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a technique to position single quantum dots in microdisks has been developed .
optical studies have confirmed the presence of only one qd in the microdisk .
one major application of this technique is the possibility to compare theoretical and experimental measurements on the lifetime modifications , as the coupling of ... | we have fabricated and studied the photoluminescence from microdisks containing single , selected self - assembled quantum dots . using two electron beam lithography exposures and a two - step selective wet etching process
, the dots were positioned at the microdisks edges with sub - micron precision .
the selecti... |
nephrolithiasis is
a significant health problem which has been
afflicting humankind for many centuries .
approximately 85% of human kidney stones
are a combination of calcium oxalate monohydrate ( com ) crystals with
calcium phosphate ( ca p ) phases as a nucleus .
although
calcium oxalate stone formatio... | the majority of human kidney stones
are comprised of multiple calcium
oxalate monohydrate ( com ) crystals encasing a calcium phosphate nucleus .
the physiochemical mechanism of nephrolithiasis has not been well
determined on the molecular level ; this is crucial to the control
and prevention of renal stone f... |
hepatocyte growth factor ( hgf ) , located chromosome 7q21.1 , is also known as interleukin ( il)32b , scatter factor , hepatopoietin a , lung fibroblast - derived mitogen or fibroblast - derived tumour cytotoxic factor , mainly from epithelial origin cells .
hgf binds to its receptor c - met , acts as a multi - func... | abstractthere is growing evidence that the signal pathway between hepatocyte growth factor ( hgf ) and its receptor c - met plays an important role in the development of lung cancer , although the specificity of such role is to be clarified .
it seems clear that the hgf / c - met signal contributes to the metastasis ... |
definition of an infrared photometric system was begun by johnson and colleagues ( cf .
johnson , 1966 ) . at that time
the @xmath3 and @xmath4 bands were rather arbitrarily defined by quite broad filters centered at around 3.5@xmath5 m and 4.8@xmath5 m .
observations at @xmath3 employed as detectors pbs cells , the lo... | we present @xmath0 and @xmath1 photometry , obtained at ukirt using the mauna kea observatories near ir ( mko nir ) filter set , for 46 and 31 standard stars , respectively .
the @xmath0 standards include 25 from the ukirt in house `` bright standards '' with magnitudes deriving from elias et al .
( 1982 ) and ... |
Google Earth / Reuters Hawthorne Army Depot in western Nevada is seen in this Aug. 30, 2010 satellite image courtesy of Google Earth.
Six U.S. Marines were killed and eight wounded when a mortar exploded during a live-fire training exercise late Monday at an Army munitions depot in the Nevada desert, military offic... | – Seven US Marines are dead after an explosion at Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada last night, military officials tell NBC News. The accident occurred at an ammunition storage facility during a live-fire training exercise, when a 60-millimeter mortar exploded in a tube as Marines were getting ready to fire it. Another ei... |
computational fluid dynamics ( cfd ) simulations have been widely used in aerospace , mechanical , and chemical industries to support engineering design , analysis , and optimization .
two decades ago when large eddy simulations ( les ) started gaining popularity with the increasing availability of computational resour... | turbulence modeling is a critical component in numerical simulations of industrial flows based on reynolds - averaged navier - stokes ( rans ) equations .
however , after decades of efforts in the turbulence modeling community , universally applicable rans models with predictive capabilities are still lacking .
la... |
anterior cervical and lumbar spine surgery is one of the most commonly performed spinal procedures .
anterior cervical discectomy and fusion ( acdf ) is an established surgical procedure for the management of patients with cervical radiculopathy and myelopathy secondary to degenerative disc disease and spondylosis2 )... | sympathetic dysfunction is one of the possible complications of anterior spine surgery ; however , it has been underestimated as a cause of complications .
we report two successful experiences of treating severe dysesthetic pain occurring after anterior spine surgery , by performing a sympathetic block .
the first ... |
Ke$ha In Rehab For Eating Disorder
Ke$ha -- In Rehab For Eating Disorder
EXCLUSIVE
has gone to rehab for an eating disorder ... TMZ has learned.Sources connected to the singer tell TMZ ... she's at Timberline Knolls near Chicago, the same placewent for her issues.We're told the singer -- who's a vegetarian ... | – Ke$ha has checked into a 30-day rehab clinic for an unspecified eating disorder, reports TMZ. The 26-year-old singer didn't divulge much in a statement: "I'm a crusader for being yourself and loving yourself, but I've found it hard to practice. I'll be unavailable for the next 30 days, seeking treatment for my eating... |
Australian prime minister says he is ‘deeply shocked and appalled’ by footage of teenager being hooded in a restraint chair and other apparent abuses
Australia’s prime minister has launched a public inquiry following the broadcast of footage of children in detention being abused, hooded and bound in a manner likene... | – The Australian government is investigating its youth justice system after footage made public Monday showed teens being mistreated in ways that brought to mind the abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, the Guardian reports. The footage from Don Dale Youth Detention Centre shows a 17-year-old tied to a mechanical re... |
studies of deep - inelastic lepton - nucleon scattering ( dis ) have played a fundamental role in establishing qcd as the strong interaction theory and in exploring the parton structure of the nucleon . with the advent of hera ,
in which electrons or positrons of 27.5 gev energy collide with protons of 820 gev ( in the... | several topics from the wide field of qcd studies in deep - inelastic @xmath0 scattering at hera are addressed .
they include qcd analyses of the inclusive cross section with the determination of @xmath1 and the proton gluon density from the @xmath2 scaling violations , and the determination of the longitudinal stru... |
transport of two - dimensional electrons in state - of - the - art modulation - doped semiconductor heterostructures suffers mainly from small angle scattering off charge fluctuations in the donor layer , which is separated from the two - dimensional electron system by a spacer layer @xcite .
the amplitude of the disor... | we demonstrate that branching of the electron flow in semiconductor nanostructures can strongly affect macroscopic transport quantities and can significantly change their dependence on external parameters compared to the ideal ballistic case even when the system size is much smaller than the mean free path . in a corn... |
An allegation that a white Texas state trooper sexually assaulted a black woman last weekend in Waxahachie went viral on social media.
But after the Department of Public Safety published the full body-cam video of the incident, Sherita Dixon-Cole's attorney, Lee Merritt, apologized online and said that the trooper ... | – A civil rights lawyer on Monday claimed there was "significant evidence to substantiate" his client's claim she was raped by a Texas state trooper. Two days later, he said the trooper "should be cleared of any wrongdoing." It was an about-face spurred by the release of a bodycam video from 37-year-old Sherita Dixon-C... |
Paris (CNN) -- A French writer filed a criminal complaint Tuesday against embattled former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, alleging attempted rape, according to her attorney David Koubbi.
Tristane Banon, 32, filed the new claim just as a separate New York case against the French financier appeared to be on shaky ... | – The Dominique Strauss-Kahn case in New York City may disappear soon, but the DSK headlines keep coming. The maid who accused him of rape is suing the New York Post for reporting that she was a prostitute, notes Reuters. The stories were "an apparent desperate attempt to bolster its rapidly plunging sales," say her la... |
the preparation of thin films of solid ionic conductors helps to improve their application in micro - batteries , fuel cells , and electrochromic devices , see , e.g. @xcite .
the resulting large electric fields give rise to nonlinear contributions for the conductivity which in practice turn out to be positive @xcite t... | nonlinear effects are omnipresent in thin films of ion conducting materials showing up as a significant increase of the conductivity . for a disordered hopping model general physical mechanisms
are identified giving rise to the occurrence of positive or negative nonlinear effects , respectively .
analytical result... |
the limb girdle muscular dystrophies ( lgmd ) are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of primary muscle disorders characterised by progressive weakness and wasting , predominating in muscles of the pelvic and shoulder girdle , with occasional involvement of the myocardium .
to date , 15 genes for autosom... | a large number of novel disease genes have been identified by homozygosity mapping and the positional candidate approach . in this study
we used single nucleotide polymorphism ( snp ) array - based , whole genome homozygosity mapping as the first step to a molecular diagnosis in the highly heterogeneous muscle diseas... |
the term myositis ossificans is not used anymore because primary muscle inflammation is not a necessary precursor and ossification does not always occur in muscle tissue .
periarticular ho is seen in patients with traumatic brain injury , tetanus , gullian - barre syndrome , poliomyelitis , prolonged mechanical venti... | tubercular meningitis is a severe form of central nervous system tuberculosis with high morbidity and mortality . apart from neurological deficits , musculoskeletal involvement is also seen in very few cases in the form of heterotopic ossification around immobile joints . a 35-year - old male case of tubercular meningi... |
for a long time now , inflation has been the leading paradigm for the origin of cosmological structures . this is largely due to its continuing success in confrontation with a wide range of observations , but also due in part to its theoretical simplicity compared to rivals such as cosmic strings , both in terms of mak... | i give a status report and outlook concerning the use of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies to constrain the inflationary cosmology , and stress its crucial role as an underlying paradigm for the estimation of cosmological parameters .
9.1 in 6.3 in -30pt epsf sussex - ast 98/1 - 1 + astro - ph/9801... |
in the past decades , electronic components have become continuously smaller and reached the nanoscale . at these scales ,
electron transport can no longer be understood on purely classical grounds but quantum mechanical effects , such as , for example , the quantization of energy levels , quantum interference effects ... | we investigate the interplay of quantum interference effects and electronic - vibrational coupling in electron transport through single - molecule junctions , employing a nonequilibrium green s function approach .
our findings show that inelastic processes lead , in general , to a quenching of quantum interference e... |
WASHINGTON—It's hard to picture someone mindlessly ingesting three McDonald's Quarter Pounders with 12 pats of butter while watching a movie. But according to new laboratory analyses commissioned by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, that food is nutritionally comparable to what you’d find in a me... | – Figure 1,600 calories, 60 grams of saturated fat, and 980 milligrams of sodium—that’s what you’re eating when you scarf down a medium helping of movie popcorn at the nation's biggest theater chain. Add a soda and it’s the equivalent of eating a pound of baby back ribs and a scoop of ice cream, or three Quarter Pounde... |
the thalassemias are a group of hemoglobinopathies characterized by a deficient synthesis of protein chains ( either or the ) of globin in the hemoglobin molecule .
affected individuals are either heterozygotes , homozygotes , or compound heterozygotes for the - or -chain genes .
the heterozygous individual are k... | background : increased iron overload is frequent problem in thalassemia patients , and this is monitored by serum ferritin levels or chemical assessment of the iron levels in liver tissue . however , repeated monitoring of serum ferritin levels to assess the iron overload is an invasive procedure associated with practi... |
the development of
resistance is a major clinical problem with
current anticancer drugs . multitargeting by using a combination of
drugs provides a potential strategy to overcome resistance .
we are
exploring the concept of redox synergism for combination therapy ,
a strategy that could additionally lower t... | combination
with redox modulators can potentiate the anticancer
activity and maximize the selectivity of organometallic complexes
with redox - based mechanisms of action .
we show that nontoxic doses
of l - buthionine sulfoximine increase the selectivity of organo - os
complex fy26 for human ovarian cancer ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``American Indian Education Foundation
Act of 1999''.
SEC. 2. AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
(a) In General.--Part B of subtitle II of title 36, United States
Code, is amended by inserting after chapter 215 the following:
``CHAPTER 216.... | American Indian Education Foundation Act of 1999 - Establishes and grants a Federal charter to the American Indian Education Foundation. |
the calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor ( ceot ) is also known as pindborg tumor . the dutch pathologist , dr .
jens jorgen pindborg , described and designated ceot as a distinct pathologic entity in 1955 .
it is a benign , locally invasive neoplasm that constitutes about 1% of all odontogenic neoplasms .
ceo... | the calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor ( ceot ) , also known as the pindborg tumor , is a benign locally invasive neoplasm .
common variants of ceot include noncalcifying , langerhans cell , bone and cementum forming and clear cell , which have a prognostic significance .
pigmented variants are known to occur ... |
one of the most important tasks at the bioinformatics is the search for similar genetic sequences in the data banks . with the new sequencing technologies , the size of these genetics data banks are growing exponentially @xcite , and
consequently the search time is growing too . the alignment algorithms , _ needlem... | the search for similar genetic sequences is one of the main bioinformatics tasks .
the genetic sequences data banks are growing exponentially and the searching techniques that use linear time are not capable to do the search in the required time anymore .
another problem is that the clock speed of the modern proce... |
telocytes ( tcs ) are a recently described type of stromal cells defined by their ultrastructural and morphological features .
telopodes ( particularly long and thin prolongations ) are the hallmark of this cell type as seen in several organs by electron microscopy [ 28 ] , and have also offered a strong indication o... | abstracttelocytes ( tcs ) are a particular type of interstitial ( stromal ) cells defined by very long , moniliform telopodes .
their tissue location , between blood vessels and other cells such as cardiomyocytes ( cmc ) and neurons , suggests a role in intercellular signalling . in order to define a microrna ( mir )... |
it has been known for some time that in the limit of arbitrarily large heavy quark masses that qcd has a symmetry which relates hadrons with two heavy quarks ( anti - quarks ) to analogous states with one heavy anti - quark ( quark ) @xcite .
we will refer to this symmetry as the doubly heavy diquark
antiquark ( dhda ... | in the limit of heavy quark masses going to infinity , a symmetry is known to emerge in qcd relating properties of hadrons with two heavy quarks to analogous states with one heavy anti - quark .
a key question is whether the charm mass is heavy enough so that this symmetry is manifest in at least an approximate mann... |
is remarkably growing in recent years , as there is an increased demand of many clinical specialties for biomaterials able not only to substitute the lost or destroyed tissues but also to provide an environment that could induce its own regeneration .
extended research has started to emerge in the field of dental tis... | glass - ceramic scaffolds containing mg have shown recently the potential to enhance the proliferation , differentiation , and biomineralization of stem cells in vitro , property that makes them promising candidates for dental tissue regeneration .
an additional property of a scaffold aimed at dental tissue regenerat... |
the moduli space of pairs @xmath0 with @xmath1 a complex connected smooth projective curve of genus @xmath2 and @xmath3 a nonzero abelian differential on @xmath1 , and denoted here by @xmath4 , comes with the structure of a deligne - mumford stack , but we will just regard it as an orbifold . the forgetful morphism @xm... | we give a description of the kontsevich - zorich strata for genus 3 in terms of root system data . for each non - open stratum
we obtain a presentation of its orbifold fundamental group . |
for a large class of problems , the interaction between the electromagnetic field and macroscopic magneto
dielectrics is modelled by the use of a permittivity @xmath0 and permeability @xmath1 . in order to consider a broad range of frequencies of radiation
, it becomes necessary to account for losses and dissipation i... | in recent years , a rigorous quantum mechanical model for the interaction between light and macroscopic dispersive , lossy dielectrics has emerged macroscopic qed allowing the application of the usual methods of quantum field theory . here , we apply time dependent perturbation theory to a general class of problems ... |
a domain @xmath0 is called a _ quadrature domain _ if it admits a formula for the integration of any harmonic and integrable function @xmath1 in @xmath2 , @xmath3 where @xmath4 is a distribution ( independent of @xmath5 ) such that @xmath6 . in particular , when @xmath4 is a measure , then by applying ( [ eq : qfgen ] ... | what is the shape of a uniformly massive object that generates a gravitational potential equivalent to that of two equal point - masses ? if the weight of each point - mass is sufficiently small compared to the distance between the points then the answer is a pair of balls of equal radius , one centered at each of the... |
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As investigators prepare to concede defeat in their search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, some scientists are pondering the unthinkable: they’ve been looking in the wrong place for more than two years.
Ships scouring an almost endless expanse of southern Indian Ocean... | – Roughly 15 months ago, Malaysia, China, and Australia decided that if they couldn't find the wreckage of Flight MH370 in the designated search area—a portion of the southern Indian Ocean the size of Greece, reports Reuters—that that would basically be it: no expansion of the area unless concrete evidence indicated th... |
an increasing number of large area astronomy surveys that probe time - variable phenomena are producing candidates that need rapid response follow - up ( whether monitoring ongoing changes , or spectroscopic observations to probe physical characteristics ) .
salient examples are : the lick observatory supernova search@... | the arizona - noao temporal analysis and response to events system ( antares ) is a joint project of the national optical astronomy observatory and the department of computer science at the university of arizona .
the goal is to build the software infrastructure necessary to process and filter alerts produced by tim... |
the coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity in heavy fermion compounds is one of the central issues in condensed matter physics@xcite . in particular , urhge and ucoge
have attracted much attention in recent years because they show the coexistence of long - range ferromagnetic order and superconductivity under a... | the electronic structure of the ferromagnetic superconductor urhge in the paramagnetic phase has been studied by angle - resolved photoelectron spectroscopy using soft x rays ( @xmath0=595 - 700 ev ) .
dispersive bands with large contributions from u 5@xmath1 states were observed in the arpes spectra , and form fe... |
intensity mapping of the cumulative co and other millimeter and submillimeter line emission from early galaxies has been proposed as a new means to probe very large - scale structures in the distant universe ( carilli 2011 ; gong et al .
2011 ; gong et al .
2012 ; yue et al .
intensity mapping entails low spatial and s... | we present direct estimates of the mean sky brightness temperature in observing bands around 99ghz and 242ghz due to line emission from distant galaxies .
these values are calculated from the summed line emission observed in a blind , deep survey for spectral line emission from high redshift galaxies using alma ( th... |
this work is motivated by our earlier studies @xcite of physically observable properties of sinai - ruelle - bowen ( srb ) measures for 2d periodic lorentz gases ( sinai billiards ) with finite horizon , under small perturbations .
sinai billiards and their perturbations have some rough singularities , but on the other... | sinai - ruelle - bowen measures are the only physically observable invariant measures for billiard dynamical systems under small perturbations .
these measures are singular , but as it was noted in @xcite , marginal distributions of spatial and angular coordinates are absolutely continuous .
we generalize these fa... |
we consider a singlelocus ( the a locus ) that has two alleles ( a
1 and a
2 ) .
we assume the locus can have direct and/or maternal effects on offspring phenotypes ( including fitness ) .
thus , our model allows for the presence of pleiotropy between direct and maternal effects , while providing a model that c... | maternal genetic effects ( mges ) , where genes expressed by mothers affect the phenotype of their offspring , are important sources of phenotypic diversity in a myriad of organisms .
we use a singlelocus model to examine how mges contribute patterns of heritable and nonheritable variation and influence evolutionary ... |
bioactive surfaces consisting of patterned proteins in specific defined geometries are important for screening applications , sensing [ 15 ] , the study of cell - cell interactions [ 2 , 6 , 7 ] , and the creation of cellular networks [ 2 , 5 , 810 ] or cellular aggregates for tissue engineering applications [ 11 , 1... | current efforts in surface functionalization have not produced a robust technique capable of creating specific two - dimensional microscale geometrical arrays composed of multiple proteins .
such a capability is desirable for engineering substrates in sensing and cell patterning applications where at least two differ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Wholesale Motor Fuel Fairness and
Competition Restoration Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that--
(1) both wholesale and retail motor fuel prices are the
result of a number of complex factors, including those related
... | Wholesale Motor Fuel Fairness and Competition Restoration Act - Declares that it shall be unlawful for an owner or operator to sell motor fuel from its terminal facility to any person in excess of the price it charges any other person, including a distributor or retailer which it owns or with which it is affiliated. Ex... |
gwne miejsce powstawania materiau zakrzepowo - zatorowego stanowi uszko lewego przedsionka ( left atrial appendage
na przestrzeni lat rozwinito szereg chirurgicznych , przezskrnych i hybrydowych metod zamykania laa . ze wzgldu na specyfik tego obszaru terapie te wi si nadal jednak z szeregiem wyzwa i ogranicze .
w ... | introductionatrial fibrillation ( af ) is the most common clinically relevant arrhythmia and it is strongly associated with stroke . left atrial appendage ( laa ) is considered to be the most often source of thrombotic material . in recent decades a number surgical , percutaneous and hybrid approaches for laa occlusion... |
SECTION 1. PEDIATRIC LABELING OF DRUGS AND BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS
(a) In General.--Subchapter A of chapter V of the Federal Food,
Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 351 et seq.) is amended by inserting
after section 505A the following:
``SEC. 505B. PEDIATRIC LABELING OF DRUGS AND BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS.
``(a) New... | Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require license applications for new drug and biological product to assess such drug's or product's safety and effectiveness for relevant pediatric subpopulations, including dosage.Permits extrapolation from adult studies where the course of the disease and the effects... |
Here’s a seemingly simple question: When is Tax Day this year?
Even for the most tax-law-challenged taxpayers, the answer might seem obvious: Individual income-tax returns are due April 15, a date as memorable to most Americans as the joyful holidays of Jan. 1, July 4 or Dec. 25.
Simple but wrong—for this year ... | – The deadline to file federal taxes this year is Tuesday, April 18, and procrastinators have Abraham Lincoln to thank for the extra time, explains MarketWatch. Tax Day is normally April 15, but not so this year because it fell on a weekend. Typically, that would mean it gets pushed to the following Monday, but because... |
lattice discretisation procedures are often used to define the partition functions of quantum theories .
the resulting models are called state sum models , because the functional integral become a sum over a discrete set of states .
these models typically depend on the particular lattice structure that is chosen , but ... | this paper is a follow - up to a previous paper on fermions @xcite .
a simple state sum model for a scalar field on a triangulated @xmath0-manifold is constructed .
the model is independent of the triangulation and gives exactly the same partition function as the continuum functional integral with zeta function re... |
the ectodermal dysplasias ( eds ) are a heterogenous group of diseases , which have one or more anomalies of the hair , teeth , nails , and sweat glands .
several ed syndromes may present in association with midfacial defects , such as cleft lip and palate .
siemens touraine syndrome ( omim 305100 ) is the most co... | the ectodermal dysplasias are a heterogenous group of diseases , which have one or more anomalies of the hair , teeth , nails , and sweat glands .
hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia ( he d ) is the most common type and is usually transmitted as an x - linked recessive trait .
it is characterized by classical triad o... |
currently , resin composites are more often used for direct posterior teeth restorations since many advances were made in adhesion and adhesives long - term performances .
adhesives are necessary to prevent leakage on resin composite restorations while dental composites are not able to bond to dental tissues .
howe... | our experiment evaluated the microleakage in resin composite restorations bonded to dental tissues with different adhesive systems .
40 class v cavities were prepared on the facial and lingual surfaces of each tooth with coronal margins in enamel and apical margins in cementum ( root dentin ) .
the teeth were resto... |
Huckabee blames GOP for allowing Akin’s ‘legitimate rape’ comment to sink campaign
By Scott Kaufman
Monday, July 7, 2014 11:37 EDT
In the forward to former Senate candidate Todd Akin’s new book, former Arkansas governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee defends Akin’s “legitimate rape”... | – First Todd Akin said "legitimate rape" victims rarely get pregnant. Then the Missouri rep apologized for the rape comment in a commercial for his 2012 Senate run and the world moved on (but not before opponent Claire McCaskill soundly defeated him). Now he’s back with a new book and a new (old) outlook: that he was s... |
When astronauts looked out the window of the International Space Station in early July, they noticed a swirling mass of clouds over the Atlantic Ocean, which turned out to be the beginning of tropical storm Arthur. VIDEO: Why Are Hurricanes with Female Names More Deadly?
Above, a National Weather Service satellite ... | – Blue Marble, yes. Cloudy Blue Marble? Most definitely. The NASA Earth Observatory is out with another compelling image of our planet, one that shows it's a cloudy place. Specifically, about two-thirds of Earth's surface is covered by clouds at any given moment. The map is based on data collected between 2002 and 2015... |
in april 2009 , a 63-year - old woman was admitted to our hospital because of a frontal headache that occurred when she woke up .
the thoracic pain was described as continuous , nonconstrictive , not related to breathing , with no irradiation , and which decreased when she laid down .
her past medical history was m... | large vessels vasculitis and more specifically , giant cell arteritis , is characterized by increased inflammatory markers , headaches and altered clinical status . diagnosis is confirmed by biopsy of temporal arteries showing the presence of granuloma and vasculitis .
we hereby report the case of a patient presentin... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Responsibility to
Iraqi Refugees Act of 2007''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Expansion of special immigrant status for cert... | Responsibility to Iraqi Refugees Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide special immigrant status to an Iraqi national (and spouse or child of such alien) who: (1) worked directly with the U.S. government, the United Nations, certified government or U.N. contractor or subcontractor, or U.... |
since weinberg first proposed applying the ideas of effective field theory ( eft ) to nuclear forces @xcite , much effort has gone into this approach .
( for reviews , see refs .
although there is still some debate about how best to implement it at energies where pion - exchange forces are resolved , the picture is cle... | @xmath0he and the triton are studied as three - body bound states in the effective field theory without pions .
we study @xmath0he using the set of integral equations developed by kok _
et al . _ which includes the full off - shell @xmath1-matrix for the coulomb interaction between the protons .
to leading order... |
A US college student got very drunk and designed an entire plane. His friend’s tweet about it has gone viral and been retweeted more than 30,000 times. We talk to the guys …
The news is, to put it mildly, pretty depressing recently – social media equally so. Twitter timelines are filled with the horrors of war and ... | – Most people who've slammed rum and vodka drinks all night end up in slurred conversations about the meaning of life, drunk texting, or just passing out. But a second-year student at Michigan Technological University says he witnessed his trashed roommate do something a little more unusual late Saturday: design an ent... |
treatment of systemic fungal infections often requires from weeks to months of drug therapy . consistently medicating companion animals for
this length of time can be difficult and even more so with animals that become stressed with handling , such as wildlife or exotic pets .
nondomesticated animals are susceptibl... | a terbinafine impregnated subcutaneous implant was evaluated to determine if drug was released into isotonic saline over the course of 6 months at two different temperatures , 37c and 4c .
these temperatures were chosen to simulate the nonhibernating ( 37c ) and hibernating body ( 4c ) temperatures of little brown ba... |
tissue engineering ( te ) provides a therapeutic alternative to organ transplantation , bypassing issues of immunosuppression and organ shortage .
te has recently had successful applications in the clinic , with replacement of organs such as the bladder , urethra and trachea , both in adults and children . building a... | successful tissue engineering involves the combination of scaffolds with appropriate cells in vitro or in vivo .
scaffolds may be synthetic , naturally - derived or derived from tissues / organs .
the latter are obtained using a technique called decellularization .
decellularization may involve a combination of p... |
conventional optical surveys of supernova remnants ( snrs ) use the criterion [ ] /h@xmath1 @xmath6 ( e.g. , * ? ? ?
* ) , because the [ ] @xmath76717 , 6731 doublet emission is strong in the cooling zone behind snr shocks . in the large magellanic cloud ( lmc ) , a number of large shell nebulae were reported to have [... | n70 and n185 are two large ( @xmath0100 pc in diameter ) shell nebulae in the large magellanic cloud ( lmc ) .
their high [ ] /h@xmath1 ratios rival those of supernova remnants ( snrs ) , but they are not confirmed as snrs . to study their physical nature , we have obtained _ xmm - newton _ x - ray observations and ... |
A mystery carving believed to date back to the 13th century has been discovered on the walls of a castle on Mull.
While investigations into the carving at Duart Castle continue, some experts say it may be a quasi-erotic image known as a Sheela Na Gig.
Often found on old churches, to protect the building from ev... | – Tom Hanks' next role: Sir Lachlan Hector Charles Maclean? The Scottish lord has for the last 26 years been dealing with the king of all money pits. Repairs on the 14th-century Duart Castle he inherited have thus far cost just shy of $2 million, reports the New York Times, which spoke to Sir Lachlan in his living room... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Tropical Forest and Coral
Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO SHORT TITLE OF ACT TO ENCOMPASS EXPANDED SCOPE.
(a) In General.--Section 801 of the Tropical Forest Conservation
Act of 1998 (Public Law 87-195; 22 U.S.C. 2151 n... | Tropical Forest and Coral Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2009 - (Sec. 2) Renames the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998 as The Tropical Forest and Coral Conservation Act of 2009.
(Sec. 3) Includes tropical forests and coral reefs and associated coastal marine ecosystems within the scope of such Act.
Define... |
according to landauer s principle @xcite any logically irreversible operation on information , is always associated with a loss of energy .
for example , each bit of lost information leads to the release of at least ktln2 amount of heat .
this type of energy loss is expected to become a substantial part of energy dissi... | a new algorithm for minimization of quantum cost of classical reversible and quantum circuits have been designed . the quantum costs obtained using the proposed algorithm
is compared with the existing results and it is found that the algorithm produces minimum quantum cost in all cases . * keywords : * quantum co... |
merkel cell carcinoma ( mcc ) is a rare neuroendocrine malignancy of the skin , initially named after friedrich merkel in 1875 .
although merkel 's description of this tumor subtype was based on a description of moles,1 the true pathologic diagnosis was ultimately defined as a trabecular carcinoma of the skin almos... | study design case report .
objective merkel cell carcinoma is an aggressive neuroendocrine carcinoma with a poor prognosis .
metastatic epidural spinal cord compression ( mescc ) is a debilitating disease causing neurologic deficits .
the surgical management for mescc depends on pathology .
methods we report... |
_ critical phenomena _ is the collective name associated with the physics of _ critical points _
@xcite , which is originated as a consequence of the divergence of the correlation length @xmath2 .
the understanding of critical phenomena has motivated the development of new mathematical tools for the study of phase tran... | recently , we have derived a fluctuation theorem for systems in thermodynamic equilibrium compatible with anomalous response functions , e.g. the existence of states with _ negative heat capacities _ @xmath0 . in this work ,
we show that the present approach of the fluctuation theory introduces new insights in the u... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Aligning Incentives for Better
Patient Care Act of 2011''.
SEC. 2. PERMITTING CERTAIN INCENTIVE PAYMENTS THAT PROMOTE QUALITY AND
EFFICIENCY.
(a) In General.--Section 1877(e) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 1395nn(e)) is amended by... | Aligning Incentives for Better Patient Care Act of 2011 [sic] - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) except from the prohibition against certain physician referrals and other compensation any incentive payments promoting quality and efficiency that are made under a quality incentive agreemen... |
urinary tract infection is the most common febrile illness in pediatric second to otitis media and pharyngitis .
it accounted for 10% of all febrile illnesses in children ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) .
long - term complications of urinary tract infection in children include unilateral renal parenchymal defect and unilateral kidne... | background : childhood urinary infections are among the most common febrile illnesses occurring during this period with varying susceptibility to antibiotic.aim:the aim of this study was to identify uropathogens responsible to for urinarytract infection ( utis ) in children less than 5 years of age , and determine the ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Small Business High Technology
Entrepreneurship Act of 2001''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) The United States is uniquely positioned to benefit
from the development and commercializa... | Small Business High Technology Entrepreneurship Act of 2001 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make direct loans under the Small Business Act to technology-related small businesses located in a technology region. Allows such a loan if the total amount of SBA loans to such busin... |
networks are the simplest representation of complex systems of interacting parts
. examples of these are ubiquitous in practice , including large social networks @xcite , information systems @xcite and cooperate ownerships @xcite , to name just a few . despite a seemingly plain form , real - world networks reveal ch... | complex networks of real - world systems are believed to be controlled by common phenomena , producing structures far from regular or random .
these include scale - free degree distributions , small - world structure and assortative mixing by degree , which are also the properties captured by different random graph ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance
Enhancement Act of 2005''.
SEC. 2. REPEALER.
Effective as of August 31, 2005, section 1012 of division A of the
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War
on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2... | Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance Enhancement Act of 2005 - Repeals, as of August 31, 2005, section 1012 of Division A of P.L. 109-13 which increased the maximum amount of coverage under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI) program to $400,000 and, for members serving in certain areas or operations, allow... |
radiation - induced aneurysm is a rare complication for head and neck cancer , and the pathogenesis is not fully understood.1
2
3
4
5
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8 but the mechanism is likely to be similar to that of radiation - induced chronic vascular damage.9
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several authors have reported 30 cases of radiat... | objectives radiation - induced aneurysm is a rare complication for head and neck tumors . only seven cases of an aneurysm after stereotactic radiosurgery and/or stereotactic radiotherapy ( srt ) have been described .
we report two patients with a ruptured internal carotid artery ( ica ) aneurysm presenting with cata... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Medicare Medication Evaluation and
Dispensing System Act of 1995''.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF MEDICATION EVALUATION AND DISPENSING SYSTEM
UNDER MEDICARE.
(a) In General.--Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395 et seq.) is ... | Medicare Medication Evaluation and Dispensing System Act of 1995 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish and operate the Medicare Medication Evaluation and Dispensing System to provide for: (1) prospective and retrospective review of... |
let @xmath6 be the group of orientation preserving isometries of the hyperbolic space @xmath7 and @xmath8 a torsion - free non - elementary ( = not virtually abelian ) discrete subgroup .
the action of @xmath0 extends to @xmath9 where @xmath2 denotes the geometric boundary of @xmath7 , and we define the limit set @xmat... | we investigate the distribution of orbits of a non - elementary discrete hyperbolic subgroup @xmath0 acting on @xmath1 and its geometric boundary @xmath2 .
in particular , we show that if @xmath0 admits a finite bowen - margulis - sullivan measure ( for instance , if @xmath0 is geometrically finite ) , then every @x... |
in march 2010 a total of 32 tanganyika killifish were collected with hand nets at the shore of lake tanganyika in the democratic republic of the congo at three study sites : kisokwe ( 41431 s , 291035 e ) , mufazi ( 70512 s , 295445 e ) , and mugayo ( 64651 s , 293342 e ) on the north western shore .
the fish were ki... | a total of 204 ergasilus sarsi , a copepod , were collected from tanganyika killifish lamprichthys tanganicanus in lake tanganyika during march 2010 .
the prevalence was 86.40% , the mean intensity was 7.56 , and the mean abundance was 6.38 . only 27 of the fish were infested , and the highest infestation on one fish... |
malaria remains a significant burden in sub - saharan africa as it continues to be the leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality in africa .
it is believed that malaria contributes up to about 25% of infant mortality in nigeria .
furthermore , in areas of africa with stable transmission , plasmodium falciparu... | objectives . review of burden of congenital transmission of malaria , challenges of preventive measures , and implications for health system strengthening in sub - saharan africa . methods .
literature from pubmed ( medline ) , biomed central , google scholar , and cochrane database were reviewed .
results .
the ... |
the study of spinodal decomposition and coarsening in quenched ising models has been vigorously pursued@xcite .
binder and stauffer@xcite predicted that , following a quench at @xmath10 , the structure function of a coarsening system would grow with a single length scale @xmath11 .
numerical studies have verified that ... | we study electromigration in a driven diffusive lattice gas ( ddlg ) whose continuous monte carlo dynamics generate higher particle mobility in areas with lower particle density . at low vacancy concentrations and low temperatures ,
vacancy domains tend to be faceted : the external driving force causes large domains... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Educational Empowerment Act''.
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF EDUCATIONAL EMPOWERMENT ZONES.
(a) In General.--Chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is
amended by adding at the end the following new subchapter:
``Subchapter X--Educational ... | Educational Empowerment Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for qualified educational empowerment zone contributions. Allows the designation of up to 30 such zones. Bases designations on the degree of poverty.Establishes a teacher loan forgiveness program for mathematics and science teachers. |
with increase in energies of accelerators , accurate data on high - multiplicity events at high energies have recently been provided .
this makes it possible to analyze correlations and fluctuations such as the bose - einstein correlations ( bec)@xcite and the intermittency @xcite in detail .
these correlations and flu... | a new statistical model for multiparticle production in @xmath0 annihilation is proposed based on the idea of the longitudinal phase space with limited transverse momentum .
the longitudinal rapidity space is divided into cells of equal size in order to take into account the bose - einstein correlations(bec ) with a... |
the endemic carnivorous plant venus flytrap ( dionaea muscipula ellis ) produces a rosette of leaves , each divided into two parts : the lower part called the lamina and the upper part called the trap
. the trap catches prey by very rapid movement of its bilobed halves that shut when the trigger hairs protruding from... | mechanical stimulation of trigger hairs on the adaxial surface of the trap of dionaea muscipula leads to the generation of action potentials and to rapid leaf movement .
after rapid closure secures the prey , the struggle against the trigger hairs results in generation of further action potentials which inhibit photo... |
Dan Conner will rise from the dead in the new version of “Roseanne.”
Fans of the classic original version of ABC’s blue-collar sitcom will recall that the character of Roseanne’s husband Dan, played by John Goodman, was said to have died of a heart attack on the series finale.
It was part of a darker, unexpecte... | – The Roseanne revival is set to air on ABC this fall, and one character in particular will make a surprising comeback. Dan Conner, the family patriarch played by John Goodman, was revealed in the series finale to have died of a heart attack—but in the ABC reboot, "Dan is definitely still alive," ABC Entertainment Pres... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Reciprocity Ensures Streamlined Use
of Lifesaving Treatments Act of 2015''.
SEC. 2. RECIPROCAL MARKETING APPROVAL FOR CERTAIN DRUGS, BIOLOGICAL
PRODUCTS, AND DEVICES.
The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act is amended by inserting
after... | Reciprocity Ensures Streamlined Use of Lifesaving Treatments Act of 2015 This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish a reciprocal marketing approval process that allows for the sale of a drug, biological product, or medical device that has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration... |
in studying the non - unique factorization theory of atomic monoids , the development of several invariants such as delta sets @xcite and @xmath4-primality @xcite has provided significant insight .
of particular interest is the set of length sets @xmath1 for an atomic monoid @xmath0 , which has as its elements the ... | in an atomic , cancellative , commutative monoid @xmath0 , the elasticity of an element provides a coarse measure of its non - unique factorizations by comparing the largest and smallest values in its set of factorization lengths ( called its length set ) . in this paper
, we show that the set of length sets @xmath1... |
random matrix theory ( rmt ) , @xcite , @xcite has found much success as phenomenological models describing a wide variety of physical systems , from discretization of moduli space @xcite , to the statistics of the cells in the skin of a cucumber @xcite .
rmt is the study of eigenvalues derived from random ensembles of... | random matrix models consisting of normal matrices , defined by the sole constraint @xmath0=0 $ ] , will be explored .
it is shown that cubic eigenvalue repulsion in the complex plane is universal with respect to the probability distribution of matrices .
the density of eigenvalues , all correlation functions , an... |
AP Lebanese protesters attack American fast food restaurants after Friday prayers in the northeastern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on Sept. 14.
AFP - Getty Images Lebanese men ransack American fast food chains Hardee's and KFC as they protest against the controversial film "Innocence of Muslims" in the northern Lebane... | – Violent protests continued across the Arab world today and claimed at least seven lives, three of them near the US embassy in Sudan's capital city, NBC News reports. Security officers in Khartoum fired tear gas at about 5,000 angry demonstrators, who were also protesting at nearby British and German embassies. In oth... |
the photogalvanic effect ( pge ) , predicted independently by @xcite for bulk semiconductors , is characteristic for gyrotropic materials and was recently intensively studied , both theoretically and experimentally , in zinc - blende and diamond - lattice quantum well ( qw ) structures @xcite . in such systems
a photoc... | we investigate both experimentally and theoretically , the magneto - gyrotropic photogalvanic effect in zinc - blende based quantum wells with @xmath0 point - group symmetry using optical excitation in the terahertz frequency range .
the investigated frequencies cause intra - subband but no inter - band and inter - ... |
it is well - known since the mid-1970 s that @xmath0 hyperons produced in unpolarized @xmath6 collisions are to a large degree polarized transversely to the production plane .
there have been many experimental and theoretical investigations aimed at understanding this striking polarization phenomenon , but no consensus... | transverse polarization of @xmath0 hyperons produced in @xmath1 and @xmath2 collisions is discussed .
a factorized description in the intermediate to high @xmath3 region is considered that involves transverse momentum and spin dependence in the fragmentation process .
consequences and suggestions for investigation... |
SECTION 1. ALIENS INELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE VISAS AND EXCLUDED FROM
ADMISSION FOR NONPAYMENT OF CHILD SUPPORT.
(a) In General.--Section 212(a)(10) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(10)), as redesignated and amended by
sections 301(b), 347(a), and 352(a) of the Illegal Immigratio... | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, to make certain aliens determined to be delinquent in child support payments inadmissable, deportable, and ineligible for naturalization.
Authorizes immigration officers to serve child sup... |
radio pulsars are rotating , magnetized neutron stars ( nss ) emitting radio beams from magnetic poles .
their masses are in the range of @xmath3 , radii @xmath4 km , densities @xmath5 and surface values of the dipolar magnetic field are around @xmath6 gauss .
presently there are 1864 radio pulsars with their spin peri... | orbital parameters of binary radio pulsars reveal the history of the pulsars formation and evolution including dynamic interactions with other objects .
advanced technology has enabled us to determine these orbital parameters accurately in most of the cases .
determination of post - keplerian parameters of double ... |
measurement of luminal pressure - induced neurogenic contraction of whole intestine
in ex vivo : luminal pressure - induced neurogenic contraction of whole intestine
was measured as described previously .
briefly ,
the mid colon and terminal ileum ( about 3 cm ) were isolated from c57bl/6 mice and flushed of
... | maropitant is a neurokinin 1 receptor ( nk1r ) antagonist that is clinically used as a new
anti - emetic drug for dogs .
substance p ( sp ) and its receptor nk1r are considered to
modulate gastrointestinal peristalsis .
in addition , sp works as an inflammatory mediator
in gastrointestinal diseases .
aim of... |
During the superbly absurd adventures of a suburban couple in "Date Night," a pair of thugs contemplates the husband and wife with bafflement. "These two," one thug says to the other, "are not at all what they seem." That is true, for reasons too intricate to explain here. It's equally true that the thugs are not what ... | – In Date Night, married suburbanites Phil (Steve Carell) and Claire Foster (Tina Fey) go for dinner in Manhattan and, through a series of predictably absurd twists, end up dodging thugs and crashing cars. This comedy-action hybrid doesn't win points for originality, but is saved—for some critics, just barely—by its ta... |
hyperglycemia is a common adverse outcome in critically ill patients ; it is associated with high mortality rates and occurs in individuals with and without a previous history of diabetes .
in addition , glucose is the main energy source for cancer cells , with the long hyperglycemic state providing a nutrition base ... | background : hyperglycemia is associated with poor clinical outcomes and mortality in several patients .
however , studies evaluating hyperglycemia variation in tumor patients receiving total parenteral nutrition ( tpn ) are scarce .
the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between glycemia and tumor ki... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Open and
Accountable Campaign Financing Act of 2001''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents of this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I--DISCLOSURE
S... | Open and Accountable Campaign Financing Act of 2001 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to revise reporting requirements, including: (1) changing from quarterly to monthly the additional reports required to be filed with regard to the principal campaign committee of a candidate for the House of Re... |
the etiology is multifactorial with the factors involved being genetic , physiological , behavioral , environmental , financial and political .
childhood obesity is considered by the world health organization ( who ) as a new epidemic , it has been characterized as the number one health problem worldwide and it is co... | childhood obesity is becoming one of the 21st century s most important public health problems . nowadays , the main treatment of childhood obesity is behavior intervention that aims at improve children s lifestyle to arrest the disease .
information and communication technologies ( icts ) have not been widely employe... |
we know that the onset of drug addictions is determined by a complex combination of constitutional ( biological ) , social , and psychological factors .
physiological components play a crucial role in the maintenance of psychological anxiety , associated with physical abstinence , but they are not the one and only et... | traditionally treated with wariness , drug addictions have provoked a serious interest in psychodynamically oriented clinicians in recent decades .
this paper discusses the development of contemporary psychodynamic conceptualizations of addictions , focusing specifically on mentalization - based theories .
the conc... |
several attempts to find the early counterparts of big spheroids in large areas of the sky at high redshifts have been conducted but to date just a handful of candidates have been found [ 10 ] . where are these bright objects hiding ? in galaxy formation models based on the hierarchical merging of dark matter halos the... | three high - redshift ( @xmath0 ) and high luminosity ( @xmath1 mag for 0 = 50 , 0p5 ) qsos , two radio - quiet one radio - loud , were imaged in @xmath2 , @xmath3 and @xmath4 bands .
the luminosities , colours and sizes of the hosts overlap with those of actively star - forming galaxies in the local universe .
t... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National African American Museum
Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
(1) the presentation and preservation of African American
life, art, history, and culture within the National Park System
an... | National African American Museum Act - Establishes within the Smithsonian Institution the National African American Museum (the Museum) to be operated as a center for scholarship and a location for museum training, public education, exhibits, and collection and study of items and materials relating to the life, art, hi... |
van gompel et al . ( 2005 ) explain their data in terms of a special type of reanalysis model called the unrestricted race model . in case of ambiguous input , the parser
is assumed to explore , in parallel , all possible analyses of the new input word .
the parser may be biased in favor of one or more of the alter... | in a recent series of publications ( traxler et al . j
mem lang 39:55892 , 1998 ; van gompel et al .
j mem lang 52:28407 , 2005 ; see also van gompel et al .
( in : kennedy , et al.(eds ) reading as a perceptual process , oxford , elsevier pp 62148 , 2000 ) ; van gompel et al .
j mem lang 45:22558 , 2001 ) eye ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``City of Yuma Improvement Act''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) City.--The term ``City'' means the city of Yuma, Arizona.
(2) Federal land.--The term ``Federal land'' means the Bureau
of Reclamation land depicted on the map and... | City of Yuma Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey all U.S. interests in specified federal land in Arizona to the city of Yuma, Arizona, in exchange for specified nonfederal land (Railroad Parcels).
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to administer the no... |
@xmath0 carinae , situated in the carina complex at about 2.3kpc ( davidson & humphreys @xcite ) , is one of the most massive stars known in the galaxy and is going through the luminous blue variable phase ( humphreys & davidson @xcite ) of unsteady mass loss ( davidson et al .
@xcite ) . during the 1840 s it underwent... | high resolution near - infrared adaptive optics imaging and polarimetry have been obtained of the homunculus nebula and its central illuminating star @xmath0 carinae ( hd 93308 ) .
images and maps of the linear polarization at a resolution of @xmath10.2@xmath2 have been made in the j , h and k bands and in a narrow ... |
mechanico - chemical bond to enamel and dentin is a distinguished characteristic of this cement .
fast application and gradual fluoride release have made this element one of the most commonly used materials in pediatric dentistry . to establish an effective adhesion ,
have reported that the goal of conditioning is ... | background : glass ionomer cement is a common material used in pediatric dentistry . the aim of this study was to evaluate the microleakage of high - viscosity glass ionomer restorations in deciduous teeth after conditioning with four different conditioners.materials and methods : fifty intact primary canines were coll... |
a fractal surface ( or fractal curve ) is a fractal set which is a graph of some continuous function on @xmath0 ( or @xmath1 ) .
the method of construction of fractal surfaces ( or fractal curves ) are closely related to the generation of fractal interpolation functions(fif ) .
the fifs were introduced by barnsley @xci... | a method to construct fractal surfaces by recurrent fractal curves is provided .
first we construct fractal interpolation curves using a recurrent iterated functions system(rifs ) with function scaling factors and estimate their box - counting dimension .
then we present a method of construction of wider class of ... |
it is estimated that about 22 percent of iranian couples have primary infertility problems ( 1 ) .
infertility is the inability of a couple to achieve conception after a year or more of regular unprotected intercourse ( 2 ) .
many studies have documented that couples with infertility problems experience mental heal... | background : one of the most common mental health problems among women with infertility problems is depression .
research has shown that religious beliefs and practices can help people to cope with difficult situations .
the purpose of this study was to explore the role of different religious coping strategies in p... |
type of study and population sample
- in this cross - sectional observational study , the total sample was subdivided into two groups : patients affected by leprosy reactions during or after treatment and patients without leprosy reactions at any time .
the sample consisted of 440 leprosy patients diagnosed by a co... | this cross - sectional retrospective study evaluated 440 leprosy patients ; 57% ( 251/440 ) had leprosy reactions during and/or after multidrug therapy , 80.5% ( 202/251 ) of whom presented with multibacillary leprosy . at diagnosis , positive bacterial index ( bi ) [ odds ratio ( or ) = 6.39 ;
95% confidence interva... |
the attempt to clarify this concept of which longed for more than 50 years begun with this question : who is a medical expert ?
to answer this question , we introduce three leading theories introduced in the area of clinical reasoning , known as : knowledge structure , hypothetic- deductive , and dual process ( 1 -... | exploration into the concept of " medical expert " dates back to more than 50 years ago , yet yielding
three leading theories in the area of clinical reasoning , namely , knowledge structure , hypotheticdeductive ,
and dual process .
each theory defines " medical expert " in a dissimilar way .
therefore , the
... |
a 44-year - old man , who had a medical history of panic disorder , visited another hospital due to dyspnea on mild exertion .
a coronary angiography showed a single coronary artery originating from the right coronary ostium . a single coronary artery bifurcated into the right coronary artery and left main coronary a... | anomalous origin of a coronary aortic artery is a rare cardiac anomaly . although it can cause angina , syncope , and palpitations , most patients are asymptomatic .
this anomaly requires surgical treatment or intervention because it is associated with sudden death .
several surgical techniques , such as coronary r... |
enterococcus faecalis can form a calcified biofilm in tough environmental conditions within the root canals .
biofilm formation on tissues and biomaterial surfaces can lead to biofilm - mediated infections , which are difficult to treat as a result of the increased antimicrobial resistance of biofilm bacteria .
the... | aim : the aim of this study was to assess the antibacterial efficacy of three different herbal irrigants against enterococcus faecalis.materials and methods : single rooted teeth were extracted due to orthodontic and periodontal reasons .
the teeth were then inoculated with e. faecalis .
the teeth were randomly div... |
probing the universality of the stellar initial mass function ( imf , i.e. , the distribution of the masses of stars at their birth ) , is one of the most challenging issues in modern astrophysics .
the shape of the imf and its potential dependence on the environment are crucial to almost all branches of modern astroph... | the universality of the stellar initial mass function ( imf ) is tested using bayesian statistics with a sample of eight young galactic stellar clusters ( ic 348 , onc , ngc 2024 , ngc 6611 , ngc 2264 , @xmath0 ophiuchi , chameleon i , and taurus ) .
we infer the posterior probability distribution function ( ppdf ) ... |
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