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recently , kinetic equations with fractional derivatives have attracted attention as a possible tool for the description of anomalous diffusion and relaxation phenomena , see , e.g. , recent review @xcite , semi - review papers @xcite,@xcite,@xcite and references on earlier studies therein . it was also recognized @xci...
we study , both analytically and by numerical modeling the equilibrium probability density function for an non - linear lvy oscillator with the lvy index @xmath0 , @xmath1 , and the potential energy @xmath2 . in particular , we show that the equilibrium pdf is bimodal and has power law asymptotics with the exponent ...
On Friday night, President Donald Trump had some pointed comments towards the NFL when it comes to players protesting during the national anthem. “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out. He’s fired. He’s fir...
– Reaction to the national anthem brouhaha between President Trump and the NFL continues to resonate Monday afternoon. Among those generating attention is Tom Brady, who voiced his disagreement with President Trump on the Kirk and Callahan radio show on Boston's WEEI. “Yeah, I certainly disagree with what (Trump) said....
in the field of parallel and distributed systems , interconnection networks are an important research area . typically , the topology of a network can be represented as a graph in which the vertices represent processors and the edges represent communication links . for graph definitions and notations , we follow @xc...
the balanced hypercube , @xmath0 , is a variant of hypercube @xmath1 . zhou et al . [ inform . sci . 300 ( 2015 ) 20 - 27 ] proposed an interesting problem that whether there is a fault - free hamiltonian cycle in @xmath0 with each vertex incident to at least two fault - free edges . in this paper , we consider ...
in low - dimensional electron systems @xcite the quantization of conductance @xcite is observed . for constrictions in two - dimensional electron gases the conductance adopts multiples of the conductance quantum @xmath0 because the transverse wave numbers determine how many modes contribute @xcite . single - atomic siz...
transport through a point contact is accurately modelled by assigning to the junction an ensemble of independent transport channels with possibly different transmissions . we here argue that for a series of two contacts , coherently coupled across an island , the transport channels are different from the ensembles t...
bone is a highly dynamic tissue that undergoes continuous remodeling , which is regulated by various factors , including cytokines / chemokines , hormones , and mechanical stimuli . under normal conditions , bone homeostasis is controlled by the balance between bone formation and bone resorption , processes regulated...
osteoclasts are unique cells that degrade the bone matrix . these large multinucleated cells differentiate from the monocyte / macrophage lineage upon stimulation by two essential cytokines , macrophage colony - stimulating factor ( m - csf ) and receptor activator of nuclear factor - kappa b ( nf-b ) ligand ( rankl ...
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– What people living in ISIS-controlled areas really need is Christianity delivered by drone, an evangelical church in Sweden has decided. The Uppsala-based Word of Life church says it plans to use military drones to drop thousands of Bibles over parts of Syria in the hope of converting Muslims, CNET reports. "Let's pr...
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in the past decade , an avalanche of findings and reports has correlated arrhythmogenic ventricular cardiomyopathies ( arvc ) and naxos and carvajal diseases with certain mutations in protein constituents of the special junctions connecting the polar regions ( intercalated disks ) of mature mammalian cardiomyocytes . ...
it is also called benign mixed tumor of skin as it contains both epithelial and mesenchymal components . the most common presentation is a small , slow - growing , subcutaneous nodular mass in the head - neck region . until now , only few cases of cytological diagnosis of chondroid syringoma have been reported . here...
chondroid syringoma is a rare benign adnexal tumor of sweat glands with microscopic resemblance to the salivary gland pleomorphic adenoma . cytology is rarely utilized for preoperative assessment of these slow - growing , small , nodular lesions . definitive cytological diagnosis is also quite difficult , and major...
vlodya gribov devoted much of his life to studying the implications of unitarity for a high - energy s - matrix . my own work is based heavily on vlodya s ideas and formalisms and in this article , written in honor of what would have been his 75th birthday , i will outline results suggesting that high - energy unitarit...
high - energy unitarity is argued to select a special version of qcd as the strong interaction . electroweak symmetry breaking has to be due to a new sextet quark sector - that will produce large cross - section effects at the lhc . the sextet sector embeds , uniquely , in a massless @xmath0 theory that potentiall...
periodontal regeneration is a multifactorial process and requires a multi - dependent sequence of biological events , including cell - adhesion , migration , proliferation , and differentiation . the ultimate goal of periodontal therapy is to regenerate the lost periodontal tissues caused by periodontitis . various...
for complete periodontal regeneration , delivery of growth factors in the local environment holds a great deal in adjunct to bone grafts . platelet rich fibrin ( prf ) is considered as second generation platelet concentrate , consisting of viable platelets , releasing various growth factors such as platelet - derived...
a variety of adhesive systems are continuously being developed in order to produce good adhesion to dental substrates . contemporary self - etching priming systems are one category of the simplified systems , which can demineralise and prime dentin simultaneously in one application . phase , which not only lessens ...
objectivesthe aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of storage temperature on bond strength of a self etching primer system to pulp chamber dentin.methodsse bond ( kuraray , japan ) adhesive system and clearfil photo posterior ( kuraray , japan ) composite resin were used . eight extracted caries - free human ...
Actor-director Kevin Smith is railing against air travel again, and this time he's joined by Khloe Kardashian and "Baywatch" babe Donna D'Errico. Smith, who was deemed too fat to fly by Southwest Airlines earlier this year, tweeted his ire about missing a Virgin Airlines flight Monday despite arriving at the gate w...
– A furious Khloe Kardashian has compared the humiliating exposure of show-all airport scanners with being "raped in public." But that was before she opted instead for a pat down that turned out to be shockingly "aggressive," notes ABC News. They say," 'OK, I'm going to be patting you down and I'm going to be touching ...
we have systematically constructed a low - energy effective field theory for hole- and electron - doped antiferromagnets @xcite . the construction relies on basic principles of quantum field theory as well as on a symmetry analysis of the hubbard or @xmath5-@xmath6 model . as an experimental input we take angle resolve...
we have constructed a systematic low - energy effective theory for hole- and electron - doped antiferromagnets , where holes reside in momentum space pockets centered at @xmath0 and where electrons live in pockets centered at @xmath1 or @xmath2 . the effective theory is used to investigate the magnon - mediated bind...
in this paper we obtain time - uniform estimates for the convergence of a class of interacting diffusion stochastic differential equations towards the associated mean field equation . the propagation of chaos resulting from this convergence when the number of particles @xmath1 tends to infinity is uniform in time which...
in this paper we obtain time uniform propagation estimates for systems of interacting diffusion processes . using a well defined metric function @xmath0 , our result guarantees a time - uniform estimates for the convergence of a class of interacting stochastic differential equations towards their mean field equation...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``School Food Fresh Act of 2007''. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: (1) Commodity program.--The term ``commodity program'' means any of-- (A) the commodity supplemental food program established und...
School Food Fresh Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish in the office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services a task force to coordinate commodity programs. Directs the Secretary to provide five (for each of five specified food categories) competitive grants to nonpr...
in 1970 , vitaly efimov found a remarkable effect in the quantum spectrum of three particles @xcite . he considered particles interacting through short - range attractive interactions that are nearly resonant . by _ short range _ , one means interactions decaying faster than @xmath2 where @xmath3 is the interparticle ...
this article reviews theoretical and experimental advances in efimov physics , an array of quantum few - body and many - body phenomena arising for particles interacting via short - range resonant interactions , that is based on the appearance of a scale - invariant three - body attraction theoretically discovered by ...
Two prison employees were killed and 10 others hospitalized with injuries after an attempted prison break in North Carolina, officials said. The North Carolina Department of Public Safety on Thursday night identified the fatalities as correctional officer Justin Smith, 35, who provided security in the Correction En...
– At least 14 people were injured Thursday afternoon in an attempted prison break in North Carolina, ABC News reports. The incident started with an inmate setting fire to the sewing plant at the Pasquotank Correctional Institute around 3:30pm. Details of the attempted prison break are scarce, and the extent of the inju...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Computer Security Enhancement and Research Act of 2001''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. (a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following: (1) The National Institute of Standards and Technology has responsibility for developing stand...
Computer Security Enhancement and Research Act of 2001 - Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to: (1) establish a program to support research at institutions of higher education, for-profit research institution...
ischemia - reperfusion injury ( iri ) is a phenomenon whereby cellular damage in a hypoxic organ is accentuated following the restoration of oxygen delivery . in the liver , this form of injury is recognized as a clinically important prolonged disorder.1 liver iri occurs as a result of some liver surgeries , liver tran...
ischemia - reperfusion ( i / r ) injury is a multifactorial process that affects graft function after liver transplantation . an understanding of the mechanisms involved in i / r injury is essential for the design of therapeutic strategies to improve the outcome of liver transplantation . the generation of reactive...
N.M. woman billed $5,000 after cops order warrantless, ‘redundant’ cavity searches By Scott Kaufman Friday, December 20, 2013 9:59 EDT An unnamed 54-year-old New Mexico woman is suing the El Paso County Hospital District, the University Medical Center of El Paso, and four United States Customs and Border Pa...
– A 54-year-old New Mexico woman is suing US customs and a hospital after an escalating series of drug searches that took six hours and yielded no sign of drugs—only a $5,000 hospital bill for her trouble. Some details, as rounded up by Raw Story, Reason, and the AP: The unidentified woman got stopped returning from Me...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Family Farm and Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2009''. SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF 2009 ESTATE AND GIFT TAX LEVELS. (a) EGTRRA Sunset Not To Apply.--Section 901 of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 shall not apply to title V of ...
Family Farm and Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Extends the estate and gift tax rates in effect in 2009 by eliminating the general terminating date (i.e., December 31, 2010) in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) applicable to such rates. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: ...
wandering spleen is an unusual condition characterized by the absence or maldevelopment of one or all of the ligaments securing the spleen in its normal position in the left upper abdomen . pedicular tortion with a complete vascular disruption is a rare but known potential complication of this mostly congenital disor...
context : wandering spleen is an unusual condition characterized by the absence or maldevelopment of one or all of the ligaments securing the spleen in its normal position in the left upper abdomen . pedicular tortion with a complete vascular disruption is a rare but known potential complication of this mostly congen...
during the last few years the development of photovoltaic energy has flourished in developing countries with both multi - megawatt power plants and micro installations . however , the scarcity of long - term , reliable solar irradiation data from pyranometers in many of these countries makes it necessary to estimate so...
a methodology for downscaling solar irradiation from satellite - derived databases is described using ` r ` software . different packages such as ` raster ` , ` parallel ` , ` solar ` , ` gstat ` , ` sp ` and ` rastervis ` are considered in this study for improving solar resource estimation in areas with complex top...
unilateral movement was continuous , choreoathetotic , purposeless , non - stereotyped , and involved the face ( twitching ) and upper and lower extremities . the movement was distressful to the patient and interfered with her activities of daily living and gait , causing recurrent falls . she had poorly controlled...
hemichorea is a disorder characterized by abnormal , continuous , nonrhythmic , jerky , and distal movement involving one side of the body . it may result from cerebrovascular insult to basal ganglia , or from other causes including neoplasm , infection , and non - ketotic hyperglycemia . we report the clinical , l...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; AMENDMENT OF 1986 CODE. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Economic Stimulus Tax Act of 1993''. (b) Amendment of 1986 Code.--Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a sec...
Economic Stimulus Tax Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to repeal the limitation on passive activity losses and credits. Shortens the recovery period (providing for accelerated depreciation) for residential rental property and nonresidental real property. Restores the ten-percent general investment...
Samantha Ray Mears has been charged with wielding a machete in order to force a man to have sex with her. Court documents allege that Mears entered the residence of an ex-boyfriend while he was not home. When the man returned home, Mears reportedly confronted him with a machete, ordered him to get on the bed, and r...
– A 19-year-old Montana woman was arrested Friday after allegedly lying in wait for her ex-boyfriend with a machete and forcing him to have sex with her. The alleged victim, who had reportedly been in a relationship with Samantha Ray Mears for seven years before they broke up, told police he came home Friday night and ...
although very uncommon , these potential complications should be considered when a patient presents with abdominal pain following colonoscopy . splenic rupture following colonoscopy has been reported 17 times ( 18 including our case ) in the english - language literature , with the first reported case in 1974 . sym...
background : appendicitis and splenic rupture are 2 rare complications of colonoscopy reported in the literature . to our knowledge splenic rupture following colonoscopy has been reported 17 times in the english - language literature and is associated with excess traction on the splenocolic ligament . appendicitis af...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Lumbee Recognition Act''. SEC. 2. PREAMBLE. The preamble to the Act of June 7, 1956 (70 Stat. 254), is amended-- (1) by striking out ``and'' at the end of each of the first three clauses; (2) by striking out ``: Now ther...
Lumbee Recognition Act - Extends Federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of Cheraw Indians of North Carolina.
ithe major galaxy mergers in galaxy formation inevitably leads to the presence of a binary black hole ( bbh ) located in the center of a giant galaxy @xcite . the following observational results provide possible evidence of the presence of bbhs : double compact cores @xcite , two broad - line emission systems @xcite , ...
recent observational results provide possible evidence that binary black holes ( bbhs ) exist in the center of giant galaxies and may merge to form a supermassive black hole in the process of their evolution . we first detected a periodic flux variation on a cycle of @xmath0 days from the 3-mm monitor observations o...
with the rapid change in the demographic profile of india , the prevalence of chronic diseases of the elderly like dementia and dm type 2 is increasing . in india , over 3.7 million people aged 60 years and above suffer from dementia , predominantly of alzheimer 's type . assuming that the current prevalence rate rem...
objective . to evaluate the association of apolipoprotein e4 ( apoe4 ) in alzheimer 's dementia ( ad ) with comorbid diabetes mellitus ( dm ) . methods . the study included subjects with alzheimer 's dementia ( ad ) ( n = 209 ) , individuals with non - alzheimer 's dementia ( nad ) ( n = 122 ) , individuals with pa...
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. Congress makes the following findings: (1) A native of New Jersey, Jerry Lewis is a gifted comedian and has been a fixture in the entertainment community for more than 5 decades. (2) Born Joseph Levitch on March 16, 1926, in Newark, New Jersey...
Authorizes the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to make appropriate arrangements for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design to comedian Jerry Lewis in recognition of his outstanding service to the Nation.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Driver's License Modernization Act of 2002''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, illuminated many flaws in the Nation's domestic security, especially in its iden...
Driver's License Modernization Act of 2002 - Amends Federal highway provisions to require each State, within five years, to have in effect a driver's license and identification card program under which a State shall: (1) include in each new or renewed license or card a computer chip containing card or license text data...
we thank u. gnther for fruitful discussions , and j. kurths for drawing our attention to the topic of coherence resonance . this work was supported by deutsche forschungsgemeinschaft in frame of sfb 609 and grant no . ge 682/12 - 2 . 8 r. t. merrill , m.w . mcelhinny , and p.l . mcfadden , _ the magnetic field of the e...
using a mean - field dynamo model with a spherically symmetric helical turbulence parameter @xmath0 which is dynamically quenched and disturbed by additional noise , the basic features of geomagnetic polarity reversals are shown to be generic consequences of the dynamo action in the vicinity of exceptional points of t...
Shoppers made their feelings clear about an EU ban on models of more than 1,600 watts by visiting stores or online sellers in their droves The stampede to buy powerful vacuum cleaners intensified yesterday as retailers reported a fourfold surge in sales. Shoppers made their feelings clear about an EU ban on mod...
– You can ban their e-cigs, you can ban their plastic bags—but do not, under any circumstances, take away the people's high-powered vacuum cleaners. Brits stocked up on supersuction devices before a EU ban went into effect yesterday, with retail sales of models 1,600 watts or higher increasing fourfold and some people ...
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Three teenagers have been charged with murder, accused of beating two homeless men to death. Albuquerque Police called it a heinous crime on Sunday, saying at least one of the suspects involved admitted that the group was targeting transients and have done it many times before. Alex Rios, 1...
– Three teenagers in Albuquerque, NM, took part in the violent murder of two homeless men over the weekend, say police, who suspect the teens could be behind dozens of other attacks. Alex Rios, 18, Nathaniel Carrillo, 16, and 15-year-old Gilbert Tafoya were arrested on Saturday for the murder of two men sleeping in a v...
osteopoikilosis is a rare benign bone dysplasia usually incidentally found on radiographs or computed tomography ( ct ) scans . is it usually asymptomatic and characterized by multiple enostoses throughout the skeleton , but rarely there might be mild pain . it is important for clinicians to recognize the image pat...
abstractosteopoikilosis is a benign but rare condition characterized by bone islands throughout the osseous tissue , which could be easily confused with bone metastasis . we present a case of a 37-year - old man presented to orthopedic outpatient clinic with right hip pain for 2 weeks . there were multiple , small ...
Michelle Obama calls on women to rise up against Trump 'The belief you can do anything to a woman? It is cruel. It's frightening. And the truth is, it hurts. It hurts,' the first lady said in an emotional speech. First lady Michelle Obama delivered a powerful and emotional rebuke to Donald Trump on Thursday, saying...
– Donald Trump has had a bruising week with hot mics and accusations of sexual misconduct, and one person who's "shaken to the core" by the din surrounding the GOP nominee: Michelle Obama, who spoke on the matter at a Hillary Clinton campaign event Thursday in Manchester, NH, reports ABC News. "I can't believe I'm sayi...
animals : this retrospective study population consisted of 67 dogs . all of the dogs were examined between february 2008 and october 2012 at the kitasato university veterinary teaching hospital and miyazaki university veterinary teaching hospital , japan . the data collected included breed , sex , age , weight , ...
the clinical utility of plasma natriuretic peptide concentrations in dogs with right - sided congestive heart failure ( chf ) remains unclear . we investigated whether plasma levels of atrial natriuretic peptide ( anp ) and n - terminal pro b - type natriuretic peptide ( nt - probnp ) are useful for assessing t...
gravitational lensing has been used for nearly a decade to study faint , compact masses in our galaxy . although a large number of microlensing events have been detected , the lens masses and distances can not ( in most cases ) be determined , meaning that only statistical constraints on the lensing population may be d...
interferometers offer multiple methods for studying microlensing events and determining the properties of the lenses . we investigate the study of microlensing events with optical interferometers , focusing on narrow - angle astrometry , visibility , and closure phase . after introducing the basics of microlensing a...
one of the current experimental advances of considerable importance in the context of ultracold atoms is the demonstration of multicomponent bose - einstein condensate ( bec ) . in particular several groups have created spinor condensates of @xmath0na atoms @xcite and @xmath1rb atoms @xcite by transferring spin polariz...
we study the semiclassical dynamics of a spinor condensate with the magnetic dipole - dipole interaction included . the time evolution of the population imbalance and the relative phase among different spin components depends greatly on the relative strength of interactions as well as on the initial conditions . t...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``State Court Interpreter Grant Program Act of 2012''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds that-- (1) the fair administration of justice depends on the ability of all participants in a courtroom proceeding to understand that pro...
State Court Interpreter Grant Program Act of 2012 - Directs the Administrator of the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to make grants to state courts to develop and implement programs to assist individuals with limited English proficiency to access and understand state court proceedings in w...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Fairness for Homeowners Act of 2007''. SEC. 2. ORIGINATIONS OF CONSUMER CREDIT TRANSACTIONS SECURED BY THE CONSUMER'S PRINCIPAL DWELLING. (a) In General.--The Truth in Lending Act (15 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) is amended by inserting after se...
Fairness for Homeowners Act of 2007 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit any creditor or mortgage broker from making, providing, or arranging for any consumer credit transaction secured by a consumer's principal dwelling without verifying the consumer's reasonable ability to make the scheduled payments of prin...
hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation typically model gas cooling by tabulating the cooling rate as a function of gas properties such as the density and temperature , under certain assumptions . for example , the simplest approach , as used in some of the first cosmological hydrodynamic simulations ( e.g. * ? ? ...
we present a series of hydrodynamic simulations of isolated galaxies with stellar mass of @xmath0 . the models use a resolution of @xmath1 per particle and include a treatment for the full non - equilibrium chemical evolution of ions and molecules ( 157 species in total ) , along with gas cooling rates computed self...
incompressibility of nuclear matter , also knows as compressional modulus has a special interest in pure nuclear and astro - nuclear physics , because of its fundamental role in guiding the equation of state ( eos ) for nuclear matter . compressional modulus @xmath1 can not be measured by any experimental technique dir...
within the frame - work of relativistic thomas - fermi and relativistic extended thomas - fermi approximations , we calculate the giant monopole resonance ( gmr ) excitation energies for sn and related nuclei . a large number of non - linear relativistic force parameters are used in this calculations . we find tha...
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threshold values are of prime importance in providing a sound basis for public health decisions . a key issue is determining threshold or maximum exposure values for pollutants and assessing their potential health risks . environmental epidemiology could be instrumental in assessing these levels , especially since ...
an increased mortality from lung cancer has been reported in workers from two beryllium facilities in the usa that were in operation in the 1940s ( mancuso , 1980 ; wagoner et al . , 1980 ; ward et al . , the increased risk was restricted to workers in these two facilities who were first employed before 1960 , as wor...
this study investigated lung cancer and other diseases related to insoluble beryllium compounds . a cohort of 4950 workers from four us insoluble beryllium manufacturing facilities were followed through 2009 . expected deaths were calculated using local and national rates . on the basis of local rates , all - cau...
NBC Bay Area has learned that authorities investigating the deadly Camp Fire have tied its origin to the failure of a single steel hook that held up a high voltage line on a nearly 100-year-old high voltage transmission tower. Investigative reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports. (Published Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018) NB...
– The cause of California's deadly Camp Fire still has not been officially released, but sources say a single hook may be the culprit. Specifically, a steel hook that held up a high voltage line on a Pacific Gas & Electric transmission tower, sources tell NBC Bay Area. There had already been much speculation that PG&E,...
the discovery of the double pulsar system psr j07373039 @xcite has led to important advances in the study of radio pulsars and their associated phenomenology . the independent determination of the orbit of both neutron stars , and the recent measurement of five post - keplerian parameters from the timing of a @xcite a...
in 2004 , mclaughlin et al . discovered a phenomenon in the radio emission of psr j0737@xmath03039b ( b ) that resembles drifting sub - pulses . the repeat rate of the sub - pulses is equal to the spin frequency of psr j0737@xmath03039a ( a ) ; this led to the suggestion that they are caused by incidence upon b s...
dna for a primary colon tumor and adjacent normal colon tissue was purchased from biochain ( lot number a704198 ) . both samples came from the same donor , an 81-year - old male patient diagnosed with moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma . in vitro methylated and 5-aza - cytidine demethylated jurkat genomic dna...
bisulfite sequencing measures absolute levels of dna methylation at single - nucleotide resolution , providing a robust platform for molecular diagnostics . here , we optimize bisulfite sequencing for genome - scale analysis of clinical samples . specifically , we outline how restriction digestion targets bisulfite...
CLOSE Monday’s favorable ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court paves the way to allow gambling on sporting events at racetracks and casinos in the state. Brian Johnston, Asbury Park Press Dennis Drazin, Chairman and CEO of Darby Development LLC, the operators of Monmouth Park Racetrack, speaks to the media about the his...
– The highest court in the land has struck down a law that banned sports betting in all states except Nevada, but some eager gamblers in New Jersey, the origin of the court battle, may still have to wait to wager. Per the New York Times, that's because even the Garden State, home to Atlantic City, doesn't yet have legi...
Japan Airlines Co. (9201) is investigating a fuel leak on a Boeing Co. (BA) 787 Dreamliner, the model that experienced an onboard fire last week in Boston and is now the subject of a U.S. safety review. The leak occurred Jan. 13 during maintenance at Tokyo’s Narita airport, Japan Airlines said yesterday in a statem...
– Growing pains, or a more serious issue with Boeing's newest aircraft? A fuel leak is being investigated on a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner, adding to the long list of problems the aircraft has experienced in recent weeks, Bloomberg reports. Yesterday's leak follows problems including another fuel leak, a crack...
interest in tomosynthesis and its clinical applications has been revived by recent advances in digital x - ray detector technology . in tomosynthesis , an x - ray tube and an x - ray receptor tomosynthesis captures only one set of discrete x - ray projections that can be used to reconstruct any plane of the object re...
the purpose of this paper is to identify indications for volumetric x - ray digital linear tomosynthesis ( dlt ) with single- and dual - energy subtraction techniques for artificial pulmonary nodule detection and compare x - ray dlt , x - ray digital radiography , and computed tomography .
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``NAFTA Infrastructure Responsibility Act of 1996''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds that-- (1) the United States Customs Service collects over $600,000,000 per year in duties, fees, excise taxes, and fines from crossings of...
NAFTA Infrastructure Responsibility Act of 1996 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to Mexican border States and local governments for certain transportation projects necessary to: (1) relieve congestion due to increased traffic resulting from implementation of the North American Free Trade Agr...
the study of systems with long range memory reveals some physical phenomena that are still not well understood , especially in systems which are outside the state of equilibrium or those in which the existence of anomalous diffusion is verified @xcite . here we show a simple analytical method which describes the behav...
we investigate through a generalized langevin formalism the phenomenon of anomalous diffusion for asymptotic times , and we generalized the concept of the diffusion exponent . a method is proposed to obtain the diffusion coefficient analytically through the introduction of a time scaling factor @xmath0 . we obtain...
despite the advances carried out so far , the origin of the gamma - ray bursts ( hereafter grbs ) remains unknown . the identification of absorption lines in the optical spectrum of grb 970508 strongly supports models arising from sources at cosmological distances ( metzger et al . 1997 ) , but there is still a lack of...
this study is the first known attempt to search for gamma - ray burst repeaters combining data from gamma - ray experiments flying on board different satellites and making use of information derived from the bursts detected simultaneously by all the experiments . the proposed method is suitable to correlate grb data...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican drug lord who had been reported dead more than three years ago was likely killed in a shootout with federal forces in western Mexico early on Sunday, a government official said. Nazario Moreno, a leader of a powerful criminal gang that has ravaged the western state of Michoacan, wa...
– Mexican officials say they killed a Mexican drug kingpin three years after the government supposedly killed him the first time, Reuters reports. Nazario Moreno was leader of the drug cartel La Familia when officials said he died in a two-day gunfight with government agents—but as his cartel morphed into the more powe...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Parental Right to Decide Protection Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. The Congress finds as follows: (1) HPV, the human papillomavirus, is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. HPV types 16 and 18 caus...
Parental Right to Decide Protection Act - Prohibits federal funds or other assistance from being made available to any state or political subdivision to establish or implement any requirement that individuals receive vaccination for human papillomavirus (HPV).
the spectroscopic studies to determine form factors of the @xmath15 semi - leptonic decays , @xmath16 ( @xmath17 ) , are of importance both in studying low energy properties of the strong interaction in terms of effective theories @xcite , and also in studying fundamental interactions . in our previous work @xcite , ...
the ratio of the @xmath0 ( @xmath1 ) and @xmath2 ( @xmath3 ) decay widths , @xmath4 , has been measured with stopped positive kaons . @xmath1 and @xmath3 samples containing 2.4@xmath5 and 4.0@xmath5 events , respectively , were analyzed . the @xmath6 ratio was obtained to be 0.671@xmath70.007(stat.)@xmath70.008(sy...
the loss of coherence of a quantum two - level system ( quantum bit ) is caused by its unavoidable coupling to the surrounding environment . for solid - state qubits , the decoherence process can be quite fast due to coupling to a large number of internal degrees of freedom . our understanding of quantum decoherence an...
we consider quantum decoherence in solid - state systems by studying the transverse dynamics of a single qubit interacting with a fermionic bath and driven by external pulses . our interest is in investigating the extent to which the lost coherence can be restored by the application of external pulses to the qubit ....
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act''. SEC. 2. ONLINE FAMILY EMPOWERMENT. Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: ``SEC. 230. PROTECTION FOR PRIVATE BLOCKING...
Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to establish Government policy promoting continued development of the Internet and other interactive computer services and media and preserving the competitive free market existing for them. Addresses concerns over objectionable materi...
consider some finite classical system which depends on an external parameter , @xmath0 . for instance , the system might be a lattice of coupled classical spins , and @xmath0 may denote the strength of an externally applied magnetic field ; or , the system might be a gas of particles , and @xmath0 a parameter specifyin...
it has recently been shown that the helmholtz free energy difference between two equilibrium configurations of a system may be obtained from an ensemble of _ finite - time _ ( nonequilibrium ) measurements of the work performed in switching an external parameter of the system . here this result is established , as a...
p o p ! A dermatologist finds fame among those for whom watching a pimple explode recalls the butterflies of a first kiss. Photographs by Bobby Doherty Two years ago, Dr. Sandra Lee, a dermatologist in Southern California, opened an Instagram account. She viewed it as an experiment; the surface of the internet ...
– Warning: This story is not for the squeamish. We mean it. New York Magazine has a fascinating—if occasionally far too descriptive—profile on Dr. Sandra Lee, better known among so-called "popaholics" on the Internet as Dr. Pimple Popper. Lee, an otherwise typical Southern California dermatologist, accidentally stumble...
Story highlights Plane carrying men is scheduled to land at Washington base Kenneth Bae family has "been waiting for and praying for this day for two years" Director of National Intelligence James Clapper traveled to Pyongyang North Korea claims it received apology from President Barack Obama After mont...
– No more Americans are being held in North Korea: Pyongyang today released Kenneth Bae and Matthew Miller, both of whom had been sentenced to years of hard labor, reports CNN. As with the recent release of Jeffrey Fowle, it wasn't clear what prompted the move, though the State Department made a point to single out Swe...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 1998''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE. (a) Findings.--Congress finds that-- (1) too many law enforcement officers die, while protecting the public, as a result of gunshot wounds; (2)...
Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 1998 - Authorizes the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to: (1) make grants to States, units of local government, and Indian tribes to purchase armor vests for use by law enforcement officers; and (2) give preferential consideration to applications from jurisdiction...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Health Savings Account Expansion Act of 2016''. SEC. 2. ADEQUATE FUNDS FOR HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS. (a) In General.--Section 223(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking ``the sum of the monthly'' and all that follows through `...
Health Savings Account Expansion Act of 2016 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the requirements for health savings accounts (HSAs). The bill modifies the requirements to: increase the maximum contribution amounts, permit the use of HSAs to pay health insurance premiums and direct primary care e...
perhaps the most fundamental question to arise from these and other studies is whether tlr activation is critical for both the initiation and perpetuation of autoantibody production . mammalian dna or rna must enter discrete endocytic compartments within the cell in order to interact with intracellular tlrs ( such as...
like the immune response itself , our efforts to understand the rules for self nonself discrimination are constantly evolving . the discovery of pattern recognition receptors the toll - like receptor ( tlr ) family in particular shifted the emphasis of self nonself recognition from lymphocytes functioning in th...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Afghan Women Empowerment Act of 2006''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress makes the following findings: (1) Under the oppressive rule of the Taliban, the women of Afghanistan were denied the most basic human rights, including the ...
Afghan Women Empowerment Act of 2006 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the protection of the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan and their full participation in the reestablishment of democracy are essential to Afghanistan's reconstruction, and to achieve such reconstruction the U.S. government must commit re...
the experimental and theoretical studies of dilute magnetic semiconductors ( see , e.g. the recent review @xcite ) have revived the interest to details of reconstruction of the electronic structure of host materials induced by transition metal ions and concomitant defects . this interest stems from the fact that the si...
a numerical method for calculation of the electronic structure of transition metal impurities in semiconductors based on the green function technique is developed . the electronic structure of 3@xmath0 impurity is calculated within the lda+u version of density functional method , whereas the host electron green func...
stress induced hyperglycemia is a known complication of neonatal sepsis , but sometimes it may become very difficult to distinguish it from neonatal diabetes mellitus . we present a case of neonatal septicemia with stress induced hyperglycemia mimicking neonatal diabetes mellitus . extremely high blood sugar values...
stress / sepsis induced transient hyperglycemia in the newborn may present with extremely high blood sugar values and may mimic neonatal diabetes mellitus . we present a case of neonatal septicemia with stress induced hyperglycemia mimicking neonatal diabetes mellitus . extremely high blood sugar values upto 1529 m...
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Barbara Plett-Usher explains what the UN Security Council's vote means The United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution urging an end to illegal Israeli settlements after the US refused to veto it. The Egyptian-drafted resolution had been wit...
– The UN Security Council on Friday passed a resolution calling for an end to illegal Israeli settlements on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem, the BBC reports. The resolution passed the Security Council 14-0 with the US abstaining from the vote. Israeli settlements are seen as a major sticking point in relations wit...
although endemic malaria is not seen in the united states of america ( usa ) , majority of infections are caused by travel to or from endemic places of malaria transmission . the world tourism organization estimates that there were 1 billion international travelers in 2010 , with notable increase in travel to africa ...
as endemic malaria is not commonly seen in the united states , most of the cases diagnosed and reported are associated with travel to and from the endemic places of malaria . as the number of imported cases of malaria has been increasing since 1973 , it is important to look into these cases to study the morbidity and m...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Ruth Moore Act of 2013''. SEC. 2. STANDARD OF PROOF FOR SERVICE-CONNECTION OF MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS RELATED TO MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA. (a) Standard of Proof.--Section 1154 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the en...
Ruth Moore Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), in any case in which a veteran claims that a covered mental health condition was incurred in or aggravated by military sexual trauma during active duty, to accept as sufficient proof of service-connection a diagnosis by a mental health professiona...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Fair Access to Investment Research Act of 2015''. SEC. 2. SAFE HARBOR FOR INVESTMENT FUND RESEARCH. (a) Expansion of Safe Harbor.--Not later than the end of the 45-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, the Securities and Exchange ...
. Fair Access to Investment Research Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to revise a specified regulation to create a safe harbor for certain publications or distributions of research reports by brokers or dealers distributing securities. The revised regulation shall dec...
large efforts have been devoted to explore the origin of cosmic rays . most puzzling are the observed ultra - high energy cosmic ray events ( uhecrs ) above the gzk - cutoff @xcite : protons lose energy drastically due to pion photo - production processes on the cosmic microwave background ( cmb ) at energies higher th...
we explore acceleration of ions in the quark nova ( qn ) scenario , where a neutron star experiences an explosive phase transition into a quark star ( born in the propeller regime ) . in this picture , two cosmic ray components are isolated : one related to the randomized pulsar wind and the other to the propelled w...
its deficiency is associated with neurologic , psychiatric , hematologic , cardiovascular , and gastrointestinal manifestations . less commonly , vitamin b12 deficiency results in dermatologic manifestations , including skin hyperpigmentation , hair changes , vitiligo , and angular stomatitis . vitamin b12 deficien...
vitamin b12 deficiency causes skin hyperpigmentation , subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord , and megaloblastic anemia . although vitamin b12 deficiency rarely occurs in well - nourished , healthy , young people , nitrous oxide ( n2o ) intoxication is an important cause of vitamin b12 deficiency in this ...
the human skin is the body s main interface with the external world ; the skin is the site of events and processes crucial to the way we think about , feel about , and interact with one another.13 it can thus be regarded as the body s major public relations tool . conditions which affect the skin may , therefore , af...
backgroundacne vulgaris is a common skin condition , which affects most adolescents at some point in their lives . it has been found to have a significant impact on their psychological well - being and has been associated with depression and suicide ideation . many studies have assessed the impact of acne vulgaris ...
Sunday started out as a normal day waiting tables for Claire Hudson. The 25-year-old was working a double shift for her job at local burger joint, Mac's Grub Shak, when something amazing happened. "It was actually a really slow day and then this couple came in," said Hudson of Spring Hill, Tennessee. "I didn’t ...
– A waitress in Tennessee was brought to tears this week when a customer left her a generous tip and a moving message. Claire Hudson, 25, was serving tables at Mac's Grub Shak in Spring Hill on Sunday when a "very sweet couple" sat down and ordered beers, a burger, and hot dogs, Today.com reports. It was only after the...
over the past 30 years , the genetic basis of cancer has been firmly established , from knudson s two - hit hypothesis to the identification of numerous specific mutations characterized as oncogenes and suppressor genes . attempts to repair or replace mutated genes , by gene therapy have been hindered not only by t...
recent research suggests that chromatin - modifying enzymes are metabolic sensors regulating gene expression . epigenetics is linked to metabolomics in response to the cellular microenvironment . specific metabolites involved in this sensing mechanism include s - adenosylmethionine , acetyl - coa , alphaketoglutara...
there are several reasons @xcite , which make the experimental study of the @xmath3 reaction interesting . first of all , it is expected that the radial excitations of @xmath4-meson should reveal themselves in this process , thus giving us a possibility to study their properties . the @xmath3 transition is also importa...
the @xmath0 process was investigated in the snd experiment at the vepp-2 m collider . a narrow energy interval near the @xmath1-meson was scanned . the observed cross - section reveals , at the level of three standard deviation , the interference effect caused by @xmath2 decay . the cross - section parameters , ...
insects - t. infestans were captured from domiciliary ( -d ) and sylvatic ( -s ) areas of bolivia ( department of cochabamba , viente de octubre - s , department of potos , kirus - mayu - s and department of tarija , el palmar - d ) and from argentina ( salta province , la pista - d ) in 2009 . table isylvatic ...
the aim of the present work was to study the deltamethrin susceptibility of eggs from triatoma infestans populations and the contribution of pyrethroid esterases to deltamethrin degradation . insects were collected from sylvatic areas , including veinte de octubre and kirus - mayu ( bolivia ) and from domicilia...
Eastern Libya is also being buffeted by strong crosscurrents that intelligence operatives are trying to monitor closely. The killing of Mr. Stevens has ignited public anger against the militias, underscored on Friday when thousands of Libyans took to the streets of Benghazi to demand that the groups be disarmed. The ma...
– Libya is working to drive out more armed groups after protesters' success against a militia blamed in the death of US ambassador Chris Stevens. Authorities have told "all illegitimate militias" they've got two days to "be removed from compounds and hand over their weapons to the national army," says a defense ministr...
the wiedemann - franz ( wf ) law , which relates the thermal conductivity @xmath9 and the electrical conductivity @xmath10 through a simple formula , @xmath11 where @xmath12 is called the lorentz number and is given by the sommerfeld s value @xmath13 w@xmath14/k@xmath15 , is a robust signature of a fermi liquid . it re...
to investigate the validity of the wiedemann - franz ( wf ) law in disordered but metallic cuprates , the low - temperature charge and heat transport properties are carefully studied for a series of impurity - substituted and carrier - overdoped la@xmath0sr@xmath1cu@xmath2@xmath3@xmath4o@xmath5 ( @xmath3 = zn or mg ) ...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Congressional Commission on the Abolition of Modern-Day Slavery Act''. SEC. 2. MODERN-DAY SLAVERY. In this Act, the term ``modern-day slavery'' means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, receipt, procurement, or control of persons through the u...
Congressional Commission on the Abolition of Modern-day Slavery Act - Defines "modern-day slavery." Establishes a congressional Commission on the Abolition of Modern-day Slavery which shall: (1) study matters relating to modern-day slavery, including vulnerabilities of commonly affected populations; (2) study the role...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006''. (b) References.--Any reference in this Act to the Trademark Act of 1946 shall be a reference to the Act entitled ``An Act to provide for the registration and protection of trademarks used in c...
Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 - Amends the Trademark Act of 1946 to revise provisions relating to trademark dilution. Entitles an owner of a famous mark that is distinctive to an injunction against another person who commences use of a mark of trade name, after it has become famous, in commerce in a manner t...
the asymmetric simple exclusion process ( asep ) is a simple hard core hopping particle model . it consists of a line segment with @xmath1 sites . particles are allowed to hop on to site 1 if it is empty , with rate @xmath2 . any particles on sites @xmath3 to @xmath4 hop on to a site to their right if it is empty , wit...
we show that the known matrix representations of the stationary state algebra of the asymmetric simple exclusion process ( asep ) can be interpreted combinatorially as various weighted lattice paths . this interpretation enables us to use the constant term method ( ctm ) and bijective combinatorial methods to expres...
the spectral energy distributions ( seds ) of blazars have two components , with peaks ( in the usual @xmath1 representation ) separated by @xmath2 decades in frequency , as discussed by @xcite and several authors in this volume . the lower frequency component has peak frequency , @xmath3 , in the ir - x - ray energy r...
blazar spectral energy distributions ( seds ) are double peaked and follow a self - similar sequence in luminosity . the so - called blue " blazars , whose first sed component peaks at x - ray energies , are tev sources , although with a relatively small fraction of their bolometric luminosities . the red " blaz...
Endoscope Maker Olympus Agrees To $646 Million Settlement Over Kickbacks Enlarge this image toggle caption Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images Medical device maker Olympus Corp., already under federal investigation for its role in superbug outbreaks, has agreed to pay $...
– A whistleblower who worked for Olympus Corporation of the Americas for 20 years will receive $51 million from the company after it admitted to a scheme of bribery and kickbacks and agreed Tuesday to pay $646 million in fines, CNNMoney reports. John Slowik was named the company's compliance officer in 2009, but he soo...
the nernst effect in the cuprate superconductors has recently become a focus of attention both experimentally @xcite and theoretically @xcite . the nernst effect is the electric field induced when the sample has a temperature gradient , @xmath1 , perpendicular to the magnetic field , @xmath2 ; this electric field is pe...
we measure the transverse thermoelectric coefficient @xmath0 in simulations of type - ii superconductors in the vortex liquid regime , using the time - dependent ginzburg - landau ( tdgl ) equation with thermal noise . our results are in reasonably good quantitative agreement with experimental data on cuprate sample...
during the past decades , quantum entanglement presented many useful properties in quantum information processing and transmission , such as quantum key distribution @xcite , quantum dense coding @xcite , quantum teleportation @xcite , and so on . in quantum communication , entangled states are used to built quantum ch...
recently xiao et al . proposed a scheme for entanglement purification based on doubly entangled photon states ( phys . rev . a 77(2008 ) 042315 ) . we modify their scheme for improving the efficiency of entanglement purification . this modified scheme contains two steps , i.e. , the bit - flip error correction...
thyroxine ( t4 ) and triiodothyronine ( t3 ) , the two main thyroid hormones , are secreted after thyroglobulin macropinocytosis and hydrolysis under the stimulation of pituitary thyrotropin ( tsh ) and are present in the blood mainly in noncovalent interactions with thyroxine - binding globulin , prealbumin , and albu...
thyroid function regulates lipid metabolism . despite the fact that t2 dm is more prevalent in the elderly , often associates with thyroid dysfunction and increases cardiovascular risk both per se and via high tc and ldl - c levels , the association of the latter with ft3 and ft4 levels has not yet been fully investi...
A pregnant Texas teenager is suing her parents to stop them from forcing her to abort her unborn child. Click2Houston reports a judge issued a temporary restraining order to prevent the abortion while the case is ongoing. The 16-year-old, who is identified only by the initials R.E.K. because she is a minor, cla...
– A pregnant 16-year-old in Texas has won a temporary restraining order after taking her parents to court to stop them from forcing her to get an abortion, reports Fox News. The unnamed girl, identified only as REK, claims in her lawsuit that her father said "the decision was his, end of story." Click2Houston adds that...
the median age of the sample was 60 years ( range : 3587 years ) . all were in - patients in a coronary intensive care unit ( getafe hospital , madrid ) and were evaluated , in the first instance , within the first 4872 hours after the mi . a number of exclusion criteria were used : having suffered a similar episod...
background there is a controversy as to whether the diagnostic umbrella of post - traumatic stress reactions is directly applicable to serious health conditions like myocardial infarction ( mi).objective the principal objective of this study was to examine longitudinally the prevalence of posttraumatic stress - related...
By 1992, three years after he left the White House, Ronald Reagan was anything but a beloved former president. As a painful recession gripped the country, the public came to see the Reagan years -- which featured a massive defense buildup, soaring deficits and even a stock market crash in 1987 -- as the source of their...
– Republicans sometimes bristle at the comparisons between Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama because of their midterm troubles. A favorite conservative theme about Reagan is that the "love fest" between him and the American people continued during and after his presidency, writes Steve Kornacki at Salon, who singles out t...
a great deal of progress has been made in the last decade in the studies of distant galaxies . the average star formation history of the universe has also been estimated from emission properties of galaxies detected in deep imaging and redshift surveys such as the canada - france redshift survey and the hubble deep fie...
we have carried out a deep narrow - band imaging survey of six fields with heavy - element quasar absorption lines , using the goddard fabry - perot ( fp ) system at the apache point observatory ( apo ) 3.5-meter telescope . the aim of these observations was to search for redshifted ly-@xmath0 emission from the gala...
the recent experimental progress in manipulating and controlling trapped neutral atoms in optical lattices by quantum optical means @xcite allows for a number of novel applications in a variety of different fields like quantum information processing @xcite , atom interferometry @xcite , and atomic and molecular physics...
we investigate the dynamics of neutral atoms in a 2d optical lattice which traps two distinct internal states of the atoms in different columns . two raman lasers are used to coherently transfer atoms from one internal state to the other , thereby causing hopping between the different columns . by adjusting the lase...
the mode of action of many drugs in clinical use for the treatment of cancer , genetic disorders , and viral diseases is believed to be based on their binding to nucleic acids and subsequent modification of the genetic material [ 1 , 2 ] . the discovery of the double helical structure of deoxyribonucleic acid ( dna )...
bioactive alkaloids occupy an important position in applied chemistry and play an indispensable role in medicinal chemistry . amongst them , isoquinoline alkaloids like berberine , palmatine and coralyne of protoberberine group , sanguinarine of the benzophenanthridine group , and their derivatives represent an importa...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Flood Insurance Affordability and Risk Notification Act''. SEC. 2. 5-YEAR DELAY IN EFFECTIVE DATE OF MANDATORY PURCHASE REQUIREMENT FOR NEW FLOOD HAZARD AREAS. (a) In General.--Section 102 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 (42...
Flood Insurance Affordability and Risk Notification Act - Amends the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 to delay, for a five-year period, the effective date for the mandatory purchase of flood insurance for certain new flood hazard areas not previously designated as having special flood hazards (with "100-year flood...
it is known , since long time , that ring - shaped organic molecules , such as benzene or naphthalene , show very large diamagnetic susceptibilities and a very pronounced diamagnetic anisotropy : the diamagnetic susceptibility has normal values in the plane of the aromatic molecules but abnormally large ones in the dir...
we review recent results on the behaviour of the dielectric function of cylindrical nano - organic materials at very low frequencies in a magnetic field . for cylindrical structures - such as carbon nanotubes - the polarisability is shown to be a discontinuous function of a longitudinal magnetic field where plateau - ...
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Former Bennett Freeze Area Development Act''. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: (1) ONHIR.--The term ``ONHIR'' means the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation. (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secre...
Former Bennett Freeze Area Development Act - Requires the Commissioner of the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation (ONHIR), by request of the Navajo Nation or the Hopi Tribe by tribal resolution, to enter into a self-determination contract or contracts with the requesting Indian tribe to plan, conduct, and admin...
Millions of phony accounts. Fake bank card PIN numbers. Fictitious email accounts. Wells Fargo admitted to firing 5,300 employees for engaging in these shocking tactics. The bank earlier this month paid $185 million in penalties and has since apologized. Now CNNMoney is hearing from former Wells Fargo (WFC) wor...
– More than 5,000 Wells Fargo workers were fired in the phony-accounts scam that's rocked the company—but they weren't the only ones who got pink slips. CNNMoney reports it spoke with a handful of ex-workers who say they were terminated after raising the red flag about the bank's unethical activities, including by call...