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the si(100)-2@xmath01 surface is composed of silicon atom pairs dimers arranged into rows .
it represents a natural template for spontaneous growing linear structures of many materials , like group iii - v metals .
group iii metals ( al , ga , in , tl ) are known to grow in one - dimensional ( 1d ) atomic chains when... | growth of atomic indium chains - 1d islands - on the si(100)-2@xmath01 surface was observed by scanning tunneling microscopy ( stm ) at room temperature and simulated by means of a kinetic monte carlo method .
density of indium islands and island size distribution were obtained for various deposition rates and cover... |
On April 9, 2018, Roger Stone sent an email that would play a role in his future arrest. Though it wasn’t the only reason he was hauled into a Florida courtroom on Friday morning, Special Counsel Robert Mueller quoted portions of it in his indictment of the Trump ally—an indictment that shook Washington and added an ab... | – Tunneling deep into the earth is dangerous business, as West Virginian miners were reminded this week. With that in mind, the Daily Beast takes a look at the most dangerous professions, broken down by deaths per 100,000, injuries per 100,000, and average annual salary: Fisherman: 129 deaths, 61 injuries, $27,950 sala... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Communities Helping Invest through
Property and Improvements Needed for Veterans Act of 2016'' or the
``CHIP IN for Vets Act of 2016''.
SEC. 2. PILOT PROGRAM ON ACCEPTANCE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS OF DONATED FACILITIES AND RELATE... | Communities Helping Invest through Property and Improvements Needed for Veterans Act of 2016 or the CHIP IN for Vets Act of 2016 This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out a pilot program under which it may accept up to five donations from specified non-federal entities of: (1) real prope... |
a system of atoms interacting with a common reservoir ( the electromagnetic vacuum ) is often treated using an assumption of independent dissipation rates for the atoms .
this is a valid assumption for the case when the interatomic distances are large ( compared to an optical wavelength ) ; however , when the distances... | an ensemble of multilevel atoms is a good candidate for a quantum information storage device .
the information is encrypted in the collective ground state atomic coherence , which , in the absence of external excitation , is decoupled from the vacuum and therefore decoherence free .
however , in the process of man... |
PROGRAM.
(a) Waiver of Existing Grazing Permit or Lease.--A permittee or
lessee may waive to the Secretary, at any time, a valid existing
grazing permit or lease authorizing commercial livestock grazing on
Federal lands.
(b) Cancellation of Waived Grazing Permit or Lease.--The Secretary
shall cancel grazin... | Multiple-Use Conflict Resolution Act of 2005 - Establishes a voluntary grazing permit and lease buyout program for commercial livestock operators on federal land. Sets forth land priorities if funds are insufficient to meet all buyouts.
Provides for: (1) voluntary donation of grazing permits; (2) county transitional p... |
starburst galaxies contain prominent populations of x - ray sources @xcite including unusually luminous ones @xcite .
the young stellar ages within starbursts suggest that the associated x - ray sources are likely to be young objects @xcite .
strong x - ray variability in many sources further suggests those sources are... | we examine the spatial offsets between x - ray point sources and star clusters in three starburst galaxies . we find that the x - ray sources are preferentially located near the star clusters .
because the star clusters are very good tracers of the star formation activity in the galaxies , this indicates that the x ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
National Heritage Area Establishment Act''.
SEC. 2. SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA.
(a) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Heritage area.--The term ``Heritage Area'' means the
Sacram... | Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area Establishment Act - Establishes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area in California.
Designates the Delta Protection Commission as the management entity for the Heritage Area.
Requires the Commission to submit a proposed management plan for the Her... |
mbius syndrome is a heterogeneous congenital disorder that is linked to bilateral palsies of the cranial nerves vi and vii , resulting in congenital facial paralysis sometimes associated with impaired ocular abduction .
we present the case of a 44-year - old woman with mbius syndrome and inferior recurrent keratitis ... | introductionmbius syndrome is a heterogeneous congenital disorder that is linked to bilateral palsies of the cranial nerves vi and vii , resulting in congenital facial paralysis sometimes associated with impaired ocular abduction.case reportwe present the case of a 44-year - old woman with mbius syndrome and inferior r... |
a 24-year - old male was admitted to the hospital due to systemic erythema and wheals with an itchy sensation , which he had had for 9 years .
a stinging pain , rated 7 cm on a visual analogue scale ( vas : from 0 to 10 cm ) , was one of the dermatological symptoms and was predominant when the patient ate hot or spic... | cholinergic urticaria with acquired generalized hypohidrosis , and its pathophysiology is not well known .
autoimmunity to sweat glands or to acetylcholine receptors on sweat glands has been mentioned as one of the possible etiologies .
systemic steroid therapy , antihistamines , anticholinergics , and avoidance of... |
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there has been a great deal of attention devoted in recent years to the properties of the hot x - ray - emitting plasma ( the intracluster medium , hereafter icm ) in the central regions of massive galaxy groups and clusters . to a large extent , the focus has been on the competition between radiative cooling losses an... | the diffuse plasma that fills galaxy groups and clusters ( the intracluster medium , hereafter icm ) is a by - product of galaxy formation . the present thermal state of this gas results from a competition between gas cooling and heating .
the heating comes from two distinct sources : gravitational heating associate... |
a large class of dilute magnetic semiconductors ( dms ) is based on manganese doping of iii - v or group - iv hosts having the zincblende , wurzite , or diamond structure .
formally , mn is either a single or double acceptor , depending on whether it substitutes for a group - iii or -iv atom , respectively.@xcite aside... | we use density - functional theoretical methods to examine the recent prediction , based on a mean - field solution of the zener model , that diamond doped by mn ( with spin @xmath0=5/2 ) would be a dilute magnetic semiconductor that remains ferromagnetic well above room temperature .
our findings suggest this to be... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``High-Quality Education Act of
2009''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds as follows:
(1) Tennessee's wide-ranging and research-intensive STAR
project began in the mid-1980's when the Tennessee legislatur... | High-Quality Education Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to states, or local educational agencies (LEAs) in states that do not receive such grants, to reduce the size of core curriculum classes in public elementary and secondary schools.
Requires such grants to be provided on... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Commercial Driver Compliance
Improvement Act''.
SEC. 2. ELECTRONIC ON-BOARD RECORDING DEVICES.
(a) Amendments.--Subchapter III of chapter 311 of title 49, United
States Code, is amended--
(1) in section 31132--
(A) by re... | Commercial Driver Compliance Improvement Act - Requires all commercial motor vehicles involved in interstate commerce and operated by a driver subject to both federal hours-of-service and record of duty status requirements, in order to improve compliance with federal hours-of-service regulations, to be equipped with an... |
wild - type ( c57bl/6j ) and sod1 ( b6.cg-tg(sod1*g93a)1gur/j , stock # 004435 ) mice were obtained from jackson laboratories ( bar harbor , me , usa ) .
intraocular pressure elevation was induced by anterior chamber microbead injections as originally described by sappington et al .
however , we applied a recently ... | purposebesides primary neurotoxicity , oxidative stress may compromise the glial immune regulation and shift the immune homeostasis toward neurodegenerative inflammation in glaucoma .
we tested this hypothesis through the analysis of neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative outcomes in mouse glaucoma using two experim... |
mesons with exotic quantum numbers have long been attractive in hadron physics , among which are the @xmath6 isovector states @xmath5 , @xmath4 and @xmath3 identified in the experiments @xcite .
the construction of these states are not quite clear , four - quark states @xcite and hybrid states are most possible explana... | we calculate the coefficients of the dimension-8 quark and gluon condensates in the current - current correlator of @xmath0 light hybrid current @xmath1 . with inclusion of these higher - power corrections and updating the input parameters ,
we re - analyze the mass of the @xmath0 light hybrid meson from monte - car... |
during the transpetrosal - presigmoid approach , accurate determination of the surface projection of the anterosuperior point of the transverse - sigmoid sinus junction ( asts ) is particularly important when trying to expose sigmoid sinus safely .
traditionally , neurosurgeons have regarded the squamosal - parietoma... | background : during craniotomies using the transpetrosal - presigmoid approach , exposure of the sigmoid sinus remains an essential but hazardous step .
in such procedures , accurate localization of the anterosuperior point of the transverse - sigmoid sinus junction ( asts ) is very important for reducing surgical mo... |
p53 is a tumor suppressor that is upregulated and activated across organ systems as a tissue protective stress response mechanism .
in contrast to p53 , both p63 and p73 exhibit cell - type - specific expression patterns and exert tissue - specific functions [ 2 , 3 ] .
relevant to this review , p63 plays an essent... | mouse models have informed us that p63 is critical for normal epidermal development and homeostasis .
the p53/p63/p73 family is expressed as multiple protein isoforms due to a combination of alternative promoter usage and c - terminal alternative splicing .
these isoforms can mimic or interfere with one another , a... |
acute type a aortic dissection ( ad ) is a life - threatening disorder that occurs in approximately 1 in 10,000 emergency department patients . according to reports in the literature ,
the mortality of ad is 40% on presentation , with a 1-year mortality of 90% , and aortic rupture was identified as the common cause o... | abstractthe purpose of this study was to preoperatively evaluate the value of aortic arch lesions by multidetector computed tomography ( mdct ) angiography in type a aortic dissection ( ad).from january 2013 to december 2015 , we enrolled 42 patients with type a ad who underwent mdct angiography in our hospital .
the... |
spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage is a rare and challenging condition to treat , especially in haemophiliacs .
the risk - benefit ratio that tilts the balance between conservative and surgical management is very subtle .
surgical treatment bears the risk of rebleed , whereas conservative management runs the risk... | highlightsspontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage poses a risk in all patients and a treatment dilemma in patients with bleeding and clotting disorders .
the haemophiliac patient is a rare and challenging vignette to the average neurosurgeon.routine treatment would surmise with a craniotomy and evacuation of the haemato... |
sputum specimens were collected from persons at high - risk for suspected tb ( previously treated case - patients and close contacts of known patients with drug- resistant cases ) in accordance with the national tb control program .
specimens that were collected at healthcare facilities in the eastern cape province w... | factors driving the increase in drug - resistant tuberculosis ( tb ) in the eastern cape province , south africa , are not understood . a convenience sample of 309 drug - susceptible and 342 multidrug - resistant ( mdr ) tb isolates , collected july 2008july 2009 ,
were characterized by spoligotyping , dna fingerprin... |
the prevalence of heart failure ( hf ) continues to increase and is now the most common cause of hospitalization in the united states.1,2 routine management of patients with hf requires careful attentiveness to fluid status and diuretic treatment efficacy .
although diuretics have been in clinical use for decades , p... | backgroundroutine management of patients with acute decompensated heart failure ( adhf ) requires careful attentiveness to fluid status and diuretic treatment efficacy .
new advances in ultrasound have made ultraportable echocardiography ( ue ) available to physicians for point - of - care use .
the purpose of this... |
the fact that two - photon states generated by spontaneous parametric down - conversion ( spdc ) are entangled in transverse spatial modes with high schmidt numbers opens a possibility of encoding information in two - photon states using larger alphabets @xcite . to this end
, it is of importance to understand whether ... | * due to the transfer of the angular spectrum of the pump beam to the two - photon state in spontaneous parametric down - conversion the generated twin photons are entangled in hermite - gaussian ( hg ) modes .
this enables one using hg modes as an alphabet for quantum communication . for global quantum communicatio... |
the system of coupled nonlinear schrdinger equations ( cnlse ) is an attractive because of several reasons . from among them
: cnlse are a soliton supporting system , the system is a proper `` a spring board '' for investigate and track the quasi - particle ( qp ) behavior of the solitary waves ; it possesses very rich... | we investigate numerically by a conservative difference scheme in complex arithmetic the head - on and takeover collision dynamics of the solitary waves as solutions of linearly coupled nonlinear schrdinger equations for various initial phases .
the initial conditions are superposition of two one - soliton solutions... |
rupture of the aorta after radiation exposure is a relatively rare but life - threatening complication of radiation therapy .
the treatment of aortic rapture involves surgery for repairing the damaged vessel . currently , thoracic endovascular therapy is the standard option for aortic diseases and has been reported t... | abstractthoracic endovascular aortic repair ( tevar ) has been reported to be an effective treatment option for aortic emergencies
. however , there are few reports about tevar for aortic rupture due to radiation injury . a 54-year - old man presented with haemoptysis .
he had a history of lung cancer , which had b... |
FriendFinder Networks Inc., owner of Penthouse adult magazine, plans to submit a bid for Playboy Enterprises Inc., following a $123 million offer from Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.
FriendFinder Chief Executive Officer Marc Bell said in an interview the company is “looking at alternatives” and later wrote in an e-mai... | – Founder Hugh Hefner wants to take Playboy private, and he mounted a bid today that values the struggling company at $185 million, Bloomberg reports. Playboy Enterprises stock closed up almost 41% and attracted interest from another party—but who would want a conglomerate that's lost $20 million in just 2 years in a w... |
tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by both multiple motor and one or more vocal tics present some time during the illness with onset before 18 years . a large majority of the patients with gilles de la tourette syndrome are known to have psychiatric comorbidities with attention - d... | tourette syndrome and bipolar disorder are frequent comorbidities in pediatric age group .
they provide a clinician with certain unique challenges . while on one hand the tics mask manifestation of affective symptomatology , the latter makes it difficult to elicit tics with certainty .
data suggest that they might ... |
air pollution is a major environmental risk to health and is estimated to cause approximately 2 million premature deaths worldwide per year .
in fact , indoor air pollution levels can even be higher than the outdoor levels .
in addition to outdoor pollutants , secondhand tobacco smoke is one of the main sources of ... | background : second - hand smoke contains several toxic chemicals that are known to pollute the air and harm people 's health . in india , smoking in public places has been prohibited since october 2008 as a way to reduce second - hand smoke ( shs ) exposure .
the purpose of the present study was to assess the implem... |
research misconduct , including fabrication , falsification , guest authorship , and plagiarism is one of the unethical behaviors in scientific research and has been of interest to the scientific society in recent years ( 1 , 2 ) .
the increased rate of various types of publication misconduct since the late 20 centur... | background : this study was done to determine the prevalence of publication misconduct among iranian authors.methods:data were collected through an email survey of corresponding authors of papers published in iranian journals indexed in scopus during 20092011 . using the double list experiment , these individuals were ... |
the allergic response is a complex process involving the interaction of many mediators .
bradykinin ( bk ) is a potent inflammatory mediator and its actions are mediated
via specific cell surface receptors which are coupled to g - proteins .
two
mammalian bk receptor subtypes , b1 and b2 , have been reporte... | bradykinin ( bk ) has been tobe thought a potent mediator involved in allergic rhinitis because bk was recovered from the nasal lavage fluid of allergic rhinitis patients after allergen provocation and bk receptor antagonists relief nasal allergic symptoms .
two mammalian bk receptor subtypes , b1 and b2 , have been ... |
semiconductor quantum dots are now routinely obtained using electrostatic gates or etching processes to pattern a two dimensional electron gas formed in some heterostructure ( typically gaas / algaas).@xcite many of their sometimes surprising properties are now reasonably well understood from a qualitative or statistic... | we analyze the ground state energy and spin of quantum dots obtained from spin density functional theory ( sdft ) calculations .
first , we introduce a strutinsky - type approximation , in which quantum interference is treated as a correction to a smooth thomas - fermi description . for large irregular dots , we fin... |
however , inflammatory processes are also involved in the onset and maintenance of many severe disorders , such as rheumatoid arthritis , asthma , chronic inflammatory bowel diseases , type 2 diabetes , neurodegenerative diseases , and cancer . the currently available repertoire of approved anti - inflammatory agents m... | many diseases have been described to be associated with inflammatory processes .
the currently available anti - inflammatory drug therapy is often not successful or causes intolerable side effects .
thus , new anti - inflammatory substances are still urgently needed .
plants were the first source of remedies in t... |
according to einstein s general theory of relativity , the dynamic properties of a given spacetime are determined by its total energy content . in the cosmological context , for instance , this amounts to saying that to understand the spacetime structure of the universe one needs to identify the relevant sources of ene... | a component of dark energy has been recently proposed to explain the current acceleration of the universe .
unless some unknown symmetry in nature prevents or suppresses it , such a field may interact with the pressureless component of dark matter , giving rise to the so - called models of coupled quintessence . in ... |
here we show a perturbation analysis of the transition matrix at low temperature @xmath45 in terms of the expansion parameter , @xmath128 we consider the @xmath129 transition matrix where @xmath5 is a multiples of 4 , i.e. , @xmath130 with @xmath131 .
the numerical results shown in the text correspond to @xmath132 .
th... | a markovian lattice model for photoreceptor cells is introduced to describe the growth of mosaic patterns on fish retina . the radial stripe pattern observed in wild - type zebrafish is shown to be selected naturally during the retina growth , against the geometrically equivalent , circular stripe pattern .
the mech... |
vascular complications occur in approximately a quarter of patients of pancreatitis , adding to the associated morbidity and mortality .
these include splanchnic vein thrombosis ( svt ) and hemorrhage from direct arterial wall erosion or pseudoaneurysm formation .
however , cerebral infarction from arterial thrombo... | peripancreatic vascular thrombosis is a known complication of acute pancreatitis ( ap ) and chronic pancreatitis .
however , hemiplegia resulting from cerebral infarction due to cerebral arterial thrombosis is a rare complication of ap . here
, we report a case of alcohol related severe ap with multi - organ dysfun... |
suppose that a group of individuals is voting among three candidates ( or alternatives ) , call these candidates @xmath3 , @xmath4 , and @xmath5 .
further suppose that four - ninths of the voters rank the candidates , in order of strictly increasing preference , @xmath6 , that three - ninths rank them @xmath7 , and tha... | in the year 1876 the mathematician charles dodgson , who wrote fiction under the now more famous name of lewis carroll , devised a beautiful voting system that has long fascinated political scientists . however , determining the winner of a dodgson election is known to be complete for the @xmath0 level of the polynomi... |
during the mid-19 century , the use of light microscopy ( lm ) in pathology grew exponentially , driven primarily by improved optics , reduced costs , and increased availability . to this day
the practice of surgical pathology is primarily interested in the analysis of tissue and cellular structures ( and alterations... | the field of pathology has used light microscopy ( lm ) extensively since the mid-19th century for examination of histological tissue preparations . this technology has remained the foremost tool in use by pathologists even as other fields have undergone a great change in recent years through new technologies . however... |
the question of why one person develops high blood pressure ( bp ) and another does not has long been controversial .
for example , freud in the 1930s hypothesized that keeping one 's anger in will cause bp to rise .
theories of stress and disease came a bit later , and a multitude of experimental and field studies... | chronic stress has been linked to hypertension , but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly specified . we suggest that chronic stress poses a risk for hypertension through repeated occurrence of acute stressors ( often stemming from the chronic stress context ) that cause activation of stress - mediating physiologica... |
intestinal obstruction is a common complication in patients with advanced abdominal or pelvic cancer and has a significant impact on their quality of life . in patients with inoperable malignant bowel obstruction
, the synthetic somatostatin analogue octreotide relieves nausea , vomiting and pain , and decreases drai... | intestinal obstruction is a common complication in patients with advanced abdominal or pelvic cancer .
the synthetic somatostatin analogue octreotide can help relieve nausea , vomiting and pain in patients with inoperable obstruction . here
, we report a case of recurrent intestinal obstruction in a patient with ad... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Teachers for Tomorrow's Careers Act
of 2005''.
SEC. 2. QUALIFIED TUITION AND RELATED EXPENSES.
(a) Extension.--
(1) In general.--Subsection (e) of section 222 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to termination) is
... | Teachers for Tomorrow's Careers Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2006 the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses; and (2) allow an unlimited deduction for the expenses of certified science, technology, engineering, or math teachers and professionals. |
hole - doped cuprate superconductors stand out because of the presence of an enigmatic pseudogap phase in the underdoped regime.@xcite from arpes measurements , the pseudogap is defined by the lack of a well - defined quasiparticle peak in the anti - nodal region of the brillouin zone leading to fermi arcs.@xcite among... | the electrical resistivity @xmath0 of the underdoped cuprate superconductor yba@xmath1cu@xmath2o@xmath3 was measured perpendicular to the cuo@xmath1 planes on ultra - high quality single crystals in magnetic fields large enough to suppress superconductivity .
the incoherent insulating - like behavior of @xmath0 at ... |
activator protein-1 ( ap1 ) is a transcription factor that consists of either homo- or heterodimers of the jun and fos family proteins .
it regulates gene expression in response to a variety of stimuli , including environmental stresses , uv radiation , cytokines , and growth factors . ap1 in turn
controls a number... | activator protein-1 ( ap1 ) is a transcription factor that consists of the jun and fos family proteins .
it regulates gene expression in response to a variety of stimuli and controls cellular processes including proliferation , transformation , inflammation , and innate immune responses .
ap1 binds specifically to ... |
in the symbiotic recurrent nova rs ophiuchi ( hd 162214 ) , a near - chandrasekhar - mass white dwarf ( wd ) accretes material from a red giant companion ( e.g. , hachisu & kato 2001 ; sokoloski et al .
it experiences nova eruptions approximately every 20 yr ( evans et al . 2008 ) , with the most recent eruption having... | we report observations of the flickering variability of the recurrent nova rs oph at quiescence on the basis of simultaneous observations in 5 bands @xmath0 .
rs oph has flickering source with @xmath1 , @xmath2 , @xmath3 .
we find for the flickering source a temperature @xmath4 k , and luminosity @xmath5 @xm... |
fibrous dysplasia is a genetic , non - inheritable bone disease due to activating mutations of subunit of stimulatory g - protein ( gs ) resulting in defective osteoblast differentiation .
when associated with endocrine dysfunction and/or caf - au - lait spots it is termed as mccune - albright syndrome ( mas ) .
t... | polyostotic fibrous dysplasia is a rare non - inheritable genetic disease due to mutation in gnas gene .
here we present two adults who were accidentally detected lytic lesions in spine and after extensive evaluation for malignancies ; was diagnosed on biopsy .
current concept of the disease and management is discu... |
micro - swimmers are of general interest lately , motivated by both engineering and biological problems @xcite
. they can be remarkably subtle as was illustrated by e. m. purcell in his famous talk on life at low reynolds numbers " @xcite where he introduced a deceptively simple swimmer shown in fig .
[ fig : purcell ... | we develop a qualitative geometric approach to swimming at low reynolds number which avoids solving differential equations and uses instead landscape figures of two notions of curvatures : the swimming curvature and the curvature derived from dissipation .
this approach gives complete information for swimmers that s... |
antioxidants are widely used in dietary supplements and have been investigated for the prevention of diseases such as cancer , coronary heart disease and even altitude sickness 1 .
vitamin c is found in high concentrations in immune cells , and is consumed quickly during infections 2 - 3 .
vitamin c has been hypoth... | in this work we have investigated the effects of vitamins c and e on tumors via the mice xenotransplant model of sarcoma 180 ( s180 ) in vivo .
the experimental results suggest that dosages of 100 mg / kg vitamin c and 400 mg / kg vitamin e yields a great inhibitory behavior on tumors . |
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CAIRO—A group of senior Egyptian generals landed in Washingt... | – The US embassy in Cairo has taken the extraordinary step of sheltering US citizens working for pro-democracy non-governmental organizations—ostensibly to protect them from the Egyptian government, which has raided some of their offices and prevented them from leaving the country. The move is a sign that tensions betw... |
despite the manifest stability of the dirac fermions in graphene against the effects of coulomb interaction,@xcite the nature of the possible broken symmetry phases at strong coupling continues to be an issue of fundamental importance @xcite .
the minimal onsite hubbard interaction , for example , when sufficiently str... | a novel magnetic ground state is reported for the hubbard hamiltonian in strained graphene . when the chemical potential lies close to the dirac point , the ground state exhibits locally both the nel and ferromagnetic orders , even for weak hubbard interaction . whereas the nel order parameter remains of the same sign... |
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 extreme inner galaxy ( eig ) has long been the subject of intense astrophysical study as it provides excellent opportunities to explore dynamics , phenomena ( from stellar to galactic scales ) and physical environments which do not exist in the large - scale galactic disk . throughout this paper
, we refer to th... | we make a comprehensive study of hiabsorption toward hiiregions located within @xmath0 .
structures in the extreme inner galaxy are traced using the longitude - velocity space distribution of this absorption .
we find significant hiabsorption associated with the near and far 3kpc arms , the connecting arm , bania ... |
congenital entropion is a disease of the eyelid that is highly prevalent among oriental populations .
it has been reported that the prevalence of this condition has a rate of over 20% among 1-year - old children and that the prevalence of this condition decreases to 2% in 12-year - old children.1 it is thought that o... | prefacethe asian race has a high prevalence of congenital entropion .
it was reported that over 20% of japanese children have congenital entropion at the age of 1 year .
one of the structural causes of this condition is the development of epiblepharon , which attaches the lower eyelid to the upper eyelid , and is a... |
we thank a. ashtekar for making us aware of ref . @xcite .
we acknowledge the compagnia di san paolo for partial support.e.v.moreva acknowledges the support from the dynasty foundation and russian foundation for basic research ( project 13 - 02 - 01170-d ) a. augustinus hipponensis , _ confessiones _ , xi , 14 ( 40... | in the last years several theoretical papers discussed if time can be an emergent propertiy deriving from quantum correlations . here , to provide an insight into how this phenomenon can occur , we present an experiment that illustrates page and wootters mechanism of `` static '' time , and gambini et al .
subsequen... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Clean Cookstoves Support Act of
2012''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Nearly half the world's population cooks their food
over open fires or inefficient, polluting, and unsafe
cookstoves using... | Clean Cookstoves Support Act of 2012 - Requires the Secretary of State to work to advance the goals and work of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, including through: (1) applied research and development to improve design, lower costs, promote technology adoption, conduct health research and evaluation, and devel... |
Published on Aug 1, 2012
Spectacular activism fail in Tucson Arizona. Please do not post any contact info for this d-bag in the comments. I will nuke any phone numbers or email addresses that I see. Otherwise, have fun. Thanks. Also, quit sending me hate mail - I am not even the guy in the video. ||||| A former CFO... | – Things haven't gone too well for the former CFO who criticized Chick-fil-A in a video he posted on YouTube. Unable to find lasting work, 37-year-old Adam Smith is living on food stamps with his wife and four kids in the RV they call home, he tells ABC News. "I think people are scared," Smith says of potential employe... |
Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history being made today.
The world map might look differently had the Greek volcano Thera not erupted 3,500 years ago in what geologists believe was the single-most powerful explosive event ev... | – "The single-most powerful explosive event ever witnessed" took place somewhere between 1645 BC and 1500 BC, when the volcano Thera erupted on what's now the island of Santorini. LiveScience reports its power has been likened to that of an 1883 eruption in Indonesia that could be heard 3,000 miles away and killed some... |
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Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- The slaughter of bottlenose dolphins in an infamous Japanese cove took place on Tuesday.
About 500 dolphins were driven into the cove this year, a larger number than usual, according to the local Taiji fishermen's union. A fisherman who is a union board member,... | – Japanese fishermen have wrapped up their annual dolphin hunt and slaughter in Taiji cove amid international protests. CNN reports that some 500 bottlenose dolphins were driven into the cove—a larger number than usual, though Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is sticking with its original claim that 250 or so dolphins... |
DUTCH convicted killer Joran Van der Sloot, serving a 28-year sentence in Peru for murdering a young Peruvian woman, will tie the knot in prison next month, his lawyer says.
Lawyer Maximo Altez said an official from the northern district of Ancon, where Van der Sloot is in custody, would perform the civil wedding c... | – Well, it's official: There really is someone for everyone, even literal lady killer Joran Van der Sloot. The convicted killer and alleged extortionist intends to get married next month in the Peruvian prison where he's serving a 28-year sentence, his lawyer, Maximo Altez, has announced. "He wants to marry, change his... |
`` beamforming is a versatile and powerful approach to receive , transmit , or relay signals - of - interest in a spatially selective way in the presence of interference and noise '' @xcite .
recently , the concept of receive and transmit beamforming has been used to enhance coverage and data rate performance in amplif... | in this paper , we propose a novel single - group multicasting relay beamforming scheme .
we assume a source that transmits common messages via multiple amplify - and - forward relays to multiple destinations . to increase the number of degrees of freedom in the beamforming design , the relays process two received s... |
Pricey specialty drugs helped CVS Health cope with tobacco withdrawal and top analyst expectations in the second quarter.
FILE - This March 17, 2014 file photo shows a CVS/Pharmacy in Dormont, Pa. CVS Health reports quarterly financial results on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) (Associated Pr... | – CVS banned cigarettes from its stores last fall and last month showed it's sticking to its anti-tobacco stance, believing it's the right thing to do. The company's sales say otherwise. Though CVS' prescription sales climbed 4% in the second quarter, sales outside the pharmacy fell by almost 8%—a drop CVS attributes e... |
At 53, Brad Pitt is more candid about his personal life than ever. In a new interview with the Associated Press, the actor reveals intimate details about the process of playing General McMahon, a fictional character based on the real-life General Stanley McChrystal. Pitt's forthcoming Netflix original movie, War Machin... | – In a new interview with the AP, Brad Pitt acknowledges he's been in some dark places lately—of his drinking problem, he says, "I've got no secrets. I've got nothing to hide"—but he insists things aren't that dark. "I'm not suicidal or something," he says, per Rolling Stone. "There's still much beauty in the world and... |
Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d type: a candidate running for president had to issue a statement insisting that he was not talking about a female journalist on her period, but instead blood coming out of her nose.
K then.
Yes, on CNN last night Donald Trump continued to rip Megyn Kelly for having the auda... | – Donald Trump is getting hammered over his latest Megyn Kelly slam, but he now insists it's not as bad as everyone thinks. What Trump said: "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever." In a tweet and statement, Trump says the "wherever" refers to her nose, with the statemen... |
Dear family and friends. Robin and I decided to start this page for our conjoined twins that we are having. Although we are learning everyday about them what we can tell you is this...They are thriving and growing well, and seem to be very active right now. They have two heads . But seem to be sharing one body. With on... | – A pair of conjoined twins in Atlanta have died one day after their birth, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Dad Michael Hamby announced the news via Facebook in a video last night. “Robin got over there and we got to hold them, love on them and sing to them,” he said. “I miss them, even though I have only got... |
with the possibility to perform transport measurements on nano- down to atomic - scale junctions using mechanically - controllable break - junctions @xcite or scanning tunneling microscopy @xcite various fundamental questions on electron transport as well as practical problems concerning device functionality have ari... | we present an implementation of the ballistic landauer - bttiker transport scheme in one - dimensional systems based on density functional theory ( dft ) calculations within the full - potential linearized augmented plane - wave ( flapw ) method . in order to calculate the conductance within the green s function metho... |
CLOSE SportsPulse: NFL owners voted on Tuesday to overturn the league's confusing catch rule, but will the new verbiage make a difference? USA TODAY Sports' Mike Jones thinks so. USA TODAY Sports
The Los Angeles Rams, like every other NFL team, had an all-female cheerleading squad in 2017. However, that won't be th... | – Quinton Peron and Napoleon Jinnies just made NFL history, CBS Los Angeles reports. They became the first men on an NFL cheer team after the Los Angeles Rams announced Wednesday they had made the squad. According to Inside Edition, Jinnies said he was "speechless" and Peron said he cried when they heard the news. "Sti... |
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Lady Gaga brings the fight to the Senate! Join our fight.
The House has spoken - again! In a historic vote ... | – Lady Gaga is appealing directly to the Senate to urge repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, New York reports. In a black-and-white video, framed by the American flag, Gaga criticizes the "inconsistent and unconstitutional enforcement" of the ban on openly gay personnel, citing advocacy group SLDN's... |
Mojtaba Ahmadi, who served as commander of the Cyber War Headquarters, was found dead in a wooded area near the town of Karaj, north-west of the capital, Tehran. Five Iranian nuclear scientists and the head of the country’s ballistic missile programme have been killed since 2007. The regime has accused Israel’s externa... | – This much is clear: The head of Iran's "cyber war" computer defenses is dead. But how it happened is still a mystery. The Telegraph reports that Mojtaba Ahmadi was found shot to death in the woods, and it quotes a local police official as saying two men on a motorbike assassinated him. The report speculates that the ... |
the use of noncovalent molecular self - assembly
to construct materials
has become a prominent strategy offering practical routes for the
construction of increasingly functional materials .
a variety of molecular
building blocks can be used for this purpose ; one such block that
has attracted considerable a... | -sheet forming peptides have
attracted significant interest
for the design of hydrogels for biomedical applications .
one of the
main challenges is the control and understanding of the correlations
between peptide molecular structure , the morphology , and topology
of the fiber and network formed as well as... |
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 - 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 law enfo... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Landmine Moratorium Extension Act of
1993''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Antipersonnel landmines, which are designed to maim and
kill people, have been used indiscriminately in dramatically
... | Landmine Moratorium Extension Act of 1993 - Declares that it is U.S. policy to seek international agreements prohibiting the sale, transfer, or export, and terminating the manufacture, possession, and use, of antipersonnel landmines.
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should submit the 1980 ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as ``Mynisha's Law''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds--
(1) with an estimated 26,500 gangs operating within the
United States, gang violence and drug trafficking remain
serious problems throughout the country, causing injury and
... | Mynisha's Law - Authorizes any local or tribal government to submit an application to the Attorney General for designation as a High Intensity Gang Activity Area.
Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish criteria for reviewing such applications; and (2) establish an Interagency Gang Prevention Task Force in each... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Servicemembers Insurance Relief Act
of 2014''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
(1) When servicemembers move from one State to another they
are required to go through a burdensome proces... | Servicemembers Insurance Relief Act of 2014 - Declares that a member of a servicemember's household neither loses nor acquires a residence or domicile for purposes of insuring a motor vehicle primarily for personal, family, or household use if: (1) the servicemember has temporarily moved to comply with any temporary du... |
SECTION 1. STUDY ON AIR FORCE TEST AND TRAINING RANGE INFRASTRUCTURE.
(a) Study.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of the Air Force shall
conduct a study on the ability of the major air test and
training range infrastructure, including major military
operating area airspace an... | Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to: (1) conduct a study on the ability of the major air test and training range infrastructure to support the full spectrum of Air Force operations; (2) develop a master plan for requirements and proposed investments to meet Air Force training and test needs through 2025; and (3) ... |
fiber bragg gratings ( fbg ) are microstructured optical fibers that present a spatially periodic variation of the refractive index .
the combination of the guiding properties of the periodic media with the kerr nonlinearity of the fiber results in the very particular light propagation characteristic of these elements ... | dispersion effects induce new instabilities and dynamics in the weakly nonlinear description of light propagation in fiber bragg gratings . a new family of dispersive localized pulses that propagate with the group velocity is numerically found and its stability is also analyzed .
the unavoidable different asymptotic... |
in the last years a great number of experimental and theoretical research has been dedicated to find out how to create and extract entanglement from macroscopic interacting systems @xcite . between them
are chains of interacting spins @xcite , harmonic oscillators and harmonic lattices @xcite and macroscopic states of ... | we investigate entanglement between collective operators of two wave - packets of finite spectral bandwidth , in two different approximations of the multimode parametric - down conversion ( mpdc ) process : the _ pairwise _ and the _ one - to - all _ interaction patterns . for collective operators we choose the macros... |
Image copyright Akiry Image caption Paris's Landy Tunnel is well known for smash-and-grab raids on cars.
French police are searching for three thieves who stole a handbag containing five million euros (£3.6m; $5.4m) worth of jewels in a daring Paris raid.
The owner of the handbag, a Taiwanese art collector, was... | – The Landy Tunnel that runs between Paris and Charles de Gaulle Airport is known for its traffic and, possibly as a result of that, frequent "smash-and-grab" crimes, where thieves bust car windows and snatch whatever they can from inside the car. A Taiwanese art collector stuck in the 0.8-mile tunnel Wednesday found t... |
squamous cell carcinoma ( scc ) is an aggressive malignant neoplasm.1 malignancies of the nasal septum are considered rare , and squamous cell carcinoma ( scc ) comprises about 66% of such lesions.2 the treatment of choice for scc depends on the location , size , and depth of penetration of the tumor .
curettement an... | facial defects resulting from neoplasms , congenital malformations , or trauma can be restorated with facial prostheses using different materials and retention methods to achieve a lifelike look and function . for the successful result ,
a lot of factors as harmony , texture , color matching , and blending of tissue ... |
Health USDA shutters Foster Farms poultry plant over cockroaches Jan. 8, 2014 at 8:36 PM ET
Rich Pedroncelli / AP
The U.S. Department of Agriculture shut down a Foster Farms poultry processing plant in Livingston, Calif., Wednesday, saying it was infested with live cockroaches, which can pose a threat to public... | – "Cockroach" and "infestation" are two words you don't want anywhere near your dinner, but the USDA says it encountered just that at a California poultry plant that it wasted no time in shutting down yesterday. Foster Farms said that it immediately conducted "enhanced sanitizing" at its Livingston plant, and said it "... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``American Manufacturing
Competitiveness Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) The competitiveness of manufacturing industries in the
United States must be a priority for the United States
Government.... | American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to allow U.S. manufacturers that use products subject to countervailing or antidumping duty proceedings or use domestic like products (industrial users) to participate in such proceedings.
Requires the U.S. International Trade Commission, when ... |
cystic fibrosis ( cf ) is the most common autosomal recessive disorder found in populations of european descent .
it is estimated that 70,000 individuals live with the disease around the world ( see http://www.cff.org/aboutcf/ ) with 70% of patients having the f508 mutation .
the disease is caused by a mutation in ... | patients with cystic fibrosis ( cf ) are afflicted with many symptoms but the greatest challenge is the fight against chronic bacterial infections , leading to decreased lung function and ultimately death .
our group has recently found reduced levels of ceramides in cf patients and mice .
ceramides are sphingolipid... |
several species of leishmania are responsible for leishmaniasis ( 1 ) with several clinical presentations including cutaneous , mucocutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis ( vl ) ( 2 ) . although , it has been reported that vl is sporadic in iran , but in northwestern and southern areas of iran , the disease is endemic ( ... | abstractbackgroundimmune responses play critical roles in the leishmaniasis eradication .
il-10 is a key regulator of immune responses , and the polymorphisms within its promoter region are associated with alteration in its expression .
therefore , this study was designed to examine the correlation between polymorp... |
legionellosis is most often attributed to inhalation of contaminated aerosols from manmade water systems or , in the case of legionella longbeachae , to inhalation of contaminated potting mixes or composts [ 13 ] . from 2003 to 2004 , active population - based surveillance for atypical bacterial respiratory pathogens w... | members of the gram - negative genus legionella are typically found in freshwater environments , with the exception of l. longbeachae , which is present in composts and potting mixes . when contaminated aerosols are inhaled , legionellosis may result , typically as either the more serious pneumonia legionnaires ' disea... |
kidney biopsy specimens were procured from 22 southwestern american indians enrolled in a randomized , placebo - controlled clinical trial to evaluate the renoprotective efficacy of losartan in type 2 diabetes ( clinical trial reg .
these subjects were followed longitudinally for many years prior to enrollment in the... | murine models are valuable instruments in defining the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy ( dn ) , but they only partially recapitulate disease manifestations of human dn , limiting their utility .
to define the molecular similarities and differences between human and murine dn , we performed a cross - species comp... |
NEW YORK ( TheStreet ) -- Given Microsoft's (MSFT - Get Report) global Windows- and Office-installed base, it sounds a bit nutty to claim Apple (AAPL - Get Report) killed it on Tuesday, Sept. 10. But it did.
We're in the early stages of a-like crash that, instead of taking a few years, could span decades. But it wi... | – Apple's big iPhone unveiling yesterday—in which it replaced the iPhone 5 with the similar 5S and cheaper, multicolored 5C—has pundits yawning and investors selling. Here's how people are reacting: The biggest problem is that "Apple failed to feed the insatiable consumer appetite for the new," argues Marcus Wohlsen at... |
the theory of the weak nuclear interaction aims to describe nuclear phenomena induced by the external interaction , that is mediated by the intermediate bosons @xmath4 and @xmath5 of the standard model @xcite . at low and intermediate energies ,
the strangeness conserving semileptonic nuclear interaction hamiltonian is... | the structure of an anomalous lagrangian of the @xmath0 system is investigated within the hidden local @xmath1 symmetry approach .
the interaction of the external electromagnetic and weak vector and axial vector fields with the above hadron system is included .
the lagrangian of interest contains the anomalous... |
advances in cosmological observations have presented us a concordance picture that our present universe is accelerating and the dominant mass - energy components for the evolution of the universe in the standard model are non - baryonic cold dark matter ( dm ) and dark energy field ( de)@xcite . the de is identified as... | = 0.6 cm dark energy interacting with dark matter is a promising model to solve the cosmic coincidence problem .
we study the signature of such interaction on large scale cosmic microwave background ( cmb ) temperature anisotropies . based on the detail analysis in perturbation equations of dark energy and dark m... |
the quantum theory of charge transport in one - dimensional ( 1d ) systems of interacting fermions is a fundamental building block of our understanding of electron transport in nanostructures and of a future nanoelectronics .
one - dimensional interacting fermion systems have been studied since the 1950s , beginning wi... | we calculate the linear response conductance of electrons in a luttinger liquid with arbitrary interaction @xmath0 , and subject to a potential barrier of arbitrary strength , as a function of temperature .
we map the hamiltonian in the basis of scattering states into an effective low energy hamiltonian in current a... |
recent advances in fabrication technology have made it possible to realize superconductor ferromagnet ( s / f ) hybrid structures with a controlled arrangement of the ferromagnetic layers / elements .
these flux coupled and exchange coupled s / f hybrids@xcite are of fundamental interest for investigations of the no... | we studied experimentally the effect of a stripe - like domain structure in a ferromagnetic bafe@xmath0o@xmath1 substrate on the magnetoresistance of a superconducting pb microbridge .
the system was designed in such a way that the bridge is oriented perpendicular to the domain walls .
it is demonstrated that depe... |
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A crucial test for the Air Force’s experimental Mach 5 missile has ended in failure, according to the Air Force. Tuesday’s test is also the third time the hypersonic X-51A Waverider cruise missile has fallen short. But this time could be the last.
As first reported by Danger Room, the Waver... | – It was supposed to be a step toward ultra-quick military strikes and maybe even passenger planes that could zip from coast to coast in under an hour. Instead, an unmanned hypersonic test craft crashed into the Pacific today shortly after being released from a B-52 bomber, reports AP. The Air Force craft, called an X-... |
they must constantly absorb light energy and phagocyte lipid rich photoreceptor outer segment shed from neural retina due to normal physiological visual cycle .
oxidative stress refers to progressive cellular damage that contributes to protein misfolding and functional abnormalities in the rpe cells during cellular s... | retinal pigment epithelial ( rpe ) cells are continually exposed to oxidative stress that contributes to protein misfolding , aggregation and functional abnormalities during aging .
the protein aggregates formed at the cell periphery are delivered along the microtubulus network by dynein - dependent retrograde traffi... |
Kraft Foods has reached a tentative deal for a friendly takeover of Cadbury of Britain, agreeing in principle to pay about $19 billion in cash and stock for the confectioner, people briefed on the matter said on Monday.
Barring any last-minute complications — these people cautioned that the talks could still fall a... | – Kraft has won a sweet victory in its 4-month-long battle to take over Cadbury, according to sources who expect a deal to be announced today, barring last-minute complications. The British chocolate maker's board has agreed to accept Kraft's improved offer of roughly $19 billion in cash and stock in a buyout that will... |
the fast development of spintronics aims at making devices based on the electron spin .
semiconductor quantum dots ( qds ) are one of the promising candidates for the implementation of quantum computations@xcite because of the relative long spin coherence time , which has been proved both theoretically@xcite and experi... | we propose a scheme to manipulate the spin coherence in vertically coupled gaas double quantum dots . up to _ ten _ orders of magnitude variation of the spin relaxation and _ two _ orders of magnitude variation of the spin dephasing can be achieved by a small gate voltage applied vertically on the double dot .
speci... |
allergic rhinitis ( ar ) is usually defined as the presence of at least one or more of the symptoms of congestion , rhinorrhea , sneezing , nasal itching , and nasal obstruction ( 1 , 2 ) .
the disease is an immunoglobulin e ( ige ) mediated reaction of th2-type t cell response ( 3 , 4 ) .
the disease has various e... | background : allergic rhinitis ( ar ) is the most common allergic disease , affecting 30% of population around the world .
the disease is predominantly associated with exposure to some aeroallergens like cigarette smoking .
skin prick test ( spt ) is a method of detecting immediate allergic reactions and is applied... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Regulatory Information Presentation
Act of 1998''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) There is a substantial lack of consistency in the
presentation of information explaining and supporting Federal
rule... | Regulatory Information Presentation Act of 1998 - Directs each Federal agency, in accordance with a uniform format to be established by the Office of the Federal Register, to include in the preamble to each significant rule, both as a proposed and as a final or interim final rule, information concerning: (1) whether a... |
the facial artery musculomucosal ( famm ) flap was first described by pribaz et al in 1992.1 it consists of the mucosa and the submucosa of the cheek and a portion of the buccinator muscle .
it can be pedicled inferiorly on the facial artery and superiorly on the angular artery , depending on the site of the defect t... | objectives the superiorly pedicled facial artery musculomucosal ( famm ) flap has been successfully used for reconstruction of head and neck defects since 1992 .
common sites of defects include the oral cavity and oropharynx .
this article presents a clinical case in which we have successfully used a newly develop... |
a 79-year - old woman presented to our tertiary referral vascular surgical centre with an incidental finding of a thoracic aortic aneurysm on routine chest radiography . upon further investigation
, she was found to have an isolated descending thoracic aortic aneurysm secondary to a previous open aortic coarctation r... | the aetiology , incidence and management of type ii endoleaks in standard infrarenal endovascular aortic aneurysm repair is well described .
far less data is available for thoracic stent grafting .
we present a rare and interesting case of a type ii endoleak post thoracic aortic stenting and highlight the aberrant ... |
in this prospective quasi - randomized , doubleblinded , placebo - controlled study , a total of 146 reproductive women aged between 18 - 35 years old who were referred to outpatient clinics of shahid beheshty and al - zahra hospitals from december 2009 to february 2010 for infertility treatments , having at least two ... | background : phytoestrogens are a group of plants derived compounds with weekly estrogen effect that appear to have protective effects on metabolic and hormonal abnormalities of women with polycystic ovary syndrome ( pcos ) . so the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of soy phytoestrogens on reproductive h... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Mercury Reduction Act of 2002''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that--
(1) mercury is a persistent and toxic pollutant that
bioaccumulates in the environment;
(2) according to recent studies, mercury deposition is a
... | Mercury Reduction Act of 2002 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to: (1) prohibit the sale or supply of mercury fever thermometers to consumers, except by prescription; and (2) require manufacturers to provide clear instructions on handling of thermometers to avoid breakage and on proper cleanup in the event of brea... |
the grb 970228 and grb 980329 afterglows are among the most well observed of the afterglows detected so far .
we use observations of these afterglows to derive some of the properties of these bursts and to constrain the nature of their host galaxies .
we have determined the local galactic extinction toward the grb97022... | we find that the local galactic extinction towards the field of gamma - ray burst grb970228 is @xmath0 , which implies a substantial dimming and change in the spectral slope of the intrinsic grb970228 afterglow .
we measure a color @xmath1 for the extended source coincident with the afterglow . taking into account o... |
there are direct and indirect observational arguments in favor of physical connection between massive or core - collapse supernovae ( sne ) and long duration gamma - ray bursts ( grbs ) , and the list of publications on the topic is ever - increasing . at first
this connection was justified by the fact that all grb hos... | typical observational gamma - ray burst ( grb ) spectra are discussed and , in this connection , what is the origin of the compactness problem and how it was solved at first .
if the threshold for @xmath0 pair production depends on an angle between photon momenta , then another solution of the compactness problem is... |
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BRUSSELS—International efforts to tighten pressure on Syria ... | – Despite recent reports that Syria may be preparing to use its chemical weapons, a foreign ministry spokesperson today tried to assure the world that they will not be used on the Syrian people—officially acknowledging for the first time that the country actually has such weapons, reports Reuters. "Any chemical or biol... |
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