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a 32-year - old male patient was examined for vision loss and the presence of a mass in the left eye in december 2010 .
he had been examined at other hospitals for chronic open - angle glaucoma of the left eye that had persisted since 2006 .
small blisters of the cornea began to appear in october 2007 ; these blist... | a myxoma is a benign tumor found in the heart and in various soft tissues ; however , a corneal myxoma is rare .
a mucinous mass of unknown etiology was observed on the left cornea of a 32-year - old male patient .
we performed deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty using acellular corneal tissue and concurrent amniot... |
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A man who has admitted scaling Buckingham Palace's wall and trespassing in the grounds is a convicted murderer, a court has heard.
Denis Hennessy, 41, of Wembley, north-west London, was on licence following the murder of a homeless man in 1992.
He wandered the palace gardens for a... | – It’s not only the Secret Service that deals with embarrassing gaffes involving fence jumpers. A convicted killer jumped the wall around Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, triggering an alarm, but was able to wander the grounds for 10 minutes before he was arrested, unarmed, reports the BBC. Prosecutors say Denis Henness... |
the formation of spatially periodic patterns in a wide variety of media driven far from equilibrium continues to attract a great deal of attention from experiment , simulations , and theory @xcite . for patterns in fluids ,
many important advances have relied on careful experiments with samples possessing a very high d... | we report a liquid - crystal pattern - formation experiment in which we break the lateral ( translational ) symmetry of a nematic medium with a laser - induced thermal gradient .
the work is motivated by an improved measurement ( reported here ) of the temperature dependence of the electroconvection threshold voltag... |
motion of the generalized two - field gyrostat is described by the following system of differential equations : @xmath0 { \displaystyle}{\dot{\boldsymbol \alpha}={\boldsymbol\alpha}\times\frac{\partial h}{\partial{\boldsymbol m}},\quad \dot{\boldsymbol \beta}={\boldsymbol\beta}\times\frac{\partial h}{\partial{\boldsymb... | in the paper , we consider a completely integrable hamiltonian system with three degrees of freedom found by v.v.sokolov and a.v.tsiganov .
this system is known as the generalized two - field gyrostat . for the case of only gyroscopic forces
present , we find new invariant four - dimensional submanifolds such that... |
contrary to past concepts , there is general agreement that treatment should focus on sustained 10%-15% weight loss to prevent or reduce risk of cardiovascular and other obesity - related diseases . for motivated patients who seriously attempt but fail to achieve weight loss of 5%-10% in 3 - 6 months , pharmacotherapy ... | background and aims : obesity is a chronic disease with considerable morbidity and mortality .
the intragastric balloon appears attractive for a group of patients who do not respond to medical therapy and who are not surgical candidates .
postoperative nausea and vomiting ( ponv ) are distressing adverse effects fo... |
gastrointestinal stromal tumors ( gists ) are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the digestive tract .
most gists harbor activating mutations of the genes encoding kit or platelet - derived growth factor receptor alpha ( pdgfra ) , resulting in the constitutive activation of protein tyrosine kinase signaling .
k... | purposethe incidence of gastrointestinal stromal tumors ( gists ) harboring platelet - derived growth factor receptor alpha ( pdgfra ) mutations is low , therefore further investigation of the efficacy of imatinib in this subgroup was needed.materials and methodspatients with pdgfra - mutant gists who received imatinib... |
as the proportion of long term survivors increases because of development of more effective systemic treatment options in breast cancer patients , side effects such as chemotherapy induced amenorrhea becomes more prominent [ 1 , 2 ] . by definition , chemotherapy
induced amenorrhea ( cia ) is the cessation of menses ... | backgroundchemotherapy - induced amenorrhea is one of long term side effects of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer which may interfere with their future reproductive function .
although amenorrhea is well recognized , the actual incidence following taxanes remains uncertain.methodsin a cross section... |
About a dozen Republican governors and senators are preparing to run for president in what promises to be a rip-roaring primary. On the Democratic side, on the other hand, a serious challenge to Hillary Clinton’s potential candidacy has yet to emerge. The Democrats who are considering a run — Martin O’Malley, Andrew Cu... | – The "Does Hillary Clinton have brain damage?" kerfuffle seems to have faded. Next up: A few—but not many—Democrats fear she'll suffer politically for being considered a shoo-in candidate, Politico reports under the headline "The 'Wary of Hillary' Democrats." Among the concerns: The average voter may be put off by her... |
it was proposed in @xcite that one defining characteristic of black holes as quantum systems is their very fast rate of information scrambling . in systems with local degrees of freedom and local interactions
the scrambling of information can often be assimilated to a diffusion process . in this case
, we can say that ... | fast scramblers process information in characteristic times scaling logarithmically with the entropy , a behavior which has been conjectured for black hole horizons . in this note
we use the ads / cft fold to argue that causality bounds on information flow only depend on the properties of a single thermal cell , and... |
in the previous paper @xcite we described the calculation of the electromagnetic corrections to the three hadronic phase shifts with @xmath10 for @xmath11 elastic scattering at pion laboratory kinetic energy @xmath12 mev , using relativised schrdinger equations ( rses ) containing the sum of an electromagnetic potentia... | we calculate the electromagnetic corrections to the isospin invariant mixing angle and to the two eigenphases for the @xmath0- , @xmath1- and @xmath2-partial waves for @xmath3 elastic and charge exchange scattering .
these corrections have to be applied to the nuclear quantities in order to obtain the two hadronic p... |
in multiple sclerosis ( ms ) , damage selectively affects the central nervous system ( cns ) .
irrespective of the event(s ) that initiate the damage to the cns in ms , most studies agree that development of autoreactivity against molecules in the cns myelin sheath is the most likely mechanism underlying the chronic ... | central nervous system ( cns ) myelin , the likely major target of autoimmune attack in multiple sclerosis ( ms ) , contains a number of unique components that are potential targets of the attack .
two classes of molecules that are greatly enriched in cns myelin compared to other parts of the body are certain types o... |
during the last two decades , observational discoveries both external to and within the solar system have provided strong evidence that giant planets experience large - scale orbital migration after their formation . outside the solar system the peculiar small orbits of the so - called ` hot jupiters ' and
their unlike... | we examine how the late divergent migration of jupiter and saturn may have perturbed the terrestrial planets . using a modified secular model we have identified six secular resonances between the @xmath0 frequency of jupiter and saturn and the four apsidal eigenfrequencies of the terrestrial planets ( @xmath1 ) .
we... |
In this May 13, 2014 photo, Saira Blair, a 17-year-old student at Hedgesville High School, waves to motorists along Route 9 in Hedgesville, W. Va. After Tuesday’s GOP primary, the 17-year-old is one election... (Associated Press)
In this May 13, 2014 photo, Saira Blair, a 17-year-old student at Hedgesville High Sch... | – Saira Blair can't legally vote yet, but she managed to rack up a sizable number of votes all the same. The West Virginia 17-year-old emerged victorious in the Republican primary over (two-term) incumbent state delegate Larry Kump, 872-728, on Tuesday. Among the very teenage elements to her campaign, per the Washingto... |
It is said that she 'habitually asked deputies where they attended college'
The former Google executive was brought in to remake once-great Yahoo
She may be a Oscar-winning actress with best-selling cookbooks and a popular lifestyle blog, but it seems Gywneth Paltrow is still not quite good enough for Yahoo's M... | – Tucked away in a New York Times profile of Marissa Mayer from last week is an amusing tidbit about Gwyneth Paltrow picked up by Gawker and the Daily Mail. It seems that cookbook author and lifestyle-advice purveyor Paltrow was under consideration to be hired as a contributing editor for Yahoo Food, but, one executive... |
written texts show the remarkable feature that the rank ordered distribution of word frequencies follows an approximate power law @xmath0 where @xmath1 is the rank that is assigned to every word in the text . for most texts , regardless of language , time of creation , genre of literature , its purpose , etc .
, one fi... | the formation of sentences is a highly structured and history - dependent process .
the probability of using a specific word in a sentence strongly depends on the history of word - usage earlier in that sentence .
we study a simple history - dependent model of text generation assuming that the sample - space of wo... |
there is a paradox in the definition of the habitable zone with respect to the presence of liquid water .
imagine a planet at the right distance from a star to have stable liquid water on its surface , supported by a modest greenhouse effect .
nebular models and meteorite data suggest that the local environment during ... | we present results from 42 simulations of late stage planetary accretion , focusing on the delivery of volatiles ( primarily water ) to the terrestrial planets .
our simulations include both planetary `` embryos '' ( defined as moon to mars sized protoplanets ) and planetesimals , assuming that the embryos formed vi... |
the chemistry of molecular
metal oxide polyoxometalate ( pom ) clusters is a rapidly expanding
field because of the vast number of structures , the diversity of their
properties , and a wide range of potential applications .
however ,
the use of one - pot reaction methods for
the synthesis of pom clusters p... | chemical transformations
are normally conducted in batch or flow mode , thereby allowing the
chemistry to be temporally or spatially controlled , but these approaches
are not normally combined dynamically .
however , the investigation
of the underlying chemistry masked by the self - assembly processes
that ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National Death Penalty Moratorium
Act of 2000''.
TITLE I--MORATORIUM ON THE DEATH PENALTY
SEC. 101. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Death sentences are disproportionately visited on the
poor:
... | Title II: National Commission on the Death Penalty
- Establishes the National Commission on the Death Penalty.
(Sec. 202) Directs the Commission to: (1) conduct a thorough study of all matters relating to the administration of the death penalty to determine whether it comports with constitutional principles and requir... |
acute respiratory distress syndrome ( ards ) is severe respiratory failure characterized by diffuse inflammation of alveolar and vascular ( capillary ) lung structures which produces progressive hypoxemia .
alveolar and capillary damage passes through different phases : inflammation , fluid exudation and cellular pro... | acute respiratory distress syndrome ( ards ) is a form of acute life threatening respiratory failure . in daily practice
there is difficulty in diagnostic and therapeutic management of acute respiratory distress syndrome ( ards ) .
we observed delay in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in patients with clinical... |
x - ray studies of fairly normal " galaxies , with high - energy emission not obviously dominated by a luminous active galactic nucleus ( agn ) , have recently been extended to cosmologically interesting distances in the deep field ( cdf ) surveys , which have now reached 1 ms of exposure ( cdf - n : hornschemeier e... | we present a statistical x - ray study of spiral galaxies in the hubble deep field - north and its flanking fields using the chandra deep field north 1 ms dataset .
we find that @xmath0 galaxies with @xmath1 have ratios of x - ray to @xmath2-band luminosity similar to those in the local universe , although the dat... |
entanglement @xcite is the most fascinating phenomenon in quantum information which has no classical counterpart .
many future quantum technologies are based on the same
. however , various mathematical investigations are on the way to explore the inherited properties of entanglement .
the phenomenon of entanglement is... | in this present paper we study the entanglement dynamics in qubit a - qutrit b pair under x component of dzyaloshinshkii - moriya @xmath0 by taking an auxiliary qubit c. here we consider an entangled qubit - qutrit pair initially prepared in two parameter qubit - qutrit states and one auxiliary qubit prepared in pure ... |
thick relativistic accretion disks and tori around black holes ( bhs ) can form as transient structures in several astrophysical scenarios , including core - collapse of massive stars @xcite and the merger of neutron star ( ns ) @xcite and ns - bh binaries @xcite .
many models of gamma - ray bursts ( grbs ) rely on ... | self - gravitating relativistic disks around black holes can form as transient structures in a number of astrophysical scenarios such as binary neutron star and black hole - neutron star coalescences , as well as the core - collapse of massive stars .
we explore the stability of such disks against runaway and non - ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``United States-India Energy Security
Cooperation Act of 2006''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The December 2004 National Intelligence Council report
entitled ``Mapping the Global Future in 2020'' states... | United States-India Energy Security Cooperation Act of 2006 - Declares it is the policy of the United States to: (1) cooperate with India to address common energy challenges, to ensure future global energy security, and to increase the world-wide availability of clean energy; (2) promote dialogue and increased understa... |
the mechanisms underlying tinnitus are still not fully understood and , although this symptom is often associated with hearing loss , many individuals may experience it in the presence of normal hearing [ 25 ] .
tinnitus may result from a pathological state of the auditory system , which triggers a series of events i... | backgroundtinnitus is an important occupational health concern , but few studies have focused on the central auditory pathways of workers with a history of occupational noise exposure .
thus , we analyzed the central auditory pathways of workers with a history of occupational noise exposure who had normal hearing thr... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Medicare Quality Improvement Act''.
SEC. 2. MEDICARE HEALTH CARE QUALITY DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS.
Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.) is
amended by inserting after section 1866B the following:
``health care qual... | Medicare Quality Improvement Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for a health care quality demonstration program under which the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) shall approve demonstration projects that examine health delivery factors that encourage the delivery ... |
This collection contains web crawls performed as the pre-inauguration crawl for part of the End of Term Web Archive, a collaborative project that aims to preserve the U.S. federal government web presence at each change of administration. Content includes publicly-accessible government websites hosted on .gov, .mil, and... | – A California woman who recently moved to Maui died Thursday morning when she plunged 150 feet from a zipline, Hawaii News Now reports. Rescuers struggled to find Patricia Rabellizsa, 29, among the vegetation, tree cover, and difficult terrain found in the area of Makawao. "Where the ziplines are, they go through the ... |
[ cols="^,^,^,^,^,^ , > , < " , ] since the discovery that the extra - solar planet hd209458b transits its host star ( charbonneau et al .
2000 ; henry et al .
2000 ; mazeh et al .
2000 ) , many attempts have been made to detect its atmosphere using transmission spectroscopy . during a transit , light that passes f... | although atmospheric transmission spectroscopy of hd209458b with the hubble space telescope has been very successful , attempts to detect its atmospheric absorption features using ground - based telescopes have so far been fruitless .
here we present a new method for probing the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets ... |
the incidence of diabetes mellitus has reached epidemic proportions and is one of the great biomedical challenges of the 21st century .
diabetes is classified as a group of chronic metabolic disorders that are characterized by elevated blood glucose levels due to the insufficient production of insulin and/or peripher... | insulin resistance in skeletal muscle tissues and diabetes - related muscle weakness are serious pathophysiological problems of increasing medical importance . in order to determine global changes in the protein complement of contractile tissues due to diabetes mellitus
, mass - spectrometry - based proteomics has be... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Study of Ways to Improve the
Accuracy of the Collection of Federal Oil, Condensate, and Natural Gas
Royalties Act of 2006''.
SEC. 2. STUDY OF ACTIONS TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF COLLECTION OF
FEDERAL OIL, CONDENSATE, AND NATURAL GAS ROYALTIES.... | Study of Ways to Improve the Accuracy of the Collection of Federal Oil, Condensate, and Natural Gas Royalties Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to arrange with the National Academy of Engineering to study and report to the Secretary regarding whether the accuracy of collection of royalties on producti... |
hyperthermal deposition ( htd ) techniques , such as ion - beam assisted deposition ( ibad ) and low - energy ion deposition ( leid ) @xcite have recently been shown to have great potential in controlling and improving the properties of thin films as grown by molecular beam epitaxy . in htd
the island density is larger... | we consider the influence of realistic island diffusion rates to homoepitaxial growth on metallic surfaces using a recently developed rate equation model which describes growth in the submonolayer regime with hyperthermal deposition . to this end , we incorporate realistic size and temperature - dependent island diffu... |
autoimmune diseases affecting the pelvic region and the spine are prevalent in men1 , even young2 athletes , especially ankylosing spondylitis ( as)3 . owing to the evolutionary nature of this chronic and disabling disease , modern and
internationally recognized , expert consensus documents include physical therapy a... | [ purpose ] ankylosing spondylitis is prevalent in men .
modern and expert consensus
documents include physical therapy among the strategies for the treatment of ankylosing
spondylitis .
this study aimed to describe the physical therapy approach in an athlete with
ankylosing spondylitis .
[ subject and meth... |
several lines of evidence suggest that the growth histories of supermassive black holes ( smbhs ) are closely linked to that of their host galaxies .
these include the well - known scaling relations between the smbh mass ( ) and several properties of the ( bulge component of the ) hosts , observed in local relic system... | we present new alma band-7 data for a sample of six luminous quasars at @xmath0 , powered by fast - growing supermassive black holes ( smbhs ) with rather uniform properties : the typical accretion rates and black hole masses are @xmath1 and @xmath2 .
our sample consists of three `` fir - bright '' sources which wer... |
in the classical traveling salesman problem ( tsp ) , we are given a ( weighted ) graph @xmath0 and the task to find a shortest roundtrip that visits every vertex precisely once .
this reflects the situation where a salesman has to visit a set of customers and return to his initial position .
however , a salesman may b... | we propose the `` competing salesmen problem '' ( csp ) , a 2-player competitive version of the classical traveling salesman problem .
this problem arises when considering two competing salesmen instead of just one .
the concern for a shortest tour is replaced by the necessity to reach any of the customers before ... |
Chicago-based TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau has made a fortune marketing himself as a truth teller who reveals secrets that the rich and powerful want to keep from the public.
Hawking everything from financial advice to weight-loss solutions, the smooth-talking Trudeau managed for more than a decade to stay one step ah... | – It took jurors about as long as one of Kevin Trudeau's infomercials to convict the TV pitchman of lying. A federal jury on Tuesday took all of 45 minutes to convict the 50-year-old resident of suburban Chicago of criminal contempt for telling tall tales about a weight-loss "cure," reports the Chicago Tribune. In the ... |
A 5-year-old boy attacked by a mountain lion outside his home in Colorado on Friday night is in fair condition, officials said.
The boy's mother told police he had been playing in the front yard with his older brother when she heard screaming and ran outside to find a mountain lion on him, the Pitkin Sheriff's Depa... | – A Colorado mom whose 5-year-old son was being attacked by a mountain lion leapt into action Friday, fighting off the animal and potentially saving the boy's life, NBC News reports. The boy was playing with his older brother in their yard about 10 miles outside of Aspen when his mother heard screaming. She ran outside... |
the current standard cosmological model is the @xmath0 cold dark matter ( @xmath0cdm ) scenario , which includes two elements whose components have unknown nature : the dark matter and the dark energy .
this simple model fits quite well the observed behavior of our universe @xcite@xcite at least from the matter - domin... | we revisit the global dynamics of unified dark matter cosmological models and analyze it in a new dynamical system setting . in particular , by defining a suitable set of variables we obtain a bounded variable space , a feature that allows a better control of the critical elements of the system .
first , we give a c... |
An 1868 drawing of the former prison for witches, St Mary's Chapel, after it was restored to religious use.
An iron ring set in the stone pillar of a 15th-century chapel in the Scottish city of Aberdeen may not look like much, but historians say it could be a direct link to a dark chapter in the city’s past — the t... | – The remains of some 2,000 people lie beneath Scotland's East Kirk of St. Nicholas church, but an iron ring set in the stone pillar of the chapel could link directly back to a spookier past: the documented trial and execution of 23 women and one man accused of witchcraft during Aberdeen's "Great Witch Hunt" of 1597. "... |
we report a case of advanced mucinous adenocarcinoma of the prostate involving almost the entire bladder , who had failed treatment with hormonal and radiotherapy .
he proceeded to have radical pelvic exenteration surgery that resulted in long - term cure .
a 59 year old man presented in 1995 with haematuria and bl... | the management of mucinous prostatic adenocarcinoma include hormonal treatment , radiotherapy and radical prostatectomy with variable long - term outcome .
we report a 59 year old man with advanced mucinous prostatic adenocarcinoma involving almost the entire bladder and had failed treatment with hormonal and radioth... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Government Credit Card Abuse
Prevention Act of 2006''.
SEC. 2. MANAGEMENT OF PURCHASE CARDS.
(a) Required Safeguards and Internal Controls.--The head of each
executive agency that issues and uses purchase cards and convenience
checks shall establish a... | Government Credit Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2006 - Directs each executive agency (with separate Department of Defense (DOD) requirements) and amends the Travel and Transportation Reform Act of 1998 to require specified credit card and convenience card controls and safeguards, including risk assessment analyses, audi... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Ensuring the Integrity of the
Medicare Program Act of 2006''.
SEC. 2. USE OF RECOVERY AUDIT CONTRACTORS UNDER THE MEDICARE INTEGRITY
PROGRAM FOR AUDITS OF MEDICARE SECONDARY PAYER CLAIMS AND
ACTIVITIES.
(a) In General.--Sec... | Ensuring the Integrity of the Medicare Program Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the use of recovery audit contractors under the Medicare Integrity Program for audits of Medicare secondary payer claims and activities.
Requires the Secretary of Labor to provide for access... |
boundary - value problems in thick junctions are mathematical models of widely used engineering and industrial constructions as well as many other physical and biological systems with very distinct characteristic scales . in recent years , a rich collection of new results on asymptotic analysis of boundary - value prob... | we consider a mixed boundary - value problem for the poisson equation in a plane thick junction @xmath0 which is the union of a domain @xmath1 and a large number of @xmath2periodically situated thin rods .
the nonuniform signorini conditions are given on the vertical sides of the thin rods .
the asymptotic analysi... |
participants were recruited from the diabetes center and primary care clinics at massachusetts general hospital or were self - referred via hospital e - mail mailing lists and radio advertisements for a larger intervention study on the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy for adherence and depression ( 18 ) in pati... | objectiveto assess the validity of self - report measures of diabetes medication adherence and evaluate the effect of depression on the validity of these reports.research design and methodsadults with type 2 diabetes , treated with oral medications , completed a set of medication adherence self - reports that varied re... |
The good news: we’re getting more Arrested Development! The (potentially!) bad news: we’re getting more Arrested Development.
After years of negotiations, teases, and knowing deferrals—as Ron Howard told Vanity Fair just last month, “I don’t want to be coy, but, well, I’m absolutely being coy!”—Netflix has finally ... | – Arrested Development will be back for a fifth season. Netflix, which revived the beloved sitcom for a fourth season in 2013, confirmed Wednesday that the series' fifth season will air on the streaming service in 2018. The original cast and creator Mitch Hurwitz are once again returning, Rolling Stone reports. Reactio... |
dental anomalies that might affect the size , shape , or number of teeth are often detected during a routine clinical examination or incidentally .
early detection and diagnosis of such anomalies are essential for proper management and treatment to prevent future clinical problems and complications .
a supernumerar... | objective : there is no data specific to the qatari population on the prevalence and distribution of hyperdontia .
the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and distribution of hyperdontia in the permanent teeth among a group of qatari sample and to compare the present results with findings from other p... |
stable dispersion of sub - micron solid particles in polymer melts and solutions can be achieved in the presence of favorable polymer particle interactions . studying the rheological behavior of polymer composites reinforced with well - dispersed nanoparticles , often referred to as polymer nanocomposites ( pncs ) , h... | a scaling model is presented to analyze the nonlinear rheology of unentangled polymer melts filled with high concentration of small spherical particles . assuming the majority of chains to be reversibly adsorbed to the surface of the particles , we show that the emergence of nonlinearity in the viscoelastic response of... |
it is important to study qcd at high temperature and high density by numerical simulations of lattice qcd . in particular
, studies of the equation of state ( eos ) can provide basic input for the analysis of the experimental signatures for qgp formation , e.g. the eos will control the properties of any hydrodynamic ex... | we present results of a simulation of 2 flavour qcd on a @xmath0 lattice using p4-improved staggered fermions with bare quark mass @xmath1 .
derivatives of the thermodynamic grand canonical partition function @xmath2 with respect to chemical potentials @xmath3 for different quark flavours are calculated up to sixth ... |
mucocele is an inflammatory disease caused by the retention of mucoid secretions within a paranasal sinus ; the progressive volume expansion of this lesion can lead to thinning and/or erosion of the bony walls of the sinus . according to the pathogenetic mechanism ,
mucocele can be considered primary , developing as ... | background mucocele is an inflammatory disease caused by the retention of mucoid secretions within a paranasal sinus .
although rare , the presence of a vascular lesion inside the sphenoid sinus could determine ostium obstruction , thus causing mucocele development .
clinical presentation an 84-year - old woman w... |
the sambar deer ( rusa unicolor ) is the largest species of deer naturally occurring in southeast asia 1 .
it is also considered an invasive species in other locations where it has been introduced including the usa and australia 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 .
reference values for diagnostic ophthalmic tests in sambar deer and som... | key clinical messageultrasonography suggested the diagnosis of cataract associated with persistent fetal intraocular vasculature in a 26dayold sambar deer .
the deer was ill and died despite intense critical care .
globes were removed .
histological characteristics of persistent fetal vasculature and secondary ca... |
networks carry enormous amount of information . failure of any element in an optical network even for a small duration can lead to large amount of information and revenue loss .
thus , it is important to build mechanism of survivability to take care of such failures .
survivability of a network is the ability of networ... | internet is powered by the world wide optical network and hence , survivability of optical network is extremely important .
sometimes , the protection for the two failed links interfere with each other and as a consequence only one failure can be protected . in a large optical network ,
failure probability of two ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``EEOC Transparency and Accountability
Act''.
SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION ABOUT CASES ON THE EEOC WEBSITE.
(a) In General.--Beginning not later than 30 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
sha... | EEOC Transparency and Accountability Act Directs the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to provide information on its public website regarding each case brought in court by the EEOC after a judgment is made with respect to any cause of action. Requires such information to include: (1) instances in which the... |
one of the main reasons for assessing a patient prior to orthodontic treatment is to determine the number of teeth present .
the developmental absence of one or more teeth from the dentition is known as hypodontia.1 clinicians often claim that hypodontia has increased during recent decades
. possible explanations f... | objectivethe aim of this study was to document the prevalence of hypodontia in the permanent dentition among a group of turkish sample who sought orthodontic treatment and to compare present results with the specific findings of other populations .
the occurrence was evaluated in relation to gender , specific missing... |
Mayor de Blasio has announced a $32 million plan to reduce rats in the city's most infested neighborhoods. Chris Glorioso reports.
What to Know Mayor de Blasio has announced a $32 million plan to reduce rats in the city's most infested neighborhoods
The aim is to reduce trash that attracts the rodents and enabl... | – New York City has announced a $32 million, multi-agency plan to reduce the rat population, which is estimated to number roughly 2 million and has included the likes of pizza rat. Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday the plan will target rats in the Grand Concourse area of the Bronx; Chinatown, the East Village and the... |
the alpha magnetic spectrometer ( ams-02 ) is a general purpose high - energy particle physics detector operational on the international space station since may 2011 . during
its unique long duration mission ams-02 is collecting large amount of data to study the behaviour of cosmic ray electrons and positrons with unpr... | a precision measurement by ams-02 of the positron fraction in primary cosmic rays is presented on this proceeding . over the last two decades , there has been a strong interest in the cosmic ray positron fraction which exhibit an excess of high energy positrons whose origin is still highly uncertain . the alpha magnet... |
A crocodile at a zoo in Tunisia died after visitors stoned him to death Tuesday, according to reports. Officials at the Belvedere Zoo in central Tunis, the country's capital, said a group of zoo tourists threw a paving slab and another large rock at the head of the crocodile, which caused internal hemorrhage resulting ... | – Tunisian officials are decrying "savage behavior" after visitors to a zoo in Tunis stoned a crocodile to death Tuesday, AFP reports. Officials posted photos of the dead crocodile—with two large, bloody stones next to it—on Facebook (Warning: graphic). The crocodile died from internal hemorrhaging after being hit by t... |
cardiovascular diseases ( cvd ) are the leading cause of death among adult population in most countries , in which the most common cause is the atheroma formation in arteries .
atherosclerosis is a disease of multifactorial etiology and it is triggered by systemic and local factors , which finally cause vascular dysf... | cardiovascular diseases ( cvd ) represent about 30% of all global deaths .
it is currently accepted that , in the atherogenic process , platelets play an important role , contributing to endothelial activation and modulation of the inflammatory phenomenon , promoting the beginning and formation of lesions and their s... |
one of the first expectations of neutron - star ( ns ) astrophysics , dating back to the epoch when such sources where theoretically proposed , is the possibility to detect thermal radiation from their hot ( millions of k ) surfaces @xcite .
observation of the first sources of cosmic x - rays in the early sixties sugge... | confronting theoretical models with observations of thermal radiation emitted by neutron stars is one of the most important ways to understand the properties of both , superdense matter in the interiors of the neutron stars and dense magnetized plasmas in their outer layers .
here we review the theory of thermal emi... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Safe From the Start Act of 2001''.
SEC. 2. YOUNG CHILDREN WHO WITNESS VIOLENCE.
Title III of the Violence Against Women Act 2000 (Division B,
Public Law 106-386) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``SEC. 1304. YOUNG CHILDREN WHO WITNESS VIO... | Safe From the Start Act of 2001 - Amends the Violence Against Women Act 2000 to direct the Attorney General to award grants to eligible State entities that shall award grants to community coalitions throughout the State to design and implement a comprehensive and coordinated approach to identify, respond to, and serve ... |
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A steep decline in births among immigrant women hard hit by the recent recession is the driving force behind the record low U.S. birthrate, according to the Pew Research Center.
The annual number of births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 dropped 8% in the U.S. from 2007 to 2010 to 64 births per 1,... | – The US birthrate last year was the lowest since records began in 1920, dropping to 63.2 per 1,000 women, Pew data shows. Between 2007 and 2010, the rate fell 8% among all women aged 15 to 44. It fell 14% among foreign-born women, compared to 6% among women born in the US. And among Mexican immigrant women, it dropped... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Putting Our
Veterans Back to Work Act of 2017''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I--RENEWING OUR VOW TO HIRE HER... | Putting Our Veterans Back to Work Act of 2017 This bill amends the: (1) VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 to extend through 2020 the veterans retraining assistance program, and (2) Wounded Warrior Act to extend through 2020 the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide the same rehabilitation and vo... |
the resonance model of @xcite explains pairs of high frequency qpos observed in neutron star and black hole ( microquasar ) sources in galactic low mass x - ray binaries as being caused by a 3:2 non - linear resonance between two global modes of oscillations in accretion flow in strong gravity . in this report , we sho... | kilohertz quasi - periodic oscillations ( qpos ) have been detected in many accreting x - ray binaries .
it has been suggested that the highest qpo frequencies observed in the modulation of the x - ray flux reflect a non - linear resonance between two modes of accreting disk oscillation .
this hypothesis implies c... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Leveraging and Energizing America's
Apprenticeship Programs Act'' or the ``LEAP Act''.
SEC. 2. CREDIT FOR EMPLOYEES PARTICIPATING IN QUALIFIED APPRENTICESHIP
PROGRAMS.
(a) In General.--Subpart D of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1
of... | Leveraging and Energizing America's Apprenticeship Programs Act or the LEAP Act Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a business-related tax credit of $1,500 for hiring an apprenticeship employee who has not attained age 25 at the close of the taxable year or $1,000 for an apprenticeship employ... |
the vast majority of spiral galaxy rotation curves are flatter than newtonian predictions at large distances from galactic centers @xcite .
galaxies that do not show this behavior often show peculiar morphologies or perturbing interactions .
this asymptotic flatness of rotation curves , which is not perfect ( for a mor... | using two - dimensional velocity maps and @xmath0-band photometry , we have created mass models of 40 spiral galaxies using the milgrom relation ( the basis of modified newtonian dynamics , or mond ) to complement previous work .
a bayesian technique is employed to compare several different dark matter halo models t... |
top - pair events are often accompanied by additional hard jets that do not originate from the decay of the top pair ( @xmath0+jets ) at the lhc .
these events provide an essential handle to test higher - order qcd calculations of processes leading to multijet events but also to test the choice of renormalisation and f... | the normalised differential top quark - antiquark production cross section is measured as a function of the jet multiplicity . using a procedure to associate jets to decay products of the top quarks ,
the differential cross section of the @xmath0 production is determined as a function of the additional jet multiplic... |
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(Reuters) - American singer-songwriter Carole King will be awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the U.S. national library said on Thursday.
The multiple Grammy Award winner co-wrote her first No. 1 hit at age 17 with then-husband Gerry Goffin and was the first female solo artist to sell ... | – Carole King makes a little history next spring when she collects the 2013 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the US Library of Congress. King is the first woman to win the honor, which salutes a body of songwriting, reports the LA Times. King, 70, made her name with the seminal 1971 album Tapestry, featuring "It's ... |
computing drawings of planar graphs is an extensively studied subject . in its most classical
setting , the problem is to design an algorithm that receives as input a planar graph @xmath5 and it produces as output a drawing of @xmath5 such that no two edges of the drawing cross .
aesthetic requirements , such as minimi... | it is proven that every set @xmath0 of distinct points in the plane with cardinality @xmath1 can be a subset of the vertices of a crossing - free straight - line drawing of any planar graph with @xmath2 vertices .
it is also proven that if @xmath0 is restricted to be a one - sided convex point set , its cardinality ... |
prior studies have observed both increases and decreases in plasma and fecal short - chain fatty acid ( scfa ) concentrations associated with overfeeding , obesity and the metabolic syndrome . however , whether and how alterations in scfa play a causal role in the development of obesity is unknown . because plasma scfa... | obesity , insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome are associated with changes to the gut microbiota ; however , the mechanism by which modifications to the gut microbiota might lead to these conditions is unknown .
here we show that increased production of acetate by an altered gut microbiota leads to activatio... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National Diabetes Clinical Care
Commission Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report
that nearly 26,000,000 Americans have diabetes in addition to
an es... | National Diabetes Clinical Care Commission Act - Establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the National Diabetes Clinical Care Commission to evaluate and make recommendations regarding better coordination and leveraging of federal programs that relate in any way to supporting appropriate clin... |
spin dynamics in semiconductor quantum wells ( qws ) has been intensively investigated in recent years due to the fast development of semiconductor spintronics.@xcite in iii - v zinc - blende qw systems , spin relaxation is mainly determined by the dyakonov - perel ( dp ) mechanism,@xcite which results from the momentu... | hole spin relaxation in @xmath0-type ( 111 ) gaas quantum wells is investigated in the case with only the lowest hole subband , which is heavy - hole like in ( 111 ) gaas / alas and light - hole like in ( 111 ) gaas / inp quantum wells , being relevant .
the subband lwdin perturbation method is applied to obtain the... |
clusters of galaxies are thought to grow into larger systems through complex interactions between smaller systems .
signatures of merging events include temperature and density inhomogeneities and bulk motions in the intracluster medium ( icm ) .
numerical simulations predict simplified bulk motions with a substantial ... | the coma cluster was observed with an x - ray imaging spectrometer ( xis ) onboard suzaku in six pointings , including the central x - ray peak region , the 14@xmath0 west offset region , 30@xmath0 and 34@xmath0 north - west offset regions , and 44@xmath0 and 60@xmath0 south - west offset regions .
owing to its lowe... |
Supplementary Fig. 1 : Experimental design to investigate the effect of cue-specific trauma to an F0 generation on subsequently conceived generations.
Novel experimental paradigm that uses olfactory fear conditioning to examine the structural and functional changes in the nervous systems of adult mice (F1 and F2) c... | – It may be possible to learn your parents' fears—without ever experiencing the relevant threat. Researchers taught mice to fear a cherry blossom smell, then looked at the creatures' sperm. A portion of DNA tied to the scent was particularly active, and two generations of descendants were found to be "highly sensitive"... |
intergalactic gas in clusters of galaxies is magnetized ( see reviews by kronberg 1994 ; carilli & taylor 2002 ; govoni & feretti 2004 ) .
the number of clusters that exhibit detectable synchrotron emission is relatively small , but it is believed that a magnetic field is present in most clusters ( unlike relativistic ... | we discuss , using simple analytical models and mhd simulations , the origin and parameters of turbulence and magnetic fields in galaxy clusters .
any pre - existing tangled magnetic field must decay in a few hundred million years by generating gas motions even if the electric conductivity of the intracluster gas is... |
The family of Jahi McMath and their attorney lashed out Thursday at a state report concluding that Children's Hospital Oakland complied with medical regulatory standards in its handling of the young girl's case.
Critics of the hospital questioned the thoroughness of the report, conducted by the state Department of ... | – Jahi McMath's family insists that the girl who has been declared brain-dead is very much alive. "She definitely knows where she is and that we're present," uncle Omari Sealy tells the San Francisco Chronicle. He says the 13-year-old remains unconscious but turns in the direction of visitors to her room at an undisclo... |
the association of renal agenesis with ipsilateral blind hemi vagina and didelphys uterus constitutes the uncommon herlyn - werner - wunderlich ( hww ) syndrome .
[ figure 1a and b ] these are the consequence of mllerian and mesonephric duct anomalies ( mda ) . the incidence of didelphys uterus , related to hww , is ... | herlyn - werner - wunderlich ( hww ) syndrome is a very rare congenital anomaly of the urogenital tract involving mllerian ducts and wolffian structures .
it is characterized by the triad of didelphys uterus , obstructed hemivagina , and ipsilateral renal agenesis .
magnetic resonance imaging ( mri ) is a sensitive... |
we conducted a prospective rct in a single trauma center , the neurosurgery department of shahid rajaee hospital , affiliated to shiraz university of medical sciences , shiraz , iran based on a previously published protocol.5 patient enrollment began in september 2010 and will continue until a sample size of approximat... | objective : to assess the efficacy of surgical decompression < 24 ( early ) versus 24 - 72 hours ( late ) in thoracic / thoracolumbar traumatic spinal cord injury ( tsci).methods : a randomized controlled trial ( rct ) of 35 t1-l1 tsci patients including early ( n=16 ) and late ( n=19 ) surgical decompression was condu... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Affordable College Textbook Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The high cost of college textbooks continues to be a
barrier for many students in achieving higher education.
(2) According to the Col... | Affordable College Textbook Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) to support pilot programs that expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students. Requires the grants to be used for: professional development for IHE fac... |
Spacecraft’s final descent to the surface of the duck-shaped comet marks the end of an extraordinary journey – and will give ESA scientists ‘emotional closure’
“Comets, importing change of times and states, brandish your crystal tresses in the sky,” Shakespeare wrote in Henry VI, Part 1, in a nod to the age-old bel... | – It took the Rosetta a decade to catch up with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and on Friday, the space probe was sent to crash-land on the comet, ending its 12-year mission and giving European Space Agency scientists "emotional closure," the Guardian reports. "Rosetta has been comparable to the moon landing," ESA's ... |
dengue virus ( dv ) infects 50100 million people worldwide every year and an additional 2.5 billion people are at high risk , living in dengue endemic areas [ 13 ] . in brazil , dengue fever ( df ) has been a serious health problem and , in 2013 , from the 2,351,703 cases reported in america , approximately 61% occurs ... | background . during dengue virus ( dv ) infection ,
monocytes produce tumor necrosis factor alpha ( tnf- ) and nitric oxide ( no ) which might be critical to immunopathogenesis . since intensity of dv replication may determine clinical outcomes , it is important to know the effects of viral nonstructural protein 1 ( ... |
a binary pulsar ( psr ) consists of a spinning neutron star ( ns ) with a radio beam , and a companion , in a mutual orbit .
the companion is usually another compact object either another ns or a white dwarf ( wd ) .
a typical ns is a highly relativistic object . with mass @xmath0 and radius @xmath1 km ,
the ns has @x... | i review some of the major developments in the theoretical background and experimental uses of binary pulsars to explore local lorentz invariance in the gravitational sector and its possible violation . |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Social Security Surplus Preservation
and Debt Reduction Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that--
(1) the $69,246,000,000 unified budget surplus achieved in
fiscal year 1998 was entirely due to surpluses generated by the
... | Social Security Surplus Preservation and Debt Reduction Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider a concurrent budget resolution (or amendment thereto or conference report thereon) that violates a provision of the Budget Enforceme... |
Yet here were the media reporting that he and his brother Charles were behind Walker’s push against public employees. Anger washed over David like a red tide. He’d been victimized by some punk with a political agenda. “It’s really identity theft,” he told me a month later, during an interview at Koch Industries’ headqu... | – The Koch brothers are fighting back against the perception (at least on the left) that they're evil personified. The latest salvo comes via a lengthy profile in the Weekly Standard, which argues that the brothers behind Koch Industries are "demonized" by liberals who see them as "convenient scapegoats." Remember that... |
inclusion criteria included age between 8 and 60 years , type 1 diabetes diagnosed > 12 months earlier , treatment by insulin analogs using either csii or mdi , hba1c level 8.0% , and smbg performed at least twice daily . before inclusion
, the patients were instructed in the technical use of the study cgm device and... | objectivethe benefits of real - time continuous glucose monitoring ( cgm ) have been demonstrated in patients with type 1 diabetes . our aim was to compare the effect of two modes of use of cgm , patient led or physician driven , for 1 year in subjects with
poorly controlled type 1 diabetes.research design and method... |
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The unpaid volunteer members of the Civil Air Patrol
(hereafter in this Act referred to as the ``CAP'') during World
War II provided extraordinary humanitarian, combat and national
services during a critical time... | Directs the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to arrange for the award of a single Congressional Gold Medal to honor collectively the World War II members of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in recognition of their military service and exemplary record during World War II. R... |
the incorporation and widespread use of total mesorectal excision ( tme ) as the standard mode of surgical resection of adenocarcinoma of the rectum has been the most important surgical development in outcomes improvement for this disease [ 1 , 2 ] . supervised teaching of tme , as well as the detailed pathological aud... | the treatment of rectal cancer has evolved from being solely a surgical endeavor to a multidisciplinary practice . despite the improvement in outcomes conferred by the addition of chemoradiation therapy to rectal cancer treatment , advances in surgical technique
have significantly increased rates of sphincter preserv... |
in this paper we study the generating function @xmath18 for the sequence of the moments m_i=_p^i(z)q(z)d z , i0 , where @xmath7 , @xmath8 are rational functions of one complex variable and @xmath4 is a curve in @xmath19 . in particular
, we study conditions under which @xmath0 is a rational function , a polynomial , o... | in this paper we study the generating function @xmath0 for the sequence of the moments @xmath1 @xmath2 where @xmath3 are rational functions of one complex variable and @xmath4 is a curve in @xmath5 we calculate an analytical expression for @xmath0 and provide conditions implying the rationality and the vanishing of @x... |
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— Testimony in the pretrial hearing of Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused in the shooting rampage nearly a year ago at this massive Army post, could be postponed for another month after Hasan's attorneys made a last-minute request to delay the hearing until Nov. 8.
L... | – The trial of the Army psychiatrist accused in the Fort Hood shooting rampage may be delayed. A pretrial hearing at the military base's courtroom for Maj. Nidal Hasan was scheduled to begin yesterday, but the defense team asked for a month to "process some paperwork," finds the Austin American Statesman. The judge is ... |
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto is set to remove one or both of the carcasses of blue whales that washed up in western Newfoundland, Fisheries and Oceans Canada officials announced Thursday.
ROM scientists will travel to Rocky Harbour and Trout River on the northwest coast of Newfoundland soon to preserve the w... | – Residents of a Newfoundland town can breathe a sigh of relief: It looks like the carcass of a blue whale that washed up on the shores of Trout River might not explode after all. Officials feared it would, as gases swelled the creature's 81-foot-long body, but the whale has since deflated a bit, the town clerk tells t... |
transrectal ultrasound ( trus)-guided prostate biopsy is the most commonly used procedure for detecting prostate cancer .
however , pain is the main morbidity and the main hindrance to the acceptance of trus - guided prostate biopsy by patients .
several studies have shown that 19 to 30% of patients experience mode... | purposethe aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of periprostatic lidocaine injection according to lidocaine dose during transrectal ultrasound - guided prostate biopsy.materials and methodsthe subjects of this study were 92 patients who had undergone transrectal ultrasound - guided 12-core biopsy of the prost... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Benefit Adjustment of Social
Security Income Compensation Act of 2010'' or the ``BASIC Act''.
SEC. 2. CONTINUATION OF BENEFITS THROUGH MONTH OF BENEFICIARY'S DEATH.
(a) Old-Age Insurance Benefits.--Section 202(a) of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 4... | Benefit Adjustment of Social Security Income Compensation Act of 2010 or the BASIC Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide that: (1) an individual's entitlement to any OASDI benefit shall continue through the month of his or her death (without af... |
statistical analysis of stock prices is a rich source of information about the nature of financial markets .
it was louis bachelier who used a stochastic approach to model financial time series for the first time @xcite . since that time the statistical analysis of stock prices has become a widely investigated area of ... | we investigated distributions of short term price trends for high frequency stock market data .
a number of trends as a function of their lengths was measured .
we found that such a distribution does not fit to results following from an uncorrelated stochastic process .
we proposed a simple model with a memory t... |
In his carefully worded deficit speech, the president assured Democrats that his inner liberal is alive and well—slamming Paul Ryan's budget proposal as "deeply pessimistic," and vowing that the radical plan is "not going to happen as long as I'm president." Eleanor Clift on why Obama's up to the task at hand.
Obam... | – Amid the reaction to President Obama's budget speech (ranging from it was terrific to it was "a disgrace") at least two columnists think his proposed trigger—Congress would have to cut more spending or raise taxes if deficit targets aren't met—is significant. This "may be the most important specific proposal in Obama... |
. however , they vary greatly depending on the task used and species involved . in general , men tend to outperform women on tasks that require mental and spatial rotation , whereas women tend to outperform men when tested for spatial location in a static environment . also , men are much more accurate at aiming an obj... | it has become increasingly clear that males and females differ even more dramatically than we previously thought .
not only do they exhibit differing responses to stress and environmental experience , but they can also respond in opposite directions . in rats , it has been shown that exposure to an acute stressful ev... |
this note may be viewed as a sequel to what we once called the trilogy " normann @xcite .
there we were interested in typed structures of continuous functions over complete separable metric spaces .
we used the , for our purpose equivalent , cartesian closed categories of @xmath0 ( @xcite ) and kuratowski limit spaces... | we introduce the operators _ modified limit _ and _ accumulation _ on a banach space , and we use this to define what we mean by being internally computable over the space . we prove that any externally computable function from a computable metric space to a computable banach space is internally computable .
we m... |
let @xmath0 be a smooth surface defined by the intersection of two quadrics over an algebraically closed field @xmath1 of characteristic different from @xmath2 .
it is known that @xmath3 is characterized up to isomorphism by the degeneracy locus of the pencil of quadrics containing @xmath3 , i.e. , by the form @xmath4 ... | we study irreducibility of families of degree 4 del pezzo surface fibrations over curves . |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Demanding Accountability for
Veterans Act of 2014''.
SEC. 2. SCORING OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.
The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying
with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall be determined by
reference to the latest sta... | Demanding Accountability for Veterans Act of 2014 - (Sec. 3) Requires the Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), upon determining that the VA Secretary has not appropriately responded to an IG report that recommends actions to be taken by the Secretary to address a VA public health or safety... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Onondaga Lake Restoration Act''.
SEC. 2. ONONDAGA LAKE, NEW YORK.
(a) Restoration, Conservation, and Management Activities.--Title I
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) is
amended by adding at the end the following new s... | Onondaga Lake Restoration Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish the Onondaga Lake Watershed Council to: (1) develop and periodically revise an Adaptive Management Plan for the re... |
This image released by NBC shows Oprah Winfrey accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018. (Paul Drinkwater/NBC via AP) (Associated Press)
This image released by NBC shows Oprah Winfrey accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 75t... | – It started with a half-kidding plea at the beginning of the Golden Globes for Oprah Winfrey to run for president, but by the end of the night, that thought was gaining steam. As the awards show opened, host Seth Meyers joked that if his stint as host at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Association dinner had some... |
galactic - scale winds are ubiquitous in starburst galaxies in both the local and high - redshift universe ( @xcite ; @xcite ; @xcite ; @xcite ; @xcite ; @xcite ) .
they are important for determining the chemical evolution of galaxies and the mass - metallicity relation ( @xcite ; @xcite ; @xcite ; @xcite ; @xcite ) , ... | we study large - scale winds driven from uniformly bright self - gravitating disks radiating near the eddington limit .
we show that the ratio of the radiation pressure force to the gravitational force increases with height to a maximum of twice its value at the disk surface . thus , uniformly bright self - gravitat... |
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