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a 17-year - old boy presented with severe headache of 2 weeks duration and sudden decrease in vision in both eyes for 10 days , right eye followed by left within 5 days . on examination , right eye had no perception of light and left eye had of counting fingers close to face vision .
pupil was fixed dilated and nonre... | sphenoid sinus mucocele comprises only 2% of all paranasal sinus mucoceles . in literature
, there is a case report on sphenoidal mucocele causing bilateral optic neuropathy , with unilateral partial recovery and cranial nerve palsy , but we did not come across any literature with bilateral optic neuropathy and ophth... |
neck pain is a common musculoskeletal problem that up to 70% of the world population will experience at some point in their lives .
intramedullary spinal cord metastasis is an exceedingly rare complication of malignancy that affects less than 1% of all patients with cancer .
we report a case of a 61-year - old man ... | introduction : neck pain is a common musculoskeletal problem that up to 70% of the world population will experience at some point in their lives .
intramedullary spinal cord metastasis is an exceedingly rare complication of malignancy that affects less than 1% of all patients with cancer.case report : we report a cas... |
chronic venous insufficiency ( cvi ) is characterised by the retrograde flow of blood in the
lower extremity .
cvi and its sequel of varicose veins and venous hypertension are among the
most common disorders that affect daily life1 .
the annual incidence of cvi is 26% and 1.9% in women and men , respectively2 .... | [ purpose ] this study was aimed to analyse the effects of short - term use of compression
stockings ( cs ) on symptoms and qol in patients with chronic venous insufficiency ( cvi ) .
[ subjects and methods ] based on the ceap classification c2 and c3 , 117 patients with cvi
were enrolled in this study .
the pa... |
currently , two instruments are used to assess intraocular lens ( iol ) power : the ultrasound ( us ) a - scan and optical biometry based on partial coherence interferometry ( pci )
some authors have shown better refractive predictability with pci than with contact us,12345 whereas others have shown comparable result... | this retrospective study was performed to compare refractive outcomes measured by conventional methods and by use of the lenstar biometer and to investigate the factors affecting intraocular lens ( iol ) power calculation with lenstar with and without iol - constant optimization .
the study included 100 eyes of 86 pa... |
SECTION 1. TEACHER RECRUITMENT.
Subpart 1 of part A of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965
is amended--
(1) in chapter 3, by redesignating section 407E (20 U.S.C.
1070a-35) as section 406E; and
(2) by inserting after such chapter 3 the following new
chapter:
... | Recruit and Reward Future Math and Science Teachers of America Act of 2001 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish the National Math and Science Teacher Scholarships pilot program to recruit and train future secondary school mathematics and science teachers.Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award ... |
asthma is a common condition that affects 5 - 10% of the population worldwide.1 al - though known since antiquity , asthma has only recently been defined as being only partially reversible.2 it places a substantial burden on family , health care services and on society as a whole . in children , it im - pairs ability t... | background : asthma is a common health problem whose prevalence in saudi arabia has risen over the last few decades .
brick factories in the city of bahrah have exacerbated the problem , and increasing numbers of asthma cases are attending local primary health care centers.objective:determine the risk factors of asth... |
Wanted teen Ethan Couch and his mother may be traveling together in her pickup truck, Tarrant County authorities said Monday at a news conference on the nationwide manhunt.
Investigators are sifting through “hundreds and hundreds” of leads — including flight, credit card and cell phone records — as they search for ... | – "Affluenza teen" Ethan Couch, the Texas 18-year-old who allegedly violated his probation after a drunk-driving crash that killed four bystanders, is still missing along with his mother. They may be traveling in her black 2011 Ford F150 pickup truck, authorities said at a press conference Monday. The Harley Davidson e... |
Venice, Louisiana (CNN) -- President Obama said Sunday his administration has mounted a "relentless response" to the oil spill unleashed by the sinking of an offshore drill rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
Obama met with local, state and federal officials involved in the cleanup in southeastern Louisiana, the closest str... | – President Obama visited Louisiana this afternoon, seeing for himself the effects of the continuing oil spill and promising an "all-hands-on-deck" reaction, the Times-Picayune reports. "BP is responsible for this leak. BP will be paying the bill," he said. "But as president of the United States, I will spare no effort... |
seasonal influenza transmission varies throughout the world with time of year and region.1 the mechanisms behind influenza seasonality are not well understood ; however , multiple factors , including virological , immunological , environmental , and social factors likely contribute to the observed seasonal patterns of ... | backgroundseasonal influenza activity varies with geography and time of year.objectiveto describe how pandemic influenza a(h1n1)2009 [ a(h1n1)pdm09 ] activity varied during the 20092010 pandemic.methodswe analyzed influenza virological data compiled by the world health organization from june 2009august 2010 .
we calc... |
ancient indian literature comprises a remarkably broad definition of medicinal plants and considers all plant parts to be potential sources of medicinal substances . however , a key obstacle which has hindered the acceptance of the alternative medicines in the developed countries is the lack of documentation and rigoro... | herbal medicines have a long therapeutic history and are still serving many of the health needs of a large population of the world .
however , the quality control and quality assurance still remains a challenge because of the high variability of chemical components involved .
herbal drugs , singularly and in combin... |
SECTION 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMISSION.
For the purpose of preserving and interpreting for the educational
and inspirational benefit of present and future generations the unique
and significant contribution to our national heritage of certain
historic and cultural lands, waterways, and edifices in the Great Fal... | Establishes the Great Falls Historic District Commission to prepare a plan for the preservation, interpretation, development, and use of the historic, cultural, and architectural resources of the Great Falls of Passaic/S.U.M. National Historic District in Paterson, New Jersey.
Authorizes appropriations for the prepara... |
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is calling for the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers to monitor a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, amid reports that at least 13 soldiers were killed while withdrawing from the town of Debaltseve. (Reuters)
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is calling for the deployment of U.N. p... | – In an unraveling ceasefire with Russia-backed separatists, Ukraine lost the city of Debaltseve yesterday; the BBC also reports that shelling picked up in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, and that separatists have been conducting mortar attacks in the town of Shirokyne. So it's perhaps not surprising that Ukrainian Pre... |
A Kansas University professor who used the n-word during a class discussion about race is on leave while the university investigates a discrimination complaint against her.
Andrea Quenette, assistant professor of communication studies, said she was notified Friday morning that five individuals, whose names she does... | – A white professor is on leave and under investigation after using the n-word in class—but she says her actions were part of a legitimate conversation about race, the Topeka Capital-Journal reports. Andrea Quenette, an assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas, says she requested a paid ... |
extra - articular manifestations ( exra ) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis ( ra ) have been observed with at a frequency of 17.8 to 40.9% .
exra are associated with comorbidities , erosions , more aggressive disease , high rate for disability , and premature mortality .
it has been described that patients with... | we evaluated the association between anti - cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies ( anti - ccp ) and anti - mutated citrullinated vimentin antibodies ( anti - mcv ) with the presence of extra - articular ( exra ) manifestations in 225 patients with rheumatoid arthritis ( ra ) .
ninety - five patients had exra and 1... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Urban Flooding Awareness Act of
2015''.
SEC. 2. URBAN FLOODING DEFINED.
(a) In General.--In this Act, the term ``urban flooding'' means the
inundation of property in a built environment, particularly in more
densely populated areas, caused by rain fal... | Urban Flooding Awareness Act of 2015 Directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to conduct a study on urban flooding. Defines "urban flooding" as the inundation of property in a built environment, particularly in more densely populated a... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Code Talkers Recognition Act of
2008''.
SEC. 2. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Act is to require the issuance of medals to
express the sense of Congress that--
(1) the service of Native American code talkers to the
United States dese... | Code Talkers Recognition Act of 2008 - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the award of gold medals in recognition of the service of Native American code talkers of specified Indian tribes. Defines "code talker" as a Native American who served i... |
SECTION 1. TAX EXEMPT TREATMENT OF CERTAIN BONDS ISSUED IN CONNECTION
WITH DELINQUENT REAL PROPERTY TAXES.
(a) In General.--Section 148 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
is amended by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j) and by
inserting after subsection (h) the following new subsecti... | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that certain bonds issued by local governments in connection with delinquent real property taxes (delinquent tax bonds) may be treated as tax exempt.Requires: (1) such a bond to be issued (with a three-month maturity date) primarily to facilitate the collection or receipt of ... |
galaxy clusters provide one of the most powerful tools to constrain the key cosmological parameters . in the era of precision cosmology
, it is important to determine their mass as accurately as possible before using them as a cosmological probe .
any kind of simplified assumption about the properties of galaxy cluster... | to use galaxy clusters as a cosmological probe , it is important to account for their triaxiality . assuming that the triaxial shapes of galaxy clusters are induced by the tidal interaction with the surrounding matter , lee and kang recently developed a reconstruction algorithm for the measurement of the axial ratio o... |
a stochastic cellular automata ( ca ) model of pedestrian flow is considered here .
our model takes inspiration from stochastic floor field ( ff ) ca model @xcite that provides pedestrians with a map which `` shows '' the shortest distance from current position to a target . in this paper
we focus on mathematical for... | this paper deals with a mathematical model of a pedestrian movement . a stochastic cellular automata ( ca ) approach is used here . the floor field ( ff )
model is a basis model .
ff models imply that virtual people follow the shortest path strategy .
but people are followed by a strategy of the shortest time as... |
with the first polarized @xmath1+@xmath1 collisions at @xmath3 = 200 gev at the relativistic heavy ion collider ( rhic ) , a large single transverse spin asymmetry ( @xmath0 ) for neutron production in very forward kinematics was discovered by a polarimeter development experiment @xcite . that experiment was designed t... | the energy dependence of the single - transverse - spin asymmetry , @xmath0 , and the cross section for neutron production at very forward angles were measured in the phenix experiment at rhic for polarized @xmath1@xmath2@xmath1 collisions at @xmath3=200 gev .
the neutrons were observed in forward detectors covering... |
mammary glands are anatomical structures that distinguish mammals from all other animals and secrete milk for offspring . these organs are considered composite secretory organs and are made up of various types of cells , including epithelial cells , adipocytes , fibroblasts , and vascular endothelial cells ( macias & h... | the insulin - like growth factor ( igf ) pathway is a key signal transduction pathway involved in cell proliferation , migration , and apoptosis . in dairy cows , igf family proteins and binding receptors , including their intracellular binding partners , regulate mammary gland development .
igfs and igf receptor int... |
Tim Pawlenty says he holds no hard feelings for being passed over by Mitt Romney as his vice presidential running mate.
"I'm not disappointed. I didn't get something I didn't expect," the former Minnesota governor told ABC "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos. Pawlenty had been considered for John McCain's runnin... | – DC's finest wasted no time reacting to Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan as his runningmate this morning, with Republicans applauding as Democrats immediately pounced on the Wisconsin Republican. Highlights from your Sunday dial, as per Politico: John McCain: Ryan is an "excellent choice," who won't outshine the top ... |
both humans and animals can be directly infected through contact with infected tissue or urine or indirectly through contact with contaminated soil and water [ 4 , 5 ] . in humans
, typical symptoms can include fever , headaches , chills , vomiting , sore muscles , jaundice , red eyes , abdominal pain , diarrhea , an... | leptospirosis is a severe spirochetal zoonosis in the world .
it is considered an occupational disease of persons engaged in agriculture , sewage works , forestry , and animal slaughtering .
a study was conducted with an objective of assessing the seroprevalence of leptospirosis in and around vellore district , tam... |
Anant Goel, Nabanita De, Qinglin Chen and Mark Craft. Nabanita De Facebook is facing increasing criticism over its role in the 2016 US presidential election because it allowed propaganda lies disguised as news stories to spread on the social-media site unchecked.
The spreading of false information during the electi... | – Mark Zuckerberg says fake news on Facebook didn't help tip the election in Donald Trump's favor, but that hasn't stopped the site, along with Google, from starting to address the issue. Although they're not directly taking on the fake news sites themselves, the two platforms are trying to put the kibosh on ads on sit... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Crags, Colorado Land Exchange Act of
2015''.
SEC. 2. PURPOSES.
The purposes of this Act are--
(1) to authorize, direct, expedite and facilitate the land
exchange set forth herein; and
(2) to promote enhanced public outdo... | . Crags, Colorado Land Exchange Act of 2015 (Sec. 4) This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA), if the Broadmoor Hotel, Inc., (BHI) offers to convey to the USDA 320 acres of specified nonfederal land in the Pike National Forest in Teller County, Colorado, and a permanent trail easement for the Barr Trail ... |
Paramount Pictures / Skydance Productions
Those madcap galoots, Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and “Bones” McCoy (Karl Urban), are trying to escape a band of chalk-faced aboriginals on the Class-M planet Nibiru. Having broken a Starfleet rule by intervening in a prehistoric civilization, they run for their live... | – Four years after he first thrilled audiences and annoyed hard core Trekkies with Star Trek, JJ Abrams is back with Star Trek Into Darkness, and critics are gushing over it, saying it's even more thrilling—and perhaps even more likely to annoy fans. "It's crazy good," gushes Peter Travers at Rolling Stone. "Kudos to A... |
the ground state of exotic fermion cooper pairing with mismatched fermi surfaces is a longstanding problem in the theory of superconductivity @xcite . in electronic superconductors ,
the mismatched fermi surfaces are normally induced by the zeeman energy splitting @xmath0 in a magnetic field . for
@xmath1-wave pairing... | it is generally believed that the inhomogeneous larkin - ovchinnikov - fulde - ferrell ( loff ) phase appears in a color superconductor when the pairing between different quark flavors is under the circumstances of mismatched fermi surfaces .
however , the real crystal structure of the loff phase is still unclear be... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Small Business Regulatory Assistance
Act of 1998''.
SEC. 2. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Act is to establish a system of confidential
voluntary compliance with Federal regulations that will--
(1) provide a low-cost process to significantly ... | Small Business Regulatory Assistance Act of 1998 - Amends the Small Business Act to require each participating Federal agency (the Internal Revenue Service, Environmental Protection Agency, and Department of Labor), the Assistant Administrator for Small Business Development Centers of the Small Business Administration,... |
let @xmath0 be two natural numbers satisfying the stable condition @xmath1 , and @xmath2 be the moduli space of stable curves with genus @xmath3 and @xmath4 marked points . denote by @xmath5 ( @xmath6 ) the first chern class of the @xmath7-th tautological line bundle @xmath8 on @xmath2 , and denote by @xmath9 ( @xmath1... | the generating function of cubic hodge integrals satisfying the local calabi - yau condition is conjectured to be a tau function of a new integrable system which can be regarded as a fractional generalization of the volterra lattice hierarchy , so we name it the _ fractional volterra hierarchy_. in this paper , we giv... |
chronic kidney disease ( ckd ) , which prevalence is still growing worldwide , confers a higher risk of coronary artery disease ( cad ) , chronic heart failure ( chf ) and/or death independently of conventional cardiovascular risk factors ( 1 , 2 ) . tens of millions of persons worldwide have combined cardiovascular di... | background : the incidence of cardiac morbidity and mortality is high in patients treated with hemodialysis ( hd ) . the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between hd and the echocardiographic findings in patients with chronic kidney disease ( ckd).methods : between 2012 and 2014 , 150 patients with ckd... |
alzheimer 's disease ( ad ) is the leading cause of dementia in older adults .
currently 4.5 million americans have ad and this number is expected to rise to 13.2 million by the year 2050 .
estimates within canada suggest that over half a million individuals over 65 years of age have ad or a related disease [ 2 , 3... | alzheimer 's disease is the leading cause of dementia in older adults .
although memory problems are the most characteristic symptom of this disorder , many individuals also experience progressive problems with communication .
this systematic review investigates the effectiveness of methods to improve the verbal co... |
After being driven off the stage Saturday afternoon, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addressed the issue later before a large crowd at the University of Washington.
Set to speak at a Seattle park during the afternoon, Sanders was interrupted by activists from Black Lives Matter, who demanded the op... | – Liberals cussing out black protesters in Seattle? Apparently it happened: Bernie Sanders was starting a speech at Westlake Park yesterday when two female activists for Black Lives Matter snatched his microphone and demanded people's attention, the Seattle Times reports. "If you do not listen … your event will be shut... |
this study adopted applied research approach in two phases . in the first step , this study conducted theoretical health equity audit models in the texts , and then , employed the delphi technique.9 this phase was conducted to study the experiences of other countries in this regard and select the most appropriate model... | background : health equity audit , as an alternative solution , is a process by which local partners systematically review inequalities in the patients ` health , their access to appropriate services and health system outputs .
then , necessary activities needed in order to have more equitable services are agreed on ... |
despite recent advances in imaging modalities , it is very difficult to distinguish benign lesions from malignant lesions presenting as polypoid lesions of the gallbladder ( plg ) .
the current consensus regarding a treatment strategy for plg is that a solitary , sessile polyp larger than 1 cm and a patient older tha... | we treated a 69-year - old male with a 16-mm polyp of the gallbladder . enhanced computed tomography demonstrated marked enhancement . with a tentative diagnosis of early polypoid cancer of the gallbladder
, open cholecystectomy was performed .
intraoperative ultrasound showed hyperechoic spots on the surface of th... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Radio Free Iran Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) It is the policy of the United States to support the
right of the people of Iran to seek, receive, and impart
information and ideas through ... | Radio Free Iran Act - Directs the United States Information Agency to provide for the open communication of information and ideas on Iran through the use of radio broadcasting to Iran. Designates any U.S. Government radio broadcasts in the Farsi language to Iran as "Radio Free Iran."
Establishes the Advisory Board fo... |
thyroid cancer is one of the most common types of endocrine malignancy , the incidence rate of which has rapidly increased during previous years ( 1,2 ) .
it has been estimated that the annual number of cases of thyroid cancer diagnosed in the usa and the associated mortality rate are 12.9/100,000 and 0.5/100,000 ind... | the present study aimed to systematically examine the molecular mechanisms of papillary thyroid cancer ( ptc ) , and identify potential biomarkers and drugs for the treatment of ptc .
two microarray data sets ( gse3467 and gse3678 ) , containing 16 ptc samples and 16 paired normal samples , were downloaded from the g... |
the icecube collaboration reported 37 events ranging from 60tev to 3pev within three years of operation , correspond to a @xmath2 excess over the background atmospheric neutrinos and muons@xcite .
the observed events can be fitted by a hard spectra ( @xmath3 ) with @xmath4 and a cutoff above 2pev , implied by the non -... | one attractive scenario for the excess of sub - pev / pev neutrinos recently reported by icecube is that they are produced by cosmic rays in starburst galaxies colliding with the dense interstellar medium .
these proton - proton ( @xmath0 ) collisions also produce high - energy gamma - rays , which finally contribut... |
Mums are now a flower of a different color. Japanese researchers have added a hint of clear sky to the humble plant’s palette, genetically engineering the first-ever “true blue” chrysanthemum.
“Obtaining blue-colored flowers is the Holy Grail for plant breeders,” says Mark Bridgen, a plant breeder at Cornell Univer... | – A development of "great impact" has been made in the world of flowers—specifically among chrysanthemums, which researchers have just turned a true-blue hue for the first time, per Science. The magazine explains that vibrant blue flowers are hard to find in nature—only a few species exist, and others we think are blue... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Bear Protection Act of 1999''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that--
(1) all 8 extant species of bear--Asian black bear, brown
bear, polar bear, American black bear, spectacled bear, giant
panda, sun bear, and sloth bear--... | Bear Protection Act of 1999 - Prohibits any person from: (1) importing bear viscera into, or exporting it from, the United States; or (2) selling bear viscera, bartering, offering it for sale or barter, or purchasing, possessing, transporting, delivering, or receiving it in interstate or foreign commerce. Subjects per... |
turbulent magnetic fields play an important role in many astrophysical processes such as amplification of magnetic fields , accretion , viscous heating and thermal conduction in a turbulent magnetised plasma , etc . @xcite .
one of the most important processes where the presence of turbulent magnetic fields is necessar... | we study the polarization properties of the jitter and synchrotron radiation produced by electrons in highly turbulent anisotropic magnetic fields .
the net polarization is provided by the geometry of the magnetic field the directions of which are parallel to a certain plane .
such conditions may appear in the rel... |
BAY VILLAGE, Ohio – Actor and comedian Drew Carey offered to help Bay Village police find the perpetrators behind a prank played on an autistic teenager.
Via Twitter, Carey said that if the police want to start a reward fund to find the people who organized the prank, he would donate $10,000 to it.
Carey, a Cle... | – Drew Carey has offered $10,000 to help find a group of Cleveland-area teenagers who humiliated an autistic boy with their twisted take on the ALS ice bucket challenge. The 14-year-old's mother contacted police after discovering that the group of teens had used the boy's phone to record a video of them dumping a bucke... |
it appears that many perovskite manganites , when doped by holes up to the level corresponding to the formal valence of mn @xmath6@xmath7 , exhibit very specific properties , inherent to only this particular hole concentration and different from other doping regimes .
the compounds are insulating and at certain tempera... | the low - temperature properties of the so - called charge ordered state in 50% doped perovskite manganites are described from the viewpoint of the magnetic spin ordering . in these systems ,
the zigzag antiferromagnetic ordering , combined with the double - exchange physics , effectively divides the whole sample ... |
left - handed materials , plasmon - polariton systems , and localized modes in random media are attracting nowadays the ever - increasing interest of physicists and engineers .
this is due to both the fundamental character of the problems and promising applications in photonics , subwavelength optics , random lasing , ... | superresolution , extraordinary transmission , total absorption , and localization of electromagnetic waves are currently attracting growing attention .
these phenomena are related to different physical systems and are usually studied within the context of different , sometimes rather sophisticated , approaches .
... |
chemotaxis , the directed movement of cells in response to chemical gradients , plays an important role in many biological fields , such as embryogenesis , immunology , cancer growth , and wound healing @xcite . at the macroscopic level ,
chemotaxis models can be formulated in terms of the cell density @xmath0 and the ... | a finite volume scheme for the ( patlak- ) keller - segel model in two space dimensions with an additional cross - diffusion term in the elliptic equation for the chemical signal is analyzed .
the main feature of the model is that there exists a new entropy functional yielding gradient estimates for the cell density... |
meningiomas constitute approximately 20% of all brain tumors8 ) . in 1922 , harvey cushing first used the term meningioma16 ) . according to the world health organization ( who ) histologic grading system , three grades of meningiomas with increasing risks of recurrence are distinguished8 ) . benign or common - type tu... | objectiveintracranial meningiomas are primarily benign tumors with a good prognosis .
although who grade ii meningiomas are rare ( 2 - 10% ) , who grade ii meningiomas have higher recurrence and mortality rates than benign .
we evaluated the patient recurrence rate and investigated the prognostic factors of who gra... |
intensive monitoring of black hole x - ray binaries ( bhbs ) has established a set of characteristic outburst states classified by the x - ray luminosity , colour ( `` hardness '' ) , rms variability , and spectral shape ( e.g. @xcite , hereafter rm06 ) . at the highest observed luminosities , the spectrum is dominated... | we propose a new model of the steep power law state of luminous black hole x - ray binaries .
the model uses the fact that at high luminosities , the inner radii of radiation pressure dominated accretion discs are expected to i ) become effectively optically thin and ii ) produce significant luminosities .
the gas... |
idiopathic cluster of differentiation 4 ( cd4 + ) t - cell lymphocytopenia ( icl ) is a rare non human immunodeficiency virus ( hiv)-related syndrome with unclear natural history and prognosis that was first reported and defined in 1992 .
icl has been observed in patients after the onset of an opportunistic infection... | introductionidiopathic cluster of differentiation 4 ( cd4 + ) t - cell lymphocytopenia ( icl ) is a rare non human immunodeficiency virus ( hiv)-related syndrome with unclear natural history and prognosis that was first reported and defined in 1992 .
icl has been observed in patients after the onset of an opportunist... |
one of the fundamental questions of solar system formation is the origin of planetary spins .
the spin axes of three of the four giant planets in our solar system are tilted significantly , with the present values of the obliquities ( the angle between the spin axis and the orbit normal ) of jupiter , saturn , uranus ,... | tsiganis et al . [ tsiganis , k. , et al . , 2005 .
nature 435 , 459461 ] have proposed that the current orbital architecture of the outer solar system could have been established if it was initially compact and jupiter and saturn crossed the 2:1 orbital resonance by divergent migration .
the crossing led to close... |
despite great progress in pharmacotherapy and interventional treatment , acute coronary syndromes ( acs ) remain the major cause of mortality and morbidity in the modern world .
inflammation plays a key role in the initiation and promotion of atherosclerotic lesions and can trigger acs by the induction of plaque inst... | objective . to investigate whether assessment of c - reactive protein ( crp ) and apolipoproteins ,
besides the traditional lipid profile , enhances the assessment process for the risk of acute coronary syndrome ( acs ) .
methods .
the study group consisted of 220 consecutive patients admitted to hospital within ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Prevention of Escapement of
Genetically Altered Salmon in the United States Act''.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SALE OF GENETICALLY ALTERED SALMON.
(a) Prohibition.--It shall be unlawful for a person--
(1) to ship, transport, offer for sale, sell,... | Prevention of Escapement of Genetically Altered Salmon in the United States Act This bill prohibits a person from: shipping, transporting, offering for sale, selling, or purchasing a genetically altered finfish, or a food product containing those fish, in commerce; having custody, control, or possession of those fi... |
amorphous magnetic wires are of interest for their actual and potential use , e. g. in sensors @xcite . as it is almost usual in micromagnetism , their properties depend on the technique of sample preparation and thermal treatment . then , they are a good subject for computational science . the problem of the stray fie... | long - range magnetostatic interaction between wires strongly depends on their spatial position .
this interaction , combined with applied tensile stress , influences the hysteresis loop of the system of wires through the stress dependence of their coercive fields . as a result
, we obtain a set of stable magnetic... |
FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2015 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington. Ginsburg’s public criticism of Donald Trump is dividing legal... (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Campaign 2016 ahead of the Republican and Democratic Nationa... | – Newt Gingrich managed to out-Trump Donald Trump in the wake of Thursday night's horrific attack in Nice, calling for nothing less than the ideological testing of all Muslims in the US and the expulsion of those who don't pass muster. "Let me be as blunt and direct as I can be. Western civilization is in a war. We sho... |
WASHINGTON — A few hours before President Obama offered his historic endorsement of same-sex marriage on Wednesday, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. apologized to the president in the Oval Office for forcing Mr. Obama’s hand by airing his own views three days earlier, several people briefed on the exchange said on Th... | – Skeptics may think Joe Biden's public comments on gay marriage were carefully orchestrated, but the White House insists it was just Joe being Joe. In fact, Biden apologized to the president the first time the two spoke afterward, reports the New York Times and Washington Post. (Both cite anonymous administration offi... |
A team of Dallas doctors has achieved a significant milestone in an experimental surgery that is hoped to one day dramatically change the lives of women born with no uterus and other fertility issues.
In late November, a baby boy delivered at Baylor University Medical Center became the first in the nation to be bor... | – For the first time ever in the US, a woman born without a uterus has given birth, Time reports. The baby boy was delivered via a planned Caesarean section in late November at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas; the historic birth was announced Friday. "We've been preparing for this moment for a very long time... |
autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease ( adpkd ) is a common inherited disease that affects approximately 1 in 1,000 individuals .
the disease 's main clinical manifestations are bilateral renal cyst formation and hypertension , and the half of these patients reach end stage renal failure by the age of 60 yr ( ... | the mutation of the pkd1 gene causes autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease ( adpkd ) , and the pkd1 gene encodes polycystin-1 ( pc-1 ) .
pc-1 is thought to be a cell - cell / matrix adhesion receptor molecule at the cell surface that is widely expressed in the kidney . however , there are controversies about t... |
gastric volvulus is defined as the rotation of the stomach or part of the stomach by more than 180 , which creates a closed loop obstruction .
it can lead to ulceration , perforation , hemorrhage , or ischemia of the incarcerated stomach .
quick detection and prompt surgical correction are the mainstays of therapy ... | acute gastric volvulus requires emergency surgery , and a laparoscopic approach for both acute and chronic gastric volvulus was reported recently to give good results . the case of a 50-year - old patient with acute primary gastric volvulus who was treated by laparoscopic reduction and percutaneous endoscopic gastrosto... |
since the discovery of the first optical afterglow @xcite associated with a gamma - ray burst ( grb ) , several robotic telescopes have been developed to perform rapid follow - up observations of grb afterglows .
fast robotic follow - ups are now possible because of the improved localization of grbs provided by current... | the 2-m liverpool telescope ( lt ) , owned by liverpool john moores university , is located in la palma ( canary islands ) and operates in fully robotic mode . in 2005 ,
the lt began conducting an automatic grb follow - up program .
on receiving an automatic grb alert from a gamma - ray observatory ( _ swift _ , _... |
What was supposed to be one man’s special day at Disney World turned out to be less than magical.
Marc Rubin, 57, who was visiting from New York, had plans to propose to his girlfriend in front of Cinderella’s Castle, but things went awry when he got into an altercation with a park employee who asked he move from t... | – A Long Island man thought July 8, 2015, was going to be "one of the most important" days of his life, but now he's suing Disney World for ruining it. Fox News reports on Marc Rubin's lawsuit, which the 57-year-old filed Sept. 27 in Florida's Orange County Circuit Court, and which outlines how he claims a Disney emplo... |
even if rarely , breast cancer ( bc ) affects men . to date , in western countries , male breast cancer ( mbc ) is < 1% of all breast tumors and < 1% of all cancers in men , , .
recent epidemiological studies suggest that the incidence of mbc is increasing by 1.1% per year , .
mbc incidence is generally low compare... | highlightsmale breast cancer ( mbc ) is a rare disease representing less than 1% of all malignancies in men andonly 1% of all incident breast cancers.management consisted especially of radical mastectomy ; followed by adjuvant radiotherapy and hormonal therapy with or without chemotherapy.future research for better und... |
autoimmune pancreatitis ( aip ) and pancreatic cancer have recently been reported.[15 ] in such cases , cytological examination can be difficult due to sclerosis , inflammation and reactive atypia in the corresponding tissue .
in cytological examinations , some authors have reported that when a smear preparation exhi... | a 75-year - old man was diagnosed as having pancreatic ductal carcinoma containing remarkable lymphocytic and plasma cell infiltration , as revealed by the cytological examination of endoscopic ultrasound guided fine - needle aspiration ( eus - fna ) specimen .
the eus - fna specimen showed small amounts of atypical ... |
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Roadless Area Conservation Act of
2002''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) In General.--Congress finds that--
(1) there is a compelling need to establish national
protection for inventoried roadless areas of the National
F... | Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2002 - Prohibits road construction and road reconstruction in inventoried roadless areas of the National Forest System. Specifies exceptions, including because: (1) there is threat of a catastrophic event; (2) a natural resource restoration action is necessary; or (3) a Federal-aid hig... |
the stomach is a central metabolic crossroad wherein numerous signals converge and depart to control nutrient intake , appetite , and general metabolic homeostasis .
thus , data gleaned over the last few years have shown that the stomach plays a key role in the regulation of food intake through the secretion of pepti... | the stomach secretes a wide range of peptides with essential metabolic functions , and thereby plays an important role in the regulation of energy homeostasis .
disulfide isomerase glucose - regulated protein 58 ( grp58 ) is a molecular chaperone member of the endoplasmic reticulum ( er ) stress signaling pathway , w... |
we employed an empirical model of the relationship between climate and dengue based on the known global distribution of dengue ( 12 ) . the climate factor that predicts the presence of dengue most accurately is the long - term average humidity of a region , expressed as average annual vapour pressure , which is an exp... | backgroundclimate change is expected to promote more intense and prolonged outbreaks of vector - borne disease , and alter the geographic boundaries of transmission .
this has implications for the safety and supply of fresh blood products around the world . in australia ,
a recent outbreak of dengue fever caused a ... |
@xcite conducted a comparison project of numerical simulations of the formation of a massive cluster of galaxies in a cold dark matter ( cdm ) universe in which the results of twelve independent simulation codes were compared . both eulerian mesh codes and lagrangian smoothed particle hydrodynamics ( hereafter sph ; * ... | the santa barbara cluster comparison project @xcite revealed that there is a systematic difference between entropy profiles of clusters of galaxies obtained by eulerian mesh and lagrangian smoothed particle hydrodynamics ( sph ) codes : mesh codes gave a core with a constant entropy whereas sph codes did not .
one p... |
canine cutaneous tumors that consist of clear or vacuolated cells are uncommon and
include balloon cell melanoma , clear cell basal carcinoma , sebaceous carcinoma ,
apocrine sweat gland adenoma clear cell variant , clear cell trichoblastoma and
canine c... | cutaneous clear cell adnexal carcinoma was found in the right lip of a
14-year - old male castrated shih tzu .
histologically , the tumor mostly
consisted of neoplastic cells with clear or vacuolated cytoplasms and
contained frequent tub... |
cleft lip and palate is a craniofacial anomaly caused by failure in the fusion of embryonic facial processes1 .
it is the most common malformation , occurring in approximately 1 per 500 - 700 births and , this ratio vary considerably across ethnic grouping .
this congenital deformity results in esthetic and functio... | summary
introduction : at the initial consultation , the speech language pathologist and audiologist may consider possible diagnostic hypotheses based on the child 's history and the parents ' complaint .
aim : to investigate the association of hearing complaints with the findings obtained in the conventional au... |
throughout the paper @xmath0 is a simply - connected simple compact lie group and @xmath1 is an orientable smooth closed 4-manifold . given a principal @xmath0-bundle @xmath6 , its associated gauge group @xmath7 is the group of @xmath0-equivariant automorphisms of @xmath8 which fix @xmath1 and the pointed gauge group @... | let @xmath0 be a simply - connected simple compact lie group and let @xmath1 be an orientable smooth closed 4-manifold . in this paper
we calculate the homotopy type of the suspension of @xmath1 and the homotopy types of the gauge groups of principal @xmath0-bundles over @xmath1 when @xmath2 is : ( 1 ) a free group... |
Brad buys £700,000 bachelor pad (complete with its own cave) to 'get over split from Angelina'
Brad Pitt has bought himself a bachelor pad to help him deal with his split from Angelina Jolie
Brad Pitt has secretly purchased a bachelor pad to help him sort out his split from Angelina Jolie, it was reported y... | – The latest development in the gossip universe’s breathless coverage of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s rumored split: Brad bought himself a $1.1 million bachelor pad. This according to the Daily Mail, which even has pictures of the two-bedroom, two-bath place (it comes complete with, literally, a man cave). “'Brad has... |
A TV host and sports broadcaster on Thursday accused Sen. Al Franken Alan (Al) Stuart FrankenGillibrand announces exploratory committee to run for president on Colbert The Hill’s 12:30 Report: Trump AG pick Barr grilled at hearing | Judge rules against census citizenship question | McConnell blocks second House bill to... | – A radio host and former Playboy playmate says Sen. Al Franken assaulted her—and unlike some women coming forward with similar tales about other high-profile figures, Leeann Tweeden offered proof. In a first-person account at KABC, Tweeden says she was groped in December 2006 when she and the Democratic senator from M... |
acute coronary syndrome refers to a collection of clinical signs resulting from myocardial acute ischemia that also includes acute myocardial infarction and unstable angina .
direct and indirect burden of coronary diseases was reported to be $ 142.1 billion in the us in 2005 . in iran ,
anticoagulants are vastly us... | background : bruising is an unpleasant result of subcutaneous injection of enoxaparin , which causes physical discomfort , limitation of injection site , patient 's refusal of treatment , and distrust in nurses ability .
the application of techniques which reduce patients fear , anxiety , and physical damage is one o... |
brown dwarfs are intermediate in mass between stars and planets , making them important laboratories for testing theories about both classes of objects , including theories about atmospheres , binarity , and formation mechanism .
brown dwarfs are also potentially a laboratory to test theories of planet formation , but ... | the co - planarity of solar - system planets led kant to suggest that they formed from an accretion disk , and the discovery of hundreds of such disks around young stars as well as hundreds of co - planar planetary systems by the _ kepler _
satellite demonstrate that this formation mechanism is extremely widespread ... |
A firefighters uses a hose and works to put out massive flames in the San Bernardino Forest.
Flood waters overtook a couple hiking near Mill Creek Crossing in Forest Falls Tuesday afternoon, San Bernardino County Fire spokesman Chris Prater said.An off-duty sheriff's deputy heard the couple calling for help. He was... | – A couple's first date in California's San Bernardino National Forest turned out to be anything but romantic yesterday as the remains of Hurricane Linda sent a storm of heavy rain and hail over the area. While hiking in Forest Falls, east of Los Angeles, the pair became trapped in a flash flood and attempted to cross ... |
the origins of @xmath0 violation in fundamental physics theory remain a mystery .
the @xmath2 system provides excellent laboratories to probe @xmath0 violating new physics , since new particles beyond the standard model ( sm ) may enter the loop - mediated @xmath2 meson mixing process , leading to discrepancies of @xma... | study of @xmath0 violation in the decay channel @xmath1 is essential to exploring and constraining physics beyond the standard model in the quark flavour sector .
the experimental progress in this area of activity at the lhc and tevatron is discussed . |
A Michigan man has admitted to police, and at least one victim, that he intentionally infected sex partners with the HIV virus. WOOD's Leon Hendrix reports.
Updated at 4:50 p.m. ET: David Dean Smith's attorney, Richard E. Zambon of Grand Rapids, tells msnbc.com that he plans on "exploring all options" in defending ... | – Awful story out of Michigan: Authorities say a 51-year-old man who is HIV-positive confessed to intentionally exposing hundreds of people to the disease through unprotected sex, report MSNBC and the Grand Rapids Press. Court documents say that David Dean Smith harbored a "desire to harm women" and tried to infect as ... |
sufficient mass accumulation in a confined space forms a black hole . due to the stability of the minkowski spacetime , sufficiently small initial data will remain small in time evolution .
both scenarios were explored analytically by christodoulou @xcite , for which he considered minimally coupled massless scalar fiel... | we examine a one - parameter family of analytical solutions representing spherically symmetric collapse of a nonlinear massless scalar field with self - interaction in an asymptotically flat spacetime .
the time evolution exhibits a type of critical behavior . depending on the scalar charge parameter @xmath0 as comp... |
10 p. arnold , g. d. moore and l. g. yaffe , jhep * 0111 * , 057 ( 2001 ) ; jhep * 0112 * , 009 ( 2001 ) ; jhep * 0206 * , 030 ( 2002 ) .
k. j. eskola , h. honkanen , h. niemi , p. v. ruuskanen and s. s. rsnen , phys .
c * 72 * , 044904 ( 2005 ) .
k. j. eskola , k. kajantie , p. v. ruuskanen and k.... | the nuclear modification factor @xmath0 for charged hadron production at the lhc is predicted from jet energy loss induced by gluon bremsstrahlung .
the arnold , moore , and yaffe @xcite formalism is used , together with an ideal hydrodynamical model @xcite .
we present a calculation of the nuclear modification... |
the principal constituent of gypsum - based products is calcium sulfate hemihydrate , ( ca so4)h2o .
basically , natural plaster production occurs in four steps , namely , gypsum extraction , calcination preparation , calcination , and selection .
gypsum is a sedimentary rock that is essentially composed of gypsite... | aim : this work evaluated the mechanical and surface behavior of different die materials .
the studied materials are polyurethane resin exakto - form ( bredent ) , gypsum type iv , fuji rock ep ( gc ) , and durone ( dentsply).materials and methods : two metallic matrices molded in polyvinyl siloxane provided 30 cylin... |
regards is a prospective cohort study designed to examine regional and racial influences on stroke mortality .
it oversampled blacks and residents of the southeastern stroke belt region , which includes alabama , arkansas , georgia , kentucky , lousiana , mississippi , north carolina , south carolina , tennessee , an... | backgroundwe examined whether type of menopause affects sex differences in coronary heart disease ( chd ) events and whether the impact is similar in blacks and whites.methods and resultsparticipants were enrolled in the reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke ( regards ) cohort between 2003 and 2007 wi... |
stellar population models are powerful tools which are widely used to study galaxy evolution .
using these models , one can determine galaxy ages , metallicities and abundances .
spectral libraries are an integral component of stellar population models ( e.g. @xcite ) .
a spectral library gives the behavior of individu... | we are building a new spectral library with the x - shooter instrument on eso s vlt : xsl , the x - shooter spectral library .
we present our progress in building xsl , which covers the wavelength range from the near - uv to the near - ir with a resolution of @xmath0 . at the time of writing
we have collected spec... |
The officials said the intercepted communications were not limited to Trump campaign officials, and included other associates of Mr. Trump. On the Russian side, the contacts also included members of the government outside of the intelligence services, they said. All of the current and former officials spoke on the cond... | – The Trump administration's Russia problem just got a lot worse, according to the New York Times' sources: Four officials say intelligence agencies have uncovered phone records and other evidence that members of Trump's campaign team and other aides were in contact with senior Russian officials during the campaign. Th... |
ewing 's sarcoma is a malignant nonosteogenic primary tumor of the bone , which is mainly seen in the diaphysis of the long bones and the flat bones of the pelvis in young patients . originally , james ewing described it as a tumor arising from undifferentiated osseous mesenchymal cells ; however , recent studies sugge... | ewing 's sarcoma is the second most common malignant primary bone tumor of childhood and adolescence affecting mainly the diaphysis of long bones and flat bones .
this tumor is extraordinarily rare in small bones of the hand and presents as a swelling with atypical radiological features of cystic and lytic lesion wit... |
in ni@xmath5mnga heusler alloy , a structural transformation from cubic austenitic to tetragonal martensitic phase is observed upon cooling .
the interest in the study of ni@xmath5mnga - based alloys has mainly been conditioned by the fact that the martensitic phase in these alloys is ferromagnetic .
the combination of... | a systematic study of magnetic properties of ni@xmath0mn@xmath1ga ( @xmath2 ) heusler alloys undergoing structural martensite - austenite transformations while in ferromagnetic state has been performed . from measurements of spontaneous magnetization , @xmath3 , jumps @xmath4 at structural phase transitions were deter... |
since 1976 , the rssler system @xcite is well know for it s simplicity ( three differential equations with only one non linear term ) and its dynamical richness producing chaos .
used as a basic system to demonstrate various properties of dynamical systems , this system is still a source inspiration for researchers .
t... | we study the bifurcation diagram of the rssler system .
it displays the various dynamical regimes of the system ( stable or chaotic ) when a parameter is varied .
we choose a diagram that exhibits coexisting attractors and banded chaos .
we use the topological characterization method to study these attractors . ... |
systems coupled to multiple energy reservoirs , sustaining net transport currents , are prevalent in nature but fall outside the fundamentally well - understood paradigms of equilibrium statistical mechanics .
the characterization and classification of such systems , starting from simple microscopic models , remains a ... | the diffusion of hard - core particles subject to a global bias is described by a nonlinear , anisotropic generalization of the diffusion equation with conserved , local noise .
using renormalization group techniques , we analyze the effect of an additional noise term , with spatially long - ranged correlations , on... |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A man who originally pleaded not guilty to starting a massive fire two years ago has now admitted he ignited the blaze that burned 80 structures in Northern California.
Thirty-nine-year-old Wayne Allen Huntsman pleaded guilty Friday to three counts of felony arson in the September 2014 Kin... | – A man who took a video of himself after starting a fire that would go on to burn more than 150 square miles of land was sentenced to 20 years in prison and a $60 million fine, the AP reports. According to Reuters, Wayne Huntsman pleaded guilty to three counts of arson Friday for starting the 2014 King Fire in Norther... |
the prevalence of nafld in the general population is around 2030% , whereas among patients with type 2 diabetes it is up to 80% .
nafld is strongly correlated with metabolic syndrome , including visceral obesity , atherogenic dyslipidemia , insulin resistance , impaired glucose metabolism , or type 2 diabetes [ 15 ] ... | backgroundthere is evidence that nonalcoholic fatty liver disease ( nafld ) is associated with increased cardiovascular risk . in this study
we examined factors associated with the presence of nafld and the prevalence of macroangiopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes.material/methodssubjects were 101 consecutive pa... |
lethal midline granuloma is a midfacial necrotizing lesion that is characterized by destructive , mucosal lesions of the upper aero digestive tract .
the underlying mucosa is thickened and the patient usually develops extensive midfacial destructive lesions , perforated nasal septum and erosion of the nasal bone .
... | lethal midline granuloma is a relatively rare disease characterized by destruction and mutilation of the nose and other structures of respiratory passages .
the nonspecificity of symptoms obscures the correct diagnosis and is responsible for the delay in treatment which can be detrimental as this grave disease calls ... |
squamous cell cancer of the head and neck ( scchn ) is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality and accounts for approximately 5% of all new cancer diagnoses . worldwide , more
than 600,000 new cases are diagnosed every year and 350,000 cancer deaths can be attributed to this disease.1 the majority of patients ... | squamous cell cancer of the head and neck ( scchn ) is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality worldwide . in recent years ,
inhibition of the epidermal growth factor receptor has become an established treatment strategy in scchn both in the up - front treatment and in the recurrent and metastatic setting .
... |
a persistent problem in understanding the absorbing material in ngc 4151 has been reconciling the vastly different gas columns inferred for the x - ray absorption and for the uv absorption .
the x - ray absorbing column varies between @xmath1 and @xmath2 .
bromage et al .
( 1985 ) estimated a total column for the uv -... | observations of the c iv and mg ii absorption lines in the seyfert 1 galaxy ngc 4151 obtained with the ghrs in october 1994 are presented .
the data from the stsci archive show multiple broad and narrow components in both species .
in addition to galactic absorption , four narrow and four broad systems associat... |
the understanding of the phase behavior of fluids confined in narrow regions , including the fluid mediated interactions , is of crucial importance in the physics of fluids in porous media , for colloidal physics , for many applications and modern technologies such as lubrication , adhesion or friction , in micro and n... | we investigate the dependence of the order parameter profile , local and total susceptibilities on both the temperature and external magnetic field within the mean - filed ginzburg - landau ising type model .
we study the case of a film geometry when the boundaries of the film exhibit strong adsorption to one of the... |
On Sunday September 16, 2018, Denise Mueller-Korenek broke the bicycle land speed record of 167 mph, hitting 183.932 mph at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. This story about the engineering and logistics behind this crazed effort originally ran on Thursday, September 13.
When you’re trying to become the fastest self-p... | – Plenty of cars can't reach 183.9mph. Denise Mueller-Korenek managed it on a bike in the obscure world of "motor-paced cycling," reports the Wall Street Journal. Peddling in a race car's slipstream, the 45-year-old former junior cycling champion smashed the bicycle land speed record of 167mph set by Dutch cyclist Fred... |
participatory appraisal : a participatory appraisal was conducted in may 2012 for two hours , by one facilitator and three veterinarians who were dispatched to miyazaki to control the fmd epidemic , to design a questionnaire . prior to the appraisal , all three veterinarians were interviewed individually and were con... | foot - and - mouth disease ( fmd ) occurred in miyazaki , japan , in 2010 , and 290,000 animals were culled .
this paper describes the mental distress of the volunteers who had been dispatched to miyazaki for disease control two years after the epidemic .
it also assesses risk factors for post - traumatic stress di... |
in the past , teaching medical courses was commonly performed via scientific and theoretical classes via teaching aids including textbooks and journals ( 1 ) . however , today changing health care and medical curriculum has made computer - assisted learning more valuable than before ( 2 ) .
in fact , currently the in... | background : above all methods effective learning results from decent training , acquired in the proper environment and encouraging creative methods .
computer - assisted training by educational software is considered a fundamental measure to improve medical and dentistry education systems .
this study aims to desi... |
internet of things ( iot ) refers to a technology paradigm wherein ubiquitous sensors numbering in the billions will able to monitor physical infrastructure and environment , human beings and virtual entities in real - time , process both real - time and historic observations , and take actions that improve the efficie... | internet of things ( iot ) is a technology paradigm where millions of sensors monitor , and help inform or manage , physical , environmental and human systems in real - time .
the inherent closed - loop responsiveness and decision making of iot applications makes them ideal candidates for using low latency and scala... |
since the discovery of the prototypical `` hot jupiter '' orbiting the star 51 pegasi in 1995 , more than 450 extrasolar planets have been identified .
this flurry of discovery has been driven largely by technological innovation and the development of new observational techniques .
precise doppler measurements have pla... | we report the results of an infrared doppler survey designed to detect brown dwarf and giant planetary companions to a magnitude - limited sample of ultracool dwarfs . using the nirspec spectrograph on the keck ii telescope
, we obtained approximately 600 radial velocity measurements over a period of six years for a... |
nanostructures and nanostructured materials offer the possibility to tune heat transport properties over an exceptionally wide range .
for example in carbon based materials it is possible to obtain variations of the thermal transport coefficients over three orders of magnitude : graphene and suspended carbon nanotubes ... | we have developed an efficient scalable kernel method for thermal transport in open systems , with which we have computed the thermal conductance of a junction between bulk silicon and silicon nanowires with diameter up to 10 nm .
we have devised scaling laws for transmission and reflection spectra , which allow us ... |
super star clusters ( sscs ) and globular clusters ( gcs ) represent the youngest and the oldest stellar aggregates known in the universe .
the environments in which these two kinds of clusters are found are vastly different sscs are found in violent star - forming regions , whereas gcs are found in the halos of galax... | recent hst / acs images of m82 covering the entire galaxy have been used to detect star clusters .
the galaxy is known to contain a young population ( age @xmath0 yr ) in its starburst nucleus , surrounded by a post - starburst disk of age @xmath1 yr .
we detect more than 650 star clusters in this galaxy , nearl... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Vision Care for Kids Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. GRANTS REGARDING VISION CARE FOR CHILDREN.
Part Q of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
280h et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``SEC. 399Z-1. GRANTS REGARDING VISION C... | Vision Care for Kids Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award matching grants to states to complement existing state efforts to: (1) provide comprehensive eye ... |
the vli method allows an analyst to assess highly variable manual lifting jobs in which the task characteristics vary from lift to lift during a shift .
the variability of task characteristics , such as the weight of the load being lifted and the geometry of the lift ( e.g. , horizontal reach , vertical height , etc ... | objective : we seek to develop a new approach for analyzing the physical demands of highly variable lifting tasks through an adaptation of the revised niosh ( national institute for occupational safety and health ) lifting equation ( rnle ) into a variable lifting index ( vli).background : there are many jobs that cont... |
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