Sample records for interacting levy processes

  1. Public Sector Training: A "Blind" Spot in the 1999 South African National Levy-Grant Policy

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    Paterson, Andrew

    2005-01-01

    In 2000, South Africa implemented a levy-grant policy (Skills Development Levies Act, 1999) to give an incentive for workplace training across private and public sector workplaces alike, but the impact of the levy-grant scheme in the public sector was restricted by financial and management processes unique to that environment. This article shows…

  2. Piaget and Levy-Bruhl.

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    Jahoda, G

    2000-08-01

    Levy-Bruhl exerted a powerful influence, seldom considered, on Piaget. The Levy-Bruhlian thesis of a "pre-logical mentality" characterized by "mystical participation" is outlined, together with its initial reception. The first evidence of Piaget's interest in it dates from 1920, and when he began his studies of children's thinking he compared it with that of 'primitives," also adopting Levy-Bruhl's concept of "participation." By 1928 Piaget had elaborated a theory of the social foundations of different types of thought, which he regarded as also explaining the alleged similarity between the thinking of primitives and children. Both are subject to constraint, primitives by elders and children by parents and teachers. Logical as opposed to pre-logical thought was said to depend on cooperation in free social interaction. Piaget continued to maintain essentially the same views long after Levy-Bruhl himself had renounced the notion of pre-logicality.

  3. The Mediating Role of Affective Commitment in the Relation of the Feedback Environment to Work Outcomes

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    Norris-Watts, Christina; Levy, Paul E.

    2004-01-01

    The Feedback Environment, as opposed to the formal performance appraisal process, is comprised of the daily interactions between members of an organization (Steelman, Levy, & Snell, in press). Relations between the feedback environment and work outcome variables such as Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) were examined through the mediating…

  4. Levi Kilcher | NREL

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    Levi is an expert in ocean turbulence, tidal processes, and surface waves. He has more than 10 years of the state identify renewable energy and energy efficiency opportunities that fit the climate and met

  5. Agent-based models of financial markets

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    Samanidou, E.; Zschischang, E.; Stauffer, D.; Lux, T.

    2007-03-01

    This review deals with several microscopic ('agent-based') models of financial markets which have been studied by economists and physicists over the last decade: Kim-Markowitz, Levy-Levy-Solomon, Cont-Bouchaud, Solomon-Weisbuch, Lux-Marchesi, Donangelo-Sneppen and Solomon-Levy-Huang. After an overview of simulation approaches in financial economics, we first give a summary of the Donangelo-Sneppen model of monetary exchange and compare it with related models in economics literature. Our selective review then outlines the main ingredients of some influential early models of multi-agent dynamics in financial markets (Kim-Markowitz, Levy-Levy-Solomon). As will be seen, these contributions draw their inspiration from the complex appearance of investors' interactions in real-life markets. Their main aim is to reproduce (and, thereby, provide possible explanations) for the spectacular bubbles and crashes seen in certain historical episodes, but they lack (like almost all the work before 1998 or so) a perspective in terms of the universal statistical features of financial time series. In fact, awareness of a set of such regularities (power-law tails of the distribution of returns, temporal scaling of volatility) only gradually appeared over the nineties. With the more precise description of the formerly relatively vague characteristics (e.g. moving from the notion of fat tails to the more concrete one of a power law with index around three), it became clear that financial market dynamics give rise to some kind of universal scaling law. Showing similarities with scaling laws for other systems with many interacting sub-units, an exploration of financial markets as multi-agent systems appeared to be a natural consequence. This topic has been pursued by quite a number of contributions appearing in both the physics and economics literature since the late nineties. From the wealth of different flavours of multi-agent models that have appeared up to now, we discuss the Cont-Bouchaud, Solomon-Levy-Huang and Lux-Marchesi models. Open research questions are discussed in our concluding section.

  6. Collision Dynamics of Rydberg Atoms and Molecules at Ultralow Energies

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2005-12-31

    body recombination between electrons, ions and neural gas atoms. We wish to study the interaction and collisions between two Rydberg atoms in the...transitions, Exact solutions of Stark mixing in atomic hydro- where Ekjn is the Levi - Civita antisymmetric symbol gen induced by the time-dependent...L and U do not close under commutation to form a Lie algebra because [Ui, Uj] = (-2g)iCijkLk, where cijk is the Levi - Civita antisymmetric symbol for

  7. Some Minorants and Majorants of Random Walks and Levy Processes

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    Abramson, Joshua Simon

    This thesis consists of four chapters, all relating to some sort of minorant or majorant of random walks or Levy processes. In Chapter 1 we provide an overview of recent work on descriptions and properties of the convex minorant of random walks and Levy processes as detailed in Chapter 2, [72] and [73]. This work rejuvenated the field of minorants, and led to the work in all the subsequent chapters. The results surveyed include point process descriptions of the convex minorant of random walks and Levy processes on a fixed finite interval, up to an independent exponential time, and in the infinite horizon case. These descriptions follow from the invariance of these processes under an adequate path transformation. In the case of Brownian motion, we note how further special properties of this process, including time-inversion, imply a sequential description for the convex minorant of the Brownian meander. This chapter is based on [3], which was co-written with Jim Pitman, Nathan Ross and Geronimo Uribe Bravo. Chapter 1 serves as a long introduction to Chapter 2, in which we offer a unified approach to the theory of concave majorants of random walks. The reasons for the switch from convex minorants to concave majorants are discussed in Section 1.1, but the results are all equivalent. This unified theory is arrived at by providing a path transformation for a walk of finite length that leaves the law of the walk unchanged whilst providing complete information about the concave majorant - the path transformation is different from the one discussed in Chapter 1, but this is necessary to deal with a more general case than the standard one as done in Section 2.6. The path transformation of Chapter 1, which is discussed in detail in Section 2.8, is more relevant to the limiting results for Levy processes that are of interest in Chapter 1. Our results lead to a description of a walk of random geometric length as a Poisson point process of excursions away from its concave majorant, which is then used to find a complete description of the concave majorant of a walk of infinite length. In the case where subsets of increments may have the same arithmetic mean (the more general case mentioned above), we investigate three nested compositions that naturally arise from our construction of the concave majorant. This chapter is based on [4], which was co-written with Jim Pitman. In Chapter 3, we study the Lipschitz minorant of a Levy process. For alpha > 0, the alpha-Lipschitz minorant of a function f : R→R is the greatest function m : R→R such that m ≤ f and | m(s) - m(t)| ≤ alpha |s - t| for all s, t ∈ R should such a function exist. If X = Xtt∈ R is a real-valued Levy process that is not pure linear drift with slope +/-alpha, then the sample paths of X have an alpha-Lipschitz minorant almost surely if and only if | E [X1]| < alpha. Denoting the minorant by M, we investigate properties of the random closed set Z := {t ∈ R : Mt = {Xt ∧ Xt-}, which, since it is regenerative and stationary, has the distribution of the closed range of some subordinator "made stationary" in a suitable sense. We give conditions for the contact set Z to be countable or to have zero Lebesgue measure, and we obtain formulas that characterize the Levy measure of the associated subordinator. We study the limit of Z as alpha → infinity and find for the so-called abrupt Levy processes introduced by Vigon that this limit is the set of local infima of X. When X is a Brownian motion with drift beta such that |beta| < alpha, we calculate explicitly the densities of various random variables related to the minorant. This chapter is based on [2], which was co-written with Steven N. Evans. Finally, in Chapter 4 we study the structure of the shocks for the inviscid Burgers equation in dimension 1 when the initial velocity is given by Levy noise, or equivalently when the initial potential is a two-sided Levy process This shock structure turns out to give rise to a parabolic minorant of the Levy process--see Section 4.2 for details. The main results are that when psi0 is abrupt in the sense of Vigon or has bounded variation with limsuph-2 h↓0y0 h=infinity , the set of points with zero velocity is regenerative, and that in the latter case this set is equal to the set of Lagrangian regular points, which is non-empty. When psi0 is abrupt the shock structure is discrete and when psi0 is eroded there are no rarefaction intervals. This chapter is based on [1].

  8. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Press Conference

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    1994-01-01

    A Press conference held on July 20, 1994 is presented. Leading off the press conference was an announcement about a major discovery that was made possible from the study of the impact. The participants in the panel were: (1) Roger Yelle from the University of Arizona, (2) Renee Prange of the Institute Astrophysique Spatiale, (3) Lucy McFadden of the University of California, and the University of Maryland, (4) David Levy, the co-discoverer of the Shoemaker-Levy comet. The moderator for this conference was Steven Maran of the Goddard Space Flight Center. Roger Yelle, who had been working on analyzing spectrographic evidence, made the announcement that sulfur in the form of S2 had been discovered. There was also discussion about the interactions of the atmosphere with the fragments. This interaction had caused a shift in the aurora of Jupiter. The observations of the impact sites made by amatuers were discussed. A summary of the observations from different observatories was also given. Included in these observations were reports from the airborne Kuiper Observatory Telescope and the McDonald observatory.

  9. Dielectric spectra broadening as a signature for dipole-matrix interaction. III. Water in adenosine monophosphate/adenosine-5'-triphosphate solutions.

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    Puzenko, Alexander; Levy, Evgeniya; Shendrik, Andrey; Talary, Mark S; Caduff, Andreas; Feldman, Yuri

    2012-11-21

    In this, the third part of our series on the dielectric spectrum symmetrical broadening of water, we consider the nucleotide aqueous solutions. Where in Parts I [E. Levy et al., J. Chem. Phys. 136, 114502 (2012)] and II [E. Levy et al., J. Chem. Phys. 136, 114503 (2012)], the dipole-dipole or ion-dipole interaction had a dominant feature, now the interplay between these two types of dipole-matrix interactions will be considered. We present the results of high frequency dielectric measurements of different concentrations of adenosine monophosphate/adenosine-5'-triphosphate aqueous solutions. We observed the Cole-Cole broadening of the main relaxation peak of the solvent in the solutions. Moreover, depending on the nucleotide concentration, we observed both types of dipole-matrix interaction. The 3D trajectory approach (described in detail in Part I) is applied in order to highlight the differences between the two types of interaction.

  10. Planning, Promoting and Passing School Tax Issues. [Revised Edition].

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    Whitman, Robert L.; Pittner, Nicholas A.

    This book provides Ohio citizens with information on school tax issues and levy campaigning. The material is presented in a structural step-by-step process that lends itself to the practical application for preparing a levy. This book is a guide to understanding various tax issues, tax reduction factors, and the changing tax duplicate that affects…

  11. 27 CFR 70.162 - Levy and distraint on salary and wages.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... salary and wages. 70.162 Section 70.162 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX... § 70.162 Levy and distraint on salary and wages. (a) Notice of intent to levy. Levy may be made for any... salary or wages. A levy on salary or wages is continuous from the time of the levy until the liability...

  12. Levy-Student distributions for halos in accelerator beams

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    Cufaro Petroni, Nicola; De Martino, Salvatore; De Siena, Silvio

    2005-12-15

    We describe the transverse beam distribution in particle accelerators within the controlled, stochastic dynamical scheme of stochastic mechanics (SM) which produces time reversal invariant diffusion processes. This leads to a linearized theory summarized in a Schroedinger-like (SL) equation. The space charge effects have been introduced in recent papers by coupling this S-L equation with the Maxwell equations. We analyze the space-charge effects to understand how the dynamics produces the actual beam distributions, and in particular we show how the stationary, self-consistent solutions are related to the (external and space-charge) potentials both when we suppose that the external field is harmonicmore » (constant focusing), and when we a priori prescribe the shape of the stationary solution. We then proceed to discuss a few other ideas by introducing generalized Student distributions, namely, non-Gaussian, Levy infinitely divisible (but not stable) distributions. We will discuss this idea from two different standpoints: (a) first by supposing that the stationary distribution of our (Wiener powered) SM model is a Student distribution; (b) by supposing that our model is based on a (non-Gaussian) Levy process whose increments are Student distributed. We show that in the case (a) the longer tails of the power decay of the Student laws and in the case (b) the discontinuities of the Levy-Student process can well account for the rare escape of particles from the beam core, and hence for the formation of a halo in intense beams.« less

  13. Valuation of exotic options in the framework of Levy processes

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    Milev, Mariyan; Georgieva, Svetla; Markovska, Veneta

    2013-12-01

    In this paper we explore a straightforward procedure to price derivatives by using the Monte Carlo approach when the underlying process is a jump-diffusion. We have compared the Black-Scholes model with one of its extensions that is the Merton model. The latter model is better in capturing the market's phenomena and is comparative to stochastic volatility models in terms of pricing accuracy. We have presented simulations of asset paths and pricing of barrier options for both Geometric Brownian motion and exponential Levy processes as it is the concrete case of the Merton model. A desired level of accuracy is obtained with simple computer operations in MATLAB for efficient computational time.

  14. Inertial Navigation Theory (Autonomous Systems)

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1974-12-17

    Chandler’s processing of experimental materials showed that the motion of the earth’s instantaneous rotational axis in its body has two ...8217-frxr’) (3.150) The Levi - Civita symbols are non-zero only when the indices n, s and k are non-identical. If the indices are...3.147), (3.31), (3.32) and (3.33) introduced above. 194 We note that use of the Levi - civita symbols enables us to write equations (3.31), (3.32

  15. Funding services from the bottom up: an overview of Senior Services Levy Programs in Ohio.

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    Payne, Michael; Applebaum, Robert; Molea, Marcus; Ross, Doris E

    2007-08-01

    Since the 1980s, Ohio counties have pursued a somewhat unique strategy for funding services for the 60-and-older population. Using local property-tax levies, Ohio counties bring in more than $100 million yearly to support a range of services for older people. In this article we report on information from the 2005 Ohio Senior Service Levy Survey, including information for states or counties that may be interested in implementing senior-service levies of their own. A survey was completed by 56 of 59 Ohio counties that operated senior-service levies in 2004. We pilot tested the survey instrument with input from three counties (urban, rural, and a mix of both). Overall, the survey responses provided information on a range of components, including size of levy, types of services provided, number of older citizens served, quality and evaluation efforts, and advice on initiating successful levy campaigns. Ohio is one of only five states raising money for senior services through countywide, property-tax levies. Although there is some debate about the appropriateness of property-tax levies as a means of funding senior services, these levies are being met very favorably at the polls in Ohio. Because funding from the Older Americans Act has not kept pace with inflation or with the increasing number of older people, other states may look at Ohio's experience with senior-service levies with increasing interest.

  16. 78 FR 60284 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2013-10-01

    ... OMB Review; Comment Request Title: Federally Assisted State Transmitted (FAST) Levy. OMB No.: New... proposing a new information collection using the Federally Assisted State Transmitted Levy (FAST Levy) application. FAST Levy is a centralized, secure and automated method of collecting and disseminating...

  17. Campaign Expenditures in School Levy Referenda and Their Relationship to Voter Approval: Evidence from Ohio, 2007-2010

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    Ingle, William Kyle; Johnson, Paul Andrew; Givens, Matt Ryan; Rampelt, Jerry

    2013-01-01

    Using logistic regression, this study sought to understand the relationship between district characteristics, district finances, levy characteristics, and campaign expenditures with new operating levy outcomes. We found that employee benefits as a percentage of the district's budget were negatively associated with levy outcomes, while salaries…

  18. 27 CFR 70.161 - Levy and distraint.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... OF THE TREASURY (CONTINUED) PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES PROCEDURE AND ADMINISTRATION Collection of... the 10th day of the month would reach the amount due on the sale, although the buyer need not satisfy.... Similarly, a levy only reaches property in the possession of the person levied upon at the time the levy is...

  19. Try, Try, Again: A Two-Step Strategy for Passing School Levies

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    Johnson, Paul A.

    2008-01-01

    Passing property tax issues is an increasing challenge for many school districts. This article examines 21 school levy strategies identified through a literature review associated with successful school levy campaigns. These strategies were then used as a framework to evaluate one district's attempts to pass a school bond levy. Whereas the study…

  20. 48 CFR 252.225-7033 - Waiver of United Kingdom levies.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... waiver of levies included in the price of this contract, the U.S. Government reserves the right to reduce the contract price by the amount of the levy waived plus associated indirect costs and profit or fee... attempt to obtain a waiver of any commercial exploitation levies included in the price of this contract...

  1. 26 CFR 301.6343-2 - Return of wrongfully levied upon property.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... IRS may return— (i) The specific property levied upon; (ii) An amount of money equal to the amount of money levied upon; or (iii) An amount of money equal to the amount of money received by the United... property, the property may be returned at any time. An amount equal to the amount of money levied upon or...

  2. 26 CFR 301.6343-2 - Return of wrongfully levied upon property.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... IRS may return— (i) The specific property levied upon; (ii) An amount of money equal to the amount of money levied upon; or (iii) An amount of money equal to the amount of money received by the United... property, the property may be returned at any time. An amount equal to the amount of money levied upon or...

  3. 26 CFR 301.6343-1 - Requirement to release levy and notice of release.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... person upon whom the levy was made of such a release, if the director determines that any of the... levy was made is satisfied or the period of limitations provided in section 6502 (and any period during which the period of limitations is suspended as provided by law) has lapsed. A levy is considered made...

  4. Exact exchange and Wilson-Levy correlation: a pragmatic device for studying complex weakly-bonded systems.

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    Walsh, T R

    2005-02-07

    The Wilson-Levy (WL) correlation functional is used together with Hartree-Fock (HF) theory to evaluate interaction energies at intermediate separations (i.e. around equilibrium separation) for several weakly-bonded systems. The HF+WL approach reproduces binding trends for all complexes studied: selected rare-gas dimers, isomers of the methane dimer, benzene dimer and naphthalene dimer, and base-pair stacking structures for pyrimidine, cytosine, uracil and guanine dimers. These HF+WL data are contrasted against results obtained from some popular functionals (including B3LYP and PBE), as well as two newly-developed functionals, X3LYP and xPBE. The utility of HF+WL, with reference to exact-exchange (EXX) density-functional theory, is discussed in terms of a suggested EXXWL exchange-correlation functional.

  5. Tax levy financing for local public health: fiscal allocation, effort, and capacity.

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    Riley, William J; Gearin, Kimberly J; Parrotta, Carmen D; Briggs, Jill; Gyllstrom, M Elizabeth

    2013-12-01

    Local health departments (LHDs) rely on a wide variety of funding sources, and the level of financing is associated with both LHD performance in essential public health services and population health outcomes. Although it has been shown that funding sources vary across LHDs, there is no evidence regarding the relationship between fiscal allocation (local tax levy); fiscal effort (tax capacity); and fiscal capacity (community wealth). The purpose of this study is to analyze local tax levy support for LHD funding. Three research questions are addressed: (1) What are tax levy trends in LHD fiscal allocation? (2) What is the role of tax levy in overall LHD financing? and (3) How do local community fiscal capacity and fiscal effort relate to LHD tax levy fiscal allocation? This study focuses on 74 LHDs eligible for local tax levy funding in Minnesota. Funding and expenditure data for 5 years (2006 to 2010) were compiled from four governmental databases, including the Minnesota Department of Health, the State Auditor, the State Demographer, and the Metropolitan Council. Trends in various funding sources and expenditures are described for the time frame of interest. Data were analyzed in 2012. During the 2006-2010 time period, total average LHD per capita expenditures increased 13%, from $50.98 to $57.63. Although the overall tax levy increase in Minnesota was 25%, the local tax levy for public health increased 5.6% during the same period. There is a direct relationship between fiscal effort and LHD expenditures. Local funding reflects LHD community priorities and the relative importance in comparison to funding other local programs with tax dollars. In Minnesota, local tax levy support for local public health services is not keeping pace with local tax support for other local government services. These results raise important questions about the relationship between tax levy resource effort, resource allocation, and fiscal capacity as they relate to public health spending in local communities. © 2013 Published by American Journal of Preventive Medicine on behalf of American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

  6. Fraction number of trapped atoms and velocity distribution function in sub-recoil laser cooling scheme

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    Alekseev, V. A.; Krylova, D. D.

    1996-02-01

    The analytical investigation of Bloch equations is used to describe the main features of the 1D velocity selective coherent population trapping cooling scheme. For the initial stage of cooling the fraction of cooled atoms is derived in the case of a Gaussian initial velocity distribution. At very long times of interaction the fraction of cooled atoms and the velocity distribution function are described by simple analytical formulae and do not depend on the initial distribution. These results are in good agreement with those of Bardou, Bouchaud, Emile, Aspect and Cohen-Tannoudji based on statistical analysis in terms of Levy flights and with Monte-Carlo simulations of the process.

  7. Review of Theoretical Approaches to Nonlinear Supercavitating Flows

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2001-02-01

    hodograph) method to flow past a body with a curved topography was considered iy Levi - Civita [15] and Villat [24]. 2.3. Mixed boundary value problem...streamline flow around a body with a curved boundary 5.1. Levi - Civita approach Levi - Civita [15] was the first to propose an approach to solution of the plane...enotes a real parameter to 1)e determfineid. The second step is formulation of a imiixed bounidary value problem for Levi - Civita [15] function dw v WLC

  8. The Influence of the Number of Different Stocks on the Levy-Levy-Solomon Model

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    Kohl, R.

    The stock market model of Levy, Levy, Solomon is simulated for more than one stock to analyze the behavior for a large number of investors. Small markets can lead to realistic looking prices for one and more stocks. A large number of investors leads to a semi-regular fashion simulating one stock. For many stocks, three of the stocks are semi-regular and dominant, the rest is chaotic. Aside from that we changed the utility function and checked the results.

  9. The Peer Review Process: Confidentiality and Disclosure.

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    Weeks, Kent M.

    1990-01-01

    This article focuses on techniques some courts have utilized to balance the tensions between the aggrieved faculty members who allege discrimination--sex, race, national origin, handicap, age--in the promotion process and who seek disclosure of the peer review process and the colleges at which the charges are levied. (MLW)

  10. Derivation of kinetic equations from non-Wiener stochastic differential equations

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    Basharov, A. M.

    2013-12-01

    Kinetic differential-difference equations containing terms with fractional derivatives and describing α -stable Levy processes with 0 < α < 1 have been derived in a unified manner in terms of one-dimensional stochastic differential equations controlled merely by the Poisson processes.

  11. Plasma effects on the interaction of a comet with Jupiter

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    Kellogg, Paul J.

    1994-01-01

    I consider some plasma effects to be expected when the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crash into Jupiter. Emphasis is put on pre-impact effects, and on the possibility of significant radio emission. It is shown than an ionizing shock will develop at altitudes below about 600 km, and that significant ionization will exist above that altitude. The incoming comet and its surroundings will then represent a rapidly moving conductor in a strong magnetic field and will induce large currents in Jupiter's magnetosphere, similar both qualitatively and quantitatively to a way in which Io interacts with Jupiter's magnetic field and with the plasma of the torus. This process is thought to be involved in the generation of decametric radiation, so that the impact of the comet may also produce such radiation. The power involved in this interaction is estimated to be at least 1/15th of the power due to Io, and its duration to be for 10-20 s before the comet's impact with the surface of Jupiter.

  12. 26 CFR 301.6331-1 - Levy and distraint.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... ADMINISTRATION PROCEDURE AND ADMINISTRATION Seizure of Property for Collection of Taxes § 301.6331-1 Levy and... property, belonging to such Indian. (b) Continuing levies and successive seizures—(1) Continuing effect of... any exempt amount pursuant to section 6334). (2) Successive seizures. Whenever any property or rights...

  13. 7 CFR 1207.510 - Levy of assessments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE POTATO RESEARCH AND PROMOTION... assessment rate of 3 cents per hundredweight shall be levied on all potatoes produced within the 50 states of the United States. (2) No assessment shall be levied on potatoes grown in the 50 States of the United...

  14. 7 CFR 1207.510 - Levy of assessments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE POTATO RESEARCH AND PROMOTION... assessment rate of 3 cents per hundredweight shall be levied on all potatoes produced within the 50 states of the United States. (2) No assessment shall be levied on potatoes grown in the 50 States of the United...

  15. 7 CFR 1207.510 - Levy of assessments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE POTATO RESEARCH AND PROMOTION... assessment rate of 3 cents per hundredweight shall be levied on all potatoes produced within the 50 states of the United States. (2) No assessment shall be levied on potatoes grown in the 50 States of the United...

  16. The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter

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    Noll, Keith S.; Weaver, Harold A.; Feldman, Paul D.

    2006-11-01

    Participants; Preface; 1. The orbital motion and impact circumstances of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Paul W. Chodas and Donald K. Yeomans; 2. Observational constraints on the composition and nature of Comet D/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Jacques Crovisier; 3. Tidal breakup of the nucleus of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Zdenek Sekanina; 4. Earth-based observations of impact phenomena Philip D. Nicholson; 5. HST imaging of Jupiter shortly after each impact: plumes and fresh sites Heidi B. Hammel; 6. Galileo observations of the impacts Clark R. Chapman; 7. Models of fragment penetration and fireball evolution David A. Crawford; 8. Entry and fireball models vs. observations: what have we learned? Mordecai-Mark Mac Low; 9. Dynamics and chemistry of SL9 plumes Kevin Zahnle; 10. Chemistry induced by the impacts: observations Emmanuel Lellouch; 11. SL9 impact chemistry: long-term photochemical evolution Julianne I. Moses; 12. Particulate matter in Jupiter's atmosphere from the impacts of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Robert A. West; 13. Jupiter's post-impact atmospheric thermal response Barney J. Conrath; 14. Growth and dispersion of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact features from HST imaging Reta F. Beebe; 15. Waves from the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts Andrew P. Ingersoll and Hiroo Kanamori; 16. Jovian magnetospheric and auroral effects of the SL9 impacts Wing-Huen Ip.

  17. 27 CFR 70.241 - Property exempt from levy.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... taxpayer's salary, wages, or other income as is necessary to comply with such order or decree. The taxpayer... released from levy will actually be applied in satisfaction of the support obligation. The appropriate TTB... salary, wage, or other income for each pay period which shall be exempt from levy. Any request for such...

  18. 27 CFR 70.188 - Expense of levy and sale.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Expense of levy and sale. 70.188 Section 70.188 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU... Excise and Special (Occupational) Tax Disposition of Property § 70.188 Expense of levy and sale. The...

  19. 27 CFR 70.188 - Expense of levy and sale.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Expense of levy and sale. 70.188 Section 70.188 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU... Excise and Special (Occupational) Tax Disposition of Property § 70.188 Expense of levy and sale. The...

  20. 27 CFR 70.188 - Expense of levy and sale.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2012-04-01 2011-04-01 true Expense of levy and sale. 70.188 Section 70.188 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU... Excise and Special (Occupational) Tax Disposition of Property § 70.188 Expense of levy and sale. The...

  1. 27 CFR 70.188 - Expense of levy and sale.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Expense of levy and sale. 70.188 Section 70.188 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU... Excise and Special (Occupational) Tax Disposition of Property § 70.188 Expense of levy and sale. The...

  2. 27 CFR 70.188 - Expense of levy and sale.

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    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Expense of levy and sale. 70.188 Section 70.188 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU... Excise and Special (Occupational) Tax Disposition of Property § 70.188 Expense of levy and sale. The...

  3. Social tolerance in not-so-social pumas.

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    Vonk, Jennifer

    2018-06-01

    Elbroch, Levy, Lubell, Quigley, and Caragiulo (2017, Science Advances, 3, e170218) used GPS and motion-activated camera technology to track and rate the interactions between solitary wild pumas. They found that tolerance at feeding sites was not predicted by kinship but, rather, indicated the ability to engage in direct reciprocity, challenging previous assumptions about social cognition in solitary species.

  4. Semiconductor Deposition and Etching Interactions of Laser-Generated Translationally Hot Atoms and Radicals

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    1991-05-01

    fluorescence," J. Chem. Phys. 86, 6731 (1987). J. E. Smedley , H. K. Haugen and S. R. Leone, "Collision-induced dissociation of laser- excited Br 2 [B3Fl(Ou... Robert J. Levis, postdoc, presently Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Wayne State University. Lisa M. Cousins, graduate student, Ph.D. 1989, presently

  5. Moving from Cognition to Behavior: What the Research Says

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    Johnson, Russell E.; Chang, Chu-Hsiang; Lord, Robert G.

    2006-01-01

    In 1994, R. G. Lord and P. E. Levy proposed a variant of control theory that incorporated human information processing principles. The current article evaluates the empirical evidence for their propositions and updates the theory by considering contemporary research on information processing. Considerable support drawing from diverse literatures…

  6. Can voter-approved tax levies provide fiscal advantages and stability for local public health agencies?

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    Schmalzried, Hans D; Fallon, L Fleming

    2013-01-01

    Major funding cuts have occurred throughout the United States public health system during the past several years. Funding for local public health agency (LPHA) services and programs is obtained through a patchwork of sources that vary both within and among states. Even though local city and county sources provide a significant proportion of funding for LPHAs, information available in the literature about these revenues is sparse and is not clearly described. This study focused on a single specific revenue stream included in the local sources (local city and county) category: funds voted on directly by the public. The primary purpose of this study was to examine whether this type of funding source provided fiscal advantages for LPHAs. Specifically, we wanted to see how sensitive levy votes were to changing general economic conditions. A questionnaire to collect LPHA levy data was developed, approved, and mailed to county boards of elections in Ohio (n = 88). Elections officials were asked to provide voting results for all LPHA levy ballot attempts since 1994 regardless of outcome. In the study period (1994 through 2011), 250 LPHA property tax levies were placed on election ballots in Ohio. LPHAs were successful in 155 (62.0%) and unsuccessful in 95 (38.0%) attempts. Over the 18-year period, the most noteworthy outcome was a 94.6% pass rate for renewal levies. Our study demonstrated that voter-approved tax levies provide some fiscal advantages for LPHAs: higher per capita revenues than those who have to rely on other sources of income and predictable revenue streams. This translates into more funds being available for public health programs and services. Property tax levies allow citizens to make direct investments in their local health departments.

  7. [An illustrious unknown. Giuseppe Levi among science, anti-fascism and Nobel Prizes].

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    Grignolio, Andrea; De Sio, Fabio

    2009-01-01

    The anatomist Giuseppe Levi (1872-1965) is unanimously considered one of the major figures of Italian biomedical sciences in the 20th century. His fame, however, is mainly derived from having nurtured three Nobel Prize winners, namely Salvador E. Luria, Rita Levi Montalcini and Renato Dulbecco. In reappraising Levi's role in the development of Italian science and culture in general, this article aims at questioning both the narrowness of earlier accounts and a certain kind of genealogical approach to the history of scientific disciplines and academic schools. We will here consider Giuseppe Levi as an instance of two major cultural phenomena: the development of experimental biology in Italy and continental Europe and the anti-fascist socialist culture expressed by a part of the Italian intellectuals. In so doing, we will reassess the historical specificity of the scientific maturation of Levi's three famous students, on the one hand, while on the other we will consider in some depth the cultural and moral environment in which Levi thrived and his role as a moral example for his students. Such revision, we will argue, have a direct bearing on more general historiographical issues, namely, the need for a stronger contextualization of the birth and consolidation of research traditions, implying a rejection of simplistic genealogical reconstructions, and the role of academic schools and institutional settings in the definition of novel, multidisciplinary scientific approaches. Finally, the following will highlight the importance of a more careful outlook on the master-pupil relationship in academic context, addressing issues of both continuity and rupture. The article is subdivided in two main sections, the first devoted to Levi as a scientist, the second to his Anti-fascism.

  8. Strong expectations cancel locality effects: evidence from Hindi.

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    Husain, Samar; Vasishth, Shravan; Srinivasan, Narayanan

    2014-01-01

    Expectation-driven facilitation (Hale, 2001; Levy, 2008) and locality-driven retrieval difficulty (Gibson, 1998, 2000; Lewis & Vasishth, 2005) are widely recognized to be two critical factors in incremental sentence processing; there is accumulating evidence that both can influence processing difficulty. However, it is unclear whether and how expectations and memory interact. We first confirm a key prediction of the expectation account: a Hindi self-paced reading study shows that when an expectation for an upcoming part of speech is dashed, building a rarer structure consumes more processing time than building a less rare structure. This is a strong validation of the expectation-based account. In a second study, we show that when expectation is strong, i.e., when a particular verb is predicted, strong facilitation effects are seen when the appearance of the verb is delayed; however, when expectation is weak, i.e., when only the part of speech "verb" is predicted but a particular verb is not predicted, the facilitation disappears and a tendency towards a locality effect is seen. The interaction seen between expectation strength and distance shows that strong expectations cancel locality effects, and that weak expectations allow locality effects to emerge.

  9. Strong Expectations Cancel Locality Effects: Evidence from Hindi

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    Husain, Samar; Vasishth, Shravan; Srinivasan, Narayanan

    2014-01-01

    Expectation-driven facilitation (Hale, 2001; Levy, 2008) and locality-driven retrieval difficulty (Gibson, 1998, 2000; Lewis & Vasishth, 2005) are widely recognized to be two critical factors in incremental sentence processing; there is accumulating evidence that both can influence processing difficulty. However, it is unclear whether and how expectations and memory interact. We first confirm a key prediction of the expectation account: a Hindi self-paced reading study shows that when an expectation for an upcoming part of speech is dashed, building a rarer structure consumes more processing time than building a less rare structure. This is a strong validation of the expectation-based account. In a second study, we show that when expectation is strong, i.e., when a particular verb is predicted, strong facilitation effects are seen when the appearance of the verb is delayed; however, when expectation is weak, i.e., when only the part of speech “verb” is predicted but a particular verb is not predicted, the facilitation disappears and a tendency towards a locality effect is seen. The interaction seen between expectation strength and distance shows that strong expectations cancel locality effects, and that weak expectations allow locality effects to emerge. PMID:25010700

  10. 27 CFR 70.164 - Surrender of property subject to levy in the case of life insurance and endowment contracts.

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    2010-04-01

    ... the case of life insurance and endowment contracts. (a) In general. This section provides special rules relating to the surrender of property subject to levy in the case of life insurance and endowment... subject to levy in the case of life insurance and endowment contracts. 70.164 Section 70.164 Alcohol...

  11. Videotape Recording of Narcotic Addicts in Group Therapy: The Analysis of Communicational and Interactive Behavior.

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    Soloway, Irv

    An approach to the study of drug sub-culture groups and a model for predictive research in the identification and isolation of heroin addicts are developed in this thesis. The basic methodologies employed are the linguistic methods of Kenneth Pike and Claude Levi-Strauss for use in the analysis of social phenomena. Communicative mechanisms by…

  12. Information Fusion and Control in Hierarchical Systems

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    2013-05-01

    structures of statistical manifolds are elucidated by computing the canonical Levi - Civita affine con- nection as well as Riemannian and scalar curvatures...with a Riemannian metric and a family of affine connections, including, but not exclusively, the canonical Levi - Civita affine connection [45]. By...canonical Levi - Civita affine connection as well as Riemannian and scalar curvatures. The relationship between the Ricci curvature tensor field and the

  13. 26 CFR 404.6334(d)-1 - Minimum exemption from levy for wages, salary, or other income.

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    2010-04-01

    ... 26 Internal Revenue 18 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Minimum exemption from levy for wages, salary... ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE TAX REFORM ACT OF 1976 § 404.6334(d)-1 Minimum exemption from levy for wages, salary, or... period. Paragraph (c) of this section contains rules relating to the minimum amount of wages, salary, or...

  14. 26 CFR 404.6334(d)-1 - Minimum exemption from levy for wages, salary, or other income.

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    ... ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE TAX REFORM ACT OF 1976 § 404.6334(d)-1 Minimum exemption from levy for wages, salary, or other income. (a) In general. Under section 6331(a), if an individual liable for any tax neglects or... person is not a minor child of the individual with respect to whom amounts are exempt from levy under...

  15. 26 CFR 404.6334(d)-1 - Minimum exemption from levy for wages, salary, or other income.

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    ... ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE TAX REFORM ACT OF 1976 § 404.6334(d)-1 Minimum exemption from levy for wages, salary, or other income. (a) In general. Under section 6331(a), if an individual liable for any tax neglects or... person is not a minor child of the individual with respect to whom amounts are exempt from levy under...

  16. 26 CFR 404.6334(d)-1 - Minimum exemption from levy for wages, salary, or other income.

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    2014-04-01

    ... ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE TAX REFORM ACT OF 1976 § 404.6334(d)-1 Minimum exemption from levy for wages, salary, or other income. (a) In general. Under section 6331(a), if an individual liable for any tax neglects or... person is not a minor child of the individual with respect to whom amounts are exempt from levy under...

  17. 26 CFR 404.6334(d)-1 - Minimum exemption from levy for wages, salary, or other income.

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    2011-04-01

    ... ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE TAX REFORM ACT OF 1976 § 404.6334(d)-1 Minimum exemption from levy for wages, salary, or other income. (a) In general. Under section 6331(a), if an individual liable for any tax neglects or... person is not a minor child of the individual with respect to whom amounts are exempt from levy under...

  18. Virtual Processes and Quantum Tunnelling as Fictions

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    Arthur, Richard T. W.

    2012-01-01

    In this paper it is argued that virtual processes are dispensable fictions. The argument proceeds by a comparison with the phenomenon of quantum tunnelling. Building on an analysis of Levy-Leblond and Balibar, it is argued that, although the phenomenon known as quantum tunnelling certainly occurs and is at the basis of many paradigmatic quantum…

  19. Charged particle dynamics in the presence of non-Gaussian Lévy electrostatic fluctuations

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    Del-Castillo-Negrete, Diego B.; Moradi, Sara; Anderson, Johan

    2016-09-01

    Full orbit dynamics of charged particles in a 3-dimensional helical magnetic field in the presence of -stable Levy electrostatic fluctuations and linear friction modeling collisional Coulomb drag is studied via Monte Carlo numerical simulations. The Levy fluctuations are introduced to model the effect of non-local transport due to fractional diffusion in velocity space resulting from intermittent electrostatic turbulence. The probability distribution functions of energy, particle displacements, and Larmor radii are computed and showed to exhibit a transition from exponential decay, in the case of Gaussian fluctuations, to power law decay in the case of Levy fluctuations. The absolute value ofmore » the power law decay exponents are linearly proportional to the Levy index. Furthermore, the observed anomalous non-Gaussian statistics of the particles' Larmor radii (resulting from outlier transport events) indicate that, when electrostatic turbulent fluctuations exhibit non-Gaussian Levy statistics, gyro-averaging and guiding centre approximations might face limitations and full particle orbit effects should be taken into account.« less

  20. 18 CFR 35.29 - Treatment of special assessments levied under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by Title...

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    ... assessments levied under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by Title XI of the Energy Policy Act of... Other Filing Requirements § 35.29 Treatment of special assessments levied under the Atomic Energy Act of... relating to special assessments under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by the Energy Policy Act of...

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    ... assessments levied under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by Title XI of the Energy Policy Act of... Other Filing Requirements § 35.29 Treatment of special assessments levied under the Atomic Energy Act of... relating to special assessments under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by the Energy Policy Act of...

  2. 18 CFR 35.29 - Treatment of special assessments levied under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by Title...

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    ... assessments levied under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by Title XI of the Energy Policy Act of... Other Filing Requirements § 35.29 Treatment of special assessments levied under the Atomic Energy Act of... relating to special assessments under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by the Energy Policy Act of...

  3. 18 CFR 35.29 - Treatment of special assessments levied under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by Title...

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    ... assessments levied under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by Title XI of the Energy Policy Act of... Other Filing Requirements § 35.29 Treatment of special assessments levied under the Atomic Energy Act of... relating to special assessments under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by the Energy Policy Act of...

  4. 18 CFR 35.29 - Treatment of special assessments levied under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by Title...

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    ... assessments levied under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by Title XI of the Energy Policy Act of... Other Filing Requirements § 35.29 Treatment of special assessments levied under the Atomic Energy Act of... relating to special assessments under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by the Energy Policy Act of...

  5. Notes of the Design of Two Supercavitating Hydrofoils

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    1975-07-01

    Foil Section Characteristics Definition Tulin Two -Term Levi - Civita Larock and Street Two -Term three pararreter Prcgram and Inputs linearized two ...36 NOMENCLATURE Symbol Description Dimensions AIA 2 Angle distribution multipliers in Levi - radians Civita Program AR Aspect ratio CL Lift coefficient...angle of attack radian B Constant angle in Levi - Civita program radian 6 Linearized angle of attack superposed degrees C Wu’s 1955 program parameter

  6. The Shoemaker-Levy 9 spots on Jupiter: Their place in history

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    Hockey, T.

    1994-01-01

    Historical observations of Jupiter were studied in a search for descriptions or depictions of spots of a magnitude comparable to that produced by the impacts of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragments with Jupiter in July 1994. No such record was found. With the possible exception of the Great Red Spot, the Shoemaker-Levy 9 'G' spot appears to be the most prominent jovian spot in history.

  7. Interpersonal Influence in Cross-Cultural Interactions

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    2010-10-01

    Berry, J. W., Poortinga, Y. H., Segall, M. H., & Dasen, P. R. (2002). Cross - cultural psychology : Research and applications (Second Edition). Cambridge...Annual Review of Psychology , 51, 93–120. Matsumoto , D. (1996). Culture and psychology . Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole. Oyserman, D., Coon, H. M...interpreters. Infantry, Spring, 22–27. Shiraev, E., & Levy, D. (2004). Cross - cultural psychology : Critical thinking and contemporary applications. Boston

  8. Kappa Distribution in a Homogeneous Medium: Adiabatic Limit of a Super-diffusive Process?

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    Roth, I.

    2015-12-01

    The classical statistical theory predicts that an ergodic, weakly interacting system like charged particles in the presence of electromagnetic fields, performing Brownian motions (characterized by small range deviations in phase space and short-term microscopic memory), converges into the Gibbs-Boltzmann statistics. Observation of distributions with a kappa-power-law tails in homogeneous systems contradicts this prediction and necessitates a renewed analysis of the basic axioms of the diffusion process: characteristics of the transition probability density function (pdf) for a single interaction, with a possibility of non-Markovian process and non-local interaction. The non-local, Levy walk deviation is related to the non-extensive statistical framework. Particles bouncing along (solar) magnetic field with evolving pitch angles, phases and velocities, as they interact resonantly with waves, undergo energy changes at undetermined time intervals, satisfying these postulates. The dynamic evolution of a general continuous time random walk is determined by pdf of jumps and waiting times resulting in a fractional Fokker-Planck equation with non-integer derivatives whose solution is given by a Fox H-function. The resulting procedure involves the known, although not frequently used in physics fractional calculus, while the local, Markovian process recasts the evolution into the standard Fokker-Planck equation. Solution of the fractional Fokker-Planck equation with the help of Mellin transform and evaluation of its residues at the poles of its Gamma functions results in a slowly converging sum with power laws. It is suggested that these tails form the Kappa function. Gradual vs impulsive solar electron distributions serve as prototypes of this description.

  9. General Rotorcraft Aeromechanical Stability Program (GRASP) - Theory Manual

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    1990-10-01

    the A basis. Two symbols frequently encountered in vector operations that use index notation are the Kronecker delta eij and the Levi - Civita epsilon...Blade root cutout fijk Levi - Civita epsilon permutation symbol 0 pretwist angle 0’ pretwist per unit length (d;) Oi Tait-Bryan angles K~i moment strains...the components of the identity tensor in a Cartesian coordinate system, while the Levi Civita epsilon consists of components of the permutation

  10. Terminal Ballistics. A Preliminary Report

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    1941-01-01

    In all of the above, it has been tacitly assumed that the projectile suffers no deformation on impact or during pen- etration. T, Levi - Civita ...dimensionless; 6. kr velocity coefficient in Levi - Civita A»; sec/ft; 16. k........material coefficient in de Giorgi formula; di- mensionless; 17. k...sectional area of projectile; in ; 6. A*.» effective area on Levi - Civita hypothesis; in2 ; 16. A(x).....area cross-section at distance x from nose

  11. Kernel-Correlated Levy Field Driven Forward Rate and Application to Derivative Pricing

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    Bo Lijun; Wang Yongjin; Yang Xuewei, E-mail: xwyangnk@yahoo.com.cn

    2013-08-01

    We propose a term structure of forward rates driven by a kernel-correlated Levy random field under the HJM framework. The kernel-correlated Levy random field is composed of a kernel-correlated Gaussian random field and a centered Poisson random measure. We shall give a criterion to preclude arbitrage under the risk-neutral pricing measure. As applications, an interest rate derivative with general payoff functional is priced under this pricing measure.

  12. D'Alembert's paradox, 1900-1914: Levi-Civita and his Italian and French followers

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    Tazzioli, Rossana

    2017-07-01

    Before the First World War, Tullio Levi-Civita (1873-1941) was already a well-known mathematician in Italy and abroad, in particular in France. Professor at the University of Padua since 1898, he had published important contributions to tensor calculus, theory of relativity, differential geometry, hydrodynamics, and the three-body problem. In 1918, when he moved to the University of Rome, he created an international school of mathematics. In this paper, we focus on d'Alembert's paradox to which Levi-Civita and some of his Italian and French followers contributed remarkable solutions. This case-study is used to illustrate Levi-Civita's approach to hydrodynamics and its influence in Italy and France, especially in the period 1910-1914.

  13. The Role of Eigensolutions in Nonlinear Inverse Cavity-Flow-Theory. Revision.

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    1985-06-10

    The method of Levi Civita is applied to an isolated fully cavitating body at zero cavitation number and adapted to the solution of the inverse...Eigensolutions in Nonlinear Inverse Cavity-Flow Theory [Revised] Abstract: The method of Levi Civita is applied to an isolated fully cavitating body at...problem is not thought * to present much of a challenge at zero cavitation number. In this case, - the classical method of Levi Civita [7] can be

  14. A Geometric Framework for the Kinematics of Crystals With Defects

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    2006-02-01

    which parallel transport preserves dot products of vectors, i.e. r G G ¼ 0. It is called the Levi - Civita connection [57] or the Riemannian connection...yielding a null covariant derivative of the metric tensor is called a metric connection. The Levi – Civita connection of (8) is metric. Note that in...tensor formed by inserting the Levi – Civita con- nection (8) into (10). A geometric space B0 with metric G having R G ¼ 0 is called flat. One may show

  15. Analysis of Curved Target-Type Thrust Reversers

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    1974-06-07

    methods f-or two -dimensional cases, the Levi - Civita method provides a \\ariet> t>l bucket shapes and enables one to round off the sharp corners of...surface In the present work three methods arc employed to investigate the deflection of mviscid. incompressible curved surfaces: Levi - Civitas ...shapes are shown in Fig. V A special case for (T, =0 31416 and fr2= 0.47124, and A = 0. ,*46, (/< = 6X ), is shown in Fig 4. Fvidently, Levi - Civita "s

  16. The Role of Eigensolutions in Nonlinear Inverse Cavity-Flow-Theory.

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    1983-01-25

    ere, side if necessary and id.ntify hv hlock number) " The method of Levi Civita is applied to an isolated fully cavitating body at zero cavitation... Levi Civita is applied to an isolated fully cavitating body at zero cavitation number and adapted to the solution of the inverse problem in which one...case, the classical method of Levi Civita [71 can be applied to an isolated •Numbers in square brackets indicate citations in the references listed below

  17. On Anholonomic Deformation, Geometry, and Differentiation

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2013-02-01

    αβχ are not necessarily Levi - Civita connection coefficients). The vector cross product × obeys, for two vectors V and W and two covectors α and β , V...three-dimensional space. 2.2.5. Euclidean space. Let GAB(X ) = GA · GB be the metric tensor of the space. The Levi - Civita connection coefficients of GAB...curvature tensor of the Levi - Civita connection vanishes identically: G R A BCD = 2 ( ∂[B G A C]D + G A[B|E|G EC]D ) = 0. (43) In n

  18. Comparison of the plasma tails of four comets: P/Halley, Okazaki-Levy-Rudenko, Austin, and Levy

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    Farnham, Tony L.; Meech, Karen J.

    1994-01-01

    Photographic and charge coupled device (CCD) plasma tail observations are compared for four comets: P/Halley (22 nights in 1985/1986), Okazaki-Levy-Rudenko 1989 XIX (1989 December 2), Austin 1990 V (nine nights in 1990), and Levy 1990 XX (two nights in 1991). We present a discussion of several image-processing techniques used to enhance the visibility of the plasma tail features in order to measure velocities, accelerations, and position angles. The data are used to assess the validity of various physical mechanisms proposed to explain plasma tail phenomena. Seven disconnection events were observed in the comet P/Halley data, two in the Austin data, and none for the other comets. Analysis of these data suggests that while the crossing of the solar neutral sheet (the sector boundary) is a prominent factor in the production of a disconnection event, it is likely that several mechanisms are at work. A sector boundary crossing has been ruled out as the cause of either the 1986 April 26 P/Halley disconnection or the 1990 May 5/6 Austin disconnection. The motions of the disconnection events, knots, and condensations in the tails were seen to increase from 30-60 km/s near the nucleus (within 10(exp 6) km) to 80-100 km/s at 10(exp 7) km, consistent with either bulk motion or Alfven waves. Distinguishing between the two cases is not possible with these data. It was found that although the tail ray rotation rate slows as the ray approaches the tail axis, it is not a good indicator of the solar wind speed. Historical plasma tail data are also used to look for clues as to why some comets form well-developed plasma tails and others do not.

  19. Flying over decades

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    Hoeller, Judith; Issler, Mena; Imamoglu, Atac

    Levy flights haven been extensively used in the past three decades to describe non-Brownian motion of particles. In this presentation I give an overview on how Levy flights have been used across several disciplines, ranging from biology to finance to physics. In our publication we describe how a single electron spin 'flies' when captured in quantum dot using the central spin model. At last I motivate the use of Levy flights for the description of anomalous diffusion in modern experiments, concretely to describe the lifetimes of quasi-particles in Josephson junctions. Finished PhD at ETH in Spring 2015.

  20. Testability of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) Leakage Faults in CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor).

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1983-09-01

    has been reviewed and is approved for publication. Im Ŕ APPROVED: . L,.. &- MARK W. LEVI Project Engineer APPROVED: W.S. TUTHILL, Colonel, USAF Chief...ebetract entered In Block 20, if different from Report) Same IS. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES RADC Project Engineer: Mark W. Levi (RBRP) This effort was funded...masking the presence of another fault which was a functional or reliability hazard. ’." • ’ ",, ,~ MARK W. LEVI A ec . ston For 1\\ T’ ir I .] / r "- T A

  1. System Instantiation Comparison Method: A Technique for Comparing Military Headquarters

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    2007-02-01

    together. 21 DSTO-RR-0322 be necessary to define another context relating to hibernation . The context determines the rate at which the...July 1999. Larman C. 1998, The Use Case Model: What are the processes? Java Report SIGS Publication August 1998 Vol 3, Number 8 pp. 62-72. Levis

  2. Springing into Inquiry: Using Student Ideas to Investigate Seasons

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    Wilcox, Jesse; Kruse, Jerrid

    2012-01-01

    Although inquiry is more engaging and results in more meaningful learning (Minner, Levy, and Century 2010) than traditional science classroom instruction, actually involving students in the process is difficult. Furthermore, many students have misconceptions about Earth's seasons, which are supported by students' prior knowledge of heat sources.…

  3. The Bologna Process and Private Providers

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    Dima, Ana-Maria

    2009-01-01

    Privatisation in higher education is not a new phenomenon for Western European countries. Authors like Geiger (1986), Levy (2008) and Altbach (1999) made challenging predictions in the 1970s and early 1980s that the private sector would inexorably diminish in size and significance. These predictions were triggered by globalisation and the…

  4. 10 CFR Appendix K to Part 50 - ECCS Evaluation Models

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    2012-01-01

    ... stated circumstances shall be justified by comparative analyses or by experimental data. 4. Critical Heat..., ASME, New York, 1969. (3) Hench-Levy. J. M. Healzer, J. E. Hench, E. Janssen, S. Levy, “Design Basis...

  5. 10 CFR Appendix K to Part 50 - ECCS Evaluation Models

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    2013-01-01

    ... stated circumstances shall be justified by comparative analyses or by experimental data. 4. Critical Heat..., ASME, New York, 1969. (3) Hench-Levy. J. M. Healzer, J. E. Hench, E. Janssen, S. Levy, “Design Basis...

  6. 10 CFR Appendix K to Part 50 - ECCS Evaluation Models

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    2014-01-01

    ... stated circumstances shall be justified by comparative analyses or by experimental data. 4. Critical Heat..., ASME, New York, 1969. (3) Hench-Levy. J. M. Healzer, J. E. Hench, E. Janssen, S. Levy, “Design Basis...

  7. Satellite orbits in Levi-Civita space

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    Humi, Mayer

    2018-03-01

    In this paper we consider satellite orbits in central force field with quadratic drag using two formalisms. The first using polar coordinates in which the satellite angular momentum plays a dominant role. The second is in Levi-Civita coordinates in which the energy plays a central role. We then merge these two formalisms by introducing polar coordinates in Levi-Civita space and derive a new equation for satellite orbits which unifies these two paradigms. In this equation energy and angular momentum appear on equal footing and thus characterize the orbit by its two invariants. Using this formalism we show that equatorial orbits around oblate spheroids can be expressed analytically in terms of Elliptic functions. In the second part of the paper we derive in Levi-Civita coordinates a linearized equation for the relative motion of two spacecrafts whose trajectories are in the same plane. We carry out also a numerical verification of these equations.

  8. The UK sugar tax - a healthy start?

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    Jones, C M

    2016-07-22

    The unexpected announcement by the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer of a levy on sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) on the 16 March 2016, should be welcomed by all health professionals. This population based, structural intervention sends a strong message that there is no place for carbonated drinks, neither sugared nor sugar-free, in a healthy diet and the proposed levy has the potential to contribute to both general and dental health. The sugar content of drinks exempt from the proposed sugar levy will still cause tooth decay. Improving the proposed tax could involve a change to a scaled volumetric tax of added sugar with a lower exemption threshold. External influences such as the Common Agricultural Policy and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership may negate the benefits of the sugar levy unless it is improved. However, the proposed UK sugar tax should be considered as a start in improving the nation's diet.

  9. A Multi-Verse Optimizer with Levy Flights for Numerical Optimization and Its Application in Test Scheduling for Network-on-Chip.

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    Hu, Cong; Li, Zhi; Zhou, Tian; Zhu, Aijun; Xu, Chuanpei

    2016-01-01

    We propose a new meta-heuristic algorithm named Levy flights multi-verse optimizer (LFMVO), which incorporates Levy flights into multi-verse optimizer (MVO) algorithm to solve numerical and engineering optimization problems. The Original MVO easily falls into stagnation when wormholes stochastically re-span a number of universes (solutions) around the best universe achieved over the course of iterations. Since Levy flights are superior in exploring unknown, large-scale search space, they are integrated into the previous best universe to force MVO out of stagnation. We test this method on three sets of 23 well-known benchmark test functions and an NP complete problem of test scheduling for Network-on-Chip (NoC). Experimental results prove that the proposed LFMVO is more competitive than its peers in both the quality of the resulting solutions and convergence speed.

  10. A Multi-Verse Optimizer with Levy Flights for Numerical Optimization and Its Application in Test Scheduling for Network-on-Chip

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    Hu, Cong; Li, Zhi; Zhou, Tian; Zhu, Aijun; Xu, Chuanpei

    2016-01-01

    We propose a new meta-heuristic algorithm named Levy flights multi-verse optimizer (LFMVO), which incorporates Levy flights into multi-verse optimizer (MVO) algorithm to solve numerical and engineering optimization problems. The Original MVO easily falls into stagnation when wormholes stochastically re-span a number of universes (solutions) around the best universe achieved over the course of iterations. Since Levy flights are superior in exploring unknown, large-scale search space, they are integrated into the previous best universe to force MVO out of stagnation. We test this method on three sets of 23 well-known benchmark test functions and an NP complete problem of test scheduling for Network-on-Chip (NoC). Experimental results prove that the proposed LFMVO is more competitive than its peers in both the quality of the resulting solutions and convergence speed. PMID:27926946

  11. [From psychotherapy to psychoanalysis: Max Levy-Suhl (1876-1947)].

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    Hermanns, Ludger M; Schröter, Michael; Stroeken, Harry

    2014-01-01

    From psychotherapy to psychoanalysis: Max Levy-Suhl (1876-1947). Levy-Suhl can be considered one of the great practising psychotherapists in early 20th century Berlin. He was active in various fields, including ophthalmology, forensic adolescent psychiatry and hypnosis. Prominent among his publications were two handbooks of psychotherapeutic methods. His attitude towards psychoanalysis shifted from initial criticism to acceptance. Ca. 1930 he experienced some kind of conversion, resulting in his training at the Berlin Institute and becoming a member of the German Psychoanalytic Society. As a Jew being forced to emigrate in 1933, Levy-Suhl turned to the Netherlands where he had a psychoanalytic children's home in Amersfoort, followed by an analyst's practice in Amsterdam. He survived the German occupation, but apparently as a broken man. After the war he committed suicide.--The paper is complemented by an appendix, containing documents and an extensive bibliography.

  12. Vacuum solutions of five dimensional Einstein equations generated by inverse scattering method. II. Production of the black ring solution

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    Tomizawa, Shinya; Nozawa, Masato

    2006-06-15

    We study vacuum solutions of five-dimensional Einstein equations generated by the inverse scattering method. We reproduce the black ring solution which was found by Emparan and Reall by taking the Euclidean Levi-Civita metric plus one-dimensional flat space as a seed. This transformation consists of two successive processes; the first step is to perform the three-solitonic transformation of the Euclidean Levi-Civita metric with one-dimensional flat space as a seed. The resulting metric is the Euclidean C-metric with extra one-dimensional flat space. The second is to perform the two-solitonic transformation by taking it as a new seed. Our result may serve asmore » a stepping stone to find new exact solutions in higher dimensions.« less

  13. 48 CFR 252.232-7010 - Levies on Contract Payments.

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    2010-10-01

    ... amount of tax debt. (b) When a levy is imposed on a payment under this contract and the Contractor... notify the IRS to attempt to resolve the tax situation. (d) Any DoD determination under this clause is...

  14. Modeling Geodetic Processes with Levy α-Stable Distribution and FARIMA

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    Montillet, Jean-Philippe; Yu, Kegen

    2015-04-01

    Over the last years the scientific community has been using the auto regressive moving average (ARMA) model in the modeling of the noise in global positioning system (GPS) time series (daily solution). This work starts with the investigation of the limit of the ARMA model which is widely used in signal processing when the measurement noise is white. Since a typical GPS time series consists of geophysical signals (e.g., seasonal signal) and stochastic processes (e.g., coloured and white noise), the ARMA model may be inappropriate. Therefore, the application of the fractional auto-regressive integrated moving average (FARIMA) model is investigated. The simulation results using simulated time series as well as real GPS time series from a few selected stations around Australia show that the FARIMA model fits the time series better than other models when the coloured noise is larger than the white noise. The second fold of this work focuses on fitting the GPS time series with the family of Levy α-stable distributions. Using this distribution, a hypothesis test is developed to eliminate effectively coarse outliers from GPS time series, achieving better performance than using the rule of thumb of n standard deviations (with n chosen empirically).

  15. Special Spotlight: Levi A. Garraway, M.D., Ph.D.

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    Dr. Levi A. Garraway, a former CRCHD CURE trainee, received the prestigious Jane Cooke Wright Lectureship Award at the 2014 meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research and presented "The Cancer Genome in Biology, Therapy, and Drug Resistance.”

  16. Tabulation of comet observations.

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    1993-07-01

    Concerning comets: 1955 III Mrkos, 1955 IV Bakharev-Macfarlane-Krienke, 1955 V Honda, 1956 III Mrkos, 1956 IV P/Olbers, 1957 V Mrkos, 1961 II Candy, 1961 V Wilson-Hubbard, 1962 III Seki-Lines, 1962 V P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák, 1963 I Ikeya, 1963 III Alcock, 1964 VI Tomita-Gerber-Honda, 1964 IX Everhart, 1965 VIII Ikeya-Seki, 1966 II Barbon, 1966 V Kilston, 1967 III Wild, 1967 IV Seki, 1967 V P/Tuttle, 1967 X P/Tempel 2, 1970 I Daido-Fujikawa, 1975 IX Kobayashi-Berger-Milon, 1979 X Bradfield, 1986 III P/Halley, 1989 X P/Brorsen-Metcalf, 1989 XIX Okazaki-Levy-Rudenko, 1990 III Cernis-Kiuchi-Nakamura, 1990 V Austin, 1990 XIV P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková, 1990 XVII Tsuchiya-Kiuchi, 1990 XX Levy, 1990 XXI P/Encke, 1990 XXVIII P/Wild 2, 1991 XI P/Levy, 1991 XV P/Hartley 2, 1991a1 Shoemaker-Levy, 1992h Spacewatch, 1992l P/Giclas, 1992n P/Schuster, 1992ο P/Daniel, 1992s P/Ciffréo, 1992t P/Swift-Tuttle, 1992u P/Väisälä 1, 1992x P/Schaumasse, 1992y Shoemaker, 1992a1 Ohshita, 1993a Mueller, 1993e P/Shoemaker-Levy 9, P/Smirnova-Chernykh, P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1.

  17. 78 FR 32258 - Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families Proposed... Levy (FAST Levy). OMB No.: New Collection. Description: State IV-D child support enforcement agencies... institutions. To assist states in fulfilling this statutory requirement the federal Office of Child Support...

  18. Option Pricing with a Levy-Type Stochastic Dynamic Model for Stock Price Process Under Semi-Markovian Structural Perturbations

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    2015-11-30

    of interest are currently being investigated: (1) an evaluation of the effects of the backward recurrence time, the sojourn time distribution and the...Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications 407, 350–359. W. Schachermayer (2010) Fundamental theorem of asset pricing, Encyclopedia of Quanti - tative

  19. Zimbabwe's national AIDS levy: A case study.

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    Bhat, Nisha; Kilmarx, Peter H; Dube, Freeman; Manenji, Albert; Dube, Medelina; Magure, Tapuwa

    2016-01-01

    We conducted a case study of the Zimbabwe National AIDS Trust Fund ('AIDS Levy') as an approach to domestic government financing of the response to HIV and AIDS. Data came from three sources: a literature review, including a search for grey literature, review of government documents from the Zimbabwe National AIDS Council (NAC), and key informant interviews with representatives of the Zimbabwean government, civil society and international organizations. The literature search yielded 139 sources, and 20 key informants were interviewed. Established by legislation in 1999, the AIDS Levy entails a 3% income tax for individuals and 3% tax on profits of employers and trusts (which excluded the mining industry until 2015). It is managed by the parastatal NAC through a decentralized structure of AIDS Action Committees. Revenues increased from inception to 2006 through 2008, a period of economic instability and hyperinflation. Following dollarization in 2009, annual revenues continued to increase, reaching US$38.6 million in 2014. By policy, at least 50% of funds are used for purchase of antiretroviral medications. Other spending includes administration and capital costs, HIV prevention, and monitoring and evaluation. Several financial controls and auditing systems are in place. Key informants perceived the AIDS Levy as a 'homegrown' solution that provided country ownership and reduced dependence on donor funding, but called for further increased transparency, accountability, and reduced administrative costs, as well as recommended changes to increase revenue. The Zimbabwe AIDS Levy has generated substantial resources, recently over US$35 million per year, and signals an important commitment by Zimbabweans, which may have helped attract other donor resources. Many key informants considered the Zimbabwe AIDS Levy to be a best practice for other countries to follow.

  20. Using nudges to reduce waste? The case of Toronto's plastic bag levy.

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    Rivers, Nicholas; Shenstone-Harris, Sarah; Young, Nathan

    2017-03-01

    The overuse of disposable plastic bags is a major environmental problem across the globe. In recent years, numerous jurisdictions have sought to curb disposable bag use by implementing a levy or fee at the point of purchase. These levies are typically small and symbolic (around $0.05 per bag), but serve as a highly-visible and continuous reminder to consumers. As such, they are consistent with nudging policies that seek to encourage broad changes in behaviour through small, non-coercive measures that influence people's thinking about an issue. While existing empirical evidence suggests that nudges are highly effective in reducing disposable bag use, we argue that many of these studies are flawed because they lack adequate temporal and geographic controls. We use longitudinal data from four waves of a major Canadian survey to analyze the effect of a disposable bag levy in the City of Toronto. Controlling for demographics and changes in social norms over time, we find that the levy increased the use of reusable shopping bags by 3.4 percentage points. Moreover, we find that the impact of the policy was highly variable across behavioural and demographic groups. The levy was highly effective in encouraging people who already used reusable bags to use them more frequently, while having no effect on infrequent users. We also find that the effects are limited to households with high socio-economic status (as measured by income, educational attainment, and housing situation). This suggests important limitations for nudging policy more generally, as people with lower socio-economic status appear to have been unaffected by this behavioural prompt. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  1. A Computational Analysis of Complex Noun Phrases in Navy Messages

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    1984-07-01

    Hirschman. Automated Determination of Suhlanguage Syntactic Usage. Proc. COLING 84) (current volume). [Hirschman 1082 ] Hirsehman, L. Constraints on...Restricted Semantic Domains. de Grnyter New York, 1082 . [Levi 1078] Levi, J.N. The Syntaz and Semantics of Com- plez Nominals, Academic Press, New York

  2. Some new results on the Levy, Levy and Solomon microscopic stock market model

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    Zschischang, Elmar; Lux, Thomas

    2001-03-01

    We report some findings from our simulations of the Levy, Levy and Solomon microscopic stock market model. Our results cast doubts on some of the results published in the original papers (i.e., chaotic stock price movements). We also point out the possibility of sensitive dependence on initial conditions of the emerging wealth distribution among agents. Extensions of the model set-up show that with varying degrees of risk aversion, the less risk averse traders will tend to dominate the market. Similarly, when introducing a new trader group (or even a single trader) with a constant share of stocks in their portfolio, the latter will eventually take over and marginalize the other groups. The better performance of the more sober investors is in accordance with traditional perceptions in financial economics. Hence, the survival of ‘noise traders’ looking at short-term trends and patterns remains as much of a puzzle in this framework as in the traditional Efficient Market Theory.

  3. Tabulation of comet observations.

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    1991-07-01

    Concerning comets: 1957 III Arend-Roland, 1957 V Mrkos, 1958 III Burnham, 1959 III Bester-Hoffmeister, 1959 VI Alcock, 1959 VIII P/Giacobini-Zinner, 1960 I P/Wild 1, 1960 II Burnham, 1960 III P/Schaumasse, 1960 VIII P/Finlay, 1961 V Wilson-Hubbard, 1961 VIII Seki, 1962 III Seki-Lines, 1962 VIII Humason, 1963 I Ikeya, 1963 III Alcock, 1963 V Pereyra, 1964 VI Tomita-Gerber-Honda, 1964 VIII Ikeya, 1964 IX Everhart, 1979 X Bradfield, 1980 X P/Stephan-Oterma, 1980 XII Meier, 1980 XIII P/Tuttle, 1981 II Panther, 1982 I Bowell, 1982 IV P/Grigg-Skjellerup, 1982 VII P/d'Arrest, 1986 III P/Halley, 1987 IV Shoemaker, 1987 XII P/Hartley 3, 1987 XIX P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 2, 1987 XXIX Bradfield, 1987 XXX Levy, 1987 XXXII McNaught, 1987 XXXIII P/Borrelly, 1987 XXXVI P/Parker-Hartley, 1987 XXXVII P/Helin- Roman-Alu 1, 1988 III Shoemaker-Holt, 1988 V Liller, 1988 VIII P/Ge-Wang, 1988 XI P/Shoemaker-Holt 2, 1988 XIV P/Tempel 2, 1988 XV Machholz, 1988 XX Yanaka, 1988 XXI Shoemaker, 1988 XXIV Yanaka, 1989 III Shoemaker, 1989 V Shoemaker-Holt-Rodriquez, 1989 VIII P/Pons-Winnecke, 1989 X P/Brorsen-Metcalf, 1989 XI P/Gunn, 1989 XIII P/Lovas 1, 1989 XVIII McKenzie-Russell, 1989 XIX Okazaki-Levy-Rudenko, 1989 XX P/Clark, 1989 XXI Helin-Ronan-Alu, 1989 XXII Aarseth-Brewington, 1989h P/Van Biesbroeck, 1989t P/Wild 2, 1989u P/Kearns-Kwee, 1989c1 Austin, 1989e1 Skorichenko-George, 1990a P/Wild 4, 1990b Černis-Kiuchi-Nakamura, 1990c Levy, 1990e P/Wolf-Harrington, 1990f P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková, 1990g McNaught-Hughes, 1990i Tsuchiya-Kiuchi, 1990n P/Taylor, 1990ο P/Shoemaker-Levy 1, 1991a P/Metcalf-Brewington, 1991b Arai, 1991c P/Swift-Gehrels, 1991d Shoemaker-Levy, 1991e P/Shoemaker-Levy 3, 1991h P/Takamizawa, 1991j P/Hartley 1, 1991k P/Mrkos, 1991l Helin-Lawrence, 1991n P/Faye, 1991q P/Levy, 1991t P/Hartley 2, P/Encke, P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1.

  4. On Real-Time Operating Systems.

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    1987-04-01

    1Ri2 193 ONREAL-TIME OPERATING SYS EMS(U MAYLAN UN V COLLG PARK DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE S LEVI ET AL APR 87 CS-TR-1838 NOSO14-87-K-9124 UNCLASSIFIED...and processes. In each instance the abstraction takes the form of some non- physical resource and benefits both the system and the user. ...The...service, which is important as an inter-process service (for physical synchronization) as well as an internal service for a process. A time service in a

  5. Tabulation of comet observations.

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    1993-10-01

    Concerning comets: 1955 III Mrkos, 1955 IV Bakharev-Macfarlane-Krienke, 1955 V Honda, 1956 III Mrkos, 1956 IV P/Olbers, 1957 III Arend-Roland, 1957 V Mrkos, 1958 III Burnham, 1959 VIII P/Giacobini-Zinner, 1960 II Burnham, 1973 XII Kohoutek, 1974 III Bradfield, 1975 IX Kobayashi-Berger-Milon, 1975 X Suzuki-Saigusa-Mori, 1975 XI Bradfield, 1975 XII Mori-Sato-Fujikawa, 1976 IV Bradfield, 1976 VI West, 1979 VII Bradfield, 1980 X P/Stephan-Oerma, 1980 XII Meier, 1980 XIII P/Tuttle, 1981 II Panther, 1981 IV P/Borrelly, 1981 XIX P/Swift-Gehrels, 1982 I Bowell, 1982 IV P/Grigg-Skjellerup, 1982 VI Austin, 1982 VII P/d'Arrest, 1982 VIII P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 1983 V Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa, 1983 VII IRAS-Araki-Alcock, 1983 X P/Tempel 2, 1983 XI P/Tempel 1, 1983 XIII P/Kopff, 1983 XIV P/IRAS, 1983 XV Shoemaker, 1984 III P/Hartley-IRAS, 1984 IV P/Crommelin, 1984 XI P/Faye, 1984 XIII Austin, 1984 XIV P/Wild 2, 1984 XVI P/Shoemaker 1, 1984 XXIII Levy-Rudenko, 1985 I P/Tsuchinshan 1, 1985 XIII P/Giacobini-Zinner, 1985 XV P/Giclas, 1985 XVI P/Ciffréo, 1985 XVII Hartley-Good, 1985 XVIII P/Shoemaker 3, 1985 XIX Thiele, 1986 I P/Boethin, 1986 III P/Halley, 1986 VIII P/Machholz, 1986 XVII Levy, 1986 XVIII Terasako, 1987 II Sorrells, 1987 VII Wilson, 1987 XIX P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 2, 1987 XXI Levy, 1987 XXIII Rudenko, 1987 XXIV P/Brooks 2, 1987 XXVII P/Kohoutek, 1987 XXIX Bradfield, 1988 IV Furuyama, 1988 XIV P/Tempel 2, 1989 III Shoemaker, 1989 XV P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, 1989 XIX Okazaki-Levy-Rudenko, 1990 V Austin, 1990 XVII Tsuchiya-Kiuchi, 1990 XX Levy, 1990 XXI P/Encke, 1990 XXVI Arai, 1991 I P/Metcalf-Brewington, 1991 XV P/Hartley 2, 1991 XVII P/Arend-Rigaux, 1991a1 Shoemaker-Levy, 1991g1 Zanotta-Brewington, 1992c P/Howell, 1992d Tanaka-Machholz, 1992e P/Singer Brewster, 1992f P/Shoemaker-Levy 8, 1992h Spacewatch, 1992j P/Ashbrook-Jackson, 1992t P/Swift-Tuttle, 1992u P/Väisälä 1, 1992w P/Slaughter-Burnham, 1992x P/Schaumasse, 1992y Shoemaker, 1993a Mueller, 1993d Mueller, 1993e P/Shoemaker-Levy 9, 1993f P/Forbes, 1993i P/Holmes, 1993j P/Neujmin 3, 1993k P/Shajn-Schaldach, 1993l P/Helin-Lawrence, 1993m P/Hartley 3, 1993n P/Whipple, 1993ο P/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura, 1993p Mueller, P/Smirnova-Chernykh.

  6. Transgenic sugarcane overexpressing CaneCPI-1 negatively affects the growth and development of the sugarcane weevil Sphenophorus levis.

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    Schneider, Vanessa Karine; Soares-Costa, Andrea; Chakravarthi, Mohan; Ribeiro, Carolina; Chabregas, Sabrina Moutinho; Falco, Maria Cristina; Henrique-Silva, Flavio

    2017-01-01

    Transgenic sugarcane expressing CaneCPI-1 exhibits resistance to Sphenophorus levis larvae. Transgenic plants have widely been used to improve resistance against insect attack. Sugarcane is an economically important crop; however, great losses are caused by insect attack. Sphenophorus levis is a sugarcane weevil that digs tunnels in the stem base, leading to the destruction of the crop. This insect is controlled inefficiently by chemical insecticides. Transgenic plants expressing peptidase inhibitors represent an important strategy for impairing insect growth and development. Knowledge of the major peptidase group present in the insect gut is critical when choosing the most effective inhibitor. S. levis larvae use cysteine peptidases as their major digestive enzymes, primarily cathepsin L-like activity. In this study, we developed transgenic sugarcane plants that overexpress sugarcane cysteine peptidase inhibitor 1 (CaneCPI-1) and assessed their potential through feeding bioassays with S. levis larvae. Cystatin overexpression in the transgenic plants was evaluated using semi-quantitative RT-PCR, RT-qPCR, and immunoblot assays. A 50% reduction of the average weight was observed in larvae that fed on transgenic plants in comparison to larvae that fed on non-transgenic plants. In addition, transgenic sugarcane exhibited less damage caused by larval attack than the controls. Our results suggest that the overexpression of CaneCPI-1 in sugarcane is a promising strategy for improving resistance against this insect.

  7. Food Commensals as a Potential Major Avenue in Transmitting Antibiotic Resistance Genes

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2005-08-01

    bacteria in the G1 system (Levy 1998). Particularly, oral cavity could bl an important ,rcea where man1y initial interactions bctwccn fibid microbes anti...the oral cavity . In fact, the zeiS/M and ennB genes were lbund to be abundant in bacteria isolated from foods, which is in agreement with the...Wilson M, Mullany P. 2005. TIhe maintenance in the oral cavity of children of tctracyclinc-rcsistant bacteria and the genes encoding such rcsistanee. J

  8. Planning an Anti-Racism Initiative. Project Change.

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    Batten Susan T.; Leiderman, Sally A.

    Project Change was launched by the Levi Strauss Foundation in 1991 as an initiative to address racial prejudice and institutional racism in communities in which Levi Strauss & Co. had facilities. Working with multiracial coalitions in Albuquerque (New Mexico), El Paso (Texas), Valdosta (Georgia), and Knoxville (Tennessee), the Foundation and…

  9. 26 CFR 301.6331-2 - Procedures and restrictions on levies.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... certified mail to the taxpayer's last known address. For further guidance regarding the definition of last...— (i) The Internal Revenue Code provisions and the procedures relating to levy and sale of property... (including the use of an installment agreement under section 6159); and (iv) The Internal Revenue Code...

  10. 26 CFR 301.6331-2 - Procedures and restrictions on levies.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... certified mail to the taxpayer's last known address. For further guidance regarding the definition of last...— (i) The Internal Revenue Code provisions and the procedures relating to levy and sale of property... (including the use of an installment agreement under section 6159); and (iv) The Internal Revenue Code...

  11. 26 CFR 301.6331-2 - Procedures and restrictions on levies.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... certified mail to the taxpayer's last known address. For further guidance regarding the definition of last...— (i) The Internal Revenue Code provisions and the procedures relating to levy and sale of property... (including the use of an installment agreement under section 6159); and (iv) The Internal Revenue Code...

  12. 26 CFR 301.6331-2 - Procedures and restrictions on levies.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... certified mail to the taxpayer's last known address. For further guidance regarding the definition of last...— (i) The Internal Revenue Code provisions and the procedures relating to levy and sale of property... (including the use of an installment agreement under section 6159); and (iv) The Internal Revenue Code...

  13. Levi-Strauss's "Bricolage" and Theorizing Teachers' Work.

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    Hatton, Elizabeth

    1989-01-01

    A teacher's work is compared to Claude Levi-Strauss's concept of "bricolage." A "bricoleur" is a professional do-it-yourself person, falling somewhere between an odd-job person and a craftsperson. The concept helps to explain pedagogical inadequacy by linking inherent limiting features of teachers' work and some causal…

  14. Understanding Mill Levy Stabilization in Colorado

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    Colorado Children's Campaign, 2007

    2007-01-01

    On March 13, 2007, Governor Bill Ritter and state Senator Sue Windels announced a proposal they call the "Colorado Children's Amendment." This proposal would "freeze," or stabilize, local property tax mill levies for general education to maintain local funding for public K-12 education. As overall costs for K-12 education grow,…

  15. HOW WELL ARE HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY VARIATIONS APPROXIMATED BY ADDITIVE STABLE PROCESSES? (R826171)

    EPA Science Inventory

    Abstract

    Analysis of the higher statistical moments of a hydraulic conductivity (K) and an intrinsic permeability (k) data set leads to the conclusion that the increments of the data and the logs of the data are not governed by Levy-stable or Gaussian dis...

  16. Notes on the orb-weaving spider genus Alpaida (Araneae, Araneidae) with description of four new species from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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    Baptista, Renner Luiz Cerqueira; De Souza Castanheira, Pedro; Prado, AndrÉ Wanderley do

    2018-04-11

    Four new species of the orb-weaving spider genus Alpaida O. P.-Cambridge, 1889 from Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil are illustrated and described based on males and females from the following municipalities: Alpaida imperatrix new species (Macaé and Rio de Janeiro); Alpaida imperialis new species (Mendes and Rio de Janeiro); Alpaida marista new species (Mendes and Pinheiral); and Alpaida mendensis new species (Mendes). Furthermore, two new synonymies are herein proposed: Alpaida lanei Levi, 1988 = Alpaida atomaria (Simon, 1895) and Alpaida caxias Levi, 1988 = Alpaida tijuca Levi, 1988, alongside new records for both species and also Alpaida venger Castanheira Baptista, 2015.

  17. A Study on L-Asparaginase of Nocardia levis MK-VL_113

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    Kavitha, Alapati; Vijayalakshmi, Muvva

    2012-01-01

    An enzyme-based drug, L-asparaginase, was produced by Nocardia levis MK-VL_113 isolated from laterite soils of Guntur region. Cultural parameters affecting the production of L-asparaginase by the strain were optimized. Maximal yields of L-asparaginase were recorded from 3-day-old culture grown in modified asparagine-glycerol salts broth with initial pH 7.0 at temperature 30°C. Glycerol (2%) and yeast extract (1.5%) served as good carbon and nitrogen sources for L-asparaginase production, respectively. Cell-disrupting agents like EDTA slightly enhanced the productivity of L-asparaginase. Ours is the first paper on the production of L-asparaginase by N. levis. PMID:22619604

  18. A study on L-asparaginase of Nocardia levis MK-VL_113.

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    Kavitha, Alapati; Vijayalakshmi, Muvva

    2012-01-01

    An enzyme-based drug, L-asparaginase, was produced by Nocardia levis MK-VL_113 isolated from laterite soils of Guntur region. Cultural parameters affecting the production of L-asparaginase by the strain were optimized. Maximal yields of L-asparaginase were recorded from 3-day-old culture grown in modified asparagine-glycerol salts broth with initial pH 7.0 at temperature 30°C. Glycerol (2%) and yeast extract (1.5%) served as good carbon and nitrogen sources for L-asparaginase production, respectively. Cell-disrupting agents like EDTA slightly enhanced the productivity of L-asparaginase. Ours is the first paper on the production of L-asparaginase by N. levis.

  19. A Lagrangian stochastic model to demonstrate multi-scale interactions between convection and land surface heterogeneity in the atmospheric boundary layer

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    Parsakhoo, Zahra; Shao, Yaping

    2017-04-01

    Near-surface turbulent mixing has considerable effect on surface fluxes, cloud formation and convection in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). Its quantifications is however a modeling and computational challenge since the small eddies are not fully resolved in Eulerian models directly. We have developed a Lagrangian stochastic model to demonstrate multi-scale interactions between convection and land surface heterogeneity in the atmospheric boundary layer based on the Ito Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) for air parcels (particles). Due to the complexity of the mixing in the ABL, we find that linear Ito SDE cannot represent convections properly. Three strategies have been tested to solve the problem: 1) to make the deterministic term in the Ito equation non-linear; 2) to change the random term in the Ito equation fractional, and 3) to modify the Ito equation by including Levy flights. We focus on the third strategy and interpret mixing as interaction between at least two stochastic processes with different Lagrangian time scales. The model is in progress to include the collisions among the particles with different characteristic and to apply the 3D model for real cases. One application of the model is emphasized: some land surface patterns are generated and then coupled with the Large Eddy Simulation (LES).

  20. Successful Strategies for Marketing School Levies. Fastback No. 310.

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    Graham, Glenn T.; And Others

    The use of modern marketing concepts to assist public school districts in the passage of school levies and bond issues is presented in this guidebook. The modern marketing concept is based on maximizing customer satisfaction and solving the problem of the consumer. Strategies are presented for conducting market analysis; financing, organizing, and…

  1. Primo Levi and the Periodic Table: Teaching Chemistry Using A Literary Text (Excerpt)

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    Osorio, Viktoria Klara Lakatos; Tiedemann, Peter Wilhelm; Porto, Paulo Alves

    2007-01-01

    The excerpts from The Periodic Table book written by Primo Levi is discussed related to chemical concepts. The use of a literary text as a starting point of discussions of chemical concepts has allowed the integration of various topics covered in separate courses of the undergraduate program in chemistry.

  2. 48 CFR 252.225-7032 - Waiver of United Kingdom Levies-Evaluation of offers.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... of a contract, the U.S. Government reserves the right to reduce the contract price by the amount of... Levies—Evaluation of Offers (APR 2003) (a) Offered prices for contracts or subcontracts with United... offeror shall identify to the Contracting Officer all levies included in the offered price by describing...

  3. Three Million Careers: Making the Apprenticeship Levy Work

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Learning and Work Institute, 2016

    2016-01-01

    The Government has a target of three million apprenticeship starts in England by 2020, and is introducing an Apprenticeship Levy on the payroll of large employers to fund this increase and to encourage greater employer engagement with apprenticeships. Concerns have been raised about whether there should be a delay to get the details right;…

  4. 33 CFR 135.103 - Levy and payment of barrel fee on OCS oil.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters 2 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Levy and payment of barrel fee on OCS oil. 135.103 Section 135.103 Navigation and Navigable Waters COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED) MARINE POLLUTION FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND COMPENSATION OFFSHORE OIL POLLUTION...

  5. 33 CFR 135.103 - Levy and payment of barrel fee on OCS oil.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Levy and payment of barrel fee on OCS oil. 135.103 Section 135.103 Navigation and Navigable Waters COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED) MARINE POLLUTION FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND COMPENSATION OFFSHORE OIL POLLUTION...

  6. 33 CFR 135.103 - Levy and payment of barrel fee on OCS oil.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Levy and payment of barrel fee on OCS oil. 135.103 Section 135.103 Navigation and Navigable Waters COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED) MARINE POLLUTION FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND COMPENSATION OFFSHORE OIL POLLUTION...

  7. 33 CFR 135.103 - Levy and payment of barrel fee on OCS oil.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters 2 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Levy and payment of barrel fee on OCS oil. 135.103 Section 135.103 Navigation and Navigable Waters COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED) MARINE POLLUTION FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND COMPENSATION OFFSHORE OIL POLLUTION...

  8. 33 CFR 135.103 - Levy and payment of barrel fee on OCS oil.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters 2 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Levy and payment of barrel fee on OCS oil. 135.103 Section 135.103 Navigation and Navigable Waters COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED) MARINE POLLUTION FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND COMPENSATION OFFSHORE OIL POLLUTION...

  9. 78 FR 42034 - More Data Sought on Extra Fees Levied on Inmate Calling Services

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    2013-07-15

    ... FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Part 64 [WC Docket No. 12-375; DA 13-1445] More Data Sought on Extra Fees Levied on Inmate Calling Services AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION... comments, identified by WC Docket No. 12-375, by any of the following methods: Federal Communications...

  10. Estimating Resource Costs of Levy Campaigns in Five Ohio School Districts

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Ingle, W. Kyle; Petroff, Ruth Ann; Johnson, Paul A.

    2011-01-01

    Using Levin and McEwan's (2001) "ingredients method," this study identified the major activities and associated costs of school levy campaigns in five districts. The ingredients were divided into one of five cost categories--human resources, facilities, fees, marketing, and supplies. As to overall costs of the campaigns, estimates ranged…

  11. Myth and Reality: Employer Sponsored Training in Australia

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Smith, Andy; Billett, Stephen

    2005-01-01

    In 1990, Australia implemented an employer training levy, the Training Guarantee Scheme. The Training Guarantee was abolished by the incoming Coalition federal government in 1996 after much negative publicity about its impact, particularly on small business. Recently, there have been calls to revive the notion of an employer training levy as a…

  12. 27 CFR 70.241 - Property exempt from levy.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... payments received by a person whose name has been entered on the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard... support of minor children. If the taxpayer is required under any type of order or decree (including an... exempt from levy. (12) Assistance under job training partnership act. Any amount payable to a participant...

  13. 27 CFR 70.241 - Property exempt from levy.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... payments received by a person whose name has been entered on the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard... support of minor children. If the taxpayer is required under any type of order or decree (including an... exempt from levy. (12) Assistance under job training partnership act. Any amount payable to a participant...

  14. 27 CFR 70.241 - Property exempt from levy.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... payments received by a person whose name has been entered on the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard... support of minor children. If the taxpayer is required under any type of order or decree (including an... exempt from levy. (12) Assistance under job training partnership act. Any amount payable to a participant...

  15. Campaign Strategies and Voter Approval of School Referenda: A Mixed Methods Analysis

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Johnson, Paul A.; Ingle, William Kyle

    2009-01-01

    Drawing from state administrative data and surveys of superintendents in Ohio, this mixed methods study examined factors associated with voters' approval of local school levies. Utilizing binomial logistic regression, this study found that new levies and poverty rates were significantly associated with a decrease in the likelihood of passage.…

  16. Massing Support for a Levy without Mass Media

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Whitmoyer, Ron

    2005-01-01

    The classic campaign strategy in most school communities involves using the mass media to attract widespread attention to the upcoming budget or tax levy vote. Such strategies tend to bring uninformed voters in unknown quantities to the polls. The authors' recent experience, working with a committed and well-organized campaign chairperson, helped…

  17. Tabulation of comet observations.

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    1993-01-01

    Concerning comets: 1973 XII Kohoutek, 1975 IX Kobayashi-Berger-Milon, 1976 VI West, 1976 XI P/d'Arrest, 1977 XIV Kohler, 1979 X Bradfield, 1980 X P/Stephan-Oterma, 1980 XV Bradfield, 1981 II Panther, 1982 VI Austin, 1983 V Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa, 1983 VII IRAS-Araki-Alcock, 1983 XIII P/Kopff, 1984 XIII Austin, 1984 XXIII Levy-Rudenko, 1985 XIII P/Giacobini-Zinner, 1985 XVII Hartley-Good, 1985 XIX Thiele, 1986 I P/Boethin, 1986 III P/Halley, 1986 XVIII Terasako, 1987 II Sorrells, 1987 III Nishikawa-Takamizawa-Tago, 1987 X P/Grigg-Skjellerup, 1987 XXIII Rudenko, 1987 XXIX Bradfield, 1987 XXXII McNaught, 1987 XXXIII P/Borrelly, 1988 IV Furuyama, 1988 V Liller, 1988 XIV P/Tempel 2, 1988 XV Machholz, 1988 XX Yanaka, 1988 XXIV Yanaka, 1989 X P/Brorsen-Metcalf, 1989 XV P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, 1989 XIX Okazaki-Levy-Rudenko, 1989 XXI Helin-Roman-Alu, 1989 XXII Aarseth-Brewington, 1990 III Černis-Kiuchi-Nakamura, 1990 VI Skorichenko-George, 1990 VIII P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, 1990 IX P/Peters-Hartley, 1990 X P/Wild 4, 1990 XIV P/Honda Mrkos-Pajdušáková, 1990 XVII Tsuchiya-Kiuchi, 1990 XXI P/Encke, 1990 XXVI Arai, 1991 XI P/Levy, 1991 XV P/Hartley 2, 1991 XVI P/Wirtanen, 1991 XVII P/Arend-Rigaux, 1991 XXI P/Faye, 1991 XXIII P/Shoemaker 1, 1991 XXIV Shoemaker-Levy, 1991l Helin-Lawrence, 1991ο P/Chernykh, 1991r Helin-Alu, 1991a1 Shoemaker-Levy, 1991g1 Zanotta-Brewington, 1991h1 Mueller, 1912d Tanaka-Machholz, 1992f P/Shoemaker-Levy 8, 1992k Machholz, 1992l P/Giclas, 1992p P/Brewington, 1992q Helin-Lawrence, 1992s P/Ciffréo, 1992t P/Swift-Tuttle, 1992u P/Väisälä, 1992x P/Schaumasse, 1992y Shoemaker, 1992a1 Ohshita, 1993a Mueller, P/Smirnova-Chernykh.

  18. The impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on the Jovian magnetosphere

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Herbert, Floyd

    1994-01-01

    By the time of the impact of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, the freshly-broken surfaces of the accompanying rubble will have been outgassing for about two years, and will have produced an expanding and co-moving cloud of gas hundreds of R(sub J) across. Much of this gas, escaping from the cometary fragments at low (equal to or less than 1 km/s) speed, will arrive in the Jovian magnetopshere contemporaneously with the comet and drift through the magnetosphere. This gas, as it is photoionized, will be picked up primarily in the outer magnetosphere and the resulting high-energy ions should intensify magnetospheric processes, such as Io plasma torus and auroral emissions, that are thought to be powered by outer magnetospheric mass loading. If the composition of the comet is similar to that of P/Halley, the power available from mass loading should be comparable to that driving the aurora (10(exp 14) W) and at least an order of magnitude larger than that exciting the plasma torus for several weeks or months. Measurement of these emissions during and after the cometary encounter may constrain the mechanisms for energization of magnetospheric charged particle populations and magnetospheric transport processes.

  19. 27 CFR 70.243 - Exempt amount.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... as wages, salary, or other income for each payroll period described in § 70.244 of this part are exempt from levy as follows: (a) If the payroll period is weekly, an amount equal to: (1) The sum of: (i...) If the payroll period is not weekly, the amount exempt from levy shall be an amount which as nearly...

  20. 76 FR 77561 - Atomic Safety and Licensing Board; In the Matter of Progress Energy Florida, Inc.; (Levy County...

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    2011-12-13

    ...] Atomic Safety and Licensing Board; In the Matter of Progress Energy Florida, Inc.; (Levy County Nuclear... Statements) This Atomic Safety and Licensing Board hereby gives notice that it will accept oral or written..., Inc.; Establishment of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, 74 FR 9113 (Mar. 2, 2009) (ADAMS Accession...

  1. Levi-Civita cylinders with fractional angular deficit

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    Krisch, J. P.; Glass, E. N.

    2011-05-01

    The angular deficit factor in the Levi-Civita vacuum metric has been parametrized using a Riemann-Liouville fractional integral. This introduces a new parameter into the general relativistic cylinder description, the fractional index α. When the fractional index is continued into the negative α region, new behavior is found in the Gott-Hiscock cylinder and in an Israel shell.

  2. 26 CFR 301.6343-1 - Requirement to release levy and notice of release.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... expedited determination, the taxpayer must submit, within the time frame specified in paragraph (c)(2) of... cases where a request for release of a levy is made within the time frame specified in paragraph (c)(2... time frame specified in paragraph (c)(2) of this section, the information required in paragraph (c)(1...

  3. The Legislative Purposes and Intent of the Common Levy in Nebraska's Learning Community

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    Blomstedt, Matthew L.

    2013-01-01

    The purpose of this historical study was to establish the purposes and intent of the common levy in Nebraska's learning community. The development of this unique regional educational structure consisting of eleven school districts in the Omaha, Nebraska metropolitan area is central to the study. The research detailed the context of the decisions…

  4. Training Guarantee: A Levy To Improve the Quality of Australian Workforce.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Navaratnam, K. K.

    The Training Guarantee Act (TGA) passed by the Federal Parliament of Australia in 1990 establishes a training guarantee scheme. It requires employers to invest in high quality, employment-related training that will most benefit their businesses. The levy is having an impact on many facets of human resource development in Australia. In seeking to…

  5. 27 CFR 70.163 - Surrender of property subject to levy.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... in the banking business in the United States or a possession of the United States is in possession of... rights not so surrendered, together with costs and interests. The liability, however, may not exceed the... than cost, will be credited against the tax liability for the collection of which the levy was made. (2...

  6. "Hired Guns" and "Legitimate Voices": The Politics and Participants of Levy Campaigns in Five Ohio School Districts

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    Ingle, William Kyle; Johnson, Paul Andrew; Petroff, Ruth Ann

    2012-01-01

    Background: In Ohio, levy campaigns are a burdensome task for district administrators and stakeholders alike. To date, there is little research on the districts' role in crafting school budget referenda campaigns. Purpose: This study asked three research questions: How did the macropolitical contexts shape stakeholders' decision making in terms of…

  7. A Review of the Case of a Levy-Grant Scheme (LGS) in the UK Construction Industry

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Abdel-Wahab, Mohamed; Dainty, Andrew; Ison, Stephen

    2010-01-01

    A Levy-Grant Scheme (LGS) has existed in the UK construction industry since 1964 to provide financial support for companies undertaking training activities. Despite the support of the LGS for various training activities, notably apprenticeships, the construction industry continues to suffer from both labour shortages and an under-investment in…

  8. A "Tale of Two Cities:" A Comparative Case Study of Community Engagement and Costs in Two Levy Campaigns

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Ingle, W. Kyle; Johnson, Paul A.; Petroff, Ruth Ann

    2011-01-01

    Using Anderson's (1998) framework for authentic community engagement and Levin and McEwan's (2001) "ingredients method," this comparative case study analyzed contrasting approaches to levy campaigns undertaken by two suburban school districts and the associated costs of the campaigns. We found that District A ran a campaign that…

  9. 29 CFR 779.262 - Excise taxes at the retail level.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... Coverage Excise Taxes § 779.262 Excise taxes at the retail level. (a) Federal excise taxes are imposed at.... Such excise taxes are levied at the retail level on any liquid fuel sold for use, or used in a diesel... levied at the retail level, and thus excludable when separately stated, depends, of course, upon the law...

  10. Beyond the Classroom: Involving Students with Disabilities in Extracurricular Activities at Levy Middle School.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Walker, Pam; And Others

    Six students in a special education classroom at Levy Middle School (Syracuse, New York) became involved in a variety of after-school activities with nondisabled students. The students participated in the school computer club, cross-country skiing, volleyball, stage crew, intramural basketball, the Spanish Club, and after-school programs at two…

  11. 27 CFR 70.149 - Refiling of notice of tax lien.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... effectiveness of the notice with respect to: (i) Property which is the subject matter of a suit, to which the.... However, if a suit or levy referred to in the preceding sentence is dismissed or released, respectively... effective after the suit or levy is dismissed or released unless refiled during the required refiling period...

  12. 27 CFR 70.149 - Refiling of notice of tax lien.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... effectiveness of the notice with respect to: (i) Property which is the subject matter of a suit, to which the.... However, if a suit or levy referred to in the preceding sentence is dismissed or released, respectively... effective after the suit or levy is dismissed or released unless refiled during the required refiling period...

  13. 27 CFR 70.149 - Refiling of notice of tax lien.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... effectiveness of the notice with respect to: (i) Property which is the subject matter of a suit, to which the.... However, if a suit or levy referred to in the preceding sentence is dismissed or released, respectively... effective after the suit or levy is dismissed or released unless refiled during the required refiling period...

  14. 27 CFR 70.149 - Refiling of notice of tax lien.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... effectiveness of the notice with respect to: (i) Property which is the subject matter of a suit, to which the.... However, if a suit or levy referred to in the preceding sentence is dismissed or released, respectively... effective after the suit or levy is dismissed or released unless refiled during the required refiling period...

  15. Autonomy, nudging and post-truth politics.

    PubMed

    Keeling, Geoff

    2017-11-16

    In his excellent essay, 'Nudges in a post-truth world', Neil Levy argues that 'nudges to reason', or nudges which aim to make us more receptive to evidence, are morally permissible. A strong argument against the moral permissibility of nudging is that nudges fail to respect the autonomy of the individuals affected by them. Levy argues that nudges to reason do respect individual autonomy, such that the standard autonomy objection fails against nudges to reason. In this paper, I argue that Levy fails to show that nudges to reason respect individual autonomy. © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.

  16. 8- to 13-micron spectroscopy of Comet Levy 1990 XX

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Lynch, David K.; Russell, Ray W.; Hackwell, John A.; Hanner, Martha S.; Hammel, Heidi B.

    1992-01-01

    The results are reported of IR spectroscopy of Comet Levy 1990 XX over a three-day period when the comet was about 1.54 AU from the sun roughly 70 days before perihelion. Comet Levy 1990 XX was bright, and for at least part of its inbound journey toward perihelion, active. At a distance of 1.54 AU from the sun it showed strong structured silicate emission with peaks or shoulders at 9.8 and 11.2 microns. These features resemble those of Comets P/Halley and Bradfield 1987 XXIX. The comet was variable in brightness. Specifically, the contrast of the silicate features changed by a factor of two relative to the continuum level and showed some evidence for a shape change as well.

  17. Scaling and Multiscaling in Financial Time Series

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2005-01-07

    stable process (Mandelbrot, Fama , 1963) The return process X(t) satisfies: dX(t) = µ dt + σ dLα(t) where Lα(t) is an α-stable Levy process. The returns r...year Future JY/USD 7.104 0.02 6 months Nikkei 225 7.104 0.030 1.5 year Future Nikkei 7.104 0.02 6 months Japanese Yen 7.104 0.022 1.0 year French index...the horizon) - Optimal portfolios are stable by linear superposition. → CAPM : Relates the mean return of some asset to its covariance with the

  18. Domain Processes in Ferroelectric Ceramics

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1994-04-14

    elastic strain tensor and eikl is the Levi - Civita density. Eqs (11) and (12) has three nontrivial solutions: Xr3 = 0 (13) Xr"= -1 { [ 2sj2Q 12 -Sl I...ABSTRACT (aA~iMUM 200 wardt) This report Outlines the progres achieved during a two year effort sponsored by the AFOSR on the theoretical study of domain...INTRODUCTION This is the final progress report for this two year program sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research on "Domain Processes in

  19. Effector CD8^+ T cells migrate via chemokine-enhanced generalized L'evy walks

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Banigan, Edward; Harris, Tajie; Christian, David; Liu, Andrea; Hunter, Christopher

    2012-02-01

    Chemokines play a central role in regulating processes essential to the immune function of T cells, such as their migration within lymphoid tissues and targeting of pathogens in sites of inflammation. In order to understand the role of the chemokine CXCL10 during chronic infection by the parasite T. gondii, we analyze tracks of migrating CD8^+ T cells in brain tissue. Surprisingly, we find that T cell motility is not described by a Brownian walk, but instead is consistent with a generalized L'evy walk consisting of L'evy-distributed runs alternating with pauses of L'evy-distributed durations. According to our model, this enables T cells to find rare targets more than an order of magnitude more efficiently than Brownian random walkers. The chemokine CXCL10 increases the migration speed without changing the character of the walk statistics. Thus, CD8^+ T cells use an efficient search strategy to facilitate an effective immune response, and CXCL10 aids them in shortening the average time to find rare targets.

  20. 77 FR 51832 - Atomic Safety and Licensing Board; In the Matter of Progress Energy Florida, Inc. (Levy County...

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    2012-08-27

    ...] Atomic Safety and Licensing Board; In the Matter of Progress Energy Florida, Inc. (Levy County Nuclear.... Anthony J. Baratta and Dr. Randall J. Charbeneau Notice of Hearing This Atomic Safety and Licensing Board... the authority of the Atomic Energy Act, 42 U.S.C. 2231, 2239, and 2241. It will be conducted pursuant...

  1. 76 FR 11522 - In the Matter of Progress Energy Florida, Inc. (Combined License Application, Levy County Nuclear...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-03-02

    ... NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket Nos. 52-029-COL, 52-030-COL] In the Matter of Progress Energy Florida, Inc. (Combined License Application, Levy County Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2... of 10 CFR 2.347 and 2.348 in their communications with Mr. Dehmel. It is so ordered. Dated at...

  2. The Class "C" Survey 1995-96. Comparisons of Budgets, Levies and Enrollments of Class "C" Montana School Districts.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Western Montana Coll., Dillon. Montana Rural Education Center.

    This report presents data comparing budgets, levies, and enrollments of small, rural schools (Class "C") in Montana for fiscal year 1995-96. The average enrollment of 49 elementary schools was 136 students; the average enrollment of 50 high schools was 69. The average total enrollment of Class "C" schools was 195. Other data…

  3. The Class "C" Survey 1994-95. Comparisons of Budgets, Levies and Enrollments of Class "C" Montana School Districts.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Western Montana Coll., Dillon. Montana Rural Education Center.

    This report presents data comparing budgets, levies, and enrollments of small, rural schools (Class "C") in Montana for fiscal year 1994-95. The average enrollment of 56 elementary schools was 136 students; the average enrollment of 56 high schools was 70 students. The average total enrollment of Class "C" schools was 190…

  4. Preventing PTSD: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Brief Anxiety Reducation Treatment for Acute Trauma (ARTAT). Addendum

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2013-08-01

    stress disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research 45(6): 735-41. Galatzer-Levy, I.R., Madan , A., Neylan, T.C, Henn-Haase, C., Marmar, C. R. (2011...Journal of Traumatic Stress 24(5): 557-565. Komarovskaya, I., Maguen, S., McCaslin,S.E., Metzler, T.J., Madan , A., Brown, A.D., Galatzer-Levy, I.R

  5. HUBBLE'S PANORAMIC PICTURE OF COMET SHOEMAKER-LEVY 9

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    2002-01-01

    Infrared image shows bright spot, aftermath of the impact of the first fragment of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on the planet Jupiter. The image was made using an infrared camera built by Ohio State University and the 4-meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO) at La Serena, Chile. Credit: John Spencer (Lowell Observatory), Darren Depoy (Ohio State University), CTIO.

  6. Marketing Terror: Effects of Anti-Messaging on GSPC Recruitment (Strategic Insights, Volume V, Issue 8, November 2006)

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2006-11-01

    Raymond A. Bauer, “The Initiative of the Audience,” in Journal of Advertising Research (June 1963), 2. 47. Boyd and Levy, Op. Cit., 25. 48. Ibid...Initiative of the Audience,” Journal of Advertising Research (June 1963). Boyd, Harper W. Jr., and Sidney J. Levy, Promotion: A Behavioral View (Englewood

  7. 26 CFR 301.6863-1 - Stay of collection of jeopardy assessments; bond to stay collection.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... political assessment for purposes of this section) of any tax may be stayed by filing with the district...) After collection by levy is authorized and before levy is made on any property or rights to property, or... assessment or political assessment collection of which is sought to be stayed. See section 7101 and § 301...

  8. 76 FR 78702 - Progress Energy Florida, Inc. (Combined License Application for Levy County Nuclear Power Plant...

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    2011-12-19

    ... NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket Nos. 52-029-COL, 52-030-COL; ASLBP No. 09-879-04-COL-BD01] Progress Energy Florida, Inc. (Combined License Application for Levy County Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2) Notice of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Reconstitution Pursuant to 10 CFR 2.313(c) and 2...

  9. The Relationship between Components of the Ohio Local School District Report Card and the Outcome of a School Tax Levy

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Wheatley, Vicki Ann

    2012-01-01

    The relationship between components of the local school district report card, school district typology, and the outcome of public school tax levy requests were examined in this study. A correlation research design was used to measure the relationship between the independent variables (performance index, average yearly progress, value added,…

  10. 27 CFR 70.208 - Review of jeopardy assessment or jeopardy levy procedures; information to taxpayer.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Review of jeopardy... Products and Firearms ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY (CONTINUED... levy is made less than 30 days after the notice and demand described in 26 U.S.C 6331(a), the officer...

  11. Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collides with Jupiter. Background Material for Science Teachers.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, CA.

    In July of 1994, fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy collided with Jupiter. This document has been provided to better inform students of the work that will be done by scientists and others involved in the study of this event. This document offers some background material on Jupiter, comets, what has and possibly will happen, and how scientists…

  12. Observations of comet Levy 1990c in the (OI) 6300-A line with an imaging Fabry-Perot

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Prasad, C. Debi; Jockers, Klaus; Rauer, H.; Geyer, E. H.

    1992-01-01

    We have observed the comet Levy 1990c during 16-25 August 1990 using the MPAE focal reducer system based Fabry-Perot etalon coupled with the 1 meter telescope of the Observatory of Hoher List. The free spectral range and resolution limit of the interferometer was approximately 2.18 A and approximately 0.171 A respectively. Classical Fabry-Perot fringes were recorded on a CCD in the cometary (OI) 6300 A line. They are well resolved from telluric air glow and cometary NH2 emission. Our observations indicate that the (OI) is distributed asymmetrically with respect to the center of the comet. In this paper we report the spatial distribution of (OI) emission and its line width in the coma of comet Levy.

  13. Heterotic reduction of Courant algebroid connections and Einstein-Hilbert actions

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Jurčo, Branislav; Vysoký, Jan

    2016-08-01

    We discuss Levi-Civita connections on Courant algebroids. We define an appropriate generalization of the curvature tensor and compute the corresponding scalar curvatures in the exact and heterotic case, leading to generalized (bosonic) Einstein-Hilbert type of actions known from supergravity. In particular, we carefully analyze the process of the reduction for the generalized metric, connection, curvature tensor and the scalar curvature.

  14. The Identification of Effective Strategies Used in Successfully Passing Tax Referendums in Missouri and Arkansas School Districts

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Kreimer, Katie

    2017-01-01

    The need for proper communication strategies during a bond or levy campaign has been a critical part of the tax referendum process. The intent of this study was to identify the best communication strategies used by superintendents during the three stages of a tax referendum. Planning a tax referendum, campaigning for a tax referendum, and then…

  15. Quantization by Cosmic Background Radiation

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1989-05-01

    not use their results. However, in the last fifteen years many workers have realized the usefulness of the Kustaanheimo - Stiefel (K-S) transformation ...discussed by Ikeda and Miyachi in 1970 [19]. Five years earlier, Kustaanheimo and Stiefel had generalized the Levi-Civita tranformation and showed...perturbations are small and periodic in time, we might follow the advice of Kustaanheimo and Stiefel [251 and use the two-dimensional Levi- Civita

  16. The Class "C" Survey 1991-92. Comparisons of Budgets, Levies, and Enrollments of Class "C" Montana School Districts.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Western Montana Coll., Dillon. Montana Rural Education Center.

    This report represents data collected by a mail survey comparing budgets, levies, and enrollments of small, rural schools (Class "C") in Montana for fiscal year 1991-1992. The average enrollment of 82 elementary schools was 128 students; the average enrollment of 82 high schools was 58. The average total enrollment of Class "C"…

  17. Spin-Orbit-Enhanced Functionality in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Nanostructures

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2015-09-16

    34 J. Vis. Exp. 89 , e51886 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.3791/51886 J. A. Sulpizio, S. Ilani, P. Irvin, and J. Levy, "Nanoscale Phenomena in Oxide... 89 , e51886 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.3791/51886 J. A. Sulpizio, S. Ilani, P. Irvin, and J. Levy, "Nanoscale Phenomena in Oxide

  18. ARC-1994-AC94-0353-3

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    1994-07-01

    Photo by Peter McGregor Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter; impact of Fragment G of Comet Shoemaker-Levy on Jupiter. The fireball is seen 12 minutes after impact at 2.34 microns. The impact A site is seen on the oposite limb of the planet. Image at 2.34 microns with CASPIR by Peter McGregor ANU 2.3m telescope at Siding Spring. (JPL Ref; P-44419)

  19. Rocket FUV Observations of the Io Plasma Torus During the Shoemaker-Levy/9 Impacts

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    Stern, S. A.; Slater, D.; Cash, W.; Wilkinson, E.; Green, J.; Gladstone, R.

    1995-01-01

    We observed the Io torus from 820-1140 A on universal time (UT) 20.25 July 1994 from a sounding rocket telescope/spectrograph. These observations serve as only the fourth published spectrum of the torus in this wavelength range, and the only far ultraviolet (FUV) data documenting the state of the torus during the Shoemaker Levy 9 Impacts.

  20. 26 CFR 301.6332-1 - Surrender of property subject to levy.

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    2010-04-01

    ... for an unpaid tax liability due from “John H. Smith, Sr.” in the amount of $5,000. M Bank fails to read the notice of levy carefully. When searching its records, M Bank finds the name of “John H. Smith, Jr.” and looks no further. M Bank surrenders $5,000 from John H. Smith, Jr.'s checking account to the...

  1. Change in non-alcoholic beverage sales following a 10-pence levy on sugar-sweetened beverages within a national chain of restaurants in the UK: interrupted time series analysis of a natural experiment.

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    Cornelsen, Laura; Mytton, Oliver T; Adams, Jean; Gasparrini, Antonio; Iskander, Dalia; Knai, Cecile; Petticrew, Mark; Scott, Courtney; Smith, Richard; Thompson, Claire; White, Martin; Cummins, Steven

    2017-11-01

    This study evaluates changes in sales of non-alcoholic beverages in Jamie's Italian, a national chain of commercial restaurants in the UK, following the introduction of a £0.10 per-beverage levy on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and supporting activity including beverage menu redesign, new products and establishment of a children's health fund from levy proceeds. We used an interrupted time series design to quantify changes in sales of non-alcoholic beverages 12 weeks and 6 months after implementation of the levy, using itemised electronic point of sale data. Main outcomes were number of SSBs and other non-alcoholic beverages sold per customer. Linear regression and multilevel random effects models, adjusting for seasonality and clustering, were used to investigate changes in SSB sales across all restaurants (n=37) and by tertiles of baseline restaurant SSB sales per customer. Compared with the prelevy period, the number of SSBs sold per customer declined by 11.0% (-17.3% to -4.3%) at 12 weeks and 9.3% (-15.2% to -3.2%) at 6 months. For non-levied beverages, sales per customer of children's fruit juice declined by 34.7% (-55.3% to -4.3%) at 12 weeks and 9.9% (-16.8% to -2.4%) at 6 months. At 6 months, sales per customer of fruit juice increased by 21.8% (14.0% to 30.2%) but sales of diet cola (-7.3%; -11.7% to -2.8%) and bottled waters (-6.5%; -11.0% to -1.7%) declined. Changes in sales were only observed in restaurants in the medium and high tertiles of baseline SSB sales per customer. Introduction of a £0.10 levy on SSBs alongside complementary activities is associated with declines in SSB sales per customer in the short and medium term, particularly in restaurants with higher baseline sales of SSBs. © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.

  2. Change in non-alcoholic beverage sales following a 10-pence levy on sugar-sweetened beverages within a national chain of restaurants in the UK: interrupted time series analysis of a natural experiment

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    Cornelsen, Laura; Adams, Jean; Gasparrini, Antonio; Iskander, Dalia; Knai, Cecile; Petticrew, Mark; Scott, Courtney; Smith, Richard; Thompson, Claire; White, Martin; Cummins, Steven

    2017-01-01

    Background This study evaluates changes in sales of non-alcoholic beverages in Jamie’s Italian, a national chain of commercial restaurants in the UK, following the introduction of a £0.10 per-beverage levy on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and supporting activity including beverage menu redesign, new products and establishment of a children’s health fund from levy proceeds. Methods We used an interrupted time series design to quantify changes in sales of non-alcoholic beverages 12 weeks and 6 months after implementation of the levy, using itemised electronic point of sale data. Main outcomes were number of SSBs and other non-alcoholic beverages sold per customer. Linear regression and multilevel random effects models, adjusting for seasonality and clustering, were used to investigate changes in SSB sales across all restaurants (n=37) and by tertiles of baseline restaurant SSB sales per customer. Results Compared with the prelevy period, the number of SSBs sold per customer declined by 11.0% (−17.3% to −4.3%) at 12 weeks and 9.3% (−15.2% to −3.2%) at 6 months. For non-levied beverages, sales per customer of children’s fruit juice declined by 34.7% (−55.3% to −4.3%) at 12 weeks and 9.9% (−16.8% to −2.4%) at 6 months. At 6 months, sales per customer of fruit juice increased by 21.8% (14.0% to 30.2%) but sales of diet cola (−7.3%; −11.7% to −2.8%) and bottled waters (−6.5%; −11.0% to −1.7%) declined. Changes in sales were only observed in restaurants in the medium and high tertiles of baseline SSB sales per customer. Conclusions Introduction of a £0.10 levy on SSBs alongside complementary activities is associated with declines in SSB sales per customer in the short and medium term, particularly in restaurants with higher baseline sales of SSBs. PMID:29038317

  3. Zimbabwe's national AIDS levy: A case study

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    Bhat, Nisha; Kilmarx, Peter H.; Dube, Freeman; Manenji, Albert; Dube, Medelina; Magure, Tapuwa

    2016-01-01

    Abstract Background: We conducted a case study of the Zimbabwe National AIDS Trust Fund (‘AIDS Levy’) as an approach to domestic government financing of the response to HIV and AIDS. Methods: Data came from three sources: a literature review, including a search for grey literature, review of government documents from the Zimbabwe National AIDS Council (NAC), and key informant interviews with representatives of the Zimbabwean government, civil society and international organizations. Findings: The literature search yielded 139 sources, and 20 key informants were interviewed. Established by legislation in 1999, the AIDS Levy entails a 3% income tax for individuals and 3% tax on profits of employers and trusts (which excluded the mining industry until 2015). It is managed by the parastatal NAC through a decentralized structure of AIDS Action Committees. Revenues increased from inception to 2006 through 2008, a period of economic instability and hyperinflation. Following dollarization in 2009, annual revenues continued to increase, reaching US$38.6 million in 2014. By policy, at least 50% of funds are used for purchase of antiretroviral medications. Other spending includes administration and capital costs, HIV prevention, and monitoring and evaluation. Several financial controls and auditing systems are in place. Key informants perceived the AIDS Levy as a ‘homegrown’ solution that provided country ownership and reduced dependence on donor funding, but called for further increased transparency, accountability, and reduced administrative costs, as well as recommended changes to increase revenue. Conclusions: The Zimbabwe AIDS Levy has generated substantial resources, recently over US$35 million per year, and signals an important commitment by Zimbabweans, which may have helped attract other donor resources. Many key informants considered the Zimbabwe AIDS Levy to be a best practice for other countries to follow. PMID:26781215

  4. The Levy sections theorem revisited

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    Figueiredo, Annibal; Gleria, Iram; Matsushita, Raul; Da Silva, Sergio

    2007-06-01

    This paper revisits the Levy sections theorem. We extend the scope of the theorem to time series and apply it to historical daily returns of selected dollar exchange rates. The elevated kurtosis usually observed in such series is then explained by their volatility patterns. And the duration of exchange rate pegs explains the extra elevated kurtosis in the exchange rates of emerging markets. In the end, our extension of the theorem provides an approach that is simpler than the more common explicit modelling of fat tails and dependence. Our main purpose is to build up a technique based on the sections that allows one to artificially remove the fat tails and dependence present in a data set. By analysing data through the lenses of the Levy sections theorem one can find common patterns in otherwise very different data sets.

  5. Quantum Computer Circuit Analysis and Design

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2009-02-01

    is a first order nonlinear differential matrix equation of the Lax type. This report gives derivations of the Levi - Civita connection, Riemann...directions on the manifold not easily simulated by local gates. In this way, basic differential geometric concepts such as the Levi - Civita connection...and two - body terms, and Q(H) contains more than two - body terms. Thus ),()( HQHPH  (1) in which P and Q are superoperators (matrices) acting on

  6. AFOSR Chemistry Program Review (25th) FY-80,

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    1981-03-01

    Rangarajan and R. de Levie, Biophys. J., 25, 235 (1979). "On the Adsorption of Phloretin onto a Black Lipid Membrane," R. de Levie, S. K. Rangarajan, P...interfaces. The effect of the neutral compound phloretin , which can modify membrane permeability more than thousandfold by changing the existing...dipole potential, could be interpreted quantitatively. The effect was used to determine the nature of the phloretin adsorption isotherm. A boxcar

  7. Predicting Clinical Outcomes and Lost Work in Patients with Work-Related Upper Extremity Disorders

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    1998-02-13

    in Levi, L. (ed.).,Society, Stress, and Disease, pp.399-404, New York: Oxford University Press. Karasek , R.A., & Theorell , T. (1990). Healthy work...1992; Theorell , 1991). In regard to exacerbatio~maintenance and prognosis; the research does support the idea that physical injury or abnormal...disorders. This model represents an integration ofearlier more unidimensional psychosocial stress models (e.g., Kagan and Levi, 1971; Karasek and

  8. The effects on population health status of using dedicated property taxes to fund local public health agencies

    PubMed Central

    2011-01-01

    Background In the United States, a dedicated property tax describes the legal authority given to a local jurisdiction to levy and collect a tax for a specific purpose. We investigated for an association of locally dedicated property taxes to fund local public health agencies and improved health status in the eight states designated as the Mississippi Delta Region. Methods We analyzed the difference in health outcomes of counties with and without a dedicated public health tax after adjusting for a set of control variables using regression models for county level data from 720 counties of the Mississippi Delta Region. Results Levying a dedicated public health tax for counties with per capita income above $28,000 is associated with improved health outcomes of those counties when compared to counties without a dedicated property tax for public health. Alternatively, levying a dedicated property tax in counties with lower per capita income is associated with poor health outcomes. Conclusions There are both positive and negative consequences of using dedicated property taxes to fund public health. Policymakers should carefully examine both the positive association of improved health outcomes and negative impact of taxation on poor populations before authorizing the use of dedicated local property tax levies to fund public health agencies. PMID:21672231

  9. The effects on population health status of using dedicated property taxes to fund local public health agencies.

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    Honoré, Peggy A; Fos, Peter J; Wang, Xueyuan; Moonesinghe, Ramal

    2011-06-14

    In the United States, a dedicated property tax describes the legal authority given to a local jurisdiction to levy and collect a tax for a specific purpose. We investigated for an association of locally dedicated property taxes to fund local public health agencies and improved health status in the eight states designated as the Mississippi Delta Region. We analyzed the difference in health outcomes of counties with and without a dedicated public health tax after adjusting for a set of control variables using regression models for county level data from 720 counties of the Mississippi Delta Region. Levying a dedicated public health tax for counties with per capita income above $28,000 is associated with improved health outcomes of those counties when compared to counties without a dedicated property tax for public health. Alternatively, levying a dedicated property tax in counties with lower per capita income is associated with poor health outcomes. There are both positive and negative consequences of using dedicated property taxes to fund public health. Policymakers should carefully examine both the positive association of improved health outcomes and negative impact of taxation on poor populations before authorizing the use of dedicated local property tax levies to fund public health agencies.

  10. A random walk description of individual animal movement accounting for periods of rest

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    Tilles, Paulo F. C.; Petrovskii, Sergei V.; Natti, Paulo L.

    2016-11-01

    Animals do not move all the time but alternate the period of actual movement (foraging) with periods of rest (e.g. eating or sleeping). Although the existence of rest times is widely acknowledged in the literature and has even become a focus of increased attention recently, the theoretical approaches to describe animal movement by calculating the dispersal kernel and/or the mean squared displacement (MSD) rarely take rests into account. In this study, we aim to bridge this gap. We consider a composite stochastic process where the periods of active dispersal or `bouts' (described by a certain baseline probability density function (pdf) of animal dispersal) alternate with periods of immobility. For this process, we derive a general equation that determines the pdf of this composite movement. The equation is analysed in detail in two special but important cases such as the standard Brownian motion described by a Gaussian kernel and the Levy flight described by a Cauchy distribution. For the Brownian motion, we show that in the large-time asymptotics the effect of rests results in a rescaling of the diffusion coefficient. The movement occurs as a subdiffusive transition between the two diffusive asymptotics. Interestingly, the Levy flight case shows similar properties, which indicates a certain universality of our findings.

  11. A random walk description of individual animal movement accounting for periods of rest.

    PubMed

    Tilles, Paulo F C; Petrovskii, Sergei V; Natti, Paulo L

    2016-11-01

    Animals do not move all the time but alternate the period of actual movement (foraging) with periods of rest (e.g. eating or sleeping). Although the existence of rest times is widely acknowledged in the literature and has even become a focus of increased attention recently, the theoretical approaches to describe animal movement by calculating the dispersal kernel and/or the mean squared displacement (MSD) rarely take rests into account. In this study, we aim to bridge this gap. We consider a composite stochastic process where the periods of active dispersal or 'bouts' (described by a certain baseline probability density function (pdf) of animal dispersal) alternate with periods of immobility. For this process, we derive a general equation that determines the pdf of this composite movement. The equation is analysed in detail in two special but important cases such as the standard Brownian motion described by a Gaussian kernel and the Levy flight described by a Cauchy distribution. For the Brownian motion, we show that in the large-time asymptotics the effect of rests results in a rescaling of the diffusion coefficient. The movement occurs as a subdiffusive transition between the two diffusive asymptotics. Interestingly, the Levy flight case shows similar properties, which indicates a certain universality of our findings.

  12. A random walk description of individual animal movement accounting for periods of rest

    PubMed Central

    Tilles, Paulo F. C.

    2016-01-01

    Animals do not move all the time but alternate the period of actual movement (foraging) with periods of rest (e.g. eating or sleeping). Although the existence of rest times is widely acknowledged in the literature and has even become a focus of increased attention recently, the theoretical approaches to describe animal movement by calculating the dispersal kernel and/or the mean squared displacement (MSD) rarely take rests into account. In this study, we aim to bridge this gap. We consider a composite stochastic process where the periods of active dispersal or ‘bouts’ (described by a certain baseline probability density function (pdf) of animal dispersal) alternate with periods of immobility. For this process, we derive a general equation that determines the pdf of this composite movement. The equation is analysed in detail in two special but important cases such as the standard Brownian motion described by a Gaussian kernel and the Levy flight described by a Cauchy distribution. For the Brownian motion, we show that in the large-time asymptotics the effect of rests results in a rescaling of the diffusion coefficient. The movement occurs as a subdiffusive transition between the two diffusive asymptotics. Interestingly, the Levy flight case shows similar properties, which indicates a certain universality of our findings. PMID:28018645

  13. Update - Concept of Operations for Integrated Model-Centric Engineering at JPL

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    Bayer, Todd J.; Bennett, Matthew; Delp, Christopher L.; Dvorak, Daniel; Jenkins, Steven J.; Mandutianu, Sanda

    2011-01-01

    The increasingly ambitious requirements levied on JPL's space science missions, and the development pace of such missions, challenge our current engineering practices. All the engineering disciplines face this growth in complexity to some degree, but the challenges are greatest in systems engineering where numerous competing interests must be reconciled and where complex system level interactions must be identified and managed. Undesired system-level interactions are increasingly a major risk factor that cannot be reliably exposed by testing, and natural-language single-viewpoint specifications areinadequate to capture and expose system level interactions and characteristics. Systems engineering practices must improve to meet these challenges, and the most promising approach today is the movement toward a more integrated and model-centric approach to mission conception, design, implementation and operations. This approach elevates engineering models to a principal role in systems engineering, gradually replacing traditional document centric engineering practices.

  14. JPRS Report China

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    1988-08-16

    1. Levies and taxes on private real estate in the territory of the receiving country; 2. Inheritance tax and tax on bequests, however, except- ing...belonging to the deceased, because he was a member of the consular staff, free of customs duty, inheritance tax , or property trans- fer taxes or levies...cases of item a, paragraph 1, article 29 of this treaty; c. Estate tax, inheritance tax , or transfer tax, excepting cases of article 42 of this

  15. On Real-Time Systems Using Local Area Networks.

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    1987-07-01

    87-35 July, 1987 CS-TR-1892 On Real - Time Systems Using Local Area Networks*I VShem-Tov Levi Department of Computer Science Satish K. Tripathit...1892 On Real - Time Systems Using Local Area Networks* Shem-Tov Levi Department of Computer Science Satish K. Tripathit Department of Computer Science...constraints and the clock systems that feed the time to real - time systems . A model for real-time system based on LAN communication is presented in

  16. A Multiscale Gradient Theory for Single Crystalline Elastoviscoplasticity

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    2006-02-01

    ferentiation with respect to the Levi - Civita connection on Bcur whose Christoffel symbols stem from the components of the metric gab of Eq. (6)3 and thus...denoting covariant differentiation with respect to the symmetric Levi – Civita connection on bref . Notice that Eq. (29) are applicable locally, for points...brevity, thermal effects (i.e., temperature rates and heat fluxes) and dynamic effects (i.e., acceleration and body forces) are often neglected. We employ

  17. On noncommutative Levi-Civita connections

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    Peterka, Mira A.; Sheu, Albert Jeu-Liang

    We make some observations about Rosenberg’s Levi-Civita connections on noncommutative tori, noting the non-uniqueness of general torsion-free metric-compatible connections without prescribed connection operator for the inner *-derivations, the nontrivial curvature form of the inner *-derivations, and the validity of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for two classes of nonconformal deformations of the flat metric on the noncommutative two-tori, including the case of noncommuting scalings along the principal directions of a two-torus.

  18. 2012 Holocaust Days of Remembrance

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    2012-04-24

    Holocaust survivor Anne Levy of Metairie, La., speaks to Stennis Space Center employees during a Holocaust Days of Remembrance program April 24, 2012. The 22nd annual observance of the Holocaust for the Stennis community focused on the theme 'Choosing to Act: Stories of Rescue.' Levy was a four-year-old child in Poland when the Nazis invaded the country in 1939. She and her family survived in a Warsaw ghetto for two years before escaping.

  19. New species and new records of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Cyprus.

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    Chatzaki, Maria; Russell-Smith, Anthony

    2017-10-04

    New taxonomic data on the ground spiders of the family Gnaphosidae from the island of Cyprus are presented. Three species are proposed as new to science (Drassyllus cyprius sp. n., Setaphis mccowani sp. n., Zelotes limnatis sp. n.). The male of Synaphosus shirin Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994 and the female of Zelotes zekharya Levy, 2009 are described for the first time. The transfer of Zelotes helvolus (O.P. Cambridge, 1872) and Z. helvoloides Levy, 1998 (the latter not recorded in Cyprus) to Cryptodrassus is proposed. The mismatching of male and female of C. helvoloides is discussed, and the female originally described as C. helvoloides is transferred to C. helvolus. Micaria pallipes (Lucas, 1846) is here recorded and the synonymy with Castanilla marchesii Caporiacco, 1936 is rejected, while the paralectotype of Castanilla marchesii is here assigned to Leptodrassex algericus Dalmas, 1919. Finally a male Poecilochroa still not attributed to a known or new species is described.

  20. On fitting the Pareto Levy distribution to stock market index data: Selecting a suitable cutoff value

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    Coronel-Brizio, H. F.; Hernández-Montoya, A. R.

    2005-08-01

    The so-called Pareto-Levy or power-law distribution has been successfully used as a model to describe probabilities associated to extreme variations of stock markets indexes worldwide. The selection of the threshold parameter from empirical data and consequently, the determination of the exponent of the distribution, is often done using a simple graphical method based on a log-log scale, where a power-law probability plot shows a straight line with slope equal to the exponent of the power-law distribution. This procedure can be considered subjective, particularly with regard to the choice of the threshold or cutoff parameter. In this work, a more objective procedure based on a statistical measure of discrepancy between the empirical and the Pareto-Levy distribution is presented. The technique is illustrated for data sets from the New York Stock Exchange (DJIA) and the Mexican Stock Market (IPC).

  1. Analysis of Structures with Rotating, Flexible Substructures Applied to Rotorcraft Aeroelasticity in GRASP (General Rotorcraft Aeromechanical Stability Program),

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1987-01-01

    two nodes behave identically. In GRASP, these constraints are entirely invisible from the user’s point of view. GRASP (Recall that the Levi - Civita ...virtual rotation GRASP is the first program implementing a new methodWl( = Levi -Ciudta symbol op for dynamic analysis of structures, parts of which may...natural coordinatization of sis for this methodology, which incorporates body flexibility components. with the large discrete motions previously

  2. Tensors and Differential Geometry Applied to Analytic and Numerical Coordinate Generation

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1981-01-01

    or surfaces. Since the writing of the first memoir on the subject of tensor analysis by Ricci and Levi - Civita [11 in 1901 some very significant...available in the standard texts, such as, Levi - Civita [2], Weatherburn [3), McConnell [41, Eisenhart [51, [6], Tolman [7], Graustein [8], Synge and...Equations (216) have been used in Ref. [29] to compute the coordinates for arbitrary shaped two -dimensional bodies . §7. Miscellaneous Derivations. In this

  3. Using the ALEGRA Code for Analysis of Quasi-Static Magnetization of Metals

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2015-09-01

    covariant Levi - Civita skew-symmetric tensor. Using tensorial notation per- mits one to present all the equations in the universal covariant (i.e., coordinate...tensors numerically coincide with the corresponding values of the Kronnekker symbol δij, δij, δij. The Levi - Civita tensor z ijk has the main com...simulations: body -fitted (left) and regular (right). 6.1 Spatial Discretization Two mesh configurations were used: (1) a body -fitted irregular mesh

  4. Radiative signatures from impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9 on Jupiter

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    Ahrens, Thomas J.; Takata, Toshiko; O'Keefe, John D.; Orton, Glenn S.

    1994-01-01

    The visible optical power emitted from the expansion plumes from 0.4 and 2 km diameter fragments of Shoemaker-Levy are expected to be, approximately 25% and comparable to, the visible solar flux reflected from Jupiter, respectively, for several minutes, and could be easily observed by sensors on the Galileo spacecraft. Earth-based observers can detect these plumes as these expand over the SW limb of Jupiter and come into earth view some minutes after impact!

  5. The War in Afghanistan: A Legal Analysis

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    2009-01-01

    international law community was saddened to learn that one of its giants, Professor Howard Levie, had passed away at the age of 101. Professor Levie had a long... ages to the present time. Conquerors of old penetrating into the unknown encountered races with strange and unconventional military methods and trod...have been the principal reason why the Security Council began taking a renewed interest in Afghanistan. Let me turn to them briefly. In the late 1990s

  6. Analysis of the Binary Euclidean Algorithm

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1976-06-01

    Probleme de Gauss," Atti del Congresso Internationale dei Matematici 6 (Bologna, 1928), 83-89. Levy [29] Levy, P., "Sur les Lois de Probabilite...r- Report) 11. SUPPL ENEN T A IllY NOTES lt . KEY WOI’IOS ( Continue on revere• ai de II nec:eaeary and Identify by bloc I< number) I 20...easily de - n n duced by differentiation. 3. The Distribution Functions F ’’ LI The following theorem gives the form of F (x) for finite n n

  7. Education Funding Crisis in the Suburbs: The Impact of the 2007-09 Recession Recovery Policies and the New York State Tax Levy Cap on School District Financial Planning Practices

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    Galligan, John J.; Annunziato, Anthony

    2017-01-01

    This article examines the impact of the fiscal recovery policies stemming from the 2007-09 economic recession and the implementation of the 2011 New York State Property Tax Levy Cap on the budgets of school districts located within a Long Island, New York suburban township. The research basis of this paper is based on two studies conducted by the…

  8. JPRS Report, East Asia, Southeast Asia.

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    1988-12-23

    telling the embassy to keep track of the Thai traders and companies doing business and investing in the LPDR. He told them "Don’t pour in vast sums as...October 1988 issue Perak Chief Minister Haji Ramli Ngah Talib’s announcement that tin ore miners will be levied a royalty fee—in addition to the...charge that is already levied on sand, rock, and clay operations. The tin ore price is currently $7.70 per kg. Haji Ramli stated that operational costs

  9. Ultraviolet and visible variability of the coma of Comet Levy (1990c)

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    Feldman, P. D.; Budzien, S. A.; Festou, M. C.; A'Hearn, M. F.; Tozzi, G. P.

    1992-01-01

    A visible lightcurve of Comet Levy obtained with the IUE Fine Error Sensor has revealed short-term coma variability. A production-rate source function is derivable from these data which implies a nucleus exhibiting hemispherically asymmetric activity. The ratio of gas-to-dust-production rates is also noted to exhibit asymmetry. The low dust-outflow velocity derived from observations, at about 200 m/sec, indicates a distribution that is rich in large, 3-10 micron particles.

  10. Evaluation of Expert Systems in Decisionmaking Organizations

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    1988-07-01

    Abacus Press, Tunbridge Wells. Levis, A. H., 1984. "Information Processing and Decisionmaking Organizations: A Mathematical Description." I Large Scale Systems , Vol. 7, pp. 151-163. hI2 II I, Ie ... intelligence and especially expert systems. This paper presents a procedure for assessing to what extent the measures of performance of an organization are...aids that is receiving attention in the development community is based on artificial intelligence and especially expert systems. This paper presents a

  11. Multiplicity distributions of charged hadrons in vp and charged current interactions

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    Jones, G. T.; Jones, R. W. L.; Kennedy, B. W.; Morrison, D. R. O.; Mobayyen, M. M.; Wainstein, S.; Aderholz, M.; Hantke, D.; Katz, U. F.; Kern, J.; Schmitz, N.; Wittek, W.; Borner, H. P.; Myatt, G.; Radojicic, D.; Burke, S.

    1992-03-01

    Using data on vp andbar vp charged current interactions from a bubble chamber experiment with BEBC at CERN, the multiplicity distributions of charged hadrons are investigated. The analysis is based on ˜20000 events with incident v and ˜10000 events with incidentbar v. The invariant mass W of the total hadronic system ranges from 3 GeV to ˜14 GeV. The experimental multiplicity distributions are fitted by the binomial function (for different intervals of W and in different intervals of the rapidity y), by the Levy function and the lognormal function. All three parametrizations give acceptable values for X 2. For fixed W, forward and backward multiplicities are found to be uncorrelated. The normalized moments of the charged multiplicity distributions are measured as a function of W. They show a violation of KNO scaling.

  12. Cost optimization of reinforced concrete cantilever retaining walls under seismic loading using a biogeography-based optimization algorithm with Levy flights

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    Aydogdu, Ibrahim

    2017-03-01

    In this article, a new version of a biogeography-based optimization algorithm with Levy flight distribution (LFBBO) is introduced and used for the optimum design of reinforced concrete cantilever retaining walls under seismic loading. The cost of the wall is taken as an objective function, which is minimized under the constraints implemented by the American Concrete Institute (ACI 318-05) design code and geometric limitations. The influence of peak ground acceleration (PGA) on optimal cost is also investigated. The solution of the problem is attained by the LFBBO algorithm, which is developed by adding Levy flight distribution to the mutation part of the biogeography-based optimization (BBO) algorithm. Five design examples, of which two are used in literature studies, are optimized in the study. The results are compared to test the performance of the LFBBO and BBO algorithms, to determine the influence of the seismic load and PGA on the optimal cost of the wall.

  13. Studies of EXAFSSpectra using Copper (II) Schiff Base complexes and Determination of Bond lengths Using Synchrotron Radiation

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    Mishra, A.; Vibhute, V.; Ninama, S.; Parsai, N.; Jha, S. N.; Sharma, P.

    2016-10-01

    X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) at the K-edge of copper has been studied in some copper (II) complexes with substituted anilines like (2Cl, 4Br, 2NO2, 4NO2 and pure aniline) with o-PDA (orthophenylenediamine) as ligand. The X-ray absorption measurements have been performed at the recently developed BL-8 dispersive EXAFS beam line at 2.5 GeV Indus-2 Synchrotron Source at RRCAT, Indore, India. The data obtained has been processed using EXAFS data analysis program Athena.The graphical method gives the useful information about bond length and also the environment of the absorbing atom. The theoretical bond lengths of the complexes were calculated by using interactive fitting of EXAFS using fast Fourier inverse transformation (IFEFFIT) method. This method is also called as Fourier transform method. The Lytle, Sayers and Stern method and Levy's method have been used for determination of bond lengths experimentally of the studied complexes. The results of both methods have been compared with theoretical IFEFFIT method.

  14. Memory matters: influence from a cognitive map on animal space use.

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    Gautestad, Arild O

    2011-10-21

    A vertebrate individual's cognitive map provides a capacity for site fidelity and long-distance returns to favorable patches. Fractal-geometrical analysis of individual space use based on collection of telemetry fixes makes it possible to verify the influence of a cognitive map on the spatial scatter of habitat use and also to what extent space use has been of a scale-specific versus a scale-free kind. This approach rests on a statistical mechanical level of system abstraction, where micro-scale details of behavioral interactions are coarse-grained to macro-scale observables like the fractal dimension of space use. In this manner, the magnitude of the fractal dimension becomes a proxy variable for distinguishing between main classes of habitat exploration and site fidelity, like memory-less (Markovian) Brownian motion and Levy walk and memory-enhanced space use like Multi-scaled Random Walk (MRW). In this paper previous analyses are extended by exploring MRW simulations under three scenarios: (1) central place foraging, (2) behavioral adaptation to resource depletion (avoidance of latest visited locations) and (3) transition from MRW towards Levy walk by narrowing memory capacity to a trailing time window. A generalized statistical-mechanical theory with the power to model cognitive map influence on individual space use will be important for statistical analyses of animal habitat preferences and the mechanics behind site fidelity and home ranges. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  15. Funding free and universal access to Journal of Neuroinflammation.

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    Mrak, Robert E; Griffin, W Sue T

    2004-10-14

    Journal of Neuroinflammation is an Open Access, online journal published by BioMed Central. Open Access publishing provides instant and universal availability of published work to any potential reader, worldwide, completely free of subscriptions, passwords, and charges. Further, authors retain copyright for their work, facilitating its dissemination. Open Access publishing is made possible by article-processing charges assessed "on the front end" to authors, their institutions, or their funding agencies. Beginning November 1, 2004, the Journal of Neuroinflammation will introduce article-processing charges of around US$525 for accepted articles. This charge will be waived for authors from institutions that are BioMed Central members, and in additional cases for reasons of genuine financial hardship. These article-processing charges pay for an electronic submission process that facilitates efficient and thorough peer review, for publication costs involved in providing the article freely and universally accessible in various formats online, and for the processes required for the article's inclusion in PubMed and its archiving in PubMed Central, e-Depot, Potsdam and INIST. There is no remuneration of any kind provided to the Editors-in-Chief, to any members of the Editorial Board, or to peer reviewers; all of whose work is entirely voluntary. Our article-processing charge is less than charges frequently levied by traditional journals: the Journal of Neuroinflammation does not levy any additional page or color charges on top of this fee, and there are no reprint costs as publication-quality pdf files are provided, free, for distribution in lieu of reprints. Our article-processing charge will enable full, immediate, and continued Open Access for all work published in Journal of Neuroinflammation. The benefits from such Open Access will accrue to readers, through unrestricted access; to authors, through the widest possible dissemination of their work; and to science and society in general, through facilitation of information availability and scientific advancement.

  16. Policy interactions and underperforming emission trading markets in China.

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    Zhang, Bing; Zhang, Hui; Liu, Beibei; Bi, Jun

    2013-07-02

    Emission trading is considered to be cost-effective environmental economic instrument for pollution control. However, the ex post analysis of emission trading program found that cost savings have been smaller and the trades fewer than might have been expected at the outset of the program. Besides policy design issues, pre-existing environmental regulations were considered to have a significant impact on the performance of the emission trading market in China. Taking the Jiangsu sulfur dioxide (SO2) market as a case study, this research examined the impact of policy interactions on the performance of the emission trading market. The results showed that cost savings associated with the Jiangsu SO2 emission trading market in the absence of any policy interactions were CNY 549 million or 12.5% of total pollution control costs. However, policy interactions generally had significant impacts on the emission trading system; the lone exception was current pollution levy system. When the model accounted for all four kinds of policy interactions, the total pollution control cost savings from the emission trading market fell to CNY 39.7 million or 1.36% of total pollution control costs. The impact of policy interactions would reduce 92.8% of cost savings brought by emission trading program.

  17. An improved marriage in honey bees optimization algorithm for single objective unconstrained optimization.

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    Celik, Yuksel; Ulker, Erkan

    2013-01-01

    Marriage in honey bees optimization (MBO) is a metaheuristic optimization algorithm developed by inspiration of the mating and fertilization process of honey bees and is a kind of swarm intelligence optimizations. In this study we propose improved marriage in honey bees optimization (IMBO) by adding Levy flight algorithm for queen mating flight and neighboring for worker drone improving. The IMBO algorithm's performance and its success are tested on the well-known six unconstrained test functions and compared with other metaheuristic optimization algorithms.

  18. Development of Energy-Efficient Single-Electron Transistors with Oxide Nanoelectronics

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    2011-05-01

    Eom, and J. Levy, "“ Water - cycle ” mechanism for writing and erasing nanostructures at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface," Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 173110 (2010...process as a “ water cycle ” because it permits multiple writing and erasing without physical modification of the oxide heterostructure. Figure 8...test of the “ water cycle ” mechanism outlined above replaces atmospheric conditions with gas environments that lack H2O. Figure 9(a-c) shows the

  19. A Retrospective Inquiry into the Operation of Service Custom under the American Military General Articles.

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    1982-05-23

    of women and children . Levy was convicted by a general court-martial of making a disloyal statement, in violation of Article 134, and of conduct...domination of the court-martial process, ineffective and inhibited defense counsel services, and discrimination against enlisted men in charging decisions ... sexual acts with a chicken.14 It is not surprising, then, that the antecedents of Article 134 have been referred to by soldiers as "the 15Devil’s Article

  20. The Disruption and Demise of Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

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    Asphaug, Erik; Benz, Willy; Cuzzi, Jeffrey (Technical Monitor)

    1994-01-01

    The impact of the fragmented comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) into Jupiter this July promises to change our understanding of the outer solar system. More than twenty mountain-sized conglomerates of ice and rock will hit the atmosphere at approx. 50 km/s over the course of a week beginning July 16, releasing approx. 10(exp 4) to 10(exp8) megatons of energy per burst, and providing unique and perhaps pivotal clues to the properties of comets and the physics of massive atmospheres. Because the fragments will strike the far side of Jupiter, data acquisition, analysis and interpretation will be quite sensitive to the actual size and energy of the fragments. We therefore examine an event which took place two summers ago, unnoticed and unobserved: the disruption of SL9 into a "string of pearls' as it passed within the Roche limit at perijove. We first demonstrate, on the basis of timescales of tidal interaction, that the comet could not have broken into 20+ fragments through a hierarchy of brittle fracture events. Next, noting that the tidal stress was too weak to have even fragmented an uncompressed mass of freshly fallen snow, we run models for a strengthless comet held together only by self-gravity. We explore the initial size, density, and rotation. We conclude that a 4 km diameter comet (smaller if a prograde rotator) of density approx. 0.5 g/cu cm disrupts and disperses into a chain of fragments similar to Shoemaker-Levy 9, whether we begin with 21, 85, 169, 700 or 2000 sub-grains. Gravitational reaccumulation is evidently the answer, and there is no need to invoke the presence of 21 "cometesimals" as the subscale of the comet. To explain how a comet can be weaker than uncompacted snow, we show that the ring-plane crossing prior to perijove could have caused total damage. Finally, we compute the tidal stress on impactors as they approach Jupiter this July. Objects of various density are moderately distorted but not disrupted by the time they strike the planet.

  1. Cloning and adoption: a reply to Levy and Lotz.

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    Strong, Carson

    2008-02-01

    In previous articles I discussed the ethics of human reproductive cloning, focusing on a possible future scenario in which reproductive cloning can be accomplished without an elevated risk of anomalies to the children who are created. I argued that in such a scenario it would be ethically permissible for infertile couples to use cloning as a way to have genetically related children and that such use should not be prohibited. In 'Reproductive Cloning and a (Kind of) Genetic Fallacy', Neil Levy and Mianna Lotz raise objections to my conclusions. They disagree with the view, for which I argued, that some couples can have defensible reasons for desiring genetically related children. They also offer several new arguments against reproductive cloning, including an argument that it would diminish the number of adoptions, thereby adversely affecting the welfare of children who need to be adopted. In this paper I point out that Levy and Lotz's criticisms misconstrue my arguments and that there are serious problems with their arguments for prohibiting infertile couples from using cloning, including their argument from adoption.

  2. Asset Inequality and Economic Activity in Artificial Societies

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    Kikuchi, Toshiko

    In this paper, using multi-agent simulations, the effect asset inequality has on an artificial society is analyzed. It is shown that it is possible for a sustainable society to decrease in asset inequality and at the same time increase economic activity. In sustainable societies, the asset inequality increases as the consumption tax rate is raised, and in artificial societies where the tax rate is the same, inequality increases in the society in which agents with even small a surplus undertake unselfish actions. In sustainable societies which employ both income and consumption tax, an increase in asset inequalities leads to an increase economic activity. But, in sustainable societies which levy only the income tax, this result does not necessarily hold. These results show that if economic activity is increased in sustainable societies where the consumption tax rate is raised for the fiscal stability, an inequality expansion is an acceptable consequence. However, the sustainable society with the highest economic activity is realized when only the income tax is levied. In sustainable societies which levy only the income tax, it is possible to decrease inequality while simultaneously increasing economic activity.

  3. Tidal disruption and the appearance of periodic comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

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    Sekanina, Z.; Chodas, P. W.; Yeomans, D. K.

    1994-01-01

    A unified model is formulated to interpret quantitatively the observed characteristics of the nuclear train, the two dust trails, and the tail region of P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 in terms of a collisionally modified rotation velocity distribution of the comet's debris. Since there is no evidence for the comet's out-gassing, the model does not assume activity. The discruption of the parent comet was due primarily to tidal stesses during its extremely close approach to Juptier in July 1992. The original nucleus is found to have been most probably approximately 5 km in radius or, equivalently, approximately 10(exp 17) g in mass. The dynamical separation of the debris occurred apparently approximately 2.2 hr after the perijove passage, even though the actual fragmentation of the original mass is likely to have begun before closest approach. Physical breakp was accompanied by ubiquitous low-velocity collisions among the particulates, resulting in a rearrangement of the initial rotaional velocities into a rapidly 'thermalized' distribution, characterized by a long tail of relatively high velocities for the debris that populates the dust trails far from the nuclear train. Compelling evidence is presented for secondary fragmentation events, indicative of the comet's continuing disintegration. Secondary fragmentation may be caused by rotational bursting of the massive fragments that had been cracked but unbroken during the tidal disruption. Impact conditions and possible interactions of the comet's debris with the jovian system during the encounter in July 1994 are described.

  4. An Improved Marriage in Honey Bees Optimization Algorithm for Single Objective Unconstrained Optimization

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    Celik, Yuksel; Ulker, Erkan

    2013-01-01

    Marriage in honey bees optimization (MBO) is a metaheuristic optimization algorithm developed by inspiration of the mating and fertilization process of honey bees and is a kind of swarm intelligence optimizations. In this study we propose improved marriage in honey bees optimization (IMBO) by adding Levy flight algorithm for queen mating flight and neighboring for worker drone improving. The IMBO algorithm's performance and its success are tested on the well-known six unconstrained test functions and compared with other metaheuristic optimization algorithms. PMID:23935416

  5. The number 747 is named faster after seeing Boeing than after seeing Levi's: Associative priming in the processing of multidigit Arabic numerals.

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    Alameda, Jose Ramon; Cuetos, Fernando; Brysbaert, Marc

    2003-08-01

    Two experiments are reported in which naming multidigit Arabic numerals was shown to depend on the context in which the numbers were presented. Number naming and number decisions were faster after an associative prime (e.g., 747 preceded by the word Boeing) than after an unrelated prime, both in unmasked and masked priming conditions. On the basis of these findings, we conclude that number naming is not always based on a quantity-based semantically mediated pathway.

  6. Small taxes on soft drinks and snack foods to promote health.

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    Jacobson, M F; Brownell, K D

    2000-06-01

    Health officials often wish to sponsor nutrition and other health promotion programs but are hampered by lack of funding. One source of funding is suggested by the fact that 18 states and 1 major city levy special taxes on soft drinks, candy, chewing gum, or snack foods. The tax rates may be too small to affect sales, but in some jurisdictions, the revenues generated are substantial. Nationally, about $1 billion is raised annually from these taxes. The authors propose that state and local governments levy taxes on foods of low nutritional value and use the revenues to fund health promotion programs.

  7. Small taxes on soft drinks and snack foods to promote health.

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    Jacobson, M F; Brownell, K D

    2000-01-01

    Health officials often wish to sponsor nutrition and other health promotion programs but are hampered by lack of funding. One source of funding is suggested by the fact that 18 states and 1 major city levy special taxes on soft drinks, candy, chewing gum, or snack foods. The tax rates may be too small to affect sales, but in some jurisdictions, the revenues generated are substantial. Nationally, about $1 billion is raised annually from these taxes. The authors propose that state and local governments levy taxes on foods of low nutritional value and use the revenues to fund health promotion programs. PMID:10846500

  8. Identifying mechanisms for superdiffusive dynamics in cell trajectories

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    Passucci, Giuseppe; Brasch, Megan; Henderson, James; Manning, M. Lisa

    Self-propelled particle (SPP) models have been used to explore features of active matter such as motility-induced phase separation, jamming, and flocking, and are often used to model biological cells. However, many cells exhibit super-diffusive trajectories, where displacements scale faster than t 1 / 2 in all directions, and these are not captured by traditional SPP models. We extract cell trajectories from image stacks of mouse fibroblast cells moving on 2D substrates and find super-diffusive mean-squared displacements in all directions across varying densities. Two SPP model modifications have been proposed to capture super-diffusive dynamics: Levy walks and heterogeneous motility parameters. In mouse fibroblast cells displacement probability distributions collapse when time is rescaled by a power greater than 1/2, which is consistent with Levy walks. We show that a simple SPP model with heterogeneous rotational noise can also generate a similar collapse. Furthermore, a close examination of statistics extracted directly from cell trajectories is consistent with a heterogeneous mobility SPP model and inconsistent with a Levy walk model. Our work demonstrates that a simple set of analyses can distinguish between mechanisms for anomalous diffusion in active matter.

  9. Shoemaker-Levy 9 and the tidal disruption of comets

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    Benz, W.; Asphaug, E.

    1994-01-01

    The break-up of Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into multiple pieces following its grazing encounter with Jupiter in July 1992 can be used to study tidally-induced fracture in comets. This spectacular event allows us not only to set limits on the size, strength and density of Shoemaker-Levy 9 itself, but provides invaluable guidance to numerical modeling of such encounters. In an extensive treatment of tidal breakup which assumed self-gravitating, homogeneous, perfectly elastic bodies, Dobrovolskis derived simple analytical expressions for the tidally-induced surface and central stresses. Both can be cast in such a way that Poisson's ratio is the only material dependent constant entering these expressions. Whether both surface and central failure must be initiated as a criterion for breakup, or either one of them is sufficient, remains a subject of disagreement. To resolve this debate, we model the details of cometary breakup using a three-dimensional Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code modified to simulate fracture in small solid objects. At lower stresses associated with brittle failure, we use a rate-dependent strength based on the nucleation of incipient flaws whose number density is given by a Weibull distribution.

  10. VizieR Online Data Catalog: Radial velocities for the HD 3167 system (Christiansen+, 2017)

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    Christiansen, J. L.; Vanderburg, A.; Burt, J.; Fulton, B. J.; Batygin, K.; Benneke, B.; Brewer, J. M.; Charbonneau, D.; Ciardi, D. R.; Cameron, A. C.; Coughlin, J. L.; Crossfield, I. J. M.; Dressing, C.; Greene, T. P.; Howard, A. W.; Latham, D. W.; Molinari, E.; Mortier, A.; Mullally, F.; Pepe, F.; Rice, K.; Sinukoff, E.; Sozzetti, A.; Thompson, S. E.; Udry, S.; Vogt, S. S.; Barman, T. S.; Batalha, N. E.; Bouchy, F.; Buchhave, L. A.; Butler, R. P.; Cosentino, R.; Dupuy, T. J.; Ehrenreich, D.; Fiorenzano, A.; Hansen, B. M. S.; Henning, T.; Hirsch, L.; Holden, B. P.; Isaacson, H. T.; Johnson, J. A.; Knutson, H. A.; Kosiarek, M.; Lopez-Morales, M.; Lovis, C.; Malavolta, L.; Mayor, M.; Micela, G.; Motalebi, F.; Petigura, E.; Phillips, D. F.; Piotto, G.; Rogers, L. A.; Sasselov, D.; Schlieder, J. E.; Segransan, D.; Watson, C. A.; Weiss, L. M.

    2018-06-01

    The final data set includes observations obtained with Keck/HIRES, Automated Planet Finder (APF)/Levy, and HARPS-N. Our observational setup for both Keck/HIRES and the APF/Levy was essentially identical to those described in Fulton et al. (2016, J/ApJ/830/46) and Burt et al. (2014ApJ...789..114B). We collected a total of 60 RV measurements using Keck/HIRES (Vogt et al. 1994SPIE.2198..362V), and 116 measurements using the Levy Spectrograph on the APF (Radovan et al. 2014SPIE.9145E..2BR; Vogt et al. 2014PASP..126..359V) at Lick Observatory between 2016 July 7 and 2016 December 2. We also observed HD 3167 with the HARPS-N spectrograph (Cosentino et al. 2012SPIE.8446E..1VC) located at the 3.58 m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo on the island of La Palma, Spain. HARPS-N is a stabilized spectrograph designed for precise RV measurements. We observed HD 3167 76 times between 2016 July 7 (independently beginning the same night as the HIRES/APF campaign) and 2016 December 7, obtaining high-resolution optical spectra with a spectral resolving power of R=115000. (1 data file).

  11. International Space Station Requirement Verification for Commercial Visiting Vehicles

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    Garguilo, Dan

    2017-01-01

    The COTS program demonstrated NASA could rely on commercial providers for safe, reliable, and cost-effective cargo delivery to ISS. The ISS Program has developed a streamlined process to safely integrate commercial visiting vehicles and ensure requirements are met Levy a minimum requirement set (down from 1000s to 100s) focusing on the ISS interface and safety, reducing the level of NASA oversight/insight and burden on the commercial Partner. Partners provide a detailed verification and validation plan documenting how they will show they've met NASA requirements. NASA conducts process sampling to ensure that the established verification processes is being followed. NASA participates in joint verification events and analysis for requirements that require both parties verify. Verification compliance is approved by NASA and launch readiness certified at mission readiness reviews.

  12. Collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter observed by the NASA infrared telescope facility

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    Orton, G.; A'Hearn, M.; Baines, K.; Deming, D.; Dowling, T.; Goguen, J.; Griffith, C.; Hammel, H.; Hoffmann, W.; Hunten, D.; hide

    1995-01-01

    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Infrared Telescope Facility was used to investigate the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter from 12 July to 7 August 1994. Strong thermal infrared emission lasting several minutes was observed after the impacts of fragments C, G, and R. All impacts warmed the stratosphere and some the troposphere up to several degrees. The abundance of stratospheric ammonia increased by more than 50 times. Impact-related particles extended up to a level where the atmospheric pressure measured several millibars. The north polar near-infrared aurora brightened by nearly a factor of 5 a week after the impacts.

  13. Collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter observed by the NASA infrared telescope facility.

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    Orton, G; A'Hearn, M; Baines, K; Deming, D; Dowling, T; Goguen, J; Griffith, C; Hammel, H; Hoffmann, W; Hunten, D

    1995-03-03

    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Infrared Telescope Facility was used to investigate the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter from 12 July to 7 August 1994. Strong thermal infrared emission lasting several minutes was observed after the impacts of fragments C, G, and R. All impacts warmed the stratosphere and some the troposphere up to several degrees. The abundance of stratospheric ammonia increased by more than 50 times. Impact-related particles extended up to a level where the atmospheric pressure measured several millibars. The north polar near-infrared aurora brightened by nearly a factor of 5 a week after the impacts.

  14. Identification of male-specific chiral compound from the sugarcane weevil Sphenophorus levis.

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    Zarbin, Paulo H G; Arrigoni, Enrico de Beni; Reckziegel, Aurélia; Moreira, Jardel A; Baraldi, Patrícia T; Vieira, Paulo C

    2003-02-01

    Comparative gas chromatographic analyses of airborne volatiles produced by males and females of the sugarcane weevil Sphenophorus levis, showed one male-specific compound. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry data indicated an aliphatic alcohol that was identified as 2-methyl-4-octanol. Both optical isomers were synthesized in five steps by employing commercially available (R)- and (S)-2.2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolane-4-methanol as starting material. Enantiomeric resolution by gas chromatography with a chiral column demonstrated that the natural alcohol possessed the S configuration. Preliminary indoor observations suggested that the alcohol elicited aggregation behavior among adults. The same compound has been previously described as an aggregation pheromone in several other curculionid species.

  15. Using the Gilbert-Johnson-Keerthi Algorithm for Collision Detection in System Effectiveness Modeling

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    2015-09-01

    product is vector whose i-th component is defined as (A×B)i = εi jkA jBk, (2) 2 where εi jk is the Levi - Civita symbol whose value is 1 if i jk is an...of GJK 9 3.1.1 Overview of GJK 9 3.1.2 Two Examples of GJK Operating 9 3.1.3 Termination Conditions 11 3.1.4 GJK Algorithm 13 3.2 Simplex Processing...band will snap around the outermost points, forming the convex hull. ...........5 Fig. 3 Two example triangles and their Minkowski Difference

  16. [Use of a retail sales tax on tobacco to fund drug therapy for smoking cessation].

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    Antoñanzas Villar, Fernando; Rodríguez Ibeas, Roberto; Juárez Castelló, Carmelo; Ramírez Esquibel, Manuel; Lorente Antoñanzas, Reyes; Ginestal Gómez, Jaime

    2006-12-01

    To analyze the revenue-generating potential of a new retail sales tax on tobacco and its effects on public health if the tax revenues were allocated to finance smoking cessation programs. We provide an extensive review of the legislation on the authority of autonomous communities to order the levy and collection of special taxes and describe the new tobacco retail sales tax. We calculated collected tax revenues with a simulation model of indirect taxation -the SINDIEF (Simulador de Imposición Indirecta del Instituto de Estudios Fiscales) model- and determined the potential number of smokers who would quit smoking. Epidemiological and clinical variables from existing pharmacological therapies were used to obtain the results. For the highest tax rate (20 eurocents per pack), we found that 1,078,000 smokers yearly would give up smoking, suggesting that the new tax could be considered as a way to promote pharmacotherapy in smoking behavior. Fiscal corresponsability to finance smoking cessation programs could be based on a tobacco retailing sales tax, similar to that levied on hydrocarbons. Simulations for different tax rates show the huge potential of the tax to yield revenues, as the tax is levied yearly on 4.6 billion cigarette packs each year.

  17. Prevention before profits: a levy on food and alcohol advertising.

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    Harper, Todd A; Mooney, Gavin

    2010-04-05

    The recent interest in health promotion and disease prevention has drawn attention to the role of the alcohol and junk-food industries. Companies supplying, producing, advertising or selling alcohol or junk food (ie, foods with a high content of fat, sugar or salt) do so to generate profits. Even companies marketing "low-carbohydrate" beers, "mild" cigarettes, or "high-fibre" sugary cereals are not primarily concerned about population health, more so increased sales and profits. In a competitive market, it is assumed that consumers make fully informed choices about costs and benefits before purchasing. However, consumers are not being fully informed of the implications of their junk-food and alcohol choices, as advertising of these products carries little information on the health consequences of consumption. We propose that there should be a levy on advertising expenditure for junk food and alcoholic beverages to provide an incentive for industry to promote healthier products. Proceeds of the levy could be used to provide consumers with more complete and balanced information on the healthy and harmful impacts of food and alcohol choices. Our proposal addresses two of the greatest challenges facing Australia's preventable disease epidemic - the imbalance between the promotion of healthier and unhealthy products, and securing funds to empower consumer choice.

  18. Is 50 cent the price of the optimal copayment? - a qualitative study of patient opinions and attitudes in response to a 50 cent charge on prescription drugs in a publicly funded health system in Ireland

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    2013-01-01

    Background A 50 cent prescription levy was introduced in 2010 on the General Medical Services (GMS) scheme (Irish public health insurance). This study sought to examine patient attitudes and opinions surrounding the 50 cent copayment. Given the small momentary value of the prescription fee, these results are of interest to policymakers internationally who wish to reduce copayments rather than abolish them. Methods A qualitative research design was used; semi structured interviews were carried out. Twenty four GMS eligible participants were interviewed in 23 interviews. Fifteen females and 9 males took part. Ages varied from 31- >70 years. Patients were invited to be interviewed in both independent and chain community pharmacies in three types of setting; 1) a socially deprived urban area, 2) a suburban affluent area and 3) a rural area. The Framework method was used for data management and analysis using QSR International’s NVivo 9.2 qualitative data analysis software. The “Francis method” was used to test for data saturation. Results Results are of interest to the Irish context and also at a broader international level. Patients were mostly accepting of the prescription levy with some reservations concerning an increased price and the way in which generated revenue would be used by government. Participants identified waste of prescription drugs at the hand of patients (moral hazard), but there was discordant opinion on whether the 50 cent copayment would halt this moral hazard. Interviewees felt the levy was affordable, albeit some may suffer a financial impact more than others. Conclusions This qualitative study gives important insights into the experiences of GMS patients with regard to the prescription levy. Information regarding the appropriateness of a 50 cent copayment as a symbolic copayment needs to be confirmed by quantitative analysis. Further insight is required from a younger population. PMID:23305316

  19. Evaluating expansion strategies for startup European Union dairy farm businesses.

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    McDonald, R; Shalloo, L; Pierce, K M; Horan, B

    2013-06-01

    A stochastic whole-farm simulation model was used to examine alternative strategies for new entrant dairy farmers to grow and develop dairy farm businesses in the context of European Union (EU) milk quota abolition in 2015. Six alternative strategies were compared: remain static, natural growth expansion, waiting until after EU milk quota abolition to expand, a full-scale expansion strategy without milk quotas and not incurring super levy penalties, a full-scale expansion strategy with milk quotas and incurring super levy penalties, and once-a-day milking until EU milk quota abolition, followed by full-scale expansion. Each discrete whole farm investment strategy was evaluated over a 15-yr period (2013-2027) using multiple financial stability and risk indicators, including overall discounted farm business profitability, net worth change, return on investment, and financial risk. The results of this study indicate that, although associated with increased risk, dairy farm expansion will ensure the future profitability of the farm business. Within the context of EU milk quotas until 2015, the most attractive expansion strategy is to increase cow numbers while avoiding super levy fines using once-a-day milking techniques, increasing to the full capacity of the dairy farm once milk quotas are removed. In contrast, the results also indicate that dairy farms that remain static will experience a significant reduction in farm profitability in the coming year due to production cost inflation. Cash flow deficits were observed during the initial year of expansion and, therefore, rapidly expanding dairy farm businesses require a significant cash reserve to alleviate business risk during the initial year of expansion. The results of this analysis also indicate that dairy farm businesses that expand using lower cost capital investments and avoid milk quota super levy fines significantly reduce the financial risks associated with expansion. Copyright © 2013 American Dairy Science Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  20. Attributions of guilt and punishment as functions of physical attractiveness and smiling.

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    Abel, Millicent H; Watters, Heather

    2005-12-01

    The authors found an interaction between sex of participant and sex of defendant in the leniency bias toward a smiling defendant. Differences occurred for male participants when levying punishment for a smiling male defendant vs. a smiling female defendant and for a smiling male defendant vs. a nonsmiling male defendant, whereas differences did not occur for female participants. The authors found moderating effects of physical attractiveness and smiling between guilt and punishment. The only significant positive relationship between guilt and punishment occurred for the defendant whom participants rated low in physical attractiveness and who was not smiling. When guilty, the smiling and unattractive defendant received less punishment than did the smiling and attractive defendant. The authors discussed complex relationships between physical attractiveness, smiling, guilt, and punishment.

  1. Working memory differences in long-distance dependency resolution

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    Nicenboim, Bruno; Vasishth, Shravan; Gattei, Carolina; Sigman, Mariano; Kliegl, Reinhold

    2015-01-01

    There is a wealth of evidence showing that increasing the distance between an argument and its head leads to more processing effort, namely, locality effects; these are usually associated with constraints in working memory (DLT: Gibson, 2000; activation-based model: Lewis and Vasishth, 2005). In SOV languages, however, the opposite effect has been found: antilocality (see discussion in Levy et al., 2013). Antilocality effects can be explained by the expectation-based approach as proposed by Levy (2008) or by the activation-based model of sentence processing as proposed by Lewis and Vasishth (2005). We report an eye-tracking and a self-paced reading study with sentences in Spanish together with measures of individual differences to examine the distinction between expectation- and memory-based accounts, and within memory-based accounts the further distinction between DLT and the activation-based model. The experiments show that (i) antilocality effects as predicted by the expectation account appear only for high-capacity readers; (ii) increasing dependency length by interposing material that modifies the head of the dependency (the verb) produces stronger facilitation than increasing dependency length with material that does not modify the head; this is in agreement with the activation-based model but not with the expectation account; and (iii) a possible outcome of memory load on low-capacity readers is the increase in regressive saccades (locality effects as predicted by memory-based accounts) or, surprisingly, a speedup in the self-paced reading task; the latter consistent with good-enough parsing (Ferreira et al., 2002). In sum, the study suggests that individual differences in working memory capacity play a role in dependency resolution, and that some of the aspects of dependency resolution can be best explained with the activation-based model together with a prediction component. PMID:25852623

  2. Working memory differences in long-distance dependency resolution.

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    Nicenboim, Bruno; Vasishth, Shravan; Gattei, Carolina; Sigman, Mariano; Kliegl, Reinhold

    2015-01-01

    There is a wealth of evidence showing that increasing the distance between an argument and its head leads to more processing effort, namely, locality effects; these are usually associated with constraints in working memory (DLT: Gibson, 2000; activation-based model: Lewis and Vasishth, 2005). In SOV languages, however, the opposite effect has been found: antilocality (see discussion in Levy et al., 2013). Antilocality effects can be explained by the expectation-based approach as proposed by Levy (2008) or by the activation-based model of sentence processing as proposed by Lewis and Vasishth (2005). We report an eye-tracking and a self-paced reading study with sentences in Spanish together with measures of individual differences to examine the distinction between expectation- and memory-based accounts, and within memory-based accounts the further distinction between DLT and the activation-based model. The experiments show that (i) antilocality effects as predicted by the expectation account appear only for high-capacity readers; (ii) increasing dependency length by interposing material that modifies the head of the dependency (the verb) produces stronger facilitation than increasing dependency length with material that does not modify the head; this is in agreement with the activation-based model but not with the expectation account; and (iii) a possible outcome of memory load on low-capacity readers is the increase in regressive saccades (locality effects as predicted by memory-based accounts) or, surprisingly, a speedup in the self-paced reading task; the latter consistent with good-enough parsing (Ferreira et al., 2002). In sum, the study suggests that individual differences in working memory capacity play a role in dependency resolution, and that some of the aspects of dependency resolution can be best explained with the activation-based model together with a prediction component.

  3. Dynamics and thermodynamics of linear quantum open systems.

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    Martinez, Esteban A; Paz, Juan Pablo

    2013-03-29

    We analyze the evolution of the quantum state of networks of quantum oscillators coupled with arbitrary external environments. We show that the reduced density matrix of the network always obeys a local master equation with a simple analytical solution. We use this to study the emergence of thermodynamical laws in the long time regime demonstrating two main results: First, we show that it is impossible to build a quantum absorption refrigerator using linear networks (thus, nonlinearity is an essential resource for such refrigerators recently studied by Levy and Kosloff [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 070604 (2012)] and Levy et al. [Phys. Rev. B 85, 061126 (2012)]). Then, we show that the third law imposes constraints on the low frequency behavior of the environmental spectral densities.

  4. Evolution of the P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Gang

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    1998-05-02

    This series of eight NASA Hubble Space Telescope "snapshots" shows the evolution of the P-Q complex, also called the "gang of four" region, of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9. The eight individual frames chronicle changes in the comet during the 12 months before colliding with Jupiter. The sequence shows that the relative separations of the various cometary fragments, thought to range in size from about 500 meters to almost 4 km (2.5 miles) across, changed dramatically over this period. The apparent separation of Q1 and Q2 was only about 1100 kilometers (680 miles) on 1 July 1993 and increased to 28,000 kilometers (17,400 miles) by 20 July 1994. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01264

  5. Properties of Augmented Kohn-Sham Potential for Energy as Simple Sum of Orbital Energies.

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    Zahariev, Federico; Levy, Mel

    2017-01-12

    A recent modification to the traditional Kohn-Sham method ( Levy , M. ; Zahariev , F. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2014 , 113 , 113002 ; Levy , M. ; Zahariev , F. Mol. Phys. 2016 , 114 , 1162 - 1164 ), which gives the ground-state energy as a direct sum of the occupied orbital energies, is discussed and its properties are numerically illustrated on representative atoms and ions. It is observed that current approximate density functionals tend to give surprisingly small errors for the highest occupied orbital energies that are obtained with the augmented potential. The appropriately shifted Kohn-Sham potential is the basic object within this direct-energy Kohn-Sham method and needs to be approximated. To facilitate approximations, several constraints to the augmented Kohn-Sham potential are presented.

  6. Permo-Triassic radiolaria from the Semanggol Formation, northwest Peninsular Malaysia

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    Jasin, Basir

    1997-02-01

    A total of 32 species of radiolaria were identified from 20 chert samples at eight localities of the Semanggol Formation in north and south Kedah. Three assemblages of Radiolaria were recognised representing the Early Permian Pseudoalbaillella scalprata m. rhombothoracata. Late Permian Albaillella levis, and Middle Triassic Triassocampe deweveri Assemblage-Zone. The Pseudoalbaillella scalprata m. rhombothoracata Assemblage-Zone is discovered from Bukit Kampung Yoi and Bukit Larek, north Kedah. The Albaillella levis Assemblage-Zone is recorded from Bukit Tok Bertanduk, north Kedah and Merbau Palas, south Kedah. The Triassocampe deweveri Assemblage-Zone is found from the Lanjut Malau area, north Kedah. The radiolarian assemblages indicate that the age of the chert sequence in the Semanggol Formation ranges from Early permian to Middle Triassic.

  7. Excitation energies from Görling-Levy perturbation theory along the range-separated adiabatic connection

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    Rebolini, Elisa; Teale, Andrew M.; Helgaker, Trygve; Savin, Andreas; Toulouse, Julien

    2018-06-01

    A Görling-Levy (GL)-based perturbation theory along the range-separated adiabatic connection is assessed for the calculation of electronic excitation energies. In comparison with the Rayleigh-Schrödinger (RS)-based perturbation theory this GL-based perturbation theory keeps the ground-state density constant at each order and thus gives the correct ionisation energy at each order. Excitation energies up to first order in the perturbation have been calculated numerically for the helium and beryllium atoms and the hydrogen molecule without introducing any density-functional approximations. In comparison with the RS-based perturbation theory, the present GL-based perturbation theory gives much more accurate excitation energies for Rydberg states but similar excitation energies for valence states.

  8. Determinants of eco-efficiency in the Chinese industrial sector.

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    Fujii, Hidemichi; Managi, Shunsuke

    2013-12-01

    This study measures productive inefficiency within the context of multi-environmental pollution (eco-efficiency) in the Chinese industrial sector. The weighted Russell directional distance model is applied to measure eco-efficiency using production technology. The objective is to clarify how external factors affect eco-efficiency. The major findings are that both foreign direct investment and investment for pollution abatement improve eco-efficiency as measured by air pollutant substances. A levy system for wastewater discharge improves eco-efficiency as measured by wastewater pollutant substances. However, an air pollutant levy does not significantly affect eco-efficiency as measured by air pollutants. Copyright © 2013 The Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  9. Botswana alcohol policy and the presidential levy controversy.

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    Pitso, Joseph M N; Obot, Isidore S

    2011-05-01

    To assess the state of alcohol policy in Botswana in the context of a substantial levy imposed on alcohol sales by the President. DESIGN, MEASUREMENTS: Analysis of policy documents and media reports to describe the drivers of policy formation. Botswana. Legislation aimed at addressing the problem of excessive consumption of alcohol in the country has been proposed and enacted since independence in 1966 and a draft national alcohol policy is currently being debated. The policy recognizes the need to protect the rights of adult citizens of Botswana to purchase and consume alcohol in a safe and well-regulated manner and the role of government in ensuring that vulnerable members of the community are protected against the impact of harmful use of alcohol. In 2008, controversy erupted over the proposal by the President of the country to impose a 70% levy on alcohol products, later reduced to 30%. The industry responded by threatening to go to court and has since focused their response on what they claim to be serious economic losses due to reduced consumption of their products. The ongoing controversy in Botswana calls attention to the role of the industry in influencing the debate on alcohol and the need to keep in mind overall public health interest in efforts to develop and implement a national alcohol policy. © 2011 The Authors, Addiction © 2011 Society for the Study of Addiction.

  10. Economic and environmental effects of the manure policy in The Netherlands: synthesis of integrated ex-post and ex-ante evaluation.

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    Westhoek, H; van den Berg, R; de Hoop, W; van der Kamp, A

    2004-01-01

    This paper summarises the results of both an ex-post evaluation of the Dutch Mineral Accounting System (MINAS) and an ex-ante evaluation of the effect of different levy-free surplus values. The MINAS system has been introduced in 1998 in order to reduce nitrate and phosphate leaching from agricultural soils. MINAS resulted in a reduction of the N surplus on dairy farms of approximately 50 kg ha(-1) to limited or no costs to the farms involved. MINAS resulted in higher costs for manure removal for intensive livestock farmers. Though emissions of N and P have decreased significantly during the last five years effects of this reduction in environmental quality cannot be observed, except for a small decrease in nitrate concentration of the upper groundwater. The ex-ante evaluation of different variants for possible future levy-free surplus levels indicated that under the lowest variant, the nitrate concentration in groundwater will exceed 50 mg per litre on 14% of the area. The environmental effect of the different variants for P were not distinguished. The lowering of the levy-free surplus for P will have a drastic effect on the intensive livestock farms. The incorporation of fertiliser P under the MINAS system would be a cheap option to reduce the P surplus.

  11. Traceability of Software Safety Requirements in Legacy Safety Critical Systems

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    Hill, Janice L.

    2007-01-01

    How can traceability of software safety requirements be created for legacy safety critical systems? Requirements in safety standards are imposed most times during contract negotiations. On the other hand, there are instances where safety standards are levied on legacy safety critical systems, some of which may be considered for reuse for new applications. Safety standards often specify that software development documentation include process-oriented and technical safety requirements, and also require that system and software safety analyses are performed supporting technical safety requirements implementation. So what can be done if the requisite documents for establishing and maintaining safety requirements traceability are not available?

  12. 7 CFR 1925.2 - Definition of tax.

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    2011-01-01

    ... SERVICE, RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, AND FARM SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PROGRAM REGULATIONS... word “tax” means all taxes, assessments, levies, irrigation and water charges or other similar...

  13. 7 CFR 1925.2 - Definition of tax.

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    2010-01-01

    ... SERVICE, RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, AND FARM SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PROGRAM REGULATIONS... word “tax” means all taxes, assessments, levies, irrigation and water charges or other similar...

  14. Ear barotrauma

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    ... Yawn When flying, DO NOT sleep as the plane prepares to land. Repeat the listed steps to ... PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2014:chap 143. O'Reilly RC, Levi L. Anatomy and physiology of the Eustachian ...

  15. 7 CFR 1210.501 - Realignment of districts.

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    2012-01-01

    ..., Gulf, Hamilton, Hernando, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Madison, Marion..., Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Washington, DC. (e) District 5—The State of California. (f...

  16. 7 CFR 1210.501 - Realignment of districts.

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    2014-01-01

    ..., Gulf, Hamilton, Hernando, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Madison, Marion..., Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Washington, DC. (e) District 5—The State of California. (f...

  17. 7 CFR 1210.501 - Realignment of districts.

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    2013-01-01

    ..., Gulf, Hamilton, Hernando, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Madison, Marion..., Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Washington, DC. (e) District 5—The State of California. (f...

  18. 75 FR 8719 - Notice of Agreements Filed

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    ...) 523-5793 or [email protected] . Agreement No.: 011346-020. Title: Israel Trade Conference... Integrated Shipping Services, Ltd. Filing Party: Howard A. Levy, Esq.; Chairman; Israel Trade Conference; 80...

  19. Acoustical design economic trade off for transport aircraft

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    Benito, A.

    The effects of ICAO fixed certification limits and local ordinances on acoustic emissions from jets on commercial transport aircraft and costs of operations are explored. The regulations effectively ban some aircraft from operation over populated areas, impose curfews on airports and, in conjunction with local civil aviation rules, levy extra taxes and quotas on noisier equipment. Jet engine manufacturers have attempted to increase the flow laminarity, decrease the exhaust speed and develop acoustic liners for selected duct areas. Retrofits are, however, not usually cost effective due to increased operational costs, e.g., fuel consumption can increase after engine modification because of increased weight. Finally, an attempt is made to assess, monetarily, the costs of noise pollution, wherein fines are levied for noisy aircraft and the money is spent insulating homes from noise.

  20. The pectinases from Sphenophorus levis: Potential for biotechnological applications.

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    Habrylo, Olivier; Evangelista, Danilo Elton; Castilho, Priscila Vasques; Pelloux, Jérôme; Henrique-Silva, Flávio

    2018-06-01

    Pectinases represent about one fifth of the enzyme worldwide market due their wide range of biotechnological applications. Current commercial pectinases are exclusively obtained from microbial sources, but here we report a pectin methylesterase (Sl-PME) and an endo-polygalacturonase (Sl-EPG) bioprospected from the sugarcane weevil, Sphenophorus levis, which revealed good potential for industrial applications. Sl-PME and Sl-EPG were overexpressed in Pichia pastoris, purified and enzymatically characterized. Sl-EPG presents optimal activity at pH 4-5 and 50 °C, showing that it can be used for juice extraction and clarification. On the other hand, Sl-PME presents optimal activity at pH 6-8 and 40 °C, and thus, suitable for both acidic and alkaline processing, such as coffee and tea fermentation. Sl-EPG shows V max  = 3.23 mM/min, K M  = 2.4 g/L and k cat  = 418.6 s -1 . While Sl-PME shows V max  = 0.14 mM/min, K M  = 4.1 g/L and k cat  = 1.7 s -1 . A PG inhibitor (PGIP2) weakly interfered in the Sl-EPG activity and Sl-PME was not affected by a usual PME inhibitor. Moreover, these enzymes manifested synergistic action towards methylesterified pectin. Here, we propose these enzymes as novel alternative tools for the current commercial pectinases. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  1. 75 FR 6397 - Notice of Agreements Filed

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    ...)-523-5793 or tradeanalysi[email protected] . Agreement No.: 011346-019. Title: Israel Trade Conference.... Filing Party: Howard A. Levy, Esq.; Chairman; Israel Trade Conference; 80 Wall Street, Suite 1117; New...

  2. 75 FR 66098 - Notice of Agreements Filed

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    ... expedited review. Agreement No.: 011346-021. Title: Israel Trade Conference Agreement. Parties: A.P. Moller..., Ltd. Filing Party: Howard A. Levy, Esq.; Chairman; Israel Trade Conference; 80 Wall Street, Suite 1117...

  3. 12 CFR 706.4 - Late charges.

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    2010-01-01

    ... indirectly, to levy or collect any delinquency charge on a payment, which payment is otherwise a full payment... only delinquency is attributable to late fee(s) or delinquency charge(s) assessed on earlier...

  4. MONTH-LONG EVOLUTION OF THE D/G JUPITER IMPACT SITES FROM COMET P/SHOEMAKER-LEVY 9

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    2002-01-01

    This series of snapshots, taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows evolution of the comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact region called the D/G complex. This feature was produced by two nuclei of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 that collided with Jupiter on 17 and 18 July 1994, respectively, and was later modified again by the impact of the S fragment on 21 July 1994. Upper Left: This first image was taken about 90 minutes after the G impact on 18 July 1994. Nearly all of the structure in this image was created by the impact of fragment G, although a small dark spot to the left was the remainder of small fragment D that collided one day earlier. The explosion of the nucleus in Jupiter's atmosphere created the unique ring structure, which may be analogous to a 'sonic boom' on earth. Though this structure is best seen for the G impact, it is not unique. Hubble reveals similar rings around several other fresh impact sites. They are all clear evidence for coherent outward motion of this wave phenomena. Upper right: This second image, obtained on 23 July, shows that the Jovian winds have swept the material into a striking 'curly-cue' structure. Lower left, right: The structure seen in earlier views has disappeared rapidly in the images taken on 30 July and 24 August, respectively. Almost all of the changes between the images are due to Jupiter's east-west winds that play a key role in the dispersing of the dark material. Hubble Space Telescope's high resolution will allow astronomers to continue to trace the impact debris as it is transported by the Jovian winds. This information promises to advance current understanding of the physics of Jupiter's atmosphere. These black and white images were taken in near-ultraviolet light with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. They have been processed to correct for the curvature of Jupiter, so that the impact region appears flat, as if the viewer were hovering directly overhead. Each image is centered on -46 degrees latitude and 28 degrees. The north-south extent in the image spans from -26 to -66 deg. latitude and the east-west extent of the region spans +/- 30 degrees on either side of 28 degrees longitude. credit: H. Hammel, MIT and NASA

  5. 12 CFR 227.15 - Unfair late charges.

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    2010-01-01

    ... an unfair act or practice for a bank to levy or collect any delinquency charge on a payment, when the only delinquency is attributable to late fees or delinquency charges assessed on earlier installments...

  6. Genetics Home Reference: essential pentosuria

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    ... MacCoss MJ, Levy-Lahad E, King MC, Motulsky AG. Garrod's fourth inborn error of metabolism solved by ... qualified healthcare professional . About Selection Criteria for Links Data Files & API Site Map Subscribe Customer Support USA. ...

  7. 33 CFR 173.85 - Fees levied by the Coast Guard.

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    2012-07-01

    ... number and two validation stickers—$24. (2) Renewed certificate of number and two validation stickers—$16. (3) Duplicate certificate of number—$9. (4) Replacement of lost or destroyed validation stickers—$9...

  8. 33 CFR 173.85 - Fees levied by the Coast Guard.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... number and two validation stickers—$24. (2) Renewed certificate of number and two validation stickers—$16. (3) Duplicate certificate of number—$9. (4) Replacement of lost or destroyed validation stickers—$9...

  9. 33 CFR 173.85 - Fees levied by the Coast Guard.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... number and two validation stickers—$24. (2) Renewed certificate of number and two validation stickers—$16. (3) Duplicate certificate of number—$9. (4) Replacement of lost or destroyed validation stickers—$9...

  10. 33 CFR 173.85 - Fees levied by the Coast Guard.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... number and two validation stickers—$24. (2) Renewed certificate of number and two validation stickers—$16. (3) Duplicate certificate of number—$9. (4) Replacement of lost or destroyed validation stickers—$9...

  11. Impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter

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    Takata, Toshiko; Ahrens, Thomas J.; Okeefe, John D.; Orton, Glenn S.

    1994-01-01

    We have employed three-dimensional numerical simulations of the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) on Jupiter and the resulting vapor plume expansion using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. An icy body with a diameter of 2 km can penetrate to an altitude of -350 km (0 km = 1 bar) and most of the incident kinetic energy is transferred to the atmosphere between -100 to -250 km. This energy is converted to potential energy of the resulting gas plume. The unconfined plume expands vertically and has a peak radiative power approximately equal to the total radiation from Jupiter's disc. The plume rises a few tens of atmospheric scale heights in approximately 10(exp 2) seconds. The rising plume reaches the altitude of approximately 3000 km; however, no atmospheric gas is accelerated to the escape velocity (approximately 60 km/s).

  12. A Not-So-Gentle Refutation of the Defence of Homeopathy.

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    Zawiła-Niedźwiecki, Jakub; Olender, Jacek

    2016-03-01

    In a recent paper, Levy, Gadd, Kerridge, and Komesaroff attempt to defend the ethicality of homeopathy by attacking the utilitarian ethical framework as a basis for medical ethics and by introducing a distinction between evidence-based medicine and modern science. This paper demonstrates that their argumentation is not only insufficient to achieve that goal but also incorrect. Utilitarianism is not required to show that homeopathic practice is unethical; indeed, any normative basis of medical ethics will make it unethical, as a defence of homeopathic practice requires the rejection of modern natural sciences, which are an integral part of medical ethics systems. This paper also points out that evidence-based medicine lies at the very core of modern science. Particular arguments made by Levy et al. within the principlist medical ethics normative system are also shown to be wrong.

  13. Looking at the future with Rita.

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    Bentivoglio, M

    2013-11-12

    This paper on Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012), who received in 1986 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of nerve growth factor, focuses on aspects of her advocacy and her commitment to education in which she has been especially active in the last part of her long life. With passionate confidence on the capabilities of the aging brain (together with severe admonition against the pursuit of immortality), she encouraged contributions of senior citizens to the society. Always projected into the future, with enduring faith in the potential of young individuals, in education as a key to development, in the capabilities of women, in the importance of gender equality, Rita established in 2001 the Rita Levi-Montalcini Foundation for the education of African women. Her legacy on engagement for a better 'global village' should not be forgotten by the neuroscience community.

  14. Impact on comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter

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    Ahrens, Thomas J.; Takata, Toshiko; O'Keefe, John D.; Orton, Glenn S.

    1994-01-01

    Three-dimensional numerical simulations of the impact of Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 on Jupiter and the resulting vapor plume expansion were conducted using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. An icy body with a diameter of 2 km can penetrate to an altitude of -350 km (0 km = 1 bar) and most of the incident kinetic energy is transferred to the atmosphere between -100 km to -250 km. This energy is converted to potential energy of the resulting gas plume. The unconfined plume expands vertically and has a peak radiative power approximately equal to the total radiation from Jupiter's disk. The plume rises a few tens of atmospheric scale heights in approximately 10(exp 2) seconds. The rising plume reaches the altitude of approximately 3000 km, but no atmospheric gas is accelerated to the escape velocity (approximately 60 km/s).

  15. Secondary abdominal compartment syndrome after complicated traumatic lower extremity vascular injuries.

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    Macedo, F I B; Sciarretta, J D; Otero, C A; Ruiz, G; Ebler, D J; Pizano, L R; Namias, N

    2016-04-01

    Secondary abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) can occur in trauma patients without abdominal injuries. Surgical management of patients presenting with secondary ACS after isolated traumatic lower extremity vascular injury (LEVI) continues to evolve, and associated outcomes remain unknown. From January 2006 to September 2011, 191 adult trauma patients presented to the Ryder Trauma Center, an urban level I trauma center in Miami, Florida with traumatic LEVIs. Among them 10 (5.2 %) patients were diagnosed with secondary ACS. Variables collected included age, gender, mechanism of injury, and clinical status at presentation. Surgical data included vessel injury, technical aspects of repair, associated complications, and outcomes. Mean age was 37.4 ± 18.0 years (range 16-66 years), and the majority of patients were males (8 patients, 80 %). There were 7 (70 %) penetrating injuries (5 gunshot wounds and 2 stab wounds), and 3 blunt injuries with mean Injury Severity Score (ISS) 21.9 ± 14.3 (range 9-50). Surgical management of LEVIs included ligation (4 patients, 40 %), primary repair (1 patient, 10 %), reverse saphenous vein graft (2 patients, 20 %), and PTFE interposition grafting (3 patients, 30 %). The overall mortality rate in this series was 60 %. The association between secondary ACS and lower extremity vascular injuries carries high morbidity and mortality rates. Further research efforts should focus at identifying parameters to accurately determine resuscitation goals, and therefore, prevent such a devastating condition.

  16. Genetics Home Reference: chylomicron retention disease

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    ... PubMed Charcosset M, Sassolas A, Peretti N, Roy CC, Deslandres C, Sinnett D, Levy E, Lachaux A. ... Epub 2007 Oct 22. Citation on PubMed Shoulders CC, Naoumova RP. The genes and proteins of atherogenic ...

  17. National Center for Mathematics and Science - publications

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    Approach to Teaching Evolution Speaks to Debate (press release) Fourth Grade Math Makes the News: VIEW , Megan Loef Franke, Linda Levi Publisher: Heinemann, 2003 Transforming Teaching in Math and Science: How

  18. 75 FR 13653 - Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications; Vision

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    ... D. Bennett, Johnny W. Bradford Sr., Levi A. Brown, Charlie F. Cook, Clifford H. Dovel, Arthur L..., Steven L. Valley, Thomas E. Voyles, Jr., Darel G. Wagner, Bernard J. Wood. These exemptions are extended...

  19. Unusual spacecraft materials

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    Post, Jonathan V.

    1990-01-01

    For particularly innovative space exploration missions, unusual requirements are levied on the structural components of the spacecraft. In many cases, the preferred solution is the utilization of unusual materials. This trend is forecast to continue. Several hypothetic examples are discussed.

  20. 75 FR 6558 - Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices

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    ... credit union, directly or indirectly, to levy or collect any delinquency charge on a payment, which... applicable grace period, when the only delinquency is attributable to late fee(s) or delinquency charge(s...

  1. Technology: Making the Connections. Innovations in the Apparel Industry. Resources in Technology.

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    Threlfall, K. Denise

    1996-01-01

    Describes the partnership between Levi Strauss & Co., the largest brand-name apparel manufacturer in the world, and Custom Clothing Technology, the developer of software to customize jeans for female customers. (JOW)

  2. The surface crack problem in an orthotropic plate under bending and tension

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    Wu, Bing-Hua; Erdogan, F.

    1987-01-01

    The elasticity problem for an infinite orthotropic flat plate containing a series of through and part through cracks and subjected to bending and tension loads is considered. The problem is formulated by using Reissner's plate bending theory and considering three-dimensional material orthotropy. The Line-spring model developed by Rice and Levy is used to formulate the surface crack problem in which a total of nine material constants were used. The effects of material orthotropy on the stress intensity factors was determined, the interaction between two asymmetrically arranged collinear cracks was investigated, and extensive numerical results regarding the stress intensity factors are provided. The problem is reduced to a system of singular integral equations which is solved by using the Gauss-Chebyshev quadrature formulas. The calculated results show that the material orthotropy does have a significant effect on the stress intensity factor.

  3. The surface crack problem in an orthotropic plate under bending and tension

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    Wu, B. H.; Erdogan, F.

    1986-01-01

    The elasticity problem for an infinite orthotropic flat plate containing a series of through and part-through cracks and subjected to bending and tension loads is considered. The problem is formulated by using Reissner's plate bending theory and considering three dimensional materials orthotropy. The Line-spring model developed by Rice and Levy is used to formulate the surface crack problem in which a total of nine material constants has been used. The main purpose of this study is to determine the effect of material orthotropy on the stress intensity factors, to investigate the interaction between two asymmetrically arranged collinear cracks, and to provide extensive numerical results regarding the stress intensity factors. The problem is reduced to a system of singular integral equations which is solved by using the Gauss-Chebyshev quadrature formulas. The calculated results show that the material orthotropy does have a significant effect on the stress intensity factor.

  4. When All Else Fails, Organize and Advocate

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    Prichard, Ami

    2014-01-01

    Caught in the perfect storm of a sour economy, declining home values, legislative tax hesitance, and growing unfunded mandates, a school district leads a campaign to raise local tax and bond levies to save jobs and enhance education.

  5. 23. Brick coke quencher, brick stack, metal stack to right, ...

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    23. Brick coke quencher, brick stack, metal stack to right, coke gas pipe to left; in background, BOF building, limestone piles, Levy's Slag Dump. Looking north/northwest - Rouge Steel Company, 3001 Miller Road, Dearborn, MI

  6. [Doctor Levi B. Salmans, founder of The Good Samaritan sanitarium in Guanajuato].

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    Olivier-Toledo, Carlos; Viesca-Treviño, Carlos

    2016-01-01

    In this research we focus on the medical evangelist Levi B. Salmans, and The Good Samaritan sanitarium. Doctor Salmans lived in Mexico for about 50 years (1885-1935). During the first part of his stay, he was devoted to found churches and Methodist schools. However, from 1891 he took a turn in his career by founding dispensaries in different towns of Guanajuato to create, in 1899, the private charity association for the sick and infirm The Good Samaritan. His intense, intellectual, and practical work led him to create health journals, to train nurses, and to promote physiotherapies in accordance with the science advances of that time. By itself, this research shows that the history of medicine in Mexico still has long way to go and that Protestant communities, in favor of modernity and scientific knowledge, took a big part in shaping the history of this discipline in Mexico.

  7. Test of the magneto optical filter during the comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts on Jupiter. A Doppler signal detected?

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    Cacciani, A.; Moretti, Pier Francesco; Dolci, M.; Smith, E. J.

    1995-01-01

    The observations made in July 1994 on the impact of fragment A of the comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter are described. The instrumentation used was a magneto-optical filter, acting as a two-channel filter. The data showed a double-peak transient which occurred after the impact, and whose general properties indicated a true jovian origin. The peaks appear in absorption. A numerical simulation can explain the main characteristics of the observed signal where the two peaks have the same polarity and appear only in the channel at shorter wavelengths. The simulation carried out appeared to indicate that the observed signal could be produced by the combination of shock waves and the expanding material with a velocity of 13 +/- 8 km/s. This implies that two separate impacts may have been observed. The developed simulation can be extended to predict long term effects.

  8. France tries to save its ailing national health insurance system.

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    Sorum, Paul Clay

    2005-07-01

    France has provided universal health care through employment-based health insurance funds. As its governments have increasingly used tax revenues to supplement payroll levies, they have assumed a larger role. Faced with widening deficits in the funds' accounts, the National Assembly adopted in August 2004 legislation designed to decrease health expenses, increase revenues to the funds, and improve quality of care. The apparent impacts of the so-called Douste-Blazy law are to reaffirm social solidarity and equality of access; to reinforce central control rather than relying more on decentralized and market forces; to give the now-unified funds a stronger director, shielded not only from labor and business but also, possibly, from the central government; to allow French private physicians to retain their unrivaled freedom of prescription; and to continue France's reliance on taxes as well as payroll levies to finance its health care.

  9. Face features and face configurations both contribute to visual crowding.

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    Sun, Hsin-Mei; Balas, Benjamin

    2015-02-01

    Crowding refers to the inability to recognize an object in peripheral vision when other objects are presented nearby (Whitney & Levi Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15, 160-168, 2011). A popular explanation of crowding is that features of the target and flankers are combined inappropriately when they are located within an integration field, thus impairing target recognition (Pelli, Palomares, & Majaj Journal of Vision, 4(12), 12:1136-1169, 2004). However, it remains unclear which features of the target and flankers are combined inappropriately to cause crowding (Levi Vision Research, 48, 635-654, 2008). For example, in a complex stimulus (e.g., a face), to what extent does crowding result from the integration of features at a part-based level or at the level of global processing of the configural appearance? In this study, we used a face categorization task and different types of flankers to examine how much the magnitude of visual crowding depends on the similarity of face parts or of global configurations. We created flankers with face-like features (e.g., the eyes, nose, and mouth) in typical and scrambled configurations to examine the impacts of part appearance and global configuration on the visual crowding of faces. Additionally, we used "electrical socket" flankers that mimicked first-order face configuration but had only schematic features, to examine the extent to which global face geometry impacted crowding. Our results indicated that both face parts and configurations contribute to visual crowding, suggesting that face similarity as realized under crowded conditions includes both aspects of facial appearance.

  10. Impact of Xist RNA on chromatin modifications and transcriptional silencing maintenance at different stages of imprinted X chromosome inactivation in vole Microtus levis.

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    Shevchenko, Alexander I; Grigor'eva, Elena V; Medvedev, Sergey P; Zakharova, Irina S; Dementyeva, Elena V; Elisaphenko, Eugeny A; Malakhova, Anastasia A; Pavlova, Sophia V; Zakian, Suren M

    2018-03-01

    In vole Microtus levis, cells of preimplantation embryo and extraembryonic tissues undergo imprinted X chromosome inactivation (iXCI) which is triggered by a long non-coding nuclear RNA, Xist. At early stages of iXCI, chromatin of vole inactive X chromosome is enriched with the HP1 heterochromatin-specific protein, trimethylated H3K9 and H4K20 attributable to constitutive heterochromatin. In the study, using vole trophoblast stem (TS) cells as a model of iXCI, we further investigated chromatin of the inactive X chromosome of M. levis and tried to find out the role of Xist RNA. We demonstrated that chromatin of the inactive X chromosome in vole TS cells also contained the SETDB1 histone methyltransferase and KAP1 protein. In addition, we observed that Xist RNA did not contribute significantly to maintenance of X chromosome inactive state during iXCI in vole TS cells. Xist repression affected neither transcriptional silencing caused by iXCI nor maintenance of trimethylated H3K9 and H4K20 as well as HP1, KAP1, and SETDB1 on the inactive X chromosome. Moreover, the unique repertoire of chromatin modifications on the inactive X chromosome in vole TS cells could be disrupted by a chemical compound, DZNep, and then restored even in the absence of Xist RNA. However, Xist transcript was necessary for recruitment of an additional repressive histone modification, trimethylated H3K27, to the inactive X chromosome during vole TS cell differentiation.

  11. Earth Science Informatics Comes of Age

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    Jodha, Siri; Khalsa, S.; Ramachandran, Rahul

    2014-01-01

    The volume and complexity of Earth science data have steadily increased, placing ever-greater demands on researchers, software developers and data managers tasked with handling such data. Additional demands arise from requirements being levied by funding agencies and governments to better manage, preserve and provide open access to data. Fortunately, over the past 10-15 years significant advances in information technology, such as increased processing power, advanced programming languages, more sophisticated and practical standards, and near-ubiquitous internet access have made the jobs of those acquiring, processing, distributing and archiving data easier. These advances have also led to an increasing number of individuals entering the field of informatics as it applies to Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Informatics is the science and technology of applying computers and computational methods to the systematic analysis, management, interchange, and representation of data, information, and knowledge. Informatics also encompasses the use of computers and computational methods to support decisionmaking and other applications for societal benefits.

  12. Note on cosmological Levi-Civita spacetimes in higher dimensions

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    Sarioglu, Oezguer; Tekin, Bayram

    2009-04-15

    We find a class of solutions to cosmological Einstein equations that generalizes the four dimensional cylindrically symmetric spacetimes to higher dimensions. The AdS soliton is a special member of this class with a unique singularity structure.

  13. Research in Celestial Mechanics and Differential Equations.

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    Contents: A geopotential representation with sampling functions; Sampling functions as an alternative to spherical harmonics; The Levi - Civita ...restricted problem of three bodies ; Secular perturbations of periodic comets; Resonance in the restricted problem of three bodies ; Two centers of

  14. 75 FR 27620 - Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Renewals; Vision

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  15. Commercial Maritime Industry: Updated Information on Federal Assessments

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    1999-09-16

    One of the means by which the federal government generates revenue to support America's maritime infrastructure is to enable federal agencies to levy assessments - user fees, taxes, and other charges - upon the commercial maritime industry. As of the...

  16. California vehicle license fees : incidence and equity

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    1999-12-01

    Most states tax the value of residents' motor vehicles. In recent political debates over the future of these levies, the relative effects of these taxes on different socioeconomic groups have been a prominent question. By linking data from the Nation...

  17. ENVIRONMENTAL LEVIES AND DISTORTIONARY TAXATION: COMMENT. (R824740)

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    The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Concl...

  18. 1. Photocopy of sketch showing water power drive mechanism for ...

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    1. Photocopy of sketch showing water power drive mechanism for up-and-down saw mill; delineated by Charles G. Poor, Bob Levy and Janet Hochuli, 1977. - Grant's Grist & Saw Mill, Wrentham Road, Cumberland, Providence County, RI

  19. On the transformations of the dynamical equations

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    Levi-Civita, T.

    2009-08-01

    In this issue we bring to the reader’s attention a translation of Levi-Civita’s work “Sulle trasformazioni delle equazioni dinamiche”. This paper, written by Levi-Civita at the onset of his career, is remarkable in many respects. Both the main result and the method developed in the paper brought the author in line with the greatest mathematicians of his day and seriously influenced the further progress of geometry and the theory of integrable systems. Speaking modern language the main result of his paper is the deduction of the general geodesic equivalence equation in invariant form and local classification of geodesically equivalent Riemannian metrics in the case of arbitrary dimension, i.e., metrics having the same geodesics considered as unparameterized curves (this classification problem was formulated by Beltrami in 1865). Levi-Civita’s work produced a great impact on further development of the theory of geodesically equivalent metrics and geodesic mappings, and still remains one of the most important tools in this area of differential geometry. In this paper the author uses a new method based on the concept of Riemannian connection, which later has been also referred to as the Levi-Civita connection. This paper is truly a pioneering work in the sense that the real power of covariant differentiation techniques in solving a concrete and highly nontrivial problem from the theory of dynamical systems was demonstrated. The author skillfully operates and weaves together many of the most advanced (for that times) algebraic, geometric and analytic methods. Moreover, an attentive reader can also notice several forerunning ideas of the method of moving frames, which was developed a few decades later by E. Cartan. We hope that the reader will appreciate the style of exposition as well. This work, focused on the essence of the problem and free of manipulation with abstract mathematical terms, is a good example of a classical text of the late 19th century. Owing to this, the paper is easy to read and understand in spite of some different notation and terminology. The Editorial Board is very grateful to Professor Sergio Benenti for the translation of the original Italian text and valuable comments (see marginal notes at the end of the text, p. 612).

  20. Certification-Based Process Analysis

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    Knight, Russell L.

    2013-01-01

    Space mission architects are often challenged with knowing which investment in technology infusion will have the highest return. Certification-based analysis (CBA) gives architects and technologists a means to communicate the risks and advantages of infusing technologies at various points in a process. Various alternatives can be compared, and requirements based on supporting streamlining or automation can be derived and levied on candidate technologies. CBA is a technique for analyzing a process and identifying potential areas of improvement. The process and analysis products are used to communicate between technologists and architects. Process means any of the standard representations of a production flow; in this case, any individual steps leading to products, which feed into other steps, until the final product is produced at the end. This sort of process is common for space mission operations, where a set of goals is reduced eventually to a fully vetted command sequence to be sent to the spacecraft. Fully vetting a product is synonymous with certification. For some types of products, this is referred to as verification and validation, and for others it is referred to as checking. Fundamentally, certification is the step in the process where one insures that a product works as intended, and contains no flaws.

  1. Two-dimensional segmentation for analyzing Hi-C data

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    Lévy-Leduc, Celine; Delattre, M.; Mary-Huard, T.; Robin, S.

    2014-01-01

    Motivation: The spatial conformation of the chromosome has a deep influence on gene regulation and expression. Hi-C technology allows the evaluation of the spatial proximity between any pair of loci along the genome. It results in a data matrix where blocks corresponding to (self-)interacting regions appear. The delimitation of such blocks is critical to better understand the spatial organization of the chromatin. From a computational point of view, it results in a 2D segmentation problem. Results: We focus on the detection of cis-interacting regions, which appear to be prominent in observed data. We define a block-wise segmentation model for the detection of such regions. We prove that the maximization of the likelihood with respect to the block boundaries can be rephrased in terms of a 1D segmentation problem, for which the standard dynamic programming applies. The performance of the proposed methods is assessed by a simulation study on both synthetic and resampled data. A comparative study on public data shows good concordance with biologically confirmed regions. Availability and implementation: The HiCseg R package is available from the Comprehensive R Archive Network and from the Web page of the corresponding author. Contact: celine.levy-leduc@agroparistech.fr PMID:25161224

  2. Tidal Forces as Drivers of Collisional Evolution

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    Asphaug, E.; Agnor, C.; Williams, Q.

    2005-01-01

    Planetary collisions are usually understood as shock-related phenomena, analogous to impact cratering. But at large scales, where the impact timescale is comparable to the gravitational timescale, collisions can be dominated by gravitational torques and disruptive tides. Shock physics fares poorly, in many respects, in explaining asteroid and meteorite genesis. Melts, melt residues, welded agglomerates and hydrous and gasrich phases among meteorites lead to an array of diverse puzzles whose solution might be explained, in part, by the thermomechanics of tidal unloading. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 disrupted in a process that is common in the present and ancestral solar system, so here we consider specific effects tidal disruption had on the evolution of asteroids, comets and meteorites the unaccreted residues of planet formation.

  3. Ovarian Cysts and Fertility: Is There a Connection?

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    ... Accessed Oct. 6, 2015. Levy BS, et al. Diagnosis and management of ovarian endometriomas. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed Oct. 6, 2015. Barbieri RL, et al. Clinical manifestations of polycystic ovary syndrome in adults. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed ...

  4. 8. The entire south face of the Broad Street bridge ...

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    8. The entire south face of the Broad Street bridge as seen from the flood levy in front of Central High School. - Broad Street Bridge, Spanning Scioto River at U.S. Route 40 (Broad Street), Columbus, Franklin County, OH

  5. The Influence of Investor Number on a Microscopic Market Model

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    Hellthaler, T.

    The stock market model of Levy, Persky, Solomon is simulated for much larger numbers of investors. While small markets can lead to realistically looking prices, the resulting prices of large markets oscillate smoothly in a semi-regular fashion.

  6. A Structural View of American Educational History

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    Maxcy, Spencer J.

    1977-01-01

    Displays the components of the structuralist views of Levi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, and Thomas S. Kuhn; constructs a model for doing structuralist studies in educational research; and tests the model on the pragmatic/progressive period in American educational history. (Author/IRT)

  7. 27 CFR 70.241 - Property exempt from levy.

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    2011-04-01

    ... remaining member of a family and who lives alone is not the head of a family. (3) Books and tools of a trade, business or profession. So many of the books and tools necessary for the trade, business, or profession of...

  8. Tabulation of comet observations.

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    1995-07-01

    Concerning comets: C/1958 D1 (Burnham), C/1959 Q1 (Alcock), C/1959 Q2 (Alcock), C/1959 Y1 (Burnham), C/1960 Y1 (Candy), C/1961 O1 (Wilson-Hubbard), C/1961 R1 (Humason), C/1961 T1 (Seki), C/1962 H1 (Honda), C/1963 A1 (Ikeya), C/1963 F1 (Alcock), C/1963 R1 (Pereyra), C/1964 N1 (Ikeya), C/1964 P1 (Everhart), C/1966 P1 (Kilston), C/1966 P2 (Barbon), C/1966 R1 (Ikeya-Everhart), C/1966 T1 (Rudnicki), C/1967 Y1 (Ikeya-Seki), C/1968 H1 (Tago-Honda-Yamamoto), C/1968 L1 (Whitaker-Thomas), C/1968 N1 (Honda), C/1968 Q1 (Bally-Clayton), C/1968 Q2 (Honda), C/1968 U1 (Wild), C/1968 Y1 (Thomas), C/1969 O1 (Kohoutek), C/1969 P1 (Fujikawa), C/1969 Y1 (Bennett), C/1970 B1 (Daido-Fujikawa), C/1970 N1 (Abe), C/1970 U1 (Suzuki-Sato-Seki), C/1971 E1 (Toba), C/1972 E1 (Bradfield), C/1972 L1 (Sandage), C/1972 U1 (Kojima), C/1973 A1 (Heck-Sause), C/1973 E1 (Kohoutek), C/1975 T1 (Mori-Sato-Fujikawa), C/1975 T2 (Suzuki-Saigusa-Mori), C/1975 V1 (West), C/1975 V2 (Bradfield), C/1975 X1 (Sato), C/1976 D1 (Bradfield), C/1977 V1 (Tsuchinshan), C/1984 N1 (Austin), C/1987 P1 (Bradfield), C/1988 A1 (Liller), C/1989 Q1 (Okazaki-Levy-Rudenko), C/1989 X1 (Austin), C/1990 E1 (Černis-Kiuchi-Nakamura), C/1990 K1 (Levy), C/1990 N1 (Tsuchiya-Kiuchi), C/1991 A2 (Arai), C/1991 F2 (Helin-Lawrence), C/1991 T2 (Shoemaker-Levy), C/1991 X2 (Mueller), C/1991 Y1 (Zanotta-Brewington), C/1992 F1 (Tanaka-Machholz), C/1992 U1 (Shoemaker), C/1992 W1 (Ohshita), C/1994 J2 (Takamizawa), C/1994 N1 (Nakamura-Nishimura-Machholz), C/1994 T1 (Machholz), 1P/Halley, 2P/Encke, 4P/Faye, 6P/d'Arrest, 8P/Tuttle, 9P/Tempel 1, 10P/Tempel 2, 15P/Finlay, 16P/Brooks 2, 19P/Borrelly, 23P/Brorsen-Metcalf, 24P/Schaumasse, 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, 31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 2, 40P/Väisälä 1, 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák, 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková, 51P/Harrington, 59P/Kearns-Kwee, 64P/Swift-Gehrels, 65P/Gunn, 71P/Clark, 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, 75P/Kohoutek, 76P/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura, 77P/Longmore, 78P/Gehrels 2, 85P/Boethin, 95P/Chiron, 97P/Metcalf-Brewington, 103P/Hartley 2, 104P/Kowal 2, 108P/Ciffréo, 109P/Swift-Tuttle, 110P/Hartley 3, 116P/Wild 4, P/1991 L3 (Levy), P/1991 V1 (Shoemaker-Levy 6), P/1992 Q1 (Brewington), P/1993 W1 (Mueller 5), P/1994 P1 (Machholz 2).

  9. Month-long Evolution of the D/G Jupiter Impact Sites from Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9

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    1994-01-01

    This series of snapshots, taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows evolution of the comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact region called the D/G complex. This feature was produced by two nuclei of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 that collided with Jupiter on 17 and 18 July 1994, respectively, and was later modified again by the impact of the S fragment on 21 July 1994.

    Upper Left: This first image was taken about 90 minutes after the G impact on 18 July 1994. Nearly all of the structure in this image was created by the impact of fragment G, although a small dark spot to the left was the remainder of small fragment D that collided one day earlier. The explosion of the nucleus in Jupiter's atmosphere created the unique ring structure, which may be analogous to a 'sonic boom' on Earth. Though this structure is best seen for the G impact, it is not unique. Hubble reveals similar rings around several other fresh impact sites. They are all clear evidence for coherent outward motion of this wave phenomena.

    Upper right: This second image, obtained on 23 July, shows that the Jovian winds have swept the material into a striking 'curly-cue' structure.

    Lower left, right: The structure seen in earlier views has disappeared rapidly in the images taken on 30 July and 24 August, respectively. Almost all of the changes between the images are due to Jupiter's east-west winds that play a key role in the dispersing of the dark material.

    Hubble Space Telescope's high resolution will allow astronomers to continue to trace the impact debris as it is transported by the Jovian winds. This information promises to advance current understanding of the physics of Jupiter's atmosphere.

    These black and white images were taken in near-ultraviolet light with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. They have been processed to correct for the curvature of Jupiter, so that the impact region appears flat, as if the viewer were hovering directly overhead. Each image is centered on -46 degrees latitude and 28 degrees. The north-south extent in the image spans from -26 to -66 deg. latitude and the east-west extent of the region spans +/- 30 degrees on either side of 28 degrees longitude.

    This image and other images and data received from the Hubble Space Telescope are posted on the World Wide Web on the Space Telescope Science Institute home page at URL http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/

  10. 78 FR 10692 - Quarterly Publication of Individuals, Who Have Chosen To Expatriate, as Required by Section 6039G

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  11. 26 CFR 301.6330-1 - Notice and opportunity for hearing prior to levy.

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    ... additional assessment represents accruals of interest, accruals of penalties, or both. Q-D2. Will a CDP...? A-D2. To the extent practicable, a CDP hearing with respect to one tax period shown on a CDP Notice...

  12. 33 CFR 173.85 - Fees levied by the Coast Guard.

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    2010-07-01

    .... (b) Fees are payable by check or money-order made payable to the “U.S. Coast Guard”; by major credit card (MasterCard or Visa); or, when the owner applies in person, in cash. [USCG-1998-3386, 64 FR 36243...

  13. 29 CFR 779.370 - Cemeteries may qualify as exempt 13(a)(2) establishments.

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    ... or plots. (2) Annual tax or assessment levied on lot owners, and (3) Gifts or bequests. Interest from... lots or plots to a burial society or a fraternal organization for the use of the members are sales for...

  14. Reshaping Student Learning.

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    Parsley, James F.

    1991-01-01

    Besides reorganizing the central office to support instructional goals, the Vancouver (Washington) School District has passed bond and levy issues to revitalize the infrastructure, changed to a three-year middle school configuration, designed three new school facilities, and allocated $1 million for school improvement initiatives. The goals are…

  15. Alternative Fuel Vehicle Forecasts : Final report.

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    2016-04-01

    Federal and state fuel taxes account for the largest share of the Texas State Highway Fund at 48 percent and 29 percent, respectively, in Fiscal Year 2015. These taxes are levied on a per-gallon basis, meaning that as vehicles get more fuel efficient...

  16. 40 CFR 81.310 - Florida.

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    2011-07-01

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  17. 40 CFR 81.310 - Florida.

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    2010-07-01

    ... County Indian River County Jackson County Jefferson County Lafayette County Lake County Lee County Leon... Lafayette County Lake County Lee County Leon County Levy County Liberty County Madison County Manatee County... Indian River County Jackson County Jefferson County Lafayette County Lake County Lee County Leon County...

  18. 14 CFR 158.3 - Definitions.

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    2011-01-01

    ...-for-the-price-of-one” and similar marketing programs, or to air transportation purchased for a... employees or others receiving air transportation against whom token service charges are levied are considered nonrevenue passengers. Infants for whom a token fare is charged are also considered nonrevenue...

  19. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Fragment Size Estimates: How Big was the Parent Body?

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    Crawford, David A.

    1997-01-01

    The impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter in July, 1994 was the largest, most energetic impact event on a planet ever witnessed. Because it broke up during a close encounter with Jupiter in 1992, it was bright enough to be discovered more than a year prior to impact, allowing the scientific community an unprecedented opportunity to assess the effects such an event would have. Many excellent observations were made from Earth-based telescopes, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and the Galileo spacecraft en route to Jupiter. In this paper, these observations are used in conjunction with computational simulations performed with the CTH shock-physics hydrocode to determine the sizes of the fifteen fragments that made discernible impact features on the planet. To do this, CTH was equipped with a radiative ablation model and a postprocessing radiative ray-trace capability that enabled light-flux predictions (often called the impact flash) for the viewing geometries of Galileo and ground-based observers. The five events recorded by Galileo were calibrated to give fragment size estimates. Compared against ground-based and HST observations, these estimates were extended using a least-squares analysis to assess the impacts of the remaining ten fragments. Some of the largest impacts (L, G, and K) were greater that 1 km in diameter, but the density of the fragments was low, about 0.25 g/cm(exp 3). The volume of the combined fifteen fragments would make a sphere 1.8 km in diameter. Assuming a prebreakup density of 0.5 g/cm(exp 3), the parent body of Shoemaker-Levy 9 had a probable diameter of 1.4 km. The total kinetic energy of all the impacts was equivalent to the explosive yield of 300 Gigatons of TNT.

  20. Statistical analysis of the time and space characteristic scales for large precipitating systems in the equatorial, tropical, sahelian and mid-latitude regions.

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    Duroure, Christophe; Sy, Abdoulaye; Baray, Jean luc; Van baelen, Joel; Diop, Bouya

    2017-04-01

    Precipitation plays a key role in the management of sustainable water resources and flood risk analyses. Changes in rainfall will be a critical factor determining the overall impact of climate change. We propose to analyse long series (10 years) of daily precipitation at different regions. We present the Fourier densities energy spectra and morphological spectra (i.e. probability repartition functions of the duration and the horizontal scale) of large precipitating systems. Satellite data from the Global precipitation climatology project (GPCP) and local pluviometers long time series in Senegal and France are used and compared in this work. For mid-latitude and Sahelian regions (North of 12°N), the morphological spectra are close to exponential decreasing distribution. This fact allows to define two characteristic scales (duration and space extension) for the precipitating region embedded into the large meso-scale convective system (MCS). For tropical and equatorial regions (South of 12°N) the morphological spectra are close to a Levy-stable distribution (power law decrease) which does not allow to define a characteristic scale (scaling range). When the time and space characteristic scales are defined, a "statistical velocity" of precipitating MCS can be defined, and compared to observed zonal advection. Maps of the characteristic scales and Levy-stable exponent over West Africa and south Europe are presented. The 12° latitude transition between exponential and Levy-stable behaviors of precipitating MCS is compared with the result of ECMWF ERA-Interim reanalysis for the same period. This morphological sharp transition could be used to test the different parameterizations of deep convection in forecast models.

  1. A simulation model to predict the fiscal and public health impact of a change in cigarette excise taxes.

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    van Walbeek, Corné

    2010-02-01

    (1) To present a model that predicts changes in cigarette consumption and excise revenue in response to excise tax changes, and (2) to demonstrate that, if the industry has market power, increases in specific taxes have better tobacco control consequences than increases in ad valorem taxes. All model parameters are user-determined. The model calculates likely changes in cigarette consumption, smoking prevalence and excise tax revenues due to an excise tax change. The model is applicable to countries that levy excise tax as specific or ad valorem taxes. For a representative low-income or middle-income country a 20% excise tax increase decreases cigarette consumption and industry revenue by 5% and increases excise tax revenues by 14%, if there is no change in the net-of-tax price. If the excise tax is levied as a specific tax, the industry has an incentive to raise the net-of-tax price, enhancing the consumption-reducing impact of the tax increase. If the excise tax is levied as an ad valorem tax, the industry has no such incentive. The industry has an incentive to reduce the net-of-tax price in response to an ad valorem excise tax increase, undermining the public health and fiscal benefits of the tax increase. This paper presents a simple web-based tool that allows policy makers and tobacco control advocates to estimate the likely consumption, fiscal and mortality impacts of a change in the cigarette excise tax. If a country wishes to reduce cigarette consumption by increasing the excise tax, a specific tax structure is better than an ad valorem tax structure.

  2. Generation Mechanisms UV and X-ray Emissions During SL9 Impact

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    Waite, J. Hunter, Jr.

    1997-01-01

    The purpose of this grant was to study the ultraviolet and X-ray emissions associated with the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. The University of Michigan task was primarily focused on theoretical calculations. The NAGW-4788 subtask was to be largely devoted to determining the constraints placed by the X-ray observations on the physical mechanisms responsible for the generation of the X-rays. Author summarized below the ROSAT observations and suggest a physical mechanism that can plausibly account for the observed emissions. It is hoped that the full set of activities can be completed at a later date. Further analysis of the ROSAT data acquired at the time of the impact was necessary to define the observational constraints on the magnetospheric-ionospheric processes involved in the excitation of the X-ray emissions associated with the fragment impacts. This analysis centered around improvements in the pointing accuracy and improvements in the timing information. Additional pointing information was made possible by the identification of the optical counterparts to the X-ray sources in the ROSAT field-of-view. Due to the large number of worldwide observers of the impacts, a serendipitous visible plate image from an observer in Venezuela provided a very accurate location of the present position of the X-ray source, virtually eliminating pointing errors in the data. Once refined, the pointing indicated that the two observed X-ray brightenings that were highly correlated in time with the K and P2 events were brightenings of the X-ray aurora (as identified in images prior to the impact).Appendix A "ROSAT observations of X-ray emissions from Jupiter during the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9' also included.

  3. The Turbulent Structure of the Atmosphere: Vorticity, Winds and Temperature Emerge From Molecular Motion

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    Tuck, A. F.; Hovde, S. J.; Lovejoy, S.; Schertzer, D.

    2007-12-01

    Application of generalized scale invariance to horizontal airborne observations of winds, temperature, ozone and humidity reveals the atmosphere as a random, non-Gaussian Levy process, having mean scaling exponents H (conservation), C1 (intermittency) and alpha (Levy) of 0.56, 0.05 and 1.6 respectively in the cases of winds and temperature. A correlation between the intermittency of temperature and the ozone photodissociation rate in the Arctic lower stratosphere is interpreted in terms of the ring currents of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics in which vortices, fluid dynamical behavior, emerge from thermalized populations of Maxwellian molecules subjected to an anisotropy in the form of a flux. The emergence of jet streams and the definition of atmospheric temperature are examined in the light of these results. The vertical scaling of wind, temperature and humidity is examined through the depth of the troposphere using data observed by GPS dropsondes from the NOAA Gulfstream 4 aircraft over the eastern Pacific Ocean in boreal winter. The results exclude isotropic turbulence in the atmosphere, and reveal the structure of static, moist static and dynamic (Richardson number) stabilities to be sparse fractal sets. Each stable layer contains a set of smaller scale unstable sublayers, each of which in turn contains a set of stable sub-sublayers and so on. The moist static stability scales differently to the dry static stability in the lower troposphere. As with the 'horizontal' data, the 'vertical' data reveal a correlation between H for horizontal wind and measures of jet stream strength. It is pointed out that these results provide potentially a new way of testing numerical models of the atmosphere.

  4. COMETS!

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    Eicher, David J.; Levy, David H.

    2013-11-01

    Foreword David H. Levy; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Strange lights in the sky; 2. Great comets of the past; 3. What are comets?; 4. Comets of the modern era; 5. Comets in human culture; 6. Where comets live; 7. The expanding science of comets; 8. Observing comets; 9. Imaging comets; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

  5. 29 CFR 776.28 - Covered preparatory activities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... claims, surveying, clearing the land, assembling materials and equipment, erecting sheds, derricks or.... 28 Devine v. Levy, 39 F. Supp. 44. 29 Straughn v. Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp., 72 F. Supp. 511... to the Act, preliminary activities, such as surveying, clearing, draining and leveling the land...

  6. 29 CFR 776.28 - Covered preparatory activities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... claims, surveying, clearing the land, assembling materials and equipment, erecting sheds, derricks or.... 28 Devine v. Levy, 39 F. Supp. 44. 29 Straughn v. Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp., 72 F. Supp. 511... to the Act, preliminary activities, such as surveying, clearing, draining and leveling the land...

  7. 29 CFR 776.28 - Covered preparatory activities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... claims, surveying, clearing the land, assembling materials and equipment, erecting sheds, derricks or.... 28 Devine v. Levy, 39 F. Supp. 44. 29 Straughn v. Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp., 72 F. Supp. 511... to the Act, preliminary activities, such as surveying, clearing, draining and leveling the land...

  8. 29 CFR 776.28 - Covered preparatory activities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... claims, surveying, clearing the land, assembling materials and equipment, erecting sheds, derricks or.... 28 Devine v. Levy, 39 F. Supp. 44. 29 Straughn v. Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp., 72 F. Supp. 511... to the Act, preliminary activities, such as surveying, clearing, draining and leveling the land...

  9. 29 CFR 776.28 - Covered preparatory activities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... claims, surveying, clearing the land, assembling materials and equipment, erecting sheds, derricks or.... 28 Devine v. Levy, 39 F. Supp. 44. 29 Straughn v. Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp., 72 F. Supp. 511... to the Act, preliminary activities, such as surveying, clearing, draining and leveling the land...

  10. The Levi Strauss Project: Development of a Curriculum.

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    Bell, Jill

    1982-01-01

    A program initiated by a garment company and carried out in cooperation with a board of education focused on conversational skills and industry jargon as well as problem-solving language. The program's development is described, including an evaluation and suggestions by a company manager. (MSE)

  11. The Crab Boat Engineering Design Challenge

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    Love, Tyler S.; Ryan, Larry

    2017-01-01

    Crab cakes and football, that's what Maryland does!" (Abrams, Levy, Panay, & Dobkin, 2005). Although the Old Line State is notorious for harvesting delectable blue crabs, the movie "Wedding Crashers" failed to highlight something else Maryland does well: engineering design competitions. This article discusses how a multistate…

  12. 48 CFR 29.201 - General.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false General. 29.201 Section 29.201 Federal Acquisition Regulations System FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION GENERAL CONTRACTING REQUIREMENTS TAXES Federal Excise Taxes 29.201 General. (a) Federal excise taxes are levied on the sale or use...

  13. 18 CFR 367.55 - Land and land rights.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ...) Where special assessments for public improvements provide for deferred payments, the full amount of the... rights are as follows: (1) Bulkheads, buried, not requiring maintenance or replacement. (2) Cost, first... levied to provide for the maintenance of such improvements. (11) Surveys in connection with the...

  14. 33 CFR 135.101 - Purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Purpose. 135.101 Section 135.101 Navigation and Navigable Waters COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED) MARINE POLLUTION FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND COMPENSATION OFFSHORE OIL POLLUTION COMPENSATION FUND Levy of Fees § 135.101...

  15. 33 CFR 135.101 - Purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Purpose. 135.101 Section 135.101 Navigation and Navigable Waters COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED) MARINE POLLUTION FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND COMPENSATION OFFSHORE OIL POLLUTION COMPENSATION FUND Levy of Fees § 135.101...

  16. 33 CFR 135.101 - Purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters 2 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Purpose. 135.101 Section 135.101 Navigation and Navigable Waters COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED) MARINE POLLUTION FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND COMPENSATION OFFSHORE OIL POLLUTION COMPENSATION FUND Levy of Fees § 135.101...

  17. 33 CFR 135.101 - Purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters 2 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Purpose. 135.101 Section 135.101 Navigation and Navigable Waters COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED) MARINE POLLUTION FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND COMPENSATION OFFSHORE OIL POLLUTION COMPENSATION FUND Levy of Fees § 135.101...

  18. 33 CFR 135.101 - Purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters 2 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Purpose. 135.101 Section 135.101 Navigation and Navigable Waters COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED) MARINE POLLUTION FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND COMPENSATION OFFSHORE OIL POLLUTION COMPENSATION FUND Levy of Fees § 135.101...

  19. Taxi Regulatory Revision in Oakland and Berkeley, California : Two Case Studies

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1983-06-01

    A case study was performed of regulatory changes pertaining to taxicabs in Oakland and neighboring Berkeley, CA. In Oakland rates were approximately doubled and limits on the number of taxi permits removed. Companies were allowed to levy a per-trip s...

  20. Decision-support framework for quantifying the most economical incentive/disincentive dollar amounts for critical highway pavement rehabilitation projects.

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2013-11-01

    One innovative way of reducing construction duration is to reward contractors with an early completion incentive : bonus and levy fines for delays. Although use of Incentive/Disincentive (I/D) is increasingly common, State : Transportation Agencies (...

  1. 76 FR 11473 - Notice of Agreements Filed

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    2011-03-02

    ...)-523-5793 or [email protected] . Agreement No.: 011346-022. Title: Israel Carrier Association... Shipping Services, Ltd. Filing Party: Howard A. Levy, Esq.; Chairman; Israel Trade Conference; 80 Wall... Agreement from a conference to a service contract with Israel's Ministry of Defense, changes the Agreement's...

  2. Management of Operational Support Requirements for Manned Flight Missions

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    1991-01-01

    This Instruction establishes responsibilities for managing the system whereby operational support requirements are levied for support of manned flight missions including associated payloads. This management system will ensure that support requirements are properly requested and responses are properly obtained to meet operational objectives.

  3. Heavy impurity confinement in hybrid operation scenario plasmas with a rotating 1/1 continuous mode

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    Raghunathan, M.; Graves, J. P.; Nicolas, T.; Cooper, W. A.; Garbet, X.; Pfefferlé, D.

    2017-12-01

    In future tokamaks like ITER with tungsten walls, it is imperative to control tungsten accumulation in the core of operational plasmas, especially since tungsten accumulation can lead to radiative collapse and disruption. We investigate the behavior of tungsten trace impurities in a JET-like hybrid scenario with both axisymmetric and saturated 1/1 ideal helical core in the presence of strong plasma rotation. For this purpose, we obtain the equilibria from VMEC and use VENUS-LEVIS, a guiding-center orbit-following code, to follow heavy impurity particles. In this work, VENUS-LEVIS has been modified to account for strong plasma flows with associated neoclassical effects arising from such flows. We find that the combination of helical core and plasma rotation augments the standard neoclassical inward pinch compared to axisymmetry, and leads to a strong inward pinch of impurities towards the magnetic axis despite the strong outward diffusion provided by the centrifugal force, as frequently observed in experiments.

  4. Space shuttle launch era spacecraft injection errors and DSN initial acquisition

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    Khatib, A. R.; Berman, A. L.; Wackley, J. A.

    1981-01-01

    The initial acquisition of a spacecraft by the Deep Space Network (DSN) is a critical mission event. This results from the importance of rapidly evaluating the health and trajectory of a spacecraft in the event that immediate corrective action might be required. Further, the DSN initial acquisition is always complicated by the most extreme tracking rates of the mission. The DSN initial acquisition characteristics will change considerably in the upcoming space shuttle launch era. How given injection errors at spacecraft separation from the upper stage launch vehicle (carried into orbit by the space shuttle) impact the DSN initial acquisition, and how this information can be factored into injection accuracy requirements to be levied on the Space Transportation System (STS) is addressed. The approach developed begins with the DSN initial acquisition parameters, generates a covariance matrix, and maps this covariance matrix backward to the spacecraft injection, thereby greatly simplifying the task of levying accuracy requirements on the STS, by providing such requirements in a format both familiar and convenient to STS.

  5. Tabulation of comet observations.

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    Concerning comets: 1962 VIII Humason, 1971 V Toba, 1975 XI Bradfield, 1979 X Bradfield, 1980 X P/Stephan-Oterma, 1980 XI P/Encke, 1980 XIII P/Tuttle, 1981 II Panther, 1982 VI Austin, 1982 VIII P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 1983 V Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa, 1983 VII IRAS-Araki-Alcock, 1983 XIII P/Kopff, 1984 III P/Hartley-IRAS, 1985 XIII P/Giacobini-Zinner, 1985 XVII Hartley-Good, 1985 XIX Thiele, 1986 III P/Halley, 1986h P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 2, 1986j P/Comas Solá, 1986k P/Kohoutek, 1986l Wilson, 1986m P/Grigg-Skjellerup, 1986n Sorrells, 1987h P/Howell, 1987l P/Reinmuth 2, 1987m P/Brooks 2, 1987n P/Harrington, 1987p P/Borrelly, 1987r P/Reinmuth 1, 1987s Bradfield, 1987u Rudenko, 1987y Levy, 1987z P/Shoemaker-Holt, 1987b1 McNaught, 1987d1 Ichimura, 1987f1 Furuyama, 1988a Liller, 1988b Shoemaker, 1988c Maury-Phinney, 1988e Levy, P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1.

  6. Performance improvement of optical CDMA networks with stochastic artificial bee colony optimization technique

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Panda, Satyasen

    2018-05-01

    This paper proposes a modified artificial bee colony optimization (ABC) algorithm based on levy flight swarm intelligence referred as artificial bee colony levy flight stochastic walk (ABC-LFSW) optimization for optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) network. The ABC-LFSW algorithm is used to solve asset assignment problem based on signal to noise ratio (SNR) optimization in OCDM networks with quality of service constraints. The proposed optimization using ABC-LFSW algorithm provides methods for minimizing various noises and interferences, regulating the transmitted power and optimizing the network design for improving the power efficiency of the optical code path (OCP) from source node to destination node. In this regard, an optical system model is proposed for improving the network performance with optimized input parameters. The detailed discussion and simulation results based on transmitted power allocation and power efficiency of OCPs are included. The experimental results prove the superiority of the proposed network in terms of power efficiency and spectral efficiency in comparison to networks without any power allocation approach.

  7. A Simple Model for the Light Curve Generated by a Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Zahnle, Kevin; Mordecai-Mark, Mac Low

    1995-01-01

    The impact of a typical Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragment produced three light peaks as seen from Earth. The first peak is related to the entry of the fragment into the Jovian atmosphere. The second peak occurs when the exploding fireball rises above Jupiter's limb into direct view from Earth. The third peak, much the brightest, occurs when the ejecta plume falls back on the atmosphere. By contrast, Galileo, which had a direct view of the impacts, saw two peaks, one at entry, and one at plumefall. Here we present a simple, highly idealized model of a ballistic plume, which we then use to fit the observed light curve of the R impact as recorded at Mauna Kea and Mount Palomar. From the light curve we find that the nominal R fragment had diameter 450-500 m and mass approx. 2-3 x 10(exp 13) g. The uncertainty in the mass is probably about a factor of 3, with a smaller event more likely than a larger one.

  8. Ultrarelativistic boost of a black hole in the magnetic universe of Levi-Civita-Bertotti-Robinson

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Ortaggio, Marcello; Astorino, Marco

    2018-05-01

    We consider an exact Einstein-Maxwell solution constructed by Alekseev and Garcia, which describes a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in the magnetic universe of Levi-Civita, Bertotti, and Robinson (LCBR). After reviewing the basic properties of this spacetime, we study the ultrarelativistic limit in which the black hole is boosted to the speed of light, while sending its mass to 0. This results in a nonexpanding impulsive wave traveling in the LCBR universe. The wave front is a 2-sphere carrying two null point particles at its poles—a remnant of the structure of the original static spacetime. It is also shown that the obtained line element belongs to the Kundt class of spacetimes, and the relation with the known family of exact gravitational waves of finite duration propagating in the LCBR background is clarified. In the limit of a vanishing electromagnetic field, one point particle is pushed away to infinity and the single-particle Aichelburg-Sexl p p -wave propagating in Minkowski space is recovered.

  9. The multiple life of nerve growth factor: tribute to rita levi-montalcini (1909-2012).

    PubMed

    Aloe, Luigi; Chaldakov, George N

    2013-03-01

    At the end of the 19(th) century, it was envisaged by Santiago Ramon y Cajal, but not, proven, that life at the neuronal level requires trophic support. The proof was obtained in the early 1950's by work initiated by Rita Levi-Montalcini (RLM) discovering the nerve growth factor (NGF). Today, NGF and its relatives, collectively designated neurotrophins, are well recognized as mediators of multiple biological phenomena in health and disease, ranging from the neurotrophic through immunotrophic and epitheliotrophic to metabotrophic effects. Consequently, NGF and other neurotrophins are implicated in the pathogenesis of a large spectrum of neuronal and non-neuronal diseases, from Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases to atherosclerosis and other cardiometabolic diseases. Recent studies demonstrated the therapeutic potentials of NGF in these diseases, including ocular and cutaneous diseases. Furthermore, NGF TrkA receptor antagonists emerged as novel drugs for pain, prostate and breast cancer, melanoma, and urinary bladder syndromes. Altogether, NGF's multiple potential in health and disease is briefly described here.

  10. Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of the pectin methylesterase from the sugar cane weevil Sphenophorus levis.

    PubMed

    Evangelista, Danilo Elton; Schutzer de Godoy, Andre; Fonseca Pereira de Paula, Fernando; Henrique-Silva, Flavio; Polikarpov, Igor

    2014-03-01

    Pectin methylesterase removes the methyl groups from the main chain of pectin, the major component of the middle lamella of the plant cell wall. The enzyme is involved in plant cell-wall development, is part of the enzymatic arsenal used by microorganisms to attack plants and also has a wide range of applications in the industrial sector. Therefore, there is a considerable interest in studies of the structure and function of this enzyme. In this work, the pectin methylesterase from Sphenophorus levis was produced in Pichia pastoris and purified. Crystals belonging to the monoclinic space group C2, with unit-cell parameters a = 122.181, b = 82.213, c = 41.176 Å, β = 97.48°, were obtained by the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method and an X-ray diffraction data set was collected to 2.1 Å resolution. Structure refinement and model building are in progress.

  11. Morale for Principals: Does Mentoring Make a Difference?

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Felicello, Stacia Patterson

    2014-01-01

    The current demands placed on administrators, specifically principals, have become progressively more complex due to litigation, pressure from parents, societal changes, internal workplace expectations, and more than ever, mandates levied from state and federal government. Support through mentorship may be one means to help administrators meet the…

  12. 75 FR 81957 - Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-12-29

    ... in meters (MSL) Effective Modified Levy County, Florida, and Incorporated Areas Bronson North Ditch... nearest 0.1 meter. ** BFEs to be changed include the listed downstream and upstream BFEs, and include BFEs... upstream of Elliots Run Road. Unnamed Tributary to Shoup Run..... Approximately 400 feet None +1139...

  13. 76 FR 59175 - Sunshine Act Meeting

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    2011-09-23

    ...) (Tentative) a. Southern Nuclear Operating Co. (Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 3 and 4)--Appeal of LBP-10-21 (Tentative) b. Luminant Generation Company LLC (Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Units 3...) c. Progress Energy Florida, Inc. (Levy County Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2), Staff Petition...

  14. 16 CFR 1015.9 - Fees for production of records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... determine and levy fees for duplication, search, review, and other services, in accordance with this section... reproducing or handling, such as photographs, slides, blueprints, video and audio tape recordings, or other unusual materials: direct-cost basis. (9) Any other service: An appropriate fee established by the...

  15. 31 CFR 536.314 - Transfer.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Transfer. 536.314 Section 536.314 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) OFFICE OF FOREIGN...; the creation or transfer of any lien; the issuance, docketing, filing, or levy of or under any...

  16. 31 CFR 535.310 - Transfer.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Transfer. 535.310 Section 535.310 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) OFFICE OF FOREIGN..., or fiduciary; the creation or transfer of any lien; the issuance, docketing, filing, or the levy of...

  17. 31 CFR 575.317 - Transfer.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Transfer. 575.317 Section 575.317 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) OFFICE OF FOREIGN..., or fiduciary; the creation or transfer of any lien; the issuance, docketing, filing, or the levy of...

  18. 31 CFR 597.317 - Transfer.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Transfer. 597.317 Section 597.317 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) OFFICE OF FOREIGN...; the creation or transfer of any lien; the issuance, docketing, filing, or levy of or under any...

  19. 31 CFR 545.312 - Transfer.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Transfer. 545.312 Section 545.312 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) OFFICE OF FOREIGN...; the creation or transfer of any lien; the issuance, docketing, filing, or levy of or under any...

  20. 19 CFR 351.102 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ..., subject merchandise is imported. (28) Indirect tax. “Indirect tax” means a sales, excise, turnover, value added, franchise, stamp, transfer, inventory, or equipment tax, a border tax, or any other tax other... indirect tax. “Cumulative indirect tax” means a multi-staged tax levied where there is no mechanism for...

  1. 7 CFR 1956.124 - Compromise and adjustment.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... investments, business enterprises, or management efforts, age and health of both individual and family are of... is in excess of minimum business and/or family living needs and which is not exempt from levy and... Agriculture Regulations of the Department of Agriculture (Continued) RURAL HOUSING SERVICE, RURAL BUSINESS...

  2. 7 CFR 958.250 - Assessment Credit Report.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... Agreements and Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ONIONS GROWN IN CERTAIN... Report. Each handler may receive a credit for assessments on onions that have been levied in accordance with §§ 958.42 and 958.240 and are subsequently regraded, resorted, or repacked within the production...

  3. 47 CFR 64.6040 - Rates for Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) calling.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 3 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Rates for Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) calling. 64.6040 Section 64.6040 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON....6040 Rates for Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) calling. No Provider shall levy or collect any...

  4. Levi’s Stadium Reuses Redwood From Hangar One

    NASA Image and Video Library

    2016-02-02

    The San Francisco 49ers used recycled redwood in their new stadium that was reclaimed during the deskinning of Moffett Field's Hangar One. By including locally sourced and reclaimed material, Levi's Stadium was granted LEED Gold certification, becoming the first football stadium to achieve that sustainability status.

  5. 20 CFR 61.404 - Assignments; creditors.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... Employees' Benefits OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR COMPENSATION FOR INJURY...; creditors. The right of any person to benefits under the Act is not transferable of assignable at law or in... reimbursement for funeral expenses), or rights existing under the Act are subject to execution, levy, attachment...

  6. Analyzing Predictors of High Opioid Use in the U.S. Navy

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2016-09-01

    minimalist approach to treating chronic pain patients (Levy, Netzer, & Pikulin, 2014). In 2015, the CDC published suggested guidelines for prescribing...appropriate number of trees as overfitting can occur if this parameter is too large. For the shrinkage parameter, we used a recommended starting

  7. Try a Videotape for Communicating with District Patrons.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    DiazGrandox, Frederick

    1991-01-01

    A small Idaho school district gained public support for a school levy by producing and distributing a videotape of school activities and district needs. The videotape provided a clear, concise presentation of information while avoiding confrontations that often occur with other methods of communication. (Author/SV)

  8. Work and Family. Special Focus.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Goetz, Kathy, Ed.

    1992-01-01

    This newsletter issue focuses on issues concerning families with both parents employed outside the home and describes several employer programs designed to help employees balance their work and family life. The newsletter includes the following articles: (1) "Work and Family: 1992"; (2) "Levi Strauss and Co.--A Work/Family Program…

  9. Individual Physician Penalties Resulting From Violation of Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act: A Review of Office of the Inspector General Patient Dumping Settlements, 2002-2015.

    PubMed

    Terp, Sophie; Wang, Brandon; Raffetto, Brian; Seabury, Seth A; Menchine, Michael

    2017-04-01

    The objective was to describe characteristics of civil monetary penalty settlements levied by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) against individual physicians related to violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). Descriptions of all civil monetary penalty settlements between 2002 and 2015 were obtained from the OIG. Characteristics of settlements against individual physicians related to EMTALA violations were described including settlement date, location, amount, whether there was an associated hospital settlement, the medical specialty of the physician involved, and the nature of the allegation. Of 196 OIG civil monetary penalty settlements related to EMTALA, eight (4%) were levied against individual physicians, and 188 (96%) against facilities. Seven of the eight penalties against individual physicians were imposed upon on-call specialists, including six who failed to respond to evaluate and treat a patient in the emergency department (ED), and one who failed to accept appropriate transfer of a patient requiring higher level of care. The only penalty imposed on an emergency physician involved a case where a provider repeatedly failed to provide a medical screening examination to a pregnant teen based on the erroneous belief that a minor could not be evaluated or treated absent parental consent. Four of eight penalties against individual physicians were levied within the first 3 years of the 14-year study period. Half of all physician settlements were associated with a separate hospital civil monetary penalty settlement. For emergency physicians, a civil monetary penalty is a feared consequence of EMTALA enforcement, as a physician can be held individually liable for fine of up to $50,000 not covered by malpractice insurance. Although EMTALA is an actively enforced law, and violation of the EMTALA statute often results in hospital citations and fines, and occasionally facility closure, we found that individual physicians are rarely penalized by the OIG following EMTALA violation. Individual physician penalties are far less common than hospital citations or fines related to EMTALA or malpractice claims or payments. The majority of penalties against individual physicians were levied upon on-call specialists who refused to evaluate and treat ED patients. Only one emergency physician was fined during the study period for a clear violation of the EMTALA statute. Physicians should be diligent to ensure appropriate patient care and that facilities are compliant with the EMTALA statute, but should be aware that settlements against individual physicians are a rare consequence of EMTALA enforcement. © 2017 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

  10. Nonlocal electrical diffusion equation

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Gómez-Aguilar, J. F.; Escobar-Jiménez, R. F.; Olivares-Peregrino, V. H.; Benavides-Cruz, M.; Calderón-Ramón, C.

    2016-07-01

    In this paper, we present an analysis and modeling of the electrical diffusion equation using the fractional calculus approach. This alternative representation for the current density is expressed in terms of the Caputo derivatives, the order for the space domain is 0<β≤1 and for the time domain is 0<γ≤2. We present solutions for the full fractional equation involving space and time fractional derivatives using numerical methods based on Fourier variable separation. The case with spatial fractional derivatives leads to Levy flight type phenomena, while the time fractional equation is related to sub- or super diffusion. We show that the mathematical concept of fractional derivatives can be useful to understand the behavior of semiconductors, the design of solar panels, electrochemical phenomena and the description of anomalous complex processes.

  11. A Software Safety Risk Taxonomy for Use in Retrospective Safety Cases

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Hill, Janice L.

    2007-01-01

    Safety standards contain technical and process-oriented safely requirements. The best time to include these requirements is early in the development lifecycle of the system. When software safety requirements are levied on a legacy system after the fact, a retrospective safety case will need to be constructed for the software in the system. This can be a difficult task because there may be few to no art facts available to show compliance to the software safely requirements. The risks associated with not meeting safely requirements in a legacy safely-critical computer system must be addressed to give confidence for reuse. This paper introduces a proposal for a software safely risk taxonomy for legacy safely-critical computer systems, by specializing the Software Engineering Institute's 'Software Development Risk Taxonomy' with safely elements and attributes.

  12. Augmented potential, energy densities, and virial relations in the weak- and strong-interaction limits of DFT

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Vuckovic, Stefan; Levy, Mel; Gori-Giorgi, Paola

    2017-12-01

    The augmented potential introduced by Levy and Zahariev [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 113002 (2014)] is shifted with respect to the standard exchange-correlation potential of the Kohn-Sham density functional theory by a density-dependent constant that makes the total energy become equal to the sum of the occupied orbital energies. In this work, we analyze several features of this approach, focusing on the limit of infinite coupling strength and studying the shift and the corresponding energy density at different correlation regimes. We present and discuss coordinate scaling properties of the augmented potential, study its connection to the response potential, and use the shift to analyze the classical jellium and uniform gas models. We also study other definitions of the energy densities in relation to the functional construction by local interpolations along the adiabatic connection. Our findings indicate that the energy density that is defined in terms of the electrostatic potential of the exchange-correlation hole is particularly well suited for this purpose.

  13. New College Diversity Laws: Banning Racial Exclusion?

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Adam, Michelle

    2006-01-01

    Race-exclusive programs of American universities and colleges, created initially to level the playing fields for under-represented students in higher education, are now considered discriminatory and illegal. The concerns levied against higher education institutions have been in response to two 2003 U.S. Supreme Court cases on race and admission at…

  14. Rethinking Apprenticeship Training in the British Construction Industry

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Abdel-Wahab, Mohamed

    2012-01-01

    The British government continued intervention to support apprenticeship training across the economy has been notable in recent years. The construction industry is the only sector to retain a levy/grant scheme (that supports training including apprenticeships) since 1964, yet it still faces the problem of skills shortages. This article thus reviews…

  15. 27 CFR 70.244 - Payroll period.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Payroll period. 70.244... Excise and Special (Occupational) Tax Limitations § 70.244 Payroll period. For purpose of determining the... established calendar period regularly used by the employer or other person levied upon for payroll or payment...

  16. Drivers of Successful Bond and Operating Levies...Q4C at the Foundation.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Lifto, Don E. Morris; Morris, William D.

    2000-01-01

    Improving a school's Q4C quotient (quality control, customer commitment, and communications) during election planning hinges on district mission, a culture of high expectations, basic skills mastery, commitment to customers, continuous feedback, healthy working relationships, broad community involvement, high- level strategic planning and…

  17. Music and Early Childhood in the Tristes Tropiques: The Brazilian Experience

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Ilari, Beatriz

    2007-01-01

    Inspired by ideas that Levi-Strauss (1955) presented in "Tristes Tropiques", the author discusses music and early childhood in Brazil from educational, historical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives. She begins with a short history of early childhood education in Brazil, including changes in educational policies, teacher…

  18. Sociospatial Schooling Practices: A Spatial Capital Approach

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Barthon, Catherine; Monfroy, Brigitte

    2010-01-01

    This paper highlights the importance today of the spatial dimension within the analysis of parents' education strategies concerning their school choices at the secondary school level. This study is based on the 2 dimensions of the concept of spatial capital (Levy, 1994): position capital and situation capital. It explores sociospatial schooling…

  19. 45 CFR 2400.4 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... institution of higher education offering only a baccalaureate degree or the undergraduate division of a... usually non-refundable charge levied by an institution of higher education for a service, privilege, or... education has the meaning given in Section 1201(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1141(a...

  20. 45 CFR 2400.4 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... institution of higher education offering only a baccalaureate degree or the undergraduate division of a... usually non-refundable charge levied by an institution of higher education for a service, privilege, or... education has the meaning given in Section 1201(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1141(a...

  1. 44 CFR 5.42 - Fees to be charged-categories of requesters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... section and which is operated solely for the purpose of conducting scientific research, the results of... scientific research, the fee policy of FEMA is to levy reproduction charges only, excluding charges for the... operates a program or programs of scholarly research. Noncommercial scientific institution refers to an...

  2. 44 CFR 5.42 - Fees to be charged-categories of requesters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... section and which is operated solely for the purpose of conducting scientific research, the results of... scientific research, the fee policy of FEMA is to levy reproduction charges only, excluding charges for the... operates a program or programs of scholarly research. Noncommercial scientific institution refers to an...

  3. Middle-Class Mothers on Urban School Selection in Gentrifying Areas

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Roberts, Amy; Lakes, Richard D.

    2016-01-01

    This study examined middle-class mothers' engagement in urban school selection as residents of two gentrifying neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia. Gentrifiers levy social capital when activating or exercising agency and create social networks that valorize child-rearing concerns through exchange of information. Thirty mothers with children under…

  4. 26 CFR 301.6334-1 - Property exempt from levy.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... salary, wages, or other income as is necessary to comply with such order or decree. The taxpayer must... applied in satisfaction of the support obligation. The Service may make arrangements with a delinquent taxpayer to establish a specific amount of such taxpayer's salary, wage, or other income for each pay...

  5. 31 CFR 588.309 - Transfer.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Transfer. 588.309 Section 588.309 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) OFFICE OF FOREIGN... creation or transfer of any lien; the issuance, docketing, filing, or levy of or under any judgment, decree...

  6. 31 CFR 543.309 - Transfer.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Transfer. 543.309 Section 543.309 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) OFFICE OF FOREIGN... creation or transfer of any lien; the issuance, docketing, filing, or levy of or under any judgment, decree...

  7. 31 CFR 594.312 - Transfer.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Transfer. 594.312 Section 594.312 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) OFFICE OF FOREIGN... creation or transfer of any lien; the issuance, docketing, filing, or levy of or under any judgment, decree...

  8. Poststructuralism as Theory and Practice in the English Classroom. ERIC Digest.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Bush, Harold K., Jr.

    This digest provides a historical review of some current literary theories and practices which developed from contemporary philosophy. Structuralism, associated with Ferdinand de Saussure and Claude Levi-Strauss, with a seemingly scientific view of language and culture posited a systemic "center" that organized and sustained an entire…

  9. 76 FR 59748 - Sunshine Act Notice

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-09-27

    .... Southern Nuclear Operating Co. (Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 3 and 4)--Appeal of LBP-10-21 (Tentative). b. Luminant Generation Company LLC (Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Units 3 and 4... Florida, Inc. (Levy County Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2), Staff Petition for Review of LBP-10-20...

  10. 7 CFR 1767.16 - Electric plant instructions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... companies, firms, or individuals engaged by the utility to plan, design, prepare estimates, supervise..., new sewers, new curbing, new pavements, and other public improvements, but not taxes levied to provide... which are installed at the base of an item of equipment, but piers and foundations which are designed to...

  11. 7 CFR 1767.16 - Electric plant instructions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... companies, firms, or individuals engaged by the utility to plan, design, prepare estimates, supervise..., new sewers, new curbing, new pavements, and other public improvements, but not taxes levied to provide... which are installed at the base of an item of equipment, but piers and foundations which are designed to...

  12. 7 CFR 1767.16 - Electric plant instructions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... companies, firms, or individuals engaged by the utility to plan, design, prepare estimates, supervise..., new sewers, new curbing, new pavements, and other public improvements, but not taxes levied to provide... which are installed at the base of an item of equipment, but piers and foundations which are designed to...

  13. 7 CFR 1767.16 - Electric plant instructions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... companies, firms, or individuals engaged by the utility to plan, design, prepare estimates, supervise..., new sewers, new curbing, new pavements, and other public improvements, but not taxes levied to provide... which are installed at the base of an item of equipment, but piers and foundations which are designed to...

  14. 7 CFR 1767.16 - Electric plant instructions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... companies, firms, or individuals engaged by the utility to plan, design, prepare estimates, supervise..., new sewers, new curbing, new pavements, and other public improvements, but not taxes levied to provide... which are installed at the base of an item of equipment, but piers and foundations which are designed to...

  15. 46 CFR Sec. 5 - Repatriation charges.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... flat transportation charge of $5.00 per day shall be made for every day spent aboard the repatriating vessel, including day of embarkation and day of debarkation, which charge shall be in addition to... fees or other charges of every nature levied in connection with such repatriation. In such a case, the...

  16. Training Costs with Reference to the Industrial Training Act.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Garbutt, Douglas

    Provisions and implications of the British Industrial Training Act of 1964 (including the system of training grants and levies) are set forth. Procedures for accounting and budgeting for training costs, routines for collecting training information, documents (budgets, cost sheets, control statements) for collecting and controlling costs, means of…

  17. Current Vocational Training in Latin America.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Alexim, Joao Carlos

    Vocational training (VT) programs in Latin America prepare workers to perform middle-level occupations or jobs. VT in Latin America is characterized by the existence of solid and autonomous national institutes linked to the logic of economic production, funded through a payroll levy grant, counting on a tripartite board, and related to ministries…

  18. Piaget's Structural Developmental Psychology.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Broughton, John M.

    1981-01-01

    Piaget's theory is identified as a branch of structuralism concerned with the concept of truth, in distinction from French structuralism, which is focused on meaning. The two branches are compared and contrasted, and relations between logic and language are explored. Similarities and differences in the theories of Piaget, Levi-Strauss, and Chomsky…

  19. Hidden Myth: Structure & Symbolism in Advertising.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Leymore, Varda Langholz

    This discussion of advertising treats it as a communication system analyzable in structuralist terms. Building on the approaches of Levi-Strauss and others, the discussion begins with a general introduction to structuralism and goes on to outline the specific methodology adopted in this study. The approach is illustrated in two contexts: static…

  20. 38 CFR 36.4512 - Taxes and insurance.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Taxes and insurance. 36...) LOAN GUARANTY Direct Loans § 36.4512 Taxes and insurance. (a) In addition to the monthly installment... taxes and assessments, ground rents, insurance premiums, and similar levies or charges on the security...

  1. 19 CFR 351.102 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ..., turnover, value added, franchise, stamp, transfer, inventory, or equipment tax, a border tax, or any other... indirect tax. “Cumulative indirect tax” means a multi-staged tax levied where there is no mechanism for subsequent crediting of the tax if the goods or services subject to tax at one stage of production are used...

  2. General Design and EIS, Humboldt Harbor and Bay, California. Navigation Improvements.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1976-08-01

    Bakeries , Inc. 75 Bakery products Halvorsen Lumber Products 65 Sawmill——remanufacturing plant Precision Lumber Cciupany 45 Lumber Bayley Suit , Inc. 40...governments receive revenue from retail sales and use taxes, local property taxes, and city business, license or franchise taxes. The sales tax is levied

  3. Replacing State Appropriations with Alternative Revenue Sources: The Case of Voluntary Support

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Cheslock, John J.; Gianneschi, Matt

    2008-01-01

    Public higher education's changing financial environment is well documented. Facing shrinking budgets, competing priorities, public resistance to increasing state levies, and prohibitions on deficit spending, state legislators more and more often find themselves in the unenviable position of debating the relative essentiality of state services,…

  4. System and Structure: Essays in Communication and Exchange.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Wilden, Anthony

    This book ranges widely over the fields of communication theory, Freudian and Lacanian psychology, and Levi-Straussian anthropology. The primary goal of the book is an examination of the structural and analogic patterns within human communication and exchange. This examination involves discourses upon the computer compared to the human nervous…

  5. Blending Technology and Face-to-Face: Advanced Students' Choices

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Trinder, Ruth

    2016-01-01

    It has been suggested that current research in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) should seek to understand the conditions and circumstances that govern students' use of technology (Steel & Levy, 2013). This paper attempts to identify critical factors accounting for student choices, first, by investigating advanced learners' reported…

  6. Strengthening US DoD Cyber Security with the Vulnerability Market

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2013-06-01

    is with their constant assurance that I find strength. I would also like to acknowledge my cyber- colleagues, Maj Ronald “Rusty” Clark, Maj Vanessa ...Michel J.G. van Eeten, Delft University of Technology; Michael Levi, Cardiff University; Tyler Moore, Southern Methodist University; and Stefan Savage

  7. 22 CFR 1002.7 - Fees.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 22 Foreign Relations 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 true Fees. 1002.7 Section 1002.7 Foreign Relations INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS § 1002.7 Fees. Except as otherwise specifically provided by the Foundation, a fee will be levied for all searches for, or copies of, records. These fees...

  8. Charting Missouri's Library Future into the New Century.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Matson, Madeline, Ed.

    Libraries offer Missourians of all ages educational and cultural opportunities unsurpassed by any other governmental institution or community agency. Missourians value their libraries, as demonstrated by high usage, approval of library tax levies across the state, and increased demand for library services. This plan provides direction for the…

  9. The Wellbeing of the Self's Personality: A Structural Analysis

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Levy, Shlomit; Sabbagh, Clara

    2008-01-01

    Leaning on the formal faceted definition of wellbeing (Levy and Guttman (1975) "Social Indicators Research," 2, 361-388), a mapping sentence is provided for defining the universe of observations of the wellbeing of the self-expanding on personality aspects. The structure of the interrelationships among the variables of the expanded…

  10. Hiltonism, Hedonism and the Self

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Kristjansson, Kristjan

    2008-01-01

    In her 2006 bestseller about the rise of "raunch culture" and of such self-ascribed "Female Chauvinist Pigs" as the tawdry socialite Paris Hilton, Ariel Levy describes these phenomena as being indicative of a drastic cultural shift. Serious concerns have been raised, most recently by the American Psychological Association, about the effects of…

  11. Sustaining Local Tax Support for Community Colleges: Recommendations for College Leaders

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Miller, Michael Thomas; Holt, Carleton R.

    2005-01-01

    Community colleges often rely on local taxes as an important revenue source and must occasionally seek voter approval for a local mill levy increase--a tax on property to fund a specific activity. This chapter describes strategies for planning and carrying out a campaign for securing that approval.

  12. Application of stochastic processes in random growth and evolutionary dynamics

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Oikonomou, Panagiotis

    We study the effect of power-law distributed randomness on the dynamical behavior of processes such as stochastic growth patterns and evolution. First, we examine the geometrical properties of random shapes produced by a generalized stochastic Loewner Evolution driven by a superposition of a Brownian motion and a stable Levy process. The situation is defined by the usual stochastic Loewner Evolution parameter, kappa, as well as alpha which defines the power-law tail of the stable Levy distribution. We show that the properties of these patterns change qualitatively and singularly at critical values of kappa and alpha. It is reasonable to call such changes "phase transitions". These transitions occur as kappa passes through four and as alpha passes through one. Numerical simulations are used to explore the global scaling behavior of these patterns in each "phase". We show both analytically and numerically that the growth continues indefinitely in the vertical direction for alpha greater than 1, goes as logarithmically with time for alpha equals to 1, and saturates for alpha smaller than 1. The probability density has two different scales corresponding to directions along and perpendicular to the boundary. Scaling functions for the probability density are given for various limiting cases. Second, we study the effect of the architecture of biological networks on their evolutionary dynamics. In recent years, studies of the architecture of large networks have unveiled a common topology, called scale-free, in which a majority of the elements are poorly connected except for a small fraction of highly connected components. We ask how networks with distinct topologies can evolve towards a pre-established target phenotype through a process of random mutations and selection. We use networks of Boolean components as a framework to model a large class of phenotypes. Within this approach, we find that homogeneous random networks and scale-free networks exhibit drastically different evolutionary paths. While homogeneous random networks accumulate neutral mutations and evolve by sparse punctuated steps, scale-free networks evolve rapidly and continuously towards the target phenotype. Moreover, we show that scale-free networks always evolve faster than homogeneous random networks; remarkably, this property does not depend on the precise value of the topological parameter. By contrast, homogeneous random networks require a specific tuning of their topological parameter in order to optimize their fitness. This model suggests that the evolutionary paths of biological networks, punctuated or continuous, may solely be determined by the network topology.

  13. Managing Reform with a Contracting Resource Base: A Persistent Administrative Dilemma.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Bond, Richard; Giles, Corrie

    Canadian education has traditionally been financed by two major sources: (1) transfer payments from the federal government to the provinces; and (2) residential and business property tax revenues levied by municipalities. The Canadian federal government has recently announced a planned cut of 750 million dollars a year for 3 years in transfer…

  14. Lillie Burney Elementary School

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    2006-01-01

    Mississippi Rep. Percy Watson (left) talks with first-graders Savannah Jones and Levi Meyers, and Astronaut Lee Morin on Sept. 8 during the NASA Explorer School kickoff event at the Lillie Burney Elementary School in Hattiesburg, Miss. NASA Explorer Schools help promote student achievement in mathematics and science through activities using the excitement of NASA research, discoveries and missions.

  15. 26 CFR 301.6330-1 - Notice and opportunity for hearing prior to levy.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... TREASURY (CONTINUED) PROCEDURE AND ADMINISTRATION PROCEDURE AND ADMINISTRATION Seizure of Property for... dwelling or usual place of business of the taxpayer, or sent by certified or registered mail, return... taxpayer. (B) By leaving the notice at the taxpayer's dwelling or usual place of business. (C) By mailing...

  16. Targeted Nanoparticles for Kidney Cancer Therapy

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2012-10-01

    24 hrs. Clonogenic survival was assessed 7-10 days after CNT incubation after plating 200-300 cells/well (Figure 7). Similar trends were seen using... ferritin on angiogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009;106(2):570-5. PMCID: 2626744. 4. Burke A, Ding X, Singh R, Kraft RA, Levi-Polyachenko N, Rylander

  17. Lillie Burney Elementary School

    NASA Image and Video Library

    2006-09-08

    Mississippi Rep. Percy Watson (left) talks with first-graders Savannah Jones and Levi Meyers, and Astronaut Lee Morin on Sept. 8 during the NASA Explorer School kickoff event at the Lillie Burney Elementary School in Hattiesburg, Miss. NASA Explorer Schools help promote student achievement in mathematics and science through activities using the excitement of NASA research, discoveries and missions.

  18. Integrating the Global War on Terrorism with the War on Drugs

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2007-03-01

    illegal use of drugs is the slow destruction of the moral fiber of civilized society There is a clear and direct correlation between illicit drug...Their activities were largely funded by the taxes they levied on coco production, and today, they still use drug profits to finance their operations

  19. The Cutting Edge: Workplace English. Instructional Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    El Paso Community Coll., TX. Literacy Center.

    The instructional guide for the Cutting Edge workplace literacy program, a cooperative project of El Paso Community College (Texas) and Levi Strauss and Company, is an expanded version of one appendix the project handbook. It describes and provides an instructional model for the three-part, job-specific, video-based program of English as a Second…

  20. Do Students Understand Our Course Structure? Implications for Important Classroom Attitudes and Behavior

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Elicker, Joelle D.; Foust, Michelle Singer; Perry, Jennifer L.

    2015-01-01

    The complexity of a course's structure may influence how well students understand what is expected of them. Using the foundation of the industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology literature, the authors modified a measure of "Perceived System Knowledge" (Williams & Levy, 1992) for employee performance appraisal to be appropriate for…

  1. 27 CFR 70.181 - Disposition of seized property.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... raise the whole amount of the tax and expenses of levy and sale, the whole of such property shall be... reasonable certainty of the property seized. (b) Notice of sale. (1) As soon as practicable after seizure of the property, the appropriate TTB officer shall give notice of sale in writing to the owner. Such...

  2. 27 CFR 70.181 - Disposition of seized property.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... raise the whole amount of the tax and expenses of levy and sale, the whole of such property shall be... reasonable certainty of the property seized. (b) Notice of sale. (1) As soon as practicable after seizure of the property, the appropriate TTB officer shall give notice of sale in writing to the owner. Such...

  3. 27 CFR 70.181 - Disposition of seized property.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... raise the whole amount of the tax and expenses of levy and sale, the whole of such property shall be... reasonable certainty of the property seized. (b) Notice of sale. (1) As soon as practicable after seizure of the property, the appropriate TTB officer shall give notice of sale in writing to the owner. Such...

  4. 78 FR 50051 - Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Tarmac King Road...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-08-16

    ... DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Tarmac King Road Limestone Mine Proposed in Levy County... from limestone extraction, material stockpiling, roads, and other infrastructure over a period of...

  5. Smooth Pursuit in Schizophrenia: A Meta-Analytic Review of Research since 1993

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    O'Driscoll, Gillian A.; Callahan, Brandy L.

    2008-01-01

    Abnormal smooth pursuit eye-tracking is one of the most replicated deficits in the psychophysiological literature in schizophrenia [Levy, D. L., Holzman, P. S., Matthysse, S., & Mendell, N. R. (1993). "Eye tracking dysfunction and schizophrenia: A critical perspective." "Schizophrenia Bulletin, 19", 461-505]. We used meta-analytic procedures to…

  6. 26 CFR 301.6337-1 - Redemption of property.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... of property. (a) Before sale. Any person whose property has been levied upon shall have the right to... after the sale thereof. (2) Price. Such property or tract of property may be redeemed upon payment to... property) are purchased in the aggregate, the redemption price of the real property (or of each of the...

  7. The Influence of Classroom Instruction and Test Preparation on School Accountability Levels

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Bryant, Karen Adair Carter

    2012-01-01

    Federal and state educational agencies provide guidelines for public schools across the United States to follow (Linn, 2008; Levy, 2008). During a time of high-stakes testing fueled by school accountability standards, educators strive to meet requirements for academic growth in order to maintain a successful accountability level and avoid being…

  8. Mirror Your Audience's Attitude: A Global Profile.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Meussling, Vonne

    Recent advertising research has suggested that to gain initial entry into and retain continual success with a targeted audience of consumers, it is wise to mirror the attitudes and desires of those consumers. This has proven effective in the United States, where companies such as Chevrolet, Levi Strauss, and Coca-Cola have successfully catered to…

  9. Do-It-Yourselfers or Engineers? Bricolage as a Metaphor for Teacher Work and Learning.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Scribner, Jay Paredes

    This study explores the nature of teacher learning within the broader context of increasing state-level accountability, applying Levi-Strauss' bricolage metaphor to teachers' workplace learning. Based on the assumption that "problems of practice" serve as catalysts for learning, it addresses how teachers define and solve problems in…

  10. Inside Thai Private Higher Education: Exploring Private Growth in International Context. PROPHE Working Paper Series. WP No. 12

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Praphamontripong, Prachayani

    2008-01-01

    This paper examines different institutional characteristics of Thai private higher education in historical-organizational perspective. The analysis applies different conceptual categories of private emergence--Catholic, elite, demand-absorbing--drawn from international literature starting with Levy (1986) to the Thai case. The societal context of…

  11. Risk Taking in Community College Students: Age and Sex Differences.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Okun, Morris A.; Johnston, Lynn D.

    To determine the relationship between age and risk taking for community college students, 74 male and 72 female students, ranging from 18-79 years of age, took a vocabulary test in which six "nonsense" items were interspersed among 54 legitimate items (following Slakter's procedure). Test instructions explained a penalty would be levied for…

  12. Students Will Erupt with Excitement over New Book

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    Curriculum Review, 2009

    2009-01-01

    Imagine recreating a tsunami's force in a bathtub or exploring the potential of geothermal energy by using steam from a kettle to illuminate a light bulb. These types of activities and more are offered in Matthew Levy and Mario Salvadori's collection of experiments and demonstrations in Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis. More than 30 easy and…

  13. Educators' Pupil-Control Ideology as a Predictor of Educator's Reactions to Pupil Disruptive Behavior.

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    Lunenburg, Fred C.

    Given the importance of pupil control in the school's social system, it would seem reasonable to predict a significant relationship between educators' pupil control ideology and their reactions to disruptive behavior incidents. This study examines whether humanistically oriented educators would prefer to levy less punitive measures on disruptive…

  14. Realistic Fiscal Bases for Federal Programs.

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    James, H. Thomas

    School districts generally reduce taxes upon receiving federal and state aid. State-aided districts increase their expenditures to education only about 15 percent of the amount of the state aid, and reduce local tax levies by 85 percent. This substitution effect also accompanies federal aid to states. To meet this problem, Congress defines federal…

  15. The Cutting Edge: Workplace English. Project Handbook and Instructional Guide.

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    Clymer-Spradling, Carol

    A workplace literacy program for garment workers is described and evaluated. The program, a partnership between El Paso Community College (Texas) and Levi Strauss & Company, consisted of a three-level, job-specific, video-based curriculum for limited-English-speaking employees implemented at seven plants in El Paso. The 18-month model…

  16. 25 CFR 700.525 - Use of government information or expertise.

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    2011-04-01

    ... provisions of the Freedom of information and the Privacy Acts (5 U.S.C. 552). An employee may not release... terms of the Privacy Act in addition to any disciplinary penalties levied by the employee's supervisor. (e) Commission personnel may not accept compensation for an article, speech, consultant service, or...

  17. Preparing Teachers of English Language Learners. TQ Connection Issue Paper

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    McGraner, Kristin L.; Saenz, Laura

    2009-01-01

    More than 5 million English language learners (ELLs) attend school in the United States (Ballantyne, Sanderman, & Levy, 2008). This population has increased by approximately 57 percent during the last decade, drawing sharp attention to the individual and instructional needs of students who are nonnative speakers of English (Ballantyne et al.,…

  18. 29 CFR 531.38 - Amounts deducted for taxes.

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    2010-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Amounts deducted for taxes. 531.38 Section 531.38 Labor... Employees § 531.38 Amounts deducted for taxes. Taxes which are assessed against the employee and which are... unemployment insurance taxes, as well as other Federal, State, or local taxes, levies, and assessments. No...

  19. L'analyse structurale en traduction poetique (Structural Analysis in Poetic Translation)

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    Larose, Robert; Slote, Daniel

    1978-01-01

    Mallarme's translation of the third stanza of Poe's "Israfel" is used to illustrate this method, based on that of Jacobsen and Levi-Strauss. The categories for analysis are divided into formal and semantic properties, each of which is subdivided into phonology, morphology, lexicology and syntax. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

  20. Improving Instruction and Services in Schools for Socially Maladjusted, Emotionally Disturbed Children.

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    Curtis, Rebecca C.

    This program was designed to supplement the New York City tax levy educational program provided for 2128 underachieving socially maladjusted, emotionally disturbed students in grades three through twelve. Most of the students were enrolled in 16 special day schools for the socially maladjusted and emotionally disturbed. The remaining students were…

  1. Night Attack Workload Steering Group. Volume 3. Simulation and Human Factors Subgroup

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    1982-06-01

    information intepretation . The second is the use of pictorial formats or computer generated displays that combine many present-day displays into a small number...base exists in any form (digital, film , or model) which supports the wide area, long track, low level requirements levied by night attack training

  2. Free Speech in the Military: A Status Report.

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    Parker, Richard A.

    Two recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court have emasculated First Amendment guarantees for military personnel. In the first case, Parker v. Levy, an Army captain urged enlisted Special Forces personnel at his post to refuse to go to Viet Nam, claiming that "Special Forces personnel are liars and thieves and killers of peasants…

  3. A Trust That Can't Be Breached.

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    Penning, Nick

    1990-01-01

    Children's Investment Trust is a proposed trust fund for children's services (nutrition, health, education, and social services) similar in design to Social Security fund. The trust would be funded by a small, progressive payroll tax levied on both employer and employee on wages greater than $5 per hour. The tax would raise $25 billion more every…

  4. 27 CFR 70.242 - Wages, salary and other income.

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    2010-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Wages, salary and other... Collection of Excise and Special (Occupational) Tax Limitations § 70.242 Wages, salary and other income. (a... as wages, salary or other income are exempt from levy. This section described the income of a...

  5. Child Health and Access to Medical Care

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    Leininger, Lindsey; Levy, Helen

    2015-01-01

    It might seem strange to ask whether increasing access to medical care can improve children's health. Yet Lindsey Leininger and Helen Levy begin by pointing out that access to care plays a smaller role than we might think, and that many other factors, such as those discussed elsewhere in this issue, strongly influence children's health.…

  6. Trimming the Budget: How to Make the Cuts

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    Cortner-Castro, Christy

    2009-01-01

    The fiscal problems of today's school districts are a reflection of the national economy. Taxpayers are struggling to make mortgage payments and are reluctant--or unwilling--to pass bonds and levies that will raise property taxes. Local, state, and federal grants have dwindled, and the effect of the education stimulus dollars is uncertain. The…

  7. 26 CFR 301.6334-1 - Property exempt from levy.

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    2012-04-01

    ... entered on the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard Medal of Honor roll (38 U.S.C. 562), and annuities... children. If the taxpayer is required under any type of order or decree (including an interlocutory decree... test. (12) Assistance under Job Training Partnership Act. Any amount payable to a participant under the...

  8. 26 CFR 301.6334-1 - Property exempt from levy.

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    2014-04-01

    ... entered on the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard Medal of Honor roll (38 U.S.C. 562), and annuities... children. If the taxpayer is required under any type of order or decree (including an interlocutory decree... test. (12) Assistance under Job Training Partnership Act. Any amount payable to a participant under the...

  9. On the potential use of radar-derived information in operational numerical weather prediction

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    Mcpherson, R. D.

    1986-01-01

    Estimates of requirements likely to be levied on a new observing system for mesoscale meteonology are given. Potential observing systems for mesoscale numerical weather prediction are discussed. Thermodynamic profiler radiometers, infrared radiometer atmospheric sounders, Doppler radar wind profilers and surveillance radar, and moisture profilers are among the instruments described.

  10. 77 FR 75433 - Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission

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    ... services must include information detailing consumers' rights and responsibilities with respect to these... requirements are intended to ensure that consumers know when charges will be levied for calls to toll-free..., carriers handling pay-per-call services must establish a toll-free number that consumers may call to...

  11. Where the "Unemployable" Do the Impossible.

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    Deutsch, James I.

    1981-01-01

    At a time when property tax valuations and frozen mill levies can't keep pace with the rising costs of library operations, special employment workers at the Parmly Billings Public Library in Montana have helped sustain many programs and activities. This is one of the top five winners in American Libraries' competition to identify innovative…

  12. Simulating Revenue and Expenditure Limit Projections for a Community College in Arizona.

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    Gose, Frank J.

    In 1980, the Constitution of the State of Arizona was amended to establish expenditure limits for a number of political entities, including community colleges. Limits were also established on revenue derived from local tax levies. Concern that limitations on revenue and expenditures could place real constraints on community college operations…

  13. 27 CFR 70.165 - Production of books.

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    2014-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Production of books. 70... books. If a levy has been made or is about to be made on any property or rights to property, any person, having custody or control of any books or records containing evidence or statements relating to the...

  14. 27 CFR 70.165 - Production of books.

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    2013-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Production of books. 70... books. If a levy has been made or is about to be made on any property or rights to property, any person, having custody or control of any books or records containing evidence or statements relating to the...

  15. 27 CFR 70.165 - Production of books.

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    2011-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Production of books. 70... books. If a levy has been made or is about to be made on any property or rights to property, any person, having custody or control of any books or records containing evidence or statements relating to the...

  16. 27 CFR 70.165 - Production of books.

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    2010-04-01

    ... 27 Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Production of books. 70... books. If a levy has been made or is about to be made on any property or rights to property, any person, having custody or control of any books or records containing evidence or statements relating to the...

  17. 26 CFR 1.164-4 - Taxes for local benefits.

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    2011-04-01

    ... levied by a special taxing district which was in existence on December 31, 1963, for the purpose of...)(1) Insofar as assessments against local benefits are made for the purpose of maintenance or repair or for the purpose of meeting interest charges with respect to such benefits, they are deductible. In...

  18. 26 CFR 1.164-4 - Taxes for local benefits.

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    2010-04-01

    ... levied by a special taxing district which was in existence on December 31, 1963, for the purpose of...)(1) Insofar as assessments against local benefits are made for the purpose of maintenance or repair or for the purpose of meeting interest charges with respect to such benefits, they are deductible. In...

  19. 78 FR 67331 - Notice of Request for Extension of a Currently Approved Assessment Exemption for Organic Commodities

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    ... for the forms currently used by marketers to apply for exemption from market promotion assessments...: Title: Organic Handler Market Promotion Assessment Exemption under 26 Federal Marketing Orders. OMB..., including paid advertising, to promote various commodities, which is paid for by assessments that are levied...

  20. 30 CFR 208.14 - Civil and criminal penalties.

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    2010-07-01

    ... 30 Mineral Resources 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Civil and criminal penalties. 208.14 Section... MANAGEMENT SALE OF FEDERAL ROYALTY OIL General Provisions § 208.14 Civil and criminal penalties. Failure to abide by the regulations in this part may result in civil and criminal penalties being levied on that...

  1. Understanding What Makes for Productive Coaching Moves to Help Teachers Attend to Mathematical Tasks of Teaching

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    Jakopovic, Paula M.

    2017-01-01

    Reforms in mathematics education call for teaching to move away from "traditional" approaches (Carpenter, Ansell, & Levi, 2001) that are focused around rote procedures and skills, and toward practice that engages students in cognitively demanding tasks, discourse, and productive struggle to develop conceptual and procedural…

  2. Leveraging Fourth and Sixth Graders' Experiences to Reveal Understanding of the Forms and Features of Distributed Causality

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    Grotzer, Tina A.; Derbiszewska, Katarzyna; Solis, S. Lynneth

    2017-01-01

    Research has focused on students' difficulties understanding phenomena in which agency is distributed across actors whose individual-level behaviors converge to result in collective outcomes. Building on Levy and Wilensky (2008), this study identified features of distributed causality students understand and that may offer affordances for…

  3. Textual Transformations in Contemporary Black Writing in Britain

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    Dhouib, Jawhar Ahmed

    2014-01-01

    While the first wave of Caribbean immigrant writers brilliantly explored race-related issues, black Britons like Andrea Levy, Zadie Smith and Caryl Phillips, among others, have sought to depart from earlier fiction, motivated in their project by the changing white face of Britain. In this article, I would like to argue that cultural change in…

  4. Tasks That Promote Functional Reasoning in Early Elementary School Students

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    Payne, Nancy Tilley

    2012-01-01

    Algebra is often described as the gateway to higher mathematics (Carpenter, Franke, & Levi, 2003; Kaput, 2008; Kaput & Blanton, 2001; Mason, 2008). Unfortunately, many students do not navigate this gateway successfully. Kaput (2008) and Mason (2008) suggested that this is due in part to the abrupt switch from arithmetic to algebra that…

  5. A Model of Submarine Emergency Decisionmaking and Decision Aiding

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    1986-10-01

    Rationality," Ajiiigm 0 Vl1, No.6, pp. 703-709. [9] Levis, A.H. arid K.L. Boettcher (1983j). "Decisionmaking Organizacions with Acyclical Informafion...and Decision Systems, MIT, Cambridge, MA.4 [18] Labak, SJ. (1985-86). Private Communication. [19] Anonymous, SSN 688 Class Ship Systems Manual , Vol. 7

  6. 26 CFR 301.6334-1 - Property exempt from levy.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... not exceed $6,250 in value. (3) Books and tools of a trade, business or profession. So many of the books and tools necessary for the trade, business, or profession of an individual taxpayer as do not.... (13) Residences exempt in small deficiency cases and principal residences and certain business assets...

  7. Homage to Rita Levi-Montalcini, the queen of modern neuroscience.

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    Aloe, Luigi; Chaldakov, George N

    2013-08-01

    The first cell growth factor, nerve growth factor (NGF), was discovered by Rita Levi-Montalcini (RLM) in the early 1950s. Originally identified as neurite outgrowth-stimulating factor, later studies revealed that non-neuronal cells, including immune cells, endothelial cells, cardiomyocytes, pancreatic beta cells, prostate epithelial and adipose tissue cells, were also targets for and/or sources of NGF. Nerve growth factor is well recognised as mediating multiple biological phenomena, ranging from the neurotrophic through immunotrophic and epitheliotrophic to metabotrophic effects. Consequently, NGF and other members of the neurotrophin family are implicated in the pathogenesis of a large spectrum of neuronal and non-neuronal diseases, ranging from Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases to atherosclerosis and cardiometabolic disorders. Recent studies have demonstrated the therapeutic potentials of NGF in these conditions, including ocular and cutaneous diseases. NGF TrkA receptor antagonists emerged as novel drugs for pain, prostate and breast cancer, melanoma and urinary bladder syndromes. Here, we briefly describe the 'unpredictable' ideogenesis of the discovery of NGF, a eureka in the neuroscience. © 2013 International Federation for Cell Biology.

  8. HUT observations of carbon monoxide in the coma of Comet Levy (1990c)

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    Feldman, P. D.; Davidsen, A. F.; Blair, W. P.; Bowers, C. W.; Dixon, W. V.; Durrance, S. T.; Henry, R. C.; Kriss, G. A.; Kruk, J.; Moos, H. W.

    1991-01-01

    Observations of comet Levy (1990c) were made with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope during the Astro-1 Space Shuttle mission on 10 Dec. 1990. The spectrum, covering the wavelength range 415 to 1850 A at a spectral emission of 3 A (in first order), shows the presence of carbon monoxide and atomic hydrogen, carbon, and sulfur in the coma. Aside from H I Lyman-beta, no cometary features are detected below 1200 A, although cometary O I and O II would be masked by the same emissions present in the day airglow spectrum. The 9.4 x 116 arcsec aperture corresponds to 12,000 x 148,000 km at the comet. The derived production rate of CO relative to water, 0.13 + or - 0.02, compared with the same ratio derived from IUE observations (made in Sep. 1990) which sample a much smaller region of the coma, 0.04 + or - 0.01, suggests the presence of an extended source of CO, as was found in comet Halley. Upper limits on Ne and Ar abundance are within an order of magnitude or solar abundances.

  9. Observations of Comet Levy (1990c) with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope

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    Feldman, P. D.; Davidsen, A. F.; Blair, W. P.; Bowers, C. W.; Dixon, W. V.; Durrance, S. T.; Henry, R. C.; Ferguson, H. C.; Kimble, R. A.; Gull, Theodore R.

    1991-01-01

    Observations of Comet Levy (1990c) were made with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope during the Astro-1 Space Shuttle mission on December 10, 1990. The spectrum, covering the wavelength range 415-1850 A at a spectral resolution of 3 A, shows the presence of carbon monoxide and atomic hydrogen, carbon, and sulfur in the coma. Aside from H I Lyman-beta, no cometary features are detected below 1200 A, although cometary O I and O II would be masked by the same emissions present in the day airglow spectrum. The 9.4 x 116 arcsecond aperture corresponds to 12,000 x 148,000 km at the comet. The derived production rate of CO relative to water is 0.11 + or - 0.02, compared with 0.04 + or - 0.01 derived from IUE observations (made in September 1990) which sample a much smaller region of the coma. This suggests the presence of an extended source of CO, as was found in comet Halley. Upper limits on Ne and Ar abundance are within one order of magnitude of solar abundances.

  10. Sulfur Chemistry in the Wake of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

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    Zahnle, Kevin; MacLow, Mordecai-Mark; Lodders, Katharina; Fegley, Bruce, Jr.

    1995-01-01

    A curious and unexpected result of the impact of P/Shoemaker Levy 9 with Jupiter was the production of enormous amounts of molecular sulfur (S2). Here we show that S2 is the natural product of disequilibrium chemistry at low pressures in shocked Jovian air, its formation a byproduct of hydrogen recombination. The species observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) - S2, CS2, and H2S - imply that the G fragment penetrated the NH4SH cloud but did not reach the water table. A typical impact within or below the NH4SH clouds produces about 0.03 - 0.1 impactor masses of S2. Because comets are relatively hydrogen-poor, SO2, not S2, is the major product of shocking a water-rich comet, while S2, CS2 and OCS are major products of a dessicated comet. In all cases we find that as the gas cools, S2 converts to the stable low temperature allotrope S8, although other chemical fates not modeled here might intervene first.

  11. The crash of P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 into Jupiter and its implications for comet bombardment on Earth

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    Shoemaker, E. M.; Shoemaker, C. S.

    1994-01-01

    Periodic Comet Shoemaker/Levy 9 will impact Jupiter in late July 1994. The comet, which broke into more than 20 telescopically detectable fragments when it passed with the Roche lobe of Jupiter on July 8, 1992, is captured in a highly eccentric orbit about Jupiter. The 21 recognized nuclei will be spread out in a train of the order 7 x 10(exp 6) km long at the time of impact, and the impacts will be spread in time over about 5 1/2 days centered on about July 21.2 UT. In addition to the train of recognized bright nuclei, the comet consists of 'wings' of unresolved bodies that are the source of a very broad composite dust tail. The linear extent of the wings is about an order of magnitude greater than that of the train of recognized discrete nuclei. Collision of the wings will be spread in time over several months. Thus the impact of P/S-L 9 with Jupiter will be an event of appreciable duration.

  12. Vaccine financing in Nigeria: are we making progress towards self-financing/sustenance?

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    Faniyan, Olumide; Opara, Chidiabere; Oyinade, Akinyede; Botchway, Pamela; Soyemi, Kenneth

    2017-01-01

    Nigeria has an estimated population of 186 million with 23% of eligible children aged 12-23 months fully immunized. Government spending on routine immunization per surviving infant has declined since 2006 meaning the immunization budget needs to improve. By 2020, Nigeria will be ineligible for additional Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunization (Gavi) grants and will be facing an annual vaccine bill of around US$426.3m. There are several potential revenue sources that could be utilized to fill the potential funding gap, these are however subject to timely legislation and appropriation of funds by the legislative body. Innovative funding sources that should be considered include tiered levies on tele-communications, airline, hotel, alcohol, tobacco, sugar beverage taxes, lottery sales, crowd-sourcing, optimized federal state co-financing etc. To demonstrate monthly income that will be derived from a single tax revenue source, we modelled using Monte Carlo simulation trials the Communication Service Tax that is being introduced by the National Assembly. We used number of active telephone subscribers, penetration ratio, monthly charges, and percent of immunization levy as model scenario inputs and dollars generated monthly as output. The simulation generated a modest mean (SD) monthly amount of $3,649,289.38 ($1,789,651); 88% certainty range $1,282,719.90 to $7,450,906.26. The entire range for the simulation was $528,903.26 to $7,966,287.26 with a standard error of mean of $17,896.52. Sensitivity analysis revealed that percentage of immunization levy contributed 97.9 percent of the variance in the model, number of active subscribers and charges per month contributed 1.5%, and 0.6% respectively. Our modest simulation analysis demonstrated the potential to raise revenue from one possible tax source; when combined, the revenue sources will potentially surpass Nigeria's long-term financing needs. The ROI of vaccine should supersede all other considerations and prompt urgent activities to cover the impending finance coverage gap.

  13. Vaccine financing in Nigeria: are we making progress towards self-financing/sustenance?

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    Faniyan, Olumide; Opara, Chidiabere; Oyinade, Akinyede; Botchway, Pamela; Soyemi, Kenneth

    2017-01-01

    Nigeria has an estimated population of 186 million with 23% of eligible children aged 12-23 months fully immunized. Government spending on routine immunization per surviving infant has declined since 2006 meaning the immunization budget needs to improve. By 2020, Nigeria will be ineligible for additional Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunization (Gavi) grants and will be facing an annual vaccine bill of around US$426.3m. There are several potential revenue sources that could be utilized to fill the potential funding gap, these are however subject to timely legislation and appropriation of funds by the legislative body. Innovative funding sources that should be considered include tiered levies on tele-communications, airline, hotel, alcohol, tobacco, sugar beverage taxes, lottery sales, crowd-sourcing, optimized federal state co-financing etc. To demonstrate monthly income that will be derived from a single tax revenue source, we modelled using Monte Carlo simulation trials the Communication Service Tax that is being introduced by the National Assembly. We used number of active telephone subscribers, penetration ratio, monthly charges, and percent of immunization levy as model scenario inputs and dollars generated monthly as output. The simulation generated a modest mean (SD) monthly amount of $3,649,289.38 ($1,789,651); 88% certainty range $1,282,719.90 to $7,450,906.26. The entire range for the simulation was $528,903.26 to $7,966,287.26 with a standard error of mean of $17,896.52. Sensitivity analysis revealed that percentage of immunization levy contributed 97.9 percent of the variance in the model, number of active subscribers and charges per month contributed 1.5%, and 0.6% respectively. Our modest simulation analysis demonstrated the potential to raise revenue from one possible tax source; when combined, the revenue sources will potentially surpass Nigeria’s long-term financing needs. The ROI of vaccine should supersede all other considerations and prompt urgent activities to cover the impending finance coverage gap. PMID:29296144

  14. A novel β-fructofuranosidase in Coleoptera: Characterization of a β-fructofuranosidase from the sugarcane weevil, Sphenophorus levis.

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    Pedezzi, Rafael; Fonseca, Fernando P P; Santos Júnior, Célio Dias; Kishi, Luciano T; Terra, Walter R; Henrique-Silva, Flávio

    2014-12-01

    β-fructofuranosidases or invertases (EC 3.2.1.26) catalyze the hydrolysis of sucrose into fructose and glucose. β-fructofuranosidases have been widely described in microorganisms, but were not known in the animal kingdom until very recently. There are studies reporting lepidopteran β-fructofuranosidases, but no β-fructofuranosidase gene sequence or encoding transcript has previously been identified in beetles. Considering the scarcity of functional studies on insect β-fructofuranosidases and their apparent non-occurrence among coleopterans, the aim of the present study was to investigate the occurrence and characterize a β-fructofuranosidase transcript identified in a cDNA library from the sugarcane weevil, Sphenophorus levis (Curculionidae). To validate that the β-fructofuranosidase sequence (herein denominated Sl-β-fruct) is indeed encoded by the S. levis genome, PCRs were performed using genomic DNA extracted from the larval fat body as well as DNA from the midgut with microbial content. Amplification of Sl-β-fruct gene using larval fat body DNA indicated its presence in the insect's genomic DNA. The Sl-β-fruct gene was cloned in Pichia pastoris to produce the recombinant enzyme (rSl-β-fruct). Molecular weight of the recombinant protein was about 64 kDa, indicating possible glycosylation, since the theoretical weight was 54.8 kDa. The substrate specificity test revealed that rSl-β-fruct hydrolyzes sucrose and raffinose, but not melibiose or maltose, thereby confirming invertase activity. The pH curve revealed greatest activity at pH 5.0, demonstrating rSl-β-fruct to be an acidic β-fructofuranosidase. Quantitative PCR (qRT-PCR) analyses indicated that the production of mRNA only occurs in the midgut and reaches the greatest expression level in 30-day-old larvae, which is the expected pattern for digestive enzymes. Chromatography of glycosidases from S. levis midguts showed two enzymes acting as β-fructofuranosidase, indicating the presence of a Sl-β-fruct isoform or a β-fructofuranosidase from insect intestinal microbiota. Moreover, it was found that α-glucosidases do not act on sucrose hydrolysis. Phylogenetic analyses indicated this enzyme to be similar to enzymes found in other coleopteran and lepidopteran β-fructofuranosidases, but also closely similar to bacterial enzymes, suggesting potential horizontal gene transfer. Despite this, the enzyme seems to be restricted to different groups of bacteria, which suggests distinct origin events. The present study expands the concept of the occurrence of β-fructofuranosidase in insects. Despite the few descriptions of this gene in the animal kingdom, it is possible to state that β-fructofuranosidase is crucial to the establishment of some insects throughout their evolutionary history, especially members of the Lepidoptera and Coleoptera clades. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  15. Is Retrieval-Induced Forgetting behind the Bilingual Disadvantage in Word Production?

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    Runnqvist, Elin; Costa, Albert

    2012-01-01

    Levy, Mc Veigh, Marful and Andreson (2007) found that naming pictures in L2 impaired subsequent recall of the L1 translation words. This was interpreted as evidence for a domain-general inhibitory mechanism (RIF) underlying first language attrition. Because this result is at odds with some previous findings and theoretical assumptions, we wanted…

  16. 26 CFR 301.7506-1 - Administration of real estate acquired by the United States.

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    2011-04-01

    ... of such debts due the United States. (b) Sale. The district director for the internal revenue... aforesaid, subject to the following rules— (1) Property purchased at sale under levy. If the property was acquired as a result of being declared purchased for the United States at a sale under section 6335...

  17. Dissipation, Voltage Profile and Levy Dragon in a Special Ladder Network

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    Ucak, C.

    2009-01-01

    A ladder network constructed by an elementary two-terminal network consisting of a parallel resistor-inductor block in series with a parallel resistor-capacitor block sometimes is said to have a non-dispersive dissipative response. This special ladder network is created iteratively by replacing the elementary two-terminal network in place of the…

  18. Subsidies and Levies as Policy Instruments to Encourage Employer-Provided Training. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 80

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    Muller, Normann; Behringer, Friederike

    2012-01-01

    This paper provides an overview of the available information concerning selected policy instruments intended to promote employer-provided training, including the stated rationale and objectives, the target groups and operational design as well as a at a summary of the evaluative evidence regarding their operation. The analysis focuses on policy…

  19. 76 FR 70778 - Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Notice of Meeting

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    2011-11-15

    ... Pike, Rockville, Maryland. Thursday, December 1, 2011, Conference Room T2-B1, 11545 Rockville Pike... subsequent COL application for Levy County, Units 1 and 2, and the NRC staff's associated safety evaluation... pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4).] Friday, December 2, 2011, Conference Room T2-B1, 11545 Rockville Pike...

  20. The Cutting Edge: Workplace English. Section I: Project Handbook.

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    El Paso Community Coll., TX. Literacy Center.

    A model workplace literacy program of El Paso Community College (Texas), in cooperation with Levi Strauss and Company, is described. The partnership designed a three-part, job-specific, video-based curriculum in English as a Second Language (ESL) for garment industry workers, implemented in seven local plants. The 18-month program had these goals:…

  1. Adult Attitudes Toward Educational Issues. A Summary of Major Findings. Final Summary Report.

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    Neff, Franklin W.

    The results are reported of a survey of potential voters in Kansas City, Missouri, relative to their attitudes toward school levy elections. The survey encompassed four major areas, including residents' views on education in general, how they evaluated the public school system in their district, how they evaluated public schools in their…

  2. Working the "Shady Spaces": Resisting Neoliberal Hegemony in New Zealand Education

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    McMaster, Christopher

    2013-01-01

    While the chill winds of neoliberalism blow, it seems some cultures are better equipped to weather the storm. The London fog raincoat or the American Levi's denim jacket has left little insulation against the effects of a quarter century of so-called "reforms". New Zealand's Swanndri bush shirt, though not as efficient as the Finnish…

  3. The AV-8B Decision

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1982-06-01

    January 1979. 53. Levis, Stanley P. Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Irmed Forces, Ninety-Fifth Congress, 23 march 1978. 54. "Advanced...34Face-Off on the High Seas," 11&90 19 April 1982. 91. "Search for a Way Out," ZAjj, 26 April 1982. 92 92. Sloyan., Patrick J. wine aai Britaints gmi

  4. Reflexive Photography, Attitudes, Behavior, and CALL: ITAs Improving Spoken English Intelligibility

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    Wallace, Lara

    2015-01-01

    Research in the field of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has frequently taken a top-down approach when investigating learners' attitudes and behavior, both in the course as well as for their personal use. Suggestions are given for use of technology, and future research (Beatty, 2010; Levy & Stockwell, 2006). One perspective that has…

  5. The Promise of Pre-K: Expanding Quality Preschool in Cincinnati. Education/Childcare

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    Shields, Michael

    2016-01-01

    Quality preschool improves children's educational outcomes into the elementary grades, and good programs with wraparound childcare anchor family financial stability by enabling parents to work. Yet, too few Cincinnati children have access to a good preschool or any preschool at all. A levy on this November's ballot seeks to change that by adding a…

  6. Genetic diversity and populations structure in pitch pine (Pinus rigida Mill.)

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    Raymond P. Guries; F. Thomas Ledig

    1982-01-01

    Electrophoretic studies of protein polymorphisms in plants have focused upon herbaceous species, primarily inbreeding annuals, in efforts to characterize the levels and patterns of genic variation within and between populations (Clegg and Allard, 1972; Gottlieb, 1973, 1975; Levin, 1975, 1978; Levy and Levin, 1975; Schaal, 1975; Roose and Gottlieb, 1976; Brown et al.,...

  7. Dewitt Clinton High School Project BISECT. O.E.E. Evaluation Report, 1982-1983.

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    Zephirin, Henriot; Schulman, Robert

    Project Bilingual Spanish-to-English Career Training (BISECT) in its first year of funding offered bilingual instruction, career awareness development, and supportive services to 255 Hispanic students of limited English proficiency. Title VII, Title I, and tax-levy funds supported the program, which was implemented at DeWitt Clinton High School…

  8. Assessments and Tax Rates. Delaware Public Schools, 1976-77.

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    Spartz, James L.

    This report presents tabulations of various tax data for all of Delaware's 26 school districts for the 1976-77 school year. Table l provides the assessed value of real estate and the number of capitations in each school district, as well as the tax rates for debt service, current expense, tuition, minor capital improvement, and total levies. Table…

  9. It's Not the Principle, It's the Money of the Thing.

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    Budd, John M.

    1989-01-01

    Asserts that, although many arguments in favor of user fees for library services are based on economics, little economic benefit is actually gained by levying charges for some services. A microeconomics model that has been used to demonstrate the benefits of user fees is critiqued, and the issue of accountability is discussed. (23 references) (CLB)

  10. Facing the Future: A Doctrine for Air Control in Limited Conflicts

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1998-06-01

    defense of the Protectorate lay with one RAF squadron, three armoured cars and a few hundred local levies.”33 All air operations from 1934-1935 were under...Flight 655, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1992, pg. 4 “Vivid memories of a blackened hulk [USS Stark] and flag- draped coffins were never far

  11. 26 CFR 301.6335-1 - Sale of seized property.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... part thereof to raise the whole amount of the tax and expenses of levy and sale, the whole of such... 26 Internal Revenue 18 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Sale of seized property. 301.6335-1 Section 301... ADMINISTRATION PROCEDURE AND ADMINISTRATION Seizure of Property for Collection of Taxes § 301.6335-1 Sale of...

  12. 26 CFR 301.6335-1 - Sale of seized property.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... part thereof to raise the whole amount of the tax and expenses of levy and sale, the whole of such... 26 Internal Revenue 18 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Sale of seized property. 301.6335-1 Section 301... ADMINISTRATION PROCEDURE AND ADMINISTRATION Seizure of Property for Collection of Taxes § 301.6335-1 Sale of...

  13. 26 CFR 301.6335-1 - Sale of seized property.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... part thereof to raise the whole amount of the tax and expenses of levy and sale, the whole of such... 26 Internal Revenue 18 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Sale of seized property. 301.6335-1 Section 301... ADMINISTRATION PROCEDURE AND ADMINISTRATION Seizure of Property for Collection of Taxes § 301.6335-1 Sale of...

  14. 26 CFR 301.6335-1 - Sale of seized property.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... part thereof to raise the whole amount of the tax and expenses of levy and sale, the whole of such... 26 Internal Revenue 18 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Sale of seized property. 301.6335-1 Section 301... ADMINISTRATION PROCEDURE AND ADMINISTRATION Seizure of Property for Collection of Taxes § 301.6335-1 Sale of...

  15. The Problems of Practice: Bricolage as a Metaphor for Teachers' Work and Learning

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    Scribner, Jay Paredes

    2005-01-01

    In this article the author uses Levi-Strauss' (1966) metaphor of Bricolage to examine how teachers, not policymakers, make sense of their "problems of practice" in three United States high schools. The article also examines how teachers address these problems of practice. It concludes by underscoring the disconnect between teachers' and…

  16. Attitudes of Educational Decision Makers toward AVTI Governance and the Local Tax Levy. An Independent Paper.

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    LiaBraaten, James Clayton

    A study investigated the attitudes of vocational education decision makers toward the governance of Minnesota's Area Vocational Technical Institutes (AVTIs) and the impact removal of a local tax to support the AVTIs might have on governance. Five categories of individuals, all considered vocational education decision makers, were surveyed: AVTI…

  17. 77 FR 26316 - Progress Energy Florida; Final Environmental Impact Statement for Combined Licenses for Levy...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-05-03

    ..., Rockville, Maryland, 20852 or from NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC's Web site at www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html . The ADAMS accession numbers for the... . In addition, the following four public libraries have agreed to make the final EIS available to the...

  18. Report of the Senate Select Committee on Community Junior Colleges.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Missouri State General Assembly, Jefferson City. Senate.

    The inability of Missouri community college districts--which serve 54% of the state's population but cover only 17% of the state's area--to enlarge their property tax support base, pass capital bond issues, or to increase operational levies gave rise to a legislative study of four major issues: existing laws covering community colleges; the…

  19. Composition, structure, and dynamics of a pine-hardwood old-growth remnant in southern Arkansas

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    Don C. Bragg

    2004-01-01

    The Levi Wilcoxon Demonstration Forest (LWDF) was originally established by the Crossett Lumber Company in 1939 to promote forestry research and demonstration in the Upper West Gulf Coastal Plain of southern Arkansas. The reser ve currently has at least 27 different overstory tree species, with loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.), shortleaf pine (

  20. The Cylindrical Structure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--IV: A Retest of the Guttman Model of Intelligence

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    Cohen, Arie; Fiorello, Catherine A.; Farley, Frank H.

    2006-01-01

    A previous study on the underlying structure of the Wechsler intelligence test (WISC-R; [Wechsler, D. (1974). Manual WISC-R: Wechsler intelligence scale for children-Revised. New York: Psychological Corporation]), using smallest space analysis (SSA) [Guttman, L., and Levy, S. (1991). Two structural laws for intelligence tests.…

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