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the six cellulolytic fungi , trichoderma harzianum , penicillium citrinum , curvularia lunata , aspergillus flavus and alternaria alternata were grown in basal synthetic medium described by chahal and gray ( 1969 ) .
one hundred grams of air dried rice stubble , 2~3 cm in length were autoclaved with 1.8 litres of 1% ... | the investigation was undertaken to enhance the decomposition process by pre - treatment of rice stubble , having higher concentration of lignin .
air - dried rice stubble was treated with 1.8 liter of 1% naoh and autoclaved .
six cellulolytic fungi , trichoderma harzianum , penicillium citrinum , curvularia lunata... |
chronic renal disease is a health problem in today s world . in the end - stages of renal disease patients
however , dialysis causes several stressors on physical , mental and social performance of patients . the present study aimed to review and compare the self - concept in patients undergoing hemodialysis and peri... | background : chronic renal disease is a health problem in today s world . in the end - stages of renal disease patients depend upon alternative therapies including dialysis for their survival .
however , dialysis causes several stressors on physical , mental and social performance of patients . the present study aime... |
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... | – Current and former Fox News personalities are blasting what they say was a terrifying display at the Washington, DC, home of Tucker Carlson Wednesday night. Carlson wasn't home but says his wife called police and locked herself in a pantry when protesters from a group called Smash Racism, DC, arrived, rang the doorbe... |
it was suspected as long as 150 years ago that something was blocking the light of stars on its way to earth , but it was nt until the early twentieth century that the work of barnard and trumpler confirmed the existence of obscuring clouds of interstellar dust ( whittet 1992 and references therein ) .
trumpler found t... | employing the maximum entropy method algorithm , we fit interstellar extinction measurements which span the wavelength range 0.125 - 3 .
we present a uniform set of mem model fits , all using the same grain materials , optical constants and abundance constraints .
in addition , we are taking advantage of improved ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``District of Columbia and United
States Territories Circulating Quarter Dollar Program Act''.
SEC. 2. ISSUANCE OF REDESIGNED QUARTER DOLLARS HONORING THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA AND EACH OF THE TERRITORIES.
Section 5112 of title 31, United St... | District of Columbia and United States Territories Circulating Quarter Dollar Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue during 2009 redesigned quarter dollars commemorating the District of Columbia and the U.S. Territories. |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Parental Involvement Enhancement
Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Research indicates that, regardless of economic,
ethnic, or cultural background, parental involvement in a
child's education is... | Parental Involvement Enhancement Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a Parental Involvement grant program. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make such grants to elementary and secondary schools. Allows use of such grant funds only for: (1) educational or outreach material... |
the recurrent laryngeal nerve ( rln ) injury during surgeries on thyroid and parathyroid remains the most significant commonly found complication of endocrine surgery in the neck , and it can result in significant morbidity including temporary or permanent paralytic dysphonia and dysphagia .
rates of nerve injury pub... | objective .
our goal is to study the feasibility of using intraoperative neuromonitoring ( ionm ) in minimally invasive video - assisted thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy ( mivat / p ) with emphasis given to the identification of recurrent laryngeal nerve ( rln ) . methods .
consecutive series of forty - seven pa... |
merging ( or inspiralling ) dns systems are one of the prime targets for ground - based gravitational - wave ( gw ) interferometers such as geo600 , tama , virgo , and ligo ( the laser interferometer gravitational - wave observatory ) @xcite .
event rates of the dns inspiral searches by these detectors can be inferred ... | we present the current estimates of the galactic merger rate of double - neutron - star ( dns ) systems . using a statistical analysis method
, we calculate the probability distribution function ( pdf ) of the rate estimates , which allows us to assign confidence intervals to the rate estimates .
we calculate the ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Dirty Bomb Prevention Act''.
SEC. 2. RADIATION SOURCE PROTECTION.
(a) Amendment.--Chapter 14 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42
U.S.C. 2201 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new
section:
``Sec. 170C. Radiation Source Protecti... | Dirty Bomb Prevention Act - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to establish a task force on sealed source protection (byproduct material or special nuclear material encased in a capsule designed to prevent leakage or escape of the material).Requires the task force to evaluate and make recommendations to ensure the se... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Public Safety Ex-Offender Self-
Sufficiency Act of 2003''.
SEC. 2. TEMPORARY EX-OFFENDER LOW-INCOME HOUSING CREDIT.
(a) In General.--Subpart D of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end
... | Public Safety Ex-Offender Self-Sufficiency Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business related tax credit for investment in residential housing units for certain low-income individuals who were convicted of a crime punishable under state or federal law by a prison term of six months or longer (ex... |
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Ohio authorities released unnerving 911 calls Saturday that were placed from two of the four homes where eight family members were found dead a day prior.... | – The 911 calls came Friday, from two of the four Ohio homes where eight members of the Rhoden family lay dead in grisly execution-style murders: "There's blood all over the house! My brother-in-law's in the bedroom. It looks like someone has beat the hell out of him," a woman says in the first, at 7:49am, after she le... |
In El Salvador, Maria Teresa Rivera was convicted of aggravated homicide after experiencing an obstetrical emergency. She is scheduled to have a new day in court on May 11, when she will argue that there were judicial errors in her original trial.
Rivera's sentence is the most extreme of "Las 17," a group of women ... | – When Maria Teresa Rivera, a 28-year-old factory worker in El Salvador and single mom of a young boy, began to bleed heavily and collapsed, her family called an ambulance. She had just miscarried a baby she didn't even know she was pregnant with, and the next thing she knew she was in jail, accused of aggravated homic... |
premature birth is a significant risk factor for adverse motor , coordination , cognitive , and behavioral outcomes in survivors .
the prevailing brain pathology in very preterm infants is diffuse white matter injury in the cerebral hemispheres .
in addition , a consistent pattern of regionally specific long - term... | cerebellar injury is increasingly recognized through advanced neonatal brain imaging as a complication of premature birth .
survivors of preterm birth demonstrate a constellation of long - term neurodevelopmental deficits , many of which are potentially referable to cerebellar injury , including impaired motor functi... |
in 2014 , more than 200,000 american men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer ( pca ) .
it is the most frequently diagnosed solid tumor and the second leading cause of cancer - related deaths amongst men in the united states .
it is estimated to cause 28% of the total number of cancer cases and 10% of the total c... | prostate cancer ( pca ) is a major health concern in current times .
ever since prostate specific antigen ( psa ) was introduced in clinical practice almost three decades ago , the diagnosis and management of pca have been revolutionized . with time
, concerns arose as to the inherent shortcomings of this biomarker... |
the large hadron collider ( lhc ) has started running . with its unprecedented center of mass energy , there is a high hope that it will discover new physics which revolutionizes high energy physics .
however , lhc is a complicated machine with very high luminosities . in order to find new physics
, we need to know wha... | in an exact conformal theory there is no particle .
the excitations have continuum spectra and are called `` unparticles '' by georgi .
we consider supersymmetric extensions of the standard model with approximate conformal sectors . the conformal symmetry is softly broken in the infrared which generates a gap .
... |
als is a fatal neurodegenerative disease of motor neurons , has various subtypes , and shows a markedly heterogeneous clinical presentation and course . despite a uniformly fatal outcome
, patients with als display a wide range of survival times from a few months to several decades .
in addition , phenotypic variat... | flail arm syndrome ( fas ) , an atypical presentation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( als ) , is characterized by progressive , predominantly proximal , weakness of upper limbs , without involvement of the lower limb , bulbar , or respiratory muscles . when encountering a patient who presents with this symptomatic p... |
( * b * ) superimposed fluorescence pictures of a dilute ensemble of rollers ( @xmath0 , @xmath1 ) .
the colloids propel only inside a circular disc of radius @xmath2 and follow persistent random walks .
[ fig1 ] ] * experiments . *
the experimental setup is fully described in the _ methods _ section and in figs... | coherent vortical motion has been reported in a wide variety of populations including living organisms ( bacteria , fishes , human crowds ) and synthetic active matter ( shaken grains , mixtures of biopolymers ) , yet a unified description of the formation and structure of this pattern remains lacking .
here we repo... |
Donald Trump’s tweet was a tacit attack on House Speaker Paul Ryan. | Getty Trump: 'It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me'
Donald Trump celebrated his freedom from the Republican establishment Tuesday, boasting that it’s “so nice” to be unchained.
Trump’s tweet was a tacit attack on House Speak... | – In a Twitter storm on Tuesday, Donald Trump implied he'd been chained to the Republican Party for too long. But in the wake of recent denouncements from dozens of Republicans, including Paul Ryan, "the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to," he said, per Politico. In what i... |
sarcoidosis is a multisystem disorder characterized by the presence of noncaseating granulomas in affected tissues .
the most commonly affected organs are the lungs and lymph nodes , followed by the liver , although several other organs can also be involved , including the liver , skin , eyes , heart , and brain .
... | introductionthe association of hepatic sarcoidosis with hepatocellular carcinoma ( hcc ) is considerably rare . here
we report a rare case of hcc associated with sarcoidosis.presentation of casea 75-year - old male with no history of alcohol addiction or viral hepatitis was referred to our hospital because of an abno... |
comprehensive understanding of the nature and origin of gas flows in the very central regions of agns is elusive despite decades of intensive investigation .
presence of outflows with very large velocities ( @xmath220000 km s@xmath3 ) is revealed by the broad as well as narrow absorption lines ( bals and nals ) obser... | high velocity outflows from quasars are revealed by the absorption signatures they produce in the spectrum of the quasar .
clues on the nature and origin of these flows are important for our understanding of the dynamics of gas in the central regions of the active galactic nucleus ( agns ) but also of the metal enri... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Brown Tree Snake Control and
Eradication Act of 2004''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) Brown tree snake.--The term ``brown tree snake'' means the
species of the snake Boiga irregularis.
(2) Compact of free association.--The t... | Brown Tree Snake Control and Eradication Act of 2004 - (Sec. 3) Expresses the sense of Congress that there is a need for better coordinated control, interdiction, research, and eradication of the brown tree snake.
(Sec. 4) Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to fund brown tree snake control, interd... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Saddleback Mountain-Arizona
Settlement Act of 1995''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(1) the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and the city
of Scottsdale, Arizona, have a longstanding interest in... | Saddleback Mountain-Arizona Settlement Act of 1995 - Approves and ratifies the Settlement Agreement providing for the transfer of certain lands by the Resolution Trust Corporation to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (to be held in trust by the Department of the Interior) and the City of Scottsdale, Arizona... |
let @xmath7 be a finite connected graph without loops , but with multiple edges allowed .
the _ adjacency matrix _ of @xmath0 , denoted by @xmath8 , is given by @xmath9 , where @xmath10 is the number of the edges between @xmath11 and @xmath12 in @xmath13 .
the _ laplacian matrix _ of @xmath0 is the matrix @xmath14 wher... | given a graph @xmath0 with a distinguished vertex @xmath1 , the critical group of @xmath2 is the cokernel of their reduced laplacian matrix @xmath3 . in this article
we generalize the concept of the critical group to the cokernel of any matrix with entries in a commutative ring with identity . in this article
we f... |
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. ||||| Salvation Army volunteer Dyane Welt, left, pulls several bottles of water from an ice cooler to give to Michael Martinez, right, a... | – One German man is dead and another is missing after going hiking during the heat wave that's scorching the Southwest. Stefan Guenster, 57, died after becoming dehydrated while hiking the Ventana Canyon Trail on Sunday, when temperatures hit 115, a record for the date, reports the Arizona Daily Star. Marcus Turowski, ... |
one of the major uncertainties in modern astrophysics is the issue of whether the stellar initial mass function ( imf ) is universal or , alternatively , determined by environmental effects .
galactic globular clusters and rich , compact magellanic cloud star clusters are ideal laboratories for providing strong constra... | we present the detailed analysis of _ hubble space telescope _ observations of the spatial distributions of different stellar species in two young compact star clusters in the large magellanic cloud ( lmc ) , ngc 1805 and ngc 1818 . based on a comparison of the characteristic relaxation times in their cores and at the... |
effects in superconductors in the microwave regime have been the subject of a large number of intensive studies in recent years .
most of the attention is focused on studying one or more of the following issues : investigating the origins of nonlinear effects in superconductors @xcite,@xcite , introducing theoretical m... | in this paper we report some extraordinary nonlinear dynamics measured in the resonance curve of nbn superconducting stripline microwave resonators . among the nonlinearities observed : aburpt bifurcations in the resonance response at relatively low input powers , asymmetric resonances , multiple jumps within the reso... |
a graph ( digraph ) @xmath0 with a distinguished subset @xmath3 of nodes is said to be _ inner eulerian _ if each node @xmath12 has even degree ( resp .
the indegree and outdegree of @xmath2 are equal ) .
the nodes in @xmath3 and in @xmath13 are called _ terminals _ and _ inner _ nodes , respectively . a simple path in... | a graph ( digraph ) @xmath0 with a set @xmath1 of terminals is called _ inner eulerian _ if each nonterminal node @xmath2 has even degree ( resp .
the numbers of edges entering and leaving @xmath2 are equal ) .
cherkassky @xcite and lovsz @xcite showed that the maximum number of pairwise edge - disjoint @xmath3-... |
nasopalatine duct cyst ( ndc ) is a benign non - odontogenic lesion arising from the nasopalatine duct , which probably originates from the epithelial remnants of the nasopalatine duct stimulated to proliferate by trauma , infection , or mucous retention .
ndc , also known as incisor canal cyst , nasopalatine canal c... | nasopalatine duct cysts are the most common non - odontogenic cysts in the maxilla , and are conventionally treated through a sublabial or palatine approach . recently
, the endoscopic approach has been used , but experience is extremely limited .
we treated a 29-year - old male with nasopalatine duct cyst by endos... |
glucokinase ( gk ) ( ec 2.7.1.1 ) is expressed in glucosensitive cells of the pancreas , liver , hypothalamus , anterior pituitary gland , and enteroendocrine k and l cells [ 13 ] .
gk has a prominent role as a glucose sensor because of its specific kinetic properties , including an affinity for glucose that is withi... | recent reports point out the importance of the complex gk - gkrp in controlling glucose and lipid homeostasis .
several gk mutations affect gkrp binding , resulting in permanent activation of the enzyme .
we hypothesize that hepatic overexpression of a mutated form of gk , gka456v , described in a patient with pers... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Alcohol Abuse Prevention and
Treatment Trust Fund Act of 1999''.
SEC. 2. ALCOHOL ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT TRUST FUND.
(a) General Rule.--Subchapter A of chapter 98 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to establishment of trust funds) is... | Alcohol Abuse Prevention and Treatment Trust Fund Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the Alcohol Abuse Prevention and Treatment Trust Fund from which funds shall be made available for programs for the prevention and treatment of alcoholism and for research on the causes, consequences, preventio... |
Mr. Partilla, then a 42-year-old triathlete and a president of media sales at Time Warner, recognized a kindred dynamo. “She’s such a force,” he said. “She rocks back and forth on her feet as if she can’t contain her energy as she’s talking to you.”
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The connection w... | – The New York Times’ normally genteel “Vows” column hit a nerve on Sunday, with its tale of John Partilla and Carol Riddell—who each left spouses to get hitched. It’s “part Brady Bunch, part The Scarlet Letter,” the paper cooed. Bloggers and commenters tore the paper a new one. “These things happen,” says New York mag... |
the motivation is to develop fast solver schemes to solve stochastic hamiltonians in solitary waves and collisions .
the idea is based on almost asymptotic symplecticity for stochastic hamiltonian partial differential equations , such underlying algorithms are applied to develop stochastic symplectic methods for solvin... | in this paper we present splitting methods which are based on iterative schemes and applied to stochastic nonlinear schrdinger equation . we will design stochastic integrators which almost conserve the symplectic structure .
the idea is based on rewriting an iterative splitting approach as a successive approximat... |
the magnetization process of strongly correlated electron systems has received a lot of attention , because it may involve at low enough temperatures intermediate plateaus as a profound manifestation of peculiar quantum ground states @xcite .
an existence of the intermediate magnetization plateaus , which refer to regi... | a coupled spin - electron chain composed of localized ising spins and mobile electrons is exactly solved in an external magnetic field within the transfer - matrix method .
the ground - state phase diagram involves in total seven different ground states , which differ in the number of mobile electrons per unit cell ... |
Unintentional Injury Death Data Trends for Years 2000-2010 DS 13-13000
Background
Unintentional injuries are a subset of a larger category that represents all injuries referred to as “external causes of injury” based on the International Classification of Disease, Tenth Edition codes (ICD-10). The external ICD-... | – People in 14 states can now walk into a CVS and pick up an opioid-overdose antidote without a prescription, the company announced yesterday. Naloxone was already available in stores in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, but now Arkansas, California, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, North Dakota, Pennsylvania... |
terpenes are omnipresent natural products mainly found as constituents of plant oils , and have long held importance as flavours and fragrances , and as poisons and medicines .
isolation , structural elucidation and synthetic studies on this vast family of natural products were already being conducted over 100 years ... | taxanes are a large family of terpenes comprising over 350 members , the most famous of which is taxol ( paclitaxel ) a billion - dollar anticancer drug . here , we describe the first practical and scalable synthetic entry to these natural products via a concise preparation of ( + ) -taxa-4(5),11(12)-dien-2-one , whic... |
the earth orientation is generally considered as ( i ) earth rotation axis movements in space ( precession - nutation ) , ( ii ) earth rotation axis movements in the earth ( polar motion ) , or ( iii ) earth rotation speed variations ( exces in the length of the day ) .
these movements come from earth inside masses dis... | the determination of the earth gravity field from space geodetic techniques now allows us to obtain the temporal variations of the low degree coefficients of the geopotential , combining the orbitography of several satellites ( e.g. lageos1 , lageos2 , starlette ) .
these temporal variations of the earth gravity fie... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Improving Opportunities for Service-
Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses Act of 2014''.
SEC. 2. SMALL BUSINESS DEFINITION OF SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN
CONSOLIDATED.
Section 3(q) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(q)) is
amended--
... | Improving Opportunities for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses Act of 2014 - Amends the Small Business Act to expand the definition of "small business concern owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans" for purposes of federal agencies awarding small business contracts pursuant to Small Busines... |
BEIJING — China is investigating four possible cases of human-to-human transmission of a deadly bird flu that has killed 17 people, but so far there has been “no sustained” evidence of transmission between people, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
Three families in Shanghai and two young children in Beij... | – H7N9 is growing no less mysterious: Roughly 40% of those infected in China's bird flu outbreak have never actually come in contact with poultry, according to a leading Chinese scientist, and the World Health Organization yesterday backed up that claim. WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl acknowledged "there are people who ha... |
New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush isn't waiting on the Heisman Trophy Trust to rule on whether it will take back the award he won in 2005 as a member of the USC football team.
In a statement released by the Saints on Tuesday afternoon, Bush said he plans on giving back the Heisman Trophy.
Here is his ... | – Reggie Bush says he will give back his 2005 Heisman Trophy over allegations that he received improper benefits while playing for USC. "While this decision is heart-breaking, I find solace in knowing that the award was made possible by the support and love of so many," said the New Orleans Saints running back in a sta... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Fair Insurance Premiums for Disabled
Veterans Act''.
SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN SERVICE-DISABLED VETERANS INSURANCE PREMIUMS.
(a) In General.--Section 1922(a) of title 38, United States Code,
is amended--
(1) by inserting ``(1)'' after ``(a)''; a... | Fair Insurance Premiums for Disabled Veterans Act - Amends Federal provisions concerning service-disabled veterans' life insurance to state that the premium rates for such insurance: (1) for months beginning before the date of enactment of this Act shall be based upon the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Table of M... |
ironically , the dramatic increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes can be attributed to the rapid economic development and correlated to changes in lifestyle within the last 50 years .
up to 90% of the patients in the us with type 2 diabetes are either overweight or obese ( 2,3 ) .
it seems likely that the rea... | the leaves of lagerstroemia speciosa ( lythraceae ) , a southeast asian tree more commonly known as banaba , have been traditionally consumed in various forms by philippinos for treatment of diabetes and kidney related diseases . in the 1990s ,
the popularity of this herbal medicine began to attract the attention of ... |
reliable and accurate prediction of precipitation is of great importance in agriculture , tourism , aviation and in some other fields of economy as well . in order to represent the uncertainties of forecasts based on observational data and numerical weather prediction ( nwp ) models one can run these models with differ... | recently all major weather prediction centres provide forecast ensembles of different weather quantities which are obtained from multiple runs of numerical weather prediction models with various initial conditions and model parametrizations .
however , ensemble forecasts often show an underdispersive character and m... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Supportive Communities Helping Offer
Opportunities for Learning Act of 2005'' or as the ``SCHOOL Act of
2005''.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES HELPING OFFER
OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING PROGRAM.
(a) In General.--The Secret... | Supportive Communities Helping Offer Opportunities for Learning Act of 2005 - SCHOOL ACT of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish the Supportive Communities Helping Offer Opportunities for Learning (SCHOOL) Program.
Allows educational scholarships under the SCHOOL Program to be grants to eligible low-... |
a 6-year - old , 19 kg , child was admitted to our hospital with symptoms of proximal muscle weakness and a one - month history of difficulty climbing steps .
preoperative laboratory tests were abnormal : aspartate transaminase ( ast ) 560 iu / l , alanine transaminase ( alt ) 773
iu / l , alkaline phosphatase 352 ... | duchenne muscular dystrophy is a hereditary disorder characterized by progressive muscle weakness and contracture , and special care during anesthesia is needed in these patients . because inhalational anesthetics and succinylcholine can cause fatal results , intravenous anesthetics are commonly used .
however , moni... |
quantum heat engines(qhe ) have twin purposes to act as highly efficient heat engine enabled by quantum principles and also to act as a conduit for excess heat @xcite , therein lies their appeal . in this work
we probe the thermo - electric properties of an open strained graphene system and show its action as a very ef... | a strained graphene monolayer is shown to operate as a highly efficient quantum heat engine delivering maximum power .
the efficiency and power of the proposed device exceeds that of recent proposals .
the reason for these excellent characteristics is that strain enables complete valley separation in transmittance... |
although its incidence is decreasing , coronary stent dislodgement continues to occur in this modern era of percutaneous coronary interventions ( pci ) .
it is often associated with significant morbidity , including systemic or coronary embolizations , acute myocardial infarctions ( mi ) , emergency coronary artery b... | coronary stent dislodgement is a rare and serious complication of percutaneous coronary intervention and is associated with major adverse cardiac events .
successful retrieval of the stent is recommended in this situation because it is important for the prognosis .
recently , a patient was referred to our hospital ... |
the cast metal core is a component frequently used to restore endodontically treated teeth with extensive coronal destruction [ 1 , 2 ] .
post retention in the root canal is fundamental for the longevity and success of treatment .
length , shape , diameter , and post surface , as well as the type of cement used , a... | this study aimed to assess the effect of post - cementation waiting time for core preparation of cemented cast posts and cores had on retention in the root canal , using two different luting materials .
sixty extracted human canines were sectioned 16 mm from the root apex . after cast
nickel - chromium metal posts... |
“I would not feel so alone,” sang Bob Dylan back in 1966, “everybody must get stoned.” It would seem lots of people have obliged: cannabis is now far and away the world’s favourite illicit drug, with approximately 180 million people having taken it in the past year. In England and Wales about 13.5% of 16 to 24 years ol... | – There has long been a known association between marijuana and paranoia, but UK researchers wanted to find out if cannabis actually causes paranoia in some people—and the answer is a resounding yes, write researchers Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman in the Guardian. They studied 121 people who had taken cannabis at le... |
A 40-year-old Army veteran and suspected white supremacist who gunned down six inside a Milwaukee-area Sikh temple shot the responding officer eight to nine times before he was killed by police, authorities said Monday.
Officials said the gunman, whom they identified as Wade Michael Page, walked into the Sikh Templ... | – The man suspected of killing six at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin yesterday before being shot dead by a cop has been identified as Wade Michael Page, sources tell Fox News. And more details on Page are trickling in, by way of NBC and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The 40-year-old was an Army vet with ties to Fort Bragg... |
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing county officials in Alabama who told a Christian woman to remove her headscarf for her driver's license photo.
Yvonne Allen of Tuskeegee says the clerk insisted that only Muslim women are allowed to cover their hair.
The ACLU's suit filed Tuesday in Montgomery federal... | – The ACLU filed a lawsuit this week alleging that an Alabama county clerk and her supervisor violated a Christian woman's religious freedom rights under both federal and state constitutions when they required that the woman remove her head scarf for her driver's license photo in spite of repeated requests that she be ... |
growth arrest - specific 6 ( gas6 ) was identified in 1988 and was further characterized in mouse embryonic nih 3t3 fibroblasts in 1993 [ 1 , 2 ] .
it is considered a growth arrest protein involved in regulation of the cell cycle . to date
, gas6 has been reported to be involved in the processes of proliferation , ... | growth arrest - specific 6 ( gas6 ) , a vitamin k - dependent protein , plays a role in the survival , proliferation , migration , differentiation , adhesion , and apoptosis of cells .
gas6 is highly expressed during growth arrest , followed by a sharp decrease during differentiation in adipocytes .
the functions o... |
American woman and partner attending family wedding in Pakistan murdered in suspected honour killing
Couple about to start new life together in the U.S.
Sources suggest the groom's relatives had been happy with the marriage, but it had caused upset among the bride's family
A Scottish businessman and his Ame... | – Pakistani police now believe that the killing of an American woman and her husband in Gujrat, Pakistan, earlier this month may have been an honor killing. New Yorker Uzma Naurin, 30, was in Pakistan for a family wedding with her husband, Scottish businessman Saif Rehman, 31, when gunmen accosted and killed them. Sour... |
predicting a protein three dimensional structure from its sequence is equivalent to reproducing a three dimensional structure from one dimensional information encoded in its sequence . from such a viewpoint ,
there are many studies that try to reconstruct three dimensional structures from one dimensional information su... | properties of contact matrices ( @xmath0-matrices ) for native proteins to be the lowest energy conformations are considered in relation with a contact energy matrix ( @xmath1-matrix ) under an assumption that the total conformational energy of a protein can be approximated by a sum of pairwise interaction energies re... |
photons , due to its nature of low interaction with the environment , is the most popular candidate of an information carrier for secure quantum communication .
the technology of light transmission has been well developed , which raises its popularity . however , because a photon is not well suited for local manipulati... | a quantum memory is a system that enables transfer , storage , and retrieval of optical quantum states by on / off switching of the control signal in each stages of the memory .
in particular , it is known that , for perfect transfer of a single - photon state , appropriate shaping of the input pulse is required . h... |
neuroendocrine tumours of the small bowel are the most common type of malignant neoplasm in the small intestine , accounting for 35% of small intestinal cancers [ 1 , 2 ] .
small bowel neuroendocrine tumours ( nets ) are the most common type of gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumours .
the incidence and prevalence ... | introduction .
small bowel neuroendocrine tumours ( nets ) are the most common type of gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumours .
the incidence and prevalence of these tumours are on the rise .
the aims of this study were to determine prognostic clinicopathological features and whether the enets tnm staging system... |
in western countries , the prevalence of paediatric obesity and comorbidities , which cluster together in the metabolic syndrome ( mets ) , is going to reach epidemic proportions .
data from the national heart lung and blood institute lipid research clinics and the princeton prevalence study ( 19731976 ) and prince... | aim . to evaluate whether body fat distribution , birth weight , and family history for diabetes ( fhd ) were associated with metabolic syndrome ( mets ) in children and adolescents
. methods . a total of 439 italian obese children and adolescents ( 518 years ) were enrolled .
subjects were divided into 2 groups : ... |
in 1959 , when nanoscience as we know it today was still far from being a reality , richard feynman gave a talk at the annual meeting of the american physical society , entitled `` there s plenty of room at the bottom '' @xcite . in this talk feynman anticipated most of the experimental fields and issues of concern whi... | nanoantennas for visible and infrared radiation can strongly enhance the interaction of light with nanoscale matter by their ability to efficiently link propagating and spatially localized optical fields .
this ability unlocks an enormous potential for applications ranging from nanoscale optical microscopy and spect... |
Abstract Conclusive evidence for sexual dimorphism in non-avian dinosaurs has been elusive. Here it is shown that dimorphism in the shape of the dermal plates of Stegosaurus mjosi (Upper Jurassic, western USA) does not result from non-sex-related individual, interspecific, or ontogenetic variation and is most likely a ... | – If the sight of broad, wide plates along the back of a stegosaurus fails to drive you wild with desire, that's probably because you're not a female stegosaurus. In what the University of Bristol calls the "first convincing evidence for sexual differences in a species of dinosaur," researcher Evan Saitta says you can ... |
bolometers are now the most sensitive receivers for astrophysical observations in the submillimetre spectral range .
after decades of improvement , they are able to operate with a sensitivity limited by the photon noise of the observed source when operated outside of the atmosphere @xcite .
the principle of a bolometer... | bolometers are most often biased by alternative current ( ac ) in order to get rid of low frequency noises that plague direct current ( dc ) amplification systems . when stray capacitance is present , the responsivity of the bolometer differs significantly from the expectations of the classical theories .
we develop... |
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A mother of two daughters, who had been praying to God asking Him to also give her a son, had her prayer answered 22 months ago when she ... | – A mother in Decatur, Ala., says her prayers were answered when, after years of trying, she had a baby boy nearly two years ago. But tragedy struck when Brayden King was left in the care of his teen sister at church on Friday: She lost track of him for a short while, and he was found dead in 33 inches of water in the ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Investors Rights and Corporate
Accountability Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. FIDUCIARY STANDARD FOR BROKER-DEALERS.
Section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78o)
is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsection (i), as added by sect... | Investors Rights and Corporate Accountability Act of 2009 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (SEA) to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to apply to all brokers and dealers who provide investment advice to retail clients the fiduciary duty established under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940... |
80 photos: Reaction to Newtown school killings Reaction to Newtown school killings – Candles burn next to a lighted tree at a makeshift shrine in Newtown, Connecticut, commemorating the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. Hide Caption 1 of 80
80 photos: Reaction to New... | – The 911 calls made during the Sandy Hook shooting will be unsealed next Wednesday, unless an appeal of the ruling proves successful. A Connecticut judge yesterday ordered their release, backing a Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission move despite opposition from state attorney Stephen Sedensky. The AP reports... |
the calculations of the integral entering eq . ( [ kk ] ) are different for even @xmath4 ( integer @xmath73 ) and odd @xmath4 ( half - integer @xmath73 ) .
let us begin with even @xmath4 .
one makes use of the relation @xmath74 and obtains @xmath75 hence , the green s function is concentrated on the five - dimensional... | we discuss whether electric charge conservation may not hold in four - dimensional world in models with infinite extra dimensions , i.e. , whether escape of charged particles from our brane is consistent with effectively four - dimensional electrodynamics on the brane .
we introduce a setup with photon localized on ... |
norbert wiener , the founder of cybernetics , wrote that it is the `` boundary regions of science which offer the richest opportunities to the qualified investigator .
they are at the same time the most refractory to the accepted techniques of mass attack and the division of labor '' @xcite .
he went on to explain tha... | this paper introduces several fundamental concepts in information theory from the perspective of their origins in engineering .
understanding such concepts is important in neuroscience for two reasons .
simply applying formulae from information theory without understanding the assumptions behind their definitions ... |
a maior desvantagem dos materiais reembasadores resilientes a dificuldade em mant - los limpos .
esse trabalho avaliou o efeito de agentes de limpeza sobre a dureza de reembasadores resilientes .
foram utilizados os materiais luci sof ( dentsply ) , molloplast - b ( dentax ) e sofreliner ( tokuyama ) , e os agente... | purpose : difficulty in cleaning resilient denture liners remains a material disadvantage .
the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of denture cleansers on hardness of resilient liner materials.materials and methods : three resilient liners , luci sof ( dentsply ) , molloplast - b ( dentax ) , and... |
use of antiepileptic drugs ( aeds ) during pregnancy presents the dilemma of minimising the risk of seizure and avoiding adverse effects in the unborn child .
various studies revealed that prenatal exposure of aeds imparts serious effects on infants [ 13 ] .
further , prenatal exposures to aeds were also reported t... | use of antiepileptic drugs ( aeds ) in pregnancy warrants various side effects and also deleterious effects on fetal development .
the present study was carried out to assess the effects of prenatal exposure to lamotrigine ( ltg ) on postnatal development and behavioural alterations of offspring .
adult male and fe... |
protein - energy malnutrition is prevalent in 1654% of patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis ( mhd).[13 ] subjective global assessment ( sga ) is a tool that integrates various tests to derive a combined overall score of malnutrition that has been used to determine the nutritional status of patients and other po... | the recent emphasis on assessment of the psychological status , availability of newer and better methods of interpreting the anthropometric measurements of renal patients on dialysis therapy prompted the authors to develop the
holistic health assessment tool for dialysis patients ( hhat - d ) .
a total of 30 subjec... |
type i cytokine receptors , such as receptors for erythropoietin ( epo ) , thrombopoietin ( tpo ) , granulocyte colony stimulating factor ( g - csf ) and most interleukins ( il ) receptors , and type ii interferons ( ifn ) lack intrinsic catalytic activity . in order to initiate downstream signaling these receptors bin... | janus kinases ( jaks ) are non - receptor tyrosine kinases essential for activation of signaling mediated by cytokine receptors that lack catalytic activity , including receptors for erythropoietin , thrombopoietin , most interleukins and interferon . upon hormone
binding , jaks phosphorylate tyrosine residues in the... |
nortriptyline ( nt ) has been used to treat various forms of depression , often in conjunction with psychotherapy .
common adverse effects associated with tricyclic antidepressant ( tca ) therapy include dry mouth , blurred vision , tachycardia , constipation , urinary retention , sedation , and orthostatic hypotensi... | we present a case with decreased metabolic activity of cyp2d6 , a cytochrome p450 enzyme catalyzing the metabolism of nortriptyline ( nt ) .
conventional dosage regimen led to toxic plasma concentration of nt and adverse effects such as dry mouth , constipation , and dizziness in this case with genotype cyp2d6 * 5/*1... |
soybean- and cruciferous vegetable - enriched
diets seem to be particularly protective , but the mechanisms for this
anticarcinogenicity are not fully understood .
genistein , a dietary
phytoestrogen belonging to the isoflavone class of flavonoids , is thought to
have anticarcinogenic activities , particularl... | cxcr4 is a chemokine receptor frequently overexpressed on primary tumor cells
. organs to which these cancers metastasize secrete cxcl12 , the unique ligand for cxcr4 , which stimulates invasion and metastasis to these sites .
similar to our previous work with the chemoprotective phytochemical , 3,3-diindolylmeth... |
as medical advances increase the survival of critically ill neonates , the need for neonatal intensive care units ( nicus ) increases concomitantly . this growth is occurring within a health - care environment that is increasingly competitive and consumer driven . responding to these pressures
, neonatal intensive ca... | objective : with neonatal intensive care units ( nicus ) evolving from multipatient wards toward family - friendly , single - family room units , the study objective was to compare satisfaction levels of families and health - care staff across these differing nicu facility designs.study design : this prospective study ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Express Appeals Act of 2016''.
SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS PILOT PROGRAM ON FULLY DEVELOPED
APPEALS.
(a) In General.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall carry out
a pilot program to provide the option of an alternative app... | Express Appeals Act of 2016 This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) carry out a five-year pilot program to provide the option of an alternative appeals process to determine appeals of claims for disability compensation more quickly, and (2) inform claimants about such program. Appeals filed un... |
microbial fuel cells are renewable bioelectrochemical transducers that convert biochemical energy into electricity .
mfcs empower simultaneous treatment of waste - water and energy extraction from mixed organic media via the usage of microbial consortia as bio - catalysts .
in addition to treating anthropogenic waste a... | a cellular non - linear network ( cnn ) is a uniform regular array of locally connected continuous - state machines , or nodes , which update their states simultaneously in discrete time .
a microbial fuel cell ( mfc ) is an electro - chemical reactor using the metabolism of bacteria to drive an electrical current .... |
the main aim of this article is an attempt to derive a new theory for dark matter and dark energy , and to derive a new set of gravitational field equations .
the primary motivation of this study is the great mystery of the dark matter and dark energy .
the natural starting point for this study is to fundamentally exam... | the main objective of this article is to derive a new set of gravitational field equations and to establish a new unified theory for dark energy and dark matter .
the new gravitational field equations with scalar potential @xmath0 are derived using the einstein - hilbert functional , and the scalar potential @xmath0... |
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Thousands of students and organizations across the country are joining in school walkouts in honor of those who died in the Parkland, Flori... | – Ten days before a massive rally against gun violence in Washington, DC, students across the country will walk out of school Wednesday to mark one month since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Students at elementary schools, high schools, and universities will walk out at 10am... |
most of the scientific community which has an interest in the physics of neutron stars believes that radio emission from rotation powered pulsars ( rpps ) has its origin in the relativistic outflow of electron - positron pairs along the polar magnetic field lines of a dipole magnetic field frozen into the rotating neut... | i summarize the theory of acceleration of non - neutral particle beams by starvation electric fields along the polar magnetic field lines of rotation powered pulsars , including the effect of dragging of inertial frames which dominates the acceleration of a space charge limited beam .
i apply these acceleration resu... |
insulin resistance is a metabolic disorder that reflects low capability to wash glucose out of the bloodstream to target tissues .
unlike type 1 diabetes mellitus , which results from disrupted insulin secretion from pancreatic cells , type 2 diabetes mellitus is a representative metabolic disease attributable to in... | insulin resistance associated with metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus is an epidemic metabolic disorder , which increases the risk of cardiovascular complications .
impaired vascular endothelial function is an early marker for atherosclerosis , which causes cardiovascular complications .
both experimen... |
the aharonov - bohm effect predicted in ref.@xcite has been investigated in numerous papers , see review @xcite . due to this quantum effect , the vector potential affects the electron even in the case when the electron can not penetrate the region of non - zero magnetic field .
this effect has been investigated within... | the induced current density , corresponding to the massless dirac equation in ( 2 + 1 ) dimensions in a magnetic flux tube of small radius is considered .
this problem is important for graphene . in the case , when an electron can not penetrate the region of nonzero magnetic field , this current is the odd periodica... |
the study of @xmath3 hypernuclei has provided us with important information on the properties of @xmath3 in a nuclear medium and the effective @xmath3-n interaction @xcite . on the other hand ,
the situation for @xmath4 and @xmath5 hypernuclei is quite different . the special case of @xmath6he aside
, there is no expe... | we study the binding of hypernuclei based on the latest version of quark - meson coupling model , and estimate the phtoproduction cross sections for the @xmath0c(@xmath1)@xmath2b reaction using the bound @xmath3 spinors obtained in the model . |
the number of people worldwide with diabetes has increased enormously ; 382 million people were reported to have diabetes in 2013 and this is expected to rise to 592 million in 2035,1 which will create a significant health care burden worldwide .
nutrition therapy and exercise therapy are fundamental for diabetes , w... | backgrounddiabetes is a multifactorial disease and its nature means that interprofessional teamwork is essential for its treatment .
however , in general , interprofessional teamwork has certain problems that impede its function . to clarify these problems in relation to diabetes care , a questionnaire survey was con... |
A baby recently diagnosed with a rare condition is now seeing the world for the first time.
The baby, Leopold Reppond, was recently outfitted with glasses after his diagnosis of oculocutaneous albinism, a condition that affects the coloring of the eyes, skin and hair, according to the National Institutes of Health ... | – A 4-month-old boy sees his mom clearly for the first time in an awww-inspiring viral video uploaded to YouTube over the weekend, People reports. Little Leopold Wilbur Reppond of Seattle has oculocutaneous albinism, which can cause severe vision impairment, "but today he received his glasses....and can now see the wor... |
it is well - known that the sunspot penumbra ( the outer part of sunspots ) has a very complicate filamentary structure and a strong non - stationary outflow .
this outflow is responsible for the so - called evershed effect , a doppler shift of the spectral lines emerging from sunspots @xcite .
the magnetic structure o... | recent spectro - polarimetric observations of a sunspot showed the formation of bipolar magnetic patches in the mid penumbra and their propagation toward the outer penumbral boundary .
the observations were interpreted as being caused by sea - serpent magnetic fields near the solar surface @xcite . in this letter
... |
recently , using the radiative return method @xcite , a new state , the @xmath8 ( also named @xmath10 in the literature ) , was observed in @xmath11 with the dipion invariant mass close to the @xmath12 region , explicitly , for @xmath13 mev @xcite . later on this state
was also detected at bes in the @xmath14 reaction ... | in this work we study the @xmath0 reaction .
the leading order electromagnetic contributions to this process involve the @xmath1 vertex function with a highly virtual photon .
we calculate this function at low energies using @xmath2 supplemented with the anomalous term for the @xmath3 interactions .
tree level c... |
the ramachandran plot @xcite , @xcite is the paradigm technique of protein visualization .
it describes backbone atoms in a peptide group around a given c@xmath6 carbon in terms of dihedral rotations .
ramachandran plot can also been extended to the side - chain atoms in terms of the dihedral rotamers .
this gives rise... | folded proteins have a modular assembly .
they are constructed from regular secondary structures like @xmath0-helices and @xmath1-strands that are joined together by loops . here
we develop a visualization technique that is adapted to describe this modular structure .
in complement to the widely employed ramacha... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Textiles and Apparel China Safeguard
Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Since January 1, 2001, the United States textiles and
apparel industries have lost 345,000 jobs.
(2) Under the terms of ... | Textiles and Apparel China Safeguard Act - Requires the President to modify the procedures for considering requests from the public for safeguard actions on imports of textiles and apparel products of the People's Republic of China (PRC), as published in the Federal Register on May 21, 2003, so that import relief will ... |
improving end - of - life care in the critical care setting has justifiably become an increasing priority . in patients with severe neurological impairment due to stroke , head trauma , hypoxic ischemic brain injury after cardiac arrest , and other conditions , decisions to limit or withdraw care are often made based ... | do - not - resuscitate ( dnr ) orders are commonly implemented in the critical care setting as a prelude to end - of - life care .
this is often based on presumed prognosis for favorable outcome and interpretation of patient , family , and even physician wishes .
while dnr orders explicitly apply only to an individ... |
recent advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology offer opportunities for the development of innovative and promising applications in fields ranging from electronics to the food industry and medicine .
expectations for nanomedicine applications are high , and research targeting numerous applications for nanocarriers ... | backgrounddespite marked optimism in the field of nanomedicine about the use of drug - delivery nanocarriers , uncertainties exist concerning nanocarriers possible unintended impacts and effects .
these uncertainties could affect user acceptance and acceptability .
acceptance refers to the intention to put a techn... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Health Insurance Claim Prompt
Payment Act of 1997''.
SEC. 2. PROMPT PAYMENT OF PROVIDER CLAIMS.
(a) Group Health Plans.--
(1) Public health service act amendments.--Subpart 2 of
part A of title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act... | Health Insurance Claim Prompt Payment Act of 1997 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act, as amended by the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1996 and the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996, to: (1) require group health plans and group and individual ... |
let @xmath10 be a compact design space and let @xmath11 be the set of all designs ( i.e. , finitely supported probability measures ) on @xmath7 .
for any @xmath12 , let @xmath13 denote the information matrix .
suppose that there exists a design with nonsingular information matrix and let @xmath14 be the set of such des... | we improve the inequality used in @xcite to remove points from the design space during the search for a @xmath0-optimum design .
let @xmath1 be any design on a compact space @xmath2 with a nonsingular information matrix , and let @xmath3 be the maximum of the variance function @xmath4 over all @xmath5 .
we prove t... |
in this paper we present an application of explanation - based learning ( ebl ) in the parsing module of a real - time english - spanish machine translation ( mt ) system designed to translate closed captions .
the core idea of ebl is to convert previous analyses into some generalized form that can be called on when si... | in this paper we present an application of explanation - based learning ( ebl ) in the parsing module of a real - time english - spanish machine translation system designed to translate closed captions .
we discuss the efficiency / coverage trade - offs available in ebl and introduce the techniques we use to increas... |
the ability to quickly respond and adapt to environmental flux is central for microbial colonization and persistence in a given niche or host organism .
bacteria sense and respond to changes in their environment using a variety of mechanisms such as twocomponent sensing and quorum sensing . in twocomponent systems ( ... | summarythe qsebc twocomponent system ( tcs ) is associated with quorum sensing and functions as a global regulator of virulence .
based on sequence similarity within the sensor domain and conservation of an acidic motif essential for signal recognition , qsebc is primarily distributed in the enterobacteriaceae and... |
Toyota Motor Corp's Managing Officer and Chief Communications Officer Julie Hamp speaks to media during a news conference in Nagoya, central Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo June 17, 2015 and released by Kyodo on June 18, 2015.
TOKYO Toyota Motor Corp moved into damage control mode on Friday after its new commun... | – Toyota’s first senior female executive was arrested in Japan yesterday after customs officials allegedly found 57 Oxycodone tablets in a package mailed to her from the US. A package labeled "necklaces" was sent to Julie Hamp from the United States on June 8, and arrived in Japan on June 11, according to the Japan Tim... |
glaucoma is the most common cause of visual impairment or visual loss worldwide , and primary open - angle glaucoma ( poag ) is the most prevalent type of glaucoma .
an estimated 70 million people suffer from glaucoma , and asian ethnic minorities are more susceptible to this visual disease .
poag is a chronic and ... | backgroundthe aim of this study was to investigate the roles of cytochrome p450 2c19 ( cyp2c19 ) polymorphisms in primary open - angle glaucoma ( poag ) susceptibility and individual responses to drug treatment.material/methodsthis case - control study consisted of 93 cases with poag and 125 controls .
polymerase cha... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Judgeship Act of 2013''.
SEC. 2. CIRCUIT JUDGES FOR THE CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS.
(a) In General.--The President shall appoint, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate--
(1) 4 additional circuit judges for the ninth circuit... | Federal Judgeship Act of 2013 - Directs the President, with advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint specified additional: (1) permanent circuit judges for the sixth and ninth circuit courts of appeals and a temporary judge for the ninth circuit; and (2) permanent district judges for various judicial districts of A... |
The trend following the 2004 black-box warning about antidepressants and suicide risk was predictable — many adolescents simply stopped taking these drugs.
After all, what parent wants to give potent psychiatric meds to kids if it makes them more likely to think about and even attempt suicide?
Trouble is, the p... | – People who suffer from depression but are happily in love—perhaps an odd combination—may want to think twice about popping certain antidepressants, LiveScience reports. In a new study, researchers gave two kinds of antidepressants to 192 people who were depressed but in healthy relationships for at least seven months... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Smithsonian Facilities Authorization
Act''.
SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL SPACE AND RESOURCES FOR NATIONAL COLLECTIONS HELD BY
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
(a) In General.--Public Law 94-98 (20 U.S.C. 50 note; 89 Stat. 480)
is amended by adding at ... | Smithsonian Facilities Authorization Act - (Sec. 2) Amends Federal law to authorize the Board of Regents (Board) of the Smithsonian Institution to plan, design, construct, and equip additional special use storage and laboratory space (Pod 5) at the Museum Support Facility in Suitland, Maryland, to accommodate the care,... |
centenarians were once believed to be rare , but nowadays they are becoming increasingly common . in the united states , there are approximately 1020 centenarians per 100 000 population , averaging approximately 80 000 . in okinawa japan , there are approximately 50 centenarians per 100 000 population .
the general c... | backgrounda centenarian is a person who attains and lives beyond the age of 100 .
four percent of centenarians die from cancer .
it is therefore important to understand which cancers affect them in order to devise better methods to prevent and treat them . the aim of this study was to investigate the top cancers th... |
HARWICH, England—A disagreement between two sleepy English seaside towns could make a splash across the Atlantic: by forcing a rewrite of American history.
For 393 years, the southwest England town of Plymouth has been celebrated as the last port of call of the Mayflower before the ship carried the first Pilgrim se... | – You've heard of Plymouth, England, but what about Harwich? The small town is looking to finally get some recognition as the actual launch site of the Mayflower. As the argument goes, Plymouth, which has long touted itself as the Pilgrim ship's final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean, was actually an unp... |
the perseus cluster , a426 , is the most x - ray luminous cluster in the nearby universe , and the prototypical `` cooling core '' cluster . in these cooling core clusters
the radiative cooling time of the x - ray emitting gas is considerably shorter than the age of the universe , so to maintain equilibrium the gas mus... | we present very long baseline array ( vlba ) observations of the nucleus of ngc1275 , the central , dominant galaxy in the perseus cluster of galaxies .
these are the first observations to resolve the linearly polarized emission from 3c84 , and from them we determine a faraday rotation measure ( rm ) ranging from 65... |
self - amplified spontaneous emission free electron lasers ( sase fels ) @xcite are nowadays considered as a unique tool for production of intense , polarized , short - pulse radiation tunable throughout the vuv and x - ray wavelength range , with peak and average brilliance exceeding both modern synchrotron radiation ... | in this article we derive longitudinal impedance and wake function for an undulator setup with arbitrary undulator parameter , taking into account a finite transverse size of the electron bunch .
earlier studies considered a line density - distribution of electrons instead .
we focus our attention on the long - wa... |
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