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active regions are complex , dynamic objects and are prominent manifestations of solar activity . understanding the nature , origin , and development of these regions is one of the most important outstanding questions in solar physics .
helioseismology provides us with a means to probe the layers of the sun below the s... | high degree solar mode frequencies as measured by ring diagrams are known to change in the presence of the strong magnetic fields found in active regions .
we examine these changes in frequency for a large sample of active regions analyzed with data from the michelson doppler imager ( mdi ) onboard the soho spacecra... |
climate change affects health through multiple pathways such as less clean air , less safe drinking water , availability of foods and extreme heat ( 1 ) . increasing global temperatures are expected to impact on yields of food crops and increase global food insecurity ( 2 ) , which could have a bigger impact on health(... | background / objectiveschool meals represent the largest sector in government food procurement in the uk .
this paper aims to quantify , simultaneously , the nutritional quality and carbon footprint of meals provided by primary schools in england.methodsthe school food trust conducted the primary school food survey ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Boat Protection Act of 1996''.
SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF VESSEL HULL DESIGNS.
Title 17, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end
thereof the following new chapter:
``CHAPTER 12--PROTECTION OF VESSEL HULL DESIGNS
``Sec.
``1201. Defin... | Boat Protection Act of 1996 - Sets forth copyright provisions regarding the protection of vessel hull designs.
Defines: (1) "plug" as a device or model used to make a mold for the purpose of exact duplication, regardless of whether the device or model has an intrinsic utilitarian function that is not only to portray ... |
in the last decade a wide variety of modified theories of gravity has been studied with the aim of solving or smoothing some puzzling features of conventional gravity and cosmology .
the reasons for considering such a modified gravitational schemes rely mainly on two damages that are intrinsic features of general relat... | the vierbein ( tetrad ) fields for closed and open friedmann - robertson - walker cosmologies are hard to work out in most of the theories featuring absolute parallelism .
the difficulty is traced in the fact that these theories are not invariant under local lorentz transformations of the vierbein .
we illustrate ... |
CLOSE Debbie Reynolds, the Academy Award nominated actress known for her role in the musical 'Singin' in the Rain,' passed away just one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher's death.
Carrie Fisher gives a kiss to her mother, Debbie Reynolds, in the photo room of the 20th Screen Actors Guild Awards in January 2015. ... | – Hollywood is a sadder place with the loss of beloved star Debbie Reynolds, who died Wednesday, just a day after the death of daughter Carrie Fisher. The 84-year-old Reynolds is believed to have suffered a stroke at son Todd Fisher's home while planning her daughter's funeral, the BBC reports. Todd Fisher said the gri... |
the term composite lymphoma ( cl ) was introduced by custer in the mid-1950s to describe cases of 2 distinct lymphomas concurrently arising in a single patient .
the incidence of cl is low with an estimated 14.7% of lymphoma cases representing cl .
typically , cl consists of 2 distinct non - hodgkin lymphomas (... | composite lymphoma ( cl ) is a rare disease with 2 distinct lymphomas concurrently arising in a single patient with an estimated incidence of 14.7% of newly diagnosed lymphomas per year .
cl most commonly involves 2 b - cell non - hodgkin lymphomas ( nhl ) or a b - cell nhl with a hodgkin lymphoma .
our case is uni... |
Smetlivy was in the Aegean Sea at the time of the 'near-miss'. Pic: File
A Russian warship has been forced to fire warning shots at a Turkish vessel to avoid a collision, officials have claimed.
The Defence Ministry in Moscow has alleged that the unnamed Turkish ship failed to respond to warnings issued by the ... | – A Russian destroyer fired warning shots at a Turkish fishing boat Sunday in the latest tensions between the two nations, reports Reuters. Russia's Defense Ministry says its warship, the Smetlivy, was just trying to avoid a collision with the unnamed vessel after repeated attempts to warn it over the radio and with wh... |
the anterior open - bite can be defined as the presence of negative overbite between the incisal edges of the maxillary and mandibular teeth , with the posterior teeth in occlusion14 . generally , an anterior open - bite is a kind of malocclusion that causes esthetic problems , impairs mastication and articulation , th... | a clinical case with anterior open - bite , treated in the mixed dentition , is presented .
this approach demonstrates one of the possible approaches of treatment , which is capable of interfering with growth and redirecting its vectors .
orthodontic and orthopedic methods were used , consisting of slow maxillary e... |
a sudden quench of the hamiltonian parameters is perhaps the simplest form of out - of - equilibrium dynamics that a closed quantum system can experience .
experiments with `` virtually isolated '' cold atomic species in optical lattices @xcite have transformed this seemingly theoretical dream into a rich and lively s... | we present here an extension of the wang - landau monte carlo method which allows us to get very accurate estimates of the full probability distributions of several observables after a quantum quench for large systems , whenever the relevant matrix elements are calculable , but the full exponential complexity of the h... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``COPS Improvements Act of 2007''.
SEC. 2. COPS GRANT IMPROVEMENTS.
(a) In General.--Section 1701 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd) is amended--
(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
... | COPS Improvements Act of 2007 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to expand the authority of the Attorney General to make grants for public safety and community policing programs (COPS ON THE BEAT or COPS program). Revises grant purposes to provide for: (1) the hiring or training of... |
the microscopic gist of the macroscopic second law is often pictured as a system s seeking out _ more _ phase - space states .
so it seems a bit odd that the idealized nonequilibrium steady states generated by molecular dynamics behave in the opposite way@xcite .
the @xmath2 states from such atomistic simulations soon ... | the _ time reversibility _ characteristic of hamiltonian mechanics has long been extended to nonhamiltonian dynamical systems modeling nonequilibrium steady states with feedback - based thermostats and ergostats .
typical solutions are multifractal attractor - repellor phase - space pairs with reversed momenta and u... |
A nurse working in a northeastern Italian hospital has been arrested as part of an investigation into the deaths of 38 patients who, cops said, she may have injected with potassium chloride because they or their family members were "annoying,"
Coworkers suspected Daniela Poggiali, 42, because patients would suddenl... | – Italian police have arrested a nurse who possibly killed up to 38 patients because they or their families "annoyed" her, officials say. Daniela Poggiali, 42, was arrested Friday in connection with 11 patient deaths and had already been under suspicion of killing another in April, the New York Post and ANSA report. Po... |
with the current trend toward esthetic dentistry , composites have added a whole new dimension .
resin based composites are widely used in restorative dentistry as both direct and indirect restorations in anterior and posterior teeth .
the clinical performance of composite materials has improved with the developmen... | background : enhancement of bond strength between new and old composite usually requires increased surface roughness of old composite to promote mechanical interlocking and subsequent coating with bonding agents to improve surface wetting and chemical bonding .
so this study was carried out to evaluate and compare th... |
Funny or Die didn’t pull any punches with their take on the Duggar scandal. In a video titled "The Duggars Respond to Sexual Abuse Scandal," two comedians dressed as Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar sit down to explain their take on In Touch magazine "Scooby Doo-ing around and bringing up all this pickle again."
"With m... | – Two weeks after the skeleton burst out of the Duggar family closet, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar have opened up about the Josh Duggar molestation scandal. In an interview with Megyn Kelly on Fox News, they talk about how they felt and what they did when they discovered their oldest son had "improperly touched" four of... |
one disadvantage of the original kohonen learning rule is that it has no potential ( or objective , or cost ) function valid for the general case of continuously distributed input spaces .
ritter , martinetz and schulten @xcite gave for the expectation value of the learning step ( @xmath6 denotes the voronoi cell of @x... | self - organizing maps are models for unsupervised representation formation of cortical receptor fields by stimuli - driven self - organization in laterally coupled winner - take - all feedforward structures .
this paper discusses modifications of the original kohonen model that were motivated by a potential functio... |
the reconstruction of an unknown quantum state from a suitable set of measurements is called quantum tomography @xcite , which is a particularly important method in the study of quantum mechanics and its various applications . since the characterization of the states is the central tasks in quantum - state engineering... | we propose a high efficiency tomographic scheme to reconstruct an unknown quantum state of the qubits by using a series of quantum nondemolition ( qnd ) measurements .
the proposed qnd measurements of the qubits are implemented by probing the the stationary transmissions of the dispersively - coupled resonator .
i... |
the doppler velocity technique now has two decades of success in enabling extrasolar planetary detections .
it has produced candidates with masses approaching that of earth , and has been especially successful in detecting long period planets . in recent years , doppler velocity confirmations have proven vital to gaini... | we report initial performance results emerging from 600 hours of observations with the automated planet finder ( apf ) telescope and levy spectrometer located at uco / lick observatory .
we have obtained multiple spectra of 80 g , k and m - type stars , which comprise 4,954 individual doppler radial velocity ( rv ) ... |
in the 1960 s , belinskii , khalatnikov , and lifshitz ( bkl ) developed a formalism to analyze the approach to the singularity in spatially inhomogneous cosmologies @xcite .
they argued that , while one can construct , over any short time interval , a local kasner solution @xcite , this type of solution can not be mai... | previous studies @xcite have provided strong support for a local , oscillatory approach to the singularity in @xmath0 symmetric , spatially inhomogeneous vacuum cosmologies on @xmath1 .
the description of a vacuum bianchi type ix , spatially homogeneous mixmaster cosmology ( on @xmath2 ) in terms of the variables us... |
membranous nephropathy is an immune - mediated glomerular disease that is the most common form of nephrotic syndrome in adults .
membranous nephropathy has the potential to progress to end - stage renal failure ; however , it also spontaneously resolves in about 30% of patients.1 its onset is insidious , with edema b... | treatment options for refractory membranous nephropathy are limited .
herein we describe the case of a 46-year - old white male with membranous nephropathy who progressed during 3 years of treatment with antihypertensive agents ( specifically angiotensin - converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blocker... |
For months, Goldman Sachs and the Securities and Exchange Commission had been involved in secret talks over allegations that the Wall Street bank defrauded customers in selling them investments designed to fail.
Then, after a crucial meeting last month between lawyers for Goldman and the SEC, the agency came to a f... | – The decision to go after Goldman split the SEC along party lines and came only after months of secret talks broke down. Though the commission generally aims for unanimity, they voted, 3-2, to proceed with the civil suit despite opposition from two Republican members. The tiebreaker was an Independent commissioner app... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Biliteracy Education Seal and
Teaching Act'' or the ``BEST Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The people of the United States celebrate cultural and
linguistic diversity and seek to prepare students with skil... | Biliteracy Education Seal and Teaching Act or the BEST Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award renewable two-year grants to states to establish or improve a Seal of Biliteracy program to recognize student proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in both English and a second language. Requires students wh... |
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"Silent Bach"
Music Licensed via Warner / Chap... | – In news that may prompt reanalysis of Men at Work lyrics, an Australian politician is trying to crack down on Vegemite, which the Washington Post calls "the beloved breakfast spread with an aftertaste of sadness." Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion wants to restrict access to Vegemite because aboriginal healt... |
the x - ray magnetic circular dichroism ( xmcd ) is now well established as a selective probe of the magnetic properties even in complex systems .
xmcd can yield local quantitative information through a wide range of powerful calculation techniques .
for instance within the multiplet framework , the xmcd spectra at the... | the x - ray magnetic circular dichroism ( xmcd ) has been measured at the co k edge in hcp - co and r - co compounds ( r = la , tb , dy ) . the structure of the experimental xmcd spectra in the near - edge region has been observed to be highly sensitive to the magnetic environment of the absorbing site .
calculation... |
firefighting is one of the most hazardous , physically demanding , and psychologically stressful occupations .
it is therefore not surprising that low back pain and related musculoskeletal injuries are very common in firefighters and the leading cause of early retirement [ 1 , 2 ] .
obesity affects more than one - ... | the purpose of this study was to assess the relationships between obesity and measures of back and core muscular endurance in firefighters .
methods .
a cross - sectional study was conducted in career firefighters without low back pain .
obesity measures included body mass index ( bmi ) and body fat percentage as... |
owing to the increasing availability of high - dimensional datasets , regression models for multivariate response and high - dimensional predictors have become important tools . in this article , we describe two procedures where a random target variable @xmath0 depends on explanatory variables or covariates within a... | finite mixture regression models are useful for modeling the relationship between response and predictors arising from different subpopulations . in this article , we study high - dimensional predictors and high - dimensional response and propose two procedures to cluster those observations according to the link betwe... |
The big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our “Weak Laws” Border, had better be stopped before it gets there. Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen. Congress MUST ACT NOW! ||||| US president Donald Trump tweeted at len... | – President Trump returned to one of his favorite recent themes on Tuesday, complaining about a "caravan" of immigrants in Mexico moving toward the US border. "The big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our 'Weak Laws' Border, had better be stopped before it gets there," Trump twee... |
Boy sings 'ain't no homo gonna make it to heaven' in church; Pastor receiving death threats: report Viral video shows congregation applaud after young boy's performance
A young boy sings an anti-gay hymn in a church identified as the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle Church in Greensburg, Indiana.
An Indiana pastor is... | – A video of a 4-year-old boy singing "Ain’t no homo gonna make it to heaven" in front of his cheering Indiana church has gone viral—and now the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle Church is dealing with some unpleasant fallout, reports the New York Daily News. The church has been barraged by nasty phone calls and even death th... |
magnetic ordering phenomena of both classical and quantum antiferromagnets on non bipartite lattices are a fascinating subject . the simplest and most frequently studied model of this type is the heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice ( haft ) . while the question of whether or not the typical features of ... | we have simulated the classical heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice using a local monte carlo algorithm .
the behavior of the correlation length @xmath0 , the susceptibility at the ordering wavevector @xmath1 , and the spin stiffness @xmath2 clearly reflects the existence of two temperature regimes a... |
LIGONIER (KDKA) – Emergency crews were called to Idlewild Park Thursday after a young boy fell off a roller coaster.
According to emergency dispatchers, the initial call came in just before noon at the Westmoreland County amusement park.
According to police sources, the 3-year-old boy was ejected from the Rollo... | – A young boy was hospitalized with unknown injuries after falling off an 80-year-old wooden roller coaster Thursday at Pennsylvania's Idlewild & Soak Zone, NBC News reports. The boy hasn't been identified, but he may have been around 3 years old. According to KDKA, the boy was riding the Rollo Coaster with his brother... |
immunoglobulin light - chain amyloidosis ( al ) is the most common type of systemic amyloidosis.1 the use of high - dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation ( asct ) has been recognized as an important therapy that has dramatically changed the perspective of al amyloidosis care.2 since a plasm... | acquired von willebrand syndrome ( avws ) is a rare hemorrhagic disorder that occurs in patients with no prior personal or family history of bleeding . here
, we describe a case of avws occurring after autologous stem cell transplantation ( asct ) .
interestingly , avws developed after bortezomib - based induction ... |
the silicon tri - gate transistor used in this work is fabricated using standard cmos technology , similar to previously reported devices @xcite .
the channel , defined by the top gate , is 11 nm high , 42 nm wide and 54 nm long . on both sides of this gate , 25 nm
long si@xmath70n@xmath71 spacers form barriers to the... | two - level quantum systems with strong spin - orbit coupling allow for all - electrical qubit control and long - distance qubit coupling via microwave and phonon cavities , making them of particular interest for scalable quantum information technologies . in silicon , a strong spin - orbit coupling exists within the ... |
SECTION 1. LIABILITY OF BUSINESS ENTITIES PROVIDING USE OF FACILITIES
TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.
(a) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Business entity.--The term ``business entity'' means a
firm, corporation, association, partnership, consortium, joint
venture, or oth... | Exempts a business entity from civil liability for any injury or death occurring at such entity's facility in connection with the use of such facility by a nonprofit organization if: (1) the use occurs outside of the scope of the business of the entity; (2) the injury or death occurs while the facility is being used b... |
GREENBELT, Md. (WUSA 9) -- A federal judge has banned the Washington Redskins' controversial nickname from being spoken in his courtroom or written in his opinions.
Senior District Judge Peter J. Messitte, chambered in Greenbelt, Maryland, made his position - if not his reasoning - clear on the front page of a rece... | – CBS Sports announcers will likely be able to use the term "Redskins"—or, if they'd rather, not—during the upcoming NFL season, chairman Sean McManus says. "Generally speaking, we do not tell our announcers what to say or not say," McManus tells the Hollywood Reporter. Even as the issue is "reaching a hotter level," h... |
obesity is characterized by an excessive accumulation of fat in the adipose tissue ( 1 , 2 ) .
a product of the obese ( ob ) gene , called leptin , is released primarily from adipocytes and plays a key role in regulating body weight ( 3 ) . in most obese subjects
, leptin fails to perform its physiological function... | contextunder normal physiological conditions , leptin regulates body weight by creating a balance between food intake and energy expenditure .
however , in obesity , serum leptin levels increase and become defective to retain energy balance.evidence acquisitionelevated serum leptin levels are regarded as an establish... |
chronic psychological pressures due to work - related stress are likewise among those that can lead to mental , physical , and behavioral complications and jeopardize an individual s health status ( 2 ) . long - term exposure to negative stressors not only affects physical and mental health but also endangers a person ... | introductionit is important to gain a thorough understanding of positive coping methods adopted by medical emergency personnel to manage stressful situations associated with accidents and emergencies .
thus , the purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of positive coping strategies used by emergency ... |
an imbalance between pro- and anti - angiogenic factors inducing the formation of new blood vessels from a pre - existing vasculature ( angiogenesis ) has been described as a hallmark of cancer ( hanahan and weinberg , 2011 ) .
hence , targeting angiogenesis might plausibly reduce intra - tumoral levels of oxygen and... | summarydespite the approval of several anti - angiogenic therapies , clinical results remain unsatisfactory , and transient benefits are followed by rapid tumor recurrence . here , we demonstrate potent anti - angiogenic efficacy of the multi - kinase inhibitors nintedanib and sunitinib in a mouse model of breast canc... |
a key feature of the microscopic domain is the compton wavelength for a particle of rest mass @xmath23 , which is @xmath24 .
( strictly , this is the _ reduced _ compton wavelength , though we refer to these quanitites interchangeably throughout this paper . ) in the @xmath25 diagram of fig .
[ mr ] , the region corres... | in three spatial dimensions , the compton wavelength @xmath0 ) and schwarzschild radius @xmath1 ) are dual under the transformation @xmath2 , where @xmath3 is the planck mass .
this suggests that there is a fundamental link termed the black hole uncertainty principle or compton - schwarzschild correspondence betwe... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Save America's Jobs Act of 2002''.
SEC. 2. PREVENTION OF CORPORATE EXPATRIATION TO AVOID UNITED STATES
INCOME TAX.
(a) In General.--Paragraph (4) of section 7701(a) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (defining domestic) is amended to re... | Save America's Jobs Act of 2002 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code by determining that acquiring corporations in "corporate expatriation transactions" shall be considered domestic corporations. Defines a "corporate expatriation transaction" as, with certain exceptions, one in which a "nominally foreign corporation" acq... |
ORLANDO, Fla. - A truck that sent a large piece of scrap metal flying off an Interstate 4 overpass and onto a minivan had its load properly secured, News4Jax sister station WKMG learned Monday from the Florida Highway Patrol.
Troopers are still investigating the crash but believe speed might have been a factor.
... | – Jesus Armando Escobar, 36, was exiting a Florida interstate on Saturday morning at the same time Antonio Santiago Wharton, 33, was driving a Mack truck loaded with scrap metal on the overpass above him. Wharton lost control of the truck going around the curve and it overturned, dumping a 7,000-pound metal pipe off th... |
recently , in refs .
@xcite , it was suggested that the nontrivial topological charge of qcd vacuum , @xmath2 can be probed by measuring asymmetric electric currents , due to an event - by - event @xmath9- and @xmath10-violation , in the non - central heavy - ion collision experiments such as rhic , fair , and lhc .
th... | in this talk , we report our present work on the chiral magnetic effect ( cme ) under a strong magnetic field @xmath0 at low temperature . to this end
, we use the instanton vacuum with the finite instanton - number fluctuation @xmath1 , which relates to the nontrivial topological charge @xmath2 .
we compute the v... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Rural Health Outreach Grants
Amendments Act''.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM OF GRANTS FOR RURAL HEALTH OUTREACH.
Title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 241 et seq.)
is amended by adding at the end the following new part:
... | Rural Health Outreach Grants Amendments Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to demonstrate new and innovative models of outreach and health care services delivery in rural areas that lack basic health services.
Conditions grants on formation of consortia of at least three health care provide... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Declaration of Official Language Act
of 2001''.
SEC. 2. ENGLISH AS OFFICIAL LANGUAGE.
(a) In General.--Title 4, United States Code, is amended by adding
at the end the following new chapter:
``CHAPTER 6--LANGUAGE OF THE GOVERNMENT
``S... | Declaration of Official Language Act of 2001 - Declares English to be the official language of the U.S. Government, and requires the U.S. Government to preserve and enhance the role of English as the official language of the U.S.A.Makes this Act inapplicable to the use of a language other than English for: (1) religiou... |
twenty years after i. i. rabi proposed its model for the description of a two - level atom interacting with a single mode of radiation field inside a qed cavity @xcite , r. h. dicke made the generalization for @xmath0 two - level atoms @xcite .
shortly after their proposals , both models were approximated to simpler ( ... | adiabatic invariants are introduced and shown to provide an approximate second integral of motion for the non - integrable dicke model , in the energy region where the system exhibits a regular dynamics .
this low - energy region is always present and has been described both in a semiclassical and a full quantum ana... |
the importance of accurate simulation of the plastic deformation of ductile metals in the design of structures and components to performance and failure criteria is well known .
plasticity models describe the influence of elastic and inelastic deformation on stress within a body that undergoes a specific displacement /... | the importance of accurate simulation of the plastic deformation of ductile metals to the design of structures and components is well - known .
many techniques exist that address the length scales relevant to deformation processes , including dislocation dynamics ( dd ) , which models the interaction and evolution o... |
recently , we introduced chem1d , a program for electronic structure calculations on one - dimensional ( 1d ) molecules .
@xcite unlike previous workers who used softened@xcite or otherwise altered@xcite interelectronic interactions in their studies of 1d chemical systems , chem1d employs the unadorned coulomb operato... | following two recent papers [ phys .
chem . chem . phys .
2015 , * 17 * , 3196 ; mol .
phys .
2015 , * 113 * , 1843 ] , we perform a larger - scale study of chemical structure in one dimension ( 1d ) .
we identify a wide , and occasionally surprising , variety of stable 1d compounds ( from diatomics to tetra... |
Exclusive: Lindsay Lohan: I Don't Regret Anything I've Done
Lindsay Lohan is quickly becoming the girl who cried "comeback" -- but she swears this time she's serious about getting her act together.
The 26-year-old Liz & Dick actress opens up in the new issue of Us Weekly about repeatedly hitting bottom and tryi... | – Lindsay Lohan went on the Tonight Show last night to talk to Jay Leno ... days after canceling an interview with Barbara Walters that had been scheduled for 20/20 last Friday. "The timing wasn’t right, right now," a fidgety Lohan explained to Leno when he pointed out that Walters was quite upset over the situation. "... |
supermassive black holes ( sbhs ) reside at the centers of most large galaxies .
the masses of these sbhs are tightly correlated with the luminosity @xcite , mass @xcite , and velocity dispersions @xcite of the spheroidal components of their host galaxies .
large galaxies form hierarchically from the merger of smaller ... | recent numerical relativity simulations have shown that the final black hole produced in a binary merger can recoil with a velocity as large as @xmath0 .
because of enhanced gravitational - wave emission in the so - called `` hang - up '' configurations , this maximum recoil occurs when the black - hole spins are pa... |
trapping and manipulation of ultracold atoms is of significant importance due to applications of cold atoms in several areas such as study of quantum degenerate gases @xcite , quantum information processing @xcite , atom interferometry @xcite , precession measurement @xcite etc .
an atom with finite value of its magnet... | in this work , the rf - dressed potentials generated using a static magnetic field of a quadrupole trap and various radio frequency ( rf ) fields , have been theoretically investigated for trapping and manipulations of cold atoms in a two - dimensional ( 2d ) geometry .
it is shown that , in this scheme , the rf fie... |
chronic inflammation ,
a key mechanism in the pathogenesis of cancer
and cardiovascular disease , induces lipid peroxidation , which in turn generates
a spectrum of reactive electrophiles capable of causing extensive
damage to dna and proteins , resulting in toxic and mutagenic events .
malondialdehyde is the... | malondialdehyde
( mda ) , an endogenous genotoxic product formed upon
lipid peroxidation and prostaglandin biosynthesis , can react with
dna to form stable adducts .
these adducts may contribute to the development
of such inflammation - mediated diseases as cancer and cardiovascular
and neurodegenerative di... |
let us first summarize the results of @xcite for the gluon channel only ( @xmath23 ) .
the starting point is the bfkl equation @xcite with nl@xmath1 corrections @xcite continued to @xmath20 dimensions , as described in more detail in @xcite . in particular , we consider running coupling evolution at the level of th... | we investigate the relationship of `` physical '' parton densities defined by @xmath0-factorisation , to those in the minimal subtraction scheme , by comparing their small-@xmath1 behaviour .
we first summarize recent results on the above scheme change derived from the bfkl equation at nl@xmath1 level , and we then ... |
if r - parity conserving supersymmetry exists below the tev - scale , new particles will be produced and decay in cascades at the lhc .
the lightest supersymmetric particle will escape the detectors , thereby complicating the full reconstruction of the decay chains .
however , the masses of the particles in a cascade l... | the measurements of kinematical endpoints , in cascade decays of supersymmetric particles , in principle allow for a determination of the masses of the unstable particles . however , in this procedure ambiguities often arise .
we here illustrate how such ambiguities arise .
they can be resolved by a precise determ... |
attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder ( adhd ) is one of the most common behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders which is characterized by hyperactivity , impulsivity , and inattention in children and adolescents .
prevalence of adhd among school - aged children in different studies varies between 5 and 12% ... | background . attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder ( adhd ) is one of the most common psychiatric disorders among children .
the aim of this study was to evaluate risk factors for adhd in children . method . in this case - control study , 404 children between 4 and 11 years old were selected by cluster sampling ... |
this is the first reported case of metastasizing nodular hidradenoma in a child in the medical literature .
less than five cases of hidradenoma have been reported in children , none of which were malignant .
its malignant counterpart is quite rare ; with only 50 cases reported in adults , and none in children .
e... | an 8-year - old girl presented with a scalp swelling .
the swelling was recurrent , reappearing everytime after local excision .
she underwent surgery and the histopathologic diagnosis was malignant hidradenoma .
this very rare and aggressive tumor is known to occur in elderly population and is histopathologicall... |
hot cores are compact ( 0.1 pc ) , warm ( @xmath5 100300 k ) , dense ( 10@xmath6 h nuclei ) clouds of gas and dust near or around sites of recent star formation ( see e.g. * ? ? ?
* ; * ? ? ?
* ; * ? ? ?
the hot - core phase is thought to last about 10@xmath7 yr @xcite to 10@xmath8 yr @xcite and represents the mos... | we present high angular resolution ( @xmath0 ) multi - tracer spectral line observations toward the hot core associated with g34.26 + 0.15 between 87109 ghz .
we have mapped emission from ( i ) complex nitrogen- and oxygen - rich molecules like , , , , , ; ( ii ) sulfur - bearing molecules like ocs , so and so@xmat... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Kids in Disasters Well-being,
Safety, and Health Act of 2007''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITION.
In this Act, the terms ``child'' and ``children'' mean an
individual or individuals, respectively, who have not attained 18 years
of age.
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF COM... | Kids in Disasters Well-being, Safety, and Health Act of 2007 - Establishes the National Commission on Children and Disasters, which shall: (1) conduct a comprehensive study that assesses childrens' needs as they relate to preparation for, response to, and recovery from all hazards, including major disasters and emergen... |
null | we studied the effects of weight loss and non - weight - bearing exercise ( swimming ) on blood and organ lead and essential metal concentrations in rats with prior lead exposure .
nine - week - old female sprague - dawley rats ( n = 37 ) received lead acetate in their drinking water for 2 weeks , followed by a 4-day... |
Tim Tebowed and Denver rose as one.
The Broncos quarterback's 80-yard touchdown pass to receiver Demaryius Thomas on the first play of overtime against Pittsburgh both clinched Sunday's game and wrote another improbable chapter in Tebow's book of clutch plays to win high-pressure games.
His performance also bor... | – This might just be a weird coincidence, or Tim Tebow's dramatic defeat of the Steelers last night may have been a miracle in more ways than one. The polarizing Denver quarterback wound up throwing for 316 yards, which, if you toss in a colon in the right spot, mirrors the call number of a famous bible verse, John 3:1... |
Gwyneth Paltrow, the actress and founder of online lifestyle brand Goop, thinks that nasty, anonymous online commenters should take a look at themselves first before they post.
“The Internet is an amazing opportunity, socially. We have this opportunity to mature and learn, which is the essence of being on earth — t... | – Gwyneth Paltrow ... tech expert? The actress spoke at the Code Conference yesterday, rubbing elbows with tech CEOs, thanks to her Web business, Goop. Before her surprise appearance, she talked to re/code (the tech news site hosting the conference, Vanity Fair notes) about Goop (it's profitable, though she won't give ... |
the dft calculations were performed in siesta using a supercell of the cu(001 ) with a 4x4 surface and 4 atoms thick slab .
calculational details include a real space cutoff of 200 ry , gamma points approximation , double / single - z polarized ( dzp / szp ) basis set for the c ( dzp ) , h(dzp ) , and cu(szp ) atoms .
... | we study the elementary processes behind one of the pioneering works on stm controlled reactions of single molecules [ stipe et al .
, phys . rev
. lett . * 81 * , 1263 ( 1998 ) ] . using the keldysh - green function approach for the vibrational generation rate in combination with dft calculations to obtain realis... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Indian Reservation Economic
Investment Act of 2001''.
SEC. 2. INVESTMENT TAX CREDIT FOR PROPERTY ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS.
(a) Allowance of Indian Reservation Credit.--Section 46 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to investment credits) is
a... | Indian Reservation Economic Investment Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an Indian reservation investment credit based on specified amounts. Includes qualified personal property and qualified real property used or located outside an Indian reservation which is connected to existing tribal infrastr... |
Here’s a question you won’t hear debated by the panelists on sports-talk shows: Why are so few women among the panelists on sports-talk shows?
Women have made strides in virtually every area of sports journalism over the past two decades or more. They cover sports for newspapers and Web sites, write columns and hos... | – The first all-female sports talk show is coming to television on CBS Sports—to be hosted, directed, and produced by women, The Big Lead reports. "We have been discussing and developing the show for well over a year," says David Berson, President of CBS Sports. "Internally and externally, there’s been universal enthus... |
Image copyright Marcio Cabral Image caption Mr Cabral said flashes and a long exposure were needed to capture the scene
A winning entry in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has been disqualified for featuring a taxidermy specimen.
The image, known as The Night Raider, shows an anteater moving to... | – It's that moment every wildlife photographer hopes for: an image in which the resident fauna wanders perfectly into frame. And that supposedly happened to such great effect for Marcio Cabral in Brazil's Emas National Park that his photo "The Night Raider," which depicts an anteater staring down a glowing termite moun... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Farm to School Act of 2015''.
SEC. 2. ACCESS TO LOCAL FOODS: FARM TO SCHOOL PROGRAM.
Section 18(g) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act
(42 U.S.C. 1769(g)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1)--
(A) by strikin... | Farm to School Act of 2015 This bill amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to reauthorize the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Farm to School Program through FY2021 and modify the program. The program currently provides grants and technical assistance to schools, state and local agencies, Indian ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Combating Terrorism Financing Act of
2007''.
SEC. 2. INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDS AND ``REVERSE''
MONEY LAUNDERING.
(a) In General.--Section 1957(a) of title 18, United States Code,
is amended to read as follows:
``... | Combating Terrorism Financing Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) expand prohibitions against conducting monetary transactions over $10,000 for the purpose of engaging in interstate criminal activities; (2) authorize the Attorney General to obtain a 30-day ex parte court order freezing the bank accou... |
Egyptian businessman Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar accused of sexually abusing hotel maid at The Pierre
Vic Nicastro for News Egyptian businessman Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar, accused of groping maid at The Pierre hotel, is led by NYPD detectives from the 19th Precinct early Tuesday.
The hotel maid allegedly groped by ... | – The high-profile arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn apparently wasn't enough to convince one exec that he should keep his hands off New York City's maids. Prominent Egyptian banker Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar was arrested yesterday and charged with sexually abusing a maid at a Manhattan hotel, barely 2 weeks after the for... |
Son of the Late Dana Plato Commits Suicide
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First Joni Richardson endured the death of her daughter-in-law, Diff'rent Strokes star Dana Plato, in 1999. Now almost exactly 11 years later, Plato's son, Tyler Lambert, committed sui... | – The curse of child stars appears to have hit a second generation. Tyler Lambert, 25-year-old only child of Dana Plato, who played Kimberley on the popular sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, killed himself with a shotgun last week. The suicide just before Mother's Day came 11 years to the day after Lambert's troubled mother co... |
a 65-year - old caucasian woman with a medical history of primary biliary cirrhosis presented with fever , chills , increasing shortness of breath , abdominal pain with distension , nausea , and vomiting for 5 days .
she denied any cough , chest pain , palpitations , bipedal edema , paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea , or ... | listeria is an uncommon cause of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis ( sbp ) in the united states .
listeria should be suspected as a cause of sbp when the patient has diphtheria - like organisms on ascitic / blood cultures , iron overload / hemochromatosis , exposure to farm animals , or poor response to empiric thera... |
the majority of rtms treatment studies target the dlpfc the ( dorsolateral ) prefrontal cortex is implicated in regulating affective states , providing cognitive control over stress and emotion responsiveness .
a variety of studies has shown that a series of daily sessions of high frequency ( hf)-rtms delivered to th... | for nearly two decades now , transcranial magnetic stimulation ( tms ) has been available as a noninvasive clinical tool to treat patients suffering from major depression . in this period ,
a bulk of animal and human studies examined tms parameters to improve clinical outcome .
however , the neurobiological mechani... |
Richard Simmons Sues the Nat'l Enquirer The Sex Change Story Was a Malicious Lie
Richard Simmons Sues the National Enquirer Over False Sex Change Story (UPDATE)
2:25 PM PT -- The National Enquirer says Richard Simmons' lawsuit is ironic ... since he claims to support LGBTQ rights, and is now claiming he was def... | – Richard Simmons has a bone to pick with the tabloids. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the fitness guru filed a lawsuit against the National Enquirer, Radar Online, and American Media, Inc. after a series of stories claiming Simmons underwent a “shocking sex surgery” began appearing in June of 2016. Simmons, who ... |
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SEATTLE -- A group of attorneys has filed a class action lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Transportation, claiming the billing process for bridge tolls violates due process.
For all the times a week she's driven across the 520 bridge, Amy Funchess never guessed how much she wou... | – A Washington state man received a wee shock when he saw his outstanding toll-bridge bill: more than $18,000. His dad, Tom Rose, says the young man was working his first job and crossing the 520 bridge daily without a Good to Go pass—figuring he'd pay later, KING-TV reports. But the Washington State Department of Tran... |
the study took place in mauritania , one of the key countries for the implementation of preventive control and hosting desert locust permanent habitats ( popov et al .
the country is also historically an important locust migration route between the sahel and the maghreb in africa ( ceccato et al . 2007 ) .
the stud... | previous studies investigated the effect of vegetation on density thresholds of adult desert locust gregarization from historical data in mauritania .
we examine here the prediction of locust phase based on adult density and vegetation conditions using the statistical model from cisse et al . compared with actual beh... |
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The first hint that the service Saturday at Sunset Memorial Park wasn’t a typical funeral came whe... | – A fake funeral was held Saturday for Breaking Bad character Walter White in Albuquerque, offering some 200 fans a chance to pay their last respects to a show that, as one attendee put it, "brought people into Albuquerque, it brought attention into Albuquerque, and it brought money into Albuquerque." The funeral also ... |
in early march 2003 , a 26-year - old man was admitted to a general medical ward of the prince of wales hospital ; he had been ill for 1 week with fever , chills , and rigor .
his previous health had been good , and he had no history of recent travel .
physical examination showed a temperature of 40.2c and bronchia... | during the global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome ( sars ) in 2003 , treatment was empiric .
we report the case history of the index patient in a hospital outbreak of sars in hong kong .
the patient recovered after conventional antimicrobial therapy .
further studies are needed to address treatment ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Meat and Poultry Products
Traceability and Safety Act of 2006''.
SEC. 2. TRACEABILITY OF LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY.
(a) Livestock.--Title I of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21
U.S.C. 601 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``SEC. 25... | Meat and Poultry Products Traceability and Safety Act of 2006 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to direct that amenable species presented for slaughter for human consumption, and the carcasses or parts of carcasses and the meat and food products of those animals, shipped i... |
non - motile , non - spore - forming , gram - negative coccobacilli bacteria are a serious public health problem around the world , especially in developing countries ( 1 , 2 ) . brucellosis is an endemic disease in the middle east , the mediterranean countries , and east asia ( 1 , 3 ) .
annually , 10,000 people are... | brucella spp . is a common zoonotic infection referred to as brucellosis , and it is a serious public health problem around the world .
there are currently six classical species ( pathogenic species in both animals and humans ) within the genus brucella . the ability and practicality facilitated by a microarray exper... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Transportation Security and Redress
Act'' or ``TSARA''.
SEC. 2. JUDICIAL REVIEW PROCEDURES FOR PERSONS DELAYED OR PROHIBITED
FROM BOARDING.
(a) Exclusive Remedy.--Except as provided in subsection (b), no
court of the United States or of ... | Transportation Security and Redress Act or TSARA This bill grants to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and certain other U.S. courts of appeals exclusive jurisdiction to review any claims against the United States or a federal agency arising out of a decision to delay or prohibit a person f... |
A 34-year-old man has filed an $800,000 lawsuit against a Albany construction company, claiming the owner fired him after he refused to attend weekly Bible study.
Ryan Coleman’s lawsuit states that he discovered only after he was hired as a painter for Dahled Up Construction that the job entailed more than just fix... | – An Oregon man who says he was fired from his construction job for refusing to attend Christian Bible study is appealing to a higher power: the court. In a lawsuit filed this month, Ryan Coleman, 34, says he didn't find out about the weekly Bible study requirement until after Joel Dahl of Albany-based Dahled Up Constr... |
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong-un , catapulted into prominence after Kim Jong-il ’s sudden death, paid respects at his father’s glass coffin on Tuesday, as the regime stepped up a campaign to portray the impoverished country as standing behind its young new leader.
Kim Jong-un’s visit to the Kumsusan mausoleum, wher... | – Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance today since the death of his father, paying his respects at the Pyongyang mausoleum where Kim Jong Il lies in state in a glass coffin, reports the New York Times. The younger Kim was accompanied by senior party and military officials, while mourners in the street praised h... |
The Wikipedia page of North Carolina Republican Congresswoman Renee Ellmers was edited by a federal government IP address to accuse her of having an affair with Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
“Ellmers is alleged to have been involved in an extra-marital affair with Republican House Majority Leader Kevin... | – There might be somebody out there who can unite all 247 House Republicans, but Kevin McCarthy says it definitely isn't him. The House majority leader tells Politico that his shock decision not to seek the nomination for speaker came after friends said to him: "Why do you want to do it during this time? This time will... |
in the previously reported cases of presumptive p. tenuis nematodiasis , cervical scoliosis and analgesia were attributed to continuous dorsal gray column lesions , whereas general proprioceptive ( gp ) ataxia and upper motor neuron ( umn ) paresis were associated with surrounding white matter involvement.6 , 8 in none... | there are reports of horses with acute onset acquired cervical scoliosis and cutaneous analgesia .
the underlying dorsal gray column myelitis that produces these neurologic signs has been only presumptively attributed to migration of parelaphostrongylus tenuis within the spinal cord . despite previous confirmation br... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Chlorine Zero Discharge Act of
1993''.
SEC. 2. ZERO DISCHARGE OF TOXIC PERSISTENT AND BIOACCUMULATIVE
SUBSTANCES.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
(1) substances that persist and/or bioaccumulate in the
enviro... | Chlorine Zero Discharge Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require pulp and paper manufacturing facilities to achieve zero discharge into water of organochlorine compounds, byproducts, or metabolites formulated as a result of the use of chlorine or any other chlorinated oxidizing agent in t... |
testosterone is responsible for secondary sex characteristics , sexual desire and erection . also , it increases metabolic processes in the muscles , bones , bone marrow , immune system and brain ( 1 ) .
therefore , a reduction in the level of testosterone leads to symptoms that are caused by the decrease of these pr... | background : andropause is the gradual reduction of the male sex hormone ( testosterone ) with increasing age .
its symptoms are sexual dysfunction , weakness , fatigue , insomnia , loss of motivation , mood disorders and reduction of bone density .
treatment of andropause with testosterone has been recently consid... |
RIO DE JANEIRO — Nico Delle Karth, an Austrian sailor preparing for the 2016 Summer Olympics, said it was the foulest place he had ever trained.
Garbage bobbed on the surface, everything from car tires to floating mattresses. The water reeked so badly of sewage that he was afraid to put his feet in it to launch his... | – With the clock ticking on Rio's 2016 Olympics and tongues wagging about its lack of preparedness, the New York Times today turns to a rather disgusting item on the Games' checklist that Brazil seems to have missed: Guanabara Bay, the site of the sailing and windsurfing events. Despite Brazil's promise in its Olympic ... |
the error function @xmath4 is defined by @xcite @xmath5 and its inverse @xmath6 , which we will denote by @xmath7 satisfies @xmath8 = \operatorname{erf}\left [ \mathfrak{i}(x)\right ] = x.$ ] the function @xmath9 appears in several problems of heat conduction @xcite . in @xcite
we considered the function @xmath10... | we analyze the sequence of polynomials defined by the differential - difference equation @xmath0 asymptotically as @xmath1 .
the polynomials @xmath2 arise in the computation of higher derivatives of the inverse error function @xmath3 .
we use singularity analysis and discrete versions of the wkb and ray methods an... |
the study of resonance production plays an important role both in pp and heavy - ion high energy collisions . in pp collisions
, it contributes to the general understanding of hadron production mechanisms and provides a reference for tuning qcd - inspired models . in heavy - ion collisions , due to their short lifet... | the study of resonance production in pp collisions helps understanding hadronization mechanisms and tuning the qcd - inspired particle production models . in pb
pb collisions , resonances allow one to probe the temperature and time evolution of the fireball .
transverse momentum spectra have been analyzed for ... |
optical beam guiding , deflection and cloning has attracted a great deal of attention due to its tremendous applications in optical imaging , optical switching , optical lithography , laser machining , and free - space communication technologies .
the guiding and steering of an optical beam is made possible by virtue o... | we propose an all - optical anti - waveguide mechanism for steering , splitting , and cloning of an optical beam beyond the diffraction - limit .
we use a spatially inhomogeneous pump beam to create an anti - waveguide structure in a doppler broadened @xmath0-type four - level raman gain medium for a co - propagatin... |
the study of transition and noble metal clusters has focused considerable attention along the last years due to the different properties detected respect to their corresponding bulk - phases .
additionally , these cluster properties have demonstrated to be strongly dependent on the cluster size . on the other hand , no... | the optical absorption spectrum of the three most stable isomers of the ag@xmath0 system was calculated using the time - dependent density functional theory , with the generalized gradient approximation for the exchange and correlation potential , and a relativistic pseudopotential parametrization for the modelling of... |
Colorado passed a medical aid in dying measure Tuesday that will allow adults suffering from terminal illness to take life-ending, doctor-prescribed sleeping medication.
The ballot initiative passed overwhelmingly, by a two-thirds, one-third split, according to unofficial returns. Supporters claimed victory an hour... | – Proposition 106 has passed in Colorado, making the state the nation's sixth to legalize assisted suicide, reports 9NEWS. Adults who are terminally ill, with less than six months to live, and found to be mentally competent, can request life-ending medication—a high dose of secobarbital used in sleeping pills—from a do... |
FILE -- In this Oct. 31, 2010 file photo, Holocaust survivor Samuel Willenberg poses for a picture at his studio, during an interview with the Associated Press in Tel Aviv, Israel. Willenberg, the last... (Associated Press)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of Treblinka, the Nazi death camp in o... | – The last survivor of the Nazi death camp Treblinka—which systematically murdered 875,000 people during World War II, a gruesome toll eclipsed only by Auschwitz—died Friday at his home in Israel at the age of 93. Samuel Willenberg, born in Poland in 1923, was a physically fit bricklayer at the time of his arrival at T... |
This beloved novel, a #1 New York Times bestseller, will soon be a major motion picture starring Danielle Macdonald and Jennifer Aniston.
For fans of John Green and Rainbow Rowell comes this powerful novel with the most fearless heroine—self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson—from Julie Murphy, the acclaimed au... | – Dolly Parton's husband was pretty excited when he found out his wife of 52 years was going to be working with Jennifer Aniston on Dumplin', an upcoming Netflix film based on the best-selling book. "My husband is crazy about her," Parton explained on Monday while promoting the movie on the Tonight Show. "I think he ki... |
the prevention of perinatal transmission of hiv is one of the most successful public health interventions of the last few decades .
the use of maternal combination antiretroviral therapy ( cart ) , when combined with infant postnatal prophylaxis , has reduced transmission rates to less than 1% in developed countries ... | combination antiretroviral therapy ( cart ) is successfully used for prevention of perinatal hiv transmission . to investigate safety
, we compared adverse events ( ae ) among infants exposed to different maternal cart regimens .
we reviewed 158 hiv - uninfected infants born between 1997 and 2009 , using logistic r... |
during liver surgery , the inflow occlusion maneuver to prevent blood loss as well as the liver manipulation itself have been shown to induce a cascade of molecular events , referred to as ischemia - reperfusion injury ( iri ) .
iri leads to the activation of kupffer cells ( kcs ) , the release of reactive oxygen spe... | background .
several approaches have been proposed to pharmacologically ameliorate hepatic ischemia / reperfusion injury ( iri ) .
this study was designed to evaluate the effects of a preconditioning oral nutritional supplement ( pons ) containing glutamine , antioxidants , and green tea extract on hepatic warm iri... |
dynamic data driven application systems ( dddas ) @xcite aim to integrate data acquisition , modeling , and measurement steering into one dynamic system .
data assimilation is a statistical technique to modify model state in response to data and an important component of the dddas approach .
models are generally discre... | an ensemble kalman filter ( enkf , the predictor ) is used make a large change in the state , followed by a particle filer ( pf , the corrector ) , which assigns importance weights to describe a non - gaussian distribution .
the importance weights are obtained by nonparametric density estimation .
it is demonstrat... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Jean Lafitte National Historical
Park and Preserve Boundary Adjustment Act of 2007''.
SEC. 2. JEAN LAFITTE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK AND PRESERVE BOUNDARY
ADJUSTMENT.
(a) In General.--Section 901 of the National Parks and Recreation
Act o... | Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Boundary Adjustment Act of 2007 - Amends the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 to adjust the boundary of the the Barataria Preserve Unit of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in Louisiana and to acquire land necessary for the adjustment by t... |
a serious and frequent complication of transplantation new - onset diabetes after transplantation ( nodat)is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality that is observed in kidney transplant patients [ 1 , 2 ] as well as with decreased graft and patient survival [ 35 ] .
thus , pretransplant ide... | aims . to evaluate the predictive power of pretransplant hba1c for new - onset diabetes after transplantation ( nodat ) in kidney transplant candidates , who had several predispositions for fluctuated hba1c levels
.
methods .
we performed a retrospective study of 119 patients without diabetes who received kidney ... |
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SECTION 1. EXTENDING AVAILABILITY OF SCHIP ALLOTMENTS FOR FISCAL YEARS
1998 THROUGH 2001.<greek-th> x
(a) Retained and Redistributed Allotments for Fiscal Years 1998 and
1999.--Paragraphs (1)(B)(ii), (2)(A)(i), and (2)(A)(ii) of section
2104(g) of the Social Security Ac... | Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to revise the rule for redistribution and extended availability of FY1998 and 1999 allotments to States, permitting and extending retention of half of the FY 2000 allotment, and permitting and extending retention of half of the FY 2... |
WASHINGTON — New immigration proposals advanced by the White House Thursday drew mostly tepid responses from a Republican Party that has waged fierce internal battles over the issue for decades.
The top GOP leaders in the House and Senate each responded with noncommittal statements that treated the proposal — which... | – An immigration plan touted as a "compromise" by the White House upon its release Thursday appears unlikely to become a reality as Democrats—and even many Republicans—have major problems with it. Politico reports Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer decried President Trump's plan "as a tool to tear apart our legal imm... |
it is now generally accepted that the universe is currently undergoing a period of accelerated expansion . the most popular approach to modeling
the current epoch is to postulate a new energy component of the universe , dark energy , which has negative pressure and hence drives the acceleration .
possible dark energy c... | we study cosmological expansion in f(r ) gravity using the trace of the field equations .
high frequency oscillations in the ricci scalar , whose amplitude increases as one evolves backward in time , have been predicted in recent works .
we show that the approximations used to derive this result very quickly break... |
african swine fever ( asf ) is a highly fatal disease of domestic pigs and can cause mortality of up to 100% of affected pigs .
the disease is caused by double - stranded dna virus with an icosahedral symmetry that belongs to genus asfivirus and family asfarviridae . since its first description in kenya in the early ... | african swine fever ( asf ) is a contagious viral disease , which can cause up to 100% mortality among domestic pigs . in uganda
there is paucity of information on the epidemiology of the disease , hence a study was carried out to elucidate the patterns of asf outbreaks .
spatial and temporal analyses were performe... |
the metabolic syndrome refers to a group of symptoms including obesity , high blood pressure , insulin resistance , and hyperlipidemia , in which the role of central obesity is critical [ 1 , 2 ] . the increased prevalence of obesity in both industrialized and developing countries is associated with a surge in the prep... | the lack of adequate physical activity and obesity created a worldwide pandemic .
obesity is characterized by the deposition of adipose tissue in various parts of the body ; it is now evident that adipose tissue also acts as an endocrine organ capable of secreting many cytokines that are though to be involved in the ... |
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