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bacteria swim in a very different manner to macroscopic animals because , at micron length scales , inertial effects are negligible compared to viscous forces . in this , the zero reynolds number limit , the navier - stokes equations reduce to the stokes equations , which are time reversal invariant .
this leads immedi... | we investigate the way in which oscillating dumb - bells , a simple microscopic model of apolar swimmers , move at low reynold s number . in accordance with purcell s scallop theorem a single dumb - bell can not swim because its stroke is reciprocal in time . however
the motion of two or more dumb - bells , with mut... |
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Luka Modric ended a decade of dominance by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in the Ballon d’Or but the Croatian’s win was oversha... | – It was, as Norwegian soccer great Ada Hegerberg told the audience, "a huge step for women's football." The 23-year-old had just become the first woman to win the prestigious Ballon D'or in France, which recognizes the greatest soccer player in the world. And then the event's host tried to be funny: French DJ Martin S... |
epigenetics represents the field of study of heritable changes in gene expression which are not directly related to dna and it studies : histone modifications , short interfering rnas etc . , micrornas ( mirnas ) .
these are small noncoding rnas , 21 to 23 nucleotides in length , which either inhibit translation or a... | diabetes mellitus is one of the most cited non communicable diseases and the most common metabolic disorder .
epigenetics represents the field of study of heritable changes in gene expression which are not directly related to dna .
epigenetics is concerned , alongside histone modifications , short interfering rnas ... |
there are several extensions of the standard model ( sm ) with an enlarged scalar sector .
some of these extensions allow for higgs with reduced or even no couplings to the fermions .
they are referred to as fermiophobic higgs scenarios in the literature @xcite .
the d0 collaboration has recently presented new results ... | in this study , we propose new higgs production mechanisms with multi - photon final states in the fermiophobic limit of the two higgs doublet model .
the processes are : @xmath0 , @xmath1 followed by @xmath2 and @xmath3 followed by @xmath4 . in the fermiophobic limit , @xmath5 and @xmath6 would give rise to 4@xmath... |
[ cols="^,^,^",options="header " , ] | we demonstrate experimentally that the spectral broadening of cw supercontinuum can be controlled by using photonic crystal fibers with two zero - dispersion wavelengths pumped by an yb fiber laser at 1064 nm .
the spectrum is bounded by two dispersive waves whose spectral location depends on the two zero - dispers... |
nadph oxidases ( noxs ) comprise a family of multicomponent enzymatic systems that catalyze the reduction of molecular oxygen to superoxide anion radical [ 13 ] . the best characterized and studied member of the nox family is nox2 , which is expressed in phagocytic cells and has its primordial microbicidal function in ... | apocynin is widely used as an inhibitor of the nadph oxidase . since myeloperoxidase ( mpo ) has been considered as essential for the mechanism of action of apocynin , here we used cells with different levels of mpo and compared their sensitivity to apocynin .
hl-60 cells were differentiated with dmso or ifn/tnf and ... |
kounis syndrome is the concurrence of acute coronary syndromes ( acs ) with conditions associated with mast cell activation including allergic or hypersensitivity as well as anaphylactic or anaphylactoid reaction.1)2 ) there have been a few reports on extraordinary causes other than wasp stings leading to a drug - elut... | kounis syndrome is the concurrence of acute coronary syndromes with conditions associated with mast cell activation following an allergic insult .
we report a 56-year - old man who experienced a st - segment elevation myocardial infarction after wasp stings .
the patient presented without signs of anaphylaxis or sh... |
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Charitable Volunteers Tax Credit
Incentive Act of 1995''.
SEC. 2. CREDIT FOR CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO CERTAIN PRIVATE
CHARITIES PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO THE POOR.
(a) In General.--Subpart A of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1
of th... | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to create a tax credit not to exceed $500 (in lieu of a deduction) for cash contributions made by an individual to a tax-exempt private charitable organization primarily assisting the poor, for which the individual must also have worked at least 50 hours.
Denies such credit if the dono... |
the discovery that at the heart of virtually all early - type galaxies in the local universe , lie supermassive nuclear black holes ( sbhs ) has led to the general consensus that black holes play a pivotal role in the formation and evolution of galaxies .
the well - known correlation between the black hole mass , m@xma... | we report the discovery of an active galactic nucleus ( agn ) in the nearby sad galaxy ngc 3621 using _ spitzer _ high spectral resolution observations .
these observations reveal the presence of [ nev ] 14 @xmath0 m and 24 @xmath0 m emission which is centrally concentrated and peaks at the position of the near - in... |
much attention has been given to a resurgence of neural networks , deep learning ( dl ) in particular , which can be of unsupervised @xcite , supervised @xcite , or a hybrid form @xcite .
significant performance gain has been observed , especially in the presence of large amount of training data , when deep learning te... | our proposed deeply - supervised nets ( dsn ) method simultaneously minimizes classification error while making the learning process of hidden layers direct and transparent .
we make an attempt to boost the classification performance by studying a new formulation in deep networks .
three aspects in convolutional n... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Helping Ensure Life- and Limb-Saving
Access to Podiatric Physicians Act'' or the ``HELLPP Act''.
SEC. 2. INCLUDING PODIATRISTS AS PHYSICIANS UNDER THE MEDICAID PROGRAM.
(a) In General.--Section 1905(a)(5)(A) of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 1396d(... | Helping Ensure Life- and Limb-Saving Access to Podiatric Physicians Act or HELLPP Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to include podiatrists as physicians in order to cover their services under the Medicaid program. Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) to revise requirements for coverage of... |
type ia supernovae ( sne ia ) have been successfully utilized over the past decade to measure the cosmic expansion history @xcite and explore the nature of dark energy ( e.g. , * ? ? ?
* ; * ? ? ?
* ; * ? ? ?
* ; * ? ? ?
the foundation for the utility of sne ia as a cosmological tool is that some distance - independent... | we present optical photometry and spectra for the type ia supernova ( sn ia ) 2007gi in the nearby galaxy ngc 4036 .
sn 2007gi is characterized by extremely high - velocity ( hv ) features of the intermediate - mass elements ( si , ca , and s ) , with expansion velocities ( @xmath0 ) approaching @xmath115,500 km s@x... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Contracting Data and Bundling
Accountability Act of 2014''.
SEC. 2. PLAN FOR IMPROVING DATA ON BUNDLED AND CONSOLIDATED CONTRACTS.
Section 15 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644) is amended by
adding at the end the following new subsection:
``... | Contracting Data and Bundling Accountability Act of 2014 - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to develop a plan to improve the quality of data reported on bundled and consolidated contracts in the federal procurement data system. Requires the plan to: (1... |
extracting the parameters , such as masses , widths , and form factors , associated with the @xmath6 and @xmath7 resonances ( collectively referred to as @xmath5 ) from the data of meson - production reactions is an important task for understanding quantum chromodynamics ( qcd ) in the nonperturbative domain .
it is us... | by extending the dynamical coupled - channels analysis performed in our previous work [ phys .
rev .
c * 88 * , 035209 ( 2013 ) ] to include the available data of photoproduction of @xmath0 meson off the neutron , the transition amplitudes for the photo - excitation of the neutron to nucleon resonances , @xmath1... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Land Exchange Act of 2002''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) Since time immemorial, the ancestors of the Eastern
Band of Cherokee Indians have lived i... | Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Land Exchange Act of 2002 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to exchange the Ravensford tract, currently in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, for the Yellow Face tract adjacent to the Waterrock Knob Visitor Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway.Requires the Eastern Band of Chero... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans E-Health and Telemedicine
Support Act of 2017'' or the ``VETS Act of 2017''.
SEC. 2. LICENSURE OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
VETERANS AFFAIRS PROVIDING TREATMENT VIA TELEMEDICINE.
(a) In General.--Chapter 17 o... | . Veterans E-Health and Telemedicine Support Act of 2017 or the VETS Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill allows a licensed health care professional of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to practice his or her profession using telemedicine at any location in any state regardless of where the professional or patient is... |
accidents can take place in a wide variety of environments and settings ; however , the home , which people regard as the safest place , is the most likely location .
home accidents comprise 35% of all unintentional injuries in childhood , and the majority of victims are toddlers and pre - school children .
televis... | backgroundfemoral artery pseudoaneurysm following cardiac catheterization is a serious groin complication requiring careful assessment and prompt intervention.aimsthe risk of femoral artery pseudoaneurysm is estimated at 0.6 to 17% following diagnostic and interventional procedures.methodsthe clinical use of bedside ul... |
10 p. arnold , d. vaman , `` jet quenching in hot strongly coupled gauge theories revisited : 3-point correlators with gauge - gravity duality , '' jhep * 10 * , 099 ( 2010 ) [ arxiv:1008.4023 ] .
p. arnold , d. vaman , `` jet quenching in hot strongly coupled gauge theories simplified , '' jhep * 04 * , 027 ( 2... | we give a breezy , qualitative overview of some of our recent results @xcite on studying jet stopping in strongly - coupled plasmas using gauge - gravity duality .
previously , people have found that the maximum stopping distance in such plasmas scales with energy as @xmath0 . we show that there is an important dist... |
the discovery of cosmic acceleration @xcite has become one of the main challenges for modern theoretical physics , because it has put forward the problem of the so called dark energy , responsible for this acceleration .
this dark energy should possess a negative pressure such that the relation between pressure and ene... | simple scalar field cosmological models are considered describing gravity assisted crossing of the phantom divide line .
this crossing or ( de)-phantomization characterized by the change of the sign of the kinetic term of the scalar field is smooth and driven dynamically by the einstein equations .
different cosmo... |
This combination of images made on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, from propaganda video released by North Korea state-run media shows a simulation of a B-1B bomber being hit by a missile. Military analysts... (Associated Press)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Military analysts say North Korea doesn't have either the capability... | – The promised countermeasures to President Trump's supposed "declaration of war" on North Korea may already be in the works. A South Korean lawmaker briefed by the country's spy agency says North Korea is moving aircraft to its east coast in an effort to bolster its defenses, per Reuters. The revelation comes days aft... |
the apparent existence of metal - insulator transitions in two - dimensions @xcite has generated a lot of interest recently on the problem of interplay between interaction and disorder . however , the consequences of a highly non - trivial , non - gaussian distribution of conductances @xmath0 for even non - interacting... | we develop a systematic perturbative method to obtain analytic solution of the generalized dorokhov - mello - pereyra - kumar ( dmpk ) equation in the strongly disordered regime which describes the evolution of the joint probability distribution of the transmission eigenvalues with system size .
the solution allows ... |
in addition to bringing down the prolactin levels , they also reduce tumor size ( 5075% by bromocriptine and 90% by cabergoline ) . in women with prolactinomas , stimulatory effects of the hormonal milieu of pregnancy result in significant tumor enlargement during gestation .
a 20-year - old housewife presented with ... | a patient with microprolactinoma , who had two successful pregnancies , is described for management issues .
first pregnancy was uneventful . during the second pregnancy ,
the tumor enlarged to macroprolactinoma with headache and blurring of vision which was managed successfully with bromocriptine .
post delivery... |
HONOLULU -- A man who suffered a heart attack shortly after Hawaii mistakenly issued an alert about a ballistic missile filed a lawsuit against the state on Tuesday. The false missile alert and the state's failure to cancel it in a timely manner was a substantial factor in causing James Sean Shields' heart attack on Ja... | – A Hawaii man claims that a false alert about incoming ballistic missiles issued in that state earlier this year caused him to have a heart attack. On Jan. 13, Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency fired off an alert to cellphones warning, “Ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not... |
in recent years the presence of antiprotons @xmath3 s ) in the cosmic ray ( cr ) flux incident upon the earth has been firmly established by a series of balloon borne experiments ( golden et al .
1979 ; bogomolov et al .
1979 ; bogomolov et al .
1987 ; bogomolov et al .
1990 ; hof et al .
1996 ; mitchell et al . 1996 ... | measurements of the cosmic ray @xmath0 ratio are compared to predictions from an inhomogeneous disk - diffusion model of @xmath1 production and propagation within the galaxy , combined with a calculation of the modulation of the interstellar cosmic ray spectra as the particles propagate through the heliosphere to the ... |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd have filed a lawsuit against the Southern rock band’s former drummer to halt the production of a movie depicting the 1977 plane crash that killed lead singer Ronnie Van Zant.
FILE PHOTO - Singer Kid Rock (L) performs with Johnny Van Zant (R) and his band Lyny... | – Current members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, along with representatives of members now deceased, are suing to block a new documentary, claiming it tells only a "compressed" and "sensationalized" story about the group. Judith Van Zant—the widow of Lynyrd Skynyrd founder Ronnie Van Zant, one of six people killed when the band's ... |
a 44-year - old male patient was admitted to our hospital with vague pelvic pain and questionable prostate symptoms .
his vital signs and physical examination , as well as the basic biochemical and complete blood count examinations , were within normal limits .
the patient was referred to our department by the atte... | sclerosing angiomatoid nodular transformation of the spleen is a recently described benign pathologic entity that is characterized by round shaped vascular spaces that are lined by endothelial cells , and the spaces are circumscribed by granulomatoid structures .
microscopically , all the reported cases had multiple ... |
pyogenic liver abscess ( pla ) is a crucial clinical disease that can be fatal without prompt recognition and treatment .
an increasing number of studies have demonstrated that pla in western and asian countries differs in many aspects , including demographic characteristics , etiological factors , and clinical manif... | abstractwhether patients with diverticular diseases exhibit a higher risk of developing pyogenic liver abscess ( pla ) remains inconclusive.from the inpatient claims in taiwan 's national health insurance research database , we identified 54,147 patients diagnosed with diverticulosis in the 1998 to 2010 period and 216,... |
we thank h. chen , a. e. hosoi , c. pipe , m. roper and h. stone for useful discussions . this work was supported in part by the charles reed fund at mit and by the national science foundation ( cts-0624830 ) g. segre and a. silberberg .
behaviour of macroscopic rigid spheres in poiseui... | purcell s scallop theorem defines the type of motions of a solid body - reciprocal motions - which can not propel the body in a viscous fluid with zero reynolds number .
for example , the flapping of a wing is reciprocal and , as was recently shown , can lead to directed motion only if its frequency reynolds number ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
That this Act may be cited as the ``Assets for Independence Act
Amendments of 2000''.
SEC. 2. MATCHING CONTRIBUTIONS UNAVAILABLE FOR EMERGENCY WITHDRAWALS.
Section 404(5)(A)(v) of the Assets for Independence Act (42 U.S.C.
604 note) is amended by striking ``, or enabling the eligib... | Excludes funds attributable to matching contributions by qualified entities from IDA emergency withdrawals.
Includes among eligible grantees low-income credit unions and community development financial institutions.
Revises requirements for withdrawals from IDA accounts for the purchase of a home.
Increases the amount ... |
Seattle defense attorney John Henry Browne said today he’ll represent the Joint Base Lewis-McChord staff sergeant suspected of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan.
Browne said he talked to the soldier over the phone early this morning and is making arrangements to meet with him soon, possibly in Kuwait.
“We’re ... | – We still don't know the name of the US soldier accused of killing 16 people in Afghanistan, but one of his attorneys certainly has a high profile. Seattle's John Henry Browne tells the News Tribune of Tacoma that he will assist military attorneys with the defense. Browne has defended a slew of big-name clients, most ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Drunk Driving Repeat Offender
Prevention Act of 2013''.
SEC. 2. USE OF IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICES TO PREVENT REPEAT INTOXICATED
DRIVING.
(a) In General.--Chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, is
amended by inserting after section 15... | Drunk Driving Repeat Offender Prevention Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to withhold specified graduated percentages of a state's apportionment of certain federal-aid highway funds for FY2016-FY2018 if the state has not enacted and is not enforcing a law requiring the installation of an igni... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Empower Employees Act of 2014''.
SEC. 2. LABOR ORGANIZATION DUES NOT DEDUCTIBLE FROM PAY.
(a) Agencies Generally.--
(1) In general.--Chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code,
is amended by striking section 7115 and inserting the
... | Empower Employees Act of 2014 - Prohibits federal agencies, including executive, legislative, and judicial agencies, the United States Postal Service (USPO), the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), and the government of the District of Columbia, from deducting labor organization fees from the salaries of their employee... |
it has long been widely accepted that active galactic nuclei are powered by gravitationally liberated energy from accretion discs around massive black holes @xcite . while the study of accretion is an interesting prospect in itself , the feedback it ensues is significantly consequential for the evolution of galaxies
as... | a key component of explaining the array of galaxies observed in the universe is the feedback of active galactic nuclei , each powered by a massive black hole s accretion disc . for accretion to occur
, angular momentum must be lost by that which is accreted .
electromagnetic radiation must offer some respite in th... |
binary stars are common in the universe and their evolution is important to many astrophysical phenomena including supernova rates , enrichment of the interstellar medium , and the formation of x - ray binaries and blue stragglers .
pinsonneault & stanek ( 2006 , hereafter ps06 ) discussed the importance of the distrib... | massive binary stars undergo qualitatively different evolution when the two components are similar in mass ( ` twins ' ) , and the abundance of twin binaries is therefore important to understanding a wide range of astrophysical phenomena . we reconsider the results of pinsonneault & stanek ( 2006 ) , who argue that a ... |
concept of quantum computation by adiabatic evolution , i.e. adiabatic quantum computation ( aqc ) , was introduced by farhi and coauthors @xcite .
it is an alternative to the `` standard '' concept of quantum computation where one has to construct a universal set of gates with long coherence times . as the latter requ... | controllable adiabatic evolution of a multi - qubit system can be used for adiabatic quantum computation ( aqc ) .
this evolution ends at a configuration where the hamiltonian of the system encodes the solution of the problem to be solved . as a first steps towards realization of aqc we have investigated two , three... |
the physics phenomena of nuclei are largely understood by considering the interaction between their building blocks , the nucleons . in 1935 , yukawa described the nucleon - nucleon ( nn ) force by the exchange of massive mesons @xcite in analogy to the electromagnetic interaction which can be represented by the excha... | in an experiment with a 65 mev / nucleon polarized deuteron beam on a liquid - deuterium target at kvi , several multi - body final states in deuteron - deuteron scattering were identified . for these measurements , a unique and advanced detection system , called bina ,
was utilized .
we demonstrate the feasibilit... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Preventing Homeowners from
Foreclosure Act of 2010''.
SEC. 2. FORECLOSURE MEDIATION GRANT PROGRAM.
(a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
(in this section referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall carry out a
program to make ... | Preventing Homeowners from Foreclosure Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to implement a competitive grants program for states and local governmental entities to establish mediation programs to assist mortgagors under home mortgages facing foreclosure on such mortgages.
Requires... |
The U.S. housing sector is gradually returning to pre-crisis levels. Home prices rose for four consecutive years to a median of $222,400 at the end of 2015, the highest since 2007. Prices rose further in the second quarter — by 4.9% from the same time a year ago. With increased home values as well as continued job and ... | – Looking to invest in real estate? Be careful where you buy. Here are the five cities where house prices are growing and shrinking the fastest, based on average price changes for a single family home over 12 months ending this June, per 24/7 Wall St.: Growing: Boulder, Colo.: 18.5% Elmira, NY: 17.6% Springfield, Ill.:... |
A space startup says nearby asteroids can be mined for water, platinum, and other natural resources to enable space exploration and bring those valuable materials to Earth.
The first step in Planetary Resources space missions: prospecting by telescope to determine resources available on near-Earth asteroids. (Credi... | – It's official, earthlings: The world's first asteroid-mining company has launched. Planetary Resources had its official coming out party today, the AP reports, with its co-founders laying out their plan to mine outer space for precious metal. The company, which is backed by such big-name investors as James Cameron an... |
prostate cancer has historically been considered a chemotherapy - resistant disease.1,2 however , over the past few decades , with the development of better cytotoxic agents and improved trial designs focused on clinically relevant endpoints , an important role for chemotherapy in the treatment of castration resistant ... | castration resistant prostate cancer has historically been considered chemotherapy insensitive . however , the approval of estramustine phosphate , mitoxantrone , and docetaxel , over the past few decades , has challenged this notion . despite these advances , until recently , only docetaxel had been shown to improve s... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Small Business Enhancement Act of
1995''.
SEC. 2. URBAN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS INITIATIVE GRANTS.
(a) Urban University Business Initiative Grants.--
(1) Authorization.--The Administrator of the Small Business
Administration (hereafter ... | Small Business Enhancement Act of 1995 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make grants to eligible institutions to design and implement programs to assist businesses, especially those in lower income urban communities, to become more productive and able to compete in the global ... |
'Spider-Man' May Go Dark for Julie Taymor
Mat Devine Talks to PopEater About 'Spider-Man'
Filed under: Highbrow
According to anonymous sources, the negotiations, which took place on Monday, involved expanding Taymor's team so she has more creative support. There was also talk of rewriting the script and sco... | – After days of rumors, the producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark made the official announcement last night: Director Julie Taymor is out. The problem-plagued musical has also been delayed yet again, this time until “early summer 2011,” according to the show’s blog. Taymor has been replaced with Philip William McK... |
the high mass x - ray binary ( hmxb ) system smc x-1/sk 160 consists of a neutron star with a mass of @xmath4 ( van der meer et al .
2007 ) and a spin period of 0.71s ( lucke et al.1976 ) , accreting from the b0i star sk 160 with a mass of @xmath5 ( reynolds et al . 1993 ) .
orbital period of the system is @xmath6 days... | we present timing and spectral analysis of rxte - pca observations of smc x-1 between january 1996 and december 2003 . from observations around 30 august 1996 with a time span of @xmath0 days
, we obtain a precise timing solution for the source and resolve the eccentricity as 0.00089(6 ) .
we find an orbital decay... |
solving the problem of hot big - bang theory , and providing a natural mechanism for generating primordial density perturbations , make the elegant scenario of inflation as one of the best candidate of very early universe .
the scenario has opend a new and unique window on physics at inaccessible energy scales@xcite-@x... | we study anisotropic inflation in the brans - dicke gravity in the presence of an abelian gauge field where the gauge field is non - minimally coupled to the inflaton .
we show that the degree of anisotropy , under slow - roll approximations , is proportional to slow - roll parameter of the theory . as a demonstrati... |
periodontitis is a destructive inflammatory disease of the supporting tissues of the teeth and is caused by specific microorganisms or group of specific microorganisms [ table 1 ] resulting in a progressive destruction of the periodontal ligament and alveolar bone with periodontal pocket formation , gingival recession ... | periodontitis is a destructive inflammatory disease of the supporting tissues of the teeth and is caused by specific microorganisms or group of specific microorganisms .
the association of periodontal infection with organ systems like cardiovascular system , endocrine system , reproductive system , and respiratory sy... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Postal Innovation Act''.
SEC. 2. EXPANDED SERVICES.
(a) Pilot Program for Provision of Nonpostal Services.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, and notwithstanding the provisions of
... | Postal Innovation Act This bill directs the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to establish a pilot program to provide nonpostal services through public-private partnerships in five postal districts or regions, including at least one rural area. Such nonpostal services may include financial services, warehousing, experimental ... |
Canadians tweet support for Turks and Caicos becoming 11th province
The Premier of Turks and Caicos Islands, Rufus Ewing, met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper today in Ottawa and said the two leaders spoke about exploring a more formal relationship.
Storified by KevinNewmanLive· Mon, May 26 2014 21:16:53
... | – Canadians who want to get away from brutal winters are still going to have to leave the country. After a meeting that Turks and Caicos Premier Rufus Ewing described as a "courtship," a Canadian government spokesman quashed talk that Canada would annex the nation as an 11th province, CTV reports. "We're not in the bus... |
The actress and activist is being touted as a potential Senate candidate in Kentucky.
Actress Ashley Judd in Iowa urging early voting. (Photo: Bryon Houlgrave AP) Story Highlights U.S. Senator Ashley Judd?
Actress/activist being touted for office in Kentucky
She's busy celebrating Obama win
U.S. Sen. As... | – Joe Biden is probably relieved that President Obama won re-election Tuesday—because it means the VP won't have to be embarrassed when his guest stint on Parks and Recreation airs one week from today. Biden filmed the guest appearance back in July, but it was kept strictly under wraps because if it had been leaked, th... |
short title
Section 1. This Act may be cited as the ``Senior Citizens Health
Insurance Standards Act of 1993''.
findings and purpose
Sec. 2. The Congress finds that--
(1) health care costs are a major expense and source of
concern for the elderly;
(... | Senior Citizens Health Insurance Standards Act of 1993 - Directs each State to submit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services a plan specifying certain minimum standards applicable to the sale of health insurance to the elderly.
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary to ... |
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 ||||| The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is probing James Comey's handling... | – When James Comey gave four memos to a friend detailing his interactions with President Trump, he took pains to make sure they contained no classified information, the former FBI chief told Congress last year. However, the Justice Department is now investigating whether he was wrong about that, reports the Wall Street... |
assume @xmath0 is an algebraically closed field and @xmath1 is a projective subscheme of @xmath2 defined by some homogeneous equations @xmath3 in @xmath4 $ ] .
we want to realize @xmath1 as a moduli space of quiver representations and as a quiver grassmannian in a natural way .
moreover , we also like to have a constru... | it is a well established fact , that any projective algebraic variety is a moduli space of representations over some finite dimensional algebra .
this algebra can be chosen in several ways .
the counterpart in algebraic geometry is tautological : every variety is its own hilber scheme of sheaves of length one .
... |
the hera accelerator , located at desy in hamburg , is an electron - proton collider .
it is @xmath0 in circumference and collides positrons ( or electrons ) at @xmath1 with protons at @xmath2 there are four interaction regions : two containing general purpose , hermetic detectors ( h1 and zeus ) ; another experiment (... | this lecture contains a brief introduction to hera and deep inelastic scattering ( dis ) , before going on to highlight some of the measurements of the hadronic final state in dis performed by the h1 and zeus collaborations .
# 1#2#3ann .
phys .
( ny ) # 1 ( 19#3 ) # 2 # 1#2#3computer phys .
comm .
# 1 ... |
Police have "solved" a decades-old missing person case — but the woman who vanished so long ago now has dementia and can't explain her own disappearance.
New York authorities never thought they would solve the 42-year-old missing person case of Flora Stevens, but then a state police investigator contacted the Sulli... | – A woman who disappeared from upstate New York 42 years ago has been found suffering from dementia and living in a Massachusetts assisted-living facility, authorities say. The sheriff's office in Sullivan County, NY, says Flora Stevens, 78, was using the last name Harris when detectives tracked her down this week at t... |
since the report of buonocore in 1955 , phosphoric acid etching has been a standard protocol to treat tooth enamel for bonding resins and orthodontic attachments . however , decalcification is the one potential disadvantage , which leaves the enamel susceptible to caries attack , especially under orthodontic attachment... | background : laser ablation has been suggested as an alternative method to acid etching ; however , previous studies have obtained contrasting results .
the purpose of this study was to compare the shear bond strength ( sbs ) and fracture mode of orthodontic brackets that are bonded to enamel etched with acid and erb... |
FILE - This Wednesday, Feb. 21,1996 file photo shows John Lotter, center, being escorted from the Richardson County Courthouse in Falls City, Neb., after being sentenced to death for the December 1993... (Associated Press)
FILE - This Wednesday, Feb. 21,1996 file photo shows John Lotter, center, being escorted from... | – Attorneys for a Nebraska death row inmate whose case inspired the 1999 movie Boys Don't Cry say he should be ruled ineligible for execution because he has the intellect of a young child. John Lotter was sentenced to death for his role in the 1993 killings of Brandon Teena, a 21-year-old transgender man played by Hill... |
the recent experimental confirmation of two- ( 2d ) and three - dimensional ( 3d ) topological insulators @xcite ( tis ) , such as hgte/(hg , cd)te quantum wells @xcite of certain width and compounds involving bismuth , @xcite respectively , has attracted considerable attention from both basic and applied research c... | we study heterostructures where a two - dimensional topological insulator ( ti ) is attached to two normal metal ( nm ) electrodes while an island of a ferromagnetic insulator ( fi ) with precessing magnetization covers a portion of its lateral edges to induce time - dependent exchange field underneath via the magneti... |
One of the rarest and priciest violins in the world was hidden away in a closet for decades, but it is now up for auction at Christie's, with bidding starting Friday.
"Our pre-sale estimate on this is $7.5 million to $10 million," said Kerry Keane, head musical instrument specialist at Christie's, who is hosting th... | – Funny what turns up in the closet of reclusive, deceased heiress: In this case, one of the world's most expensive musical instruments. Christie's has begun accepting sealed bids for a 1731 Stradivarius violin that had been in a closet of Huguette Clark for about 25 years, reports NBC News. The auction house estimates... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Fathers Count Act of 1998''.
SEC. 2. GRANTS TO STATES TO ENCOURAGE FATHERS TO BECOME BETTER PARENTS.
Title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601-679b) is amended
by inserting after part B the following:
``PART C--GRANTS TO STATES TO ENCOURAGE... | Fathers Count Act of 1998 - Amends title IV of the Social Security Act to replace part C (Work Incentive Program) with a new part C (Grants to States to Encourage Fathers to Become Better Parents) instructing the Secretary of Health and Human Services, beginning FY 2000, to award grants to States for projects designed ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Victims on Campus Act of
2012''.
SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF CAMPUS SECURITY POLICY AND CAMPUS CRIME
STATISTICS.
Section 485(f) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
1092(f)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1)--
... | Protecting Victims on Campus Act of 2012 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise provisions that require each institution of higher education (IHE) participating in a title IV (Student Assistance) program to comply with certain crime reporting requirements.
Requires IHEs to provide students and employees w... |
the renormalization group ( rg ) approach , in its most enlightening formulation due to wilson @xcite , is the theory designed to handle fields ( quantum or classical ) fluctuating over range of momentum ( energy ) scales . in the momentum - space formulation ,
this range of scales where fluctuations matter is bounded ... | we apply the standard wilson - kadanoff ( wk ) momentum - space renormalization group ( rg ) scheme for the g - ology model of one - dimensional fermions . by explicitly carrying out calculations at the two - loop level ,
we show how the rg flow equations can be derived from the summation of the cascades of contract... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This act may be cited as the ``American Travel Industry
Stabilization Act''.
SEC. 2. TRAVEL INDUSTRY DISASTER RELIEF.
(a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
President shall take the actions described in subsection (b) to
compensate eligible travel-related ... | American Travel Industry Stabilization Act - Directs the President to issue Federal credit instruments, amounting in the aggregate up to $5 billion, to compensate eligible travel-related businesses that were injured by the Government shutdown of the airline industry following the terrorist attacks on the United States ... |
ring galaxies represent a class of colliding galaxies in which nearly symmetrical density waves are driven into a disk as a result of an almost bulls - eye collision with a compact galaxy @xcite .
hydrodynamical simulations reproduce some of the basic features observed in ring galaxies , such as rings or crescent - sha... | new sensitive very large array 20 cm continuum observations of the cartwheel , the prototypical collisional ring galaxy , were carried out with the principal aim of tracing supernova remnants that are expected to lie in the wake of the expanding ring and in the ring itself .
we detect predominantly nonthermal radio... |
in this paper we consider the situation of a single chain polymer confined within a space smaller than its radius of gyration .
such a situation is encountered within the nucleus of a cell where one or more chromosomes with a radius of gyration on the order of 10 @xmath0 are confined by the nuclear membrane to a space ... | we study the dynamics of a single chain polymer confined to a two dimensional cell .
we introduce a kinetically constrained lattice gas model that preserves the connectivity of the chain , and we use this kinetically constrained model to study the dynamics of the polymer at varying densities through monte carlo simu... |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A scorpion stung a woman on the hand just before her flight from Los Angeles to Portland took off.
Alaska Airlines spokesman Cole Cosgrove says Flight 567 was taxing on the runway Saturday night when the passenger was stung. He says the plane returned to the gate and the woman was checked by medi... | – Right up there with snakes on planes are scorpions, and the presence of one on an Alaska Airlines flight yesterday caused a bit of a stir: As the Oregonian reports, Flight 567 was taxiing on the runway at LAX when a scorpion—apparently having hitched a ride from Mexico in the bag of a returning tourist—stung a female... |
Updated: Michael Wolff To Head E5 Global’s Adweek Group
Updated: Several more sources have confirmed that Michael Wolff will be joining E5 Global Media as the editorial director of the Adweek Group of magazines. While all acknowledge that major change is needed in terms of the group’s strategic direction, many are ... | – Michael Wolff has accepted a new job as editorial director of e5's AdweekMedia, whose trade publications include Adweek, Brandweek, and Mediaweek. The Vanity Fair columnist and Newser co-founder says he plans to bring his signature iconoclastic streak to the gig. "This is the opportunity we have—to not only be great ... |
A rotten tooth John Lennon gave to his housekeeper may be the key to bringing the slayed former Beatle back to life. At least, that’s the hope of Michael Zuk, an Edmonton dentist who purchased the tooth back in November in the hopes of creating a clone from the rotten molar.
In a release put out to media, Zuk annou... | – Remember when a Canadian dentist bought one of John Lennon's teeth for $31,000 in November 2011? Turns out Michael Zuk wanted to do more with the molar than display it on a shelf. Zuk hopes he can use the decaying tooth to clone the dead Beatle. Seriously. Zuk explains in a press release that he has shipped the tooth... |
Celebrity Photos: February 2014 Hilary Duff was all smiles in LA on Feb. 21.
Celebrity Photos: February 2014 Sofia Vergara filmed scenes on the beach in Sydney, Australia on Feb. 21.
Celebrity Photos: February 2014 Taylor Swift was seen leaving the gym in West Hollywood, Calif. after a workout on Feb. 21.
C... | – Not many would think of Brad Pitt as a card-carrying member of AARP, but the actor turns 50 today, which makes him eligible to join—and the organization isn't exactly letting him forget it. It put out a mock cover of its magazine featuring a picture of Pitt, People reports, along with the message: "Acclaimed Actor, P... |
the strong coupling between condensed matter and quantum light is a core issue of present day quantum optics . realized by exposing the matter with intense quantum field
, it can manifest itself in different quantum systems such as single atoms and ultracold atomic beams @xcite , semiconductor heterostructures @xcite ,... | a theory of both linear and nonlinear electromagnetic response of a single qd exposed to quantum light , accounting the depolarization induced local
field has been developed .
based on the microscopic hamiltonian accounting for the electron
hole exchange interaction , an effective two body hamiltonian has bee... |
social media networking websites like twitter and facebook have fundamentally changed how people communicate and socialize in the 21st century . with over 200 million users on the popular microblogging site twitter in 2011 @xcite , exploring the social impact of using such a service becomes ever more important .
althou... | the 21st century has redefined the way we communicate , our concept of individual and group privacy , and the dynamics of acceptable behavioral norms .
the messaging dynamics on twitter , an internet social network , has opened new ways / modes of spreading information . as a result cyberbullying or in general , the... |
SECTION 1. CONSUMER RENEWABLE CREDIT.
(a) Business Credit.--
(1) In general.--Subpart D of part IV of subchapter A of
chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by
adding at the end the following new section:
``SEC. 45S. CONSUMER RENEWABLE CREDIT.
``(a) General Ru... | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, through December 31, 2018: (1) a new business-related tax credit for sales by an electric utility of renewable electricity generated by a facility using wind or solar energy to a retail customer; and (2) payments to such utilities, in lieu of such tax credit, for sales of rene... |
during 20082013 , a total of 68 satellite or global positioning system radio collars were deployed on african buffalo captured in southern gonarezhou np ; in northern kruger np , south of the limpopo river ; and in zimbabwe , north of limpopo river ( on sengwe communal land ) .
of the 68 buffalo , 47 were adult femal... | we report on the long - distance movements of subadult female buffalo within a transfrontier conservation area in africa .
our observations confirm that bovine tuberculosis and other diseases can spread between buffalo populations across national parks , community land , and countries , thus posing a risk to animal a... |
slx4 is a scaffold protein that binds to three dna repair endonucleases , mus81-eme1 , xpf - ercc1 , and slx1 ( andersen et al . , 2009 ,
, 2009 , muoz et al . , 2009 , saito et al . , 2009 ,
the slx4 complex is required for the efficient repair of dna interstrand crosslinks ( icls ) , ( fekairi et al . , 2009 ... | summaryslx4 , a scaffold for structure - specific dna repair nucleases , is important for several types of dna repair .
many repair proteins bind to sites of dna damage , resulting in subnuclear
foci ,
but slx4 forms foci in human cells even without dna damage . using several approaches ,
we show that most , bu... |
einstein , podolsky and rosen ( epr ) @xcite put forth the question of whether the quantum mechanical description of physical reality is complete , giving the example of a two - particle quantum state showing peculiar correlations ( dubbed `` entanglement '' or `` verschrnkung '' by schrdinger @xcite ) : if one measure... | we study a possible realization of the position- and momentum - correlated atomic pairs that are confined to adjacent sites of two mutually shifted optical lattices and are entangled via laser - induced dipole - dipole interactions .
the einstein - podolsky - rosen ( epr ) `` paradox '' [ phys . rev .
* 47 , * 777... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National Research Investment Act of
1997''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(1) for fiscal year 1965, 5.7 percent of the Federal budget
was expended for nondefense research and development
a... | National Research Investment Act of 1997 - States purposes of this Act, including to double the annual authorized amount of Federal funding for basic science and medical research over the ten-year period following enactment of this Act.
Authorizes appropriations for covered research and development for FY 1998 through... |
complete oncological surgical resection whenever possible is the cornerstone of treatment . in cases of locally advanced tumors with invasion of adjacent structures ( t4 ) , en bloc resection of all involved tissues is essential so as not to increase local failure and decrease survival .
adjuvant chemotherapy is used... | colorectal cancer remains the second leading cause of death from malignant disease . despite improvements in the treatment modalities offered to patients ,
more than half of the operated patients die from the disease .
the most common presenting symptoms of colonic carcinoma are changes in bowel habits , bleeding ,... |
How to dance Gangnam Style: free download
Subversive satire of Seoul, Korea's Gangnam district
Top of Australia's ARIAS, UK's Top 40 and 30 other charts
ON track to become the most viewed video in You Tube history, PSY's insanely catchy K-Pop smash has been watched 330m times, and is number one in Australia... | – "Gangnam Style," the wildly popular hit from South Korean rapper PSY, has made it to No. 1 on the UK charts, Sky News reports. It could also become the most-viewed YouTube video of all time, with more than 336 million views as of today. For some perspective, Australia's News Network reports that the current most-view... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Medical Services Support
Act''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITION.
In this Act, the term ``community-based emergency medical
services'' means any regional, State, or local emergency medical
services system.
SEC. 3. FEDERAL INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE ON EMERGEN... | Emergency Medical Services Support Act - Establishes a Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services to provide intergovernmental coordination of emergency medical services. Requires the Committee to: (1) identify community-based emergency medical services' needs; (2) make grant program and streamlining r... |
nitrate and nitrite when ingested by human beings may have a negative impact on health .
nitrate is transformed to nitrite by the action of certain microorganisms present in the intestine .
then it may transform hemoglobin to methemoglobin by oxidizing fe ( ii ) present in the former substance to fe ( iii ) .
met... | a fast and efficient automated method using a sequential injection analysis ( sia ) system , based on the griess , reaction was developed for the determination of nitrate and nitrite in infant formulas and milk powder .
the system enables to mix a measured amount of sample ( previously constituted in the liquid form ... |
the dynamics of the electrons at the hierarchical hall plateaus @xcite has been described by several theoretical methods , like the jain theory of the composite fermion @xcite , the effective conformal field theories @xcite and the chern - simons gauge theories @xcite .
the filling fractions of these plateaus are nicel... | the @xmath0 minimal models are conformal field theories which can describe the edge excitations of the hierarchical plateaus in the quantum hall effect . in this paper
, these models are described in very explicit terms by using a bosonic fock space with constraints , or , equivalently , with a non - trivial hamilto... |
the circular restricted three body problem is modification of the three body problem where the third body is assumed to have very small mass which is infinitesimal in comparison to other two finite masses are called primaries .
the restricted three body problem is generalized to include radiation pressure , oblateness ... | the lagrange point @xmath0 for the sun - earth system is considered due to its special importance for the scientific community for the design of space missions .
the location of the lagrangian points with the trajectories and stability regions of @xmath0 are computed numerically for the initial conditions very close... |
the study of spectroscopy and the decay properties of the heavy flavour mesonic states provides us useful information about the dynamics of quarks and gluons at the hadronic scale . the remarkable progress at the experimental side , with various high energy machines such as lhc , b - factories , tevatron , argus collab... | 1.0 cm 1.0 cm we present here recent results on the investigations of the mass spectrum ( s - states and p - states ) , decay constants , decay widths and life time of the d , @xmath0,and @xmath1mesons within the framework of phenomenological potential models.we also present the binding energy and the masses of the di... |
periodontal disease is common in adult dentition . as inflammatory phenomena that are multifactorial in origin
can destroy periodontal tissue , some sequelae may occur , including elongation , tipping , and pathologic tooth migration.1 as a result of pathologic tooth migration , occlusal trauma and periodontitis are ... | objectivethe aim of this study was to determine the optimal loading conditions for pure intrusion of the six maxillary anterior teeth with miniscrews according to alveolar bone loss.methodsa three - dimensional finite element model was created for a segment of the six anterior teeth , and the positions of the miniscrew... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Improving the Nation's Visitors'
International Travel Experience Act of 2014'' or the ``INVITE Act of
2014''.
SEC. 2. PURPOSES.
The purposes of this Act are--
(1) to create a welcoming experience at United States ports
of entry;
... | Improving the Nation's Visitors' International Travel Experience Act of 2014 or INVITE Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to explore the feasibility of: (1) coordinating the enrollment and interview processes for individuals who are nationals of countries with whic... |
It was not Jeopardy‘s finest moment.
During Wednesday night’s game, the categories were challenging and the answers were killer. By the time the dust settled, two of the three contestants had negative scores – a very rare occurrence for the long-running game show.
Get push notifications with news, features and ... | – Alex Trebek handled one of the weirder Jeopardy! episodes ever with typical Alex Trebek aplomb. During the game that aired last night, the "categories were challenging and the answers were killer," People notes. So challenging that two of the three contestants ended up with negative scores by the end of Double Jeopar... |
gastrointestinal stromal tumor ( gist ) is the most common mesenchymal tumor of the gastrointestinal tract and it is most frequently found in the stomach
. fifty to sixty percent of gists are found as a localized disease at presentation , and 95% can be completely resected .
surgical resection with a 1~2 cm negativ... | a debate is currently ongoing about whether a large gastrointestinal stromal tumor ( gist ) should be treated by the laparoscopic approach because of the increased risk of tumor rupture during manipulation of the tumor with laparoscopic instruments and the resultant peritoneal tumor dissemination .
herein , we report... |
trained research assistants obtained consent and enrolled participants as part of an ongoing prospective study measuring quality of care for hospitalized general medicine patients at the university of chicago medicine and mercy hospital and medical center ( meltzer et al . ,
the university of chicago medicine and mer... | patient - centered care includes involving patients and their families in self - management of chronic diseases . identifying and addressing barriers to self - management , including those related to health literacy and vision limitations , may enhance one 's ability to self - manage .
a set of brief verbal screening... |
The French military base in Djibouti | Carl de Souza/AFP via Getty Images The Coming Wars The most valuable military real estate in the world Strategically placed at the entrance to the Red Sea, Djibouti is home to more foreign bases than any other country.
DJIBOUTI — “World War III will start here.”
We had bee... | – The US has a single full-scale military base in all of Africa: It's in Djibouti, and we have more than a few neighbors there. Politico takes a look at the small country in the Horn of Africa (it's the size of New Hampshire) and the continually expanding military presence there. It hosts more foreign bases than anywhe... |
recently , a great advance was achieved in the understanding of pathogenesis of autoimmune diabetes , particularly regarding the molecular mechanism of pancreatic -cell apoptosis and immunological significance of -cell apoptosis .
hence , it has been shown that pancreatic -cell death is important not only in the fina... | fasl , perforin , tnf , il-1 and no have been considered as effector molecule(s ) leading to -cell death in autoimmune diabetes .
however , the real culprit(s ) of -cell destruction have long been elusive despite intense investigation .
previously we have suggested ifn/tnf synergism as the final effector molecules ... |
Driver, 19-month-old girl, bear all died in crash on Highway 4 in Calaveras County
Baby, mother killed when car crashes into bear near Angels Camp
A mother and her baby were killed Thanksgiving night when their vehicle hit a bear on Highway 4 near Angels Camp, according to the Calaveras County coroner.
Sara... | – A mother and baby were tragically killed Thanksgiving night when their car hit a bear in northern California. KCRA 3 reports that Sarah Rohde, 27, was driving with her two children in Calaveras County after 6pm when her car struck the wild animal. Rohde and her 19-month-old daughter Ariana died. The bear was also kil... |
the development of
a more complete understanding of polymorphism
is an important goal for the solid - state chemist or process engineer ,
and is especially relevant to pharmaceuticals since each polymorphic
form of a given compound can lead to different bioavailabilities .
characterization of polymorphs is of... | we
show how dynamic nuclear polarization ( dnp ) enhanced solid - state
nmr spectroscopy can be used to characterize polymorphs and solvates
of organic solids .
we applied dnp to three polymorphs and one hydrated
form of the asthma drug molecule theophylline .
for some forms of theophylline ,
sample grind... |
renal scintigraphy using technetium-99 m dimercaptosuccinic acid ( dmsa ) has become reference diagnostic test for renal cortical damage .
dmsa is taken up into proximal and distal renal tubular cells actively , and then approximately 2 h after injection , 40 - 65% of injected activity is concentrated in the cortex f... | objective : the aim of this study was to investigate the variability in the interpretation of parenchymal abnormalities and to assess the differences in interpretation of routine renal scintigraphic findings on posterior view of technetium-99 m dimercaptosuccinic acid ( pvdmsa ) scans and parenchymal phase of technetiu... |
stroke is a neurological disease caused by the cutoff of normal blood supply due to vessel
rupture or thrombosis , and it causes brain tissue damage .
motor , sense , recognition ,
language , and perception deficits are typical symptoms of the disease , depending on the
affected areas , size , and the cause of ... | [ purpose ] this study investigated the effect of aquatic proprioceptive neuromuscular
facilitation ( pnf ) patterns in the lower extremity on balance and activities of daily
living ( adl ) in stroke patients . [ subjects ] twenty poststroke participants were randomly
assigned to an experimental group ( n = 10 ) ... |
white light and extreme ultra violet ( euv ) emission from the polar region of the solar corona shows distinct bright ray like structures known as polar plumes @xcite .
quasi - periodic propagating intensity perturbations are frequently observed in the polar plumes and inter - plume regions with period ranging from 530... | spicules are small hairy like structures seen at the solar limb mainly at chromospheric and transition region lines .
they generally live for 3 - 10 minutes .
we observe these spicules in a south polar region of the sun with a coordinated observations using the interface region imaging spectrograph ( iris ) and th... |
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) According to the National Science Board's 2008 Science
and Engineering Indicators, only 5 percent of American college
graduates major in engineering, compared with 13 percent of
European students and 20 percent o... | Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive matching grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to: (1) promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in secondary schools; (2) support the participation of secondary school students in nonprofit robotics or STEM competitions; and (3) br... |
one of the most active areas in the condensed matter physics is the search for new methods which could capture essential features of electron correlations and disorder in a controllable manner .
perhaps the most successful and widely used methods are the dynamical mean field theory ( dmft)@xcite and the coherent potent... | quantum periodic cluster methods for strongly correlated electron systems are reformulated and developed . the reformulation and development
are based on a canonical transformation which periodizes the fermions in the cluster space .
the dynamical cluster approximation and the cellular dynamical mean field theory ... |
treatment of iron - deficiency anemia in pregnancy with oral iron therapy and blood transfusion has significant drawbacks .
high dose of oral iron causes significant side effects ; non - compliance is common.intravenous iron produces a better hematological response than oral iron , including a faster increase in hemo... | iron - deficiency anemia in pregnancy can have serious deleterious effects for both mother and fetus . parenteral iron therapy in iron - deficiency anemia
is recommended in patients where oral iron therapy is ineffective due to malabsorption states and non - compliance .
compared to oral iron therapy , intravenous ... |
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in the Jackson family.
Paris Jackson, the daughter of the late Michael Jackson, is taking the fashion world by storm; and this photoshoot in Paris, France is just the beginning.
Jackson has been sharing her Paris getaway with fans since she touched down in the City of Li... | – Paris Jackson, now 18, gives an extensive and candid cover interview to Rolling Stone in which she describes what it was like to grow up with Michael Jackson as her father—and what she thinks really happened to him. "It's obvious" that he was murdered, she says. "Absolutely." She says her father would talk about peop... |
in many physical systems , the relevant degrees of freedom are discrete degenerate quantum variables such as spins ( electron or nuclear ) that interact weakly with each other . at sufficiently high temperatures ,
the spins are completely disordered and characterized by the trivial thermodynamic correlators
. however ,... | we develop a technique to compute the high - frequency asymptotics of spin correlators in weakly interacting disordered spin systems .
we show that the dynamical spin correlator decreases exponentially at high frequencies , @xmath0 and compute the characteristic time @xmath1 of this dependence . in a typical random ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Sugar Reform Act of 2015''.
SEC. 2. SUGAR PROGRAM.
(a) Sugarcane.--Section 156(a) of the Federal Agriculture
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7272(a)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (3), by striking ``and'' after the
semi... | Sugar Reform Act of 2015 This bill revises the Department of Agriculture (USDA) sugar program to decrease price support levels and make other modifications. The bill amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to decrease the rate for price support loans to processors of domestically grown sugar... |
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