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in the past three decades non - gaussian time series have attracted a lot of interest , see e.g. cox ( 1981 ) , kaufmann ( 1987 ) , kitagawa ( 1987 ) , shephard and pitt ( 1997 ) , and durbin and koopman ( 2000 ) , among others . in the context of regression modelling , generalized linear models ( mccullagh and nelder ... | the purpose of this paper is to provide a discussion , with illustrating examples , on bayesian forecasting for dynamic generalized linear models ( dglms ) . adopting approximate bayesian analysis , based on conjugate forms and on bayes linear estimation , we describe the theoretical framework and then we provide deta... |
Atlanta (CNN) Six-year-old Nhaijah Russell swallowed three or four squirts of seemingly innocuous liquid hand sanitizer at school. It tasted good, she said, like strawberry.
It also contained enough alcohol to make her dangerously drunk. She arrived at the emergency room slurring her words and unable to walk.
S... | – Think you're good at locking up common household poisons from young kids? You may be forgetting one that looks surprisingly appealing to a small child: hand sanitizer. The number of cases of kids younger than 12 reported to poison control centers for ingesting hand sanitizer, which now comes in "fun" scents such as g... |
BEIRUT/AMMAN Mystery surrounded the whereabouts of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday, a day after a bomber killed and wounded his security chiefs and rebels closed in on the centre of Damascus, vowing to "liberate" the capital.
The Syrian leader made no public appearance and no statement on Wednesday aft... | – A regime-shaking suicide attack on the National Security building has killed Bashar al-Assad's defense minister and brother-in-law, according to the country's state-run TV. The New York Times calls the death of defense minister Daoud Rajha the "first assassination of a prominent official" in the entirety of the upris... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Belarus Democracy Reauthorization
Act of 2006''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Section 2 of the Belarus Democracy Act of 2004 (22 U.S.C. 5811
note) is amended to read as follows:
``SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
``Congress makes the following findings:
``(1) The G... | Belarus Democracy Reauthorization Act of 2006 - (Sec. 3) Amends the Belarus Democracy Act of 2004 to state that it is U.S. policy to: (1) call for the immediate release of all political prisoners in Belarus; (2) support the aspirations of the people of the Republic of Belarus for democracy, human rights, the rule of la... |
the implementation of a universal two - qubit gate involving an entanglement operation on two quantum bits represents a necessary step toward the construction of a scalable quantum computer @xcite .
intense research on solid state nano - devices during the last decade has established the possibility to combine quantum... | controlled generation of entangled states of two quantum bits is a fundamental step toward the implementation of a quantum information processor . in nano - devices this operation is counteracted by the solid - state environment , characterized by broadband and non - monotonic power spectrum often @xmath0 at low frequ... |
weakly sequentially complete banach spaces were introduced in @xcite . since then , properties of weakly sequentially complete spaces were investigated in a number of papers , see e.g. @xcite and @xcite and the references therein .
important result on weakly sequentially complete banach spaces is given by rosenthal in ... | we provide sufficient conditions for a banach space @xmath0 to be weakly sequentially complete .
these conditions are expressed in terms of the existence of directional derivatives for cone convex mappings with values in @xmath0 .
weakly sequentially complete banach spaces , directional derivatives of cone conv... |
mixtures of colloidal particles and non - adsorbing polymers dispersed in a solvent provide experimentalists and theoreticians with a very flexible model system to explore the statics and dynamics of phase transitions , including fluid fluid demixing , crystalization , gelation or glass transitions@xcite , as well as ... | interfacial properties of colloid
polymer mixtures are examined within an effective one component representation , where the polymer degrees of freedom are traced out , leaving a fluid of colloidal particles interacting via polymer induced depletion forces .
restriction is made to zero , one and two body effec... |
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Mel Gibson made up to 30 “terrorizing” phone calls to his ex-lover, Oksana Grigorieva, on the same night she walked out on their volatile three-year relationship, she has told law enforcement investigators.
Included in the barrage was eight profanity-laced voicemail me... | – Just hours before going off on that taped rant that's emblazoned in our minds, Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva had been enjoying a peaceful ceremony together…planting their daughter’s placenta. It’s an Australian tradition, TMZ reports, and all was well until Grigorieva smiled at the gardener, causing Gibson to flip... |
the velocity - density relation is one of the most important characteristics for the transport properties of any traffic system . for pedestrian traffic
there is currently no consensus even about the principle shape of this relation which is reflected e.g. in conflicting recommendations in various handbooks and guidel... | experimental results for congested pedestrian traffic are presented . for data analysis
we apply a method providing measurements on an individual scale .
the resulting velocity - density relation shows a coexistence of moving and stopping states revealing the complex structure of pedestrian fundamental diagrams an... |
the institutional review board approved the research , and the patients provided informed consent ( irb - rok - mnd-2014-kmmrp-019 ) .
all patients underwent a complete ophthalmic examination including visual acuity , iop , refraction , slit lamp biomicroscopy , and fundus examination . in the non - surgical group , ... | purposeto assess the validity of central corneal thickness ( cct ) and corrected intraocular pressure ( iop ) values obtained by tono - pachymetry in non - surgical and post - photorefractive keratectomy ( prk ) eyes.methodsfor the study , 108 young healthy participants and 108 patients who had prk were enrolled .
me... |
jacob arthur in dublin in 1827 first coined the term rodent ulcer to describe what we now know as a basal cell carcinoma ( bcc ) .
it takes its name from the resemblance of the epithelial tumor cells to normal basal cells of the skin .
basal cell carcinoma is a locally invasive , slow growing malignancy that aris... | objective . to analyze the pattern of presentation of basal cell carcinoma ( bcc ) and margin status for excised specimens in the head and neck region
. study design .
retrospective cross - sectional .
duration of study .
january 2009 to december 2011 . methodology .
the database of the pathology department w... |
the system response to surgical trauma includes activation of the sympathetic nervous system , the endocrine
stress response , and immunological and hematological changes .various kinds of stress cause an increase in the secretion of acth from the adenohypophysis , and ( within a few minutes ) an increase in secreti... | backgroundthe aim of the study was to determine the significance of spinal anesthesia in the suppression of the metabolic , hormonal , and hemodynamic response to surgical stress in elective surgical patients compared to general anesthesia.material/methodsthe study was clinical , prospective , and controlled and it inv... |
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Their subtle rings appeared to be a quiet way of announcing their marriage at the Oscars on Sunday. And adding fuel to the fire, jeweler Jamie Wolf confirmed today that she designed Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied’s “wedding rings,” she shares in a release.
Wolf created two diam... | – Yes, those were wedding bands worn by Natalie Portman and her guy, Benjamin Millepied, that lit a buzz at the Oscars. They're made with "recycled platinum and conflict-free diamonds," spilled jeweler Jamie Wolf, who designed the wedding rings for the 30-year-old actress and choreographer, 34. The platinum band is for... |
humans are exposed to toxins by consuming foods contaminated with products of fungal growth throughout life time .
since prevention of fungal growth in foods is difficult , such exposures are not easy to be avoided .
mycotoxins have received considerable attention due to their significance in agricultural loss and ... | background : due to the high toxicity of aflatoxin and its effects on public health , determination of aflatoxin level in wheat flour samples in the golestan province , north of iran was investigated . to examine the effect of seasonal changes , summer and winter sampling
was performed with standard sampling methods.... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Real Property Disposal
Enhancement Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. DUTIES OF THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION AND EXECUTIVE
AGENCIES.
(a) In General.--Section 524 of title 40, United States Code, is
amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 5... | Federal Real Property Disposal Enhancement Act of 2009 - Requires the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to: (1) issue guidance for federal agency real property plans, including recommendations on how to identify and dispose of excess properties, evaluate disposal costs and benefits, and priorit... |
infrared ( ir ) radiation , due to thermal emission from dust grains , is a key feature of star - forming regions .
these grains play an important role in the chemistry , thermal balance , and evolution of these regions .
this role , coupled with the ability for ir radiation to escape from areas of high optical depth ,... | we present an evaluative study of some current methods utilized in the analysis of infrared ( ir ) observations of star - forming regions .
a series of self - consistent radiative transfer models are constructed , with the outputs analysed using these methods to infer source properties such as dust tempertaure , mas... |
this retrospective study included 40 dogs that were diagnosed with biliary sludge and
gallbladder mucoceles , and had their gallbladder contents collected during surgery or
autopsy at the university of miyazaki veterinary teaching hospital , miyazaki , japan , between
may 2012 and july 2016 .
component analysis... | the pathophysiology of canine gallbladder diseases , including biliary sludge , gallbladder
mucoceles and gallstones , is poorly understood .
this study aimed to evaluate the component
of gallbladder contents and bacterial infection of the gallbladder in order to elucidate
the pathophysiology of biliary sludge ... |
IRS Chief: No Evidence Of 'Intentional Wrongdoing' So Far
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That "be on the lookout list" used to flag Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny of their tax-exemption applications?
It turns out it wasn't the only one the Internal Revenue Service had been us... | – Tea Party groups weren't the only ones targeted by the IRS. Documents obtained by Bloomberg reveal the agency also used terms such as "Israel," "progressive," and "occupy" when applying extra scrutiny to groups seeking tax-exempt status. New agency chief Danny Werfel earlier confirmed that there were more "be on the ... |
materials antibodies for eif2 and 4ebp1 proteins ,
phospho - eif2 , rps6 , and ampk were obtained from cell signaling
technology .
antibodies for atf4 , gadd34 , and chop were
purchased from santa cruz biotechnology , inc .
insulin ,
h2o2 , uridine , n - acetyl cysteine , and
thapsigargin were from ... | under hypoxic conditions , cells suppress energy - intensive mrna translation
by modulating the mammalian target of rapamycin ( mtor ) and pancreatic
eif2 kinase ( perk ) pathways .
much is known about hypoxic inhibition of
mtor activity ; however , the cellular processes activating perk remain unclear .
s... |
House passes Keystone bill — all eyes shift to Senate
As expected, the House easily passed a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday — setting the stage for drama next week in the Senate, where supporters are inching close to the filibuster-proof majority needed to send the measure to President Barack Ob... | – The big news out of Congress today is that the House passed a bill to authorize the building of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. In terms of getting the pipeline built, the vote doesn't mean much, observes the New York Times. But in terms of the Senate runoff in Louisiana, it looms large. The House measure approved toda... |
Serialized fiction first gained prominence in Victorian England and first appeared in newspapers. It was practiced by such literary giants as Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy and Joseph Conrad. It fell out of favor in the last fifty years, but is now making a rebound thanks to the iPhone.
Apple is showcasing two new e-... | – As daunting as it may seem, you can read Crime and Punishment—20 minutes at a time. Serial Reader is a free iOS app that breaks down dozens of the classics into manageable chunks that are sent to your iPhone or iPad each day at a time you choose, Chris Taylor reports at Mashable. At that rate, the aforementioned Dost... |
Tucker Carlson Exposes His Own Sexism on Twitter (Updated)
Tucker Carlson has done some good work in the past… His site, The Daily Caller, is a frequent stop of mine and many other Conservatives. They were responsible for exposing the Journolist scandal, which highlighted the planning and coordination of many membe... | – Tucker Carlson is in deep doodoo with conservative women after an ill-advised tweet referencing Sarah Palin that he posted, then removed, Monday night. "Palin's popularity falling in Iowa, but maintains lead to become supreme commander of Milfistan," he tweeted—and we probably don't need to tell you where that is. Hi... |
the acid base disturbance in patients suffering cardiac arrest is more complex than previously thought .
makino and colleagues have presented a quantitative assessment of the components that create the disturbance . as previously reported , hyperlactatemia is not the sole cause of metabolic acidosis in the patient a... | metabolic acidosis is a common finding after cardiac arrest . until recently this acidosis
was mainly attributed to lactate . the physico - chemical approach to acid base balance permits the detection of previously unmeasured ions .
these ions have been shown to affect the acid base status of patients . |
ROANOKE, Va - The flash flood warning for Lynchburg is now lasting until 2 a.m. Saturday.
At 5:48 p.m., Lynchburg Emergency Management reported that water is holding within the shores of College Lake.
While the situation continues to remain stable, emergency officials will monitor the dam through the overnight ... | – Some 124 homes in Lynchburg, Va., are under evacuation orders with intense flooding in the region. The College Lake Dam, whose complete failure could put the downstream city of 80,000 under 17 feet of water in seven minutes, exceeded its capacity Thursday after four to six inches of rain fell, per WSLS and the BBC. T... |
for completeness we recall here the graphical representation of the green s function .
the details of the diagrammatic method can be found in @xcite .
the green s function @xmath92 can be represented as a sum over diagramms : @xmath227{graph1.eps } \label{eq : fgraph}\ ] ] where the @xmath3-type and @xmath5-type indice... | we present an analytic method to determine spectral properties of the covariance matrices constructed of correlated wishart random matrices .
the method gives , in the limit of large matrices , exact analytic relations between the spectral moments and the eigenvalue densities of the covariance matrices and their est... |
mapping the human proteome presents a significant scientific challenge , partly because of the complexity of the population and partly because of technological limitations .
however , potential rewards in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases make proteomic characterization of human plasma a very worthwhile endeavo... | quantifying the variation in the human plasma proteome is an essential prerequisite for disease - specific biomarker detection .
we report here on the longitudinal and individual variation in human plasma characterized by two - dimensional difference gel electrophoresis ( 2-d dige ) using plasma samples from eleven h... |
at the present time , there are some efforts to explain the observations for the accelerated expansion of the universe , based on the dynamics of a scalar ( quintessence ) or multiscalar field ( quintom ) as models for dark energy , ( see the review @xcite ) .
the properties of the quintom models have been studied from... | we construct the quintom potential of dark energy models in the framework of spatially flat friedmann - robertson walker universe in the inflationary epoch , using the bohm like approach , known as amplitude - real - phase .
we find some potentials for which the wave function of the universe is found analytically an... |
azoles remain the corner - stone of prevention and treatment of aspergillus diseases , including acute invasive aspergillosis ( ia ) .
however , the clinical use of azoles is threatened by the emergence of azole resistance in aspergillus fumigatus , the primary cause of ia in many regions of the world . resistance th... | invasive aspergillosis due to azole - resistant aspergillus fumigatus is difficult to manage .
we describe a case of azole - resistant invasive aspergillosis in a female bottlenose dolphin , who failed to respond to voriconazole and posaconazole therapy . as intravenous therapy
was precluded , high dose posaconazol... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Integrity in Auditing Act of 2002''.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON CONTEMPORANEOUS PERFORMANCE OF AUDIT AND NON-
AUDIT SERVICES.
(a) In General.--Section 10A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(15 U.S.C. 78j-1) is amended by adding at the end... | Integrity in Auditing Act of 2002 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit an independent public accountant from providing: (1) management consulting or any other non-audit-related services during the same calendar year in which it provides auditing services; (2) any service that could either result in ... |
the term hydrophobicity @xcite refers to peculiar thermodynamic properties of the transfer process of an apolar solute into water . in such a process , one generally observes large positive transfer free energy , large negative transfer entropy ( at room temperature ) , and strong temperature dependence of the transfe... | in a previous work , we investigated a two - dimensional lattice - fluid model , displaying some waterlike thermodynamic anomalies .
the model , defined on a triangular lattice , is now extended to aqueous solutions with apolar species .
water molecules are of the `` mercedes benz '' type , i.e. , they possess a @... |
in the nearby universe , galaxies have a bimodal color distribution , with a blue peak of star forming galaxies separated from a red sequence of quiescent galaxies by a sparsely populated gap @xcite .
the number of red galaxies has roughly doubled since @xmath2 @xcite .
red galaxies , on average , are more luminous tha... | we present the first 3d spectroscopic observations of a nearby h i detected poststarburst , or e+a , galaxy , , obtained with the vimos ifu spectrograph at eso vlt . using the nbursts full spectral fitting technique , we derive maps of stellar kinematics , age , and metallicity out to 23 half - light radii . our analy... |
the classification of `` active '' galaxies based on their optical spectra alone provides an incomplete or even deceiving description of the true nature ot this class of objects . in some `` classical '' starburst galaxies ,
x - ray and vlbi observations have found indications for the presence of an active galactic nuc... | we present new mid - infrared ( n - band ) images of a sample of eight nearby seyfert galaxies . in all of our targets ,
we detect a central unresolved source , which in some cases has been identified for the first time .
in particular , we have detected the mid - infrared emission from the active nucleus of ngc49... |
type ia supernovae are now used as fundamental probes of the cosmological parameters , based on a tight empirical relation between their peak luminosity and the width of their light - curve ( riess et al .
1996 , perlmutter et al .
it has been recognized early than sn ia were not `` standard '' candles , since importan... | it is of prime importance to recognize evolution and extinction effects in supernovae results as a function of redshift , for sn ia to be considered as distance indicators .
this review surveys all observational data searching for an evolution and/or extinction , according to host morphology .
for instance , it ha... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Fusion Energy Sciences Act of
2001''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that--
(1) economic prosperity is closely linked to an affordable
and ample energy supply;
(2) environmental quality is closely linked to energy ... | Fusion Energy Sciences Act of 2001 - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) develop a plan for U.S. construction of a magnetic fusion burning plasma experiment; (2) request a plan review for Congress by the National Academy of Sciences; and (3) develop and transmit to Congress a plan for the Fusion Energy Sciences P... |
materials with strong spin - orbit coupling ( soc ) open up exciting possibilities in the rapidly developing area of solid state physics spintronics . such perspective materials are , for example , topological insulators ( ti ) which simultaneously combine the properties of a semiconductor in the bulk and a metal on t... | we study the possibility of pressure - induced transitions from a normal semiconductor to a topological insulator ( ti ) in bismuth tellurohalides using density functional theory and tight - binding method . in bitei
this transition is realized through the formation of an intermediate phase , a weyl semimetal , that... |
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( copd ) is present in approximately one - third of all congestive heart failure ( chf ) patients , and is a key cause of underprescription and underdosing of -blockers , owing largely to concerns about precipitating respiratory deterioration in these patients.14 despite increasing... | backgroundchronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( copd ) is present in approximately one - third of all congestive heart failure ( chf ) patients , and is a key cause of underprescription and underdosing of -blockers , largely owing to concerns about precipitating respiratory deterioration . for these reasons ,
the a... |
S.A.-area father found safe after strange disappearance Super Bowl Sunday
Photo: Courtesy Image 1 of / 8 Caption Close Image 1 of 8 Lee Arms, 44, went missing on Feb. 5, 2017, and was last seen in his vehicle. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Heidi ... | – Super Bowl Sunday was the last time anyone saw Texas man Lee Arms in the San Antonio area, and he hadn't been seen since—until late last week, when the 44-year-old was found safe in Ohio, the San Antonio Express-News reports. And it looks like he was there of his own volition, per the Akron Beacon Journal. "He wanted... |
a relatively symmetric poly(acrylic acid)-polybutadiene copolymer denoted ab1 ( mn = 10,050 g / mol , with hydrophilic fraction , f 0.50 ) yields polymersomes and micelles as a function of ph and salt , whereas the non - ionic poly(ethylene oxide)-polybutadiene denoted ob18 ( mn = 10,400 g / mol , f ~ 0.35 ) yields co... | selective binding of multivalent ligands within a mixture of polyvalent amphiphiles provides , in principle , a mechanism to drive domain formation in self - assemblies .
divalent cations are shown here to crossbridge polyanionic amphiphiles that thereby demix from neutral amphiphiles and form spots or rafts within v... |
the world health organization has estimated that vector - borne diseases account for nearly 17% of the global burden of all infectious diseases.1 mosquitoes are one of the most important disease vectors and can transmit many pathogens including those that cause malaria , dengue , west nile fever and encephalitis , st .... | the local abundance of culex mosquitoes is a central factor adding to the risk of west nile virus transmission , and vector abundance data influence public health decisions .
this study evaluated differences in abundance estimates from mosquitoes trapped using two common methods : co2-baited cdc light traps and infus... |
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama had a rare face-off with a heckler at a Democratic fund-raiser on Tuesday evening before the protesting woman, shouting for gay rights, was escorted out by party supporters.
When Mrs. Obama was roughly 12 minutes into her 20-minute remarks at a home in Northwest Washington, a woman at th... | – Michelle Obama—taking a harder line on heckling than her husband tends to do—confronted a woman who interrupted her speech at a Democratic fundraiser last night, the New York Times reports. After the woman shouted about gay rights, Obama said, "One of the things I don’t do well is this," and moved toward the heckler.... |
a historical description of developments in endocarditis closely reflects concurrent developments in laboratory medicine , particularly microbiology .
much of the innovations and developments relating to infective endocarditis were made by physicians in europe , particularly in france ( table a1 ) .
important contr... | infective endocarditis , a serious infection of the endocardium of the heart , particularly the heart valves , is associated with a high degree of illness and death .
it generally occurs in patients with altered and abnormal heart architecture , in combination with exposure to bacteria through trauma and other potent... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Nurse Loan Forgiveness Act of
2002''.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.
(a) Stafford Loans.--Part B of title IV of the Higher Education Act
of 1965 is amended by inserting after section 428K (20 U.S.C. 1078-11)
the following new section:
``SEC. 428L.... | Nurse Loan Forgiveness Act of 2002 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to include, under HEA student loan forgiveness and cancellation programs, nurses who serve three consecutive complete years in an approved health care facility or setting. |
the study of neutron stars is attractive in part because of the fundamental issues of physics that can be addressed .
these include the behavior of spacetime in strong gravity , the equation of state of matter at supranuclear densities , and the propagation of thermonuclear burning in degenerate matter , an issue which... | the discovery of high - amplitude brightness oscillations during type i x - ray bursts from six low - mass x - ray binaries has provided a powerful new tool to study the properties of matter at supranuclear densities , the effects of strong gravity , and the propagation of thermonuclear burning . there is substantial ... |
post treatment apical periodontitis or endodontic failure is associated with persistence of microbial infection in the root canal system and/or the periradicular area .
microorganisms present in untouched areas such as missed canals , isthmuses , and irregularities may remain unaffected by endodontic disinfection pro... | successful root canal treatment depends on adequate cleaning , shaping , and filling of the root canal system .
the presence of middle mesial ( mm ) root canal of mandibular molars has been reported by various authors . but incidence of four canals in mesial root of mandibular molar is very rare .
the aim of this c... |
extremely low birth weight infants ( elbw ) pose a heavy resource burden in perinatal healthcare . while it is inevitable that elbw infants would have relatively long neonatal intensive care unit ( nicu ) length of stay ( los ) , there may be opportunities for improving and standardizing care , as unexplained variation... | objectiveto develop a length of stay ( los ) model for extremely low birth weight ( elbw ) infants.study designwe included infants from the california perinatal quality care collaborative with birth weight 4011,000 grams who were discharged to home .
exclusion criteria were congenital anomalies , surgery , and death ... |
recent observations of the disk properties of intermediate mass herbig ae and late herbig be stars suggest a close parallel to ttauri stars , revealing the same size range of disks , similar optical surface brightness and similar structure consisting of inner dark disk and a bright ring .
models of magnetically drive... | models of magnetically driven accretion and outflows reproduce many observational properties of ttauri stars , but the picture is much less clear for the herbig ae / be stars , due to the poor knowledge of their magnetic field strength and topology .
the herbig ae star pds2 was previously included in two magnetic ... |
hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and therefore is an important probe for the physical conditions of intergalactic medium throughout the observable universe .
high resolution spectroscopy of quasars shows a large number of absorption lines blueward of ly@xmath0 mostly due to neutral hydrogen compone... | damped ly@xmath0 systems ( dlas ) observed in the quasar spectra are characterized by a high neutral hydrogen column density @xmath1 .
the absorption wing profiles are often fitted using the voigt function due to the fact that the scattering cross section near resonant line center is approximately described by the l... |
on november 3 , 2013 , the ministry of health of saudi arabia was notified of a suspected case of mers - cov infection in a 43-year - old male patient at king abdulaziz university hospital in jeddah .
the patient had cared for ill camels in his herd of 9 animals starting in early october , when the patient noted resp... | we investigated a case of human infection with middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus ( mers - cov ) after exposure to infected camels .
analysis of the whole human - derived virus and 15% of the camel - derived virus sequence yielded nucleotide polymorphism signatures suggestive of cross - species transmission... |
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After an eventful season 11 premiere of 'Dancing With the Stars,' one star had to foxtrot home. Who was sent packing? Find out the results. (Spoiler alert!) >> After an eventful season 11 premiere of 'Dancing With the Stars,' one star had to foxtrot hom... | – Poor David Hasselhoff: He’s already the butt of so many cheeseburger-related jokes, and now he can probably expect some Dancing With the Stars jokes to come his way. Despite being the early favorite to win, last night The Hoff became the first celeb to leave the show this season, PopEater reports. Watch his (apparent... |
the motion of particles in potentials that do not have mirror reflection symmetry has attracted much attention in the last years for several reasons .
the interest extends from fundamental problems concerning the validity of the second law of thermodynamics @xcite to applications in biological @xcite and chemical syste... | the hopping motion of lattice gases through potentials without mirror - reflection symmetry is investigated under various bias conditions .
the model of 2 particles on a ring with 4 sites is solved explicitly ; the resulting current in a sawtooth potential is discussed .
the current of lattice gases in extended sy... |
SECTION 1. MENTAL HEALTH AND STUDENT SERVICE PROVIDERS.
Title X of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 8001 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``PART L--MENTAL HEALTH AND STUDENT SERVICE PROVIDERS
``SEC. 10993. FINDINGS.
``Congress finds the following... | Directs the Secretary of Education, after reserving certain funds for schools in outlying areas and schools run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to make program allotments to States according to a specified formula. Requires States to allocate Federal and State shares of program costs to LEAs according to specified for... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``United Nations Accountability Act of
1997''.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF PAYMENT OF ARREARAGES TO UNITED NATIONS.
Until a certification by the President of reforms in the United
Nations under section 3 is transmitted to the Congress and the
certification i... | United Nations Accountability Act of 1997 - Prohibits the payment of arrearages of U.S. contributions to the United Nations (UN) until the President certifies to, and a joint resolution is approved by, the Congress that the UN has implemented specified reforms, including: (1) a reformulation of the assessed U.S. payme... |
we should like to thank a. hoang and a. leike for useful discussions .
10 x. calmet and h. fritzsch , phys .
b * 496 * , 161 ( 2000 ) [ hep - ph/0008243 ] , x. calmet , phys .
b * 510 * , 221 ( 2001 ) [ hep - th/0008189 ] , x. calmet and h. fritzsch , hep - ph/0103333 . s. l. glashow , nucl . phys .
* 22 * , 57... | we compute the higgs mass in a model for the electroweak interactions based on a confining theory .
this model is related to the standard model by the complementarity principle .
a dynamical effect due to the large typical scale of the higgs boson shifts its mass above that of the w - bosons .
we obtain @xmath0 ... |
SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF SUSPENSION OF DUTY ON CERTAIN CHEMICALS.
Each of the following headings of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of
the United States is amended by striking ``12/31/92'' and inserting
``12/31/94''.
(1) 9902.29.04 (relating to p-Toluenesulfonyl chloride).
(2) 9902.29.13 (r... | Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 1994, the duty on certain organic chemicals. |
as a service to our authors and readers , this journal provides supporting information supplied by the authors .
such materials are peer reviewed and may be reorganized for online delivery , but are not copyedited or typeset .
technical support issues arising from supporting information ( other than missing file... | abstractdirect sersbased quantification of inorganic metal species has been a problem , because they have a small raman crosssection or even no vibrational mode . here , we report a new strategy for sersbased quantification of such metal species , as exemplified by inorganic mercury ( hgii ) in waters .
stepbystep de... |
recently , the central exclusive production of @xmath3 charmonia has attracted a lot of attention from both experimental @xcite and theoretical @xcite sides . at the moment , such a process provides the unique opportunity to test the qcd diffractive kaidalov - khoze - martin - ryskin ( kkmr ) mechanism @xcite based on ... | we discuss exclusive elastic double diffractive axial - vector @xmath0 and tensor @xmath1 mesons production for different meson polarisations in proton-(anti)proton collisions at the tevatron energy .
the amplitude for the process is derived within the @xmath2-factorisation approach using unintegrated gluon distribu... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Small Public Housing Authorities
Paperwork Reduction Act''.
SEC. 2. PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY PLANS FOR CERTAIN QUALIFIED PUBLIC
HOUSING AGENCIES.
(a) In General.--Section 5A(b) of the United States Housing Act of
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437c-1(b))... | Small Public Housing Authorities Paperwork Reduction Act - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to exempt a qualified public housing agency from the requirement to prepare an annual public agency plan if the agency: (1) administers 500 or fewer public housing dwelling units, or section 8 vouchers; and (2) is no... |
Dow Jones is reporting that Apple will unveil its 2017 iPhone lineup at a special event scheduled for Tuesday, September 12. While Apple has yet to issue official invites for the event, the September 12th date does align with previous rumors that recently emerged over the past few days. Assuming that the September 12 d... | – Those waiting to upgrade their iPhones can expect to see the new options on Sept. 12. The Wall Street Journal reports that as the date for the next Apple product unveiling. Assuming that's the case—last-minute production glitches could throw off the schedule—customers should be able to order about 10 days afterward. ... |
Yemeni forces raided an al-Qaida hideout and set off a gunbattle Wednesday as the government vowed to eliminate the group that claimed it was behind the Christmas bombing attempt on a U.S. airliner.
This image provided by IntelCenter Wednesday Dec. 30, 2009 and taken from a video released Jan. 23, 2009 by al-Malahi... | – The US is planning fresh drone strikes on al-Qaeda leaders in Yemen in the wake of the attempted Detroit Christmas bombing. Officials say they are working to identify the militant leaders responsible for the "underwear bomber," and will strike any militant leaders are soon as they are located, the Guardian reports. "... |
the apparent success of the one - body picture in explaining the quasi - elastic @xmath9 results was put in a different perspective when the longitudinal and transverse response functions were experimentally separated . in the one - body picture
the virtual photon is assumed to couple with the individual nucleons in th... | the similarities in the experimental indications for multinucleon mechanisms in @xmath0 and @xmath1 processes are pointed out . for both types of reactions ,
the substantial role of two - nucleon emission processes for transitions to high excitation energies in the residual nucleus is stressed .
a microscopic mode... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``TARP Recipient Ownership Trust Act
of 2009''.
SEC. 2. AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TO DELEGATE TARP
ASSET MANAGEMENT.
Section 106(b) of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
(12 U.S.C. 5216(b)) is amended by inse... | TARP Recipient Ownership Trust Act of 2009 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to delegate to a private entity management authority over troubled assets with respect to any entity assisted under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
Prohibits ... |
the presence of a very compact infrared source in the nucleus of the seyfert galaxy ngc4151 was first suggested by the observations of @xcite , who reported photometric variations of the galaxy nucleus both in the optical and in the near - infrared ( hereafter near - ir ) .
a close inspection of the light curves shown ... | we have used a near - infrared nuclear spectrum ( covering the z , j , h and k bands ) of the nucleus of ngc4151 obtained with the gemini near - infrared integral field spectrograph ( nifs ) and adaptive optics , to isolate and constrain the properties of a near - ir unresolved nuclear source whose spectral signature ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Department of Homeland Security
Headquarters Consolidation Accountability Act of 2015''.
SEC. 2. INFORMATION ON DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY HEADQUARTERS
CONSOLIDATION PROJECT.
(a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of
enactment of th... | (This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the Senate on March 14, 2016. Department of Homeland Security Headquarters Consolidation Accountability Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in coordination with the General Services Administration (GSA), to submit... |
analysis of the large scale structure of the universe allows us to probe the universe throughout its expansion history and provides the most robust route to measuring the late - time evolution of the universe . over the last decade , large sky - area galaxy surveys such as the sloan digital sky survey ( sdss ; @xcite )... | robust measurements based on current large - scale structure surveys require precise knowledge of statistical and systematic errors
. this can be obtained from large numbers of realistic mock galaxy catalogues that mimic the observed distribution of galaxies within the survey volume . to this end
we present a fast... |
the magnetohydrodynamic ( mhd ) waves and oscillations in the solar and probably in the stellar atmospheres are assumed to be generated by coupling of complex magnetic field and plasma .
these mhd waves and oscillations are one of the important candidates for heating the solar / stellar coronae and accelerating the sup... | we report the observations of x - ray oscillations during the flare in a cool active star @xmath0 boo for the first time .
@xmath0 boo was observed by epic / mos of _ xmm - newton _ satellite .
the x - ray light curve is investigated with wavelet and periodogram analyses .
both analyses clearly show oscillations... |
SEOUL South Korea's military on Monday threatened retaliation against North Korea after accusing the North of planting land mines inside the Demilitarised Zone border that wounded two soldiers last week, in what it called a cowardly act of provocation.
There was evidence to conclude that soldiers from the North cro... | – Two South Korean soldiers maimed near the border with North Korea last Tuesday were victims of a North Korean attack, officials say. The South Korean Defense Ministry claims North Korean soldiers crept across the 2.5-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone to plant mines outside the South's guard post near Paju, reports the New... |
medical microbiologists and infection control practitioners in all 91 hospitals in the netherlands were contacted and asked to collect data concerning mrsa outbreaks and the results of subsequent contact screening retrospectively during june
an index case - patient was defined as a hospitalized patient colonized or i... | previous findings have suggested that the nosocomial transmission capacity of livestock - associated methicillin - resistant staphylococcus aureus ( la - mrsa ) is lower than that of other mrsa genotypes .
we therefore performed a 6-month ( june 1november 30 , 2011 ) nationwide study to quantify the single - admissio... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``District of Columbia Mental Health
Civil Commitment Modernization Act of 2004''.
SEC. 2. COMPOSITION, APPOINTMENT, AND ORGANIZATION OF COMMISSION ON
MENTAL HEALTH.
(a) In General.--Section 21-502, District of Columbia Official
Code, is a... | District of Columbia Mental Health Civil Commitment Modernization Act of 2004 - (Sec. 2) Amends the District of Columbia Code to modify the composition of, appointment to, and organization of the Commission on Mental Health.
(Sec. 3) Limits to Commission members who are psychiatrists or qualified psychologists (curren... |
the lower esophageal sphincter is a circular smooth muscle barrier between the stomach and the esophagus .
the main function of this sphincter is to prevent gastric contents from regurgitating into the esophagus and pharynx . reduced pressure and consequent reduction in the gastro - esophageal pressure gradient ( gep... | summarybackgroundmany anesthetics reduce lower esophageal sphincter pressure ( lesp ) and consequently the gastro - esophageal pressure gradient ( gepg ) ; thus they may promote gastro - esophageal reflux and contribute to aspiration pneumonia .
our goals were to evaluate the association between lesp and 2 measures o... |
Story highlights Manning tweets out confirmation: "I'm OK"
Manning remains under close observation
(CNN) U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning, imprisoned for leaking classified documents, has tweeted a message confirming her health and safety following a suicide attempt.
"I am okay. I'm glad to be alive. Thank... | – Chelsea Manning's attorneys confirmed Monday that she had indeed tried to commit suicide last week, but Manning herself sent a message out Monday night to reassure those worried about her, CNN reports. "I am okay. I'm glad to be alive. Thank you all for your love, I will get through this," she tweeted, including a he... |
gorham 's disease also called as vanishing bone disease , acute spontaneous absorption of bone , hemangiomatosis , lymphangiomatosis , is a rare disease characterized by proliferation of thin - walled vascular channels which leads to destruction and resorption of osseous matrix .
numerous names have been used in the ... | gorham 's disease is a rare disorder of uncertain etiology characterized by spontaneous and progressive osteolysis of one or more skeletal bones . till date , less than 200 cases have been reported in the international literature with about 51 cases involving the maxillofacial site .
the radiographic findings associa... |
success in exfoliating monolayer and few - layer graphene sheets from bulk graphite , combined with progress in their epitaxial growth , has opened up a rich new topic in two - dimensional electron systems ( 2des ) @xcite .
graphene 2des are remarkable for several different reasons .
the fact that they are truly two d... | bilayer graphene and its thicker cousins with rhombohedral stacking have attracted considerable attention because of their susceptibility to a variety of broken chiral symmetry states . due to large
density - of - states and quantized berry phases near their gapless band touching points , each spin - valley flavor s... |
once thought of as distinct ten - dimensional consistent perturbative theories , the five superstring theories are now understood as five different asymptotic expansions of a unifying eleven - dimensional m - theory in different corners @xmath2 of its moduli space , with _ string dualities _ providing the transition fu... | based on our work @xcite , we discuss how u - duality arises as an exact symmetry of m - theory from t - duality and 11d diffeomorphism invariance .
a set of weyl generators are shown to realize the weyl group of @xmath0 and @xmath1 , while borel generators extend these finite groups into the full t- and u - duality... |
the @xmath0 antiferromagnetic ( af ) heisenberg model on a square lattice has attracted a lot of attention due to its close relation to the disappearance of the af order in high - t@xmath4 superconducting material @xcite and its possibility of realizing the so called spin liquid state @xcite .
the spin liquids , defi... | we propose a class of variational wavefunctions , namely the correlated valence bond states , for the frustrated hamiltonians in the paramagnetic phase .
this class of wavefunctions admits negative amplitude and the same sublattice pairing when a bipartite lattice is considered , thus suffers from the negative sign ... |
mental well - being is a core component of optimal health , and is a status that individuals can manage stress from daily living and make positive achievements pursuing public interest and contribution to the community . maintaining individual 's mental health is important to improve personal life values , to reduce me... | dietary intake and nutritional status of individuals are important factors affecting mental health and the development of psychiatric disorders .
majority of scientific evidence relating to mental health focuses on depression , cognitive function , and dementia , and limited evidence is available about other psychiat... |
SECTION 1. AMENDMENTS RELATING TO STATUTORY LICENSE FOR SATELLITE
CARRIERS.
Section 119 of title 17, United States Code, is amended as follows:
(1) Subsection (a)(2)(C) is amended--
(A) in clause (i)--
(i) in the heading, by inserting
... | Makes technical corrections to satellite distant signal compulsory copyright license provisions (copyright law regarding secondary transmissions of superstations and network stations for private home viewing). |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Preserving Patient Access to
Physicians Act of 2002''.
SEC. 2. REFORM OF THE MEDICARE PHYSICIAN PAYMENT UPDATE SYSTEM THROUGH
ELIMINATION OF THE SUSTAINABLE GROWTH RATE (SGR) PAYMENT
UPDATE SYSTEM.
(a) In General.--Section ... | Preserving Patient Access to Physicians Act of 2002 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to the Medicare physician payment update system, to: (1) specify the update to the single conversion factor for 2003; (2) prescribe an update for years beginning with 2004; (3) direct the Secreta... |
relationships between information theory and statistical physics have been widely recognized in the last few decades , from a wide spectrum of aspects .
these include conceptual aspects , of parallelisms and analogies between theoretical principles in the two disciplines , as well as technical aspects , of mapping betw... | we draw a certain analogy between the classical information theoretic problem of lossy data compression ( source coding ) of memoryless information sources and the statistical mechanical behavior of a certain model of a chain of connected particles ( e.g. , a polymer ) that is subjected to a contracting force .
the... |
two - decades of ecological research has demonstrated that alcohol - related violence is not simply an individual - level problem but rather must be understood within the community context , and that alcohol availability and the opportunity that this creates for drinking are an integral part of this problem .
both cr... | objectives . despite the increasing evidence of the associations between alcohol availability and violence
, there are still inconsistent findings on the effects of on- and off - sale alcohol outlets on violent crime .
the aim of this study was to examine spatial associations between on - sale alcohol availability ... |
bladder outlet obstruction ( boo ) caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia ( bph ) is the most common cause of male lower urinary tract symptoms ( luts ) . among patients with bph , some require surgery owing to the failure of medical treatment or complications such as acute urinary retention , hematuria , and urinary s... | purposemost men with benign prostatic hyperplasia ( bph ) have bothersome lower urinary tract symptoms ( luts ) . this study aimed to investigate the safety and efficacy of high - performance system ( hps ) laser photoselective vaporization of the prostate ( pvp ) for the treatment of bph in men with detrusor underacti... |
glaucoma is a multifactorial disease associated with optic nerve damage , visual field defects , and often elevated intraocular pressure .
nevertheless , there are several aspects of intraocular pressure that have been researched to clarify its role in the pathology of glaucoma .
central cornea thickness , bioelast... | backgroundthe purpose of this study was to determine any difference in dynamic contour tonometry and ocular pulse amplitude in asymmetric glaucoma patients with the same applanation intraocular pressure.methodsthis is a prospective , observational study of 30 glaucoma patients and 11 controls from june 2007 to february... |
these aldehydes include aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes from the environment , food , and those generated during cell metabolism .
when aldh2 was overexpressed , the deleterious effects of acetaldehyde in the heart were diminished .
a single point mutation in aldh2 greatly reduces aldh2 activity in east asians , w... | aldehyde dehydrogenase ( aldh ) gene superfamily consists of 19 isozymes .
they are present in various organs and involved in metabolizing aldehydes that are biologically generated . for instance , aldh2 , a cardiac mitochondrial aldh isozyme , is known to detoxify 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal , a reactive aldehyde produced u... |
As we now move into the official Political Aftermath period of the Boston bombing -- the period that will determine the long-term legislative fallout of the atrocity -- the dynamics of privilege will undoubtedly influence the nation's collective reaction to the attacks. That's because privilege tends to determine: 1) w... | – Conservatives jumped all over a Salon columnist who wrote a piece last week headlined, "Let's Hope the Boston Marathon Bomber Is a White American"—and when the suspects were revealed, conservatives gloated that they were not, in fact, white Americans. But the Tsarnaev brothers "are quite literally Caucasian, as in fr... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Biofuels Energy Independence Act of
2001''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds as follows:
(1) The over reliance of the United States on imported
petroleum creates a major strategic vulnerability for the
Nation, with near... | Biofuels Energy Independence Act of 2001 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to administer a Biofuels Feedstocks Energy Reserve to: (1) provide feedstocks in furtherance of biofuel-based energy production; and (2) support the biofuels energy industry when production is at risk due to reductions in feedstocks or c... |
the study of the thermodynamic behaviour of a single model molecule in solution has be re - invigorated of late with a variety of new experimental techniques able to tease out more refined features and also with an escalating interest in biopolymers .
it is therefore perhaps surprising to find that alternative simple m... | recently it has been shown that a two - dimensional model of self - attracting polymers based on attracting segments displays two phase transitions , a @xmath0-like collapse between swollen polymers and a globular state and another between the globular state and a polymer crystal .
on the other hand , the canonical ... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Uranium Enrichment Decontamination
and Decommissioning Fund Reauthorization Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF URANIUM ENRICHMENT DECONTAMINATION AND
DECOMMISSIONING FUND.
(a) Amounts in Fund.--Section 1802 of the Atomic Energy Act... | Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decomissioning Fund Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to reauthorize, and increase the maximum mandatory amounts in, the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund.
Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to pay any... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Healthcare Innovation Zone Program
Act of 2009''.
SEC. 2. HEALTHCARE INNOVATION ZONE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.
(a) Establishment.--Not later than 6 months after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall
establish... | Healthcare Innovation Zone Program Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a Healthcare Innovation Zone (HIZ) pilot program, consisting of an HIZ planning grant program and an HIZ demonstration project, to increase health care provider integration and align health care provid... |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``National Endowment for the Arts
Termination Act of 1997''.
SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS AND THE
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS.
Sections 5, 5A, and 6 of the National Foundation on the Arts and
the Humanities A... | National Endowment for the Arts Termination Act of 1997 - Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Council on the Arts (NCA).
Renames such Act the National Foundation on the Humanities Act of 1965.
Requires the Dire... |
diabetes was recently recognized to induce microvascular complications affecting the renal , visual , and peripheral nervous systems .
the clinical manifestation of diabetes mellitus is characterized by vascular and neuropathic complications . in the inner ear
, angiopathy may occur both directly - by interfering w... | background and objectivesmany studies have reported an association between diabetes and hearing loss . however , these reports were mainly abstractive correlations between common hearing loss and the incidence of diabetes .
therefore , we evaluated the impact of diabetes on the occurrence of and recovery from noise -... |
the study of insulating topological states of matter has emerged as an intensely active field of research . for non - interacting systems
there is a variety of topological states which have been identified and subsequently classified based on their elementary symmetries @xcite .
the most prominent example of this kind ... | we study the entanglement spectrum of a chern insulator on a cylinder geometry , with the cut separating the two partitions taken parallel to the cylinder edge , at varying distances from the edge .
in contrast to similar studies on a torus , there is only one cut , and hence only one virtual edge mode in the entang... |
the cosmic microwave background ( cmb ) , interpreted as relic radiation from an early hot dense phase of the universe , is generally acknowledged as one of our primary probes of conditions in the early universe(hu and dodelson 2002 and references therein ) .
mapping the temperature anisotropies of the cmb has been the... | we present the first sky maps from the beast ( background emission anisotropy scanning telescope ) experiment .
beast consists of a 2.2 meter off axis gregorian telescope fed by a cryogenic millimeter wavelength focal plane currently consisting of 6 q band ( 40 ghz ) and 2 ka band ( 30 ghz ) scalar feed horns feedin... |
it is well accepted that galaxies are intimately linked to the gaseous cosmic web and that the evolution of galaxies is governed in large part by the dissipative response of baryonic gas due to the trade off of cooling and dynamical timescales as it accretes into dark matter halos ( e.g. , * ? ? ?
* ; * ? ? ?
* ; * ? ?... | using _ hst_/cos / stis and hires / keck high - resolution spectra , we have studied a remarkable absorbing complex at @xmath0 toward the quasar q1317 + 277 .
the absorption has a velocity spread of @xmath1 , comprises 21 voigt profile components , and resides at an impact parameter of @xmath2 kpc from a bright , h... |
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MOSCOW — Responding to a new round of economic sanctions by the United States, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia lashed out late Wednesday against what he called America’s “aggressive foreign policy,” which he said had caused havoc in the Middle East, an... | – Predictably, Vladimir Putin is none too pleased with the White House's decision to slap tough new sanctions on Moscow's energy firms, major banks, and a weapons manufacturer. Speaking from Brazil yesterday, Putin slammed America's "aggressive foreign policy" and accused the US of encouraging Ukraine to continue fight... |
it is well established that active life style is associated with improved quality of life . however , skin wound is one of the most common causes of inactivity ( lack of movement ) .
the skin wound healing is a complicated process requiring coordination of different tissues and cells , to ensure successful healing . ... | in recent years , the bioactive factors were utilized in exercise and athletic skin injuries . in this research , the concentrated conditioned medium of hypoxia - preconditioned adipose mesenchymal stem cells , which is rich in bioactive factor ,
is applied in full - thickness skin defect model to evaluate the therap... |
determining the nature and origin of the dark matter dominating almost all clustered systems in the universe remains , some 40 years after strong evidence of the existence of dark matter was first presented , one of most important outstanding questions in physics and cosmology . while light neutrinos were the first nat... | in this brief review of recent theoretical developments associated with the search for dark matter i describe the following : why baryons are now ruled out as dark matter candidates ; susy wimps and signatures in the mssm and nmssm why claimed indirect signatures are probably not wimp related , why axions may be of ne... |
in low - dimensional semiconductor nanostructures ( ldsn ) the motion of electrons can be confined spatially , from one , two , and even three spatial directions . in the latter case ,
such nanostructures are known as quantum dots and often termed by physicists as 0-dimensional structures , reflecting the fact that the... | we demonstrate that the conventional application of linear models to the analysis of optoelectromechanical properties of nanostructures in bandstructure engineering could be inadequate .
such linear models are usually derived from the traditional bottom - up approach applied to the analysis of nanostructure properti... |
recently , economy has become an active research area for physicists .
physicists have attempted to apply the concepts and methods of statistical physics , such as the correlation function , multifractal , spin models , complex networks , and information theory to study economic problems @xcite . from the economic s... | we investigate the strength and the direction of information transfer in the u.s .
stock market between the composite stock price index of stock market and prices of individual stocks using the transfer entropy .
through the directionality of the information transfer , we find that individual stocks are influenced... |
basic science has advanced our understanding of nociception and suggests numerous receptors that can be targeted by drugs for pain relief in humans .
unfortunately , few novel compounds have emerged as clinically useful analgesics ( mogil , 2009 ) .
opioids are the mainstay for the management of acute pain ( wu and... | opioids play an important role for the management of acute pain and in palliative care .
the role of long - term opioid therapy in chronic non - malignant pain remains unclear and is the focus of much clinical research .
there are concerns regarding analgesic tolerance , paradoxical pain and issues with dependence ... |
studies of mouse -herpesvirus 68 ( mhv-68 ) have shown that cd4 t cells can control a herpesvirus infection and its malignant consequences in vivo , independent of cd8 t cells and b cells .
mhv-68 establishes asymptomatic chronic infection in mice after respiratory challenge due to an immune response that contains bu... | cd4 + t cells are classically thought to orchestrate adaptive immune responses . but
recent studies demonstrate that they can also kill infected cells directly .
a new paper shows that highly efficient processing of epstein barr virus ( ebv ) glycoproteins for presentation on mhc class ii makes virus - transformed ... |
this study took place in the women s ambulatory health services ( wahs ) clinic at hartford hospital , an inner - city , tertiary care hospital in hartford , conn . in july 2011 ,
the wahs clinic changed its routine gdm screening from the 50-g , two - step process to the 75-g , one - step process .
routine manageme... | in briefscreening for gestational diabetes mellitus is controversial . in their high - risk obstetrical practice ,
the authors did not find a difference in delivery or neonatal outcomes when using a one - step versus a two - step screening process .
they did find lower rates of compliance with screening when using ... |
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