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By several measures, young adults tend to be less religious than their elders; the opposite is rarely true
In the United States, religious congregations have been graying for decades, and young adults are now much less religious than their elders. Recent surveys have found that younger adults are far less likely th... | – Is there a generation gap when it comes to religious belief? A new study by Pew Research Center surveyed religious beliefs in 106 countries over the last decade and found that in 46 of them, individuals between the ages of 18 and 39 were less religious than those 40 and over. The only two countries where people under... |
following traumatic spleen rupture or surgery , heterotrophic autotransplantation of the spleen tissue occurs in a process called splenosis .
it can occur anywhere in the abdominal cavity and can even reach the brain tissue . due to the fact that splenosis is a rare incident , the pathogenesis is not fully understood... | key clinical messagein any patient , the occurrence of postsplenectomy splenosis can complicate the planning of further surgeries . in our case ,
the gastric sleeve procedure was aborted , as it would have put the patient 's life in danger .
therefore , only the gastric band was removed , eliminating future erosion... |
with development of economy and changes in lifestyle , the epidemic of obesity and related metabolic syndrome is alarming , which has become one of the most important public health problems worldwide .
obesity is a well - known factor inducing diseases such as hypertension , coronary heart disease , and diabetes .
... | background .
white adipose tissue browning may be a promising strategy to combat obesity .
ucp1 is strongly induced in white adipose tissue with 3-adrenergic agonist treatment , but the causes of this increase have not been fully elucidated .
this study aims to explore more mirnas involved in the process of brown... |
the aharon - vaidman game @xcite is a conceptually simple example of how quantum mechanics can be both beneficial and counter - intuitive . in the classical analog ,
alice puts a particle in one of three boxes such that when bob , who in next turn is allowed to check only two of them , is most likely to find it .
alice... | the aharon - vaidman ( av ) game exemplifies the advantage of using simple quantum systems to outperform classical strategies .
we present an experimental test of this advantage by using a three - state quantum system ( qutrit ) encoded in a spatial mode of a single photon passing through three slits .
the prepara... |
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tracheostomy has been used widely in prolonged respiratory support for pediatric patients with neuromuscular or respiratory dysfunction , or airway obstructions resulting from anatomical abnormalities and subglottic stenosis12 ) . however , tracheostomy is associated with some complications especially in children3 ) . ... | tracheoinnominate artery fistula is a rare , fatal complication of tracheostomy , and prompt diagnosis and management are imperative .
we report the case of tracheoinnominate artery fistula after tracheostomy in a 14-year - old boy with a history of severe periventricular leukomalacia , hydrocephalus , cerebral palsy... |
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Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new mat... | – A night of fun between two best friends at a sleepover turned deadly when one allegedly accidentally shot the other in the head with a pellet gun, McAlester News-Capital reports. Justin Ingle, 12, died Saturday at a Tulsa, Okla., hospital of head trauma, reports the Raw Story. The incident happened Friday night in th... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Omnibus Trade Act
of 2010''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I--EXTENSION OF TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE AND HEALTH COVERAGE
... | Omnibus Trade Act of 2010 - Title I: Extension of Trade Adjustment Assistance and Health Coverage Improvement - Subtitle A: Extension of Trade Adjustment Assistance - (Sec. 101) Amends the Trade and Globalization Adjustment Assistance Act of 2009 to extend trade adjustment assistance (TAA) programs through February 12,... |
(CNN) The Boy Scouts of America announced Monday that it's lifting the ban on gay adults as Scout leaders.
"On Monday July 27 the national executive board ratified a resolution removing the national restriction on openly gay leaders and employees," Boy Scouts of America President Robert Gates said in a video statem... | – The Boy Scouts of America has lifted its long-standing ban against adult leaders who are openly gay—with one big exception, the New York Times reports. Today's vote by the Scouts' national executive board will also allow religious-sponsored units to choose leaders they prefer. Yet the Mormon Church, America's biggest... |
in the hierarchical scenarios of the structure formation of the universe , cluster of galaxies are formed through subcluster mergers . both observations
( e.g. bliton et al . 1998 ; owen et al . 1999 ; markevitch et al . 2000 ) and simulations ( e.g. roettiger , loken & burns 1997 ; roettiger , stone & burns 1999 ; bek... | we present observations of the rich cluster of galaxies a2256 .
in addition to the known cool subcluster , a new structure ( we call it `` shoulder '' in this paper based on its morphology ) was resolved 2@xmath0 east of the peak of the main cluster .
it is shown as a localized feature embedded in the main cluste... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Protection of Children From Computer
Pornography Act of 1995''.
SEC. 2. TRANSMISSION BY COMPUTER OF INDECENT MATERIAL TO MINORS.
(a) Offenses.--Section 1464 of title 18, United States Code, is
amended--
(1) in the heading by striking ``Broa... | Protection of Children From Computer Pornography Act of 1995 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the transmission to minors of indecent material from remote computer facilities, electronic communication services, or electronic bulletin boards.
Prohibits: (1) the knowing transmittal or attempted transmittal... |
nonaxisymmetric features are a pervasive and complex aspect of disk galaxies . in normal , relatively non - interacting galaxies , these features are in the forms of bars or spirals .
it is well - known that the presence of nonaxisymmetric structures in galaxy disks can impact the evolution of morphology .
for example ... | the maximum value of the ratio of the tangential force to the mean background radial force is a useful quantitative measure of the strength of nonaxisymmetric perturbations in disk galaxies .
here we consider the distribution of this ratio , called @xmath0 , for a statistically well - defined sample of 180 spiral ga... |
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Speaker John Bercow said addressing Parliament was "not an automatic right"
House of Commons Speaker John Bercow would be "strongly opposed" to US President Donald Trump addressing the Houses of Parliament during his state visit to the UK, he has said.
... | – The Speaker of Britain's House of Commons said Monday that he strongly opposes letting US President Donald Trump address Parliament during a state visit to the UK, the AP reports. Speaker John Bercow's unusual public intervention makes it unlikely Trump will be given the honor during his trip later this year. Bercow ... |
more than two decades ago , when quantum optics was young , the quantum dynamics of collective spin systems interacting with a single bosonic degree of freedom was a major research problem .
the model arose as an attempt to describe the interaction between a collection of two level atoms and a single mode of the radiat... | we show that the quantum phase transition of the tavis - cummings model can be realised in a linear ion trap of the kind proposed for quantum computation .
the tavis - cummings model describes the interaction between a bosonic degree of freedom and a collective spin . in an ion trap ,
the collective spin system is... |
a carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma ( cxpa ) is an epithelial malignancy arising in or from a benign pleomorphic salivary adenoma .
minor salivary gland cxpas of the nasal cavity are exceedingly rare , with only 6 documented in the literature .
we present a 7th case : an unusual pedunculated intranasal cxpa , which ... | abstractbackground : a carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma ( cxpa ) is an epithelial malignancy arising in or from a benign pleomorphic salivary adenoma . the parotid gland is the most common location of cxpas .
minor salivary gland cxpas of the nasal cavity are exceedingly rare , with only 6 documented in the literatur... |
teeth are complex anatomic structures that encounter with developmental anomaly in various aspects like defects in the structure , shape , size and number .
fusion is a rare developmental anomaly with a complex morphology that can give rise to reduced esthetics , misalignment , dental caries and periodontal problems ... | fusion is the union of two normally separated tooth germs resulting in the formation of a single large tooth .
the prevalence of this anomaly is less than 1% and most common in the primary dentition , in the incisor - canine region .
fusions are almost always unilateral , but few cases of bilateral fusions have bee... |
Crawl of outlinks from wikipedia.org started March, 2016. These files are currently not publicly accessible. Properties of this collection. It has been several years since the last time we did this. For this collection, several things were done: 1. Turned off duplicate detection. This collection will be complete, as th... | – This looks messy: WNBA players Brittney Griner and Glory Johnson seem headed for a breakup just 28 days into their budding marriage, People reports. The move comes right after Johnson announced her pregnancy, and six weeks after the 24-year-olds were arrested and got league suspensions for getting in a fight at home.... |
in contrast to qcd at finite temperature , rather little is known about qcd at finite density .
technical difficulties ( such as the complex fermionic determinant at finite chemical potential ) make lattice monte - carlo simulations very difficult . even though some techniques are being developed to overcome these prob... | we study the instabilities of quark matter in the framework of a generalized nambu jona - lasinio model , in order to explore possible competition between three - quark clustering to form nucleons and diquark formation leading to color superconductivity .
nucleon and @xmath0 solutions are obtained for the relativis... |
the insulator - metal ( i m ) transition and the role of electron - electron interaction in this transition is a problem of permanent interest , both theoretical and experimental .
it has been shown@xcite that in the systems with strong disorder the interaction is in favor of delocalization because electrons may help e... | we consider 2d gas of spinless fermions with the coulomb and the short range interactions on a square lattice at @xmath0
. using exact diagonalization technique we study finite clusters up to 16 particles at filling factors @xmath1 and 1/6 . by increasing the hopping amplitude we obtain the low - energy spectrum of ... |
Barely four years after Wall Street's wrong-way bets plunged the world into a financial crisis, JPMorgan Chase & Co. admitted it lost $2 billion from a trading portfolio that was supposed to have helped the bank manage credit risk."These were egregious mistakes," said Chief Executive Jamie Dimon , who is considered one... | – JPMorgan Chase has stunned the financial world by disclosing trading losses of $2 billion since the beginning of April, caused by what CEO Jamie Dimon calls "errors," "sloppiness" and "bad judgment." The losses came from bad trades made by a unit that was supposed to help America's biggest bank hedge against risk. A ... |
It's a good thing you didn't drop $40,000 on a seat at Sarah Jessica Parker's fund-raiser for President Obama because the event was disappointingly refined. For that kind of money, the 50 guests should have been treated to scenes of co-host Anna Wintour dressing down the cleaning lady for her improper Swiffering techni... | – Aretha Franklin paid the $40,000 ticket price to attend Sarah Jessica Parker's Obama fundraiser last night, but left after just 20 minutes. That means she spent $2,000 per minute to be there, TMZ helpfully calculates. Apparently it was worth it, because she described the food ("chicken with a mustard sauce, diced tom... |
surface active agents ( saas , surfactants ) are a group of compounds with specific chemical composition of their molecules ( one part soluble in polar medium : hydrophilic and second in nonpolar medium : hydrophobic ) .
the main classification of surfactants is based on charge of hydrophilic part of their molecules ... | due to the specific structure of surfactants molecules they are applied in different areas of human activity ( industry , household ) . after using and discharging from wastewater treatment plants as effluent stream , surface active agents ( saas ) are emitted to various elements of the environment ( atmosphere , water... |
Update: Reuters reports that the Syrian defector will be allowed to stay in Jordon on "humanitarian grounds," according to a Jordanian security official.
In what appears to be the first defection of its kind, a Syrian fighter pilot has landed at a military base in neighboring Jordan Thursday and has requested asylu... | – A Syrian fighter pilot deserted today—and he took his jet with him. A pilot identified as Colonel Hassan Hamada, 44, went AWOL during a training mission near the Jordanian border today, then landed in Jordan and requested political asylum, Reuters reports. His motives aren't terribly mysterious: His hometown of Kfar ... |
in their doubly deprotonated
form , bis(arylcarboxamido)pyridines 1 have been used
as ligands to support nickel and copper complexes that exhibit novel
properties . a unique anionic copper(ii)superoxide complex
supported by 1 ( r = ipr ) acts as a nucleophile , in contrast to other such species supported
by n... | the synthesis of a series of asymmetric
mixed 2,6-disubstituted ( arylcarboxamido)(arylimino)pyridine
ligands and their coordination chemistry toward a series of divalent
first - row transition metals ( cu , co , and zn ) have been explored .
complexes
featuring both anionic n , n,n-carboxamido and neutral o ... |
consider the piecewise linear periodic function @xmath12 \text { for some } n\in{\mathbb z } , \\ n - t & \text{if } t\in[n-\frac{1}{2},n ] \text { for some } n\in{\mathbb z } , \end{cases}\ ] ] whose graph looks as follows ( 300,80)(-30,-10 ) ( -20,0)(1,0)300 ( 275,-10)@xmath13 ( 0,-10)(0,1)70 ( -20,20)(1,-1)20 (... | we show that the space called shark teeth is a topological ifs - attractor , that is for every open cover of @xmath0 , its image under every suitable large composition from the family of continuous functions @xmath1 lies in some set from the cover . in particular , there exists a space which is not homeomorphic to any... |
null | efficient dynamic nuclear polarization
( dnp ) in solids , which enables
very high sensitivity nmr experiments , is currently limited to temperatures
of around 100 k and below .
here we show how by choosing an adequate
solvent , 1h cross effect dnp enhancements of over 80 can
be obtained at 240 k. to achiev... |
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Facebook really didn’t want this to happen. On Wednesday, a British politician who has been highly critical of the social media giant publicly dumped a huge cache of sensitive internal Facebook documentsfor anyone to download and read.
The documents include details on the distribution of Fa... | – Even after Facebook agreed to restrict access to user data, the social media giant gave certain companies special access to that data, according to a trove of documents released by a British parliamentary committee Wednesday. The emails and other internal Facebook documents from 2012 to 2015 show that Facebook entere... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Captive Primate Safety Act''.
SEC. 2. ADDITION OF NONHUMAN PRIMATES TO DEFINITION OF PROHIBITED
WILDLIFE SPECIES.
Section 2(g) of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 (16 U.S.C.
3371(g)) is amended by inserting before the period at the end ``... | . Captive Primate Safety Act - (Sec. 2) Amends the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to: (1) make nonhuman primates a prohibited wildlife species; and (2) make it unlawful to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase them in interstate or foreign commerce. (Sec. 3) Modifies exceptions to restrictions o... |
A top-secret weapon being developed by the US military was destroyed four seconds after its launch from a test range in Alaska early on Monday after controllers detected a problem with the system, the Pentagon said.
The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon is part of a program to create a missile that will destroy targets an... | – The US military tested a hypersonic weapon in Alaska yesterday, and things didn't go according to plan. Within four seconds of its launch, the weapon was destroyed by authorities due to a problem, Reuters reports; an expert says it was a computer issue. For public safety reasons, "we had to terminate," says a Pentago... |
giant cell tumor ( gct ) of bone usually occurs in the epiphyses of long bones like the distal femur , proximal tibia , distal radius and proximal humerus1 .
craniofacial bone involvement is rare but has been reported to occur in the mandible , temporal bone , maxilla , occipital and sphenoid23 .
the incidence of g... | giant cell tumor ( gct ) of the craniofacial bones has been reported but they are not common .
this tumor occurs more often in women than in men and predominantly affects patients around the third to fifth decade of life .
gcts are generally benign but can be locally aggressive as well .
we report a case of gct i... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Defense Production Act
Reauthorization of 2003''.
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT OF 1950.
(a) In General.--The 1st sentence of section 717(a) of the Defense
Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. App. 2166(a)) is amended--
(1)... | Defense Production Act Reauthorization of 2003 - Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to extend its expiration date and authorization of appropriations through FY 2004. Authorizes the President, under such Act, to: (1) correct the industrial shortfall for radiation-hardened electronics to the extent that such acti... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Alaska Native Veterans Land
Allotment Equity Act''.
SEC. 2. OPEN SEASON FOR CERTAIN ALASKA NATIVE VETERANS FOR ALLOTMENTS.
Section 41 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C.
1629g) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
... | Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act This bill amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to revise provisions regarding land allotments for Alaska Native Vietnam veterans. Eligibility is expanded to include all Alaska Native veterans who served between August 5, 1964, and May 7, 1975. Allotments may b... |
small cell lung cancer ( sclc ) is highly malignant neoplasm , derived from neuroendocrine cells .
it represents approximately 15% of all bronchial carcinomas , and this percentage is tending to decrease recently . in most cases , sclc arises in the larger airways and grows rapidly , becoming quite large .
it also ... | abstractsmall cell lung cancer ( sclc ) metastasizes widely , but palatine tonsil is an extremely unusual site for metastasis .
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis ( ipf ) is associated with increased risk of lung cancer .
however , the most common histological findings among patients of lung cancer with ipf are known as... |
in searching for gravitational wave signals from coalescing binary compact objects , one commonly uses an optimal filtering technique @xcite .
this technique consists of the comparison of the output signal of an interferometric gravitational waves detector with a family of expected theoretical waveforms , called templa... | in the search for binary systems inspiral signal in interferometric gravitational waves detectors , one needs the generation and placement of a grid of templates .
we present an original technique for the placement in the associated parameter space , that makes use of the variation of size of the isomatch ellipses i... |
accreting pulsars consist of rotating , magnetized neutron stars that accrete matter from a companion ( pringle & rees 1972 ; davidson & ostriker 1971 ) .
material may be captured either from the stellar wind of the companion ( wind accretion ) or through roche - lobe overflow of the mass donating star ( disk accretion... | we present x - ray light curves and energy spectra for the persistent accreting pulsars 4u 162667 and gx 301 - 2 measured by the all - sky monitor ( asm ) on _ ginga _ from 1987 march 1991 october .
we compare these with simultaneous and near simultaneous measurements of spin frequency and flux by other instrumen... |
Madonna has admitted to being too lenient with her kids but her latest pic of son, Rocco, has fans wondering if she’s gone further than ever in letting them grow up too fast.
“The party has just begun! Bring it! 2014,” the singer wrote Saturday night along with a picture of Rocco, 13, and two of his friends, all ho... | – Not a great idea: being an international pop star and posting a photo to your Instagram account showing your 13-year-old son holding a bottle of gin. Yet that's what Madonna did Saturday, along with the caption, "The party has just begun! Bring it! 2014." In addition to her teen son Rocco Ritchie holding the bottle o... |
Drones aren't something most residents worry about on a day-to-day basis. But they may be flying over the skies of Alameda County soon if Sheriff Gregory Ahern gets his way.
Ahern is looking at buying a surveillance drone, an unmanned aircraft system, for search and rescue missions, bomb threats, SWAT operations, m... | – It's beginning to look like surveillance drones are destined to become a routine part of police operations in the US. Alameda County—home to Oakland and Berkeley—is the latest to sign on, with Sheriff Greg Ahern planning to buy a small, unmanned drone to help with things like search-and-rescue missions, SWAT operatio... |
the mechanism driving the emergence of a quantum macroscopic order that is able to resist to the decoherence effect of high temperatures remains a major topic of research in condensed matter .
the realization of this macroscopic quantum phase in doped cuprates close to the mott insulator regime has stimulated a large a... | the arrested nanoscale phase separation in a two - band hubbard model for strongly correlated charge carriers is shown to occur in a particular range in vicinity of the topological lifshitz transition , where the fermi energy crosses the bottom of the narrow band and a new sheet of the fermi surface related to the cha... |
despite significant advances
in early detection and treatment of
many malignancies , pancreatic cancer remains the most lethal form
of cancer with an overall 5-year survival rate of approximately 7% .
this dismal survival rate is attributed to several
factors , including the lack of effective treatment regime... | development
of novel imaging probes for cancer diagnostics remains
critical for early detection of disease , yet most imaging agents are
hindered by suboptimal tumor accumulation . to overcome these limitations ,
researchers have adapted antibodies for imaging purposes .
as cancerous
malignancies express at... |
many authors showed that conventional icl insertion with peripheral iridotomy had no significant effect on postoperative iop and that it resulted in a narrower angle width without increasing trabecular pigmentation ( compared with values after laser iridotomy ) .
the v4c model of icl has got the ks - aquaport introdu... | purpose . to assess intraocular pressure ( iop ) , lens vaulting , and anterior chamber ( ac ) angle width , following v4c implantable collamer lens ( icl ) procedure for myopic refractive error
. methods . a prospective case series that enrolled 54 eyes of 27 patients that were evaluated before and after v4c phakic ... |
he past quarter century has seen the pioneering work of tassiulas and ephremides @xcite , lin and shroff @xcite , lin , shroff and srikant @xcite , and neely , modiano and rohrs @xcite on max - weight and backpressure based scheduling policies for communication networks that are provably throughput optimal , attaining ... | we consider multi - hop networks serving multiple flows in which packets not delivered to their destination nodes by their deadlines are dropped from the network .
the throughput of packets that are delivered within their end - to - end deadlines is called the timely - throughput .
we address the design of policie... |
A 105-year-old man has made history by cycling more than 14 miles round a track in an hour.
Robert Marchand set the first hour record in the over-100s category in 2012, then beat it himself two years later at the age of 102, when he covered more than 16 miles. While his distance in Wednesday’s ride was not as great... | – A French cyclist has set a new record for riding 14 miles in one hour. If that doesn't sound so remarkable—the world record is 33.8 miles—consider the category in which Robert Marchand was competing: over 105. The retired firefighter did it the first time riding in under one hour in the over-100 category in 2012, the... |
talipes equinovarus is the most common congenital foot deformity diagnosed in newborns . serial manipulative casting by the use of plaster of paris ( pop ) has been accepted as the primary treatment modality to correct this multiplanar deformity .
application of serial manipulative pop casts was first introduced and ... | abstractrandomized controlled clinical trial.the main purpose of the present study was to comparatively analyze the effectiveness , advantages , and the complications of using semirigid synthetic softcast with respect to plaster of paris ( pop ) during the treatment of clubfoot deformity.the study group consisted of 19... |
topologically ordered phases of matter attract a great deal of interest currently in condensed matter physics .
fractional quantum hall ( fqh ) states @xcite , as one of the most well - known topological states , provide examples of some of the most exotic features such as excitations with a fraction of the electron ch... | exact diagonalization is a powerful tool to study fractional quantum hall ( fqh ) systems .
however , its capability is limited by the exponentially increasing computational cost . in order to overcome this difficulty , density - matrix - renormalization - group ( dmrg ) algorithms were developed for much larger sys... |
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Suspected domestic terrorists exploded a car bomb outside a Bank of Greece building in the heart of Athens Thursday, causing damage but no injuries in a brazen attack hours before a landmark bond issue by the financially struggling country.
Police bomb disposal experts search for evidence next... | – Greece is set to return to the international bond market today after four years of financial struggle, but not everyone is happy about it—especially not the suspected domestic terrorists who set off a large car bomb in front of the country's central bank hours before the bond issue. The huge blast early in central At... |
hysterectomy is the second most frequently performed surgery , after cesarean delivery , among women of reproductive age in the united states .
over 600 000 hysterectomies are performed annually in the united states . from 1994 through 1999 , 1 in every 9 women aged 35 to 45 years was estimated to have had a hysterec... | background : interstitial cystitis is a clinical syndrome characterized by symptoms of pelvic pain , urinary urgency and frequency , and nocturia
. it can be difficult to accurately identify interstitial cystitis because the symptoms overlap many other common gynecologic and urologic conditions .
patients with undi... |
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. | – Jon Stewart worked himself up to a fever pitch last night over the Rush Limbaugh/Sandra Fluke controversy, wondering how exactly Limbaugh got "from 'young woman trying to get a private institution to cover contraception' to 'prostitution slut having constant sexy-sex on my dime.'" But, Stewart noted, "Personally, I d... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Alaska Hero's Card Act of 2011''.
SEC. 2. PILOT PROGRAM ON PROVISION OF HEALTH CARE TO VETERANS RESIDING
IN ALASKA AT NON-DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL
FACILITIES.
(a) In General.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs ... | Alaska Hero's Card Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a two-year pilot program assessing the feasibility and advisability of carrying out a program by which certain veterans entitled to VA services residing in communities in the state of Alaska that are inaccessible by motor vehic... |
new observations of thermal radiation from isolated middle - aged neutron stars ( e.g. , pavlov , zavlin & sanwal 2002 , pavlov & zavlin 2003 ) initiated further development of the cooling theory of these objects .
its main aim is to interpret the data and constrain still poorly known properties of dense matter in neu... | we study the `` minimal '' cooling scenario of superfluid neutron stars with nucleon cores , where the direct urca process is forbidden and the enhanced cooling is produced by the neutrino emission due to cooper pairing of neutrons . extending our previous consideration ( gusakov et al .
2004a ) , we include the ef... |
Everyone seems to be at it these days - Volkswagen , Toyota, Porsche, BMW, Nissan, the list goes on and on.
Those global giants have recalled millions of vehicles over the past few years.
But there are exceptions. And with so many companies asking for drivers to return their cars so faults can be fixed, it appe... | – The only single-vehicle recalls you'll usually see are for trucks, fire engines, and school buses. So the owner of a Rolls-Royce made in England can feel pretty special that his or her sedan is the subject of a rare single-car recall that affects that car alone, the Financial Times reports. The affected 2015 luxury s... |
this is a retrospective study of consecutive patients with saccular unruptured ias in the anterior circulation that were treated with the ped ( covidien vascular therapies , mansfield , ma , usa ) from september 2008 to december 2011 .
26 of the patients had been included in a previous study that reported on 178 ias ... | purposethe pipeline embolization device ( ped ) is a flow diverter that has shown promise in the treatment of intracranial aneurysms .
close to one - fifth of aneurysms , however , fail to occlude after ped placement .
this study aims to identify anatomical features and clinicopathologic factors that may predispose... |
multiplicity is common for both stars and protostars ( e.g. , * ? ? ?
* ; * ? ? ?
while several scenarios have been proposed to explain the origin of multiplicity , fragmentation at early phases is generally regarded as the main mechanism @xcite . in particular , the turbulent fragmentation scenario , which proposes th... | we investigate the alignment between outflow axes in nine of the youngest binary / multiple systems in the perseus molecular cloud .
these systems have typical member spacing larger than 1000 au . for outflow identification
, we use @xmath0co(2 - 1 ) and @xmath0co(3 - 2 ) data from a large survey with the submilli... |
the emerging census of extrasolar planets has revealed an abundance of exoplanets , ranging from super - earths to super - jupiters .
mayor et al . ( 2009 ) suggest that @xmath4 30% of solar - type stars have short period ( less than 100 days ) super - earths with masses less than 30 @xmath5 . the estimated frequency o... | forming giant planets by disk instability requires a gaseous disk that is massive enough to become gravitationally unstable and able to cool fast enough for self - gravitating clumps to form and survive .
models with simplified disk cooling have shown the critical importance of the ratio of the cooling to the orbita... |
cells need to regulate the expression of a gene in a specific level at specific time and space in order to fulfill specific task .
gene regulation is a ubiquitous phenomenon and is critical in every biological process ( 1 )
. mechanisms of gene regulation include the regulations of transcription , rna processing an... | rna splicing is an important aspect of gene regulation in many organisms .
splicing of rna is regulated by complicated mechanisms involving numerous rna - binding proteins and the intricate network of interactions among them .
mutations in cis - acting splicing elements or its regulatory proteins have been shown to... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure
Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. EFFECT OF FORECLOSURE ON EXISTING TENANCY.
(a) In General.--In the case of any foreclosure on any dwelling or
residential real property, any immediate successor in interest in such
property purs... | Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009 - States that any immediate successor in interest to residential property in foreclosure assumes such interest subject to: (1) giving an existing tenant at least 90-day notice to vacate; and (2) specified rights of such tenant to occupy the premises until the end of the lea... |
paul , minnesota , usa ) has been widely used to occlude secundum atrial septal defects ( asds ) ( 1 , 2 ) .
aso migration or embolization after deployment is rare , with a reported rate ranging from 0.5% to 3% ( 3 , 4 ) , and it occurs more frequently in cases of asd without sufficient surrounding rims . once it ... | percutaneous device closure for secundum atrial septal defects ( asds ) has been performed commonly and safely with high success rates .
however , it is still challenging to close asds that are surrounded with deficient or hypermobile rims and could be compromised with an unexpected migration of device .
we report ... |
of the @xmath2150 globular clusters associated with the milky way galaxy , 12 have been seen to harbor a bright ( @xmath4 ergss@xmath5 ) , or transient , low - mass x - ray binary ( lmxb ) @xcite .
these binaries are presumably formed through stellar encounters in the dense cores of the clusters ; such events play an i... | the low mass x - ray binary ( lmxb ) x1832@xmath0330 in ngc 6652 is one of 12 bright , or transient , x - ray sources to have been discovered in globular clusters .
we report on a serendipitous _ asca _ observation of this globular cluster lmxb , during which a type i burst was detected and the persistent , non -... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National Hate Crimes Hotline Act of
2009''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) On December 7, 2008, Jose Sucuzhanay, an Ecuadorian-
born real estate agent and father of two, was beaten to death
in B... | National Hate Crimes Hotline Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to: (1) private, nonprofit entities to establish and operate a national, toll-free telephone hotline and an Internet website to assist victims of hate crimes; and (2) state and local law enforcement entities for educational and t... |
pelvic organ prolapse ( pop ) is extremely common , affecting up to 50% of parous women .
a reoperation rate within 10 years of the primary prolapse surgery has been reported as high as 17% .
the unacceptable surgical failure rate led surgeons to enforce the native tissue repairs with biological graft or synthetic ... | background : although repair augmented with mesh has been proved its priority in anatomical and functional recovery after anterior compartment reconstruction , the data about posterior compartment are scarce . the aim of this study was to compare bowel functional outcome of posterior vaginal compartment repair with and... |
in @xcite a three - loop computation of the ghost propagator was presented .
as announced , we now report on a similar computation of the gluon propagator .
the full propagators of gluons and ghosts calculated on the lattice encode information about the non - perturbative vacuum properties of qcd and of pure yang - mi... | this is the second of two papers devoted to the perturbative computation of the ghost and gluon propagators in @xmath0 lattice gauge theory .
such a computation should enable a comparison with results from lattice simulations in order to reveal the genuinely non - perturbative content of the latter .
the gluon pro... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National Resilience Development Act
of 2003''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds as follows:
(1) According to the New England Journal of Medicine, after
September 11, 2001, Americans across the country, including
childre... | National Resilience Development Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to convene and lead an interagency task force for the purposes of mitigating distress reactions and maladaptive behaviors in Americans and increasing their psychological resilience in ... |
the experimental observation of hadrons correlated back - to - back with a hard or semi - hard trigger hadron in au - au collisions at 200 agev has revealed a splitting of the away side correlation peak in a semi - hard momentum regime between 1 and 2.5 gev @xcite wich is absent in p - p collisions where two back - to ... | the experimental observation of hadrons correlated back - to - back with a ( semi-)hard trigger in heavy ion collisions has revealed a splitting of the away side correlation structure in a low to intermediate transverse momentum ( @xmath0 ) regime .
this is consistent with the assumption that energy deposited by the... |
five subjects who were diagnosed with csc were recruited for this study at the medical college of wisconsin ( milwaukee , wi , usa ) .
informed consent was obtained from all subjects after explanation of the nature and possible consequences of the study .
the study protocol was approved by the institutional review ... | purposeto improve our understanding of central serous chorioretinopathy ( csc ) , we performed an analysis of noninvasive , high - resolution retinal imaging in patients with active and resolved csc.methodsadaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy ( aoslo ) and spectral - domain optical coherence tomography ( sd - ... |
Facebook was a dominant platform in the 2008 and 2010 elections, a Pew director says. Study: Facebook users more politically engaged
Facebook users are more politically engaged compared with other Internet users, a new study from Pew finds.
Someone who visits Facebook multiple times per day is 2½ times more lik... | – Facebook friends aren’t real buddies, right? Wrong, according to a new study. People who use the social network multiple times a day have an average of “9% more close, core ties in their overall social network compared with other internet users,” the Pew study says. And yes, they have actually met almost all their Fa... |
The original Most Interesting Man in the World is back in a cocktail bar surrounded by two fawning women. But this time he's sipping tequila, not a Mexican beer. Jonathan Goldsmith, who played the iconic Dos Equis character from 2006 until last year, is starring in a new video for Astral Tequila that borrows creative e... | – "The Most Interesting Man in the World" is giving up beer for tequila. Actor Jonathan Goldsmith appeared as the sophisticated, eccentric, and worldly pitchman for Dos Equis beer for nearly a decade. He's now promoting Astral Tequila, reports the AP. In a new ad (watch it here), the 78-year-old Goldsmith nods at his D... |
as a recent development , the possibility of unambiguous discrimination between unknown quantum states can be potentially useful for many application in quantum communication and quantum computing .
a universal device that can unambiguously discriminate between two unknown states has been constructed by bergou and hill... | we consider the unambiguous discrimination between two unknown qudit states in @xmath0-dimensional ( @xmath1 ) hilbert space . by equivalence of unknown pure states to known mixed states and with the jordan - basis method , we demonstrate that the optimal success probability of the discrimination between two unknown s... |
1 of 2. Rescuers try to reach a trapped infant inside a piece of sewage pipe, in this still image taken from video, in Jinhua city, Zhejiang province May 25, 2013.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Firefighters in eastern China have rescued an abandoned newborn baby boy lodged in a sewage pipe directly beneath a toilet commode, ... | – A baby boy, likely just days old, is safe after Chinese rescuers pulled him from a four-inch sewage pipe. It appears the baby was flushed down the toilet; apartment building residents heard him crying, the BBC reports. When rescuers arrived on the scene, they were unable to pull the baby out, so they sawed off a port... |
as all - ceramic crowns have become one of the best aesthetic restorative materials ,
the need for good practice and skills to perform such restorations within patient
expectations and the recommended guidelines for tooth preparations becomes
mandatory .
all - ceramic resin bonded crowns appear to have a number... | objectivesto investigate if general dental practitioners ( gdps ) in private practice in
jordan follow universal guidelines for preparation of anterior teeth for
resin bonded all - ceramic crowns ( rbcs ) .
material and methodsa sample ( n=100 ) of laboratory models containing 208 tooth preparations for
ips emp... |
FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- A federal jury has cleared a deputy of using excessive force in the 2014 shooting death of Gregory Hill Jr. and awarded $4 to Hill's family, a family lawyer said. The jury, which was weighing a lawsuit filed by Hill's family, ruled last week that St. Lucie County Deputy Christopher Newman did not v... | – The family of a Florida man who was shot and killed in his garage by a police deputy has been awarded just $4 in damages, reports CBS. Gregory Hill was playing music in his garage on an afternoon in 2014 when a neighbor called the police to complain, the New York Times reports. Deputy Christopher Newman and another o... |
Firefighters were left "seriously unimpressed" after spending an hour freeing a YouTuber whose head had been "cemented" into a microwave.
Jay Swingler, 22, became stuck after filling the oven with Polyfilla and then sticking his head in it, which was wrapped in a plastic bag.
The unplugged microwave was being u... | – There's stupid, there's extremely stupid, and then there's "cementing your head inside a microwave" stupid. Firefighters in Wolverhampton, England, say they were "seriously unimpressed" after five of them had to spend an hour dealing with a case of the latter Thursday, the BBC reports. The West Midlands Fire Service ... |
non - zero cosmological constant ( @xmath2 ) models have found increased popularity ( e.g. , ostriker & steinhardt 1995 ) owing to the problem of the age discrepancy implied by the latest hubble space telescope ( hst ) measurements of the hubble constant : the ages of globular clusters are apparently larger than the ag... | we have identified seven ( field ) elliptical galaxies acting as strong gravitational lenses and have used them to measure cosmological parameters . to find the most likely value for @xmath0 ( @xmath1 ) and @xmath2 , we have used the combined probabilities of these lens systems having the observed critical radii ( or ... |
the incidence of intertrochanteric fractures has been increasing significantly due to the rising age of modern human populations .
generally , intramedullary fixation and extramedullary fixation are the 2 primary options for treatment of such fractures .
the dynamic hip screw ( dhs ) , commonly used in extramedulla... | backgroundthe aim of this meta - analysis was to compare the outcomes of proximal femoral nail ( pfn ) and dynamic hip screw ( dhs ) in treatment of intertrochanteric fractures.material/methodsrelevant randomized or quasi - randomized controlled studies comparing the effects of pfn and dhs were searched for following t... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Detroit Growth and Stability Act of
2012''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The City of Detroit is an essential part of the
Nation's economy and, in particular, the Nation's manufacturing
se... | Detroit Growth and Stability Act of 2012 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) make loans to a financing agent authorized by the state of Michigan to act on behalf of the city of Detroit, Michigan, for which the financing agent and the city shall be jointly and severally liable; and (2) require the city an... |
for example , let us consider the 1d quantization of the 2d rashba hamiltonian @xcite,@xcite @xmath5),\ ] ] where @xmath6 is the 2d electron momentum , and @xmath7 is the normal to the plane of the system ( axis @xmath8 ) .
the size quantization in @xmath9 direction leads to the reduction of the hamiltonian ( [ rh ] ) ... | we report the absence of spin effects such as spin - galvanic effect , spin polarization and spin current under static electric field and inter - spin - subband absorption in 1d system with spin - orbit interaction of arbitrary form .
it was also shown that the accounting for the direct interaction of electron spin ... |
null | herein
we report an umpolung strategy for the bioconjugation of
selenocysteine in unprotected peptides .
this mild and operationally
simple approach takes advantage of the electrophilic character of
an oxidized selenocysteine ( se s bond ) to react with a nucleophilic
arylboronic acid to provide the arylat... |
we provide kinetic evidence that the metastable ,
magic - size ( cdse)34 nanocluster is near the critical - nucleus
size for cdse and
supports the growth of wurtzite cdse nanocrystal platelets
at room temperature ( 2025 c )
. typical conditions for
the synthesis of cdse nanocrystals are temperatures above 2... | reaction
of cd(oac)22h2o and selenourea
in primary - amine / secondary - amine cosolvent mixtures affords crystalline
cdse quantum platelets at room temperature .
their crystallinity is
established by x - ray diffraction analysis ( xrd ) , high - resolution transmission
electron microscopy ( tem ) , and the... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``California Coastal National Monument
Expansion Act''.
SEC. 2. PURPOSES.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) Presidential Proclamation Number 7264, dated January
11, 2000 (65 Fed. Reg. 2821), designated over 20,000 islan... | California Coastal National Monument Expansion Act This bill expands the boundary of the California Coastal National Monument to include specified federal lands in Humboldt, Santa Cruz, and San Luis Obispo Counties in California. The Department of the Interior shall amend the Monument management plan for the long-term... |
while males constitute the majority , female adolescent offenders are a sizeable minority of the overall delinquent population .
further , those females who become involved in delinquent activities appear to be doing so at a younger age , and they are involved in a wide range of criminal activities , including violen... | backgroundwhile males constitute the majority , female adolescent offenders are a sizeable minority of the overall delinquent population .
further , those females who become involved in delinquent activities appear to be doing so at a younger age , and they are involved in a wide range of criminal activities , includ... |
hadrons are the complex systems consisting of quarks and gluons , which makes a long and continuous way to precisely understand the hadron structure .
thanks to the collinear factorization theorem@xcite in quantum chromodynamics ( qcd ) , the calculation of high energy hadron collision becomes much straightforward .
th... | determination of proton parton distribution functions is present under the dynamical parton model assumption by applying dglap equations with glr - mq - zrs corrections .
we provide two data sets , referred as imparton16 , which are from two different nonperturbative inputs .
one is the naive input of three valenc... |
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian reconnaissance aircraft was brought down by a Syrian missile over the Mediterranean early Tuesday, killing all 15 people on board, the Russian defense ministry said. It blamed Israel for the crash, saying the plane was caught in the crossfire as four Israeli fighters attacked targets in northwes... | – A Russian reconnaissance aircraft was brought down by a Syrian missile over the Mediterranean early Tuesday, killing all 15 people on board, the Russian defense ministry says. The ministry blames Israel for the crash, saying the plane was caught in the crossfire as four Israeli fighters attacked targets in northweste... |
one of the most fascinating aspects of the chinese language presents one of the largest barriers to learning it , an irony not lost on generations of students .
chinese characters enchant the learner like little else , but the origins of that enchantment , their elegant , structured complexity and seemingly infinite va... | we present a novel algorithm for optimizing the order in which chinese characters are learned , one that incorporates the benefits of learning them in order of usage frequency and in order of their hierarchal structural relationships .
we show that our work outperforms previously published orders and algorithms .
... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Gulf Coast Restoration Act''.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT OF 1998.
(a) In General.--Section 173(a) of the Workforce Investment Act of
1998 (29 U.S.C. 2918(a)) is amended--
(1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragrap... | Gulf Coast Restoration Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary of Labor to award national emergency grants to a state to provide oil spill relief employment assistance for an area of the state that has been affected by an oil or hazardous substances spill of national significance (c... |
Three More Women Come Forward to Accuse Bill Cosby of Sexual Assault
Three more women have publicly come forward with accusations that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted them in the 1970s and '80s. The three women, including an actress who appeared on The Cosby Show and the former wife of a vice president at the William... | – Three more women are accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault and harassment, and the details are among the most graphic yet. "It is my turn to take the empty chair," an emotional Linda Ridgeway Whitedeer said at a press conference yesterday in Gloria Allred's office, referring to the New York magazine cover in which th... |
Click here to tell the artists to #TakeAKnee during their halftime set in solidarity with Kaepernick.
Rihanna has reportedly turned down the opportunity to perform in front of over 100 million people at the 2019 Super Bowl halftime show. Why? She supports Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback... | – Thousands of people are not on board with Maroon 5 headlining the Super Bowl halftime show. At least 48,541 people, to be exact. That's how many people, as of this writing, had signed a Change.org petition asking the band to drop out of the performance. But no, not because they have anything against the band. Rather,... |
stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a readily available commensal of importance ( 1 ) , found in water , soil , sewage and frequently on plant or within plant rhizosphere ( 2 ) .
the bacteria explore the depression of immune systems to cause infection ( 4 - 6 ) , though they have also been implicated in infection of immu... | background : assessment of resistance genes is imperative , as they become disseminated to bacterial flora in plants and to the indigenous bacterial community , and thus ultimately contributes to the clinical problems of antibiotic resistant pathogens.objectives:the research was to assess the antibiotic characteristics... |
Theater shooter James Holmes is in court this week as prosecutors outline their case. Will we finally learn what was inside his notebook? Christine Pelisek on the possible surprises.
Almost six months after 12 people were killed and at least 70 were injured in a shooting rampage at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.—... | – James Holmes will be back in court today for the first time in almost six months for a preliminary hearing as the prosecution lays out its case against the 25-year-old, to establish whether there is sufficient evidence to put him on trial. Holmes has been charged with 166 counts of first-degree murder and attempted m... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Fugitive Information Networked
Database Act of 2009'' or the ``FIND Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITION.
In this Act, the term ``National Crime Information Center
database'' means the computerized index of criminal justice information
operated by the Fe... | Fugitive Information Networked Database Act of 2009 or the FIND Act of 2009 - Permits a state attorney general to apply for Department of Justice (DOJ) grants to develop and implement or upgrade systems for the preparation, submission, and validation of state felony warrants that are compatible and interoperable with t... |
China has overtaken Germany as the world’s third-largest arms exporter and cut its dependence on imports by producing more-sophisticated weapons, according to a new report.
State-owned defense suppliers, such as Norinco Group, have become prominent at arms fairs, opening new markets beyond established customers in ... | – From 2005 to 2009, China reigned as the world's top weapons importer, but since then, it's fallen to third place—while sliding into the third slot on another list: It's displaced Germany as the third-largest weapons exporter. China retains only 5% of the global export market—the US and Russia hold 31% and 27%, respec... |
in non - small cell lung cancer ( nsclc ) , proven ipsi- ( n2 ) or contralateral ( n3 ) mediastinal lymph node involvement often precludes cure by surgery .
2-deoxy-2-[f-18]fluoro - d - glucose - positron emission tomography ( fdg - pet ) is used to stage nsclc patients .
the yield of whole - body pet pertains to t... | purposeto test the extent of variation among nuclear medicine physicians with respect to staging non - small cell lung cancer with positron emission tomography ( pet).procedurestwo groups of nuclear medicine physicians with different levels of pet experience reviewed 30 pet scans .
they were requested to identify and... |
preservation of primary teeth before the eruption of permanent teeth is desirable since they help to determine the shape of dental arches , act as a natural space maintainer between teeth , prevent detrimental tongue and speech habits , conserve esthetics , and maintain chewing function . apart from that
, they play ... | background : the purpose of this study was to compare the clinical and radiographic outcomes of fresh aloe vera barbadensis plant extract and mineral trioxide aggregate ( mta ) as pulpotomy agents in primary molar teeth.materials and methods : pulpotomy procedure was performed in sixty primary molar teeth which were ra... |
we included nine patients ( five men and four women ) with type 1 diabetes on stable continuous subcutaneous insulin pump therapy . diagnostic criteria for type 1 diabetes were past or present positive antibodies against gad or islet cells and plasma free c - peptide levels < 0.3 nmol / l .
their weight had been stab... | objectivesleep restriction results in decreased insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance in healthy subjects .
we hypothesized that sleep duration is also a determinant of insulin sensitivity in patients with type 1 diabetes.research design and methodswe studied seven patients ( three men , four women ) with type 1 ... |
device scaling has been the engine driving the microelectronics revolution as predicted by moore s law.@xcite by reducing the size of transistors , processors become faster and more power efficient at an exponential rate . currently the main challenge in device
scaling is the integration of high - k oxides as gate oxid... | this paper reports state - of - the - art electronic structure calculations of la adsorption on the si(001 ) surface .
we predict la chains in the low coverage limit , which condense in a stable phase at a coverage of @xmath0 monolayer . at @xmath1 monolayer
we predict a chemically rather inert , stable phase .
... |
computer chess has been an active area of research since shannon s @xcite seminal paper , where he suggested the basic minimax search strategies and heuristics , which have been refined and improved over the years .
the many advances since then in improving the search engine algorithms , the static evaluation of chess ... | the opening book is an important component of a chess engine , and thus computer chess programmers have been developing automated methods to improve the quality of their books . for chess , which has a very rich opening theory ,
large databases of high - quality games can be used as the basis of an opening book , fr... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Social Security Solvency Act of
2004''.
SEC. 2. ADJUSTMENT TO RATE OF INCREASE IN CONTRIBUTION AND BENEFIT
BASE.
Section 230(b)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 430(b)(2))
is amended to read as follows:
``(2) the sum ... | Social Security Solvency Act of 2004 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) revise requirements for calculating the contribution and benefit base with respect to remuneration paid (including self-employment income derived) during the calendar years betw... |
polynomial optimization problem ( pop ) is a problem for minimizing a polynomial objective function over a basic closed semialgebraic set defined by polynomial inequalities and equalities : @xmath0 where and @xmath1 are real polynomial functions of @xmath2 .
pop represents various kinds of optimization problems and can... | we study the ideal generated by polynomials vanishing on a semialgebraic set and propose an algorithm to calculate the generators , which is based on some techniques of the cylindrical algebraic decomposition . by applying these , polynomial optimization problems with polynomial equality constraints
can be modified ... |
Credit: Image Courtesy of Paul Renne
Evidence that the impact of a kilometers-wide asteroid ravaged Earth's ecosystems and wiped out the dinosaurs millions of years ago is now stronger than ever. Using a high-resolution dating technique that measures the ratios of two argon isotopes, researchers analyzed 14 samples... | – Paleontologists and dinosaur nerds have long debated what killed off the "terrible lizards"—one meteor or many, volcanoes, or something else. Now one researcher says he has the answer: an asteroid believed to be about six miles wide that landed in the Caribbean about 66 million years ago. The Chicxulub impact was fir... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Special Olympics Sport and
Empowerment Act of 2004''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) Special Olympics celebrates the possibilities of a
world where everybody matters, everybody counts... | Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment Act of 2004 - Authorizes the Secretaries of Education, of State, and of Health and Human Services to award grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with, Special Olympics for specified education, international, and health activities, including ones promoting Sp... |
the first color - magnitude diagrams ( cmd ) obtained by baade for the dwarf spheroidal ( dsph ) companions of the milky way , and in particular for the draco system ( baade & swope 1961 ) , showed all of the features present in the cmd s of globular clusters .
this , together with the presence of rr lyrae stars ( baad... | we present deep @xmath0 f555w ( @xmath1 ) and f814w ( @xmath2 ) observations of a central field in the local group dwarf spheroidal ( dsph ) galaxy leo i. the resulting color - magnitude diagram ( cmd ) reaches @xmath3 and reveals the oldest @xmath4 gyr old turnoffs .
nevertheless , a horizontal branch is not obvio... |
in 1987 , harris et al proposed that the combination of clinical features , including both venous and arterial occlusive events , recurrent spontaneous abortions and thrombocytopenia with antiphospholipid antibodies ( apl ) , should be termed the antiphospholipid antibody syndrome ( aps ) . here , we describe a case ... | antiphospholipid antibody syndrome is a newly - defined clinical entity of arterial thrombosis , venous thrombotic events , recurrent spontaneous abortion and thrombocytopenia in the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies.we have experienced a 23-year - old male sle patient with positive anticardiolipin antibody who p... |
let @xmath31 be a compact manifold and @xmath3 be a @xmath1 flow , @xmath87 , @xmath88 .
the flow is _ anosov _ if the tangent space to @xmath31 has a continuous decomposition @xmath89 which is invariant , @xmath90 , @xmath91 , and for some @xmath92 and @xmath93 fixed @xmath94 where @xmath95 is given by a smooth rieman... | the purpose of this paper is to give a short microlocal proof of the meromorphic continuation of the ruelle zeta function for @xmath0 anosov flows .
more general results have been recently proved by giulietti
liverani
pollicott @xcite but our approach is different and is based on the study of the generator of ... |
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