Predicting recovery of cognitive function soon after stroke: differential modeling of logarithmic and linear regression.

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Suzuki, Makoto; Sugimura, Yuko; Yamada, Sumio; Omori, Yoshitsugu; Miyamoto, Masaaki; Yamamoto, Jun-ichi

2013-01-01

Cognitive disorders in the acute stage of stroke are common and are important independent predictors of adverse outcome in the long term. Despite the impact of cognitive disorders on both patients and their families, it is still difficult to predict the extent or duration of cognitive impairments. The objective of the present study was, therefore, to provide data on predicting the recovery of cognitive function soon after stroke by differential modeling with logarithmic and linear regression. This study included two rounds of data collection comprising 57 stroke patients enrolled in the first round for the purpose of identifying the time course of cognitive recovery in the early-phase group data, and 43 stroke patients in the second round for the purpose of ensuring that the correlation of the early-phase group data applied to the prediction of each individual's degree of cognitive recovery. In the first round, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores were assessed 3 times during hospitalization, and the scores were regressed on the logarithm and linear of time. In the second round, calculations of MMSE scores were made for the first two scoring times after admission to tailor the structures of logarithmic and linear regression formulae to fit an individual's degree of functional recovery. The time course of early-phase recovery for cognitive functions resembled both logarithmic and linear functions. However, MMSE scores sampled at two baseline points based on logarithmic regression modeling could estimate prediction of cognitive recovery more accurately than could linear regression modeling (logarithmic modeling, R(2) = 0.676, PLogarithmic modeling based on MMSE scores could accurately predict the recovery of cognitive function soon after the occurrence of stroke. This logarithmic modeling with mathematical procedures is simple enough to be adopted in daily clinical practice.

Simultaneous overpass off nadir (SOON): a method for unified calibration/validation across IEOS and GEOSS system of systems

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Ardanuy, Philip; Bergen, Bill; Huang, Allen; Kratz, Gene; Puschell, Jeff; Schueler, Carl; Walker, Joe

2006-08-01

The US operates a diverse, evolving constellation of research and operational environmental satellites, principally in polar and geosynchronous orbits. Our current and enhanced future domestic remote sensing capability is complemented by the significant capabilities of our current and potential future international partners. In this analysis, we define "success" through the data customers' "eyes": participating in the sufficient and continuously improving satisfaction of their mission responsibilities. To successfully fuse together observations from multiple simultaneous platforms and sensors into a common, self-consistent, operational environment requires that there exist a unified calibration and validation approach. Here, we consider develop a concept for an integrating framework for absolute accuracy; long-term stability; self-consistency among sensors, platforms, techniques, and observing systems; and validation and characterization of performance. Across all systems, this is a non-trivial problem. Simultaneous Nadir Overpasses, or SNO's, provide a proven intercomparison technique: simultaneous, collocated, co-angular measurements. Many systems have off-nadir elements, or effects, that must be calibrated. For these systems, the nadir technique constrains the process. We define the term "SOON," for simultaneous overpass off nadir. We present a target architecture and sensitivity analysis for the affordable, sustainable implementation of a global SOON calibration/validation network that can deliver the much-needed comprehensive, common, self-consistent operational picture in near-real time, at an affordable cost.

Art as a Political Act: Expression of Cultural Identity, Self-Identity, and Gender by Suk Nam Yun and Yong Soon Min

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Caruso, Hwa Young Choi

2005-01-01

This cross-cultural study explored the lives of two contemporary Korean/Korean American women artists--Suk Nam Yun and Yong Soon Min--who live in Seoul, South Korea, and Los Angeles, California. The author's research focused on the artists' identity formation, artistic expression, professional achievements, and the role of art as a political act.…

Female condom -- new barrier device soon to be available.

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Townsend, S

1991-09-01

The "female condom," a new contraceptive which may offer women protection against STDs, could soon be out in the market. Currently being developed, the female condom is a disposable sheath made of latex or plastic which is worn inside the vagina. One such prototype, made of polyurethane plastic, has already undergone extensive testing and is expected to be on the market in Europe in the fall and worldwide in 1992. At 17 cm in length, this female contraceptive resembles a large male condom with a ring at both ends. One ring is placed outside the vulva, while the other ring is positioned inside the vagina. This design prevents contract between the vagina and the penis, theoretically protecting against STDs. Researchers worldwide are presently conducting clinical trials as to the efficacy and acceptability of the female condom. Although data on the efficacy of the new contraceptive is not yet available, some preliminary reports on its acceptability suggest that women seeking protection from STDs and AIDS -- especially high risk women -- will likely use the device if it becomes available. In a study in Cameroon, 36 out of 38 prostitutes said they liked the female condom, and 33 said that they would use it in the future. While both men and women in Thailand preferred the male condoms, women preferred using the female condom than having unprotected sex. Some believe that the new contraceptive will provide the means for a woman to protect herself when her partner is not being cooperative. The female condoms, however, has its drawback. Foremost among then is its price, which could be as high as $2 (8-20 times the price of a male condoms). Other reported disadvantages with the female condom include reduction of pleasure of spontaneity, and its appearance.

Blocking Dopaminergic Signaling Soon after Learning Impairs Memory Consolidation in Guinea Pigs.

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Full Text Available Formation of episodic memories (i.e. remembered experiences requires a process called consolidation which involves communication between the neocortex and hippocampus. However, the neuromodulatory mechanisms underlying this neocortico-hippocampal communication are poorly understood. Here, we examined the involvement of dopamine D1 receptors (D1R and D2 receptors (D2R mediated signaling on memory consolidation using the Novel Object Recognition (NOR test. We conducted the tests in male Hartley guinea pigs and cognitive behaviors were assessed in customized Phenotyper home cages utilizing Ethovision XT software from Noldus enabled for the 3-point detection system (nose, center of the body, and rear. We found that acute intraperitoneal injections of either 0.25 mg/kg SCH23390 to block D1Rs or 1.0 mg/kg sulpiride to block D2Rs soon after acquisition (which involved familiarization to two similar objects attenuated subsequent discrimination for novel objects when tested after 5-hours in the NOR test. By contrast guinea pigs treated with saline showed robust discrimination for novel objects indicating normal operational processes undergirding memory consolidation. The data suggests that involvement of dopaminergic signaling is a key post-acquisition factor in modulating memory consolidation in guinea pigs.

The Expression of the Femininity and Imperialism : Through comparison study of works of Toshiko Tamura and Myung-soon Kim

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金, 玟妵

2005-01-01

Toshiko Tamura and Myung-soon Kim flourished in 1910-20 in Japan and Korea. In those days it was an act of a man to write. The feminine was demanded above all to the thing which a woman wrote by the literary world and the society, so that woman does not invade a domain of a man. A lot of studies about that the motherhood is one of a model of feminine, it was used to mobilize a woman for war, while militarism advances. Then is what kind of position was there the femininity at socially and cult...

Transactions of the Conference of Army Mathematicians (26th) Held at Hanover, New Hampshire on 10 - 12 June 1980.

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1981-01-01

swee r the Mlor-Le ’a ie tayl e to li thin thle acca - rae. i tti h n IIrfleI-ieCaL I dit a . Iceo inl t ii hreJries o. however, the iorteot the( pA1...bifurcations, which surprised us, the perturbed problem has solutions which may be approximated by the scheme proposed in fFM ]. In a way, the asser- tion

MONA, LISA and VINCI Soon Ready to Travel to Paranal

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2000-11-01

First Instruments for the VLT Interferometer Summary A few months from now, light from celestial objects will be directed for the first time towards ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at the Paranal Observatory (Chile). During this "First Light" event and the subsequent test phase, the light will be recorded with a special test instrument, VINCI (VLT INterferometer Commissioning Instrument). The main components of this high-tech instrument are aptly named MONA (a system that combines the light beams from several telescopes by means of optical fibers) and LISA (the infrared camera). VINCI was designed and constructed within a fruitful collaboration between ESO and several research institutes and industrial companies in France and Germany . It is now being assembled at the ESO Headquarters in Garching (Germany) and will soon be ready for installation at the telescope on Paranal. With the VLTI and VINCI, Europe's astronomers are now entering the first, crucial phase of an exciting scientific and technology venture that will ultimately put the world's most powerful optical/IR interferometric facility in their hands . PR Photo 31/00 : VINCI during tests at the ESO Headquarters in Garching. The VLT Interferometer (VLTI) ESO Press Photo 31/00 ESO Press Photo 31/00 [Preview; JPEG: 400 x 301; 43k] [Normal; JPEG: 800 x 602;208xk] [Full-Res; JPEG: 1923 x 1448; 2.2Mb] PR Photo 31/00 shows the various components of the complex VINCI instrument for the VLT Interferometer , during the current tests at the Optical Laboratory at the ESO Headquarters in Garching (Germany). It will later be installed in "clean-room" conditions within the Interferometric Laboratory at the Paranal Observatory. This electronic photo was obtained for documentary purposes. VINCI (VLT INterferometer Commissioning Instrument) is the "First Light" instrument for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at the Paranal Observatory (Chile). Early in 2001, it will be used for the first tests

Opioid shopping behavior: how often, how soon, which drugs, and what payment method.

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Cepeda, M Soledad; Fife, Daniel; Chow, Wing; Mastrogiovanni, Gregory; Henderson, Scott C

2013-01-01

Doctor shopping (obtaining opioid prescriptions from multiple prescribers) is one example of opioid abuse and diversion. The authors assessed how soon shopping behavior was observed after opioid exposure, number of events per shopper, preferred opioids, and method of payment. This was a cohort study. Individuals with ≤1 dispensing for any opioid in 2008 were followed for 18 months. Shopping behavior was defined as ≤2 prescriptions by different prescribers with ≤1 day of overlap and filled at ≤3 pharmacies. Of 25,161,024 subjects, 0.30% exhibited shopping behavior. Opioid-experienced subjects were 13.7 times more likely to exhibit shopping behavior and had more shopping episodes than opioid-naive subjects. Time to first shopping event was 246.90 ± 163.61 days. Number of episodes was 2.74 ± 4.66. Most subjects with shopping behavior (55.27%) had 1 shopping episode, whereas 9.52% had ≤6 episodes; 88.99% had ≤4 prescribers. Subjects with shopping behavior filled schedule II opioids more often than subjects without shopping behavior (19.51% vs 10.89%) and more often paid in cash (44.85% vs 18.54%). Three of 1000 people exposed to opioids exhibit shopping behavior, on average, 8 months after exposure. Opioid shoppers seek strong opioids, avoid combination products, often pay cash, and obtain prescriptions from few prescribers. © 2012 The Author(s).

Hydrochemistry in the Tropical Forested River: A Case Study in Nee Soon Catchment Streams

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Nguyen, T. C. T.; WIN, S. H.; Lim, M. H.; Pai, K.; Khairun Nisha, B. M. R.; Ziegler, A. D.; Wasson, R.; Cantarero, S. I.

2016-12-01

A total of 779 water samples from the Nee Soon Nature Reserve, a 5km2 catchment in humid tropical Singapore, were collected in low-flow (May 2014 to Nov 2015) and high-flow (May 2014 to June 2015) conditions for determination of spatial and temporal distributions of major ions (Na+, Ca2+, K+, Mg2+, Cl-, HCO3-, NO3-, SO42- and F-) in the streams. In low-flow conditions all cations and Cl-, HCO3-, SO42- showed significant enrichment in the lower compared to the upper catchment, whereas, NO3- and F- had the opposite pattern. In high-flow conditions, the spatial distribution patterns of the ions was largely unchanged across the catchment except that F- was enriched in the lower compared to the upper catchment. Except for Cl-, HCO3- and NO3-, all other ions were higher in storm periods. Among possible sources (atmospheric input, anthropogenic impact and rock weathering), rainfall played an important role in controlling river Cl- and Na+; silicate rock weathering was possibly the source for Ca2+,Mg2+, HCO3- and some of the Na+; all of the SO42- probably comes from pollution by anthropogenic activities. This study provides new data and insights for the understudied South East Asia region.

Write Soon!

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Rasinski, Timothy; Padak, Nancy

2009-01-01

This article explores the possibilities of using natural writing opportunities that occur in family life to nurture children's literacy development. From notes to lists to journals to parodies, families can use writing to nurture personal relationships and simultaneously improve literacy. Specific tips for teachers to share with parents in making…

The boundaries of mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): design of the searching clinical COPD onset (SOON) study.

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Labarca, Gonzalo; Bustamante, Andrea; Valdivia, Gonzalo; Díaz, Rodrigo; Huete, Álvaro; Mac Nab, Paul; Mendoza, Laura; Leppe, Jaime; Lisboa, Carmen; Saldías, Fernando; Díaz, Orlando

2017-08-11

Clinical onset of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the point at which the disease is first identifiable by physicians. It is a poorly defined stage which seems to include both mild spirometric and non-spirometric disease, and could be described as early grade COPD, for practical purposes. While dyspnoea; chronic bronchitis and CT imaging evidence of emphysema and airway disease may be present very early, the lone significance of dyspnoea, the most relevant symptom in COPD in identifying these individuals, has been scarcely assessed.The Searching Clinical COPD Onset (SOON) Study was designed primarily to detect clinical, physiological and structural differences between dyspnoeic and non-dyspnoeic individuals with early grade COPD. It is hypothesised that presence of dyspnoea in early disease may identify a subtype of individuals with reduced exercise capacity, notwithstanding of their spirometry results. In addition, dyspnoeic individuals will share worse quality of life, lower physical activity, greater lung hyperinflation greater emphysema and airway thickness and reduced peripheral muscle mass than their non-dyspnoeic counterpart. SOON is a monocentric study, with a cross sectional design aimed at obtaining representative samples of current or ex-smoker-adults aged ≥45 and ≤80 years. Two hundred and forty participants will be enrolled into four strata, according to normal spirometry or mild spirometric obstruction and presence or not of dyspnoea modified Medical Research Council score ≥1. The primary outcome will be the difference between dyspnoeic and non-dyspnoeic individuals on the 6-min walk test performance, regardless of their spirometry results. To account for the confounding effect of heart failure on dyspnoea, stress echocardiography will be also performed. Secondary outcomes will include clinical (quality of life, physical activity), physiological (exercise testing) and structural characteristics (emphysema, airway disease and

Early amino acid administration in very preterm infants: Too little, too late or too much, too soon?

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Morgan, Colin

2013-03-09

Early postnatal growth failure is well described in very preterm infants. It reflects the nutritional deficits in protein and energy intake that accumulate in the first few weeks after birth. This coincides with the period of maximum parenteral nutrition (PN) dependency, so that protein intake is largely determined by intravenous amino acid (AA) administration. The contribution of PN manufacture, supply, formulation, prescribing and administration to the early postnatal nutritional deficit is discussed, focusing on total AA intake. The implications of postnatal deficits in AA and energy intake for growth are reviewed, with particular emphasis on early head/brain growth and long-term neurodevelopmental outcome. The rationale for maximising AA acid intake as soon as possible after birth is explained. This includes the benefits for very early postnatal nutritional intake and metabolic adaptation after birth. These benefits relate to total AA intake and so have to be interpreted with some caution, given the very limited evidence base surrounding the balance of individual AAs in neonatal PN formulations. This work mostly predates current nutritional recommendations and therefore may not provide a true reflection of individual AA utilisation in current clinical practice. Copyright © 2013. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Chikungunya virus and Aedes mosquitoes: saliva is infectious as soon as two days after oral infection.

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Full Text Available BACKGROUND: Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are potential vectors of chikungunya virus (CHIKV. The recent CHIKV outbreaks were caused by a new variant characterized by a mutation in the E1 glycoprotein gene (E1-226V which has favored a better transmissibility by Ae. albopictus. As Ae. albopictus tends to replace Ae. aegypti in many regions, one question remained: is Ae. albopictus as efficient as Ae. aegypti to transmit the variant E1-226V of CHIKV? METHODOLOGY AND FINDINGS: We infected orally both species with the variant E1-226V and estimated the infection, the viral dissemination, and the transmission rate by real time RT-PCR. Additionally, we used an in vitro assay to determine the amount of virus delivered by mosquitoes in their saliva. We found that Ae. aegypti as well as Ae. albopictus ensured a high replication of the virus which underwent an efficient dissemination as detectable in the salivary glands at day 2 post-infection (pi. Infectious CHIKV particles were delivered by salivary glands from day 2 with a maximum at day 6 pi for Ae. albopictus (10(3.3 PFU and day 7 pi for Ae. aegypti (10(2.5 PFU. CONCLUSIONS: Ae. albopictus is slightly more efficient than Ae. aegypti to transmit the variant E1-226V of CHIKV. These results will help to design an efficient vector control to limit transmission as soon as the first human cases are diagnosed.

P.S. Write Soon!

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Edwards, Pat

Intended for use by students, this illustrated Australian classroom unit was designed to encourage young people to develop a lifelong habit of letter writing. The booklet begins with a letter to children from the Australian "Post," and excerpts from two poems about letter writing. A section on how letters can link the world emphasizes…

Illiteracy Starts Too Soon.

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Larrick, Nancy

1987-01-01

Proposes that the illiteracy problem should be addressed by encouraging children's love of reading while they are developing reading skills. Analyzes why current programs are ineffective and recommends following the approach of the "Open Sesame Program" in New York City, which employs creative methods to teach English to Spanish-speaking…

Music season coming soon

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2012-01-01

On 16 June, CERN’s music season will open with Music on the Lawn. The event is the CERN Music Club’s contribution to the Fete de la Musique and will take place on the terrace of Restaurant 1 from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Hardronic Festival, CERN’s long-running rock festival, will be held on the evenings of 20 and 21 July in Prévessin, on the terrace behind Restaurant 3. If you would like to help with the organisation, please contact the Music Club by e-mail: music.club@cern.ch.   The Canettes Blues Band during the 2011 Hardronic Festival. (© Christoph Balle, 2010). Summer is coming, and along with it comes the music season. CERN will be hosting its two annual rock music concerts: Music on the Lawn and the Hardronic Festival. The two events are organised by the CERN Music Club, which has been sharing the enjoyment of good music with its numerous fans for many years. “Music on the Lawn was originally created so that the members of the Mus...

Himalayan/Karakoram Disaster After Disaster: The Pain Will Not Be Ending Anytime Soon

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Kargel, J. S.; Leonard, G. J.

2013-12-01

Are recent natural disasters in the Himalaya/Karakoram partly human-caused? Will disasters diminish or increase in frequency? Natural disasters in this region are nothing new. Earthquakes, floods, landslides, avalanches, and debris flows have occurred in the Himalaya/Karakoram since the mountains first grew from the sea. Simply put, the Himalaya/Karakoram, being South Asia's 'water tower' and an active plate tectonic collision zone, must shed water and debris to the lowlands and the sea. When this activity occurs swiftly and with high intensity at or near human settlements, the results are often deadly. Remote sensing analysis of recent disasters coupled with demography, news accounts, and field studies indicate that there is a component of human responsibility. Two overarching human elements include (1) settlement and infrastructure encroachment into hazardous mountain areas and (2) aggravation of climate change. Both are substantially responsible--separately or together--for most of the recent tragedies. These conclusions provide the answer to when the disasters will end: not soon. Unfortunately, disasters will almost surely increase. Whether natural disasters have increased in frequency over the region's long historical record may be debated and must be researched. This expected link is a challenge to assess due to the stochastic nature of disasters and their triggering events (e.g., earthquakes and extreme weather events). While Himalayan tectonism, rock mechanics, glaciation, and climate are fundamental causes of the disasters, so are human land uses. Encroaching development into ever-hazardous zones is a paramount cause of much human tragedy. Climate change is harder to pin down specifically as a cause of some of these disasters, because some disasters are linked to rare extreme weather events and mass movements, which may be statistically but not individually attributable in part to climate change. Nevertheless, evidence supports a major role of climate

Role of transabdominal ultrasound of lung bases and follow-up in premature neonates with respiratory distress soon after birth

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Ahuja, Chirag Kamal; Saxena, Akshay Kumar; Sodhi, Kushaljeet Singh; Kumar, Praveen; Khandelwal, Niranjan

2012-01-01

Chest radiography has been the traditional method of diagnostic evaluation of patients of hyaline membrane disease (HMD). Lung sonography (USG) has been lately explored as an alternative modality. To explore the application of transabdominal USG of lung bases (TASL) in the evaluation of HMD in premature neonates with respiratory distress soon after birth. Tertiary care institutional setup. Study duration–18 months. Follow-up–variable, up to 1 month. Prospective descriptive study. Eighty-eight consecutive patients admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with gestational age <32 weeks having respiratory distress within 6 h of birth were enrolled. The diagnosis of HMD was made if the patient had negative gastric shake test and/or suggestive chest radiograph. TASL was performed in all patients within the first 24 h of life and biweekly subsequently. USG was interpreted as normal, HMD pattern, or broncho-pulmonary dysplasia (BPD) pattern. Biweekly follow-up was done for patients showing HMD till normalization of the sonographic HMD pattern, development of the sonographic BPD pattern, or death/discharge of the neonate from the hospital. TASL showed 85.7% sensitivity, 75% specificity, 88.88% positive predictive value, and 69.2% negative predictive value for the diagnosis of HMD. The abnormal sonographic findings on day 14 had 94.1% accuracy for prediction of eventual occurrence of clinical BPD. TASL is complementary to chest radiograph in the diagnosis of HMD. It is also useful for the early prediction of BPD with the potential of reducing the cumulative radiation dose to these neonates

How soon is too soon? When to cancel a warning after a damaging tsunami

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Fryer, G. J.; Becker, N. C.; Wang, D.; Weinstein, S.; Richards, K.

2012-12-01

Following an earthquake a tsunami warning center (TWC) must determine if a coastal evacuation is necessary and must do so fast enough for the warning to be useful to affected coastlines. Once a damaging tsunami has arrived, the TWC must decide when to cancel its warning, a task often more challenging than the initial hazard assessment. Here we demonstrate the difficulties by investigating the impact of the Tohoku tsunami of 11 March 2011 on the State of Hawaii, which relies on the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) for tsunami hazard guidance. PTWC issued a Tsunami Watch for Hawaii at 10 March 1956 HST (10 minutes after the earthquake) and upgraded to a Tsunami Warning at 2131 HST. The tsunami arrived in Hawaii just before 0300 HST the next day, reached a maximum runup of over 5 m, and did roughly $50 million in damage throughout the state. PTWC downgraded the Warning to an Advisory at 0730 HST, and canceled the Advisory at 1140 HST. The timing of the downgrade was appropriate—by then it was safe for coastal residents to re-enter the evacuation zone but not to enter the water—but in retrospect PTWC cancelled its Advisory too early. By late morning tide gauges throughout the state had all registered maximum wave heights of 30 cm or less for a couple of hours, so PTWC cancelled. The Center was unaware, however, of ocean behavior at locations without instruments. At Ma'alaea Harbor on the Island of Maui, for example, sea level oscillations exposed the harbor bottom every 20 minutes for several hours after the cancellation. At Waikiki on Oahu, lifeguards rescued 25 swimmers (who had either ignored or were unaware of the cancellation message's caution about hazardous currents) in the hours after the cancellation and performed CPR on one near-drowning victim. Fortunately, there were no deaths. Because of dangerous surges, ocean safety officials closed Hanauma Bay, a popular snorkeling spot on Oahu, for a full day after the tsunami hit. They reassessed the bay the following morning just as waves reflected from South America started to arrive (36 hours after the earthquake), and prudently chose to keep the bay closed for two further days. The Tohoku tsunami showed that resonances and trapped waves in shallow water can last for many hours and that energy reflected from distant shorelines can rejuvenate them. PTWC's real-time simulation of the tsunami, including animation of its propagation, now helps to identify which reflections will be most troublesome and should permit the Center to specify in advance how long a Warning should remain in effect. The current open-ended warnings, which specify when the tsunami will arrive but not how long the Warning should last, should be replaced with warnings active for a specified time ("until 3 a.m. tomorrow"), with PTWC adjusting the projected cancellation time based on coastal sea-level observations. Such warnings should greatly reduce public misconceptions and state and local government expectations about how long the hazard will last. The National Weather Service, parent agency of the US TWCs, already issues weather Warnings and Advisories active for specific durations, so this message format is already familiar to both the public and emergency managers.

Early estimation of acute myocardial infarct size soon after coronary reperfusion using emission computed tomography with technetium-99m pyrophosphate

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Hashimoto, T.; Kambara, H.; Fudo, T.; Tamaki, S.; Nohara, R.; Takatsu, Y.; Hattori, R.; Tokunaga, S.; Kawai, C.

1987-01-01

Early appearance of positive findings on a technetium-99m pyrophosphate scan has been shown to be associated with the presence of a reperfused acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Early technetium-99m pyrophosphate imaging was performed by emission computed tomography to evaluate reperfusion and to test the feasibility of estimating infarct size soon after coronary reperfusion based on acute positive tomographic findings. Twenty-seven patients with transmural AMI who were treated with intracoronary urokinase infusion followed by percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty underwent pyrophosphate imaging 8.7 +/- 2.1 hours after the onset of AMI. None of the 8 patients in whom reperfusion was unsuccessful had acute positive findings. Of 19 patients in whom reperfusion was successful, 17 had acute positive findings (p less than 0.001). In these 17, tomographic infarct volumes were determined from reconstructed transaxial images. The threshold for areas of increased pyrophosphate uptake within the infarct was set at 60% of peak activity by the computerized edge-detection algorithm. The total number of pixels in all transaxial sections showing increased tracer uptake were added and multiplied by a size factor and 1.05 g/cm3 muscle to determine infarct volume. The correlations of tomographic infarct volumes with peak serum creatine kinase (CK) levels (r = 0.82) and with cumulative release of CK-MB isoenzyme (r = 0.89) were good. Moreover, the time to positive imaging was significantly shorter than that to peak CK level (8.5 +/- 2.3 vs 10.4 +/- 2.2 hours, p less than 0.005)

Differentiating for loyalty / Ivar Soone

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Soone, Ivar, 1975-

2004-01-01

Autor väidab, et kui on suudetud tekitada tarbija seotus ja sellel põhinev lojaalsus, saab turundaja võtta kasumit seda enam, mida kõrgema astme lojaalsusega on tegemist. Selline kasumi juhtimine muutub jätkusuutlikkuse ning konkurentsieelise hoidmisel üha olulisemaks. Graafikud. Tabelid

China: Big Changes Coming Soon

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Rowen, Henry S.

2011-01-01

Big changes are ahead for China, probably abrupt ones. The economy has grown so rapidly for many years, over 30 years at an average of nine percent a year, that its size makes it a major player in trade and finance and increasingly in political and military matters. This growth is not only of great importance internationally, it is already having…

Reprocessing costs more stable soon

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Messer, K.P.

1985-01-01

The period of steep rises in costs of the fuel circuit seems to be ending. The prospects for a stabilization of the market in the next few years are favourable. This favourable expectation is supported by the analysis of the nuclear fuel circuit costs. (orig.) [de

It must get better soon

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McBarnet, Andrew

2000-01-01

The article highlights the depressed state of the marine seismic industry: it is unlikely that oil company spending will come to its aid before well into 2001. Although some areas have faded, areas such as offshore Brazil, W. Africa, Nile Delta, Australia, Canada and the Far East are seen as areas for business. However, Veritas D GC is one of the rare seismic 'bulls': it has decided to invest in a third state of the art Viking class 3D seismic vessel and is planning to be in a strong position when the market eventually improves

Coming Soon: More Cyber Careers?

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education, and utilization of inter-service education programs including the Air Force Institute of foundational education that we expect them to have," he said. "This is a competitive space, so, we're closed. You will not be able to post a comment in this post. Follow Us! Follow Us on Facebook Follow Us

ELENA Project - Experiment soon complete

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Brice, Maximilien

2016-01-01

ELENA is a compact ring for cooling and further deceleration of 5.3 MeV antiprotons delivered by the CERN Antiproton Decelerator. The AD physics program is focused on trapping antiprotons in Penning traps where antihydrogen is formed after recombination with positrons. The ultimate physics goal is to perform spectroscopy on antihydrogen atoms at rest and to investigate the effect of the gravitational force on matter and antimatter.

Coming Soon: LHC's Big Chill

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2003-01-01

Installation of the LHC cryogenic distribution line has begun. The line is crucial to the project, as it is to be used to distribute the liquid helium for cooling the superconducting magnets down to 1.8 K.

Glacial–interglacial dynamics of Antarctic firn columns: comparison between simulations and ice core air-δ15N measurements

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E. Capron

2013-05-01

Full Text Available Correct estimation of the firn lock-in depth is essential for correctly linking gas and ice chronologies in ice core studies. Here, two approaches to constrain the firn depth evolution in Antarctica are presented over the last deglaciation: outputs of a firn densification model, and measurements of δ15N of N2 in air trapped in ice core, assuming that δ15N is only affected by gravitational fractionation in the firn column. Since the firn densification process is largely governed by surface temperature and accumulation rate, we have investigated four ice cores drilled in coastal (Berkner Island, BI, and James Ross Island, JRI and semi-coastal (TALDICE and EPICA Dronning Maud Land, EDML Antarctic regions. Combined with available ice core air-δ15N measurements from the EPICA Dome C (EDC site, the studied regions encompass a large range of surface accumulation rates and temperature conditions. Our δ15N profiles reveal a heterogeneous response of the firn structure to glacial–interglacial climatic changes. While firn densification simulations correctly predict TALDICE δ15N variations, they systematically fail to capture the large millennial-scale δ15N variations measured at BI and the δ15N glacial levels measured at JRI and EDML – a mismatch previously reported for central East Antarctic ice cores. New constraints of the EDML gas–ice depth offset during the Laschamp event (~41 ka and the last deglaciation do not favour the hypothesis of a large convective zone within the firn as the explanation of the glacial firn model–δ15N data mismatch for this site. While we could not conduct an in-depth study of the influence of impurities in snow for firnification from the existing datasets, our detailed comparison between the δ15N profiles and firn model simulations under different temperature and accumulation rate scenarios suggests that the role of accumulation rate may have been underestimated in the current description of firnification

P.S. Write Soon! Teachers' Notes.

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Edwards, Pat

Prepared to accompany an Australian letter writing guide for students, this teachers' guide provides suggestions for integrating letter writing into the school curriculum, either through regularly scheduled activities during the school year, or through special letter writing units of a few weeks. Topics covered in the guide include: (1) the craft…

Long-baseline experiments, now and soon!

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2012-11-01

Nov 1, 2012 ... forward since the acceptance of the neutrino oscillation hypothesis following ... ations from this neutrino mixing 'Standard Model' yet. ... technology from ICARUS, which now has neutrino measurements at CERN Neutrinos to.

Long-baseline experiments, now and soon!

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

2012-11-01

Nov 1, 2012 ... Technologically, the big step for mankind is the proof of the liquid ... OPERA has analysed double their data but is yet to find more tau .... The best-fit values of sin2 2θ13 range between 0.04 and 0.11, but more con- .... if sterile neutrinos, which would not interact via the Z boson exchange, were being pro-.

Mis imeloom on FATCA? / Ants Soone

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Soone, Ants

2013-01-01

Ameerika Ühendriikide seaduseelnõust, mille eesmärk on parandada rahvusvahelist maksukuulekust ja muu hulgas kindlustada USA-le täiendavad maksulaekumised. FATCA = Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act

Alternative fuels: how real? how soon?

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Tertzakian, P.

2003-01-01

Nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are looking for politically stable sources of oil in response to the ever growing demand for fuel. World oil consumption has reached 76.5 MMB/d and demand is expected to be 80 MMB/d by 2005. More restrictive environmental policies are resulting in improved conversion efficiency of oil dependent supply chains and the switching to alternative fuels. The adoption of new fuels however, depends on many factors such as the economic advantage, technological superiority, and convenience. The dominant electrical supply chains at the moment are nuclear, coal, hydropower, hydrocarbons, and renewable energy alternatives such as wind, solar and hydrogen fuels. The paper presented graphs illustrating adoption patterns for various fuels over the past century and presented a potential adoption pattern for fuel cell vehicles. Also included in this presentation were graphs depicting how price can drive supply chain demand and allow other fuels to gain market share. The impact of fuel substitution, efficiency and price effects was mentioned along with the impact of recent policy changes on vehicle fuel efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions. The role of government incentives to promote alternative fuel sales was also discussed along with a broad assessment of renewable supply chains. It was noted that most new fuels are linked to hydrocarbons. For example, hydrogen generation through water electrolysis requires petroleum generated electricity or the steam reforming of natural gas. Ethanol processes also require hydrocarbon consumption indirectly. It was noted that the average efficiencies of coal and natural gas plants has increased in the past decade and the incumbent price trends in electricity in the United States have decreased for fuels such as oil, gas, coal and nuclear energy. With ongoing innovation in the internal combustion engine in the past 30 years, the incumbents have also improved with technological change. It was concluded that there is no mass market alternative fuel on the horizon. The incumbent supply chains are not easy to beat because of their economics, convenience, and technological superiority. While niche markets are viable, they usually rely on subsidies. 17 figs

Soon at a theater near you...

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While at CERN recently gathering images and input for his new movie based on Dan Brown's best-seller "Angels and Demons", director Ron Howard and his technical designer managed to fit in a visit to the ATLAS cavern accompanied by Rolf "Antimatter" Landua from CERN and members of the CERN Press Office. Both were very impressed with the ATLAS installations, with Ron Howard's parting words being...."Tom's going to love this"! So, all you cavern-dwellers... keep your eyes open... for 'Tom'! Ron Howard, director of the "Da Vinci Code" movie, checked out the scene in the ATLAS cavern, preparing for his new project, "Angels and Demons".

Cardiovascular rehabilitation soon after stroke using feedback-controlled robotics-assisted treadmill exercise: study protocol of a randomised controlled pilot trial.

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Stoller, Oliver; de Bruin, Eling D; Schuster-Amft, Corina; Schindelholz, Matthias; de Bie, Rob A; Hunt, Kenneth J

2013-09-22

After experiencing a stroke, most individuals also suffer from cardiac disease, are immobile and thus have low endurance for exercise. Aerobic capacity is seriously reduced in these individuals and does not reach reasonable levels after conventional rehabilitation programmes. Cardiovascular exercise is beneficial for improvement of aerobic capacity in mild to moderate stroke. However, less is known about its impact on aerobic capacity, motor recovery, and quality-of-life in severely impaired individuals. The aim of this pilot study is to explore the clinical efficacy and feasibility of cardiovascular exercise with regard to aerobic capacity, motor recovery, and quality-of-life using feedback-controlled robotics-assisted treadmill exercise in non-ambulatory individuals soon after experiencing a stroke. This will be a single-centred single blind, randomised control trial with a pre-post intervention design. Subjects will be recruited early after their first stroke (≤20 weeks) at a neurological rehabilitation clinic and will be randomly allocated to an inpatient cardiovascular exercise programme that uses feedback-controlled robotics-assisted treadmill exercise (experimental) or to conventional robotics-assisted treadmill exercise (control). Intervention duration depends on the duration of each subject's inpatient rehabilitation period. Aerobic capacity, as the primary outcome measure, will be assessed using feedback-controlled robotics-assisted treadmill-based cardiopulmonary exercise testing. Secondary outcome measures will include gait speed, walking endurance, standing function, and quality-of-life. Outcome assessment will be conducted at baseline, after each 4-week intervention period, and before clinical discharge. Ethical approval has been obtained. Whether cardiovascular exercise in non-ambulatory individuals early after stroke has an impact on aerobic capacity, motor recovery, and quality-of-life is not yet known. Feedback-controlled robotics

Stop nuclear testing as soon as possible

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Meerburg, A.J.

1975-01-01

The article is the text of a speech presented by the Netherlands' delegate to the 1975 Conference of the Committee on Disarmament. The delegate endorses a proposal to study the possibilities of a reduction in military budgets via a comparative evaluation of the budgets of several states. Reduction of national budgets might serve as a safeguard. An expert group was instituted by CCD to realize this proposal. Further, a ban on peaceful nuclear explosions with perhaps a few internationally-licensed exceptions is advocated

Coming Soon to a Pharmacy Near You.

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Dubois, Wil

2016-01-01

Recent FDA approvals introduce both cheaper insulin in the form of a biosimilar and lipid-lowering agents with prices that rival the cost of cancer drugs. They also give us brand new ways to lower blood glucose and repair the damage done when glucose control fails. Hundreds more are in the pipeline, of which one or two per year will win marketing approval from the FDA.

Coming Soon: A New Generation of Assessments

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Doorey, Nancy A.

2013-01-01

A short 27 months ago, two groups of U.S. states were each awarded more than $175 million to design, develop, and pilot test a new generation of assessments (U.S. Department of Education, 2010). These new tests will replace assessments in English language arts and mathematics that are currently in use within state and federal accountability…

China Likely to Resume Oil Futures Soon

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Chang Tianle

2002-01-01

@@ China is likely to resume operation of its oil futures this year, according to reports from the media about a futures conference organized by the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) in late May. "As China has become an important oil producer and consumer,the demand for our own oil futures market emerges,which will help China oil-related enterprises hedge risks," said Li Ruisheng, vice president of PetroChina's refining and marketing company.

Coming soon to a planetarium near you

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Pauline Gagnon

2011-01-01

Seeking to popularise the broad research programme undertaken by the LHC experiments, three members of the ATLAS collaboration, Michael Barnett, Kaushik De and Reinhard Schwienhorst, had the idea of reaching new audiences through a planetarium show. Given the thousands of planetariums worldwide, this project could have an astronomical impact…   A snapshot from the ATLAS planetarium show looking distorted when not projected onto a dome (courtesy of Joao Pequenao). "The full-length show will go from the Big Bang to galaxies to underground experiments and possibly AMS before coming to ATLAS for the final third or fourth,” explains Michael Barnett from Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBL). While much of the media attention has focused on the Higgs boson, this project will show how an experiment like ATLAS can search for dark matter and explain other great mysteries in physics. “We are working with George Smoot, experts from seven major planetariums worldwide, and m...

Optical biosensors: where next and how soon?

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Cooper, Matthew A

2006-12-01

From a direct comparison of the technical benefits of labelled reporter assays with the benefits of label-free assays, label-free appears to have significant advantages. Faster assay development times; accurate, high information content data; and less interference from labels. However, optical label-free platforms have not yet made a major impact in the drug discovery technology markets; are often viewed as having poor throughput, limited application; and are difficult to learn and use effectively.

Money Soon Growing On Trees for SMEs?

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2006-01-01

Banks in Shanghai greenlight loans to SMEs At a June 19 fair on banking financing for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Shanghai, the discussion inside was just as heated as the temperature outside. "We hope that banks' lending policies will not change," said Mr. Wang, who runs a retail shop selling electrical appliances in the Putuo District of Shanghai. "Just a small shift and there goes our cash flow. With the increase in interest rates, we are concerned

Curiosity rover LEGO® version could land soon

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Showstack, Randy

2012-09-01

Now that NASA's Curiosity rover has landed on Mars, a smaller LEGO® plastic brick construction version could be landing in toy stores. Less than 2 weeks after Curiosity set down on 5 August, a LEGO® set concept model designed by a mechanical and aerospace engineer who worked on the real rover garnered its 10,000th supporter on the Web site of CUUSOO, a Japanese partner of the LEGO® group. That milestone triggered a company review that began in September 2012 to test the model's “playability, safety, and ft with the LEGO® brand,” according to a congratulatory statement from the company to designer Stephen Pakbaz. Pakbaz told Eos that he has been an avid LEGO® and space exploration fan for most of his life. “For me, creating a LEGO® model of Curiosity using my firsthand knowledge of the rover was inevitable. What I enjoyed most was being able to faithfully replicate and subsequently demonstrate the rocker-bogie suspension system to friends, family, and coworkers,” he noted, referring to the suspension system that allows the rover to climb over obstacles while keeping its wheels on the ground. Pakbaz, who is currently with Orbital Sciences Corporation, was involved with aspects of the rover while working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 2007 to 2011 as a mechanical engineer.

A Planet Soon to Meet Its Demise

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Kohler, Susanna

2017-02-01

A tiny telescope has discovered a scalding hot world orbiting its star 1,300 light-years from us. KELT-16b may only be around for a few more hundreds of thousands of years, however.Dont Underestimate Tiny TelescopesThe KELT-North telescope in Arizona. This tiny telescope was responsible for the discovery of KELT-16b. [Vanderbilt University]In an era of ever larger observatories, you might think that theres no longer a place for small-aperture ground-based telescopes. But small ground-based telescopes have been responsible for the discovery and characterization of around 250 exoplanets so far and these are the targets that are especially useful for exoplanet science, as they aremore easily followed up than the faint discoveries made by telescopes like Kepler.The Kilogree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) consists of two telescopes one in Arizona and one in South Africa that each have a 4.2-centimeter aperture. In total, KELT observes roughly 70% of the entire sky searching for planets transiting bright hosts. And its recently found quite an interesting one: KELT-16b. In a publication led by Thomas Oberst (Westminster College in Pennsylvania), a team of scientists presents their find.Combined follow-up light curves obtained for KELT-16b from 19 transits. The best-fit period is just under a day. [Oberst et al. 2017]A Hot WorldKELT-16b is whats known as a hot Jupiter. Using the KELT data and follow-up observations of 19 transits, Oberst and collaborators estimate KELT-16bs radius at roughly 1.4 times that of Jupiter and its mass at 2.75 times Jupiters. Its equilibrium temperature is a scalding 2453 K caused by the fact that it orbits so close to its host star that it completes each orbit in a mere 0.97 days!This short period is extremely unusual: there are only five other known transiting exoplanets with periods shorter than a day. KELT-16b is orbiting very close to its host, making it subject to extreme irradiation and strong tidal forces.Based on KELT-16bs orbit, Oberst and collaborators estimate that the planet began a runaway inspiral by the age of 1 billion years. Now, at 3.1 billion years old, KELT-16b is orbiting at a radius of just over 3 stellar radii above its hosts surface. The authors estimate that KELT-16bs continuing inward spiral could end in the planets destruction by tidal forces in as little as another 550,000 years.What We Can Learn from KELT-16bKELT-16b in context with other transiting-exoplanet discoveries on a diagram of planet radius vs. period. Only five other planets have been found with periods shorter than a day. [Oberst et al. 2017]This highly irradiated world makes for an especially useful target due to its short period (which means we can observe many transits) and bright host (which means follow-up observations are more convenient and have a large signal-to-noise ratio).In particular, with followup observations of KELT-16b from missions like Hubble, Spitzer, and eventually the James Webb Space Telescope, we can learn more about open questions in exoplanet atmospheric processes like how heat is transferred vertically through the atmosphere, or what happens at the day-to-night terminator line on such a highly irradiated planet.In addition, by studying KELT-16b, we can hope to gain overall insight into hot Jupiter formation and migration. The ease of observing this planet and the wealth of information it can provide will likely make it one of the top-studied exoplanets. KELT-16b has a lot to teach us before its torn apart!CitationThomas E. Oberst et al 2017 AJ 153 97. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/153/3/97

Intersecting epidemics of HIV, HCV, and syphilis among soon-to-be released prisoners in Kyrgyzstan: Implications for prevention and treatment.

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Azbel, Lyuba; Polonsky, Maxim; Wegman, Martin; Shumskaya, Natalya; Kurmanalieva, Ainura; Asanov, Akylbek; Wickersham, Jeffrey A; Dvoriak, Sergii; Altice, Frederick L

2016-11-01

Central Asia is afflicted with increasing HIV incidence, low antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage and increasing AIDS mortality, driven primarily by people who inject drugs (PWID). Reliable data about HIV, other infectious diseases, and substance use disorders in prisoners in this region is lacking and could provide important insights into how to improve HIV prevention and treatment efforts in the region. A randomly sampled, nationwide biobehavioural health survey was conducted in 8 prisons in Kyrgyzstan among all soon-to-be-released prisoners; women were oversampled. Consented participants underwent computer-assisted, standardized behavioural health assessment surveys and testing for HIV, HCV, HBV, and syphilis. Prevalence and means were computed, and generalized linear modelling was conducted, with all analyses using weights to account for disproportionate sampling by strata. Among 381 prisoners who underwent consent procedures, 368 (96.6%) were enrolled in the study. Women were significantly older than men (40.6 vs. 36.5; p=0.004). Weighted prevalence (%), with confidence interval (CI), for each infection was high: HCV (49.7%; CI: 44.8-54.6%), syphilis (19.2%; CI: 15.1-23.5%), HIV (10.3%; CI: 6.9-13.8%), and HBV (6.2%; CI: 3.6-8.9%). Among the 31 people with HIV, 46.5% were aware of being HIV-infected. Men, compared to women, were significantly more likely to have injected drugs (38.3% vs.16.0%; p=0.001). Pre-incarceration and within-prison drug injection, primarily of opioids, was 35.4% and 30.8%, respectively. Independent correlates of HIV infection included lifetime drug injection (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]=38.75; p=0.001), mean number of years injecting (AOR=0.93; p=0.018), mean number of days experiencing drug problems (AOR=1.09; p=0.025), increasing duration of imprisonment (AOR=1.08; p=0.02 for each year) and having syphilis (AOR=3.51; p=0.003), while being female (AOR=3.06; p=0.004) and being a recidivist offender (AOR=2.67; p=0.008) were independently

Office and ambulatory blood pressure control with a fixed-dose combination of candesartan and hydrochlorothiazide in previously uncontrolled hypertensive patients: results of CHILI CU Soon

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Mengden, Thomas; Hübner, Reinhold; Bramlage, Peter

2011-01-01

Background Fixed-dose combinations of candesartan 32 mg and hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) have been shown to be effective in clinical trials. Upon market entry we conducted a noninterventional study to document the safety and effectiveness of this fixed-dose combination in an unselected population in primary care and to compare blood pressure (BP) values obtained during office measurement (OBPM) with ambulatory blood pressure measurement (ABPM). Methods CHILI CU Soon was a prospective, noninterventional, noncontrolled, open-label, multicenter study with a follow-up of at least 10 weeks. High-risk patients aged ≥18 years with previously uncontrolled hypertension were started on candesartan 32 mg in a fixed-dose combination with either 12.5 mg or 25 mg HCTZ. OBPM and ABPM reduction and adverse events were documented. Results A total of 4131 patients (52.8% male) with a mean age of 63.0 ± 11.0 years were included. BP was 162.1 ± 14.8/94.7 ± 9.2 mmHg during office visits at baseline. After 10 weeks of candesartan 32 mg/12.5 mg or 25 mg HCTZ, mean BP had lowered to 131.7 ± 10.5/80.0 ± 6.6 mmHg (P good (r = 0.589 for systolic BP and r = 0.389 for diastolic BP during the day). Of those who were normotensive upon OBPM, 35.1% had high ABPM during the day, 49.3% were nondippers, and 3.4% were inverted dippers. Forty-nine adverse events (1.19%) were reported, of which seven (0.17%) were regarded as serious. Conclusion Candesartan 32 mg in a fixed-dose combination with either 12.5 mg or 25 mg HCTZ is safe and effective for further BP lowering irrespective of prior antihypertensive drug class not being able to control BP. PMID:22241950

Universal influenza vaccines, science fiction or soon reality?

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de Vries, Rory D; Altenburg, Arwen F; Rimmelzwaan, Guus F

2015-01-01

Currently used influenza vaccines are only effective when the vaccine strains match the epidemic strains antigenically. To this end, seasonal influenza vaccines must be updated almost annually. Furthermore, seasonal influenza vaccines fail to afford protection against antigenically distinct pandemic influenza viruses. Because of an ever-present threat of the next influenza pandemic and the continuous emergence of drift variants of seasonal influenza A viruses, there is a need for an universal influenza vaccine that induces protective immunity against all influenza A viruses. Here, we summarize some of the efforts that are ongoing to develop universal influenza vaccines.

The PS will soon be back in operation

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2006-01-01

The PS's power supply system is undergoing repairs for the accelerator to restart on 26 June. The AB Department's Power Converter Group is working flat out with Siemens to return the PS's power supply system to working order. A problem appeared on the insulation of the power cables of the rotor of the rotating machine (photo) which supplies power to the PS magnets. To prevent more significant damage to the rotating machine, the AB Department, with the approval of the CERN Management, decided to shut down the PS which had started running on 15 May. Everything is being done to restart the accelerator on 26 June. The PS's rotating machine comprises a motor coupled to a generator. The generator's rotor acts like a flywheel, supplying high-power pulses of 40 to 50 megawatts to the PS magnets. The 6 megawatt motor drives the installation at 1000 revolutions per minute and compensates only for variations in speed. It is an essential interface since it would be hard to imagine connecting such an electrical charge, p...

Materjalide jagamisest võidavad kõik / Maarja Soone

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Soone, Maarja

2011-01-01

Koolitusest Colchesteris - Content and Language Integrated Learning, mis tähendab võõrkeelset aineõpet, kus vajadusel võetakse kasutusele ka emakeel, mistõttu viidatakse sellele tihti kui kakskeelsele õppele

Hipparcos to deliver its final results catalogue soon

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1995-10-01

The Hipparcos project was recommended by the leading scientific advisors to the European Space Agency back in 1980. Its sole objective was to tackle he most rudimentary yet one of the trickiest questions in the whole of astronomy : in what directions do the various stars comprising our Milky Way lie ? How far away are hey ? And how fast are they moving through the enormous expanses of space ? One million million bits of data were acquired by the satellite during its thee-year operational lifetime. After a flawless launch by an Ariane 4 rocket in August 1989, he boost motor on he satellite failed to ignite, and the satellite was destined to conduct its scientific observations from he wrong orbit. Ingenious ESA and industry engineers, assisted by scientists, a NASA ground- station, and strong political and scientific support, resolutely declined to forfeit he mission, and designed ever more complex control systems to keep he data flowing. In this way, contact between he satellite and the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) - and a relentless stream of high quality scientific data - was maintained until August 1993. And since shortly after launch, number-crunching computers across Europe have been digesting he huge data stream, and piecing together the information in the largest computational jig-saw in the history of astronomy. For thousands of years, astronomers have defined the sky's shape as an imaginary celestial sphere, with the direction to any single star given by angles like he longitude and latitude used by geographers. But the stars move, and the Earth is a moving, wobbling platform. Its atmosphere makes star images shimmer, and its gravity causes telescopes on its surface to droop as they scan the heavens. Observatories on the ground are limited to studying parts of he sky, and trying to piece together a celestial survey from the ground has run into insurmountable problems. The ingenuity of scientist involved in positional astronomy, or astrometry, led them, almost 30 years ago, to propose carrying out these observations from the relatively benign environment of space. Hipparcos is, by present standards, a medium-sized satellite, with a 30 cm telescope sensing simply ordinary light. But it has been described as the most imaginative in the short history of space astronomy. This foresight has been amply repaid. In the long history of stargazing it ranks with the surveys by Hipparchus the Greek in the 2nd Century BC and by Tichy Brahe the Dane in the 16th Century AD, both of which transformed human perceptions of the Universe. Positions derived from the Hipparcos satellite are better than a millionth of a degree, and newly a thousand times more accurate than star positions routinely determined from he ground. This accuracy makes it possible to measure directly the distances to the stars. While it took 250 years between astronomers first setting out on the exacting task of measuring the distance to a star, and a stellar distance being measured for the first time, ESA's Hipparcos mission has revolutionised this long, painstaking, and fundamental task by measuring accurate distances and movements of more than one hundred thousand. The measurement concept involved he satellite triangulating its way between he stars all wound the sky, building up a celestial map in much the same way as land surveyors use triangulation between hill-tops to measure distances accurately. Only the angles involved are much smaller : the accuracy that has been achieved with the Hipparcos Catalogue is such that he two edges of a coin, viewed from he other side of the Atlantic Ocean, could be distinguished. The results from Hipparcos will deliver scientists with long-awaited details of our place in he Milky Way Galaxy. Most of he stars visible to the naked eye are, to a large extent, companions of the Sun, in a great orbital march around the centre of the Galaxy, a journey so long that it takes individual stars 250 million years to complete, in itself a time so inconceivably long that only a few revolutions of our Galaxy have been completed since its formation - dinosaurs ruling our planet less than one quarter of a revolution ago. Hipparcos has measured the details of this cosmic procession, and will allow a clear disentangling of the motions of the individual stars ; which lie relatively close to our Sun? which are massive highly-luminous stars at great distances from it ? which are moving in an orbit close to our Sun's ? and which are racing away from it hundreds of times faster than the speed of sound ? After eight years in the planning and construction stages, Matra Marconi Space, Alenia Spazio, and their 30 or so high-technology industrial partners delivered the Hipparcos satellite to ESA, on schedule and within cost. With the exception of its boost motor, the satellite and all its instruments functioned flawlessly, and indeed surpassed all expectations - in spite of he harsh environment that it was subjected to in its unintended orbit. The Matra Marconi Space Project Manager, Michel Bouffard, expressed his own satisfaction with the Hipparcos Catalogue completion, and remarked hat "the Hipparcos project is definitely one of the best examples of intense and fruitful collaboration between ESA, industry and scientist". A few more months work will be required before the Hipparcos Catalogue, and its companion Tycho Catalogue of more than a million stars, can be released by the European Space Agency. "We have to fit into the completed catalogue all of the double stars, and all of the magnitude measurements, that have been acquired", explained Dr Michael Perryman, ESA's scientist working with the European scientific teams. "But the schedule for this has now been drawn up " he added. Scientists who formulated parts of the satellite's observing programme, and who were involved in the analysis of the satellite data, will be given the first opportunity to try to understand what the data mean, from an astronomical perspective, when the results are delivered to them at the end of March 1996. The final product of the Hipparcos mission, a monumental 14-volume catalogue, with page upon page of astronomical results of unprecedented accuracy, will be published by ESA and the scientific teams at the end of March 1997. The four leaders of he European scientific teams, who have been involved in the project since its earliest days, announced hat he Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues have passed all he test that they have been able to devise to assess he quality of he data. Professor Jean Kovalevsky (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Grasse, France), Dr Lennart Lindegren (Lund Observatory, Sweden), Professor Erik Hog (Copenhagen Observatory, Denmark), and Dr Catherine Turon (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon), and other scientific representatives from the ESA member states, are delighted with he latest developments. "There will be thousands of direct and indirect users of the Hipparcos results over the coming years", said Catherine Turon who lead the team responsible for putting together the satellite's observing programme, "and they will not only have access to a magnificent catalogue, but one which has been finalised somewhat more rapidly than our expectations before launch ". Some ten thousand known double star systems have been observed by Hipparcos, and nearly ten thousand more have been discovered for the first time. In these binary systems, two stars orbit around each other, and Hipparcos promises to provide measurements of the masses of he stars in such systems, information which is impossible to determine in any other way. "Many of our scientific colleagues who have waited patiently for the results of this mission will be astonished with what the final catalogue contains" said Professor Hog, originator of he Tycho Catalogue concept, and one of the hiving forces behind the mission. In thousands of cases, the stars are seen to be variable by Hipparcos. In these cases, the light output from he star changes with time, and these changes have been accurately measured by the satellite. Astronomers rely on a subset of variable stars called Cepheids to measure the distances to galaxies beyond our own. Hipparcos measurement of variability and distances will underpin the use of Cepheids in estimating the scale and age of the Universe. Completion of the Hipparcos Catalogue in December, when the present catalogue will have been supplemented with the information on double and variable stars, is timed to coincide with publication of the first scientific papers (in the European journal Astronomy & Astrophysics) which explain rigorously what has been done, and what these results are likely to mean. Generally, precise distances give precise luminosities for all kinds of stars. So theories of how stars burn, evolve chemically, change colour, and alter heir mass and diameter in the process, will be tested far more rigorously. The Hipparcos survey includes X-ray stars, giant stars throwing out clouds of gas, dying stars, and stars recently born ; the distances and energy emission of many of these objects have been a matter of guesswork until now. On top of his, motions of stars detected by Hipparcos animate he familiar stellar scenery. Each of the stars hat looks so still in he night sky is engaged in its own private odyssey through the Milky Way, which reflects its origins, and he architecture and dynamics of the Galaxy. Jean Kovalevsky has been involved throughout the conception and execution of he mission. "Some people said Hipparcos was too difficult for Europe " he recalls. "Others thought it boring compared with more obvious astrophysical missions. Critics of the first kind are already put to shame. I can promise that the rest will be confounded too, when they see how our results impact on every branch of astrophysics, from planetary science to cosmology", he added. As Hipparcos has now assessed the majority of the most luminous stars within 250 light-years of our Sun, it will give a vivid picture of our stellar surroundings. Experts will look at he catalogue contents to see whether any stars seem set to pass close to the Sun. Stars are born in clusters and retain a memory of their common origin in a shared motion through the Galaxy. In open clusters like the Pleiades, related stars have stayed quite close together. From the motions of stars in dozens of open clusters, Hipparcos is now set to establish their ages, and their course and speed through the Galaxy. Looking at stars towards and away from the Galactic centre, the catalogue contains he relative speeds of stars in their orbits at different distances. It has also looked up and down at stars making temporary excursions outside the flat disc of the Milky Way, and at halo stars on orbits that keep them independent of the disc. Clues about the hidden mass of our Galaxy should be scattered liberally throughout the Hipparcos Catalogue. The scientific papers which will be published in three months time already contain some surprising new results. The measurements provide one of he best tests of Einsteins's General Theory of Relativity carried out to date. By measuring the light of stars deflected from their straight line paths by he presence of our massive Sun, the Hipparcos scientists have been able to demonstrate that General Relativity is good to at least one part in a thousand. Other scientists have already been able to line up he astronomical reference framework established in he radio wavelength range with the new reference framework provided by Hipparcos. They can be aligned and superimposed with great precision, and for the first time answers to how radio and optical emission are related in different sources can be accurately studied. But the biggest surprise so far comes from a census of our Sun's very closest neighbours . many of he stars previously thought to lie only a few light years away from our Sun have been shown, through the remarkable accuracy of he Hipparcos measurements, to be much further away. "The Hipparcos Catalogue is ready to lead fundamental positional astronomy into the 21st Century", said Dr Lennart Lindegren, leader of one of the data reduction teams, and one of the masterminds behind a follow-up astrometry mission which is currently being assessed by ESA's scientific advisors. The rnillionths of a degree accuracy delivered by Hipparcos could be upstaged by an experiment which seems capable of providing billionths of a degree accuracy, but this time on tens of millions of stars. It is a scientific field where creativity is ripe for harnessing. Such a mission would not only lay to rest any remaining elements of uncertainty in our understanding of distances and dynamics within our Galaxy. By examining the occurrence of extra-solar planets around all of the tens of thousands of stars within a few hundred light years of our Sun it would provide a remarkable advance in our knowledge of planets around other stars and their formation process. And while unseen dark matter in space is now believed to account for 90 per cent of the total mass of the Universe, little is known about is physical nature : is it in black holes, planets, or exotic elementary particles ? This is one of the most important question of astronomy for the coming decades, and his is where a future space astrometry mission would most probably make a great impact, since the patterns of motion of stars reveal the distribution of mass in space. While the scientific community is eager to lay its hands on the riches of the Hipparcos mission, he astonishing potential of space astrometry at even higher accuracy levels is mobilising interest amongst he younger generations of astronomers throughout the world.

Particle detector goes on line soon in Japan

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1998-01-01

Belle, a detector intended to explain the imbalance between matter and antimatter in the universe is scheduled to be moved to the collision point of KEK's new electron-positron collider in February 1999.

China Wind Power 2010 Will Be Held Soon

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2010-01-01

China Wind Power 2010 (CWP) will be held on October 13 in the New Venue of the China International Exhibition Center (New CIEC). The exhibition is hosted by the Global Wind Energy Council, Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association and the Chinese Wind Energy Association.

LNG trade preparations are a decade too soon

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Timm, S [Mar. Week; Faridany, E; Mitchell, P

1979-03-01

A discussion of papers delivered at the 6th International LNG/LPG, Gastech 78, Conference (Monte Carlo 11/7-10/78) covers an estimate by E. Faridany (Ocean Phoenix Transp. Inc.) that in 1981-85, world trade in LNG would increase by 1775 million cu ft/day (Mcfd) over the current 2720 Mcfd, but of this increment only the 460 Mcfd Panhandle project using Lake Charles, La., as a regasification terminal will be into the U.S. while all other trade will be to Europe. Of the present LNG trade, 48Vertical Bar3< goes to Japan from the Brunei (535 Mcfd, the world's largest) and Abu Dhabi projects, and only 20Vertical Bar3< goes to the U.S. Faridany's estimates of U.S. LNG imports in 1990 vary from the 8215 Mcfd ''high'' to the ''median'' forecast of 2930 Mcfd; he predicted that the proportion of incremental sources of gas supply taken up by LNG in 1990 is only 20-40Vertical Bar3< for the U.S., compared with 25Vertical Bar3< for Europe and 90Vertical Bar3< for Japan. According to P. Mitchell (Poten and Partners), world demand for LPG could rise from 9 million to 38 million tons in 1979-85.

Hudoi mir lutshshe dobroi ssorõ / Allan Soon

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Soon, Allan, 1968-

2007-01-01

Eestlaste ja venelaste vahelistest suhetest pärast pronkssõduri teisaldamisega toimunud sündmusi. Autori arvates peaksid nii eestlased kui ka venelased astuma samme konflikti lahendamiseks, mitte jääma passiivselt ootama

A Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted

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Manuel, Kate; Morony, Will

2011-01-01

There is persistent evidence of poor levels of financial literacy in a number of sectors of the Australian community. Young people, in particular, tend to fare badly in studies of financial literacy levels. A recent study commissioned by the Commonwealth Bank Foundation found that 16-25 year-olds constitute 42% of the bottom quartile, and only 4%…

School Starts Soon - Is Your Child Fully Vaccinated?

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... the best way to protect your community and schools from outbreaks that cause unnecessary illnesses and deaths. Getting every recommended dose of every vaccine provides children the best protection possible. Vaccines for Your Young Children (Newborns through ...

Seizure Prediction: Science Fiction or Soon to Become Reality?

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Freestone, Dean R; Karoly, Philippa J; Peterson, Andre D H; Kuhlmann, Levin; Lai, Alan; Goodarzy, Farhad; Cook, Mark J

2015-11-01

This review highlights recent developments in the field of epileptic seizure prediction. We argue that seizure prediction is possible; however, most previous attempts have used data with an insufficient amount of information to solve the problem. The review discusses four methods for gaining more information above standard clinical electrophysiological recordings. We first discuss developments in obtaining long-term data that enables better characterisation of signal features and trends. Then, we discuss the usage of electrical stimulation to probe neural circuits to obtain robust information regarding excitability. Following this, we present a review of developments in high-resolution micro-electrode technologies that enable neuroimaging across spatial scales. Finally, we present recent results from data-driven model-based analyses, which enable imaging of seizure generating mechanisms from clinical electrophysiological measurements. It is foreseeable that the field of seizure prediction will shift focus to a more probabilistic forecasting approach leading to improvements in the quality of life for the millions of people who suffer uncontrolled seizures. However, a missing piece of the puzzle is devices to acquire long-term high-quality data. When this void is filled, seizure prediction will become a reality.

Universal Influenza Vaccines, a Dream to Be Realized Soon

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Han Zhang

2014-04-01

Full Text Available Due to frequent viral antigenic change, current influenza vaccines need to be re-formulated annually to match the circulating strains for battling seasonal influenza epidemics. These vaccines are also ineffective in preventing occasional outbreaks of new influenza pandemic viruses. All these challenges call for the development of universal influenza vaccines capable of conferring broad cross-protection against multiple subtypes of influenza A viruses. Facilitated by the advancement in modern molecular biology, delicate antigen design becomes one of the most effective factors for fulfilling such goals. Conserved epitopes residing in virus surface proteins including influenza matrix protein 2 and the stalk domain of the hemagglutinin draw general interest for improved antigen design. The present review summarizes the recent progress in such endeavors and also covers the encouraging progress in integrated antigen/adjuvant delivery and controlled release technology that facilitate the development of an affordable universal influenza vaccine.

Thinking small: Onsite power generation may soon be big

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Davidson, K.G.; Braun, G.W.

1993-01-01

Utilities are retheinking the way they do business. Eventually, smaller and cleaner generation units located near major load centers could begin to supplement power from central plants. The technologies necessary to this transition are emerging in the form of open-quotes distributed generation.close quotes These technologies typically produce power on a relatively small scale (less than 50 MW per unit) and can be sited in congested urban areas as well as near remote customers. This allows utilities to meet new demand for electricity without building central generating stations and without substantially expanding or upgrading the power delivery system-in other words, at lower cost. Some distributed-generation technologies, such as fuel cells and solar energy harnessed by photovoltaic (PV) cells, are just beginning to carve out niches in th power market. Others, such as engine generator sets and battery storage, have evolved into robust, high-technology systems. In the case of fuel cells and engine-driven systems, natural gas is emerging as an environmentally friendly fuel that should remain available for decades at competitive prices. As gas-fueled distributed power is deployed, utility infrastructures for delivering gas and electricity to customers could become more integrated, allowing planners to smooth load profiles for energy services and creating greater synergies between the two. As distributed-generation technologies become more practical and cost-effective, utilities may find that change can be a path toward least-cost service and sustainable profitability

Coming soon - Launch of e-learning initiative for supervisors

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2015-01-01

In early July, the Learning and Development group is launching a new learning initiative specifically targeted at supervisors here at CERN. With the assistance of  experts on the subject, we have designed an exclusive series of five e-learning modules. These modules will help supervisors to synthesise some of the important processes that influence and impact their daily work and build key competencies as people managers.   Each module may take up to a maximum of 60 minutes to complete and covers the following topics: • CERN as an Organisation • People Management (Part 1) • People Management (Part 2) • Financial Management • Administrative Information Tools for Supervisors Supervisors will receive an invitation from the L&D group to access the modules on a dedicated e-learning space created on SharePoint. We recommend that all newly appointed supervisors access and complete the five modules within the first month of taking up their su...

Baltic Metal - metallisektori koostööorgan / Endel Soon

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Soon, Endel

2004-01-01

Ilmunud ka: EAKL Teataja : Narodnaja Gazeta, märts, nr. 3, 2004, lk. 4. Riias toimus Balti- ja Põhjamaade metalliala ametiühinguorganisatsioonide esindajate ühisnõupidamine. Kirjutati alla Baltimaade metallisektori koostööorgani Baltic Metal moodustamise leping

Kellogg's - identiteedi või 7 toitaine allikas? / Ivar Soone

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Soone, Ivar, 1975-

2003-01-01

Strateegia, mille abil Kellogg's on loonud unikaalse identiteedi, mis on segu füüsilistest hoomatavatest ja psühholoogilistest hüvedest, on toonud ettevõttele edu aastakümneid ja toob ka edaspidi, leiab autor. Skeem: Pakendi kui esmase kommunikatsioonikanali osade funktsioonid. Kommenteerib Elar Killumets. Lisa: Paul Twivy: Brändid peavad täitma oma lubadused

"Don't forget your promise to come here soon"

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Østermark-Johansen, Lene

2012-01-01

The article published seven letters from Pater to Browning currently at King's College, Cambridge. The letters derive from the late 1870s, from the time shortly after Browning's dismissal from Eton, and testify to Pater's enduring friendship and support of Browning, even at a time when he...

Does our legal minimum drinking age modulate risk of first heavy drinking episode soon after drinking onset? Epidemiological evidence for the United States, 2006–2014

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Hui G. Cheng

2016-06-01

Full Text Available Background. State-level ‘age 21’ drinking laws conform generally with the United States National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 (US, and are thought to protect young people from adverse drinking experiences such as heavy episodic drinking (HED, sometimes called ‘binge drinking’. We shed light on this hypothesis while estimating the age-specific risk of transitioning from 1st full drink to 1st HED among 12-to-23-year-old newly incident drinkers, with challenge to a “gender gap” hypothesis and male excess described in HED prevalence reports. Methods. The study population consisted of non-institutionalized civilians in the United States, with nine independently drawn nationally representative samples of more than 40,000 12-to-23-year-olds (2006–2014. Standardized audio computer-assisted self-interviews identified 43,000 newly incident drinkers (all with 1st HED evaluated within 12 months of drinking onset. Estimated age-specific HED risk soon after first full drink is evaluated for males and females. Results. Among 12-to-23-year-old newly incident drinkers, an estimated 20–30% of females and 35–45% of males experienced their 1st HED within 12 months after drinking onset. Before mid-adolescence, there is no male excess in such HED risk. Those who postponed drinking to age 21 are not spared (27% for ‘postponer’ females; 95% CI [24–30]; 42% for ‘postponer’ males; 95% CI [38–45]. An estimated 10–18% females and 10–28% males experienced their 1st HED in the same month of their 1st drink; peak HED risk estimates are 18% for ‘postponer’ females (95% CI [15–21] and 28% for ‘postponer’ males (95% CI [24–31]. Conclusions. In the US, one in three young new drinkers transition into HED within 12 months after first drink. Those who postpone the 1st full drink until age 21 are not protected. Furthermore, ‘postponers’ have substantial risk for very rapid transition to HED. A male excess in this transition to HED

LS1 Report: A stubborn cavity will soon be replaced

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Katarina Anthony

2013-01-01

Testing on the LHC’s replacement RF cryomodule was completed last week in SM18. This module will bring them all to design-level, replacing a faulty cavity that has been acting up since the machine’s start-up.   A LHC cryomodule undergoes testing in SM18. Distributed between four cryomodules, the LHC is home to a total of 16 radiofrequency (RF) cavities. Each is designed to provide a 2 MV accelerating field… and all but one has been succeeding at this job. Ever since the machine’s startup, one stubborn cavity in a Point 4 module has quenched whenever it had to stay at 2 MV. The accelerator team found that no amount of conditioning could get the cavity to behave, and the highest continuous wave voltage it could perform at was 1.3 MV. “This was fine for physics,” says Pierre Maesen, who is leading the repair and replacement of the LHC’s cryomodules. “We were able to compensate for this ‘missing’...

Poor man status awaits if Estonia adopts euro too soon

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2009-01-01

Akadeemia Nord Euroopa uuringute instituudi juhataja professor Ivar Raig leiab, et eurole üleminek tekitab veel rohkem probleeme Eesti majanduses ning et Eesti vajab uut majanduspoliitikat. Tema sõnul peaks euroga liituma aastatel 2016-2018

Journals May Soon Use Anti-Plagiarism Software on Their Authors

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Rampell, Catherine

2008-01-01

This spring, academic journals may turn the anti-plagiarism software that professors have been using against their students on the professors themselves. CrossRef, a publishing industry association, and the software company iParadigms announced a deal last week to create CrossCheck, an anti-plagiarism program for academic journals. The software…

Wind Power: How Much, How Soon, and At What Cost?

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Wiser, Ryan H; Hand, Maureen

2010-01-01

The global wind power market has been growing at a phenomenal pace, driven by favorable policies towards renewable energy and the improving economics of wind projects. On a going forward basis, utility-scale wind power offers the potential for significant reductions in the carbon footprint of the electricity sector. Specifically, the global wind resource is vast and, though accessing this potential is not costless or lacking in barriers, wind power can be developed at scale in the near to medium term at what promises to be an acceptable cost.

Deviant service behavior : coming soon to a theatre near you?

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Eerde, van W.; Peper, P.D.G.

2008-01-01

Deviant service behaviour (DSB) is examined among employees of a cinema chain in the Netherlands. Behaviours that were reported in interviews with 47 employees of one theatre were phrased as items and were used in a survey conducted in three other theatres of the same chain (n = 115). Virtually all

Deviant service behaviour: Coming soon to a theatre near you?

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van Eerde, W.; Peper, P.

2008-01-01

Deviant service behaviour (DSB) is examined among employees of a cinema chain in the Netherlands. Behaviours that were reported in interviews with 47 employees of one theatre were phrased as items and were used in a survey conducted in three other theatres of the same chain (n = 115). Virtually all

Serotonin Toxicity Caused by Moclobemide Too Soon After Paroxetine-Selegiline

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Ming-Ling Wu

2009-08-01

Full Text Available Serotonin toxicity is an iatrogenic complication of serotonergic drug therapy. It is due to an overstimulation of central and peripheral serotonin receptors that lead to neuromuscular, mental and autonomic changes. Moclobemide is a reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase (MAO-A, selegiline is an irreversible selective inhibitor of MAO-B, and paroxetine is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. Combined use of these agents is known to cause serotonin toxicity. A 53-year-old woman had been treated with paroxetine and selegiline. After moclobemide was prescribed in place of paroxetine without a washout period, she quickly developed confusion, agitation, ataxia, diaphoresis, tremor, mydriasis, ocular clonus, hyper-reflexia, tachycardia, moderately elevated blood pressure and high fever, symptoms that were consistent with serotonin toxicity. Discontinuation of the drugs, hydration and supportive care were followed by remarkable improvement of baseline status within 3 days. This case demonstrates that serotonin toxicity may occur even with small doses of paroxetine, selegi-line and moclobemide in combination. Physicians managing patients with depression must be aware of the potential for serotonin toxicity and should be able to recognize and treat or, ideally, anticipate and avoid this pharmacodynamically-mediated interaction that may occur between prescribed drugs.

Office and ambulatory blood pressure control with a fixed-dose combination of candesartan and hydrochlorothiazide in previously uncontrolled hypertensive patients: results of CHILI CU Soon

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2011-12-01

Full Text Available Thomas Mengden1, Reinhold Hübner2, Peter Bramlage31Kerckhoff-Klinik GmbH, Bad Nauheim, 2Takeda Pharma GmbH, Aachen, 3Institut für Kardiovaskuläre Pharmakologie und Epidemiologie, Mahlow, GermanyBackground: Fixed-dose combinations of candesartan 32 mg and hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ have been shown to be effective in clinical trials. Upon market entry we conducted a noninterventional study to document the safety and effectiveness of this fixed-dose combination in an unselected population in primary care and to compare blood pressure (BP values obtained during office measurement (OBPM with ambulatory blood pressure measurement (ABPM.Methods: CHILI CU Soon was a prospective, noninterventional, noncontrolled, open-label, multicenter study with a follow-up of at least 10 weeks. High-risk patients aged ≥18 years with previously uncontrolled hypertension were started on candesartan 32 mg in a fixed-dose combination with either 12.5 mg or 25 mg HCTZ. OBPM and ABPM reduction and adverse events were documented.Results: A total of 4131 patients (52.8% male with a mean age of 63.0 ± 11.0 years were included. BP was 162.1 ± 14.8/94.7 ± 9.2 mmHg during office visits at baseline. After 10 weeks of candesartan 32 mg/12.5 mg or 25 mg HCTZ, mean BP had lowered to 131.7 ± 10.5/80.0 ± 6.6 mmHg (P < 0.0001 for both comparisons. BP reduction was comparable irrespective of prior or concomitant medication. In patients for whom physicians regarded an ABPM to be necessary (because of suspected noncontrol over 24 hours, ABP at baseline was 158.2/93.7 mmHg during the day and 141.8/85.2 mmHg during the night. At the last visit, BP had significantly reduced to 133.6/80.0 mmHg and 121.0/72.3 mmHg, respectively, resulting in 20.8% being normotensive over 24 hours (<130/80 mmHg. The correlation between OBPM and ABPM was good (r = 0.589 for systolic BP and r = 0.389 for diastolic BP during the day. Of those who were normotensive upon OBPM, 35.1% had high ABPM during the

Meyrin soon to be connected up to the Geneva tram network

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The tram service to Meyrin will begin operation on 13 December. Several bus routes, including those with stops at CERN, will be modified as a result.   The tram service to Meyrin will begin operation on 13 December (photo © TPG) Extension of the tram line as far as Meyrin The tram service to Meyrin will be officially inaugurated on Saturday 12 December and will start operating the following day. From 13 December onwards the No. 14 and No. 16 trams will run from the Gravière tram stop in Meyrin to the usual terminus (see map), serving the Cornavin railway station along the way. Passengers wishing to travel on to CERN will be able to catch the No. 56 bus at the Vaudagne stop (the last-but-one stop on the tram line). Passengers from CERN wishing to travel to Geneva by public transport will need to take the No. 56 bus to Vaudagne, then catch the No. 14 or No. 16 tram into the city centre. Y bus from Thoiry to Ferney-Voltaire via the airport Another positive development is th...

Spaceflight Dietary Intake – there’s (soon) an App for that!

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration — The ultimate goal of this project was to develop an iPad application as a means to more accurately record dietary intake for each crewmember while minimizing crew...

Cannon Fire Soon to Accompany Bugle Call at Fort Detrick | Poster

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Beginning June 14, the familiar bugle calls at Fort Detrick will be joined by a special percussion instrument: a cannon. A single cannon shot will be fired on the first note of “Reveille,” which signals the start of each day and is accompanied by the raising of the American flag. “Reveille” sounds at 6:30 a.m. At 5 p.m., Fort Detrick plays “Retreat,” which alerts the post that

A Requiem Too Soon or a Landing Strand Too Far? Teacher ...

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The expectation to teach for critical thinking has been a common exhortation in most educational systems undergoing curriculum reform. The Zimbabwe Curriculum Framework 2015-2022 is no exception as it is replete with the invocation to teach for critical thinking. The present research investigated how some forty-five (45) ...

Bruce A refurbishment - preparatory work completed, major tasks to begin soon

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Boyd, F.

2006-01-01

Over the past year Bruce Power has been planning and organizing for an extensive refurbishment of the Units 1 and 2 of the Bruce A station. Now the company and its several major contractors are ready to proceed with the most challenging aspects of the actual work. The largest tasks are the replacement of the 8 steam generators and of the 480 complete fuel channels in each unit Bruce Power has created a separate website connected to their basic one to provide ongoing information about the progress of the work. The following brief note is intended to provide an outline of this challenging refurbishment program and to invite readers to visit this website to follow its progress. To provide background the writer was accorded an informative and interesting tour of the units by Rob Liddle, of Bruce Power, on September 28, 2006 the day after the ceremony commemorating the Douglas Point station held at the Bruce site. (author)

THE Port: hackathon at CERN | Starts soon! | 31 October-2 November

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2014-01-01

Are you innovative and do you like to share your ideas with other enthusiasts? Would you like to apply your knowledge and skills to humanitarian problems? Are you motivated to work on issues beneficial to society?   THE Port problem-solving workshop - also known as a hackathon / makeathon - will take place at CERN from 31 October to 2 November. Interdisciplinary teams of 35 participants and 23 local mentors will work on topics inspired by members of other NGOs such as the ICRC, UN Development Programme, UNOSAT/UNITAR and Norwegian People's Aid. Out of 90 applicants who made it through to the 2nd selections round and were invited to a web CERN video interview, 5 interdisciplinary teams were formed who work on the following topics:     Our participants are from companies and universities such as: Oxford, MIT, NASA, Google, Ericsson, SAP SE - Innovation Center, EPFL, ZF Friedrichshhafen AG, Zurich Airport, Near Earth Autonomy, NBA, University of Bergen, TEDxLausann...

[The family planning law should be issued as soon as possible].

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Lu, Y

1989-07-01

China is facing a baby boom in the next ten years. Now is a perfect time to formulate legislature on family planning (FP) to strengthen the current policy and regulations in order to slow the momentum of excessive population growth. As a result of current economic reform and implementation of the rural household responsibility system, the migrant population has increased tremendously. The fact that millions of rural farmers are shifting to non-agricultural areas created new challenges to the effectiveness of traditional measures of the FP program. Promulgating laws and legislature will facilitate the job of FP. The law should stress the restriction of population growth and encouraging one child per couple. In the rural area it is not feasible to implement the one child policy indiscriminately. Under the policy of one child for a majority of the couples, no third birth is permitted. Local governments should be given the authorization to grant permission for second births for special cases within the birth planning quota. Allowing people living in poor and less developed areas to have more children and granting mothers of handicapped children permission to have an additional child were in fact facilitating the deterioration of the quality of the population. Some current policy in rural income distribution and social welfare was beneficial to large-sized family. Such policies should be changed to give incentives to small-sized families.

How soon they forget: changes to beliefs after learning about tobacco.

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Wisniewski, Matthew G; Bartone, Anne; Hastrup, Janice L; Coutinho, Mariana V C; Geer, Micah; Simms, Leonard J

2013-01-01

University students' beliefs about tobacco and nicotine were assessed before an educational intervention aimed at correcting tobacco-related misinformation. Beliefs were again measured immediately after the intervention, and then again after a 2-, 4-, 6-, or 8-week retention interval. Initially, participants showed significantly more accurate beliefs about tobacco than pre-intervention, but this improvement decreased after the retention interval. Results suggest that methods currently used in an attempt to alleviate tobacco misinformation in the public may be effective for short-term, but not long-term retention. The current study accents the need to design tobacco programs that optimize retention of belief change so that people may use that knowledge confidently in future health-related decisions.

The College Reform and Development Calling for the Introduction of New Accounting System as soon as Possible%高校改革与发展呼唤新会计制度尽快出台

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皮珊

2012-01-01

现行《高等学校会计制度》在会计记账基础、会计核算科目设置、预算会计制度以及财务报告体系等方面均存在诸多不足。高校教育体制的改革与发展呼唤新会计制度尽快出台。新《高等学校会计制度（征求意见稿）》引入了修正的权责发生制原则,对会计核算科目的设置趋于规范并进一步完善财务报告体系,能有效推进高校财务会计工作的改进和发展。但也需要通过完善相关科目的设置、编制现金流量表及明确不计提折旧的固定资产等途径对其进一步的修改和完善。%There are many problems in the existing ＂college accounting system＂ in aspects of accounting basis,setting of accounting subjects,budgetary accounting system and financial reporting system and so on.The reform and development of college education system call for a new accounting system as soon as possible.The new ＂college accounting system（draft）＂ introduces the principle of modified accrual,standards the setting of accounting subjects and further improves the financial reporting system to effectively promote the development of financial accounting work in college.But we also need to modify and improve it by perfecting settings related subjects,preparing of cash flow,clearing the fixed assets with no depreciation and other means.

Recent topics on aerodynamic noise; Kuriki soon ni kansuru saikin no wadai

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Nishimura, M [Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)

1995-04-20

For measures to deal with aerodynamic noise, recent subjects were put in order and some examples of the studies were introduced in this paper. Aerodynamic noise can be classified into rotational aerodynamic noise such as jet engine fans or helicopter rotors and general aerodynamic noise such as high speed jet noise, high speed air flow inside piping, and external noise from vehicles, cars and aeroplanes. The aerodynamic noise of the air flow radiated from a wind tunnel exit was caused more or less by the pressure fluctuation of a boundary layer in a high frequency wave region. In checking the noise generated from a difference in level, projection, cavity, opening, etc., of a high speed vehicle in a wind tunnel test, the noise was louder in the case of a difference in level where the downstream side was raised. The finding was similar with projections. In the rear of a super sonic choke part, a strong flow was generated and became a violent noise source when a flow was overexpanded and a pressure was recovered with a sonic boom. However, the noise was greatly reduced by installing a porous material such as a porous metal immediately behind the choke part. An active control of noise was carried out by changing a sound field characteristic against aerodynamic self-excited noise with a speaker. 32 refs., 11 figs.

Roheline energia läheb müüki topelthinnaga / Ervin Soon

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Soon, Ervin

2001-01-01

Eesti Energia on märtsi keskel käivitanud Rohelise Energia kampaaniaga leidnud võtte, kuidas kaks korda kõrgema elektri müügihinnaga katta alternatiivenergia kohustusliku kokkuostu järjest kasvavaid kulusid

Speaking Too Soon: The Sabotage of Bail Reform in New South Wales

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Julia Quilter

2014-10-01

Full Text Available Within just over one month of coming into operation in May 2014, the new Bail Act 2013 (NSW, a product of long-term law reform consideration, was reviewed and then amended after talk-back radio ‘shock jock’ and tabloid newspaper outcry over three cases. This article examines the media triggers, the main arguments of the review conducted by former New South Wales (NSW Attorney General John Hatzistergos, and the amendments, with our analysis of the judicial interpretation of the Act thus far providing relevant background. We argue that the amendments are premature, unnecessary, create complexity and confusion, and, quite possibly, will have unintended consequences: in short, they are a mess. The whole process of reversal is an example of law and order politics driven by the shock jocks and tabloid media, the views of which, are based on fundamental misconceptions of the purpose of bail and its place in the criminal process, resulting in a conflation of accusation, guilt and punishment. Other consequences of the review and amendments process recognised in this article include the denigration of judicial expertise and lack of concern with evidence and process; the disproportionate influence of the shock jocks, tabloids and Police Association of NSW on policy formation; the practice of using retired politicians to produce ‘quick fix’ reviews; and the political failure to understand and defend fundamental legal principles that benefit us all and are central to the maintenance of a democratic society and the rule of law. The article concludes with some discussion of ways in which media and political debate might be conducted to produce more balanced outcomes.

Pigs, peas, and...power? Farmers soon may grow a renewable energy source

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Turnbull, J.H.

1993-01-01

Biomass, grown in an economically and environmentally sustainable manner, realistically could be used to supply 50,000 MW (5 Quads) of electric capacity by 2010 and probably twice that amount by 2030. During the past year, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the US Department of Energy each have been evaluating the potential for biomass to become a major renewable energy resource over the next four decades, able to offset some of the US dependency on imported fossil fuels while offering environmental and economic benefits. EPRI's conclusion that biomass could become a truly important feedstock for electric generation in the near term grew out of a series of workshops attended by experts from government, academia, and industry. These experts did not conclude that significant biomass resource development would take place, but rather that it could take place in an economically profitable and environmentally acceptable manner. They identified two major barriers to biomass resource development: a lack of assurance that a reliable market exists for a dedicated biomass energy crop (significantly influenced by the current costs of both coal and natural gas); and current federal agricultural policies, particularly those dealing with price supports for some types of crops and the present constraints on the use of the more than 54 million acres of agricultural reserve program lands. Moreover, the very limited federal budget and program support for biomass energy within both the US Departments of Energy and Agriculture over the past 12 years has exacerbated the risks facing farmers making biomass/biofuels resource decisions and electric utilities considering using biomass resources. A third barrier is the general lack of consensus as to what criteria should be used for the environmentally sound development of biomass

The Individualized Quality Control Plan - Coming Soon to Clinical Microbiology Laboratories Everywhere!

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Anderson, Nancy

2015-11-15

As of January 1, 2016, microbiology laboratories can choose to adopt a new quality control option, the Individualized Quality Control Plan (IQCP), under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). This voluntary approach increases flexibility for meeting regulatory requirements and provides laboratories the opportunity to customize QC for their testing in their unique environments and by their testing personnel. IQCP is an all-inclusive approach to quality based on risk management to address potential errors in the total testing process. It includes three main steps, (1) performing a risk assessment, (2) developing a QC plan, and (3) monitoring the plan through quality assessment. Resources are available from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Society for Microbiology, Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, and accrediting organizations, such as the College of American Pathologists and Joint Commission, to assist microbiology laboratories implementing IQCP.

Tech Trends: Coming Soon to a Second or Third Screen Near You

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Hamby, Rogan

2012-01-01

In the corporate world, the "consumerization of IT" is being debated by C-level execs. Will libraries adopt the new bring-your-own-device-to-work policy? In the workplace, there may be room for debate, but in libraries, librarians don't have a choice whether or not to support the devices patrons want to use, at least not if they want to remain…

Black Holes Physicists could soon be creating black holes in the Laboratory

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Carr, Bernard

2005-01-01

Ever sinc physicists invented particle accelerators, nearly 80 years ago, they have used them for such exotic tasks as splitting atoms, transmuting elements, producing antimatter and creating particles not previoulsy observed in nature (7 pages)

Large Plant Growth Chambers: Flying Soon on a Space Station near You!

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Massa, Gioia D.; Morrow, Robert C.; Levine, Howard G.

2014-01-01

The International Space Station (ISS) now has platforms for conducting research on horticultural plant species, and those capabilities continue to grow. The Veggie vegetable production system will be deployed to the ISS in Spring of 2014 to act as an applied research platform with goals of studying food production in space, providing the crew with a source of fresh food, allowing behavioral health and plant microbiology experimentation, and being a source of recreation and enjoyment for the crew. Veggie was conceived, designed, and constructed by Orbital Technologies Corporation (ORBITEC, Madison, WI). Veggie is the largest plant growth chamber that NASA has flown to date, and is capable of growing a wide array of horticultural crops. It was designed for low energy usage, low launch mass and stowage volume, and minimal crew time requirements. The Veggie flight hardware consists of a light cap containing red (630 nanometers), blue, (455 nanometers) and green (530 nanometers) light emitting diodes. Interfacing with the light cap is an extendable bellows baseplate secured to the light cap via magnetic closures and stabilized with extensible flexible arms. The baseplate contains vents allowing air from the ISS cabin to be pulled through the plant growth area by a fan in the light cap. The baseplate holds a Veggie root mat reservoir that will supply water to plant pillows attached via elastic cords. Plant pillows are packages of growth media and seeds that will be sent to ISS dry and installed and hydrated on orbit. Pillows can be constructed in various sizes for different plant types. Watering will be via passive wicking from the root mat to the pillows. Science procedures will include photography or videography, plant thinning, pollination, harvesting, microbial sampling, water sampling, etcetera. Veggie is one of the ISS flight options currently available for research investigations on plants. The Plant Habitat (PH) is being designed and constructed through a NASA-ORBITEC collaboration, and is scheduled to fly on ISS around 2016. This large plant chamber will control light quality, level, and timing, temperature, CO2, relative humidity, and irrigation, while scrubbing ethylene. Additional monitoring capabilities include leaf temperature sensing and root zone moisture and oxygen sensing. The PH light cap will have red (630 nanometers), blue (450 nanometers), green (525 nanometers), far red (730 nanometers) and broad spectrum white light emitting diodes. There will be several internal cameras to monitor and record plant growth and operations.

Cyberpunk literature and Slovenes : too mainstream, too marginal, or simply too soon?

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Mojca Krevel

2000-12-01

Full Text Available One of the most popular coinages of 'eighties America seems to be the notorious term "cyberpunk". The term covered everything from popular movies such as Robocop and Terminator, comics, video production and increasingly popular Japanese manga cartoons, to music from such diverse authors as Laurie Anderson and Billy Idol. But the phenomenon did not stop there: cyberpunk became a specific way of life, demanding certain behaviour, a dress code and so on.

TPG: Unireso travel cards soon to be available for purchase at CERN

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2013-01-01

In the framework of a partnership between CERN and the TPG, all active and retired members of the CERN personnel will be able to purchase Unireso travel cards from the CERN Hostel - Building 39 (Meyrin site) from 1 February 2013. At the same time, the CERN Staff Association will stop selling cards to its members.   How to order a travel card From 1 February onwards, travel cards can be ordered* directly from the reception of the CERN Hostel (Building 39) between the hours of 7.30 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. Mondays to Fridays: → a digital photograph will be taken when you order your card, → the card must be paid for, by credit card (EuroMaster, Visa or American Express) or in cash (Swiss francs only), when the order is placed. *Please note that cards ordered at CERN will not be valid until at least 8 working days after purchase. No reimbursement will be possible once the order has been placed. Prices Travel cards will be on sale at the following prices (including 8% VAT): Regi...

Micro-Pressure Sensors for Future Mars Missions

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Catling, David C.

1996-01-01

The joint research interchange effort was directed at the following principal areas: u further development of NASA-Ames' Mars Micro-meteorology mission concept as a viable NASA space mission especially with regard to the science and instrument specifications u interaction with the flight team from NASA's New Millennium 'Deep-Space 2' (DS-2) mission with regard to selection and design of micro-pressure sensors for Mars u further development of micro-pressure sensors suitable for Mars The research work undertaken in the course of the Joint Research Interchange should be placed in the context of an ongoing planetary exploration objective to characterize the climate system on Mars. In particular, a network of small probes globally-distributed on the surface of the planet has often been cited as the only way to address this particular science goal. A team from NASA Ames has proposed such a mission called the Micrometeorology mission, or 'Micro-met' for short. Surface pressure data are all that are required, in principle, to calculate the Martian atmospheric circulation, provided that simultaneous orbital measurements of the atmosphere are also obtained. Consequently, in the proposed Micro-met mission a large number of landers would measure barometric pressure at various locations around Mars, each equipped with a micro-pressure sensor. Much of the time on the JRI was therefore spent working with the engineers and scientists concerned with Micro-met to develop this particular mission concept into a more realistic proposition.

Observations on the perinatal changes of maternal serum growth hormone levels

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Fa Yihua; Su Chenghai

2004-01-01

Objective: To investigate the changes of maternal serum GH levels during late gestation and soon (24 hours) after delivery. Methods: Serum GH levels were measured with RIA in 6 women during late pregnancy, 32 pre-delivery women, 20 women soon after delivery and 76 controls (normal non-pregnant women). Results: Serum GH levels in the late pregnant (20.1±1.87 μg/L) and pre-delivery (21.07±7.77 μg/L) women were significantly higher those in women soon after delivery (2.76±0.88 μg/L) and controls (2.73±2.15 μg/L) (p<0.01). There was no significant difference between the levels in late pregnant and pre-delivery women, nor between those in the controls and women soon after delivery. Conclusion: Elevation of maternal serum GH levels during pregnancy reflects the normal maternal adaptation to meet the demand for fetal growth. However, the origin of increase is mainly from the placenta (placental GH or HGH-V) rather than from the pituitary (HGH-N); hence the rapid decline soon after delivery

Fast breeder reactor expected to soon overtake LWRs in terms of economic efficiency

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Eitz, A.W.; Theisen, G.; Wolff, U.; Riethmueller, R.

1986-01-01

On the basis of current knowledge, the authors try to comparatively assess the fuel cycle costs of the SNR and the LWR, and to establish a prognosis of the competibility of the SNR in terms of fuel expenditure. The result is that already today, the fast breeder would achieve the economic efficiency of the LWR-type reactor, and in future would offer clear advantages. For their assessments, the authors made a few cost estimates, as e.g. with regard to the fuel reprocessing plant, which deserve close attention, and power discussion. As to the next project to follow, a large-scale European fast breeder reactor power plant, the authors state that the fuel cycle cost will not present a special economic risk, if an option for interim fuel storage is ensured. Determination of the right and adequate time to start construction of a commercial fuel reprocessing plant is no point in current discussions, and should anyhow be made with great care and the least time pressure possible. Cooperation among European states, however, is indispensable for this project. (orig.) [de

Temperament, post-partum depression, hopelessness, and suicide risk among women soon after delivering.

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Girardi, Paolo; Pompili, Maurizio; Innamorati, Marco; Serafini, Gianluca; Berrettoni, Claudia; Angeletti, Gloria; Koukopoulos, Alexia; Tatarelli, Roberto; Lester, David; Roselli, Domenico; Primiero, Francesco M

2011-07-22

The aim of the authors in this study was to assess the prevalence of postpartum depression and evaluate the association of affective temperaments with emotional disorders in a sample of 92 pregnant women consecutively admitted for delivery between March and December 2009. In the first few days postpartum, women completed the Suicidal History Self-rating Screening Scale, the Beck Hopelessness Scale, the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, the Temperament Evaluation of the Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego Autoquestionnaire, and the Gotland Male Depression Scale. Fifty percent of the women reported an Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale score of 9 or higher, and 23% a score of 13 or higher. Women with a dysphoric-dysregulated temperament had higher mean scores on the Beck Hopelessness Scale (p Depression Scale (p Depression Scale (p Depression Scale was significantly associated with temperament when controlling for the presence of other variables. Women with a dysphoric-dysregulated temperament were 1.23 times as likely to have higher depressive symptom scores. Future studies should evaluate the effectiveness of psychiatric screening programs in the postpartum period as well as factors associated with depression and suicidality during the same period.

Coming Soon to a Physician Near You: Medical Neoliberalism and Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials.

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Fisher, Jill A

2007-01-01

This paper aims to expand standard conceptions of current ethical issues by discussing pharmaceutical clinical trials in terms of the broader political economy. Specifically, it explores one important characteristic of the political economy in the United States: the trend towards the neoliberalization of health care. First, it provides an overview of neoliberalism and its manifestations in the health care sector. Then, it applies this perspective to pharmaceutical drug development. The paper argues that federal regulation must attend to the context of clinical research to protect human subjects more fully.

A Kantian moral duty for the soon-to-be demented to commit suicide.

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Cooley, Dennis R

2007-06-01

It has been argued that, on Kantian grounds, pedophiles, rapists and murderers are morally obligated to take their own lives prior to committing a violent action that will end their moral agency. That is, to avoid destroying the agent's moral life by performing a morally suicidal action, the agent, while he still is a moral agent, should end his body's life. Although the cases of dementia and the morally reprehensible are vastly different, this Kantian interpretation might be useful in the debate on the permissibility of suicide for those facing dementia's effects. If moral agents have a duty to act as moral agents, then those who will lose their moral identity as moral agents have an obligation to themselves to end their physical lives prior to losing their dignity as persons.

Illicit Drug Markets Among New Orleans Evacuees Before and Soon After Hurricane Katrina.

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Dunlap, Eloise; Johnson, Bruce D; Morse, Edward

2007-09-01

This paper analyzes illicit drug markets in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina and access to drug markets following evacuation at many locations and in Houston. Among New Orleans arrestees pre-Katrina, rates of crack and heroin use and market participation was comparable to New York and higher than in other southern cities. Both cities have vigorous outdoor drug markets. Over 100 New Orleans evacuees provide rich accounts describing the illicit markets in New Orleans and elsewhere. The flooding of New Orleans disrupted the city's flourishing drug markets, both during and immediately after the storm. Drug supplies, though limited, were never completely unavailable. Subjects reported that alcohol or drugs were not being used in the Houston Astrodome, and it was a supportive environment. Outside the Astrodome, they were often approached by or could easily locate middlemen and drug sellers. Evacuees could typically access illegal drug markets wherever they went. This paper analyzes the impact of a major disaster upon users of illegal drugs and the illegal drug markets in New Orleans and among the diaspora of New Orleans evacuees following Hurricane Katrina. This analysis includes data from criminal justice sources that specify what the drug markets were like before this disaster occurred. This analysis also includes some comparison cities where no disaster occurred, but which help inform the similarities and differences in drug markets in other cities. The data presented also include an initial analysis of ethnographic interview data from over 100 New Orleans Evacuees recruited in New Orleans and Houston.

How the Posse Comitatus Act Restricts Department of Defense Information Sharing

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2010-06-11

primary mission was to cultivate counterintelligence programs designed to enable force protection, CIFA soon expanded its reach with the launch of...distributed domestic information to federal and local law enforcement, the more the agencies requested. This phenomenon soon mushroomed into the

An estimate of seasonality and intensity of infection with gastrointestinal nematodes in sheep and goats . in West Java

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Beriajaya

1998-12-01

Full Text Available Tracer Inoodle tbin-tail sheep and Kacang goats were used to measure the seasonal changes in gastrointestinal nematodes parasitism i ~'und[, .xillapek .Fodd~ 'ofis in West Java . Each 3 months for 12 months worm-free male sheep (5 and goats (5 about 5 months of age were ~ $Jri~tgldI o% ef- farmer, and managed as part of their flock for 2 months . Animals were then returned to the laboratory and maintained on "`~^taaan-ftwAiet in elevated slatted pens for 3 weeks prior to slaughter. In all trials sheep had higher faecal egg counts than goats . Egg counts were significantly lower during the late dry-early wet season due mainly to lower burdens of Oesophagostomum spp. than at other times of the year. The predominant genera recovered from faecal larval cultures were Haemonchus and Trichostrongylus . At post mortem more than 94 percent of animals were infected with Trichostrongylus colubriformis, T. axei, Haemonchus contortus, Oesophagostomum columbianwn and Strongyloides papillosus . Other species found, in descending order of occurrence, were Cooperia curticei, Trichuris ovis, Bunostornum trigonocephalum, Oesophagostomumn asperum, Capillaria bovis and Gaigena pachycelis. It was concluded that intensity of exposure of both sheep and goats to H contortus, T. axei and C. curticei was similar throughout the year, but that availability of infectioe larvae of T. colubriformis was higher during the dry than the wet season and vise versa for O. columbianum . Sheep had higher burdens of T. Colubrzformis than goats but similar numbers of other species.

50 CFR 37.31 - Environmental protection.

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2010-10-01

... occurrence of any tundra fires immediately or as soon as communication can be established. (9) Rehabilitation... mammals, including caribou, muskoxen, moose, polar bear, and brown bear. (13) Feeding of wildlife is... immediately or as soon as communication can be established. Other notifications shall be made by the permittee...

Proceedings – Mathematical Sciences | Indian Academy of Sciences

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On some Vongruence with Application to Exponential Sums. Soon-Mo ... Moreover, we introduce an application of the above result to the study of an estimation of exponential sums. Author Affiliations. Soon-Mo Jung1. Mathematics Section, College of Science and Technology, Hong-Ik University, 339-701 Chochiwon, Korea ...

77 FR 51048 - United States et al. v. Verizon Communications Inc. et al.; Proposed Final Judgment and...

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2012-08-23

... is likely soon to offer, FiOS within the franchise territory of a Cable Defendant. A small but... where Verizon offers, or is likely soon to offer, FiOS within the franchise territory of a Cable... originally constructed pursuant to a local franchise agreement that gave the cable carrier exclusive rights...

Vaccine-Hesitant Justifications: "Too Many, Too Soon," Narrative Persuasion, and the Conflation of Expertise.

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Rodriguez, Nathan J

2016-01-01

Vaccine-preventable diseases have re-emerged as more individuals have strayed from the recommended inoculation schedule. Previous work on vaccine hesitancy is generally limited to content analyses. Using grounded theory, this project examines vaccine debates on a prominent discussion board over a period of five years. Individuals generally justified opposition or hesitancy toward vaccines through personal experience and/or research, and the concepts of narrative persuasion and the conflation of expertise help describe the most prominent characteristics of such discourse. A consideration of online comments regarding vaccinations allows practitioners to not only become better prepared for patient concerns they might encounter, and but also become more familiar with the types of anecdotes and narratives that may be influential but left unspoken in face-to-face conversations.

Noise and vibration improvement technologies for engines; Engine ni okeru soon shindo kaizen gijutsu

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Kuzuoka, H.; Maeda, R. [Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)

1999-02-01

This is an outline of recent measurement and simulation technology for reduction of engine noise and vibration. We can recognize correct phenomenon by visualization of noise and vibration phenomena using new measurement technology. And we can create optimum countermeasures using new simulation technology In this report, examples of application of these technology in the development of NEO-DI engines are provided. (author)

Gear ratting noise reduction of diesel engine; Diesel engine no gear hauchi soon teigen

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Nakamura, S; Miura, Y [Hino Motors, Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)

1997-10-01

Gear raffling noise of diesel engine at idling condition is required to reduce for keeping quiet environment and comfort of driver and passengers on track and bus. Decrease of gear backlash is generally adopted for reducing gear rattling noise. On the other hand, it has been found that newly devised measurement of gear teeth speed and gear meshing error has clarified phenomena of gear rattling between the crankshaft gear and the camshaft gear of the diesel engine. And it has been also found that gear ratting noise is reduced by changing meshing between the crankshaft gear and the camshaft gear. 2 refs., 10 figs.

Apocalypse soon? Dire messages reduce belief in global warming by contradicting just-world beliefs.

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Feinberg, Matthew; Willer, Robb

2011-01-01

Though scientific evidence for the existence of global warming continues to mount, in the United States and other countries belief in global warming has stagnated or even decreased in recent years. One possible explanation for this pattern is that information about the potentially dire consequences of global warming threatens deeply held beliefs that the world is just, orderly, and stable. Individuals overcome this threat by denying or discounting the existence of global warming, and this process ultimately results in decreased willingness to counteract climate change. Two experiments provide support for this explanation of the dynamics of belief in global warming, suggesting that less dire messaging could be more effective for promoting public understanding of climate-change research.

Guidelines Sketch Out Use of Aid: Federal Stimulus Allocations to Come Soon, with Strings

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Klein, Alyson

2009-01-01

The eagerly awaited federal guidelines on some $100 billion in stimulus funding for public education aim to pump money out quickly, while giving the U.S. Department of Education leverage to demand improvements from states and districts. But those same states and districts are also warned not to expect the hefty sums for K-12 programs in the…

Lessons Learned But Soon Forgotten: The OSS and Insurgency Operations in World War II

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2011-03-25

glorious amateurs‖ were hand-selected recruits from across the American landscape who were encouraged to improvise and innovate.11 Admiral Eric T. Olson...Germany. It analyzed the role of the emperor in Japanese society, the potential impacts of bombing the Imperial Palace, potential impacts of food ...political reasons,‖ between the various French resistance groups within his sector, he would gather the French Resistance chiefs and conduct a joint

Tartumaa väledad gasellfirmad on Eesti tipus / Nils Niitra

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2006-01-01

Tartumaa ettevõtetest OÜ-st Viljavedaja, AS-ist EBÖ Eesti, OÜ-st Total Eesti ja OÜ-st Soone Farm, kes kuuluvad ajalehe Äripäev gasellide TOPi esiviisikusse. Lisa: Gaselli TOP. Soovitusi jagavad Tartu Teaduspargi esimees Toomas Noorem, OÜ Viljavedaja asutaja Rainer Puhk ja Nõo valla Soone farmi omanik Andres Tamm

Important announcement to INSPEC database users

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2008-01-01

The Library is in the process of transferring CERN’s subscription to the online INSPEC database to a new provider, which involves a new access platform. Users who have saved searches or alerts on the present system should record the details of their search strings as soon as possible whilst the old platform is still available, and manually move them to the new platform which will become available very soon. Access to the older platform will shortly be switched off, after which it will not be possible to access any saved information stored there. Access to the new platform will be available soon from the Library’s INSPEC page: http://library.cern.ch/information_resources/inspec.html

Sycamore produces viable seed after six years

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A. F. Ike

1966-01-01

In the early stages of any tree improvement program it is desirable to know how soon progenies of selected parents can themselves be included in a breeding program. How soon will they produce viable pollen and seed? In the case of sycamore (Platanus occidentalis L.), the information is meager: the Woody- Plant Seed Manual lists the minimum commercial seedbearing age...

Surgery-induced changes and early recovery of hip-muscle strength, leg-press power, and functional performance after fast-track total hip arthroplasty

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Holm, Bente; Thorborg, Kristian; Husted, Henrik

2013-01-01

By measuring very early changes in muscle strength and functional performance after fast-track total hip arthroplasty (THA), post-operative rehabilitation, introduced soon after surgery, can be designed to specifically target identified deficits.......By measuring very early changes in muscle strength and functional performance after fast-track total hip arthroplasty (THA), post-operative rehabilitation, introduced soon after surgery, can be designed to specifically target identified deficits....

Team Training through Communications Control

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1982-02-01

training * operational environment * team training research issues * training approach * team communications * models of operator beharior e...on the market soon, it certainly would be investigated carefully for its applicability to the team training problem. ce A text-to-speech voice...generation system. Votrax has recently marketed such a device, and others may soon follow suit. ’ d. A speech replay system designed to produce speech from

Optical fibers and sensors for chemistry

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Perez, J.J.; Boisde, G.

1988-01-01

The idea of using optical fibers in nuclear environment occurs as soon as 1967, too soon for practical realizations. In 1973 the first glass fibers were made available in Switzerland. From 1973 to 1988 three periods show the development: conception from 1973 to 1978, technique strengthening from 1978 to 1983 and nuclear and non nuclear industrial development since 1983. 45 refs., 27 figs [fr

Coming Soon: CADRE (Career Advancement and Development Resources and Education) website for all APS members

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The Council of the American Phytopathological Society (APS) approved an initiative in February 2013 to create a web resource called CADRE (Career Advancement and Development Resources and Education). CADRE is to provide APS members an archive of articles, videos, and webinars about a variety of prof...

Suicide attempt using pure methanol with hospitalization of the patient soon after ingestion: case report.

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Bucaretchi, Fábio; De Capitani, Eduardo Mello; Madureira, Paulo Roberto de; Cesconetto, Danielle Menezes; Lanaro, Rafael; Vieira, Ronan José

2009-05-01

Most patients with methanol poisoning typically show up one to several days after ingestion, presenting severe acidosis, visual disorders, or both. Reports of hospitalization less than 6 h after exposure are unusual. We describe a case of attempted suicide using methanol admitted 3 h after ingestion. A 52-year-old male was hospitalized 3 h after intentional ingestion of 150 ml of 99.9% methanol with no co-ingestion of ethanol. He was alert and cooperative, presenting nausea and vertigo, and reporting six episodes of vomiting. Physical examination showed no remarkable features. A blood sample for methanol and ethanol determination was obtained 4 h after ingestion. The result (available 10 h after ingestion) showed 70 mg/dl of methanol, without detectable ethanol. He was treated with a loading dose of 10% ethanol solution (7 ml/kg, intravenously), followed by a maintenance dose of 0.9-1.0 ml/kg/h intravenously (10 to 51 h); hemodialysis (19 to 27 h, together with 2.1 ml/kg/h of 10% ethanol intravenously); and folinic acid intravenously (50 mg every 6 h, from 4 to 51 h). He developed mild/moderate metabolic acidosis without acidemia and was discharged on day four after ophthalmological evaluation and cerebral computed tomography scan, without abnormalities. Follow-up revealed no sequelae. This could be classified as a potentially severe case of methanol poisoning, according to the amount and concentration of methanol ingested, and blood methanol concentration at 4 h. The good outcome was attributable to early hospitalization and early antidotal therapy with hemodialysis, starting at 10 and 19 h, respectively.

Suicide attempt using pure methanol with hospitalization of the patient soon after ingestion: case report

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Fábio Bucaretchi

Full Text Available CONTEXT: Most patients with methanol poisoning typically show up one to several days after ingestion, presenting severe acidosis, visual disorders, or both. Reports of hospitalization less than 6 h after exposure are unusual. We describe a case of attempted suicide using methanol admitted 3 h after ingestion. CASE REPORT: A 52-year-old male was hospitalized 3 h after intentional ingestion of 150 ml of 99.9% methanol with no co-ingestion of ethanol. He was alert and cooperative, presenting nausea and vertigo, and reporting six episodes of vomiting. Physical examination showed no remarkable features. A blood sample for methanol and ethanol determination was obtained 4 h after ingestion. The result (available 10 h after ingestion showed 70 mg/dl of methanol, without detectable ethanol. He was treated with a loading dose of 10% ethanol solution (7 ml/kg, intravenously, followed by a maintenance dose of 0.9-1.0 ml/kg/h intravenously (10 to 51 h; hemodialysis (19 to 27 h, together with 2.1 ml/kg/h of 10% ethanol intravenously; and folinic acid intravenously (50 mg every 6 h, from 4 to 51 h. He developed mild/moderate metabolic acidosis without acidemia and was discharged on day four after ophthalmological evaluation and cerebral computed tomography scan, without abnormalities. Follow-up revealed no sequelae. CONCLUSION: This could be classified as a potentially severe case of methanol poisoning, according to the amount and concentration of methanol ingested, and blood methanol concentration at 4 h. The good outcome was attributable to early hospitalization and early antidotal therapy with hemodialysis, starting at 10 and 19 h, respectively.

Changes of heart rate variability and baroreflex sensitivity in patients soon after orthotopic heart transplantation

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Fráňa, P.; Kára, T.; Souček, M.; Halámek, Josef; Řiháček, I.; Orban, O.; Toman, J.; Bartosikova, L.; Nečas, J.; Dzurova, J.

2002-01-01

Roč. 20, č. 4 (2002), s. S293 ISSN 0263-6352. [Scientific meeting of the international society of hypertension - european meeting on hypertension. 23.06.2002-27.06.2002, Praha] R&D Projects: GA ČR GA102/00/1262; GA ČR GA102/02/1339 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z2065902 Keywords : baroreflex * heart transplantation * ANS Subject RIV: JA - Electronics ; Optoelectronics, Electrical Engineering

Revision of cemented hip arthroplasty using a hydroxyapatite-ceramic-coated femoral component.

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Raman, R; Kamath, R P; Parikh, A; Angus, P D

2005-08-01

We report the clinical and radiological outcome of 86 revisions of cemented hip arthroplasties using JRI-Furlong hydroxyapatite-ceramic-coated acetabular and femoral components. The acetabular component was revised in 62 hips and the femoral component in all hips. The mean follow-up was 12.6 years and no patient was lost to follow-up. The mean age of the patients was 71.2 years. The mean Harris hip and Oxford scores were 82 (59 to 96) and 23.4 (14 to 40), respectively. The mean Charnley modification of the Merle d'Aubigné and Postel score was 5 (3 to 6) for pain, 4.9 (3 to 6) for movement and 4.4 (3 to 6) for mobility. Migration of the acetabular component was seen in two hips and the mean acetabular inclination was 42.6 degrees. The mean linear polyethylene wear was 0.05 mm/year. The mean subsidence of the femoral component was 1.9 mm and stress shielding was seen in 23 (28%) with bony ingrowth in 76 (94%). Heterotopic ossification was seen in 12 hips (15%). There were three re-revisions, two for deep sepsis and one for recurrent dislocation and there were no re-revisions for aseptic loosening. The mean EuroQol EQ-5D description scores and health thermometer scores were 0.69 (0.51 to 0.89) and 79 (54 to 95), respectively. With an end-point of definite or probable loosening, the probability of survival at 12 years was 93.9% and 95.6% for the acetabular and femoral components, respectively. Overall survival at 12 years, with removal or further revision of either component for any reason as the end-point, was 92.3%. Our study supports the continued use of this arthroplasty and documents the durability of hydroxyapatite-ceramic-coated components.

The Nuclear is awaking in China

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Jemain, A.

2004-01-01

In order to be energetically independent and to respect the sustainable development the China decided that the Nuclear will represent 3 to 5 % of its electric power production in 2020. Two calls for tenders will be soon announced for four nuclear power plants of 1000-1500 MW. In this project the China wants to become autonomous as soon as possible and to design, to build and to work alone nuclear power plants. (A.L.B.)

Fully Automated Sunspot Detection and Classification Using SDO HMI Imagery in MATLAB

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2014-03-27

initiating the java program scripted to communicate with the SOON telescope used for continual observation of the sun. The SOON telescope is used at...proximity of spots refers to the angular separation between different spots that could make up a group. The area of each sunspot means the total area...degrees and the different magnetic polarities of each spot being considered. For a spot pair that has the same polarity and small angular separation

Sigma factors, asymmetry, and the determination of cell fate in Bacillus subtilis.

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Lewis, P J; Partridge, S R; Errington, J

1994-01-01

Soon after the initiation of sporulation, Bacillus subtilis divides asymmetrically to produce sister cells that have very different developmental fates. Recently, it has been proposed that the differential gene expression which begins soon after this division is due to cell-specific activation of the transcription factors sigma F and sigma E in the prespore and the mother cell, respectively. We describe the use of a method for the localization of gene expression in individual sporulating cell...

The big bang

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Chown, Marcus.

1987-01-01

The paper concerns the 'Big Bang' theory of the creation of the Universe 15 thousand million years ago, and traces events which physicists predict occurred soon after the creation. Unified theory of the moment of creation, evidence of an expanding Universe, the X-boson -the particle produced very soon after the big bang and which vanished from the Universe one-hundredth of a second after the big bang, and the fate of the Universe, are all discussed. (U.K.)

MAIL1 is essential for development of the primary root but not of anchor roots

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Ühlken, Christine; Hoth, Stefan; Weingartner, Magdalena

2014-01-01

MAIN-LIKE1 (MAIL1) is a ubiquitously expressed nuclear protein, which has a crucial function during root development. We have recently described loss of function mutants for MAIL1, in which the organization and function of the primary root meristem is lost soon after germination. Moreover cell differentiation is impaired resulting in primary root growth arrest soon after emergence. Here we show that mail1 mutants form several anchor roots from the hypocotyl to root junction. These anchor root...

Alle kan skrive artikler

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Pommergaard, Hans-Christian; Rosenberg, Jacob; Burcharth, Jakob

2013-01-01

This is a book describing the unique technique called "Mind-to-Paper". This will enable you to produce a full text scientific article in a single day! The book is in Danish, but will soon be available in English as well.......This is a book describing the unique technique called "Mind-to-Paper". This will enable you to produce a full text scientific article in a single day! The book is in Danish, but will soon be available in English as well....

How not to talk like an arse 101 words you shouldn't use any time soon

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Wilson, Richard

2011-01-01

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the bookshop, comes bestselling author Richard Wilson's triumphant follow up to Can't Be Arsed and Don't Even Think About It!, How Not to Talk Like an Arse is Mr Wilson's hilarious, and topical, self righteous stab at the modern day vernacular, taking aim at the invention of ridiculous, nonsensical words that not only are just plain crap but also make those who dare speak them sound like complete twits. Richard waxes lyrical on awful words such as 'Ciao', 'Hurting', 'Fashionista' and 'Staycation'. He also lets loose on how those words were created and how they escaped and survived in the wild instead of being killed at a young age. Written in Richard's utterly fantastic ranting style, this sharp-shooting of the ridiculousness of the modern english language and the morons who use it is a must-have for everyone this Christmas.

A vaccine effective against Zika virus is theoretically possible but may not be delivered anytime soon

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Taylor-Robinson AW

2016-07-01

Full Text Available Andrew W Taylor-Robinson Infectious Diseases Research Group, School of Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia Abstract: Following the first report in May 2015 of the unexpected emergence of Zika in north east Brazil, there has been an explosive epidemic of this infection across Latin America. The outbreak has caused alarm among social and news media as to the virulence and transmission potential of the Aedes mosquito-borne virus. This debate is heightened by the proximity, both in time and distance, to the forthcoming Olympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro this August, provoking fears for the safety of athletes and spectators alike. The threat, real or perceived, is exacerbated by the movement between nations in the same or separate continents of persons who act unwittingly as asymptomatic carriers. Pregnant females are considered at greatest risk because microcephaly in newborn infants is linked to, if not yet proven as caused by, Zika infection. In February this year, the World Health Organization declared that further to the then unconfirmed association between the virus and the clinical manifestations of microcephaly and also Guillain-Barré syndrome, the Zika epidemic was a “public health emergency of international concern”. No anti-Zika therapy, vaccine or drug, is currently available and while the production of the former has now been prioritized by multiple funding agencies, the history of infectious disease vaccine development indicates that this may take several years to reach the market place. The fact that Zika is a close relative of yellow fever and Japanese encephalitis viruses, for both of which there are already effective vaccines, provides a rational basis for the fast-tracked laboratory-based preparation of a candidate vaccine. However, undertaking clinical trials on pregnant females provides ethical and practical hurdles to overcome before licensure is granted for public administration. Meanwhile, public health management strategies, including mosquito control programs to reduce breeding, are needed to limit the global spread of this re-emerging disease. Keywords: Zika, flavivirus, epidemic, vaccine

Facing up to Body Art: "As Soon as I Turn Eighteen, I'm Getting a Tattoo"

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Strauch-Nelson, Wendy

2004-01-01

In this article, the author discusses a lesson she did in one of her high school classes about body art and tattoos. She wanted to explore the reasons for high schoolers wanting tattoos and supply those teenagers with some background and facts about body art in terms of origins, meaning, and permanence. The author feels the time spent on the study…

Coronary artery bypass surgery or coronary stenting in diabetic patients: too soon to make a statement?

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Rodriguez, Alfredo E., E-mail: arodriguez@centroceci.com.ar

2014-11-15

Diabetic patients have been associated with poor procedural and long term outcome if they were treated either with percutaneous coronary interventions or coronary artery bypass surgery. Recently several randomized clinical trials (RCT) in this subset of patients have been published showing a greater incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events, death/myocardial infarction/stroke, if they were treated with first generation drug eluting stents (DES) which was not observed previously in the bare metal stent era. However, almost simultaneously with this data, several RCT demonstrated better safety profile with new generation DES including biocompatible polymers, biodegradable polymers and lately complete absorbable DES, all of them showed reduction in adverse cardiac events compared to 1st generation DES in patients with diabetes. In this editorial we review the old and new randomized data in diabetic patients and conclude that there are many unresolved issues to make a definitive statement regarding which is the best revascularization preference in diabetic patients and the measured final efficacy of PCI and CABG will not be reached until the arrival of RCT using next generation DES, including complete absorbable scaffolds. - Highlights: • Diabetic patients have been associated with poor procedural and long term outcome if they were treated either with percutaneous coronary interventions or coronary artery bypass surgery. Recently several randomized clinical trials (RCT) in this subset of patients have been published showing a greater incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events, death/myocardial infarction/stroke, if they were treated with first generation drug eluting stents (DES) which was not observed previously in the bare metal stent era. • In recent years, several RCT demonstrated better safety profile with new generation DES including biocompatible polymers, biodegradable polymers and lately complete absorbable DES, all of them showed reduction in adverse cardiac events compared to 1st generation DES in patients with diabetes. • First generation DES have been largely replaced by the safer and newer generations of DES, therefore, measured final efficacy of PCI and CABG will not be reached until the arrival of RCT using next generation DES, including complete absorbable DES.

Coronary artery bypass surgery or coronary stenting in diabetic patients: too soon to make a statement?

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Rodriguez, Alfredo E.

2014-01-01

Diabetic patients have been associated with poor procedural and long term outcome if they were treated either with percutaneous coronary interventions or coronary artery bypass surgery. Recently several randomized clinical trials (RCT) in this subset of patients have been published showing a greater incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events, death/myocardial infarction/stroke, if they were treated with first generation drug eluting stents (DES) which was not observed previously in the bare metal stent era. However, almost simultaneously with this data, several RCT demonstrated better safety profile with new generation DES including biocompatible polymers, biodegradable polymers and lately complete absorbable DES, all of them showed reduction in adverse cardiac events compared to 1st generation DES in patients with diabetes. In this editorial we review the old and new randomized data in diabetic patients and conclude that there are many unresolved issues to make a definitive statement regarding which is the best revascularization preference in diabetic patients and the measured final efficacy of PCI and CABG will not be reached until the arrival of RCT using next generation DES, including complete absorbable scaffolds. - Highlights: • Diabetic patients have been associated with poor procedural and long term outcome if they were treated either with percutaneous coronary interventions or coronary artery bypass surgery. Recently several randomized clinical trials (RCT) in this subset of patients have been published showing a greater incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events, death/myocardial infarction/stroke, if they were treated with first generation drug eluting stents (DES) which was not observed previously in the bare metal stent era. • In recent years, several RCT demonstrated better safety profile with new generation DES including biocompatible polymers, biodegradable polymers and lately complete absorbable DES, all of them showed reduction in adverse cardiac events compared to 1st generation DES in patients with diabetes. • First generation DES have been largely replaced by the safer and newer generations of DES, therefore, measured final efficacy of PCI and CABG will not be reached until the arrival of RCT using next generation DES, including complete absorbable DES

Reaping Environmental Benefits of a Global Hydrogen Economy: How Large, Fow Soon, and at What Risks?

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Dubey, M. K.; Horowitz, L. W.; Rahn, T. A.; Kinnison, D. E.

2004-12-01

The Western world has taken an aggressive posture to transition to a global hydrogen economy. While numerous technical challenges need to be addressed to achieve this it is timely to examine the environmental benefits and risks of this transition. Hydrogen provides an efficient energy carrier that promises to enhance urban and regional air quality that will benefit human health. It could also reduce risks of climate change if large-scale hydrogen production by renewable or nuclear energy sources becomes viable. While it is well known that the byproduct of energy produced from hydrogen is water vapor, it is not well known that the storage and transfer of hydrogen is inevitably accompanied by measurable leakage of hydrogen. Unintended consequences of hydrogen leakage include reduction in global oxidative capacity, changes in tropospheric ozone, and increase in stratospheric water that would exacerbate halogen induced ozone losses as well as impact the earth's radiation budget and climate. We construct plausible global hydrogen energy use and leak scenarios and assess their impacts using global 3-D simulations by the Model for Ozone And Related Trace species (MOZART). The hydrogen fluxes and photochemistry in our model successfully reproduce the contemporary hydrogen cycle as observed by a network of remote global stations. Our intent is to determine environmentally tolerable leak rates and also facilitate a gradual phasing in of a hydrogen economy over the next several decades as the elimination of the use of halocarbons gradually reduces halogen induced stratospheric ozone loss rates. We stress that the leak rates in global hydrogen infrastructure and the future evolution of microbial soil sink of hydrogen that determines its current lifetime (about 2 years) are principal sources of uncertainty in our assessment.

Motives and barriers to safer sex and regular STI testing among MSM soon after HIV diagnosis

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Heijman, Titia; Zuure, Freke; Stolte, Ineke; Davidovich, Udi

2017-01-01

Understanding why some recently with HIV diagnosed men who have sex with men (MSM) choose for safer sex and regular STI testing, whereas others do not, is important for the development of interventions that aim to improve the sexual health of those newly infected. To gain insight into motives and

Born too soon: care before and between pregnancy to prevent preterm births: from evidence to action.

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Dean, Sohni V; Mason, Elizabeth; Howson, Christopher P; Lassi, Zohra S; Imam, Ayesha M; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A

2013-01-01

Providing care to adolescent girls and women before and between pregnancies improves their own health and wellbeing, as well as pregnancy and newborn outcomes, and can also reduce the rates of preterm birth. This paper has reviewed the evidence-based interventions and services for preventing preterm births, reported the findings from research priority exercise, and prescribed actions for taking this call further. Certain factors in the preconception period have been shown to increase the risk for prematurity and, therefore, preconception care services for all women of reproductive age should address these risk factors through preventing adolescent pregnancy, preventing unintended pregnancies, promoting optimal birth spacing, optimizing pre-pregnancy weight and nutritional status (including a folic acid-containing multivitamin supplement) and ensuring that all adolescent girls have received complete vaccination. Preconception care must also address risk factors that may be applicable to only some women. These include screening for and management of chronic diseases, especially diabetes; sexually-transmitted infections; tobacco and smoke exposure; mental health disorders, notably depression; and intimate partner violence. The approach to research in preconception care to prevent preterm births should include a cycle of development and delivery research that evaluates how best to scale up coverage of existing evidence-based interventions, epidemiologic research that assesses the impact of implementing these interventions and discovery science that better elucidates the complex causal pathway of preterm birth and helps to develop new screening and intervention tools. In addition to research, policy and financial investment is crucial to increasing opportunities to implement preconception care, and rates of prematurity should be included as a tracking indicator in global and national maternal child health assessments.

15 million preterm births annually: what has changed this year?

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Kinney Mary V

2012-11-01

Full Text Available Abstract Each year, more than 1 in 10 of the world’s babies are born preterm, resulting in 15 million babies born too soon. World Prematurity Day, November 17, is a global effort to raise awareness about prematurity. This past year, there has been increased awareness of the problem, through new data and evidence, global partnership and country champions. Actions to improve care would save hundreds of thousands of babies born too soon from death and disability. Accelerated prevention requires urgent research breakthroughs.

New stable isotope records of sediment cores from the SE Arabian Sea - Inferences on the variations in monsoon regime during the late Quaternery

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Thamban, M.; Rao, V.P.

, Vidyanagar 671 123, India We reconstruct here the changes in regional hydr o- graphy related to the fluctuations in Indian mo n soons du r ing the late Quaternary based on the stable isotope composition of the foraminifers and organic matter in three... value du r ing the early Holocene for the eastern Arabian Sea 21 . The SW monsoon intensity was very weak and the dry NE mo n soon was the dominant feature during the LGM in the Ar a bian Sea 3 . The cool winds of the north - easterly winter...

Malign ovarietumor som årsag til virilisering af en 12-årig pige

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Vestergård Andersen, Dorthe; Hermansen, Mette Northman

2012-01-01

Virilisation in girls includes androgen dependent growth of terminal hair, acne, deepening of the voice and increased muscle mass. Sudden onset of symptoms, rapid progression, short duration and hyperandrogenaemia are ominous signs and the patient must be referred to a specialist as soon as possi......Virilisation in girls includes androgen dependent growth of terminal hair, acne, deepening of the voice and increased muscle mass. Sudden onset of symptoms, rapid progression, short duration and hyperandrogenaemia are ominous signs and the patient must be referred to a specialist as soon...

Novelties on Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace

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2012-01-01

Your Sharepoint Collaboration workspaces will have to migrate to the new Sharepoint 2010 version. As soon as you will create a new site or subsite within your own site or as soon as you will click on “Update my site”, you will be forced to migrate to Sharepoint 2010. In order to anticipate these changes, the technical training invites you to discover all the new features of this interface in a new one day course called “Novelties on Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace 2010”. To sign in, please click on our training catalogue.

Development of pulsed dye lasers for kidney stone fragmentation

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Hsia, J.

1990-01-01

The idea of using lasers to break stones inside the body was first proposed soon after the appearance of the pulsed ruby laser in 1960. Early work of pioneers in the field such as Mulvaney Pensel, and Tanahashi did not lead to a useful clinical protocol. In 1982, Dr. Graham Watson started a systematic search for the right laser. He soon came to the conclusion that CW lasers that relied on thermal effects were not clinically effective. Q-switched lasers such as ruby and Nd:YAG were eliminated because available optical fibers could not handle the high peak powers they emitted. Animal tests were completed and the first human was successfully treated at MGH by Dr. Stephen Dretler in October, 1985. This was soon followed by treatments at the Institute of Urology in London by Dr. Watson and Dr. Wickham. Today, lasertripsy is the treatment of choice for lower ureteral stones. In this paper the work leading to the development of the first clinically effective laser lithotripsy system is reviewed

'Nothing is so soon forgot as pain': Reading Agony in Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

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Franson, Craig

2014-01-01

Giving a rigorous philosophical explanation to the imagination's role in sympathy, Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments became a central text in Romantic aesthetics. It not only justified the age's vogue for making suffering an object of artistic pleasure, it treated suffering's affectivity as the very foundation of society. Depicting agony as a spectacle to be read by others, Smith transformed morality into rhetoric, making human subjects into readers of a sentimentalised, textual world. Yet Smith's work restricted the bonds of sympathy, too, following established distinctions between mind and body that helped him to exclude physical pain from sympathetic response. This essay looks to Smith's context in the overlapping philosophical and medical discourses of the Scottish Enlightenment, exploring his moral theory's resonance with the nerve theories of Robert Whytt and William Cullen, then the leading figures in Scotland's rising medical community. Deepening our understanding of Smith's probable sources, it reframes Smith's intellectual and ideological legacy, foregrounding some of the ambivalent cultural and political implications of Smith's troubling censure of physical pain.

Intraembryonic avian leukosis virus subgroup C (ALV-C) inoculation producing wasting disease in ducks soon after hatching

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Stepanets, Volodymyr; Vernerová, Z.; Vilhelmová, Miloslava; Geryk, Josef; Plachý, Jiří; Hejnar, Jiří; Weichold, F.; Svoboda, Jan

2003-01-01

Roč. 2003, č. 49 (2003), s. 100-109 ISSN 0015-5500 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z5052915 Keywords : Rous- sarcoma * virus * transformation Subject RIV: EB - Genetics ; Molecular Biology Impact factor: 0.527, year: 2003

Recovery of cognitive function soon after stroke: a study of visual neglect, attention span and verbal recall.

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Wade, D T; Wood, V A; Hewer, R L

1988-01-01

Sixty two consecutive patients admitted to hospital and surviving 6 months were tested regularly over the first 3 months after their stroke to plot recovery in three aspects of cognition: visual neglect, assessed using a cancellation task, attention span assessed using digit span, and verbal recall, tested by counting number of words remembered from a list of 10 words. Normative data were collected for the cancellation test. Fifteen patients showed recovery from visual neglect, 10 improvement...

Too Soon to Fly the Coop? Online Journaling to Support Students' Learning during Their Erasmus Study Visit

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Gabaudan, Odette

2016-01-01

Undergraduate students whose programme includes a full academic year on an Erasmus study visit require a range of support before, during and after their year abroad. This study focuses on the support provided by the home academic coordinator during the students' period of study abroad. The research is based on a case-study which explores how the…

La conformación de la provincia jesuítica de Toledo en torno al generalato de Diego Laínez 1556-1565

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Martín López, David

2014-12-01

Full Text Available The newest Jesuits soon began incardinated in the Iberian territory, home of its founder. As one of the most important territories of Catholic Christianity, soon saw the need to distribute what would soon become a large crown in a number of provinces for a more effective government and evangelization. After the first division, at the time of the Spanish general Lines were the final foundations of penta-provincialization between Portugal, Castile, Aragon, Andalusia and —novelty— Toledo.La novísima Compañía de Jesús empezó pronto a incardinarse en el territorio ibérico, patria de su fundador. Como uno de los territorios más importantes de la Cristiandad católica, pronto se vio la necesidad de distribuir lo que pronto sería una gran corona en una serie de provincias para unos más eficaces gobierno y evangelización. Después de una primera división, en la época del generalato del español Laínez se pusieron las bases de la pentaprovincialización definitiva entre Portugal, Castilla, Aragón, Bética y —la novedad— Toledo.

Unilateral traumatic oculomotor nerve paralysis

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Asari, Syoji; Satoh, Toru; Yamamoto, Yuji

1982-01-01

The present authors report a case of unilateral traumatic oculomotor nerve paralysis which shows interesting CT findings which suggest its mechanism. A 60-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a cerebral concussion soon after a traffic accident. A CT scan was performed soon after admission. A high-density spot was noted at the medial aspect of the left cerebral peduncle, where the oculomotor nerve emerged from the midbrain, and an irregular, slender, high-density area was delineated in the right dorsolateral surface of the midbrain. Although the right hemiparesis had already improved by the next morning, the function of the left oculomotor nerve has been completely disturbed for the three months since the injury. In our case, it is speculated that an avulsion of the left oculomotor nerve rootlet occurred at the time of impact as the mechanism of the oculomotor nerve paralysis. A CT taken soon after the head injury showed a high-density spot; this was considered to be a hemorrhage occurring because of the avulsion of the nerve rootlet at the medial surface of the cerebral peduncle. (J.P.N.)

Re-Examining High-Fat Diets for Sports Performance: Did We Call the 'Nail in the Coffin' Too Soon?

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Burke, Louise M

2015-11-01

During the period 1985-2005, studies examined the proposal that adaptation to a low-carbohydrate (60 % energy) diet (LCHF) to increase muscle fat utilization during exercise could enhance performance in trained individuals by reducing reliance on muscle glycogen. As little as 5 days of training with LCHF retools the muscle to enhance fat-burning capacity with robust changes that persist despite acute strategies to restore carbohydrate availability (e.g., glycogen supercompensation, carbohydrate intake during exercise). Furthermore, a 2- to 3-week exposure to minimal carbohydrate (strategies by competitive athletes in conventional sports. Recent re-emergence of interest in LCHF diets, coupled with anecdotes of improved performance by sportspeople who follow them, has created a need to re-examine the potential benefits of this eating style. Unfortunately, the absence of new data prevents a different conclusion from being made. Notwithstanding the outcomes of future research, there is a need for better recognition of current sports nutrition guidelines that promote an individualized and periodized approach to fuel availability during training, allowing the athlete to prepare for competition performance with metabolic flexibility and optimal utilization of all muscle substrates. Nevertheless, there may be a few scenarios where LCHF diets are of benefit, or at least are not detrimental, for sports performance.

Final storage of radioactive waste - how soon will we be able to catch up again with international developments?

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Kuehn, K.

2006-01-01

In Germany, the final storage of radioactive waste from the beginning has been a topic very much influenced by the political debate, especially by party politics. The development initiated after the 1998 change in government has greatly contributed to Germany clearly losing contact with cutting edge international developments in final storage. Here are some proposals for improving the present situation: - The political demand for a single-repository concept should be given up. - Preparatory work on the Konrad repository should be started. - Underground exploration of the Gorleben salt dome should be resumed without any strings attached. - A TSPA should be conducted for the Gorleben project. - After completion of the TSPA, an international peer review should be carried out of the Gorleben project. - An underground laboratory in salt should be established in Germany. - Repository activities should be transferred to a company organized and operating along industrial lines. - Competence for licensing radioactive waste repositories should be concentrated on a national level. (orig.)

Noise and vibration reduction technology in hybrid vehicle development; Hybrid sha kaihatsu ni okeru shindo soon teigen gijutsu

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Yoshioa, T.; Sugita, H. [Toyota Motor Corp., Aichi (Japan)

2000-03-01

Accomplishing both environmental protection and good NVH performance has become a significant task in automotive development The first-in-the-world hybrid passenger car of mass production. 'Prius', has achieved superior NV performance compared with conventional vehicles with a 1.5-liter engine along with 50% reduction of fuel consumption and CO{sub 2} emissions. low HC, CO and NO{sub x} emissions. This paper describes NV reduction technology for solving problems peculiar to the hybrid vehicle such as engine start/stop vibration, drone noise at low engine speed and motor/generator noise and vibration. It also mentions application technology of low rolling resistance tires with light weight wheels and recycled material for sound proofing. (author)

The Stubenberg meteorite-An LL6 chondrite fragmental breccia recovered soon after precise prediction of the strewn field

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Bischoff, A.; Barrat, J.-A.; Bauer, K.; Burkhardt, Ch.; Busemann, H.; Ebert, S.; Gonsior, M.; Hakenmueller, J.; Haloda, J.; Harries, D.; Heinlein, D.; Hiesinger, H.; Hochleitner, R.; Hoffmann, V.; Kaliwoda, M.; Laubenstein, M.; Maden, C.; Meier, M.M.M.; Morlok, A.; Pack, A.; Ruf, A.; Schmitt-Kopplin, P.; Schonbachler, M.; Steele, R.C. J.; Spurný, Pavel; Wimmer, K.

2017-01-01

Roč. 52, č. 8 (2017), s. 1683-1703 ISSN 1086-9379 Institutional support: RVO:67985815 Keywords : asteroid 2008 tc3 * oxygen-isotope composition * cosmogenic nuclides Subject RIV: BN - Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics, Astrophysics OBOR OECD: Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science) Impact factor: 2.391, year: 2016

The Stubenberg meteorite—An LL6 chondrite fragmental breccia recovered soon after precise prediction of the strewn field

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Bischoff, Addi; Barrat, Jean-Alix; Bauer, Kerstin; Burkhardt, Christoph; Busemann, Henner; Ebert, Samuel; Gonsior, Michael; Hakenmüller, Janina; Haloda, Jakub; Harries, Dennis; Heinlein, Dieter; Hiesinger, Harald; Hochleitner, Rupert; Hoffmann, Viktor; Kaliwoda, Melanie; Laubenstein, Matthias; Maden, Colin; Meier, Matthias M. M.; Morlok, Andreas; Pack, Andreas; Ruf, Alexander; Schmitt-Kopplin, Philippe; SchöNbäChler, Maria; Steele, Robert C. J.; Spurný, Pavel; Wimmer, Karl

2017-08-01

On March 6, 2016 at 21:36:51 UT, extended areas of Upper Austria, Bavaria (Germany) and the southwestern part of the Czech Republic were illuminated by a very bright bolide. This bolide was recorded by instruments in the Czech part of the European Fireball Network and it enabled complex and precise description of this event including prediction of the impact area. So far six meteorites totaling 1473 g have been found in the predicted area. The first pieces were recovered on March 12, 2016 on a field close to the village of Stubenberg (Bavaria). Stubenberg is a weakly shocked (S3) fragmental breccia consisting of abundant highly recrystallized rock fragments embedded in a clastic matrix. The texture, the large grain size of plagioclase, and the homogeneous compositions of olivine (Fa31.4) and pyroxene (Fs25.4) clearly indicate that Stubenberg is an LL6 chondrite breccia. This is consistent with the data on O, Ti, and Cr isotopes. Stubenberg does not contain solar wind-implanted noble gases. Data on the bulk chemistry, IR spectroscopy, cosmogenic nuclides, and organic components also indicate similarities to other metamorphosed LL chondrites. Noble gas studies reveal that the meteorite has a cosmic ray exposure (CRE) age of 36 ± 3 Ma and that most of the cosmogenic gases were produced in a meteoroid with a radius of at least 35 cm. This is larger than the size of the meteoroid which entered the Earth's atmosphere, which is constrained to <20 cm from short-lived radionuclide data. In combination, this might suggest a complex exposure history for Stubenberg.

2nd Progress Report of the engineering Data Management System Task Force

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Faber, G; CERN. Geneva; Kuipers, J; Nicquevert, B; Onnela, A; Price, M; Witzeling, W; Delamare, Christophe; Hameri, A P; Mottier, M; Nikkola, J; Pettersson, Thomas Sven; Schinzel, Josi; Tarrant, M; Farthouat, Philippe; Palazzi, P; Rousseau, B; Ferran, M; Høimyr, Nils-Joar; Osborne, A; Santiago, S; De Jonge, J; Strubin, Pierre M; Oliger, S

1997-01-01

CERN will very soon be in a position to go ahead with the CEDAR program (CEDAR [4] is the name chosen for the implementation - CERN EDMS for Detectors and AcceleratoRs). What must be decided soon is which commercial package we should use, Matrix or CADIM. The Pilot Projects will continue and serve as growth points in their respective areas. Plans must now be laid for the gradual generalization of EDMS use. Templates, based on present achievements, will help newcomers and serve to accumulate knowhow. Data modelling tools, underpinning those templates, will be set up to ensure the overall coherence of CERN's engineering data. Manpower must be allocated to develop CEDAR in a coordinated way.

Early postoperative enteral nutrition is useful for recovering gastrointestinal motility and maintaining the nutritional status.

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Kawasaki, Naruo; Suzuki, Yutaka; Nakayoshi, Tomoko; Hanyu, Nobuyoshi; Nakao, Masatoshi; Takeda, Akihiro; Furukawa, Yoshiyuki; Kashiwagi, Hideyuki

2009-01-01

The efficacy of enteral nutrition in postoperative nutritional management is known, but the effects on gastrointestinal motility and nutrition have not yet been elucidated. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of enteral and parenteral nutrition soon after open abdominal surgery on gastrointestinal motility and nutritional status. A partial resection of rectum models was prepared to compare two types of nutrient administration: enteral nutrition and total parenteral nutrition. The differences between the effects of nutrition types in terms of gastrointestinal motility and nutritional status were investigated. Enteral nutrition contributed to recovery of gastrointestinal motility and maintenance of nutritional status. Enteral nutrition should therefore be initiated soon after surgery if the gastrointestinal tract is available.

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Challenges to Persian Gulf Security: How Should the United States Respond? (Strategic Forum, Number 237, November 2008)

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2008-01-01

.... Iran's quest for regional preeminence, driven by the impulses of exceptionalism and self-sufficiency that are deeply engrained in the country's political psyche, will not slacken any time soon...

The future of superconducting technology

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1974-01-01

As soon as cryogenic engineering problems are convincingly solved, superconducting technology is destined to play a vital role in mining, pollution control, medicine, power generation and transmission, and metallurgy. (author)

Smart medicine: how the changing role of doctors will revolutionize health care

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2011-01-01

.... In Smart Medicine, William Hanson brings to life the fascinating true world of doctors and nurses and reveals the revolutionary changes that will soon be sweeping through the medical community...

Emerging Hopes

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China looks to strategically important emerging industries for innovation-driven economic growthc hina will soon announce a decision to rev up seven strategically impor- tant emerging industries,said the National

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The Challenge of Ensuring Human Rights in the End-to-End Supply Chain

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2014-01-01

Certification programs have their merits and their limitations. With the growing availability of social media, analytics tools, and supply chain data, a smarter set of solutions could soon be possible....

Marketing a Menu.

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1987-10-31

Patients contemplating the relative nutritional values of mixed macedoine of vegetables and pea puree will soon be finding their hospital menu cards enlivened by supermarkets, travel services and other adverts.

Highlights of CP 2000

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2001-01-01

Various developing topics in CP violation are reviewed. There are many theoretical reasons to hope that the CKM paradigm may be incomplete. It is surely too soon to be claiming new physics in \\epsilon^\\prime/\\epsilon or in D^0-\\bar D^0 mixing, but rare K decays offer interesting places to search for new physics. It is probably also premature to see a clash between global CKM fits and current estimates of sin \\beta and \\gamma, where much more precise data will soon be available. There are interesting possibilities to look for CP violation in neutrino oscillations and in Higgs physics. Rapid progress can be expected now that CP violation is moving to the top of the particle physics agenda.

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Developments of bacteria leaching technologies in uranium and gold ores at home and abroad

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Gao Renxi; Guan Zibin; Tian Shengjun

2000-01-01

The present development, including development of new leaching processes and equipment and soon, in bacteria leaching of uranium and gold ores at home and abroad are described. Opinions and advices are presented

Sensing and controls for power-recycling of TAMA300

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2002-01-01

Power recycling will soon be implemented on TAMA300. This paper gives motivation for the TAMA recycling experiment, discusses the planned length sensing/control system and considerations for the lock acquisition process.

The Lean Enterprise - A Management Philosophy at Lockheed Martin

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2004-01-01

... performance, Leaders soon realized that best practice sharing was lust one means to a higher end, The ultimate goal is to create a system that consistently achieves excellence for our customers, shareholders...

Regents to consider new Internet connection for UNL

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2006-01-01

"The University of Nebraska-Lincoln could soon be tapping into a tremendously high-speed Internet connection that would help the university participate in experiments involving a supercollider in Switzerland" (1½ page)

Multi-megawatt neutral beams for MFTF-B

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1982-01-01

Multi-megawatt neutral-beam sources have successfully made the transition from prototype to commercial production, with some operational improvements due to the commercialization. Long pulse source operation results will be available soon

Rahvusraamatukogu ostis 1000 dollari eest tasuta raamatu

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"Estonian companies handbook 2001". Vastukaja: Soone, Triin. USA firma pettis : [RR avastas Hollandis asuva väliskirjanduse vahendaja kaudu USA firma pettuse] // Eesti Ekspress (2002) 7. märts, lk. A6

Understanding and Predicting Gun Barrel Erosion

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2005-01-01

The Australian Defence Force will soon have to contend with gun barrel erosion issues arising from the use of new low-vulnerability gun propellants, the acquisition of new ammunition and gun systems...

Experimental studies on the cannibalistic habit of Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man)

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found more susceptible to cannibalism soon after the moult. This can be guarded by providing suitable hideouts. Dried commercial feed, alternated with fresh animal tissues was found to reduce cannibalism upt 70%....

'You've got m@il: fluoxetine coming soon!': accessibility and quality of a prescription drug sold on the web.

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Gelatti, U; Pedrazzani, R; Marcantoni, C; Mascaretti, S; Repice, C; Filippucci, L; Zerbini, I; Dal Grande, M; Orizio, G; Feretti, D

2013-09-01

The increasing phenomenon of online pharmacies has potential for serious public health problems. This study aimed to evaluate the possibility of accessing a prescription drug in the absence of a prescription for an Italian purchaser. Fluoxetine pills were ordered from several online pharmacies. The study included website analysis, and the quality of the received product including packaging, chemical and microbiological analyses. Orders could be placed correctly on 61 of the 98 selected websites, and a sales transaction was concluded successfully on 17 websites. Thirteen drug samples were eventually received. In one case it was necessary to fill in a questionnaire before ordering the drugs. All websites displayed aggressive marketing strategies. There was wide variation in terms of domain registration, company base (when declared) and manufacturer's location (mostly India). All pills were delivered in sealed blister packs showing the lot number and manufacturer's details. A leaflet was enclosed in one case only. In three cases we received more pills than ordered, and in one case Viagra pills as a free gift. Pharmacopoeia microbiological requirements were satisfied. Chemical analysis revealed that the active principle was always present, although many samples did not meet the Pharmacopoeia "other impurities" or "total impurities" criteria. Heavy metals and solvents regulated by the Pharmacopoeia did not exceed the set limits; some of the non-regulated ones were also assessed, in some cases with a positive result (e.g. styrene). About 20% of purchase attempts resulted in delivery of the drugs, even in the absence of a medical prescription. Traceability was poor and drug quality was generally worse compared to conventional pharmacy-purchased products. Based on all these broad-spectrum results, user safety appears not to be globally guaranteed. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Soon we will almost all use IFRS when preparing accounting information – but does that improve financial statements’ comparability?

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2013-01-01

“version” of IFRS is at stake here? For our comparisons and analyses we carefully chose ROIC since this financial ratio is not biased by differences in the capital structure or size of the companies but serves as a well-defined and commonly used accounting operational profitability measure. RESULTS...... to prescribe some accounting practice such as references to the process or input part of producing accounting information when the alleged aim is to improve the comparability of the accounting information provided by the companies, i.e. the financial statements or the output part? DATA & METHODS From...... the global ORBIS-database, we selected all listed non-financial and non-insurance companies with a turnover in the last available financial year larger than 100 million USD, which left us with more than 18 thousand public accounts (companies) from 124 different countries from all over the world. Based...

Recent technologies for reduction of aircraft propulsion noise. Kokuki engine soon teigenka no saikin no gijutsu shinpo ni tsuite

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Kobayashi, H [National Aerospace Lab., Chofu, Tokyo (Japan)

1994-03-10

Inside the jet engine, the propulsion engine for an aircraft, a high speed air current is flowing, and the rotors such as the fan, compress or, turbine and so forth are rotating with a high speed in its flowing current. The flow itself in which a high speed exhaust jet is discharged in the air from engine exhaust port, and the aerodynamic noise generated by an interaction of the flow with the material bodies are the main noise sources of the aircraft engine. Because the supersonic planes are necessary to fly with mach number 2 - 3 during cruising, the turbojet engine with a large jet exhaust speed or the low bypass ratio turbofan engine is selected. Since a noise reduction by reducing the jet exhaust speed, which was an effective measure for the high subsonic speed passenger plane, can not be applied, a reduction of the supersonic jet noise, which is hard to be reduced, becomes a necessity. In addition, in recent years, a research and development of the advanced turbo prop (ATP) aircraft with a further higher thrust efficiency are advanced as well. The aerodynamical noise reduction technologies of these engines for supersonic airplanes are summarized. 14 refs., 11 figs., 1 tab.

On noise, traffic and factory vibrations in Akita city; Akitashi ni okeru soon oyobi kotsu kojo shindo ni tsuite

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Nogoshi, M; Kikuchi, T; Morino, T; Sannohe, M [Akita University, Akita (Japan). College of Education

1996-05-01

Noise and vibration were measured in Akita City. In 1994, noise and traffic-caused vibration were measured along the trunk lines and other roads across the entire Akita City area. In 1995, the effort centered on the Ibarashima manufacturing quarters, the important source of noise and vibration in Akita city. The general-purpose noise meter LA-220S was used to measure noise and the vibration level meter VR-5100 was used to measure vibration. The results of noise measurement carried out at 122 points in Akita City indicated that the noise level was high along Route 7, Route 13, and the southern line belonging to the newly built national highway, marking the highest of approximately 74dB. As compared with the measurement made in 1968, the value was higher by 3-13dB. A roughly similar trend was seen in vibration. The noise level measurement of 1995 accomplished at 100 points in the vicinity of Ibarashima district indicated that the factories were responsible for high levels of noise and vibration. It was found that the levels lowered in proportion to the increase in the distance from the factories. 11 figs., 1 tab.

Optimal electricity system planning in a large hydro jurisdiction: Will British Columbia soon become a major importer of electricity?

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Kiani, Behdad; Rowe, Andrew; Wild, Peter; Pitt, Lawrence; Sopinka, Amy; Pedersen, Tom F.

2013-01-01

An energy-system model incorporating generation, transmission and integrated management of hydroelectric reservoirs in British Columbia (BC) is used to explore approaches to meeting load projections to 2040. The model includes electricity trade between BC, Alberta and the US, the influence of a carbon emissions tax, contributions from the aging gas-fired Burrard Thermal plant and production from a proposed dam called “Site C” on the Peace River in northern BC. Model results suggest: If load increases as anticipated at 1.4%/year, BC will need to import significant amounts of electricity within two decades. Operating the Burrard plant at full capacity to 2025 and bringing Site C on line in 2020 delays the need to import by only 6 years, while realizing net electricity export sales of $5.9 billion by 2040. Bringing Site C on line but imposing a tax of $30/t of CO 2 emitted on gas-fired generation causes immediate closure of the Burrard plant on economic grounds and reduces net export revenue to $0.63 billion by 2040. BC has options, however, including demand side management and development of additional generation capacity. In the absence of these measures, imported power may be more significant in BC's electricity future. - Highlights: ► Within two decades, BC will need to import substantial power to meet demand. ► Operating Burrard Thermal and the Site C dam will delay imports by only 6 years. ► A $30/t CO 2 tax causes closure of the Burrard Thermal plant on economic grounds. ► Closure of Burrard Thermal reduces export revenue to BC by at least $5B by 2040

Electricity savings ``soon come'' to Jamaica -- Assessing the potential for air conditioning and refrigeration end-use DSM

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Conlon, T.; Hamzawi, E.; Campbell, V.

1998-07-01

With the support of the Inter-American Development Bank, the Global Environment Facility of the World Bank, and the Rockefeller Foundation, the national electric utility in Jamaica (Jamaica Public Service Company) has begun an assessment of the technical, economic, and financial opportunities for achieving demand-side management (DSM) energy savings in the air conditioning and refrigeration end uses. The feasibility and cost effectiveness of specific measures is being assessed for both the residential and commercials segments. While structures as a traditional load-research-based market assessment, the project uses ethnographic data collection and analysis techniques and involves collaboration with local contractors. The skills of local experts are being taped to identify and interview the key market players, and to develop an understanding of the barriers to and opportunities for energy efficiency present in the evolving equipment markets. The paper outlines methods and presents preliminary case study results for the air conditioning market. The authors identify major groups of market players and dominant types of equipment, and provide an overview of market dynamics. The volume of sales passing through both formal and informal distribution channels is estimated and market barriers are identified. Based on the findings of the study, recommendations will be made for future program and policy initiatives designed to mitigate selected barriers in each of the supply chains.

Born Too Soon: What Can We Expect? Nature of Home Literacy Experiences for Children with Very Low Birth Weight

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Ragusa, G.

2009-01-01

This study documents the home literacy experiences of children born with very low birth weight (VLBW). The study's design was modelled after Purcell-Gates' study of social domains mediated by print as home literacy experiences. A design combining purposeful sampling, semi-structured data collection and descriptive case study analysis was employed…

DSM-IV: a nosology sold before its time?

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Zimmerman, M; Jampala, V C; Sierles, F S; Taylor, M A

1991-04-01

The purpose of this study was to determine whether American psychiatrists believe that DSM-IV is being published too soon after DSM-III-R. The authors conducted a mail survey of the attitudes of practicing psychiatrists (N = 454), residency program directors (N = 128), residents (N = 1,331), and researchers (N = 196) toward the scheduled publication of DSM-IV in the early 1990s. They found that the majority of all four groups believed that DSM-IV is being published prematurely. In contrast to respondents who believed that the timing of DSM-IV is appropriate, those who indicated that it is being published too soon had more recently completed their residency training and also believed that DSM-III-R was published prematurely. There was no association between the psychiatrists' responses and their theoretical orientation, Board certification status, ownership of the DSM manuals, the length of time they had used DSM-III, and the diagnostic manual (DSM-III or DSM-III-R) they were currently using. The belief that DSM-IV is being published too soon could contribute to underuse of DSM-IV by substantial numbers of psychiatrists. Thus, to foster compliance with it, APA must preserve in its efforts to demonstrate that the advantages of publishing it in 1993 outweigh the disadvantages of adopting yet another manual.

12 CFR 650.55 - Inventory, audit, and reports.

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2010-01-01

... public accountant selected by the receiver. (c) The receiver shall make an annual accounting or report... of the public, with a copy provided to the Farm Credit Administration. (d) As soon as practicable...

Visual evaluation of beef tenderness by using surface structural ...

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Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research - Vol 30, No 1 (2018)

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Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research. ... A Requiem Too Soon or a Landing Strand Too Far? ... and Mathematics (STEM) Education in Zimbabwe Secondary Schools: Access, Quality, Policy · EMAIL FULL TEXT EMAIL FULL TEXT

Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research

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The Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research comprised of four sections: Scholarly articles ... A Requiem Too Soon or a Landing Strand Too Far? ... Mathematics (STEM) Education in Zimbabwe Secondary Schools: Access, Quality, Policy ...

Stacouf: A new system for automatic processing of eddy current signal from steam generator testing of PWR power plants

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Ducreux, J.; Eyrolles, P.; Meylogan, T.

1990-01-01

A new system called STACOUF will be soon industrialized. The aim is to improve on-site signal processing for eddy testing of steam generators. Testing time, quality and productivity will be improved [fr

Swallowed dentures: Two cases and a review

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Mahir Gachabayov

2015-12-01

Conclusion: Fixed dentures can be accidentally ingested as well as removable dentures. Denture loosening leads to accidental denture ingestion. Patients with denture loosening should be recommended to visit dentist as soon as possible.

Retrieving Balloon Data in Flight

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration — NASA's Ultra Long Duration Balloon (ULDB) program will soon make flights lasting up to 100 days. Some flights may generate high data rates and retrieving this data...

30 CFR 906.30 - State-Federal cooperative agreement.

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.... Resolve conflicts and difficulties between other Federal agencies in a timely manner. 3. As soon as.... Publish notices of NEPA documents as required by Federal law and regulations. 5. Take the leadership role...

National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Partnered Development of Cryogenic Life Support Technologies

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration — Cryogenic life support technology, used by NASA to protect crews working around hazardous gases soon could be called on for a number of life-saving applications as...

Galactosemia

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Risks of hip and knee replacement

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... color except red. Visible malfunction indicators must display “Check Engine,” “Service Engine Soon,” or... engine operation. (d) Store trouble codes in computer memory. Record and store in computer memory any...

For Some Breast Cancers, New Drug May Be Treatment Option

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Results from an international clinical trial suggest that women with metastatic, HER2-positive breast cancer that is no longer responding to the targeted therapy trastuzumab (Herceptin) may soon have a new treatment option.

Isotretinoin (Accutane) and Pregnancy

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... taking isotretinoin. There are no reports of problems getting pregnant while taking isotretinoin. I just found out I am pregnant. Should I stop taking isotretinoin? YES, stop taking the medicine right away. As soon ...

2017 USACE FEMA Topobathy Lidar DEM: Florida East Coast, Florida Keys, and Collier County

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce — These files contain rasterized topobathy lidar elevations collected after Hurricane Irma. In an effort to provide data as soon as possible, JALBTCX will be sending...

Searching for the God particle

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2007-01-01

"Eben Harrel visits the world's largest scientific experiment, 25 years in the building and costig L1.5 billion, it will soon start unlocking some of the fundamental secrets of the universe." (3 pages)

Hirschsprung Disease

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development of ontological knowledge representation

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Eardrum repair

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Causes and risks for obesity in children

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Parenting Styles and the Depressive Syndrome in Congenitally Blind Individuals.

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Lambert, Robert; West, Malcolm

1980-01-01

The article discusses the effect on congenitally blind children of three types of parents: those who are overprotective, those who push the child toward independence too soon, and those who are "good enough." (Author)

Ventral hernia with uterine rupture after vaginal delivery

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Jung Mi Byun

2014-09-01

Conclusion: If a patient has hernia-related symptoms or complications, the diagnosis and management of the hernia should be performed as soon as possible, regardless of the onset, to decrease maternal and fetal mortality.

U(1)' dark matter and R-parity violation

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Brahm, D.E.

1990-04-01

Attempts to understand physics beyond the Standard Model must face many phenomenological constraint, from recent Z degree data, neutral current measurements, cosmology and astrophysics, neutrino experiments, tests of lepton-and baryon-number conservation and CP violation, and many other ongoing experiments. The most interesting models are those which are allowed by current data, but offer predictions which can soon be experimentally confirmed or refuted. Two classes of such models are explored in this dissertation. The first, containing an extra U(1)' gauge group, has a dark matter candidate which could soon be detected. The second, incorporating supersymmetry with R-parity violation, predicts rare Z degree decays at LEP; some of these models can already be ruled out by LEP data and gluino searches at the Tevatron. 54 refs., 31 figs

A systems biology approach to predictive developmental neurotoxicity of a larvicide used in the prevention of Zika virus transmission

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Audouze, Karine; Taboureau, Olivier; Grandjean, Philippe

2018-01-01

The need to prevent developmental brain disorders has led to an increased interest in efficient neurotoxicity testing. When an epidemic of microcephaly occurred in Brazil, Zika virus infection was soon identified as the likely culprit. However, the pathogenesis appeared to be complex, and a larvi......The need to prevent developmental brain disorders has led to an increased interest in efficient neurotoxicity testing. When an epidemic of microcephaly occurred in Brazil, Zika virus infection was soon identified as the likely culprit. However, the pathogenesis appeared to be complex...... the potential developmental neurotoxicity, and we applied this method to examine the larvicide pyriproxyfen widely used in the prevention of Zika virus transmission. Our computational model covered a wide range of possible pathways providing mechanistic hypotheses between pyriproxyfen and neurological disorders...

U(1) prime dark matter and R-parity violation

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Brahm, D.E.

1990-04-01

Attempts to understand physics beyond the Standard Model must face many phenomenological constraint, from recent Z{sup {degree}} data, neutral current measurements, cosmology and astrophysics, neutrino experiments, tests of lepton-and baryon-number conservation and CP violation, and many other ongoing experiments. The most interesting models are those which are allowed by current data, but offer predictions which can soon be experimentally confirmed or refuted. Two classes of such models are explored in this dissertation. The first, containing an extra U(1){prime} gauge group, has a dark matter candidate which could soon be detected. The second, incorporating supersymmetry with R-parity violation, predicts rare Z{sup {degree}} decays at LEP; some of these models can already be ruled out by LEP data and gluino searches at the Tevatron. 54 refs., 31 figs.

Activity Theory as a framework for understanding teachers ...

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Blue skies for CLOUD

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2006-01-01

Through the recently approved CLOUD experiment, CERN will soon be contributing to climate research. Tests are being performed on the first prototype of CLOUD, an experiment designed to assess cosmic radiation influence on cloud formation.

The Style of Ben Okri in Songs of Enchantment and Infinite Riches

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An International Multidisciplinary Journal, Ethiopia. Vol. 9(4), Serial No. ... impropriety), only to be enmeshed neck-deep soon after in this “business” far deeper than the previous ..... Indianapolis: The Odyssey Press, 1977. Lindfors, Bernth.

Electron-beam initiated HF lasers

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Gerber, R.A.; Patterson, E.L.

1975-01-01

Electron beams were used to ignite hydrogen/fluorine mixtures, producing laser energies up to 4.2 kJ, and giving hope that this approach may soon produce energy levels suitable for laser-fusion studies. (auth)

Breastfeeding: Planning Ahead

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Full Text Available ... some nursing know-how? These steps and strategies will help soon-to-be-moms make an informed, smooth transition into breastfeeding. The benefits of breastfeeding YouTube embed video:

Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan

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Dobbins, James

2009-01-01

.... American attention is now being redirected toward this region. It is not a day too soon. For the first several years after the collapse of the Taliban regime the Bush Administration ignored Afghanistan almost entirely...

Pregnant Women and Influenza (Flu)

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... risk of serious flu complications, such as pregnant women. Treatment should begin as soon as possible because antiviral drugs work best when started early (within 48 hours after symptoms start). Antiviral drugs can make your ...

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Database retrieval systems for nuclear and astronomical data

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Suda, Takuma; Korennov, Sergei; Otuka, Naohiko; Yamada, Shimako; Katsuta, Yutaka; Ohnishi, Akira; Kato, Kiyoshi; Fujimoto, Masayuki Y.

2006-01-01

Data retrieval and plot systems of nuclear and astronomical data are constructed on a common platform. Web-based systems will soon be opened to the users of both fields of nuclear physics and astronomy. (author)

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2012-02-24

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The Light Source Problem: The Effect of Heterogeneous Stellar Photospheres on Searches for Transiting Exoplanet Biosignatures

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Rackham, B. V.; Apai, D.; Giampapa, M. S.

2017-11-01

TESS will soon enable the study of terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres. However, spots and faculae in stellar photospheres can complicate these measurements by mimicking or masking atmospheric features. We detail our work to constrain this effect.

U.S.-China Relations after Resolution of Taiwan's Status

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Cliff, Roger; Shlapak, David A

2007-01-01

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Exotic Annual Grasses in Western Rangelands: Predicting Resistance and Resilience of Native Ecosystems to Invasion (Draft)

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Belnap, Jayne; Evans, R. D; Phillips, Susan L; Reheis, Merith; Reynolds, Rich; Sanford, Robert; Webb, Bruce

2004-01-01

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2006-01-01

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Rheo-processing of semi-solid metal alloys: a new technology for manufacturing Automotive and aerospace components - Conference paper

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2006-02-01

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2017-12-01

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In the sights of the dragon

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2012-11-01

Comparison are sometimes misleading. Nevertheless, it can be enlightening to pay attention to analogies. For example: Will the wind branch soon be faced with the same ''China question'' as the photovoltaics industry? (orig.)

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1995-01-01

A study of Albuquerque, New Mexico, provides insight into income stagnation and the future of the economy. Evidence confirms that the roots of the widening income gap are deep and the problem will not soon disappear. (JOW)

New Chicago-Indiana computer network will handle dataflow from world's largest scientific experiment

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2006-01-01

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Radiometric ages of phosphorites from the west coast of India

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Smartcards. Smart move.

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Mathieson, Steve

2005-09-08

European nations outside the UK use smartcards to speed up reimbursements. France has had a card since 1998 and this may soon include health data. The UK is at present only issuing smartcards for healthcare staff's use.

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Ectopic expression and knocking-down of LINE-1 mRNA in human mesenchymal stem cells: impact on in vitro osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation

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Atinbayeva, Nazerke

2018-01-01

on the acquisition of a terminally differentiated phenotype. In contrast, soon after MSCs commitment into pre-osteoblasts, L1 retrotransposable elements increase their expression and actively transpose. Inhibition of retrotransposition and knock down of L1 m

Ideas and Inspirations: Good News about Diabetes Prevention and Management in Indian Country

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21 CFR 556.220 - 3,5-Dinitrobenzamide.

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2010-04-01

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Recovery After Stroke: Bladder and Bowel Function

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... of urine back to the kidneys) or a urinary tract infection (UTI). A UTI needs immediate treatment, so see your doctor as soon as you notice symptoms. UTI symptoms include:  Urine with a bad smell, cloudiness, ...

"To Hell with the Paperwork:" Deciphering the Culture of the Air Commandos

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Hoffman, Justin

2008-01-01

The title of this thesis refers to a quote attributed to General "Hap" Arnold as he parted ways with the two commanders of a newly created unit that would soon become designated the 1st Air Commando Group...

Assessment of impacts and vulnerability to India's coastline due to climate change

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Unnikrishnan, A.S.

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Läbi klaasi tähtede poole / Margus Mikomägi

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2011-01-01

Meleski vanas klaasivabrikus Viljandimaal 6. augustil esietendunud Ugala teatri suvelavastusest "Läbi klaasi". Autor Mats Traat, lavastaja Priit Pedajas, kunstnik Liina Unt. Klaasitegemise osas andis nõu ja näitleja Aarne Sorole õpetas klaasipuhumist klaasikunstnik Eili Soon

More than a golden hello.

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Janstarkers

2017-08-02

Golden hellos for nurses are okay, but won't improve retention of staff. As soon as new recruits learn how short-staffed wards are and how few trained nurses are on shifts, they won't stay long anyway.

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The anthrax letters: a medical detective story

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2003-01-01

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1979-01-01

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MAIL1 is essential for development of the primary root but not of anchor roots.

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Ühlken, Christine; Hoth, Stefan; Weingartner, Magdalena

2014-01-01

MAIN-LIKE1 (MAIL1) is a ubiquitously expressed nuclear protein, which has a crucial function during root development. We have recently described loss of function mutants for MAIL1, in which the organization and function of the primary root meristem is lost soon after germination. Moreover cell differentiation is impaired resulting in primary root growth arrest soon after emergence. Here we show that mail1 mutants form several anchor roots from the hypocotyl to root junction. These anchor roots show similar defects in the organization of the stem cell niche as the primary root. In contrast, differentiation processes are not impaired and thus anchor roots seem to be able to compensate for the loss of primary root function. Our data show that MAIL1 is essential for specification of cell fate in the primary root but not in anchor roots.

Subsea pipe dream

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Balcombe, Mark

1988-09-22

The Gulf of Mexico is famous today mainly for the ferocity of its hurricanes. But for anyone in the oil industry, it is also known for the vast array of oil pipelines that criss-cross its stormy waters, and for the large number of pipeline-laying barges which install them. Soon many of these vessels could be steaming to British waters - not to escape the weather, but to cash in on a bonanza of pipe-laying activity which could soon take place offshore northern Europe. The construction of new pipelines off the UK, Norway and Netherlands will, however, present a new range of challenges for pipeline designers and builders. First and foremost is the Piper Alpha platform disaster, which could saddle the UK offshore industry with a Pound 500 million-plus bill for the installation of emergency shutdown valves (ESVs) on existing lines.

RTMOD: Real-Time MODel evaluation

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Graziani, G.; Galmarini, S.; Mikkelsen, Torben

2000-01-01

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History of the Buttonhole Technique.

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Misra, Madhukar

2015-01-01

The constant side method of access cannulation in hemodialysis, popularly known as the 'buttonhole' method, has an interesting history. Dr. Zbylut J. Twardowski, a Polish nephrologist, discovered this technique by pure serendipity in 1972. A patient with a complicated vascular access history and limited options for cannulation was repeatedly 'stuck' at the same sites by a nurse. Soon it was noticed that the cannulation at the same spot became easier with time. Since the needles were being reused, the sharpness of the needles decreased with time and the bluntness of the needle seemed to minimize the damage to the cannulation tract (another serendipity!). This method soon became popular among patients, and many patients started using this technique. This chapter traces the invention of this technique and its subsequent development following Dr. Twardowski's emigration to the USA. © 2015 S. Karger AG, Basel.

Lessons from Embryos: Haeckel's Embryo Drawings, Evolution, and Secondary Biology Textbooks

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Wellner, Karen L.

2014-01-01

In 1997, developmental biologist Michael Richardson compared his research team's embryo photographs to Ernst Haeckel's 1874 embryo drawings and called Haeckel's work "noncredible". "Science" soon published "Haeckel's Embryos: Fraud Rediscovered," and Richardson's comments further reinvigorated criticism of Haeckel by…

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2015-09-28

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General Information about Thyroid Cancer

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Treatment choices for managing glucose control in impaired renal function: Interim Results

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Gareth Davies

2017-04-01

The project methods and coding structure are well place to provide anticipated results as soon as pathology data arrives. The percentage of ABMU patients having type 2 diabetes is in line with other literature for adults in the UK.

Assessing the effect of TB-HIV collaborative activities on knowledge ...

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2016-03-16

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The national neonatal screening programme for congenital toxoplasmosis in Denmark: results from the initial four years, 1999-2002

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Schmidt, Dorte Remmer; Høgh, Birthe; Andersen, O

2006-01-01

, 2 had retinochoroidal lesions, 4 had intracranial calcifications and retinochoroidal lesions, and 1 had hydrocephalus, intracranial calcifications, and retinochoroidal lesions. Ninety four eyes were examined soon after birth; there were central retinochoroidal lesions in 9. Two children had macular...

broken magnet highlights largest collider's engineering challenges

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Inman, Mason

2007-01-01

"Even at the world's soon-to-be largest particle accelerator - a device that promises to push the boundaries of physics - scientists need to be mindful of one of the most fundamental laws in the universe: Murphy's Law. (2 pages)

Low-frequency noise reduction of fans using the acoustically treated duct; Kyuon duct ni yoru fan soon no teishuhaiki teigen

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Kaneko, K; Fujii, S [University of Osaka Prefecture, Osaka (Japan). Faculty of Engineering; Shirasaya, H [Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)

1994-12-25

Reducing noise in a low frequency region of 1 kHz or less has become an important problem as a result of emergence of an ultra-high bypass engine in aircraft engines. Therefore, an attempt was made of experimenting and analyzing noise absorption characteristics in low-frequency noises. In the experiment, a low-frequency flow with an air volume of about 3 m{sup 3}/minute was made at a stable operating point of a fan device consisting of moving blades and static blades, with a sound absorbing duct disposed in the forward section. The duct is a 500-mm long steel box with an oblong cross section, in which the top and the bottom parts can move vertically, and a variable air layer was formed between a sound absorbing material (a sheet material made of microfine spherical resin powders solidified to a thickness of 6 mm) and a rigid wall made of iron plate. Noise waves and sound absorption amount were measured on different air layer thicknesses, and analyzed theoretically. As a result, such findings were obtained as: the sound absorption amount is affected by the main stream direction mode of sound pressures in cavity; valleys are formed where the sound absorption amount decreases remarkably in a specific cycle; and peaks are built where the sound absorption amount increases in other regions. 7 refs., 12 figs.

Changes in Pain Modulation Occur Soon After Whiplash Trauma but are not Related to Altered Perception of Distorted Visual Feedback.

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Daenen, Liesbeth; Nijs, Jo; Cras, Patrick; Wouters, Kristien; Roussel, Nathalie

2014-09-01

Widespread sensory hypersensitivity has been observed in acute whiplash associated disorders (WAD). Changes in descending pain modulation take part in central sensitization. However, endogenous pain modulation has never been investigated in acute WAD. Altered perception of distorted visual feedback has been observed in WAD. Both mechanisms (ie, pain modulation and perception of distorted visual feedback) may be different components of one integrated system orchestrated by the brain. This study evaluated conditioned pain modulation (CPM) in acute WAD. Secondly, we investigated whether changes in CPM are associated with altered perception of distorted visual feedback. Thirty patients with acute WAD, 35 patients with chronic WAD and 31 controls were subjected to an experiment evaluating CPM and a coordination task inducing visual mediated changes between sensory feedback and motor output. A significant CPM effect was observed in acute WAD (P = 0.012 and P = 0.006), which was significantly lower compared to controls (P = 0.004 and P = 0.020). No obvious differences in CPM were found between acute and chronic WAD (P = 0.098 and P = 0.041). Changes in CPM were unrelated to altered perception of distorted visual feedback (P > 0.01). Changes in CPM were observed in acute WAD, suggesting less efficient pain modulation. The results suggest that central pain and sensorimotor processing underlie distinctive mechanisms. © 2013 World Institute of Pain.

The Risk of Tuberculosis Reinfection Soon after Cure of a First Disease Episode Is Extremely High in a Hyperendemic Community.

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Pieter Uys

Full Text Available Elevated rates of reinfection tuberculosis in various hyperendemic regions have been reported and, in particular, it has been shown that in a high-incidence setting near Cape Town, South Africa, the rate of reinfection tuberculosis (TB disease after cure of a previous TB disease episode is about four times greater than the rate of first-time TB disease. It is not known whether this elevated rate is caused by a high reinfection rate due, for instance, to living circumstances, or a high rate of progress to disease specific to the patients, or both. In order to address that question we analysed an extensive data set from clinics attended by TB patients in the high-incidence setting near Cape Town, South Africa and found that, in fact, the (average rate of reinfection (as opposed to the rate of reinfection disease after cure of a previous TB disease episode is initially about 0.85 per annum. This rate diminishes rapidly over time and after about ten years this rate is similar to the rate of infection in the general population. Also, the rate of progress to disease after reinfection is initially high but declines in subsequent years down to the figure typical for the general population. These findings suggest that the first few months after cure of a TB disease episode form a critical period for controlling reinfection disease in a hyperendemic setting and that monitoring such cured patients could pre-empt a reinfection progressing to active disease.

Virtual Environment TBI Screen (VETS)

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2014-10-01

and waited for final approval which did not come until late July. We were able to begin recruiting student athletes as soon as the school semester... School : __________________________________________________________________________________________ Sport...a learning disability? Yes ____ Dx___ No ____ *Have you been diagnosed with ADD/ ADHD

Life and Work of Sambhu Nath De

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

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De's performance soon drew the attention of his teachers, espe- cially of ... He was seized with acute mental depression and decided to discontinue work and ..... out of his way to enhance his position in academic or professional bodies in ...

Guide to Eating for Sports

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Full Text Available ... too soon before any kind of activity can leave food in the stomach, making you feel full, bloated, crampy, and sick. Everyone is different, so get to know what works best for you. You may want to experiment ...

Stimulating climate smart agriculture within the boundaries of international trade law

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Verschuuren, Jonathan

The Paris Agreement implies that comprehensive policies aimed at climate smart agriculture, i.e., reducing emissions from agriculture, increasing sequestration through agriculture and land use, and increasing resilience of the agricultural sector need to be developed and implemented soon. This

32 CFR 552.96 - Violations.

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2010-07-01

.... Lewis Area Access Section or the Military Police as soon as possible. ... Defense Department of Defense (Continued) DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY MILITARY RESERVATIONS AND NATIONAL CEMETERIES REGULATIONS AFFECTING MILITARY RESERVATIONS Fort Lewis Land Use Policy § 552.96 Violations. Anyone...

Arrêt du L.E.P annoncé au CERN

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Causse, M

2000-01-01

Ruining the hopes of researchers that they might soon make an incredible discovery, the director of CERN has announced the closure of LEP at the end of the year and acceleration of the construction of the LHC (1/2 page).

Keep Listeria Out of Your Kitchen

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... Listeria has been linked to a variety of ready-to-eat foods, including deli meats, hot dogs, smoked seafood and ... to check the temperature there. Use precooked and ready-to-eat foods as soon as you can. The longer they ...

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Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

2014-01-20

Jan 20, 2014 ... attachment to these aspects from medieval times. The recognition ... interest to note that an X-ray film manufacturing unit was started (INDU films) at Ootacamand (Ooty) ..... We just need to equip them to perform, and very soon.

It's the System, Stupid: How Systems Biology Is Transforming.

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2010-01-01

So far, little is known about systems biology and its potential for changing how we diagnose and treat disease. That will change soon, say the systems experts, who advise payers to begin learning now about how it could make healthcare efficient.

A Task No Maritime Operational Commander Wants: Maritime Interception Operations (MIO) Are Not Going Away

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Dawley, Sterling

2003-01-01

Maritime Interception Operations (MIO) as a mission area for USN and USCG assets does not seem to be going away anytime soon The purpose of this essay is to assess past MIO efforts and offer recommendations to assist the operational...

Testing Children for Color Blindness

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... Stories Español Eye Health / News Testing Children for Color Blindness Leer en Español: Pruebas para Detectar Daltonismo en ... study shows that kids can be tested for color blindness as soon as age 4, finds Caucasian boys ...

Die Gezi-Park-Proteste in der Türkei 2013

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Akbal, Gül

2015-01-01

The uprising in Turkey 2013 that started with protests against the demolition of the Gezi Park soon became a nation-wide movement for more democracy. The author describes the movement and discusses it in the context of civil resistance movements.

observ ations on the life histories and behaviour of some small

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The species: Four spiny mice have been recorded from Tanzania and these with two· ... their eyes opened and soon after two weeks they were able to fend for themselves. ...... Moreover, neither burrows nor nests were ever seen in the field.

Anthelmintics, used for the treatment of fascioliasis as uncouplers of oxidative phosphorylation in warm blooded animals

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Miert, A.S.J.P.A.M. van; Groeneveld, H.W.

1969-01-01

Dinitrophenol and liverfluke anthelmintics such as niclofolan, nitroxynil, bromophenophos and hexachlorophene increased ATP-ase activity of rat-liver mitochondria and caused a contracture of striated muscle in vitro. After lethal doses, rigidity occured soon after deatth. It is postulated that these

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According to the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary, the word "mixed" has to .... tradition will be made clear, as soon as attention will be focused on how ..... 25 The Treaty provided that "the Island of Malta with the dependencies thereof will be ...

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2018-01-02

Jan 2, 2018 ... providing 44% of meat in the world market. (FAO, 2001). ... turbinate deformation in growing pigs. (Kumar et al. ... size was calculated to be 227 pigs. The animals ... laboratory as soon as possible using cold pack and sera ...

Photo of the alignment for the ARIA experiment

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Brice, Maximilien

2017-01-01

Photo of the alignment for the ARIA experiment. After placing the 3 modules next to each other on the floor in bdg 180, we will soon proceed to align them. That will imply lifting and rotations of some of the modules.

The value of knowledge, network relationships and governmental support for chinese firms’ early internationalization

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Vissak, Tiia; Tsukanova, Tatyana; Zhang, Xiaotian

2017-01-01

Firms’ early internationalization has received considerable research attention. According to studies on born globals (Madsen and Servais 1997) and international new ventures (Oviatt and McDougall 1994), firms enter far markets soon after establishment. However, according to studies on slower...

Fire in the Earth System

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Bowman, D.M.J.S.; Balch, J.K.; Artaxo, P.; Bond, W.J.; Carlson, J.M.; Cochrane, M.A.; D'Antonio, C.M.; DeFries, R.S.; Doyle, J.C.; Harrison, S.P.; Johnston, F.H.; Keeley, J.E.; Krawchuk, M.A.; Kull, C.A.; Marston, J.B.; Moritz, M.A.; Prentice, I.C.; Roos, C.I.; Scott, A.C.; Swetnam, T.W.; van der Werf, G.R.; Pyne, S.J.

2009-01-01

Fire is a worldwide phenomenon that appears in the geological record soon after the appearance of terrestrial plants. Fire influences global ecosystem patterns and processes, including vegetation distribution and structure, the carbon cycle, and climate. Although humans and fire have always

Bacterial meningitis

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Heckenberg, Sebastiaan G. B.; Brouwer, Matthijs C.; van de Beek, Diederik

2014-01-01

Bacterial meningitis is a neurologic emergency. Vaccination against common pathogens has decreased the burden of disease. Early diagnosis and rapid initiation of empiric antimicrobial and adjunctive therapy are vital. Therapy should be initiated as soon as blood cultures have been obtained,

Bacterial meningitis

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Roos, Karen L.; van de Beek, Diederik

2010-01-01

Bacterial meningitis is a neurological emergency. Empiric antimicrobial and adjunctive therapy should be initiated as soon as a single set of blood cultures has been obtained. Clinical signs suggestive of bacterial meningitis include fever, headache, meningismus, vomiting, photophobia, and an

narrowing tiie gap between livestock research findings and application

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of our workers soem to drow little interest beyond writing scientific reports on their .... management accounting service soon pinpoints to the farmer where he is ... of a document, a balance sheet, which is useful for income tax and some other ...

Pharmacogenomics education: International Society of Pharmacogenomics recommendations for medical, pharmaceutical, and health schools deans of education

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Gurwitz, D.; Lunshof, J.E.; Dedoussis, G.; Flordellis, C.S.; Fuhr, U.; Kirchheiner, J.; Licinio, J.; Llerena, A.; Manolopoulos, V.G.; Sheffield, L.J.; Siest, G.; Torricelli, F.; Vasiliou, V.; Wong, S

2005-01-01

Pharmacogenomics would be instrumental for the realization of personalized medicine in coming decades. Efforts are evident to clarify the potential bioethical, societal, and legal implications of key pharmacogenomics-based technologies projected to be soon introduced into the core practice of

Oral Thrush

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... of sugar, which encourages the growth of candida. Vaginal yeast infections. Vaginal yeast infections are caused by the same fungus that causes ... saliva, discouraging the growth of candida. Treat a vaginal yeast infection as soon as possible. Treat dry mouth. Ask ...

Epidemiology, Assessment, and Management of Excess Abdominal Fat in Persons with HIV Infection

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Moyle, Graeme; Moutschen, Michel; Martínez, Esteban; Domingo, Pere; Guaraldi, Giovanni; Raffi, François; Behrens, Georg; Reiss, Peter

2010-01-01

Metabolic and morphologic abnormalities in persons with HIV remain common contributors to stigma and morbidity. Increased abdominal circumference and visceral adiposity were first recognized in the late 1990s, soon after the advent of effective combination antiretroviral therapy. Visceral adiposity

Laboratory study to investigate the development of stiffness in stabilized materials

CSIR Research Space (South Africa)

Paige-Green, P

2010-08-01

Full Text Available The development of stiffness of stabilized materials with time is critical to the construction process, particularly in the case of recycling, where traffic is often required to return to the recycled road soon after construction. However, little...

Prenatal identification of a novel mutation causing methylmalonic ...

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

2015-06-08

Jun 8, 2015 ... respiratory distress, intellectual disability etc. The nonspe- cific nature of these ... disease can vary from being benign to fatal (Matsui et al. 1983; Ledley et al. ... soon after the infant was introduced to solid food. The con-.

Medications (for IBS)

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Full Text Available ... include bran or psyllium. Anticholinergics/Antispasmodics – have limited benefit for treating IBS. In some persons they relieve abdominal pain or discomfort, usually if the symptoms occur soon after eating. Examples include dicyclomine (Bentyl), and hyoscyamine (Levsin). Read ...

Feminist Theory and the Media

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A.F.M. Krijnen (Tonny)

2017-01-01

textabstractMedia’s relations to gender have been topic of academic inquiry since the 1960s. Feminist scholars soon began to criticize the androcentric character of mainstream sciences addressing these relations. Three epistemologies - feminist empiricism, feminist standpoint theory, and feminist

When to Start Antiretroviral Therapy

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... illnesses and coinfections Recent HIV infection Pregnancy All pregnant women with HIV should take HIV medicines to prevent mother-to- ... protect the health of the pregnant woman. All pregnant women with HIV should start taking HIV medicines as soon as ...

Thryonomys swinderianus

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In South Africa, little is known about the reproduction of the cane rat ... Africa where organized cane rat husbandry has been success- ... Sex ratio data could also not be ..... possibility of stress amongst the pups by removing her too soon.

Modern hadron spectroscopy: a bridge between nuclear and particle physics.

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Szczepaniak, A. P.

2018-05-01

In this talk I discuss aspects of hadron physics, which soon are expected to shed new light on the fundamental QCD phenomena. In the analysis of hadron reactions and their propertieds I emphasize similarities to the nuclear many body problem.

Governors Highway Safety Association

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... Farm ® , is out now. News Read News Getting Self-Driving Cars on the Road Soon Might Save Lives ... Speed and Red Light Cameras Speeding and Aggressive Driving Teen and Novice Drivers Traffic Records State Laws By Issue By State Resources ...

Kivid sinu sees / Marika Makarova

Index Scriptorium Estoniae

Makarova, Marika

2011-01-01

Sapi- ja neerukivide tekke põhjustest, ravist nii tavameditsiini kui ka Steineri poolt loodud antroposoofilise meditsiini vahenditega ning mida saab teha, et kividest hoiduda. Nõuannavad Ida-Tallinna Keskhaigla kirurgid Rein Lumiste ja Toomas Tamm ning perearstikeskuse Medicum perearst Pille Soone

Development of new products for Europe and individual customer support: Sanden Technical Centre (Europe) GmbH. High-efficiency wind tunnel for passenger car air conditioners at Bad Nauheim; Entwicklung neuer Produkte fuer Europa und individuelle Kundenunterstuetzung: Sanden Technical Centre (Europe) GmbH. Hocheffizienter Klimawindkanal fuer Pkw-Klimaanlagen in Bad Nauheim

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Anon.

2007-05-15

As the importance of passenger cars as part of everyday life increased in Japan, Sanden decided that air conditioners for passenger cars would soon be indispensable. Since 1971, Sanden has worked on new technologies in this field, including compact refrigerating compressors. (orig.)

Coexistent Hirschsprung's disease and esophageal achalasia in male siblings

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Kelly, JL; Mulcahy, TM; O'Riordain, DS; Buys, CHCM; Hofstra, RMW; McCarthy, T; Kirwan, WO

1997-01-01

Achalasia of the esophagus developed in two male siblings soon after birth, and they were successfully treated by surgery. Persistent signs resulted in the later diagnosis of Hirschsprung's disease. One required subtotal colectomy and ileoanal anastomosis, and the other is managing well on

Monoclonal antibodies in animal production : their use in diagnostics and passive immunization

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Booman, P.

1989-01-01

One of the landmarks in immunology was the invention and development of monoclonal antibody-secreting hybridomas by Milstein and his coworkers. The enormous promise of monoclonal antibody technology, which became apparent soon after its discovery, may explain the unusual speed with which monoclonal

Anxiety

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... take a test or walk down a dark street. This kind of anxiety is useful - it can make you more alert or careful. It usually ends soon after you are out of the situation that caused it. But for millions of people ...

BARC solution for burn injuries

CERN Multimedia

2003-01-01

The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), has developed Hydrogel which is expected to be mass marketed soon in India. Dr Anil Kakodkar, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission, said the product not only heals the wound, but also eliminates scars (1/2 page).

Structural science using single crystal and pulse neutron scattering

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Noda, Yukio; Kimura, Hiroyuki; Watanabe, Masashi; Ishikawa, Yoshihisa; Tamura, Itaru; Arai, Masatoshi; Takahashi, Miwako; Ohshima, Ken-ichi; Abe, Hiroshi; Kamiyama, Takashi

2008-01-01

The application to single crystal neutron structural analysis is overviewed. Special attention is paid to the pulse neutron method, which will be available soon under J-PARC project in Japan. New proposal and preliminary experiment using Sirius at KENS are described. (author)

victory in hades: the forgotten wars of the oman, 1957-1959 and ...

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freezing point that it turns a metal water bottle into a block of ice. ... vince of Dhofar, which benefits from the mon- soon and, like the ..... regular British Army units, to which they even- ..... method by which adequate quantities of drinking water ...

Georg Cantor (1845–1918)

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

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life. It was Cantor who helped lay the foundations of the theory of fractals – a notion which has ... And it is Cantor, about whose work one can hear views from lead- ing mathematicians ... Soon after, he developed a friendship with Dedekind.

Listeriosis and Pregnancy

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... cutting boards and knives after contact with uncooked foods. Consume ready-to-eat foods as soon as possible. Keep your refrigerator at ... making process. Reheat to steaming any leftover and ready-to-eat food, such as hot dogs, cold cuts and deli ...

It’s the System, Stupid: How Systems Biology Is Transforming

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2010-01-01

So far, little is known about systems biology and its potential for changing how we diagnose and treat disease. That will change soon, say the systems experts, who advise payers to begin learning now about how it could make healthcare efficient. PMID:22478806

Effects of kaolin particle film and imidacloprid on glassy-winged sharpshooter (Homalodisca vitripennis) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)populations and the prevention of spread of Xylella fastidiosa in grape

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The glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS), Homalodisca coagulata (Say), was introduced into California and soon became a major pest of important agronomic, horticultural, landscape, ornamental crops and native trees in California. This pest feeds readily on grape and, in doing so, transmits X. fastidio...

Measurements of carbon dioxide and heat fluxes during monsoon ...

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

An increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere due to ... The changes in land ... the air quality and climate models. 2. ... soon period of 2011 as a part Cloud Aerosol .... density effects due to heat and water vapour trans-.

Science Academies' Summer Research Fellowship Programme for ...

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ac.in; www.insaindia.res.in; or www.nasi.org.in]. The registration number assigned soon after online sub- mission must be quoted in all future correspondence. The last date for receipt of applications online is 30 November 2017. Information of ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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... Lecture: Richard Harris on Challenges of Replication in Science Elect a Strong Leadership for AAAS: Deadline Ends Soon! Elect a Strong ... 20140730_leadership-seminar_teaser.jpg 13 Nov 2017 Leadership Seminar in Science & Technology Policy... REGISTER event-featured-twothird_Default_200x200. ...

Does Fermilab have a future?

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Cho, Adrian

2008-01-01

The United States's last particle physics lab finds itself in turmoil, with its current experiments soon to wind down and nothing under construction to replace them. Physicists wonder whether the lab - and particle physics in the United States - will survive. (4 pages)

Societal aspects of foods derived from GM crops

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Beekmann, V.; Frewer, L.F.; Lassen, J.

2004-01-01

from soy plants genetically modified to resist the herbicide Round-Up, represented the first large scale marketing of GM foods in Europe. Other applications of biotechnology soon followed: events, such as the attempted commercialisation of GM maize and other commodities, focused public attention...

Dealing with diversity: middle-class family households and the issue of 'black' and 'white' schools in Amsterdam

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Boterman, W.R.

2013-01-01

The urban middle classes often celebrate the diversity of their neighbourhood. As soon as they have children, however, the desire to display symbolic capital may conflict with the need to reproduce cultural capital through the educational system. In the ethnically diverse Amsterdam schooling

Safety and efficacy of opicinumab in acute optic neuritis (RENEW)

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Cadavid, Diego; Balcer, Laura J; Galetta, Steven L

2017-01-01

BACKGROUND: The human monoclonal antibody opicinumab (BIIB033, anti-LINGO-1) has shown remyelinating activity in preclinical studies. We therefore assessed the safety and tolerability, and efficacy of opicinumab given soon after a first acute optic neuritis episode. METHODS: This randomised, doub...

118 CONSTITUTIONALISM AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA

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Fr. Ikenga

existence of a constitution in an autocratic regime, such regime can never be a .... in a democratic system posits that 'the ethical responsibility of leadership and ..... civil rule, it is believed that we shall soon get to that stage of western style of.

Decision Support Systems as the Bridge between Marketing Models and Marketing Practice

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B. Wierenga (Berend)

2008-01-01

textabstractThe field of marketing decision models emerged about fifty years ago. In the beginning, optimization techniques from the field of Operations Research (OR) were dominant, but soon, the modeling of marketing phenomena and marketing problems became interesting in itself, irrespective of

Autosomal dominant Carvajal plus syndrome due to the novel desmoplakin mutation c.1678A > T (p.Ile560Phe

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Josef Finsterer

2016-09-01

Conclusion: Phenotypic manifestations of Carvajal syndrome are even broader than so far anticipated, the number of mutations in the desmoplakin gene responsible for Carvajal syndrome is still increasing, and these patients require implantation of an ICD as soon as their diagnosis is established.

WiFi Is on the Way

Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (English)

2008-01-01

WiFi mobile phones soon may get a nod of approval from China’s telecom industry regulator At present, China’s telecom regulator prohibits phone calls made via the Internet or the browsing of Web pages via a mobile phone in wire-

CME 9091 (ONLINE).indd

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therapy (ART) and the preferred initial drugs has evolved substantially over the .... effect profile and requires only clinical monitoring soon after initiation. ... More recently, the randomised Pharmacokinetics and Adherence/ ... the most common risk factor. During ..... Poor early virologic performance and durability of abacavir-.

Durability and service life design of concrete structures. Experiences and the way to prove in The Netherlands

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Siemes, A.J.M.; Vrouwenvelder, A.C.W.M.

2002-01-01

After the introduction of reinforced concrete it was believed that the material was extremely durable. Soon it was found however, that reinforced concrete could have serious durability problems and that special care should be taken to avoid them. Durability became an issue.

Overview of the development of service life design for concrete structures

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Siemes, A.J.M.

2002-01-01

After the introduction of reinforced concrete it was believed that the material was extremely durable. Soon it was found that reinforced concrete could have serious durability problems and that special care should be taken to avoid them. Durability became a design issue.

Can Opening ‘Ethics Files’ on Medical Staff Improve Patients’ Care?

Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (English)

2007-01-01

Healthcare workers in Shanghai are walking the line after recent news that regulations issued by local health authorities will soon enforce the opening of an “ethics file” for each of the city’s 140,000 medical workers. According to the regulations, once

Quitting Smoking

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... half of the people who don't quit smoking will die of smoking-related problems. Quitting smoking is important for your health. Soon after you ... they succeed. There are many ways to quit smoking. Some people stop "cold turkey." Others benefit from ...

Staking a Claim in Cambodia's Highlands

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)

Logging trucks were soon rumbling in. So were settlers and migrants displaced from other areas, as well as business people who rapidly bought land to grow plantation and ... Not only is the forest one of their main sources of food and income ...

Le LHC, la machine à remonter 14 milliards d'années

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Valin, Muriel

2008-01-01

To explore time to understand the universal genesis, will be soon possible thanks to the LHC. The giant particle accelerator of CERN will indeed try to recreate the conditions which reigned in the Universe a few moments after the big-bang. (4 pages)

Sequential deposition as a route to high-performance perovskite-sensitized solar cells

KAUST Repository

Burschka, Julian; Pellet, Norman; Moon, Soo-Jin; Humphry-Baker, Robin; Gao, Peng; Nazeeruddin, Mohammad K.; Grä tzel, Michael

2013-01-01

from solution into a nanoporous titanium dioxide film and subsequently transformed into the perovskite by exposing it to a solution of CH 3 NH 3 I. We find that the conversion occurs within the nanoporous host as soon as the two components come

Nutrition Tailored to the Individual Not Just Yet; Realigning Nutrigenomic Science with Contemporary Society

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Vrieze, de J.; Bouwman, L.I.; Komduur, R.H.; Pin, R.; Ronteltap, A.; Vandebergh, R.; Dam, van Frans; Penders, B.

2009-01-01

About a decade ago, scientists and science journalists presented nutrigenomics as a grand promise that each of us would soon know which foods fit in our personal healthy diet. Meanwhile, expectations have been adjusted to fit a changed reality. Simultaneously, societal issues surrounding

Ionosphere and Radio Communication

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

One basic problem associated with these is that as soon as a space .... as a depression in plasma density or trough at the geomagnetic equator and two .... and their numerous students at PRL, over a period of nearly thirty years have been ...

Biological control of tanoak and bay laurel resprouts using the fungus, Chondrostereum purpureum

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Marianne Elliott; Gary Chastagner; Simon Shamoun; Grace Sumampong; Ellen Goheen; Alan Kanaskie

2013-01-01

In southwest Oregon, an aggressive program of cutting and burning host plants in an effort toeradicate Phytophthora ramorum was initiated. It was soon apparent that tanoak (Notholithocarpus densiflorus (Hook.& Arn.) Manos, Cannon& S.H. Oh) resprouts were highly susceptible to P. ramorum and...

Predictors of successful and unsuccessful quit attempts among smokers motivated to quit

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Smit, E.S.; Hoving, C.; Schelleman-Offermans, K.; West, R.; de Vries, H.

2014-01-01

Introduction: Despite their positive motivation to quit, many smokers do not attempt to quit or relapse soon after their quit attempt. This study investigated the predictors of successful and unsuccessful quit attempts among smokers motivated to quit smoking. Methods: We conducted secondary data

Human prenatal progenitors for pediatric cardiovascular tissue engineering

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Schmidt, D.

2007-01-01

Pediatric cardiovascular tissue engineering is a promising strategy to overcome the lack of autologous, growing replacements for the early repair of congenital malformations in order to prevent secondary damage to the immature heart. Therefore, cells should be harvested during pregnancy as soon as

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

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D. Pp. 367 + xvi, with 80 illustrations. 50s. Amsterdam,. Houston ... of statistical methods, and is soon at a loss to know which method is best suited for his .... Hair Diseases, Vitiligo. Parr ll: .";ysremic ... Vitamin D, (Calciferol) and tbe Systemic ...

EDITORIAL

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should be placed on oral rehydration solution as soon as they can drink, eveh if ... the logical choice for treatment of cholera caused by the drug- resistant strain .... traffic increases across our borders and within them, we will continue to be ...

Canal + Spain & Live Football Broadcasts: A Whole Different Game

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Rodríguez Ortega, Vicente; Romero Santos, Rubén

2017-01-01

textabstractIn 1988 the Law for Private Television Broadcasting was approved by Spanish parliament. Three licenses were initially awarded. Soon thereafter, in 1990, three channels started broadcasting: Antena 3, Berlusconi-related Tele 5 and, against all odds, a pay channel, Canal + Spain. This

The Coming Age of Complete, Accurate, and Ubiquitous Proteomes

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Mann, M.; Kulak, N.A.; Nagaraj, N.

2013-01-01

High-resolution mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics has progressed tremendously over the years. For model organisms like yeast, we can now quantify complete proteomes in just a few hours. Developments discussed in this Perspective will soon enable complete proteome analysis of mammalian cells...

ENVIRONMENTAL ANDROGENS AND ANTIANDROGENS: AN EXPANDING CHEMICAL UNIVERSE

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Within the last ten years, awareness has grown about environmental chemicals that display antiandrogenic or androgenic activity. While studies in the early 1990s focused on pesticides that acted as androgen receptor (AR) antagonists, it soon became evident that this was not the ...

Traditional crop for biodiesel. Castor oil could be an alternative, but it is a problematic additive; Traditionspflanze fuer Biodiesel. Rizinusoel koennte eine Alternative sein - problematisch als Beimischung

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

Ristau, Oliver

2012-11-01

As the demand for energy crops like soy is increasing, so are prices. The castor-oil plant may soon become one of these crops. An Israeli-Brazilian cooperation project is to raise the yields of this old culture plant and make it profitable.

Differential testosterone response to GnRH-induced LH release before and after musth in adult Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) bulls

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Somgird, Chaleamchat; Sripiboon, Supaphen; Mahasawangkul, Sittidet; Boonprasert, Khajohnpat; Brown, Janine L; Stout, Tom A E; Colenbrander, Ben; Thitaram, Chatchote

2016-01-01

Bull elephants exhibit marked increases in testosterone secretion during musth, and studies have shown a heightened sensitivity of the testis to GnRH-stimulated testosterone production in musth compared to nonmusth males. However, activity of the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal axis before or soon

As the antiworld turns probing the secrets of atoms, new experiments may sharpen lasers, aid doctors and - some say - fuel starships

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Hughes, J

1999-01-01

Experiments due to begin soon at CERN will produce large amounts of antihydrogen to compare matter and antimatter so physicists can gain a better understanding of the universe. Additionally, through the experiments they will generate new analytic instruments and technological innovations (4 pages).

Repairing organs : lessons from intestine and liver

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Gehart, Helmuth; Clevers, Hans

2015-01-01

The concept of organ regeneration has fascinated humanity from ancient mythology to modern science fiction. Recent advances offer the potential to soon bring such technology within the grasp of clinical medicine. Rapidly expanding insights into the intrinsic repair processes of the intestine and

Microsoft Azure IAAS essentials

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Ellis, Gethyn

2015-01-01

This book is intended for system administrators and other IT professionals who need to both design and implement an Azure-based cloud solution. With the help of this book, you will soon master the basic tasks needed to build a cloud-based solution.

Triptorelin Injection

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... puberty too soon, resulting in faster than normal bone growth and development of sexual characteristics) in children 2 years and older. Triptorelin injection is in a class of medications called gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists. It works by decreasing the amount ...

Repairing organs : lessons from intestine and liver

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Gehart, Helmuth; Clevers, Hans

The concept of organ regeneration has fascinated humanity from ancient mythology to modern science fiction. Recent advances offer the potential to soon bring such technology within the grasp of clinical medicine. Rapidly expanding insights into the intrinsic repair processes of the intestine and

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2013-01-01

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Normalization references for USEtoxTM-based toxic impact categories: North American and European economic systems

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Laurent, Alexis; Lautier, Anne; Rosenbaum, Ralph K.

2011-01-01

economic regions, North America and Europe, to calculate normalization references for the three currently-modelled USEtoxTM-based impact categories, i.e. freshwater ecotoxicity, human toxicity, divided into cancer effects and non-cancer effects. Base years for the references are 2004 for Europe and 2006...... coverage of organics in both the inventory and the CF databases. With respect to the intended global character of the USEtoxTM model, different approaches to determine normalization references of other economic systems (e.g. Asia or world) are discussed in relation to these findings. Overall, we thus...... recommend the use of the provided set of normalization references for USEtoxTM, but we also advocate 1) to perform an update as soon as a more comprehensive inventory can be obtained and as soon as characterization factors for metals are revised; 2) to consider extension to other economic systems in order...

The Impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on Financial Stability and Economic Growth

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Martin Neil Baily

2017-01-01

Full Text Available This article assesses the benefits and costs of key provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act that strengthened regulation following the financial crisis. The provisions are placed into five groupings: clear wins, clear losses, costly tradeoffs, unfinished business, and too soon to tell. Clear wins include higher prudential standards, including for capital; the single-point-of-entry resolution authority; creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; and greater transparency and oversight of derivatives. Clear losses are restrictions on Federal Reserve emergency lending authority and forcing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to obtain permission from Congress before providing temporary liquidity guarantees. Costly tradeoffs are the Volcker Rule and the Lincoln Amendment. Unfinished business includes regulatory consolidation and more independence for the Financial Stability Oversight Council and the Office of Financial Research. Too soon to tell are requirements and standards for leverage ratios, capital buffers, stress testing, and liquidity requirements.

In-situ synchrotron x-ray study of the crystallization behavior of Ce0.9La0.1O2−x thin films deposited on NiW alloy substrates by chemical solution method

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Yue, Zhao; Grivel, Jean-Claude; Abrahamsen, Asger Bech

2011-01-01

The phase and texture formation of La doped CeO2 (CLO) films deposited by the chemical solution method are studied by in situ synchrotron x-ray diffraction. It is found that the CLO crystallites forms excellent in-plane texture as soon as the phase appears at 860°C, indicating that interfacial nu...... by diffusion. The success of this work demonstrates the possibility of studying crystallization behaviors of solution derived films using a non-destructive method, which has the potential of being applicable to most types of thin film samples.......The phase and texture formation of La doped CeO2 (CLO) films deposited by the chemical solution method are studied by in situ synchrotron x-ray diffraction. It is found that the CLO crystallites forms excellent in-plane texture as soon as the phase appears at 860°C, indicating that interfacial...

"It's as bad as anything can be": Patients, identity, and the influenza pandemic.

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Bristow, Nancy K

2010-04-01

Americans were stunned when pandemic influenza hit the United States in 1918. Recent advances in bacteriology and public health allowed Americans to imagine a future free of infectious disease, even as their familiarity with influenza tempered their fears of it. They soon realized this influenza was something unprecedented, as it shocked them with its pace, virulence, mortality patterns, and symptoms. Patients endured and frequently succumbed to a miserable illness, their suffering often made worse by the chaotic circumstances the epidemic produced in families and communities and shaped in significant and sometimes discriminatory ways by their gender, class, and race. While the nation's public culture soon forgot the epidemic, it lived on in lives changed irrevocably by its consequences. As they face present and future influenza pandemics, Americans can learn from this earlier experience, guarding against identity-based discrimination and acknowledging and remembering the grief and loss fellow citizens suffered.

Pushed news: when the news comes to the cellphone

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Antonio Fidalgo

2009-12-01

Full Text Available Combining two findings of recent surveys on the Internet which state that 1 “the Internet will soon surpass all other media as a main source for national and international news” and 2 “the mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the Internet in 2020” leads us to the conclusion that smartphones will soon be the primary source for news access. But if so, how will news come to the Internetconnected cellphones? In accordance with the distinction, already drawn in 1997, between push and pull technologies as two different forms of how content is delivered to the end users, cellphones are characterized as push devices (passive reception, in opposition to computers, classified as pull devices (active reception. The news items that fit cellphones are pushed news. And they will be pushed as SMS, e-mails, tweets and through news aggregators.

PUSHED NEWS: When the news comes to the cellphone

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Antonio Fidalgo

2009-12-01

Full Text Available Combining two findings of recent surveys on the Internet whichstate that 1 “the Internet will soon surpass all other media as a main source for national and international news” and 2 “the mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the Internet in 2020” leads us to the conclusion that smartphones will soon be the primary source for news access. But if so, how will news come to the Internetconnected cellphones? In accordance with the distinction, already drawn in 1997, between push and pull technologies as two different forms of how content is delivered to the end users, cellphones are characterized as push devices (passive reception, in opposition to computers, classified as pull devices (active reception. The news items that fit cellphones are pushed news. And they will be pushed as SMS, e-mails, tweets and through news aggregators.

Molecular Tumor Boards : Current Practice and Future Needs

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van der Velden, D. L.; van Herpen, C. M.L.; van Laarhoven, H. W.M.; Smit, E. F.; Groen, H. J.M.; Willems, S. M.; Nederlof, P. M.; Langenberg, M. H.G.; Cuppen, E.; Sleijfer, S.; Steeghs, N.; Voest, E. E.

2017-01-01

Background: Due to rapid technical advances, steeply declining sequencing costs, and the ever-increasing number of targeted therapies, it can be expected that extensive tumor sequencing such as whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing will soon be applied in standard care. Clinicians will thus be

Molecular Tumor Boards : Current practice and future needs

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van der Velden, D. L.; van Herpen, C. M. L.; van Laarhoven, H. W. M.; Smit, E. F.; Groen, H. J. M.; Willems, S. M.; Nederlof, P. M.; Langenberg, M. H. G.; Cuppen, E.; Sleijfer, S.; Steeghs, N.; Voest, E. E.

2017-01-01

Background: Due to rapid technical advances, steeply declining sequencing costs, and the ever-increasing number of targeted therapies, it can be expected that extensive tumor sequencing such as whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing will soon be applied in standard care. Clinicians will thus be

Molecular Tumor Boards: current practice and future needs

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van der Velden, D. L.; van Herpen, C. M. L.; van Laarhoven, H. W. M.; Smit, E. F.; Groen, H. J. M.; Willems, S. M.; Nederlof, P. M.; Langenberg, M. H. G.; Cuppen, E.; Sleijfer, S.; Steeghs, N.; Voest, E. E.

2017-01-01

Background: Due to rapid technical advances, steeply declining sequencing costs, and the ever-increasing number of targeted therapies, it can be expected that extensive tumor sequencing such as whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing will soon be applied in standard care. Clinicians will thus be

50 CFR 216.175 - Requirements for monitoring and reporting.

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2010-10-01

... ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE MARINE MAMMALS REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE TAKING AND IMPORTING OF MARINE MAMMALS Taking Marine Mammals Incidental to U.S. Navy Training in the Hawaii Range... Communication Plan, the Holder of the Authorization must notify NMFS immediately (or as soon as clearance...

Interface strength and degradation of adhesively bonded porous aluminum oxides

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Abrahami, S.T.; de Kok, John M.M.; Gudla, Visweswara C.; Ambat, Rajan; Terryn, H.A.; Mol, J.M.C.

2017-01-01

For more than six decades, chromic acid anodizing has been the main step in the surface treatment of aluminum for adhesively bonded aircraft structures. Soon this process, known for producing a readily adherent oxide with an excellent corrosion resistance, will be banned by strict international

School Technology Grows Up.

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Vail, Kathleen

2003-01-01

Practitioners and researchers in the education technology field asked to give their vision of the future list laptop computers, personal digital assistants, electronic testing, wireless networking, and multimedia technology among the technology advances headed soon for schools. A sidebar lists 12 online resources. (MLF)

Large-Scale Geolocation for NetFlow

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Celeda, Pavel; Velan, Petr; Rabek, Martin; Hofstede, R.J.; Pras, Aiko

The importance of IP address geolocation has increased significantly in recent years, due to its applications in business advertisements and security analysis, among others. Current approaches perform geolocation mostly on-demand and in a small-scale fashion. As soon as geolocation needs to be

Fisher's Contributions to Statistics

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

of statistics are multifarious, profound and long-lasting. In fact, he can be ... that it is not even possible to mention them all in this short article. ... At that time the term 'likelihood' as oppo- .... Dedicated to the memory of Fisher soon after his death,.

77 FR 11106 - Proposed Agency Information Collection

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2012-02-24

... ADDRESSES as soon as possible. ADDRESSES: Written comments may be sent to Portfolio Analysis and Management... Collection Request Title: Portfolio Analysis and Management System (PAMS) Submissions for Letter of Intent... implement a new consolidated system called Portfolio Analysis and Management System (PAMS). This new system...

Solar Photovoltaic Technology Basics | NREL

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Photovoltaic Technology Basics Solar Photovoltaic Technology Basics Solar cells, also called found in sand) created an electric charge when exposed to sunlight. Soon solar cells were being used to power space satellites and smaller items like calculators and watches. Photo of a large silicon solar

Numerical Simulation of the Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition in Inhomogeneous Mixtures

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Florian Ettner

2014-01-01

different modes of DDT. Detonations occurring soon after ignition do not necessarily cause the highest pressure loads. In mixtures with concentration gradient, the highest loads can occur in regions of very low hydrogen content. These new findings should be considered in future safety studies.

Gourmand Syndrome in a Child with Epilepsy

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J Gordon Millichap

2008-09-01

Full Text Available A preoccupation with food, increased appetite and a preference for fine food had developed in a 10-year-old obese boy soon after the onset of refractory seizures at 8 years of age, in a report from University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland.

Can Domestication of Wildlife Lead to Conservation? The Economics of Tiger Farming in China

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Abbott, B.; Kooten, van G.C.

2011-01-01

Tigers are a threatened species that might soon disappear in the wild. Not only are tigers threatened by deteriorating and declining habitat, but poachers continue to kill tigers for traditional medicine, decoration pieces and so on. Although international trade in tiger products has been banned

How to Stay Away from Each Other in a Spherical Universe

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

which, when pursued, soon grow to majestic pro- portions and begin to impinge upon ... (must be stinkingly rich to have such freedom!). The ques- tion is: how ..... touch each other, so that one may well think that they may be pushed around to ...

Farmers’ Logics in Engaging With Projects Promoting Drip Irrigation Kits in Burkina Faso

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Wanvoeke, J.; Venot, J.-P.; Zwarteveen, M.; de Fraiture, C.

2016-01-01

Development agencies enthusiastically promote micro-drip irrigation as an affordable water and labor-saving device, yet most farmers stop using it as soon as development projects end. This article analyzes why farmers engage in projects promoting drip irrigation kits, even though they appear not to

Farmers’ Logics in Engaging With Projects Promoting Drip Irrigation Kits in Burkina Faso

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Wanvoeke, Jonas; Venot, Jean Philippe; Zwarteveen, Margreet; Fraiture, de Charlotte

2016-01-01

Development agencies enthusiastically promote micro-drip irrigation as an affordable water and labor-saving device, yet most farmers stop using it as soon as development projects end. This article analyzes why farmers engage in projects promoting drip irrigation kits, even though they appear not

Ultrasensitive searches for the axion

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Van Bibber, Karl

2006-01-01

"The axion is a hypothetical particle with a mass possibly a trillion times lighter than an electron and exceedingly small couplings to ordinary matter. Yet experiments may soon detect its presence, either as dark matter or as a component of solar flux." (6 pages)

At Least 39 Weeks

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Cesarean Section: The Operation

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Cesarean Section: Recovering After Surgery

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Feeding Your Baby

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Gestational Hypertension and Preeclampsia

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Exercise during Pregnancy

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Illness perceptions and mood states are associated with injury-related outcomes in athletes

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van Wilgen, C. Paul; Kaptein, Ad A.; Brink, Michel S.

2010-01-01

Background. Athletes have to cope adequately with the consequences of their injury in order to return into sports as soon as possible. Besides the physical characteristics of the injury, illness perceptions and emotional responses impact the behavioural responses to the injury. Purpose. To apply

32 CFR 809a.10 - Military commanders' responsibilities.

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2010-07-01

... authorities as soon as possible. (c) Military forces will ordinarily exercise police powers previously... 32 National Defense 6 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Military commanders' responsibilities. 809a.10... Disturbance Intervention and Disaster Assistance § 809a.10 Military commanders' responsibilities. (a...

Moving considerations of middle-class residents in Dutch disadvantaged neighborhoods: exploring the relationship between disorder and attachment

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Pinkster, F.M.; Permentier, M.; Wittebrood, K.

2014-01-01

A central assumption in the residential mobility literature is that residents in disadvantaged neighborhoods will leave as soon as they are financially able, as a result of ‘residential stress’ related to physical and social disorder in these neighborhoods. However, this assumption contradicts the

Moving considerations of Middle-Class residents in Dutch disadvantaged neighborhoods : Exploring the relationship between disorder and attachment

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Pinkster, Fenne M.; Permentier, Matthieu; Wittebrood, Karin

2014-01-01

A central assumption in the residential mobility literature is that residents in disadvantaged neighborhoods will leave as soon as they are financially able, as a result of ‘residential stress’ related to physical and social disorder in these neighborhoods. However, this assumption contradicts the

Breaking Male Dominance in Old Democracies

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Dahlerup, D.; Leyenaar, M.H.

2013-01-01

Has male dominance in political life been broken? Will gender balance in elected assemblies soon be reached? This book analyses the longitudinal development of women’s political representation in eight old democracies, in which women were enfranchised before and around World War I: Denmark, Iceland,

Auf der Suche nach Gotte urknall

CERN Document Server

heinrich, Hansjörg

2007-01-01

In a mega tunnel near Geneva Lake, a second big-bang will take place soon. The world elite of physics hope to answer existential questions for humanity: How was made our Universe? From where do we come? which energy holds cosmos together? (4 pages)

Count Nicolaus Ludwig Von Zinzendorf’s Theory for Missions Portrayed at Herrnhut and by Selected 18th-20th Century Moravian Missions.

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1986-01-01

the progressive methods in advanced missions with churches, schools, gardens, vineyards and orchards, sheep herding, gristmill, cutlery, printing press...pear tree soon became gardens, orchards and vineyards . His success led to Dutch Church and Boer farmer insistence that he leave. Hoping to return, he

A Tuning Approach for Oset-free MPC with Conditional Reference Adaptation

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Waschl, Harald; Jørgensen, John Bagterp; Huusom, Jakob Kjøbsted

2014-01-01

Model predictive control has become a widely accepted strategy in industrial applications in the recent years. Often mentioned reasons for the success are the optimization based on a system model, consideration of constraints and an intuitive tuning process. However, as soon as unknown disturbances...

Conditional Reference Adaptation for Offset-free MPC

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Waschl, Harald; Jørgensen, John Bagterp; Huusom, Jakob Kjøbsted

2014-01-01

Model predictive control has become a widely accepted strategy in industrial applications in the recent years. Often mentioned reasons for the success are the optimization based on a system model, consideration of constraints and an intuitive tuning process. However, as soon as unknown disturbances...

Preface to special topic: High-energy density laboratory astrophysics

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Glenzer, Siegfried H

2017-01-01

Here, in the 1990s, when the large inertial confinement fusion facilities in the United States became accessible for discovery-class research, physicists soon realized that the combination of these energetic drivers with precision plasmas diagnostics would allow the unprecedented experimental study of astrophysical problems.

Multi Criteria Decision Support for Conceptual Integral Design of Flex(eble)(en)ergy Infrastructure

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Zeiler, W.; Savanovic, P.; Houten, van M.A.; Boxem, G.; Ehrgott, M; Naujoks, B; Stewart, T.J.; Wallenius, J

2009-01-01

The use of sustainable energy will soon be the major guiding principle for building and spatial planning practice. This asks for new sustainable energy infrastructures which need new design approaches. Design tools for the energy infrastructure of the built environment in the conceptual phase of

Specific features of occupational medicine in nuclear research and industry

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Giraud, J.M.; Quesne, B.

2003-01-01

Measures to prevent the exposure of personnel to ionising radiation were taken as soon as the first nuclear laboratories were set up. This branch of occupational preventive medicine has since kept pace with advances in research and in the industrial applications of nuclear energy. (authors)

48 CFR 52.227-3 - Patent Indemnity.

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2010-10-01

... informed as soon as practicable by the Government of the suit or action alleging such infringement and... delivery or performance, or (3) a claimed infringement that is unreasonably settled without the consent of... to individual communication service authorizations over the simplified acquisition threshold issued...

Environmental Technology Verification Report: Pesticide spray drift reduction technologies--Evaluation of the verification protocol for low and high speed wind tunnel testing

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Pesticide spray drift is defined as the movement of spray droplets through the air at the time of application or soon thereafter from the target site to any non- or off-target site, excluding pesticide movements by erosion, migration, volatility, or windblown soil particles after...

Game Learning Analytics: Learning Analytics for Serious Games

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Freire, Manuel; Serrano-Laguna, Angel; Manero, Borja; Martinez-Ortiz, Ivan; Moreno-Ger, Pablo; Fernandez-Manjon, Baltasar

2016-01-01

Video games have become one of the largest entertainment industries, and their power to capture the attention of players worldwide soon prompted the idea of using games to improve education. However, these educational games, commonly referred to as serious games, face different challenges when

The Proposed U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA): Provisions and Implications

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2011-03-24

the agreement soon. Lee’s Grand National Party controls a majority in the unicameral National Assembly, and most observers believe the agreement...the unicameral National Assembly to take effect. The Assembly is controlled by President Lee Myung Bak’s Grand National Party, which officially

The upsurge of tension between Renamo and Frelimo in Mozambique

African Journals Online (AJOL)

The upsurge of tension between Renamo and Frelimo in Mozambique: The contest for traditional leadership support. Happy Kayuni. Abstract. Soon after independence in 1975, Mozambique was plunged into a protracted civil war involving the ruling party Frelimo and the rebel movement Renamo. Renamo controlled ...

Principles of Biofouling Protection in Marine Sponges: A Model for the Design of Novel Biomimetic and Bio-inspired Coatings in the Marine Environment?

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Müller, W.E.G.; Wang, X.; Proksch, P.; Perry, C.C.; Osinga, R.; Gardères, J.; Schröder, H.C.

2013-01-01

The process of biofouling of marine structures and substrates, such as platforms or ship hulls, proceeds in multiple steps. Soon after the formation of an initial conditioning film, formed via the adsorption of organic particles to natural or manmade substrates, a population of different bacterial

77 FR 57567 - Single Source Cooperative Agreement Award for World Health Organization

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2012-09-18

... Organization AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and... Organization for a grant titled: ``Smallpox Research Oversight Activities: WHO Advisory Committee on Variola... notification to World Health Organization (WHO) as soon as possible, and any confirmed smallpox case would...

Nombrando y definiendo a los "otros": minorías étnicas y allochtonen en los Países Bajos = Naming and branding the "others": ethnic minoritues and allochtonen in the Netherlands

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Garces Mascarenas, B.

2009-01-01

The immigrant population in the Netherlands has been named and defined under the categories of ethnic minorities and allochtonen. Although these categories are directly related to specific policies, these terms became very soon common social categories. The extended use of the term ethnic minority

1 PERSPECTIVES In Memoriam: Richard (Rick) G. Harrison ...

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Navya

2016-05-06

May 6, 2016 ... 2016, but the impact of his work will not soon be lost for the people with ... benefit for our research program was that Rick's careful synthesis of the literature in this ... in his sphere of influence, and his obvious love for family.

Multidisciplinary Fingerprints: Forensic Reconstruction of an Insect Reinvasion

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Beginning late August 2007, more than 150 boll weevils, Anthonomus grandis, were unexpectedly captured across an extensive area of the Southern Rolling Plains (SRP) eradication zone of West-Central Texas, which was essentially weevil-free since 2003. This outbreak was detected soon after the passag...

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Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Sathiyanathan Felixa, Pratap Kollub, Bala P.C.Raghupathya,c,*, Soon Kwan Jeongd,* and Andrews Nirmala Grace a,d,*. a Centre for Nanotechnology Research, VIT University, Vellore - 632014, Tamil Nadu, India. b DST-INSPIRE Faculty, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of ...

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... Subcommittee. 5. Automation Subcommittee. 6. Import Safety. 7. Bond Subcommittee. 8. Trade Facilitation... Services for Individuals With Disabilities For information on facilities or services for individuals with disabilities or to request special assistance at the meeting, contact Ms. Wanda Tate as soon as possible. Dated...

Minimum Delay Moving Object Detection

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Lao, Dong; Sundaramoorthi, Ganesh

2017-01-01

We present a general framework and method for detection of an object in a video based on apparent motion. The object moves relative to background motion at some unknown time in the video, and the goal is to detect and segment the object as soon

Annual Running Festival a Chance for the Frederick Community to Stretch Its Legs | Poster

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May will soon be here, ushering in the season of cookouts, sunny days—and the annual Frederick Running Festival. Organized by Corrigan Sports Enterprises, the two-day event gives athletes of all backgrounds chances for exercise and friendly competition against their fellow community members.

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2013-08-15

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Introducing Object-Oriented Programming

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Caspersen, Michael Edelgaard

2008-01-01

The practice of teaching programming at universities, colleges and high schools went through a major change roughly in the mid 1990s: The teaching of objectorientation in introductory courses slowly became mainstream. Fairly soon, the Object First or Objects Early school of thought was formulated...

Guide to Eating for Sports

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Full Text Available ... for the hour before you compete or have practice because digestion requires energy — energy that you want to use to win. Also, eating too soon before any kind of activity can leave food in the stomach, making you feel full, bloated, ...

COBRAT Project: Long duration balloons for the study of high energy phenomena and consequences for stratospheric chemistry

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Renard, Jean-Baptiste; Berthet, Gwenaël; Catoire, Valéry

2010-01-01

The study of the Transient Luminous Events (TLE) and of the Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGF) will be performed soon by the satellite instruments TARANIS (CNES) and ASIM (ESA, onboard the International Space Station). In complement to these measurements, observations are proposed to be conducte...

Frame complexity and the Financial Crisis: a comparison of the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany 2007-2012

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Kleinnijenhuis, J.; Schultz, F.; Oegema, D.

2015-01-01

Communicative complexity concerns the variety of issues and stakeholders (agenda complexity) and their associations (frame complexity) in the news. One issue may dominate news in crises (9/11, Katrina), but as soon as complexity recovers, uncertainty may decrease and the public mood may improve. The

76 FR 48831 - Arbitration Panel Decision Under the Randolph-Sheppard Act

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2011-08-09

... to manage the Marion County vending route comprised of vending machines at the Oregon Department of... cafeteria was selling items in competition with Complainant's vending machines. On October 4, 2006... vendor complained of unexpected low earnings soon after he began operating the vending machines. Thus...

Treatment of ruptured intracranial aneurysms: implications of the ISAT on clipping versus coiling

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van den Berg, R.; Rinkel, G. J. E.; Vandertop, W. P.

2003-01-01

Patients with a ruptured intracranial aneurysm should be treated as soon as possible after the haemorrhage to prevent rebleeding and to allow vigorous treatment of ischemic events in case of vasospasm. The choice of treatment, endovascular or surgical, should be based on the angio-architectural

Immunologie in de medische praktijk. XXXIII. Erfelijke immuundeficiënties: van genotype naar fenotype

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Kuijpers, T. W.; Vossen, J. M.

2000-01-01

The advances of molecular biological techniques of the last decade have made possible identification of a rapidly increasing number of congenital (or primary) immune deficiencies at the genetic level. As soon as an immune deficiency is becoming a likely conclusion from a series of diagnostic

Le CERN à la quête du GRID

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Perrin, Brigitte

2004-01-01

CERN is about to make endless calculations for its new particule accelerator; as there is no enough powerful super-computers, researchers decided to connect together thousands of PC all over the world: the GRID is born, soon it will be as popular as the WEB

76 FR 27320 - Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification...

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2011-05-11

... International Business Machines Corporation; The AM3 Irrevocable Trust; International Business Machines..., M.D.; Celgene Corporation; Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, M.D. 20110722 G Schneider Electric SA; Weston Presidio V, L.P.; Schneider Electric SA. 20110728 G Charles W. Ergen; Blockbuster Inc.--Debtor-in...

Imaging modes of atomic force microscopy for application in molecular and cell biology

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Dufrêne, Yves F.; Ando, Toshio; Garcia, Ricardo; Alsteens, David; Martinez-Martin, David; Engel, A.H.; Gerber, Christoph; Müller, Daniel J.

2017-01-01

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a powerful, multifunctional imaging platform that allows biological samples, from single molecules to living cells, to be visualized and manipulated. Soon after the instrument was invented, it was recognized that in order to maximize the opportunities of AFM

The Making of the 1:3M Geological Map Series of Mercury: Status and Updates

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Galluzzi, V.; Guzzetta, L.; Mancinelli, P.; Giacomini, L.; Lewang, A. M.; Malliband, C.; Mosca, A.; Pegg, D.; Wright, J.; Ferranti, L.; Hiesinger, H.; Massironi, M.; Pauselli, C.; Rothery, D. A.; Palumbo, P.

2018-05-01

A complete global series of 1:3M-scale maps of Mercury is being prepared in support to the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission. Currently, 35% of Mercury has been mapped and 55% of the planet will be covered soon by the maps in progress.

evaluation of the effect of various drying techniques on the ...

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Thus, the objective of this work was to investigate the effect of different sample preservative conditions (air drying ... Ethiopia over night in the ice box. As soon as it ... The multiplicity and chemical shifts in the 1H NMR, 13 C NMR spectra as.

Grid resilience governance of the future: analyzing the role of associations in experimental smart grid projects in the Netherlands

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Lammers, Imke; Vasenev, Alexandr

2017-01-01

Local generation decentralizes urban grids. Soon new actors, such as associations, might enter the traditional energy domain. As electrical grids are critical for society, new actors will need to collaborate with other city-level stakeholders to ensure proper grid functioning in times of crisis.

23 CFR 635.309 - Authorization.

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2010-04-01

... possible soil erosion and water pollution as a result of highway construction operations. (j) The FHWA... HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING AND TRAFFIC OPERATIONS CONSTRUCTION AND... issued as soon as, but not until, all of the following conditions have been met: (a) The plans...

Rüütel nimetas ametisse neli suursaadikut

Index Scriptorium Estoniae

2006-01-01

President Arnold Rüütel nimetas Jaak Jõerüüdi suursaadikuks Lätis, Mart Tarmaku suursaadikuks Portugalis, Aino Leppik von Wireni suursaadikuks Iisraelis ja Sander Soone suursaadikuks Lääne-Euroopa Liidu ning Euroopa Liidu poliitika- ja julgeolekukomitee juures Brüsselis. Allk.: BNS

Attitudes towards genetically modified animals in food production

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Frewer, L.J.; Coles, D.; Houdebine, L.M.; Kleter, G.A.

2014-01-01

Purpose – Food products developed using genetically modified (GM) animals may soon be introduced in Europe and beyond. Their successful commercialisation depends on consumer acceptance, and so it is timely to review the existing literature in this respect. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Identifying the Relationship of Teacher Candidates' Humor Styles with Anxiety and Self-Compassion Levels

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Aydin, Aydan

2015-01-01

Problem Statement: Teacher candidates who will soon be responsible for educating the future generations should possess certain characteristics. Specific teacher candidates should have specific characteristics taken into consideration: pre-school and primary teacher candidates should be seen as role models by younger students; psychological…

Central Asia and Its Asian Neighbors: Security and Commerce at the Crossroads

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2006-01-01

16 Tajik Television (2005). 17 “Tajikistan: Iran Allocates Total of $30 Million for Tunnel” (2003); Avesta (2004). 18 Asia-Plus News...International Re- ports, August 24, 2004. Avesta , “Road Linking Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Iran To Be Built Soon,” BBC Worldwide Monitoring: International

Cleansing the world of the germ of laziness; Hygiene, sanitation, and the Javanese population in Suriname, South America

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Hofte, R.M.A.L.

2014-01-01

In 1915 the Rockefeller Foundation took its hookworm eradication campaign to Suriname, but was soon disappointed because of opposition from its main target group: the Javanese. Moreover, authorities and planters objected to the construction of latrines because of the costs and their belief that the

Transshipment and rebalancing policies for library books

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Van der Heide, G.; Roodbergen, K. J.

2013-01-01

Library customers can soon order books online and specify a location to collect them from. Libraries exchange books between locations to meet these requests. Two types of exchanges take place: transshipments from library to library to fulfill the requests and rebalancing to redistribute books

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'observer of atmospheric electricity'. They took off soon ... On their way down, Hess took readings for another two hours, and confirmed the data he had obtained on .... V ery high energy cosm ic rays can create show ers w ith b illion s of secon ...

10 CFR 431.21 - Procedures for recognition and withdrawal of recognition of accreditation bodies and...

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2010-01-01

... Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, Forrestal... comments in a written statement submitted to the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable... Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy shall issue an interim determination on the Petition as soon as is...

Penetrating abdominal war injuries among the war victims at Lacor ...

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hospital for prompt and appropriate treatment. All cases of such injuries should have exploratory laparotomy as soon as possible. Introduction. Penetrating abdominal injuries among the war wounded present a challenge in its management especially in a situation with limited human and financial resources such as ours.

75 FR 56455 - National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, 2010

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2010-09-15

... Part V The President Proclamation 8556--National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, 2010... Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, 2010 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Each... children. During National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we honor the young lives taken too soon and the...

Effects of food motivation on stereotypies and aggression in group housed sows

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Spoolder, H.A.M.

1998-01-01

Changing legislation and consumer attitudes towards the welfare of farm animals means that individual housing of dry sows will soon be illegal in the United Kingdom. Other European countries, and in particular those for whom the UK is an important export market (such as The Netherlands),

Advancing Our Understanding of the Etiologies and Mutational Landscapes of Basal-Like, Luminal A, and Luminal B Breast Cancers

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2017-10-01

letter describing the study’s purpose and procedures, and advising them that an interviewer will call soon. Status: Complete, Case enrollment has ended...using BigDye v3 protocols and reagents. Candidate gene fusions nominated from paired-end transcriptome sequencing and analysis will be validated by

1 PERSPECTIVES In Memoriam: Richard (Rick) G. Harrison ...

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Navya

2016-05-06

May 6, 2016 ... 2016, but the impact of his work will not soon be lost for the people with ... through the creation of unnecessary jargon by stating, “…old ... extremely limited direct observations to infer his love of family, but I am going to risk.

CDC Vital Signs–Dental Sealants Prevent Cavities

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This podcast is based on the October 2016 CDC Vital Signs report. Dental sealants, applied soon after a child's permanent molars come in, can protect against cavities for up to nine years. Applying sealants in schools for low-income children could save millions in dental treatment costs.

GHG mitigation of agricultural peatlands requires coherent policies

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Regina, Kristina; Budiman, Arif; Greve, Mogens Humlekrog

2016-01-01

As soon as peat soil is drained for agricultural production, the peat starts to degrade, which causes emissions to the atmosphere. In countries with large peatland areas, the GHG mitigation potential related to management of these soils is often estimated as the highest amongst the measures...

Paradox or Prudence? Analyzing the Coherence of the US’ China Strategy

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2013-06-01

transitioned from being America’s darling reforming communist country to being its poster child for communist repression, the Soviet Bloc (and soon afterward...http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/680694/ Dont - take-peaceful-approach-for-granted.aspx (accessed February 22, 2013). Kanter, James. "Wen

A novel tuning approach for offset-free MPC

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Waschl, Harald; Jørgensen, John Bagterp; Huusom, Jakob Kjøbsted

2015-01-01

, if a nominal plant and overall objective are known, the tuning can become straightforward. However, as soon as disturbances have to be taken into account, the tuning effort increases and becomes less intuitive. Against this background, a novel strategy to address the issues with unknown disturbances...

Planning and scheduling of semi-urgent surgeries

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Zonderland, Maartje Elisabeth; Boucherie, Richardus J.; Litvak, Nelli; Vleggeert-Lankamp, Carmen L.A.M.

2010-01-01

This paper investigates the trade-off between cancellations of elective surgeries due to semi-urgent surgeries, and unused operating room (OR) time due to excessive reservation of OR time for semi-urgent surgeries. Semi-urgent surgeries, to be performed soon but not necessarily today, pose an

Past and prospects of forage maize breeding in Europe. II. History, germplasm evolution and correlative agronomic changes

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Barriere, Y.; Alber, D.; Dolstra, O.; Lapierre, C.; Motto, M.; Ordas, A.; Waes, Van J.; Vlasminkel, L.; Welcker, C.; Monod, J.P.

2006-01-01

Although maize was early recognized as an excellent forage plant soon after its introduction in Europe, during a long time it was only bred for grain traits. However, the first recommendations of maize varieties for specific forage use are probably those given in the French VILMORIN-ANDRIEUX

Protect Your Baby for Life: When a Pregnant Woman Has Hepatitis B

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... Hepatitis B. Can doctors prevent a baby from getting Hepatitis B? Yes. Babies born to women with Hepatitis B get two shots soon after birth. One is the first dose of the Hepatitis ... prevent the baby from getting Hepatitis B. The shots work best when they ...

24 CFR 290.9 - Setting rental rates.

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2010-04-01

... energy-conservative household of modest circumstances consistent with the requirement of a safe, sanitary... by tenants—(i) In subsidized projects. (A) For families residing in subsidized projects, when HUD becomes MIP or owner, HUD will request an income certification from each family as soon as practicable...