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in recent years , the discussion of relativistic issues in the reactions involving the deuteron has become more and more important .
some well known examples for a clear experimental evidence have been found in the electromagnetic disintegration @xcite .
this results are supported by a recent analysis of polarization ... | we investigate the nonrelativistic reduction of the bethe - salpeter amplitude for the deuteron electrodisintegration near threshold energies . to this end
, two assumptions have been used in the calculations : 1 ) the static approximation and 2 ) the one iteration approximation . within these assumptions
it is po... |
the standard procedure to study the underlying event ( ue ) characteristics starts with defining regions of the azimuthal detector acceptance based on the direction of the leading charged jet @xcite or the leading track @xcite in an event .
these regions , each of them covering an equal angle of @xmath0 are called towa... | a preliminary study of the fragmentation properties of charged particle jets as a function of the underlying multiplicity ( um ) is presented .
the um is defined such that it can be related to the global soft event characteristics by excluding the contribution due to jet fragmentation .
the measurement of jet prop... |
it is well known that acute coronary syndrome ( acs ) is the most common cause of cardiac arrest .
however , spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage ( sah ) is also a common neurological disorder that leads to out - of - hospital cardiac arrest . typical electrocardiogram ( ecg ) changes , such as st - segment elevation ... | electrocardiogram changes in subarachnoid hemorrhage ( sah ) have been described as st - t changes that mimic acute coronary syndrome and even acute st - segment elevation myocardial infarction .
elevation of cardiac enzymes and abnormality of regional myocardial wall motion have been reported frequently for sah .
... |
SECTION 1. PROGRAMS REGARDING EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP AND PARTICIPATION.
(a) Establishment of Program.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor (referred to
in this Act as the ``Secretary'') shall establish a program to
facilitate the establishment of State program... | Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a program to facilitate the establishment of State programs to foster increased employee ownership and greater employee participation in business decisionmaking.
Requires the Secretary to establish the Office of Employee Ownership and Participation to support existing State ... |
solid solutions of quantum paraelectrics exhibit a variety of intriguing properties , which have been attracting scientists for a long period of time @xcite but , in spite of this fact , some important questions remain still under discussion . for example , it is known that the substitution of nb for ta in ktao@xmath0 ... | new experimental data on solid solutions of quantum paraelectrics with ktao@xmath0:nb as an example are considered within a framework of a quantum theory of ferroelectric phase transitions . in order to describe the effect of local heterogeneities a percolation type theory together with a random field approach
were ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ``Tax Lien Simplification Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The present decentralized system for filing Federal tax
liens in local property offices, which was established b... | Tax Lien Simplification Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise procedures for the filing of federal tax liens.
Direct the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) establish and maintain a federal tax lien registry, in lieu of filing tax liens in local jurisdictions, which would be accessible to and searchable by th... |
due to the analogies between the nuclear forces and the van - der - waals interaction , the nuclear matter equation of state ( eos ) foresees the possible occurrence of phase transitions from the liquid to the vapour phases @xcite .
already in the 80 s , these phenomena were linked to the experimentally observed multif... | we undertake a quantitative comparison of multi - fragmentation reactions , as modeled by two different approaches : the antisymmetrized molecular dynamics ( amd ) and the momentum - dependent stochastic mean - field ( smf ) model .
fragment observables and pre - equilibrium ( nucleon and light cluster ) emission ar... |
the prospective study was performed between november 2011 and may 2012 at the department of otorhinolaryngology , tartu university hospital .
the study group consisted of 22 consecutive patients ( 16 male and 6 female with median age of 32 , range 1474 ) with pta , undergoing bilateral tonsillectomy .
the diagnosis... | objectivethe first aim of this study was to compare the microbiota of different locations ( pus , tonsillar fossa , blood ) in peritonsillar abscess ( pta ) patients in order to optimize the sampling scheme .
the second aim was to estimate the occurrence of tonsillitis episodes and macroscopic oropharyngeal signs cha... |
hyponatremia can be asymptomatic or can cause a variety of symptoms such as nausea , vomiting , malaise , lethargy , confusion , headache , decreased level of consciousness , seizures , and coma , depending on its severity . in their study on hyponatremia in hospitalized cancer patients and its impact on clinical outco... | introduction : hyponatremia is an undertreated finding in clinical practice . it is the most common electrolyte abnormality .
hyponatremia can be asymptomatic or can cause symptoms ranging from nausea and lethargy to convulsions and coma .
palliative care patients have a multitude of symptoms and there are several ... |
Friday is the one day of the year when you don't have to be blue to be a cookie monster. It's National Cookie Day, an unofficial but delicious celebration of the sweet snack. The observance was reportedly launched in the 1980s by the Blue Chip Cookie Co., and it's still going strong today. Get your weekend started earl... | – In news that broke Friday—shattering the innocence of National Cookie Day—Pepperidge Farm is suing Trader Joe's over alleged cookie trademark infringement. Pepperidge Farm claims the grocery chain's Crispy Cookies are too similar to its Milano cookies, which it started selling in 1956 and registered a trademark for i... |
thanks to the outstanding work by n. walborn and collaborators over the last 30 years , a detailed classification scheme for ob - stars of solar metallicity has been developed , based on the morphology of the line spectrum .
for the specific case of o - type stars , an alternative scheme relying on quantitative criter... | based on an exteded grid of nlte , line blanketed model atmospheres with stellar winds as calculated by means of fastwind , we have investigated the change in the strengths of strategic helium transitions in the optical as caused by a 0.3 decrease in metallicity with respect to solar abundances .
our calculations pr... |
although peripartum cardiomyopathy ( ppcm ) was first described in 1880 , much is still unknown about its etiology , epidemiology , characteristics , and clinical outcome .
the disease has a wide geographic spread , and is an important cause of heart failure ( hf ) in northern nigeria ; it is responsible for as high ... | background : peripartum cardiomyopathy ( ppcm ) is common in north - western nigeria .
this study aimed to describe the 1-year survival and left ventricular reverse remodeling ( lvrr ) in a group of patients with ppcm from three referral hospitals in kano , nigeria.methods:ppcm was defined according to recommendation... |
in the investigation of the properties of vortices and vortex lattices in type - ii superconductors , direct imaging of the vortex positions at the surface of the material can be a useful tool . for magnetic fields of practical interest
the distance between vortex lines becomes small ( roughly 50 nm at 1 t ) and scan... | in a sandwich consisting of two superconducting films , one weakly pinning and one strongly pinning , the vortex positions in both films are determined by the strongly pinning material and the vortex lattice is disordered in both films .
we used ( strongly pinning ) nbn and ( weakly pinning ) @xmath0-mo@xmath1ge an... |
here we describe a plasma configuration whose exact asymptotic solution can be obtained in a strong coupling limit .
the solution is given by the ion sphere result presented by salpeter @xcite plus a simple smaller correction .
this is accomplished by using the effective plasma field theory methods advocated by brown a... | the ion sphere model introduced long ago by salpeter is placed in a rigorous theoretical setting .
the leading corrections to this model for very highly charged but dilute ions in thermal equilibrium with a weakly coupled , one - component background plasma are explicitly computed , and the subleading corrections sh... |
ever since hubble s famous paper outlined his classification system @xcite , morphological classification in conjunction with physical measurement has become an important tool in extragalactic astrophysics .
a number of quantitative classifiers have been developed or extended over the years to probe the structure of ga... | we explore the correlation between morphological types and mid - infrared ( mir ) properties of an optically flux - limited sample of 154 galaxies from the forth data release ( dr4 ) of sloan digital sky survey ( sdss ) , cross - correlated with _ spitzer
_ swire ( _ spitzer _ wide - area infrared extragalactic surv... |
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(a) Arbitration.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary shall establish within the
Forest Service an arbitration program as an alternative dispute
resolution process in lieu of judicial review for the projects
described in subsection (b).
(2) Notification to objectors... | National Forest Ecosystem Improvement Act of 2015 This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA), acting through the Forest Service, to identify, prioritize, and carry out ecosystem restoration projects on National Forest System land in accordance with applicable land and resource management plans, if any, to a... |
spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage ( ich ) accounts for ~15% of all strokes and induces a 30-day mortality rate of ~40% [ 15 ] .
the rupture of small vessels damaged by chronic hypertension or amyloid angiopathy induces primary ich , creating a space - occupying hematoma within the brain parenchyma .
hematoma vol... | intracerebral hemorrhage ( ich ) is the most common form of hemorrhagic stroke , accounting for 15% of all strokes .
ich has the highest acute mortality and the worst long - term prognosis of all stroke subtypes .
unfortunately , the dearth of clinically effective treatment options makes ich the least treatable for... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Unlawful Internet Gambling
Enforcement Clarification and Implementation Act of 2008''.
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) Prior to the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling
... | Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Clarification and Implementation Act of 2008 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Attorney General should focus prosecutorial efforts on persons who: (1) offer Internet sports betting in the United States; or (2) process payments for illegal Internet sports betting in the Un... |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Nearly two weeks since the disappearance of missing Maury County teen Elizabeth Thomas, there are claims from her father that suggest she once hid from Tad Cummins at her workplace.
One of the Thomas family’s attorneys told News 2 Elizabeth’s father said Cummins went into Elizabeth’s work ... | – Elizabeth Thomas, the 15-year-old girl believed to have been abducted by teacher Tad Cummins two weeks ago, once hid from Cummins when he turned up at her workplace, her family says. One of the Thomas family's lawyers tells News 2 that, according to Elizabeth's father, she hid in the bathroom when the 50-year-old tea... |
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When the New York Post isn’t devoting their journalistic resources to targeting individual homeless people over and over again, they’re churning out provocative pieces specifically engineered to take over the internet outrage cycle for the day. Take “Women are not capable of understanding ‘Good... | – Hoo-boy. The New York Post ran a story Wednesday titled "Why I won't date hot women anymore" featuring an interview with a 40-year-old private equity executive who boasts he "could have [anyone] I wanted." Dan Rochkind says he used to go on multiple dates a week with "20-something blond models," but he eventually rea... |
SECTION 1. ELIMINATING BARRIERS TO JOBS FOR LOAN ORIGINATORS.
(a) In General.--The S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (12
U.S.C. 5101 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``SEC. 1518. EMPLOYMENT TRANSITION OF LOAN ORIGINATORS.
``(a) Temporary Authority To Originate Loans for Loan Ori... | . (Sec. 1) This bill amends the S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 to temporarily allow loan originators that meet specified requirements to continue to originate loans after moving: (1) from one state to another, or (2) from a depository institution to a non-depository institution. (Sec. 2) The bill revises... |
t dwarfs are brown dwarfs that exhibit methane absorption bands at 1.6 and 2.2 @xmath1 @xcite , and thus have effective temperatures t@xmath3 @xmath4 1200 - 1300 k @xcite .
the prototype for this class , gl 229b @xcite , was identified as a cool companion to the nearby m1v star gl 229a .
recently , seven field objects ... | we report the discovery of a bright ( j = 13.83@xmath00.03 ) methane brown dwarf , or t dwarf , by the two micron all sky survey .
this object , 2massi j0559191 - 140448 , is the first brown dwarf identified by the newly commissioned cormass instrument mounted on the palomar 60-inch telescope .
near - infrared spe... |
recent successful preparation of a single layer of graphene has generated a lot of interest in this system as experimental and theoretical studies have shown that the nature of quasiparticles in this two - dimensional system is very different from those of conventional two - dimensional electron gas ( 2deg ) systems re... | we have performed a detailed investigation of the electrical properties of a graphene monolayer which is modulated by a weak one dimensional periodic potential in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field .
the periodic modulation broadens the landau levels into bands which oscillate with @xmath0 .
the elect... |
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Donald J. Trump seemed irritated. He had been grilled for two hours in a lawsuit over a failed Florida real estate project, and he told the lawyer that her questions were “very stupid.”
When the lawyer, Elizabeth Beck, asked for a medical break... | – The New York Times has pored over hundreds of pages of Donald Trump testimony from his many lawsuits over the last decade and found a lot of what it describes as "hyperbolic overstatements" and "outright misstatements," as well as some instances of truly obnoxious behavior—like the time he told a lawyer who wanted to... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Portable Generator Safety Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Portable generators are frequently used to provide
electricity during temporary power outages. These generators
use fuel-burning engine... | Portable Generator Safety Act - Instructs the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate regulations requiring that every portable generator sold to the public for purposes other than resale be equipped with an interlock safety device that detects the level of carbon monoxide in the areas surrounding the generato... |
CLOSE Fashion model Hanne Gaby Odiele is teaming up with the non-profit organization, InterACT Advocates for Intersex Youth. Odiele recently revealed that she is intersex and is hoping to give a voice to people who are often in the shadows. USA TODAY NETWORK
Hanne Gaby Odiele attends the 2015 CFDA Fashion Awards at... | – She's used to putting herself on display, but Belgian model Hanne Gaby Odiele exposed herself in a different way on Monday. The 29-year-old sat with USA Today and revealed something that "should be perfectly all right to talk about ... in this day and age": Odiele is intersex, having been born with undescended testes... |
Ahmed Abu Khattala at his arriagnment hearing at the US. District Court, where he appeared for less than five minutes before entering a plea of not guilty on June 28, 2014. (Illustration by Richard Johnson/The Washington Post)
Ahmed Abu Khattala, one of the suspected ringleaders of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Lib... | – In newly released court documents, prosecutors laying out the case against alleged Benghazi mastermind Ahmed Abu Khattala allege that he was "motivated by his extremist ideology"—and make no mention, New York observes, of that infamous anti-Muslim YouTube video US officials initially blamed for the attack. Prosecutor... |
recent progress in semiconductor technology now allows the fabrication of artificially structured atoms in semiconductors called quantum dots , in which electrons are trapped in a small localized region of space of a few hundred angstrms . in these nanostructures
the electron wavelength is of the same length scale as t... | a model for quantum dots is proposed , in which the motion of a few electrons in a three - dimensional harmonic oscillator potential under the influence of a homogeneous magnetic field of arbitrary direction is studied . the spectrum and the wave functions
are obtained by solving the classical problem .
the ground... |
being a subject of practical importance , elasto - plastic deformation of dense granular media has been under the focus of engineering research for many decades if not a century @xcite .
the state of geotechnical theories , however , remains confusing for outsiders : innumerable models compete , employing strikingly d... | accounting for elasto - plastic motion in granular media , hypoplasticity is a state - of - the - art constitutive model derived from data accumulated over many decades .
in contrast , gsh , a hydrodynamic theory , is derived from general principles of physics , with comparatively few inputs from experiments , yet s... |
an 1-month - old , 4 kg , male patient was admitted for left inguinal herniorrhaphy .
his prenatal and birth history were uncomplicated and past medical history and family history were unremarkable .
his vital signs were pulse rate : 160 beats per minute , respiratory rate : 42 per minute , and body temperature : 3... | we report a case of interruption in the supply of breathing gas during general anesthesia caused by malposition of the drager vapor 2000 vaporizer , which was accidentally tilted and lifted off the selectatec manifold of the anesthesia machine . because the patient was an 1-month - old infant
, we could n't check if ... |
according to quark models ( qm s ) @xcite , baryons can be described as the bound states of three constituent quarks .
these are effective degrees of freedom that mimic the three valence quarks inside baryons , with a sea of gluons and @xmath0 sea pairs .
the light baryons can then be ordered according to the approxima... | the relativistic interacting quark - diquark model of baryons , recently developed , is here extended to introduce a spin - isospin transition interaction into the mass operator . the refined version of the model is used to calculate the non strange baryon spectrum .
the results are compared to the present experimen... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Fairness for the Military Reserve
Act of 1999''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) There are approximately 1,382,000 members of the seven
reserve components of the Armed Forces (the Army Reserve, the
Army... | Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations to allow the following persons to receive transportation on Department of Defense (DOD) aircraft on a space-available basis under the same terms and conditions that apply to members of the armed forces entitled to retired pay: (1) members of the Selected Reserve... |
null | the ultrastructural effects of mineral dusts on a macrophagelike cell line ( p388d1 ) were studied by transmission electron microscopy .
the cells were found to contain virus particles which probably did not exert a cytopathic effect toward the cells . during mitosis
the asbestos fibers appeared to be pushed to the... |
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A man fired from an Oklahoma food processing plant beheaded a woman with a knife and was attacking another worker when he was shot and wounded by a company official, police say.
Employees and friends wait behind a tape for word of loved ones as police investigate an incident at Vaughn Foods on ... | – As horrific as yesterday's beheading of an office worker was in Oklahoma, police say they would have had more more victims had a company executive not stepped in to stop the assailant, reports NewsOK. Mark Vaughan, chief operating officer of Vaughan Foods in Moore, also happens to be a reserve deputy sheriff. When he... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Defense Worker Dislocation Act''.
SEC. 2. RETRAINING.
(a) In General.--Section 325(a) of the Job Training Partnership Act
(29 U.S.C. 1662d(a)) is amended--
(1) in the first sentence, by striking ``From the'' and
inserting ``(1) From... | Defense Worker Dislocation Act - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to revise eligibility requirements for the Defense Conversion Adjustment Program (program).
Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make program grants to specified types of eligible entities in any State in which: (1) the Governor has recei... |
silicon photomultipliers ( sipm ) are arrays of microcells of avalanche photo diodes ( apd ) connected in parallel and operated in geiger mode .
they are characterized by timing of the order of @xmath4ns , with recovery times comparable to those of conventional phototubes .
their gain factors of @xmath5 make them prope... | the cherenkov telescope array ( cta ) consortium is developing the new generation of ground observatories for the detection of ultra - high energy gamma - rays .
the italian institute of nuclear physics ( infn ) is participating to the r&d of a possible solution for the cherenkov photon cameras based on silicon phot... |
likert , and likert - type , responses are popular psychometric item scoring schemes for attempting to quantify people s opinions on different issues .
the likert scale originated with rensis likert ( 21 ) , and has a long history of use in kinesiology research ( 13 , 14 , 24 ) .
the long - running issue with liker... | likert , likert - type , and ordinal - scale responses are very popular psychometric item scoring schemes for attempting to quantify people s opinions , interests , or perceived efficacy of an intervention and are used extensively in physical education and exercise science research .
however , these numbered measures... |
primary urethral cancer ( puc ) is a very rare disease with an annual age - standardized ratio of 1.5 per million women .
the most common histological type is transitional cell carcinoma ( 55% ) , squamous cell carcinoma ( 22% ) , and adenocarcinoma ( 16% ) .
these include papillary / micropapillary adenocarcinoma ... | primary urethral cancer ( puc ) is a very rare disease .
this case report illustrates a successful treatment approach of a 67-year - old woman with a urethral adenocarcinoma selected for an organ preserving treatment with external beam radiotherapy ( ebrt ) and interstitial brachytherapy ( bt ) boost , using the gec ... |
prior to our experiments , the samples are gently stirred to prevent any size segregation due to sedimentation , although for our high volume fractions sedimentation and size segregation are exceedingly slow . to try to ensure that the sample does not slip , where the sample comes into contact with the glass plates , w... | we study dense and highly polydisperse emulsions at droplet volume fractions @xmath0 .
we apply oscillatory shear and observe droplet motion using confocal microscopy . the presence of droplets with sizes several times the mean size dramatically changes the motion of smaller droplets .
both affine and nonaffine dr... |
we are interested here in uncovering relationships between the appearances of pairs of objects , and particularly in modeling the human notion of which objects complement each other and which might be seen as acceptable alternatives .
we thus seek to model what is a fundamentally human notion of the visual relationship... | humans inevitably develop a sense of the relationships between objects , some of which are based on their appearance .
some pairs of objects might be seen as being alternatives to each other ( such as two pairs of jeans ) , while others may be seen as being complementary ( such as a pair of jeans and a matching shir... |
in the early universe @xmath10 , x - rays from compact sources might have had an important contribution to the heating of the intergalactic medium ( igm ) during the epoch of reionization @xcite . the direct study of these high - redshift x - ray sources is untenable due to the spatial resolution and large observation... | the source of energetic photons that heated and reionized the early universe remains uncertain .
early galaxies had low metallicity and recent population synthesis calculations suggest that the number and luminosity of high - mass x - ray binaries are enhanced in star - forming galaxies with low metallicity , offeri... |
the structure of the impurity band of semiconductors has been widely studied during the last two decades both theoretically and experimentally ( see monograph@xcite ) . in the early theoretical studies
the spin structure of the impurity band was completely ignored .
recent experiments suggest that the spin structure is... | the exchange interaction between electrons located at different randomly distributed impurities is studied for small density of impurities .
the singlet - triplet splitting @xmath0 is calculated for two coulomb centers at a distance @xmath1 .
interpolated formulas are found which work for all distances @xmath1 fro... |
massive hemoptysis is a life - threatening pulmonary emergency and has a variety of underlying conditions .
transcatheter bronchial artery embolization ( bae ) is a well - established and effective non - surgical procedure for the management of massive hemoptysis ( 1 ) .
recently , non - bronchial systemic arteries... | massive hemoptysis is a medical emergency and needs immediate treatment .
it occurs in a wide variety of pulmonary diseases and typically originates from the bronchial arteries .
we herein report a very rare case of a patient bleeding from a right phrenic artery - to - pulmonary artery fistula accompanied with foca... |
long - term monitoring of sgr a * has thus far resulted in the discovery of several near - ir @xcite and x - ray flares @xcite from this object .
one of the most recent events , observed with _
xmm - newton _ in 2004 , has produced compelling evidence of a significant modulation in the x - ray lightcurve with a quasi -... | near - ir and x - ray flares have been detected from the supermassive black hole sgr a * at the center of our galaxy with a ( quasi)-period of @xmath0 minutes , suggesting an emission region only a few schwarzschild radii above the event horizon .
the latest x - ray flare , detected with _
xmm - newton _ , is nota... |
DAWSON CITY, Yukon Territory—"You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow. But the lips have gotta touch the toe."
So goes the regular incantation here in the Downtown Hotel's Sourdough Saloon, in the heart of Dawson City—itself the heart of the Klondike's new gold rush.
Robert Service, the bard of the Yukon, ... | – Olives, limes, maraschino cherries, and pickled toes? That's right: In the Yukon Territory, one Dawson City saloon serves a drink garnished with a human toe. The tradition began in 1973, after a riverboat captain found a toe preserved in a pickle jar and decided it would be a good idea to drop the digit into a big gl... |
authors thank gleb kozlov for fruitful discussions .
we acknowledge the financial support by the deutsche forschungsgemeinschaft and the russian foundation of basic research in the frame of the icrc trr 160 ( rfbr project no
. 15 - 52 - 12016 nnio_a ) .
the project ` spangl4q ' acknowledges financial support from the f... | an ensemble of quantum dot excitons may be used for coherent information manipulation . due to the ensemble inhomogeneity
any optical information retrieval occurs in form of a photon echo .
we show that the inhomogeneity can lead to a significant deviation from the conventional echo timing sequence .
variation o... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``National Parks
Capital Improvements Act of 1999''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents of this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions.
Sec. 3. Fundraising organizatio... | Exempts the United States from liability for such bonds unless the surcharge is not imposed for any reason or if it is reduced or eliminated in which case the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged to bond payment.
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) permit the Superintendent of the park to charge and colle... |
membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis ( mpgn ) refers to an immune complex glomerulonephritis characterized by diffuse mesangial proliferation and interposition of mesangial cells into glomerular capillary walls , with double - contoured appearance of glomerular basement membranes .
mpgn is not a diagnostic label ... | we report the case of a 36-year - old japanese woman with nephrotic syndrome due to membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis ( mpgn ) type i diagnosed after a 5-year history of periodic fever syndrome ( pfs ) .
hypocomplementemia and elevation of anti - proteinase 3 anti - neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody ( pr3-an... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``PAC Elimination
Act''.
(b) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) Congress now faces a crisis of public confidence about
its ability to conduct the people's business.
(2) Members of Congre... | PAC Elimination Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit any person, other than an individual or a candidate's or party's political committee, from making contributions, soliciting or receiving contributions, or making expenditures for the purpose of influencing an election for federal office.... |
the study was promoted by the tuscan reference centre for tropical diseases ( trctd ) and proposed to include all infectious diseases units ( n = 11 ) of tuscany .
the trctd laboratory provides diagnostic support for some tropical diseases such as df to other tuscan health facilities .
serological tests for df av... | this report focuses on epidemiological and clinical features of dengue fever ( df ) in tuscany ( italy ) between 2006 and 2012 .
sixty - one df cases were diagnosed , 32 of which were in the period of aedes albopictus activity . some clinical ( arthralgia / myalgia , nausea / vomiting , and skin rash ) , laboratory (... |
historical reports of drainage of chest empyema and ascites go back to the hippocratic era .
however , abdominal drainage has always been a subject of controversy , practiced in confusion and subjected to local dogmas .
a hundred years have passed during which operative surgery and supportive care techniques have p... | abstractmany surgeons practice prophylactic drainage after cholecystectomy without reliable evidence .
this study was conducted to answer the question whether to drain or not to drain after cholecystectomy for acute calculous cholecystitis .
a retrospective review of all patients who had cholecystectomy for acute c... |
Lawrence Tynes' wife took to Twitter on Wednesday to publicly refute the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' claim that her husband is "responding well" to treatment for MRSA, a serious staph infection that sidelined the veteran kicker earlier this month.
The Buccaneers acknowledged last week that they treated their facility las... | – Game called on account of staph infection? The Buccaneers and Eagles are playing tomorrow as scheduled, but the NFL players' union considered telling members to skip it after a third Tampa player was diagnosed this week with a nasty MRSA infection, reports Bleacher Report. Rookie Johnthan Banks is the unlucky one, wi... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Contractors and Federal Spending
Accountability Act of 2008''.
SEC. 2. DATABASE FOR CONTRACTING OFFICERS AND SUSPENSION AND DEBARMENT
OFFICIALS.
(a) In General.--Subject to the authority, direction, and control
of the Director of the Off... | Contractors and Federal Spending Accountability Act of 2008 - Requires the Administrator of General Services to establish and maintain on a General Services Administration (GSA) website for use by officials of all federal agencies a database of information regarding the integrity and performance of persons awarded fede... |
CARACAS May 7 Shortages of motorcycle parts in recession-hit Venezuela have become so acute that bikers are being killed for their vehicles, the leader of a local motorcyclists' association said.
Socialist-run Venezuela is reeling from shortages of foods, medicines and machinery due in part to currency controls tha... | – Venezuela is running low on motorcycle parts, which is, in turn, likely only making its coffin shortage worse. Motorcycle riders are being gunned down for their bikes as a recession wreaks havoc on the South American country, reports Reuters. "They're killing those of us in the street to steal our bike because there ... |
quantized vortices are topological defects in a superfluid , possessing quantized circulation of the superfluid around them .
they play an important role in the transport phenomena in the superfluid such as the critical superflow and quantum turbulence @xcite .
furthermore , they are responsible for the superfluid pha... | we observe that a density - depleted vortex core evolves into concentric density ripples in a freely expanding quasi - two - dimensional bose - einstein condensate .
the atomic density of the expanding condensate rapidly reduces due to the fast expansion along the tightly confining axial direction , and thus the tra... |
vitamin d has been proven to modulate the immune system through the stimulation of expression of anti - microbial peptides ( amps ) are integral in defense mechanism ( schwalfenberg , 2011 ) .
several studies have shown that hypovitaminosis d to be associated with respiratory tract infections including tb ( laaksi et... | introduction : hypovitaminosis d is reported to be associated with several medical complications .
recent studies have reported a high worldwide prevalence of vitamin d deficiency in the general population ( up to 80 % ) .
this is even higher in patients with chronic kidney disease ( ckd ) and increases with advanc... |
current density filament in a bistable semiconductor structure with s - shaped current - voltage characteristic is a high current density domain embedded in a low current density environment @xcite .
typically filaments appear spontaneously due to spatial instability of the uniform current flow when the average current... | we perform an analytical investigation of the bifurcation from static to traveling current density filaments in a bistable semiconductor structure with s - shaped current - voltage characteristic .
joule self - heating of a semiconductor structure and the effect of temperature on electron transport are consistently ... |
high temperature superconductivity ( hts ) in the quasi - two - dimensional cuprates is regarded as a fundamental phenomenon because of a number of reasons@xcite .
we name just a few here .
first , by doping the system with holes ( cf . fig . [ fig:0 ] ) , a series of quantum phase transitions appears , starting from a... | selected universal experimental properties of high temperature superconducting ( hts ) cuprates have been singled out in the last decade .
one of the pivotal challenges in this field is the designation of a consistent interpretation framework within which we can describe quantitatively the universal features of thos... |
surgical valvotomy was the traditional method of treatment of congenital pulmonary valve stenosis ( pvs ) until 1982 .
the technique of balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty was introduced initially by kan et al in 1982 . since then , many other workers have reported successful application of this technique to treat patien... | objectiveimmediate , short and midterm outcome of balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty are well known , but there is limited information on long term results .
we report long term results of 213 .
5 years follow up of balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty in children.methodsfrom june 1998 to january 2012 sixty consecutive pat... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Spacefaring Priorities for America's
Continued Exploration Act'' or the ``SPACE Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) Russia is not a reliable partner.--(A) Unless Space
Shuttle operations are extended beyond 20... | Spacefaring Priorities for America's Continued Exploration Act or SPACE Act - Prohibits the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from relying solely on the Russian government for astronaut transport or cargo resupply services, except for the current Soyuz emergency escape services for astronauts on the ... |
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Theresa May has signed the letter that will formally begin the UK's departure from the European Union.
Giving official notice under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, it will be delivered to European Council pres... | – The UK is preparing to say adios, au revoir, and auf wiedersehen to the European Union after 44 years of membership. Prime Minister Theresa May signed a letter Tuesday night invoking Article 50, and the EU received it Wednesday, formally triggering two years of negotiations leading up to Britain's departure from the ... |
quasiperiodically driven mappings where the dynamics can be strange ( namely on fractal attractors ) but nonchaotic ( namely having a lack of sensitivity to initial conditions ) are of considerable current interest @xcite .
strange nonchaotic attractors ( snas ) were first described by grebogi in 1984 @xcite , and are ... | we discuss several bifurcation phenomena that occur in the quasiperiodically driven logistic map .
this system can have strange nonchaotic attractors ( snas ) in addition to chaotic and regular attractors ; on snas the dynamics is aperiodic , but the largest lyapunov exponent is nonpositive .
there are a number of... |
It has now been close to a week since the dreaded Nipah virus outbreak hit Kozhikode in north Kerala. The state government would like the rest of the world to believe that its efforts to contain the virus to as small an area as possible have been successful.
To a large extent, that claim does have merit. Even thoug... | – The Nipah virus has now killed at least a dozen people in southern India and health workers fear it could become a global epidemic if it isn't tightly monitored. More than 40 other people have been infected with the virus, which has a mortality rate of around 75%, Fox News reports. Health officials believe the outbre... |
proton pump inhibitors ( ppis ) potently inhibit gastric acid secretion , and are widely used for prevention and treatment of various acid - related diseases including peptic ulcers and gastro - esophageal reflux diseases .
although their acid inhibitor potency is far stronger than that of histamine h2 receptor antag... | comparisons between the acid inhibitory effects of rabeprazole and esomeprazole after single oral administration with standard doses have not been previously presented .
we examined intra - gastric ph after oral administrations of these two proton pump inhibitors using 24-h ph monitoring .
fifty - four normal volun... |
hence , many researches have been developed to improve the bone - healing process ; these studies involve not only surgical technique but also the use of biological resources and molecular techiniques .
the bone repair process involves a complex cascade of biological responses , is affected by local and external fact... | context : regeneration corresponds to the replacement of damaged cells with ones that have the same morphology and function . for experimental evaluation of materials that may favor the process of bone healing , defects are created with dimensions that prevent spontaneous regeneration . for the development and use of n... |
neuroendocrine lung tumors arise from a population of neuroendocrine cells normally present in the bronchoalveolar structures and are characterized by secretory activity and ability to take up and decarboxylate the amine precursors ( apud system cells ) .
these neuroendocrine phenotypical and morphological characteri... | bronchopulmonary neuroendocrine tumors are an uncommon group of neoplasms , accounting for about 20% of all lung carcinomas , arising from stem cells of the bronchial epithelium known as kulchitsky cells . in the past
, these tumors were grouped among benign or less aggressive malignant pulmonary tumors .
currently... |
a community of people where each person has a characteristic ( for example , an opinion on a particular subject and this opinion can be expressed in a binary form , in favor ( @xmath13 ) or against ( @xmath14 ) a particular issue in question , and this opinion can be influenced by the vicinity of this individual ) can ... | we study a nonequilibrium model with up - down symmetry and a noise parameter @xmath0 known as majority - vote model of m.j .
oliveira @xmath1 with heterogeneous agents on square lattice . by
monte carlo simulations and finite - size scaling relations the critical exponents @xmath2 , @xmath3 , and @xmath4 and poin... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Active Community Transportation Act
of 2010''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) Nearly half of the trips taken in the United States are
within a 20-minute bicycle ride, and a quarter of such trips
are wit... | Active Community Transportation Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to carry out an active transportation investment program to encourage a mode shift to active transportation within selected communities that have development plans that provide safe and convenient opportunities to travel by bicycling ... |
adult education about several health care topics is essential to improve health care behavior and self - management as well as reduce risky behavior .
such topics include fall prevention , nutrition , and alcohol use.13 according to the world health organization , health education not only means conveying verbal or w... | purpose of the studyhealth education is essential to improve health care behavior and self - management .
however , educating frail , older nursing home residents about their health is challenging . focusing on empowerment may be the key to educating nursing home residents effectively .
this paper examines educatio... |
one of the outstanding problems facing high energy physics is the origin of electroweak symmetry breaking . although the usual higgs mechanism , which employs a single weak scalar isodoublet , is phenomenologically successful@xcite it is not theoretically satisfying .
is it possible to generate the masses for the gauge... | grinstein , oconnell and wise have recently presented an extension of the standard model ( sm ) , based on the ideas of lee and wick ( lw ) , which demonstrates an interesting way to remove the quadratically divergent contributions to the higgs mass induced by radiative corrections .
this model predicts the existenc... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Employee Ownership Act of 1999''.
SEC. 2. OWNERSHIP POLICY FOR THE UNITED STATES.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
(1) there is considerable evidence that employee-owned and
employee-controlled corporations are more productiv... | (Sec. 3) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for tax-exempt employee-owned and employee-controlled corporation (EOECC) trusts whose primary assets consist of the employer securities of an EOECC in which: (1) more than 50 percent of the voting stock is held by a trust for the benefit of the corporation's employe... |
orofaciodigital syndrome ( ofds ) ( omim 311200 ) is a general term for describing several distinctive developmental genetic diseases that are characterized by malformation of the mouth , face and digits .
at least 13 different types of the syndrome have been recognized among which type 1 ( ofd1 ) is the most common ... | oral - facial - digital syndrome as heterogeneous developmental conditions is characterized by abnormalities in the oral cavity , facial features and digits .
furthermore , central nervous system ( cns ) abnormalities can also be part of this developmental disorder .
at least 13 forms of ofds based on their pattern... |
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SECTION 1. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
(1) there are situated in the State of Tennessee the sites
of several key Civil War battles, campaigns, and engagements;
(2) certain sites, battlefields, structures, and areas in
Tennessee are colle... | Designates the Tennessee Civil War Heritage Area in Tennessee upon notification in the Federal Register by the Secretary of the Interior that a compact relating to the objectives and management of the Area has been approved by the Secretary.
Requires the management plan to be developed and submitted to the Secretary b... |
the cavities of elliptical / roundish planetary nebulae ( pne ) are not empty but instead filled - up with hot gas originating from the shock - heated fast stellar wind .
space - born x - ray telescopes ( rosat , xmm - newton , chandra ) revealed that these wind - blown `` bubbles '' are the source of rather soft x - r... | we developed a model for wind - blown bubbles with temperature and density profiles based on self - similar solutions including thermal conduction .
we constructed also heat - conduction bubbles with chemical discontinuities .
the x - ray emission is computed using the well - documented chianti code ( v6.0.1 ) .
... |
binary stars represent perhaps the most valuable targets for stellar astrophysics .
they have been a source of insight into the structure and evolution of stars , theory of radiative transfer , stellar magneto- and hydrodynamics , and the newtonian theory of gravity , to mention just a few major topics ( shore 1994 ) .... | the determination of velocities of stars from precise doppler measurements is described here using relativistic theory of astronomical reference frames so as to determine the keplerian and post - keplerian parameters of binary systems .
seven reference frames are introduced : ( i ) proper frame of a particle emittin... |
the recent major improvement in the observation of the deep universe , both with hst and ground - based telescopes of the new generation , has greatly increased our chance to probe the cosmological model by venturing to search for primeval galaxies . when observing in the optical or infrared range , however
, we are pr... | the ultraviolet luminosity evolution of star - forming galaxies is explored from the theoretical point of view , especially focusing on the theory of uv energetics in simple and composite stellar populations and its relationship to the star formation rate and other main evolutionary parameters .
galaxy emission b... |
urolithiasis is a common disorder that affects approximately 3 - 5% of the population and is usually associated with metabolic abnormalities [ 1 - 3 ] . although both intrinsic and environmental factors contribute to urinary stone formation , the exact cause is not fully understood [ 2 - 7 ] .
more precise knowledge ... | purposerecent studies have suggested that renal phosphate leakage and the associated phosphaturia are significant underlying causes of calcium urolithiasis .
the aims of this study were to assess whether phosphaturia relates to urinary metabolic abnormalities and recurrent stone formation.materials and methodsa datab... |
the hard - sphere system has been of central interest in the theory of fluids since the early work of boltzmann and is still an important model system in statistical physics . at low and intermediate densities the equilibrium pair structure and thermodynamics
are theoretically well understood and the model can be regar... | recent simulation studies have drawn attention to the shoulder which forms in the second peak of the radial distribution function of hard - spheres at densities close to freezing and which is associated with local crystalline ordering in the dense fluid .
we address this structural precursor to freezing using an inh... |
throughout the last four decades nonrelativistic conformal symmetries have been observed in wide area of physics ranging from condensed matter to high energy ( see for example @xcite and references therein ) . in many cases
the symmetries are described by the groups extending the galilei symmetry group of nonrelativist... | we investigate the lowest weight representations of the super schrdinger algebras introduced by duval and horvthy .
this is done by the same procedure as the semisimple lie algebras .
namely , all singular vectors within the verma modules are constructed explicitly then irreducibility of the associated quotient mo... |
despite the fact that a fundamental description of _ m_-theory has so far remained elusive , it is nevertheless possible to describe interesting and predictive aspects of its effective phenomenology .
this is possible because , whatever _ m_-theory turns out to be , it should relate at low energy to eleven - dimensiona... | gravitational and gauge anomalies provide stringent constraints on which subset of chiral models can effectively describe _
m_-theory at low energy . in this paper
, we explicitly construct an abelian orbifold of _
m_-theory to obtain an @xmath0 , chiral super yang - mills theory in four dimensions , using anoma... |
CLOSE Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin says he personally heard President Donald Trump use "vile and racist" remarks during an immigration meeting with lawmakers. USA TODAY
President Trump (Photo: Evan Vucci, AP)
WASHINGTON – Facing a global and congressional firestorm of criticism, President Trump appeared Friday t... | – President Trump honored the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. during a White House event on Friday with a strong statement: "No matter what the color of our skin or the place of our birth, we are all created equal." But as USA Today notes, headlines about Trump using the term "shithole countries" about certain nations... |
in the present study we have analyzed the degradome of wt ( col and ler ) and tsn1tsn2 arabidopsis seedlings under specific ( control or stress ) conditions . to this end , plants were grown vertically on ms agar plates under a 16/8-h light / dark cycle and a light intensity of 150 e m s for 5 days . for heat st... | recently , we have showed that tudor staphylococcal nuclease ( tsn or tudor - sn ) proteins ( tsn1 and tsn2 ) are localized in cytoplasmic messenger ribonucleoprotein ( mrnp ) complexes called stress granules ( sg ) and processing bodies ( pb ) under heat stress in arabidopsis .
one of the primary functions of these ... |
the topology of a space - time manifold @xmath4 can have important implications for the construction of classical and quantum fields . to see the physical effects of topology , one could relax the curvature effects by studying quantized fields in multiply connected _ flat _ space - times .
field theory in space - times... | the vacuum expectation value of the stress - energy tensor is calculated for spin @xmath0 massive fields in several multiply connected flat space - times .
we examine the physical effects of topology on manifolds such as @xmath1 , @xmath2 , @xmath3 , the mobius strip and the klein bottle .
we find that the spinor ... |
in a stylized financial market , the price of a european option can be computed from a solution to the well - known black
scholes linear parabolic equation derived by black and scholes in @xcite , and , independently by merton ( cf .
kwok @xcite , dewynne _ et al . _
@xcite , hull @xcite ) . a european call ( put )
op... | we investigate qualitative and quantitative behavior of a solution to the problem of pricing american style of perpetual put options .
we assume the option price is a solution to a stationary generalized black - scholes equation in which the volatility may depend on the second derivative of the option price itself .... |
originally , the three gap theorem was the conjecture of h. steinhaus . subsequently , several proofs were proposed by @xcite @xcite @xcite @xcite @xcite @xcite @xcite .
the proof proposed in this paper is a presentation of the proof completely fomalized in the coq proof asssistance system @xcite .
this formal proof is... | we deal with the distribution of @xmath0 points placed consecutively around the circle by a fixed angle of @xmath1 . from the proof of tony van ravenstein @xcite
, we propose a detailed proof of the steinhaus conjecture whose result is the following : the @xmath0 points partition the circle into gaps of at most thre... |
Fashion victim: rhabdomyolysis and bilateral peroneal and tibial neuropathies as a result of squatting in ‘skinny jeans’
Karmen Wai 1 , Philip Douglas Thompson 2 , Thomas Edmund Kimber 2 1 Neurology Unit , Royal Adelaide Hospital , Adelaide, South Australia , Australia 2 Neurology Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital and ... | – "Rhabdomyolysis and bilateral peroneal and tibial neuropathies" are as uncomfortable as they sound, and they can be caused by wearing skinny jeans for the wrong jobs, doctors say. According to a case study in the journal Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, an Australian woman who wore skinny jeans while helping a f... |
the most massive galaxies may place interesting constraints on models of galaxy formation ( e.g. de lucia et al . 2006 ; almeida et al . 2007 ) . but
which observable one should use as a proxy for mass is debatable .
if luminosity is a good proxy , then the brightest cluster galaxies should be the most massive galaxies... | we study a sample of 43 early - type galaxies , selected from the sloan digital sky survey ( sdss ) because they appeared to have velocity dispersions of @xmath0350 kms@xmath1 .
high - resolution photometry in the sdss @xmath2 passband using the high - resolution channel of the advanced camera for surveys on board ... |
in order to improve healthcare quality for patients with several chronic conditions , the patient protection and affordable care act of 2010 instituted penalties for hospital reimbursement if a patient admitted for myocardial infarction , congestive heart failure , or pneumonia was readmitted to the institution within ... | the purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility and acceptability of utilizing a smartphone based application to monitor compliance in patients with cardiac disease around discharge . for 60 days after discharge
, patients ' medication compliance , physical activity , follow - up care , symptoms , and read... |
the traditional narrow definition of health ( in terms of mortality and serious morbidity ) has been replaced by a much broader definition which encompasses " physical , mental and social well - being , and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity " . steadily decreasing maternal and perinatal mortality rates in ... | backgroundcontemporary broad descriptions of health and well - being are reflected in an increasing appreciation of quality of life issues ; in turn this has led to a growing number of tools to measure this.methodsthis paper reviews articles cited in medline , cinahl and bids which have addressed the concept of quality... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Electronic Privacy Protection Act''.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITIONS RELATING TO INFORMATION COLLECTION DEVICES.
(a) Prohibition.--It is unlawful for any person to knowingly make,
import, export, distribute, sell, offer for sale, install, or use an
information co... | Sets forth civil penalties for violations of this Act. |
studying the mass distribution of massive clusters at high redshifts is important as their existence puts strong constraints on possible cosmological models ( e.g. eke et al .
1996 ; bahcall & fan 1998 ; donahue et al . 1998 ) .
furthermore , these systems may be young and thus much can be learned about the formation o... | we have measured the weak gravitational lensing of faint , distant background galaxies by ms 1054 - 03 , a rich and x - ray luminous cluster of galaxies at a redshift of @xmath0 , using a two - colour mosaic of deep wfpc2 images .
the small corrections for the size of the psf and the high number density of backgrou... |
this paper continues the comparison between lines of minima and teichmller geodesics begun in @xcite .
let @xmath2 be a hyperbolizable surface of finite type and @xmath7 be the space of @xmath2 .
let @xmath0 and @xmath1 be two measured laminations that fill up @xmath2 .
the associated _ line of minima _ is the path @x... | we continue the comparison between lines of minima and teichmller geodesics begun in @xcite . for two measured laminations @xmath0 and @xmath1 that fill up a hyperbolizable surface @xmath2 and for @xmath3 , let @xmath4 be the unique hyperbolic surface that minimizes the length function @xmath5 on space .
we prove t... |
topological sigma models , first put forward by witten @xcite , have long fascinated a number of theoretical physicists and mathematicians .
most remarkably , the task of summing up worldsheet instantons is nowadays elegantly formulated by the theory of gromov - witten invariants .
explicit computations of them are sti... | we discuss how the geometry of @xmath0-@xmath1 branes may be related to gromov - witten theory of calabi - yau threefolds . |
according to accepted cosmological theory , the early universe went through a period of inflation where it s size increased by at least 60 e - folds in a small fraction of a second @xcite .
there is a wealth of observational data providing evidence that inflation occurred @xcite .
in addition , inflation is needed to s... | in this paper , we study the dynamics of the chern - simons inflation model proposed by alexander , marciano and spergel . according to this model ,
inflation begins when a fermion current interacts with a turbulent gauge field in a space larger than some critical size .
this mechanism appears to work by driving e... |
Because for some lucky souls, the place where the sidewalk ends just happens to be the Playboy Mansion.
Part of a weeklong series on poems and poets, sounds and sense.
Video by Melanie Ruiz.
One of the many unexpected pleasures of the internet is Hugh Hefner’s Instagram page, where you’ll find scores of old... | – Shel Silverstein was kicked out of one college and dropped out of another, and he described those days gloomily: "I didn't get laid much. I didn't learn much. Those are the two worst things that can happen to a guy." His trouble with the ladies didn't persist. Ozy recalls what for many is a less-known side of the fam... |
widely separated time - scales occur in many radio - frequency ( rf ) circuits such as mixers , oscillators , plls , etc . , making the analysis with standard numerical methods difficult and costly .
low frequency or baseband signals and high frequency carrier signals often occur in the same circuit , enforcing very sm... | * purpose rf circuits often possess a multi - rate behavior .
slow changing baseband signals and fast oscillating carrier signals often occur in the same circuit .
frequency modulated signals pose a particular challenge .
* * design / methodology / approach the ordinary circuit differential equations ( odes... |
supracervical hysterectomy is considered controversial . however , according to the latest american association of gynecologic laparoscopists ( aagl ) survey , the performance of laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomies ( lsh ) is apparently increasing .
lsh has several advantages but is admittedly only for a subset... | objectives : our aim was to evaluate a new electrosurgical instrument ( lap loop device ) that amputates the uterine corpus from the cervix during a laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy ( lsh ) and to compare the time required for cervical amputation with traditional methods.methods:this comparative trial was conduc... |
the main outcome of the relativistic heavy ion collision ( rhic ) experiments is the creation of a deconfined medium of strongly interacting quarks and gluons , known as quark gluon plasma ( qgp ) .
since the hqs are mainly produced at the initial stage of heavy - ion collisions and the thermalization time of hqs are o... | the propagation of heavy quarks ( hqs ) in a medium was quite often modeled by the fokker - plank ( fp ) equation .
since the transport coefficients , related to drag and diffusion processes are the main ingredients in the fp equation , the evolution of hqs is thus effectively controlled by them . at the initial sta... |
This crawl of online resources of the 115th US Congress was performed on behalf of The United States National Archives & Records ||||| The first comprehensive study of CEO-to-worker pay reveals an extraordinary disparity – with the highest gap approaching 5,000 to 1
The first comprehensive study of the massive pay ... | – Don’t cry for your busy CEO. A comprehensive survey of executive pay has found that the average CEO-to-median-worker pay ratio in the US has reached 339 to 1, reports the Guardian. Simply put, median workers at most of the companies surveyed would need to work 45 years to earn what the CEO makes in one year. This fig... |
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