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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Project-Based Voucher Improvement
Act of 2015''.
SEC. 2. UNITS OWNED BY PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCIES.
Paragraph (11) of section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(11)) is amended--
(1) by striking ``(11) Leasing of... | Project-Based Voucher Improvement Act of 2015 This bill amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 with respect to the requirement that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) require local governments or other HUD-approved entities to make inspections and rent determinations for leased dwelling units (... |
participants aged between 4 and 50 years with type 1 diabetes on insulin pump therapy with impaired awareness of hypoglycemia participated in a 6-month intervention trial comparing standard pump therapy ( insulin pump only ) to the veo ( insulin pump with continuous glucose monitoring and lgs function ) .
hypoglycemi... | objectivethe advent of sensor - augmented pump therapy with a low - glucose suspend ( lgs ) function ( medtronic paradigm veo system ) , allowing insulin to be automatically suspended for up to 2 h when sensor glucose falls below a preset threshold , has the potential to reduce the duration of hypoglycemia . in this ar... |
the assembly of the basal transcription complex and the tissue - specific and stage - specific features of eukaryotic gene transcription depend on the context and structural organization of the promoter core and the presence of transcription factor binding sites ( tfbss ) in the 5 regulatory region of the gene ( 1,2 ) ... | reliable recognition of the promoters in eukaryotic genomes remains an open issue .
this is largely owing to the poor understanding of the features of the structural functional organization of the eukaryotic promoters essential for their function and recognition .
however , it was demonstrated that detection of en... |
this paper describes a collaboration about collaboration .
a mathematics professor and a composition professor devised a series of collaborative writing and peer review activities for a calculus i and ii course sequence .
the mathematics professor learned about composition research , which improved her ability to teach... | this paper describes a collaboration between a mathematician and a compositionist who developed a sequence of collaborative writing assignments for calculus .
this sequence of developmentally - appropriate assignments presents peer review as a collaborative process that promotes reflection , deepens understanding , ... |
following completion of fixed orthodontic treatments and debonding of the brackets , the remnants of adhesive should be eliminated in a manner that tooth enamel remains as intact as possible .
change in the superficial layer of enamel , with the most content of minerals and fluoride , is orthodontists concern because... | background : at the end of fixed orthodontic treatment , the remnant of adhesive should be eliminated from the tooth surface . the purpose of this study was to compare the effect of three methods of removing adhesive on enamel surface roughness , dental pulp temperature , and also on the time spent.materials and method... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``United States Military Academy
Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Act of 1993''.
SEC. 2. COIN SPECIFICATIONS.
(a) Five Dollar Gold Coins.--
(1) Issuance.--The Secretary of the Treasury (hereafter in
this Act referred to as the ``Secret... | United States Military Academy Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and half dollar clad coins emblematic of the U.S. Military Academy. Mandates that surcharges collected from coin sales be paid to the Association ... |
See more of Lauren Michele Emerson on Facebook ||||| When flight attendant Lauren Gibbs boarded the plane to Detroit to Oklahoma City just before Christmas, she already knew it was a special day.
Gibbs, 23, from Nashville, Tennessee, would be in control of the cabin, while her boyfriend, pilot Jon Emerson, was on t... | – Call it the tamer (and more romantic) version of the Mile High Club, before the plane even left the ground. The Independent reports on an airline pilot who decided to surprise his flight attendant girlfriend, who works with him, two days before Christmas. As Jon Emerson, 24, gave passengers weather, altitude, and tur... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Escambia County Land Conveyance
Act''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) County.--The term ``County'' means Escambia County,
Florida.
(2) Non-federal land.--The term ``non-Federal land'' means
the former San... | Escambia County Land Conveyance Act This bill authorizes Escambia County, Florida, to convey its interest in any part of the former Santa Rosa Island National Monument land that was conveyed to it by the federal government in 1947 to any person or entity, without restriction. The bill prohibits any person or entity h... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Shelter, Land, and Urban Management
(SLUM) Assistance Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Approximately 51 percent of the world's population
currently lives in cities of all sizes and produces... | Shelter, Land, and Urban Management (SLUM) Assistance Act of 2009 - Directs the President, through the Secretary of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to develop a strategy to provide affordable housing and sustainable urban development in developing countries.
Authorizes the Pre... |
SEC. 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Water Resources
Development Act of 1994''.
(b) Table of Contents.--
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions.
Sec. 3. Project authorizations.
Sec. 4. Project modifications.
Sec. 5. Cost-sharing of envi... | Water Resources Development Act of 1994 - Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to require a 25 percent non-Federal share of the cost of environmental protection and restoration activities under the Act.
(Sec. 6) Requires amounts recovered by the Secretary of the Army for the cleanup of hazardous or toxic... |
direct imaging of exoplanets has been a field in rapid development over the past few years , with detections of several planets ( e.g. * ? ? ? * ; * ? ? ? * ) and low - mass brown - dwarfs ( e.g. * ? ? ? * ; * ? ? ?
* ) that have been enabled by the advent of high - quality adaptive optics correction and sophisticated ... | the nearby a4-type star fomalhaut hosts a debris belt in the form of an eccentric ring , which is thought to be caused by dynamical influence from a giant planet companion . in 2008 , a detection of a point - source inside the inner edge of the ring was reported and was interpreted as a direct image of the planet , na... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Consequences in Sentencing for Young
Offenders Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) The juvenile justice system in this country is built
around an outdated philosophy that places the... | Consequences in Sentencing for Young Offenders Act - Revises provisions of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 regarding grants for correctional facilities (under the violent offender incarceration and truth in sentencing incentive grant program). Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to... |
as a typical family of strongly - correlated electron materials , transition metal oxides ( tmos ) possess immense novel functionalities that have drawn intensive interest in the fields of fundamental condensed matter physics , materials science , and electronic applications .
the signature of tmos is the collective el... | the surface structure of the srtio@xmath0(110 ) polar surface is studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and x - ray photoelectron spectroscopy .
monophased reconstructions in ( 5@xmath11 ) , ( 4@xmath11 ) , ( 2@xmath18 ) , and ( 6@xmath18 ) are obtained , respectively , and the evolution between these phases can b... |
bppv was first described by barany in 1921 , and he attributed the disorder to otolith disease .
the clinical diagnosis of this disorder was not well defined until dix and hallpike described the classic positioning which causes a characteristic nystagmus .
benign paroxysmal positioning vertigo is a disorder charact... | vertigo and balance disorders are among the most common symptoms encountered in patients who visit ent outpatient department .
this is associated with risk of falling and is compounded in elderly persons with other neurologic deficits and chronic medical problems .
bppv is the most common cause of peripheral vertig... |
semiconductor spintronics @xcite is a growing field where the fundamentals of spin - polarized transport and spin relaxation processes @xcite in homogeneous and inhomogeneous semiconductors are being developed , and novel electronic device schemes based on active control of spin in semiconductor heterostructures are ... | in spin - polarized bipolar transport both electrons and holes in doped semiconductors contribute to spin - charge coupling .
the current conversion between the minority ( as referred to carriers and not spin ) and majority carriers leads to novel spintronic schemes if nonequilibrium spin is present .
most strikin... |
cryo - recanalization has attained its place in the management of malignant endobronchial obstruction , both with and without life - threatening obstruction of the airways .
it is a cheap and effective method to achieve recanalization of the obstructed airway , and most safe as compared to other costly procedures .
... | the term cryotherapy comes from the greek cryo ( ) meaning cold , and therapy ( ) meaning cure .
cryosurgery is the application of extreme cold to destroy abnormal or diseased tissue .
carcinoid tumors of the lung are a fascinating but uncommon group of pulmonary neoplasms . in the past
, these tumors were gr... |
diabetes mellitus is a systemic disease in which blood glucose levels become chronically , and often severely , elevated either because insulin is not secreted from the pancreatic islet cells ( type 1 diabetes ) , or because the insulin that is secreted is , for a variety of reasons , less than normally efficacious ( t... | diabetic retinopathy , an oculardisease , is governed by systemic as well as local ocular factors .
these include primarily chronic levels of blood glucose .
individuals with chronically elevated blood glucose levels have substantially more , and more severe , retinopathy than those with lower blood glucose levels ... |
in 2005 , three years after the first h.e.s.s . 12 m telescope was commissioned and one year after the fourth was installed , the decision was taken by french and german agencies to build a fifth instrument .
this new imaging atmospheric cherenkov telescope was mainly designed to obtain an energy threshold of @xmath1 ,... | in july 2012 , as the four ground - based gamma - ray telescopes of the h.e.s.s .
( _ high energy stereoscopic system _ ) array reached their tenth year of operation in khomas highlands , namibia , a fifth telescope took its first data as part of the system .
this new cherenkov detector , comprising a @xmath0 refl... |
dentinal sensitivity is a significant dental health problem , characterized by short , sharp , pain arising from exposed dentine in response to stimuli typically thermal , evaporative , tactile , osmotic , or chemical which can not be ascribed to any other form of dental defect or pathology.13 it is commonly encountere... | background : there is paucity of data on the prevalence of dentinal sensitivity outside the hospital setting and impact of dentinal sensitivity among young adults in africa .
this study aimed to determine the prevalence and impact of dentinal sensitivity among young adults in nigeria.materials and methods : a cross -... |
To a certain generation of people, the Beastie Boys were as monumental and important as the Beatles, as groundbreaking, as formative, as sweeping and meaningful in their celebrity but also in their music, always the music.
Personally, there are milliseconds of certain Beastie Boys songs that have the power to trans... | – The effusive tributes to Beastie Boy Adam Yauch continue, and one of his lyrics in particular is being frequently quoted. From "Sure Shot" in 1994: “I want to say a little something that’s long overdue/The disrespect to women has got to be through/ To all the mothers and sisters and the wives and friends/ I want to o... |
‘People love the gory ones,” a newspaper editor tells Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) early on in “The Raven,” and presumably that line was part of the producers’ original pitch meeting. I’m guessing the phrase “ ‘Se7en’ meets ‘Sherlock Holmes’” was tossed about, too. A grimly preposterous serial-killer thriller set in 1... | – As far as critics are concerned, The Raven ought to be tossed in a cellar, sealed in with brick, and left to be forgotten. The thriller, which imagines Poe hunting down a serial killer inspired by his work, currently has a 20% on Rotten Tomatoes. Here's what critics are saying: James McTeigue directs with "dark style... |
peripheral arterial disease ( pad ) represents an advanced stage of atherosclerosis that is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events and can result in clinically significant limb ischemia . in the united states ,
pad affects approximately 5 million adults over the age of 40 and is prevalent in more t... | peripheral artery disease ( pad ) can result in limb loss within six months of diagnosis in a subset of patients who can not undergo endovascular or surgical revascularization yet continues to maintain a marginal position in cardiovascular research . while a body of literature continues to grow describing the role of d... |
cytomegalovirus ( cmv ) disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients , particularly recipients of solid organ or bone marrow allograft , and patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome . although cmv pneumonia is well recognized as the commonest infectious cause of death i... | cytomegalovirus ( cmv ) disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients .
cmv enteritis should be considered when nausea and vomiting continue 3 to 4 weeks after bone marrow transplantation ( bmt ) .
the treatment of cmv enteritis is not well established .
we report a cmv duodeni... |
irreversible hair cell loss is a major cause of permanent sensorineural hearing loss with no effective treatment .
pathogenic variants in hundreds of genes are responsible for many forms of hereditary hearing loss . the development of strategies for hair cell regeneration and for gene delivery has become a major focu... | mammalian inner ear harbors diverse cell types that are essential for hearing and balance .
adenovirus is one of the major vectors to deliver genes into the inner ear for functional studies and hair cell regeneration . to identify adenovirus vectors that target specific cell subtypes in the inner ear
, we studied t... |
The firmness of your hand grip is better than your blood pressure at assessing your health, Hamilton researchers have found, and reduced muscular strength, measured by your grip, is consistently linked with early death, disability and illness.
The research by the Population Health Research Institute of McMaster Uni... | – Perhaps palm readers are on to something. A massive study of some 140,000 people aged 35 to 70 in 17 countries finds the palms of a person's hands may be better than blood pressure at indicating their risk of heart attack, stroke, or an early death. Specifically, researchers say quick declines in the force of a perso... |
The New York City area may receive 6 to 12 inches of snow from a storm that has crippled air traffic in Atlanta and prompted officials across the South to urge people to stay off the roads.
Delta Air Lines Inc. and AirTran Holdings Inc. canceled most of their flights to and from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Internati... | – Uh-oh: Is New York City's sanitation department ready for another epic snowstorm? The storm currently wreaking havoc on the southern US will merge with a Midwest storm today, potentially resulting in another blizzard tomorrow night in the same northeastern area that got pounded by snow after Christmas. The storm coul... |
subarachnoid hemorrhage- ( sah- ) induced cerebral vasospasm remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients suffering from aneurism rupture [ 13 ] . as effective therapies to change this condition are lacking ,
a growing body of researches indicates that two hypotheses include the role of endothelins ... | upregulated tlrs are observed in the serum of animals following experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage .
this study was to examine glycyrrhizin 's effect on proinflammatory cytokines and tlrs in sah rats .
administration with glycyrrhizin was initiated 24 hr before and 1 hr later using osmotic minipump .
basilar ... |
metabolic syndrome ( mets ) represents a cluster of risk factors associated with cardiometabolic risk . even though a subject of debate , the importance of mets lies in its epidemic proportions and in its association with a significantly increased mortality from atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases and diabetes . ... | introductionthe potential role of oxidative stress ( os ) in metabolic syndrome ( mets ) is rapidly evolving .
reported results support the concept that increased os may play a key role in the development of atherosclerosis , hypertension and diabetes.study aimthe purpose of this study was to analyze the clinical cor... |
during recent years , wireless ad hoc networks have received considerable attention of researchers for their increasing applications in various fields , e.g , military communications , disaster relief , rescue operations , etc . there
exist different schemes for transmitting data in a wireless network . depending on th... | in this paper , we first propose a redundant radix based number ( rbn ) representation for encoding the data to be transmitted in a wireless network .
this rbn encoding uses three possible values - 0 , 1 and @xmath0 , for each digit to be transmitted .
we then propose to use silent periods ( zero energy transmissi... |
type ia supernova ( sne ia ) are believed to result from the thermonuclear explosion of a chandrasekhar mass white dwarf .
a thermonuclear flame , born at or near the center of the white dwarf must accelerate tremendously , approaching the speed of sound , in order to account for observational constraints .
uncertainti... | we extend a low mach number hydrodynamics method developed for terrestrial combustion , to the study of thermonuclear flames in type ia supernovae .
we discuss the differences between 2-d and 3-d rayleigh - taylor unstable flame simulations , and give detailed diagnostics on the turbulence , showing that the kinetic... |
esophageal ph monitoring is an essential investigation in patients with suspected gastroesophageal reflux disease ( gerd ) with refractory symptoms and in patients who are considered for antireflux surgery in the absence of endoscopic changes of gerd.1 it is also utilized for evaluation of patients with extraesophageal... | background : conventional placement of a wireless esophageal ph monitoring device in the esophagus requires initial endoscopy to determine the distance to the gastroesophageal junction .
blind placement of the capsule by the bravo delivery system is followed by repeat endoscopy to confirm placement .
alternatively ... |
when considering a patient with dysphagia an attempt should be made to determine whether the patient has difficulty only with solid boluses ( suggestive of mechanical dysphagia ) or with liquids and solids ( suggestive of a motility dysphagia ) .
anatomical lesions , such as an oesophageal tumor and external pressure... | when considering a patient with dysphagia , an attempt should be made to determine whether the patient has difficulty only with solid boluses ( suggestive of mechanical dysphagia ) or with liquids and solids ( suggestive of a motility dysphagia ) .
lesions such as an oesophageal tumor and external pressure effect fro... |
the internet is a network of autonomous systems ( as ) which are collections of ip networks and routers under the control of one entity , typically an internet service provider .
the border gateway protocol ( bgp ) is a critical component of the internet s infrastructure as it serves to connect these ases together @xc... | during the last three decades the internet has experienced fascinating evolution , both exponential growth in traffic and rapid expansion in topology .
the size of the internet becomes enormous , yet the network is very ` small ' in the sense that it is extremely efficient to route data packets across the global int... |
derives from the greek word
gelos ( laughter ) and was introduced in 1957 by daly
and mulder .
it is used to name seizures characterized by sudden laughter
attacks , out of social context , without any particular emotion like joy or
happiness . in 1971 ,
gascon and lombroso suggested as diagnostic criteria ... | gelastic epilepsy or laughing seizures have been
historically related to children with hypothalamic hamartomas .
we report three
adult patients who had gelastic epilepsy , defined as the presence of seizures
with a prominent laugh component , including brain imaging , surface / invasive
electroencephalography... |
the authors acknowledge support from the spanish ministerio de ciencia e innovacin ( micinn ) through the consolider nanolight csd2007 - 00046 and fis2009 - 13430-c02 - 01 research grants .
j. m. aunn thanks a scholarship from micinn .
31ifxundefined [ 1 ] ifx#1 ifnum [ 1 ] # 1firstoftwo secondoftwo ifx [ 1 ] # 1firsto... | we address the forces exerted by the electromagnetic field emitted by a planar fluctuating source on dielectric particles that have arose much interest because of their recently shown magnetodielectric behavior . in this context
, we analyze as a particular case the modification of the casimir and van der waals forc... |
hypertrophic olivary degeneration ( hod ) is a rare phenomenon in the dento - rubro - olivary pathway that was first described by oppenheim in 1887 ( 1 , 2 ) .
hod is a unique form of transneuronal degeneration in which the inferior olivary nucleus undergoes hypertrophy followed by atrophy , as a consequence of lesio... | hypertrophic olivary degeneration resulting from lesions of the dento - rubro - olivary pathway , also called guillain - mollaret - triangle , has been described previously in a number of cases .
reports about bilateral hypertrophic olivary degeneration of the inferior olivary nuclei are very limited , and the magnet... |
as a remarkable aspect of high-@xmath0 superconductivity , its unique characteristics may result from the competition between more than one type of order parameter .
@xcite historically , the typical antagonistic relationship between superconductivity and magnetism has led researchers to avoid using magnetic elements ,... | based on a microscopic model , we study the interplay between superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in a multi - layered system , where two superconductors are separated by an antiferromagnetic region . within a self - consistent mean - field theory ,
this system is solved numerically .
we find that the antifer... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``America's Partnership for Nursing
Education Act of 2007''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds as follows:
(1) The nursing shortage has a detrimental impact on the
quality of care patients receive in health ... | America's Partnership for Nursing Education Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to states that are experiencing explosive population growth and have a substantial projected shortage of nurses to increase the number of qualified nursing ... |
1,2-dioleoyl - sn - glycero-3-phosphatidylethanolamine ( dope ) , 1,2-dioleoyl - sn - glycero-3-phospho - glycerol ( dopg ) , 1,2-dioleoyl - sn - glycero-3-phosphocholine ( dopc ) , and 1,2-dioleoyl - sn - glycero-3-phosphatidic acid ( dopa ) were purchased from avanti polar lipids . for clarity , the names of these li... | phospholipid headgroups act as major determinants in proper folding of oligomeric membrane proteins .
the k+-channel kcsa is the most popular model protein among these complexes .
the presence of zwitterionic nonbilayer lipid phosphatidylethanolamine ( pe ) is crucial for efficient tetramerization and stabilization... |
null | this case describes a scenario of lime - induced phytophotodermatitis .
phytophotodermatitis is a dermatitis caused after the skin is exposed to photosensitizing compounds in plants and then exposed to sunlight .
many common plants including citrus fruits , celery , and wild parsnip contain these photosensitizing c... |
A vice principal at Eastside Catholic High School was dismissed after school administrators confronted him about his gay marriage, and more than 400 students had a sit-in Thursday morning.
Hours after hundreds of Catholic school students protested their vice principal’s dismissal because of his gay marriage, alumni... | – A Seattle-area Catholic high school canceled classes today, partially because there was snow in the forecast, but also "in light of the difficult day" it had just been through. The difficulty? Hundreds of students staged a rally yesterday at Eastside Catholic High School to protest the termination of vice principal a... |
the alternaria sp . isolate
was prepared for scale - up
chemical analysis by culturing it for 4 weeks on a solid - state medium
composed of cheerios breakfast cereal supplemented with a 0.3% sucrose
solution .
the fungal biomass was extracted with etoac , yielding
a crude extract that was subsequently proce... | polluxochrin ( 1 ) and
dioschrin ( 2 ) , two
new dimers of sulochrin linked by thioether bonds , were purified from
an alternaria sp .
isolate obtained from a hawaiian
soil sample .
the structures of the two metabolites were established
by nmr , mass spectrometry data , and x - ray analysis .
metabolite... |
we studied 3 patients suspected of having bu who were admitted to the dr lelo medical center in kinshasa ( patient 1 ) and the mother teresa buruli ulcer treatment center in kinshasa ( patients 2 and 3 ) .
the study was reviewed and approved by the ethics committee of the institute of tropical medicine , antwerp , an... | we report 3 patients with laboratory - confirmed buruli ulcer in kafufu / luremo , angola , and kasongo - lunda , democratic republic of congo .
these villages are near the kwango / cuango river , which flows through both countries .
further investigation of artisanal alluvial mining as a risk factor for buruli ulc... |
semi - relativistic current - density functional theory ( cdft ) @xcite has become one on the standard tools for the calculation of electronic ground state ( gs ) properties in magnetic fields .
apart from the practical issue of finding an accurate and manageable energy functional , the basic fact of _ non - interactin... | we have shown by using the exact solutions for the two - electron system in a parabolic confinement and a homogeneous magnetic field @xcite that both exact densities ( charge- and the paramagnetic current density ) can be non - interacting @xmath0-representable ( nivr ) only in a few special cases , or equivalently , ... |
ever since the pioneering work of totsuji & kihara ( 1969 ) and peebles ( 1974 ) , the two - point correlation function of galaxies has been one of the most fundamental tools in analyzing the large - scale structure of the universe .
recently , prominent advances in galaxy redshift surveys have been taking place ( for ... | a general formula for the correlation function in redshift space is derived in linear theory .
the formula simultaneously includes wide - angle effects and cosmological distortions .
the formula is applicable to any pair with arbitrary angle @xmath0 between lines of sight , and arbitrary redshifts , @xmath1 , @xma... |
The rusty patched bumblebee, a prized but vanishing pollinator once familiar to much of North America, was listed on Tuesday as an endangered species, becoming the first wild bee in the continental United States to gain such federal protection.
One of several species facing sharp declines, the bumblebee known t... | – If Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov had been prescient, he may have named his famous orchestral piece "Plight of the Bumblebee." The rusty patched bumblebee, or Bombus affinis, is now the first US bumblebee placed on the endangered species list, the Guardian reports. Seven other bees from Hawaii previously made the list, but ... |
A massive chamber holding enough magma to fill the Grand Canyon more than 11 times over is hiding beneath the steaming volcanic system of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
We knew of a smaller magma chamber closer to surface, holding some 10,000 cubic kilometres of magma and feeding heat upwards. The newly disc... | – There's enough magma under Yellowstone National Park to fill up the Great Lakes—and then some, according to scientists who say they've taken the best look yet at the "plumbing" system under the volcanic hot spot. The University of Utah researchers used a technique called seismic tomography, which they liken to a CT s... |
construction of the ligo @xcite and geo 600 @xcite instruments began in the mid-1990s .
when the construction phase of the project was completed , the ligo instruments were officially inaugurated on november 1999 . since
then the commissioning of the instruments has alternated with a sequence of short engineering and ... | an overview of the searches for continuous gravitational wave signals in ligo and geo 600 performed on different recent science runs and results are presented .
this includes both searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars as well as blind searches over a wide parameter space . |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Fair Trade Opportunities Act''.
SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.
It is the purpose of this Act to enable the President to--
(1) remedy the actions or policies of countries that do not
accord adequate trade benefits to the United States,... | Fair Trade Opportunities Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1975 to repeal Title IV (Trade Relations with Countries not Currently Receiving Nondiscriminatory Treatment) (Jackson Vanick Act).
Directs the President to consult with the appropriate congressional committees and determine whether each foreign country that is not... |
the superposition principle plays an essential role in understanding the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics . stated in physical terms , it assures that we can not speak of an objective state of a system prior to a measurement .
in fact , one should admit that the system may be described as a superposition of ... | we find an effective hamiltonian describing the process of second - harmonic generation in the far - off resonant limit .
we show that the dynamics of the fundamental mode is governed by a kerrlike hamiltonian .
some dynamical consequences are examined . _
pacs number(s ) : 03.65.bz , 42.50.ct , 42.50.vk , 42... |
Economy McDonalds Tells Workers To Budget By Getting A Second Job And Turning Off Their Heat CREDIT:
McDonalds has partnered with Visa to launch a website to help its low-wage workers making an average $8.25 an hour to budget. But while the site is clearly meant to illustrate that McDonalds workers should be able t... | – McDonald's has a new budgeting tool for its employees, but the advice on "Practical Money Skills for Life" is pretty laughable, critics are pointing out. The site, a partnership with Visa, is supposed to help these low-wage workers learn how to manage their money, ThinkProgress reports, but instead it illustrates jus... |
The state of Washington is suing Motel 6, alleging the low-cost hotel chain repeatedly provided detailed information about guests to federal immigration authorities for at least two years in violation of a state consumer protection law.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Wednesday that at least six corpo... | – Washington state is suing Motel 6 for selling out its guests, accusing the budget motel chain of voluntarily giving ICE officials daily lists with guests' driver's license numbers, DOBs, and room numbers, reports KIRO 7. "The scale of what Motel 6 was doing is deeply disturbing to me," says state AG Bob Ferguson, per... |
median sternotomy for open cardiac procedure is a bone splitting procedure that can be complicated by poor healing , resulting in sternal dehiscence at an incidence of 0.5 - 5% with or without infection [ 1 , 2 ] .
higher risk group are those with obesity , osteoporosis , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , diabe... | sternal dehiscence is a recognised complication after median sternotomy , occurring in 0.5 - 5% of cases with or without infection.a 72-year - old man presenting with collapse and ventricular tachycardia was investigated for a possible acute cardiac event 2 years after coronary artery bypass grafting for ischemic heart... |
spinal extradural arachnoid cysts ( seacs ) are the herniation of the arachnoid mater through a dural defect9 ) .
they are relatively an uncommon cause of compressive myelopathy , accounting for about 1 - 3% of all primary spinal space occupying lesions911 ) .
there are fluctuations in symptoms - exacerbation durin... | spinal extradural arachnoid cysts ( seacs ) are relatively rare cause of compressive myelopathy .
seacs can be either congenital or acquired , but the etiology and the mechanism for their development are still unclear .
a number of cases have been reported in the literature , and the one - way valve mechanism is th... |
U.S. video streaming site Netflix is to release its first movie — a sequel to the classic "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" — after striking a distribution deal with The Weinstein Company.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend" will be released simultaneously on Netflix and selected IMAX theatres on Augu... | – The sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is set to deliver a high-flying kick to the movie business as we know it with a first-of-its kind distribution deal. The deal with the Weinstein Co. will see the martial arts movie released simultaneously on Netflix and in some Imax theaters next August, reports CNBC. Crou... |
in the past 25 years , loop quantum gravity(lqg ) , a background independent approach to quantize general relativity ( gr ) , has been widely investigated @xcite . recently
, this non - perturbatively loop quantization procedure has been generalized to the metric @xmath2 theories@xcite .
in fact , modified gravity theo... | the loop quantization of brans - dicke theory ( with coupling parameter @xmath0 ) is studied . in the geometry - dynamical formalism ,
the canonical structure and constraint algebra of this theory are similar to those of general relativity coupled with a scalar field .
the connection dynamical formalism of the bra... |
in this paper we present an analytical solution to the problem of multiphoton detachment from a negative ion by a linearly polarized laser field .
it gives very reliable quantitative results for a wide range of intensities and frequencies of the laser field , from the weak - field regime , where the process is describe... | a simple analytical solution for the problem of multiphoton detachment from negative ions by a linearly polarized laser field is found .
it is valid in the wide range of intensities and frequencies of the field , from the perturbation theory to the tunneling regime , and is applicable to the excess - photon as well ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Get Real Incentives to Drive Plug-in
Act''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITION.
For purposes of this Act, the term ``plug-in hybrid electric
vehicle'' means an on-road or nonroad vehicle that is propelled by an
internal combustion engine or heat engine using--
... | Get Real Incentives to Drive Plug-in Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish: (1) a program to make grants to motor vehicle manufacturers for research and development on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; (2) a pilot project on how best to integrate plug-in hybrid electric vehicles into the electric p... |
the arsenal of treatments for psoriasis continues to grow . originally limited to topical steroids , phototherapy , and systemic therapies ,
as the patents associated with the biologics are set to expire in the near future , a new type of therapy appears on the horizon , and it is quite similar to the biologics .
h... | as the patents associated with the biologics are set to expire in the near future , a new type of therapy appears on the horizon , and it is quite similar to the biologics .
this commentary examines the biomedical and market issues surrounding the advent of biosimilars . |
Tweet with a location
You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| President-elect Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, visit the Lincoln Memori... | – Donald Trump has softened on a few campaign promises lately but he says he spent Thanksgiving trying to fulfill one: Persuading Carrier Corp. to keep an air-con factory in Indiana instead of moving it to Mexico. He tweeted Thursday that he was "working hard" on saving the factory and was "MAKING PROGRESS." The Washin... |
China Southern Airlines might want to invest in a more engaging safety precaution video.
The latest in a series of emergency exit door mishaps on the airline saw a 50-year-old Chinese woman open the emergency hatch because she mistook it for the toilet door, local reports say.
In her haste to use the bathroom, ... | – You'd think bright red lettering would be enough for a passenger to distinguish a plane's emergency exit from a bathroom door—not to mention the window offering a clear view outside. Yet a first-time air traveler in China says she mistook a cabin door for the entrance to a toilet on a China Southern Airlines flight o... |
the origin of the non thermal , diffuse emission ( radio , x - ray and uv ) in galaxy clusters still remains poorly understood .
the general consensus is that the radio and x - ray non thermal emission are likely to be produced by a population of relativistic electrons via synchrotron emission and inverse compton sca... | we calculate the flux of radio , hard x - ray and uv radiation from clusters of galaxies as produced by synchrotron emission and inverse compton scattering of electrons generated as secondaries in cosmic ray interactions in the intracluster medium .
both the spatial distribution of cosmic rays due to their diffusion... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Money Services Business Compliance
Facilitation Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. OFFICE OF MONEY SERVICES BUSINESS COMPLIANCE ESTABLISHED.
(a) In General.--Subchapter I of chapter 3 of title 31, United
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 313 the f... | Money Services Business Compliance Facilitation Act of 2009 - Establishes within the Department of the Treasury the Office of Money Services Business Compliance (Office), whose Director shall assure compliance by money services businesses with federal recordkeeping requirements governing monetary instruments transactio... |
Online grocery shopping will soon be a reality for a lot more families. Amazon, FreshDirect and other online grocers will now accept food stamps in a pilot program done in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The two-year program for families participating in SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutritional As... | – Families who rely on food stamps may not be left out of the future of grocery shopping after all. A US Department of Agriculture pilot program will allow Americans in certain areas to use their food stamps at Amazon, FreshDirect, and other online grocery stores, Mashable reports. The program is open to SNAP participa... |
in recent years a number of papers have been published reporting very deep spectroscopic observations of the relatively faint optical recombination lines ( orls ) emitted by heavy element ions in planetary nebulae ( pne ) , e.g. liu et al .
( 1995 , 2000 , 2001 , 2004a , b ) , garnett & dinerstein ( 2001 ) , ruiz et al... | we present high quality optical spectroscopic observations of the planetary nebula ( pn ) hf2 - 2 .
the spectrum exhibits many prominent optical recombination lines ( orls ) from heavy element ions .
analysis of the h i and he i recombination spectrum yields an electron temperature of @xmath0 k , a factor of te... |
"I'm a manila envelope taped to a beige wall, no one can see me."
Late-night hosts took aim at President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence's meeting with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer on Tuesday and, in particular, the vice president's behavior.
A sketch portraying Pence's interior ... | – Things got heated Tuesday during an Oval Office meeting on border security between President Trump and Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. But while their interaction was intense enough to earn a spot in the late-night rounds, VP Mike Pence didn't escape notice—despite doing his best job to not be noti... |
foot and mouth disease ( fmd ) is one of the highly contagious diseases of domestic animals , caused by foot - and - mouth disease virus ( fmdv ) , a member of the family picornaviridae , which has a colossal global impact , due to the huge number of animals affected .
the fmd endemic countries collectively contain t... | the present study was aimed to screen genetic variation within a snp ( rs136500299 ) located at exon 14 region of bovine itgb6 gene among different zebu cattle breeds .
the genotyping method describe in the present study is a tetraplex arms pcr , which offers extremely fast , economical , and simple detection tool . ... |
a large volume of data now exists on the hadro - production of @xmath0 at fixed target energies both for the total cross section and the @xmath3 distribution . in particular ,
several new experiments have taken high statistics data with pion or proton beams . since a promising new model for heavy - quarkonium productio... | we study @xmath0 production at fixed - target energies , including the colour - octet production mechanisms predicted by nrqcd . in an earlier paper
, we found that the octet components were crucial in understanding @xmath1-integrated forward ( @xmath2 ) cross - sections . here
we make a detailed comparison of the... |
cases that involve bleeding from the midgut present a much more significant challenge in terms of detection and treatment . methods of evaluation include small bowel endoscopy , arteriography , and gastrointestinal contrast studies .
the differential diagnosis includes arteriovenous malformations , angiodysplasia , u... | objectives : occult gastrointestinal bleeding can originate from the foregut , midgut , or hindgut . the evaluation of the foregut and hindgut are well established .
cases that involve bleeding from the midgut present a much more significant challenge in terms of detection and treatment . methods of evaluation includ... |
The legacy and reach of anthropogenic influence is most clearly evidenced by its impact on the most remote and inaccessible habitats on Earth. Here we identify extraordinary levels of persistent organic pollutants in the endemic amphipod fauna from two of the deepest ocean trenches (>10,000 metres). Contaminant levels ... | – At the deepest spot in the ocean, scientists have found beer cans, plastic bags, a tin of Spam, and now tiny crustaceans contaminated with toxic chemicals banned nearly 50 years ago. The "extraordinary levels" of pollution in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean and the Kermadec Trench some 4,000 miles awa... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; AMENDMENT OF 1986 CODE.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Tobacco Smuggling
Eradication Act of 2002''.
TITLE I--AMENDMENTS TO INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986
SEC. 101. AMENDMENT OF 1986 CODE.
Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this title an
a... | Tobacco Smuggling Eradication Act of 2002 - Amends chapter 52 (Tobacco Products and Cigarette Papers and Tubes) of the Internal Revenue Code to require all packages of tobacco products to carry a unique legibly printed serial number by which the Secretary of the Treasury can identify the manufacturer or importer and th... |
in this section , we will explain the general rules we use to define the @xmath1 kitaev model and obtain the conserved quantities .
these rules can then be generalized to define these models on generic trivalent lattices .
we start with the @xmath1 algebra @xmath120 with @xmath121 .
this algebra can be summarized by dr... | we present a wide class of partially integrable lattice models with two - spin interactions , which generalize the kitaev honeycomb model .
these models have an infinite number of conserved quantities associated with each plaquette of the lattice , conserved large loop operators on the torus , and protected topologi... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Ambassador's Fund for Strategic
Exchanges Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The United States has a strategic national interest in
improving its image around the world, given the historicall... | Ambassador's Fund for Strategic Exchanges Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of State to establish in the Voluntary Visitors Division of the Office of International Visitors in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs the Ambassador's Fund for Strategic Exchanges to bring political, economic, civil society, and ... |
when a fluid is confined
in a porous medium , its transport properties
may drastically change .
the diffusion coefficients are generally lower
than in the bulk liquid , although unexpected
dynamic effects and collective reorganizations are also observed . for example , water molecules move in a collective
w... | supercapacitors
are electrochemical devices which store energy
by ion adsorption on the surface of a porous carbon .
they are characterized
by high power delivery .
the use of nanoporous carbon to increase their
energy density should not hinder their fast charging .
however , the
mechanisms for ion tran... |
as indicated by both the theory and the observations a typical active galactic nucleus ( agn ) is not particularly active @xcite .
the median eddington ratio in the palomar survey of nearby agns is @xmath3 @xcite .
palomar survey still misses agns like sgr a * , which has an even lower ratio @xmath4 @xcite .
extensive ... | the unmatched x - ray resolution of _ chandra _ allows probing the gas flow near quiescent supermassive black holes ( bhs ) .
the radius of bh gravitational influence on gas , called the bondi radius , is resolved in sgr a * and ngc 3115 .
shallow accretion flow density profiles @xmath0 with @xmath1 were found for... |
pusa caspica is one of the smallest members of the earless seal family ( phocidae ) and unique in that it is found exclusively in the brackish caspian sea and endemic to it .
it is distributed throughout the caspian sea from avant - deltas of the volga and ural rivers to the iranian coasts . although there are report... | backgroundmain objective of this study was to investigate the invasive activity of the liver fluke , pseudamphistomom truncatum against the caspian seal ( pusa caspica ) and was exemplified at the gross , light microscopy ( lm ) and electron microscopy ( em ) levels.methodsthe study was done on a freshly dead caspian s... |
high demand for natural products such as essential oils ( eos ) and phenolic diterpenes has fuelled the increased interest in the cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants ( maps ) as alternatives to traditional crops .
the cultivation of eos - containing species from different families has been initiated in a num... | aim : the purpose of this study was to evaluate how increasing nacl salinity in the medium can affects the essential oils ( eos ) composition and phenolic diterpene content and yield in leaves of salvia officinalis l. the protective role of such compounds against nacl stress was also argued with regard to some physiolo... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Coastal Ocean Observation System
Integration and Implementation Act of 2005''.
SEC. 2. PURPOSES.
The purposes of this Act are the following:
(1) To gain a better understanding of the marine
environment and marine processes important... | Coastal Ocean Observation System Integration and Implementation Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) a Coastal Ocean Observation System (System) to support coastal and fishery management activities and an integrated national ocean... |
General McMaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the Russians and that the only Collusion was between Russia and Crooked H, the DNC and the Dems. Remember the Dirty Dossier, Uranium, Speeches, Emails and the Podesta Company! ||||| Washington (CNN) With tensions flarin... | – Could HR McMaster be the next figure to leave the White House? It's possible, according to CNN, reporting on "months of personal tension" between the national security adviser and President Trump. Six defense and administration officials tell the network the strained relationship is enough that the Pentagon is lookin... |
it is often useful to understand when a given set of resources is sufficient to perform universal computation . in particular , universal hamiltonians have many applications in quantum computation .
suppose we can implement one specific 2-qubit hamiltonian @xmath3 , where @xmath4 denotes the set of all @xmath5 hermitia... | suppose we can apply a given 2-qubit hamiltonian @xmath0 to any ( ordered ) pair of qubits .
we say @xmath0 is n - universal if it can be used to approximate any unitary operation on @xmath1 qubits . while it is well known that almost any 2-qubit hamiltonian is 2-universal ( deutsch , barenco , ekert 1995 ; lloyd 19... |
the idea @xcite that our four - dimensional world is one of the boundaries of a slice of strongly curved five - dimensional ( 5d ) anti - de - sitter space provides an attractive approach to the gauge - gravity and flavour hierarchy problems of the standard model ( sm ) . in conformal coordinates the metric of the 5d b... | we calculate the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon in the minimal randall - sundrum model with standard model fields in five - dimensional ( 5d ) warped space and a brane - localized higgs .
we use a fully 5d framework to compute the one - loop matching coefficients of the effective theory at the electroweak sca... |
a 31-year - old pregnant woman ( 59 kg/170 cm , 34w+5 , g4p2a1l2 ) was admitted for caesarean section .
the patient had no problems until fetal bowel obstruction was diagnosed by routine obstetrical ultrasonography taken 10 days earlier ( fig .
general anesthesia was induced with 250 mg of thiopental sodium and 75 ... | intestinal obstruction was diagnosed in two fetuses at maternal antenatal care .
both received emergency surgery on the day of their birth , at about 35 weeks gestational age .
the disease progressed for a long time in both cases because prompt diagnosis and surgery are difficult to perform in utero . as a result ,... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Joint Antitrust Consultative
Commission Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds as follows:
(1) Antitrust laws are an important legal tool for opening
markets to international competition and defusing trade
tension.
... | Joint Antitrust Consultative Commission Act - Establishes the United States-Japan Joint Antitrust Consultative Commission to: (1) discuss and make recommendations on long-term structural differences in antitrust policy and short-term antitrust disputes; and (2) serve as an open forum to promote more coherent enforceme... |
[ sec : intr ] the hi nearby galaxy survey ( things , @xcite ) brought an unprecedented level of precision to the measurement of the rotation curves of certain nearby spiral galaxies .
this , when coupled with 3.6 @xmath1 images of the stellar component from the spitzer infrared nearby galaxies survey ( sings , @xci... | here we present a new particle - mesh galactic n - body code that uses the full multigrid algorithm for solving the modified poisson equation of the quasi linear formulation of modified newtonian dynamics ( qumond ) . a novel approach for handling the boundary conditions using a refinement strategy
is implemented an... |
brca1 and brca2 germline mutations are associated with high penetrance for both breast and ovarian cancer ( miki et al .
the overall prevalence of brca1/2 alterations in general population varies considerably among different ethnic groups , with respect to specific founder mutations . in 2000 , three founder alleles ... | the importance of proper mutational analysis of brca1/2 in individuals at risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome is widely accepted .
standard genetic screening includes targeted analysis of recurrent , population - specific mutations .
the purpose of the study was to establish the frequency of germ... |
treadmill exercise , both full weight - bearing and partial weight - bearing , is a dynamic training approach that provides intervention for walking and gait analysis . in patients with neuromuscular disorders , such as stroke , spinal cord injury ( sci ) , or cerebral palsy ( cp ) ,
treadmill exercise is a frequentl... | botulinum toxin a ( bont - a ) is a bacterial zinc - dependent endopeptidase that acts specifically on neuromuscular junctions .
bont - a blocks the release of acetylcholine , thereby decreasing the ability of a spastic muscle to generate forceful contraction , which results in a temporal local weakness and the atrop... |
To improve your odds of a high-quality marriage, try not to have too many sexual partners before you meet “the one.” And when you do find him or her, consider inviting at least 150 people to your wedding.
That’s just some of the practical advice offered by a pair of psychology researchers from the University of Den... | – To boost your odds of a lasting marriage, you might want to extend the list of wedding invitations. Why? Perhaps because when a lot of people see you making your commitment, you're more likely to work to keep it, say researchers. Their new study finds that couples who had at least 150 guests were 52% more likely to h... |
bisphosphonates - related osteonecrosis of the jaws ( bronj ) management is controversial : there are no evidence - based guidelines in the literature associated with good results for a long - term follow - up , in particular regarding surgical procedures .
the main purposes of each treatment are to reduce pain and t... | bisphosphonates - related osteonecrosis of the jaw ( bronj ) has been reported with increasing frequency in literature over last years , but its therapy is still a dilemma .
one hundred ninety patients affected by bronj were observed between january 2004 and november 2011 and 166 treated sites were subdivided in five... |
the evolution and persistence of altruism , despite the direct fitness disadvantage associated with altruistic behaviors , have been intensely discussed since the origin of species ( darwin , 1872 ) . the most influential contribution to this problem
is hamilton 's rule ( hamilton , 1963 , 1964 , 1975 ) , according t... | a fundamental problem in biology is understanding the evolutionary emergence and maintenance of altruistic behaviors .
a well - recognized conceptual insight is provided by a general mathematical relation , hamilton 's rule .
this rule can in principle be invoked to explain natural examples of cooperation , but mea... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``State Criminal Alien Assistance
Program II''.
SEC. 2. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Act is to assist States and units of local
governments by providing financial assistance for costs incurred by
such States and local governments for processing illegal ... | State Criminal Alien Assistance Program II - Amends the Immigration and Reform and Control Act of 1986 to provide for the reimbursement of State and local costs incurred for: (1) the imprisonment of any illegal alien who is convicted of a felony by such State; and (2) indirect costs including court proceedings, attorne... |
Four more planes reportedly spotted lasers several thousand feet in the air over New York and New Tuesday night, bringing the total to 20 similar incidents in the last week.
Two planes west of Warwick, NY, an American flight 20 miles south of Newark and a Spirit Airlines plane 20 miles southwest of LaGuardia report... | – Authorities appear no closer to figuring out the source of those mysterious lasers dazzling pilots over New Jersey and New York even as more incidents are recorded. After pilots reported lasers hitting at least 11 planes last week, nine more flights have been affected, including four last night. Two of the flights we... |
But the sources stressed that Dear said many things to law enforcement and the extent to which the "baby parts" remark played into any decision to target the Planned Parenthood office was not yet clear. He also mentioned President Barack Obama in statements.
Related: Planned Parenthood Official Says Attack Was Moti... | – The man being held in Friday's shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood talked about "no more baby parts" and President Obama after his arrest, reports the Washington Post, citing an anonymous law enforcement official, who contends that the attack was "definitely politically motivated." But sources tell NBC News, wh... |
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
(2) Mid-level ethanol blend.--The term ``mid-level ethanol
blend'' means an ethanol-gasoline blend containing greater than
... | (Sec. 2) Requires the Assistant Administrator of the Office of Research and Development at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to make a comprehensive assessment of research on the implications of using mid-level ethanol blends, comparing mid-leve... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Paleontological Resources
Preservation Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Paleontological resources are nonrenewable. Such
resources on Federal lands are an accessible and irreplaceable
part of t... | Paleontological Resources Preservation Act - Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture (the Secretaries) to: (1) manage and protect paleontological resources on Federal land using scientific principles and expertise; and (2) develop plans for inventorying, monitoring, and deriving the scientific and educa... |
it is widely recognized
that the availability of contaminants should
be considered in environmental risk- and life cycle assessment and
regulation .
similarly , the availability of micronutrients is
of interest when evaluating whether sufficient levels of these elements
are present in soil for uptake by bio... | recently
a dilute nitric acid extraction ( 0.43 m ) was adopted by
iso ( iso-17586:2016 ) as standard for extraction of geochemically reactive
elements in soil and soil like materials . here
we evaluate the performance
of this extraction for a wide range of elements by mechanistic geochemical
modeling .
m... |
/ Updated By Mary Emily O'Hara
A classic drive-in theater in northeast Alabama said it was cancelling plans to show Disney’s new Beauty & the Beast film, about a girl who falls in love with an animal, because of the film’s "homosexual character."
The Dekalb County theater’s new owner explained in a Thursday nig... | – A drive-in theater in Alabama says it won't show Disney's live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast after the film's director announced it would feature Disney's first openly gay character, Fusion reports. Director Bill Condon says LeFou, sidekick to the film's villain and played by Josh Gad, is gay and the film wil... |
become familiar with the brain - oriented obesity control system ( boocs ) , including the two principles and three basic rules of this psychosomatic approach .
describe the design of the quasi - experimental study , including more than 21,000 japanese workers over 15 years .
the all subjects were public service ... | objective : this study aims to demonstrate the protective effect on mortality among participants of a health education program , brain - oriented obesity control system ( boocs).methods : a quasi - experimentally designed , 15-year ( 1993 to 2007 ) follow - up study was conducted with a total of 13,835 male and 7791 fe... |
Talk about a shrinking population. A survey of Japanese people aged 18 to 34 found that almost 70 percent of unmarried men and 60 percent of unmarried women are not in a relationship.
Moreover, many of them have never got close and cuddly. Around 42 percent of the men and 44.2 percent of the women admitted they wer... | – While America might more typically worry about what its youth are doing, Japan spends a lot of time worrying about what they're not doing, and what they're not doing is having sex—at all, apparently. A new government survey suggests that the country's millennials are not only in no hurry to marry, but apparently aren... |
Police fatally shot a woman in Austin, Texas early Sunday after her husband placed a mental health call because he was worried about his wife's behavior.
Austin Assistant Police Chief Troy Gay told reporters that officers were told the woman was behaving erratically and had a weapon. When police arrived at the scen... | – Police in Texas shot and killed a woman after responding to a mental health call, NBC News reports. The woman's husband called police, saying she was acting erratically and he was worried about her; he also informed police that she had a weapon. When officers arrived on the scene at an Austin apartment complex around... |
CLOSE Facebook Live: Detroit Police Lieutenant Brian Bowser speaks about the infant bodies found at the former Cantrell Funeral Home. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Buy Photo A Detroit Police vehicle parked outside of Cantrell Funeral Home in Detroit, Friday, October 12, 2018. (Photo: Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press)B... | – Authorities say the bodies of 11 babies have been found in a funeral home that was closed six months ago. Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs spokesman Jason Moon says inspectors found the bodies Friday at the Cantrell Funeral Home on Detroit's east side. The Free-Press reports authorities discove... |
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