text
stringlengths
3
744k
summary
stringlengths
24
154k
our study included 499 s. enterica isolates collected during 20032007 from finnish travelers returning from abroad ; due to a technical error , in 2004 only 99 foreign salmonella isolates were sent to us from the national salmonella reference center . an isolate was designated to be of foreign origin if the patient h...
we tested the fluoroquinolone susceptibility of 499 salmonella enterica isolates collected from travelers returning to finland during 20032007 . among isolates from travelers to thailand and malaysia , reduced fluoroquinolone susceptibility decreased from 65% to 22% ( p = 0.002 ) . all isolates showing nonclassical q...
in this report , recent theoretical results on tmd pdfs are presented , giving particular emphasis on their renormalization - group properties in conjunction with local color - gauge invariance . the latter is ensured by the presence of wilson lines ( gauge links ) that are required to obtain gauge - invariant definiti...
we discuss recent developments in the understanding of gauge - invariant transverse - momentum dependent ( tmd ) parton - distribution functions ( pdf ) . we compute the leading - order @xmath0-scheme anomalous dimension of such a quantity in the light - cone gauge and show that it receives a contribution that can b...
primary pancreatic lymphoma ( ppl ) is a rare disease constituting less than 0.5% of all pancreatic malignancies , and ppl is difficult to diagnose preoperatively even by various modalities . regarding the treatment for ppl , chemotherapy including r - chop is considered as standard . on the other hand , for the pati...
primary pancreatic lymphoma ( ppl ) is a rare disease that is difficult to diagnose preoperatively . we describe the youngest case of ppl treated by surgical excision and chemotherapy . a 16-year - old male presented with abdominal pain and jaundice . abdominal computed tomography showed a 3.0 4.5 cm homogeneously...
(CNN) Jerry Parr, a Secret Service agent who helped save a wounded Ronald Reagan during a 1981 assassination attempt, has died, his wife said Friday. He was 85. Carolyn Parr said her husband died of congestive heart failure, three days short of their 56th wedding anniversary. Jerry Parr was the lead agent the d...
– The man widely credited for saving Ronald Reagan's life from an assassination attempt passed away from congestive heart failure Friday at the age of 85, the New York Times reports. According to the Washington Post, Jerry Parr met and protected dozens of US and foreign dignitaries and heads of state—everyone from Pope...
'Jobs' review: Kutcher's fine, but film's timing is off Ashton Kutcher renders Steve Jobs sympathetic, making us believe that we're seeing a peculiar strain of a great man. Ashton Kutcher renders Steve Jobs sympathetic, making us believe that we're seeing a peculiar strain of a great man. Photo: Glen Wilson, Open R...
– It looks as though most critics are ready to throw apples at the new Jobs flick, starring Ashton Kutcher and directed by Joshua Michael Stern. They say it focuses too much on Steve Jobs' professional life and not enough on his personal life, and ends up being something less entertaining than an Apple ad. Perhaps Jobs...
resistance weight training was reported to have a positive effect on the reduction of body fat by increasing muscle tissues ; maintenance of muscular strength and increase of fat - free mass ; and reduction of blood lipid and lipoprotein metabolism , emphasizing the necessity of resistance weight training as an e...
[ purpose ] the aim of this study was to determine how compound physical activity affects muscular strength of middle - aged obese women . [ subjects ] the research subjects were 4050 year - old middle - aged women with excess body fat ( 30% ) . [ methods ] the subjects were randomly assigned to two group , the ...
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 ||||| CLOSE Grant Berardo, a Wall High School junior, saw his image digitally alte...
– Students at a New Jersey high school are crying censorship after noticing something significant was missing from their yearbook photos: Trump slogans. According to Asbury Park Press, a teacher and yearbook club adviser at New Jersey’s Wall High School has been suspended after someone allegedly retouched students’ pho...
in addition to their structural role of forming the exterior frames of the cell and its interior organelles and vesicles , lipid bilayers act as the host and regulator of many biophysical and biochemical reactions@xcite . inter- and intra - cellular recognition and transport , adhesion , regulation of ion concentration...
we consider the interaction between two rods embedded in a fluctuating surface . the modification of fluctuations by the rods leads to an attractive long - range interaction between them . we consider fluctuations governed by either surface tension ( films ) or bending rigidity ( membranes ) . in both cases the in...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Watermelon Research and Promotion Improvement Act of 1993''. (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. Sec. 2. Change to majority vote in ...
Watermelon Research and Promotion Improvement Act of 1993 - Amends the Watermelon Research and Promotion Act to extend its provisions to each of the States and the District of Columbia. Authorizes the revocation of the watermelon assessment refund. Revises provisions regarding: (1) handler and producer National Wate...
A survivor of the crash that killed five people including former Sen. Ted Stevens told investigators he didn't hear any strange engine noises before the floatplane struck a mountain north of Dillingham. He didn't feel the plane tilt backward or forward either. "They were flying along, and then they just stopped...
– The National Transportation Safety Board yesterday released photos from the site of the crash that killed former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens and four others, as investigators spoke with two of the four survivors. According to the chair of the NTSB, they did not report hearing weird noises, nor did they feel the plane til...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Family Asthma Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) The number of people ever diagnosed with asthma increased by 50 percent between 1998 and 2012. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...
Family Asthma Act Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to collaborate with state and local health departments to: (1) conduct activities regarding asthma, including deterring the harmful consequences of uncontrolled asthma, and disseminating health educat...
Plastic waste could find its way deep into the ocean through the faeces of plankton, new research from the University of Exeter and Plymouth Marine Laboratory shows. The study is further evidence of the widespread impact plastic pollution could have on the marine environment. Researchers have found tiny marine ...
– The amount of plastic in our oceans is now popping up as gigantic islands and set to outpace the global fish population by 2050. But it's also settling ever so slowly on the ocean floor in the form of plankton poop. And because plastic-laden poop is lighter and falls more slowly than poop that is free of plastic, it ...
the study protocol was approved by the institutional review board of severance cardiovascular hospital , yonsei university health system , and adhered to the declaration of helsinki . all 2136 subjects ( 1068 with af patients and 1068 with age- and sex - matched control subjects ) provided written informed consent . ...
backgroundgenomewide association studies have identified several loci associated with atrial fibrillation ( af ) and have been reportedly associated with response to catheter ablation for af in patients of european ancestry ; however , associations between top susceptibility loci and af recurrence after ablation have n...
SECTION 1. OPPORTUNITY FOR PERSONS WHO ENLISTED BETWEEN JANUARY 1, 1977, AND JUNE 30, 1985, TO ENROLL IN ALL-VOLUNTEER FORCE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. (a) In General.--Chapter 30 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding after section 3018B the following new section...
Allows individuals who enlisted in the armed forces between January 1, 1977, and June 30, 1985, who are serving on active duty upon the enactment of this Act and are later honorably discharged or released, who have completed the requirements for a secondary diploma or at least 12 semester hours leading to a standard co...
a hyperuniform state matter is characterized by an anomalous suppression of density fluctuations at large length scales @xcite . the hyperuniformity concept provides a unified way to categorize crystals , quasicrystals , and certain exotic disordered systems @xcite . disordered hyperuniform states lie between a crystal...
hyperuniform many - particle systems in @xmath0-dimensional space @xmath1 , which includes crystals , quasicrystals , and some exotic disordered systems , are characterized by an anomalous suppression of density fluctuations at large length scales such that the local number variance within a spherical " observation w...
supplementary material is available for this article at 10.1007/s13659 - 012 - 0031 - 2 and is accessible for authorized users .
two novel fomannosane - type sesquiterpenoids , agrocybins h ( 1 ) and i ( 2 ) , together with a known compound illudosin ( 3 ) , were isolated from the culture broth of the mushroom agrocybe salicacola . their structures were elucidated by extensive spectroscopic analysis . the relative stereochemistry of 1 was de...
(Poets&Quants) — On Wednesday, Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business became the first school to make its full-time MBA program completely free, with no strings attached. The decision to increase its annual intake of MBA students by 40% to a class size of 120 and to cover the full tuition and fees of...
– Starting next fall, Arizona State University will be giving full scholarships to any and all students enrolling in its full-time MBA program, the Wall Street Journal reports. That means students can earn their business degrees for a whopping zero dollars. University administrators swear the desert sun hasn't baked th...
biaxial liquid - crystalline phases were hypothesized in 1970 by freiser @xcite . since then many theoretical models have described the conditions that promote biaxial order . however , the experimental search for biaxial phases has been unfruitful until very recently , when madsen et al . @xcite and acharya et al . @x...
using a version of density - functional theory which combines onsager approximation and fundamental - measure theory for spatially nonuniform phases , we have studied the phase diagram of freely rotating hard rectangles and hard discorectangles . we find profound differences in the phase behavior of these models , w...
we have undertaken an ir imaging campaign for the low - redshift 3crr ( * ? ? ? * ( laing , riley & longair 1983 ) ) radio sources using the irac ( @xmath1 , @xmath2 , @xmath3 , and @xmath4 band ) and mips ( @xmath5 , @xmath6 , and @xmath7 band ) cameras on the _ spitzer _ satellite ( * ? ? ? * ; * ? ? ? * ( fazio 200...
we have undertaken a _ spitzer _ campaign to measure the ir structures and spectra of low - redshift 3crr radio galaxies . the results show that the @xmath0 infrared properties vary systematically with integrated source power , and so demonstrate that contemporary core activity is characteristic of the behaviour of ...
A woman seen in a viral video calling the police on a group of black people who were barbecuing at an Oakland park has been identified as a Stanford University-educated environmental scientist. Jennifer Schulte, who has become known on social media as “BBQ Becky,” was identified by The Root and News One, and widely on ...
– A white South Carolina woman was arrested and charged with assault after allegedly telling a 15-year-old black boy and his friends to leave a subdivision pool, then hitting the teen, police say. Stephanie Sebby-Strempel, or "Pool Patrol Paula" as she's become known online, told the teens "they did not belong and they...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Sun Grant Initiative for Renewable Energy and Biobased Products Act''. SEC. 2. RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS ON BIOBASED ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTS. Title IX of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 ...
Sun Grant Initiative for Renewable Energy and Biobased Products Act - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to university-based sun grant centers which shall: (1) establish centers of excellence to pursue research, extension, and educational prog...
the ability to detect small differences in the interocular retinal disparities is critical for assessing the depth of objects and is crucial for survival in living beings . even in artificial systems , the ability to perceive depth and distance are crucial for navigation , control , obstacle avoidance , depth measureme...
stereopsis or depth perception is a critical aspect of information processing in the brain and is computed from the positional shift or disparity between the images seen by the two eyes . various algorithms and their hardware implementation that compute disparity in real time have been proposed ; however , most of th...
the broadcast nature of a wireless medium makes it very susceptible to eavesdropping , where the transmitted message is decoded by unintended receiver(s ) . recent information - theoretic research on secure communication has focused on enhancing security at the physical layer . the wiretap channel , first introduced an...
this paper considers a multiple - input multiple - output ( mimo ) gaussian wiretap channel model , where there exists a transmitter , a legitimate receiver and an eavesdropper , each equipped with multiple antennas . in this paper , we first revisit the rank property of the optimal input covariance matrix that achiev...
although there are many reported and utilized techniques for the examination of negative early experiences on brain maturation , such as perinatal stress , sensory deprivation , and drug toxicity , there are very few methodologies employed to examine the effects of positive experiences in this time period . aside from ...
to generate longer - term changes in behavior , experiences must be producing stable changes in neuronal morphology and synaptic connectivity . tactile stimulation is a positive early experience that mimics maternal licking and grooming in the rat . exposing rat pups to this positive experience can be completed eas...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Ballistics, Law Assistance, and Safety Technology Act'' or the ``BLAST Act''. SEC. 2. PURPOSES. The purposes of this Act are-- (1) to increase public safety by assisting law enforcement in solving more gun-related crimes and offerin...
Ballistics, Law Assistance, and Safety Technology Act (BLAST Act) - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to require a licensed manufacturer or importer of firearms to: (1) test fire manufactured or imported firearms as specified by the Secretary of the Treasury; (2) prepare ballistics images of the fired bu...
several recent studies find evidence for growth in size of galaxies from redshift 23 to the present . evidence is especially strong for the most massive early type galaxies which have increased in size by a factor 4.3 since z@xmath12.3 . there is also evidence that late type systems have increased their size 2.6 time...
disentangling processes governing the formation and evolution of galaxies is a fundamental challenge in extragalactic research . in this sense the current belief that galaxies grow by the action of minor mergers makes the study of the stellar mass size relation in different environments an important tool for distin...
lorentz invariance is possibly one of the most fundamental symmetries of nature . it is theoretically sound , it has been extensively tested , and so far no clear cut experimental evidence has emerged to bridge its validity ( see e.g. refs . it is therefore no surprise that most theories of gravity encompass this symme...
we study the vacuum solutions of a gravity model where lorentz symmetry is spontaneously broken once a vector field acquires a vacuum expectation value . results are presented for the purely radial lorentz symmetry breaking ( lsb ) , radial / temporal lsb and axial / temporal lsb . the purely radial lsb result cor...
By now you’ve probably read the earth-shattering, heart-rending news that Hello Kitty’s own copyright holder Sanrio recently alleged that the world’s most famous bow-sporting feline isn’t actually a cat. If, like me, you’re a huge fan of Japan’s unofficial mascot, you probably already started going through the five sta...
– She may sport what appear to be whisker lines across her expressionless face, but the iconic Hello Kitty may not be a cat. In fact, the cartoon character created 40 years ago has a whole backstory that will soon be on display at an exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum in LA, reports the Los Angeles Times ...
smoking affects vascular and hormonal systems and is also involved in the development of atherosclerosis , thrombogenesis and vascular occlusion . chronic smoking adversely influences the prognosis of nephropathies . in primary hypertension , urinary albumin excretion as an index of renal damage the rate of progres...
smoking is associated with an excessive morbidity and mortality from a variety of diseases . the aim of this study was to find out the effects of smoking on renal function study in non - diabetic , normotensive subjects . a community - based , prospective , cross - sectional cohort study was conducted on 120 subjec...
millimeter wave ( mmwave ) communications promise to be highly disruptive for both cellular and wireless lan technologies due to the potential for multi - gigabit wireless links , which make use of the gigahertz of contiguous bandwidth available at mmwave frequencies in combination with high - dimension antenna arrays ...
the growing demand for ubiquitous mobile data services along with the scarcity of spectrum in the sub-6 ghz bands has given rise to the recent interest in developing wireless systems that can exploit the large amount of spectrum available in the millimeter wave ( mmwave ) frequency range . due to its potential for m...
Egyptian security officials say the health of ousted President Hosni Mubarak has deteriorated further, with doctors having to use a defibrillator twice and feed him liquids intravenously. The officials said Mubarak's two sons, one-time heir apparent Gamal and wealthy businessman Alaa, were by his side at the intens...
– Hosni Mubarak's life sentence is growing ever shorter. The former president has gone from slipping in and out of consciousness to "full coma," according to a rep for Egypt's Interior Ministry, and security officials say doctors have twice used a defibrillator on him. It's unclear whether it was used because his heart...
Last month his lawyer tried to convince a parole board that Sirhan Sirhan was a brainwashed hit man when he gunned down Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1968.But handwritten notes purportedly from Sirhan, kept for 42 years by a Century City business executive, suggest that his behavior w...
– Sirhan Sirhan claims he was brainwashed into assassinating Robert F. Kennedy, but notes he purportedly wrote 42 years ago tell a different story. The handwritten four-page chronology, which he wrote in front of a member of his defense team, shows a more calculated approach. In it, Sirhan describes his visit to a targ...
male wistar rats ( 230 - 260 g , aged 12 weeks ) were obtained from the abant izzet baysal university , experimental animals research center , bolu , turkey , and housed in groups of 6 under standard laboratory conditions . they were kept at constant room temperature ( 212c ) under a 12/12 h light / dark cycle . ex...
objective : to investigate the effects of thymoquinone ( tq ) in a penicillin - induced epilepsy model in rats.methods:this experimental study included 56 adult male wistar rats . experiments were performed in the research laboratory of the department of physiology , medical school , duzce university , duzce , turkey...
biodentine is a new bioactive cement with dentin - like mechanical properties that can be used as a dentin substitute on crowns and roots . it has a positive effect on vital pulp cells and stimulates tertiary dentin formation . in direct contact with vital pulp tissue biodentine is an interesting alternative to con...
preservation of the pulp in a traumatized immature fractured incisor tooth is of prime importance in order to achieve apexogenesis , a natural apical closure . the main factor influencing this is pulpal protection by a bioactive material proving optimum marginal seal in preventing any microleakage . this case repor...
Russia were banned in November following accusations of state-sponsored doping Russian track and field athletes remain banned from international competition, including the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Athletics chiefs have decided not to lift the suspension, which was imposed in November following accusations of state...
– Speculation that Russia's athletes might be banned from the Rio Olympics has just ramped up after an independent doping investigation found the Russians cheated during their own Sochi Olympics in 2014—and in events beyond that, the AP reports. Canadian law professor Richard McLaren was picked by the World Anti-Doping...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Bond Fairness and Protection Act of 1999''. SEC. 2. TAX-EXEMPT BOND FINANCING OF CERTAIN ELECTRIC FACILITIES. (a) Permitted Open Access Transactions Not a Private Business Use.--Section 141(b)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (defining private ...
Bond Fairness and Protection Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to tax-exempt bond financing of certain electric facilities, to exclude a permitted open access transaction (as defined by this Act) from the definition of private business use. Permits, as specified, termination of tax-exempt bo...
although tumor necrosis factor ( tnf)- inhibitors have been used for the treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis for more than a decade,13 their effect on ra - associated ild ( rheumatoid arthritis associated interstitial lung disease ) have been rarely reported . tnf- is one of most important cytokines in t...
we report a case of a 52-year - old woman with a 1-year history of rheumatoid arthritis - associated interstitial lung disease referred to hospital because of aggravated pulmonary symptoms in spite of intensive treatment including prednisone , azathioprine and triptergium glycoside . we subsequently initiated treatme...
low - temperature crystal solids are full of wonderful and surprising phenomena , that are of both fundamental and practical importance but often difficult to observe owing to the imperfect nature and inflexibility of solid state systems . free of these shortcomings , cold atoms , offer a pristine and highly controllab...
we consider a mixture of a two - component fermi gas and a single - component dipolar bose gas in a square optical lattice and reduce it into an effective fermi system where the fermi - fermi interaction includes the attractive interaction induced by the phonons of a uniform dipolar bose - einstein condensate . foc...
ellis van creveld syndrome ( evc ) ( omim # 225500 ) is a skeletal dysplasia characterized by short limbs , short ribs , postaxial polydactyly , and dysplastic nails and teeth . sixty percent of affected individuals have a congenital cardiac defect , most commonly an atrial septum defect [ 3 , 4 ] . the syndrome i...
ellis van creveld ( evc ) syndrome is a congenital malformation syndrome with marked growth retardation . in this study , specific growth charts for evc patients were derived to allow better follow - up of growth and earlier detection of growth patterns unusual for evc . with the use of 235 observations of 101 evc pat...
Check out the results of the 12 amendments on the November ballot These are the 12 amendments that were voted on the November ballot. ||||| Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. / Updated By David K. Li Florida voters...
– Amendment 13 needed just 60% of Tuesday's votes to pass in Florida, but more than 5.3 million voters, or 69%, cast their ballots in favor of it—meaning by the end of 2020, legal dog racing in the Sunshine State will be no more, NBC News reports. It's a "knockout blow to a cruel industry that has been hurting and kill...
These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references ...
– Oscar Pistorius' cross-examination is in its third day, and the topic returned to the moments leading up to Reeva Steenkamp's shooting. Pistorius described waking and moving fans in the bedroom, and moving to put a pair of jeans over a light shining from an amplifier. That's when he heard the bathroom window "sliding...
a fundamental problem of statistical mechanics is the determination of the phase diagram of interacting many - particle systems . a substantial variety of pair interactions can produce a dramatic diversity of macroscopic phases , including crystals @xcite , quasicrystals @xcite , liquid crystals @xcite , hexatic phases...
stealthy potentials , a family of long - range isotropic pair potentials , produce infinitely degenerate disordered ground states at high densities and crystalline ground states at low densities in @xmath0-dimensional euclidean space @xmath1 . in the previous paper in this series , we numerically studied the entropi...
stability of a black hole s space - time against small perturbations is the basic requirement for its existence . stability acquires a special meaning in higher dimensional gravity , because there is no traditional uniqueness theorem for higher dimensional solutions with an event horizon . a number of `` black '' solut...
we consider scalar field perturbations of the asymptotically gdel 5-dimensional charged rotating black holes with two equal angular momenta . it is shown that the spectrum of proper oscillations of the perturbation includes superradiant unstable modes . the reason for the instability is the confining dirichlet bou...
SHARE THIS ARTICLE Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email China ended one of the most ambitious demographic experiments in human history, abandoning the limit of one child for most families to foster the population growth required by the world’s second-biggest economy. Introduced by Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to husband a ...
– For more than three decades, China has enforced a one-child policy meant to tamp down on population growth. Today marks a big change. Per the official Xinhua News Agency, China's Communist Party has replaced the one-child policy with a two-child policy, meaning any couple in China can have two children if they choose...
we investigate the application of general purpose graphics processing units ( gpus ) to solving large systems of polynomial equations with numerical methods . large systems not only lead to an increased number of operations , but also to more accumulation of numerical roundoff errors and therefore to the need to calcul...
in order to compensate for the higher cost of double double and quad double arithmetic when solving large polynomial systems , we investigate the application of nvidia tesla k20c general purpose graphics processing unit . the focus on this paper is on newton s method , which requires the evaluation of the polynomial...
"Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate," goes the song from Monty Python’s movie The Meaning of Life. If the lyrics strike you as funny, it’s most likely because calling a sperm cell "sacred" sounds ridiculous when men can produce so many of them. In fact, the avera...
– So how does one sperm manage to best tens of millions of competitors to fertilize the egg? It may have the best rhythm, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzing how sperm cells move have come up with what they call a "simple mathematical formula" to explain what's happening, reports the BBC. They found that the ta...
quantum key distribution ( qkd ) provides a means of sharing a secret key between two parties ( alice and bob ) securely in the presence of an eavesdropper ( eve ) . the single - photon ( e. g. bb84 @xcite ) , entanglement - based ( e. g. e91 @xcite ) and continuous variable ( e. g. gg02 @xcite ) qkd protocols have ...
a modified four - state cvqkd protocol is proposed to increase the maximum transmission distance and tolerable excess noise in the presence of gaussian lossy and noisy channel by using a noiseless linear amplifier ( nla ) . we show that a nla with gain @xmath0 can increase the maximum admission losses by @xmath1 db ...
over the last decade methods from statistical physics have contributed greatly to the theory of complex networks @xcite . one of the major contributions is the development of methods to characterize and categorize the vertices ( nodes ) of real - world networks . numerous networked systems are heterogeneous in the sen...
many real - world networks have broad degree distributions . for some systems , this means that the functional significance of the vertices is also broadly distributed , in other cases the vertices are equally significant , but in different ways . one example of the latter case is metabolic networks , where the hi...
the development of minimally invasive surgery ( mis ) over the past 30 years is considered a landmark shift in modern surgery . mis has revolutionized surgery and brought substantial benefits for patients , health systems , and society as a whole . patients benefit from reduced perioperative morbidity , enhanced po...
background and objectives : after the widespread application of minimally invasive surgery for benign diseases and given its proven safety and efficacy , minimally invasive surgery for gastrointestinal cancer has gained substantial attention in the past several years . despite the large number of publications on the to...
in a _ plane graph _ , each vertex @xmath15 is a point in @xmath16 and each edge @xmath17 is represented as a continuous plane curve with endpoints @xmath18 and @xmath15 . all such curves are supposed to be non - self - crossing and any two of them either have no common point or share a common endvertex . an underlying...
given a planar graph @xmath0 , we consider drawings of @xmath0 in the plane where edges are represented by straight line segments ( which possibly intersect ) . such a drawing is specified by an injective embedding @xmath1 of the vertex set of @xmath0 into the plane . let @xmath2 be the maximum integer @xmath3 such ...
Add this Tweet to your website by copying the code below. Saber máis Add this video to your website by copying the code below. Saber máis Vaites, produciuse un problema na conexión co servidor. Queres tentalo de novo? Incluír o chío pai Incluír multimedia Ao inserires contido de Twitter no teu sitio web ou ...
– On Thursday night, Jay Z became the first hip-hop artist to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, though he wasn't actually there to accept the honor himself. Famous Jay Z fan and former POTUS Barack Obama inducted the rapper into the hall via a recorded video message, ETOnline reports, calling Jay Z a frien...
The actress opened up on the social media platform that she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis on Aug. 16, joining the estimated 2.3 million people living with the disease which attacks the central nervous system. Selma Blair has revealed that she has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The 46-year-old a...
– Selma Blair has publicly revealed a medical drama that's been playing out in her personal life. In an emotional Instagram post, the Legally Blonde actress wrote that she was recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. “I am disabled. I fall sometimes. I drop things. My memory is foggy. And my left side is asking for ...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Pipeline Integrity, Safety, and Reliability Research and Development Act of 2000''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds that-- (1) natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines are a critical element of our nation's energy infrastructure;...
Requires the Secretary to: (1) arrange with the National Academy of Sciences for the establishment of a Pipeline Integrity Technical Advisory Committee; and (2) prepare, along with the Committee, in coordination with the Secretary of Energy, and submit to Congress a five-year research and development program plan. Auth...
a microscopic theory of nuclear structure would be very incomplete without a satisfactory description of nuclear rotational states in terms of many - nucleon quantum mechanics . however , while the states of a truly rigid rotor can be handled with ease @xcite , they do not have square - integrable wave functions in eit...
the phenomenological symplectic model with a davidson potential is used to construct rotational states for a rare - earth nucleus with microscopic wave functions . the energy levels and @xmath0 transitions obtained are in remarkably close agreement ( to within a few percent ) with those of the rotor model with vibra...
frequent or chronic tension - type headache ( tth ) in children is a prevalent and debilitating condition for the child , often leading to medication overuse.1,2 in its infancy , research in children with tth is limited , though findings from adults highlight the areas that need to be examined . the pathophysiologica...
backgroundfrequent or chronic tension - type headache in children is a prevalent and debilitating condition for the child , often leading to medication overuse . to explore the relationship between physical factors and tension - type headache in children , the quality of repeated measures was examined . the aim of th...
the deep fascia is the dense connective layer that surround muscles , bones , nerves and blood vessels . in recent time it have gained importance in the clinical practice for its role in motor coordination , proprioception , balance and myofascial pain . the deep fascia contains variable amount of fibroblasts soake...
cannabinoid receptors have been localized in the central and peripheral nervous system as well as on cells of the immune system , but recent studies on animal tissue gave evidence for the presence of cannabinoid receptors in different types of tissues . their presence was supposed also in myofascial tissue , suggesti...
the unexpected faintness of type ia supernovae ( sne ia ) at @xmath6 provides direct evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating , propelled by `` dark energy '' ( riess et al . 1998 ; perlmutter et al . 1999 ) . augmented samples of sne ia extended to @xmath7 ( tonry et al . 2003 ; suntzeff et al . 2...
we present discoveries of sne ia at @xmath0 and the photometric diagnostic used to discriminate them from other types of sne detected during the goods _ hubble space telescope _ treasury program with the advanced camera for surveys ( acs ) . photometric redshift measurements of the hosts combined with deep @xmath1...
accreting neutron stars ( ns ) are believed to be the compact component in more than 20 low mass x - ray binaries ( lmxbs ) . in these systems , the mass is transferred from the companion by overflowing the roche lobe and forming an accretion disc that surrounds the ns . the disc contributes significantly to high x - r...
twin - peak quasi - periodic oscillations ( qpos ) are observed in the x - ray power - density spectra of several accreting low - mass neutron star ( ns ) binaries . in our previous work we have considered several qpo models . we have identified and explored mass angular - momentum relations implied by individual...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; REFERENCE TO INTERNAL REVENUE CODE. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Family Farm Retirement Equity Act of 1993''. (b) Reference to Internal Revenue Code of 1986.--Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms...
Family Farm Retirement Equity Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to nontaxable exchanges to allow the rollover of gain from the sale of a qualified farm asset into one or more individual retirement plans, to be known as asset rollover accounts. Denies an itemized deduction for contributions to...
an adaptive approximation scheme of the wiener process is considered . the discretization points are placed at times when the value of the true process differs from the approximation by some amount , here denoted by @xmath0 . this can be seen as a control problem where we want to track the true value of the process wit...
the problem of approximating / tracking the value of a wiener process is considered . the discretization points are placed at times when the value of the process differs from the approximation by some amount , here denoted by @xmath0 . it is found that the limiting difference , as @xmath0 goes to @xmath1 , between...
the first clinical experience on selective decontamination of the digestive tract ( sdd ) goes back to 1983 , whilst the first randomized trial was published in 1987 . subsequently , 66 randomized controlled trials ( rcts ) [ 3 , 4 ] and 11 meta - analyses of rcts of sdd have been published . they demonstrated that...
selective decontamination of the digestive tract has been proven to prevent severe infections and to reduce mortality in critically ill patients . historical arguments against its use , like the development of bacterial resistance and the absence of influence on mortality , have not been confirmed . recent clinical...
for the last two decades , the electron transport through quantum dots ( qds ) has been a central question . a wide range of different approaches , including independent electron picture , constant interaction model and scattering matrix theory , have provided mechanisms for explaining the transport properties of qds ....
we report the implementation of the self - consistent thomas - fermi screening theory , together with the local ohm s law to a quantum dot system in order to obtain local current distribution within the dot and at the leads . we consider a large dot ( size @xmath0 nm ) defined by split gates , and coupled to the lea...
in this paper , by using the dirac equation , we examine the relationship between the peak of the incoming wave packet ( of energy @xmath3 and mass @xmath4 ) which encounters a potential barrier of height @xmath0 and width @xmath5 at @xmath6 and the peak of transmitted wave packet which moves in the free potential regi...
based on the dirac equation , the behavior of relativistic electrons which tunnel a potential barrier of height @xmath0 for incoming energies between @xmath0 and @xmath1 is studied by using the wave packet formalism . the choice of this incoming energy zone guarantees that only electrons participate to the tunneling...
The screams rang out just before 1 p.m., rising from the yard of a small bungalow in Scarborough and ringing out through the tree-lined residential street. It was clearly an argument, one neighbour said — a young man yelling, another man screaming “calm down,” prompting a woman to come out of the house to join them. By...
– Three people were killed with a crossbow Thursday afternoon in Toronto, Reuters reports. According to the CBC, police responded to reports of a stabbing to find three people with crossbow bolts in them inside a residential garage in a suburban area of the city. "It was going on for about five minutes—the screaming," ...
it was shown recently how to calculate the cross section for exclusive production of heavy quarkonia in the @xmath5 @xcite as well as in @xmath6 @xcite collisions within the @xmath7-factorization approach . the same formalism was also used recently to calculate exclusive production of the @xmath8 boson @xcite . in the ...
the amplitude for @xmath0 is calculated in a pqcd @xmath1 - factorization approach . the total cross section for this process is compared with hera data . total cross section , as a function of photon - proton energy and photon virtuality , is calculated . we also discuss the ratio of @xmath2/@xmath3 and the dep...
the chief cause of cardiovascular disease is the formation of atherosclerotic plaque possibly due to the sustained elevation of blood cholesterol and subsequent inflammatory response in vascular region [ 1 , 2 ] . statins such as pravastatin , lovastatin , and simvastatin are widely used in the clinic for the lowerin...
both statins and klotho have been shown to be beneficial in vascular diseases . interleukin- ( il- ) 6 is evidenced as an indicator reflecting the stability of atherosclerotic plaque and involved in the pathogenesis of artery atherosclerosis . however , the relationship between statin , klotho , and il-6 under an i...
a globular cluster contains about @xmath4 stars of different masses , generally with similar ages and metallicities . from both dynamical and stellar population points of view , globular clusters appear significantly simpler than galaxies . because they can be observed to much larger distances than individual stars , p...
we report on the radial velocity measurements of 18 globular clusters and one de galaxy in the field of the giant elliptical galaxy ngc 1399 , the dominant galaxy of the fornax cluster . we present also the radial velocity measurements of some candidates for young and super metal - rich globular clusters , which tu...
graphene is a flat monolayer of carbon atoms tightly packed into a two - dimensional ( @xmath0 ) honeycomb lattice , ( fig . [ figplano ] ) or it can be viewed as an individual atomic plane pulled out of bulk graphite @xcite . it is the first example of a truly atomic two - dimensional @xmath1 crystalline system and it...
we study the scattering of graphene quasiparticles by topological defects , represented by holes , pentagons and heptagons . for the case of holes , we obtain the phase shift and found that at low concentration they appear to be irrelevant for the electron transport , giving a negligible contribution to the resistiv...
different types of topological defects may have been formed during the phase transition in the early universe @xcite . depending on the topology of the vacuum manifold they are domain walls , strings , monopoles and textures . cosmic strings have gained some interest recently since they are considered as a good candida...
we calculate the vacuum averages of the energy - momentum tensor associated with a massless left - handed spinor fields due to magnetic fluxes on idealized cosmic string spacetime . in this analysis three distinct configurations of magnetic fields are considered : _ i ) _ a homogeneous field inside the tube , _ ii...
ever since its experimental realization , synthetic spin - orbit coupling ( soc ) in ultracold atomic gases has attracted much attention @xcite . over the past few years , soc - induced exotic phases and phase transitions have been extensively studied in both the bose and the fermi gases @xcite . central to the effec...
we investigate the pairing physics of a three - component spin - orbit coupled fermi gas in two spatial dimensions . the three atomic hyperfine states of the system are coupled by the recently realized synthetic spin - orbit coupling ( soc ) , which mixes different hyperfine states into helicity branches in a moment...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``First State National Historical Park Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE. (a) Findings.--Congress finds that-- (1) the State of Delaware contains a collection of nationally significant resources relating to-- (A) th...
First State National Historical Park Act - Establishes the First State National Historical Park in Delaware as a unit of the National Park System. Specifies that the purpose of the Park is the preservation, protection, and interpretation of the historic and cultural resources associated with Dutch, Swedish, and Englis...
the screening of plant extracts has been of great interest to scientist for the discovery of new drugs effective in the treatment of several diseases.1 turkish flora has one of the most extensive floras in the world with more than 9000 plant species.2 a number of reports concerning the antibacterial , anti - inflammato...
objectives : the aim of this study was to investigate wound healing effects of arnebia densiflora ( nordm . ) ledeb . root extracts on rat palatal mucosa.methods:a 10-mm full - thickness mucosal wounds were created on midline of rats palate by using scalpel . in the experimental groups , a ten percent extract of a. d...
since the introduction of anti - tumor necrosis factor ( tnf)-alpha drugs approximately 15 years ago , the management of ulcerative colitis ( uc ) has dramatically changed . initially used only for severe steroid - refractory active diseases as the last chance before colectomy,1,2 over the years anti - tnf - alpha ...
significant advances in the management of patients with ulcerative colitis ( uc ) have been made since the introduction of anti - tumor necrosis factor ( tnf)-alpha agents , especially for those who fail or do not tolerate conventional therapies . two drugs , infliximab first , then adalimumab afterward , showed effe...
how disorder affects the intrinsic diffusion of a particle is a question of extreme practical relevance . it is often encountered in transport processes @xcite whenever one attempts to confront theoretical predictions with actual experiments . not surprisingly , the study of disorder has attracted a lot of interest in ...
inspired by the collective phenomenon of territorial emergence , whereby animals move and interact through the scent marks they deposit , we study the dynamics of a 1d brownian walker in a random environment consisting of confining boundaries that are themselves diffusing anomalously . we show how to reduce , in certa...
The post from a popular Twitter page called "Yes, You're Racist" points to Pete Tefft of Fargo. It's sparked thousands of retweets and likes, as well as many threats of violence. RELATED: Local family members also report being harassed. The 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville turned deadly this w...
– The father of a self-described white nationalist who marched at Saturday’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., says his son is no longer welcome home. Pearce Tefft of Fargo, ND, posted the open letter on INFORUM Monday, writing that his son Peter’s values are not shared by his family. “I, along with all ...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Energy Critical Elements Renewal Act of 2011''. (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. TITLE I--ENERG...
Energy Critical Elements Renewal Act of 2011 - Establishes in the Department of Energy (DOE) a research, development, and commercial application program to assure the long-term, secure, and sustainable supply of energy critical elements to satisfy the national security, economic well-being, and industrial production ne...
the neutrino data show that neutrinos have tiny masses as compared to the electroweak scale . this is clear evidence for physics beyond the standard model ( sm ) . the data also indicate that the structure of flavor mixing for neutrinos is largely different from that for charged leptons . these facts would suggest that...
a general feature of tev - scale radiative seesaw models , in which tiny neutrino masses are generated via loop corrections , is an extended scalar ( higgs ) sector . another feature is the majorana nature ; _ e.g. _ , introducing right - handed neutrinos with tev - scale majorana masses under the discrete symmetr...
the investigation of the neutrino properties is a most relevant issue , in the contexts of elementary particle physics , cosmology and astrophysics . on this regard , the timeliness of neutrino physics is shown by the 2015 s nobel prize awarded to t. kajita and a. b. mcdonald due to the experimental verification of neu...
the work investigates the coupling between ion - acoustic waves and neutrino flavor oscillations in a non - relativistic electron - ion plasma under the influence of a mixed neutrino beam . neutrino oscillations are mediated by the flavor polarization vector dynamics in a material medium . the linear dispersion re...
The government has sent skimmers, booms and other resources to clean up a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that's become far worse than initially thought and threatens the fragile marshlands along the shore, a Coast Guard official said Thursday. Fishing boats are docked in Venice, La., Thursday, April 29, 20...
– The feds are ramping up efforts to contain the widening oil spill near Louisiana, with Janet Napolitano designating it an event of "national significance." For President Obama, it's also an event of political significance. With oil pouring into the Gulf, the environmental mess is already causing trouble for his plan ...
the cloverleaf is the gravitationally lensed image of the quasar h1413 + 117 ( 14@xmath6 15@xmath7 46@xmath8.23 ; @xmath9 j2000.0 ) at @xmath10 showing four spots with angular separations from @xmath11 to @xmath12 . since its discovery ( magain et al . 1988 ) , the cloverleaf has been observed spectroscopically and ima...
we present a new investigation of the cloverleaf ( z@xmath02.56 ) based on the combination of archival hst / wfpc2 data , recent iram co(7 - 6 ) maps and wide field cfht / focam images . the deep wfpc2 observation ( f814w ) shows a significant overdensity of i@xmath1 2325 galaxies around the cloverleaf that we inter...
hereditary gingival fibromatosis ( hgf ) first reported by goddard and gross in 1856 , is a rare , benign , nonhemorrhagic , fibrous enlargement of gingiva . it seems to be a slowly progressive keratinized gingival overgrowth with various degrees and it is genetically heterogeneous and can occur in either autosomal d...
hereditary gingival fibromatosis ( hgf ) is a rare hereditary condition characterised by slow , progressive , nonhemorrhagic , fibrous enlargement of gingiva caused by increase in sub - mucosal connective tissue component . this paper presents a case report of a 14-year - old male suffering from hgf with positive fam...
Bachelor alum Chris Soules was arrested at 1:16 a.m. on Tuesday after a deadly car crash, PEOPLE confirms. According to the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office, Soules, 35, has been charged with leaving the scene of a fatal car accident that left one individual dead. Soules was not charged with driving under the influ...
– Former Bachelor Chris Soules is in custody after what police describe as a fatal hit and run in Iowa Monday night. Police say Soules, 35, was driving a pickup truck that collided with the back end of a tractor around 8pm near Aurora, reports KWWL. Both vehicles landed in a ditch and the driver of the tractor was kill...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Victims of Child Abuse Act Reauthorization Act of 2013''. SEC. 2. IMPROVING INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF CHILD ABUSE CASES. (a) Reauthorization.--Section 214B of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 13004) is amended-- (1) in subs...
(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on June 26, 2014. Victims of Child Abuse Act Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Amends the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for FY2014-FY2018 for: (1) the children's advocacy program; (2) grants from the Administrator of the ...
in the present study , three carcasses each of raccoon , raccoon dog and red panda were used for the range of motion ( rom ) analyses in the forearm pronation / supination ( table 1table 1.the carcasses used in this studyspeciessexdonor or locationstorage place of specimensraccoonmaleozouraccoonmalehbmcouraccoonmaleh...
the ranges of pronation / supination of forearms in raccoons , raccoon dogs and red pandas were nondestructively examined . three carcasses of each species were used for ct analysis , and the left forearms were scanned with a ct scanner in two positions : maximal supination and maximal pronation . scanning data w...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Remote Sensing Applications Act of 2002''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. The Congress finds that-- (1) although urban land use planning, growth management, and other functions of State, local, regional, and tribal agencies are rightful...
Remote Sensing Applications Act of 2002 - Directs the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to establish a program of grants for pilot projects to explore the integrated use of sources of remote sensing and other geospatial information to address State, local, regional, and tribal agency ne...
FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, file photo, Carrie Underwood performs "Softly and Tenderly" during an In Memoriam tribute at the 51st annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, file photo, Carrie Underwood performs "Softly and...
– Country music star Carrie Underwood is recuperating from injuries sustained in a fall on steps outside her home. In a statement Sunday on Twitter, Underwood thanked her fans for messages of support following her fall Friday night. The Tennessean reports Underwood was treated and released from a hospital for a broken ...
A unanimous Supreme Court ruling has invalidated an Arkansas state prison rule that barred inmates from growing beards measuring more than a quarter of an inch long. The rule had been challenged by inmate Gregory Holt, a Muslim man who had asked for permission to grow a half-inch-long beard as a compromise from the ful...
– The Supreme Court was unanimous today in a decision that will allow an Arkansas inmate to grow a half-inch beard. The state's rule specified that beard length must be kept to a quarter inch; Gregory Holt, a Muslim man also known as Abdul Maalik Muhammad, had sought permission to grow the slightly longer beard in a co...
in 2008 the pamela satellite reported an observation of many more positron cosmic rays between 10 and 100gev than predicted from models of cosmic ray transport @xcite . in @xcite we proposed that the observed positron excess was due to the configuration of the heliospheric magnetic field . during periods of solar minim...
we present a numerical simulation of cosmic ray transport in the heliosphere and show that ams-02 should observe a decrease in the positron fraction above 40gev compared to the fraction observed by pamela .
Promotions for a new Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs parody are leaving people with a bad taste worse than a poisonous apple. Red Shoes & the 7 Dwarfs, the newest retelling of the animated classic, is being criticized for its marketing campaign. Many say the movie poster — depicting the tall, thin heroine next to a...
– The bad news the magic mirror gave the Evil Queen in the original Snow White pales in comparison to the body-shaming backlash over promotions for Red Shoes & the 7 Dwarfs, set to debut in 2018, per People. A movie poster at Cannes showed the animated parody's main character, voiced by Chloe Grace Moretz, as both a li...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Community Development Block Grant Renewal Act''. SEC. 2. LOW- AND MODERATE-INCOME TARGETING REQUIREMENT. (a) Targeting Assistance to Low-Income Families.-- (1) In general.--Section 101(c) of the Housing and Community Development Act...
Community Development Block Grant Renewal Act - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1972 to increase the amount of community development assistance targeted to low- and moderate-income families, including job creation and area and economic development activities.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Teacher and Nurse Support Act of 2007''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following: (1) According to the National Center for Education Statistics, over the next 10 years, the United States will need ...
Teacher and Nurse Support Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase to a maximum of $17,500 the aggregate student loan obligation eligible for forgiveness or cancellation under the Federal Family Education Loan or Direct Loan programs for teachers who serve full-time in certain elementary or sec...
neutral atoms such as @xmath13he interact via long - range interactions the familiar van - der - waals interactions . their origin is well understood ( see , e.g. , ref . @xcite ) . owing to quantum mechanical charge fluctuations , either atom has a fluctuating dipole moment producing an electric field that the respec...
recent exact @xmath0 results for critical casimir forces of the @xmath1 @xmath2 model on a three - dimensional strip bounded by two planar free surfaces at a distance @xmath3 are surveyed . this model has long - range order below the bulk critical temperature @xmath4 if @xmath5 , but remains disordered for all @xmat...
water is the basic building block of life and is often used as a diagnostic for forms of life on planets @xcite . water may be formed by ion - neutral reactions in cold gas , through grain surface reactions or neutral - neutral reactions at higher temperatures ( e.g. hollenbach et al . high water abundances are possibl...
we performed _ herschel _ hifi , pacs and spire observations towards the molecular cloud interacting supernova remnant g349.7 + 0.2 . an extremely broad emission line was detected at 557 ghz from the ground state transition 1@xmath0 - 1@xmath1 of ortho - water . this water line can be separated into three veloci...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Establishment Act''. (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Establishment of Great Bend of t...
Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Establishment Act This bill establishes the Great Bend of the Gila National Monument in Arizona. The Department of the Interior shall manage the Monument as part of the National Landscape Conservation System to maintain its undeveloped character and to protect and restore its ...
Paleontologists in Patagonia, southern Argentina on Friday announced they have unearthed a 90-million-year-old fossil of what they claim is the largest dinosaur found to date. "It's the largest example ever found," said Ruben Cuneo, director of the Feruglio Museum of Trelew, a city founded by Welsh settlers in the ...
– Even by dinosaur standards, a new one unearthed in Argentina is big. In fact, the paleontologists who found it say it's the biggest ever found and thus the biggest creature ever to have walked the earth, reports the BBC. Let us count the ways: Based on its ginormous thigh bones, they estimate that it was 65 feet tall...
circumstellar dust disks around nearby stars provide strong indirect evidence for the existence of planetesimals in exosolar systems . radiation pressure , poynting - robertson drag , collisions , and sublimation remove dust orbiting young main sequence stars on timescales 10@xmath1 - 10@xmath2 times shorter than the s...
the nearby main sequence star @xmath0 pic is surrounded by an edge - on disk of dust produced by the collisional erosion of larger planetesimals . here we report the discovery of substructure within the northeast extension of the disk midplane that may represent an asymmetric ring system around @xmath0 pic . we pr...
graves ' orbitopathy represents orbit involvement and is clinically relevant in about half of the patients with the graves ' disease . in 3 to 5% of the patients , graves ' disease is an autoimmune disease characterized by the presence of the serum autoantibodies . autoimmune process induces an inflammatory reactio...
graves ' disease is a most common cause of hyperthyroidism . it is an autoimmune disease , and autoimmune process induces an inflammatory reaction , and reactive oxygen species ( ross ) are among its products . when balance between oxidants and antioxidants is disturbed , in favour of the oxidants it is termed oxi...
the computation of high order correlation functions of scalar fields in a de sitter spacetime can be of interest for investigations of the physics of the early universe . there are indeed a growing number of indications that in its early phase the universe underwent an inflationary period @xcite that can be accurately...
we present the expressions of the three- and four - point correlation functions of a self interacting light scalar field in a de sitter spacetime at tree order respectively for a cubic and a quartic potential . exact expressions are derived and their limiting behaviour on super - horizon scales are presented . the...
it is characterized by the proliferation of dendritic cells , which express cd1a and s-100 protein but lack langerin expression and birbeck granules . we report a patient with skin idct associated with a mosquito bite that showed spontaneous regression after 17 months of follow - up . literature review reveals this...
abstractprimary indeterminate dendritic cell tumor ( idct ) is an extremely neoplastic dendritic cell disorder . little is known about its pathogenesis , etiology , and prognostic factors because of its rarity . herein , we present a case report of a skin idct that arose in mosquito bite and discuss the correlation b...
one of the most significant network motifs ( milo et al , 2002 ; shen - orr et al , 2002 ) in transcription regulation networks is the feed - forward loop ( ffl ) . this motif was first defined in escherichia coli ( shen - orr et al , 2002 ) , and then found in diverse organisms including saccharomyces cerevisiae ( l...
complex gene - regulation networks are made of simple recurring gene circuits called network motifs . the functions of several network motifs have recently been studied experimentally , including the coherent feed - forward loop ( ffl ) with an and input function that acts as a sign - sensitive delay element . here ,...