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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Non-Discrimination of Israel in
Labeling Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) Prior to the issuance of Trade Directive (T.D.) 95-25
and T.D. 97-16, the Customs Service had taken the position
that, in o... | Non-Discrimination of Israel in Labeling Act This bill requires that, for purposes of marking imported articles and containers under the Tariff Act of 1930, every article of origin from the geographical area known as the West Bank (or its container) imported into the United States shall include the words: "West ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``North American Energy Infrastructure
Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDING.
Congress finds that the United States should establish a more
uniform, transparent, and modern process for the construction,
connection, operation, and maintenance of oil and natural gas pip... | North American Energy Infrastructure Act - Prohibits any person from constructing, connecting, operating, or maintaining a cross-border segment of an oil or natural gas pipeline or electric transmission facility at the national boundary of the United States for the import or export of oil, natural gas, or electricity t... |
the accretion of matter onto a forming star is inextricably associated with mass outflow .
this manifests itself as well - collimated jets typically observed in higher excitation shock - excited forbidden lines such as [ sii ] or [ feii ] , or lower excitation emission of shock - exited h@xmath1 .
larger - scale and ol... | we present the results of keck telescope laser adaptive optics integral field spectroscopy with osiris of the innermost regions of the ngc 1333 svs 13 outflow that forms the system of herbig - haro objects 7 - 11 .
we find a bright 0@xmath02 long microjet traced by the emission of shock - excited [ feii ] . beyond... |
the majority of core - collapse supernovae ( sne ) are associated with the deaths of hydrogen - rich massive stars with zero - age - main - sequence masses @xmath1 > 8 . the most common hydrogen - rich type ii sne exhibit a @xmath2 day plateau in their light curves ( sne iip ) , and the physics behind their emission... | high - quality collections of type ii supernova ( sn ) light curves are scarce because they evolve for hundreds of days , making follow - up observations time consuming and often extending over multiple observing seasons . in light of these difficulties ,
the diversity of sne ii is not fully understood . here
we ... |
Europe's Rosetta mission, which aims to land on a comet later this year, has identified what it thinks is the safest place to touch down.
Image copyright ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team Image caption The extracted square covers about 1km, which is approximately the extent of the uncertainty in Philae's landing prec... | – Europe's space agency has finally decided exactly where on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko it's going to attempt to land a robot—and in this case, "J" marks the spot. The robot, called Philae, is currently being carried by the space probe Rosetta, which is orbiting 67P after a decade-long pursuit. Experts had to find... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Free Flow of Information Act of
2006''.
SEC. 2. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Act is to guarantee the free flow of
information to the public through a free and active press as the most
effective check upon Government abuse, while protecting the right o... | Free Flow of Information Act of 2006 - Prohibits federal courts in criminal or civil proceedings from compelling journalists to disclose their confidential sources or information which they obtain in a professional newsgathering capacity. Allows exceptions if a court finds that: (1) alternative means of obtaining such ... |
null | it has been hypothesized that environmental exposure to synthetic estrogenic chemicals and related endocrine - active compounds may be responsible for a global decrease in sperm counts , decreased male reproductive capacity , and breast cancer in women .
results of recent studies show that there are large demographic... |
the inflation paradigm @xcite is successful in explaining the horizon problem , flatness problem and the homogeneity problem in the standard hot - big - bang cosmology .
the generic inflation model predicts a nearly scale - invariant primordial scalar power spectrum which has been measured accurately by the observation... | we locally reconstruct the inflationary potential by using the current constraints on @xmath0 and @xmath1 from bicep2 data . assuming small and negligible @xmath2 , the inflationary potential is approximately linear in @xmath3 range but becomes non - linear in @xmath4 range .
however if we vary the value of @xmath2 ... |
in recent years , a significant amount of research has been conducted to investigate
the efficacy of 2% lidocaine versus 4% articaine [ 1 - 5 ] .
one common topic of
investigation is to compare the effectiveness of these two anesthetics in
challenging situations , such as the ability to anesthetize maxillary te... | abstractobjectiveslocal anaesthesia is the standard of care during dental extractions . with the
advent of newer local anesthetic agents , it is often difficult for the
clinician to decide which agent would be most efficacious in a given
clinical scenario
.
this study assessed the efficacy of equal - milligra... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``College Opportunity Tax Credit Act
of 2006''.
SEC. 2. COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY TAX CREDIT.
(a) In General.--
(1) Allowance of credit.--Section 25A(a) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to allowance of credit) is
amen... | College Opportunity Tax Credit Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Tax Credits with an increased, partially refundable college opportunity tax credit to cover up to four years (currently, limited to two years) of the tuition and related expenses of full o... |
Shaquille O'Neal says he would dominate today's NBA and goes off on his doubters, plus love for DeAndre Ayton, Senselessly Sensitive, and the return of Walmart or Waffle House - The Big Podcast with Shaq - Episode 172
Shaquille O'Neal opens the show this week by going OFF on the doubters who think he wouldn't domin... | – Apparently there's a belief circulating in the NBA that the Earth is flat. Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers first revealed his flat-Earth beliefs back in February, and now retired basketball player Shaquille O'Neal has revealed he's on the same page. In an episode of his podcast broadcast late February but onl... |
A Mississippi woman has been charged in a second death related to giving buttocks-enhancing injections without being trained or licensed.
The state attorney general's office says 53-year-old Tracey Lynn Garner of Jackson, formerly known as Morris Garner, was arrested Thursday and charged with one count of depraved ... | – Tracey Lynn Garner had already been charged with murder in one silicone butt injection death, and now she's been charged in a second, the Clarion-Ledger reports. Garner (who, authorities say, is a man also known as Morris Garner who lives as a woman) is accused of illegally injecting counterfeit silicone into two wom... |
the quark model @xcite can reproduce the behavior of observables such as the spectrum and the magnetic moments in the baryon and meson sector , but it neglects quark - antiquark pair - creation ( or continuum - coupling ) effects . above threshold ,
these couplings lead to strong decays and below threshold , they lead ... | in this contribution , we briefly analyze the formalism of the unquenched quark model ( uqm ) and its application to the description of several observables of hadrons . in the uqm ,
the effects of @xmath0 sea pairs are introduced explicitly into the quark model through a qcd - inspired @xmath1 pair - creation mechan... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Two Floods and You Are Out of the
Taxpayers' Pocket Act of 1999''.
SEC. 2. FLOOD LOSS REDUCTION FOR REPETITIVE FLOOD INSURANCE CLAIM
PROPERTIES.
Section 1366 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C.
4104c) is amended--
... | Increases amounts credited to the National Flood Mitigation Fund from the National Flood Insurance Fund, such amounts to be used only for repetitive claim properties.
Extends through FY 2004 the authority to enter into flood insurance contracts and the authorization of appropriations for the national flood insurance pr... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Western New York Redevelopment Act
of 2005''.
SEC. 2. RENEW REPLACEMENT POWER.
Section 1 of the Act of August 21, 1957 (Public Law 85-859; 71
Stat. 401; 16 U.S.C. 836) is amended in subsection (b)(3) by striking
out ``for a period ending not later tha... | Western New York Redevelopment Act of 2005 - Modifies the statutory licensing conditions governing operation of a power project by the New York Power Authority regarding utilization of the federal share of the water of the Niagara River whose use is permitted by international agreement.
Directs the Federal Energy Regu... |
The sandwich contained at least 100g of cocaine
A man caught with a ham and cheese sandwich stuffed with drugs has been arrested in the holiday resort of Benidorm.
Spanish police detained the Colombian national after discovering the snack, which contained more than 100g (3.5 ounces) of cocaine.
A photo of t... | – In other circumstances, lunch might consist of a sandwich and a Coke, but Spanish police say they have arrested a Colombian national living in a resort town for his variant on the theme—the cocaine sandwich. As Sky News reports, the concoction "contained ham, melted cheese, and nine cylinders of cocaine weighing more... |
osteoporosis is characterized by the depletion of bone mineral mass , combined with bone micro - architecture deterioration , greater bone fragility and a resultant increased fracture risk ; a 10% loss of vertebral bone mass can double the risk of a vertebral fracture .
osteoporosis is one of the most prevalent skele... | osteoporosis is one of the most prevalent skeletal disorders and has enormous public health consequences due to the morbidity and mortality of the resulting fractures .
this article discusses the developmental origins of osteoporosis and outlines some of the modifiable and non - modifiable risk factors in both intrau... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Social Security Commission Act of
2014''.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT.
There is established in the legislative branch a commission to be
known as the ``Commission on Long Term Social Security Solvency'' (in
this Act referred to as the ``Commission'').
SEC.... | Social Security Commission Act of 2014 - Establishes in the legislative branch the Commission on Long Term Social Security Solvency to make recommendations to Congress, including proposed legislation, for achieving solvency in the Social Security trust funds for a period of at least 75 years. Requires expedited conside... |
Mark Girardeau positioned his drone directly above the newborn calf and its massive mother, his eyes glued to the screen of his remote control as he watched the pair of gray whales while aboard Newport Coastal Adventure’s small inflatable boat.
The baby – thought to be just days old – suddenly veered away from its ... | – It's long been observed that mothers tend to cradle their infants on their left side, and this has long been at least informally attributed to handedness (so that right-handed mothers have the right hand free). Now researchers report in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution that "positional bias" is in fact observed... |
These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references ... | – To err is human, and a major bank is reminding the world of this for the second time after once again accidentally transferring a massive sum of money it shouldn't have. The blunder occurred on Feb. 20, when Frankfurt-based lender KfW, a German government-owned development bank, transferred $5.4 billion to four other... |
prostate specific antigen ( psa ) is a serine protease secreted by all types of prostatic tissue - normal , benign hyperplastic and cancerous , and not the prostate cancer ( pca ) specific antigen . under normal conditions , the epithelial layer , the basal cell layer , and the basement membrane separate the intraducta... | abstractbackgroundto determine the normal ranges of serum age - related prostate - specific antigen ( psa ) level in men from beijing area without cancer.methodsin this cross sectional study , form april 2010 to october 2011 , 1611 healthy men undergoing a routine health check - up in our hospital and all men received ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Catastrophic
Wildfire Prevention Act of 2012''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents of this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents.
Sec. 2. Purposes.
Sec. 3. Definitions.
Sec. 4. Au... | Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Act of 2012 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), with respect to National Forest System lands, and the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to public lands, (the Secretaries) to implement authorized wildfire prevention projects in at-risk forests and threatened and endan... |
there is much current interest in the use of coherent control in order to generate novel matter - radiation states in cavity qed and atom - optics systems @xcite .
in addition , the field of cavity qed has caught the interest of workers in the field of solid - state nanostructures , since effective two - level systems ... | we propose the use of coherent control of a multi - qubit cavity qed system in order to explore novel phase transition phenomena in a general class of multi - qubit cavity systems .
in addition to atomic systems , the associated super - radiant phase transitions should be observable in a variety of solid - state e... |
Sen. Ted Cruz, (R-Texas), said on the Senate floor Tuesday he would stand against the president's health care law "until I'm no longer able to stand." (The Washington Post)
Sen. Ted Cruz, (R-Texas), said on the Senate floor Tuesday he would stand against the president's health care law "until I'm no longer able to ... | – It's filibuster-y, but apparently not a filibuster. Sen. Ted Cruz took the Senate floor about 2:40pm Eastern today and promised to speak against ObamaCare until he is "no longer able to stand," reports AP. It sounds like an "old-fashioned talking filibuster," says the Washington Post, although, technically speaking, ... |
Once upon a time 20 years ago, the average San Francisco home cost the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $400,000. All one had to do was own a million-dollar home (or $1.5 million today) and they could be confidently among San Francisco’s wealthy elite. Ah, it was a simpler time.
But now? Heck, every house costs at ... | – Residents of the Bay Area in California think it takes more than twice as much money to be considered wealthy there than in the rest of the country, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. A survey of 1,000 residents by Charles Schwab found you need to be worth more than $6 million in the Bay Area to be considered wealt... |
the detailed analysis of the available high quality cosmological data ( type ia supernovae @xcite , @xcite ; cmb @xcite , @xcite , etc . ) leads to the conclusion that we live in a flat and accelerating universe . in order to investigate the cosmic history of the observed universe
, we have to introduce a general cosmo... | we study the dynamics of the scalar field flrw flat cosmological models within the framework of the _ unified dark matter _ ( udm ) scenario . in this model
we find that the main cosmological functions such as the scale factor of the universe , the scalar field , the hubble flow and the equation of state parameter a... |
SAN DIEGO – A trip to the happiest place on Earth was anything but for a Spring Valley family who’s claiming they are victims of racism and are planning to file suit against Disneyland.
The Black family took a trip to Disneyland in August and their son Jason Black Jr. met his favorite character The Rabbit from Alic... | – According to a lawsuit, the Black family went to Disneyland and got shunned by the White Rabbit—literally. The San Diego family is suing the amusement park because, they say, the employee playing the Alice in Wonderland character was racist. Last August, 6-year-old Jason Black tried to hug the "rabbit" and his older ... |
SECTION 1. CENTER FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR NON-DEPARTMENT HEALTH
CARE PROVIDERS WHO FURNISH CARE TO VETERANS IN RURAL
AREAS.
(a) Establishment in Department of Veterans Affairs Authorized.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may
establish in t... | Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) a center for technical assistance to assist non-VA health providers who furnish care to veterans in rural areas. Makes the head of such center the Director of the Rural Veterans Health Care Technical Assistance Cent... |
Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| New video shows the moment an Indiana police officer confronted and shot at a man he thought was robbing a business.The incident h... | – Note to movie makers: Give the police a heads-up when filming a robbery scene in public. Newly released police bodycam video released by the city of Crawfordsville, Ind., shows how close one actor came to learning that lesson in the worst possible way. Officers responded to a robbery call at a local bar when someone ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Medicare Nursing Facility Pay-for-
Performance Act of 2004''.
SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL MEDICARE PAYMENT FOR FACILITIES THAT REPORT
ADDITIONAL QUALITY DATA.
(a) Voluntary Reporting of Quality Measures and Adjustment in
Payment.--
(1)... | Medicare Nursing Facility Pay-for-Performance Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through a contract with a qualified independent party (such as the National Quality Forum), to provide for identification of: (1) between ten a... |
SECTION 1. SUMMER CAMPS.
(a) Program.--
(1) In general.--The Director shall carry out a program to
award grants to institutions of higher education or eligible
nonprofit organizations (or consortia of such institutions and
organizations) to develop and operate summer science ... | Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to award grants to institutions of higher education or eligible nonprofit organizations to develop and operate summer camps designed to interest and instruct middle and high school students in science, mathematics, and technology. Conditions a nonprofit organizat... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa
Indians Restoration Act of 2007''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that--
(1) the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians is a
political successor to signatories of the Pembina Treaty of
1863,... | Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians Restoration Act of 2007 - Extends federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana. Makes the Tribe and each member eligible for all services and benefits provided by the United States to Indians and federally recognized Indian tribes, without regard to... |
the bose - einstein condensation of low density atomic samples @xcite provides one with a new paradigm in many - body theory , atomic physics , quantum optics , and nonlinear dynamics . below the critical temperature ,
condensates are described to an excellent degree of accuracy by a scalar nonlinear schrdinger equatio... | we propose and analyze a way in which effective multicomponent condensates can be created inside high - q multimode cavities .
in contrast to the situation involving several atomic species or levels , the coupling between the various components of the dressed condensates is linear .
we predict analytically and num... |
quantum theory does not admit bell - local or kochen - specker - noncontextual hidden variable ( ks - nchv ) models . this is manifest in bell - nonlocality @xcite and ks - contextuality @xcite .
both these features arise at a mathematical level from the lack of a global joint probability distribution over measuremen... | we show that three unsharp binary qubit measurements are enough to violate a generalized noncontextuality inequality , the lsw inequality , in a state - dependent manner . for the case of trine spin axes we calculate the optimal quantum violation of this inequality . besides
, we show that unsharp qubit measurements... |
Consumers can expect to pay more to get a mortgage next year, the result of changes meant to reduce the role that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac play in the market.
The mortgage giants said late Monday that, at the direction of their regulator, they will charge higher fees on loans to borrowers who don't make large dow... | – An effort to loosen Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's grip on the mortgage market will come at a price: pricier mortgages. The two announced late Monday that, at the insistence of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, they will increase their fees to borrowers without impeccable credit (designated as those with scores of 68... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Vaccine Injured Children's
Compensation Act of 2001''.
SEC. 2. PURPOSE OF PROGRAM.
Section 2110(a) of the Public Health Service Act, such Act (42
U.S.C. 300aa-10(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following
sentence: ``Such Program is a remedial ... | Vaccine Injured Children's Compensation Act of 2001 - Amends provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to: (1) designate the Program as a remedial program under which sovereign immunity does not apply; (2) change the burden of proof requirement for the awar... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Bi-State Aircraft Noise Correction
Act of 1996''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS, DECLARATION, AND PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(1) the Expanded East Coast Plan of the Federal Aviation
Administration has resulted in significantly... | Bi-State Aircraft Noise Correction Act of 1996 - Declares that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) should remedy the problem it has created by formulating and implementing plans to mitigate aircraft noise over certain areas of New Jersey and Staten Island.
Instructs the FAA Administrator to: (1) develop and pub... |
SATIRE
The talented comedienne and anti-gun activist hosted SNL on Saturday and featured in an ad poking fun at gun enthusiasts.
Back in late July, a little over a month after the Charleston church shooting that killed nine African Americans, one month before the Roanoke shooting that took the lives of two news... | – Hometown girl Amy Schumer took the stage at Saturday Night Live and wasted little time in taking on what the Daily Beast terms "America's national obsession with guns," vis a vis a mock ad that inserts firearms into the more tender moments in our lives. "Whatever you’re waiting for, whatever you face, whatever you’re... |
the motor neuron diseases ( mnd ) are a class of progressive neurologic diseases characterized by selective degeneration of the motor neurons that govern voluntary muscle movement .
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( als ) , also called lou gehrig 's disease , is the most common form of motor neuron disease . it is a fa... | als is a fatal adult - onset motor neuron disease .
motor neurons in the cortex , brain stem and spinal cord gradually degenerate in als patients , and most als patients die within 3~5 years of disease onset due to respiratory failure .
the major pathological hallmark of als is abnormal accumulation of protein incl... |
the measurement and control of light produced by quantum systems have been the focus of interest of cavity quantum electrodynamics @xcite .
specially , the emission of light powered by solid - state devices coupled to nanocavities is an extensive area of research due to its promising technological applications , such a... | we introduce the green s functions technique as an alternative theory to the quantum regression theorem formalism for calculating the two - time correlation functions in open quantum systems .
in particular , we investigate the potential of this theoretical approach by its application to compute the emission spectru... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Senior Scams Prevention Act''.
SEC. 2. SENIOR SCAMS PREVENTION ADVISORY COUNCIL.
(a) Establishment.--There is established a Senior Scams Prevention
Advisory Council (referred to in this Act as the ``Advisory Council'').
(b) Members.--The Advisory Co... | Senior Scams Prevention Act This bill establishes a Senior Scams Prevention Advisory Council, which shall create model educational materials to educate employees of retailers, financial-services companies, and wire-transfer companies on how to identify and prevent scams that affect seniors. |
somatostatinoma was first reported in 1997 by larsson et al.1 since then , only a handful of cases have been reported worldwide because of the extremely low incidence of this tumor , estimated to be 1 in 4 million.2 women were found to have higher incidence than men.3 most of the cases were symptomatic , with some clin... | a 49-year - old woman presented with chronic abdominal discomfort , significant weight loss , and chronic intermittent diarrhea .
she suddenly developed massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding and was referred for further treatment .
endoscopy indicated a large mass in the upper gastric body with antral and duodena... |
the third international seminar on reducing burden of traffic accidents , compared to previous two seminars had witnessed more problem oriented research on this important issue .
presence of policy makers , executive bodies along with academician led to a great success and their cooperation had immediate impact on th... | iran has had incremental incidence of traffic accident mortality since introduction of mechanization about a century ago .
but the newest data from iran show decrease in the absolute number of deaths , death per 10,000 vehicles and death per 100 , 000 populations . despite its huge impact on health and economy , rese... |
sunspots are an obvious and significant manifestation of a solar magnetic field .
an accurate knowledge of the structure of sunspot is essential to understand the magnetic activity of our star .
however , the subsurface structure of these magnetic features is still an unsolved question in solar physics ; is it a single... | we use numerical simulations to investigate the interaction of an @xmath0-mode wave packet with small and large models of a sunspot in a stratified atmosphere .
while a loose cluster model has been largely studied before , we focus in this study on the scattering from an ensemble of tightly compact tubes .
we show... |
I recently attended a lecture by a distinguished man of letters. A poet, novelist, playwright and literary critic, this man also edits journals, directs literary festivals, collaborates on documentary projects, teaches full time at a university and is raising a family. When an audience member asked how he managed to fi... | – When Slate intern Jim Pagels wrote last week that "TV binge-watching is a pandemic" that ruins "the integrity of the art form," condemnation rained down from some of the mightiest media outlets in the land. How dare he! We are, after all "in an oft-noted 'new golden age of television,'" writes Meaghan Daum of the LA ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Elder Abuse Prevention Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The number of older individuals in the United States
who are abused, neglected, or exploited is increasing, and a
large percentage of elder ab... | Elder Abuse Prevention Act - Requires a state that is receiving funds for certain law enforcement assistance programs under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to have in effect laws and policies that prohibit parole for any individual who is: (1) convicted of a criminal sexual offense against a vict... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Social Security
Expansion Act''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents of this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Across-the-board benefit increase.
Sec. 3. Computation of cost... | Social Security Expansion Act Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to: increase the primary insurance amount for all eligible beneficiaries, beginning in 2021; revise computation of cost-of-living adjustments to use the Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers; in... |
President Obama said today he is willing to compromise on the George W. Bush tax cuts to preserve them for the middle class.
"We've got to make sure that we're coming up with a solution, even if it's not 100% of what I want or what the Republicans want," Obama said in North Carolina. "There's no reason that ordinar... | – Faced with the prospect of no deal on the Bush tax cuts resulting in a middle-class tax hike on Jan. 1, President Obama is signaling a willingness to extend them across the board, reports USA Today. "We've got to find consensus here even if it's not 100% of what I want or what the Republicans want," he said in a spee... |
the dpp was a 27-center randomized clinical trial in the u.s . that assessed whether metformin or lifestyle interventions prevent or delay development of diabetes in high - risk individuals .
the dpp enrolled 3,234 overweight or obese people without diabetes but with impaired glucose tolerance and elevated fasting gl... | objectivegenome - wide association studies have begun to elucidate the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes .
we examined whether single nucleotide polymorphisms ( snps ) identified through targeted complementary approaches affect diabetes incidence in the at - risk population of the diabetes prevention program ( ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Price Gouging Act of 2007''.
SEC. 2. FUEL PRICE GOUGING PROHIBITION FOLLOWING MAJOR DISASTERS.
(a) In General.--The Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et
seq.) is amended by inserting after section 24 (15 U.S.C. 57b-5) the
following:
``SEC. 24... | Price Gouging Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to direct the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), after the President declares a major disaster, to: (1) consult with the Attorney General, the U.S. Attorney for that area, and state and local law enforcement officials to determine whether any supplier is ... |
chorea may be the manifestation of a wide variety of degenerative , vascular , metabolic , or toxic disorders involving the central nervous system , in which dysfunction of the basal ganglia , particularly of the striatum , is generally assumed to be responsible .
we report an index case of generalized chorea seconda... | chorea is a rare manifestation of poisoning .
we report an index case of a young woman who developed generalized chorea following propiconazole toxin ingestion . as large series on neurological complications of toxic compounds are difficult to be compiled , it is of interest to report our experience .
this report a... |
SECTION 1. PHASE-OUT OF TAX SUBSIDIES FOR ALCOHOL FUELS PRODUCED FROM
FEEDSTOCKS ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL
SUBSIDIES.
(a) Alcohol Fuels Credit.--Section 40 of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986 (relating to credit for alcohol used as a fuel) is amended by
adding at the... | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to phase out the tax subsidies for alcohol fuels produced from feedstocks which are eligible to receive Federal agricultural subsidies. |
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In this episode, your host, David Lee Roth, talks about the history of tattoos in Japan. Dave also shares his own Japanese tattoo experiences.
Looking for more of this episode? Head over to iTunes for bonus material that can found exclusively on the Audio-Only version of TheRothShow. Here's the... | – Remember David Lee Roth? The wild Van Halen lead singer had quite a bumpy ride once the band broke up and his solo career ran its course in the 1980s, writes Steve Kandell in BuzzFeed. Starting over, Roth worked as an EMT on ambulance calls in New York City. "The altitude drop is when somebody realizes who you are an... |
the interplay of different cell types of origin and distinct oncogenic mutations may determine the tumor subtype .
we have recently found that although both basal and luminal epithelial cells can initiate prostate tumorigenesis , the latter are more likely to undergo transformation in response to a range of oncogenic... | |
fanconi syndrome results from generalized dysfunction of the proximal renal tubule leading to impaired reabsorption defects in amino acids , glucose , sodium , potassium , bicarbonate , and phosphorus .
phosphate wasting owing to chronic renal loss and the inadequate synthesis of 1,25(oh)2 vitamin d together produce ... | fanconi syndrome results from a generalized abnormality of the proximal tubules of the kidney and owing to phosphate depletion can cause hypophosphatemic osteomalacia .
adefovir dipivoxyl ( adv ) effectively suppresses hepatitis b virus replication but exhibits nephrotoxicity when administered at a low dosage .
we ... |
we consider a system of @xmath0 identical bosons in @xmath3 dimensions , described by a wave function @xmath4 . here
@xmath5 is the subspace of @xmath6 consisting of wave functions @xmath7 that are symmetric under permutation of their arguments @xmath8 .
the hamiltonian is given by @xmath9 where @xmath10 denotes a one ... | we consider the time evolution of a system of @xmath0 identical bosons whose interaction potential is rescaled by @xmath1 .
we choose the initial wave function to describe a condensate in which all particles are in the same one - particle state .
it is well known that in the mean - field limit @xmath2 the quantum ... |
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that--
(1) at least 30 million Americans lack access to even the
most basic health services;
(2) access to health care is especially difficult for those
Americans who--
(A) live in medically underserved rural comm... | Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to establish a part B (Health Services Access) to fund grants to federally-qualified health centers (FQHCs) and other entities for the expansion and development of primary health care service programs for medically underserved populations.
Sets forth grant eligibi... |
the goal of sustainability , as stated in the national environmental policy act1 ( nepa ) , and recently ( 2011 ) reiterated by the national research council2 is to create and maintain conditions , under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony , that permit fulfilling the social , economic , and other ... | sustainable management of aquatic ecosystems is a worldwide priority ; the integrity of these systems depends , in turn , on the integrity of the watersheds ( catchments ) in which they are embedded . in this article , we present the concepts , background , and scientific foundations for assessing , both nationally and... |
In this grab taken from video made available on Sunday, Nov. 26. 2017, a train passes by dead reindeer, near Mosjoen, North of Norway. A Norwegian reindeer herder says that freight trains have killed... (Associated Press)
In this grab taken from video made available on Sunday, Nov. 26. 2017, a train passes by dead ... | – A reindeer herder describes himself as "dizzy with anger" after freight trains barreled into more than 100 reindeer in Norway over three days, killing 106. Torstein Appfjell, who Sky News reports oversees about 2,000 reindeer, calls the deaths "totally tragic" and frames that toll in that period as "unprecedented." A... |
figure [ fig : spectrum ] and [ fig : lightcurve ] show the _ chandra _ high energy ( heg ) and medium energy ( meg ) gratings spectra , and the lightcurve for a @xmath2 ks observation of the single giant hr 9024 .
the lightcurves for a hard and a soft spectral band , shown in fig .
[ fig : lightcurve ] , indicate a... | we analyze a _ chandra _ hetgs observation of the single g - type giant hr 9024 .
the high flux allows us to examine spectral line and continuum diagnostics at high temporal resolution , to derive plasma parameters ( thermal distribution , abundances , temperature , ... ) .
a time - dependent 1d hydrodynamic loop ... |
we consider the grossone , @xmath5 formalism of yaroslav sergeyev @xcite .
see also @xcite for other discussions of this structure and its applications .
this paper begins in the stance that there are no completed infinite sets .
we shall show that the grossone is then naturally interpreted as a generic finite natural ... | this paper introduces the concept of a _ generic finite set _ and points out that a consistent and significant interpretation of the _ grossone _ , @xmath0 notation of yarolslav d. sergeyev is that @xmath0 takes the role of a generic natural number .
this means that @xmath0 is not itself a natural number , yet it ca... |
it is well known that the gravitational lensing by the foreground objects ( e.g. , galaxies ) can alter the apparent brightness of background objects ( e.g. , quasars ) , which may contaminate our observations .
three decades ago , barnothy and barnothy ( 1968 ) proposed that all the quasars were nothing but the gravit... | for a wide variety of cosmological models characterized by the cosmic mass density @xmath0 and the normalized cosmological constant @xmath1 , we derive an analytic expression for the estimate of magnification cross - sections by an ensemble of isothermal spheres as models of galactic mass distributions .
this provid... |
the network growth literature was commenced by the seminal barabsi - albert model posited initially in @xcite .
the motivation of studying the evolution of networks is to grasp underlying mechanisms that drive the growth process , which ramify into observable macro properties ( such as a power - law degree distributio... | in studying network growth , the conventional approach is to devise a growth mechanism , quantify the evolution of a statistic or distribution ( such as the degree distribution ) , and then solve the equations in the steady state ( the infinite - size limit ) .
consequently , empirical studies also seek to verify th... |
detection of cancer in the early asymptomatic stage improves the cure rates and quality of life of the patient by minimizing extensive , debilitating treatments and can be conservatively managed with minimal surgical morbidity and 100% survival .
early cancerous lesions are asymptomatic and vary in clinical presentat... | background : the diagnosis of oral malignancy and epithelial dysplasia has traditionally been based upon histopathological evaluation of full thickness biopsy from lesional tissue . as many studies had shown that incisional biopsy could cause progression of the tumors , many alternative methods of collection of samples... |
vancomycin - resistant enterococcus ( vre ) is an important pathogen among hospitalized patients .
significant morbidity , mortality , and increased hospital costs have been associated with infections due to vre .
detection of new cases of vre represents cross transmission via the hands of health care workers , con... | background .
vancomycin - resistant enterococci ( vre ) are significant nosocomial pathogens worldwide .
there is one report about the epidemiology of vre in saudi arabia . objective . to determine the risk factors associated with vre infection or colonization in intensive care unit ( icu ) settings . design .
th... |
Mathematicians are a step closer to answering what, for some, is one of life’s most pressing questions – how to make the perfect cup of coffee.
Advanced mathematical analysis of a “hideously complicated” set of variables reveals that the size of the coffee grain is critical, followed by a long list of other factors... | – One plus one equals … brew? Scientists out of Ireland's University of Limerick tapped into math and a computer model in their quest to come up with a cup of coffee that would satisfy even Twin Peaks' Special Agent Dale Cooper, the CBC reports. And while it was impossible to master every factor in the "hideously compl... |
SECTION 1. FORT PRESQUE ISLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, PENNSYLVANIA.
(a) Findings and Purposes.--
(1) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
(A) Fort Presque Isle was a frontier outpost
located on Garrison Hill in the area of present-day
Erie, P... | Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, in administering the site, to acquire by donation, exchange, or purchase any lands or interests necessary to allow for the site's interpretation, preservation, or restoration.
Requires the Secretary to prepare and submit to specified congressional committees a general managemen... |
the need for rapid implementation of high performance , robust , and portable finite element methods has led to approaches based on automated code generation .
this has been proven successful in the context of the fenics @xcite and firedrake @xcite projects . in these frameworks ,
the weak variational form of a problem... | we present an algorithm for the optimization of a class of finite element integration loop nests .
this algorithm , which exploits fundamental mathematical properties of finite element operators , is proven to achieve a locally optimal operation count . in specified circumstances
the optimum achieved is global .
... |
the study of sample path continuity and hlder regularity of stochastic processes is a very active field of research in probability theory .
the existing literature provides a variety of uniform results on local regularity , especially on the modulus of continuity , for rather general classes of random fields ( see e.g.... | we investigate the regularity of lvy processes within the 2-microlocal analysis framework .
a local description of sample paths is obtained , refining the classic spectrum of singularities determined by jaffard . as a consequence of this result and the properties of the 2-microlocal frontier , we are able to complet... |
For quite some time, scientists had a working theory of why certain piebald (patchy black-and-white) mammals look the way they do. They assumed the coloring is a directed pattern that involves pigmented cells instigating a controlled expansion. Turns out, it’s all just random.
Scientists at the University of Bath a... | – Researchers now know why and how tuxedo cats wear a tuxedo—and it's not for formal galas (cats hate those). The Guardian reports scientists had already figured out that piebald animals get their distinctive white patches because of a mutated gene. But they were way off in their theory of how that mutation produced wh... |
the study population was recruited from chennai , the fourth largest city in india . in our study , the computed sample size is 5830 .
this estimation is based on the following assumptions : the prevalence of dr in the general population is assumed to be 1.3% , with a relative precision of 25% , a drop - out rate of ... | context : insulin users have been reported to have a higher incidence of diabetic retinopathy ( dr).aim : the aim was to elucidate the factors associated with dr among insulin users , especially association between duration , prior to initiating insulin for type 2 diabetes mellitus ( dm ) and developing dr.materials an... |
the texono collaborationtexono ] has been built up since 1997 to pursue an experimental program in neutrino and astroparticle physics @xcite .
the `` flagship '' program is on reactor - based low energy neutrino physics at the kuo - sheng ( ks ) power plant in taiwan .
the ks experiment is the first large - scale part... | a laboratory has been constructed by the texono collaboration at the kuo - sheng reactor power plant in taiwan to study low energy neutrino physics .
the facilities of the laboratory are described .
a limit on the neutrino magnetic moment of @xmath0 at 90% confidence level has been achieved from measurements with ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Witness Security and Protection
Grant Program Act of 2013''.
SEC. 2. WITNESS PROTECTION GRANT PROGRAM.
(a) Definitions.--In this section--
(1) the term ``applicant'' means a State, tribal, or local
government that applies for a gran... | Witness Security and Protection Grant Program Act of 2013 - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) make competitive grants to state, tribal, and local governments to establish or maintain programs that provide protection or assistance to witnesses in court proceedings involving a homicide, a serious violent felony, a ser... |
SECTION 1. TREATMENT OF GOODS EXPORTED FOR MODIFICATION AND REIMPORTED.
(a) Textile and Apparel Goods.--
(1) In general.--Subchapter II of chapter 98 of the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is amended by
inserting in numerical sequence the following subheading, with
... | Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to prescribe requirements for the duty treatment of certain textile and apparel goods exported for processing abroad and subsequently reimported into the United States. Revises requirements granting duty-free treatment of previously imported articles, for which... |
this study was a crossover , randomized clinical trial for assessing accuracy of the swede scores1113 by colposcopy performed by standard colposcopes and the gynocular , using biopsy as a criterion standard .
the inclusion criteria were ( 1 ) women who resulted positive for via at opportunistic screening by trained f... | objectivethis study aimed to evaluate cervical lesions by the swede coloscopy system , histologic finding , liquid - based cytology , and human papillomavirus ( hpv ) in women who resulted positive for visual inspection of the cervix with acetic acid ( via ) by using a pocket - sized battery - driven colposcope , the g... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery
Range Transfer Act of 2013''.
SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF ADMINISTRATIVE JURISDICTION, CHOCOLATE MOUNTAIN
AERIAL GUNNERY RANGE, CALIFORNIA.
(a) Transfer Required.--The Secretary of the Interior shall
transfer to... | Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range Transfer Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy administrative jurisdiction over certain public lands in Imperial and Riverside Counties, California, for inclusion within the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range. Withdraws ... |
entanglement plays an important role in quantum information processing @xcite .
quantum teleportation @xcite , quantum dense coding @xcite , quantum key distribution @xcite , and some other protocols @xcite all require the entanglement to set up the maximally entanglement channel . on the other hand , to complete the q... | we present a way for entanglement distillation for genuine mixed state .
different from the conventional mixed state in entanglement purification protocol , each components of the mixed state in our protocol is a less - entangled state , while it is always a maximally entangled state . with the help of the weak cros... |
null | we report a patient with end - stage renal disease status after two renal transplantations .
milky - like ascites was noted since the immunosuppressant agent was switched to sirolimus ( 1 mg / day ) .
chylous ascites was diagnosed owing to the triglyceride of dialysate to serum being 15.98:15.99 .
series studies ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Alaska Native and American Indian
Direct Reimbursement Act of 1998''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) In 1988, Congress enacted section 405 of the Indian
Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1645) that establis... | Alaska Native and American Indian Direct Reimbursement Act of 1998 - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to make permanent the demonstration program under which Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Alaska Native health organizations that contract or compact for the operation of a hospital or clinic of the... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Horse Protection Amendments Act of
2014''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITION.
Section 2 of the Horse Protection Act (15 U.S.C. 1821) is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) as
paragraphs (2), (4) and (5), respectively;
... | Horse Protection Amendments Act of 2014 - Amends the Horse Protection Act to replace the Designated Qualified Persons program responsible for inspecting horses for soring with a new inspection system. (The soring of horses is any of various actions taken on a horse's limb to produce a higher gait that may cause pain, d... |
low - scale supersymmetry has been recognized for some time as the most natural solution to the hierarchy problem . in addition , supersymmetry with r - parity imposed can provide a natural dark matter candidate in the form of the lightest supersymmetric partner ( lsp ) , which is typically the lightest neutralino @xc... | * abstract * in type ii string vacua constructed from intersecting / magnetized d - branes , the supersymmetry - breaking soft terms are genericaly non - universal .
it is shown that universal supersymmetry - breaking soft terms may arise in a realistic mssm constructed from intersecting / magnetized d - branes i... |
Jeremy Lin and Tim Tebow have been phenomenons who transcended their sports this fall and winter. Each helped reverse stumbling franchises; each has extraordinary leadership skills; each is a model of humility and a person of faith.
But that's about where the similarities end. Lin has shown himself to be a singular... | – Partly because Jeremy Lin is a man of faith, his crazy-fast ride into sports stardom has led to endless comparisons with Tim Tebow. Well sorry, Tebow fans, but Lin wins this one easily in terms of athleticism and sheer amazement value, writes Mike James at the Los Angeles Times. The young New York Knicks star "has sh... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National All Schedules Prescription
Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2014''.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO PURPOSE.
Paragraph (1) of section 2 of the National All Schedules
Prescription Electronic Reporting Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-60) is
amended... | National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Amends the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act of 2005 to include as a purpose of such Act to foster the establishment of state-administered controlled substance monitoring systems in order to ensure that app... |
About Jeff Schmalz
Jeff Schmalz was a journalistic prodigy. He was hired by The New York Times while still a college student, and he was essentially running its metropolitan coverage by his mid-20s. From his crisply pressed trousers and shirts to his unerring sense of how to structure a feature story, he was a cons... | – Today marks World AIDS Day, and there's no shortage of fascinating, hopeful, and dour pieces to read. The four things we found most interesting to know: America remains "in danger of losing the war on AIDS." That opinion belongs to CDC Director Thomas Frieden. He makes his case in the New England Journal of Medicine ... |
null | the total synthesis of two key analogues
of vancomycin containing
single - atom exchanges in the binding pocket ( residue 4 amidine and
thioamide ) are disclosed as well as their peripherally modified ( 4-chlorobiphenyl)methyl
( cbp ) derivatives .
their assessment indicates that combined pocket
amidine and... |
allelic variations within a genome of the same species can be classified into three major groups that include differences in the number of tandem repeats at a particular locus [ microsatellites , or simple sequence repeats ( ssrs ) ] , segmental insertions / deletions ( indels ) , and single nucleotide polymorphisms ( ... | the use of molecular markers has revolutionized the pace and precision of plant genetic analysis which in turn facilitated the implementation of molecular breeding of crops .
the last three decades have seen tremendous advances in the evolution of marker systems and the respective detection platforms .
markers base... |
in strongly coupled plasmas @xcite , the coulomb interaction energy between neighboring particles exceeds the kinetic energy , leading to non - binary collisions that display temporal and spatial correlations between past and future collision events .
such ` non - markovian ' dynamics invalidates traditional theory for... | we present a study of the collisional relaxation of ion velocities in a strongly coupled , ultracold neutral plasma on short timescales compared to the inverse collision rate .
non - exponential decay towards equilibrium for the average velocity of a tagged population of ions heralds non - markovian dynamics and a b... |
Tweet with a location
You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2016 file photo, a man reads a newspaper with the he... | – The Donald Trump phone conversation that led to an official complaint from Beijing was a calculated move, not an innocent congratulatory call or a blunder made by a man with no knowledge of foreign policy, insiders tell the Washington Post. Instead, the provocative conversation with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen w... |
we consider development of a multilevel iterative solver for large - scale sparse linear systems corresponding to graph laplacian problems for graphs with balanced vertex degrees .
a typical example is furnished by the matrices corresponding to the ( finite difference)/(finite volume)/(finite element ) discretizations ... | we design and implement a parallel algebraic multigrid method for isotropic graph laplacian problems on multicore graphical processing units ( gpus ) .
the proposed amg method is based on the aggregation framework .
the setup phase of the algorithm uses a parallel maximal independent set algorithm in forming aggre... |
WASHINGTON — BY all outward indications, the U.S. Navy Veterans Association was a leader in the charitable community. Founded in 2002 to provide support to Navy veterans in need, the charity recorded astonishing financial success. In its first eight years, it raised around $100 million in charitable contributions, almo... | – This month, the man behind a $100 million "charity" scam was finally convicted on 23 felony counts. But "the most outrageous aspect of the case is that much of what [John Donald] Cody did was probably legal, or at least not specifically illegal," writes Ken Stern in the New York Times. Cody's US Navy Veterans Associa... |
large data sets of points in high - dimension often lie close to a smooth low - dimensional manifold .
a fundamental problem in processing such data sets is the construction of an efficient parameterization that allows for the data to be well represented in fewer dimensions .
such a parameterization may be realized by ... | constructing an efficient parameterization of a large , noisy data set of points lying close to a smooth manifold in high dimension remains a fundamental problem .
one approach consists in recovering a local parameterization using the local tangent plane .
principal component analysis ( pca ) is often the tool of ... |
this condition ranks second among the complaints in the united states , following upper respiratory tract complaints .
herniated discs ( hd ) account for 4 % of the total cases of mechanical low back pain , and occur in approximately 2.8 million patients annually .
patients with lumbar hd experience acute onset un... | lumbar herniated discs commonly occur in patients 2040 years of age , and result in acute symptoms of shooting and intractable pain in the low back and/or lower extremities .
however , the prognosis of these patients is considered to be very good . moreover , 70 % of these patients have been reported to be free fro... |
we complied with the institutional review boards of the centers for disease control and prevention ( cdc ) ( protocol 4797 ) and the broad institute of mit and harvard .
denv was obtained from human serum received through the passive surveillance system administered by cdc .
each sample was accompanied by a form th... | to study the evolution of dengue virus ( denv ) serotype 2 in puerto rico , we examined the genetic composition and diversity of 160 denv-2 genomes obtained through 22 consecutive years of sampling .
a clade replacement took place in 19941997 during a period of high incidence of autochthonous denv-2 and frequent , sh... |
autism is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by impairments in social interaction , impaired communication and restricted , repetitive , or stereotyped behaviors .
autism specifically affects brain function in the areas responsible for the development of communication and social interaction skills .
early... | aim : the present study attempts to explore the oral hygiene practices and oral health status in autistic patients as compared to nonaffected , same aged healthy individuals.materials and methods : the oral hygiene practices , prevalence of caries and periodontal status were evaluated in 117 autistic patients and 126 h... |
With a West Wing office but no specific title – and no precedent for adult children whose father is president – the rules Trump is subject to are under dispute
After months of attending meetings of world leaders and visiting factories with her father, the role of first daughter Ivanka Trump is officially expanding ... | – Ivanka Trump has attended meetings with foreign leaders and Cabinet members; she has security clearance that allows her access to classified information, a government-issued phone and computer, a White House email address, and even her own White House office. She still doesn't have an official White House job, but NP... |
blue stragglers ( bss ) , which have stayed on the main sequence for a time exceeding that expected from standard stellar evolution theory for their masses , are important in population synthesis because of their peculiar properties .
these objects lie above and blueward of the turn - off in the colour magnitude diagr... | blue stragglers ( bss ) are important objects in cluster populations because of their peculiar properties .
the colours and magnitudes of these objects are critical parameters in population synthesis of the host cluster and may depend remarkably on bss surface composition .
observations show that some bss are shor... |
the mean - field description of a many - body system , i.e. the hartree - fock ( hf ) and/or time - dependent hartree - fock theory ( tdhf ) , provides a simple tool for descriptions of certain aspects of complex quantum systems .
however , it is well known that the mean - field approximation is suitable for the descri... | in the stochastic mean - field approach , an ensemble of initial conditions is considered to incorporate correlations beyond the mean - field . then each starting pont is propagated separately using the time - dependent hartree - fock equation of motion .
this approach provides a rather simple tool to better describ... |
a 62-year - old female patient was referred by a regional hospital to department of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery because of a mass in her sternum . at presentation , the patient had no disease other than hypertension .
she had received calcium channel blocker therapy for her hypertension at a regional hospital... | plasmacytoma is a plasma cell neoplasm that locally infiltrates a bone or spreads to extramedullary areas .
a new world health organization criterion defines solitary plasmacytoma of bone as a localized bone tumor consisting of plasma cells identical to those seen in plasma cell myeloma , which is manifested as a sol... |
most fusions occur between c3 and c7 , adjacent to the highly mobile upper cervical region that accommodates approximately half of all cervical motion.4 transfer of motion and stress to adjacent levels after a fusion has been extensively studied biomechanically .
schwab et al examined human cadaveric cervical spines ... | symptomatic adjacent segment degeneration of the cervical spine remains problematic for patients and surgeons alike . despite advances in surgical techniques and instrumentation
, the solution remains elusive .
spurred by the success of total joint arthroplasty in hips and knees , surgeons and industry have turned ... |
extrinsic compression of the celiac trunk by the median arcuate ligament ( mal ) occurs in 10 - 24% of patients . although this compression may lead to clinical manifestations of postprandial epigastric pain , nausea or vomiting , and weight loss , it is usually asymptomatic , presumably due to collateral supply from t... | median arcuate ligament ( mal ) syndrome is a controversial condition characterized by compression of the celiac trunk and symptoms of intestinal angina .
we present a case of mal compressing the celiomesenteric trunk , a rare variation .
we report computed tomography ( ct ) angiography and three - dimensional reco... |
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