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the cosmic microwave background ( cmb ) anisotropy data produced by the final analysis of the wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe ( wmap ) @xcite and , more recently , by the planck satellite @xcite confirme the standard cosmological lambda cold matter ( @xmath2cdm ) model at an unprecedented level of accuracy . at ... | recent planck data confirm that the cosmic microwave background displays the quadru - pole power suppression together with large scale anomalies .
progressing from previous results , that focused on the quadrupole anomaly , we strengthen the proposal that the slightly anisotropic ellipsoidal universe may account for... |
A mother was arrested on attempted murder and child endangerment charges after her newborn was found buried under rubble near a Compton riverbed. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News at 11 on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. (Published Monday, Dec 7, 2015)
Detectives on Monday identified the mother of a newborn baby girl who wa... | – Police in Los Angeles County have found the woman they were looking for in the heartbreaking case of a newborn found buried alive under rubble in Compton the day after Thanksgiving. Investigators, who had called for the woman to come forward, announced Sunday night that the woman had been identified and arrested and ... |
the removal of lattice - spacing artifacts from numerical estimates of physical quantities is a central problem in lattice field theory . taking the continuum limit by decreasing
the coarseness of the mesh and extrapolating is a computationally - expensive task .
the use of _ improved actions _ promises to be a much mo... | the scalar glueball mass and the string tension are computed in lattice su(3 ) gauge theory with the aim of establishing the effectiveness of the improved action approach in removing finite - spacing artifacts .
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melanoma imaging has benefited from significant advances in ultrasound imaging . indeed , since the 1990s , because of its accessibility , low cost , and the shallowness of lesions ,
this technique has rapidly become established as an essential continuum to the clinical examination . today , advances in high - freque... | high - frequency ultrasound ( 814 mhz ) is routinely used to display cutaneous melanomas .
maximum thickness measurement ( breslow index ) has been shown to be well correlated to histologic findings for lesions of more than 0.75 mm .
some morphological criteria ( strong delineation , hypoechoic texture , homogeneit... |
precise and timely notification is vital in reducing the unwanted social , economic , and unforeseen consequences of an epidemic . and
it should be done according to the community 's and different groups needs with respect to the pandemic phase the country is experiencing .
this matter is more important when pandem... | background : timely notification is of great importance in health emergencies . so identifying the most important sources of information used by people in emergencies seems necessary .
the objective of this study was to assess peoples level of awareness concerning the symptoms , routes of transmission , prevention , ... |
She’s no longer confident, that’s for sure.
Songstress, Demi Lovato, took to Instagram Monday night to seemingly backtrack for a series of comments she made criticizing Taylor Swift's $250,000 donation to Kesha.
Demi Lovato seemingly threw shade at Taylor Swift’s efforts to help Kesha. (Kevin Winter/WireImage) ... | – Taylor Swift is helping out Kesha's court battle in a big way: The singer has donated $250,000 "to help with any of her financial needs," her rep tells E! News. Kesha is fighting to get out of a contract with a music producer she accuses of raping her, and her mom calls Swift's gesture "amazing." Not quite as wowed i... |
difficulty in securing an airway is often experienced in the management of complex maxillofacial trauma .
modern techniques for surgical treatment of midfacial and panfacial fractures in maxillofacial trauma pose special problems for airway management . according to a recent review ,
submental intubation is a usefu... | it can be challenging to create a safe airway in maxilla facial fracture and some skull surgeries . in this case study , the patient experienced jaw fractures that disturbed the dental occlusion and associated fracture of the base of the skull .
neither nasal nor oral intubation was possible based on the side effects... |
there are reports of de novo production or exacerbation of obsessive - compulsive symptoms ( ocs ) in patients with schizophrenia treated with atypical antipsychotics.[13 ] this issue has been debated owing to the lack of clarity about the causality of ocs .
since ocs occurs in a proportion of schizophrenia patients ... | there are reports of de novo development or exacerbation of obsessive - compulsive symptoms in patients with schizophrenia treated with atypical antipsychotics , although this is widely debated .
we report one such case where a patient with a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia , treated with olanzapine , developed de... |
the infrared camera ( irc : @xcite ) is one of the two instruments on board the _ akari _ satellite ( @xcite ) , and is mainly designed for deep imaging from 1.826.5@xmath0 m for _ akari _
s pointed observation mode . in order to obtain rich multi - color information of astronomical objects at near- and mid - infrared ... | the infrared camera ( irc ) is one of the two instruments on board the _ akari _ satellite .
in addition to deep imaging from 1.826.5@xmath0 m for the pointed observation mode of the _ akari _ , it has a spectroscopic capability in its spectral range . by replacing the imaging filters by transmission - type disperse... |
the cohort consisted of 331 caucasian adolescents and young adults ( 162 male and 169 female ) with a median ( interquartile range ) age of 15.4 ( 13.517.3 ) years and type 1 diabetes duration of 7.6 ( 4.910.6 ) years , who presented for routine complications assessment at the children 's hospital at westmead ( sydney ... | objective in type 1 diabetes , plantar fascia , a collagen - rich tissue , is susceptible to glycation and oxidation .
paraoxonase-1 ( pon1 ) is an hdl - bound antioxidant enzyme .
pon1 polymorphisms have been associated with susceptibility to macro- and microvascular complications .
we investigated the relations... |
State/Province: AK - Alaska AL - Alabama AR - Arkansas AZ - Arizona CA - California CO - Colorado CT - Connecticut DC - District of Columbia DE - Delaware FL - Florida GA - Georgia HI - Hawaii IA - Iowa ID - Idaho IL - Illinois IN - Indiana KS - Kansas KY - Kentucky LA - Louisiana MA - Massachusetts MD - Maryland ME - ... | – Gwyneth Paltrow's much-maligned attempt at the food stamp challenge was supposed to last a week, but she cheated after four days, she admits in a post published yesterday on Goop. Her self-given final grade: C-. She notes that she was "dubious" from the outset that she'd be able to make it the entire week, and so don... |
the recent years , detectors consisting of one and two dimensional arrays of silicon diodes have come into widespread use as tracking detectors in particle and nuclear physics experiments .
it is well understood that the intra - diode electric fields in these detectors vary linearly in depth reaching a maximum value at... | charge collection measurements performed on heavily irradiated p - spray dofz pixel sensors with a grazing angle hadron beam provide a sensitive determination of the electric field within the detectors .
the data are compared with a complete charge transport simulation of the sensor which includes free carrier trapp... |
the relative abundances of iron and @xmath3-process elements in qsos could provide an important constraint on the star - formation histories of their host galaxies ( e.g. yoshii , tsujimoto & kawara 1998 ; korista et al .
, these proceedings ) .
we report here the results of a cycle 11 _ hubble space telescope _
progra... | we have obtained low - resolution near - infrared spectra of five sdss qsos at 5.3 @xmath0 _ z _ @xmath0 6.3 using the nicmos instrument of the _ hubble space telescope_. we find evidence of emission in the fe ii complex centered near @xmath1 ( rest ) in all five objects .
we estimate fe ii / mg ii @xmath22800 flux ... |
the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( aids ) epidemic is continuing to grow and global estimates indicated that over 40 million people are infected .
the fact that the number of human immunodeficiency virus ( hiv)-infected patients under dental care is expected to increase highlights the importance of providing he... | background : india is estimated to have third highest number of human immunodeficiency virus ( hiv ) infection in world with about 2.4 million people currently living with hiv / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( aids ) .
there is a possibility of hiv transmission in the oral health care setting and thus adequate k... |
lipoid congenital adrenal hyperplasia ( lipoid cah ) , a rare disorder of steroid biosynthesis , is the most severe form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia ( cah).in this disorder the synthesis of all adrenal and gonadal steroid hormones is impaired due to a molecular defect in the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein... | lipoid congenital adrenal hyperplasia ( lipoid cah ) , a rare disorder of steroid biosynthesis , is the most severe form of cah . in this disorder
the synthesis of glucocorticoids , mineralocorticoids and sex steroids is impaired which result in adrenal failure , severe salt wasting crisis and hyperpigmentation in ph... |
domination in graph constitutes a very important area in graph theory @xcite .
an enormous quantity of researches about domination in graphs have been developed in the last years . nevertheless , there are still several open problems and incoming researches about that .
one interesting question in this area is related ... | a set @xmath0 of vertices of a graph @xmath1 is a dominating set in @xmath1 if every vertex outside of @xmath0 is adjacent to at least one vertex belonging to @xmath0 .
a domination parameter of @xmath1 is related to those sets of vertices of a graph satisfying some domination property together with other conditions... |
the most luminous non - nuclear x - ray sources in nearby galaxies occur in regions of current or recent star formation .
some of them have x - ray luminosities exceeding the isotropic eddintgton luminosity @xmath9 for an @xmath10 black hole ( bh ) ; they are commonly labelled ultraluminous x - ray sources ( ulxs ) .
t... | we have re - examined the most luminous x - ray sources in the starburst galaxy ngc4631 , using _ xmm - newton _ , _ chandra _ and _ rosat _ data .
the most interesting source is a highly variable supersoft ulx .
we suggest that its bolometric luminosity @xmath0 a few @xmath1 erg s@xmath2 in the high / supersoft s... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Chinese Currency Act of 2005''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The economy and national security of the United States
are critically dependent upon a vibrant manufacturing base.
(2) The good ... | Chinese Currency Act of 2005 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 regarding countervailing duty investigations to revise the definition of countervailable subsidy to include exchange-rate manipulation.
Defines "exchange-rate manipulation" as protracted large-scale intervention by an authority to undervalue its currency i... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Local Television Freedom Act of
2009''.
SEC. 2. CARRIAGE OF STATIONS IN AN ADJACENT UNDERSERVED COUNTY UNDER
THE COMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1934.
(a) Retransmission Consent.--Section 325(b) of the Communications
Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 325(b))... | Local Television Freedom Act of 2009 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to allow retransmission of a television broadcast station's signals by a multichannel video programming distributor to a subscriber located in the station's adjacent underserved county, unless the station certifies to the distributor that it i... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Desalination Water Supply Shortage
Prevention Act of 2005''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
(a) Qualified Desalination Facility.--The term ``qualified
desalination facility'' means a facility that--
(1) produces for sale to domestic customers desalin... | Desalination Water Supply Shortage Prevention Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Energy to make incentive payments to the owners or operators of qualified desalination facilities (facilities first used to produce commercial desalinated water after enactment of this Act), including facilities owned or operated by I... |
the search for the higgs boson remains one of the top priorities for existing accelerators as well as for those still at the design stage .
this is because this boson plays a key role in the standard model which describes all currently available experimental data with a high degree of accuracy . as a result of the spon... | a theoretical analysis of solutions of renormalisation group equations in the mssm corresponding to the quasi - fixed point conditions shows that the mass of the lightest higgs boson in this case does not exceed @xmath0 .
it means that a substantial part of the parameter space of the mssm is practically excluded by ... |
globular clusters ( gcs ) are dense , bound systems of typically @xmath8 m@xmath1 stars .
they differ from galaxies in that their stellar populations are coeval and have extremely uniform [ fe / h ]
. measurements of [ fe / h ] ( taken to trace overall metallicity ) show that there appear to be at least two distinct su... | we explore a scenario where metal - poor globular clusters ( gcs ) are enriched by the first supernovae in the universe .
if the first stars in a 10@xmath0 m@xmath1 dark halo were very massive ( @xmath2 m@xmath1 ) , then a pair instability supernova from a single massive star can produce sufficient iron to enrich @x... |
a 47-year - old male with end - stage renal disease ( esrd ) who was maintained on regular hemodialysis ( hd ) for over 15 years presented with acute left flank pain during hd .
his vital signs were stable , and a physical exam showed left costovertebral angle tenderness .
laboratory evaluation revealed a hemoglobi... | spontaneously ruptured renal cell carcinoma ( rcc ) in end - stage kidney disease is very rare .
preoperative diagnosis is difficult because of the relatively small tumor size , associated hematoma , and surrounding acquired cysts .
two middle - aged men who were maintained on hemodialysis ( hd ) for over 10 years ... |
recent progress in our understanding of faint galaxy data made possible by the combination of _ hubble space telescope _
( _ hst _ ) deep imaging and ground - based spectroscopy has vastly improved our understanding of the evolution of the stellar birthrate in optically - selected galaxies from the present - epoch up t... | we assess the constraints imposed by the observed extragalactic background light ( ebl ) on the cosmic history of star formation and the stellar mass density today .
the logarithmic slope of the galaxy number - magnitude relation from the _ southern hubble deep field _
imaging survey is flatter than @xmath0 in all... |
since its introduction in 1993 by leblanc , the laparoscopic approach to ventral hernia repair has enabled patients to return to normal activity earlier and has reduced the need for postoperative pain medications . traditionally , intraperitoneal mesh placement has been used for its ease , but the approach has associat... | background and objectives : we believe that complications due to the mesh used in ventral hernia repairs can be reduced by using the natural barrier afforded by the peritoneum . this can be challenging to do laparoscopically , however we felt that the robot - assisted laparoscopic approach reduces the difficulty in pla... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Greater Middle East and Central Asia
Development Act of 2004''.
SEC. 2. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Act is to authorize assistance for political
freedom and economic development, particularly through private sector
development, in the Greater Middle ... | Greater Middle East and Central Asia Development Act of 2004 - Authorizes the President to provide assistance to countries (excluding those countries supporting international terrorism) in the Greater Middle East and Central Asia to promote economic and political freedoms, free trade, and private sector development, in... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Freedom of Choice Act of 1993''.
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL STATEMENT OF FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) The 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade
established constitutionally based limits on th... | Freedom of Choice Act of 1993 - Provides that a State may not restrict the right of a woman to choose to terminate a pregnancy before fetal viability. Allows a State to: (1) restrict the freedom of a woman to chose to terminate a pregnancy after viability unless the termination is necessary to protect the life or hea... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Family and Medical Leave Inclusion
Act''.
SEC. 2. LEAVE TO CARE FOR A DOMESTIC PARTNER, PARENT-IN-LAW, ADULT
CHILD, SIBLING, GRANDPARENT, GRANDCHILD, OR OTHER
INDIVIDUAL RELATED BY BLOOD OR AFFINITY.
(a) Definitions.--
... | Family and Medical Leave Inclusion Act This bill amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to entitle an eligible employee to leave to care for a domestic partner or his or her child, parent-in-law, adult child, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, or any other person related by blood or affinity whose close associ... |
nuclear matter at high baryon and/or energy density has been extensively studied through high energy heavy - ion collisions @xcite .
the primary goal of these studies is to observe the possible phase transition from hadronic matter to quark - gluon plasma ( qgp ) , in which quarks and gluons are deconfined over an ext... | enhancement in strangeness production and antihyperon to antibaryon ratio are two important signatures of qgp formation .
both signatures have been measured at the ags .
a review of these measurements is given .
implications of the measurements are discussed . |
the calculation of
free energies is critical in understanding many
biological phenomena , for example in the molecular recognition between
a small molecule and its receptor .
computational approaches for obtaining
such free energies are of particular interest in drug design and in
understanding fundamental ... | conformational changes that occur
upon ligand binding may be too
slow to observe on the time scales routinely accessible using molecular
dynamics simulations .
the adaptive integration method ( aim ) leverages
the notion that when a ligand is either fully coupled or decoupled ,
according to , barrier heigh... |
null | we predict a dynamical classical superfluid - insulator transition in a bose - einstein condensate ( bec ) trapped in a combined optical and axially - symmetric harmonic potentials initiated by a periodic modulation of the radial trapping potential .
the transition is marked by a loss of phase coherence in the bec a... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Racial Justice Act of 1993''.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF DEATH PENALTY IN DISPROPORTIONATE PATTERN.
(a) In General.--A government shall not impose or carry out the
penalty of death in criminal cases in a racially disproportionate
pattern. An individual sha... | Racial Justice Act of 1993 - Prohibits: (1) a government from imposing or carrying out the death penalty in a racially disproportionate pattern; and (2) an individual from being put to death in execution of a death sentence imposed under law administered in violation of such provision.
Specifies that ordinary methods... |
during the last three decades , the study of integrability , invariants , symmetries , and exact solutions of nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations ( odes , pdes ) and differential - difference equations ( ddes ) has been the topic of major research projects in the dynamical systems and the soliton comm... | three symbolic algorithms for testing the integrability of polynomial systems of partial differential and differential - difference equations are presented .
the first algorithm is the well - known painlev test , which is applicable to polynomial systems of ordinary and partial differential equations .
the second ... |
rapid x - ray variabilities which lead to dramatic drops in the x - ray luminosity by a factor of @xmath1 4 @xmath0 12 in a couple of seconds and periodic repetition of such luminosity variations observed over a long time - scale , make grs 1915 + 105 atypical with respect to other micro - quasars .
based on light curv... | we report a comprehensive study on spectral and timing properties of hard x - ray dips uniquely observed in some so - called variability classes of the micro - quasars grs 1915 + 105 and igr j17091 - 3624 .
these dips are characterised by a sudden decline in the 2.0@xmath060.0 kev x - ray intensity by a factor of 4 ... |
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it provides tertiary - level health care to the general population in tripoli and other cities in the western and central regions of libya .
this is a retrospective case - series analysis of all adult patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding admitted to the gastroenterology department at tmc . for the purpose of... | backgroundacute upper gastrointestinal bleeding ( ugib ) is a common reason for hospital admissions worldwide .
aetiological causes of ugib vary according to geographic region and socioeconomic status . however , despite the implementation of early endoscopy as the standard method for the diagnosis and treatment of u... |
low mass x - ray binaries ( lmxbs ) are binaries composed of a compact object ( co ; neutron star ; ns ; or a black hole ; bh ) accreting from a lower mass , typically main sequence ( ms ) stellar companion with @xmath3 .
the co accretes through an accretion disc that generates x - ray emission ( see @xcite for overvie... | we present a potentially efficient dynamical formation scenario for low mass x - ray binaries ( lmxbs ) in the field , focusing on black - hole ( bh ) lmxbs . in this formation channel lmxbs
are formed from wide binaries ( @xmath0 au ) with a bh component and a stellar companion .
the wide binary is perturbed by f... |
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Alan Antczak Members of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific Marine Mammal Team pose May 15, 2013, with one of the Navy's specially trained Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphins. The team, along with the dolphin, are responsible for the discovery and recovery of the Howell torpedo. (Ph... | – The discovery itself is notable enough: Navy specialists found a rare torpedo off the San Diego coast, an 11-foot brass gem called the Howell that dates back 130 years or so and was one of the first torpedoes to propel itself, reports dvids. Only 50 were made, and only one other one still exists. But what makes the s... |
the benefits for weight loss in the obese patient are numerous . in today 's society , laymen are aware of the health benefits to weight reduction that essentially affect every system of the body . many of the benefits such as lower blood pressure , better lipid profiles , and glucose control have a profound impact on ... | objective . obesity is a significant contributor to oxygen demand and dynamic airway obstruction .
the objective of the current study is to determine the long - term success of conservative measures directed toward weight reduction on airway management without respect to specific airway disease etiology
. methods .... |
given the complexity of natural organic matter ( nom ) in environmental matrices [ 13 ] , it is has been difficult , over years , to determine its characteristic behaviour in water systems .
studies in the last decade , however , have shown that nom is made up of fractions that include biopolymers , humic substances ... | the extraction and determination of aliphatic and aromatic carboxylic acids as well as their influence on the aromaticity and molecularity relationship of natural organic matter ( nom ) in water are reported in this study .
three solid phase extraction ( spe ) sorbents were used and their extraction efficiencies eval... |
A 20-year-old Saudi student who was arrested in Lubbock, Tex., late Wednesday was close to constructing a bomb and had researched possible targets, including the Dallas home of former president George W. Bush and the residences of three Americans who served at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, authorities said.
Khalid... | – The FBI has detailed information about Khalid Aldawsari’s alleged terrorist ambitions—because the 20-year-old wrote all about them in his journal and emails to himself. Aldawsari wasn’t affiliated with any terrorist group, and Saudi Arabian officials confirm that he had no criminal record back home. But he was inspir... |
in the text , we mention that along a mirror invariant line in the sbz , all edge modes must appear in pairs that cross each other , in the absence of chiral modes .
we use @xmath84 to parameterize this line .
all edge modes along this line can be separated into @xmath25-bands and @xmath26-bands , and in the main text ... | we theoretically predict two new classes of three - dimensional topological crystalline insulators ( tcis ) , which have an odd number of unpinned surface dirac cones protected by crystal symmetries .
the first class is protected by a single glide plane symmetry ; the second class is protected by a composition of a ... |
in recent years , quantum statistical mechanics and quantum information theory have played an increasingly central role in quantum gravity .
such interplay has proved particularly insightful both in the context of the holographic duality in ads / cft @xcite , as well as for the current background independent approaches... | in this work we extend the so - called typicality approach , originally formulated in statistical mechanics contexts , to @xmath0 invariant spin network states .
our results do not depend on the physical interpretation of the spin - network , however they are mainly motivated by the fact that spin - network states c... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Electronic Equipment
Donation Act of 2008''.
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO TRANSFER USEFUL FEDERAL ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TO
EDUCATIONAL RECIPIENTS.
(a) Transfer of Equipment to Educational Entities.--
(1) In general.--Each Fed... | Federal Electronic Equipment Donation Act of 2008 - Directs each federal agency to identify useful federal electronic equipment that the agency has determined is excess to its needs and to: (1) report such equipment to the Administrator of General Services for processing for transfer to an educational recipient in acco... |
the semi - leptonic @xmath7 decay is phenomenologically interesting since its feynman amplitude involves the poorly know ckm matrix element @xmath8 @xmath9 @xmath10 where the hadronic tensor @xmath11 , and its lorentz decompostion into form factors is calculable using lattice qcd .
we perform the matching of the lattic... | we present a calculation of the renormalisation constants for the temporal vector current , @xmath0 and spatial axial current , @xmath1 , to @xmath2 for @xmath3 transitions using the @xmath4 nrqcd action for both @xmath5 and @xmath6 quarks evaluated for a large range of mass parameters .
considerations for the renor... |
the practice of modern pediatric dentistry requires delivery of quality care in combination with adherence to excellent business and management principles .
dentists traditionally trained in the art and science of dentistry must also become skilled in techniques of sound business management . today 's pediatric denta... | introduction .
the practice of modern pediatric dentistry requires delivery of quality care in combination with adherence to excellent business as well as time management principles .
a definite appointment schedule should be presented to the parents on the first or second appointment .
more importantly , the pre... |
HONG KONG Hong Kong police said on Sunday they had arrested a Chinese national sought by U.S. authorities on suspicion of murdering two people and attempting to murder a third person in Los Angeles.
In a statement, the Hong Kong police said they had arrested a 44-year-old man following a formal U.S. extradition req... | – Police in Hong Kong on Sunday arrested a Chinese national suspected of killing his two teenage nephews at their Southern California home on Friday and then fleeing to Beijing. US authorities also believe Deyun Shi, 44, attempted to kill his wife, Reuters reports. Police say Shi learned Thursday that his wife planned ... |
magnetic amorphous glass - coated wires of the micron - sized diameter are very important objects for sensor manufacturing while the process of the wire remagnetization [ via the domain - wall ( dw ) propagation ] is a basics of the sensing mechanism ( next to the giant magneto - impedance ; gmi effect ) . however , th... | within a simple model , we study magnetic domain walls ( dws ) inside the inner core of the amorphous ferromagnetic microwire whose spin ordering is a core - shell structure . the interaction of the ( internal - stress created ) outer shell of the wire on the inner core is included into the landau - lifshitz equation ... |
While Hollywood darlings often get free passes for bad behavior, occasionally, even actors get arrested, convicted, and punished for their wrong-doings just like the rest of us. This is a list of actors who have spent more than 30 days in prison for crimes they definitely did commit. Have we all forgotten about Iron Ma... | – An actor who played a bit part in an independent gangster film is facing 10 years in state prison because he used a prop pellet gun without a state gun permit, the AP reports. Carlo Goias was charged under New Jersey's strict gun law, which requires permits for firearms, including the airsoft gun Goias used while fil... |
a prospective study conducted at our hospital involved 41 pregnant women who bore a total of 41 fetuses and visited our department for level - ii obstetric us .
gestational age ranged from 12 to 37 ( mean , 25 ) weeks : for nine , it was 10 - 20 weeks ; for 23 , 21 - 30 weeks ; and for the remaining nine , more than ... | objectiveto determine the usefulness of tissue harmonic imaging ( thi ) and pulse - inversion harmonic imaging ( pihi ) in the evaluation of normal and abnormal fetuses.materials and methodsforty - one pregnant women who bore a total of 31 normal and ten abnormal fetuses underwent conventional ultrasonography ( cus ) ,... |
understanding the interplay between the morphological and functional features of neuronal circuits is a major challenge in contemporary neuroscience . while the network s morphological constraints clearly shape its activity patterns
activity relationship is therefore an important yet challenging task , in particular ... | neuron glia cultures serve as a valuable model system for exploring the bio - molecular activity of single cells . since neurons in culture can be conveniently recorded with great fidelity from many sites simultaneously , it has long been suggested that uniform cultured neurons may also be used to investigate network ... |
distraction osteogenesis is an established technique for correcting the hypoplastic cleft midface with its own specific indications .
even minor discrepancies in the distraction vector or an inherent multi - dimensional defect of the cleft maxilla may cause divergence of the occlusal plane and lead to open bite tende... | open bite deformity following a successful midface advancement by distraction osteogenesis is a common complication .
temporary anchorage devices can be deployed during the distraction and post - distraction settling phases for restoring the occlusion even in severe cases .
the following report describes the manage... |
Multiple Navy fighter jets roared in waves over the funeral of President George H.W. Bush in College Station on an overcast Thursday afternoon.The formation was a planned and unprecedented 21-aircraft 'missing man' flight over Texas A&M.;The missing man flight is an aerial salute in which one aircraft flies away from t... | – Texas A&M says the private, graveside service for George HW Bush's family members has ended and the former president has been buried. Thursday evening's ceremony concludes days of funeral activities honoring the 41st president, the AP reports. After lying in state at the US Capitol and a funeral at Washington's Natio... |
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You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2007, file photo, KB Home CEO Jeffrey Mezger speaks ... | – One of the nation's biggest homebuilders is putting its top executive on notice after a vulgar rant against comedian Kathy Griffin was caught on tape and went viral. KB Home CEO Jeffrey Mezger, who's a neighbor of Griffin's in California, was recorded by a security camera hurling slurs against Griffin while in a heat... |
in recent years , bose - hubbard models have been realized in experiments using ultracold bosonic atoms in optical lattices @xcite .
these experiments facilitate the study of many - body effects like phase transitions from a superfluid to a mott insulator @xcite and the ( de- ) coherence dynamics induced by the hubbard... | we study the boltzmann transport equation for the bose - hubbard chain in the kinetic regime .
the time - dependent wigner function is matrix - valued with odd dimension due to integer spin . for nearest neighbor hopping only , there are infinitely many additional conservation laws and nonthermal stationary states .... |
quantum states of many qubits are essential ingredients in the functioning of quantum computers , and yet their properties , such as entanglement , are poorly understood . of particular interest
are graph states , which provide a range of benefits for communication and cryptography @xcite .
in addition , they form a u... | a method for producing an upper bound for all multipartite purification protocols is devised , based on knowing the optimal protocol for purifying bipartite states . when applied to a range of noise models , both local and correlated
, the optimality of certain protocols can be demonstrated for a variety of graph an... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Election Integrity Act of
2012''.
SEC. 2. REQUIRING VOTERS TO PROVIDE PHOTO IDENTIFICATION.
(a) Requirement To Provide Photo Identification as Condition of
Receiving Ballot.--Section 303(b) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002
(42 U.S.C. 15483... | Federal Election Integrity Act of 2012 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit the appropriate state or local election official from providing a federal election ballot to an individual who desires to vote in person unless the individual presents to the official a federal or state government-issued, curr... |
The New England Patriots' Tim Tebow experiment was short-lived, as the much-maligned quarterback was released from his contract Saturday, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Patriots releases Tim Tebow. More on ESPN. — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 31, 2013
UPDATE: Tuesday, Sept. 3, at 7:40 a.m. ET
... | – Tim Tebow has been dumped by a third NFL team. The Patriots have cut Tebow less than a week before the start of the regular season, reports ESPN and the AP. Not that he would have played much anyway: Tebow would have been backing up Ryan Mallett, who is himself backing up Tom Brady. The Broncos and Jets previously go... |
Mark Karpeles, chief executive of Mt. Gox, attends a news conference at the Tokyo District Court in Tokyo February 28, 2014. Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, filed for bankruptcy protection on Friday, saying it may have lost all of its investors' virtual...
Mark Karpeles (L), chief executive of M... | – Mt. Gox is filing for bankruptcy protection, CEO Mark Karpeles announced at a press conference today, saying the bank may have lost 750,000 of its customers' bitcoins ("essentially all of them," reports the New York Times), along more than 100,000 of its own. At current prices, that's a $480 million loss.The company ... |
the narrow ( fwhm @xmath5 ) fe k@xmath0 fluorescent emission at @xmath6 kev is a common feature in the x - ray spectra of active galactic nuclei ( agn ) ( e.g. sulentic et al .
1998 ; lubiski & zdziarski 2001 ; weaver , gelbord , & yaqoob 2001 ; perola et al . 2002 ; yaqoob & padmanabhan 2004 ; bianchi et al . 2007
... | using _ chandra _ high energy grating ( heg ) observations of 32 agns , we present a systematic study of the x - ray baldwin effect ( xbe , i.e. the anti - correlation between narrow fe k@xmath0 line ew and x - ray continuum luminosity for agn samples ) with the highest spectral resolution currently available .
we... |
the nature of the low temperature phase of finite dimensional spin glasses is still a subject of controversy @xcite .
recently bray , moore , bokil and drossel @xcite have questioned many of the numerical results obtained with monte carlo methods in the three dimensional edwards - anderson ( ea ) model @xcite . insp... | we present a high statistic systematic study of the overlap correlation function well below the critical temperature in the three dimensional gaussian spin glass .
the off - equilibrium correlation function has been studied confirming the power law behavior for the dynamical correlation length . in particular
we h... |
an opaque bubble layer is a rare complication of femtosecond laser - assisted in situ keratomileusis ( lasik ) , which occurs during intracorneal femtosecond laser ablation when gas bubbles are produced and trapped in the corneal interface.1 although intraoperative complications concerning the opaque bubble layer are n... | here we report a case of a 29-year - old myopic female who underwent femtosecond laser - assisted in situ keratomileusis ( lasik ) and , on the first postoperative day slit - lamp examination revealed a dense , white , granular reaction with the presence of some blood droplets ( stage i diffuse lamellar keratitis [ dlk... |
dark matter is a big mystery . weakly interacting massive particles ( wimps )
provide one interesting class of particles to serve as dark matter .
there are , nevertheless , two main puzzles with typical wimp candidates : * abundance is determined by thermal freezeout . while a thermal freezeout origin can yield the... | we propose a new dark matter candidate , `` quirky dark matter , '' that is a scalar baryonic bound state of a new non - abelian force that becomes strong below the electroweak scale .
the bound state is made of chiral quirks : new fermions that transform under both the new strong force as well as in a chiral repres... |
2014/05/02 15:04
JINDO, South Korea, May 2 (Yonhap) -- Battling swift currents, divers combed through the hull of a sunken ferry Friday to find some 80 people still missing amid concerns that bodies may have been swept away from the site of the sinking.
Navy, Coast Guard and civilian divers recovered five more ... | – Several more bodies have been brought ashore following South Korea's ferry disaster, bringing the death toll to 226 with 76 still missing, Yonhap News reports. But two were found far from the site: A female body was found today nearly 2.5 miles away, the Wall Street Journal reports, while a separate Journal story not... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Savings Enhancement for Education in
College Act''.
SEC. 2. COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND EQUIPMENT ALLOWED AS A QUALIFIED HIGHER
EDUCATION EXPENSE FOR SECTION 529 ACCOUNTS.
(a) In General.--Section 529(e)(3)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code
of... | Savings Enhancement for Education in College Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the allowance for payment of expenses for computer technology and equipment from qualified tuition programs; (2) allow a tax credit for contributions to such programs; and (3) allow limited direction of investment... |
congenital heart diseases are one of the main reasons of child death in the first year of life which has a considerable share of congenital defects in the world . across the globe , this disease has emerged in about 1.3 million children .
studies showed that the geographical distribution of this complex disease varie... | abstractbackground : mothers play a key role in caring for their sick children .
their experiences of care were influenced by culture , rules , and the system of health and care services .
there are few studies on maternal care of children with congenital heart disease .
also , each of them has studied a particul... |
the advanced ligo interferometers ( aligo ; * ? ? ?
* ) have very recently started observational science runs , soon to be joined by other upgraded detectors .
for the first time there is a realistic prospect for detection of an astrophysical gravitational wave ( gw ) transient , with a range of possible electromagneti... | we present a search for prompt radio emission associated with the short - duration gamma - ray burst ( grb ) 150424a using the murchison widefield array ( mwa ) at frequencies from 80133mhz .
our observations span delays of 23s30min after the grb , corresponding to dispersion measures of 1007700@xmath0 .
we see no... |
SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION OF SEMIAUTOMATIC ASSAULT RIFLES
AND ASSAULT PISTOLS.
(a) General Rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), the
importation into the United States of--
(1) semiautomatic assault rifles;
(2) semiautomatic assault pistols;
(3... | Prohibits the importation into the United States of any semiautomatic assault weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding devices, or assault weapon accessories. Makes an exception for the importation of such articles under authority of the United States, by a U.S. department or agency, or by a State or local department... |
An Alabama grad student reached his goal of mowing 50 yards in 50 states.
Rodney Smith Jr. cut the last yard of his journey Tuesday in Hawaii. He spent two months on the road mowing lawns for those in need for free.
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Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| DUNNELLON, Fla. - Deputies on Monday arrested a Marion County man accused of killing his live-in girlfriend in January after autho... | – After a Florida woman was shot dead on Jan. 30, her live-in boyfriend told police she was the victim of a home-invasion gone awry. Then, Marion County sheriff's officials say, David Romig twice texted his wife to say he feared he was going to be arrested for Sally Kaufmann-Ruff's death—or, he meant to text his wife. ... |
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Just how well does your office soda machine know you? A network of smart, connected vending machines will soon use facial recognition, NFC and a membership program to market and sell everything from food to electronics on their giant touch screens. The product of software giant SAP, these ... | – In the mood for potato chips? In the future, you may need a snack machine's approval. The Luce X2 Touch TV vending machine has facial-recognition technology, meaning it can, apparently, identify customers and remember their snacking profiles. That means, for instance, that it could offer you your favorite chips—or pe... |
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After months of planning, dozens of experts in demolition being involved and crowds being gathered, this is the moment things go as wrong as they possibly can.
A 173ft silo was destroyed in the town of... | – Demolition experts successfully destroyed a 173-foot silo in the town of Vordingborg, Denmark, on Friday. Unfortunately, they also wrecked the adjacent cultural center after the demolition went spectacularly wrong, the Guardian reports. In video of the botched demolition, onlookers can be heard shouting in alarm as t... |
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 ... | – Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army have been terrorizing central Africa for years, "but the net around him tightens," writes Michael Gerson in the Washington Post. Gerson accompanied Ben Affleck, who founded the Eastern Congo Initiative, to the region to hear first-hand the tales of atrocities from those luck... |
gravitational lensing provided the first experimental verification of general relativity ( gr ) through observations of starlight bending around the sun during an eclipse in 1919 @xcite .
gravitational lensing is a very important probe of cosmological and astrophysical questions @xcite .
the vast majority of lensing st... | in this paper , we explore the properties of gravitational lensing by black holes in the randall - sundrum ii braneworld .
we use numerical techniques to calculate lensing observables using the tidal reissner - nordstrom ( trn ) and garriga - tanaka metrics to examine supermassive black holes and primordial black ho... |
tricuspid regurgitant velocity ( trv ) has become a reliable marker to screen for doppler - defined pulmonary hypertension ( ph ) in sickle cell disease ( scd ) .
elevated trv has been related to higher mortality in adults and to hemolysis , lower oxygen saturation during 6-minute walk test and acute chest syndrome (... | elevated tricuspid regurgitant velocity ( trv ) has been related to higher mortality in adults and to hemolysis , lower oxygen saturation during 6-minute walk test and acute chest syndrome ( acs ) in children with sickle cell disease ( scd ) .
hydroxyurea ( hu ) has reduced trv value in children and adults .
we des... |
human influenza a ( h1n1 ) virus ( also known as pandemic h1n1 or ph1n1 ) , which contains a genome of swine origin , has caused outbreaks throughout the world since april 2009 .
although genetic evidence for the swine origin of ph1n1 exists , no epidemiologic evidence has been reported . in canada ,
ph1n1-infected... | a pandemic influenza a ( h1n1 ) virus strain was isolated from a pig farm in korea in december 2009 .
the strain was propagated in and isolated from both the madin - darby canine kidney cell line and embryonated eggs .
the partial and complete sequences of the strain were identical to those of a / california/04/200... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National Institute for the
Environment Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) An appropriate scientific understanding of the diverse
physical, biological, engineering, social, and econo... | National Institute for the Environment Act - Establishes the National Institute for the Environment to: (1) increase scientific understanding of environmental issues by supporting scientific environmental research and other environmental programs; (2) assist decision-making on environmental issues by providing assessm... |
teerikorpi et al . ( 2008 ) ( hereafter t08 ) have recently shown that galaxies in the immediate vicinity of 3 nearby groups of galaxies exhibit a hubble - like expansion law at a slightly sub - hubble expansion rate .
the authors had at their disposal measured velocities and distances in order to arrive at this result... | a statistical method is presented for determining the velocity field in the immediate vicinity of groups of galaxies using only positional and redshift information with the goal of studying the perturbation of the hubble flow around groups more distant than the local group .
the velocities are assumed to obey a hubb... |
the polariton physics in a strongly - coupled semiconductor microcavity includes interesting non - linear optical effects .
when resonantly pumped with an off - axis laser , optical parametric oscillator ( opo ) behaviour can be obtained , with the spontaneous appearence of signal and idler emission@xcite .
since the e... | a detailed description is provided of a numerical model of the microcavity optical parametric oscillator ( opo ) .
the model is solved on a two dimensional grid , in the time domain , using an alternating - direction implicit method .
results are presented for a system pumped with a gaussian spatial profile beam .... |
SECTION 1. CAREERS TO CLASSROOMS.
Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 6601 et seq.) is amended--
(1) by redesignating part E as part F;
(2) by redesignating sections 2401 and 2402 as sections
2601 and 2602, respectively; and
(3) by... | Careers to Classrooms Act of 2001 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a Careers to Classrooms program. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to States for: (1) teacher recruitment, education, training, referral, placement, and retention activities to plac... |
a 33-year - old woman ( gravida 0 , para 0 ) was referred to osaka central hospital ( osaka , japan ) for gynecological , fertility - preserving laparoscopic surgery . according to her surgical history
, two prior laparoscopic surgeries had been performed to treat endometriosis . at the age of 24
, she underwent he... | atypical endometriosis is reported to possess a precancerous potential attributed to premalignant changes characterized by cytological atypia and architecture proliferation . moreover ,
the coexistence of atypical endometriosis and neoplasms had been reported .
however , cases of atypical endometriosis transformati... |
the damping of quasiparticles via electron collisions is expected to produce a @xmath2 variation of the resistivity in a standard fermi liquid described by a spherical fermi surface . in ordinary metals
this contribution is so weak that it is hardly detectable@xcite .
however , recent discoveries of a dominant @xmath2 ... | electron collisions for a two dimensional fermi liquid ( fl ) are shown to give a quasiparticle damping with interesting frequency and temperature variations in the bcs superconducting state . the spin susceptibility which determines the structure of the damping
is analyzed in the normal state for a hubbard model wi... |
Legendary Chicago Cubs player and broadcaster Ron Santo died Thursday night in Arizona. He was 70.Friends of Santo's family said the North Side icon lapsed into a coma on Wednesday before dying Thursday. Santo died of complications from bladder cancer, WGN-AM 720 reported."He absolutely loved the Cubs," said Santo's br... | – Renowned Chicago Cubs third-baseman and broadcaster Ron Santo died last night in Arizona of complications from bladder cancer at age 70. “Ronnie will forever be the heart and soul of Cubs fans,” said the team’s chairman. “He enjoyed himself in the booth right to the end,” said a fellow broadcaster. The Tribune recoun... |
BELLEFONTE -- A popular Penn State professor died slowly after being pushed from a rock quarry ledge, possibly remaining alive and immobile for days, according to testimony heard Wednesday in Centre County Court.
That testimony from a state police investigator also revealed more details about what police say was an... | – Penn State professor Ronald Bettig may have taken as long as two days to die after he was pushed from a ledge and fell 80 feet to the bottom of a quarry, a court heard Wednesday. The lead investigator on the case testified that a pathologist believes the 56-year-old professor died slowly and was probably immobilized ... |
Blake Lively nude photos leaked online? 'Gossip Girl' star's rep calls naked pics '100 percent fake'
Peter Kramer/AP Blake Lively isn't the naked woman in nude pictures posted online Tuesday, her rep said.
It was one checkmark on the young Hollywood starlet claim-to-fame list that Blake Lively had yet to earn –... | – Gossip Girl star Blake Lively says a series of circulating nude pictures are not her, and she's threatening to sue outlets publishing the photos. The photos were first released (then yanked) on Perez Hilton's gossip website. They show a blonde strongly resembling Lively taking cellphone shots of herself nude in a mir... |
the extensive efforts over the years to reconcile thermodynamics with quantum mechanics @xcite have not yet fully resolved the fundamental question : what is truly quantum about quantum thermodynamics ?
is there more to it than just restating traditional thermodynamic principles for quantized systems ?
attempts to cop... | we present the general theory of a quantum heat machine based on an @xmath0-level system ( working medium ) whose @xmath1 excited levels are degenerate , a prerequisite for steady - state interlevel coherence .
our goal is to find out : to what extent is coherence in the working medium an asset for heat machines ?
... |
nmo can be diagnosed based on a blood - derived biomarker , that is antibodies against aquaporin-4 , a channel protein present on astrocytes , extensively discussed in other contributions in this special issue .
the presence of antibodies against aquaporin-4 has been proven as one of the most successful results of bi... | there is a long history of research into body fluid biomarkers in neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory diseases .
however , only a few biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid ( csf ) are being used in clinical practice .
anti - aquaporin-4 antibodies in serum are currently useful for the diagnosis of neuromyelitis opt... |
since the discovery of the first pulsar in 1968 @xcite and its identification as a rotating neutron star , the structure , composition , dynamics and evolution of these astrophysical objects became important themes of theoretical and phenomenological research . according to an early suggestion @xcite , neutron stars ev... | we introduce in this work a class of relativistic models for nuclear matter and neutron stars which exhibits a parameterization , through mathematical constants , of the non - linear meson - baryon couplings . for appropriate choices of the parameters
, it recovers current qhd models found in the literature : waleck... |
flares and coronal mass ejections ( cmes ) are thought to result from magnetic energy release in the solar corona , often involving the destabilisation of a twisted magnetic structure known as a flux rope @xcite .
this activity may be accompanied by the acceleration of energetic particles @xcite .
however , there is on... | electron acceleration in the solar corona is often associated with flares and the eruption of twisted magnetic structures known as flux ropes .
however , the locations and mechanisms of such particle acceleration during the flare and eruption are still subject to much investigation .
observing the exact sites of p... |
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail shows James Alex Fields Jr. A man in custody at a Virginia jail assaulted fellow inmate Fields, the man accused of... (Associated Press)
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail shows... | – The man Charlottesville police have charged with plowing his car into a group of counterprotesters at a white supremacist rally in August 2017 has been assaulted behind bars, reports the AP. James Alex Fields Jr., who has pleaded not guilty in the death of Heather Heyer, was being attended by staff at the Albemarle-C... |
a lot of charmonium - like states have been reported in the past decade by the experiment collaborations such as belle , @xmath11 , cdf , d0 , lhcb , besiii , and cleoc .
the underlying structures of many charmonium - like states are not very clear .
sometimes they are called as xyz states .
they decay into conventiona... | in the framework of the one - boson exchange model , we have calculated the effective potentials between two heavy mesons @xmath0 and @xmath1 from the t- and u - channel @xmath2- , @xmath3- , @xmath4- , @xmath5- and @xmath6-meson exchanges .
we keep the recoil corrections to the @xmath0 and @xmath1 systems up to @xm... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; REFERENCES IN ACT.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Medicare Physician
Ownership Referral Reform Act of 1995''.
(b) Amendments to Social Security Act.--Except as otherwise
specifically provided, whenever in this Act an amendment is expressed
in terms of an amendment t... | Medicare Physician Ownership Referral Reform Act of 1995 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) repeal the prohibition of physician referrals to certain entities with which the referring physician has a financial relationship if such relationship is based on compensation arrangements only; ... |
complex orthogonal designs ( cods ) @xcite , @xcite , although provide linear maximum likelihood ( ml)-decoding , do not offer a high rate of transmission .
a full - rate code for an @xmath2 mimo system transmits @xmath12 independent complex symbols per channel use . among the cods , only the alamouti code for 2
transm... | for an @xmath0 transmit , @xmath1 receive antenna system ( @xmath2 system ) , a _
full - rate _ space time block code ( stbc ) transmits @xmath3 complex symbols per channel use .
the well known golden code is an example of a full - rate , full - diversity stbc for 2 transmit antennas .
its ml - decoding complexi... |
s - adenosyl - methionine ( same ) is a methyl donor that is most commonly used in the treatment of mild - to - moderate depression and osteoarthritis and as a liver - protective agent.1 although its use in serious depression is still controversial,2,3 its involvement in the synthesis of such neurotransmitters as norep... | backgrounds - adenosyl - methionine ( same ) is a common add - on treatment used to counteract depressive symptoms in subjects with mild - to - moderate depression , who are low responders to other antidepressant drugs .
however , there is some concern about the possible impact of same therapy on homocysteine levels ... |
AC/DC performed the first European concert with Axl Rose as lead singer Saturday night in Lisbon, Portugal. The band rolled through a career-spanning set that included old favorites ("Back in Black," "Shoot to Thrill") and new ones ("Rock 'n' Roll Train"). The band also played "Riff Raff" for the first time live since ... | – Axl Rose has been getting back in the spotlight of late—including a show last month with AC/DC and a reunion before that with Slash of Guns N' Roses—which might explain why he's getting a little defensive about his image. Torrent Freak reports that Rose's representatives are trying to erase a "fat photo" of him from ... |
The work of the police has come under tremendous scrutiny in the U.S. over the past few years, with the shootings of unarmed black men by cops leading to the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. Then came the string of killings of police officers this past summer. In an environment where tensions run high, A&E ton... | – A police sergeant in Connecticut arrested a man on domestic violence charges in the first episode of a new TV series called Live PD. That same night, she found herself back in a police car—but this time she was the one arrested under the state's domestic violence law, reports the Connecticut Post. The unusual situati... |
a malignant change of the areola skin in association with underlying breast carcinoma was first reported by sir james paget in 1874 .
however , perianal extramammary paget 's disease ( empd ) was first described in 1893 .
it affects individuals between the ages of 50 and 80 years and is more common in women and whi... | perianal paget 's disease is a rare malignancy
. it is rarely isolated and often associated with an underlying adenocarcinoma .
it usually presents with anal itchiness and discomfort and can be misdiagnosed as hemorrhoids .
once the diagnosis of perianal paget 's disease is granted , extensive work - up to find a... |
in the minimal supersymmetric model ( mssm ) @xcite , there are two higgs doublets @xmath0 and @xmath1 coupling to fermions with @xmath2 and @xmath3 respectively @xcite . after spontaneous symmetry breaking ,
there remain five physical higgs bosons : a pair of singly charged @xmath4 , two neutral cp - even @xmath5 ( he... | the prospects for discovering neutral higgs bosons in the minimal supersymmetric model ( mssm ) and in the minimal supergravity model ( msugra ) at the lhc are investigated .
two special discovery channels are discussed : ( i ) the photon pair decay of the mssm cp - odd higgs boson , and ( ii ) the muon pair decays ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as ``Rosoboronexport Embargo Act of 2014''.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DIRECT OR INDIRECT USE OF FUNDS TO ENTER INTO
CONTRACTS OR AGREEMENTS WITH ROSOBORONEXPORT.
(a) Prohibition.--The head of an executive agency may not enter
into a contract, memoran... | Rosoboronexport Embargo Act of 2014 - Prohibits the head of an executive agency from entering into a contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, or make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan agreement to Rosoboronexport (the state intermediary agency for Russia's exports/imports of defense-rel... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Protection of Lawful Commerce in
Arms Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
(1) Citizens have a right, protected by the Second
Amendment to the United States Constitution, to keep and b... | (This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on April 7, 2003. The summary of that version is repeated here.)Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act - Prohibits any qualified civil liability action from being brought in any State or Federal court and requires pending actions to be dismissed. ... |
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