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we used data of a cohort of patients with incident lea , for which analyses on incidence have been published elsewhere ( 3 ) . in brief , these patients were derived from the gmnder ersatzkasse ( gek ) , a statutory health insurance company that insured 1.6 million people located in all regions of germany ( 1.9% of the... | objectiveto estimate the impact of diabetes on mortality in patients after first major lower extremity amputation ( lea).research design and methodsusing claims data of a nationwide statutory health insurance , we assessed all deaths in a cohort of all 444 patients with a first major lea since 2005 ( 71.8% male ; mean ... |
a significant part of our understanding of nonperturbative phenomena in qcd , such as chiral symmetry breaking , confinement or the existence of nuclei , results from simulations of the qcd partition function on a euclidean space - time lattice ( see @xcite for reviews ) . in spite of its numerous successes ,
this appr... | in this lecture we review recent lattice qcd studies of the statistical properties of the eigenvalues of the qcd dirac operator .
we find that the fluctuations of the smallest dirac eigenvalues are described by chiral random matrix theories with the global symmetries of the qcd partition function .
deviations from... |
the possibility of the states in which the dissipative electric current in a nonequilibrium electron system ( a system in which a majority of electrons have negative effective mass ) flows in the direction opposite to the electric field , i.e. , the usual ( or absolute ) conductivity of the system is negative , was dis... | we present a model which provides a plausible explanation of the effect of zero - resistance and zero - conductance states in two - dimensional electron systems subjected to a magnetic field and irradiated with microwaves observed in a number of experiments and of the effect main features .
the model is based on the... |
high - temperature superconductivity occurs in a state which is is frequently referred to as an ` rvb spin liquid ' .
this state has no magnetic order , but strong short range antiferromagnetic correlations .
undoubtedly the strong repulsion between electrons , which turns the system into a charge - transfer insulator ... | we discuss the excitation spectrum of a disordered , isotropic and translationally invariant spin state in the 2d heisenberg antiferromagnet . the starting point is the nearest - neighbor rvb state which plays the role of the vacuum of the theory , in a similar sense as the nel state is the vacuum for antiferromagneti... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Life Sciences Jobs and Investment
Act of 2010''.
SEC. 2. INCREASED CREDIT FOR INITIAL LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH.
(a) In General.--Subsection (h) of section 41 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by redesignating subsection (h) as
subsection (... | Life Sciences Jobs and Investment Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) an increased research tax credit for qualified initial life sciences research expenses; and (2) certain corporations a tax deduction for investments in the United States to hire scientists and researchers engaged in life scie... |
a complete theory of stochastic processes was formulated by a.n .
kolmogorov in 1933 @xcite .
it included the characterization of stochastic processes in terms of finite - dimensional distribution functions @xcite . since the early xxth century
, it had been clear that the theory of stochastic processes has importan... | a general method is presented to explicitly compute autocovariance functions for non - poisson dichotomous noise based on renewal theory .
the method is specialized to a random telegraph signal of mittag - leffler type .
analytical predictions are compared to monte carlo simulations .
non - poisson dichotomous n... |
ngc4388 ( @xmath2 ) is a nearly edge - on ( @xmath3 ) spiral galaxy hosting a seyfert 2 nucleus ( phillips & malin 1982 ; filippenko & sargent 1985 ) , located near the core of the virgo cluster . the recession velocity measured for this galaxy ( 2540 ) is much higher than the cluster mean velocity ( 1100 ) .
this sugg... | we report on x - ray emission from the seyfert 2 galaxy ngc4388 observed with the chandra x - ray observatory .
a hard x - ray peak is found at the position of the active nucleus suggested by optical and radio observations . extended soft x - ray emission correlates well with the ionization cone found in optical lin... |
the little - parks critical - temperature oscillations , with magnetic flux , of a large - radius thin - walled hollow cylindrical superconductor display a period @xmath0 @xcite .
this oscillation period reflects the binding of electrons into cooper pairs @xcite .
recent experiments by liu et al .
@xcite have probed ... | as a function of the magnetic flux threading the object , the little - parks oscillation in the critical temperature of a large - radius , thin - walled superconducting ring or hollow cylinder has a period given by @xmath0 , due to the binding of electrons into cooper pairs . on the other hand , the single - electron ... |
the advent of the @xmath8 factories , babar @xcite and belle @xcite , opens new perspectives for very precise measurements of non - leptonic @xmath8-decays @xcite and calls for a significant improvement of the theoretical predictions . in this respect ,
important progress has been recently achieved by systematic stu... | by using the recent experimental measurements of @xmath0 and @xmath1 branching ratios , we find that the amplitudes computed at the leading order of the @xmath2 expansion disagree with the observed @xmath3s , even taking into account the uncertainties of the input parameters . beyond the leading order ,
charming and... |
lkh@xmath0 234 ( v373 cep ) is a b7-type herbig be star in the ngc 7129 cluster ( d @xmath6 1.25 kpc , * ? ? ?
the star is @xmath8 8.5 m@xmath9 , @xmath8 1700 l@xmath9 @xcite , and has an age of @xmath8 10@xmath10 years @xcite .
lkh@xmath0 234 is bright in far - ir bands and is surrounded by reflection nebulae @xcite .... | we present the results of high - resolution near - ir spectroscopy toward the multiple outflows around the herbig be star lkh@xmath0 234 using the immersion grating infrared spectrograph ( igrins ) .
previous studies indicate that the region around lkh@xmath0 234 is complex , with several embedded ysos and the outfl... |
a large part of modern physics is devoted to nonlinear classical and quantum phenomena in various systems .
such effects as the generation of the second harmonic or optical rectification are known from classical physics , while quantum electron pumping through a small sample due to interference of wave functions is a q... | we investigate the nonlinear current - voltage characteristic of mesoscopic conductors and the current generated through rectification of an alternating external bias . to leading order in applied voltages both the nonlinear and the rectified current are quadratic .
this current response can be described in terms of... |
not long ago only science fiction authors ventured to use a term `` teleportation '' . however in the last few years the situation drastically changed . in a landmark work
@xcite a procedure for teleporting an unknown quantum state from one location to another was described .
recent experiments have proved that this pr... | since its discovery in 1993 , quantum teleportation ( qt ) is a subject for intense theoretical and experimental efforts .
experimental realizations of qt have so far been limited to teleportation of light .
the present letter gives a new experimental scheme for qt of heavy matter .
we show that the standard exp... |
the recent development of quantum technologies strives to resolve the quest for the best entanglement source in quantum optical systems .
though entanglement is observed in a variety of systems , entanglement in atomic systems are favored as more scalable and practical systems , compared to their `` photonic only '' co... | we study spontaneously generated entanglement ( sge ) between two identical multilevel atoms in free space via vacuum - induced radiative coupling .
we show that the sge in two - atom systems may initially increase with time but eventually vanishes in the time scale determined by the excited state lifetime and radia... |
the spectra of seyfert ( sey ) 2 galaxies detected in x - rays show absorption by neutral matter significantly in excess of the galactic one along the line of sight ( smith and done 1996 , turner et al .
1997a ) . on the contrary sey1s
do not exhibit evidence for intrinsic absorption by cold material .
this difference ... | we report broad band ( 0.1 - 200 kev ) x - ray observations , made by bepposax , of a sample of bright seyfert 2 galaxies : ngc7172 , ngc2110 , ngc4507 , mkn 3 and ngc7674 .
these spectra provide a better understanding of the effects of x - ray reprocessing by cold material in the source and allow to put tighter con... |
SECTION 1. CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE FOR RURAL HEALTH RESEARCH, EDUCATION,
AND CLINICAL ACTIVITIES.
(a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 73 of title 38, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 7330B. Centers of excellence for rural health research,
... | Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish and operate at least one, and up to five, centers of excellence for rural health research, education, and clinical activities. Requires the submission of annual reports on those centers. |
twenty - four obese adolescents with ngt , 13 with ifg , 29 with igt , 11 with combined ifg / igt , and 30 with type 2 diabetes ( african american n = 45 and american white n = 62 ) adolescents were studied .
ifg was defined according to the 2003 american diabetes association ( ada ) guidelines as fasting plasma gluc... | objectiveimpaired fasting glucose ( ifg ) and impaired glucose tolerance ( igt ) are considered pre - diabetes states .
there are limited data in pediatrics in regard to their pathophysiology .
we investigated differences in insulin sensitivity and secretion among youth with ifg , igt , and coexistent ifg / igt com... |
skeletal dysplasias are a diverse group of diseases primarily affecting the development of the osseous skeleton .
they manifest with disproportionate short stature , malformations , and/or deformations and range from relatively mild to severe and lethal conditions . to date
there are over 250 unique and well - char... | musculoskeletal system is a complex assembly of tissues which acts as scaffold for the body and enables locomotion .
it is often overlooked that different components of this system may biomechanically interact and affect each other .
skeletal dysplasias are diseases predominantly affecting the development of the os... |
A judge sentenced a Pico Rivera man to nearly 40 years in state prison for extorting 21 underage girls in eight states into sending him nude pictures online, authorities said.
Cesar Mauricio Estrada-Davila, also known as Cesar Estrada, 20, pleaded “no contest” on Wednesday to 38 felony charges, including 21 counts ... | – A California man who posed as a modeling agent to extort nude photos from young girls across America has been sentenced to almost 40 years in prison—twice as long as he has been alive. Cesar Mauricio Estrada-Davila, 20, pleaded no contest this week to 38 felony counts, including 16 counts of possessing child or youth... |
This collection documents the Tea Party movement and right-leaning political populism in the United States. The Hoover Institution Library and Archives seeks to collect historically valuable and at-risk web content created by Tea Party organizations and groups, individual bloggers, and supporters of the movement to com... | – The so-called GOP civil war may be going from cold to hot. The conservative group ForAmerica tells CNN that it intends to spend six figures on a campaign it's calling "Dump the Leadership," aimed at deposing all the GOP's leaders in both the House and Senate. "Time and again, year after year, the Republican leadershi... |
frequently encountered fbs include coins , batteries , and magnets , but there is a distinct group of cases of muslim children who wear headscarves inappropriately placing the safety pin in their mouth prior to securing the veil , leading to an accidental fb aspiration .
we report a classic case to highlight the pres... | foreign body ( fb ) aspiration is commonly seen in children but less commonly in adolescents .
headscarf pin aspiration is common in muslim girls , who inappropriately place the pins between their lips while securing the scarf on the head .
bronchoscopy is the treatment modality of choice , and surgery is rarely re... |
An anonymous caller warned authorities Monday that his roommate was on his way to Yale University to shoot people, leading officials to lock the Ivy League campus down as police searched for a gunman. At least two witnesses reported seeing someone on or near campus with a long gun.
An emergency call was received ar... | – Yale University has lifted its lockdown after police said an anonymous call about a gunman headed to campus was probably a hoax, reports the AP. "New Haven is safe. The Yale campus is safe," said New Haven's police chief. "Though it is starting to tilt in the direction of an innocent mistake, it started with a purpos... |
although the standard model ( sm ) has withstood all possible experimental challenges and has been tested to an unprecedented degree of accuracy , so far there has been no direct experimental verification of the phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking . with the latter
being considered a central pillar of this theo... | we examine , in a model independent way , the sensitivity of a linear collider to the couplings of a light higgs boson to gauge bosons . including the possibility of @xmath0 violation , we construct several observables that probe the different anomalous couplings possible . for an intermediate mass higgs ,
a collide... |
topological defects have played a key role in understanding the physics of scalar and spinor superfluids .
the first topological defect observed in a gaseous bose - einstein condensate ( bec ) was a quantized vortex created using the phase imprinting method @xcite .
vortices have also been created using rotating poten... | we study the dynamics of the quantum phase transition of a ferromagnetic spin-1 bose - einstein condensate from the polar phase to the broken - axisymmetry phase by changing magnetic field , and find the spontaneous formation of spinor domain walls followed by the creation of polar - core spin vortices .
we also fin... |
SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO DEFINITION OF INDIAN TRIBE.
Section 8(a)(13) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)(13))
is amended--
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses
(i) and (ii), respectively, and adjusting the margins
accordingly;
(2) by striking ... | Amends the Small Business Act to exclude from the definition of "Indian tribe" any Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) or Alaska Native Village (ANV).
Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide that, for purposes of eligibility for procurement contracts provided through the Small Business Administration (SB... |
the transition between grain filling and maturation in cereal seed development involves the cessation of starch and storage protein synthesis as well as the expression of genes that initiate processes that prepare the seed for dormancy , and dramatic changes in gene expression in the endosperm have been described ( wan... | the expression of genes encoding components of aba and metabolic signalling pathways in developing barley endosperm and embryo was investigated .
the genes included hvrcar35_47387 and hvrcar35_2538 ( encoding aba receptors ) , hvabi1d ( protein phosphatase 2c ) , hvsnrk2.4 , hvsnrk2.6 and hvpkaba1 ( snrk2-type protei... |
complex systems consisting of large number of highly interconnected dynamic units , whose structure is usually irregular have been the subject of intense research efforts in the past few years @xcite .
the complexity of such systems is reflected not only in their structure but also in their dynamics .
the usual represe... | long lived topological features are distinguished from short lived ones ( considered as topological noise ) in simplicial complexes constructed from complex networks .
a new topological invariant , persistent homology , is determined and presented as a parametrized version of a betti number .
complex networks wit... |
Workplace
A new survey by Citrix (CTXS), the Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) company that designs technology for employees to work remotely, shows that many people sneak in other activities while working from home.
Based on a survey of 1,013 American office workers, conducted in June by Wakefield Research, 43 percent wa... | – If you work at home, you may have just been caught red-handed: Business Week reports on a new survey finding that, while on the clock: 43% of telecommuters watch TV or a movie 35% do chores around the house 28% make dinner 26% take naps 24% have a drink 20% play video games But another recent survey found that people... |
recent studies have observed the reduced blood flow in both ocular and peripheral districts in patients suffering from retinitis pigmentosa ( rp ) .
the drop of the blood flow has been detected not only in retinal and choroidal vessels but also in retroocular vessels [ 24 ] . also , a reduced baseline peak flow in th... | retinitis pigmentosa is a clinical and genetic group of inherited retinal disorders characterized by alterations of photoreceptors and retinal pigment epithelium leading to a progressive concentric visual field restriction , which may bring about severe central vision impairment .
haemodynamic studies in patients wit... |
in washington , all clinical laboratories and healthcare providers are required to submit salmonella isolates to the washington state department of health public health laboratory ( phl ) for serotyping and surveillance ( washington administrative code 246101201 ) .
the phl is a participant in pulsenet , a national s... | we compared human and bovine isolates of salmonella enterica using antimicrobial - drug resistance profiles and pulsed - field gel electrophoresis . from 2000 through 2006 , we observed an increase in a novel multidrug - resistant clone of s. typhimurium with no recognized phage type .
this clone may represent an eme... |
haemoglobinopathies are genetic defect that results in abnormal structure of one of the globin chains of the haemoglobin molecule
abnormal haemoglobin appears in one of three basic conditions ; structural defects in the haemoglobin molecule , diminished production of one of the two subunits of the haemoglobin molecul... | thalassemia and other structural haemoglobinopathies are the major erythrocyte formation disorder prevalent in certain parts of the world including bangladesh .
we investigated 600 cases of anaemic patients referred from various parts of the country for diagnosis and counselling during 3 months ( april to june 2011 )... |
this requires that homeostatic processes maintain blood glucose concentration at a minimum of 5 mm to ensure sufficient provision of glucose to the brain ( unger and orci , 1981 ) .
specialized glucose sensing cells present in peripheral locations , such as the hepatoportal vein area , and in the cns are activated b... | summarythe counterregulatory response to hypoglycemia , which restores normal blood glucose levels to ensure sufficient provision of glucose to the brain , is critical for survival . to discover underlying brain regulatory systems
, we performed a genetic screen in recombinant inbred mice for quantitative trait loci ... |
it is very important to identify the underlying cause of ear symptoms such as tinnitus and hearing loss .
if these symptoms present unilaterally , a retocochlear lesion , vascular lesion or inner ear anomaly should be considered in the diagnostic process .
many diagnostic tools have been suggested for use in the ev... | background and objectivesunilateral auditory dysfunction such as tinnitus and hearing loss could be a warning sign of a retrocochlear lesion .
auditory brainstem response ( abr ) and internal auditory canal magnetic resonance image ( mri ) are suggested as novel diagnostic tools for retrocochlear lesions .
however ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Afghanistan Freedom Act of 2001''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The rise to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan has
caused a drastic decline in the human, political, and civil
rights of the Af... | Afghanistan Freedom Act of 2001- Declares it the policy of the United States to promote the removal from power of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in order to diminish the risk of terrorist attack on the United States and to restore basic freedoms to the Afghan people.Authorizes the President to provide military assis... |
coronal ( or x - ray ) jets are collimated , transient eruptions of hot plasma observed predominantly in coronal holes and at the periphery of active regions , driven by flux emergence or cancellation ( e.g. , * ? ? ?
`` standard jets '' are launched by reconnection between open magnetic fields and expanding closed fie... | transient collimated plasma eruptions in the solar corona , commonly known as coronal ( or x - ray ) jets , are among the most interesting manifestations of solar activity .
it has been suggested that these events contribute to the mass and energy content of the corona and solar wind , but the extent of these contri... |
MIAMI (AP) — Chicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu told a Miami federal jury Wednesday that he ate a chunk of a fake passport while flying to the U.S. to cover up his illegal travel as part of a Cuban ballplayer smuggling operation.
Abreu testified he ordered a beer on an Air France flight from Haiti to Miami ... | – Some people snack on the peanuts offered on airline flights; Jose Abreu scarfs down beer and pieces of his passport. That's what the first baseman for the Chicago White Sox testified Wednesday in Miami at a trial for a baseball agent and a trainer accused of smuggling Cuban baseball players, and their families, into ... |
the idea that star clusters evolve dynamically has been around for nearly as long as the very concept of star clusters itself .
the first to discuss the general properties of clusters in some detail was william herschel , who attributed their various degrees of `` central concentration '' to an evolutionary sequence in... | current observational constraints on the dynamical evolution of star clusters are reviewed .
theory and observations now agree nicely on the mass dependency and time scales for disruption of young star clusters in galactic disks , but many problems still await resolution . the origin of the mass function of old glob... |
in this note shell examine vibration and show possible non feedback control of chaos in a simple , one degree of freedom , system subjected to external excitation with a non - symmetric stiffness given by the following equation : @xmath0 where @xmath1 is displacement @xmath2 is linear damping , @xmath3 is an external e... | we examine the mielnikov criterion for transition to chaos in case of one degree of freedom nonlinear oscillator with non symmetric potential .
this system subjected to an external periodic force shows homoclinic transition from regular vibrations to chaos just before escape from the potential well .
especially we... |
"Ms. Delgado was involved in the planning and the commission of the offense," Geron said. "It was a murder for hire," he said.
Hatcher was fatally shot in the parking garage of her upscale apartment building. Two days later, police arrested a suspect, 23-year-old Crystal Cortes.
Investigators have said Cortes w... | – Police say a dental hygienist planned and commissioned the murder of a popular Dallas dentist last month, the New York Daily News reports. "It was a murder for hire," Maj. Max Geron told reporters Friday. Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of 33-year-old Brenda Delgado, who is accused of paying to have Kendr... |
There has been an unconfirmed sighting of missing Iowa jogger Mollie Tibbetts in Kearney, Missouri.
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Kearney police responded on July 26 to a po... | – Roughly one week after Mollie Tibbetts vanished in Iowa, police received a tip of a possible sighting of the 20-year-old in Missouri. KMBC reports the Kearney Police Department fielded a tip from someone who saw a woman who looked like Tibbetts at a truck stop near I-35 and Missouri 92 Highway on July 26; that locati... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``High-Tech Port Security Act of
2003''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) Captain-of-the-port.--The term ``Captain-of-the-Port'',
with respect to a port, means the individual designated by the
Commandant of the Coast Gua... | High-Tech Port Security Act of 2003 - Instructs the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to prescribe regulations: (1) establishing certification standards and procedures for blast-resistant containers; and (2) prohibiting entry into the United States of any vessel carrying regulated containers after such r... |
from the very advent of nuclear physics , ground - state properties of nuclei mainly mass and binding energies have occupied special fancy of the physicists after the formulation of the celebrated bethe - weizsacker semi - empirical mass formula , which of course is based on the classical liquid drop picture of the nuc... | we obtain here a new relation for the reduced electric quadrupole transition probability @xmath0 of a given nucleus in terms of its derivatives with respect to neutron and proton numbers based on a similar local energy relation in the infinite nuclear matter ( inm ) model of atomic nuclei , which is essentially built ... |
eruptive nevus , which is associated with local cutaneous inflammation or immunosuppression , is defined as the development of eruptive pigmented lesions due to melanocytic growth factors secreted by the impaired immune pathway in genetically predisposed individuals.[13 ] the literature contains case reports of eruptiv... | an 8-year - old male patient who had been diagnosed as acute lymphoblastic leukemia ( all ) 4 years ago and received 120 cures of chemotherapy presented at our clinic complaining of spots on his body 3 months after the end of chemotherapy .
anamnesis of the patient revealed that the lesions started 3 months after the... |
single electron control in semiconductor quantum dots would be valuable for spintronics , quantum information , and spin qubits@xcite .
adiabatic time evolution of degenerate eigenstates of a quantum system provides a means for controlling individual electrons since mixing between degenerate levels generates a matrix b... | adiabatic time evolution of degenerate eigenstates of a quantum system provides a means for controlling electronic states since mixing between degenerate levels generates a matrix berry phase . in the presence of spin - orbit coupling in n - type semiconductor quantum dots
the electron hamiltonian is invariant under... |
the existence of the black hole horizon is essential to the hawking radiation @xcite .
the horizon causes an extremely large redshift on an outgoing wave of a matter field during propagating from a vicinity of the horizon to the asymptotically flat region .
this redshift results in the planckian distribution of quantum... | a numerical simulation of fluid flows in a laval nozzle is performed to observe the formation of an acoustic black hole and the classical counterpart to hawking radiation under a realistic setting of the laboratory experiment .
we aim to construct a practical procedure of the data analysis to extract the classical c... |
The midcentury modernistic steel-and-glass house in Highland Park and the nearby auto pavilion that together are commonly known as the Ferris Bueller home for their prominence in the 1986 film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” sold on Thursday for $1.06 million.
And the buyers, an investment banker and a lawyer, are nearb... | – After more than five years on and off the market, an Illinois home made famous in Ferris Bueller's Day Off has sold. The home, located in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, is the one where Bueller's best friend Cameron lives in the movie—and where he sends his dad's classic Ferrari through the plate glass windows ... |
After more than two years of delays, Boeing Co. said Thursday that it plans to fly its new 787 Dreamliner for the first time as early as next Tuesday. The exact timing of the much-anticipated first flight depends on external factors, such as the weather at the airport near Seattle, the company said in a statement.
... | – Boeing's Dreamliner will make its maiden flight next week after two years of delays. The high-tech aircraft could be airborne on a test flight of about five hours Tuesday if Seattle's weather permits, reports the Post-Intelligencer. Boeing has much staked on the plane, made of 50% composite material. It's locked in a... |
the term of `` glassy - dynamics '' is now commonly used to describe out - of - equilibrium systems that display such generic features as very slow kinetics that prevent the system from reaching equilibrium in any reasonable experimental timescale , aging phenomena , history - dependent processes like hysteresis and me... | the parking - lot model provides a qualitative description of the main features of the phenomenology of granular compaction .
we derive here approximate kinetic equations for this model , equations that are based on a @xmath0parameter generalization of the statistical - mechanical formalism first proposed by edwards... |
the main goal of endodontics is to restore the function and esthetic of the involved tooth . from a biomechanical perspective , this means cleaning , shaping , and disinfection that would allow for three - dimensional obturation of the root canal system .
one of the main reasons for the failure of root canal treatmen... | an in vitro study was performed to determine the number of roots , root canals per tooth , root canal configurations , and frequency of isthmi and apical deltas in mandibular first permanent molars in an indian population .
hundred and fifty mandibular first permanent molars were collected and subjected to clearing t... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``American Working Families Tax Relief
Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. STATE AND LOCAL SALES TAX DEDUCTION MADE PERMANENT.
(a) In General.--Paragraph (5) of section 164(b) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking subparagraph (I).
(b) Effec... | American Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax deductions for state and local sales taxes, qualified tuition and related expenses, and mortgage insurance premiums.
Modifies the first-time homebuyer tax credit by: (1) allowing all purchasers of a principal ... |
in 1957 andrew keller reported that polyethylene formed chain - folded lamellar crystals from solution.@xcite this discovery was followed by the confirmation of the generality of this morphology lamellar crystals are formed on crystallization from both solution and the melt@xcite for a wide variety of polymers and th... | in this paper i describe the computer simulations that i have performed to critically examine the lauritzen - hoffman and the sadler - gilmer theories of polymer crystallization . in particular ,
i have computed the free energy profile for nucleation of a new crystalline layer on the growth face to compare with that... |
Chris Christie and John Kasich are in. Rick Perry is out. And Donald Trump will be center stage.
The jockeying to win a ticket to the first Republican presidential debate in Cleveland ended Tuesday afternoon, when Fox News announced the roster of 10 candidates who will be on the stage Thursday evening.
Story Co... | – Fox has announced the 10 candidates who have qualified for Thursday's prime-time debate, and it's bad new for Rick Perry and some other familiar names, reports the Los Angeles Times. Fox averaged five recent polls, and Perry finished eight-tenths of a point behind No. 10 John Kasich, notes Politico. Those in: Donald ... |
impaired respiratory function shows a high correlation with morbidity and mortality , and is
the main characteristic of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , along with dyspnea , cough ,
and increased sputum1 , 2 .
normal respiratory function is important to the prognosis in
patients with chronic obstructive ... | [ purpose ] the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of thoracic spinal
manipulation therapy on respiratory function including forced vital capacity and forced
expiratory volume in one second in young healthy individuals .
[ subjects and methods ]
thirty young healthy subjects recruited from a l... |
autosomal monoallelic expression ( mae ) refers to mitotically stable , epigenetically controlled allele - specific expression of autosomal genes , with the initial non - predetermined ( random ) choice of the transcriptional activity of the two alleles maintained in a given clonal cell lineage [ recent reviews includ... | recently , data on
random autosomal monoallelic expression has become available for the entire genome in multiple human and mouse tissues and cell types , creating a need for better access and dissemination .
the database of autosomal monoallelic expression ( dbmae ; https://mae.hms.harvard.edu ) incorporates data ... |
a total of 58 strains of v. cholerae o1 el tor isolated in calcutta before ( march december 1992 ; group i ) , during ( july november 1993 ; group ii ) , and after ( march 1994june 1995 ; group iii ) the v. cholerae o139 outbreak ( 8) were included in this study .
these strains , belonging to ribotypes ri , rii , a... | we examined the distribution of class i integrons and sxt elements in vibrio cholerae o1 el tor strains , isolated in calcutta , india , before and after the v. cholerae o139 outbreak in 1992 .
class i integrons , with aada1 gene cassette , were detected primarily in the pre - o139 strains ; the sxt element was found... |
@xcite discovered that the universe is expanding by finding a correlation between a galaxy s recession velocity and its distance .
since then , a reliable estimate of the expansion rate of the universe at the current epoch has been a central subject in observational cosmology .
this expansion rate is denoted by the hub... | we have pioneered a new method for the measurement of extragalactic distances .
this method uses the time - lag between variations in the short wavelength and long wavelength light from an active galactic nucleus ( agn ) , based on a quantitative physical model of dust reverberation that relates the time - lag to th... |
A Los Angeles attorney faces a possible six-month suspension for posting doctored photos on her firm's website that implied she mingled with high-profile politicians and celebrities, including President Obama, George Clooney and Kim Kardashian.
The photos -- more than 50 -- are published on lawyer Svitlana Sangary'... | – California attorney Svitlana Sangary apparently wanted to drum up publicity for her firm, so she posted some 50-plus pics of herself on her work website posing with a variety of high-profile luminaries, the Los Angeles Times reports. There she is, mugging with the likes of Kim Kardashian, George Clooney, the Clintons... |
ultrasound ( us ) is a reliable imaging technique for the early diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma ( rcc ) .
it is a readily accessible , cost - effective , noninvasive imaging modality that provides real - time features .
however , it may not provide differentiation in special cases of rcc and renal angiomyolipoma ... | purposeultrasound ( us ) is highly sensitive in the detection of renal masses .
however , it may not be able to differentiate benign and malignant lesions in smaller masses .
the purpose of this study was to determine the diagnostic efficacy of contrast - enhanced ultrasound ( ceus ) for small renal masses.material... |
celem bada byo okrelenie , czy wystpuj rnice w gruboci kompleksu intima - media ( imt ) ttnic szyjnych pomidzy grup pacjentw z toczniem trzewnym ukadowym ( sle ) i grup kontroln , a jeli tak , to czy rnice te s nastpstwem tocznia czy niezalenych czynnikw rozwoju miadycy .
grupa badana ( n = 25 , redni wiek : 39,8 rok... | the aim of the studythe aim of the study was to determine whether there are any differences in the intima - media thickness ( imt ) of carotid arteries between the group of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus ( sle ) and the control group , and whether these differences are a consequence of sle or independent fa... |
Updated at 7:57 p.m.: Roy Moore spoke for 29 minutes Monday night in rural northeast Alabama, took no questions from his audience or the media, left the room 20 seconds after he spoke his final word and received two standing ovations.
Before he even spoke a word, the Alabama Senate Republican nominee saw his audien... | – Roy Moore doubled down on his denials of sexual misconduct at an Alabama rally Monday night—and received a standing ovation from a crowd of around 200 people. The Senate candidate, making his first public appearance since Nov. 16, likened the accusations against him to the Russia investigation and said he is being ta... |
Brendan Mcdermid / Reuters Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Stock prices tumbled on Wall Street Friday after a report showed job growth in May was the weakest in a year and employers added fewer jobs in the prior two months than previously reported -- another blow to investors worried about... | – The Dow's gain for the year is gone, thanks to today's terrible jobs report. The Dow fell more than 200 points following the report, according to the AP. At 11am EDT, it was at 12,170, down 224 points. That's a loss of about 0.3% for the year. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq dropped more than 1.5% in early trading, althou... |
The search giant has unveiled its annual Year In Search results that show the top Google searches in various categories globally and by country. Hurricane Irma topped the search charts in both the U.S. and globally with Matt Lauer being the most searched for person in the U.S. and the world. Here’s the rundown of the t... | – Hurricane Irma and Matt Lauer were hot topics in 2017, Fast Company notes—hot enough to propel both to the top of Google's annual "Year in Search" results. Per the site, the results were culled "based on search terms that had a high spike in traffic in 2017 as compared to 2016." Searches for the mega-storm and disgra... |
calculation abilities have followed a long process from the initial quantification systems up to modern algebra , geometry , and physics .
some rudimentary numerical concepts are observed in animals , and there is no question that pre - historic man used some quantification .
however , the ability to represent quan... | some numerical knowledge , such as the immediate recognition of small quantities , is observed in animals .
the development of arithmetical abilities found in man 's evolution as well as in child 's development represents a long process following different stages .
arithmetical abilities are relatively recent in hu... |
the high mobility group box ( hmgb ) protein family is the most represented protein family among the high mobility group proteins . the hmgb are highly conserved and have four members ( hmgb14 ) .
hmgb are types of protein motifs that are involved in dna - binding [ 2 , 3 ] .
hmgb1 ( also hmg1 ; hmg-1 ; hmg 1 ; amp... | hmgb1 is an alarmin , a protein that warns and activates inflammation .
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( copd ) is characterised by a progressive airflow obstruction and airway inflammation .
current anti - inflammatory therapies are poorly effective in maintaining lung function and symptoms of copd .
this... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Advancement in Pediatric Autism
Research Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds as follows:
(1) Infantile autism and autism spectrum disorders are
biologically-based neurodevelopmental diseases that cause
severe impair... | Advancement in Pediatric Autism Research Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand, intensify, and coordinate the activities of NIH with respect to autism. Requires the Director, among other things, to make awards of grants and contracts to p... |
diffusion dynamics of hard - core interacting particles in one dimension ( 1d ) is known as the single - file diffusion ( sfd ) .
the sfd occurs for instance in narrow biological pores@xcite , inside the zeolites@xcite , during the sliding of proteins along the dna@xcite .
other examples comprise migration of adsorbed ... | we investigate a diffusive motion of a system of interacting brownian particles in quasi - one - dimensional micropores . in particular , we consider a semi - infinite 1d geometry with a partially absorbing boundary and the hard - core inter - particle interaction .
due to the absorbing boundary the number of partic... |
-amyloid ( a ) peptide is the main cause of alzheimer 's disease ( ad ) [ 1 , 2 ] .
a has two major types , a40 and a42 , which are derived from a ubiquitous type i transmembrane protein
amyloid precursor protein ( app ) by a two - step secretase ( - and -secretase ) pathway [ 35 ] .
the amyloid cascade hypothesi... | the neurotoxicity of a is associated with the formation of free radical by interacting with redox active metals such as cu2 + .
however , the relationship between ion - interaction , ion - driven free radical formation , and a conformation remains to be further elucidated . in the present study , we investigated the ... |
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You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| The big picture: Graff — one of the most astute Mueller-watchers , and autho... | – Those paying attention to the particulars of the Robert Mueller investigation are keeping an eye on two big court filings Friday, developments that might shed important light on where he's at. In the bigger one, Mueller must explain to a judge why he believes former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort lied to invest... |
one of the striking consequences of the quantum nature of physical systems is the impossibility to discriminate perfectly their states that are non - orthogonal in terms of the scalar product between the corresponding state vectors .
this fact has profound implications for secret communication in the form of quantum ... | we propose a simple architecture based on multimode quantum memories for collective readout of classical information keyed using a pair coherent states , exemplified by the well - known binary phase shift keying format .
such a configuration enables demonstration of the superadditivity effect in classical communicati... |
radio observations measure the total intensity , polarized intensity and rotation measure ( rm ) .
sky maps of these quantities are all related to the magnetic fields in our galaxy . because the milky way is the largest edge - on galaxy in the sky , the synchrotron emission from relativistic electrons gyrating in the g... | the magnetic structure in the galactic disk , the galactic center and the galactic halo can be delineated more clearly than ever before . in the galactic disk ,
the magnetic structure has been revealed by starlight polarization within 2 or 3 kpc of the solar vicinity , by the distribution of the zeeman splitting of ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``FHA-Insured Hospital Conversion and
Reinvestment Act of 2001''.
SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR FHA-INSURED HOSPITALS.
Section 242 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-7) is
amended by adding at the end the following:
``(i) Grants for FHA-Insured Hospit... | FHA-Insured Hospital Conversion and Reinvestment Act of 2001 - Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to eligible FHA-insured hospitals for use only for purposes that the Secretary determines will reduce the risk of default and loss on mortgages for th... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``American Missile Protection Act of
1998''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The threat of weapons of mass destruction delivered by
long-range ballistic missiles is among the most serious
security... | American Missile Protection Act of 1998 - States as U.S. policy to deploy as soon as technologically possible an effective National Missile Defense system capable of defending U.S. territory against limited ballistic missile attack (whether accidental, unauthorized, or deliberate). |
This morning was “Jobs Friday,” that ever-so-brief moment when the interests of Wall Street, Washington and Main Street are all aligned on one thing: jobs. And this one’s an even bigger deal that usual.
Here at MoneyBeat HQ, we crunched the data, tracked the markets and compiled the commentary in real time. Here’s ... | – Hiring was relatively weak in August, but the 173,000 jobs added by US employers were enough to bring the nation's unemployment rate down to its lowest level in seven years, reports AP. The Labor Department said today the rate dropped from 5.3% to 5.1%, a level it hasn't reached since April 2008. That's lower than ex... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Realtime Investor Protection Act''.
SEC. 2. CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY.
The constitutional authority on which this Act rests is the power
of Congress to regulate commerce as enumerated in article I, section 8
of the United States Constitution.
SEC. 3. M... | Realtime Investor Protection Act - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require a registered securities association to: (1) establish and maintain a registration information system on its members and their associated persons; and (2) establish and maintain a toll-free telephone listing, and a readily accessibl... |
uhl 's anomaly is a rare cardiac anomaly with absent myocardial layer of the right ventricle ( rv ) , with apposition of the right ventricular endocardium and epicardium .
it is associated with high mortality and is typically diagnosed in the prenatal period or in children .
we describe a case of uhl 's anomaly who... | uhl 's anomaly is a rare congenital heart disease characterized by partial or complete absence of the right ventricular myocardium and high early mortality rates .
we describe a case of uhl 's anomaly in a 27-year - old young male patient presenting with portal hypertension and esophageal varices . in this article
... |
a long - standing problem in the dynamics of galactic globular clusters is the observed dichotomy in their surface brightness profiles .
while most clusters exhibit a profile similar to a classic king profile @xcite , about one quarter of the clusters exhibit a more cuspy profile @xcite .
the second class of objects ar... | m4 and ngc 6397 are two very similar galactic globular clusters , which differ mainly in their surface brightness profile .
m4 has a classic king - like profile , whereas ngc 6397 has a more concentrated profile , which is often interpreted as that of a post - core collapse cluster .
@xcite , however , found that ... |
ultra - relativistic heavy - ion collisions at the relativistic heavy - ion collider ( rhic ) are thought to have created a high temperature and pressure state of qcd matter termed the quark - gluon - plasma ( qgp ) @xcite : two major discoveries stand out : ( 1 ) the emission of hadrons with a transverse momentum @xma... | we investigate the contribution of medium - modified jets and initial state fluctuations to the asymmetry in charged particle production with respect to the reaction plane .
this asymmetry has been suggested as a compelling signature of the chiral magnetic effect in qcd and make a study of `` conventional '' scenari... |
Analysis of police audio synced with video raises further questions about whether officers performed any CPR on Walter Scott after he was shot eight times
The police officer who shot Walter Scott radioed in to claim that Scott had “grabbed my Taser”, six seconds after firing his final shot, despite video suggesting... | – The disturbing video that resulted in murder charges for a North Charleston, SC, police officer almost never saw the light of day. In an MSNBC interview, Feiden Santana says he feared for his life after taking video of Michael Slager shooting Walter Scott in the back as the 50-year-old Scott ran away. "I thought abou... |
the mechanical response of most cells arises from the mechanics of its cytoskeleton , a polymeric scaffold that spans the interior of these cells , and its interaction with the extra - cellular environment .
the cytoskeleton is made up of complex assemblies of protein filaments crosslinked and bundled together by a var... | the actin cytoskeleton in living cells has many types of crosslinkers .
the mechanical interplay between these different crosslinker types is an open issue in cytoskeletal mechanics .
we develop a framework to study the cooperativity and redundancy in the mechanics of filamentous networks with two types of crossli... |
the online version of this article ( doi:10.1007/s11605 - 014 - 2485 - 5 ) contains supplementary material , which is available to authorized users .
while peptic ulcer disease has decreased in incidence over the past decades , the epidemiological pattern of the complications , including haemorrhage and perforation ,... | backgroundmortality rates in perforated peptic ulcer ( ppu ) have remained unchanged .
the aim of this study was to compare known clinical factors and three scoring systems ( american society of anesthesiologists ( asa ) , boey and peptic ulcer perforation ( pulp ) ) in the ability to predict mortality in ppu.materia... |
quantum cryptography , also called quantum key distribution ( qkd ) , allows two remote parties , usually called alice and bob , to establish a secret key that can be used to transmit secret message with a classical one - time pad scheme .
after the pioneering work presented by bennett and brassard in 1984 ( bb84 ) , t... | in a two - way deterministic quantum key distribution ( dqkd ) protocol , bob randomly prepares qubits in one of four states and sends them to alice . to encode a bit
, alice performs an operation on each received qubit and returns it to bob .
bob then measures the backward qubits to learn about alice s operations... |
cellulomonas sp . hzm is a gram positive , rod - shaped bacterium isolated from soil surface plant detritus in pekan tropical peat swamp in pahang , malaysia .
the isolate was acquired by culture - plating on sizova 's cellulose minimal salt media preceded by a series of enrichment steps .
genomic dna was extr... | we report the draft genome sequence of cellulomonas sp .
hzm , isolated from a tropical peat swamp forest .
the draft genome size is 3,559,280 bp with a g + c content of 73% and contains 3 rrna sequences ( single copies of 5s , 16s and 23s rrna ) . |
the demand for dietary supplements has continually increased in recent years as the concept of ' well being ' widely spread in korea .
the market value for dietary supplements in korea was approximately 600 billion won ( 600 million usd ) in year 2005 ( 1 ) , and personal spending was approximately 950,000 won ( 950 ... | aloe has been widely used in phytomedicine .
phytomedicine describes aloe as a herb which has anti - inflammatory , anti - proliferative , anti - aging effects . in recent years
several cases of aloe - induced hepatotoxicity were reported .
but its pharmacokinetics and toxicity are poorly described in the literat... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Low Income Taxpayer Protection Act
of 2003''.
SEC. 2. REGULATION OF INCOME TAX RETURN PREPARERS AND REFUND
ANTICIPATION LOAN PROVIDERS.
(a) Definitions.--In this Act:
(1) Income tax return preparer.--
(A) I... | Low Income Taxpayer Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require the registration of income tax preparers, including tax refund anticipation loan providers, and subjects unregistered preparers and providers to a $500 per incident violation fine; (2) provide for improved taxpayer services, i... |
OFFICERS.
``The State Administrator shall establish a Problem Resolution
Office. Problem Resolution Officers shall have the authority to
investigate taxpayer complaints and enjoin collection activity if, in
the opinion of the Problem Resolution Officer, said collection activity
is reasonably likely to not be i... | Individual Tax Freedom Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the income tax, estate and gift taxes, certain excise taxes, and certain tax administration provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (effective in 2006). Imposes a national sales tax (effective in 2006) equal to 15 percent of the gro... |
congenital muscular dystrophy type 1a ( mdc1a ) was first described in 1994 as a variant form of classic congenital muscular dystrophy ( cmd)1 ) .
mdc1a is an autosomal recessive disorder , and patients show absent merosin ( laminin 2 ) on skeletal muscle biopsy . a mutation in the laminin 2 ( lama2 ) gene , located ... | congenital muscular dystrophy type 1a ( mdc1a ) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by hypotonia , elevated serum creatine kinase level , delayed motor milestones , white matter changes observed by brain magnetic resonance imaging , and normal intelligence .
a mutation in the laminin 2 ( lama2 ) gene , l... |
all participants received a detailed explanation of the study and signed an informed consent form approved by the partners human research committees ( institutional review board ) , in accordance with the principles embodied in the declaration of helsinki .
brillouin sagittal profiles were acquired in 56 eyes of 30 h... | purposeto analyze the age dependence of the longitudinal modulus of the crystalline lens in vivo using brillouin scattering data in healthy subjects.methodsbrillouin scans were performed along the crystalline lens in 56 eyes from 30 healthy subjects aged from 19 to 63 years .
longitudinal elastic modulus was acquired... |
migraine and tension - type headache prevalence has been determined to be 16 ( 21.8% for women and 10.9% for men ) and 31.7% , respectively , in turkey based on a structured cross - sectional study for headache carried out in 13 centers with 2,007 participants .
however , structured studies in certain age and target ... | in this prospective study , we aimed to determine the prevalence of migraine and non - migraine headaches using a questionnaire , including i d migraine , for university students .
the study was designed cross - sectionally and a questionnaire consisting of 43 questions was applied to 1,256 students .
the questionn... |
tissues were extracted from the area surrounding the chamber angle of an eyeball obtained from the eye bank that had been extracted within six hours of death . the eye had not previously been afflicted with ocular disease nor had it undergone any type of surgery .
the trabecular meshwork was stripped away from the an... | purposeto investigate the effect of advanced glycation end products ( age ) on oxidative stress and cellular senescence in cultured human trabecular meshwork cells ( htmc).methodsprimarily cultured htmc were exposed to 0 , 10 , 50 , 100 , 200 g / ml of glycated bovine serum albumin ( g - bsa ) for 5 days .
also co - ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Health Benefits Claims Prompt
Payment Act of 2002''.
SEC. 2. PROMPT PAYMENT OF CLAIMS.
(a) Group Health Plans.--
(1) Public health service act amendments.--Subpart 2 of
part A of title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act is
... | Health Benefits Claims Prompt Payment Act of 2002 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Internal Revenue Code, and the Public Health Service Act to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide for prompt payment for health benefits claims. |
A woman who was cited along with a man for having sex on a Delta plane last week was highly intoxicated during the activity, which they tried to hide with a blanket, according to a police report released Monday (Photo: Ted S. Warren / AP file)
A woman who was cited along with a man for having sex on a plane last we... | – A male passenger aboard a Detroit-bound Delta flight claimed a woman "had fallen asleep in his lap" after those seated nearby complained that she'd actually been performing oral sex, according to a police report. The pair, strangers who'd booked seats in separate rows on the Oct. 29 flight, had used a single blanket ... |
the simplest form of finite - dimensional system capable of exhibiting the fundamental , holistic property of entanglement``that feature of quantum formalism which makes it impossible to simulate quantum correlations within any classical formalism '' @xcite is that composed of a pair of two - level systems ( quantum b... | a complete description of the multitudinous ways in which quantum particles can be entangled requires the use of high - dimensional abstract mathematical spaces .
we report here a particularly interesting feature of the nine - dimensional convex set endowed with hilbert - schmidt ( euclidean / flat ) measure compo... |
the cosmic x ray background ( cxrb ) is widely interpreted as the integrated x - ray emission from many discrete sources .
active galactic nuclei ( agn ) are expected to contribute the majority of the cxrb , and since the late 1980s the leading ` synthesis models ' have invoked a combination of absorbed and unabsorbed... | we present the x - ray spectra of 86 optically - identified sources in the 13@xmath0_xmm - newton_/_chandra _ deep field which have @xmath1 x - ray counts .
the majority of these sources have 2 - 10 kev fluxes between @xmath2 and @xmath3 erg @xmath4 s@xmath5 .
the sample consists of 50 broad line agn , 25 narr... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Water and Energy Efficient
Appliances Act of 2004''.
SEC. 2. CREDIT FOR WATER AND ENERGY EFFICIENT APPLIANCES.
(a) In General.--Subpart D of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to business-related
credit... | Water and Energy Efficient Appliances Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business tax credit for the production of certain water and energy efficient appliances (i.e. dishwashers, clothes washers, and refrigerators). Sets the amount of the credit based upon certain energy and water efficiency rat... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Our Children from Sexual
Predators Act of 2005''.
SEC. 2. ISSUANCE OF DRIVER'S LICENSES OR IDENTIFICATION CARDS TO SEX
OFFENDERS.
A State or tribal actor that issues driver's licenses or
identification cards must have in effec... | Protecting Our Children from Sexual Predators Act of 2005 - Requires a state actor (any state, the District of Columbia, or specified U.S. territories and possessions) or federally recognized Indian tribe (tribal actor) that issues driver's licenses or identification cards to have in effect throughout the jurisdiction ... |
in many applications of x - ray diffraction ( xrd ) techniques to the study of crystal properties , a key step in the data processing chain is an effective and adaptive noise filtering @xcite .
a correct noise removal can facilitate the separation of the useful crystallographic information from the background signal , ... | a filter based on the hankel lanczos singular value decomposition ( hlsvd ) technique is presented and applied for the first time to x - ray diffraction ( xrd ) data .
synthetic and real powder xrd intensity profiles of nanocrystals are used to study the filter performances with different noise levels .
results sh... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National Commission on the Future of
the Army Act of 2014''.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FISCAL YEAR 2015 FUNDS TO REDUCE END
STRENGTHS OF ARMY PERSONNEL.
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made
available for ... | National Commission on the Future of the Army Act of 2014 - Prohibits the use of funds made available for FY2015 for the Army to: (1) reduce Army personnel below the authorized fiscal year end strengths of 450,000 for active duty personnel of the Army, 345,000 for the Army National Guard, and 195,000 for the Army Reser... |
For millions of iPhone owners, or would-be iPhone owners, who dislike AT&T's wireless service or prefer Verizon Wireless service, liberation is at hand. Starting Feb. 10, Apple's iconic smart phone finally will be available in the U.S. on a second carrier, Verizon, instead of just on AT&T, which has been the exclusive ... | – The iPhone 4 has finally arrived on Verizon, and what that means is … now you can actually make successful phone calls on your iPhone. Reviewers give it a thumbs-up: “The Verizon iPhone is nearly the same as AT&T’s iPhone 4—but it doesn’t drop calls. For several million Americans, that makes it the holy grail,” write... |
the health information technology for economic and clinical health act enables providers to receive incentive payments for transitioning to electronic medical records . allowing patient access to medical records
for example , electronic portals enable patients to securely communicate with their physician , request me... | background .
the internet offers a potential for improving patient knowledge , and e - mail may be used in patient communication with providers .
however , barriers to internet and e - mail use , such as low health literacy and cognitive impairment , may prevent patients from using technological resources .
purpo... |
einstein s general relativity is not only the most successful classical theory of gravity in four dimensions , it is also the simplest theory possessing some nice properties .
the two of the most important characteristics being general covariance and second order field equations .
in fact , it was shown by lovelock tha... | we classify all the six derivative lagrangians of gravity , whose traced field equations are of second or third order , in arbitrary dimensions . in the former case , the lagrangian in dimensions greater than six , reduces to an arbitrary linear combination of the six dimensional euler density and the two linearly ind... |
Sam Kim and Donald Walker tape up the windows Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 at Sam's Hair and Beauty Supply in Kinston, N.C., ahead of Hurricane Florence. (Janet S. Carter/Daily Free Press via AP) (Associated Press)
Sam Kim and Donald Walker tape up the windows Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 at Sam's Hair and Beauty Supply ... | – Newly downgraded to a Category 1 storm, Hurricane Florence was already wreaking havoc on North Carolina as the gigantic storm crept slowly ashore early Friday, with hundreds of people already rescued. The storm is packing winds of 90mph—much lower than once feared—and is moving at 6mph, reports NPR. Authorities stres... |
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