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living organisms produce compounds of many types via their metabolisms which are believed to adaptively shape - shift with changing environment across a long evolutionary history .
elucidation of design principles behind such complex systems is a major goal in natural science . toward this end , so far , the structure ... | we investigate the distribution of flavonoids , a major category of plant secondary metabolites , across species .
flavonoids are known to show high species specificity , and were once considered as chemical markers for understanding adaptive evolution and characterization of living organisms .
we investigate the ... |
there is an intricate mutual dynamical dependence between the central massive black hole ( mbh ) and the nuclear region of the host galaxy .
centres of galaxies act as resonant cavities , and the mass of the central mbh contributes to the formation and locations of the resonances @xcite,@xcite .
resonances can either h... | recent high - resolution observations indicate that nuclear spirals are often present in the innermost few hundred parsecs of disc galaxies .
my models show that nuclear spirals form naturally as a gas response to non - axisymmetry in the gravitational potential .
some nuclear spirals take the form of spiral shock... |
9. ‘13TH’ In her ferocious, intellectually galvanizing activist documentary, Ava DuVernay takes a hard look at race in the United States through the 13th Amendment of the Constitution. You may think you’ve heard it all before; you haven’t. [Read the review]
10. ‘FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF …’ One of the high points of thi... | – The year's best-of lists are flooding in, and Richard Brody of the New Yorker is among those out with picks for the best movies of 2016. Here are the top 10 of the 35 he names, with the director noted: Little Sister (Zach Clark) Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Sully (Clint Eastwood) Viktoria (Maya Vitkova) Love & Friendshi... |
maximising the cardiac output ( co ) by fluid infusion benefits patients undergoing cardiac surgery , but they may not tolerate large volume of fluid due to impaired cardiac performance . hence ,
colloids are widely used in cardiac perioperative setting , however , higher cost and potential risks of colloids are stil... | background and aim : no solution has been determined ideal for fluid therapy during cardiac surgery .
previous studies have shown that hyperosmolar sodium lactate ( hsl ) infusion has improved cardiac performance with smaller volume infusion , which resulted in negative fluid balance .
this study compared the effec... |
cutaneous t - cell lymphomas ( ctcl ) account for roughly 3% of non - hodgkin s lymphoma ( nhl ) and are a heterogenous group of disorders characterized by clonal accumulation of malignant cd4 or cd8 t - lymphocytes in the skin . according to a recent review of the seer database and other registries , the incidence of ... | denileukin diftitox ( ontak ) is indicated for the treatment of patients with persistent or recurrent cutaneous t - cell lymphoma ( ctcl ) , a rare lymphoproliferative disorder of the skin .
denileukin diftitox was the first fusion protein toxin approved for the treatment of a human disease .
this fusion protein to... |
null | severe developmental and reproductive disorders in wild animals have been linked to high exposure to persistent environmental chemicals with hormonal activity .
these adverse effects of environmental estrogens have raised considerable concern and have received increasing attention .
although numerous chemicals with... |
among the health care services covered by medicare , reimbursements for hop services have shown the largest rate of growth since the inception of the program . from 1974 , the first full year of coverage for disabled medicare enrollees , through 1983 , hop reimbursements rose from $ 0.3 billion to $ 2.7 billion , an av... | presented in this article are program data on the use and cost of hospital outpatient ( hop ) services rendered to aged and disabled medicare beneficiaries during calendar year 1985 .
trend data are also presented for calendar years 1974 - 85 .
the data shown in this article focus on charges , reimbursements , and ... |
Mitt Romney wants President Obama to apologize for his campaign's suggestion that the Republican candidate could have broken the law by making inaccurate statements to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Romney told ABC News' Jonathan Karl late this afternoon that Obama should clean up his campaign staff after ... | – Mitt Romney went on the offensive in a big way today over his tenure at Bain, giving a series of TV interviews to insist that he stopped having any management role in 1999 and to demand that President Obama apologize because of his advisers' "disgusting" attacks on him over the issue. Some of his quotes: “"There's no... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``The Defense Communities Assistance
Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of the Congress, that as the Federal Government
implements base closures and realignments, global repositioning, and
grow the force initiatives, it is necessa... | Defense Communities Assistance Act of 2009 - Expresses the sense of Congress on the necessity of assisting local communities coping with the impact of base closures and realignments and other military actions.
Extends permanently (under current law, terminated at the end of FY2008) the authority of the Secretary of th... |
water is the most important liquid on earth .
although its uniform phase already exhibits many fascinating properties and is currently an area of intensive research , the importance of the _ inhomogeneous _ phase in the chemical and biological sciences is even greater : as a solvent , water is ubiquitous in physical ch... | we present an accurate free - energy functional for liquid water written in terms of a set of effective potential fields in which fictitious noninteracting water molecules move . the functional contains an _ exact _ expression of the entropy of noninteracting molecules and thus provides an ideal starting point for the... |
( 2s,4r)-1-tert - butyl 2-methyl 4-hydroxypyrrolidine-1,2-dicarboxylate
( 5.00 g , 20.4 mmol ) was dissolved in anhydrous ch2cl2 ( 200 ml ) at room temperature under n2 . to the
solution
were added 4-nitrobenzoic acid ( 3.41 g , 20.4 mmol ) and dicyclohexylcarbodiimide
( dcc ) ( 5.06 g , 24.5 mmol ) .
a catal... | ( 2s,4r)-4-hydroxyproline(4-nitrobenzoate )
was synthesized .
the crystal structure revealed an exo ring pucker ,
with the nitrobenzoate pseudoaxial on the pyrrolidine envelope and
antiperiplanar to c and c c
h
bonds .
the unit cell exhibited variation in ch / co and ch / co torsion angles , with a 15 inc... |
immunohistochemistry is no different from any other technique : an experimental approach for which the quality of the results relies entirely on the analyte , reagents , precise experimental technique , correct application of controls and , ultimately , an accurate interpretation of the data based on all of the aforeme... | immunohistochemistry is widely used in biomedical research to localize specific epitopes of molecules in cells and tissues .
the validity of interpretations based on immunohistochemistry requires appropriate positive and negative controls that are often not reported in publications .
this omission may lead to incor... |
when analyzing and processing a signal , such as a sound wave or digital picture , it is often useful to represent the signal in terms of a basis .
for instance , a sound wave can be represented in terms of its harmonic frequencies by a fourier series . with this representation
, the sound wave can be processed to remo... | frames for @xmath0 can be thought of as redundant or linearly dependent coordinate systems , and have important applications in such areas as signal processing , data compression , and sampling theory .
the word `` frame '' has a different meaning in the context of differential geometry and topology .
a moving fra... |
quantum hypothesis testing ( qht ) is a fundamental topic in quantum information theory @xcite , playing a non - trivial role in protocols of quantum communication and quantum cryptography @xcite .
the typical formulation of qht is given in terms of quantum state discrimination @xcite , where a certain number of gen... | we consider the asymmetric formulation of quantum hypothesis testing , where two quantum hypotheses have different associated costs . in this problem ,
the aim is to minimize the probability of false negatives and the optimal performance is provided by the quantum hoeffding bound . after a brief review of these noti... |
a mapping @xmath1 , where the dependence on the continuous parameter is smooth , is called a _ semidiscrete surface_. let us connect @xmath2 with @xmath3 by segments for all possible pares @xmath4 .
the resulting piecewise smooth surface is a _ piecewise ruled surface_. in this paper we study infinitesimal and higher o... | in this paper we study necessary conditions of flexibility for semidiscrete surfaces . for 2-ribbon semidiscrete surfaces
we prove their one - parametric finite flexibility . in particular we write down a system of differential equations describing flexions in the case of existence .
further we find infinitesimal ... |
With his gravelly Tennessee drawl and his trademark straw panama hat, R.A. "Bob" Hoover was an icon of American aviation prowess and heroism.
One of his most flamboyant escapades was escaping the Nazis in World War II by stealing one of their planes.
The legendary aviator died at his home near Los Angeles on Tu... | – One of America's greatest aviation heroes has died, reports Yahoo. Bob Hoover, a World War II fighter pilot who escaped the Nazis by stealing one of their planes, died of congestive heart failure Tuesday near Los Angeles, reports the Washington Post. He was 94. Born in Tennessee, Hoover was flying by age 15 and soon ... |
spin - dependent electronic transport and use of the spin degree of freedom of electrons in hybrid magnetic structures have recently been subject of highly interesting field termed spintronics .
this developing field has emerged from many exciting phenomena , the giant magneto - resistance being the most well known exa... | we study fluctuations of spin - polarized currents in a three - terminal spin - valve system consisting of a diffusive normal metal wire connected by tunnel junctions to three ferromagnetic terminals . based on a spin - dependent boltzmann - langevin equation
, we develop a semiclassical theory of charge and spin cu... |
population synthesis models and stellar evolutionary isochrones are the tools which give age estimates for galaxies and star clusters , thus providing a constraint on the age of the universe .
the models , however , are dependent upon the transformations from effective temperature ( @xmath12 ) , surface gravity , and a... | new johnson - cousins @xmath0 photometry of giants in globular clusters is combined with @xmath1 photometry on the cit system to produce color sequences for giants from the globular clusters m3 , m5 , m13 , and m92 .
@xmath0 data are also presented for giants in the metal - rich open cluster ngc 6791 .
these data ... |
let us imagine to divide the hilbert space @xmath1 of a given quantum system into two parts @xmath2 and @xmath3 such that @xmath4 .
when the system is in a pure state @xmath5 , the bipartite entanglement between a and its complement b , can be measured in terms of the rnyi entropies @xcite s_a^(n)=11-n_a^n , [ renyidef... | we study the scaling of the rnyi entanglement entropy of two disjoint blocks of critical lattice models described by conformal field theories with central charge @xmath0 .
we provide the analytic conformal field theory result for the second order rnyi entropy for a free boson compactified on an orbifold describing t... |
the filling radius of a simple loop @xmath0 in the plane is defined as the largest radius , @xmath1 , of a circle that fits inside @xmath0 , see figure [ 11b ] : @xmath2 , width=302 ] there is a kind of a dual point of view that allows one to generalize this notion in an extremely fruitful way , as shown in @xci... | we investigate the filling area conjecture , optimal systolic inequalities , and the related problem of the nonvanishing of certain linking numbers in 3-manifolds . supported by the israel science foundation ( grants no . 620/00 - 10.0 and 84/03 ) ] supported by cnrs ( umr 5582 ) ] |
dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors ( gliptins ) are effective drugs in management of type 2 diabetes mellitus ( dm ) .
there are reports implicating them in causing acute pancreatitis , chronic pancreatitis , and pancreatic duct metaplasia ; leading to widespread concern .
although gliptins are increasingly being us... | there are reports of acute pancreatitis with the use of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors ( gliptins ) .
this class of drugs is widely being prescribed for type 2 diabetes mellitus ( dm ) in our country .
we evaluated the incidence of acute pancreatitis with the use of gliptins during the period january 2012-june 2... |
metallic biomaterials , like titanium ( ti ) and its alloys , are widely used in medical applications .
excellent biocompatibility , high strength , and good corrosion resistance [ 1 , 2 ] make titanium alloys a good material for orthopaedic and dental implants .
current applications are , for example , bone screws... | increased durability of permanent tial6v4 implants still remains a requirement for the patient 's well - being .
one way to achieve a better bone - material connection is to enable bone ingrowth into the implant .
therefore , a new porous tial6v4 material was produced via metal injection moulding ( mim ) .
spec... |
Germany's Deutsche Boerse AG, the company that runs the stock exchange in Europe's largest economy, could soon take over the New York Stock Exchange.
Specialist Evan Solomon, left, resumes trading in shares of NYSE Euronext on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Stock market operator N... | – The raucous cathedral of American capitalism, the New York Stock Exchange, is about to be bought by the Germans. If regulators approve the deal, the acquisition of NYSE Euronext (which owns the NYSE) by Deutsche Börse AG (which owns the Frankfurt stock exchange) would create the world's largest financial exchange. Th... |
You may love your Tesla, but that doesn’t make it any less prone to accidents than other cars. If you want an example, consider that a Tesla driver in Utah recently found that his Model S loaner had parked itself automatically into the back of a trailer.
After analyzing logs, the carmaker told him that he’s the onl... | – The owner of a Tesla Model S says his car went "rogue" while nobody was inside it and drove into a parked trailer. Tesla's response: It was the guy's own fault. Jared Overton of Utah says he parked his Tesla in front of a business, behind a vehicle with a trailer, while running errands in Lindon on April 29, per KSL.... |
.- On Wednesday, a fiery Pope Francis chastised those who spend Mass talking to others, looking at their phone or even taking pictures during papal liturgies, saying these are distractions that take focus away from the “heart of the Church,” which is the Eucharist.
“The Mass is not a show: it is to go to meet the p... | – When the priest says "lift up your hearts" during Mass, you'd better put your cellphone down while you do it. That was Pope Francis' message Wednesday during his weekly address in St. Peter's Square, calling it a "very ugly thing" to see worshippers—even other men of the cloth—with their phones out while he leads ser... |
wellens sign , or the lad coronary artery t - wave inversion pattern
( 1 ) , is seen in a subset of patients who often present with chest pain and are found to have specific precordial t - wave changes on ekg .
its incidence is estimated to be about 1015% of acute coronary syndrome ( acs ) . with unstable angina pa... | wellens syndrome is characterized by t - wave changes in electrocardiogram ( ekg ) during pain - free period in a patient with intermittent angina chest pain .
it carries significant diagnostic and prognostic value because this syndrome represents a pre - infarction stage of coronary artery disease involving proximal... |
An animal-loving Texas teen committed suicide by cobra.
Grant Thompson, 18, killed himself in July by letting a highly poisonous monocled cobra bite him repeatedly, according to a Travis County Medical Examiner’s autopsy report obtained by KVUE.
The teen, who worked in his family’s pet store, was found inside h... | – Authorities say a young pet-store staffer in Texas committed suicide with help from a cobra. Grant Thompson, 18, was found in cardiac arrest inside his car in a North Austin parking lot on July 14. An autopsy report, obtained by the Austin American-Statesman, shows Thompson suffered "multiple separate bites" on his a... |
These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references ... | – Three men in a car in Norfolk, Va., were ambushed and shot Tuesday evening, and the phone of one of the men streamed the entire incident on Facebook Live, USA Today reports. In the video, a man IDed as TJ Williams is seen hanging out with two other men, listening to music and smoking, when a few minutes into the clip... |
primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment ( rd ) remains an important cause of visual loss ( figure 1 ) .
specifically , all retinal breaks are identified and treated , and vitreous traction is relieved as part of the surgical strategy .
the two most common re - attachment procedures performed today are scleral buc... | pars plana vitrectomy ( ppv ) is growing in popularity for the treatment of primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment ( rd ) .
ppv achieves favorable anatomic and visual outcomes in a wide variety of patients , especially in pseudophakic rd .
a growing number of clinical series , both retrospective and prospective ... |
electron has spin as well as charge . the application of the electron spin property opens a fruitful field in the transport of ferromagnetic materials , such as the discovery of gmr and tmr effects @xcite . on the other hand ,
there are growing interests on the mesoscopic normal - metal / superconductor ( n / s ) hybri... | we study the andreev reflection ( ar ) in a three terminal mesoscopic hybrid system , in which two ferromagnets ( f@xmath0 and f@xmath1 ) are coupled to a superconductor ( s ) through a quantum dot ( qd ) . by using non - equilibrium green function
, we derive a general current formula which allows arbitrary spin po... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Children's Access to Reconstructive
Evaluation & Surgery (CARES) Act of 2007''.
SEC. 2. COVERAGE OF MINOR CHILD'S CONGENITAL OR DEVELOPMENTAL DEFORMITY
OR DISORDER.
(a) Group Health Plans.--
(1) Public health service act amend... | Children's Access to Reconstructive Evaluation & Surgery (CARES) Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to require a group health plan, and a health insurance issuer offering group coverage, that cover surgical benef... |
historically , acute postinfectious glomerulonephritis ( gn ) is caused by staphylococcus epidermidis and s. aureus , with typical findings of diffuse endocapillary proliferation and exudative gn on light microscopy , c3-dominant deposits with or without immunoglobulin ( ig)g codeposition on immunofluorescence , and su... | abstractmethicillin - resistant staphylococcus aureus ( mrsa ) is an emerging pathogen that infects the skin and soft tissue . however , there are few reports of renal complications from mrsa involving immunoglobulin ( ig)a - dominated rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis ( gn ) .
favorable renal outcomes from iga ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act of
2012''.
SEC. 2. SCIENTIFIC FRAMEWORK FOR RECALCITRANT CANCERS.
Subpart 1 of part C of title IV of the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 285 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``SEC. 417G. SCI... | Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to develop a scientific framework for research on recalcitrant cancers (cancer with a 5-year relative survival rate below 50%), which includes: (1) a review of the status of res... |
we have previously reported that interleukin-1 ( il-1 ) increases neuronal excitability via the inhibition of large - conductance ca - induced k channels ( bk ) activated by ca influx through both nmda receptors ( nmdars ) and voltage - dependent ca channels ( vdcc ) in the dissociated hippocampal neurons [ 1 , 2 ] .
... | prostaglandin e2 ( pge2 ) , a major metabolite of arachidonic acid produced by cyclooxygenase pathways , exerts its bioactive responses by activating four e - prostanoid receptor subtypes , ep1 , ep2 , ep3 , and ep4 .
pge2 enables modulating n - methyl - d - aspartate ( nmda ) receptor - mediated responses .
howeve... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National Recreational Trails Act of
1994''.
SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITIES.
(a) State Eligibility.--Section 1302(c) of the Intermodal Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (16 U.S.C. 1261(c)) is amended--
(1) by striking ``Act'' each place i... | National Recreational Trails Act of 1994 - Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to revise State eligibility requirements with respect to national recreational trails funding to require States to agree to expend a specified amount from non-Federal sources for such trails. Repeals the curre... |
leishmaniases are protozoan vector - borne diseases caused by the genus leishmania . based on the clinical features ,
the disease is classified into main three forms of visceral leishmaniasis ( vl ) , cutaneous leishmaniasis ( cl ) , and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis ( mcl ) .
visceral leishmaniasis ( vl ) is caused ... | we describe a case of visceral leishmaniasis ( vl ) due to leishmania tropica in a 50-year - old iranian man lived in a vl - endemic area in southwest of iran .
the patient presented with a 3-month history of fever and splenomegaly .
clinical signs and serological findings were suggestive of vl .
spleen biopsy wa... |
ductal carcinoma - in - situ ( dcis ) of the breast , by definition , does not invade beyond the basement membrane and nodal metastasis is not expected .
however , axillary nodal involvement has been reported in 2% to 13% of dcis [ 1 , 2 ] .
the axillary nodes were seldom evaluated in the past as potential morbidit... | background .
a proportion of those diagnosed preoperatively with ductal carcinoma - in - situ ( dcis ) will be histologically upgraded to invasive carcinoma .
repeat surgery for sentinel lymph node ( sln ) biopsy will be required if it had not been included with the initial surgery .
we reviewed the outcome of sl... |
since the first simulation
of an enzyme using molecular dynamics
( md ) was reported by mccammon et al . in
1977 , md simulations have evolved to become important tools in rationalizing
the behavior of biomolecules .
the field has grown from that first
10-ps - long simulation of a mere 500 atoms to the poin... | we present an implementation of generalized born implicit
solvent
all - atom classical molecular dynamics ( md ) within the amber program
package that runs entirely on cuda enabled nvidia graphics processing
units ( gpus ) .
we discuss the algorithms that are used to exploit the
processing power of the gpus... |
duodenal involvement is exceptional with only sporadic cases reported in the medline database [ 1 , 2 ] .
this report emphasizes the lack of specific clinical , radiological and endoscopic signs of duodenal tuberculosis and highlights the principal therapeutic modalities .
a 60-year - old patient was admitted to th... | duodenal tuberculosis is a rare clinical entity . the authors report and emphasize the lack of special clinical , radiological and endoscopic signs of duodenal tuberculosis .
the diagnosis is affirmed , at laparotomy , out of the findings of peritoneal granulations or histology of lymphatic nodes .
we report our ex... |
SECTION 1. LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN, LOUISIANA.
(a) Authority of Secretary of the Army.--The project authorized by
section 204 of Flood Control Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-298; 79 Stat.
1077) and modified by section 7012(a)(2) of the Water Resources
Development Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-114; 121 Stat. 1279), the
Em... | Modifies the Lake Pontchartrain flood control project, Louisiana, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct a pumping station specifically designed to evacuate storm water from the Hoey's Basin area at a specified cost and federal share.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study to carry out an analysis... |
hubble space telescope ( hst ) , faint object camera ( foc ) images for the central regions of the s0/a galaxy ngc 2681 were obtained in four ultraviolet bands in 1993 , in the context of a project aimed at understanding the origin of uv emission from bulge - dominated galaxies . a point - like source which we term _... | the nucleus of the bulge - dominated , multiply - barred s0/a galaxy ngc 2681 is studied in detail , using high resolution hubble space telescope foc and nicmos imaging and fos spectroscopy .
the ionised gas central velocity dispersion is found to increase by a factor @xmath0 when narrowing the aperture from @xmath... |
large data samples of galaxy photometry are now available from the present epoch back to @xmath61 gyr after the big bang .
hundreds of studies have described and analyzed these data in terms of luminosity , mass , and structural evolution , relying on trends between such quantities that assume a considerable uniformity... | we present coarse but robust star formation histories ( sfhs ) derived from spectro - photometric data of the carnegie - spitzer - imacs survey , for 22,494 galaxies at @xmath0 with stellar masses of 10@xmath1 to 10@xmath2 .
our study moves beyond average " sfhs and distribution functions of specific star formatio... |
Chili's Lifts Permanent Ban on Pam Beesly Halpert
Effective immediately, Chili’s® Grill & Bar has removed the longstanding ban on a Scranton, Pennsylvania woman who allegedly caused a disturbance during a company awards party held at a Chili’s near the Pennsylvania town of Scranton.
The woman, Pam Beesly Halper... | – Eleven years ago, Pam Beesly felt God in a Chili's. But apparently it's been hell getting back into one. On Monday, actress Jenna Fischer tweeted a photo of herself standing in front of a Chili's, asking if she should "try to go in." Mashable reports Fischer's character on The Office, Pam Beesly, was permanently bann... |
cercarial dermatitis is a parasitic disease with world - wide distribution , caused by the cercariae of animal schistosomes , if they enter in non - specific host for completion of life cycle .
though , the clinical cases of this disease have been reported from many countries in europe and america , but scattered cas... | abstractbackgroundcercarial dermatitis also known as swimmers itch ( skin allergies ) is caused by a trematode parasite , schistosoma which has two hosts - an invertebrate ( snail ) and a vertebrate ( livestock , human being ) . although the availability of both vector snails and pathogens at the selected site the doon... |
the term apoptosis identifies a form of cell death ; the significance of which was suggested by kerr et al . in 1972 .
apoptosis , or programmed cell death ( pcd ) , has been reported initially to occur in multicellular organisms under normal physiological conditions and as a major contributing factor to tissue homeo... | members of the trypanosomatidae family comprises species that are causative of important human diseases such as chagas'disease , leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness .
a wealth of evidence has accumulated that illustrates the ability of these unicellular organisms to undergo , with or without induction ( stress condit... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Workers From Imminent
Dangers Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. STREAMLINED PROCEDURES TO COUNTERACT IMMINENT DANGERS.
(a) Procedures.--Section 13 of the Occupational Safety and Health
Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 662) is amended--
(1) by strikin... | Protecting Workers From Imminent Dangers Act of 2009 - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to require the Department of Labor to: (1) inform employers and employees and their representatives when a condition or practice in a place of employment is such that an imminent danger to safety or health exist... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This act may be cited as the ``Veterans Appeals Improvement and
Modernization Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. WAIVER OF REGIONAL OFFICE JURISDICTION OVER INCORPORATION OF
SUPPLEMENTAL EVIDENCE INTO PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED CLAIMS.
(a) Waiver.--Section 7104 of title 38, United State... | Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2009 - Provides that if a veteran claimant submits evidence in support of a case for which a substantive appeal has been filed to the Board of Veterans' Appeals, such evidence shall be submitted directly to the Board and not to a regional office of the Department of... |
Miranda Lambert, left, and Jason Aldean perform "Drowns the Whiskey" at the 52nd annual CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) (Associated Press)
Miranda Lambert, left, and Jason Aldean perform "Drowns the Whiskey" at the 52nd annual CMA... | – Chris Stapleton won the most awards at the 2018 Country Music Association Awards and had the show's best performance, almost capping a perfect night. That was until Keith Urban surprisingly won the top prize—entertainer of the year—moments before the three-hour show wrapped Wednesday night, the AP reports. Urban's wi... |
“The Daily Show” developed the program over the last three years without publicizing it, but now, because Mr. Stewart is preparing to leave the show, he has taken it into the open, urging other shows to develop their own programs to bring more veterans into the industry.
“This is ready to franchise. Please steal ou... | – Jon Stewart's last day on The Daily Show will be Aug. 6, but there may be a few employees sticking around that he's been hiring on the sly: military veterans. In a surprise revelation in the New York Times, Stewart cops to a stealth "boot camp" he's been running for a couple of years to help former service members br... |
lung volume measurements are useful for characterizing the severity of respiratory
diseases , evaluating the results of interventions , and determining prognosis .
( , ) patients with restrictive lung disease ( rld ) can
present with reduced tlc , whereas those with chronic obstructive lung disease ( old )
can ... | objective : to compare tlc and rv values obtained by the single - breath helium dilution
( sbhd ) method with those obtained by whole - body plethysmography ( wbp ) in
patients with normal lung function , patients with obstructive lung disease
( old ) , and patients with restrictive lung disease ( rld ) , varying... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; AMENDMENT OF 1986 CODE.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Rural Renaissance
Act II of 2005''.
(b) Amendment of 1986 Code.--Except as otherwise expressly
provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in
terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a sect... | Rural Renaissance Act II of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow holders of rural renaissance bonds a nonrefundable tax credit of 25 percent of the annual credit amount as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. Defines "rural renaissance bond" as any bond issued by a nonprofit cooperative lender that ... |
the spacetime around an isolated black hole is flat and minkowskian at a large distance where usual quantum mechanics is applicable , while the spacetime closer to the singularity is curved and no satisfactory quantum field theory could be developed as yet .
however , occasionally , it is useful to look into an interme... | separation of the dirac equation in the spacetime around a kerr black hole into radial and angular coordinates was done by chandrasekhar in 1976 . in the present paper
, we solve the radial equations in a schwarzschild geometry semi - analytically using wentzel - kramers - brillouin approximation ( in short wkb ) me... |
uncovering the complex mechanisms involved in gene regulation remains to be a major challenge .
while the biochemical processes involved in the expression of a single gene are increasingly well understood , the interplay of whole networks of genes poses additional questions and it is unclear what level of system - spec... | gene regulatory dynamics is governed by molecular processes and therefore exhibits an inherent stochasticity . however , for the survival of an organism it is a strict necessity that this intrinsic noise does not prevent robust functioning of the system .
it is still an open question how dynamical stability is achie... |
gastric cancer ( gc ) is identified to be the second widespread neoplasm around the world ( 1 ) . in spite of advances in surgical treatment and chemotherapy ,
environmental factors such as infection and diet have been considered to play critical roles in gc .
although the genetic supposed to encompass an impressiv... | aimthe purpose of this study was to investigate the possible influence of age and gender on association between -765 g > c cox-2 genetic polymorphism and gastric adenocarcinoma risk in iranian patients.backgroundthe promoter polymorphism of cox-2 gene -765 g > c has been described to play an important role in many canc... |
the full oxidation of one glucose molecule ( oxidative phosphorylation ) within a cell in the presence of oxygen produces 38 molecules of adenosine - three - phosphate ( atp ) , which in turn represents the essential cellular fuel ( figure 1.a ) .
the first step ( glycolysis , occurring in cytoplasm ) of glucose cell... | ever since its discovery ( 1924 ) the warburg effect ( aerobic glycolysis ) remains an unresolved puzzle : why the aggressive cancer cells prefer to use the energetically highly inefficient method of burning the glucose at the cellular level ? while in the course of the last 90 years several hypotheses have been sugg... |
actually , any quantum system interacting with the environment ( the bath ) can not be isolated from the environment completely .
@xcite in quantum information and quantum computation , @xcite the decay process of quantum system induced by quantum fluctuations of the bath is very important for the qubit . in quantum op... | in nanomechanical qed system , consisting of a charge qubit and a nanomechanical resonator with intrinsic nonlinearity , we study the temporal behavior of rabi oscillation in the nonlinear jaynes - cummings model . using microscopic master equation approach ,
we solve time evolution of the density operator describin... |
in the study of interconnection and communication networks , the theory of digraphs plays a key role because , in many cases , the links between nodes are unidirectional . in this theory , there are three concepts that have shown to be very fruitful to construct good and efficient networks .
namely , those of quotient ... | in this note we present a general approach to construct large digraphs from small ones .
these are called expanded digraphs , and , as particular cases , we show the close relationship between lifted digraphs of voltage digraphs and line digraphs , which are two known ways to obtain dense digraphs . in the same cont... |
it may occur when a person is suffering from extreme stress , for example , facing his or her own death .
it is believed to be a systemic disease , e.g. , it has been associated with vicarious menstruation , a condition in which bleeding occurs from a surface other than the mucous membrane of the uterine cavity at a ... | hematohidrosis is a rare clinical condition of sweating blood .
a 13-year - old boy was presented to the department of dermatology with a history of spontaneous bleeding from skin since january 2007 . during examination
, it disappeared as soon as it was mopped leaving behind no sign of trauma only to reappear with... |
the experimental data for @xmath25 are presented in figure [ fig2 ] ( colored dots ) , in the complex plane .
the color code gives an insight of the driving frequency @xmath0 .
globally , we observe that @xmath25 draws a spiral in the complex plane . for @xmath26
ghz , we observe that @xmath27 , reflecting the fact tha... | coulomb interactions have a major role in one - dimensional electronic transport .
they modify the nature of the elementary excitations from landau quasiparticles in higher dimensions to collective excitations in one dimension . here
we report the direct observation of the collective neutral and charge modes of th... |
Dr. Philip Nitschke considers himself the Elon Musk of assisted suicide—and his latest death machine, the Sarco, is his Tesla.
Newsweek spoke with the 70-year-old doctor immediately after the state of Victoria in Australia, his home country, voted this week to legalize euthanasia. Many are billing this as the first... | – Visitors at an Amsterdam funeral show Saturday were able to don virtual reality glasses and see their own suicide by nitrogen gas—all to imagine a new way of dying, the Guardian reports. Inventors Alexander Bannink and Philip Nitschke were there to show off a model of their "Sarco," a 3D-printed euthanasia pod replet... |
changing childbirth , published in 1993 ( department of health , 1993 ) , represented a watershed in maternity care in england . prior to this , women had little say in their care , which tended to be highly medicalised and treated as normal only in hindsight ( mcintosh and hunter , 2014 ) . changing childbirth and the... | backgroundthere have been changes in maternity care policy over the last 20 years and women 's experience , continuity and satisfaction with care have become more prominent .
however there has been no research examining changes over time in women 's reported experience.methodsthis study used secondary analysis of dat... |
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday argued that President Trump Donald John TrumpTrump praised White House defender who was fired for sexual harassment: report Cohen's father said he didn’t survive Holocaust to have his name 'sullied' by Trump: report NYT: Trump after Cohen plea mused, 'How did we end up here?' MORE could get caug... | – There's a reason President Trump hasn't sat down yet for an interview with Robert Mueller, says Rudy Giuliani—and it's all about "truth." The president's personal lawyer in the Russia probe dueled with anchor Chuck Todd over a clear definition of the word Sunday on Meet the Press, the Hill reports. "I'm not going to ... |
Clint Eastwood will direct the upcoming "Sully" Sullenberger biopic. (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez, Getty Images for CinemaCon)
There's no slowing Clint Eastwood down.
The actor/director has handpicked his next project, and like American Sniper, it's stocked with Americana and bravery — and torn straight from th... | – Clint Eastwood has picked his next project as a director—the story of how Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger landed his US Airways plane safely in the Hudson River in 2009, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The 85-year-old Eastwood is coming off American Sniper, which grossed more than a half-billion dollars to become ... |
stochastic resonance ( sr ) has attracted considerable attention of many researchers during the last quarter century @xcite . at first sr
was proposed to explain the observed periodicities in global climate dynamics @xcite .
sr occurs when the signal - to - noise ratio ( snr ) for the response of a single nonlinear s... | we consider the problem of optimizing signal transmission through multi - channel noisy devices .
we investigate an array of bithreshold noisy devices which are connected in parallel and convergent on a summing center . utilizing the concept of noise - induced linearization we derive an analytical approximation of t... |
we obtained written informed consent from all patients who participated in the study or their legal guardians .
the study population was composed of patients who came to hospitals or clinics in yucatan during august october 2015 with chikungunya - like illness .
these patients were referred to the hematology labor... | chikungunya virus ( chikv ) was isolated from 12 febrile humans in yucatan , mexico , in 2015 .
one patient was co - infected with dengue virus type 1 .
two additional chikv isolates were obtained from aedes aegypti mosquitoes collected in the homes of patients .
phylogenetic analysis showed that the chikv isolat... |
link discovery frameworks are of utmost importance during the creation of linked data @xcite .
this is due to their being the key towards the implementation of the fourth linked data principle , i.e. , the provision of links between datasets .
two main challenges need to be addressed by link discovery frameworks @xci... | time - efficient link discovery is of central importance to implement the vision of the semantic web .
some of the most rapid link discovery approaches rely internally on planning to execute link specifications . in newer works ,
linear models have been used to estimate the runtime the fastest planners .
however... |
SECTION 1. AUTHORITY TO MAKE ENTIRE ACTIVE CAPACITY OF FONTENELLE
RESERVOIR AVAILABLE FOR USE.
(a) In General.--The Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with
the State of Wyoming, may amend the Definite Plan Report for the
Seedskadee Project authorized under the first section of the Act of
A... | (This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on March 14, 2016. (Sec. 1) This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior, in cooperation with the state of Wyoming, to amend the Definite Plan Report for the Seedskadee Project authorized under the Colorado River Storage Project Act to provid... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Fall River Water Users District
Rural Water System Act of 1996''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
(1) there are insufficient water supplies of reasonable
quality available to the members of th... | Fall River Water Users District Rural Water System Act of 1996 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants for the construction and operation of the Fall River Water Users District Rural Water System, Inc. Prohibits the obligation of System construction funds until: (1) Federal environmental compliance ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Traumatic Brain Injury Act
Amendments of 2000''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Traumatic brain injury is among the nation's most
significant public health concerns. It is th... | Requires certain programs of the National Institutes of Health to include research on brain injury, its treatment, and nuerobehavioral consequences of such injury.
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States to carry out projects (currently, demonstration projects) to improve access to health and other services r... |
the bipolar homunculus nebula surrounding @xmath0 carinae offers an unusually well - constrained laboratory to study a wide array of physical processes in the interstellar medium .
the distance , size , shape , orientation , and structure of the nebula are all known ( smith 2006 ; davidson et al .
2001 ) , as are its e... | we present models that reproduce the observed double - shell structure of the homunculus nebula around @xmath0 carinae , including the stratification of infrared h@xmath1 and [ fe ii ] emission seen in data obtained with the phoenix spectrograph on gemini south , as well as the corresponding stratified grain tempera... |
paediatric emergency departments ( eds ) frequently become congested with non - urgent patients , resulting in patients with high acuity conditions ( such as altered consciousness , respiratory distress or haemodynamic compromise ) experiencing delays in receiving appropriate management .
the goal of paediatric ed tr... | objectivesto examine the effectiveness of a five - level paediatric triage and acuity system ( ped - ttas ) by comparing the reliability of patient prioritisation and resource utilisation with the four - level paediatric taiwan triage system ( ped - tts ) among non - trauma paediatric patients in the emergency departme... |
the polycystic ovary syndrome ( pcos ) is a common endocrinopathy affecting at least 510% of women in childbearing years .
it is classically characterized by hyperandrogenism , chronic anovulation , and polycystic ovarian morphology in ultrasonography .
although the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms of pcos ... | objective . polycystic ovary syndrome ( pcos ) is associated with obesity and insulin resistance ( ir ) , key features of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis ( nash ) .
cytokeratin 18 fragments ( m30 ) have been established as a serum marker for nash .
the insulin sensitizer metformin improves hepatic ir .
this study ev... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Great Cats and Rare Canids Act of
2009''.
SEC. 2. PURPOSES.
The purposes of this Act are to provide financial resources and to
foster international cooperation--
(1) to restore and perpetuate healthy populations of rare
felids and ... | Great Cats and Rare Canids Act of 2009 - (Sec. 4) Establishes the Great Cats and Rare Canids Conservation Fund as a separate account of the Multinational Species Conservation Fund.
(Sec. 5) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to use Fund amounts to provide assistance for projects for the conservation of rare felids... |
stroke is one of the leading causes of death and physical disability among adults , with one - quarter to half of stroke survivors being left with complete or partial dependence on others .
stem cell therapy is an emerging paradigm in the field of stroke treatment , and is considered a potential regenerative strategy... | stem cell therapy is considered a potential regenerative strategy for patients with neurologic deficits .
studies involving animal models of ischemic stroke have shown that stem cells transplanted into the brain can lead to functional improvement . with current advances in the understanding regarding the effects of i... |
full heusler alloys ( fha ) have drawn considerable attention of the researchers as some of them show shape memory alloy property . in this family
, ni@xmath0mnga is the most studied prototype ferromagnetic shape memory alloy .
it is reported that ni@xmath0mnga shows large magnetic field induced strain ( mfis ) as well... | using first - principles calculations based on density functional theory , we probe the electronic and magnetic properties of x@xmath0ptga ( x being cr , mn , fe , co ) heusler alloys .
our calculations predict that all these systems possess inverse heusler alloy structure in their respective ground states .
appli... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Iran Terror Finance Transparency
Act''.
SEC. 2. CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT FOR REMOVAL OF FOREIGN FINANCIAL
INSTITUTIONS, INCLUDING IRANIAN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS,
FROM THE LIST OF SPECIALLY DESIGNATED NATIONALS AND
... | . Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act (Sec. 2) This bill prohibits the President from removing certain foreign financial institutions, including an Iranian financial institution, from the list of designated nationals and blocked persons maintained by the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control un... |
we often find ourselves in environments where we need to keep track of objects moving around us while we ourselves are also in motion , such as when we drive in traffic , play team sports , or walk down a crowded sidewalk .
these common situations can be challenging tracking moving objects and navigating through spa... | perhaps walking and chewing gum is effortless , but walking and tracking moving objects is not .
multiple object tracking is impaired by walking from one location to another , suggesting that updating location of the self puts demands on object tracking processes . here
, we quantified the cost of self - motion in ... |
Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| A Texas family is suffering after a car crash left two siblings dead and sent the parents to the hospital. The family was on their... | – A Texas family's ride to view a Christmas lights display ended in tragedy Monday night when their car was rear-ended, killing the two oldest kids, WFAA reports. The Haltom City mom and dad and their three children had just completed a drive-through of the Christmas lights extravaganza at Texas Motor Speedway and were... |
the search - enhanced instantaneous frequency detection ( seifd ) algorithm uses genetic algorithm ( ga ) @xcite to identify the characteristics of sinusoidal components ( see fig .
[ fig : sinudoidal - component ] ) within a nonlinear non - stationary time series data .
the time - series data is modeled as a superposi... | this paper presents a method developed for finding sinusoidal components within a nonlinear non - stationary time - series data using genetic algorithm ( ga ) ( a global optimization technique ) .
it is called search - enhanced instantaneous frequency detection ( seifd ) algorithm .
the ga adaptively define the co... |
the young s double - slit interference experiment is one of the powerful ways to exhibit the nature of optical field , both classical and nonclassical coherence effects . in the recent years , an interesting subject is devoted to the study of two - photon double - slit interference in the process of spontaneous paramet... | we theoretically discuss one - photon and two - photon double - slit interferences for spontaneous and stimulated parametric down - conversions .
we show that the two - photon sub - wavelength interference can exist in a general spontaneous parametric down - conversion ( spdc ) for both type i and type ii crystals .... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Hunting Heritage Protection Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that--
(1) recreational hunting is an important and traditional
recreational activity in which 13,000,000 people in the United
States 16 years of age and ol... | Hunting Heritage Protection Act - Requires that Federal public lands be open to access and use for recreational hunting except: (1) as limited by the Federal agency with responsibility for such lands for national security or public safety reasons, or for reasons authorized in applicable Federal statutes as reasons for ... |
the biomedical community has established the standards of good clinical practice as the cornerstone of medical research on humans .
what are the standards for studying practices that overtly and intention ally fall short of good practice and are clearly discriminatory against the aged ?
i find four ethical problems... | four ethical issues loom over the study by lieberman and colleagues - the absence of informed consent , the study being non - interventional in situations that typically call for life - saving interventions , the bias involved in doctors that study their own problematic practice and monopoly over intensive care unit tr... |
This week Netflix surprised everyone with the news that a new eight-episode series, The OA, will premiere on Friday. Like summer megahit Stranger Things, the intriguing new show about a 20-something woman looks to combine elements of science fiction, mystery and horror. It’s also notable that the trailer dropped just a... | – Netflix is letting everyone unwrap an early Christmas present on Friday: an eight-episode series that has remained a virtual mystery. Time notes The OA—starring Brit Marling as a young woman who comes back to her family after vanishing seven years earlier—looks like it's going to meld "science fiction, mystery, and h... |
the cosmological principle requires that the universe be spatially homogeneous and isotropic in average on scales larger than the size of any structure @xcite .
observations show that the greatest structures ( filaments , voids , superclusters , ... ) have sizes around 400 mpc @xcite .
hence , at redshifts @xmath0 the ... | after the discovery of the anisotropy in the sky - distribution of intermediate gamma - ray bursts recently also the distribution of the short gamma - ray bursts is proven to be anisotropic . the impact of these behaviors on the validity of the cosmological principle is shortly discussed .
address = charles univ... |
takayasu arteritis ( ta ) , also known as aortoarteritis and pulseless disease , is a rare condition .
it is a form of granulomatous arteritis , which affects large- and medium - sized arteries , primarily the aorta and its large branches as well as proximal portions of pulmonary , coronary , and renal arteries .
i... | we report a 16-year - old girl in whom takayasu arteritis ( ta ) was manifested mainly by severe arterial hypertension on her right arm , which was detected during a routine examination at school .
her systolic blood pressure on the right arm was significantly higher than that on the left one .
there was also a pre... |
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cinacalcet hydrochloride is a new class of drugs for the treatment of severe secondary hyperparathyroidism in haemodialysis patients .
it has also been reported that successful suppression of parathyroid hormone ( pth ) levels results in a decrease in serum markers for bone formation . here , we report a case of a di... | a 59-year - old female who was on dialysis due to diabetic nephropathy was referred to our hospital for severe hyperparathyroidism refractory to intravenous vitamin d receptor activator treatment . with subsequent cinacalcet hydrochloride treatment ,
parathyroid hormone ( pth ) levels were only slightly suppressed . ... |
there is a long history to chiral symmetry breaking .
it began with cvc and the goldberger - treiman relation @xcite , and proceeded through the ground - breaking work of gell - mann and l ' evy who invented pcac and the linear and non - linear @xmath0 models @xcite .
their lagrangian began from chiral symmetry in the ... | the formulae needed to parametrise @xmath0 , @xmath1 , @xmath2 and @xmath3 are reviewed . for @xmath0 and @xmath1 , the adler zero due to chiral symmetry breaking plays a crucial role .
the @xmath3 and @xmath2 are locked to the @xmath4 threshold by a cusp mechanism which leads to a sharp peak in attraction at the th... |
CLOSE Marlins ace Jose Fernandez has died in boating accident at the age of 24. USA TODAY Sports
Miami Marlins starting pitcher Jose Fernandez was 24 years old. (Photo: Eric Hartline, USA TODAY Sports)
MIAMI — A boat carrying Jose Fernandez was traveling at a significant speed when it struck rocks as it approac... | – As mourning continues for the tragic death of Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez, investigators are starting to unravel the circumstances behind his passing early Sunday morning. Lorenzo Veloz, a spokesman with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, tells USA Today Sports that the 32-foot boat Ferna... |
non - separability in classical light fields has been studied recently in the context of quantum information and entanglement@xcite .
this non - separability is analogous to intra - system entanglement involving different degrees of freedom of a light beam .
however , the term `` classical entanglement '' has received ... | we generate the non - separable state of polarization and orbital angular momentum ( oam ) using a laser beam .
the generated state undergoes a cyclic polarization evolution which introduces a pancharatnam geometric phase to the polarization state and in turn a relative phase in the non - separable state .
we expe... |
These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references ... | – Staff at Zoo Miami are mourning the loss of a juvenile giraffe that had to be put down Tuesday after the 7-month-old got his head stuck in a fence. Wesley the giraffe poked his head into a 10-inch gap in a chain link fence on Tuesday, toward where another giraffe was having a routine exam, but panicked when he couldn... |
in the recent papers @xcite , @xcite the dilepton ( dimuon and dielectron ) production at the lhc was studied in the framework of the _ rssc model _
( randall - sundrum - like model with the small curvature ) @xcite-@xcite .
the classical action of the model is @xmath0 where @xmath1 is the 5-dimensional metric , with @... | the brief review of the recent results obtained in the randall - sundrum scenario with the small curvature of the five - dimensional space - time is presented . |
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Given his history, you wouldn't think Chris Brown would want to associate himself with violence and destruction.
But Breezy clearly likes courting controversy: On H... | – Chris Brown, that bastion of good judgement, is once again courting controversy. The singer attended a Halloween party thrown by Rihanna, but the latest Brown-Rihanna meeting isn't what has fans peeved—it's his costume choice. E! reports that Brown and four friends went as a posse of Arab-style terrorists, complete w... |
As big as a car and as well-equipped as a laboratory, NASA's newest Mars rover blows away its predecessors in size and skill.
In this 2011 artist's rendering provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech, a "sky crane" lowers the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover onto the surface of Mars. The mobile robot is designed to inves... | – It’s “a Mars scientist's dream machine”: NASA is getting ready to launch its largest-ever Mars rover on Saturday. It’s not just big—it’s “the largest and most complex piece of equipment ever placed on the surface of another planet,” the agency’s Mars boss tells the AP. Curiosity, as the 7-foot-high rover is called, i... |
most solar system bodies are depleted in nitrogen relative to the sun and the ism .
@xcite compare the cno abundances in various solar system bodies relative to silicon .
comets halley and hale - bopp , which likely formed in the outer disk ( @xmath4 au ) , where there is thought to be less chemical reprocessing , are ... | the dominant form of nitrogen provided to most solar system bodies is currently unknown , though available measurements show that the detected nitrogen in solar system rocks and ices is depleted with respect to solar abundances and the interstellar medium .
we use a detailed chemical / physical model of the chemical... |
a 61-year - old white woman with aquaporin-4 immunoglobulin ( ig ) g antibody seropositive nmo had 10 clinical relapses in the first 4 years of her disease despite treatment with iv pulse cyclophosphamide , chronic glucocorticoids ( up to 60 mg / day prednisone ) , mycophenolate mofetil ( up to 3,000 mg / day ) , ritux... | objectives : to describe the clinical course and neuropathology at autopsy of a patient with neuromyelitis optica ( nmo ) treated with alemtuzumab.methods:case report.results:a 61-year - old woman with aquaporin-4 immunoglobulin g antibody seropositive nmo had 10 clinical relapses in 4 years despite treatment with mult... |
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A Minnesota Air National Guardsman is being hailed as a hero for helping pull a man who was trapped out of a burning car just moments before it became fully engulfed in flames.
The Minnesota State Patrol said the incident happened at about 6:40 p.m. on I-35W and County Road D. A motorist, ident... | – A Minnesota man demonstrated superhuman strength at exactly the right time Sunday. Air National Guardsman Robert Renning, 52, was driving along the interstate around New Brighton when he saw flames underneath an SUV about six car-lengths behind him, reports Twin Cities Pioneer Press. He slowed to get driver Michael J... |
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Nearly one in 10 British women finds sex painful, according to a big study.
The survey of nearly 7,000 sexually active women aged 16 to 74, in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, suggests this medical problem - called dyspareunia - is common and affects women... | – A new study out of Britain reveals that pain during sex afflicts a surprising number of women. The survey of nearly 7,000 sexually active women found that one in 10 reported some type of pain during intercourse, the BBC reports. Writing in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the authors note... |
coronary arterial fistulas are rare cardiac anomalies that create new pathways of blood flow between coronary vessels and thoracic vasculature or chambers of the heart .
although generally asymptomatic , patients can develop complications of thrombosis , congestive heart failure , rupture , endocarditis , and arrhyth... | coronary arterial fistulas are rare communications between vessels or chambers of the heart .
although cardiac symptoms associated with fistulas are well described , fistulas are seldom considered in the differential diagnosis of acute myocardial ischemia .
we describe the case of a 64-year - old man who presented ... |
crack fronts propagating along a weak plane of a disordered material provide an ideal experimental system for studying phenomena such as the depinning transition , the associated avalanche dynamics and roughness of the crack front .
experimentally , by studying systems such as sintered plexiglas plates @xcite and paper... | we consider numerically the roughness of a planar crack front within the long - range elastic string model , with a tunable disorder correlation length @xmath0 .
the problem is shown to have two important length scales , @xmath0 and the larkin length @xmath1 .
multiscaling of the crack front is observed for scales... |
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