17 CFR 240.17Ad-11 - Reports regarding aged record differences, buy-ins and failure to post certificate detail to...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... differences, buy-ins and failure to post certificate detail to master securityholder and subsidiary files. 240... regarding aged record differences, buy-ins and failure to post certificate detail to master securityholder... master securityholder file: (A) To the official performing corporate secretary functions for the issuer...

Utility of the National Death Index in Ascertaining Mortality in Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Surveillance

PubMed Central

Trepka, Mary Jo; Maddox, Lorene M.; Lieb, Spencer; Niyonsenga, Theophile

2011-01-01

To assess the utility of the National Death Index (NDI) in improving the ascertainment of deaths among people diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), the authors determined the number and characteristics of additional deaths identified through NDI linkage not ascertained by using standard electronic linkage with Florida Vital Records and the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File. Records of people diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome between 1993 and 2007 in Florida were linked to the NDI. The demographic characteristics and reported human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission modes of people whose deaths were identified by using the NDI were compared with those whose deaths were ascertained by standard linkage methods. Of the 15,094 submitted records, 719 had confirmed matches, comprising 2.1% of known deaths (n = 34,504) within the cohort. Hispanics, males, people 40 years of age or older, and injection drug users were overrepresented among deaths ascertained only by the NDI. In-state deaths comprised 59.0% of newly identified deaths, and human immunodeficiency virus was less likely to be a cause of death among newly identified compared with previously identified deaths. The newly identified deaths were not previously ascertained principally because of slight differences in personal identifying information and could have been identified through improved linkages with Florida Vital Records. PMID:21540319

Utility of the National Death Index in ascertaining mortality in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome surveillance.

PubMed

Trepka, Mary Jo; Maddox, Lorene M; Lieb, Spencer; Niyonsenga, Theophile

2011-07-01

To assess the utility of the National Death Index (NDI) in improving the ascertainment of deaths among people diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), the authors determined the number and characteristics of additional deaths identified through NDI linkage not ascertained by using standard electronic linkage with Florida Vital Records and the Social Security Administration's Death Master File. Records of people diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome between 1993 and 2007 in Florida were linked to the NDI. The demographic characteristics and reported human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission modes of people whose deaths were identified by using the NDI were compared with those whose deaths were ascertained by standard linkage methods. Of the 15,094 submitted records, 719 had confirmed matches, comprising 2.1% of known deaths (n = 34,504) within the cohort. Hispanics, males, people 40 years of age or older, and injection drug users were overrepresented among deaths ascertained only by the NDI. In-state deaths comprised 59.0% of newly identified deaths, and human immunodeficiency virus was less likely to be a cause of death among newly identified compared with previously identified deaths. The newly identified deaths were not previously ascertained principally because of slight differences in personal identifying information and could have been identified through improved linkages with Florida Vital Records.

Privacy Impact Assessment for the Claims Office Master Files

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

The Claims Office Master Files System collects information on companies in debt to the EPA. Learn how this data is collected, how it will be used, access to the data, the purpose of data collection, and record retention policies for this data.

Early mortality experience in a large military cohort and a comparison of mortality data sources

PubMed Central

2010-01-01

Background Complete and accurate ascertainment of mortality is critically important in any longitudinal study. Tracking of mortality is particularly essential among US military members because of unique occupational exposures (e.g., worldwide deployments as well as combat experiences). Our study objectives were to describe the early mortality experience of Panel 1 of the Millennium Cohort, consisting of participants in a 21-year prospective study of US military service members, and to assess data sources used to ascertain mortality. Methods A population-based random sample (n = 256,400) of all US military service members on service rosters as of October 1, 2000, was selected for study recruitment. Among this original sample, 214,388 had valid mailing addresses, were not in the pilot study, and comprised the group referred to in this study as the invited sample. Panel 1 participants were enrolled from 2001 to 2003, represented all armed service branches, and included active-duty, Reserve, and National Guard members. Crude death rates, as well as age- and sex-adjusted overall and age-adjusted, category-specific death rates were calculated and compared for participants (n = 77,047) and non-participants (n = 137,341) based on data from the Social Security Administration Death Master File, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) files, and the Department of Defense Medical Mortality Registry, 2001-2006. Numbers of deaths identified by these three data sources, as well as the National Death Index, were compared for 2001-2004. Results There were 341 deaths among the participants for a crude death rate of 80.7 per 100,000 person-years (95% confidence interval [CI]: 72.2,89.3) compared to 820 deaths and a crude death rate of 113.2 per 100,000 person-years (95% CI: 105.4, 120.9) for non-participants. Age-adjusted, category-specific death rates highlighted consistently higher rates among study non-participants. Although there were advantages and disadvantages for each data source, the VA mortality files identified the largest number of deaths (97%). Conclusions The difference in crude and adjusted death rates between Panel 1 participants and non-participants may reflect healthier segments of the military having the opportunity and choosing to participate. In our study population, mortality information was best captured using multiple data sources. PMID:20492737

21 CFR 814.3 - Definitions.

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2011-04-01

.... (d) Master file means a reference source that a person submits to FDA. A master file may contain detailed information on a specific manufacturing facility, process, methodology, or component used in the... for a class III medical device, including all information submitted with or incorporated by reference...

78 FR 17471 - Privacy Act of 1974

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... (TIN), Address, Tax Return/Account Information IV. Electronic transmission specifics such as sender's... unclassified (SBU) information that is being transmitted in violation of IRS security policy that requires an...] IV. Information Return Master File (IRMF) [Treasury/IRS 22.061] V. CADE Individual Master File (IMF...

A comparative scanning electron microscopic study of the effect of three different rotary instruments on smear layer formation.

PubMed

Shahi, Shahriar; Yavari, Hamid R; Rahimi, Saeed; Reyhani, Mohammad F; Kamarroosta, Zahra; Abdolrahimi, Majid

2009-03-01

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of RaCe, FlexMaster and ProFile rotary instruments on smear layer formation by scanning electron microscopy. Eighty-four caries-free freshly extracted human single-rooted teeth were selected and divided into three groups, each containing 28 teeth. The teeth were instrumented with rotary instruments sequentially: Group A: ProFile Rotary Instruments; Group B: FlexMaster Rotary Instruments; and Group C: RaCe Rotary Instruments. Instrumentation was performed by the crown-down method and according to the manufacturer's instructions. The specimens were then examined with SEM according to Hülsmann's classification. One-way ANOVA and a post hoc Tukey test were used for statistical analysis. The results showed that there were no statistically significant differences among the three groups in the coronal third (P = 0.39), but at the apical and middle thirds there were statistically significant differences between the RaCe group and the other groups (P < 0.05). Smear layer in the RaCe group was less than that in the ProFile and FlexMaster groups, but the difference between the ProFile group and FlexMaster group was not statistically significant (P > 0.05). It was concluded that RaCe Rotary Instruments produce less smear layer than FlexMaster and ProFile Rotary Instruments.

Mortality Measurement at Advanced Ages: A Study of the Social Security Administration Death Master File

PubMed Central

Gavrilov, Leonid A.; Gavrilova, Natalia S.

2011-01-01

Accurate estimates of mortality at advanced ages are essential to improving forecasts of mortality and the population size of the oldest old age group. However, estimation of hazard rates at extremely old ages poses serious challenges to researchers: (1) The observed mortality deceleration may be at least partially an artifact of mixing different birth cohorts with different mortality (heterogeneity effect); (2) standard assumptions of hazard rate estimates may be invalid when risk of death is extremely high at old ages and (3) ages of very old people may be exaggerated. One way of obtaining estimates of mortality at extreme ages is to pool together international records of persons surviving to extreme ages with subsequent efforts of strict age validation. This approach helps researchers to resolve the third of the above-mentioned problems but does not resolve the first two problems because of inevitable data heterogeneity when data for people belonging to different birth cohorts and countries are pooled together. In this paper we propose an alternative approach, which gives an opportunity to resolve the first two problems by compiling data for more homogeneous single-year birth cohorts with hazard rates measured at narrow (monthly) age intervals. Possible ways of resolving the third problem of hazard rate estimation are elaborated. This approach is based on data from the Social Security Administration Death Master File (DMF). Some birth cohorts covered by DMF could be studied by the method of extinct generations. Availability of month of birth and month of death information provides a unique opportunity to obtain hazard rate estimates for every month of age. Study of several single-year extinct birth cohorts shows that mortality trajectory at advanced ages follows the Gompertz law up to the ages 102–105 years without a noticeable deceleration. Earlier reports of mortality deceleration (deviation of mortality from the Gompertz law) at ages below 100 appear to be artifacts of mixing together several birth cohorts with different mortality levels and using cross-sectional instead of cohort data. Age exaggeration and crude assumptions applied to mortality estimates at advanced ages may also contribute to mortality underestimation at very advanced ages. PMID:22308064

Program Description: EDIT Program and Vendor Master Update, SWRL Financial System.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Ikeda, Masumi

Computer routines to edit input data for the Southwest Regional Laboratory's (SWRL) Financial System are described. The program is responsible for validating input records, generating records for further system processing, and updating the Vendor Master File--a file containing the information necessary to support the accounts payable and…

Program Description: Financial Master File Processor-SWRL Financial System.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Ideda, Masumi

Computer routines designed to produce various management and accounting reports required by the Southwest Regional Laboratory's (SWRL) Financial System are described. Input data requirements and output report formats are presented together with a discussion of the Financial Master File updating capabilities of the system. This document should be…

21 CFR 314.420 - Drug master files.

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2012-04-01

... 21 Food and Drugs 5 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Drug master files. 314.420 Section 314.420 Food and Drugs FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) DRUGS FOR HUMAN USE APPLICATIONS FOR FDA APPROVAL TO MARKET A NEW DRUG Miscellaneous Provisions § 314.420 Drug...

21 CFR 314.420 - Drug master files.

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2013-04-01

... 21 Food and Drugs 5 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Drug master files. 314.420 Section 314.420 Food and Drugs FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) DRUGS FOR HUMAN USE APPLICATIONS FOR FDA APPROVAL TO MARKET A NEW DRUG Miscellaneous Provisions § 314.420 Drug...

21 CFR 314.420 - Drug master files.

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2011-04-01

... 21 Food and Drugs 5 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Drug master files. 314.420 Section 314.420 Food and Drugs FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) DRUGS FOR HUMAN USE APPLICATIONS FOR FDA APPROVAL TO MARKET A NEW DRUG Miscellaneous Provisions § 314.420 Drug...

21 CFR 314.420 - Drug master files.

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2010-04-01

... 21 Food and Drugs 5 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Drug master files. 314.420 Section 314.420 Food and Drugs FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) DRUGS FOR HUMAN USE APPLICATIONS FOR FDA APPROVAL TO MARKET A NEW DRUG Miscellaneous Provisions § 314.420 Drug...

21 CFR 225.102 - Master record file and production records.

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2012-04-01

... 21 Food and Drugs 4 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Master record file and production records. 225.102 Section 225.102 Food and Drugs FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) DRUGS: GENERAL CURRENT GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE FOR MEDICATED FEEDS Records and Reports § 225...

21 CFR 225.102 - Master record file and production records.

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2014-04-01

... 21 Food and Drugs 4 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Master record file and production records. 225.102 Section 225.102 Food and Drugs FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) DRUGS: GENERAL CURRENT GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE FOR MEDICATED FEEDS Records and Reports § 225...

21 CFR 225.102 - Master record file and production records.

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2011-04-01

... 21 Food and Drugs 4 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Master record file and production records. 225.102 Section 225.102 Food and Drugs FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) DRUGS: GENERAL CURRENT GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE FOR MEDICATED FEEDS Records and Reports § 225...

21 CFR 225.102 - Master record file and production records.

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2013-04-01

... 21 Food and Drugs 4 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Master record file and production records. 225.102 Section 225.102 Food and Drugs FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) DRUGS: GENERAL CURRENT GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE FOR MEDICATED FEEDS Records and Reports § 225...

77 FR 60124 - Draft Guidance for Industry on Initial Completeness Assessments for Type II Active Pharmaceutical...

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... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration [Docket No. FDA-2012-D-1010] Draft Guidance for Industry on Initial Completeness Assessments for Type II Active Pharmaceutical... certain drug master files, namely, Type II active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) drug master files (DMFs...

21 CFR 225.102 - Master record file and production records.

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2010-04-01

... 21 Food and Drugs 4 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Master record file and production records. 225.102 Section 225.102 Food and Drugs FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) DRUGS: GENERAL CURRENT GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE FOR MEDICATED FEEDS Records and Reports § 225...

Shaping ability and safety of five different rotary nickel-titanium instruments compared with stainless steel hand instrumentation in simulated curved root canals.

PubMed

Schirrmeister, Jörg F; Strohl, Christian; Altenburger, Markus J; Wrbas, Karl-Thomas; Hellwig, Elmar

2006-06-01

To compare the shaping ability and safety of engine-driven FlexMaster, GT Rotary, ProFile, ProTaper, and RaCe rotary instrumentation and Hedström hand instrumentation in simulated root canals. One hundred fifty simulated colored root canals with a curvature of 20 degrees and a radius of 10 mm were randomly distributed among 6 groups of 25 specimens each. After preparation to apical size 30 the area of remaining color on the canal wall indicating unprepared areas was measured in mm2 using image analyzer software. Specimens treated with RaCe left least areas of remaining color compared to all other groups (P < .001), followed by ProTaper. Preparation with ProFile left behind the highest amount of unprepared areas. The ProFile group revealed significantly more remaining color than ProTaper, GT Rotary, and FlexMaster (P < .05). Four FlexMaster files separated. RaCe rotary files were safe and more effective compared to the other instruments.

Implementation of a Landscape Lighting System to Display Images

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Sun, Gi-Ju; Cho, Sung-Jae; Kim, Chang-Beom; Moon, Cheol-Hong

The system implemented in this study consists of a PC, MASTER, SLAVEs and MODULEs. The PC sets the various landscape lighting displays, and the image files can be sent to the MASTER through a virtual serial port connected to the USB (Universal Serial Bus). The MASTER sends a sync signal to the SLAVE. The SLAVE uses the signal received from the MASTER and the landscape lighting display pattern. The video file is saved in the NAND Flash memory and the R, G, B signals are separated using the self-made display signal and sent to the MODULE so that it can display the image.

43 CFR 30.122 - Is the judge required to accept the master's recommended decision?

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2012-10-01

... 43 Public Lands: Interior 1 2012-10-01 2011-10-01 true Is the judge required to accept the master... accept the master's recommended decision? No, the judge is not required to accept the master's... the record of the proceedings heard by the master, including any objections and responses filed, and...

43 CFR 30.122 - Is the judge required to accept the master's recommended decision?

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2010-10-01

... 43 Public Lands: Interior 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Is the judge required to accept the master... accept the master's recommended decision? No, the judge is not required to accept the master's... the record of the proceedings heard by the master, including any objections and responses filed, and...

43 CFR 30.122 - Is the judge required to accept the master's recommended decision?

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2013-10-01

... 43 Public Lands: Interior 1 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Is the judge required to accept the master... accept the master's recommended decision? No, the judge is not required to accept the master's... the record of the proceedings heard by the master, including any objections and responses filed, and...

43 CFR 30.122 - Is the judge required to accept the master's recommended decision?

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2014-10-01

... 43 Public Lands: Interior 1 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Is the judge required to accept the master... accept the master's recommended decision? No, the judge is not required to accept the master's... the record of the proceedings heard by the master, including any objections and responses filed, and...

43 CFR 30.122 - Is the judge required to accept the master's recommended decision?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... 43 Public Lands: Interior 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Is the judge required to accept the master... accept the master's recommended decision? No, the judge is not required to accept the master's... the record of the proceedings heard by the master, including any objections and responses filed, and...

A Position and Rate Control System: An Ingredient for Budget Planning.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Gilbert, Linda L.

A position and rate control system was undertaken at Florida State University in 1974 to alleviate the problems of the manual budgeting system. The budget master file was created biweekly by combining a subset of the current payroll/personnel data base with the updated budget information from the previous budget master file, keying on positional…

Oil and gas field code master list 1994

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Not Available

This is the thirteenth annual edition of the Energy Information Administration`s (EIA) Oil and Gas Field Code Master List. It reflects data collected through October 1994 and provides standardized field name spellings and codes for all identified oil and/or gas fields in the United States. The master field name spellings and codes are to be used by respondents when filing the following Department of Energy (DOE) forms: Form EIA-23, {open_quotes}Annual Survey of Domestic Oil and Gas Reserves,{close_quotes} filed by oil and gas well operators (field codes are required from larger operators only); Forms FERC 8 and EIA-191, {open_quotes}Underground Gas Storagemore » Report,{close_quotes} filed by natural gas producers and distributors who operate underground natural gas storage facilities. Other Federal and State government agencies, as well as industry, use the EIA Oil and Gas Field Code Master List as the standard for field identification. A machine-readable version of the Oil and Gas Field Code Master List is available from the National Technical Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia 22161, (703) 487-4650. In order for the Master List to be useful, it must be accurate and remain current. To accomplish this, EIA constantly reviews and revises this list. The EIA welcomes all comments, corrections, and additions to the Master List. All such information should be given to the EIA Field Code Coordinator at (214) 953-1858. EIA gratefully acknowledges the assistance provides by numerous State organizations and trade associations in verifying the existence of fields and their official nomenclature.« less

Root Canal Cleaning Efficacy of Rotary and Hand Files Instrumentation in Primary Molars

PubMed Central

Nazari Moghaddam, Kiumars; Mehran, Majid; Farajian Zadeh, Hamideh

2009-01-01

INTRODUCTION: Pulpectomy of primary teeth is commonly carried out with hand files and broaches; a tricky and time consuming procedure. The purpose of this in vitro study was to compare the cleaning efficacy and time taken for instrumentation of deciduous molars using hand K-files and Flex Master rotary system. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study, 68 canals of 23 extracted primary molars with at least two third intact roots and 7-12 mm length were selected. After preparing an access cavity, K-file size #15 was introduced into the root canal and India ink was injected with an insulin syringe. Sixty samples were randomly divided in to experimental groups in group I (n=30), root canals were prepared with hand K-files; in group II (n=30), rotary Flex Master files were used for instrumentation, and in group III 8 remained samples were considered as negative controls. After clearing and root sectioning, the removal of India ink from cervical, middle, and apical thirds was scored. Data was analyzed using student's T-test and Mann-Whitney U test. RESULTS: There was no significant difference between experimental groups cleaning efficacy at the cervical, middle and apical root canal thirds. Only the coronal third scored higher in the hand instrumented group (P<0.001). Instrumentation with Flex Master rotary files was significantly less time consuming (P<0.001). CONCLUSION: Although there was no difference in cleanliness efficacy at the apical and middle thirds, the coronal third was more effectively cleaned with hand files. Predictably, time efficiency was a significant advantage with rotary technique. PMID:23940486

5 CFR 843.302 - Time for filing applications for death benefits.

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2010-01-01

... 5 Administrative Personnel 2 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Time for filing applications for death... SERVICE REGULATIONS (CONTINUED) FEDERAL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM-DEATH BENEFITS AND EMPLOYEE REFUNDS Current and Former Spouse Benefits § 843.302 Time for filing applications for death benefits. A current or...

5 CFR 843.302 - Time for filing applications for death benefits.

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2011-01-01

... 5 Administrative Personnel 2 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Time for filing applications for death... SERVICE REGULATIONS (CONTINUED) FEDERAL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM-DEATH BENEFITS AND EMPLOYEE REFUNDS Current and Former Spouse Benefits § 843.302 Time for filing applications for death benefits. A current or...

5 CFR 843.302 - Time for filing applications for death benefits.

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2014-01-01

... 5 Administrative Personnel 2 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Time for filing applications for death... SERVICE REGULATIONS (CONTINUED) FEDERAL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM-DEATH BENEFITS AND EMPLOYEE REFUNDS Current and Former Spouse Benefits § 843.302 Time for filing applications for death benefits. A current or...

5 CFR 843.302 - Time for filing applications for death benefits.

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2013-01-01

... 5 Administrative Personnel 2 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Time for filing applications for death... SERVICE REGULATIONS (CONTINUED) FEDERAL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM-DEATH BENEFITS AND EMPLOYEE REFUNDS Current and Former Spouse Benefits § 843.302 Time for filing applications for death benefits. A current or...

5 CFR 831.643 - Time for filing applications for death benefits.

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2010-01-01

... 5 Administrative Personnel 2 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Time for filing applications for death... applications for death benefits. (a) A survivor of a deceased employee, Member, or retiree, may file an application for annuity, personally or through a representative, at any time within 30 years after the death...

20 CFR 217.10 - Application filed after death.

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2010-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Application filed after death. 217.10 Section... APPLICATION FOR ANNUITY OR LUMP SUM Applications § 217.10 Application filed after death. (a) A survivor... expenses dies before applying for the lump-sum death payment under part 234 of this chapter. The...

5 CFR 831.643 - Time for filing applications for death benefits.

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2014-01-01

... 5 Administrative Personnel 2 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Time for filing applications for death... applications for death benefits. (a) A survivor of a deceased employee, Member, or retiree, may file an application for annuity, personally or through a representative, at any time within 30 years after the death...

20 CFR 217.10 - Application filed after death.

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2013-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2013-04-01 2012-04-01 true Application filed after death. 217.10 Section... APPLICATION FOR ANNUITY OR LUMP SUM Applications § 217.10 Application filed after death. (a) A survivor... expenses dies before applying for the lump-sum death payment under part 234 of this chapter. The...

5 CFR 831.643 - Time for filing applications for death benefits.

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2013-01-01

... 5 Administrative Personnel 2 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Time for filing applications for death... applications for death benefits. (a) A survivor of a deceased employee, Member, or retiree, may file an application for annuity, personally or through a representative, at any time within 30 years after the death...

20 CFR 217.10 - Application filed after death.

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2014-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2014-04-01 2012-04-01 true Application filed after death. 217.10 Section... APPLICATION FOR ANNUITY OR LUMP SUM Applications § 217.10 Application filed after death. (a) A survivor... expenses dies before applying for the lump-sum death payment under part 234 of this chapter. The...

5 CFR 831.643 - Time for filing applications for death benefits.

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2012-01-01

... 5 Administrative Personnel 2 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Time for filing applications for death... applications for death benefits. (a) A survivor of a deceased employee, Member, or retiree, may file an application for annuity, personally or through a representative, at any time within 30 years after the death...

5 CFR 831.643 - Time for filing applications for death benefits.

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2011-01-01

... 5 Administrative Personnel 2 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Time for filing applications for death... applications for death benefits. (a) A survivor of a deceased employee, Member, or retiree, may file an application for annuity, personally or through a representative, at any time within 30 years after the death...

20 CFR 217.10 - Application filed after death.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Application filed after death. 217.10 Section... APPLICATION FOR ANNUITY OR LUMP SUM Applications § 217.10 Application filed after death. (a) A survivor... expenses dies before applying for the lump-sum death payment under part 234 of this chapter. The...

20 CFR 217.10 - Application filed after death.

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2012-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Application filed after death. 217.10 Section... APPLICATION FOR ANNUITY OR LUMP SUM Applications § 217.10 Application filed after death. (a) A survivor... expenses dies before applying for the lump-sum death payment under part 234 of this chapter. The...

Changing the "Normal Range" for Blood Pressure from 140/90 to 130/Any Improves Risk Assessment.

PubMed

Fulks, Michael; Stout, Robert L; Dolan, Vera F

2015-01-01

Objective .- Redefine the "normal" reference range for blood pressure from <140/90 to one that more effectively identifies individuals with increased mortality risk. Method .- Data from the recently published 2014 CRL blood pressure study was used. It includes 2,472,706 life insurance applicants tested by Clinical Reference Laboratory from 1993 to 2007 with follow-up for vital status using the September 2011 Social Security Death Master File. Various upper limits of blood pressure (BP in mm Hg) were evaluated to determine if any was superior to the current, commonly used limit of 140/90 in identifying individuals with increased mortality risk. Results .- An alternative reference range using a systolic BP (SBP) <130 with any diastolic BP (DBP) included 84% of life insurance applicants. It had a lower mortality rate and narrower range of relative risk than <140/90, including 89% as many applicants but only 68% as many deaths. This pattern of lives and deaths was consistent across age and sex. Conclusion .- Switching to a "normal" reference range of SBP <130 offers superior risk assessment relative to using BP <140/90 while still including a sufficient percentage of the population.

24 CFR 201.42 - Bankruptcy, insolvency or death of borrower.

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2010-04-01

... 24 Housing and Urban Development 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Bankruptcy, insolvency or death of..., insolvency or death of borrower. (a) Bankruptcy or insolvency. The lender shall file a proof of claim with... required) shall be retained in the loan file. (b) Death of a borrower. The lender shall file a proof of...

24 CFR 201.42 - Bankruptcy, insolvency or death of borrower.

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2012-04-01

... 24 Housing and Urban Development 2 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Bankruptcy, insolvency or death of..., insolvency or death of borrower. (a) Bankruptcy or insolvency. The lender shall file a proof of claim with... required) shall be retained in the loan file. (b) Death of a borrower. The lender shall file a proof of...

24 CFR 201.42 - Bankruptcy, insolvency or death of borrower.

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2014-04-01

... 24 Housing and Urban Development 2 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Bankruptcy, insolvency or death of..., insolvency or death of borrower. (a) Bankruptcy or insolvency. The lender shall file a proof of claim with... required) shall be retained in the loan file. (b) Death of a borrower. The lender shall file a proof of...

24 CFR 201.42 - Bankruptcy, insolvency or death of borrower.

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2013-04-01

... 24 Housing and Urban Development 2 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Bankruptcy, insolvency or death of..., insolvency or death of borrower. (a) Bankruptcy or insolvency. The lender shall file a proof of claim with... required) shall be retained in the loan file. (b) Death of a borrower. The lender shall file a proof of...

78 FR 43867 - Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

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... change, including any personal identifiers or contact information. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: NGA..., Master Billet/Access Records can be deleted. B1211-03, Passport and Visa Files (January 18, 2002, 67 FR...); therefore, B1211-03, Passport and Visa Files can be deleted. B0502-15, Security Compromise Case Files (March...

17 CFR 240.17Ad-10 - Prompt posting of certificate detail to master securityholder files, maintenance of accurate...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... between co-transfer agents and recordkeeping transfer agents, maintenance of current control book... securityholder files, maintenance of accurate securityholder files, communications between co-transfer agents and recordkeeping transfer agents, maintenance of current control book, retention of certificate detail and “buy-in...

17 CFR 240.17Ad-10 - Prompt posting of certificate detail to master securityholder files, maintenance of accurate...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... between co-transfer agents and recordkeeping transfer agents, maintenance of current control book... securityholder files, maintenance of accurate securityholder files, communications between co-transfer agents and recordkeeping transfer agents, maintenance of current control book, retention of certificate detail and “buy-in...

17 CFR 240.17Ad-10 - Prompt posting of certificate detail to master securityholder files, maintenance of accurate...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... between co-transfer agents and recordkeeping transfer agents, maintenance of current control book... securityholder files, maintenance of accurate securityholder files, communications between co-transfer agents and recordkeeping transfer agents, maintenance of current control book, retention of certificate detail and “buy-in...

Trends in mortality of insurance applicants with HIV infection.

PubMed

Stout, Robert L; Fulks, Michael; Dolan, Vera F

2012-01-01

Provide a brief review of HIV history and determine the relative mortality of life insurance applicants who are HIV positive and how that has changed over time with advances in treatment. By use of the Social Security Death Master File and multivariate analysis, mortality of those HIV positive relative to those HIV negative was determined for life insurance applicants from 1991 to 2009. Relative mortality varied by type of testing (blood, urine or oral fluid) and by age, ranging from 320% at the oldest ages to over 1300% at the youngest ages for applicants with blood testing. Surprisingly, there was little change in relative risk among HIV-positive applicants over this period. Relative risk for life insurance applicants who are HIV positive remains high despite advances in therapy.

An Inexpensive System for Producing Examinations with Minimal Typing and Proofreading.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Mershon, Donald H.

1982-01-01

Describes a method for increasing efficiency of examination production which uses file cards to store and organize test items. The process of reproducing tests directly from master copies made with file cards is discussed. (AM)

19 CFR 4.7 - Inward foreign manifest; production on demand; contents and form; advance filing of cargo...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

...; contents and form; advance filing of cargo declaration. 4.7 Section 4.7 Customs Duties U.S. CUSTOMS AND... and form; advance filing of cargo declaration. (a) The master of every vessel arriving in the United..., and the following documents: (1) Cargo Declaration, Customs Form 1302, (2) Ship's Stores Declaration...

19 CFR 4.7 - Inward foreign manifest; production on demand; contents and form; advance filing of cargo...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

...; contents and form; advance filing of cargo declaration. 4.7 Section 4.7 Customs Duties U.S. CUSTOMS AND... and form; advance filing of cargo declaration. (a) The master of every vessel arriving in the United..., and the following documents: (1) Cargo Declaration, Customs Form 1302, (2) Ship's Stores Declaration...

All-Cause Mortality for Life Insurance Applicants with a History of Breast Cancer.

PubMed

Freitas, Stephen A; MacKenzie, Ross; Wylde, David N; Roudebush, Bradley T; Bergstrom, Richard L; Holowaty, J Carl; Hart, Anna; Rigatti, Steven J; Gill, Stacy

2017-01-01

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide. Breast cancer is also the second leading cause of cancer death among women in the United States after lung cancer with over 40,000 breast cancer deaths occurring each year. The purpose of this research was to determine the all-cause mortality of applicants diagnosed with breast cancer currently or at some time in the past. Life insurance applicants with reported breast cancer were extracted from data covering United States residents between November 2007 and November 2014. Information about these applicants was matched to the Social Security Death Master (SSDMF) file for deaths occurring from 2007 to 2011 and to another commercially available death source file (Other Death Source, ODS) for deaths occurring from 2007 to 2014 to determine vital status. If there was a death from the other death source, then the SSDMF was searched to verify the death. The study had approximately 561,000 person-years of exposure. Actual-to-expected (A/E) mortality ratios were calculated using the Society of Actuaries 2008 Valuation Basic Table (2008VBT), select and ultimate table (age last birthday) and the 2010 US population as expected mortality ratios. Since the A/Es presented in this paper were known to be an underestimate due to the exclusion of the recent SSDMF deaths, comparative analysis of the mortality ratios was done. Since there was no smoking status information in this study, all expected bases were not smoker distinct. Overall, the 35-44 age group had 6.3 times the relative mortality ratio than those in the 65-75 age group. The relative mortality ratio for the 35-44 age group applicants, when cancer severity was accounted for in combination with 3 or more nodes of cancer involvement, was 29.3 times that when compared to those in the 65-75 age group having localized cancer, where no nodes are involved. The 35-44 age group applicants who were diagnosed with cancer within the last year had over 10-fold increase in relative mortality ratios compared to the 65-75 age group, who were over 10 years from diagnosis. Taking the severity of cancer along with time from diagnosis showed over a 12 times relative mortality ratio between the low rate of over 10 years from diagnosis and localized involvement to those diagnosed within the last year having 3 or more nodes with cancer. Applicant age, time since diagnosis and cancer severity were the most significant variables to predict the relative mortality ratios.

77 FR 56632 - Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-09-13

...) through Chief Master Sergeant (E-9). Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve personnel grades Staff Sergeant (E-5) through Chief Master Sergeant (E- 9).'' * * * * * Retrievability: Delete entry and replace.... Electronic files are only accessed by authorized personnel with a Secure Common Access Card (CAC) and need...

5. Photocopy of blue line drawing (on file at La ...

Library of Congress Historic Buildings Survey, Historic Engineering Record, Historic Landscapes Survey

5. Photocopy of blue line drawing (on file at La Grande District Office, La Grande, Oregon) USDA Forest Service, 1939 TREE PLANTING MASTER PLAN - Union Ranger District Compound, Fronting State Highway 203, at West edge of Union, Union, Union County, OR

7. Photocopy of blue line drawing (on file at La ...

Library of Congress Historic Buildings Survey, Historic Engineering Record, Historic Landscapes Survey

7. Photocopy of blue line drawing (on file at La Grande District Office, La Grande, Oregon) USDA Forest Service, 1965 MASTER SITE DEVELOPMENT PLAN - Union Ranger District Compound, Fronting State Highway 203, at West edge of Union, Union, Union County, OR

7 CFR 274.3 - Issuance systems.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... processing and information retrieval system and to be presented by, and returned to, recipients at retail... in a manner compatible with its system used for maintaining case record information and shall separate the information on the master issuance file into active and inactive case file categories. The...

Development of a master file of essential highway safety planning and evaluation data.

DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

1978-01-01

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requires each state to file an Annual Highway Safety Work Program as a prerequisite for obtaining federal section 402 safety monies. However, the work program serves as more than a mechanism for obta...

Seismicity of Afghanistan and vicinity

USGS Publications Warehouse

Dewey, James W.

2006-01-01

This publication describes the seismicity of Afghanistan and vicinity and is intended for use in seismic hazard studies of that nation. Included are digital files with information on earthquakes that have been recorded in Afghanistan and vicinity through mid-December 2004. Chapter A provides an overview of the seismicity and tectonics of Afghanistan and defines the earthquake parameters included in the 'Summary Catalog' and the 'Summary of Macroseismic Effects.' Chapter B summarizes compilation of the 'Master Catalog' and 'Sub-Threshold Catalog' and documents their formats. The 'Summary Catalog' itself is presented as a comma-delimited ASCII file, the 'Summary of Macroseismic Effects' is presented as an html file, and the 'Master Catalog' and 'Sub-Threshold Catalog' are presented as flat ASCII files. Finally, this report includes as separate plates a digital image of a map of epicenters of earthquakes occurring since 1964 (Plate 1) and a representation of areas of damage or strong shaking from selected past earthquakes in Afghanistan and vicinity (Plate 2).

19 CFR 4.7 - Inward foreign manifest; production on demand; contents and form; advance filing of cargo...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... as homogeneous cargo that is stowed loose in the hold and is not enclosed in any container such as a...; contents and form; advance filing of cargo declaration. 4.7 Section 4.7 Customs Duties U.S. CUSTOMS AND... and form; advance filing of cargo declaration. (a) The master of every vessel arriving in the United...

19 CFR 4.7 - Inward foreign manifest; production on demand; contents and form; advance filing of cargo...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... enclosed in any container such as a box, bale, bag, cask, or the like. Such cargo is also described as bulk...; contents and form; advance filing of cargo declaration. 4.7 Section 4.7 Customs Duties U.S. CUSTOMS AND... and form; advance filing of cargo declaration. (a) The master of every vessel arriving in the United...

19 CFR 4.7 - Inward foreign manifest; production on demand; contents and form; advance filing of cargo...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... as homogeneous cargo that is stowed loose in the hold and is not enclosed in any container such as a...; contents and form; advance filing of cargo declaration. 4.7 Section 4.7 Customs Duties U.S. CUSTOMS AND... and form; advance filing of cargo declaration. (a) The master of every vessel arriving in the United...

75 FR 52993 - Records Schedules; Availability and Request for Comments

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-08-30

... information system used to track case files involving internal agency investigations. 13. Department of... Inspection Service (N1-463-09-10, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Master files of an electronic information system... an electronic information system containing data that supports financial management and accounting...

Intra-manufacture Diameter Variability of Rotary Files and Their Corresponding Gutta-Percha Cones Using Laser Scan Micrometre.

PubMed

Mirmohammadi, Hesam; Sitarz, Monika; Shemesh, Hagay

2018-01-01

Manufacturers offer gutta-percha (GP) cones matched with different sizes of endodontic files as an attempt to simplify the obturation process and create a tight seal in the canal. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether intra-manufacture GP diameters matched the diameters of their corresponding files at different levels using laser micrometre. Twenty files and corresponding GP master cones of Reciproc R40 (40/0.06) (VDW, Munich, Germany), WaveOne Large(40/0.08)(Dentsply Maillefer, Ballaigues, Switzerland), ProTaper F3 (30/0.09) (Dentsply Maillefer, Ballaigues, Switzerland), and Mtwo 40/0.06 (VDW, Munich, Germany) were examined using laser micrometre (LSM 6000 by Mitutoyo, Japan) with accuracy of 1 nm to establish their actual diameter at D 0 , D 1 , D 3 and D 6 . The data was analysed using the independent t -test. The differences were considered at 0.05. The diameter of GP master cones was significantly larger than that of the corresponding files at all levels in all brands. ProTaper GP diameter was closest to the file diameter at D1 (GP=0.35, File=0.35 mm), and D3 (GP=0.48, File=0.49). Within the same manufacturer, GP cone diameters do not match the diameters of their corresponding files. Clinicians are advised to use a GP gauge to cut the tip so as to appropriate the diameter from a smaller sized GP cone.

77 FR 62504 - Combined Notice of Filings #1

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-10-15

.... Applicants: Zephyr Wind, LLC, BlackRock NTR Renewable Power Fund (Master), L.P. Description: Application for Authorization Pursuant to Section 203 of the Federal Power Act and Requests for Waivers of Filing Requirements..., NaturEner Power Watch, LLC, NaturEner Montana Wind Energy, LLC. Description: Notice of Change in Facts...

77 FR 36994 - Questa Ranger District, Carson National Forest; Taos County, NM; Taos Ski Valley's 2010 Master...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-06-20

... County, NM; Taos Ski Valley's 2010 Master Development Plan--Phase 1 Projects; Additional Filings AGENCY... environmental impact statement for a proposal to authorize several (Phase 1) projects included in the Taos Ski... (ROD) are expected in July 2012. Change in Responsible Official: In addition, this notice changes the...

Post-Graduation Economic Status of Master's Degree Recipients: A Study of Earnings and Student Debt

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Donhardt, Gary L.

2004-01-01

This study examined the employment activity of master's graduates and the student debt they carry into the workplace over the early years following graduation. State unemployment insurance records were merged with student data files to determine the relationship between academic achievement, financial success, and debt burden of these graduates.…

3. PHOTOGRAPHIC COPY OF MASTER PLAN, DETAIL SITE PLAN, 7TH ...

Library of Congress Historic Buildings Survey, Historic Engineering Record, Historic Landscapes Survey

3. PHOTOGRAPHIC COPY OF MASTER PLAN, DETAIL SITE PLAN, 7TH CAVALRY BUILDINGS, DATED SEPTEMBER 10, 1951, SEE ARROW, DRAWING # BM-036, COPY ON FILE IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OFFICE, FORT BLISS - Fort Bliss, 7th Cavalry Buildings, U.S. Army Air Defence Artillery Center & Fort Bliss, El Paso, El Paso County, TX

17 CFR 240.17Ad-10 - Prompt posting of certificate detail to master securityholder files, maintenance of accurate...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... between co-transfer agents and recordkeeping transfer agents, maintenance of current control book... Supervised Investment Bank Holding Company Rules § 240.17Ad-10 Prompt posting of certificate detail to master... recordkeeping transfer agents, maintenance of current control book, retention of certificate detail and “buy-in...

7 CFR 707.3 - Death.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 7 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Death. 707.3 Section 707.3 Agriculture Regulations of... Death. (a) Where any person who would otherwise be eligible to receive a payment dies before the payment... timely program application has been filed by the deceased before the death or filed in a timely way...

7 CFR 707.3 - Death.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 7 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Death. 707.3 Section 707.3 Agriculture Regulations of... Death. (a) Where any person who would otherwise be eligible to receive a payment dies before the payment... timely program application has been filed by the deceased before the death or filed in a timely way...

7 CFR 707.3 - Death.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 7 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Death. 707.3 Section 707.3 Agriculture Regulations of... Death. (a) Where any person who would otherwise be eligible to receive a payment dies before the payment... timely program application has been filed by the deceased before the death or filed in a timely way...

7 CFR 707.3 - Death.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 7 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Death. 707.3 Section 707.3 Agriculture Regulations of... Death. (a) Where any person who would otherwise be eligible to receive a payment dies before the payment... timely program application has been filed by the deceased before the death or filed in a timely way...

Graduate student theses supported by DOE`s Environmental Sciences Division

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Cushman, Robert M.; Parra, Bobbi M.

1995-07-01

This report provides complete bibliographic citations, abstracts, and keywords for 212 doctoral and master`s theses supported fully or partly by the U.S. Department of Energy`s Environmental Sciences Division (and its predecessors) in the following areas: Atmospheric Sciences; Marine Transport; Terrestrial Transport; Ecosystems Function and Response; Carbon, Climate, and Vegetation; Information; Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics, and Model Physics (CHAMMP); Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM); Oceans; National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC); Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV); Integrated Assessment; Graduate Fellowships for Global Change; and Quantitative Links. Information on the major professor, department, principal investigator, and program area is given for each abstract.more » Indexes are provided for major professor, university, principal investigator, program area, and keywords. This bibliography is also available in various machine-readable formats (ASCII text file, WordPerfect{reg_sign} files, and PAPYRUS{trademark} files).« less

Master Metadata Repository and Metadata-Management System

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Armstrong, Edward; Reed, Nate; Zhang, Wen

2007-01-01

A master metadata repository (MMR) software system manages the storage and searching of metadata pertaining to data from national and international satellite sources of the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project [GHRSSTPP]. These sources produce a total of hundreds of data files daily, each file classified as one of more than ten data products representing global sea-surface temperatures. The MMR is a relational database wherein the metadata are divided into granulelevel records [denoted file records (FRs)] for individual satellite files and collection-level records [denoted data set descriptions (DSDs)] that describe metadata common to all the files from a specific data product. FRs and DSDs adhere to the NASA Directory Interchange Format (DIF). The FRs and DSDs are contained in separate subdatabases linked by a common field. The MMR is configured in MySQL database software with custom Practical Extraction and Reporting Language (PERL) programs to validate and ingest the metadata records. The database contents are converted into the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) standard format by use of the Extensible Markup Language (XML). A Web interface enables users to search for availability of data from all sources.

25 CFR 15.104 - Does the agency need a death certificate to prepare a probate file?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 25 Indians 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Does the agency need a death certificate to prepare a... the Probate Process § 15.104 Does the agency need a death certificate to prepare a probate file? (a) Yes. You must provide us with a certified copy of the death certificate if a death certificate exists...

All-Cause Mortality for Life Insurance Applicants with a History of Prostate Cancer.

PubMed

Freitas, Stephen A; MacKenzie, Ross; Wylde, David N; Roudebush, Bradley T; Bergstrom, Richard L; Holowaty, J Carl; Beckman, Margaret; Rigatti, Steven J; Gill, Stacy

2017-01-01

- To determine the all-cause mortality of life insurance applicants diagnosed with prostate cancer currently or at some time in the past. - Prostate cancer is common and a frequent cause of cancer death. Both the frequency of prostate cancer in men and its propensity for causing premature mortality require insurance company medical directors and underwriters to have a good understanding of prostate cancer-related mortality trends, patterns, and outcomes in the insured population. - Life insurance applicants with reported prostate cancer were extracted from data covering United States residents between November 2007 and November 2014. Information about these applicants was matched to the Social Security Death Master (SSDMF) file for deaths occurring from 2007 to 2011 and to another commercially available death source file (Other Death Source, ODS) for deaths occurring from 2007 to 2014 to determine vital status. Actual to Expected (A/E) mortality ratios were calculated using the Society of Actuaries 2015 Valuation Basic Table (2015VBT), select and ultimate table (age last birthday) and the 2013 US population as expected mortality ratios. All expected bases were not smoker distinct. - The study covered applicants between the ages of 45 and 75 and had approximately 405,000 person-years of exposure. Older aged applicants had a lower mortality ratio than those who were younger. Applicants 45 to 54 had the highest mortality ratios in the first year after diagnosis which steadily decreased in years 6 to 10 with an increase in the mortality ratio for those over 10 years from diagnosis. Relative mortality rate was close to unity for those with localized cancer across all age groups. The mortality ratio was 2 to 4 times greater for those with cancer in 1 positive node, and much greater with 3 positive nodes. For each time-from-diagnosis category, the relative mortality ratios compared to age were highest in the 45-54 age group. The A/E mortality ratios based on the 2015VBT were consistently 3 to 4 times that of the mortality ratios based on the 2013 US population. - The mortality patterns of insurance applicants with prostate cancer were similar to that observed in individuals with prostate cancer in the general population. Applicant age, time to diagnosis and cancer severity were the most significant variables to predict mortality.

46 CFR 97.35-3 - Logbooks and records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... voyage is completed, the master or person in charge shall file the logbook with the Officer in Charge.... Such logs or records are not filed with the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection, but must be kept... logs for the period of validity of the vessel's certificate of inspection. [CGD 95-027, 61 FR 26007...

46 CFR 97.35-3 - Logbooks and records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... voyage is completed, the master or person in charge shall file the logbook with the Officer in Charge.... Such logs or records are not filed with the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection, but must be kept... logs for the period of validity of the vessel's certificate of inspection. [CGD 95-027, 61 FR 26007...

28 CFR 32.12 - Time for filing claim.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Time for filing claim. 32.12 Section 32.12 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH, DISABILITY, AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFIT CLAIMS Death Benefit Claims § 32.12 Time for filing claim. (a) Unless, for good...

28 CFR 32.12 - Time for filing claim.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Time for filing claim. 32.12 Section 32.12 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH, DISABILITY, AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFIT CLAIMS Death Benefit Claims § 32.12 Time for filing claim. (a) Unless, for good...

Using liver enzymes as screening tests to predict mortality risk.

PubMed

Fulks, Michael; Stout, Robert L; Dolan, Vera F

2008-01-01

Determine the relationship between liver function test results (GGT, alkaline phosphatase, AST, and ALT) and all-cause mortality in life insurance applicants. By use of the Social Security Master Death File, mortality was examined in 1,905,664 insurance applicants for whom blood samples were submitted to the Clinical Reference Laboratory. There were 50,174 deaths observed in this study population. Results were stratified by 3 age/sex groups: females, age <60; males, age <60; and all, age 60+. Liver function test values were grouped using percentiles of their distribution in these 3 age/sex groups, as well as ranges of actual values. Using the risk of the middle 50% of the population by distribution as a reference, relative mortality observed for GGT and alkaline phosphatase was linear with a steep slope from very low to relatively high values. Relative mortality was increased at lower values for both AST and ALT. ALT did not predict mortality for values above the middle 50% of its distribution. GGT and alkaline phosphatase are significant predictors of mortality risk for all values. ALT is still useful for triggering further testing for hepatitis, but AST should be used instead to assess mortality risk linked with transaminases.

TIGER 2010 Boundaries

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

This EnviroAtlas web service supports research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas). This web service includes the State and County boundaries from the TIGER shapefiles compiled into a single national coverage for each layer. The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB).

Changing an automated drug inventory control system to a data base design.

PubMed

Bradish, R A

1982-09-01

A pharmacy department's change from indexed sequential access files to a data base management system (DBMS) for purposes of automated inventory control is described. The DBMS has three main functional areas: (1) inventory ordering and accountability, (2) charging of interdepartmental and intradepartmental orders, and (3) data manipulation with report design for management control. There are seven files directly related to the inventory ordering and accountability area. Each record can be accessed directly or through another file. Information on the quantity of a drug on hand, drug(s) supplied by a specific vendor, status of a purchase order, or calculation of an estimated order quantity can be retrieved quickly. In the drug master file, two records contain a reorder point and safety-stock level that are determined by searching the entries in the order history file and vendor master file. The intradepartmental and interdepartmental orders section contains five files assigned to record and store information on drug distribution. All items removed from the stockroom and distributed are recorded, and reports can be generated for itemized bills, total cost by area, and as formatted files for the accounts payable department. The design, development, and implementation of the DBMS took approximately a year using a part-time pharmacist and minimal outside help, while the previous system required constant expensive help of a programmer/analyst. The DBMS has given the pharmacy department a flexible inventory management system with increased drug control, decreased operating expenses, increased use of department personnel, and the ability to develop and enhance other systems.

Mapping Department of Defense laboratory results to Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC).

PubMed

Lau, Lee Min; Banning, Pam D; Monson, Kent; Knight, Elva; Wilson, Pat S; Shakib, Shaun C

2005-01-01

The Department of Defense (DoD) has used a common application, Composite Health Care System (CHCS), throughout all DoD facilities. However, the master files used to encode patient data in CHCS are not identical across DoD facilities. The encoded data is thus not interoperable from one DoD facility to another. To enable data interoperability in the next-generation system, CHCS II, and for the DoD to exchange laboratory results with external organizations such as the Veterans Administration (VA), the disparate master file codes for laboratory results are mapped to Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC) wherever possible. This paper presents some findings from our experience mapping DoD laboratory results to LOINC.

A study on FlexMaster : a Ni-Ti rotary engine driven system for root canal preparation.

PubMed

Alam, M S; Bashar, A K; Begumr, J A; Kinoshita, J I

2006-07-01

In the present study, the effectiveness of recently introduced rotary Nickel Titanium FlexMaster engine driven system was evaluated for cleaning and shaping of root canals in extracted human teeth and compared with that done by the Nickel Titanium Flexofile hand instruments. A total of 40 root canals from 36 extracted mandibular and maxillary teeth with curvature ranging between 20 and 30 degree were divided into two groups, consisting 20 canals in each. FlexMaster instrumentation was done in 20 canals, using crown-down technique and manual filing with Flexofile was done in other 20 canals, using conventional and step-back techniques. 5.25% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) solution and 17% ethelene di-amine tetra-acetic acid (EDTA) were used alternatively for irrigation after canal preparation by each instrument size. Time needed for canal preparation of individual canal was recorded. A procedural error such as instrument breakage was also noted. After preparation, all the roots were cut longitudinally by using diamond burs in turbine handpiece and examined under scanning electron microscope. Apical region was quantified for debris and smear layer based on a 5-score numerical evaluation scale. The data established for scoring the debris and smear layer and preparation time of individual canal were analyzed statistically using the Mann-Whitney U test. Completely cleaned root canals were not found with any of the two instruments and none of the instruments maintained the original canal uniformity and regular dentine surface. Because significantly less debris was found in the apical region using the manual filing technique (p< 0.05). Thus the flexmaster system was found to produce less cleaner root canal walls than manual technique. Only one FlexMaster finishing file sized 30 was separated in the apical region during preparation of 30 degree curved canal. The time taken by FlexMaster was significantly better (p< 0.01) than that of hand instruments.

14 CFR 1261.304 - Place of filing claim.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... 14 Aeronautics and Space 5 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Place of filing claim. 1261.304 Section... Injury or Death-Accruing On or After January 18, 1967 § 1261.304 Place of filing claim. A claim arising... activities are believed to have given rise to the claimed injury, loss, or death. If the identity of such...

A computer case definition for sudden cardiac death.

PubMed

Chung, Cecilia P; Murray, Katherine T; Stein, C Michael; Hall, Kathi; Ray, Wayne A

2010-06-01

To facilitate studies of medications and sudden cardiac death, we developed and validated a computer case definition for these deaths. The study of community dwelling Tennessee Medicaid enrollees 30-74 years of age utilized a linked database with Medicaid inpatient/outpatient files, state death certificate files, and a state 'all-payers' hospital discharge file. The computerized case definition was developed from a retrospective cohort study of sudden cardiac deaths occurring between 1990 and 1993. Medical records for 926 potential cases had been adjudicated for this study to determine if they met the clinical definition for sudden cardiac death occurring in the community and were likely to be due to ventricular tachyarrhythmias. The computerized case definition included deaths with (1) no evidence of a terminal hospital admission/nursing home stay in any of the data sources; (2) an underlying cause of death code consistent with sudden cardiac death; and (3) no terminal procedures inconsistent with unresuscitated cardiac arrest. This definition was validated in an independent sample of 174 adjudicated deaths occurring between 1994 and 2005. The positive predictive value of the computer case definition was 86.0% in the development sample and 86.8% in the validation sample. The positive predictive value did not vary materially for deaths coded according to the ICO-9 (1994-1998, positive predictive value = 85.1%) or ICD-10 (1999-2005, 87.4%) systems. A computerized Medicaid database, linked with death certificate files and a state hospital discharge database, can be used for a computer case definition of sudden cardiac death. Copyright (c) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

A Framework for Automated Digital Forensic Reporting

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-03-01

provide a simple way to extract local accounts from a full system image. Unix, Linux and the BSD variants store user accounts in the /etc/ passwd file...with hashes of the user passwords in the /etc/shadow file for linux or /etc/master.passwd for BSD. /etc/ passwd also contains mappings from usernames to... passwd file may not map directly to real-world names, it can be a crucial link in this eventual mapping. Following are two examples where it could prove

TIGER 2010 Boundaries

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

This EnviroAtlas web service supports research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas). This web service includes the State, County, and Census Block Groups boundaries from the TIGER shapefiles compiled into a single national coverage for each layer. The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB).

A Comparative Study on the Amount of Extruded Material from the Apical Foramen with NiTi Rotary and Stainless Steel Hand Instruments

PubMed Central

Nazari, Shahrzad; MirMotalebi, Farshid

2006-01-01

INTRODUCTION: The purpose of the present study was to quantify and compare the amount of extruded debris from apical foramen after instrumentation of the root canal system with hand and rotary instruments. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Root canals of forty five fresh extracted single rooted human teeth with mature apexes and less than 15 degree of root curvature were instrumented in group A with stainless steel K-Type files, in group B with rotary NiTi Flex Master files, and in group C with rotary NiTi ProTaper files and followed weighting the extruded debris by a digital scale to within 0.0001 gram accuracy. RESULTS: In all groups, the mean weight of extruded debris was not more than 5 mg (P=0.0l) and was ranked as: Group A>Group B>Group C. There were statistically significant differences among three groups (p=0.0l). The mean value of extruded debris in the ProTaper and Flex Master groups were 0.652 and 0.788 mg, respectively. CONCLUSION: The study revealed that the amount of extruded debris from the apical foramen was minimal when ProTaper files were used. PMID:24470804

26 CFR 20.6018-4 - Returns; documents to accompany the return.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... inventory of property filed under the foreign death duty act; or, if no such inventory was filed, a... elects to have the estate valued at a date or dates subsequent to the time of the decedent's death, the... died on or before December 31, 1970) period which followed the decedent's death. If the court having...

26 CFR 20.6018-4 - Returns; documents to accompany the return.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... inventory of property filed under the foreign death duty act; or, if no such inventory was filed, a... elects to have the estate valued at a date or dates subsequent to the time of the decedent's death, the... died on or before December 31, 1970) period which followed the decedent's death. If the court having...

26 CFR 20.6018-4 - Returns; documents to accompany the return.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... inventory of property filed under the foreign death duty act; or, if no such inventory was filed, a... elects to have the estate valued at a date or dates subsequent to the time of the decedent's death, the... died on or before December 31, 1970) period which followed the decedent's death. If the court having...

26 CFR 20.6018-4 - Returns; documents to accompany the return.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... inventory of property filed under the foreign death duty act; or, if no such inventory was filed, a... elects to have the estate valued at a date or dates subsequent to the time of the decedent's death, the... died on or before December 31, 1970) period which followed the decedent's death. If the court having...

26 CFR 20.6018-4 - Returns; documents to accompany the return.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... inventory of property filed under the foreign death duty act; or, if no such inventory was filed, a... elects to have the estate valued at a date or dates subsequent to the time of the decedent's death, the... died on or before December 31, 1970) period which followed the decedent's death. If the court having...

42 CFR 71.21 - Radio report of death or illness.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... 42 Public Health 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Radio report of death or illness. 71.21 Section 71... of death or illness. (a) The master of a ship destined for a U.S. port shall report immediately to..., of any death or any ill person among passengers or crew (including those who have disembarked or have...

42 CFR 71.21 - Radio report of death or illness.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... 42 Public Health 1 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Radio report of death or illness. 71.21 Section 71... of death or illness. (a) The master of a ship destined for a U.S. port shall report immediately to..., of any death or any ill person among passengers or crew (including those who have disembarked or have...

42 CFR 71.21 - Radio report of death or illness.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... 42 Public Health 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Radio report of death or illness. 71.21 Section 71... of death or illness. (a) The master of a ship destined for a U.S. port shall report immediately to..., of any death or any ill person among passengers or crew (including those who have disembarked or have...

42 CFR 71.21 - Radio report of death or illness.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... 42 Public Health 1 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Radio report of death or illness. 71.21 Section 71... of death or illness. (a) The master of a ship destined for a U.S. port shall report immediately to..., of any death or any ill person among passengers or crew (including those who have disembarked or have...

42 CFR 71.21 - Radio report of death or illness.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

... 42 Public Health 1 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Radio report of death or illness. 71.21 Section 71... of death or illness. (a) The master of a ship destined for a U.S. port shall report immediately to..., of any death or any ill person among passengers or crew (including those who have disembarked or have...

Experimental evaluation of cyclic fatigue resistance of four different nickel-titanium instruments after immersion in sodium hypochlorite and/or sterilization

PubMed Central

BULEM, Üreyen Kaya; KECECI, Ayse Diljin; GULDAS, Hilmi Egemen

2013-01-01

NiTi instruments have a high risk of separation due to torsional or flexural fatigue (cyclic fatigue). Chemomechanical preparation, cleaning procedures, chemical disinfection and sterilization cause the corrosion of endodontic instruments that may weaken the fracture resistance of the instruments. Objective To assess the effects of NaOCl immersion and autoclave sterilization on the cyclic fatigue resistance of ProFile, FlexMaster, Mtwo and TwistedFiles NiTi instruments (tip size 25, 0.06 taper, n=160). Material and Methods The instruments (n=10 for each subgroup) were dynamically immersed in NaOCl; immersed in NaOCl and sterilized in one autoclave cycle; 5 cycles immersed in NaOCl and sterilized in autoclave and not immersed in NaOCl and not sterilized (control group). Dynamic cyclic fatigue resistance was tested. The number of cycles to failure (NCF) were statistically analyzed (P<0.05). Results Kruskall-Wallis test indicated significant differences among the tested instruments in terms of NCF (P=0.000). The mean NCF of Mtwo (556.75) was higher than that of the Twisted File, Flexmaster and ProFile, 483.1, 376.12, 365.25, respectively. NaOCl immersion and autoclave sterilization have no effect on the NCF values of the tested instruments (P>.05). Conclusions Cyclic fatigue resistance of the tested NiTi instruments cannot be adversely affected by NaOCl immersion and autoclave sterilization. Production process (TwistedFiles) or design (Twisted Files, FlexMaster, Mtwo and ProFile) of the instruments can influence their cyclic fatigue resistance. PMID:24473715

Multidate Landsat lake quality monitoring program

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Fisher, L. T.; Scarpace, F. L.; Thomsen, R. G.

1979-01-01

A unified package of files and programs has been developed to automate the multidate Landsat-derived analyses of water quality for about 3000 inland lakes throughout Wisconsin. A master lakes file which stores geographic information on the lakes, a file giving the latitudes and longitudes of control points for scene navigation, and a program to estimate control point locations and produce microfiche character maps for scene navigation are among the files and programs of the system. The use of ground coordinate systems to isolate irregular shaped areas which can be accessed at will appears to provide an economical means of restricting the size of the data set.

20 CFR 410.230 - Written statement filed by or for a miner on behalf of a member of his family.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... ADMINISTRATION FEDERAL COAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT OF 1969, TITLE IV-BLACK LUNG BENEFITS (1969... filed by or for a miner on behalf of a member of his family until such miner's death. At such time, the... filed on the day of the miner's death. However, for purposes of paying benefits to an otherwise entitled...

Survival of blood transfusion recipients identified by a look-back investigation.

PubMed

Dorsey, Kerri A; Moritz, Erin D; Notari, Edward P; Schonberger, Lawrence B; Dodd, Roger Y

2014-01-01

Survival of blood transfusion recipients is a critical consideration in assessing the outcomes of transfusion. Data from the USA on the short- and long-term survival of recipients are limited. Blood product recipients were identified through a look-back study of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Survival data were obtained from searches of the National Death Index or the Social Security Death Master File. Short- and long-term survival of recipients was analysed through descriptive statistics, Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, and stratified Cox proportional hazard modelling. This study includes data from 575 blood product recipients. One half of the recipients died within the first year of transfusion and the median time to death was 1.1 years. Survival rates at 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 years after transfusion were 32%, 22%, 15%, 12%, and 9%, respectively. Survival rates varied with age at transfusion and type of component received, but not by gender. Survival after transfusion varied by year of transfusion, with recipients transfused in 1980-1989 having longer post-transfusion survival than those transfused in 2000-2010 (p=0.049). In multivariate models, the type of component transfused, but not the year of transfusion, was a significant predictor of survival among recipients; this effect varied by age. We provide an estimate of survival time from a geographically diverse sample of blood product recipients in the USA. Predictors of post-transfusion survival are numerous and complex, and may include year of transfusion and type of component transfused.

7 CFR 274.5 - Record retention and forms security.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... control logs, or similar controls from the point of initial receipt through the issuance and.... (2) For notices of change which initiate, update or terminate the master issuance file, the State...

47 CFR 214.6 - Postattack procedures and actions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... PROCEDURES FOR THE USE AND COORDINATION OF THE RADIO SPECTRUM DURING A WARTIME EMERGENCY § 214.6 Postattack... Radio Spectrum and the Government Master File; (2) Accomplish such coordination as appropriate and...

[Quality of data on early neonatal deaths].

PubMed

Pedrosa, Linda Délia Carvalho de Oliveira; Sarinho, Silvia Wanick; Ximenes, Ricardo Arraes de Alencar; Ordonha, Manoelina R

2007-01-01

To investigate the quality of official neonatal death data in Maceió, Alagoas. A descriptive study was conducted on early neonatal deaths in hospitals between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2002, to compare data entry in the Death Certificate (DC) and Mortality Information System (MIS) with a standardized form filled out with data of medical files from the mothers and newborn. The frequency with which the following variables failed to be recorded in the DC and SIM was studied: type of death, address, age of mother, gender, birth weight, and delivery type, age at death and gestational age. MIS reliability was verified using simple concordance, sensitivity and Kappa indicator. MIS recorded 451 deaths, of which 50 were excluded. Mother's age was omitted from MIS in 44.1% of cases. 85.7% to 100% of the variables not filled in for the DC were recovered from the medical files. There was good concordance between DC and medical files for type of delivery, weight and age. Birth weight and age of mother presented the least concordance between medical files and MIS. MIS presented 69.2% sensitivity for weight and 36.3% for age of mother, thus demonstrating little capability to correctly supply information to generate perinatal health indicators. Because of incomplete filling out, quality of the DC becomes precarious and makes the MIS inadequate, even though it covers 100% of neonatal deaths in Maceió. Inefficiency of the system is increased by failure of MIS technicians to correct errors found and input all the information available.

32 CFR 881.8 - Disposition of documents.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... documents. (a) File a copy of the application, supporting evidence, and DD Form 214 in the Master Personnel... cases. Send copies of DD Form 214 to: (1) The applicant. (2) The Veterans' Administration. (3) HQ AFPC...

40 CFR 710.25 - Chemical substances for which information must be reported.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... (CONTINUED) TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT TSCA CHEMICAL INVENTORY REGULATIONS 2002 Inventory Update Reporting... the Master Inventory File at the beginning of a reporting period described in § 710.33, unless the...

7 CFR 272.14 - Deceased matching system.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... Master File, obtained through the State Verification and Exchange System (SVES) and enter into a computer... comparison of matched data at the time of application and no less frequently than once a year. (2) The...

7 CFR 272.14 - Deceased matching system.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... Master File, obtained through the State Verification and Exchange System (SVES) and enter into a computer... comparison of matched data at the time of application and no less frequently than once a year. (2) The...

21 CFR 20.111 - Data and information submitted voluntarily to the Food and Drug Administration.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... part of any petition, application, master file, or other required submission or request for action... reaction reports, product experience reports, consumer complaints, and other similar data and information...

A comparison of death recording by health centres and civil registration in South Africans receiving antiretroviral treatment.

PubMed

Johnson, Leigh F; Dorrington, Rob E; Laubscher, Ria; Hoffmann, Christopher J; Wood, Robin; Fox, Matthew P; Cornell, Morna; Schomaker, Michael; Prozesky, Hans; Tanser, Frank; Davies, Mary-Ann; Boulle, Andrew

2015-01-01

There is uncertainty regarding the completeness of death recording by civil registration and by health centres in South Africa. This paper aims to compare death recording by the two systems, in cohorts of South African patients receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART). Completeness of death recording was estimated using a capture-recapture approach. Six ART programmes linked their patient record systems to the vital registration system using civil identity document (ID) numbers and provided data comparing the outcomes recorded in patient files and in the vital registration. Patients were excluded if they had missing/invalid IDs or had transferred to other ART programmes. After exclusions, 91,548 patient records were included. Of deaths recorded in patients files after 2003, 94.0% (95% CI: 93.3-94.6%) were recorded by civil registration, with completeness being significantly higher in urban areas, older adults and females. Of deaths recorded by civil registration after 2003, only 35.0% (95% CI: 34.2-35.8%) were recorded in patient files, with this proportion dropping from 60% in 2004-2005 to 30% in 2010 and subsequent years. Recording of deaths in patient files was significantly higher in children and in locations within 50 km of the health centre. When the information from the two systems was combined, an estimated 96.2% of all deaths were recorded (93.5% in children and 96.2% in adults). South Africa's civil registration system has achieved a high level of completeness in the recording of mortality. However, the fraction of deaths recorded by health centres is low and information from patient records is insufficient by itself to evaluate levels and predictors of ART patient mortality. Previously documented improvements in ART mortality over time may be biased if based only on data from patient records.

40 CFR 710.45 - Chemical substances for which information must be reported.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... (CONTINUED) TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT TSCA CHEMICAL INVENTORY REGULATIONS Inventory Update Reporting for... substance which is in the Master Inventory File at the beginning of a submission period described in § 710...

77 FR 12815 - Marine Mammals; File No. 16160

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-03-02

... waters of Washington State. This research would contribute to a long-term data set (Orca Master) that has... at the address listed above. The request should set forth the specific reasons why a hearing on this...

Comparison of hand-instrumented, heated gutta-percha and engine-driven, cold gutta-percha endodontic techniques.

PubMed

Stein, Keith E; Manfra Marretta, Sandra; Siegel, Arthur; Vitoux, Jeanne

2004-09-01

An in vitro study compared two gutta-percha obturation techniques of the mandibular first molar in dogs. The mandibular first molars were instrumented and obturated using either K-files and the SuccessFil vertical compaction technique or rotary instruments and the Simplifill/guttapercha master cone technique. Instrumentation and obturation times were recorded for each tooth. Radiographs were used for evaluation of overall appearance of the final fill. A modified apical dye leakage technique was used to evaluate the ability of each method to provide an adequate barrier to apical leakage. The endodontic technique utilizing rotary instruments and Simplifill/gutta-percha master cone required less time and provided a better radiographic appearance to the endodontic fill. In addition, there was no apical dye leakage associated with this technique compared with a 44% leakage incidence in teeth treated with K-file instrumentation and SuccessFil.

42 CFR 71.35 - Report of death or illness on carrier during stay in port.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... 42 Public Health 1 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Report of death or illness on carrier during stay in port. 71.35 Section 71.35 Public Health PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN... Diseases § 71.35 Report of death or illness on carrier during stay in port. The master of any carrier at a...

42 CFR 71.35 - Report of death or illness on carrier during stay in port.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... 42 Public Health 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Report of death or illness on carrier during stay in port. 71.35 Section 71.35 Public Health PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN... Diseases § 71.35 Report of death or illness on carrier during stay in port. The master of any carrier at a...

42 CFR 71.35 - Report of death or illness on carrier during stay in port.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

... 42 Public Health 1 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Report of death or illness on carrier during stay in port. 71.35 Section 71.35 Public Health PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN... Diseases § 71.35 Report of death or illness on carrier during stay in port. The master of any carrier at a...

42 CFR 71.35 - Report of death or illness on carrier during stay in port.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... 42 Public Health 1 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Report of death or illness on carrier during stay in port. 71.35 Section 71.35 Public Health PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN... Diseases § 71.35 Report of death or illness on carrier during stay in port. The master of any carrier at a...

42 CFR 71.35 - Report of death or illness on carrier during stay in port.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... 42 Public Health 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Report of death or illness on carrier during stay in port. 71.35 Section 71.35 Public Health PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN... Diseases § 71.35 Report of death or illness on carrier during stay in port. The master of any carrier at a...

The Efficacy of FlexMaster's IntroFile, PreRaCe and Gates Glidden Drills in Straight-Line Access: A CBCT Assessment.

PubMed

Farhad Mollashahi, Narges; Sohrabi, Mahdi; Farhad Mollashahi, Leila; Mehdizadeh, Mojdeh

2014-01-01

An overlooked but important part of successful root canal treatment is a straight-line access (SLA). The purpose of this in vitro study was to compare the efficacy of IntroFile and PreRaCe rotary instruments with Gates Glidden (GG) drills in gaining SLA by cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). A total of forty five extracted mandibular first molars were selected and mounted in dental like arches. Subsequently, they were randomly classified into three groups (n=15). After preparation of a standard access cavity, orifices of the mesiobuccal canal was reached and a #10 file was inserted to explore the canals until the file tip was visible at the apex. Then, preoperative CBCT images were taken. SLA was gained in three groups; group 1, FlexMaster's IntroFile (FM); group 2, PreRaCe (RC) and group 3, GG. Again, the first binding file at the working length (WL) was placed in the canal and postoperative CBCT images in similar positions were taken. The pre/post operative morphology of the canal was evaluated for changes. Data was analyzed using the one-way ANOVA and post-hoc Bonferroni analysis. The average amount of reduction in coronal canal curvature in FM, RC and GG groups was 2.43±1.79, 3.17±2.05 and 8.7±3.45, respectively. This descending trend was statistically significant. The difference between pre/post SLA changes in FM and RC groups was significant compared to GG group, while there were no significant differences between RC and FM. GG drills produced extraordinary results in reducing coronal curvature of the canal and achieving SLA. They are also more effective than nickel-titanium (NiTi) rotary instruments in canals with coronal curvature.

Chemistry/Hematology Reporting Via the File Manager

PubMed Central

Tatarczuk, J. R.; Ginsburg, R. E.; Wu, A.; Schauble, M.

1981-01-01

A computerized reporting system was implemented to replace a simple manual cumulative laboratory chemistry report. Modification and expansion of the system was carried out with user participation, and the system now forms the nucleus for a complete automated laboratory system. It is linked to a master patient file which when fully developed will provide a suitable basis for a complete patient clinical information system. ANSI standard MUMPS was utilized and modules were developed and implemented in a serial fashion.

Network Security and the NPS Internet Firewall.

DTIC Science & Technology

1994-09-16

NIS between clients and servers. The ypxfr service is used for trans- Network Information ferring the /etc/ passwd file from the master server to the...slave Service servers. If the NIS domain name is guessed, an outsider can get a copy of the /etc/ passwd file. Table 5: Network Services With Known...TCP ports 20 and 21), for the ftp network service: outside% ftp 131.120.50.151 ftp> get /etc/ passwd /tmp/passwd.inside (login process...) ftp> cd nttcp

20 CFR 404.621 - What happens if I file after the first month I meet the requirements for benefits?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... failure to file was due to a physical or mental condition is stated in § 404.322. (e) Filing after death... ADMINISTRATION FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS AND DISABILITY INSURANCE (1950- ) Filing of Applications and Other Forms Effective Filing Period of Application § 404.621 What happens if I file after the first month I...

40 CFR 710.38 - Confidentiality.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED) TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT TSCA CHEMICAL INVENTORY REGULATIONS 2002 Inventory Update Reporting § 710.38 Confidentiality. (a) Any person... if the identity of that substance is treated as confidential in the Master Inventory File as of the...

Mortality associated with bilirubin levels in insurance applicants.

PubMed

Fulks, Michael; Stout, Robert L; Dolan, Vera F

2009-01-01

Determine the relationship between bilirubin levels with and without other liver function test (LFT) elevations and relative mortality in life insurance applicants. By use of the Social Security Death Master File mortality was determined in 1,905,664 insurance applicants for whom blood samples were submitted to the Clinical Reference Laboratory. There were 50,174 deaths observed in this study population. Results were stratified by 3 age/sex groups: females, age <60; males, age <60; and all, age 60+. The median follow-up was 12 years. Relative mortality increased as bilirubin decreased below bilirubin levels seen for the middle 50% of the population. The known association of smoking with lower bilirubin values explained only part of the additional elevated risk at low bilirubin levels. In the absence of other LFT elevations, relative mortality remained unchanged as bilirubin increased beyond levels seen for the middle 50% of the population. When a bilirubin elevation was combined with other LFT elevations, mortality further increased only at the highest elevations of other LFTs, seen only in <2.5% of applicants. Isolated elevations of bilirubin in this healthy screening population were not associated with excess mortality but values below the midpoint were. Other investigations have suggested a cardiovascular cause may underlie the excess mortality associated with low bilirubin. In association with other LFT elevations, bilirubin elevation further increases the mortality risk only at the highest elevations of other LFTs.

Organic geochemistry data of Alaska

USGS Publications Warehouse

complied by Threlkeld, Charles N.; Obuch, Raymond C.; Gunther, G.L.

2000-01-01

In order to archive the results of various petroleum geochemical analyses of the Alaska resource assessment, the USGS developed an Alaskan Organic Geochemical Data Base (AOGDB) in 1978 to house the data generated from USGS and subcontracted laboratories. Prior to the AOGDB, the accumulated data resided in a flat data file entitled 'PGS' that was maintained by Petroleum Information Corporation with technical input from the USGS. The information herein is a breakout of the master flat file format into a relational data base table format (akdata).

40 CFR 710.23 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... CHEMICAL INVENTORY REGULATIONS 2002 Inventory Update Reporting § 710.23 Definitions. In addition to the... part. Master Inventory File means EPA's comprehensive list of chemical substances which constitute the Chemical Substances Inventory compiled under section 8(b) of the Act. It includes substances reported under...

78 FR 65620 - Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-11-01

... Master File Automated Systems. DATES: This proposed action will be effective on December 2, 2013 unless... procurement, including: Name, Social Security Number (SSN), rank, status, education, training, security... media.'' * * * * * Retention and disposal: Delete entry and replace with ``Records are maintained in...

20 CFR 655.131 - Association filing requirements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... Employment Certification, in addition to complying with all the assurances, guarantees, and other... Deficiency from the CO prior to issuing a Final Determination, or in the event of an audit. (b) Master... States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) with each employer-member's petition. ...

Formal procedure to facilitate the decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining interventions in a neonatal intensive care unit: a seven-year retrospective study.

PubMed

Sorin, G; Vialet, R; Tosello, B

2018-05-17

Neonatal deaths are often associated with the complex decision to limit or withdraw life-sustaining interventions (LSIs) rather than therapeutic impasses. Despite the existence of a law, significant disparities in clinical procedures remain. This study aimed to assess deaths occurring in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and measure the impact of a traceable Limitation or Withdrawal of Active Treatment (LWAT) file on the treatment of these newborns. In this monocentric retrospective study, we reviewed all consecutive neonatal deaths occurring during two three-year periods among patients in the NICU at the North Hospital of Marseille: cohort 1 (from 2009 to 2011 without the LWAT file) and cohort 2 (from 2013 to 2015 after introduction of the LWAT file). Newborns included were: gestational age over 22 weeks, birth weight over 500 g, and admission and death in the same NICU. Deaths were categorized according to the classification described by Verhagen et al.: 1) children who died despite cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) (no withholding nor withdrawing of LSIs), (2) children who died while the ventilator, without CPR (no withdrawing of LSIs, but CPR withheld), (3) children who died after LSIs were withdrawn, or (4) LSIs were withheld. 193 deaths were analyzed: 77 in cohort 1 and 116 in cohort 2. 50% of deaths followed the decision to limit or stop life-sustaining interventions. The mean age at death did not differ between the two cohorts (p = 0.525). An increase in the mortality rate after life-sustaining interventions were withdrawn was observed. The number of multidisciplinary decision meetings was statistically higher in cohort 2 (32.5% versus 55.2% p = 0.002), which were most often prompted due to neurological pathologies, with an increase in parental advice concerning the management of their child (p = 0.026). Even if the introduction of this file did not have an effect on patient age at death, it was significantly associated with a better understanding of end-of-life conditions (p = 0.019), including medication used to sedate and comfort the patient. Introduction of the LWAT file seems imperative to develop a personalized healthcare strategy for each child and situation.

Improved Ascertainment of Pregnancy-Associated Suicides and Homicides in North Carolina.

PubMed

Austin, Anna E; Vladutiu, Catherine J; Jones-Vessey, Kathleen A; Norwood, Tammy S; Proescholdbell, Scott K; Menard, M Kathryn

2016-11-01

Injuries, including those resulting from violence, are a leading cause of death during pregnancy and the postpartum period. North Carolina, along with other states, has implemented surveillance systems to improve reporting of maternal deaths, but their ability to capture violent deaths is unknown. The purpose of this study was to quantify the improvement in ascertainment of pregnancy-associated suicides and homicides by linking data from the North Carolina Violent Death Reporting System (NC-VDRS) to traditional maternal mortality surveillance files. Enhanced case ascertainment was used to identify suicides and homicides that occurred during or up to 1 year after pregnancy from 2005 to 2011 in North Carolina. NC-VDRS data were linked to traditional maternal mortality surveillance files (i.e., death certificates with any mention of pregnancy or matched to a live birth or fetal death record and hospital discharge records for women who died in the hospital with a pregnancy-related diagnosis). Mortality ratios were calculated by case ascertainment method. Analyses were conducted in 2015. A total of 29 suicides and 55 homicides were identified among pregnant and postpartum women through enhanced case ascertainment as compared with 20 and 34, respectively, from traditional case ascertainment. Linkage to NC-VDRS captured 55.6% more pregnancy-associated violent deaths than traditional surveillance alone, resulting in higher mortality ratios for suicide (2.3 vs 3.3 deaths per 100,000 live births) and homicide (3.9 vs 6.2 deaths per 100,000 live births). Linking traditional maternal mortality files to NC-VDRS provided a notable improvement in ascertainment of pregnancy-associated violent deaths. Published by Elsevier Inc.

VizieR Online Data Catalog: QSOs selection from SDSS and WISE (Richards+, 2015)

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Richards, G. T.; Myers, A. D.; Peters, C. M.; Krawczyk, C. M.; Chase, G.; Ross, N. P.; Fan, X.; Jiang, L.; Lacy, M.; McGreer, I. D.; Trump, J. R.; Riegel, R. N.

2015-10-01

We construct the master quasar catalog by gathering samples of spectroscopically confirmed quasars within the SDSS-I/II/III (York et al. 2000AJ....120.1579Y; Eisenstein et al. 2011AJ....142...72E) footprint. (2 data files).

20 CFR 10.105 - How and when is a notice of death and claim for benefits filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... benefits filed? (a) If an employee dies from a work-related traumatic injury or an occupational disease...' COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED Filing Notices and Claims; Submitting Evidence Notices and Claims for Injury.... 8122(b)). (d) The filing of a notice of injury or occupational disease will satisfy the time...

20 CFR 10.105 - How and when is a notice of death and claim for benefits filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... benefits filed? (a) If an employee dies from a work-related traumatic injury or an occupational disease...' COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED Filing Notices and Claims; Submitting Evidence Notices and Claims for Injury.... 8122(b)). (d) The filing of a notice of injury or occupational disease will satisfy the time...

20 CFR 10.105 - How and when is a notice of death and claim for benefits filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... benefits filed? (a) If an employee dies from a work-related traumatic injury or an occupational disease...' COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED Filing Notices and Claims; Submitting Evidence Notices and Claims for Injury.... 8122(b)). (d) The filing of a notice of injury or occupational disease will satisfy the time...

20 CFR 10.105 - How and when is a notice of death and claim for benefits filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... benefits filed? (a) If an employee dies from a work-related traumatic injury or an occupational disease...' COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED Filing Notices and Claims; Submitting Evidence Notices and Claims for Injury.... 8122(b)). (d) The filing of a notice of injury or occupational disease will satisfy the time...

20 CFR 10.105 - How and when is a notice of death and claim for benefits filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... benefits filed? (a) If an employee dies from a work-related traumatic injury or an occupational disease...' COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED Filing Notices and Claims; Submitting Evidence Notices and Claims for Injury.... 8122(b)). (d) The filing of a notice of injury or occupational disease will satisfy the time...

Scoring life insurance applicants' laboratory results, blood pressure and build to predict all-cause mortality risk.

PubMed

Fulks, Michael; Stout, Robert L; Dolan, Vera F

2012-01-01

Evaluate the degree of medium to longer term mortality prediction possible from a scoring system covering all laboratory testing used for life insurance applicants, as well as blood pressure and build measurements. Using the results of testing for life insurance applicants who reported a Social Security number in conjunction with the Social Security Death Master File, the mortality associated with each test result was defined by age and sex. The individual mortality scores for each test were combined for each individual and a composite mortality risk score was developed. This score was then tested against the insurance applicant dataset to evaluate its ability to discriminate risk across age and sex. The composite risk score was highly predictive of all-cause mortality risk in a linear manner from the best to worst quintile of scores in a nearly identical fashion for each sex and decade of age. Laboratory studies, blood pressure and build from life insurance applicants can be used to create scoring that predicts all-cause mortality across age and sex. Such an approach may hold promise for preventative health screening as well.

28 CFR 301.302 - Work-related death.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Work-related death. 301.302 Section 301... COMPENSATION Compensation for Work-Related Physical Impairment or Death § 301.302 Work-related death. A claim for compensation as the result of work-related death may be filed by a dependent of the deceased...

28 CFR 301.302 - Work-related death.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 2 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Work-related death. 301.302 Section 301... COMPENSATION Compensation for Work-Related Physical Impairment or Death § 301.302 Work-related death. A claim for compensation as the result of work-related death may be filed by a dependent of the deceased...

28 CFR 301.302 - Work-related death.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Work-related death. 301.302 Section 301... COMPENSATION Compensation for Work-Related Physical Impairment or Death § 301.302 Work-related death. A claim for compensation as the result of work-related death may be filed by a dependent of the deceased...

28 CFR 301.302 - Work-related death.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 2 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Work-related death. 301.302 Section 301... COMPENSATION Compensation for Work-Related Physical Impairment or Death § 301.302 Work-related death. A claim for compensation as the result of work-related death may be filed by a dependent of the deceased...

28 CFR 301.302 - Work-related death.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 2 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Work-related death. 301.302 Section 301... COMPENSATION Compensation for Work-Related Physical Impairment or Death § 301.302 Work-related death. A claim for compensation as the result of work-related death may be filed by a dependent of the deceased...

[Scanning electron microscopy investigation of canal cleaning after canal preparation with nickel titanium files].

PubMed

Brkanić, Tatjana; Ivana, Stojsin; Vukoje, Karolina; Zivković, Slavoljub

2010-01-01

Root canal preparation is the most important phase of endodontic procedure and it consists of adequate canal space cleaning and shaping. In recent years, rotary instruments and techniques have gained importance because of the great efficacy, speed and safety of the preparation procedure. The aim of this research was to investigate the influence of different NiTi files on the canal wall cleaning quality, residual dentine debris and smear layer. The research was conducted on extracted human teeth in vitro conditions. Teeth were divided in 7 main groups depending on the kind of instruments used for root canal preparation: ProTaper, GT, ProFile, K-3, FlexMaster, hand ProTaper and hand GT. Root canal preparation was accomplished by crown-down technique. Prepared samples were assessed on scanning electron microscopy JEOL, JSM-6460 LV. The evaluation of dentine debris was done with 500x magnification, and the evaluation of smear layer with 1,000 times magnification. Quantitive assessment of dentine debris and smear layer was done according to the criteria of Hulsmann. The least amount of debris and smear layer has been found in canals shaped with ProFile instruments, and the largest amount in canals shaped with FlexMaster instruments. Canal cleaning efficacy of hand GTand ProTaperfiles has been similar to cleaning efficacy of rotary NiTi files. Statistic analysis has shown a significant difference in amount of dentine debris and smear layer on the canal walls between sample groups. shaped with different instruments. Completely clean canals have not been found in any tested group of instruments. The largest amount of debris and smear layer has been found in the apical third of all canals. The design and the type of endodontic instruments influence the efficacy of the canal cleaning.

Representations of eyeglasses on Gothic winged altars in Austria.

PubMed

Daxecker, F

1997-01-01

The oldest representation of eyeglasses in the German-speaking area is found on the altar of Tyrol Castle in the Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Tyrol, on an altarpiece depicting the death of the Virgin Mary (1370-1372). Other representations of eyeglasses are found in Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria, Albrechtsaltar, collegiate collection, death of the Virgin (1439); St. Lorenzen ob Murau, daughter church St. Lorenzen, Styria, Katharinenaltar, Disputation (1455-1460); Pettau (Ptuj), Pokrajinjski Muzej, Slovenia (then belonging to the archbishopric of Salzburg), Conrad Laib, St. Bernardine of Siena with a spectacle case (1460-1465); on two altars by Michael Pacher: Pharisee, Gries near Bolzano (1471-1475), apostle mourning over the death of the Virgin Mary, and St. Luke, St. Wolfgang in Salzkammergut (1481); St. Florian, Upper Austria, collegiate collection, altar of the provost Leonhard Riesenschmid of St. Florian, death of the Virgin (1487); museum of Wilten monastery, Innsbruck, Ludwig Konraiter, St. Ottilie with reading stones and death of the Virgin Mary with reading apostle (1485-1490); Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna, Master of Grossgmain, St. Augustine (1498); Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna, Master of Mondsee, St. Augustine (1490-1500); Diocesan museum Graz, Styria, altar of Hirschegg, death of the Virgin (1503); Krenstetten, Lower Austria, Stefan-Altar, Disputation (1500-1520); Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Matheis Stöberl, Jesus and the scribes with a spectacle case (early 16th century).

38 CFR 3.806 - Death gratuity; certification.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Death gratuity... ADJUDICATION Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Special Benefits § 3.806 Death... claim filed with it that: (1) Death resulted from: (i) Disease or injury incurred or aggravated while on...

38 CFR 3.806 - Death gratuity; certification.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 1 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Death gratuity... ADJUDICATION Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Special Benefits § 3.806 Death... claim filed with it that: (1) Death resulted from: (i) Disease or injury incurred or aggravated while on...

38 CFR 3.806 - Death gratuity; certification.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Death gratuity... ADJUDICATION Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Special Benefits § 3.806 Death... claim filed with it that: (1) Death resulted from: (i) Disease or injury incurred or aggravated while on...

38 CFR 3.806 - Death gratuity; certification.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Death gratuity... ADJUDICATION Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Special Benefits § 3.806 Death... claim filed with it that: (1) Death resulted from: (i) Disease or injury incurred or aggravated while on...

38 CFR 3.806 - Death gratuity; certification.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 1 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Death gratuity... ADJUDICATION Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Special Benefits § 3.806 Death... claim filed with it that: (1) Death resulted from: (i) Disease or injury incurred or aggravated while on...

20 CFR 10.737 - How is a LEO claim filed, and who can file a LEO claim?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... Form CA-721; a death claim should be filed on Form CA-722. All claims should be submitted to the... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false How is a LEO claim filed, and who can file a...' COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED Special Provisions Non-Federal Law Enforcement Officers § 10.737 How is a LEO...

20 CFR 10.737 - How is a LEO claim filed, and who can file a LEO claim?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... Form CA-721; a death claim should be filed on Form CA-722. All claims should be submitted to the... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false How is a LEO claim filed, and who can file a...' COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED Special Provisions Non-Federal Law Enforcement Officers § 10.737 How is a LEO...

20 CFR 10.737 - How is a LEO claim filed, and who can file a LEO claim?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... Form CA-721; a death claim should be filed on Form CA-722. All claims should be submitted to the... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false How is a LEO claim filed, and who can file a...' COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED Special Provisions Non-Federal Law Enforcement Officers § 10.737 How is a LEO...

20 CFR 10.737 - How is a LEO claim filed, and who can file a LEO claim?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... Form CA-721; a death claim should be filed on Form CA-722. All claims should be submitted to the... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2014-04-01 2012-04-01 true How is a LEO claim filed, and who can file a...' COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED Special Provisions Non-Federal Law Enforcement Officers § 10.737 How is a LEO...

20 CFR 10.737 - How is a LEO claim filed, and who can file a LEO claim?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... Form CA-721; a death claim should be filed on Form CA-722. All claims should be submitted to the... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2013-04-01 2012-04-01 true How is a LEO claim filed, and who can file a...' COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED Special Provisions Non-Federal Law Enforcement Officers § 10.737 How is a LEO...

Topological control of life and death in non-proliferative epithelia.

PubMed

Martinand-Mari, Camille; Maury, Benoit; Rousset, François; Sahuquet, Alain; Mennessier, Gérard; Rochal, Sergei; Lorman, Vladimir; Mangeat, Paul; Baghdiguian, Stephen

2009-01-01

Programmed cell death is one of the most fascinating demonstrations of the plasticity of biological systems. It is classically described to act upstream of and govern major developmental patterning processes (e.g. inter-digitations in vertebrates, ommatidia in Drosophila). We show here the first evidence that massive apoptosis can also be controlled and coordinated by a pre-established pattern of a specific 'master cell' population. This new concept is supported by the development and validation of an original model of cell patterning. Ciona intestinalis eggs are surrounded by a three-layered follicular organization composed of 60 elongated floating extensions made of as many outer and inner cells, and indirectly spread through an extracellular matrix over 1200 test cells. Experimental and selective ablation of outer and inner cells results in the abrogation of apoptosis in respective remaining neighbouring test cells. In addition incubation of outer/inner follicular cell-depleted eggs with a soluble extract of apoptotic outer/inner cells partially restores apoptosis to apoptotic-defective test cells. The 60 inner follicular cells were thus identified as 'apoptotic master' cells which collectively are induction sites for programmed cell death of the underlying test cells. The position of apoptotic master cells is controlled by topological constraints exhibiting a tetrahedral symmetry, and each cell spreads over and can control the destiny of 20 smaller test cells, which leads to optimized apoptosis signalling.

VizieR Online Data Catalog: SKY2000 Master Catalog, Version 5 (Myers+ 2006)

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Myers, J. R.; Sande, C. B.; Miller, A. C.; Warren, W. H., Jr.; Tracewell, D. A.

2015-02-01

The SKYMAP Star Catalog System consists of a Master Catalog stellar database and a collection of utility software designed to create and maintain the database and to generate derivative mission star catalogs (run catalogs). It contains an extensive compilation of information on almost 300000 stars brighter than 8.0mag. The original SKYMAP Master Catalog was generated in the early 1970's. Incremental updates and corrections were made over the following years but the first complete revision of the source data occurred with Version 4.0. This revision also produced a unique, consolidated source of astrometric information which can be used by the astronomical community. The derived quantities were removed and wideband and photometric data in the R (red) and I (infrared) systems were added. Version 4 of the SKY2000 Master Catalog was completed in April 2002; it marks the global replacement of the variability identifier and variability data fields. More details can be found in the description file sky2kv4.pdf. The SKY2000 Version 5 Revision 4 Master Catalog differs from Revision 3 in that MK and HD spectral types have been added from the Catalogue of Stellar Spectral Classifications (B. A. Skiff of Lowell Observatory, 2005), which has been assigned source code 50 in this process. 9622 entries now have MK types from this source, while 3976 entries have HD types from this source. SKY2000 V5 R4 also differs globally from preceding MC versions in that the Galactic coordinate computations performed by UPDATE have been increased in accuracy, so that differences from the same quantities from other sources are now typically in the last decimal places carried in the MC. This version supersedes the previous versions 1(V/95), 2(V/102), 3(V/105) and 4(V/109). (6 data files).

Persistent random walk of cells involving anomalous effects and random death

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Fedotov, Sergei; Tan, Abby; Zubarev, Andrey

2015-04-01

The purpose of this paper is to implement a random death process into a persistent random walk model which produces sub-ballistic superdiffusion (Lévy walk). We develop a stochastic two-velocity jump model of cell motility for which the switching rate depends upon the time which the cell has spent moving in one direction. It is assumed that the switching rate is a decreasing function of residence (running) time. This assumption leads to the power law for the velocity switching time distribution. This describes the anomalous persistence of cell motility: the longer the cell moves in one direction, the smaller the switching probability to another direction becomes. We derive master equations for the cell densities with the generalized switching terms involving the tempered fractional material derivatives. We show that the random death of cells has an important implication for the transport process through tempering of the superdiffusive process. In the long-time limit we write stationary master equations in terms of exponentially truncated fractional derivatives in which the rate of death plays the role of tempering of a Lévy jump distribution. We find the upper and lower bounds for the stationary profiles corresponding to the ballistic transport and diffusion with the death-rate-dependent diffusion coefficient. Monte Carlo simulations confirm these bounds.

78 FR 70359 - WisdomTree Trust, et al.; Notice of Application

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-11-25

...] WisdomTree Trust, et al.; Notice of Application November 20, 2013. AGENCY: Securities and Exchange...-kind in a master-feeder structure. Applicants: WisdomTree Trust (the ``Trust''), WisdomTree Asset Management, Inc. (the ``Adviser'') and WisdomTree Investments, Inc. (``WTI''). Filing Dates: The application...

78 FR 40542 - Privacy Act of 1974, As Amended: Proposed New Routine Use

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-07-05

... SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION [Docket No. SSA-2013-0032] Privacy Act of 1974, As Amended: Proposed New Routine Use AGENCY: Social Security Administration. ACTION: New Proposed Routine Use...: Master Files of Social Security Number (SSN) Holders and SSN Applications, (60-0058) (the Enumeration...

Bilingual/ESL Programs Evaluation Report, 1999-2000.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Gonzalez, Rosa Maria

The Austin Independent School District (AISD) provides bilingual education and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) programs for limited-English-proficient (LEP) students. Mandatory evaluation of these programs involved the following: data from the Student Master File (information on each student's grade level, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status);…

Progress on the development of a master file of highway safety planning and evaluation data.

DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

1981-01-01

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requires each state to submit an annual Highway Safety Plan as a prerequisite for obtaining federal section 402 safety monies. The Highway Safety Plan serves as more than a mechanism for obtaining fu...

Ten Tips for Better Time Management.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Van Loozen, Luann F.

1982-01-01

Presents time management tips, especially for board of education members, including recommendations to realize that managing time is a skill, develop a more accurate sense of how one's time is spent, examine and reestablish goals, learn to say no, organize files and information, and master the telephone. (Author/JM)

28 CFR 32.2 - Computation of time; filing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Computation of time; filing. 32.2 Section 32.2 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH, DISABILITY, AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFIT CLAIMS General Provisions § 32.2 Computation of time; filing. (a) In computing...

28 CFR 32.32 - Time for filing claim.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Time for filing claim. 32.32 Section 32.32 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH, DISABILITY, AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFIT CLAIMS Educational Assistance Benefit Claims § 32.32 Time for filing claim. (a...

28 CFR 32.32 - Time for filing claim.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Time for filing claim. 32.32 Section 32.32 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH, DISABILITY, AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFIT CLAIMS Educational Assistance Benefit Claims § 32.32 Time for filing claim. (a...

28 CFR 32.2 - Computation of time; filing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Computation of time; filing. 32.2 Section 32.2 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH, DISABILITY, AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFIT CLAIMS General Provisions § 32.2 Computation of time; filing. (a) In computing...

20 CFR 219.62 - When evidence of “good cause” is required.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... cause” is required. The principle of “good cause”, as defined in part 217 of this chapter, is applied by... the employee's death as acceptable for the lump-sum death payment or for an annuity unpaid at death... filed more than two years after the employee's death. ...

42 CFR 110.82 - Calculation of death benefits.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... 42 Public Health 1 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Calculation of death benefits. 110.82 Section 110... COUNTERMEASURES INJURY COMPENSATION PROGRAM Calculation and Payment of Benefits § 110.82 Calculation of death... file a written selection to receive death benefits under the alternative calculation, as described in...

42 CFR 110.82 - Calculation of death benefits.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... 42 Public Health 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Calculation of death benefits. 110.82 Section 110... COUNTERMEASURES INJURY COMPENSATION PROGRAM Calculation and Payment of Benefits § 110.82 Calculation of death... file a written selection to receive death benefits under the alternative calculation, as described in...

42 CFR 110.82 - Calculation of death benefits.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... 42 Public Health 1 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Calculation of death benefits. 110.82 Section 110... COUNTERMEASURES INJURY COMPENSATION PROGRAM Calculation and Payment of Benefits § 110.82 Calculation of death... file a written selection to receive death benefits under the alternative calculation, as described in...

42 CFR 110.82 - Calculation of death benefits.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

... 42 Public Health 1 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Calculation of death benefits. 110.82 Section 110... COUNTERMEASURES INJURY COMPENSATION PROGRAM Calculation and Payment of Benefits § 110.82 Calculation of death... file a written selection to receive death benefits under the alternative calculation, as described in...

Prediagnosis Sleep Duration, Napping, and Mortality Among Colorectal Cancer Survivors in a Large US Cohort

PubMed Central

Arem, Hannah; Pfeiffer, Ruth; Matthews, Charles

2017-01-01

Abstract Study Objectives: Prediagnosis lifestyle factors can influence colorectal cancer (CRC) survival. Sleep deficiency is linked to metabolic dysfunction and chronic inflammation, which may contribute to higher mortality from cardiometabolic conditions and promote tumor progression. We hypothesized that prediagnosis sleep deficiency would be associated with poor CRC survival. No previous study has examined either nighttime sleep or daytime napping in relation to survival among men and women diagnosed with CRC. Methods: We examined self-reported sleep duration and napping prior to diagnosis in relation to mortality among 4869 CRC survivors in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. Vital status was ascertained by linkage to the Social Security Administration Death Master File and the National Death Index. We examined the associations of sleep and napping with mortality using traditional Cox regression (total mortality) and Compositing Risk Regression (cardiovascular disease [CVD] and CRC mortality). Models were adjusted for confounders (demographics, cancer stage, grade and treatment, smoking, physical activity, and sedentary behavior) as well as possible mediators (body mass index and health status) in separate models. Results: Compared to participants reporting 7–8 hours of sleep per day, those who reported <5 hr had a 36% higher all-cause mortality risk (Hazard Ratio (95% Confidence Interval), 1.36 (1.08–1.72)). Short sleep (<5 hr) was also associated with a 54% increase in CRC mortality (Substitution Hazard Ratio (95% Confidence Interval), 1.54 (1.11–2.14)) after adjusting for confounders and accounting for competing causes of death. Compared to no napping, napping 1 hr or more per day was associated with significantly higher total and CVD mortality but not CRC mortality. Conclusion: Prediagnosis short sleep and long napping were associated with higher mortality among CRC survivors. PMID:28329353

Survival in commercially insured multiple sclerosis patients and comparator subjects in the U.S.

PubMed

Kaufman, D W; Reshef, S; Golub, H L; Peucker, M; Corwin, M J; Goodin, D S; Knappertz, V; Pleimes, D; Cutter, G

2014-05-01

Compare survival in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) from a U.S. commercial health insurance database with a matched cohort of non-MS subjects. 30,402 MS patients and 89,818 non-MS subjects (comparators) in the OptumInsight Research (OIR) database from 1996 to 2009 were included. An MS diagnosis required at least 3 consecutive months of database reporting, with two or more ICD-9 codes of 340 at least 30 days apart, or the combination of 1 ICD-9-340 code and at least 1 MS disease-modifying treatment (DMT) code. Comparators required the absence of ICD-9-340 and DMT codes throughout database reporting. Up to three comparators were matched to each patient for: age in the year of the first relevant code (index year - at least 3 months of reporting in that year were required); sex; region of residence in the index year. Deaths were ascertained from the National Death Index and the Social Security Administration Death Master File. Subjects not identified as deceased were assumed to be alive through the end of 2009. Annual mortality rates were 899/100,000 among MS patients and 446/100,000 among comparators. Standardized mortality ratios compared to the U.S. population were 1.70 and 0.80, respectively. Kaplan-Meier analysis yielded a median survival from birth that was 6 years lower among MS patients than among comparators. The results show, for the first time in a U.S. population, a survival disadvantage for contemporary MS patients compared to non-MS subjects from the same healthcare system. The 6-year decrement in lifespan parallels a recent report from British Columbia. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

38 CFR 6.19 - Evidence to establish death of the insured.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... death of the insured. 6.19 Section 6.19 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE Death Benefits § 6.19 Evidence to establish death of the insured. Whenever a claim is filed on account of the death of a person insured under yearly renewable term...

38 CFR 6.19 - Evidence to establish death of the insured.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... death of the insured. 6.19 Section 6.19 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE Death Benefits § 6.19 Evidence to establish death of the insured. Whenever a claim is filed on account of the death of a person insured under yearly renewable term...

38 CFR 6.19 - Evidence to establish death of the insured.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... death of the insured. 6.19 Section 6.19 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE Death Benefits § 6.19 Evidence to establish death of the insured. Whenever a claim is filed on account of the death of a person insured under yearly renewable term...

"In the Fall of the Year We Were Troubled with Some Sickness": Typhoid Fever Deaths, Sherman Institute, 1904.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Keller, Jean A.

1999-01-01

Driven by his vision of the ideal American Indian vocational boarding school, Harwood Hall, an experienced administrator of Indian boarding schools, lobbied Congress to build Sherman Institute, which opened in Riverside, California, in 1902. A master of public relations, Hall downplayed the illness and deaths of students when typhoid fever swept…

20 CFR 429.103 - Who may file my claim?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... authorized agent, or your legal representative may file the claim. (c) Claims based on death. The executor or... behalf as agent, executor, administrator, parent, guardian or other representative. ...

28 CFR 32.22 - Time for filing claim.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Time for filing claim. 32.22 Section 32.22 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH, DISABILITY, AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFIT CLAIMS Disability Benefit Claims § 32.22 Time for filing claim. (a) Unless, for...

28 CFR 32.52 - Time for filing Director appeal.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Time for filing Director appeal. 32.52 Section 32.52 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH, DISABILITY, AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFIT CLAIMS Director Appeals and Reviews § 32.52 Time for filing Director appeal. (a...

28 CFR 32.42 - Time for filing request for determination.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Time for filing request for determination. 32.42 Section 32.42 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH, DISABILITY, AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFIT CLAIMS Hearing Officer Determinations § 32.42 Time for filing...

28 CFR 32.42 - Time for filing request for determination.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Time for filing request for determination. 32.42 Section 32.42 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH, DISABILITY, AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFIT CLAIMS Hearing Officer Determinations § 32.42 Time for filing...

28 CFR 32.22 - Time for filing claim.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Time for filing claim. 32.22 Section 32.22 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH, DISABILITY, AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFIT CLAIMS Disability Benefit Claims § 32.22 Time for filing claim. (a) Unless, for...

28 CFR 32.52 - Time for filing Director appeal.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Time for filing Director appeal. 32.52 Section 32.52 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH, DISABILITY, AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFIT CLAIMS Director Appeals and Reviews § 32.52 Time for filing Director appeal. (a...

19 CFR 4.61 - Requirements for clearance.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 19 Customs Duties 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Requirements for clearance. 4.61 Section 4.61 Customs Duties U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE... made by filing Customs Form 1300 (Vessel Entrance or Clearance Statement) executed by the vessel master...

19 CFR 4.61 - Requirements for clearance.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 19 Customs Duties 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Requirements for clearance. 4.61 Section 4.61 Customs Duties U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE... made by filing Customs Form 1300 (Vessel Entrance or Clearance Statement) executed by the vessel master...

19 CFR 4.61 - Requirements for clearance.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... 19 Customs Duties 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Requirements for clearance. 4.61 Section 4.61 Customs Duties U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE... made by filing Customs Form 1300 (Vessel Entrance or Clearance Statement) executed by the vessel master...

19 CFR 4.61 - Requirements for clearance.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 19 Customs Duties 1 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Requirements for clearance. 4.61 Section 4.61 Customs Duties U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE... made by filing Customs Form 1300 (Vessel Entrance or Clearance Statement) executed by the vessel master...

46 CFR 78.37-3 - Logbooks and records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... completed, the master or person in charge shall file the logbook with the Officer in Charge, Marine... purposes of making entries therein as required by law or regulations in this subchapter. Such logs or... records of tests and inspections of fire fighting equipment must be maintained with the vessel's logs for...

46 CFR 131.610 - Logbooks and records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED) OFFSHORE SUPPLY VESSELS OPERATIONS Logs § 131... them. (d) When a voyage is completed, or after a specified time has elapsed, the master shall file the... alternative log or record for making entries required by law, including regulations in this subchapter. This...

46 CFR 131.610 - Logbooks and records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED) OFFSHORE SUPPLY VESSELS OPERATIONS Logs § 131... them. (d) When a voyage is completed, or after a specified time has elapsed, the master shall file the... alternative log or record for making entries required by law, including regulations in this subchapter. This...

46 CFR 78.37-3 - Logbooks and records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... completed, the master or person in charge shall file the logbook with the Officer in Charge, Marine... purposes of making entries therein as required by law or regulations in this subchapter. Such logs or... records of tests and inspections of fire fighting equipment must be maintained with the vessel's logs for...

Computerized Serial Processing System at the University of California, Berkeley

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Silberstein, Stephen M.

1975-01-01

The extreme flexibility of the MARC format coupled with the simplicity of a batch-oriented processing system centered around a sequential master file has enabled the University of California, Berkeley, library to gradually build an unusually large serials data base in support of both technical and public services. (Author)

7 CFR 274.6 - Replacement issuances to households.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... recipient's signature on the authorization document matches the signature on the ID card. In a Photo ID area... matches the serial number on the recipient's ID card; (3) Issue a replacement in accordance with... other action, such as correcting the address on the master issuance file, warranted by the reported...

Library Dream Machines: Helping Students Master Super Online Catalogs.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Webb, T. D.

1992-01-01

Describes how automation has transformed the library and how super-catalogs have affected the process of doing research. Explains how faculty and librarians can work together to help students to use the available databases effectively, by teaching them Boolean logic, standard record formats, filing rules, etc. (DMM)

25 CFR 167.7 - Records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 25 Indians 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Records. 167.7 Section 167.7 Indians BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR LAND AND WATER NAVAJO GRAZING REGULATIONS § 167.7 Records. The... records of all grazing permits and ownership of all livestock. Master files shall be maintained by the...

25 CFR 167.7 - Records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 25 Indians 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Records. 167.7 Section 167.7 Indians BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR LAND AND WATER NAVAJO GRAZING REGULATIONS § 167.7 Records. The... records of all grazing permits and ownership of all livestock. Master files shall be maintained by the...

76 FR 43354 - Records Schedules; Availability and Request for Comments

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-07-20

...). Master files of an electronic information system containing network security information such as lists of... scores. 11. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (N1-567-11-5, 2... enforcement officers to receive agency credentials. 12. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and...

75 FR 82121 - Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended; Proposed Routine Use

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-12-29

... SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended; Proposed Routine Use AGENCY: Social Security Administration (SSA). ACTION: Proposed routine use. SUMMARY: In accordance with the... routine use to our system of records entitled Master Files of Social Security Number (SSN) Holders and SSN...

Effect of length and location of edentulous area on the accuracy of prosthetic treatment plan incorporation into cone-beam computed tomography scans.

PubMed

Jamjoom, Faris Z; Kim, Do-Gyoon; Lee, Damian J; McGlumphy, Edwin A; Yilmaz, Burak

2018-02-05

Effects of length and location of the edentulous area on the accuracy of prosthetic treatment plan incorporation into cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans has not been investigated. To evaluate the effect of length and location of the edentulous area on the accuracy of prosthetic treatment plan incorporation into CBCT scans using different methods. Direct digital scans of a completely dentate master model with removable radiopaque teeth were made using an intraoral scanner, and digital scans of stone duplicates of the master model were made using a laboratory scanner. Specific teeth were removed to simulate different clinical situations and their CBCT scans were made. Surface scans were registered onto the CBCT scans. Radiographic templates for each clinical situation were also fabricated and used during CBCT scans of the master models. Using metrology software, three-dimensional (3D) deviation was measured on standard tesselation language (STL) files created from the CBCT scans against an STL file of the master model created from a CBCT scan. Statistical analysis was done using the MIXED procedure in a statistical software and Tukey HSD test (α =.05). The interaction between location and method was significant (P = .009). Location had no significant effect on registration methods (P > .05), but on the radiographic templates (P = .011). Length of the edentulous area did not have any significant effect (P > .05). Accuracy of digital image registration methods was similar and higher than that of radiographic templates in all clinical situations. Tooth-bound radiographic templates were significantly more accurate than the free-end templates. The results of this study suggest using image registration instead of radiographic templates when planning dental implants, particularly in free-end situations. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Evaluation of the National Human Immunodeficiency Virus Surveillance System for the 2011 diagnosis year.

PubMed

Karch, Debra L; Chen, Mi; Tang, Tian

2014-01-01

In 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention completed migration of all 59 surveillance project areas (PAs) from the case-based HIV/AIDS Reporting System to the document-based Enhanced HIV/AIDS Reporting System. We conducted a PA-level assessment of Enhanced HIV/AIDS Reporting System process and outcome standards for HIV infection cases. Process standards were reported by PAs and outcome standards were calculated using standardized Centers for Disease Control and Prevention SAS code. A total of 59 PAs including 50 US states, the District of Columbia, 6 separately funded cities (Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles County, New York City, Philadelphia, and San Francisco), and 2 territories (Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands). Cases diagnosed or reported to the PA surveillance system between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2011, using data collected through December 2012. Process standards for death ascertainment and intra- and interstate case de-duplication; outcome standards for completeness and timeliness of case reporting, data quality, intrastate duplication rate, risk factor ascertainment, and completeness of initial CD4 and viral load reporting. Fifty-five of 59 PAs (93%) reported linking cases to state vital records death certificates during 2012, 76% to the Social Security Death Master File, and 59% to the National Death Index. Seventy percent completed monthly intrastate, and 63% completed semiannual interstate de-duplication. Eighty-three percent met the 85% or more case ascertainment standard, and 92% met the 66% or more timeliness standard; 75% met the 97% or more data quality standard; all PAs met the 5% or less intrastate duplication rate; 41% met the 85% or more risk factor ascertainment standard; 90% met the 50% or more standard for initial CD4; and 93% met the same standard for viral load reporting. Overall, 7% of PAs met all 11 process and outcome standards. Findings support the need for continued improvement in HIV surveillance activities and monitoring of system outcomes.

20 CFR 10.911 - How is the death gratuity payment process initiated?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

...' COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED Death Gratuity § 10.911 How is the death gratuity payment process initiated? (a) Either the employing agency or a living claimant (survivor or alternate beneficiary) may initiate the... agency notifying OWCP of the employee's death, each claimant must file a claim with OWCP in order to...

20 CFR 10.911 - How is the death gratuity payment process initiated?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

...' COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED Death Gratuity § 10.911 How is the death gratuity payment process initiated? (a) Either the employing agency or a living claimant (survivor or alternate beneficiary) may initiate the... agency notifying OWCP of the employee's death, each claimant must file a claim with OWCP in order to...

20 CFR 10.911 - How is the death gratuity payment process initiated?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

...' COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED Death Gratuity § 10.911 How is the death gratuity payment process initiated? (a) Either the employing agency or a living claimant (survivor or alternate beneficiary) may initiate the... agency notifying OWCP of the employee's death, each claimant must file a claim with OWCP in order to...

38 CFR 3.152 - Claims for death benefits.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Claims for death benefits... ADJUDICATION Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Claims § 3.152 Claims for death... Social Security, as prescribed by § 3.153) must be filed in order for death benefits to be paid to any...

38 CFR 11.116 - Death of veteran before final settlement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 1 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Death of veteran before... Death of veteran before final settlement. If the veteran dies after making application under the... death occurs after the application is filed but before payment is received under this Act, or if the...

38 CFR 3.152 - Claims for death benefits.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 1 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Claims for death benefits... ADJUDICATION Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Claims § 3.152 Claims for death... Social Security, as prescribed by § 3.153) must be filed in order for death benefits to be paid to any...

38 CFR 3.152 - Claims for death benefits.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Claims for death benefits... ADJUDICATION Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Claims § 3.152 Claims for death... Social Security, as prescribed by § 3.153) must be filed in order for death benefits to be paid to any...

38 CFR 11.116 - Death of veteran before final settlement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 1 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Death of veteran before... Death of veteran before final settlement. If the veteran dies after making application under the... death occurs after the application is filed but before payment is received under this Act, or if the...

38 CFR 3.152 - Claims for death benefits.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Claims for death benefits... ADJUDICATION Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Claims § 3.152 Claims for death... Social Security, as prescribed by § 3.153) must be filed in order for death benefits to be paid to any...

38 CFR 3.152 - Claims for death benefits.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 1 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Claims for death benefits... ADJUDICATION Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Claims § 3.152 Claims for death... Social Security, as prescribed by § 3.153) must be filed in order for death benefits to be paid to any...

38 CFR 11.116 - Death of veteran before final settlement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Death of veteran before... Death of veteran before final settlement. If the veteran dies after making application under the... death occurs after the application is filed but before payment is received under this Act, or if the...

IDG - INTERACTIVE DIF GENERATOR

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Preheim, L. E.

1994-01-01

The Interactive DIF Generator (IDG) utility is a tool used to generate and manipulate Directory Interchange Format files (DIF). Its purpose as a specialized text editor is to create and update DIF files which can be sent to NASA's Master Directory, also referred to as the International Global Change Directory at Goddard. Many government and university data systems use the Master Directory to advertise the availability of research data. The IDG interface consists of a set of four windows: (1) the IDG main window; (2) a text editing window; (3) a text formatting and validation window; and (4) a file viewing window. The IDG main window starts up the other windows and contains a list of valid keywords. The keywords are loaded from a user-designated file and selected keywords can be copied into any active editing window. Once activated, the editing window designates the file to be edited. Upon switching from the editing window to the formatting and validation window, the user has options for making simple changes to one or more files such as inserting tabs, aligning fields, and indenting groups. The viewing window is a scrollable read-only window that allows fast viewing of any text file. IDG is an interactive tool and requires a mouse or a trackball to operate. IDG uses the X Window System to build and manage its interactive forms, and also uses the Motif widget set and runs under Sun UNIX. IDG is written in C-language for Sun computers running SunOS. This package requires the X Window System, Version 11 Revision 4, with OSF/Motif 1.1. IDG requires 1.8Mb of hard disk space. The standard distribution medium for IDG is a .25 inch streaming magnetic tape cartridge in UNIX tar format. It is also available on a 3.5 inch diskette in UNIX tar format. The program was developed in 1991 and is a copyrighted work with all copyright vested in NASA. SunOS is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. X Window System is a trademark of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. OSF/Motif is a trademark of the Open Software Foundation, Inc. UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.

Data Processing Aspects of MEDLARS

PubMed Central

Austin, Charles J.

1964-01-01

The speed and volume requirements of MEDLARS necessitate the use of high-speed data processing equipment, including paper-tape typewriters, a digital computer, and a special device for producing photo-composed output. Input to the system is of three types: variable source data, including citations from the literature and search requests; changes to such master files as the medical subject headings list and the journal record file; and operating instructions such as computer programs and procedures for machine operators. MEDLARS builds two major stores of data on magnetic tape. The Processed Citation File includes bibliographic citations in expanded form for high-quality printing at periodic intervals. The Compressed Citation File is a coded, time-sequential citation store which is used for high-speed searching against demand request input. Major design considerations include converting variable-length, alphanumeric data to mechanical form quickly and accurately; serial searching by the computer within a reasonable period of time; high-speed printing that must be of graphic quality; and efficient maintenance of various complex computer files. PMID:14119287

DATA PROCESSING ASPECTS OF MEDLARS.

PubMed

AUSTIN, C J

1964-01-01

The speed and volume requirements of MEDLARS necessitate the use of high-speed data processing equipment, including paper-tape typewriters, a digital computer, and a special device for producing photo-composed output. Input to the system is of three types: variable source data, including citations from the literature and search requests; changes to such master files as the medical subject headings list and the journal record file; and operating instructions such as computer programs and procedures for machine operators. MEDLARS builds two major stores of data on magnetic tape. The Processed Citation File includes bibliographic citations in expanded form for high-quality printing at periodic intervals. The Compressed Citation File is a coded, time-sequential citation store which is used for high-speed searching against demand request input. Major design considerations include converting variable-length, alphanumeric data to mechanical form quickly and accurately; serial searching by the computer within a reasonable period of time; high-speed printing that must be of graphic quality; and efficient maintenance of various complex computer files.

Highly parallel reconfigurable computer architecture for robotic computation having plural processor cells each having right and left ensembles of plural processors

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Fijany, Amir (Inventor); Bejczy, Antal K. (Inventor)

1994-01-01

In a computer having a large number of single-instruction multiple data (SIMD) processors, each of the SIMD processors has two sets of three individual processor elements controlled by a master control unit and interconnected among a plurality of register file units where data is stored. The register files input and output data in synchronism with a minor cycle clock under control of two slave control units controlling the register file units connected to respective ones of the two sets of processor elements. Depending upon which ones of the register file units are enabled to store or transmit data during a particular minor clock cycle, the processor elements within an SIMD processor are connected in rings or in pipeline arrays, and may exchange data with the internal bus or with neighboring SIMD processors through interface units controlled by respective ones of the two slave control units.

20 CFR 335.5 - Death of employee.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Death of employee. 335.5 Section 335.5... SICKNESS BENEFITS § 335.5 Death of employee. If an employee dies before filing one or more of the required... due but unpaid as of the date of an employee's death is the same as the order of distribution for...

5 CFR 870.503 - Basic insurance: Cancelling a waiver.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... circumstances (marriage or divorce, a spouse's death, or acquisition of an eligible child) and files an election... child must file the election with the employing office no later than 60 calendar days after completing...

46 CFR 196.35-3 - Logbooks and records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... form CG-706 or in the owner's format for an official logbook. Such logs must be kept available for a... master or person in charge shall file the logbook with the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection. (b) The... of making entries therein as required by law or regulations in this subchapter. Such logs or records...

46 CFR 196.35-3 - Logbooks and records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... form CG-706 or in the owner's format for an official logbook. Such logs must be kept available for a... master or person in charge shall file the logbook with the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection. (b) The... of making entries therein as required by law or regulations in this subchapter. Such logs or records...

46 CFR 35.07-5 - Logbooks and records-TB/ALL.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

..., the master or person in charge shall file the logbook with the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection... purposes of making entries therein as required by law or regulations in this subchapter. Such logs or... records of tests and inspections of fire fighting equipment must be maintained with the vessel's logs for...

46 CFR 35.07-5 - Logbooks and records-TB/ALL.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

..., the master or person in charge shall file the logbook with the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection... purposes of making entries therein as required by law or regulations in this subchapter. Such logs or... records of tests and inspections of fire fighting equipment must be maintained with the vessel's logs for...

77 FR 51081 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change Relating...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-08-23

... third party at par at a specified date, and leveraged inverse floating rate instruments (``inverse..., master demand notes, fixed and variable rate loan participations and assignments, inverse floaters, and... securities of other regulated investment companies), (2) two or more issuers that the Fund controls and which...

77 FR 16282 - Columbia Funds Master Investment Trust, LLC, et al.; Notice of Application

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-03-20

... SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [Investment Company Act Release No. 29980; File No. 812-13955... the Investment Company Act of 1940 (``Act'') for an exemption from rule 12d1-2(a) under the Act. SUMMARY OF APPLICATION: Applicants request an order to permit open-end management investment companies...

17 CFR 240.17Ad-10 - Prompt posting of certificate detail to master securityholder files, maintenance of accurate...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... between co-transfer agents and recordkeeping transfer agents, maintenance of current control book...-transfer agents and recordkeeping transfer agents, maintenance of current control book, retention of certificate detail and “buy-in” of physical over-issuance. (a)(1) Every recordkeeping transfer agent shall...

Digital impression-taking: Fundamentals and benefits in orthodontics.

PubMed

Lecocq, Guillaume

2016-06-01

The digital era has burst into our offices in a big way. 3D camera technology has improved, enabling us to record our impressions and the occlusion in a digital format file. This file can then be used to make set-ups and manufacture orthodontic devices. Like any new technology, it needs to be studied and understood in order to grasp it fully and master the information and digital flow which can be generated between one's office and any external party involved in treatment, such as laboratories or other colleagues. Copyright © 2016 CEO. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

20 CFR 325.5 - Death of employee.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Death of employee. 325.5 Section 325.5 Employees' Benefits RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT REGISTRATION FOR RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS § 325.5 Death of employee. If an employee dies before filing...

20 CFR 325.5 - Death of employee.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2014-04-01 2012-04-01 true Death of employee. 325.5 Section 325.5 Employees' Benefits RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT REGISTRATION FOR RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS § 325.5 Death of employee. If an employee dies before filing...

20 CFR 325.5 - Death of employee.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Death of employee. 325.5 Section 325.5 Employees' Benefits RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT REGISTRATION FOR RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS § 325.5 Death of employee. If an employee dies before filing...

20 CFR 325.5 - Death of employee.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Death of employee. 325.5 Section 325.5 Employees' Benefits RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT REGISTRATION FOR RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS § 325.5 Death of employee. If an employee dies before filing...

20 CFR 325.5 - Death of employee.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2013-04-01 2012-04-01 true Death of employee. 325.5 Section 325.5 Employees' Benefits RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT REGISTRATION FOR RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS § 325.5 Death of employee. If an employee dies before filing...

20 CFR 10.101 - How and when is a notice of occupational disease filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... disease filed? 10.101 Section 10.101 Employees' Benefits OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.101 How and when is a notice of occupational disease filed? (a) To claim benefits under the FECA, an employee who has a disease which he or she...

20 CFR 10.101 - How and when is a notice of occupational disease filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... disease filed? 10.101 Section 10.101 Employees' Benefits OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.101 How and when is a notice of occupational disease filed? (a) To claim benefits under the FECA, an employee who has a disease which he or she...

20 CFR 10.101 - How and when is a notice of occupational disease filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... disease filed? 10.101 Section 10.101 Employees' Benefits OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.101 How and when is a notice of occupational disease filed? (a) To claim benefits under the FECA, an employee who has a disease which he or she...

20 CFR 10.101 - How and when is a notice of occupational disease filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... disease filed? 10.101 Section 10.101 Employees' Benefits OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.101 How and when is a notice of occupational disease filed? (a) To claim benefits under the FECA, an employee who has a disease which he or she...

20 CFR 10.101 - How and when is a notice of occupational disease filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... disease filed? 10.101 Section 10.101 Employees' Benefits OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.101 How and when is a notice of occupational disease filed? (a) To claim benefits under the FECA, an employee who has a disease which he or she...

22 CFR 511.5 - Who may file claim.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 22 Foreign Relations 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 true Who may file claim. 511.5 Section 511.5 Foreign Relations BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS PROCEDURE § 511.5 Who may file claim. (a... representatives. Claims for personal injury or death may be made by the injured person or a legal representative...

22 CFR 511.5 - Who may file claim.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 22 Foreign Relations 2 2011-04-01 2009-04-01 true Who may file claim. 511.5 Section 511.5 Foreign Relations BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS PROCEDURE § 511.5 Who may file claim. (a... representatives. Claims for personal injury or death may be made by the injured person or a legal representative...

Nonlinear fluctuations-induced rate equations for linear birth-death processes

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Honkonen, J.

2008-05-01

The Fock-space approach to the solution of master equations for one-step Markov processes is reconsidered. It is shown that in birth-death processes with an absorbing state at the bottom of the occupation-number spectrum and occupation-number independent annihilation probability of occupation-number fluctuations give rise to rate equations drastically different from the polynomial form typical of birth-death processes. The fluctuation-induced rate equations with the characteristic exponential terms are derived for Mikhailov’s ecological model and Lanchester’s model of modern warfare.

ModelMate - A graphical user interface for model analysis

USGS Publications Warehouse

Banta, Edward R.

2011-01-01

ModelMate is a graphical user interface designed to facilitate use of model-analysis programs with models. This initial version of ModelMate supports one model-analysis program, UCODE_2005, and one model software program, MODFLOW-2005. ModelMate can be used to prepare input files for UCODE_2005, run UCODE_2005, and display analysis results. A link to the GW_Chart graphing program facilitates visual interpretation of results. ModelMate includes capabilities for organizing directories used with the parallel-processing capabilities of UCODE_2005 and for maintaining files in those directories to be identical to a set of files in a master directory. ModelMate can be used on its own or in conjunction with ModelMuse, a graphical user interface for MODFLOW-2005 and PHAST.

On the feasibility of linking census samples to the National Death Index for epidemiologic studies: a progress report.

PubMed Central

Rogot, E; Feinleib, M; Ockay, K A; Schwartz, S H; Bilgrad, R; Patterson, J E

1983-01-01

To test the feasibility of using large national probability samples provided by the US Census Bureau, a pilot project was initiated to link 230,000 Census-type records to the National Death Index (NDI). Using strict precautions to maintain the complete confidentiality of individual records, the Current Population Survey files of one month in 1973 and one month in 1978 were matched by computer to the 1979 NDI file. The basic question to be addressed was whether deaths so obtained are seriously underestimated when there is no Social Security Number (SSN) in the Census record. The search of the NDI file resulted in 5,542 matches of which about 1,800 appear to be "true positives" representing deaths, the remainder are "false positives." Of the deaths, 80 per cent would still have been detected without SSN in the Census record. The main reasons for missing deaths (false negatives) were discrepancies in the year of birth and in the given name. Assuming certain changes in the NDI matching algorithm, the 80 per cent figure could increase to 85 per cent or higher; however, this could also cause significant increases in the number of false positives. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and Census Bureau staff are currently developing a probabilistic method to eliminate false positives from the NDI output tape. The results of the pilot study indicate that a larger research project is clearly feasible. PMID:6625029

The effect of using an inverted master cone in a lateral compaction technique on the density of the gutta-percha fill.

PubMed

Wu, Min-Kai; de Groot, Sjoerd D; van der Sluis, Luc W M; Wesselink, Paul R

2003-09-01

We sought to measure and calculate the percentage of the gutta-percha-filled area in the apical root canal after the use of a standardized or inverted master cone in cold lateral compaction.Study design Two groups of extracted mandibular premolars with a single canal were instrumented with instruments of the same size; furthermore, they were obturated with laterally compacted gutta-percha cones with AH26 used as a sealer. In the first group, a standardized master cone was used with its narrow end in an apical position, whereas in the other group, an inverted master cone was used with its wide end in an apical position. The 2 master cones had the same apical diameter and fit in the apical canal. After lateral compaction, horizontal sections were cut at a level 3 and 5 mm from the apex of each filled tooth. Photographs of the sections were taken by using a microscope equipped with a digital camera; the photos were then scanned as tagged-image file format images. The cross-sectional area of the canal and the gutta-percha were measured by using an image-analysis program. The percentage of gutta-percha-filled area was calculated. At both levels, the inverted master cone produced a significantly higher percentage, statistically, of gutta-percha-filled area than did the standardized master cone (P =.001 at 3 mm; P =.012 at 5 mm). The use of an inverted master cone in cold lateral compaction may facilitate the apical placement of accessory cones, significantly increasing the volume of gutta-percha while reducing the volume of sealer in the apical root canal.

The effect of cervical preflaring using different rotary nickel-titanium systems on the accuracy of apical file size determination.

PubMed

Tennert, Christian; Herbert, Josef; Altenburger, Markus Jörg; Wrbas, Karl-Thomas

2010-10-01

An exact determination of the apical root canal diameter is crucial for correct cleaning and shaping of a root canal. The aim of this study was to investigate the discrepancies of the initial apical root canal diameter and the diameter that is measured by the initial apical file (IAF) after cervical flaring using current rotary nickel-titanium systems. Mesiobuccal canals of 40 extracted mandibular molars were randomly assigned to four groups. In the first group, root canals were not flared. Root canals of the other groups were preflared using FlexMaster (VDW, Munich, Germany), ProTaper (Dentsply, Konstanz, Germany), or RaCe (FKG Dentaire, Genf, Switzerland) instruments. The tooth length was determined by inserting an ISO 06 K-file to the apical foramen. The working length (WL) was set 1 mm short of the apical foramen. File sizes were increased after binding sensation was felt at the WL. Transversal sections of the WL regions were examined under stereomicroscope, and the diameter of the root canal and the IAF at WL were assessed. Canals preflared with RaCe instruments had the lowest discrepancy between the apical root canal diameter and the IAF diameter (15.7 ± 9.7 μm) followed by ProTaper (22.2 ± 11.0 μm) and FlexMaster (35.0 ± 17.2 μm). Preflaring of root canals prevents underestimation of the actual apical root canal diameter. The type of instruments used for preflaring show differences on the accuracy of IAF determination. Preflaring with larger tapered instruments leads to a more accurate apical sizing, and this information is crucial concerning the appropriate final diameter for complete apical shaping. Copyright © 2010 American Association of Endodontists. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

20 CFR 10.110 - What should the employer do when an employee files a notice of traumatic injury or occupational...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... files a notice of traumatic injury or occupational disease? 10.110 Section 10.110 Employees' Benefits...; Submitting Evidence Notices and Claims for Injury, Disease, and Death-Employer's Actions § 10.110 What should the employer do when an employee files a notice of traumatic injury or occupational disease? (a) The...

20 CFR 10.110 - What should the employer do when an employee files a notice of traumatic injury or occupational...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... files a notice of traumatic injury or occupational disease? 10.110 Section 10.110 Employees' Benefits...; Submitting Evidence Notices and Claims for Injury, Disease, and Death-Employer's Actions § 10.110 What should the employer do when an employee files a notice of traumatic injury or occupational disease? (a) The...

NT-proBNP Predicts All-Cause Mortality in a Population of Insurance Applicants, Follow-up Analysis and Further Observations.

PubMed

Fulks, Michael; Kaufman, Valerie; Clark, Michael; Stout, Robert L

2017-01-01

- Further refine the independent value of NT-proBNP, accounting for the impact of other test results, in predicting all-cause mortality for individual life insurance applicants with and without heart disease. - Using the Social Security Death Master File and multivariate analysis, relative mortality was determined for 245,322 life insurance applicants ages 50 to 89 tested for NT-proBNP (almost all based on age and policy amount) along with other laboratory tests and measurement of blood pressure and BMI. - NT-proBNP values ≤75 pg/mL included the majority of applicants denying heart disease and had the lowest risk, while values >500 pg/mL for females and >300 pg/mL for males had very high relative risk. Those admitting to heart disease had a higher mortality risk for each band of NT-proBNP relative to those denying heart disease but had a similar and equally predictive risk curve. - NT-proBNP is a strong independent predictor of all-cause mortality in the absence or presence of known heart disease but the range of values associated with increased risk varies by sex.

77 FR 66794 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Generic Clearance for Master Address File (MAF...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-11-07

... to measure the quality of the MAF. Test 22 is currently a one-time project scheduled for fiscal year... designed to be kept up-to-date, thereby eliminating the need to develop a completely new address list for future censuses and surveys. The Census Bureau plans to use the MTdb [[Page 66795

Automation at the Fairfax County Virginia Library System.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Baker, Alfred W.; And Others

The Fairfax County Library converted from a card catalog to a book catalog format in 1963. The first book catalogs were produced by the Sequential Card (SC) process. The master cards were prepared by the library and sent to Science Press, where copy was prepared on IBM cards, coded for sequential filing, and photographed to prepare page plates,…

First-Term Attrition among Marine Corps Women: Some Associated Factors.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Royle, Marjorie H.

Because the first-term attrition rate for enlisted Marine Corps women is nearly 50 percent, or about twice that for comparable men, a study was undertaken to identify factors that might be related to this high attrition rate. During the study, the following three data sets were analyzed: historical master files and recruit accession management…

An Integrated Non-Mechanized System for Information Bulletins and a Keyword Index

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Whitehall, T.

1972-01-01

Described is an operating system for scanning, bulletin production and indexing which is very economical in the use of time. One typing onto offset masters is used to produce bulletins, slips for customers' personal files and for the library index. Indexing is done during scanning, not as a separate activity. (3 references) (Author/SJ)

76 FR 24865 - Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-05-03

... Electronic Archive (AEA). Transfer a snap shot of the DCIPS Master File to AEA annually at the end of the fiscal year. The AEA will transfer a snap shot of DCIPS to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) one year after the signature by the Archivist of the United States. Thereafter, the AEA...

Common Database Interface for Heterogeneous Software Engineering Tools.

DTIC Science & Technology

1987-12-01

SUB-GROUP Database Management Systems ;Programming(Comuters); 1e 05 Computer Files;Information Transfer;Interfaces; 19. ABSTRACT (Continue on reverse...Air Force Institute of Technology Air University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Information Systems ...Literature ..... 8 System 690 Configuration ......... 8 Database Functionis ............ 14 Software Engineering Environments ... 14 Data Manager

Death by hanging while watching violent pornographic videos on the Internet - suicide or accidental autoerotic death?

PubMed

Vennemann, B; Pollak, S

2006-03-01

In deaths by hanging, it may sometimes be difficult to differentiate between autoerotic accident and suicide. Our report deals with a 30-year-old man who was found hanged in the living room of his flat. The deceased was wearing headphones connected to a PC. Within the deceased's view was a computer screen showing the last picture of a video file downloaded from the Internet with the head of an unclothed, allegedly hanged female. The deceased's left hand was inside his trousers in the genital region. The autopsy did not only show findings typical for hanging, but also advanced sarcoidosis, which was known to the victim. Although this basic illness could have been a possible motive for suicide, the circumstances in the presented case pointed more in the direction of an accidental autoerotic death. As far as we know, this is the first description of a death during autoerotic activity in which sexual stimulation was achieved by watching a video file downloaded from the Internet.

R2 & NE State - 2010 Census; Housing and Population Summary

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. States and equivalent entities are the primary governmental divisions of the United States. In addition to the fifty States, the Census Bureau treats the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and each of the Island Areas (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) as the statistical equivalents of States for the purpose of data presentation.This table contains housing data derived from the U.S. Census 2010 Summary file 1 database for states. The 2010 Summary File 1 (SF 1) contains data compiled from the 2010 Decennial Census questions. This table contains data on housing units, owner and rental.This table contains population data derived from the U.S. Census 2010 Summary file 1 database for states. The 2010 Summary File 1 (SF 1) contains data compiled from the 2010 Decennial Census questions. This table contains data on ancestry, age, and sex.

Development of Theoretical Foundations for Description and Analysis of Discrete Information Systems

DTIC Science & Technology

1975-05-07

on work of M. Hack , M.W. Marean, J.M, Myers, and P.M. Shapiro. What is presented is an introduction to a body of methods related to Pngmatic...Program FrPPU910 which creates the Account Validation file (FFPFDS20) from input cards without contacting any other files in the system FP-910 The...34•"■ •""^•"’J«^ *• ^’’•"’»’">* ^’*», *’" \\’, A6. S18 FPU PDS 10 Rcqulslclo.) Master S20 FFPFDS20 Account Validation (used to check thai charges

20 CFR 10.104 - How and when is a claim for recurrence filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.104 How and when is a claim for recurrence filed? (a) A recurrence should be reported on Form CA-2a if it causes the employee to lose time from work... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false How and when is a claim for recurrence filed...

20 CFR 10.104 - How and when is a claim for recurrence filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.104 How and when is a claim for recurrence filed? (a) A recurrence should be reported on Form CA-2a if that recurrence causes the employee to lose time... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2013-04-01 2012-04-01 true How and when is a claim for recurrence filed...

20 CFR 10.104 - How and when is a claim for recurrence filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.104 How and when is a claim for recurrence filed? (a) A recurrence should be reported on Form CA-2a if that recurrence causes the employee to lose time... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false How and when is a claim for recurrence filed...

20 CFR 10.104 - How and when is a claim for recurrence filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.104 How and when is a claim for recurrence filed? (a) A recurrence should be reported on Form CA-2a if it causes the employee to lose time from work... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false How and when is a claim for recurrence filed...

20 CFR 10.104 - How and when is a claim for recurrence filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.104 How and when is a claim for recurrence filed? (a) A recurrence should be reported on Form CA-2a if that recurrence causes the employee to lose time... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2014-04-01 2012-04-01 true How and when is a claim for recurrence filed...

26 CFR 20.2106-2 - Estates of nonresidents not citizens; deductions for expenses, losses, etc.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... citizen of the United States at the time of his death, deductions are allowed under sections 2053 and 2054... his death bears to the value of the decedent's entire gross estate wherever situated. It is immaterial... estate, and expenses of administration filed under any applicable foreign death duty act. If no such...

26 CFR 20.2106-2 - Estates of nonresidents not citizens; deductions for expenses, losses, etc.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... citizen of the United States at the time of his death, deductions are allowed under sections 2053 and 2054... his death bears to the value of the decedent's entire gross estate wherever situated. It is immaterial... estate, and expenses of administration filed under any applicable foreign death duty act. If no such...

26 CFR 20.2106-2 - Estates of nonresidents not citizens; deductions for expenses, losses, etc.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... citizen of the United States at the time of his death, deductions are allowed under sections 2053 and 2054... his death bears to the value of the decedent's entire gross estate wherever situated. It is immaterial... estate, and expenses of administration filed under any applicable foreign death duty act. If no such...

28 CFR 104.47 - Collateral sources.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... determining the appropriate collateral source offset for future benefit payments, the Special Master may employ an appropriate methodology for determining the present value of such future benefits. In... compensation, including life insurance, pension funds, death benefits programs, and payments by Federal, State...

Storage, retrieval, and edit of digital video using Motion JPEG

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Sudharsanan, Subramania I.; Lee, D. H.

1994-04-01

In a companion paper we describe a Micro Channel adapter card that can perform real-time JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) compression of a 640 by 480 24-bit image within 1/30th of a second. Since this corresponds to NTSC video rates at considerably good perceptual quality, this system can be used for real-time capture and manipulation of continuously fed video. To facilitate capturing the compressed video in a storage medium, an IBM Bus master SCSI adapter with cache is utilized. Efficacy of the data transfer mechanism is considerably improved using the System Control Block architecture, an extension to Micro Channel bus masters. We show experimental results that the overall system can perform at compressed data rates of about 1.5 MBytes/second sustained and with sporadic peaks to about 1.8 MBytes/second depending on the image sequence content. We also describe mechanisms to access the compressed data very efficiently through special file formats. This in turn permits creation of simpler sequence editors. Another advantage of the special file format is easy control of forward, backward and slow motion playback. The proposed method can be extended for design of a video compression subsystem for a variety of personal computing systems.

Mortality throughout early childhood for Michigan children born with congenital anomalies, 1992-1998.

PubMed

Berger, Katherine H; Zhu, Bao-Ping; Copeland, Glenn

2003-09-01

Congenital anomalies are a leading cause of infant deaths, accounting for almost a fifth of all infant deaths. Few studies have researched the survival experience of infants born with congenital anomalies past the infant stage. Using birth and death files routinely linked to the Michigan Birth Defects Registry, we identified all singleton infants during calendar years 1992 through 1998 with reportable congenital anomalies for our study. A comparative file of children born without congenital anomalies during the same time period was developed using linked birth and death files. The mortality data were assessed by age at death (through age six) and race to determine mortality rates, relative risks, hazard ratios, and survival trends. Throughout early childhood, children born with congenital anomalies had a high risk of mortality compared with all other children. The overall 7-year hazard ratio comparing children with congenital anomalies with all other children was 7.2. Overall mortality rates for black children were significantly higher than white children through the age of seven, irrespective of whether they had congenital anomalies. Among children with congenital anomalies, this disparity disappeared after adjusting for birth weight, sex, mother's age, mother's education, and number of organ systems affected. Compared with children without congenital anomalies, children born with congenital anomalies had a higher risk of mortality well beyond the infant period. Racial disparities in mortality rates among children with congenital anomalies were due to confounding factors.

20 CFR 410.230 - Written statement filed by or for a miner on behalf of a member of his family.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... behalf of a member of his family. 410.230 Section 410.230 Employees' Benefits SOCIAL SECURITY... statement filed by or for a miner on behalf of a member of his family. Notwithstanding the provisions of... filed by or for a miner on behalf of a member of his family until such miner's death. At such time, the...

Prediagnosis Sleep Duration, Napping, and Mortality Among Colorectal Cancer Survivors in a Large US Cohort.

PubMed

Xiao, Qian; Arem, Hannah; Pfeiffer, Ruth; Matthews, Charles

2017-04-01

Prediagnosis lifestyle factors can influence colorectal cancer (CRC) survival. Sleep deficiency is linked to metabolic dysfunction and chronic inflammation, which may contribute to higher mortality from cardiometabolic conditions and promote tumor progression. We hypothesized that prediagnosis sleep deficiency would be associated with poor CRC survival. No previous study has examined either nighttime sleep or daytime napping in relation to survival among men and women diagnosed with CRC. We examined self-reported sleep duration and napping prior to diagnosis in relation to mortality among 4869 CRC survivors in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. Vital status was ascertained by linkage to the Social Security Administration Death Master File and the National Death Index. We examined the associations of sleep and napping with mortality using traditional Cox regression (total mortality) and Compositing Risk Regression (cardiovascular disease [CVD] and CRC mortality). Models were adjusted for confounders (demographics, cancer stage, grade and treatment, smoking, physical activity, and sedentary behavior) as well as possible mediators (body mass index and health status) in separate models. Compared to participants reporting 7-8 hours of sleep per day, those who reported <5 hr had a 36% higher all-cause mortality risk (Hazard Ratio (95% Confidence Interval), 1.36 (1.08-1.72)). Short sleep (<5 hr) was also associated with a 54% increase in CRC mortality (Substitution Hazard Ratio (95% Confidence Interval), 1.54 (1.11-2.14)) after adjusting for confounders and accounting for competing causes of death. Compared to no napping, napping 1 hr or more per day was associated with significantly higher total and CVD mortality but not CRC mortality. Prediagnosis short sleep and long napping were associated with higher mortality among CRC survivors. © Sleep Research Society 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Sleep Research Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail journals.permissions@oup.com.

8 CFR 319.2 - Person whose United States citizen spouse is employed abroad.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

.... (c) Loss of marital union due to death, divorce, or expatriation of the citizen spouse. A person is..., before or after the filing of the application, the marital union ceases to exist due to death or divorce...

Red Cloud’s War: An Insurgency Case Study for Modern Times

DTIC Science & Technology

2011-03-16

region. All these tribes were master horseman , and over time became skilled and fearsome mounted warriors. It is important to note how much different...much of the land as ”sacred ground” to be defended to the death . The Powder River Country from the Big Horn Mountains to the Black Hills loomed large...too inviting for the hostiles, and running this daily gauntlet of death resulted in many casualties. On the other hand, one terrain advantage for

George S. Patton’s Student Days at the Army War College

DTIC Science & Technology

1976-01-01

The death in November of his dear Aunt Nannie Wilson took Patton to California for the funeral. While he was staying with his sister in the...the US Army to hold the magnificent title "Master of the Sword," and was widely known as a horseman , polo player, sailor, amateur poet, and military...ranking officers had the primary aim of winning, not of. surviving. Furthermore-and this was pure Patton-their deaths would have great inspirational

Optical Digital Image Storage System

DTIC Science & Technology

1991-03-18

figures courtesy of Sony Corporation x LIST OF TABLES Indexing Workstation - Ease of Learning ................................... 99 Indexing Workstation...retaining a master negative copy of the microfilm. 121 The Sony Corporation, the supplier of the optical disk media used in the ODISS projeLt, claims...disk." During the ODISS project, several CMSR files-stored on the Sony optical disks were read several thousand times with no -loss of information

An Evaluator's Guide to Using DB MASTER: A Microcomputer Based File Management Program. Research on Evaluation Program, Paper and Report Series No. 91.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Gray, Peter J.

Ways a microcomputer can be used to establish and maintain an evaluation database and types of data management features possible on a microcomputer are described in this report, which contains step-by-step procedures and numerous examples for establishing a database, manipulating data, and designing and printing reports. Following a brief…

20 CFR 71.7 - Claim filing, processing, adjudication and time limits.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... OF LABOR COMPENSATION FOR INJURY, DISABILITY OR DEATH OF CIVILIAN AMERICAN CITIZENS INCURRED WHILE..., processing, adjudication and time limits. (a) Claims for injury, disability or death benefits payable under... provisions of statute, shall not begin to run earlier than July 3, 1948. ...

20 CFR 410.490 - Interim adjudicatory rules for certain part B claims filed by a miner before July 1, 1973, or by...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... AND SAFETY ACT OF 1969, TITLE IV-BLACK LUNG BENEFITS (1969- ) Total Disability or Death Due to... the Black Lung Act of 1972, the Congress noted that adjudication of the large backlog of claims... pneumoconiosis, or to have been totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis at the time of his death, or his death...

20 CFR 410.490 - Interim adjudicatory rules for certain part B claims filed by a miner before July 1, 1973, or by...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... AND SAFETY ACT OF 1969, TITLE IV-BLACK LUNG BENEFITS (1969- ) Total Disability or Death Due to... the Black Lung Act of 1972, the Congress noted that adjudication of the large backlog of claims... pneumoconiosis, or to have been totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis at the time of his death, or his death...

20 CFR 410.698 - Dismissal by Appeals Council.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 1969, TITLE IV-BLACK LUNG BENEFITS (1969- ) Determinations of Disability, Other Determinations... discontinuance and dismissal. (b) Death of party. Proceedings before the Appeals Council may be dismissed upon death of a party against whom charges have been preferred. (c) Request for review not timely filed. A...

31 CFR 3.2 - Filing of claims.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Filing of claims. 3.2 Section 3.2 Money and Finance: Treasury Office of the Secretary of the Treasury CLAIMS REGULATIONS AND... to or loss of property, or personal injury, or death alleged to have occurred by reason of the...

31 CFR 3.2 - Filing of claims.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Filing of claims. 3.2 Section 3.2 Money and Finance: Treasury Office of the Secretary of the Treasury CLAIMS REGULATIONS AND... to or loss of property, or personal injury, or death alleged to have occurred by reason of the...

New Design for Rapid Prototyping of Digital Master Casts for Multiple Dental Implant Restorations

PubMed Central

Romero, Luis; Jiménez, Mariano; Espinosa, María del Mar; Domínguez, Manuel

2015-01-01

Aim This study proposes the replacement of all the physical devices used in the manufacturing of conventional prostheses through the use of digital tools, such as 3D scanners, CAD design software, 3D implants files, rapid prototyping machines or reverse engineering software, in order to develop laboratory work models from which to finish coatings for dental prostheses. Different types of dental prosthetic structures are used, which were adjusted by a non-rotatory threaded fixing system. Method From a digital process, the relative positions of dental implants, soft tissue and adjacent teeth of edentulous or partially edentulous patients has been captured, and a maser working model which accurately replicates data relating to the patients oral cavity has been through treatment of three-dimensional digital data. Results Compared with the conventional master cast, the results show a significant cost savings in attachments, as well as an increase in the quality of reproduction and accuracy of the master cast, with the consequent reduction in the number of patient consultation visits. The combination of software and hardware three-dimensional tools allows the optimization of the planning of dental implant-supported rehabilitations protocol, improving the predictability of clinical treatments and the production cost savings of master casts for restorations upon implants. PMID:26696528

New Design for Rapid Prototyping of Digital Master Casts for Multiple Dental Implant Restorations.

PubMed

Romero, Luis; Jiménez, Mariano; Espinosa, María Del Mar; Domínguez, Manuel

2015-01-01

This study proposes the replacement of all the physical devices used in the manufacturing of conventional prostheses through the use of digital tools, such as 3D scanners, CAD design software, 3D implants files, rapid prototyping machines or reverse engineering software, in order to develop laboratory work models from which to finish coatings for dental prostheses. Different types of dental prosthetic structures are used, which were adjusted by a non-rotatory threaded fixing system. From a digital process, the relative positions of dental implants, soft tissue and adjacent teeth of edentulous or partially edentulous patients has been captured, and a maser working model which accurately replicates data relating to the patients oral cavity has been through treatment of three-dimensional digital data. Compared with the conventional master cast, the results show a significant cost savings in attachments, as well as an increase in the quality of reproduction and accuracy of the master cast, with the consequent reduction in the number of patient consultation visits. The combination of software and hardware three-dimensional tools allows the optimization of the planning of dental implant-supported rehabilitations protocol, improving the predictability of clinical treatments and the production cost savings of master casts for restorations upon implants.

LONGLIB - A GRAPHICS LIBRARY

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Long, D.

1994-01-01

This library is a set of subroutines designed for vector plotting to CRT's, plotters, dot matrix, and laser printers. LONGLIB subroutines are invoked by program calls similar to standard CALCOMP routines. In addition to the basic plotting routines, LONGLIB contains an extensive set of routines to allow viewport clipping, extended character sets, graphic input, shading, polar plots, and 3-D plotting with or without hidden line removal. LONGLIB capabilities include surface plots, contours, histograms, logarithm axes, world maps, and seismic plots. LONGLIB includes master subroutines, which are self-contained series of commonly used individual subroutines. When invoked, the master routine will initialize the plotting package, and will plot multiple curves, scatter plots, log plots, 3-D plots, etc. and then close the plot package, all with a single call. Supported devices include VT100 equipped with Selanar GR100 or GR100+ boards, VT125s, VT240s, VT220 equipped with Selanar SG220, Tektronix 4010/4014 or 4107/4109 and compatibles, and Graphon GO-235 terminals. Dot matrix printer output is available by using the provided raster scan conversion routines for DEC LA50, Printronix printers, and high or low resolution Trilog printers. Other output devices include QMS laser printers, Postscript compatible laser printers, and HPGL compatible plotters. The LONGLIB package includes the graphics library source code, an on-line help library, scan converter and meta file conversion programs, and command files for installing, creating, and testing the library. The latest version, 5.0, is significantly enhanced and has been made more portable. Also, the new version's meta file format has been changed and is incompatible with previous versions. A conversion utility is included to port the old meta files to the new format. Color terminal plotting has been incorporated. LONGLIB is written in FORTRAN 77 for batch or interactive execution and has been implemented on a DEC VAX series computer operating under VMS. This program was developed in 1985, and last updated in 1988.

Preparation of the apical part of the root canal by the Lightspeed and step-back techniques.

PubMed

Portenier, I; Lutz, F; Barbakow, F

1998-03-01

This study measured in vitro the displacement of natural canal centres in 18 human teeth before and after shaping by the step-back or Lightspeed techniques. Experimental roots (n = 9 per group), embedded in clear plastic, were cross-sectioned using a 0.1-mm-thick band saw at distances 1.25 mm, 3.25 mm and 5.25 mm from the apices. A stereo microscope was used to take 35 mm slides of the cut surfaces of the sectioned roots and canals. The slides of the uninstrumented canals were scanned into a computer and saved. Each sectioned root was then reassembled and the canals shaped by the step-back or Lightspeed technique. File size 40 and instrument size 50 were selected as the master apical file and master apical rotary for the step-back and Lightspeed groups, respectively. The 18 prepared canals were photographed, and the 35 mm slides scanned and computer stored as previously. This allowed the positions of the pre- and postinstrumented roots to be electronically superimposed for subsequent analyses. Displacements of the root canal centres before and after preparation were assessed in relation to the cross-sectional diameter of the files or instruments used. In addition, increases in cross-sectional area of the root canals after preparation were evaluated in relation to the cross-sectional area of the files or instruments used. Engine-driven nickel-titanium Lightspeed instruments caused significantly less (P < 0.001) displacement of the canal centres, so roots in the Lightspeed group remained better centred than those in the step-back group. The mean cross-sectional area after preparation in the Lightspeed group was significantly less (P < 0.001) than that recorded in the step-back group. Clinically, this implies less apical transportation and less dentine destruction with the Lightspeed technique than with the step-back technique.

USEEIO Elementary Flows and Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) Characterization Factors

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

This file contains all the elementary flows (defined in ISO 14044) used in the USEEIO model. The elementary flows come from a draft master list used by USEPA modified from the openLCA 1.4 software master list with original flows added. The characterization factors come from the openLCA 1.5.4 method pack or directly from TRACI 2.1 for the TRACI categories, or for the Non-TRACI categories, are originals used simply to sum up all types of resource use of a given type.This dataset is associated with the following publication:Yang, Y., W. Ingwersen, T. Hawkins, and D. Meyer. USEEIO: a New and Transparent United States Environmentally Extended Input-Output Model. JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, USA,

Software Supports Distributed Operations via the Internet

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Norris, Jeffrey; Backers, Paul; Steinke, Robert

2003-01-01

Multi-mission Encrypted Communication System (MECS) is a computer program that enables authorized, geographically dispersed users to gain secure access to a common set of data files via the Internet. MECS is compatible with legacy application programs and a variety of operating systems. The MECS architecture is centered around maintaining consistent replicas of data files cached on remote computers. MECS monitors these files and, whenever one is changed, the changed file is committed to a master database as soon as network connectivity makes it possible to do so. MECS provides subscriptions for remote users to automatically receive new data as they are generated. Remote users can be producers as well as consumers of data. Whereas a prior program that provides some of the same services treats disconnection of a user from the network of users as an error from which recovery must be effected, MECS treats disconnection as a nominal state of the network: This leads to a different design that is more efficient for serving many users, each of whom typically connects and disconnects frequently and wants only a small fraction of the data at any given time.

20 CFR 410.667 - Dismissal by Appeals Council.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 1969, TITLE IV-BLACK LUNG BENEFITS (1969- ) Determinations of Disability, Other Determinations... party or parties who filed the request for review to withdraw such request. (b) Death of party... Council, may be dismissed upon the death of a party only if the record affirmatively shows that there is...

20 CFR 410.667 - Dismissal by Appeals Council.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

..., Administrative Review, Finality of Decisions, and Representation of Parties § 410.667 Dismissal by Appeals... party or parties who filed the request for review to withdraw such request. (b) Death of party... Council, may be dismissed upon the death of a party only if the record affirmatively shows that there is...

EPA FRS Facilities Combined File CSV Download for the Marshall Islands

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

The Facility Registry System (FRS) identifies facilities, sites, or places subject to environmental regulation or of environmental interest to EPA programs or delegated states. Using vigorous verification and data management procedures, FRS integrates facility data from program national systems, state master facility records, tribal partners, and other federal agencies and provides the Agency with a centrally managed, single source of comprehensive and authoritative information on facilities.

EPA FRS Facilities Single File CSV Download for the Marshall Islands

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

The Facility Registry System (FRS) identifies facilities, sites, or places subject to environmental regulation or of environmental interest to EPA programs or delegated states. Using vigorous verification and data management procedures, FRS integrates facility data from program national systems, state master facility records, tribal partners, and other federal agencies and provides the Agency with a centrally managed, single source of comprehensive and authoritative information on facilities.

ARSENATE AND ARSENITE REMOVAL BY ZERO-VALENT IRON: KINETICS, REDOX TRANSFORMATION, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR IN SITU GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION

EPA Science Inventory

Batch tests were performed utilizing four zerovalent iron (Fe0) filings (Fisher, Peerless, Master Builders, and Aldrich) to remove As(V) and As(III) from water. One gram of metal was reacted headspace-free at 23 °C for up to 5 days in the dark with 41.5 mL of 2 mg L-1 As(V), or A...

Behavioral and Psychosocial Considerations in Intelligence Analysis: A Preliminary Review of Literature on Critical Thinking Skills

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-03-01

Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services , Directorate for Information Operations and Reports (0704-0188), 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite... discovery (teaching by problem solving), and exploratory (teaching by exploration). Research suggests while guided discovery and exploratory training...34 College Student Journal 38 (2004): 482-493. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO . 4 June 2008. - This study was conducted to determine whether an introductory

Gigabit Network Communications Research

DTIC Science & Technology

1992-12-31

additional BPF channels, raw bytesync support for video codecs, and others. All source file modifications were logged with RCS. Source and object trees were...34 (RFCs). 20 RFCs were published this quarter: RFC 1366: Gerich, E., " Guidelines for Management of IP Address Space", Merit, October 1992. RFC 1367...Topolcic, C., "Schedule for IP Address Space Management Guidelines ", CNRI, October 1992. RFC 1368: McMaster, D. (Synoptics Communications, Inc.), K

Composite Material Aircraft Electromagnetic Properties and Design Guidelines

DTIC Science & Technology

1981-01-01

Diode Characteristics for IN914 Diode at 220 MHz 7-6 7.5 Characteristics of a 2N2369A Transitor With and Without RF Interference on the Collector Lead...Analylsi Miser Reiponse Model Adjacent Channel Interference Summary 7. STATISTICAL AND NUMERICAL I. PROPAGATION MODELS ANALYSIS MASTER PROPAGATION SYSTEM...Propagation System lIPS) Simsulationst Smorothe Curve Smooth Earth (SCSIS) Oemtralltzd File Statistics Analyzer (Q63) flislance Free Space Spherical Raflectiot

Subgrouping Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients By Genetic and Immune Profiling

DTIC Science & Technology

2015-12-01

participant inclusion was also verified against our master demographic file. This process revealed that only a small percentage of participants (...the ! ! − !!! , ∈ ℤ!| ≤ 7 , is a cubic -spline basis on three knots, ! is value of outcome for batch control, and is residual ...tests. Specifically, -value adjustments will employ an 8 adaptive two- stage linear step-up procedure to control the FDR at 5% (Benjamani et al. 2006

40 CFR 16.12 - Specific exemptions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 1974 § 16.12 Specific exemptions. (a) Exemption under 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(2)—(1) Systems of records... Personnel Security Files. EPA-46OCEFT/NEIC Master Tracking System. (2) Authority. Under 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(2... U.S.C. 552a(k)(2): 5 U.S.C. 552a(c)(3); (d); (e)(1), (4)(G) and (4)(H); and (f)(2) through (5). EPA...

40 CFR 16.12 - Specific exemptions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 1974 § 16.12 Specific exemptions. (a) Exemption under 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(2)—(1) Systems of records... Personnel Security Files. EPA-46OCEFT/NEIC Master Tracking System. (2) Authority. Under 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(2... U.S.C. 552a(k)(2): 5 U.S.C. 552a(c)(3); (d); (e)(1), (4)(G) and (4)(H); and (f)(2) through (5). EPA...

40 CFR 16.12 - Specific exemptions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 1974 § 16.12 Specific exemptions. (a) Exemption under 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(2)—(1) Systems of records... Personnel Security Files. EPA-46OCEFT/NEIC Master Tracking System. (2) Authority. Under 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(2... U.S.C. 552a(k)(2): 5 U.S.C. 552a(c)(3); (d); (e)(1), (4)(G) and (4)(H); and (f)(2) through (5). EPA...

40 CFR 16.12 - Specific exemptions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... 1974 § 16.12 Specific exemptions. (a) Exemption under 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(2)—(1) Systems of records... Personnel Security Files. EPA-46OCEFT/NEIC Master Tracking System. (2) Authority. Under 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(2... U.S.C. 552a(k)(2): 5 U.S.C. 552a(c)(3); (d); (e)(1), (4)(G) and (4)(H); and (f)(2) through (5). EPA...

40 CFR 16.12 - Specific exemptions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 1974 § 16.12 Specific exemptions. (a) Exemption under 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(2)—(1) Systems of records... Personnel Security Files. EPA-46OCEFT/NEIC Master Tracking System. (2) Authority. Under 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(2... U.S.C. 552a(k)(2): 5 U.S.C. 552a(c)(3); (d); (e)(1), (4)(G) and (4)(H); and (f)(2) through (5). EPA...

Quality expectations and tolerance limits of trial master files (TMF) – Developing a risk-based approach for quality assessments of TMFs

PubMed Central

Hecht, Arthur; Busch-Heidger, Barbara; Gertzen, Heiner; Pfister, Heike; Ruhfus, Birgit; Sanden, Per-Holger; Schmidt, Gabriele B.

2015-01-01

This article addresses the question of when a trial master file (TMF) can be considered sufficiently accurate and complete: What attributes does the TMF need to have so that a clinical trial can be adequately reconstructed from documented data and procedures? Clinical trial sponsors face significant challenges in assembling the TMF, especially when dealing with large, international, multicenter studies; despite all newly introduced archiving techniques it is becoming more and more difficult to ensure that the TMF is complete. This is directly reflected in the number of inspection findings reported and published by the EMA in 2014. Based on quality risk management principles in clinical trials the authors defined the quality expectations for the different document types in a TMF and furthermore defined tolerance limits for missing documents. This publication provides guidance on what type of documents and processes are most important, and in consequence, indicates on which documents and processes trial team staff should focus in order to achieve a high-quality TMF. The members of this working group belong to the CQAG Group (Clinical Quality Assurance Germany) and are QA (quality assurance) experts (auditors or compliance functions) with long-term experience in the practical handling of TMFs. PMID:26693218

Quality expectations and tolerance limits of trial master files (TMF) - Developing a risk-based approach for quality assessments of TMFs.

PubMed

Hecht, Arthur; Busch-Heidger, Barbara; Gertzen, Heiner; Pfister, Heike; Ruhfus, Birgit; Sanden, Per-Holger; Schmidt, Gabriele B

2015-01-01

This article addresses the question of when a trial master file (TMF) can be considered sufficiently accurate and complete: What attributes does the TMF need to have so that a clinical trial can be adequately reconstructed from documented data and procedures? Clinical trial sponsors face significant challenges in assembling the TMF, especially when dealing with large, international, multicenter studies; despite all newly introduced archiving techniques it is becoming more and more difficult to ensure that the TMF is complete. This is directly reflected in the number of inspection findings reported and published by the EMA in 2014. Based on quality risk management principles in clinical trials the authors defined the quality expectations for the different document types in a TMF and furthermore defined tolerance limits for missing documents. This publication provides guidance on what type of documents and processes are most important, and in consequence, indicates on which documents and processes trial team staff should focus in order to achieve a high-quality TMF. The members of this working group belong to the CQAG Group (Clinical Quality Assurance Germany) and are QA (quality assurance) experts (auditors or compliance functions) with long-term experience in the practical handling of TMFs.

Master apical file size - smaller or larger: a systematic review of microbial reduction.

PubMed

Aminoshariae, A; Kulild, J

2015-11-01

The purpose of this systematic review was to determine, in patients undergoing root canal treatment, whether apical enlargement of canals affected microbial reduction. A PICO (population, intervention, comparison and outcome) strategy was developed to identify previously published studies dealing with apical size of canal and microbial reduction. The MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane and PubMed databases were searched. Additionally, the bibliographies of all relevant articles and textbooks were manually searched. Based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, two reviewers independently selected the relevant articles. Due to the variety of methodologies and different techniques used to measure outcome for master apical file enlargement, it was not possible to standardize the research data and to apply a meta-analysis. Seven articles were identified that met the inclusion criteria. Five of the seven articles generally concluded that canal enlargement reduced bioburden in the root canal system. Two articles reported no difference in canals enlarged to size 25 or 40. The results of the systematic review confirmed that more evidence-based research in this area is needed. With the limited information currently available, the best current available clinical evidence suggests that contemporary chemomechanical debridement techniques with canal enlargement techniques do not eliminate bacteria during root canal treatment at any size. © 2014 International Endodontic Journal. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Advantages of using an abbreviated dossier for drug master file applications in Taiwan.

PubMed

Sun, I-Chen

2016-10-01

In Taiwan, the quality of active pharmaceutical ingredients is recorded in a drug master file (DMF), the applications for which can be submitted in two dossier types, either full (complete technical information) or abbreviated (partially complete technical information with an approved document issued by developed countries). However, the advantages of the abbreviated approach remain unknown. This study compared full and abbreviated dossier profiles and reviewed their outcomes in acceptance rates and deficiencies leading to rejection. Data were collected from new submissions of both dossier types that were completed in 2014 by the Center for Drug Evaluation, Taiwan. The results revealed that the abbreviated applications took shorter review time and had a higher acceptance rate. Among the eligible types of document for abbreviated applications, Certification of Suitability to the Monographs of the European Pharmacopeia (CEP) was the most frequently used. For categorical deficiencies, both dossier types presented the deficiencies in similar sections leading to rejection, namely Manufacture (3.2.S.2), Control of drug substance (3.2.S.4), and Stability (3.2.S.7). In summary, CEP serves a favorable document for the abbreviated DMF application in which it shortens the review time, increases the acceptance rate, and its deficiencies are similar to those of the full DMF application. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

The work-related fatal injury study: numbers, rates and trends of work-related fatal injuries in New Zealand 1985-1994.

PubMed

Feyer, A M; Langley, J; Howard, M; Horsburgh, S; Wright, C; Alsop, J; Cryer, C

2001-01-26

To determine the number and rates of work-related fatal injuries by employment status, occupation, industry, age and gender in New Zealand 1985-1994. Potential cases of work-related injury deaths of persons aged 15-84 years were identified from the national electronic mortality data files. Main exclusions were deaths due to suicide and deaths due to motor vehicle crashes. The circumstances of the deaths of each fatal incident meeting inclusion criteria were then reviewed directly from coronial files to determine work-relatedness. The rate of work-related fatal injury in New Zealand was 5.03/100000 workers per year for the study period. There was a significant decline in crude rate over the study period. However, this was in substantial part accounted for by changes in occupation and industry mix. Older workers, male workers, self-employed workers, and particular occupational groups, all had substantially elevated rates. Agricultural and helicopter pilots, forestry workers and fishery workers had the highest rates. Farmers, forestry workers, and fishery workers also had high numbers of deaths, together accounting for nearly 40% of all deaths. This study has demonstrated that work-related fatal injury remains a pressing problem for New Zealand. Several areas in urgent need of prevention efforts were highlighted.

Giving Voice to Critical Campus Issues. Qualitative Research in Student Affairs.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Manning, Kathleen, Ed.

This book presents six qualitative research studies written by graduate students in the Higher Education and Student Affairs masters program at the University of Vermont. The papers provide case studies concerning suicide, acquaintance rape, alcohol-related student death, classism, adult children of alcoholics, and multiracial identity. Following…

The Shadow Play: How the Integration of Technology Annihilates Debate in Our Schools.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Burniske, R. W.

1998-01-01

Education's greatest threat is the death of dialectics. In Malaysia, government censorship thwarts debate; in America, corporate brainwashing achieves the same result. Consumers have embraced computer technology with too little public discourse. Infatuation with television (screen shadows) distracts people from the puppet master's motives and…

New method for calculating a mathematical expression for streamflow recession

USGS Publications Warehouse

Rutledge, Albert T.

1991-01-01

An empirical method has been devised to calculate the master recession curve, which is a mathematical expression for streamflow recession during times of negligible direct runoff. The method is based on the assumption that the storage-delay factor, which is the time per log cycle of streamflow recession, varies linearly with the logarithm of streamflow. The resulting master recession curve can be nonlinear. The method can be executed by a computer program that reads a data file of daily mean streamflow, then allows the user to select several near-linear segments of streamflow recession. The storage-delay factor for each segment is one of the coefficients of the equation that results from linear least-squares regression. Using results for each recession segment, a mathematical expression of the storage-delay factor as a function of the log of streamflow is determined by linear least-squares regression. The master recession curve, which is a second-order polynomial expression for time as a function of log of streamflow, is then derived using the coefficients of this function.

26 CFR 20.6071-1 - Time for filing preliminary notice required by § 20.6036-1.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... executor or administrator of the estate of such a decedent who was a resident or a citizen of the United States qualifies within 2 months after a decedent's death, or if a duly qualified executor or... filed within 2 months after his qualification. If no such executor or administrator qualifies within...

Using multiple cause-of-death data to investigate associations and causality between conditions listed on the death certificate.

PubMed

Redelings, Matthew D; Wise, Matthew; Sorvillo, Frank

2007-07-01

Death rarely results from only one cause, and it can be caused by a variety of factors. Multiple cause-of-death data files can list as many as 20 contributing causes of death in addition to the reported underlying cause of death. Analysis of multiple cause-of-death data can provide information on associations between causes of death, revealing common combinations of events or conditions which lead to death. Additionally, physicians report the causal train of events through which they believe that different conditions or events may have led to each other and ultimately caused death. In this paper, the authors discuss methods used in studying associations between reported causes of death and in investigating commonly reported causal pathways between events or conditions listed on the death certificate.

20 CFR 404.392 - Who is entitled to the lump-sum death payment when there is no widow(er) who was living in the...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

...) on the work record of the deceased worker for the month of that worker's death; or (2) If no person... timely application been filed) to child's benefits (as described in § 404.350) on the work record of the... the month prior to the death of the insured, that person was entitled to wife's or husband's benefits...

ANOVA like analysis of cancer death age

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Areia, Aníbal; Mexia, João T.

2016-06-01

We use ANOVA to study the influence of year, sex, country and location on the average cancer death age. The data used was from the World Health Organization (WHO) files for 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011. The locations considered were: kidney, leukaemia, melanoma of skin and oesophagus and the countries: Portugal, Norway, Greece and Romania.

Teenage Suicide in Oregon 1983-1985.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Oregon State Dept. of Human Resources, Portland.

During the 3-year period from 1983 through 1985, 80 Oregon teenagers intentionally took their own lives, making suicide second only to accidents as the leading cause of death among Oregon teenagers. Data on suicides committed by individuals between the ages of 10 and 19 were retrieved from death certificates on file with the Oregon Health Division…

Reading Guidance: Death and Grief.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Smith, Alice Gullen

1989-01-01

Gives guidelines for the librarian using reading guidance (similar to bibliotherapy). Provides a nine-item annotated bibliography of novels for children and adolescents on the subject of death and grief. Appends an embryo list of categories suitable for content analysis of any file librarians might wish to keep on books suitable for use in this…

Automatic ICD-10 multi-class classification of cause of death from plaintext autopsy reports through expert-driven feature selection.

PubMed

Mujtaba, Ghulam; Shuib, Liyana; Raj, Ram Gopal; Rajandram, Retnagowri; Shaikh, Khairunisa; Al-Garadi, Mohammed Ali

2017-01-01

Widespread implementation of electronic databases has improved the accessibility of plaintext clinical information for supplementary use. Numerous machine learning techniques, such as supervised machine learning approaches or ontology-based approaches, have been employed to obtain useful information from plaintext clinical data. This study proposes an automatic multi-class classification system to predict accident-related causes of death from plaintext autopsy reports through expert-driven feature selection with supervised automatic text classification decision models. Accident-related autopsy reports were obtained from one of the largest hospital in Kuala Lumpur. These reports belong to nine different accident-related causes of death. Master feature vector was prepared by extracting features from the collected autopsy reports by using unigram with lexical categorization. This master feature vector was used to detect cause of death [according to internal classification of disease version 10 (ICD-10) classification system] through five automated feature selection schemes, proposed expert-driven approach, five subset sizes of features, and five machine learning classifiers. Model performance was evaluated using precisionM, recallM, F-measureM, accuracy, and area under ROC curve. Four baselines were used to compare the results with the proposed system. Random forest and J48 decision models parameterized using expert-driven feature selection yielded the highest evaluation measure approaching (85% to 90%) for most metrics by using a feature subset size of 30. The proposed system also showed approximately 14% to 16% improvement in the overall accuracy compared with the existing techniques and four baselines. The proposed system is feasible and practical to use for automatic classification of ICD-10-related cause of death from autopsy reports. The proposed system assists pathologists to accurately and rapidly determine underlying cause of death based on autopsy findings. Furthermore, the proposed expert-driven feature selection approach and the findings are generally applicable to other kinds of plaintext clinical reports.

Automatic ICD-10 multi-class classification of cause of death from plaintext autopsy reports through expert-driven feature selection

PubMed Central

Mujtaba, Ghulam; Shuib, Liyana; Raj, Ram Gopal; Rajandram, Retnagowri; Shaikh, Khairunisa; Al-Garadi, Mohammed Ali

2017-01-01

Objectives Widespread implementation of electronic databases has improved the accessibility of plaintext clinical information for supplementary use. Numerous machine learning techniques, such as supervised machine learning approaches or ontology-based approaches, have been employed to obtain useful information from plaintext clinical data. This study proposes an automatic multi-class classification system to predict accident-related causes of death from plaintext autopsy reports through expert-driven feature selection with supervised automatic text classification decision models. Methods Accident-related autopsy reports were obtained from one of the largest hospital in Kuala Lumpur. These reports belong to nine different accident-related causes of death. Master feature vector was prepared by extracting features from the collected autopsy reports by using unigram with lexical categorization. This master feature vector was used to detect cause of death [according to internal classification of disease version 10 (ICD-10) classification system] through five automated feature selection schemes, proposed expert-driven approach, five subset sizes of features, and five machine learning classifiers. Model performance was evaluated using precisionM, recallM, F-measureM, accuracy, and area under ROC curve. Four baselines were used to compare the results with the proposed system. Results Random forest and J48 decision models parameterized using expert-driven feature selection yielded the highest evaluation measure approaching (85% to 90%) for most metrics by using a feature subset size of 30. The proposed system also showed approximately 14% to 16% improvement in the overall accuracy compared with the existing techniques and four baselines. Conclusion The proposed system is feasible and practical to use for automatic classification of ICD-10-related cause of death from autopsy reports. The proposed system assists pathologists to accurately and rapidly determine underlying cause of death based on autopsy findings. Furthermore, the proposed expert-driven feature selection approach and the findings are generally applicable to other kinds of plaintext clinical reports. PMID:28166263

The Effect of Graduate Education on the Performance of Air Force Officers

DTIC Science & Technology

2007-03-01

models are estimated to examine the effects of graduate education on the retention of Captains and Majors and on promotion to Major using data from... education on the retention of Captains and Majors and on promotion to Major using data from the Active Duty Military Master File for fiscal years 1992...empirical methodology utilized. Chapter V discusses descriptive statistics and model results and their relevance to the effects of graduate education

SSL - THE SIMPLE SOCKETS LIBRARY

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Campbell, C. E.

1994-01-01

The Simple Sockets Library (SSL) allows C programmers to develop systems of cooperating programs using Berkeley streaming Sockets running under the TCP/IP protocol over Ethernet. The SSL provides a simple way to move information between programs running on the same or different machines and does so with little overhead. The SSL can create three types of Sockets: namely a server, a client, and an accept Socket. The SSL's Sockets are designed to be used in a fashion reminiscent of the use of FILE pointers so that a C programmer who is familiar with reading and writing files will immediately feel comfortable with reading and writing with Sockets. The SSL consists of three parts: the library, PortMaster, and utilities. The user of the SSL accesses it by linking programs to the SSL library. The PortMaster initializes connections between clients and servers. The PortMaster also supports a "firewall" facility to keep out socket requests from unapproved machines. The "firewall" is a file which contains Internet addresses for all approved machines. There are three utilities provided with the SSL. SKTDBG can be used to debug programs that make use of the SSL. SPMTABLE lists the servers and port numbers on requested machine(s). SRMSRVR tells the PortMaster to forcibly remove a server name from its list. The package also includes two example programs: multiskt.c, which makes multiple accepts on one server, and sktpoll.c, which repeatedly attempts to connect a client to some server at one second intervals. SSL is a machine independent library written in the C-language for computers connected via Ethernet using the TCP/IP protocol. It has been successfully compiled and implemented on a variety of platforms, including Sun series computers running SunOS, DEC VAX series computers running VMS, SGI computers running IRIX, DECstations running ULTRIX, DEC alpha AXPs running OSF/1, IBM RS/6000 computers running AIX, IBM PC and compatibles running BSD/386 UNIX and HP Apollo 3000/4000/9000/400T computers running HP-UX. SSL requires 45K of RAM to run under SunOS and 80K of RAM to run under VMS. For use on IBM PC series computers and compatibles running DOS, SSL requires Microsoft C 6.0 and the Wollongong TCP/IP package. Source code for sample programs and debugging tools are provided. The documentation is available on the distribution medium in TeX and PostScript formats. The standard distribution medium for SSL is a .25 inch streaming magnetic tape cartridge (QIC-24) in UNIX tar format. It is also available on a 3.5 inch diskette in UNIX tar format and a 5.25 inch 360K MS-DOS format diskette. The SSL was developed in 1992 and was updated in 1993.

Uniform and blinded cause of death verification of the NELSON lung cancer screening participants.

PubMed

Yousaf-Khan, A U; van der Aalst, C M; Aerts, J G J V; den Bakker, M A; de Koning, H J

2017-09-01

Primary outcome of the Dutch-Belgian lung cancer screening trial (NELSON) is lung cancer-specific mortality. Accurate assessment of the cause of death (CoD) is crucial. As death certificates regarding the CoD can be inaccurate, a clinical expert committee (CEC) was formed to assign the CoD. In this study, the medical files of deceased lung cancer patients were reviewed and the outcomes were compared with official death certificates. The first 266 completed medical files of Dutch deceased participants who were diagnosed with lung cancer during the study or of those with lung cancer on the death certificate were selected and blinded towards arms and patients identity. The end product of the review process consisted of six possible categories which defined the graduation of certainty that lung cancer was the primary CoD. The percentage agreement and the Cohen's kappa statistics between the two CEC-memberswere calculated. The sensitivity and specificity of the official death certificates were determined. The results indicated that, the overall concordance and the Cohen's kappa between the CEC-memberswere 86.1% and 0.57(0.45-0.69, p<0.001), respectively. This level increased with the numbers of cases evaluated. The sensitivity and the specificity of the official death certificate were 92.6% and 98.8%; 6.5% cases were reclassified to lung cancer specific death, which is lower than in the National Lung Screening trial(22.0%). Concluding, each death should be reviewed by at least two members. So far, in the NELSON trial, possible biases related to lung cancer death seem relatively small. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

EOS MLS Level 2 Data Processing Software Version 3

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Livesey, Nathaniel J.; VanSnyder, Livesey W.; Read, William G.; Schwartz, Michael J.; Lambert, Alyn; Santee, Michelle L.; Nguyen, Honghanh T.; Froidevaux, Lucien; wang, Shuhui; Manney, Gloria L.;

Region 9 2010 Census Web Service

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

This web service displays data collected during the 2010 U.S. Census. The data are organized into layers representing Tract, Block, and Block Group visualizations. Geography The TIGER Line Files are feature classes and related database files that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Census tracts are small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county or equivalent entity, and were defined by local participants as part of the 2010 Census Participant Statistical Areas Program. The Census Bureau delineated the census tracts in situations where no local participant existed or where all the potential participants declined to participate. The primary purpose of census tracts is to provide a stable set of geographic units for the presentation of census data and comparison back to previous decennial censuses. Census tracts generally have a population size between 1,200 and 8,000 people, with an optimum size of 4,000 people. When first delineated, census tracts were designed to be homogeneous with respect to population characteristics, economic status

The Mixed Legacy of Clark Kerr: A Personal View

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Lustig, Jeff

2004-01-01

The death of famed educator Clark Kerr last December evoked tributes and testimonials everywhere from the "New York Times" to local faculty bulletins. Architect of California's famous Master Plan of 1960, skilled labor mediator, first president of the University of California system, bete noir of the early student movement, and chair of…

20 CFR 10.103 - How and when is a claim for permanent impairment filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.103 How and when is a claim for permanent impairment filed? Form CA-7 is used to claim compensation for impairment to a body part covered under the... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false How and when is a claim for permanent...

20 CFR 10.103 - How and when is a claim for permanent impairment filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.103 How and when is a claim for permanent impairment filed? Form CA-7 is used to claim compensation for impairment to a body part covered under the... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false How and when is a claim for permanent...

20 CFR 10.100 - How and when is a notice of traumatic injury filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false How and when is a notice of traumatic injury..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.100 How and when is a notice of traumatic injury filed? (a) To claim benefits under the FECA, an employee who sustains a work-related traumatic injury...

20 CFR 10.100 - How and when is a notice of traumatic injury filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false How and when is a notice of traumatic injury..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.100 How and when is a notice of traumatic injury filed? (a) To claim benefits under the FECA, an employee who sustains a work-related traumatic injury...

20 CFR 10.100 - How and when is a notice of traumatic injury filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2014-04-01 2012-04-01 true How and when is a notice of traumatic injury..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.100 How and when is a notice of traumatic injury filed? (a) To claim benefits under the FECA, an employee who sustains a work-related traumatic injury...

20 CFR 10.100 - How and when is a notice of traumatic injury filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false How and when is a notice of traumatic injury..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.100 How and when is a notice of traumatic injury filed? (a) To claim benefits under the FECA, an employee who sustains a work-related traumatic injury...

20 CFR 10.100 - How and when is a notice of traumatic injury filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2013-04-01 2012-04-01 true How and when is a notice of traumatic injury..., Disease, and Death-Employee Or Survivor's Actions § 10.100 How and when is a notice of traumatic injury filed? (a) To claim benefits under the FECA, an employee who sustains a work-related traumatic injury...

Lightning-associated deaths--United States, 1980-1995.

PubMed

1998-05-22

A lightning strike can cause death or various injuries to one or several persons. The mechanism of injury is unique, and the manifestations differ from those of other electrical injuries. In the United States, lightning causes more deaths than do most other natural hazards (e.g., hurricanes and tornadoes), although the incidence of lightning-related deaths has decreased since the 1950s. The cases described in this report illustrate diverse circumstances in which deaths attributable to lightning can occur. This report also summarizes data from the Compressed Mortality File of CDC's National Center for Health Statistics on lightning fatalities in the United States from 1980 through 1995, when 1318 deaths were attributed to lightning.

[Manuscripts don't burn].

PubMed

Lund, P J

2001-06-30

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) studied at Kiev University and qualified in medicine in 1916. He worked as a doctor for a few years, then chose a literary career. All his life he was sceptical to the Soviet system and used his satire against the regime. Because of that he met difficulties as an author and could not publish anything after 1927. He worked on his main work, The Master and Margarita, from 1928 until his death. The novel was not published in his lifetime. In 1966-67 an abridged and censored edition appeared. Not until 1973 was a complete edition published in Moscow, and it soon became a cult book in Russia. In the major part of The Master and Margarita, the scene is in Moscow between the two world wars, with Bulgakov using his own experience. Through subtle irony and wild humour he exposes the imperfections of this society. To obtain this, he employs the Devil with his suite of strange figures. The book is also a love story between the Master and Margarita. The Master is writing a novel about Pontius Pilate, and this narrative runs parallel to the Moscow story, so that the book puts an eternal perspective on human frailty.

20 CFR 410.210 - Conditions of entitlement; widow or surviving divorced wife.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT OF 1969, TITLE IV-BLACK LUNG BENEFITS (1969- ) Requirements for Entitlement... miner's death); (c) Has filed a claim for benefits in accordance with the provisions of §§ 410.220...) The deceased miner: (1) Was entitled to benefits at the time of his death; or (2) Died before January...

20 CFR 410.210 - Conditions of entitlement; widow or surviving divorced wife.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT OF 1969, TITLE IV-BLACK LUNG BENEFITS (1969- ) Requirements for Entitlement... miner's death); (c) Has filed a claim for benefits in accordance with the provisions of §§ 410.220...) The deceased miner: (1) Was entitled to benefits at the time of his death; or (2) Died before January...

20 CFR 416.1595 - When the Appeals Council will dismiss a request for review.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME FOR THE AGED, BLIND, AND DISABLED Representation of Parties § 416.1595 When the... dismissal. (b) Death of party. The Appeals Council may dismiss a request for review in the event of the death of the representative. (c) Request for review not timely filed. The Appeals Council will dismiss a...

20 CFR 702.221 - Claims for compensation; time limitations.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... which the injury or death occurred. The Social Security Number (SSN) of the injured employee and, in... year of the injury or death, or (where payment is made without an award) within one year of the date on... filing a claim does not begin to run until the employee receives an audiogram with the accompanying...

Processing EOS MLS Level-2 Data

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Snyder, W. Van; Wu, Dong; Read, William; Jiang, Jonathan; Wagner, Paul; Livesey, Nathaniel; Schwartz, Michael; Filipiak, Mark; Pumphrey, Hugh; Shippony, Zvi

2006-01-01

A computer program performs level-2 processing of thermal-microwave-radiance data from observations of the limb of the Earth by the Earth Observing System (EOS) Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS). The purpose of the processing is to estimate the composition and temperature of the atmosphere versus altitude from .8 to .90 km. "Level-2" as used here is a specialists f term signifying both vertical profiles of geophysical parameters along the measurement track of the instrument and processing performed by this or other software to generate such profiles. Designed to be flexible, the program is controlled via a configuration file that defines all aspects of processing, including contents of state and measurement vectors, configurations of forward models, measurement and calibration data to be read, and the manner of inverting the models to obtain the desired estimates. The program can operate in a parallel form in which one instance of the program acts a master, coordinating the work of multiple slave instances on a cluster of computers, each slave operating on a portion of the data. Optionally, the configuration file can be made to instruct the software to produce files of simulated radiances based on state vectors formed from sets of geophysical data-product files taken as input.

Fracture resistance exhibited by endodontically treated and retreated teeth shaped by ProTaper NEXT versus WaveOne: An in vitro study

PubMed Central

Khalap, Neha Deepak; Hegde, Vibha; Kokate, Sharad

2015-01-01

Aim: To compare the fracture resistance exhibited by teeth after primary endodontic treatment and retreatment. Materials and Methods: One hundred freshly extracted human teeth were selected. 20 samples served as control (untreated). Eighty experimental samples were divided into two groups (n = 40) for instrumentation using rotary Protaper NEXT (PTN) or reciprocating WaveOne (WO) files and obturated using warm lateral compaction. Half of the samples (n = 20) from each group were subjected to a load. The remaining half were subjected to retreatment using Protaper universal retreatment files (RFs) followed by a file larger than the master apical file used in groups 1 and 2 and reobturated. Group A: Control, Group B: PTN + obturation, Group C: WO + obturation, Group D: RF + PTN + obturation and Group E: RF + WO + obturation. The retreatment specimens were also subjected to load and the readings acquired were statistically analyzed. Result: When compared between the groups, control group exhibited the highest fracture resistance (P < 0.01). When multiple tests were performed, Group E exhibited significantly less fracture resistance (P < 0.01). Conclusion: Endodontic treatment and retreatment both results in lowering the fracture resistance of a tooth. PMID:26752838

Fracture resistance exhibited by endodontically treated and retreated teeth shaped by ProTaper NEXT versus WaveOne: An in vitro study.

PubMed

Khalap, Neha Deepak; Hegde, Vibha; Kokate, Sharad

2015-01-01

To compare the fracture resistance exhibited by teeth after primary endodontic treatment and retreatment. One hundred freshly extracted human teeth were selected. 20 samples served as control (untreated). Eighty experimental samples were divided into two groups (n = 40) for instrumentation using rotary Protaper NEXT (PTN) or reciprocating WaveOne (WO) files and obturated using warm lateral compaction. Half of the samples (n = 20) from each group were subjected to a load. The remaining half were subjected to retreatment using Protaper universal retreatment files (RFs) followed by a file larger than the master apical file used in groups 1 and 2 and reobturated. Group A: Control, Group B: PTN + obturation, Group C: WO + obturation, Group D: RF + PTN + obturation and Group E: RF + WO + obturation. The retreatment specimens were also subjected to load and the readings acquired were statistically analyzed. When compared between the groups, control group exhibited the highest fracture resistance (P < 0.01). When multiple tests were performed, Group E exhibited significantly less fracture resistance (P < 0.01). Endodontic treatment and retreatment both results in lowering the fracture resistance of a tooth.

Parts on Demand: Evaluation of Approaches to Achieve Flexible Manufacturing Systems for Navy Partson Demand. Volume 1

DTIC Science & Technology

1984-02-01

measurable impact if changed. The following items were included in the sample: * Mark Zero Items -Low demand insurance items which represent about three...R&D efforts reviewed. The resulting assessment highlighted the generic enabling technologies and cross- cutting R&D projects required to focus current...supplied by spot buys, and which may generate Navy Inventory Control Numbers (NICN). Random samples of data were extracted from the Master Data File ( MDF

Update of the U.S. Army Research Institute’s Longitudinal Research Data Base of Enlisted Personnel

DTIC Science & Technology

1992-08-01

accession data elements, including Composite score data from the Army Classification Battery Test (ACB), were captured for each individual. For each...individual, Skill Qualifying Test (SQT) scores were included beginning in 1980 and additional data were included from the Enlisted Master File (EMF). The...entry into active duty for current tour, pay grade, Composite and SQT scores , and military occupation specialty (MOS). The EPRDB is designed to play an

Trends and predictors of publicly subsidized chiropractic service use among adults age 50+.

PubMed

Votova, Kristine; Penning, Margaret J; Zheng, Chi; Brackley, Moyra E

2010-09-01

This article examines trends in and predictors of publicly subsidized chiropractic use from 1991 to 2000, a decade characterized by health care system reforms throughout North America. The sample included adults age 50+ who visited a publicly subsidized chiropractor in the Canadian province of British Columbia during the study period. Administrative claims data for chiropractic service use were drawn from the Medical Services Plan (MSP) Master file in the British Columbia Linked Health Data resource. The MSP Master file contains claims reported for every provincially insured medical service and supplementary health benefit including chiropractic visits. Joinpoint regression analyses demonstrate that while annual rates of chiropractic users did not change over the decade, visit rates decreased during this period. Predictors of a greater number of chiropractic visits include increasing age, female gender, urban residence, low to moderate income, and use of chiropractic services earlier in the decade. The trend toward decreasing visit rates over the 1990s both conflicts with and is consistent with findings from other North American chiropractic studies using similar time periods. Results indicating that low and moderate income and advancing age predict more frequent chiropractic service are novel. However, given that lower income and older individuals were exempted from chiropractic service limits during this period, these results suggest support for the responsive nature of chiropractic use to financial barriers.

Description of the process used to create 1992 Hanford Morality Study database

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Gilbert, E.S.; Buchanan, J.A.; Holter, N.A.

1992-12-01

An updated and expanded database for the Hanford Mortality Study has been developed by PNL`s Epidemiology and Biometry Department. The purpose of this report is to document this process. The primary sources of data were the Occupational Health History (OHH) files maintained by the Hanford Environmental Health Foundation (HEHF) and including demographic data and job histories; the Hanford Mortality (HMO) files also maintained by HEHF and including information of deaths of Hanford workers; the Occupational Radiation Exposure (ORE) files maintained by PNL`s Health Physics Department and containing data on external dosimetry; and a file of workers with confirmed internal depositionsmore » of radionuclides also maintained by PNL`s Health Physics Department. This report describes each of these files in detail, and also describes the many edits that were performed to address the consistency and accuracy of data within and between these files.« less

Description of the process used to create 1992 Hanford Morality Study database

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Gilbert, E. S.; Buchanan, J. A.; Holter, N. A.

1992-12-01

An updated and expanded database for the Hanford Mortality Study has been developed by PNL's Epidemiology and Biometry Department. The purpose of this report is to document this process. The primary sources of data were the Occupational Health History (OHH) files maintained by the Hanford Environmental Health Foundation (HEHF) and including demographic data and job histories; the Hanford Mortality (HMO) files also maintained by HEHF and including information of deaths of Hanford workers; the Occupational Radiation Exposure (ORE) files maintained by PNL's Health Physics Department and containing data on external dosimetry; and a file of workers with confirmed internal depositionsmore » of radionuclides also maintained by PNL's Health Physics Department. This report describes each of these files in detail, and also describes the many edits that were performed to address the consistency and accuracy of data within and between these files.« less

Let's Go Under! Teaching Water Safety Skills Using a Behavioral Treatment Package

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Levy, Kimberly M.; Ainsleigh, Susan A.; Hunsinger-Harris, Melissa L.

2017-01-01

Drowning is a leading cause of unintentional death among children worldwide. Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at higher risk for incidents of drowning then their non-disabled peers. Mastering water safety skills, such as underwater submersion, has been associated with a decreased risk for incidents of drowning. Using a combined…

Factors influencing publication of scientific articles derived from masters theses in public health.

PubMed

Hollmann, Malen; Borrell, Carme; Garin, Olatz; Fernández, Esteve; Alonso, Jordi

2015-05-01

To evaluate theses of a Masters program in Public Health (MPH), in terms of the students' and theses' characteristics that influence publication of the thesis as a scientific article. Longitudinal study of students who successfully completed the MPH at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) from 2006 to 2010. Participants completed an electronic survey and additional data were gathered from university files. 162 students participated in the study (83 % response rate). 60.5 % had already published an article derived from their thesis at the time of the study or were in process of publishing it. The likelihood of publishing in a peer-reviewed journal was greater among women (aRR = 1.41), among those who had a bachelor's degree in sciences other than health (aRR = 1.40), had completed the MPH on time (aRR = 2.10), had enrolled in a doctoral program after the MPH (aRR = 1.44) or had a masters thesis score of ≥7 (aRR = 1.61). The majority of MPH students published their thesis in a peer-reviewed journal. The strongest predictors of successful publication were related to academic performance.

Assessment of geometrical characteristics of dental endodontic micro-instruments utilizing X-ray micro computed tomography

PubMed Central

Al JABBARI, Youssef S.; TSAKIRIDIS, Peter; ELIADES, George; AL-HADLAQ, Solaiman M.; ZINELIS, Spiros

2012-01-01

Objective The aim of this study was to quantify the surface area, volume and specific surface area of endodontic files employing quantitative X-ray micro computed tomography (mXCT). Material and Methods Three sets (six files each) of the Flex-Master Ni-Ti system (Nº 20, 25 and 30, taper .04) were utilized in this study. The files were scanned by mXCT. The surface area and volume of all files were determined from the cutting tip up to 16 mm. The data from the surface area, volume and specific area were statistically evaluated using the one-way ANOVA and SNK multiple comparison tests at α=0.05, employing the file size as a discriminating variable. The correlation between the surface area and volume with nominal ISO sizes were tested employing linear regression analysis. Results The surface area and volume of Nº 30 files showed the highest value followed by Nº 25 and Nº 20 and the differences were statistically significant. The Nº 20 files showed a significantly higher specific surface area compared to Nº 25 and Nº 30. The increase in surface and volume towards higher file sizes follows a linear relationship with the nominal ISO sizes (r2=0.930 for surface area and r2=0.974 for volume respectively). Results indicated that the surface area and volume demonstrated an almost linear increase while the specific surface area exhibited an abrupt decrease towards higher sizes. Conclusions This study demonstrates that mXCT can be effectively applied to discriminate very small differences in the geometrical features of endodontic micro-instruments, while providing quantitative information for their geometrical properties. PMID:23329248

Constellation Program Electrical Ground Support Equipment Research and Development

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

McCoy, Keegan S.

2010-01-01

At the Kennedy Space Center, I engaged in the research and development of electrical ground support equipment for NASA's Constellation Program. Timing characteristics playa crucial role in ground support communications. Latency and jitter are two problems that must be understood so that communications are timely and consistent within the Kennedy Ground Control System (KGCS). I conducted latency and jitter tests using Alien-Bradley programmable logic controllers (PLCs) so that these two intrinsic network properties can be reduced. Time stamping and clock synchronization also play significant roles in launch processing and operations. Using RSLogix 5000 project files and Wireshark network protocol analyzing software, I verified master/slave PLC Ethernet module clock synchronization, master/slave IEEE 1588 communications, and time stamping capabilities. All of the timing and synchronization test results are useful in assessing the current KGCS operational level and determining improvements for the future.

SynTrack: DNA Assembly Workflow Management (SynTrack) v2.0.1

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

MENG, XIANWEI; SIMIRENKO, LISA

2016-12-01

SynTrack is a dynamic, workflow-driven data management system that tracks the DNA build process: Management of the hierarchical relationships of the DNA fragments; Monitoring of process tasks for the assembly of multiple DNA fragments into final constructs; Creations of vendor order forms with selectable building blocks. Organizing plate layouts barcodes for vendor/pcr/fusion/chewback/bioassay/glycerol/master plate maps (default/condensed); Creating or updating Pre-Assembly/Assembly process workflows with selected building blocks; Generating Echo pooling instructions based on plate maps; Tracking of building block orders, received and final assembled for delivering; Bulk updating of colony or PCR amplification information, fusion PCR and chewback results; Updating with QA/QCmore » outcome with .csv & .xlsx template files; Re-work assembly workflow enabled before and after sequencing validation; and Tracking of plate/well data changes and status updates and reporting of master plate status with QC outcomes.« less

Publication of science data on CD-ROM: A guide and example

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Angelici, Gary; Skiles, J. W.

1993-01-01

CD-ROM (Compact Disk-Read Only Memory) is becoming the standard media not only in audio recording, but also in the publication of data and information accessible on many computer platforms. Little has been written about the complicated process involved in creating easy-to-use, high quality, and useful CD-ROM's containing scientific data. This document is a manual designed to aid those who are responsible for the publication of scientific data on CD-ROM. All aspects and steps of the procedure are covered, from feasibility assessment through disk design, data preparation, disc mastering, and CD-ROM distribution. General advice and actual examples are based on lessons learned from the publication of scientific data for an interdisciplinary field experiment. Appendices include actual files from a CD-ROM, a purchase request for CD-ROM mastering services, and the disk art for the first disk published for the project.

20 CFR 219.63 - What evidence is required to establish “good cause”.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... required to establish “good cause”. The Board will ask for the following evidence of “good cause”: (a) The claimant's signed statement explaining why he or she did not file the application for lump-sum death payment or annuity unpaid at death or the parent's proof of support within the specified two-year period...

The New Zealand child work-related fatal injury study: 1985-1998.

PubMed

Lilley, Rebbecca; Feyer, Anne-Marie; Langley, John; Wren, John

2004-05-21

To estimate the numbers and rates of work-related fatal injury for children under the age of 15 years. Potential cases of work-related injury deaths of persons aged <15 years of age were identified from the national electronic mortality data-files for the period 1985-1998 inclusive. The circumstances of the death in each fatality incident were reviewed directly from coronial files to determine work-relatedness. A total of 87 workplace work-related fatalities were identified. The vast majority of children identified were fatally injured while a bystander to another person's work. Workplace bystander involvement was found to vary by age, with the majority of workers identified aged 10-14 years old. With a third of all fatalities, the agricultural industry was the most common industry for workplace work-related fatalities in children. In the period 1985-94, children <15 years of age were found to account for 46% of New Zealand's total workplace bystander deaths. Children contribute significantly to the overall burden of work-related fatal injury in New Zealand, especially as bystanders to other people's work. The high contribution to bystander deaths by children aged <15 years suggests that hazard control in certain work settings is lacking.

Acute mortality in hospitalized patients undergoing echocardiography with and without an ultrasound contrast agent: results in 18,671 consecutive studies.

PubMed

Kusnetzky, Lisa L; Khalid, Adnan; Khumri, Taiyeb M; Moe, Tabitha G; Jones, Philip G; Main, Michael L

2008-04-29

We sought to define acute mortality in hospitalized patients undergoing clinically indicated echocardiography with and without use of an ultrasound contrast agent. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently issued a boxed warning and new contraindications for the perflutren-containing ultrasound contrast agents following post-marketing reports of 4 patient deaths that were temporally related to Definity (Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging, Billerica, Massachusetts) administration. To appreciate the incremental risk of any medical procedure, the ambient risk of untoward outcome in the population in question must first be defined. There are no published data on short-term major adverse cardiac events in hospitalized patients undergoing echocardiography, either with or without administration of an ultrasound contrast agent. A retrospective analysis of hospitalized patients undergoing clinically indicated echocardiography between January 2005 and October 2007, within Saint Luke's Health System, Kansas City, Missouri, was performed. Studies were separated into 2 groups, those performed without contrast enhancement (n = 12,475) and those performed with Definity (n = 6,196). Vital status within 24 h of the echocardiographic study was available for all patients using a combination of the Social Security Death Master File and Saint Luke's Health System medical records. Incidence of death within 24 h was compared by chi-square test between Definity and unenhanced procedures. Of the 18,671 patient events, 72 patients died within 24 h. Of those that underwent unenhanced echocardiography, 46 died within 24 h (0.37%). Of patients receiving Definity during the echocardiogram, 26 died within 24 h (0.42%). There was no statistical difference between these 2 groups (p = 0.60). No patient died within 1 h of the echocardiographic study. In a random sampling from the unenhanced (n = 201) and Definity groups (n = 202), patients who underwent Definity-enhanced echocardiography exhibited higher clinical acuity, and more significant comorbidities. Approximately 0.4% of hospitalized patients die within 24 h of echocardiography. There is no increased mortality risk associated with Definity-enhanced examinations, despite evidence for higher clinical acuity and more comorbid conditions in patients undergoing contrast studies.

Deaths from Resident-to-Resident Aggression in Australian Nursing Homes.

PubMed

Murphy, Briony; Bugeja, Lyndal; Pilgrim, Jennifer; Ibrahim, Joseph E

2017-12-01

To describe the frequency and nature of deaths from resident-to-resident aggression (RRA) in nursing homes in Australia. National population-based retrospective cohort study. Accredited nursing homes in Australia. Residents whose deaths resulted from RRA and were reported to the coroner between July 1, 2000, and December 31, 2013. Cases were identified using the National Coronial Information System, and data on individual, interpersonal, organizational, and societal factors were collected through review of the paper-based coroners' files. This research identified 28 deaths from RRA over a 14-year study period (0.004 per 100,000 bed days). Most exhibitors of aggression were male (n = 24, 85.7%), and risk of death from RRA was twice as high for male as for female nursing home residents (relative risk (RR) = 2.13, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.93-4.80, P = .05). Almost 90% of residents involved in RRA had a diagnosis of dementia, and three-quarters had a history of behavioral problems, including wandering and aggression. Dyad analysis showed that exhibitors of aggression were often younger and more recently admitted to the nursing home than targets. RRA incidents commonly occurred in communal areas and during the afternoon and involved a "push and fall." Seven (25%) RRA deaths had a coronial inquest; criminal charges were rarely filed. This is the first national study in Australia, and the largest internationally, to examine RRA deaths using medicolegal data. This generates hypotheses for future research on the effect of environmental and organizational factors on the frequency and preventability of RRA. © 2017, Copyright the Authors Journal compilation © 2017, The American Geriatrics Society.

Prediction of cause of death from forensic autopsy reports using text classification techniques: A comparative study.

PubMed

Mujtaba, Ghulam; Shuib, Liyana; Raj, Ram Gopal; Rajandram, Retnagowri; Shaikh, Khairunisa

2018-07-01

Automatic text classification techniques are useful for classifying plaintext medical documents. This study aims to automatically predict the cause of death from free text forensic autopsy reports by comparing various schemes for feature extraction, term weighing or feature value representation, text classification, and feature reduction. For experiments, the autopsy reports belonging to eight different causes of death were collected, preprocessed and converted into 43 master feature vectors using various schemes for feature extraction, representation, and reduction. The six different text classification techniques were applied on these 43 master feature vectors to construct a classification model that can predict the cause of death. Finally, classification model performance was evaluated using four performance measures i.e. overall accuracy, macro precision, macro-F-measure, and macro recall. From experiments, it was found that that unigram features obtained the highest performance compared to bigram, trigram, and hybrid-gram features. Furthermore, in feature representation schemes, term frequency, and term frequency with inverse document frequency obtained similar and better results when compared with binary frequency, and normalized term frequency with inverse document frequency. Furthermore, the chi-square feature reduction approach outperformed Pearson correlation, and information gain approaches. Finally, in text classification algorithms, support vector machine classifier outperforms random forest, Naive Bayes, k-nearest neighbor, decision tree, and ensemble-voted classifier. Our results and comparisons hold practical importance and serve as references for future works. Moreover, the comparison outputs will act as state-of-art techniques to compare future proposals with existing automated text classification techniques. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. All rights reserved.

20 CFR 10.710 - Under what circumstances must a recovery of money or other property in connection with an injury...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... FECA be reported to OWCP or SOL? 10.710 Section 10.710 Employees' Benefits OFFICE OF WORKERS... death for which benefits are payable under the FECA be reported to OWCP or SOL? Any person who has filed... received FECA benefits in connection with a claim filed by another, is required to notify OWCP or SOL of...

Region 9 Census Block 2010

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

Geography:The TIGER Line Files are feature classes and related database files (.) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as streets, roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and/or by non visible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads. Census blocks are relatively small in area; for example, a block in a city bounded by streets. However, census blocks in remote areas are often large and irregular and may even be many square miles in area. A common misunderstanding is that data users think census blocks are used geographically to build all other census geographic areas, rather all other census geographic areas are updated and then used as the primary constraints, along with roads and water features, to delineate the tabulation blocks. As a result, all 2010 Census blocks nest within every other 2010 Census geographic area, so that Census Bureau statistical data can be tabulated at the block level and aggregated up t

R2 & NE Block Group - 2010 Census; Housing and Population Summary

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Block Groups (BGs) are defined before tabulation block delineation and numbering, but are clusters of blocks within the same census tract that have the same first digit of their 4-digit census block number from the same decennial census. For example, Census 2000 tabulation blocks 3001, 3002, 3003,.., 3999 within Census 2000 tract 1210.02 are also within BG 3 within that census tract. Census 2000 BGs generally contained between 600 and 3,000 people, with an optimum size of 1,500 people. Most BGs were delineated by local participants in the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP). The Census Bureau delineated BGs only where the PSAP participant declined to delineate BGs or where the Census Bureau could not identify any local PSAP participant. A BG usually covers a contiguous area. Each census tract contains at least one BG, and BGs are uniquely numbered within census tract. Within the standard census geographic hierarchy, BGs never cross

R2 & NE Tract - 2010 Census; Housing and Population Summary

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Census tracts are small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county or equivalent entity, and were defined by local participants as part of the 2010 Census Participant Statistical Areas Program. The Census Bureau delineated the census tracts in situations where no local participant existed or where all the potential participants declined to participate. The primary purpose of census tracts is to provide a stable set of geographic units for the presentation of census data and comparison back to previous decennial censuses. Census tracts generally have a population size between 1,200 and 8,000 people, with an optimum size of 4,000 people. When first delineated, census tracts were designed to be homogeneous with respect to population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions. The spatial size of census tracts varies widely depending on the density of settlement. Physical changes in street patterns caused by highway construction, new

Mortality from accidents, disease, suicide and homicide in the British fishing industry from 1900 to 2010.

PubMed

Roberts, Stephen E; Carter, Tim

2015-01-01

To establish the causes of mortality in the British fishing industry from 1900 up to 2010, to investigate long term trends in mortality and to identify causal factors in the mortality patterns and rates. A longitudinal study, based on examinations of official death inquiry files, marine accident investigation files and reports, death registers and annual death returns. Mortality rates from accidents while working at sea remain high in the British fishing industry. Over the twentieth century there has been a progressive fall in the numbers of deaths, much of this relates to changes in fishing methods and in the types of vessels used. However in recent years, and with a fleet of smaller vessels, the mortality rates from accidents have shown little change and a larger proportion of deaths than in the past have arisen from personal injuries and drowning as compared to vessel losses. Disease makes a relatively small contribution to mortality at sea and this has dwindled with the decline in distant water fishing. Suicide and homicide both feature in a small way, but rates cannot readily be compared with those ashore. The pattern of change in vessels, fisheries and fishing techniques over the study period are complex. However, improved injury and drowning prevention is the most important way to reduce deaths, coupled with attention to vessel stability and maintenance. The social, economic and organisational features of the fishing industry mean that securing improvements in these areas is a major challenge.

DNA Master File of Ground-Shock, Air-Blast, and Structure-Response Data. Volume 1. Archive Description and User’s Information

DTIC Science & Technology

1975-11-01

FLAT. MINE THROW I at NTS was a 120-ton ammonium nitrate / fuel oil (ANFO) shot, buried in alluvium, that was designed to be correlated to the...885 577L) Takahashl, S.K. Buried Fuel Capsule — Comparison of Three-Dimensional Computer Data with Experimental Data, NCEL TR-798. Port Hueneme: Naval...Perrone ATTN: Technical Library ATTN: Code 464, Jacob L. Warner Of f icer-in-Charge Civil Engineering Laboratory Naval Construction Battalion

Shape Formation by Self-Disassembly in Programmable Matter Systems

DTIC Science & Technology

2012-06-01

DPRSim, like the simulator we present in this paper, devotes a separate thread to each simulated Catom. It appears that the CMU/Intel team has...ensured that the two pole faces were co-planar by rubbing the assembly against a 320 grit aluminum-oxide oil-filled abrasive file (McMaster-Carr...poles of the connectors. Each module contributes a resistance of 0.3Ω. Given that the quiescent current of each module is 15mA, each module in a chain

Integration of Narrative Processing, Data Fusion, and Database Updating Techniques in an Automated System.

DTIC Science & Technology

1981-10-29

are implemented, respectively, in the files "W-Update," "W-combine" and RW-Copy," listed in the appendix. The appendix begins with a typescript of an...the typescript ) and the copying process (steps 45 and 46) are shown as human actions in the typescript , but can be performed easily by a "master...for Natural Language, M. Marcus, MIT Press, 1980. I 29 APPENDIX: DATABASE UPDATING EXPERIMENT 30 CONTENTS Typescript of an experiment in Rosie

The Development of Administrative Measures as Indicators of Soldier Effectiveness

DTIC Science & Technology

1987-08-01

26 CONTENTS (Continued) Page LIST OF TABLES (Continued) Table 13. Frequency distributions for selected variables: MPRJ/ EMF comparison 28 14...8217,»j«’N-j.,’j’«>,’j.’«J.>>>Ji’v-.%j.*’j">J,X Table 13 Frequency Distributions for Selected Variables: (n = 650 soldiers) MPRJ/ EMF Comparioon...information were examined: (a) the Enlisted Master File ( EMF ), a central computer record of selected personnel actions; (b) the Official Military Personnel

Two-motor direct drive control for elevation axis of telescope

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Tang, T.; Tan, Y.; Ren, G.

2014-07-01

Two-motor application has become a very attractive filed in important field which high performance is permitted to achieve of position, speed, and acceleration. In the elevation axis of telescope control system, two-motor direct drive is proposed to enhance the high performance of tracking control system. Although there are several dominant strengths such as low size of motors and high torsional structural dynamics, the synchronization control of two motors is a very difficult and important. In this paper, a multi-loop control technique base master-slave current control is used to synchronize two motors, including current control loop, speed control loop and position control loop. First, the direct drive function of two motors is modeled. Compared of single motor direct control system, the resonance frequency of two motor control systems is same; while the anti-resonance frequency of two motors control system is 1.414 times than those of sing motor system. Because of rigid coupling for direct drive, the speed of two motor of the system is same, and the synchronization of torque for motors is critical. The current master-slave control technique is effective to synchronize the torque, which the current loop of the master motors is tracked the other slave motor. The speed feedback into the input of current loop of the master motors. The experiments test the performance of the two motors drive system. The random tracking error is 0.0119" for the line trajectory of 0.01°/s.

Informatics research using publicly available pathology data.

PubMed

Berman, Jules J

2011-01-24

The day has not arrived when pathology departments freely distribute their collected anatomic and clinical data for research purposes. Nonetheless, several valuable public domain data sets are currently available, from the U.S. Government. Two public data sets of special interest to pathologists are the SEER (the U.S. National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results program) public use data files, and the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) mortality files. The SEER files contain about 4 million de-identified cancer records, dating from 1973. The CDC mortality files contain approximately 85 million de-identified death records, dating from 1968. This editorial briefly describes both data sources, how they can be obtained, and how they may be used for pathology research.

Overview of deaths associated with natural events, United States, 1979-2004.

PubMed

Thacker, Maria T F; Lee, Robin; Sabogal, Raquel I; Henderson, Alden

2008-06-01

Analysis of the National Center for Health Statistics' Compressed Mortality File showed that between 1979 and 2004, natural events caused 21,491 deaths in the United States. During this 26-year period, there were 10,827 cold-related deaths and 5,279 heat-related deaths. Extreme cold or heat accounted for 75 per cent of the total number of deaths attributed to natural events--more than all of deaths resulting from lightning, storms and foods, and earth movements, such as earthquakes and landslides. Cold-related death rates were highest in the states of Alaska, Montana, New Mexico, and South Dakota, while heat-related deaths were highest in the states of Arizona, Missouri, and Arkansas. These deaths occurred more often among the elderly and black men. Other deaths were attributed to lightning (1,906), storms and foods (2,741), and earth movements (738). Most deaths associated with natural events are preventable and society can take action to decrease the morbidity and mortality connected with them.

A comparative evaluation of gutta percha removal and extrusion of apical debris by rotary and hand files.

PubMed

Chandrasekar; Ebenezar, A V Rajesh; Kumar, Mohan; Sivakumar, A

2014-11-01

The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of Protaper retreatment files in comparison with RaCe, K3 and H-files for removal of gutta-percha and apically extruded debris using volumetric analysis. Forty extracted single rooted maxillary incisor teeth with straight canals and mature apices were selected for the study. After access cavity preparation, apical patency was confirmed with a size 10 K-file extending 1mm beyond the point at which it was first visible at the apical end. Working lengths were determined with the use of size 15 K-file. The canals were prepared in a step-back technique and the master apical file was size 30 for all teeth. 3% sodium hypochlorite was used as an irrigant after each instrumentation. Before final rinse, size 20 K-file was passed 1mm beyond the apex to remove any dentinal shaving plugs and maintain the apical patency. Then the canals were dried with paper points. The root canal was filled using standard gutta-percha points and zinc oxide eugenol sealer under lateral condensation technique. The teeth were then randomly divided into four groups of ten teeth each based on the instrument used for gutta percha removal. All the rotary instruments used in this study were rotated at 300rpm. The instruments used were: Group 1 - RaCe Files, Group 2 - ProTaper retreatment Files, Group 3 - K3 Files and Group 4 - H Files. The volume of the obturating material was calculated before and after removal using volumetric analysis with spiral CT. The removal efficacy with each instrument was calculated and statistically analysed. The results of the study show that the ProTaper retreatment files (Group 2) (97.4%) showed the highest efficiency in the removal of obturating material, which was followed by RaCe (95.74%), K3 (92.86%) and H files (90.14%) with the efficiency in the decreasing order. Similarly the mean apical extrusion in H files (0.000 ± 0.002) was significantly lower than all the rotary instruments. However, the difference among the rotary files were not statistically significant (p>0.05). ProTaper retreatment files show significant difference over other groups in removal of obturating material and can be the system of choice in endodontic retreatment procedures.

13 CFR 114.103 - Who may file a claim?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... THE FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS ACT AND REPRESENTATION AND INDEMNIFICATION OF SBA EMPLOYEES Administrative.... Death The executor, administrator, or legal representative of the decedent's estate, or any other person...

Hydrologic data-verification management program plan

USGS Publications Warehouse

Alexander, C.W.

1982-01-01

Data verification refers to the performance of quality control on hydrologic data that have been retrieved from the field and are being prepared for dissemination to water-data users. Water-data users now have access to computerized data files containing unpublished, unverified hydrologic data. Therefore, it is necessary to develop techniques and systems whereby the computer can perform some data-verification functions before the data are stored in user-accessible files. Computerized data-verification routines can be developed for this purpose. A single, unified concept describing master data-verification program using multiple special-purpose subroutines, and a screen file containing verification criteria, can probably be adapted to any type and size of computer-processing system. Some traditional manual-verification procedures can be adapted for computerized verification, but new procedures can also be developed that would take advantage of the powerful statistical tools and data-handling procedures available to the computer. Prototype data-verification systems should be developed for all three data-processing environments as soon as possible. The WATSTORE system probably affords the greatest opportunity for long-range research and testing of new verification subroutines. (USGS)

Agreement between underlying cause and preventability of infant deaths before and after the investigation in Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil, 2014.

PubMed

Marques, Lays Janaina Prazeres; Pimentel, Dayane da Rocha; Oliveira, Conceição Maria de; Vilela, Mirella Bezerra Rodrigues; Frias, Paulo Germano; Bonfim, Cristine Vieira do

2018-01-01

to assess the agreement and describe the causes and preventability of infant deaths before and after the investigation. investigation files and death certificates of infants under one year, of mothers living in Recife, Brazil, in 2014 were used; the Cohen kappa index was adopted for agreement analysis of the underlying causes of death; the list of preventable causes of deaths by interventions of the Brazilian National Health System was also adopted. 183 infant deaths were analyzed, of which 117 (63.9%) had the underlying cause revised; before the investigation, 170 (92.2%) deaths were considered preventable, and after investigation, 178 (97.3%); there was reasonable agreement (0.338) regarding the underlying causes of death, and moderate (0.439) for preventability. infant mortality surveillance enabled the improvement of vital events information, contributing to the progress in the specification of underlying causes of death and in the preventability of infant death.

Assessing Hurricane Katrina Vegetation Damage at Stennis Space Center using IKONOS Image Classification Techniques

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Spruce, Joseph P.; Ross, Kenton W.; Graham, William D.

2006-01-01

Hurricane Katrina inflicted widespread damage to vegetation in southwestern coastal Mississippi upon landfall on August 29, 2005. Storm damage to surface vegetation types at the NASA John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) was mapped and quantified using IKONOS data originally acquired on September 2, 2005, and later obtained via a Department of Defense ClearView contract. NASA SSC management required an assessment of the hurricane s impact to the 125,000-acre buffer zone used to mitigate rocket engine testing noise and vibration impacts and to manage forestry and fire risk. This study employed ERDAS IMAGINE software to apply traditional classification techniques to the IKONOS data. Spectral signatures were collected from multiple ISODATA classifications of subset areas across the entire region and then appended to a master file representative of major targeted cover type conditions. The master file was subsequently used with the IKONOS data and with a maximum likelihood algorithm to produce a supervised classification later refined using GIS-based editing. The final results enabled mapped, quantitative areal estimates of hurricane-induced damage according to general surface cover type. The IKONOS classification accuracy was assessed using higher resolution aerial imagery and field survey data. In-situ data and GIS analysis indicate that the results compare well to FEMA maps of flooding extent. The IKONOS classification also mapped open areas with woody storm debris. The detection of such storm damage categories is potentially useful for government officials responsible for hurricane disaster mitigation.

Completeness assessment of type II active pharmaceutical ingredient drug master files under generic drug user fee amendment: review metrics and common incomplete items.

PubMed

Zhang, Huyi; Li, Haitao; Song, Wei; Shen, Diandian; Skanchy, David; Shen, Kun; Lionberger, Robert A; Rosencrance, Susan M; Yu, Lawrence X

2014-09-01

Under the Generic Drug User Fee Amendments (GDUFA) of 2012, Type II active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) drug master files (DMFs) must pay a user fee and pass a Completeness Assessment (CA) before they can be referenced in an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA), ANDA amendment, or ANDA prior approval supplement (PAS). During the first year of GDUFA implementation, from October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2013, approximately 1,500 Type II API DMFs received at least one cycle of CA review and more than 1,100 Type II DMFs were deemed complete and published on FDA's "Available for Reference List". The data from CA reviews were analyzed for factors that influenced the CA review process and metrics, as well as the areas of DMF submissions which most frequently led to an incomplete CA status. The metrics analysis revealed that electronic DMFs appear to improve the completeness of submission and shorten both the review and response times. Utilizing the CA checklist to compile and proactively update the DMFs improves the chance for the DMFs to pass the CA in the first cycle. However, given that the majority of DMFs require at least two cycles of CA before being deemed complete, it is recommended that DMF fees are paid 6 months in advance of the ANDA submissions in order to avoid negatively impacting the filling status of the ANDAs.

20 CFR 410.650 - Dismissal for cause.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

...-BLACK LUNG BENEFITS (1969- ) Determinations of Disability, Other Determinations, Administrative Review... provided in § 410.669. (d) Death of party. Where the party who filed the hearing request dies and there is...

The Effects of Evacuation on Nursing Home Residents With Dementia

PubMed Central

Brown, Lisa M.; Dosa, David M.; Thomas, Kali; Hyer, Kathryn; Feng, Zhanlian; Mor, Vincent

2013-01-01

Background In response to the hurricane-related deaths of nursing home residents, there has been a steady increase in the number of facilities that evacuate under storm threat. This study examined the effects of evacuation during Hurricane Gustav on residents who were cognitively impaired. Methods Nursing homes in counties located in the path of Hurricane Gustav were identified. The Minimum Data Set resident assessment files were merged with the Centers for Medicare enrollment file to determine date of death for residents in identified facilities. Difference-in-differences analyses were conducted adjusting for residents’ demographic characteristics and acuity. Results The dataset included 21,255 residents living in 119 at risk nursing homes over three years of observation. Relative to the two years before the storm, there was a 2.8 percent increase in death at 30 days and a 3.9 percent increase in death at 90 days for residents with severe dementia who evacuated for Hurricane Gustav, controlling for resident demographics and acuity. Conclusions The findings of this research reveal the deleterious effects of evacuation on residents with severe dementia. Interventions need to be developed and tested to determine the best methods for protecting this at risk population when there are no other options than to evacuate the facility. PMID:22930698

Development of a Distributed Parallel Computing Framework to Facilitate Regional/Global Gridded Crop Modeling with Various Scenarios

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Jang, W.; Engda, T. A.; Neff, J. C.; Herrick, J.

2017-12-01

Many crop models are increasingly used to evaluate crop yields at regional and global scales. However, implementation of these models across large areas using fine-scale grids is limited by computational time requirements. In order to facilitate global gridded crop modeling with various scenarios (i.e., different crop, management schedule, fertilizer, and irrigation) using the Environmental Policy Integrated Climate (EPIC) model, we developed a distributed parallel computing framework in Python. Our local desktop with 14 cores (28 threads) was used to test the distributed parallel computing framework in Iringa, Tanzania which has 406,839 grid cells. High-resolution soil data, SoilGrids (250 x 250 m), and climate data, AgMERRA (0.25 x 0.25 deg) were also used as input data for the gridded EPIC model. The framework includes a master file for parallel computing, input database, input data formatters, EPIC model execution, and output analyzers. Through the master file for parallel computing, the user-defined number of threads of CPU divides the EPIC simulation into jobs. Then, Using EPIC input data formatters, the raw database is formatted for EPIC input data and the formatted data moves into EPIC simulation jobs. Then, 28 EPIC jobs run simultaneously and only interesting results files are parsed and moved into output analyzers. We applied various scenarios with seven different slopes and twenty-four fertilizer ranges. Parallelized input generators create different scenarios as a list for distributed parallel computing. After all simulations are completed, parallelized output analyzers are used to analyze all outputs according to the different scenarios. This saves significant computing time and resources, making it possible to conduct gridded modeling at regional to global scales with high-resolution data. For example, serial processing for the Iringa test case would require 113 hours, while using the framework developed in this study requires only approximately 6 hours, a nearly 95% reduction in computing time.

A kinetic theory for age-structured stochastic birth-death processes

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Chou, Tom; Greenman, Chris

Classical age-structured mass-action models such as the McKendrick-von Foerster equation have been extensively studied but they are structurally unable to describe stochastic fluctuations or population-size-dependent birth and death rates. Conversely, current theories that include size-dependent population dynamics (e.g., carrying capacity) cannot be easily extended to take into account age-dependent birth and death rates. In this paper, we present a systematic derivation of a new fully stochastic kinetic theory for interacting age-structured populations. By defining multiparticle probability density functions, we derive a hierarchy of kinetic equations for the stochastic evolution of an aging population undergoing birth and death. We show that the fully stochastic age-dependent birth-death process precludes factorization of the corresponding probability densities, which then must be solved by using a BBGKY-like hierarchy. Our results generalize both deterministic models and existing master equation approaches by providing an intuitive and efficient way to simultaneously model age- and population-dependent stochastic dynamics applicable to the study of demography, stem cell dynamics, and disease evolution. NSF.

Effects of competition on the cost and quality of inpatient rehabilitation care under prospective payment.

PubMed

Colla, Carrie Hoverman; Escarce, José J; Buntin, Melinda Beeuwkes; Sood, Neeraj

2010-12-01

To determine the effect of competition in postacute care (PAC) markets on resource intensity and outcomes of care in inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) after prospective payment was implemented. Medicare claims, Provider of Services file, Enrollment file, Area Resource file, Minimum Data Set. We created an exogenous measure of competition based on patient travel distances and used instrumental variables models to estimate the effect of competition on inpatient rehabilitation costs, length of stay, and death or institutionalization. A file was constructed linking data for Medicare patients discharged from acute care between 2002 and 2003 and admitted to an IRF with a diagnosis of hip fracture or stroke. Competition had different effects on treatment intensity and outcomes for hip fracture and stroke patients. In the treatment of hip fracture, competition increased costs and length of stay, while increasing rates of death or institutionalization. In the treatment of stroke, competition decreased costs and length of stay and produced inferior outcomes. The effects of competition in PAC markets may vary by condition. It is important to study the effects of competition by diagnostic condition and to study the effects across populations that vary in severity. Our finding that higher competition under prospective payment led to worse IRF outcomes raises concerns and calls for additional research. © Health Research and Educational Trust.

Causes of Troponin Elevation and Associated Mortality in Young Patients.

PubMed

Wu, Candace; Singh, Avinainder; Collins, Bradley; Fatima, Amber; Qamar, Arman; Gupta, Ankur; Hainer, Jon; Klein, Josh; Jarolim, Petr; Di Carli, Marcelo; Nasir, Khurram; Bhatt, Deepak L; Blankstein, Ron

2018-03-01

While increased serum troponin levels are often due to myocardial infarction, increased levels may also be found in a variety of other clinical scenarios. Although these causes of troponin elevation have been characterized in several studies in older adults, they have not been well characterized in younger individuals. We conducted a retrospective review of patients 50 years of age or younger who presented with elevated serum troponin levels to 2 large tertiary care centers between January 2000 and April 2016. Patients with prior known coronary artery disease were excluded. The cause of troponin elevation was adjudicated via review of electronic medical records. All-cause death was determined using the Social Security Administration's death master file. Of the 6081 cases meeting inclusion criteria, 3574 (58.8%) patients had a myocardial infarction, while 2507 (41.2%) had another cause of troponin elevation. Over a median follow-up of 8.7 years, all-cause mortality was higher in patients with nonmyocardial infarction causes of troponin elevation compared with those with myocardial infarction (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 1.30; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.15-1.46; P < .001). Specifically, mortality was higher in those with central nervous system pathologies (adjusted HR 2.21; 95% CI, 1.85-2.63; P < .001), nonischemic cardiomyopathies (adjusted HR 1.66; 95% CI, 1.37-2.02; P < .001), and end-stage renal disease (adjusted HR 1.36; 95% CI, 1.07-1.73; P = .013). However, mortality was lower in patients with myocarditis compared with those with an acute myocardial infarction (adjusted HR 0.43; 95% CI:, 0.31-0.59; P < .001). There is a broad differential for troponin elevation in young patients, which differs based on demographic features. Most nonmyocardial infarction causes of troponin elevation are associated with higher all-cause mortality compared with acute myocardial infarction. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

2014 CRL Blood Pressure Study of Life Insurance Applicants.

PubMed

Fulks, Michael; Dolan, Vera F; Stout, Robert L

2015-01-01

Objective .- Define the relative mortality risk by systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) in a relatively healthy cohort split by age and sex with adjustment for smoking status, other findings and admitted heart disease history. Method .- Blood pressure (BP in mm Hg), build, laboratory studies and limited medical history are collected when people apply for individual life insurance. Information on 2,472,706 applicants tested by Clinical Reference Laboratory from 1993 to 2007 was utilized with follow-up for vital status using the September 2011 Social Security Death Master File identifying 31,033 deaths. Data was analyzed by SBP and DBP split by age and sex accounting for smoking and for BMI, urine protein/creatinine ratio and history of heart disease in a Cox multivariate survival analysis. Separate analysis by admitted hypertension history was also conducted. Results are presented by SBP and DBP for 4 age-sex groups with and without added covariates beyond age and smoking status. Results .- Relative mortality progressively increased by SBP level from the 90 to 119 band (down to 80 in younger women) upward with little additional impact by DBP. Addition of covariates beyond age and smoking resulted in a 5% to 10% reduction in relative risk. Although high DBP had limited impact, a pulse pressure/SBP ratio >½ identified 1% of applicants at high mortality risk, with little difference in risk for ratios ≤½. Hypertension history with current BP control was associated with a 10% to 25% increase in relative mortality risk as compared to those with similar BP but no such history. Conclusion .- Increasing SBP is closely associated with increasing relative mortality, starting from the lowest SBP. Increasing DBP has little additional impact, but a pulse pressure/SBP ratio >½ is a potent marker of increased risk as well. Accounting for build and other laboratory findings reduces risk modestly. A history of hypertension with current control increases risk.

Albumin and all-cause mortality risk in insurance applicants.

PubMed

Fulks, Michael; Stout, Robert L; Dolan, Vera F

2010-01-01

Determine the relationship between albumin levels and all-cause mortality in life insurance applicants. By use of the Social Security Death Master File, mortality was determined in 1,704,566 insurance applicants for whom blood samples were submitted to Clinical Reference Laboratory. There were 53,211 deaths observed in this healthy adult population during a median follow-up of 12 years. Results were stratified by 6 age-sex groups: females: ages 20 to 49, 50 to 69 and 70+; and males: ages 20 to 49, 50 to 69 and 70+. The middle 50% of albumin values specific to each group was used as the reference band for that group. The mortality in bands representing other percentiles of albumin values higher and lower than the middle 50% were compared to the mortality in the reference band for each age-sex group. The highest percentile bands represent the lowest albumin values. Relative risk exceeded 150% of each age- and sex-specific reference band for all groups between the 90th and 95th percentile of albumin values. This translates into 150% risk thresholds at approximately 3.8 mg/dL for all females and for males 70+, and 4.1 mg/dL for males ages 20 to 69. Conversely, the highest 25% of albumin values were associated with approximately a 20% reduction in risk in males and a variable 10% reduction in risk in females when compared to the middle 50% of albumin values. Excluding those with total cholesterol < or = 160 mg/dL, or with AST, GGT or alkaline phosphatase elevations, had little impact on relative risk except at the lowest 0.5% of albumin values. When stratified by age and sex, albumin discriminated between all-cause mortality risks in healthy adults at all ages and across a wide range of values independent of other laboratory tests.

Biodemography of Exceptional Longevity: Early-life and Mid-life predictors of Human Longevity

PubMed Central

Gavrilov, Leonid A.; Gavrilova, Natalia S.

2011-01-01

Effects of early-life and middle-life conditions on exceptional longevity are explored in this study using two matched case-control studies. The first study compares 198 validated centenarians born in the United States in 1890-1893 to their shorter-lived siblings. Family histories of centenarians were reconstructed and exceptional longevity validated using early U.S. censuses, Social Security Administration Death Master File, state death indexes, online genealogies and other supplementary data resources. Siblings born to young mothers (<25 years) had significantly higher chances to live to 100 compared to siblings born to older mothers (odds ratio = 2.03, 95% CI = 1.33 - 3.11, P = 0.001) while paternal age and birth order were not associated with exceptional longevity. The second study explores whether people living to 100 and beyond are any different in physical characteristics at young age from their shorter-lived peers. A random representative sample of 240 men born in 1887 and survived to age 100 was selected from the US Social Security Administration database and linked to the US WWI civil draft registration cards collected in 1917 when these men were 30 years old. These validated centenarians were then compared to randomly selected controls matched by calendar year of birth, race and place of draft registration in 1917. It was found that ‘stout’ body build (being in the heaviest 15% of population) was negatively associated with survival to age 100 years. Farmer occupation and large number of children (4+) at age 30 increased the chances of exceptional longevity. Detailed description of dataset development, data cleaning procedure and validation of exceptional longevity is provided for both studies. These results demonstrate that matched case-control design is a useful approach in exploring effects of early-life conditions and middle-life characteristics on exceptional longevity. PMID:22582891

TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2010, 2010 Census Block State-based

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as streets, roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads. Census blocks are relatively small in area; for example, a block in a city bounded by streets. However, census blocks in remote areas are often large and irregular and may even be many square miles in area. A common misunderstanding is that data users think census blocks are used geographically to build all other census geographic areas, rather all other census geographic areas are updated and then used as the primary constraints, along with roads and water features, to delineate the tabulation blocks. As a result, all 2010 Census blocks nest within every other 2010 Census geographic area, so that Census Bureau statistical data can be tabulated at the block level and aggregated up to the appropr

Bending properties of a new nickel-titanium alloy with a lower percent by weight of nickel.

PubMed

Testarelli, Luca; Plotino, Gianluca; Al-Sudani, Dina; Vincenzi, Valentina; Giansiracusa, Alessio; Grande, Nicola M; Gambarini, Gianluca

2011-09-01

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the bending properties of Hyflex instruments, which exhibit a lower percent in weight of nickel (52 Ni %wt) and compare them with other commercially available nickel-titanium (NiTi) rotary instruments. Ten instruments with tip size 25, 0.06 taper of each of the following NiTi rotary instrumentation techniques were selected for the study: Hyflex, EndoSequence, ProFile, Hero, and Flexmasters. All instruments from each group were tested for stiffness by comparing their bending moment when they attained a 45-degree bend. Experimental procedures strictly followed testing methodology described in ISO 3630-1. All data were recorded and subjected to statistical evaluation by using analysis of variance test. Statistical significance was set at P < .05). Statistical analysis of the data revealed that Hyflex files were found to be the most flexible instruments, with a significant difference (P < .05) in comparison with the other instruments. Among the other files, a significant difference has been reported for EndoSequence instruments compared with ProFile, Hero, and FlexMaster (P < .05), whereas no significant differences have been reported among those 3 files (P > .05). Results of the present study have illustrated an increased flexibility of the new NiTi alloy over conventional NiTi alloy, and they highlight the potential of the new manufacturing process. Copyright © 2011 American Association of Endodontists. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

A pediatric death audit in a large referral hospital in Malawi.

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Fitzgerald, Elizabeth; Mlotha-Mitole, Rachel; Ciccone, Emily J; Tilly, Alyssa E; Montijo, Jennie M; Lang, Hans-Joerg; Eckerle, Michelle

2018-02-21

Death audits have been used to describe pediatric mortality in under-resourced settings, where record keeping is often a challenge. This information provides the cornerstone for the foundation of quality improvement initiatives. Malawi, located in sub-Saharan Africa, currently has an Under-5 mortality rate of 64/1000. Kamuzu Central Hospital, in the capital city Lilongwe, is a busy government referral hospital, which admits up to 3000 children per month. A study published in 2013 reported mortality rates as high as 9%. This is the first known audit of pediatric death files conducted at this hospital. A retrospective chart review on all pediatric deaths that occurred at Kamuzu Central Hospital (excluding deaths in the neonatal nursery) during a 13-month period was done using a standardized death audit form. A descriptive analysis was completed, including patient demographics, HIV and nutritional status, and cause of death. Modifiable factors were identified that may have contributed to mortality, including a lack of vital sign collection, poor documentation, and delays in the procurement or results of tests, studies, and specialist review. Seven hundred forty three total pediatric deaths were recorded and 700 deceased patient files were reviewed. The mortality rate by month ranged from a low of 2.2% to a high of 4.4%. Forty-four percent of deaths occurred within the first 24 h of admission, and 59% occurred within the first 48 h. The most common causes of death were malaria, malnutrition, HIV-related illnesses, and sepsis. The mortality rate for this pediatric referral center has dramatically decreased in the 6 years since the last published mortality data, but remains high. Areas identified for continued development include improved record keeping, improved patient assessment and monitoring, and more timely and reliable provision of testing and treatment. This study demonstrates that in low-resource settings, where reliable record keeping is often difficult, death audits are useful tools to describe the sickest patient population and determine factors possibly contributing to mortality that may be amenable to quality improvement interventions.

29 CFR 15.3 - Administrative claim; who may file.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... representative. (c) A claim for death may be presented by the executor or administrator of the decedent's estate... her authority to present a claim on behalf of the claimant as agent, executor, administrator, parent...

40 CFR 10.3 - Administrative claims; who may file.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

...) A claim based on death may be presented by the executor or administrator of the decedent's estate or... to present a claim on behalf of the claimant as agent, executor, administrator, parent, guardian, or...

14 CFR 1261.304 - Place of filing claim.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... United States should be submitted to the Chief Counsel of the NASA Installation whose activities are believed to have given rise to the claimed injury, loss, or death. If the identity of such installation is...

40 CFR 1620.3 - Administrative claim; who may file.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

...) A claim based on death may be presented by the executor or administrator of the decedent's estate... that the basis for the representation is documented in writing. (d) A claim for loss totally...

Science network resources: Distributed systems

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Cline, Neal

1991-01-01

The Master Directory, which is overview information about whole data sets, is outlined. The data system environment is depicted. The question is explored of what is a prototype international directory including purpose and features. Advantages of on-line directories are listed. Interconnected directory assumptions are given. A description of given of DIF (Directory Interchange Format), which is an exchange file for directory information, along with information content of DIF and directories. The directory population status is given in a percentage viewgraph. The present and future directory interconnections status at GSFC is also listed.

Predicting Success at Marine Security Guard (MSG) School Utilizing the Headquarters Master File (HMF)

DTIC Science & Technology

1993-03-01

Marines stood watch for varying periods at many of our missions in the years between the World Wars. As a result of this, and expeditions in Asia ...et al. (1978), Wiskoff et al. (1989), and Akst and Quester (1992), in a .tudy of 35 percent of the freshman class at the University of Texas by Fudge...lived through many experiences, and has set as another goal, to become an MSG. He is goal- oriented and knows exactly what he wants to do. The younger

Overlooked issues of snakebite management: time for strategic approach.

PubMed

Girish, K S; Kemparaju, K

2011-01-01

Snakebite is a medical emergency in many parts of the world, particularly in the temperate regions. According to 2007 World Health Organization (WHO) report, there are about 5 million snakebite incidences resulting in 2.5 million envenoming, and 125,000 deaths occur annually. Most affected are the healthy individuals like children and farming populations with resource poor settings and away from health care centers in low-income countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. In view of this, the WHO has declared snakebite as an ignored health crisis and a tropical disease. Although the death rate has reduced markedly due to anti-venom regiment, several limitations of it offer scope for better understanding of various ignored issues. Currently, snakebite therapeutics facing plethora of scientific, technological and public health challenges, including secondary/long term complications that have not been given importance so far. Because of dearth of knowledge, venom researchers and medical practitioners from affected countries worldwide should join together to accomplish this scenario. In view of this, the present review provides a broader perspective on the possible production and application of highly effective therapeutic master anti-venom, designing master diagnostic kit and also to deal with the inefficacy of anti-venom therapy against local manifestations and secondary complications of snakebite. The review demands thorough understanding of venom pharmacology, inculcating new strategies to handle and to enhance the efficacy of snakebite management and urge the governing systems of affected countries to take steps to curtail accidental debilitation and death rate of healthy individuals due to snakebite.

Critical telomerase activity for uncontrolled cell growth

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Wesch, Neil L.; Burlock, Laura J.; Gooding, Robert J.

2016-08-01

The lengths of the telomere regions of chromosomes in a population of cells are modelled using a chemical master equation formalism, from which the evolution of the average number of cells of each telomere length is extracted. In particular, the role of the telomere-elongating enzyme telomerase on these dynamics is investigated. We show that for biologically relevant rates of cell birth and death, one finds a critical rate, R crit, of telomerase activity such that the total number of cells diverges. Further, R crit is similar in magnitude to the rates of mitosis and cell death. The possible relationship of this result to replicative immortality and its associated hallmark of cancer is discussed.

A Comparative Evaluation of Gutta Percha Removal and Extrusion of Apical Debris by Rotary and Hand Files

PubMed Central

Ebenezar, A.V. Rajesh; Kumar, Mohan; Sivakumar, A.

2014-01-01

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of Protaper retreatment files in comparison with RaCe, K3 and H-files for removal of gutta-percha and apically extruded debris using volumetric analysis. Materials and Methods: Forty extracted single rooted maxillary incisor teeth with straight canals and mature apices were selected for the study. After access cavity preparation, apical patency was confirmed with a size 10 K-file extending 1mm beyond the point at which it was first visible at the apical end. Working lengths were determined with the use of size 15 K-file. The canals were prepared in a step-back technique and the master apical file was size 30 for all teeth. 3% sodium hypochlorite was used as an irrigant after each instrumentation. Before final rinse, size 20 K-file was passed 1mm beyond the apex to remove any dentinal shaving plugs and maintain the apical patency. Then the canals were dried with paper points. The root canal was filled using standard gutta-percha points and zinc oxide eugenol sealer under lateral condensation technique. The teeth were then randomly divided into four groups of ten teeth each based on the instrument used for gutta percha removal. All the rotary instruments used in this study were rotated at 300rpm. The instruments used were: Group 1 – RaCe Files, Group 2 – ProTaper retreatment Files, Group 3 – K3 Files and Group 4 – H Files. The volume of the obturating material was calculated before and after removal using volumetric analysis with spiral CT. The removal efficacy with each instrument was calculated and statistically analysed. Results: The results of the study show that the ProTaper retreatment files (Group 2) (97.4%) showed the highest efficiency in the removal of obturating material, which was followed by RaCe (95.74%), K3 (92.86%) and H files (90.14%) with the efficiency in the decreasing order. Similarly the mean apical extrusion in H files (0.000 ± 0.002) was significantly lower than all the rotary instruments. However, the difference among the rotary files were not statistically significant (p>0.05). Conclusion: ProTaper retreatment files show significant difference over other groups in removal of obturating material and can be the system of choice in endodontic retreatment procedures. PMID:25584299

Byron on Death

DTIC Science & Technology

1991-01-01

Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of English .- Chapel Hill 1991 Approved by: ’ - d...DT Detached Thoughts ERTGB English Romanticism: The Grounds of Belief. (John Clubbe and Ernest J. Lovell-, Jr.) FD Fiery Dust: Byron’s Poetic...is that settled, ceaseless gloom The fabled Hebrew wanderer bore; That will not look beyond the tomb, But cannot hope for rest before. What Exile

Serving Many Masters: The PhD on the Labour Market, the Everlasting Need of Inequality, and the Premature Death of Humboldt.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Enders, Jurgen

2002-01-01

Surveyed German doctoral degree holders to examine the processes and outcomes of doctoral training and their impact on subsequent careers and work affiliations. Found a positive outcome of the Ph.D. on the labor market, and that selection for doctoral training is biased by social origin while later career attainment among Ph.D. holders is not. (EV)

Effect of customization of master gutta-percha cone on apical control of root filling using different techniques: an ex vivo study.

PubMed

van Zyl, S P; Gulabivala, K; Ng, Y-L

2005-09-01

(i) To compare the prevalence of extrusion of root filling material when placed using different root filling techniques, with or without customization of the master gutta-percha (GP) cone; and (ii) to investigate the effects of some factors influencing root filling extrusion and presence of voids. A total of 180 roots were selected, prepared and randomly allocated to three groups. Five general dental practitioners performed the root fillings; each filled one group of roots (n = 60) using each of three techniques; 'cold lateral compaction' (n = 20), 'warm vertical compaction' (n = 20) and 'continuous-wave' (n = 20) techniques. For each obturation technique, the master GP cone was customized using chloroform in 10 samples. Two groups of the roots were recycled to allow all five operators to fulfill their remit. Two observers, blind to operator and obturation technique, examined the radiographs (master apical file, post-obturation) to determine the presence of root filling extrusion and voids within the apical 5 mm, independently. Root filling extrusion was also confirmed by direct inspection of the root apex after obturation. The data were analysed using logistic regression models. A total of 300 root fillings were performed; nine were excluded from the analysis. Most of the root fillings (80%, n = 233) were placed within 0.5 mm of the working length; only 20% (n = 58) were placed >0.5 mm beyond the working length. The odds of prevalence of extrusion (>0.5 mm) were significantly reduced by about 50% when cold lateral compaction or customization of GP were used. One operator produced 2.5 times more extruded root fillings than others. Curvature & length of root canal, apical size of prepared canal, as well as operator's preferred obturation technique had no significant influence on the prevalence of extrusion. Customization of GP was the sole factor to significantly reduce the prevalence of voids within the apical 5 mm of working length. Root filling extrusion was significantly influenced by 'operator' and was reduced by cold lateral compaction and customization of the master cone. Customization of master cone was the only factor that reduced voids apically.

24 CFR 17.3 - Administrative claim; who may file.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... representative. (c) A claim based on death may be presented by the executor or administrator of the decedent's... evidence of his authority to present a claim on behalf of the claimant as agent, executor, administrator...

39 CFR 912.6 - Administrative claim; who may file.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... claim based on death may be presented by the executor or administrator of the decedent's estate, or by... accompanied by evidence of his authority to present a claim on behalf of the claimant as agent, executor...

20 CFR 726.110 - Filing of agreement and undertaking.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... COAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT OF 1969, AS AMENDED BLACK LUNG BENEFITS; REQUIREMENTS FOR COAL MINE... payable on account of total disability or death of any of its employee-miners; (2) To furnish medical...

20 CFR 726.110 - Filing of agreement and undertaking.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... COAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT OF 1969, AS AMENDED BLACK LUNG BENEFITS; REQUIREMENTS FOR COAL MINE... payable on account of total disability or death of any of its employee-miners; (2) To furnish medical...

20 CFR 410.650 - Dismissal for cause.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

..., Finality of Decisions, and Representation of Parties § 410.650 Dismissal for cause. The presiding officer... provided in § 410.669. (d) Death of party. Where the party who filed the hearing request dies and there is...

Urine protein/creatinine ratio as a mortality risk predictor in non-diabetics with normal renal function.

PubMed

Fulks, Michael; Stout, Robert L; Dolan, Vera F

2012-01-01

Determine the relative mortality in apparently healthy adults with various levels of urinary protein measured by urine protein/creatinine (p/c) ratio. By use of the Social Security Death Master File, mortality in 2010 was determined for 7.5 million life insurance applicants age 20 to 89 providing urine samples between 1992 and 2006. Relative mortality by Cox regression for bands of p/c ratios was determined using age and sex as covariates and with an age split at 60 after excluding those with hematuria (> 3 red cells/hpf), diabetes, evidence of blood sugar elevation, or eGFR < 60 mL/min. After the exclusions noted above, relative mortality increased to 160% beginning at a p/c ratio of 0.11 mg/mg and rose steadily above that value regardless of sex and age. Most of this risk was not explained by a history of hypertension or elevated systolic blood pressure. Albumin testing identified roughly a third of urine samples with elevated p/c ratios as not containing albumin; those cases appeared to be associated with much lower risk as long as the p/c ratio was < or = 1.0 mg/mg. Low levels of proteinuria identified as urine protein/creatinine ratios of 0.11 mg/mg or higher (much lower than the usual lower cut-off value of 0.21) are associated with substantial excess mortality risk, even after excluding diabetics and those with reduced kidney function or hematuria.

Catalytic conversion reactions mediated by single-file diffusion in linear nanopores: hydrodynamic versus stochastic behavior.

PubMed

Ackerman, David M; Wang, Jing; Wendel, Joseph H; Liu, Da-Jiang; Pruski, Marek; Evans, James W

2011-03-21

We analyze the spatiotemporal behavior of species concentrations in a diffusion-mediated conversion reaction which occurs at catalytic sites within linear pores of nanometer diameter. Diffusion within the pores is subject to a strict single-file (no passing) constraint. Both transient and steady-state behavior is precisely characterized by kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of a spatially discrete lattice-gas model for this reaction-diffusion process considering various distributions of catalytic sites. Exact hierarchical master equations can also be developed for this model. Their analysis, after application of mean-field type truncation approximations, produces discrete reaction-diffusion type equations (mf-RDE). For slowly varying concentrations, we further develop coarse-grained continuum hydrodynamic reaction-diffusion equations (h-RDE) incorporating a precise treatment of single-file diffusion in this multispecies system. The h-RDE successfully describe nontrivial aspects of transient behavior, in contrast to the mf-RDE, and also correctly capture unreactive steady-state behavior in the pore interior. However, steady-state reactivity, which is localized near the pore ends when those regions are catalytic, is controlled by fluctuations not incorporated into the hydrodynamic treatment. The mf-RDE partly capture these fluctuation effects, but cannot describe scaling behavior of the reactivity.

Activate/Inhibit KGCS Gateway via Master Console EIC Pad-B Display

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Ferreira, Pedro Henrique

2014-01-01

My internship consisted of two major projects for the Launch Control System.The purpose of the first project was to implement the Application Control Language (ACL) to Activate Data Acquisition (ADA) and to Inhibit Data Acquisition (IDA) the Kennedy Ground Control Sub-Systems (KGCS) Gateway, to update existing Pad-B End Item Control (EIC) Display to program the ADA and IDA buttons with new ACL, and to test and release the ACL Display.The second project consisted of unit testing all of the Application Services Framework (ASF) by March 21st. The XmlFileReader was unit tested and reached 100 coverage. The XmlFileReader class is used to grab information from XML files and use them to initialize elements in the other framework elements by using the Xerces C++ XML Parser; which is open source commercial off the shelf software. The ScriptThread was also tested. ScriptThread manages the creation and activation of script threads. A large amount of the time was used in initializing the environment and learning how to set up unit tests and getting familiar with the specific segments of the project that were assigned to us.

Cardiovascular mortality and exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields: a cohort study of Swiss railway workers

PubMed Central

Röösli, Martin; Egger, Matthias; Pfluger, Dominik; Minder, Christoph

2008-01-01

Background Exposure to intermittent magnetic fields of 16 Hz has been shown to reduce heart rate variability, and decreased heart rate variability predicts cardiovascular mortality. We examined mortality from cardiovascular causes in railway workers exposed to varying degrees to intermittent 16.7 Hz magnetic fields. Methods We studied a cohort of 20,141 Swiss railway employees between 1972 and 2002, including highly exposed train drivers (median lifetime exposure 120.5 μT-years), and less or little exposed shunting yard engineers (42.1 μT-years), train attendants (13.3 μT-years) and station masters (5.7 μT-years). During 464,129 person-years of follow up, 5,413 deaths were recorded and 3,594 deaths were attributed to cardio-vascular diseases. We analyzed data using Cox proportional hazards models. Results For all cardiovascular mortality the hazard ratio compared to station masters was 0.99 (95%CI: 0.91, 1.08) in train drivers, 1.13 (95%CI: 0.98, 1.30) in shunting yard engineers, and 1.09 (95%CI: 1.00, 1.19) in train attendants. Corresponding hazard ratios for arrhythmia related deaths were 1.04 (95%CI: 0.68, 1.59), 0.58 (95%CI: 0.24, 1.37) and 10 (95%CI: 0.87, 1.93) and for acute myocardial infarction 1.00 (95%CI: 0.73, 1.36), 1.56 (95%CI: 1.04, 2.32), and 1.14 (95%CI: 0.85, 1.53). The hazard ratio for arrhythmia related deaths per 100 μT-years of cumulative exposure was 0.94 (95%CI: 0.71, 1.24) and 0.91 (95%CI: 0.75, 1.11) for acute myocardial infarction. Conclusion This study provides evidence against an association between long-term occupational exposure to intermittent 16.7 Hz magnetic fields and cardiovascular mortality. PMID:18593477

Torsional resistance of XP-endo Shaper at body temperature compared with several nickel-titanium rotary instruments.

PubMed

Elnaghy, A M; Elsaka, S E

2018-05-01

To compare the torsional resistance of XP-endo Shaper (XPS; size 30, .01 taper, FKG Dentaire, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) instruments at body temperature with TRUShape (TRS; size 30, .06 taper, Dentsply Tulsa Dental Specialties, Tulsa, OK, USA), ProFile Vortex (PV; size 30, .04 taper, Dentsply Tulsa Dental Specialties) and FlexMaster (FM; size 30, .04 taper, VDW GmbH, Munich, Germany) nickel-titanium rotary instruments. A metal block with a square-shaped mould (5 mm × 5 mm × 5 mm) was positioned inside a glass container. Five millimetres of the tip of each instrument was held inside the metal block by filling the mould with a resin composite. The instruments were tested for torsional resistance in saline solution at 37 °C. Data were analysed using one-way analysis of variance (anova) and Tukey post hoc tests. The significance level was set at P < 0.05. FM had the greatest torsional resistance amongst the instruments tested (P < 0.001). There was no significant difference between FM and PV instruments (P = 0.211). The ranking for torsional resistance values was: FM > PV > TRS > XPS. FlexMaster and ProFile Vortex instruments were more resistant to torsional stress compared with TRUShape and XP-endo Shaper instruments. The manufacturing process used to produce XP-endo Shaper instruments did not enhance their resistance to torsional stress as compared with the other instruments. © 2017 International Endodontic Journal. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Evaluation of marginal and internal gap of three-unit metal framework according to subtractive manufacturing and additive manufacturing of CAD/CAM systems.

PubMed

Kim, Dong-Yeon; Kim, Eo-Bin; Kim, Hae-Young; Kim, Ji-Hwan; Kim, Woong-Chul

2017-12-01

To evaluate the fit of a three-unit metal framework of fixed dental prostheses made by subtractive and additive manufacturing. One master model of metal was fabricated. Twenty silicone impressions were made on the master die, working die of 10 poured with Type 4 stone, and working die of 10 made of scannable stone. Ten three-unit wax frameworks were fabricated by wax-up from Type IV working die. Stereolithography files of 10 three-unit frameworks were obtained using a model scanner and three-dimensional design software on a scannable working die. The three-unit wax framework was fabricated using subtractive manufacturing (SM) by applying the prepared stereolithography file, and the resin framework was fabricated by additive manufacturing (AM); both used metal alloy castings for metal frameworks. Marginal and internal gap were measured using silicone replica technique and digital microscope. Measurement data were analyzed by Kruskal-Wallis H test and Mann-Whitney U-test (α=.05). The lowest and highest gaps between premolar and molar margins were in the SM group and the AM group, respectively. There was a statistically significant difference in the marginal gap among the 3 groups ( P <.001). In the marginal area where pontic was present, the largest gap was 149.39 ± 42.30 µm in the AM group, and the lowest gap was 24.40 ± 11.92 µm in the SM group. Three-unit metal frameworks made by subtractive manufacturing are clinically applicable. However, additive manufacturing requires more research to be applied clinically.

12 CFR 793.3 - Administrative claim; who may file.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... authorized agent, or his legal representative. (c) A claim based on death may be presented by the executor or... accompanied by evidence of his authority to present a claim on behalf of the claimant as agent, executor...

20 CFR 422.122 - Information on deferred vested pension benefits.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... Act. If the claimant filed for the lump-sum death payment on the social security account of a relative... her ______”). I know that if I make any representation which I know is false to obtain information...

8 CFR 320.3 - How, where, and what forms and other documents should be filed?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... each parent (e.g., death certificate or divorce decree); (iv) Evidence of U.S. citizenship of parent... domicile (if applicable); (vi) In case of divorce, legal separation, or adoption, documentation of legal...

20 CFR 726.110 - Filing of agreement and undertaking.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... payable on account of total disability or death of any of its employee-miners; (2) To furnish medical... other expenses and any accrued penalties imposed by law as the Office may find to be due and payable. (b...

20 CFR 726.110 - Filing of agreement and undertaking.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... payable on account of total disability or death of any of its employee-miners; (2) To furnish medical... other expenses and any accrued penalties imposed by law as the Office may find to be due and payable. (b...

20 CFR 726.110 - Filing of agreement and undertaking.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... payable on account of total disability or death of any of its employee-miners; (2) To furnish medical... other expenses and any accrued penalties imposed by law as the Office may find to be due and payable. (b...

Mechanisms of Virus-Induced Neural Cell Death

DTIC Science & Technology

2002-09-01

55: 1031-1032 84. Tyler KL, Tedder DG, Yamamoto LJ, Klapper JA, Ashley R, Lichtenstein KA , Levin MJ (1995) Recurrent brainstem encephalitis associated...nervous system Roberta L. DeBiasi a,b,* B.K. Kleinschmidt-DeMasters b,c Adriana Weinberg a,f g, Kenneth L. Tyler b,d,ef a Department of Pediatrics...application of polymerase chain reaction to Lichtenstein KA , Levin MJ. Recurrent brainstem en- cerebrospinal fluid from brain-biopsied patients and corre

Accounting Data to Web Interface Using PERL

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Hargeaves, C

2001-08-13

This document will explain the process to create a web interface for the accounting information generated by the High Performance Storage Systems (HPSS) accounting report feature. The accounting report contains useful data but it is not easily accessed in a meaningful way. The accounting report is the only way to see summarized storage usage information. The first step is to take the accounting data, make it meaningful and store the modified data in persistent databases. The second step is to generate the various user interfaces, HTML pages, that will be used to access the data. The third step is tomore » transfer all required files to the web server. The web pages pass parameters to Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts that generate dynamic web pages and graphs. The end result is a web page with specific information presented in text with or without graphs. The accounting report has a specific format that allows the use of regular expressions to verify if a line is storage data. Each storage data line is stored in a detailed database file with a name that includes the run date. The detailed database is used to create a summarized database file that also uses run date in its name. The summarized database is used to create the group.html web page that includes a list of all storage users. Scripts that query the database folder to build a list of available databases generate two additional web pages. A master script that is run monthly as part of a cron job, after the accounting report has completed, manages all of these individual scripts. All scripts are written in the PERL programming language. Whenever possible data manipulation scripts are written as filters. All scripts are written to be single source, which means they will function properly on both the open and closed networks at LLNL. The master script handles the command line inputs for all scripts, file transfers to the web server and records run information in a log file. The rest of the scripts manipulate the accounting data or use the files created to generate HTML pages. Each script will be described in detail herein. The following is a brief description of HPSS taken directly from an HPSS web site. ''HPSS is a major development project, which began in 1993 as a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between government and industry. The primary objective of HPSS is to move very large data objects between high performance computers, workstation clusters, and storage libraries at speeds many times faster than is possible with today's software systems. For example, HPSS can manage parallel data transfers from multiple network-connected disk arrays at rates greater than 1 Gbyte per second, making it possible to access high definition digitized video in real time.'' The HPSS accounting report is a canned report whose format is controlled by the HPSS developers.« less

National Geochemical Database reformatted data from the National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) program

USGS Publications Warehouse

Smith, Steven M.

1997-01-01

The National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) program produced a large amount of geochemical data. To fully understand how these data were generated, it is recommended that you read the History of NURE HSSR Program for a summary of the entire program. By the time the NURE program had ended, the HSSR data consisted of 894 separate data files stored with 47 different formats. Many files contained duplication of data found in other files. The University of Oklahoma's Information Systems Programs of the Energy Resources Institute (ISP) was contracted by the Department of Energy to enhance the accessibility and usefulness of the NURE HSSR data. ISP created a single standard-format master file to replace the 894 original files. ISP converted 817 of the 894 original files before its funding apparently ran out. The ISP-reformatted NURE data files have been released by the USGS on CD-ROM (Lower 48 States, Hoffman and Buttleman, 1994; Alaska, Hoffman and Buttleman, 1996). A description of each NURE database field, derived from a draft NURE HSSR data format manual (unpubl. commun., Stan Moll, ISP, Oct 7, 1988), was included in a readme file on each CD-ROM. That original manual was incomplete and assumed that the reformatting process had gone to completion. A lot of vital information was not included. Efforts to correct that manual and the NURE data revealed a large number of problems and missing data. As a result of the frustrating process of cleaning and re-cleaning data from the ISP-reformatted NURE files, a new NURE HSSR data format was developed. This work represents a totally new attempt to reformat the original NURE files into 2 consistent database structures; one for water samples and a second for sediment samples, on a quadrangle by quadrangle basis, from the original NURE files. Although this USGS-reformatted NURE HSSR data format is different than that created by the ISP, many of their ideas were incorporated and expanded in this effort. All of the data from each quadrangle are being examined thoroughly in an attempt to eliminate problems, to combine partial or duplicate records, to convert all coding to a common scheme, and to identify problems even if they can not be solved at this time.

77 FR 4883 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Form 8939

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-01-31

... gift within three years of death and a gift tax return was required to be filed on the transfer to the...) estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services to...

Efficacy of D-RaCe and ProTaper Universal Retreatment NiTi instruments and hand files in removing gutta-percha from curved root canals - a micro-computed tomography study.

PubMed

Rödig, T; Hausdörfer, T; Konietschke, F; Dullin, C; Hahn, W; Hülsmann, M

2012-06-01

To compare the efficacy of two rotary NiTi retreatment systems and Hedström files in removing filling material from curved root canals. Curved root canals of 57 extracted teeth were prepared using FlexMaster instruments and filled with gutta-percha and AH Plus. After determination of root canal curvatures and radii in two directions, the teeth were assigned to three identical groups (n = 19). The root fillings were removed with D-RaCe instruments, ProTaper Universal Retreatment instruments or Hedström files. Pre- and postoperative micro-CT imaging was used to assess the percentage of residual filling material as well as the amount of dentine removal. Working time and procedural errors were recorded. Data were analysed using analysis of covariance and analysis of variance procedures. D-RaCe instruments were significantly more effective than ProTaper Universal Retreatment instruments and Hedström files (P < 0.05). Hedström files removed significantly less dentine than the rotary NiTi systems (P < 0.0001). D-RaCe instruments were significantly faster compared to both other groups (P < 0.05). No procedural errors such as instrument fracture, blockage, ledging or perforation were detected in the Hedström group. In the ProTaper group, four instrument fractures and one lateral perforation were observed. Five instrument fractures were recorded for D-RaCe. D-RaCe instruments were associated with significantly less residual filling material than ProTaper Universal Retreatment instruments and hand files. Hedström files removed significantly less dentine than both rotary NiTi systems. Retreatment with rotary NiTi systems resulted in a high incidence of procedural errors. © 2012 International Endodontic Journal.

WHO Expert Committee on specifications for pharmaceutical preparations.

PubMed

2010-01-01

The Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations works towards clear, independent and practical standards and guidelines for the quality assurance of medicines. Standards are developed by the Committee through worldwide consultation and an international consensus-building process. The following new guidelines were adopted and recommended for use: good practices for pharmaceutical quality control laboratories; supplementary guidelines for active pharmaceutical ingredients; good manufacturing practices for pharmaceutical products containing hazardous substances; good manufacturing practices for sterile pharmaceutical products; good distribution practices for pharmaceutical products; guidelines on the requalification of prequalified dossiers: and guidelines for the preparation of a contract research organization master file.

Development of Self-study and Student Evaluation Support System for HDL Design Education

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Chiba, Shinji

In HDL design education, the students should study HDL description and usage of EDA tools to master HDL design technique and the teachers have to check a lot of HDL description files to evaluate students. This paper proposed a HDL design education system composed of WBT and LMS servers. The developed education system has been operated at an actual class. Results of the operation indicated that the proposal system helped effectively teachers to evaluate students. Questionnaire for students showed that a lot of students used the proposal system for self-study.

A Simplified Shuttle Payload Thermal Analyzer /SSPTA/ program

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Bartoszek, J. T.; Huckins, B.; Coyle, M.

1979-01-01

A simple thermal analysis program for Space Shuttle payloads has been developed to accommodate the user who requires an easily understood but dependable analytical tool. The thermal analysis program includes several thermal subprograms traditionally employed in spacecraft thermal studies, a data management system for data generated by the subprograms, and a master program to coordinate the data files and thermal subprograms. The language and logic used to run the thermal analysis program are designed for the small user. In addition, analytical and storage techniques which conserve computer time and minimize core requirements are incorporated into the program.

Mastering energy to avoid drama in your healthcare practice.

PubMed

Chism, Marlene

2012-01-01

Energy takes on many meanings depending on the context, but for the purposes of the workplace, I refer to energy as the force that serves to either propel us to greater purposes or destroy us with our drama. As it relates to the healthcare setting, our energy can help us serve our patients well, manage our staff with utmost clarity and civility, and nurture an environment of impeccable customer service. Or if not mastered properly, it can trigger workplace bullying, disruptive behavior, physical burnout, or, in short-drama. With literally hundreds of scientific studies, white papers, and expert reports on how fatigue leads to serious accidents and death, it seems we are still in denial about the impact of fatigue on patient safety and employee safety and well-being. Before we can address drama issues, we must first make a commitment to support policies and a culture that preserves the physical energy of those we manage.

Disability Rating, Age at Death, and Cause of Death in U.S. Veterans with Service-Connected Conditions.

PubMed

Maynard, Charles; Trivedi, Ranak; Nelson, Karin; Fihn, Stephan D

2018-03-26

The association between disability and cause of death in Veterans with service-connected disabilities has not been studied. The objective of this study was to compare age at death, military service and disability characteristics, including disability rating, and cause of death by year of birth. We also examined cause of death for specific service-connected conditions. This study used information from the VETSNET file, which is a snapshot of selected items from the Veterans Benefits Administration corporate database. We also used the National Death Index (NDI) for Veterans which is part of the VA Suicide Data Repository. In VETSNET, there were 758,324 Veterans who had a service-connected condition and died between the years 2004 and 2014. Using the scrambled social security number to link the two files resulted in 605,493 (80%) deceased Veterans. Age at death, sex, and underlying cause of death were obtained from the NDI for Veterans and military service characteristics and types of disability were acquired from VETSNET. We constructed age categories corresponding to period of service; birth years 1938 and earlier corresponded to Korea and World War II ("oldest"), birth years 1939-1957 to the Vietnam era ("middle"), and birth years 1958 and later to post Vietnam, Gulf War, and the more recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan ("youngest"). Sixty-two percent were in the oldest age category, 34% in the middle group, and 4% in the youngest one. The overall age at death was 75 ± 13 yr. Only 1.6% of decedents were women; among women 25% were in the youngest age group, while among men only 4% were in the youngest group. Most decedents were enlisted personnel, and 60% served in the U.S. Army. Nearly 61% had a disability rating of >50% and for the middle age group 54% had a disability rating of 100%. The most common service-connected conditions were tinnitus, hearing loss, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In the oldest group, nearly half of deaths were due to cancer or cardiovascular conditions and <2% were due to external causes. In the youngest group, cardiovascular disease and cancer accounted for about 1/3 of deaths, whereas external causes or deaths due to accidents, suicide, or assault accounted for nearly 33% of deaths. For Veterans with service-connected PTSD or major depression; 6.5% of deaths were due to external causes whereas for Veterans without these conditions, only 3.1% were due to external causes. The finding of premature death due to external causes in the youngest age group as well as the finding of higher proportions of external causes in those with PTSD or major depression should be of great concern to those who care for Veterans.

Drugs Most Frequently Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths: United States, 2010-2014.

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Warner, Margaret; Trinidad, James P; Bastian, Brigham A; Minino, Arialdi M; Hedegaard, Holly

2016-12-01

Objectives-This report identifies the specific drugs most frequently involved in drug overdose deaths in the United States from 2010 through 2014. Methods-The 2010-2014 National Vital Statistics System mortality files were linked to electronic files containing literal text information from death certificates. Drug overdose was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision underlying cause-of-death codes X40-X44 (unintentional), X60-X64 (suicide), X85 (homicide), and Y10-Y14 (undetermined intent). Among deaths with an underlying cause of death of drug overdose, the literal text in three fields of the death certificate (i.e., the cause of death from Part I, significant conditions contributing to death from Part II, and a description of how the injury occurred from Box 43) were searched to identify drug mentions. Search term lists were developed using existing drug classification systems as well as from manual review of the literal text. The search term list was then used to identify the specific drugs involved in overdose deaths. Descriptive statistics were reported for drug overdose deaths involving the 10 most frequently mentioned drugs on death certificates. Tables and figures presenting information on the specific drugs involved in deaths are based on deaths with mention of at least one specific drug on the death certificate. Results-From 2010 through 2014, the number of drug overdose deaths per year increased 23%, from 38,329 in 2010 to 47,055 in 2014. During this time period, the percentage of drug overdose deaths involving at least one specific drug increased, from 67% in 2010 to 78% in 2014. Among drug overdose deaths with at least one drug specified on the death certificate, the 10 drugs most frequently involved in overdose deaths included the following opioids: heroin, oxycodone, methadone, morphine, hydrocodone, and fentanyl; the following benzodiazepines: alprazolam and diazepam; and the following stimulants: cocaine and methamphetamine. During this 5-year period, the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths involving heroin more than tripled, and the rate of drug overdose deaths involving methamphetamine more than doubled. The rate of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl more than doubled in a single year (from 2013 to 2014). In 2014, of the 36,667 drug overdose deaths involving at least one specific drug, 52% of these deaths specified one drug, 38% specified two or three drugs, and 11% specified four or more drugs. Conclusions-Analysis of the literal text from death certificates can be used to identify patterns in the specific drugs most frequently involved in drug overdose deaths. From 2010 through 2014, the top 10 drugs involved were the same, but the relative ranking and age-adjusted rates for deaths involving these drugs changed. Literal text analysis also revealed that many drug overdose deaths involved multiple drugs. Findings should be interpreted in light of the improvement in the quality of the data that resulted from better reporting of specific drugs on death certificates from 2010 through 2014. Relative increases in the death rates involving specific drugs and the rankings of these drugs may be affected by improvements in reporting, real increases in the numbers of death, or both. All material appearing in this report is in the public domain and may be reproduced or copied without permission; citation as to source, however, is appreciated.

Lessons from history: Surviving old age during The Great Depression in the United States.

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Matthews, Sarah H; Dunkle, Ruth E

2013-12-01

This paper focuses on 30 couples who received a pension and other services from two private trusts in Detroit, Michigan beginning in 1929 or 1930. Results of the qualitative analysis of case files, which contain notes recorded chronologically for 17 of the couples and then surviving spouses, provide a portrait of older couples' lives prior to a partner's death, circumstances surrounding the death, and changes in the social support systems of widows and widowers until their deaths. Close examination of the experiences of these couples is a reminder of how old age and widowhood were experienced prior to the enactment of public pensions and health insurance in the United States. © 2013.

The Epidemic of Despair Among White Americans: Trends in the Leading Causes of Premature Death, 1999–2015

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Gennuso, Keith P.; Ugboaja, Donna C.; Remington, Patrick L.

2017-01-01

Objectives. To evaluate trends in premature death rates by cause of death, age, race, and urbanization level in the United States. Methods. We calculated cause-specific death rates using the Compressed Mortality File, National Center for Health Statistics data for adults aged 25 to 64 years in 2 time periods: 1999 to 2001 and 2013 to 2015. We defined 48 subpopulations by 10-year age groups, race/ethnicity, and county urbanization level (large urban, suburban, small or medium metropolitan, and rural). Results. The age-adjusted premature death rates for all adults declined by 8% between 1999 to 2001 and 2013 to 2015, with decreases in 39 of the 48 subpopulations. Most decreases in death rates were attributable to HIV, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. All 9 subpopulations with increased death rates were non-Hispanic Whites, largely outside large urban areas. Most increases in death rates were attributable to suicide, poisoning, and liver disease. Conclusions. The unfavorable recent trends in premature death rate among non-Hispanic Whites outside large urban areas were primarily caused by self-destructive health behaviors likely related to underlying social and economic factors in these communities. PMID:28817333

Deaths on board ships assisted by the Centro Internazionale Radio Medico in the last 25 years.

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Grappasonni, Iolanda; Petrelli, Fabio; Amenta, Francesco

2012-07-01

Data on occupational diseases of seafarers and of causes of death during their career are sparse. The causes of deaths on board ships assisted by Centro Internazionale Radio Medico (CIRM), the Italian Telemedical Maritime Assistance Service (TMAS) were reviewed by examining 29,146 files of patients treated from 1986 to 2010. In the 25 years, 383 deaths occurred (1.31%). Diseases of the circulation were the most frequent, followed by external causes such as accidents and violence, infectious and parasitic diseases, alcohol and drug addiction, respiratory system diseases. Cardiovascular and external causes were the principal causes of deaths among seafarers. This investigation is the first study on the causes of death on board ships obtained from data of a maritime telemedical centre, that has assisted seafarers when they were alive or immediately after their death. The fact that diseases of the circulatory system are the first cause of death of sailing seafarers deserves specific initiatives. They should include campaigns for adequate lifestyles and the availability on ships of medical devices useful for diagnostic purposes, resuscitation as well as for verification of death. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

The Epidemic of Despair Among White Americans: Trends in the Leading Causes of Premature Death, 1999-2015.

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Stein, Elizabeth M; Gennuso, Keith P; Ugboaja, Donna C; Remington, Patrick L

2017-10-01

To evaluate trends in premature death rates by cause of death, age, race, and urbanization level in the United States. We calculated cause-specific death rates using the Compressed Mortality File, National Center for Health Statistics data for adults aged 25 to 64 years in 2 time periods: 1999 to 2001 and 2013 to 2015. We defined 48 subpopulations by 10-year age groups, race/ethnicity, and county urbanization level (large urban, suburban, small or medium metropolitan, and rural). The age-adjusted premature death rates for all adults declined by 8% between 1999 to 2001 and 2013 to 2015, with decreases in 39 of the 48 subpopulations. Most decreases in death rates were attributable to HIV, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. All 9 subpopulations with increased death rates were non-Hispanic Whites, largely outside large urban areas. Most increases in death rates were attributable to suicide, poisoning, and liver disease. The unfavorable recent trends in premature death rate among non-Hispanic Whites outside large urban areas were primarily caused by self-destructive health behaviors likely related to underlying social and economic factors in these communities.

25 CFR 15.12 - What happens if assets in a trust estate may be diminished or destroyed while the probate is...

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How Did Cause of Death Contribute to Racial Differences in Life Expectancy in the United States in 2010?

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... 2008" ( 4 ) for more discussion. Data source and methods All data are from the 2010 mortality file ... LT, Wunsch GJ, Kane P, (eds.). Differential mortality: Methodological issues and biosocial factors. New York: Oxford University ...

28 CFR 32.53 - Review.

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2010-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Review. 32.53 Section 32.53 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH, DISABILITY, AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFIT CLAIMS Director Appeals and Reviews § 32.53 Review. (a) Upon the filing of the approval (under...

28 CFR 32.53 - Review.

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2011-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Review. 32.53 Section 32.53 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH, DISABILITY, AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFIT CLAIMS Director Appeals and Reviews § 32.53 Review. (a) Upon the filing of the approval (under...

Deaths from Necrotizing Fasciitis in the United States, 2003–2013

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Arif, N.; Yousfi, S.; Vinnard, C.

2017-01-01

SUMMARY Necrotizing fasciitis is a life-threatening infection requiring urgent surgical and medical therapy. Our objective was to estimate the mortality burden of necrotizing fasciitis in the United States, and to identify time trends in the incidence rate of necrotizing fasciitis-related mortality. We obtained data from the National Center for Health Statistics, which receives information from death certificates from all states, including demographic information and cause of death. The U.S. Multiple Cause of Death Files were searched from 2003 through 2013 for a listing of NF (ICD10 code M72.6) as either the underlying or contributing cause of death. We identified a total of 9,871 necrotizing fasciitis-related deaths in the U.S. between 2003 and 2013 (Figure 1), corresponding to a crude mortality rate of 4.8 deaths per 1,000,000 person-years, without a significant time trend. Compared to white individuals, the incidence rate of necrotizing fasciitis-associated death was greater among black, Hispanic, and American Indian individuals, and lower among Asian individuals. Streptococcal infection was most commonly identified in cases where a pathogen was reported. Diabetes mellitus and obesity were more commonly observed among necrotizing fasciitis-related deaths compared with deaths due to other causes. Racial differences in the incidence of necrotizing fasciitis-related deaths merits further investigation. PMID:26548496

Deaths from necrotizing fasciitis in the United States, 2003-2013.

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Arif, N; Yousfi, S; Vinnard, C

2016-04-01

Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is a life-threatening infection requiring urgent surgical and medical therapy. Our objective was to estimate the mortality burden of NF in the United States, and to identify time trends in the incidence rate of NF-related mortality. We obtained data from the National Center for Health Statistics, which receives information from death certificates from all states, including demographic information and cause of death. The U.S. Multiple Cause of Death Files were searched from 2003 to 2013 for a listing of NF (ICD-10 code M72.6) as either the underlying or contributing cause of death. We identified a total of 9871 NF-related deaths in the United States between 2003 and 2013, corresponding to a crude mortality rate of 4·8 deaths/1,000,000 person-years, without a significant time trend. Compared to white individuals, the incidence rate of NF-associated death was greater in black, Hispanic, and American Indian individuals, and lower in Asian individuals. Streptococcal infection was most commonly identified in cases where a pathogen was reported. Diabetes mellitus and obesity were more commonly observed in NF-related deaths compared to deaths due to other causes. Racial differences in the incidence of NF-related deaths merits further investigation.

Evaluation of marginal and internal gap of three-unit metal framework according to subtractive manufacturing and additive manufacturing of CAD/CAM systems

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Kim, Dong-Yeon; Kim, Eo-Bin; Kim, Hae-Young; Kim, Ji-Hwan

2017-01-01

PURPOSE To evaluate the fit of a three-unit metal framework of fixed dental prostheses made by subtractive and additive manufacturing. MATERIALS AND METHODS One master model of metal was fabricated. Twenty silicone impressions were made on the master die, working die of 10 poured with Type 4 stone, and working die of 10 made of scannable stone. Ten three-unit wax frameworks were fabricated by wax-up from Type IV working die. Stereolithography files of 10 three-unit frameworks were obtained using a model scanner and three-dimensional design software on a scannable working die. The three-unit wax framework was fabricated using subtractive manufacturing (SM) by applying the prepared stereolithography file, and the resin framework was fabricated by additive manufacturing (AM); both used metal alloy castings for metal frameworks. Marginal and internal gap were measured using silicone replica technique and digital microscope. Measurement data were analyzed by Kruskal-Wallis H test and Mann-Whitney U-test (α=.05). RESULTS The lowest and highest gaps between premolar and molar margins were in the SM group and the AM group, respectively. There was a statistically significant difference in the marginal gap among the 3 groups (P<.001). In the marginal area where pontic was present, the largest gap was 149.39 ± 42.30 µm in the AM group, and the lowest gap was 24.40 ± 11.92 µm in the SM group. CONCLUSION Three-unit metal frameworks made by subtractive manufacturing are clinically applicable. However, additive manufacturing requires more research to be applied clinically. PMID:29279766

Adoption of Liquid-Based Cervical Cancer Screening Tests by Family Physicians and Gynecologists

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Rappaport, Karen M; Forrest, Christopher B; Holtzman, Neil A

2004-01-01

Objective To examine reasons for the adoption of liquid-based cervical cancer screening tests. Data Sources/Study Setting A mailed survey of 250 family physicians and 250 gynecologists in Maryland in 2000. Additional data were obtained from the AMA Master File of Physicians. Study Design Key outcome variables in this cross-sectional survey were early adoption of a liquid-based test by the end of 1997 and overall adoption by the time of the survey. Adoption was viewed in terms of a supply and demand theoretical framework with marketing influencing physician and patient demand as well as supply by insurance companies and laboratories. Data Collection Random samples of family physicians and gynecologists were selected from the AMA Master File of Physicians. The overall response rate was 61.9 percent. Principal Findings By 2000, 96 percent of gynecologists and 75 percent of family physicians in Maryland were using liquid-based cervical cancer screening tests, most commonly the ThinPrep® Pap Test™. Gynecologists were more likely than family physicians to have been early adopters (34 percent versus 5 percent, p<.01). Part of this variation in adoption was due to aggressive marketing to gynecologists, who were more likely than family physicians to receive information in the mail from the test manufacturer (89 percent versus 56 percent, p<.01) and to have been informed by the manufacturer that a patient had inquired about physicians' use of the test (22 percent versus 8 percent, p<.01). Conclusions The rapid diffusion of liquid-based cervical cancer screening tests occurred despite general agreement that the Pap smear has been one of the most successful cancer prevention interventions ever. Commercial marketing campaigns appear to contribute to the more rapid rate of diffusion of technology among specialists compared with generalists. PMID:15230935

Screening Mammography and Digital Breast Tomosynthesis: Utilization Updates.

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Boroumand, Gilda; Teberian, Ida; Parker, Laurence; Rao, Vijay M; Levin, David C

2018-05-01

There have been many recent developments in breast imaging, including the 2009 revision of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's breast cancer screening guidelines and the approval of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) for clinical use in 2011. The objective of this study is to evaluate screening mammography utilization trends among the Medicare population from 2005 to 2015 and examine the volume of DBT studies performed in 2015, the first year for which procedural billing codes for DBT are available. We reviewed national Medicare Part B Physician/Supplier Procedure Summary master files from 2005 to 2015, to determine the annual utilization rate of screening mammography on the basis of procedure codes used for film-screen and digital screening mammography. We also used the Physician/Supplier Procedure Summary master files to determine the volume of screening and diagnostic DBT studies performed in 2015. The utilization rate of screening mammography per 1000 women in the Medicare fee-for-service population increased gradually every year, from 311.5 examinations in 2005 to a peak of 322.9 examinations in 2009, representing a compound annual growth rate of 0.9%. In 2010, the utilization rate abruptly decreased by 4.3% to 309.2 examinations, and it has not since recovered to pre-2010 levels. In 2015, 18.9% of screening and 16.2% of diagnostic digital mammography examinations included DBT as an add-on procedure. In contrast to the annual increase in screening mammography utilization from 2005 to 2009, an abrupt sustained decline in screening occurred beginning in 2010, coinciding with the release of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations. DBT utilization was somewhat limited in 2015, occurring in conjunction with less than 20% of digital mammography examinations.

The Tennessee study: factors affecting treatment outcome and healing time following nonsurgical root canal treatment.

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Azim, A A; Griggs, J A; Huang, G T-J

2016-01-01

To determine factors that may influence treatment outcome and healing time following root canal treatment. Root filled and restored teeth by pre-doctoral students were included in this study. Teeth/roots were followed-up regularly, and treatment outcome was evaluated at every follow-up appointment (healed, healing, uncertain or unsatisfactory). Host (age, immune condition, pulp/periapical diagnosis, tooth/root type, location and anatomy) and treatment factors (master apical file size, apical extension, voids and density of root filling) were recorded from patient dental records. Univariate, bivariate and multivariate analyses were performed to determine the impact of the factors on treatment outcomes and healing times. A total of 422 roots from 291 teeth met the inclusion criteria with a mean follow-up period of 2 years. The preoperative pulp condition, procedural errors during treatment, apical extension and density of root fillings significantly affected the treatment outcome. The average time required for a periapical lesion to heal was 11.78 months. The healing time increased in patients with compromised healing, patients older than 40 years, roots with Weine type II root canal systems, root canal systems prepared to a master apical file size <35, and roots with overextended fillings (P < 0.1). Multiple host and treatment factors affected the healing time and outcome of root canal treatment. Follow-up protocols should consider these factors before concluding the treatment outcome: patient's age, immune condition, as well as roots with overextended fillings, root canal systems with smaller apical preparations (size <35) or roots with complex canal systems. Intervention may be recommended if the treatment quality was inadequate or if patients became symptomatic. © 2015 International Endodontic Journal. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

EBV and Apoptosis: The Viral Master Regulator of Cell Fate?

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Kelly, Gemma L.

2017-01-01

Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) was first discovered in cells from a patient with Burkitt lymphoma (BL), and is now known to be a contributory factor in 1–2% of all cancers, for which there are as yet, no EBV-targeted therapies available. Like other herpesviruses, EBV adopts a persistent latent infection in vivo and only rarely reactivates into replicative lytic cycle. Although latency is associated with restricted patterns of gene expression, genes are never expressed in isolation; always in groups. Here, we discuss (1) the ways in which the latent genes of EBV are known to modulate cell death, (2) how these mechanisms relate to growth transformation and lymphomagenesis, and (3) how EBV genes cooperate to coordinately regulate key cell death pathways in BL and lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs). Since manipulation of the cell death machinery is critical in EBV pathogenesis, understanding the mechanisms that underpin EBV regulation of apoptosis therefore provides opportunities for novel therapeutic interventions. PMID:29137176

2016 American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Areas (AIANNH) Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin

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The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. The American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian (AIANNH) Areas Shapefile includes the following legal entities: federally recognized American Indian reservations and off-reservation trust land areas, state-recognized American Indian reservations, and Hawaiian home lands (HHLs). The statistical entities included are Alaska Native village statistical areas (ANVSAs), Oklahoma tribal statistical areas (OTSAs), tribal designated statistical areas (TDSAs), and state designated tribal statistical areas (SDTSAs). Joint use areas are also included in this shapefile refer to areas that are administered jointly and/or claimed by two or more American Indian tribes. The Census Bureau designates both legal and statistical joint use areas as unique geographic entities for the purpose of presenting statistical data. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) within the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) provides the list of federally recognized tribes and only provides legal boundary infor

The death of Adolf Hitler--forensic aspects.

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Marchetti, Daniela; Boschi, Ilaria; Polacco, Matteo; Rainio, Juha

2005-09-01

The death of Adolf Hitler is one of the unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Numerous historians and journalists have attempted to piece together the details, but despite the interest in the forensic literature regarding the identification of the body, there has not been much scientific debate about the alleged cause of death--cyanide poisoning, gunshot injury, or both. The available literature concerning Hitler's cause of death is incomplete because the toxicological analysis has not been performed and because the skull bone fragment with a gunshot wound possibly from Hitler's corpse has not been properly examined. This has given basis for various theories, which are reviewed. We believe that mtDNA analysis of the skull fragments and of Hitler's jaw, now filed in Moscow, and samples from maternal relatives of Hitler are crucial linking the skull fragment with the gunshot wound to Hitler.

Causes of mortality due to rheumatic diseases in Jerez de los Caballeros (Badajoz) during the 19th century.

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Peral Pacheco, Diego; Suárez-Guzmán, Francisco Javier

2016-01-01

A total of 26,203 of the deaths in Jerez de los Caballeros (Badajoz) during the 19th century were collected and grouped according to the Bertillon's Classification, in order to study the causes of death from rheumatic diseases. An analysis was made using the Death Registers, those located in the Parish Archives, and files of the Municipal Archives. There were a total of 31 deaths due to rheumatic diseases, with the 65-74 years age group being most frequent. The lack of records may be due to the inaccuracy of the diagnoses. September was the month of increased mortality. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier España, S.L.U. y Sociedad Española de Reumatología y Colegio Mexicano de Reumatología. All rights reserved.

Time varying moments, regime switch, and crisis warning: The birth-death process with changing transition probability

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Tang, Yinan; Chen, Ping

2014-06-01

The sub-prime crisis in the U.S. reveals the limitation of diversification strategy based on mean-variance analysis. A regime switch and a turning point can be observed using a high moment representation and time-dependent transition probability. Up-down price movements are induced by interactions among agents, which can be described by the birth-death (BD) process. Financial instability is visible by dramatically increasing 3rd to 5th moments one-quarter before and during the crisis. The sudden rising high moments provide effective warning signals of a regime-switch or a coming crisis. The critical condition of a market breakdown can be identified from nonlinear stochastic dynamics. The master equation approach of population dynamics provides a unified theory of a calm and turbulent market.

22 CFR 22.2 - Requests for services in the United States.

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... involving U.S. passport applications and related records, including consular birth, marriage and death records and authentication of other passport file documents, as well as records of births, marriages and... 1904 to September 30, 1979, shall be addressed to Passport Services, Correspondence Branch, Department...

22 CFR 22.2 - Requests for services in the United States.

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... involving U.S. passport applications and related records, including consular birth, marriage and death records and authentication of other passport file documents, as well as records of births, marriages and... 1904 to September 30, 1979, shall be addressed to Passport Services, Correspondence Branch, Department...

22 CFR 22.2 - Requests for services in the United States.

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2011-04-01

... involving U.S. passport applications and related records, including consular birth, marriage and death records and authentication of other passport file documents, as well as records of births, marriages and... 1904 to September 30, 1979, shall be addressed to Passport Services, Correspondence Branch, Department...

22 CFR 22.2 - Requests for services in the United States.

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... involving U.S. passport applications and related records, including consular birth, marriage and death records and authentication of other passport file documents, as well as records of births, marriages and... 1904 to September 30, 1979, shall be addressed to Passport Services, Correspondence Branch, Department...

22 CFR 22.2 - Requests for services in the United States.

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2012-04-01

... involving U.S. passport applications and related records, including consular birth, marriage and death records and authentication of other passport file documents, as well as records of births, marriages and... 1904 to September 30, 1979, shall be addressed to Passport Services, Correspondence Branch, Department...

Correlating Meteorological, Satellite, and Ground Sampling Data to Determine Source of PM2.5 at Bagram Airfield (BAF), Afghanistan

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2015-07-08

Bethesda, MD 20814 D!SSERT A TION APPROVAL FOR THE MASTER IN SCIENCE IN PUBLIC HEAL TH DISSERTATION IN THE PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND BIOMETRICS...such as asthma, bronchitis, cardiopulmonary disease, cancer , and premature death. One source of PM2.5 is open burning (i.e. burn pits), which is...combat zones encounter many different types of environmental hazards that are associated with adverse health outcomes (e.g. cancer and respiratory

Impacts of Woody Debris on Fluvial Processes and Channel Morphology in Stable and Unstable Streams

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1995-06-01

Cheesman, a masters student at the University of Nottingham. 0 3 L 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 IINTRODUCTION In a literature review of published material ...loading or biological factors (death and fitter f&il (Keller, 1979)); or from inside the channel, through erosion S and flotation of material (Hogan, 1987...move material , but in larger streams distinct jams may form, while in even larger rivers debris UJ may never accumulate because it is carried away

Sur les processus linéaires de naissance et de mort sous-critiques dans un environnement aléatoire.

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Bacaër, Nicolas

2017-07-01

An explicit formula is found for the rate of extinction of subcritical linear birth-and-death processes in a random environment. The formula is illustrated by numerical computations of the eigenvalue with largest real part of the truncated matrix for the master equation. The generating function of the corresponding eigenvector satisfies a Fuchsian system of singular differential equations. A particular attention is set on the case of two environments, which leads to Riemann's differential equation.

Surveillance for traumatic brain injury-related deaths--United States, 1997-2007.

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Coronado, Victor G; Xu, Likang; Basavaraju, Sridhar V; McGuire, Lisa C; Wald, Marlena M; Faul, Mark D; Guzman, Bernardo R; Hemphill, John D

2011-05-06

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States. Approximately 53,000 persons die from TBI-related injuries annually. During 1989-1998, TBI-related death rates decreased 11.4%, from 21.9 to 19.4 per 100,000 population. This report describes the epidemiology and annual rates of TBI-related deaths during 1997-2007. January 1, 1997-December 31, 2007. Data were analyzed from the CDC multiple-cause-of-death public-use data files, which contain death certificate data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. During 1997-2007, an annual average of 53,014 deaths (18.4 per 100,000 population; range: 17.8-19.3) among U.S. residents were associated with TBIs. During this period, death rates decreased 8.2%, from 19.3 to 17.8 per 100,000 population (p = 0.001). TBI-related death rates decreased significantly among persons aged 0-44 years and increased significantly among those aged ≥75 years. The rate of TBI deaths was three times higher among males (28.8 per 100,000 population) than among females (9.1). Among males, rates were highest among non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Natives (41.3 per 100,000 population) and lowest among Hispanics (22.7). Firearm- (34.8%), motor-vehicle- (31.4%), and fall-related TBIs (16.7%) were the leading causes of TBI-related death. Firearm-related death rates were highest among persons aged 15-34 years (8.5 per 100,000 population) and ≥75 years (10.5). Motor vehicle-related death rates were highest among those aged 15-24 years (11.9 per 100,000 population). Fall-related death rates were highest among adults aged ≥75 years (29.8 per 100,000 population). Overall, the rates for all causes except falls decreased. Although the overall rate of TBI-related deaths decreased during 1997-2007, TBI remains a public health problem; approximately 580,000 persons died with TBI-related diagnoses during this reporting period in the United States. Rates of TBI-related deaths were higher among young and older adults and certain minority populations. The leading external causes of this condition were incidents related to firearms, motor vehicle traffic, and falls. Accurate, timely, and comprehensive surveillance data are necessary to better understand and prevent TBI-related deaths in the United States. CDC multiple-cause-of-death public-use data files can be used to monitor the incidence of TBI-related deaths and assist public health practitioners and partners in the development, implementation, and evaluation of programs and policies to reduce and prevent TBI-related deaths in the United States. Rates of TBI-related deaths are higher in certain population groups and are primarily related to specific external causes. Better enforcement of existing seat belt laws, implementation and increased coverage of more stringent helmet laws, and the implementation of existing evidence-based fall-related prevention interventions are examples of interventions that can reduce the incidence of TBI in the United States.

Vasohibin-1 is identified as a master-regulator of endothelial cell apoptosis using gene network analysis

PubMed Central

2013-01-01

Background Apoptosis is a critical process in endothelial cell (EC) biology and pathology, which has been extensively studied at protein level. Numerous gene expression studies of EC apoptosis have also been performed, however few attempts have been made to use gene expression data to identify the molecular relationships and master regulators that underlie EC apoptosis. Therefore, we sought to understand these relationships by generating a Bayesian gene regulatory network (GRN) model. Results ECs were induced to undergo apoptosis using serum withdrawal and followed over a time course in triplicate, using microarrays. When generating the GRN, this EC time course data was supplemented by a library of microarray data from EC treated with siRNAs targeting over 350 signalling molecules. The GRN model proposed Vasohibin-1 (VASH1) as one of the candidate master-regulators of EC apoptosis with numerous downstream mRNAs. To evaluate the role played by VASH1 in EC, we used siRNA to reduce the expression of VASH1. Of 10 mRNAs downstream of VASH1 in the GRN that were examined, 7 were significantly up- or down-regulated in the direction predicted by the GRN.Further supporting an important biological role of VASH1 in EC, targeted reduction of VASH1 mRNA abundance conferred resistance to serum withdrawal-induced EC death. Conclusion We have utilised Bayesian GRN modelling to identify a novel candidate master regulator of EC apoptosis. This study demonstrates how GRN technology can complement traditional methods to hypothesise the regulatory relationships that underlie important biological processes. PMID:23324451

20 CFR 702.211 - Notice of employee's injury or death; designation of responsible official.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... facilitate the filing of notices, each employer shall designate at least one individual responsible for...; designation of responsible official. 702.211 Section 702.211 Employees' Benefits EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS... of responsible official. (a) In order to claim compensation under the Act, an employee or claimant...

20 CFR 345.122 - Interest.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

...' CONTRIBUTIONS AND CONTRIBUTION REPORTS Reporting and Collecting Contributions § 345.122 Interest. (a) Rate. If... this part, interest accrues at the rate of 1 percent per month, or fraction of a month. Interest on... filing, late payment or underpayment, such as: the serious illness or death of an individual with the...

20 CFR 345.122 - Interest.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

...' CONTRIBUTIONS AND CONTRIBUTION REPORTS Reporting and Collecting Contributions § 345.122 Interest. (a) Rate. If... this part, interest accrues at the rate of 1 percent per month, or fraction of a month. Interest on... filing, late payment or underpayment, such as: the serious illness or death of an individual with the...

20 CFR 345.122 - Interest.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

...' CONTRIBUTIONS AND CONTRIBUTION REPORTS Reporting and Collecting Contributions § 345.122 Interest. (a) Rate. If... this part, interest accrues at the rate of 1 percent per month, or fraction of a month. Interest on... filing, late payment or underpayment, such as: the serious illness or death of an individual with the...

32 CFR 538.5 - Conversion of invalidated military payment certificates.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... certificates. (a) When converted. Time limit on filing claims for the conversion of invalidated Series 461, 471... in effects of deceased personnel. Invalidated series of military payment certificates in amounts not... of death or entry into missing status was prior to the date the series of military payment...

32 CFR 538.5 - Conversion of invalidated military payment certificates.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... certificates. (a) When converted. Time limit on filing claims for the conversion of invalidated Series 461, 471... in effects of deceased personnel. Invalidated series of military payment certificates in amounts not... of death or entry into missing status was prior to the date the series of military payment...

32 CFR 538.5 - Conversion of invalidated military payment certificates.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... certificates. (a) When converted. Time limit on filing claims for the conversion of invalidated Series 461, 471... in effects of deceased personnel. Invalidated series of military payment certificates in amounts not... of death or entry into missing status was prior to the date the series of military payment...

32 CFR 538.5 - Conversion of invalidated military payment certificates.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... certificates. (a) When converted. Time limit on filing claims for the conversion of invalidated Series 461, 471... in effects of deceased personnel. Invalidated series of military payment certificates in amounts not... of death or entry into missing status was prior to the date the series of military payment...

32 CFR 538.5 - Conversion of invalidated military payment certificates.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... certificates. (a) When converted. Time limit on filing claims for the conversion of invalidated Series 461, 471... in effects of deceased personnel. Invalidated series of military payment certificates in amounts not... of death or entry into missing status was prior to the date the series of military payment...

Master Software Requirements Specification

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Hu, Chaumin

2003-01-01

A basic function of a computational grid such as the NASA Information Power Grid (IPG) is to allow users to execute applications on remote computer systems. The Globus Resource Allocation Manager (GRAM) provides this functionality in the IPG and many other grids at this time. While the functionality provided by GRAM clients is adequate, GRAM does not support useful features such as staging several sets of files, running more than one executable in a single job submission, and maintaining historical information about execution operations. This specification is intended to provide the environmental and software functional requirements for the IPG Job Manager V2.0 being developed by AMTI for NASA.

Component Selection for Sterile Compounding.

PubMed

Dilzer, Richard H

2017-01-01

This article describes the factors to consider, as well as the process of proper component selection, for use in preparing compounded sterile preparations. Special emphasis is placed on individual chemical factors that may impact a preparation's accuracy and potency. Values reported in a typical certificate of analysis are discussed, including methods of identifying any required adjustments to a master formulation or compounding record during the compounding of sterile preparations. Proper screening of the certificate of analysis, the Safety Data Sheet, procedural documentation, and the filing of all certificates of conformance are crucial to the operation of a sterile compounding facility. Copyright© by International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding, Inc.

Using knowledge rules for pharmacy mapping.

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Shakib, Shaun C; Che, Chengjian; Lau, Lee Min

2006-01-01

The 3M Health Information Systems (HIS) Healthcare Data Dictionary (HDD) is used to encode and structure patient medication data for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) of the Department of Defense's (DoD's) Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA). HDD Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) are responsible for initial and maintenance mapping of disparate, standalone medication master files from all 100 DoD host sites worldwide to a single concept-based vocabulary, to accomplish semantic interoperability. To achieve higher levels of automation, SMEs began defining a growing set of knowledge rules. These knowledge rules were implemented in a pharmacy mapping tool, which enhanced consistency through automation and increased mapping rate by 29%.

Computer program for maintenance of individual animal records in a nonhuman primate colony.

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Kuehl, T J; Dukelow, W R

1977-06-01

A computer program was developed to maintain animal records for a nonhuman primate colony used in research. The program was designed for use with an existing laboratory notebook system. The computer program identifies each notebook entry containing information about each animal and keeps other information, including animal name, sex, species, projects to which the animal is assigned, location of the animal, dates and body weights. The program is interactive and easy to use. Information stored in the system is readily accessible to all investigators using the animals. In 17 months of use, 1382 master file entries were developed for 113 monkeys.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: the death of a genius.

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Hatzinger, Martin; Hatzinger, Jurgen; Sohn, Michael

2013-01-01

The early and unexpected death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Salzburg, 1756 - Vienna, 1791) was a mystery from the very first day and the subject of wildest speculations and adventurous assertions. Over the last 100 years, medical science has investigated the physical sufferings and the mysterious death of Mozart with increasing intensity. The aim of this article was to recreate Mozart's pathography relying on the his correspondence with father Leopold and sister Nannerl and on reports from his physicians and contemporaries. The rumour that Mozart was poisoned followed shortly after his death on 5 December 1791, at the age of 35, and has survived to this day. The alleged culprits were his physician van Swieten, Mozart's freemasons lodge, and the Imperial Chapel Master Salieri. Mozart however died of chronic kidney disease and ultimately of uraemia. If kidney damage reaches a critical point, even a minimum additional stress can lead to its failure. This usually occurs in the fourth decade of life. Next time we listen to Mozart, we should remember that this apparently happy person was actually a precocious boy, ripped of his childhood, whose short life was an endless chain of complaints, fatigue, misery, concern, and malady.

Association of cholesterol, LDL, HDL, cholesterol/ HDL and triglyceride with all-cause mortality in life insurance applicants.

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Fulks, Michael; Stout, Robert L; Dolan, Vera F

2009-01-01

Determine the relationship between various lipid tests and all-cause mortality in life insurance applicants stratified by age and sex. By use of the Social Security Death Master File, mortality was determined in 1,488,572 life insurance applicants from whom blood samples were submitted to Clinical Reference Laboratory. There were 41,020 deaths observed in this healthy adult population during a median follow-up of 12 years (range 10 to 14 years). Results were stratified by 4 age-sex subpopulations: females, ages 20 to 59 or 60+; and males, ages 20 to 59 or 60+. Those with serum albumin < 3.6 mg/dL or fructosamine > or = 2.1 mmol/L were excluded. The middle 50% of lipid values specific to each of these 4 age-sex subpopulations was used as the reference band. The mortality rates in bands representing other percentiles of lipid values were compared with the mortality rate in the reference band within each age-sex subpopulation. In contrast to some published findings from general populations, lipid test results are only moderately predictive of all-cause mortality risk in a life insurance applicant population and that risk is dependent on age and sex. At ages below 60, HDL values are associated with a "J" shaped mortality curve and at ages 60+, total cholesterol is associated with a "U" shaped curve. The total cholesterol/HDL ratio may serve as a useful single measure to predict mortality risk, but only if stratified by age and sex, and only if high HDL values at younger ages and lower total cholesterol values at ages 60+ are recognized as being associated with increased risk as well. Using LDL or non-HDL cholesterol instead of total cholesterol does not improve mortality risk discrimination; neither does using total cholesterol or triglyceride values in addition to the total cholesterol/HDL ratio. The total cholesterol/HDL ratio is the best single measure of all-cause mortality risk among the various lipid tests but is useful only if viewed on an age- and sex-specific basis and is only a modest risk predictor.