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as has been the case in most other industries , the promise of new technologies and innovations has been cited as the way to address the healthcare industry s current challenges ; in particular , to circumvent the so - called iron triangle
, simultaneously improving access , cost , and quality of care . at the same ... | academic investigators are generating a plethora of insights and technologies that have the potential to significantly improve patient care . however , to address the imperative to improve the quality , cost and access to care with ever more constrained funding , the efficiency and the consistency with which they are t... |
Aliens, if they exist, are likely huge. At least that’s the conclusion of a new paper by cosmologist Fergus Simpson, who has estimated that the average weight of intelligent extraterrestrials would be 650 pounds (300 kilograms) or more. ET would have paled in comparison to these interstellar behemoths.
The argument... | – If you're traveling to distant planets anytime soon, you might think twice about raising a ruckus: The inhabitants likely weigh an average of 650 pounds, a cosmologist says. Apparently it all comes down to planet size and the conservation of energy, CNET reports. "Throughout the animal kingdom, species which are phys... |
Russia’s moves are raising difficult questions for the Obama administration, which remains deeply conflicted about American military involvement in the Syria conflict. Ensuring that the Russian military and the United States-led coalition, which is carrying out airstrikes against the Islamic State, “deconflict” and avo... | – Face to face for the first time in nearly a year, President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin will confront rising tensions on Monday over Moscow's military engagement in Syria, as well as the stubborn crisis in Ukraine. Underscoring their differences, the US and Russia disagree even on the purpose of the me... |
to establish a set of stellar flux standards , one or more stars must be established with known absolute spectral energy distributions ( seds ) .
one method for establishing these so - called `` standard candles '' in the sky is to determine the composition , effective temperature , and surface gravity and then compute... | free of any atmospheric contamination , the _ hubble space telescope _ provides the best available spectrophotometry from the far - uv to the near - ir for stars as faint as @xmath0 .
the _ hst _
calspec standard star network is based on three standard candles : the hot , pure hydrogen white dwarf ( wd ) stars g19... |
null | to investigate carcinogenic or cocarcinogenic properties , copper ore ( kinkaseki ) and flue dust collected from a metal refinery and arsenic trioxide ( as2o3 ) were administered into the lung of male wistar - king rats by an intratracheal instillation method .
no squamous cell carcinoma of the lung was found among t... |
intravenous patient controlled analgesia ( iv - pca ) is a commonly used straightforward and effective method of pain control after surgery4,5,8,18 ) .
fentanyl is a potent synthetic opioid analgesic with a rapid onset and short duration of action , and is a strong agonist of -opioid receptors .
fentanyl is 80 to 1... | objectivepostoperative pain is one of the major complaints of patients after lumbar fusion surgery .
the authors evaluated the effects of intravenous patient controlled analgesia ( iv - pca ) using fentanyl or sufentanil on postoperative pain management and pain - related complications.methodsforty-two patients that ... |
forensic odontology deals with an examination of dental evidence , evaluation and presentation of dental findings in the interest of justice .
various methods are used to resolve issues related to civil cases , criminal cases and dental jurisprudence .
though the scope of forensic odontology is well - established i... | background : the forensic discipline of law is a multidisciplinary team comprising of specialists in forensic medicine , forensic odontology , security and law.aim:the study was to find the awareness level of scope and utility of forensic odontology among lawyers in chennai , south india.materials and methods : a cross... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Military Patron Protection Act of
2017''.
SEC. 2. MILITARY RESALE PATRON BENEFITS ADVISORY COMMISSION.
(a) Establishment.--There is established a commission to be known
as the ``Military Resale Patron Benefits Advisory Commission'' (in this
Act referr... | Military Patron Protection Act of 2017 This bill establishes the Military Resale Patron Benefits Advisory Commission to advise the Department of Defense (DOD) on: the effects of military commissary and exchange operations on their patrons and on morale, welfare, and recreation programs; the sources and uses of commiss... |
if the scale of new physics , @xmath1 , is large compared to the vacuum expectation value ( vev ) of the the higgs field , @xmath2gev , then the effective lagrangian may be expressed as the sm lagrangian plus terms with energy dimension greater than four suppressed by inverse powers of @xmath1 , @xmath3 the energy dime... | a future linear collider will address several important issues .
one topic of particular interest is the mechanism of electroweak - symmetry breaking .
first it is necessary to establish the existence or non - existence of a light physical higgs boson , and if such a particle exists it is necessary to compare its ... |
cutaneous metastasis can be defined as the spread of a tumor from the site of its primary origin to the skin .
skin metastasis may be the first sign of an advanced cancer or an indicator of cancer recurrence [ 2 , 3 ] . up to 9% of patients with cancer
may develop skin metastases , while metastasis may develop more... | cutaneous metastases from internal malignancies are uncommon and occur in 0.6%10.4% of all patients with cancer . in most cases ,
cutaneous metastases develop after the initial diagnosis of the primary internal malignancy and late in the course of the disease .
skin tumors are infrequent in asian population and cut... |
semiconducting zinc oxide nanocrystallites ( nc - zno ) and their optical , electrical and structural properties have been thoroughly investigated in recent years.@xcite the ability to synthesize nc - zno via the sol
gel technique makes them an interesting choice for versatile applications in solution processable elec... | charge transport properties of thin films of sol gel processed undoped and al - doped zinc oxide nanoparticles with variable doping level between 0.8 at@xmath0 and 10 at@xmath0 were investigated . the x - ray diffraction studies revealed a decrease of the average crystallite sizes in highly doped samples .
we pro... |
this work was supported by grants from the crohn 's and colitis foundation of america to prj ( rfa 2927 ) , sb ( rfa 3574 ) and er ( sra 330251 ) ; the broad medical foundation to er ( ibd-0342r ) ; and the national institutes of health to er ( u01 ai095623 , p01 dk35108 ) . | trp channels are associated with the development and progression of cancer but their precise molecular roles in these processes are unclear .
recently , we showed that the transient receptor potential cation channel , subfamily v , member 1 ( trpv1 ) ion channel is part of a negative feedback loop downstream of epide... |
in the standard model and the lowest order of perturbation the elastic electron meson scattering is the result of one photon exchange between the electron and one of the quarks in the meson .
formally the hadronic matrix element entering the expression of the scattering amplitude is parametrized in a model independent ... | the space - like electromagnetic form factor is expressed in terms of the overlap integral of the initial and final meson wave functions written as lorentz covariant distributions of internal momenta .
the meson constituents are assumed to be valence quarks and an effective vacuum - like field .
the momentum of th... |
many interventions , such as pharmacological treatments , physical and behavioral therapies have been largely applied to improve diverse post - stroke neurologic deficits , including visuospatial neglect , aphasia , dysphagia and motor impairment , using brain plasticity .
occurrence of cortical reorganization after ... | proper stimulation to affected cerebral hemisphere would promote the functional recovery of patients with stroke .
effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on cortical excitability can be can be altered by the stimulation frequency , intensity and duration .
there has been no consistent recognition r... |
In 2009, the Car Allowance Rebates System (CARS), fondly known as the Cash for Clunkers program, was put into effect to take older, less efficient vehicles off the road and replace them with vehicles that get better gas mileage and release fewer tailpipe emissions. The program was mainly designed to provide a long-term... | – "Cash for Clunkers" made America cleaner, right? Not according to a report that says the scrapping of old vehicles left a shocking amount of twisted metal in junkyards—some 3 million to 4.5 million tons of waste, RawStory reports. The feds touted the program as pro-green because Americans were turning in low-mpg vehi... |
while cooperative behavior is ubiquitous in nature , it is puzzling to understand from an evolutionary perspective : _ free - riders _ benefit from cooperation but save the costs to provide a public good and hence have a fitness advantage compared to
_ cooperators _ @xcite . to overcome this _ dilemma of cooperation _... | the spatial arrangement of individuals is thought to overcome the dilemma of cooperation : when cooperators engage in clusters they might share the benefit of cooperation while being more protected against non - cooperating individuals , which benefit from cooperation but save the cost of cooperation .
this is parad... |
in the late seventies it has first been noticed that early - type galaxies show relatively weak caii triplet ( cat ) absorption at 8600 @xcite .
the metallicities derived from these lines lie well below solar , which seems hard to reconcile with the super - solar metallicities obtained from the classical lick indice... | we use our new stellar population models , which include effects from variable element abundance ratios , to model the ca4227 absorption line indices of early - type galaxies @xcite , and to derive calcium element abundances .
we find that calcium , although being an @xmath0-element , is depressed with respect to th... |
Search continues for Yosemite swimmer, 19
The search continued Sunday for a 19-year-old man swept over the edge of Nevada Fall in Yosemite National Park, with rescue teams combing both sides of the Merced River below the roaring 594-foot waterfall.
The river's strong current caught Aleh Kalman of Sacramento on ... | – After a day and a half of searching, rescue teams in Yosemite National Park fear a notorious stretch of river has claimed yet another life. Aleh Kalman, 19, was swimming in the Merced River 150 feet upstream from Nevada Fall on Saturday afternoon when he was caught by the current and swept over the edge of the 594-fo... |
kaya or decoction is an ayurvedic dosage form , prescribed based on the stage of the disease according to the principles of ayurveda .
this dosage form is traditionally prepared fresh and consumed on the same day but for the sake of convenience ; the process of preparation has been modified so that it can be stored w... | |
Hachette Fed Up With Horror Mash-Up Writer
MANHATTAN (CN) - Blasting the author of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" in a federal complaint, Hachette Book Group says Seth Grahame-Smith should fork over half-a-million dollars because his long-awaited next title is a dud.
Hachette paid the $500,000 in question, a... | – When Seth Grahame-Smith published the hit novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies with Hachette Book Group in 2009, which sold more than 2 million copies and was translated into more than 20 languages, he was largely credited with "unleashing" zombie mashups on the world, as the Guardian reports. But the emerging liter... |
since their introduction , one of the main criticisms of minimally invasive approaches in total knee arthroplasty has been their poor adaptability in cases of major deformity or stiffness of the knee joint . when used in such cases ,
excessive soft - tissue tension is needed to provide appropriate joint exposure , an... | one of the main criticisms of minimally invasive approaches in total knee arthroplasty has been their poor adaptability in cases of major deformity or stiffness of the knee joint . when they are used in such cases ,
excessive soft - tissue tension is needed to provide appropriate joint exposure . here
, we describe... |
it is now generally accepted that most young low - mass stars are born with circumstellar disks and that the evolution of these disks holds a key to planet formation .
observational evidence for circumstellar disks takes many forms , from direct imaging ( e.g. , jayawardhana et al .
2002 ) and imaging of disk silhouett... | we examine the ability of photoevaporative disk winds to explain the low - velocity components observed in the forbidden line spectra of low - mass t tauri stars . using the analytic model of shu , johnstone , & hollenbach ( 1993 ) and hollenbach et al .
( 1994 ) as a basis , we examine the characteristics of photoe... |
FILE - In this June 5, 2015 file photo, Abu Wa'el Dhiab, from Syria, right, and Adel bin Muhammad El Ouerghi, of Tunisia, both freed Guantanamo Bay detainees, stand next to the window of their shared... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this June 5, 2015 file photo, Abu Wa'el Dhiab, from Syria, right, and Adel bin Muham... | – A South American airline is asking its employees to be on the lookout for a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was resettled in Uruguay after being freed by US authorities, the AP reports. The alert about Syrian native Abu Wa'el Dhiab adds to a growing mystery about his whereabouts. Uruguayan authorities have insiste... |
lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer - related death all over the world , with an average 5-year survival rate of 16.8% despite advancement in chemoradiation .
the diagnostic evaluation of patients with suspected lung cancer includes tissue diagnosis and a complete staging work - up , including evaluation of me... | background : percutaneous lung biopsy is now a common procedure in pulmonary medicine , and several different techniques are in use .
the most common has been the use of a fine needle under computed tomography ( ct ) guidance combined with the trucut needle for histology.aim:to evaluate the efficacy of fine needle as... |
freely decaying turbulence becomes similar to isotropic homogeneous turbulence after going through certain stages of development .
it can be clear seen on time dynamics of the skewness of the velocity derivatives @xmath0 for isotropic homogeneous turbulence , the skewness characterises the rate of vorticity producti... | competition between two main attractors of the distributed chaos , one associated with translational symmetry ( homogeneity ) and another associated with rotational symmetry ( isotropy ) , has been studied in freely decaying turbulence .
it is shown that , unlike the case of statistically stationary homogeneous isot... |
at collisionless shocks , a large cross - shock electric potential arises to oppose the incoming plasma flow .
this potential , and its corresponding electric field , have the sense to repel incoming ions ( which comprise the bulk of the kinetic energy and momentum ) and to reflect some ions , providing additional diss... | we use the cluster efw experiment to measure the cross - shock electric field at ten low @xmath0 , quasi - perpendicular supercritical bow shock crossings on march 31 , 2001 .
the electric field data are lorentz - tranformed to a normal incidence frame ( nif ) , in which the incoming solar wind velocity is aligned w... |
strongly - coupled plasma is a collection of free charged particles where the coulomb interaction with nearest neighbors is so strong that particles do not easily move past one another . a widely used criterion to determine whether a plasma is strongly coupled is @xmath2 @xcite , where @xmath3 is defined as the ratio ... | a two - dimensional strongly - coupled dusty plasma is modeled using langevin and frictionless molecular dynamical simulations . the static viscosity @xmath0 and the wave - number - dependent viscosity @xmath1 are calculated from the microscopic shear in the random motion of particles .
a recently developed method o... |
obesity is recognized as a worldwide problem , especially for developing insulin resistance and increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes1 .
the average body mass index ( bmi ) of japanese diabetic patients has been increasing in recent years , in parallel with an increase in dietary fat intake .
gastric inhibitory po... | abstractgastric inhibitory polypeptide / glucosedependent insulinotropic polypeptide ( gip ) is one of the incretins , which are gastrointestinal hormones released in response to nutrient ingestion and potentiate glucosestimulated insulin secretion .
single fat ingestion stimulates gip secretion from enteroendocrine ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Caging Prohibition Act of 2008''.
SEC. 2. VOTER CAGING AND OTHER QUESTIONABLE CHALLENGES PROHIBITED.
(a) In General.--Chapter 29 of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 618. Voter caging and other questiona... | Caging Prohibition Act of 2008 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit state or local election officials from preventing an individual from registering or voting in any election for federal office, or from permitting a formal challenge under state law to an individual's registration status or eligibility to vote... |
degenerative cervical spondylosis , herniated cervical discs , and ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament ( opll ) can result in chronic compression of the spinal cord . surgical treatment for this condition
posterior approaches to decompression , such as laminectomy and laminoplasty , are typically indi... | objectivebox - shape cervical expansive laminoplasty is a procedure that utilizes a miniplate or maxpacer to achieve maximal canal expansion .
this method is expected to show much larger canal expansion and good clinical outcome .
so we investigated the clinical and radiological outcome of box - shape cervical expa... |
Weeeellllll, so much for our #RelationshipGoals...
It's a decade and done for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner. One day after their 10th wedding anniversary, ET has confirmed the couple is divorcing.
Their split, which has been rumored for some time, does bring to mind some moments during the "Ben Jen Ten" (We'r... | – So we've collectively gone through the denial stage and skipped right to acceptance on the Jennifer Garner-Ben Affleck divorce news. But maybe we should've seen it coming, based on some of the statements they made about their union during their 10-year marriage. ETOnline.com has compiled some of the most memorable on... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Medicare Established Provider Act of
2013''.
SEC. 2. MEDICARE ESTABLISHED PROVIDER SYSTEM.
Title XVIII of the Social Security Act is amended by inserting
after section 1893 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ddd) the following new
section:
``SEC. 1893A. MEDI... | Medicare Established Provider Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a system to designate service providers and suppliers who meet specified criteria representing a low risk for submitting fraudulent Medicare claims a... |
huntington 's disease ( hd ) is a progressive , autosomal dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder , characterized by impaired motor control , cognitive decline , and occasional psychiatric illness .
hd results from the expansion of a cag repeat in exon 1 of the huntingtin ( htt ) gene , yielding a protein wit... | deconstructing the mechanistic basis of neurodegenerative disorders , such as huntington 's disease ( hd ) , has been a particularly challenging undertaking , relying mostly on post - mortem tissue samples , non - neural cell lines from affected individuals , and model organisms .
two articles recently published in c... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``One Dollar Coin and Community
Development Act of 1994''.
SEC. 2. ONE DOLLAR COINS.
(a) Color and Content.--Section 5112(b) of title 31, United States
Code, is amended--
(1) in the 1st sentence, by striking ``dollar,''; and
(2) b... | One Dollar Coin and Community Development Act of 1994 - Amends Federal monetary law to prescribe specifications for and design of dollar coins, including a golden color.
Proscribes any issuance of one dollar notes after the date that dollar coins are first placed in circulation. Prescribes guidelines for the redempti... |
the fundamental existence result @xcite of sacks - uhlenbeck asserts that there exists a set of free homotopy classes of maps from @xmath2 to a compact manifold @xmath3 so that the elements in these classes form a generating set for @xmath4 acted on by @xmath5 and each class contains a minimizing harmonic map @xmath6 .... | we show that the set of harmonic maps from the 2-dimensional stratified spheres with uniformly bounded energies contains only finitely many homotopy classes .
we apply this result to construct infinitely many harmonic map flows and mean curvature flows of 2-sphere in the connected sum of two closed 3-dimensional man... |
recent neutrino oscillation experiments suggest the strong evidences of the tiny neutrino masses and the lepton flavor mixing @xcite-@xcite .
studies of the lepton flavor mixing matrix , which we call maki - nakagawa - sakata ( mns ) matrix @xcite , will give us important cues of the physics beyond the standard model .... | in the case of two generation neutrinos , the energy - scale dependence of the lepton - flavor mixing matrix with majorana phase can be governed by only one parameter @xmath0 , which is the ratio between the diagonal elements of neutrino mass matrix . by using this parameter @xmath0
, we derive the analytic solution... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National Highway Borders and Trade
Act of 2003''.
SEC. 2. COORDINATED BORDER INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM.
Subchapter I of chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 165. Coordinated border infrastructure... | National Highway Borders and Trade Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish and implement a coordinated border infrastructure program under which the Secretary shall make allocations to border States (i.e., States with a common boundary with Canada or Mexico) for projects within a border regio... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Ban Poisonous Additives Act of
2009''.
SEC. 2. BAN ON USE OF BISPHENOL A IN FOOD AND BEVERAGE CONTAINERS.
(a) Treatment of Bisphenol A as Adulterating the Food or
Beverage.--For purposes of applying section 402(a)(6) of the Federal
Food, Drug, and Cos... | Ban Poisonous Additives Act of 2009 - Treats any food container that is composed, in whole or in part, of bisphenol A or that can release bisphenol A into food as a container that is composed of a poisonous or deleterious substance for purposes of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Bans the use of such container... |
if supersymmetry ( susy ) exists at the electroweak scale , then gluinos and squarks will be copiously produced in pairs at the lhc and will decay via cascades involving other susy particles .
the characteristics of these decays and hence of the signals that will be observed and the measurements that will be made depen... | characteristic examples are presented of scenarios of particle production and decay in supersymmetry models in which the supersymmetry breaking is transmitted to the observable world via gauge interactions .
the cases are chosen to illustrate the main classes of lhc phenomenology that can arise in these models .
a... |
"It is with heavy hearts that we announce our decision to go our separate ways," said the ABC reality stars in a joint statement.
Ben Higgins was not Lauren Bushnell's person after all.
The Bachelor season 20 star and his winner have officially parted ways after getting engaged on national TV and wrapping their... | – The question in the title of Bachelor spinoff Ben and Lauren: Happily Ever After? has been answered, and the answer is "No." Reality TV stars Ben Higgins and Lauren Bushnell, who got engaged during Season 20 of The Bachelor last year, have split up. "It is with heavy hearts that we announce our decision to go our sep... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Responsive and Efficient Appeals
Courts for Heroes Act of 2014''.
SEC. 2. CLASS ACTIONS BEFORE COURT OF APPEALS FOR VETERANS CLAIMS.
(a) Authority for Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims To Hear
Class Actions.--Subchapter II of chapter 72 of title 38,... | Responsive and Efficient Appeals Courts for Heroes Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, acting as a panel or en banc, to hear class action appeals in accordance with specified procedures. Allows one or more appellants to bring such a class action as the representative party on behalf of al... |
a renormalization group approach to light - front ( lf ) hamiltonian qcd was outlined by wilson et al . in ref .
@xcite for the purpose of deriving hadronic structure in terms of well defined wave functions for constituents .
the wave functions could be found from the eigenvalue equation @xmath3 where @xmath4 denotes t... | this contribution presents the running triple - gluon - vertex coupling constant , @xmath0 , in hamiltonians for the gluons that are characterized by the size @xmath1 .
the coupling constant is obtained from renormalization group equations for effective particles in canonical light - front qcd in third order perturb... |
the `` standard '' scenario of neutron star cooling is based on the main process responsible for the cooling , which is the modified urca process ( mu ) @xmath6 calculated using the free one pion exchange between nucleons , see @xcite
. however , this scenario explains only the group of slow cooling data . to explain a... | the cooling of compact isolated objects for different values of the gravitational mass has been simulated for two alternative assumptions .
one is that the interior of the star is purely hadronic@xcite and second that the star can have a rather large quark core @xcite .
it has been shown that within a nonlocal chi... |
the transmission eigenvalue problem ( te ) @xcite has important applications in inverse scattering theory for inhomogeneous media .
the problem is non - selfadjoint and not covered by standard partial differential equation theory .
transmission eigenvalues have received significant attention in a variety of inverse pro... | recently , a new eigenvalue problem , called the transmission eigenvalue problem , has attracted many researchers .
the problem arose in inverse scattering theory for inhomogeneous media and has important applications in a variety of inverse problems for target identification and nondestructive testing . the problem... |
SECTION 1. DEMONSTRATION PROJECT FOR MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT OF
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDED TO
Medicare-eligible BENEFICIARIES UNDER TRICARE.
(a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law and
subject to subsection (b), the Secretary of Defense and the ... | Requires the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS Secretary) to enter into an agreement to carry out a demonstration project under which the HHS Secretary reimburses the Secretary on a capitated basis, from the Medicare Program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act... |
femoral fractures , especially spiral fractures or those after stemmed arthroplasty , often need cerclage wire fixation to optimize the reduction of plate osteosynthesis . till date
, state - of - the - art implants for plate osteosynthesis are made of titanium alloy.12 cerclage wires made of stainless steel have the... | background : some in vitro studies warn combining different metals in orthopedic surgery . the aim of this study is to determine the impact of combining titanium and stainless steel on bone healing and the clinical course of patients undergoing internal fixation of femoral fractures.materials and methods:69 patients wi... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``First Things First Act''.
SEC. 2. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Act is to delay the implementation of certain
amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 until a legislative
task force has certified the achievement of each of the following
critical... | First Things First Act-Amends the Internal Revenue Code to raise certain highest marginal income tax rates. Amends the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to: (1) repeal the phaseout of the overall limitation on itemized deductions and restore the phaseout of personal exemptions; and (2) repeal th... |
many intermediate - age star clusters , e.g. , ngc1651 , show complicated color - magnitude diagrams ( cmds ) , which include blue stragglers , a broad main sequence , an extended main sequence turn - off ( emsto ) and an extended red clump(erc ) . such clusters are found mainly in the large magellanic cloud ( lmc ) @x... | the color - magnitude diagram ( cmd ) of globular cluster ngc1651 has special structures including a broad main sequence , an extended main sequence turn - off and an extended red giant clump .
the reason for such special cmds remains unclear . in order to test how different the results from various stellar populati... |
statistical properties of multiparticle quantum systems are at the heart of statistical physics . the best developed are both experiments and the theory of statistical properties of photons .
in quickly developing physics of quantum degenerate dilute gases there are two aspects that make the problem of thermal equilibr... | monte carlo method within , so called , classical fields approximation is applied to one dimensional weakly interacting repulsive bose gas trapped in a harmonic potential .
equilibrium statistical properties of the condensate are calculated within a canonical ensemble .
we also calculate experimentally relevant lo... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug
Coverage for Transplant Patients Act of 2001''.
SEC. 2. COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE DRUGS UNDER THE
MEDICARE PROGRAM.
(a) In General.--Section 1861(s)(2)(J) of the Social Security Act
... | Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Transplant Patients Act of 2001 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), as amended by the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000, to remove time limitations on the coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for i... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Lower Rio Grande Valley Water
Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 1999''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) State.--The term ``State'' means the Texas Water
Development Board and any other authorized entity of the Stat... | Requires the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner and in cooperation with the Secretary of Agriculture, the counties, and other non-Federal entities, to: (1) assess alternative water supply options for the counties of Maverick, Kinney, Edwards, Val Verde, Terrell, Brewster, Presidio, Jeff Davis, Hudspeth, and El... |
"David was just a character, a part of my psyche."
If there’s anything we’ve learned from the Violentacrez scandal, it’s that anonymity on the Internet can be easily unmasked–for better or for worse. In the case of quadriplegic Internet sensation Dave on Wheels, it was for the worse. This is the story of how an ano... | – David Rose was a deaf paraplegic with severe cerebral palsy who became an Internet sensation in recent weeks thanks to his inspirational blog posts and tweets (and retweets from the likes of Kim Kardashian). When the 24-year-old died last week—his sister posted the news on his now-defunct DaveonWheels blog—the obitua... |
Known for their stunning, and often unconventional architecture, OMA and Ole Scheeren are the lead designers who brought the architectural vision of The Interlace to life.With offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong and Doha, OMA is a leading international partnership practising architecture, urbanism and cu... | – If the best view from your apartment is into your neighbors' living room, prepare to be envious of the residents of Singapore's the Interlace—the winner of the World Building of the Year at the eighth annual World Architecture Festival. Designed by Netherlands-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture and Germany's ... |
quantum chromodynamics ( qcd ) is established as the theory of the strong nuclear force but the degrees of freedom observed in nature , hadrons and nuclei , are different from those appearing in the qcd lagrangian , quarks and gluons .
there are no calculations available for nuclei within the qcd framework .
nuclei are... | polarization transfer in quasi - elastic nucleon knockout is sensitive to the properties of the nucleon in the nuclear medium . in experiment e03 - 104 at jefferson lab
we measured the proton recoil polarization in the @xmath0he(@xmath1)@xmath2h reaction at a @xmath3 of 0.8 ( gev/@xmath4)@xmath5 and 1.3 ( gev/@xmath... |
massive early - type galaxies are postulated to be latecomers in the hierarchical formation process ( e.g. blumenthal et al .
1984 ; frenk et al .
1985 ) , formed via mergers of lower - mass ( disk ) galaxies ( e.g.toomre & toomre 1972 ; schweizer 1982 ; frenk et al .
1988 ; white & frenk 1991 ; barnes 1992 ; cole et a... | we present a joint gravitational lensing and stellar dynamical analysis of fifteen massive field early - type galaxies selected from the _ sloan lens acs _ ( slacs ) survey using _ hubble space telescope _
acs images and luminosity weighted stellar velocity dispersions obtained from the sloan digital sky survey da... |
0 UW study shows 40 percent of firework-related injuries from legal fireworks
Staggering statistics from the University of Washington show nearly 40 percent of fireworks-related injuries at Harborview Medical Center are from shell-and-mortar style fireworks sold legally in our state.
Mike Spencer was airlifted ... | – More than one-third of all fireworks-related injuries are caused by shell-and-mortar-style fireworks, making them the most dangerous Fourth of July pyrotechnic on the market, according to a study published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. The Seattle Times reports approximately 10,500 people in the US a... |
abnormal muscle tone occurs in disorders of
central nervous system and can affect up to two - thirds of patients with stroke2 .
especially , it is a common motor disorder
following stroke , which may require rehabilitation3 .
a hypertonus state leads to involuntary muscle contractions that
interfere with the ... | [ purpose ] the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of functional electrical
stimulation on muscle tone and stiffness in stroke patients . [ subjects and methods ] ten
patients who had suffered from stroke were recruited .
the intervention was functional
electrical stimulation on ankle dorsiflexo... |
we start with a quick panoramic overview .
a _ conformal map _ , between planar domains , is a function that infinitesimally preserves angles .
the derivative of a conformal map is everywhere a scalar times a rotation .
_ riemann s mapping theorem _ states that any open simply connected domain of the euclidean plane ad... | we formulate conjectures regarding percolation on planar triangulations suggested by assuming ( quasi ) invariance under coarse conformal uniformization . |
let @xmath0 be a metric space .
the subscripts of dim indicate the type of dimension , and we set @xmath1 for every dimension .
quasisymmetric maps form an interesting intermediate class lying between homeomorphisms and bi - lipschitz maps @xcite .
topological dimension is invariant under homeomorphisms , and hausdorf... | we construct jordan arcs of prescribed conformal dimension which are minimal for conformal dimension .
these curves are used to design fractal rugs , similar to rickman s rug , that are also minimal for conformal dimension .
these fractal rugs could potentially settle a standing conjecture regarding the existence ... |
the all sky monitor ( asm ) on the _ rossi x - ray timing explorer _
( rxte ) has been regularly observing bright celestial x - ray sources since 1996 february 22 .
detector problems had been encountered during the first days of operation ( 1996 january 5 - 12 ) , but the instrument has remained stable under an observi... | highlights from the rxte all sky monitor ( asm ) during 1996 and 1997 are reviewed with particular attention to x - ray transients .
the asm has detected 117 sources .
these include 12 recurrent transients and 10 new x - ray sources , some of which began their outbursts before the launch of rxte .
the majority o... |
Al Jazeera denounced the closure of its bureau, saying the move was designed to stifle free reporting
The Egyptian authorities are revoking the Al Jazeera Network's licence to broadcast from the country, and will be shutting down its bureau office in Cairo, state television has said.
"The information minister [... | – Egypt isn't messing around with al-Jazeera anymore, announcing on state-run television today that it's closing the network's Cairo bureau and revoking its license to broadcast from the country. Al-Jazeera has pledged to continue its coverage, but it's unclear what form that will take, notes AP. "The information minis... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Equity in Career and Technical
Education Act of 2016''.
SEC. 2. REFERENCES.
Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an
amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal
of, a section or other provision, the r... | Equity in Career and Technical Education Act of 2016 This bill amends the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 to require state and local educational agencies to conduct an annual equity gap assessment for career and technical education programs of study and create plans on how to reduce the gap.T... |
the success of patterning a graphite sheet into a cylinder @xcite stimulated the public interest in the geometric tunability of electronic properties .
carbon nanotubes indeed vary from metals to semiconductors with the inside diameter and the chiral angle .
@xcite their nature is fairly describable within the @xmath0-... | motivated by recent chemical attempts at assembling halogen - bridged transition - metal complexes within a nanotube , we model and characterize a platinum - halide triangular prism in terms of a peierls - hubbard hamiltonian .
based on a group - theoretical argument , we reveal a variety of valence arrangements , i... |
autotransplantation is the surgical transposition of a tooth from its original site to another extraction or surgically formed recipient site in the same individual .
autotransplantation is advocated in various conditions such as teeth with extensive caries , advanced periodontal diseases , congenitally missing , imp... | autotransplantation is the surgical transposition of a tooth from its original site to another , replacing a lost or a compromised tooth by another tooth , usually the third molar in the same individual .
this technique is considered a viable method due to its high success rate , well - grounded treatment option , pr... |
we describe and analyze the performance of the blackbody calibrator for the far infrared absolute spectrophotometer ( firas ) instrument on the cosmic background explorer ( cobe ) satellite .
the cobe ( mather 1982 , 1987 , 1993 , boggess 1992 ) was launched on november 18 , 1989 on a delta rocket , and carried three i... | the photometric errors of the external calibrator for the firas instrument on the cobe are smaller than the measurement errors on the cosmic microwave background ( cmbr ) spectrum ( typically 0.02 mjy / sr , 1 @xmath0 ) , and smaller than 0.01% of the peak brightness of the cmbr .
the calibrator is a re - entrant co... |
however , the mortality rate of patients exposed to these complications is extremely high ( 11%-59% ) . in this case report
, the patient happened to have intra- and post - operative iatrogenic liver injuries by chest tubes , associated with intra - abdominal hemorrhage after cabg .
various causes of post operative... | gastrointestinal complications after open - heart surgery are rare but may increase mortality rate significantly .
we are presenting a rare complication of liver laceration after coronary bypass operation .
the patient is a 57-year - old man who underwent urgent coronary artery bypass grafting operation ( cabg ) . ... |
primary amyloid light - chain ( al ) amyloidosis is a rare form of plasma cell dyscrasia characterized by tissue deposits commonly made of monoclonal immunoglobulin light chain .
involvement of the heart , kidney , liver , and autonomic nervous systems is responsible for the poor prognosis of al amyloidosis .
patie... | abstractprimary amyloid light - chain ( al ) amyloidosis is a rare form of plasma cell dyscrasia characterized by tissue deposition of monoclonal immunoglobulin light chain .
kidney involvement is the most frequent manifestation , and patients usually present with glomerular disease.we report an exceptional case of b... |
ischemic stroke as a complication of cerebral cavernous angioma has rarely been described , and hemorrhage after ischemic wallenberg 's syndrome has not been reported before .
a 45-year - old woman presented with perioral numbness , hoarseness , dysphagia , and worsening of her previous sensory symptoms . the patient... | backgroundthe main complication of cerebral cavernous angioma is hemorrhage .
ischemic stroke as a complication of cerebral cavernous angioma has rarely been described , and hemorrhage after ischemic wallenberg 's syndrome has not been reported before.case reporta 45-year - old woman presented with perioral numbness ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Including Families in Mental Health
Recovery Act of 2015''.
SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH DISCLOSURE OF
PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS PATIENTS
IS PERMITTED.
The HITECH Act (title XIII o... | Including Families in Mental Health Recovery Act of 2015 Amends the HITECH Act to direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promulgate regulations clarifying the circumstances under which, consistent with the standards governing the privacy and security of individually identifiable health information ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Dietary Supplement Safety Act of
2003''.
SEC. 2. ADVERSE EXPERIENCES WITH DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS.
(a) In General.--Chapter IV of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
Act (21 U.S.C. 341 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``SEC. 416. ... | Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require each manufacturer of a dietary supplement (supplement), and each packer or distributor of a supplement the name of which appears on the labeling, to report serious adverse experiences to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and to investigate such occurre... |
it is now more than 70 years since the world health organization ( who ) has been in collaborative efforts with the republic of korea in keeping of better health for all . since the 1950s , in line with efforts of international societies , the who has been actively involved in various aspects of the public health field... | the world health organization ( who ) have been in collaborative efforts with the republic of korea in keeping of and for better health for all for the past decades . from the control of parasites to building of community health system in rural places , the works has now resulted in healthier korea than ever , and has ... |
attention received by porous silicon ( p - si ) from scientists is known from more than couple of decades since the discovery of its light emission properties [ 1,2 ] .
p - si is still being studied due to its applications in various fields in addition to optoelectronic devices [ 1 - 7 ] .
many reports shows applicatio... | porous silicon ( p - si ) , prepared by two routes ( metal induced etching ( mie ) and laser induced etching ( lie ) ) have been studied by comparing the surface morphologies .
a uniformly distributed smaller ( submicron sized ) pores are formed when mie technique is used because the pore formation is driven by unif... |
the schur measure @xcite assigns to each partition @xmath15 the weight @xmath16 where @xmath17 are the schur functions .
( see , e.g. , @xcite . )
thus _ _ 1h s_(x ) s_(y ) [ gessellhs]is the ( unnormalized ) probability that @xmath12 , the number of boxes in the first row of the associated young diagram , is less th... | to each partition @xmath0 with distinct parts we assign the probability @xmath1 where @xmath2 and @xmath3 are the schur @xmath4-functions and @xmath5 is a normalization constant .
this measure , which we call the shifted schur measure , is analogous to the much - studied schur measure . for the specialization of the... |
rubinstein taybi syndrome ( rsts ) or broad thumb - hallux syndrome was initially described by michail et al . in 1957 .
the frequent clinical findings in patients with acc are mental retardation , visual problems , speech delay , seizures , and feeding problems ( in our patient it is seizure )
a 4 years and 6 mon... | rubinstein taybi syndrome ( rsts ) is a rare genetic disorder with characteristic morphological anomaly .
our patient was a 4.5-year - old girl came with features like broad thumbs , downward slanting palpebral fissures and mental retardation .
systemic abnormalities such as repeated infection , seizure with devel... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Agency for International Development
Efficiency and Effectiveness Act of 1994''.
SEC. 2. REDUCTIONS IN SPENDING FOR DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE BY THE AGENCY
FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
For fiscal years 1995 through 1999, budget authority a... | Agency for International Development Efficiency and Effectiveness Act of 1994 - Reduces budget authority and outlays for development assistance by specified amounts below the Congressional Budget Office baseline in FY 1995 through 1999.
Requires the Agency for International Development (AID) to narrow its focus and fu... |
among the classes of riemannian submanifolds , there is that of willmore surfaces , named after t. willmore @xcite ( 1965 ) , although the topic was mentioned by w. blaschke @xcite ( 1929 ) and by g. thomsen @xcite ( 1923 ) , as a variational problem of optimal realization of a given surface in @xmath0-space .
early in... | willmore surfaces are the extremals of the willmore functional ( possibly under a constraint on the conformal structure ) . with the characterization of willmore surfaces by the harmonicity of the mean curvature sphere congruence ( @xcite , @xcite ) , a zero - curvature formulation follows ( @xcite ) .
deformations ... |
white adipose tissue ( wat ) can express and secrete various bioactive proteins and multifunctional molecules , collectively called adipokines .
recent evidence indicates that adipokines play a key role in the inflammatory pathways . inflammatory bowel disease ( ibd ) , comprised of crohn s disease ( cd ) and
ulcer... | backgroundinflammation is involved in the mechanism of inflammatory bowel disease ( ibd ) .
omentin , a newly discovered adipokine , is thought to play an anti - inflammatory role .
this study aimed to determine whether serum levels of omentin-1 are associated with the presence and disease activity of ibd.material/... |
emulsions are mixtures of two immiscible fluids consisting of droplets of one phase dispersed into the other , stabilized against coalescence by surfactant . at low droplets volume fraction ,
the emulsions have basically a newtonian behavior @xcite .
when the volume fraction of the dispersed phase is increased , drople... | flows of dense emulsions show many complex features among which long range nonlocal effects pose problem for macroscopic characterization . in order to get round this problem
, we study the flows of several dense emulsions , with droplet size ranging from 0.3 to 40@xmath0 m , in a wide gap couette geometry .
we co... |
TITLE I--CHOICES IN EDUCATION ACT
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ``Choices in Education Act of
2016''.
SEC. 102. REPEAL OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT AND
LIMITATION ON SECRETARIAL AUTHORITY.
(a) Repeal.--The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (2... | Choices in Education Act of 2016 This bill repeals the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and limits the authority of the Department of Education (ED) such that ED is authorized only to award block grants to qualified states. The bill establishes an education voucher program, through which each state s... |
since the discovery of mssbauer effect spectroscopy more than half a century ago @xcite , superconductivity has been one of the states that has been investigated by this technique @xcite .
although mssbauer spectroscopy is widely accepted as one of the most sensitive techniques in terms of energy resolution , it has no... | with the advent of fe - as based superconductivity it has become important to study how superconductivity manifests itself in details of @xmath0fe mssbauer spectroscopy of conventional , fe - bearing superconductors . to this end
, the iron - based superconductor lu@xmath1fe@xmath2si@xmath3 has been studied by @xmat... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Film Incentive Reform Act of 2014''.
SEC. 2. MODIFICATION AND EXTENSION OF ELECTION TO EXPENSE THE COST OF
QUALIFIED FILM, TELEVISION, AND THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS.
(a) Extension.--Section 181(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
is amen... | Film Incentive Reform Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2015 the election to expense the cost of qualified film, television, and theatrical productions; and (2) include theatrical productions in such expensing allowance. Defines "theatrical production" as a live staged production of ... |
darboux transformations are a well known tool in the theory of integrable systems @xcite .
the classical darboux transformation @xcite deals with a sturm liouville problem ( the one dimensional stationary schrdinger equation ) generating , at the same time , new potentials and new wave functions from given ones thus p... | darboux transformations for linear operators on regular two dimensional lattices are reviewed .
the six point scheme is considered as the master linear problem , whose various specifications , reductions , and their sublattice combinations lead to other linear operators together with the corresponding darboux transf... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Law Enforcement Officers Death
Penalty Act of 1993''.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING FEDERAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.
Section 1114 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by inserting after ``exc... | Law Enforcement Officers Death Penalty Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to subject any person who is found guilty of the first degree murder of a Federal law enforcement officer, or certain other Federal officials or employees, to the penalty of death. Subjects anyone who kills a State or local law enforc... |
one of the critical ingredients to understand nuclear properties , both in the valley of stability and at the nuclear drip lines , is the pairing effect @xcite .
pairing is a general term that embodies the correlation between pairs of nucleons , producing for example the well - known mass staggering in nuclear isobars ... | the reaction mechanisms of the two - neutron transfer reaction @xmath0c(@xmath1he,@xmath2he ) have been studied at 30 mev at the triumf isac - ii facility using the sharc charged - particle detector array .
optical potential parameters have been extracted from the analysis of the elastic scattering angular distribut... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Medicare Beneficiary Access to Home
Care Act of 1998''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that the interim payment system for home health
services under medicare enacted as part of the Balanced Budget Act of
1997 is having the following unintended cons... | Medicare Beneficiary Access to Home Care Act of 1998 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), as amended by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA '97), with respect to the computation formula of the interim system of limited payments for services provided by home health agencies. Repeals the cu... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Construction Safety, Health, and
Education Improvement Act of 1997''.
SEC. 2. OFFICE OF CONSTRUCTION SAFETY, HEALTH, AND EDUCATION.
The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 651 et
seq.) is amended--
(1) by striking sections... | Construction Safety, Health, and Education Improvement Act of 1997 - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (the Act) to set forth construction safety requirements.
Establishes in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) an Office of Construction Safety, Health, and Education.
Directs t... |
A Queens museum said Friday it is shuttering its controversial anti-President Trump exhibit dreamed up by actor Shia LaBeouf, conceding that the installation has become a “flashpoint for violence,” The Post has learned.
A webcam mounted on a wall outside Astoria’s Museum of the Moving Image — titled “HE WILL NOT DI... | – Shia LaBeouf's "He Will Not Divide Us" project was supposed to be livestreamed for the duration of Donald Trump's presidency, meaning a minimum of four years. Instead, on Friday, 3 weeks into said presidency, the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens announced that it was shutting the project down, Page Six reports. L... |
the most massive galaxies in the universe occur in rich groups and clusters .
these brightest cluster galaxies ( hereafter bcgs ) often reside close to the peak of the diffuse x - ray emission from the intracluster medium ( icm ; @xcite ) , and can have recessional velocities indistinguishable from the cluster mean ( @... | the central dominant galaxies in galaxy clusters constitute the most massive and luminous galaxies in the universe . despite this ,
the formation of these brightest cluster galaxies ( bcgs ) and the impact of this on the surrounding cluster environment remain poorly understood . here
we present multi - wavelength ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Ice Age Floods National Geologic
Trail Designation Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(1) at the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,000 to 17,000
years ago, a series of cataclysmic floods occurre... | Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail Designation Act - Designates the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail, a trail from Missoula, Montana to the Pacific Ocean, to provide for the public appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the nationally significant natural and cultural features of the Ice Age Floods and ... |
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The terrorist organization known as the Islamic State
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) poses a grave threat to the
people and territorial integrity of Iraq and Syria, as well as
regional stability, and to the nation... | Expresses the sense of Congress that: the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) poses an acute threat to the people and territorial integrity of Iraq, including the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, and the security and stability of the Middle East and the world; defeating ISIL is critical to maintaining a unified Iraq ... |
the discovery of the @xmath3 meson and its decay may be considered as one of the events for the birth of particle physics @xcite .
the @xmath3 meson is interesting in that its structure is simpler than other hadrons but its formation and decay has already involved both the strong and weak interactions . in this paper
w... | a quantum knot model of mesons and baryons is established .
this quantum knot model is derived from a quantum gauge model which is similar to the qcd gauge model .
we first establish a knot model of the @xmath0 mesons .
we show that the @xmath0 mesons are modeled by the prime knot @xmath1 ( which is assigned wit... |
the extraction of mesioangular - impacted third molars may cause multiple periodontal defects at the distal root of the second molar .
these complications are even more frequent in older patients and when there are preoperative periodontal defects on the distal surface of the second molar before extraction of the imp... | purpose : the extraction of mesioangular impacted third molars may cause multiple periodontal defects at the distal root of the second molar .
platelet - rich plasma ( prp ) is a material containing many autologous growth factors that may be used in repairing and preventing periodontal complications at the distal roo... |
based on the international diabetes federation , the prevalence of type 2 diabetes ( t2d ) in adults is 6.9% and will increase to 17% by 2030.1 despite the widely funded research in the past decades to reduce the prevalence and the incidence of t2d , it remains one of the most costly chronic conditions to treat.2 the p... | prediabetes is defined as impaired fasting glucose and/or impaired glucose tolerance .
impaired fasting glucose is usually defined as fasting blood glucose between 5.6 mmol / l and 6.9 mmol / l ( 100.8124.2 mg / dl ) , and impaired glucose tolerance is the 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test of 7.811.0 mmol / l ( 140.... |
the manifestation of quantum phase coherence forms one of the foundations of the physics of mesoscopic systems@xcite , and is attracting the attention of many physicists .
quantum phase coherence is detectable by quantum interference experiments employing , for example , the aharonov - bohm ( ab ) effect@xcite . in an ... | we study three - terminal linear and nonlinear transport through an aharonov - bohm interferometer containing a double quantum dot using the nonequilibrium green s function method . under the condition
that one of the three terminals is a voltage probe , we show that the linear conductance is symmetric with respect ... |
thermal vibrations give rise to exponentially damped debye - waller ( dw ) factors @xmath0 $ ] in x - ray absorption spectra ( xas ) , x - ray diffraction ( xrd ) , and related spectra . for example , in x - ray absorption fine structure spectra ( xafs ) @xmath1 where @xmath2 ^ 2\rangle$ ] refers to the mean square rel... | an _ ab initio _ equation of motion method is introduced to calculate the temperature - dependent mean square vibrational amplitudes which appear in the debye - waller factors in x - ray absorption , x - ray scattering , and related spectra .
the approach avoids explicit calculations of phonon - modes , and is based... |
relaxation processes in complex systems such as glass - forming liquids , polymeric melts , liquid crystals and even lipid membranes is a very active area of research @xcite .
they have been studied using different techniques ranging from nmr and brillouin light scattering to dielectric spectroscopy @xcite .
the vari... | mesoscopic non - equilibrium thermodynamics is used to formulate a model describing non - homogeneous and non - debye dielectric relaxation .
the model is presented in terms of a fokker - planck equation for the probability distribution of non - interacting polar molecules in contact with a heat bath and in the pres... |
(CNN) President Donald Trump kept his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey extraordinarily close to the vest in the 48 hours leading up to the stunning announcement, people close to the White House said, before ultimately concluding that Comey "was his own man" and could not be trusted in a role so pivotal to the ... | – Fired FBI chief James Comey sent a farewell letter to selected staffers Wednesday and he urged them not to dwell on the reasons for his abrupt departure. "I have long believed that a president can fire an FBI director for any reason, or for no reason at all," he writes in the letter, which was obtained by CNN. He sai... |
hertzsprung - russell ( hr ) or colour - magnitude diagrams ( cmds ) in combination with theoretical models can be used , in principle , to determine the age distribution of stars in a cluster .
measurable luminosity spreads in these diagrams have been found in many , if not all , young nearby and massive clusters meas... | we have used new , deep , visible and near infrared observations of the compact starburst cluster in the giant hii region ngc 3603 and its surroundings with the wfc3 on hst and hawk - i on the vlt to study in detail the physical properties of its intermediate mass ( @xmath0 1 - 3 @xmath1 ) stellar population .
we s... |
we consider the 1d nonlinear schrdinger equation ( nls ) with @xmath10-power focusing _ point nonlinearity _ , for @xmath11 , @xmath12 where @xmath1 is the delta function supported at the origin , and @xmath13 is a complex - valued wave function for @xmath14 .
the equation can be interpreted as the free linear schrding... | we consider the 1d nonlinear schrdinger equation ( nls ) with focusing _ point nonlinearity _ , @xmath0 where @xmath1 is the delta function supported at the origin . in this work , we show that shares many properties in common with those previously established for the focusing autonomous translationally - invariant nl... |
endoscopic submucosal dissection ( esd ) is an effective procedure that allows the en bloc resection of premalignant lesions and early gastric cancer ( egc ) in the stomach.1 - 3 however , esd is technically difficult and time consuming.4,5 major complications of esd are bleeding and perforation and its complication ra... | endoscopic submucosal dissection ( esd ) was developed for the en bloc resection of large early gastrointestinal neoplasms .
a disadvantage of esd is its technical difficulty , which requires advanced skills and is associated with a higher rate of complications .
endoscopic variceal obturation ( evo ) using cyanoac... |
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