidal ( dsph ) galaxies are on the horizon .
a key aim of these datasets is to help determine the distribution of dark matter in these galaxies .
past analyses have generally relied on specific dynamical models or highly re... |
Elaine Lissner is the director of the Male Contraception Information Project and of Parsemus Foundation, an organization dedicated to sponsoring contraceptive developments that include Vasalgel and an H.I.V. transmission-reducing pill.
Imagine you’re a 20-something or 30-something man, out on the dating market. You... | – There may be another birth control option headed our way, and the guys will get to take the lead on this one. The Parsemus Foundation has tested an injectable, non-hormonal polymer contraceptive on male baboons that appears to successfully prevent pregnancy in females, Medical Daily reports. The procedure, which requ... |
Amazing, just amazing how our septuagenarian (soon to be octogenarian) sheriff plays the media -- both national and local -- like a two-bit plastic ocarina.
Well, usually, his handlers do it for him. In this case, it was Chad Willems of Summit Consulting Group, the sleaze who cooked up the anti-Rick Romley ads and ... | – The headlines have been cropping up in the RSS feeds of political junkies: Sheriff Joe Arpaio—the self-anointed tough guy in Arizona who doesn't like illegal immigrants—is going to New Hampshire Sunday and pointedly not ruling out a 2012 presidential run. CNN rounds it up here. All this coverage makes Stephen Lemons ... |
malnutrition is a common problem in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( copd ) , and its prevalence rates are 30 - 60% for inpatients and 10 - 45% for outpatients .
low body weight and low fat - free mass ( ffm ) have been recognized as unfavorable prognostic factors in patients with copd , and surv... | chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( copd ) is a major cause of disability , and according to statistics from the world health organization , copd is the fourth leading cause of death overall in the face of decades , and expected to be increased . in 2005 ,
the reported prevalence of copd in korea was 17.2% of adu... |
the time - differential @xmath18sr experiment was performed with the upgraded alc instrument @xcite located at the @xmath19e3 muon beam line of the proton accelerator of the paul scherrer institute in switzerland . in the @xmath19e3 beam line
the muons were `` transversely '' polarized the angle between the muon spin ... | polarized negative muons were used to study the behaviour of the boron acceptor centre in synthetic diamond produced by the chemical vapour deposition ( cvd ) method .
the negative muon substitutes one of the electrons in a carbon atom , and this muonic atom imitates the boron acceptor impurity in diamond .
the te... |
Shannon Johnson Memorial Fund
My name is Amanda Archer Morita. I am close friends with Shannon's girlfriend. She is working with Shannon's family in Georgia to make sure Shannon's final wishes are met.
Shannon lost his life in the tragic San Bernardino shooting on December 2, 2015. This fund is being set up... | – Denise Peraza and Shannon Johnson sat next to each other at the Inland Regional Center on Wednesday morning joking that the clock must be broken, as co-workers are wont to do. Minutes later when bullets starting spraying the room meant to host a holiday banquet, both dove under a table with Johnson using his own body... |
while most cases of intestinal malabsorption syndrome are caused by massive intestine resection due to congenital and acquired diseases , a small portion of patients with structurally intact intestines also display intestinal malabsorption syndrome .
autoimmune enteropathy ( aie ) , characterized by protracted diarrh... | to evaluate the effects of glutamine - supplemented parenteral nutrition ( pn ) and probiotics in adult autoimmune enteropathy ( aie ) patients .
four adult aie patients were identified from april 2006 to january 2012 .
clinical and nutritional data were obtained from the patients ' medical records .
glutamine - ... |
most urethral carcinomas ( ucs ) are associated with invasive bladder tumors.1 however , primary uc occurs and accounts for less than 1% of cases .
symptomatology includes obstructive or irritative voiding , and urethral strictures or stenosis.2 in males , ucs primarily occur as squamous cell carcinoma ( scc ) .
th... | this male patient presented with a scrotal abscess and urinary obstruction .
the patient s history included a perineal abscess and the development of urethrocutaneous fistulae ( watering - can perineum ) .
he underwent multiple debridement procedures without resolution . during the fifth debridement for fournier s ... |
prior
to the evolution of protein - based enzymes , primitive cells
are thought to have relied on rna enzymes for catalysis .
the hypothesis of such an early , rna - dominated stage in the evolution
of life is supported by the continued existence of ribozymes in modern
biology , and especially by the observat... | the earliest genomic rnas had to
be short enough for efficient
replication , while simultaneously serving as unfolded templates and
effective ribozymes .
a partial solution to this paradox may lie in
the fact that many functional rnas can self - assemble from multiple
fragments .
therefore , in early evol... |
cytologic and surgical specimens were obtained from nine patients diagnosed with acc or abc from 1998 to 2014 at gachon university gil medical center . of the 2,229 cases of uterine cervix carcinomas during this period , there were four cases of acc ( 0.17% ) and five cases of abc ( 0.22% ) .
all cytology specimens w... | background : adenoid cystic carcinoma ( acc ) and adenoid basal carcinoma ( abc ) are rare in the uterine cervix .
acc is more aggressive than abc , thus accurate differential diagnosis is important . in this study , we identified cytologic features useful in distinguishing these two tumors for diagnosis.methods:thre... |
constipation affects 2% to 27% of the adult population1,2 and disproportionately affects females and the elderly.3 constipation symptoms are quite diverse but typically include infrequent bowel movements , hard or lumpy stools , excessive straining , bloating , abdominal discomfort , and/or feelings of incomplete evacu... | backgroundconstipation is a common complaint in adults .
lactitol is an osmotic disaccharide laxative that increases fecal volume and stimulates peristalsis . in this paper , we present the first meta - analysis on the efficacy and tolerance of lactitol for adult constipation.methodswe searched medline and embase , w... |
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (5th L) walks in front of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) land-to-air missiles units as he inspects the Defense Ministry in Tokyo December 7, 2012. Japan's government have deployed PAC-3 interceptor missiles to prepare for the...
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (3rd... | – North Korea is planning a rocket launch in the next few weeks, and the US is getting ready: Washington is shifting warships to the best spots to keep an eye on the launch, and perhaps defend against it, Reuters reports. The US is monitoring the run-up to the launch "very closely," says the head of the US Pacific Comm... |
here we show that if one uses an isotropic exchange interaction instead of the anisotropic interactions in the teleportation protocol one can also perform adiabatic teleportation . in this case
the initial hamiltonian is @xmath90\end{aligned}\ ] ] and the final hamiltonian is @xmath91\end{aligned}\ ] ] where we have ex... | the difficulty in producing precisely timed and controlled quantum gates is a significant source of error in many physical implementations of quantum computers . here
we introduce a simple universal primitive , adiabatic gate teleportation , which is robust to timing errors and many control errors and maintains a co... |
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Astronomers are tracking an asteroid about the size of an ai... | – At 6:28pm Eastern time tonight, an aircraft carrier-sized asteroid will swing by Earth at a distance of 201,000 miles, which is within the moon’s orbit. That’s the closest an asteroid has come to the planet since 1976, but don’t worry: NASA has determined the space rock poses no threat, the Wall Street Journal report... |
the nature of the extragalactic gamma ray background emission has been a topic of great interest since egret collaboration evaluated its spectrum in the range from 30 mev to 100 gev @xcite .
the diffuse emission coming from beyond the galaxy was determined by subtracting the contributions of resolved point sources , th... | tev gamma rays emitted by grbs are converted into electron - positron pairs via interactions with the extragalactic infrared radiation fields . in turn the pairs produced ,
whose trajectories are randomized by magnetic fields , will inverse compton scatter off the cosmic microwave background photons . the beamed tev... |
the reported experiments have been performed in the research centre jlich at the cooler synchrotron cosy @xcite by means of the cosy11 detector system @xcite presented in fig .
the collision of a proton from the cosy beam with a proton or deuteron cluster target may cause an @xmath0 meson creation . in that case
all ... | we present results on the isospin dependence of the @xmath0 production cross - section in nucleon
nucleon collisions , as well as the results of comparative analysis of the invariant mass distributions for the @xmath1 and @xmath2 reactions in the context of the proton@xmath3 and proton@xmath0 interaction .
additi... |
one of the most salient open problems in classical general relativity ( gr ) is proving the stability of the outer region of the stationary electro - vacuum black holes in the kerr - newman family .
a complete proof of stability in the context of the non linear gr equations has only been given for minkowski spacetime @... | the nonmodal linear stability of the schwarzschild black hole established in phys .
rev .
lett .
* 112 * ( 2014 ) 191101 is generalized to the case of a nonnegative cosmological constant @xmath0 .
two gauge invariant combinations @xmath1 of perturbed scalars made out of the weyl tensor and its first covari... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Early Pell Promise Act''.
SEC. 2. EARLY FEDERAL PELL GRANT COMMITMENT PROGRAM.
Subpart 1 of part A of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 1070a et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``SEC. 401B. EARLY FEDERAL PELL... | Early Pell Promise Act This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Department of Education to carry out a program of grants to state educational agencies under which a student who is in eighth grade and is eligible for a free or reduced price lunch under the Richard B. Russell National School Lun... |
in addition to its widespread role in human physiology , oestrogen ( e2 ) is implicated in the development and progression of proliferative disorders such as breast cancer ( deroo & korach , 2006 ) .
e2 exerts its effects through the e2 receptors ( ers ) er and er. er is a member of the class i nuclear hormone recept... | transcriptional activation of dna - dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit gene expression by oestrogen receptor-in this report braun - dullaeus and co - workers demonstrate that dna - pk can be directly induced by oestrogen through increased binding of the transcription factor er to the dna - pkcs promoter and ide... |
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To get you to the stories you care about, we are offering e... | – The death of a man who suffered a skull fracture and brain hemorrhage in Manhattan after being punched has been ruled a homicide, NY1 reports. Jeffrey Babbitt (some outlets use the spelling "Jeffery Babbit"), 62, was walking in Union Square around 3pm last Wednesday when Lashawn Marten allegedly punched him in the fa... |
the use of 16s rrna massive sequencing has deeply improved the technical possibilities to describe the taxonomic composition and functionality of microbial communities 1 . following the reduction in dna sequencing cost
, many studies have been performed using amplicon libraries to taxonomically describe microbial com... | here we report a benchmark of the effect of bootstrap cut - off values of the rdp classifier tool in terms of data retention along the different taxonomic ranks by using illumina reads .
results provide guidelines for planning sequencing depths and selection of bootstrap cut - off in taxonomic assignments . |
transfer rna ( trna ) genes play an essential role in protein translation in all living cells . among the numerous trna search programs created in the last 20 years , trnascan - se ( 1 ) remains a popular standard for whole - genome annotation of trna genes .
the program has undergone major development in the past th... | transfer rnas represent the largest , most ubiquitous class of non - protein coding rna genes found in all living organisms .
the trnascan - se search tool has become the de facto standard for annotating trna genes in genomes , and the genomic trna database ( gtrnadb ) was created as a portal for interactive explorat... |
the korean corneal disease study group ( kcdsg ) is an independent , non - profit , academic society whose members comprise the most active corneal subspecialists in korea . in 2009 ,
the initial survey on the definition , diagnosis , severity grading , and management of dry eye disease was conducted among the member... | purposeto evaluate the clinical efficacy of newly developed guidelines for the diagnosis and management of dry eye.methodsthis retrospective , multi - center , non - randomized , observational study included a total of 1,612 patients with dry eye disease who initially visited the clinics from march 2010 to august 2010 ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Education Savings Assistance Act of
1994''.
SEC. 2. TAX TREATMENT OF STATE EDUCATION SAVINGS ACCOUNTS.
(a) In General.--Part III of subchapter B of chapter 1 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to items specifically excluded
from gross inco... | Education Savings Assistance Act of 1994 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income any qualified education savings account. Describes such account as a trust created pursuant to a State educational savings plan and used exclusively to pay the higher education expenses of the designated beneficiar... |
dynamical systems in nature are rarely isolated .
interactions between the dynamical units often give rise to new phenomena which can be exploited in different contexts in physical , biological and social sciences @xcite . among them , the recently discovered emergent phenomenon of chimera states has been in the center... | we show the existence of chimera - like states in two distinct groups of identical populations of globally coupled stuart - landau oscillators .
the existence of chimera - like states occurs only for a small range of frequency difference between the two populations and these states disappear for an increase of misma... |
few experiments are performed without some attempt at estimating their errors , and the random errors of measurement in radio astronomy are typically determined in one general way .
some form of comparison is performed whereby samples are taken toward and away from a signal source , or with and without a spectral line ... | the random error of radioastronomical measurements is usually computed in the weak - signal limit , which assumes that the system temperature is sensibly the same on and off source , or with and without a spectral line .
this assumption is often very poor .
we give examples of common situations in which it is impo... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Passenger Vessel Safety Act of
1993''.
SEC. 2. PASSENGER.
Section 2101(21) of title 46, United States Code, is amended to
read as follows:
``(21) `passenger'--
``(A) means an individual carried on the vessel
... | Passenger Vessel Safety Act of 1993 - Amends Federal marine safety law to revise certain definitions regarding passengers, passenger vessels, and certain other types of vessels (including offshore supply, sailing school, and submersible vessels). Authorizes the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is o... |
a 42-year - old female smoker presented to the vascular department with a 10-day history of acute - onset right leg pain .
her vascular history was significant for stable intermittent claudication in the left leg that had been ongoing for several years and a right great hallux ulcer secondary to trauma that necessita... | we present a rare case of a patient with aortoiliac occlusive disease on the background of type a crossed renal ectopia , for whom open surgical intervention was required .
aortic exposure in patients with concomitant crossed renal ectopia can present technical challenges to the vascular surgeon .
the knowledge of ... |
the top quark may be a window to physics beyond the standard model ( sm ) .
its mass near the electroweak scale and its large coupling to the higgs boson may be crucial to understanding the electroweak sector beyond the sm .
now that the sm - like higgs boson has been observed at the large hadron collider ( lhc ) @xcit... | the top quark may hold the key to new physics associated with the electroweak symmetry - breaking sector , given its large mass and enhanced coupling to the higgs sector .
we systematically categorize generic interactions of a new particle that couples to the top quark and a neutral particle , which is assumed to be... |
At the Grammy Awards, a singer was strolling down the the red carpet when a young woman ran up to her, begging for entry into her Group.
She belongs to a secret, exclusive group of Los Angeles movers and shakers mostly between the ages of 19 and 35. No one except the 1,730 female members know exactly what happens i... | – "A constant stream of brutally frank chatter about relationships, work, sex, race, gender, and, yes, cats." That's how Kristen V. Brown, writing for Fusion, describes Girls Night In. The exclusive (and secret) Facebook group comprising some 1,500 LA-area women in their 20s and 30s also is home to "a bizarrely large q... |
at the lhc a new energy frontier is reached , which allows for new searches of unknown particles and further tests of the standard model . from the theory side
this also requires very precise predictions of cross sections and distributions , exceeding the precision of a leading - order approximation .
we present a calc... | we present a computation of the @xmath0 qcd corrections to production at the large hadron collider .
the photon is considered as real , and we include full leptonic decays for the @xmath1 and @xmath2 bosons . based on the structure of the vbfnlo program package , we obtain numerical results through a fully flexible... |
localized and patterned ( labirynth ) structures in bistable media are widely considered with relevance to the storage of binary information @xcite . far enough from the phase - transition point , the complexes of dws are observed in chemical reactors , magnetic and polar ( solid and liquid ) media while their basic pr... | interactions of domain walls ( dws ) are analyzed with relevance to formation of stationary bubbles ( complexes of two dws ) and complexes of many domains in one dimensional systems .
i investigate the domain structures in ferromagnets which are described with the landau - lifshitz equation as well as the domains in... |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign, with primaries in five states Tuesday and Republican front-runner Donald Trump trying to move closer to nailing down his party's nomination (all times Eastern Standard Time):
8:00 p.m.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have won the presidential prim... | – It's a campaign-saving win for John Kasich and a campaign-ending loss for Marco Rubio. In the latter race, Donald Trump easily defeated the Florida senator in Rubio's home state. The contest had been seen as do-or-die for Rubio, and it turned out to be die: He suspended his campaign in an evening address to supporter... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``New Collar Jobs
Act of 2017''.
(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. Employee cybersecurity education.
Sec. 4. Stu... | New Collar Jobs Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish an employee cybersecurity education tax credit, not to exceed $5,000 a year per employee, for an employer who incurs costs for an employee who earns a certificate or degree at the undergraduate or graduate level or a... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Ellie Helton, Lisa Colagrossi,
Teresa Anne Lawrence, and Jennifer Sedney Focused Research Act'' or
``Ellie's Law''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) An estimated 6 million people in the United States, or
... | Ellie Helton, Lisa Colagrossi, Teresa Anne Lawrence, and Jennifer Sedney Focused Research Act or Ellie's Law This bill authorizes appropriations for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to conduct or support research on unruptured brain aneurysms in a patient population diversified by age, sex, a... |
ram pressure ( and related processes ) by the intracluster medium ( icm ) can remove a galaxy s gas ( gunn & gott 1972 ) .
this process has been observed in various stages ; for example , vollmer ( 2009 ) separates virgo galaxies into pre - peak , peak , and post - peak ram pressure groups .
the amount of time that a g... | some tails of ram - pressure stripped galaxies are detected in h@xmath0 , some in h@xmath1 , and some in x - ray ( but never all three so far ) .
we use numerical simulations to probe the conditions for the production of x - ray bright tails , demonstrating that the primary requirement is a high pressure intracluste... |
the array of treatment options available to patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus ( t2 dm ) has increased markedly in recent years , as reflected in recent treatment guidelines.1 current recommendations involve commencing metformin monotherapy if dietary and lifestyle modifications are not sufficient , with the additi... | backgrounddespite the availability of a variety of treatments , many patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus ( t2 dm ) are not achieving glucose control .
we analyzed successive waves of the adelphi real world diabetes disease specific programmes ( dsps ) to assess treatment patterns reported by primary care physician... |
a 75-year - old woman was admitted to the emergency department with acute right abdominal pain of 2-hour duration . her medical history included a hysterectomy 30 years ago . from several decades ago
her vital signs were as follows : blood pressure , 150/75 mmhg ; pulse , 84 beats per minute and regular ; respiration... | perforation of the ureter is a rare condition that causes a series of problems including retroperitoneal urinoma , urosepsis , abscess formation , infection , and subsequent renal impairment .
there are causative factors that induce ureteric rupture , including malignancy , urinary calculi , idiopathic retroperitonea... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Reorganization Act of 2003''.
SEC. 2. NUMBER AND COMPOSITION OF CIRCUITS.
Section 41 of title 28, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in the matter before the table, by striking
``thirteen'' and inser... | Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Reorganization Act of 2003 - Divides the current U.S. Court of Appeals for the ninth circuit into: (1) the ninth circuit, composed of California and Nevada, consisting of 20 judges (25 as of February 1, 2005), and holding regular sessions in San Francisco and Los Angeles; (2) the tenth ci... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``FEGLI Living Benefits Act''.
SEC. 2. OPTION TO RECEIVE ``LIVING BENEFITS''.
(a) In General.--Chapter 87 of title 5, United States Code, is
amended by inserting after section 8714c the following:
``Sec. 8714d. Option to receive `living benefits'
``... | FEGLI Living Benefits Act - Provides that a Federal employee enrolled in the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance (FEGLI) Program who has been diagnosed as terminally ill with a life expectancy of nine months or less may elect to receive a lump-sum payment of his or her basic insurance amount, as adjusted actuarially... |
the recurrent laryngeal nerve ( rln ) injury is one of the most important complications during thyroid surgery , leading to dysfunction , and palsy of the vocal cords . for years , surgeons have attempted to prevent this complication by improving surgical techniques and optimizing surgical strategies .
the identifica... | background : intraoperative neuromonitoring ( ionm ) of the recurrent laryngeal nerve ( rln ) has been widely applied during thyroid surgery .
however , the safe range of stimulation intensity for ionm remains undetermined.methods:total thyroidectomies were performed on twenty dogs , and their rlns were stimulated wi... |
cancer is a major public health concern in the united states with approximately 25% of total deaths attributed to cancer .
the projected number of cancer deaths in 2010 alone was 1500 deaths per day , corresponding to a total of over 560,000 deaths .
therefore , investigations into modifiable risk factors that may ... | longitudinal associations between leisure - time physical activity ( ltpa ) and overall cancer mortality were evaluated within the third national health and nutrition examination survey ( nhanes iii ; 19882006 ; n = 15,535 ) .
mortality status was ascertained using the national death index .
self - reported ltpa wa... |
the lines show the simulated xp spectrum from the band structure results .
calculated partial density of states of ( b ) zr 4@xmath7 @xmath1 ( dashed line ) & @xmath8 ( solid line ) symmetries , and ( c ) b 2@xmath9 ( solid line ) and 2@xmath6 ( dashed line ) states . ]
valence band spectra obtained using he ii and al ... | we investigate the electronic structure of a complex conventional superconductor , zrb@xmath0 employing high resolution photoemission spectroscopy and _ ab initio _ band structure calculations .
the experimental valence band spectra could be described reasonably well within the local density approximation .
energy... |
In certain areas, “you could absolutely consider it a rebooting, getting the system back to the way it used to be,” said fire ecologist Andrea Thode of Northern Arizona University. “But where there’s a high-severity fire in a system that wasn’t used to having high-severity fires, you’re creating a new system.”
Some... | – The Atlantic goes looking for some silver lining to the Yosemite wildfire, and finds this: Carl Skinner, a US Forest Service ecologist, has discovered that the forest has been altered over the past 100 years due to human intervention into naturally occurring forest fires, becoming less diverse. So the current Rim fir... |
diabetic macular edema is the leading cause of significant loss of visual acuity in patients with diabetic retinopathy .
it results from the damage and increased permeability of macular capillaries in the course of hypoxia , leading to increased levels of antivascular endothelial growth factor ( vegf ) and release of... | aims . this retrospective analysis was aimed at evaluating the
effectiveness of treatment of persistent diabetic macular edema with
intravitreal injections of 0.7 mg dexamethasone implant ozurdex .
the study comprised three male patients ( 6 eyes ) .
results .
the
average thickness of the retina at baselin... |
systematic collection and curation of phenotypic descriptions began in the 1940s as textual synopses for mouse mutants ( snell 1941 ) .
then , maintaining and updating text manually was easy ( very few mutants known ) and there were no electronic records requiring search mechanisms or computer - parsable formats .
... | the mammalian phenotype ontology ( mp ) is a structured vocabulary for describing mammalian phenotypes and serves as a critical tool for efficient annotation and comprehensive retrieval of phenotype data .
importantly , the ontology contains broad and specific terms , facilitating annotation of data from initial obse... |
chaos is one of the essential concepts to justify a statistical treatment of deterministic dynamical systems . in a chaotic system
a small initial error diverges exponentially , as characterized quantitatively by the lyapunov exponents @xmath0 , and it means that it is impossible in principle to predict precisely any q... | boundary effects in the stepwise structure of the lyapunov spectra and the corresponding wavelike structure of the lyapunov vectors are discussed numerically in quasi - one - dimensional systems consisting of many hard - disks .
four kinds of boundary conditions constructed by combinations of periodic boundary condi... |
movements such as rapid cuts and stops , sudden accelerations , change of directions or jumps .
therefore , effective performance requires an adequate level of lower limb power ( alemdarolu , 2012 ; litkowycz et al . , 2010 ) of which improvement is possible through the application of plyometric training based mainly... | abstractthe basic drill of plyometric training aimed at improving lower limb power and jump height is a drop jump .
this exercise can be performed using different techniques , which substantially affects jump variables .
therefore , the aim of this study was to compare the values of the reactive strength index ( rs... |
A new planet has been discovered orbiting a distant star - the smallest yet detected outside our own Solar System.
The mini-world, the size of the Moon, is described as hot and barren and thought to be like a small version of Mercury.
The planet's close orbit to its star - Kepler-37 - means it would be too host... | – Scientists have discovered the smallest known planet, just a third of the size of the Earth. Mercury, the smallest in our solar system, is two-fifths Earth's size, the AP notes; the new discovery, Kepler-37b, is a far-off exoplanet. "This research shows for the first time that other stellar systems host planets much ... |
It’s an age old question: Why do zebras have stripes?
There have been many theories -- four of them, to be exact -- according to researchers of a new study.
The issue isn’t so black and white, it appears.
The four theories include confusing predators, regulating temperature, helping zebras recognize each ot... | – There are all kinds of explanations out there for why zebras have stripes, ranging from tricking lions to putting off bugs. A new study helps clarify the situation: Zebras' stripes appear to be linked to temperature, National Geographic reports. Zebras living in warmer temperatures have more stripes than their cousin... |
semiconductor quantum dots form a promising platform for quantum optics devices , including single photon emitters and emitters of entangled photon pairs .
@xcite the quantum dot - based light sources can be characterized by means of photon - photon correlation spectroscopy , i.e. by measuring the second - order correl... | the time dependence of the correlations between the photons , emitted from the microcavity with embedded quantum dot under incoherent pumping , is studied theoretically .
analytical expressions for the second - order correlation function @xmath0 are presented in strong and weak coupling regimes . at moderate pumping... |
magnetic fields can profoundly affect the properties of the intergalactic medium in clusters .
examples include suppression of heat conduction , which is required to maintain the cluster cooling flows ( see the review by fabian 1994 ) , and a possibility of a dynamically significant magnetic pressure to explain the dif... | we use the _ chandra _ observation of the cold front in the intracluster gas of a3667 to estimate the magnetic field strength near the front .
the front is seen in the _ chandra _ data as a sharp discontinuity in the gas density which delineates a large body of dense cool gas moving with the near - sonic velocity th... |
a 54 year - old man was referred to the outpatient clinic having been injured in his right eye by the hook of a clothes hanger while falling . swelling and bruising on the right eyelid
he complained of image tilting in the right eye compared to the image inthe left eye .
non - dilatating fundusphotos ( vx-10 ; kowa... | traumatic rupture of the superior oblique muscle is rare .
we report a case of a 54-year - old man injured by the metal hook of a hanger , resulting in a rupture of the superior oblique muscle tendon .
he complained of torsional diplopia when in the primary position .
the distal margin of the superior oblique mus... |
carbon nanotubes ( cnts ) are outstanding examples of one - dimensional ( 1d ) conductors @xcite . when embedded into a circuit and connected to external leads via tunneling barriers ,
cnts behave as quantum dots @xcite . owing to their one - dimensional nature
, their behaviour can be well described by means of a lu... | the transport properties of a cnt capacitively coupled to a molecule vibrating along one of its librational modes are studied and its transport properties analyzed in the presence of an stm tip .
we evaluate the linear charge and thermal conductances of the system and its thermopower .
they are dominated by _ posi... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``9/11 Immigrant Worker Freedom Act''.
SEC. 2. ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS FOR CERTAIN WORKERS AFTER TERRORIST
ATTACKS.
(a) Adjustment of Status.--The status of any alien described in
subsection (b) may be adjusted by the Secretary of Homeland Sec... | 9/11 Immigrant Worker Freedom Act This bill authorizes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to adjust to permanent resident the status a qualifying alien who applies for adjustment not later than one year after enactment of this bill and who, after the September 11, 2011, terrorist attacks: worked or volunteered... |
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SAND LAKE, Mich. — While police remain tight lipped on a now five-month-old homicide investigation involving a married couple in Newaygo County, case file documents detail a home in disarray the night of the killing and the discovery of suicide notes.
Case files from... | – Can a foul-mouthed parrot act as a witness to a murder? That's the question Martin Duram's family wants answered after Duram was killed in his Michigan home in May 2015, WOOD reports. Weeks after the murder, Duram's African grey parrot, Bud, could be heard repeating the phrase "Don't f---ing shoot." Bud would also ta... |
the behavior of many - body systems involving quantum spins has been one of the central topics in recent years since the properties of such systems are relevant to a great variety of materials , mostly oxides .
the structure of the ground state and the various symmetry broken phases that emerge are issues of special in... | we show that the s=1/2 pyrochlore lattice with both heisenberg and antisymmetric , dzyaloshinsky - moriya ( dm ) interactions , can order antiferromagnetically into a state with chiral symmetry , dictated by the distribution of the dm interactions .
the chiral antiferromagnetic state is characterized by a small stag... |
based on the fact that computers are commonly used in hospital patient wards and operation theatres , it would be not surprising if they could be contaminated with nosocomial pathogens .
cultures taken from the surface of computers keyboards yielded microorganisms such as coagulase - negative staphylococcus ( cns ) (... | inadequately performed hand hygiene and non - disinfected surfaces are two reasons why the keys and mouse - buttons of laptops could be sources of microbial contamination resulting consequently in indirect transmission of potential pathogens and nosocomial infections . until now
the question has not been addressed wh... |
On Wednesday night on CBS, after 33 years as a host, the longest late-night tenure ever, Mr. Letterman will close out his career with his 6,028th episode. His influence has been substantial: He breathed new life into the talk show, taking it beyond the traditional desk-and-sofa interview sessions with an array of innov... | – David Letterman has been doing late-night television longer than any other host out there—33 years—and tonight, his 6,028th show, will be his last. In honor of the Late Show host's iconic Top 10 lists, we've compiled the 10 best pieces of Letterman reading out there: "David Letterman, Prickly Late-Night Innovator, Co... |
null | label - free nanosensors can detect disease markers to provide point - of - care diagnosis that is low - cost , rapid , specific and sensitive.1 - 13 however , detecting these biomarkers in physiological fluid samples is difficult because of problems like biofouling and nonspecific binding , and the resulting need to u... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Employment Reduction
Assistance Act of 1996''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
For the purpose of this Act--
(1) the term ``agency'' means an Executive agency (as
defined by section 105 of title 5, United States Code), but
doe... | Federal Employment Reduction Assistance Act of 1996 - Authorizes the head of an agency to submit a plan to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to pay voluntary separation incentives to employees of the agency who agree to separate from the agency by retirement or resignation.
(Sec. 4) Provides that a v... |
the first cases of in vitro and in vivo chloroquine resistance in burkina faso were seen in 1983 and 1988 , respectively , and reported clinical failure rates after use of chloroquine for treatment of uncomplicated malaria in children were already around 5% in the early 1990s .
more recently , the clinical failure ra... | the efficacy of pyrimethamine - sulfadoxine in the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in young children of a malaria holoendemic area in rural burkina faso is reported . of 28 children treated with a standard single dose of pyrimethamine - sulfadoxine and followed - up over 14 days
, only one late treatmen... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National Suicide Hotline Improvement
Act of 2018''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act--
(1) the term ``Commission'' means the Federal Communications
Commission;
(2) the term ``covered dialing code'' means a simple, easy-to-
remember... | National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act of 2018 (Sec. 3) This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to coordinate with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct a stud... |
recent high - resolution and high - cadence observations have revealed a possible rotating motion of prominence barbs around a vertical axis . these have been called barb tornadoes @xcite due to the similarity of the apparent motion of such structures on the limb to terrestrial tornadoes .
@xcite reported an event wher... | recent high - resolution and high - cadence observations have surprisingly suggested that prominence barbs exhibit apparent rotating motions suggestive of a tornado - like structure .
additional evidence has been provided by doppler measurements .
the observations reveal opposite velocities for both hot and cool p... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National Initiative on Surface
Transportation and the Environment Act''.
SEC. 2. CONGESTION MITIGATION AND AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
(a) Eligible Projects.--Section 149(b) of title 23, United States
Code, is amended--
(1) by insertin... | National Initiative on Surface Transportation and the Environment Act - Amends Federal highway provisions to expand eligibility for projects under the congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program.
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a system for ranking projects and programs that are like... |
interaction of a single mode of electromagnetic field with a two - level atom is the simplest problem in matter - radiation coupling .
a model for the interaction , introduced by jaynes and cummings @xcite , treats the atom as a dipole placed in an external field .
the jaynes - cummings ( jc ) model has provided a lot ... | interaction of a two - level atom with a single mode of electromagnetic field including kerr nonlinearity for the field and intensity - dependent atom - field coupling is discussed .
the hamiltonian for the atom - field system is written in terms of the elements of a closed algebra , which has su(1,1 ) and heisenber... |
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Conventional wisdom, and many years of social science, have long said that the longer people wait to get married, the less likely they are to get divorced. There are obvious reasons why. With age, people mature, finish school, and settle into careers, which gives them th... | – A standard line of advice about marriage these days is not to wed too young—and divorce stats about people getting hitched before age 20 back that up. But a new study out of the University of Utah adds a surprising twist: Don't wait too long, because the risk of divorce starts rising again in the early 30s, reports t... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Minority Equity Capital Formation
Act of 1993''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
(1) there is a severe shortage of capital available and
targeted for investment in the United States minority b... | Minority Equity Capital Formation Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a minority venture capital fund credit of 20 percent of the aggregate bases of qualified minority fund interests, with limitations. Sets forth recapture provisions for such stock. Makes such credit a part of the general business... |
in recent years a number of unusual superconducting ( sc ) states have been discovered in different new materials @xcite .
most of these materials are strongly type - ii superconductors , possessing highly anisotropic or even quasi - two - dimensional ( 2d ) electronic structures .
of special interest in the present pa... | superconducting phase transitions in strongly type - ii superconductors in the pauli paramagnetic limit are considered within the framework of the gorkov - ginzburg - landau approach in the lowest landau level approximation for both s and d - wave electron pairing .
simple analytical expressions for the quadratic an... |
supersolidity is a unique state of matter that simultaneously displays both superfluidity and crystalline order .
much of our understanding of this exotic state is based on the pioneering work of penrose and onsager,@xcite andreev and lifshitz,@xcite chester and reatto,@xcite leggett,@xcite and anderson.@xcite recently... | a decrease in the rotational period observed in torsional oscillator measurements was recently taken as a possible indication of a putative supersolid state of helium .
we reexamine this interpretation and note that the decrease in the rotation period is also consistent with a solidification of a small liquidlike co... |
the collaboration between mathematicians working in knot theory and topological graph theory and chemists working in stereochemistry has been very fruitful so far ( @xcite-@xcite ) .
the spatial arrangement of a molecule can be modeled by a * spatial graph * @xmath0 , which is the image of an embedding @xmath1 of an ab... | we investigate properties of spatial graphs on the standard torus .
it is known that nontrivial embeddings of planar graphs in the torus contain a nontrivial knot or a nonsplit link due to @xcite,@xcite .
building on this and using the chirality of torus knots and links @xcite,@xcite , we prove that nontrivial e... |
myotonic dystrophies ( dms ) are autosomal dominant disorders exhibiting a variety of multisystemic features among which muscular dystrophy , myotonia , dilated cardiomyopathy , cardiac conduction defects , cerebral abnormalities , insulin - resistance , and cataracts ; in addition , disease - specific serological abno... | myotonic dystrophy type 2 ( dm2 ) is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by the expansion of the tetranucleotidic repeat ( cctg)n in the first intron of the zinc finger protein-9 gene . in dm2 tissues , the expanded mutant transcripts accumulate in nuclear focal aggregates where splicing factors are sequestered , thu... |
confounding is a major concern in epidemiology . since the publication of the seminal paper by greenland and robins ,
many epidemiologists have explained the concept of confounding by examining risk measures under a simple potential - outcome ( or counterfactual ) model for a cohort of individuals .
exchangeability... | confounding is a major concern in epidemiology . despite its significance
, the different notions of confounding have not been fully appreciated in the literature , leading to confusion of causal concepts in epidemiology . in this article
, we aim to highlight the importance of differentiating between the subtly di... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Internet Minors Protection and
Cyberspace Technology Act''.
SEC. 2. COMPUTER SOFTWARE REQUIRED.
(a) Installation Required.--Any elementary or secondary school or
public library that has received under any program or activity of any
Federal agency any ... | Allows temporary interruption of software operation to permit a minor, under the direct supervision of an adult designated by the school or library, to have access to information that is not obscene, is not child pornography, or is otherwise unprotected by the Constitution.
Requires determinations of adequate design to... |
animal studies have demonstrated that the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase ( inos ) was increased in ischemia - reperfused myocardium , resulting in increased production of nitric oxide ( no ) and superoxide anions .
it is well known that no is protective for the cardiovascular system and excessive no ex... | backgroundnitric oxide ( no ) is protective for the cardiovascular system , and excessive no exerts negative effects on the circulatory system .
this study aimed to compare the effects of selective or non - selective no synthase ( nos ) inhibitors on blood flow perfusion of ischemia - reperfused myocardium.materials/... |
Here is a complete transcript of President Obama’s news conference in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 14, 2012. Topics included the fiscal cliff, tax reform, the Petraeus scandal, immigration, the Benghazi attacks, Susan Rice, climate change and Syria.
Read More: Obama faces array of questions at White Hou... | – President Obama has wrapped up his first press conference since the election, with, surprise, surprise, the David Petraeus scandal and the fiscal cliff at the top of the agenda, reports the AP. But he also made headlines with a strong defense of UN ambassador Susan Rice. The full transcript is here. Some highlights: ... |
notch signalling is an evolutionarily conserved signalling pathway , which plays a significant role in a wide array of cellular processes including proliferation , differentiation , and apoptosis . in humans classic notch signalling consists of four notch receptors ( notch 1 , 2 , 3 , and 4 ) and their ligands ( delta ... | notch signalling is an evolutionarily conserved signalling pathway , which plays a significant role in a wide array of cellular processes including proliferation , differentiation , and apoptosis .
nevertheless , it must be noted that notch is a binary cell fate determinant , and its overexpression has been described... |
@xmath2due to their large masses , heavy flavor quarks are believed to be unique probes to the strongly coupled qcd matter created in high energy @xmath0 collisions at the relativistic heavy ion collider ( rhic ) .
they are mainly produced in the initial hard scatterings , so the production can be well studied by pertu... | we present preliminary results of non - photonic electron ( npe ) production , npe - hadron azimuthal correlation as well as npe elliptic flow studies at midrapidity using a data set with high statistics and low photon conversion background from @xmath0 collisions at @xmath1 gev collected at rhic in run 2010 .
@xma... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Homeowners Insurance and Mitigation
Assistance Act of 2008''.
SEC. 2. NONREFUNDABLE PERSONAL CREDIT FOR CERTAIN HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE
PREMIUMS.
(a) In General.--Subpart A of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1
of the Internal Revenue Cod... | Homeowners Insurance and Mitigation Assistance Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax credits for: (1) 50% of the increases in homeowners insurance premiums for taxpayers whose principal residences are located in certain federally declared hurricane disaster areas or in states which border the Atla... |
every year between the 1200 to 1400 persons per million develop urinary calculosis with a male to female ratio of 3:1 ( 1 ) .
urology is probably the oldest branch of surgery , knowing that one of the first operations was safe and resolve stone jammed on the outer opening of the urethra ( 2 ) .
creation of stones i... | introduction : elimination of stone is determined by size and its localization . stone from the ureter in 80% of cases can be eliminated spontaneously .
if the stone by its characteristics is not spontaneously eliminated , taken are further steps and therapeutic protocols to solve this problem.material and methods : ... |
Mount Ontake, a volcano straddling Nagano and Gifu prefectures, erupted on Saturday, spewing ash and small rocks into the air, leaving at least 16 people unconscious and 30 others seriously injured, and stranding more than 40 on the mountain, officials and media said.
Following the eruption at 11:53 a.m., a thick, ... | – A volcano in Japan rumbled to life today unexpectedly, killing a female hiker, the Japan Times reports. At least 40 people were hurt in the eruption of Mount Ontake in central Japan, the AP reports, and the Times notes that 16 were knocked unconscious, per an official. Seven were said to be missing. The mountain spew... |
in the rotating wave approximation , the three - level system is described by the hamiltonian @xmath124 where @xmath19 is the atomic projection / transition operator , @xmath20 .
the external driving microwave fields at frequencies @xmath22 and @xmath23 couple atomic states according to the interaction hamiltonian @xma... | we report amplification of electromagnetic waves by a single artificial atom in open 1d space . our three - level artificial atom a superconducting quantum circuit coupled to a transmission line
presents an analog of a natural atom in open space .
the system is the most fundamental quantum amplifier whose gain i... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Coltsville National Historical Park
Act''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of this Act:
(1) City.--The term ``city'' means the city of Hartford,
Connecticut.
(2) Historic district.--The term ``Historic District''
... | Coltsville National Historical Park Act - (Sec. 3) Establishes the Coltsville National Historical Park as a unit of the National Park System in Connecticut. Delays establishment of the Park until specified conditions have been met, including that: (1) Connecticut, the city of Hartford, or private property owner, as ap... |
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