Sample records for part time basis

  1. 29 CFR 1405.7 - Goals and timetables.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... Regulations Relating to Labor (Continued) FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT Part-time Employment Program § 1405.7 Goals and timetables. On an annual basis, as part of the manpower and budget process, management will set goals for establishing part-time positions to part-time along with a...

  2. 5 CFR 630.304 - Accumulation limitation for part-time employees.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 5 Administrative Personnel 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Accumulation limitation for part-time... REGULATIONS ABSENCE AND LEAVE Annual Leave § 630.304 Accumulation limitation for part-time employees. A part-time employee may accumulate not more than 240 or 360 hours' annual leave on the same basis that a full...

  3. 29 CFR 1405.10 - Effect on employment ceilings.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... Labor Regulations Relating to Labor (Continued) FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT Part-time Employment Program § 1405.10 Effect on employment ceilings. Effective October 1, 1980, part-time employees will be counted on the basis of the fractional part of the 40-hour week actually...

  4. 47 CFR 87.349 - Frequencies.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... stations on a noninterference basis at airports which have a part-time control tower, part-time RCO or part-time FAA flight service station and a unicom. (c) At airports which have a unicom but no control tower... described in subpart G of this part. (d) At airports which have no control tower, RCO, flight service...

  5. Santa Fe Community College Part-Time Faculty Professional Development Plan.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Santa Fe Community Coll., NM.

    Developed for faculty employed on a part-time basis at Santa Fe Community College (SFCC), this booklet explains the required and optional activities comprising the college's professional development program. Introductory sections reveal that part-time faculty members are required to participate in a number of professional development activities,…

  6. Evaluation of Adjunct Faculty in Higher Education Institutions

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Langen, Jill M.

    2011-01-01

    The role that part-time faculty play in higher education is changing. No longer are part-time faculty used on an occasional basis at a few institutions. These individuals now play a critical part in the delivery of higher education to students. This study was developed to answer questions regarding how the performance of adjunct faculty is…

  7. 29 CFR 1405.4 - Applicability.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 4 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Applicability. 1405.4 Section 1405.4 Labor Regulations Relating to Labor (Continued) FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT General... appropriately structured on a part-time basis. The regulations do not apply to positions at GS-16 (or equivalent...

  8. 78 FR 21084 - Proposed Amendment of Class D and E Airspace, and Establishment of Class E Airspace; Oceana NAS, VA

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-04-09

    ... Control Tower at Oceana NAS (Apollo Soucek Field) operating on a part time basis. This action would... facility to part time. The geographic coordinates of the airport also would be adjusted to coincide with... DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 71 [Docket No. FAA-2013...

  9. 78 FR 46497 - Amendment of Class D and E Airspace, and Establishment of Class E Airspace; Oceana NAS, VA

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-08-01

    ... Soucek Field) now operating on a part time basis. This action enhances the safety and airspace management... Soucek Field), VA, as the air traffic control tower is transitioning from a full time facility to part... DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 71 [Docket No. FAA-2013...

  10. 29 CFR 553.221 - Compensable hours of work.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... time (§ 553.222) apply to both law enforcement and firefighting employees for whom the section 7(k) exemption is claimed. Also, special rules for meal time apply in the case of firefighters (§ 553.223). Part... relief, and work performed on an occasional or sporadic and part-time basis, all of which are covered in...

  11. 38 CFR 17.605 - Selection of participants.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... participants to receive awards as part-time students, VA may, at VA's discretion— (Authority: 38 U.S.C. 7612(b)(5)) (1) Award scholarships geographically to part-time students so that available scholarships may be distributed on a relatively equal basis to students working throughout the VA health care system...

  12. Constructing an Employee Benefit Package for Part-Time Workers. A Rationale for Arriving at an Equitable Benefit Package at No Extra Cost to the Employer. A Catalyst Position Paper.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Catalyst, New York, NY.

    Guidelines are presented for constructing an employee benefit package for part-time workers in which benefits are calculated on a pro-rated (and sometimes selective) basis, such that part-time employees receive a fair proportion of the total benefit package, based on the number of hours they actually work. Pro-rating is recommended as feasible for…

  13. Job Sharing: An Alternative to Traditional Employment Patterns. ERS Information Aid.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Block, Alan W.

    In the face of declining enrollments and widespread reductions-in-force in school systems, job sharing can provide part-time positions for persons unable to work full-time and can allow some individuals to maintain their positions on a part-time basis as an alternative to being laid off. Job sharing can also benefit school systems by increasing…

  14. Determinants of Part-Time Adult Student Participation in Education.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hawk, Thomas R.

    A study was conducted to identify the factors that influence adults to continue their education by taking formal course work on a part-time basis. Using May 1981 Current Population Survey data gathered by the Bureau of the Census, the study assessed the importance of price, socioeconomic characteristics, family income, and unemployment rates in…

  15. 26 CFR 1.1015-4 - Transfers in part a gift and in part a sale.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... property, or (ii) The transferor's adjusted basis for the property at the time of the transfer, and (2) The... greater than the fair market value of the property at the time of such transfer. For determination of gain... examples: Example 1. If A transfers property to his son for $30,000, and such property at the time of the...

  16. New method for solving inductive electric fields in the non-uniformly conducting ionosphere

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Vanhamäki, H.; Amm, O.; Viljanen, A.

    2006-10-01

    We present a new calculation method for solving inductive electric fields in the ionosphere. The time series of the potential part of the ionospheric electric field, together with the Hall and Pedersen conductances serves as the input to this method. The output is the time series of the induced rotational part of the ionospheric electric field. The calculation method works in the time-domain and can be used with non-uniform, time-dependent conductances. In addition, no particular symmetry requirements are imposed on the input potential electric field. The presented method makes use of special non-local vector basis functions called the Cartesian Elementary Current Systems (CECS). This vector basis offers a convenient way of representing curl-free and divergence-free parts of 2-dimensional vector fields and makes it possible to solve the induction problem using simple linear algebra. The new calculation method is validated by comparing it with previously published results for Alfvén wave reflection from a uniformly conducting ionosphere.

  17. 40 CFR Appendix I to Subpart A of... - Global Warming Potentials (Mass Basis), Referenced to the Absolute GWP for the Adopted Carbon...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 40 Protection of Environment 17 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Global Warming Potentials (Mass Basis..., App. I Appendix I to Subpart A of Part 82—Global Warming Potentials (Mass Basis), Referenced to the... formula Global warming potential (time horizon) 20 years 100 years 500 years CFC-11 CFCl3 5000 4000 1400...

  18. 40 CFR Appendix I to Subpart A of... - Global Warming Potentials (Mass Basis), Referenced to the Absolute GWP for the Adopted Carbon...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 40 Protection of Environment 18 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Global Warming Potentials (Mass Basis..., App. I Appendix I to Subpart A of Part 82—Global Warming Potentials (Mass Basis), Referenced to the... formula Global warming potential (time horizon) 20 years 100 years 500 years CFC-11 CFCl3 5000 4000 1400...

  19. 40 CFR Appendix I to Subpart A of... - Global Warming Potentials (Mass Basis), Referenced to the Absolute GWP for the Adopted Carbon...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 40 Protection of Environment 18 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Global Warming Potentials (Mass Basis..., App. I Appendix I to Subpart A of Part 82—Global Warming Potentials (Mass Basis), Referenced to the... formula Global warming potential (time horizon) 20 years 100 years 500 years CFC-11 CFCl3 5000 4000 1400...

  20. 40 CFR Appendix I to Subpart A of... - Global Warming Potentials (Mass Basis), Referenced to the Absolute GWP for the Adopted Carbon...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 40 Protection of Environment 18 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Global Warming Potentials (Mass Basis..., App. I Appendix I to Subpart A of Part 82—Global Warming Potentials (Mass Basis), Referenced to the... formula Global warming potential (time horizon) 20 years 100 years 500 years CFC-11 CFCl3 5000 4000 1400...

  1. Sociology Faculty Members Employed Part-Time in Community Colleges: Structural Disadvantage, Cultural Devaluation, and Faculty-Student Relationships

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Curtis, John W.; Mahabir, Cynthia; Vitullo, Margaret Weigers

    2016-01-01

    The large majority of faculty members teaching in community colleges are employed on a part-time basis, yet little is known about their working conditions and professional engagement. This article uses data from a recent national survey of faculty members teaching sociology in community colleges to provide this information, with particular…

  2. 38 CFR 21.140 - Evaluation and improvement of rehabilitation potential.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... reasonably feasible for a vocational goal or an independent living goal. (2) Provide a basis for planning: (i... improvement services are furnished on a full-time basis as a preliminary part of the period of rehabilitation... training, speech and voice correction, training in ambulation, and one-hand typewriting; (6) Orientation...

  3. 42 CFR 483.35 - Dietary services.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... receives and the facility provides at least three meals daily, at regular times comparable to normal.... (a) Staffing. The facility must employ a qualified dietitian either full-time, part-time, or on a consultant basis. (1) If a qualified dietitian is not employed full-time, the facility must designate a...

  4. 42 CFR 483.35 - Dietary services.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... receives and the facility provides at least three meals daily, at regular times comparable to normal.... (a) Staffing. The facility must employ a qualified dietitian either full-time, part-time, or on a consultant basis. (1) If a qualified dietitian is not employed full-time, the facility must designate a...

  5. The Struggle to Succeed: Factors Associated with the Persistence of Part-Time Adult Students Seeking a Master's Degree

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Cohen, Marian A. O.; Greenberg, Scott

    2011-01-01

    Studies of student persistence at the undergraduate level are numerous and well known to those in the field, but at the graduate level, they are far more limited. The latter generally focus on doctoral candidates or those enrolled in professional programs. Master's-degree candidates, especially those who pursue a degree on a part-time basis at a…

  6. Radiolarians, foraminifers, and biostratigraphy of the Coniacian-Campanian deposits of the Alan-Kyr Section, Crimean Mountains

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Bragina, L. G.; Beniamovsky, V. N.; Kopaevich, L. F.

    2016-01-01

    Data on the distribution of radiolarians and planktonic and benthic foraminifers are obtained for the first time from the Alan-Kyr Section (Coniacian-Campanian), in the central regions of the Crimean Mountains. Radiolarian biostrata, previously established from Ak-Kaya Mountain (central regions of the Crimean Mountains) were traced: Alievium praegallowayi-Crucella plana (upper Coniacian-lower Santonian), Alievium gallowayi-Crucella espartoensis (upper Santonian without the topmost part), and Dictyocephalus (Dictyocryphalus) (?) legumen-Spongosaturninus parvulus (upper part of the upper Santonian). Radiolarians from the Santonian-Campanian boundary beds of the Crimean Mountains are studied for the first time, and Prunobrachium sp. ex gr. crassum-Diacanthocapsa acanthica Beds (uppermost Santonian-lower Campanian) are recognized. Bolivinoides strigillatus Beds (upper Santonian) and Stensioeina pommerana-Anomalinoides (?) insignis Beds (upper part of the upper Santonian-lower part of the lower Campanian) are recognized. Eouvigerina aspera denticulocarinata Beds (middle and upper parts of the lower Campanian) and Angulogavelinella gracilis Beds (upper part of the upper Campanian are recognized on the basis of benthic foraminifers. These beds correspond to the synchronous biostrata of the East European Platform and Mangyshlak. Marginotruncana coronata- Concavatotruncana concavata Beds (Coniacian-upper Santonian), Globotruncanita elevata Beds (terminal Santonian), and Globotruncana arca Beds (lower Campanian) are recognized on the basis of planktonic foraminifers. Radiolarian and planktonic and benthic foraminiferal data agree with one another. The position of the Santonian-Campanian boundary in the Alan-Kyr Section, which is located stratigraphically above the levels of the latest occurrence of Concavatotruncana concavata and representatives of the genus Marginotruncana, is refined, i.e., at the level of the first appearance of Globotruncana arca. A gap in the Middle Campanian-lower part of the upper Campanian is established on the basis of planktonic and benthic foraminifers. The Santonian-Campanian beds of the Alan-Kyr Section, on the basis of planktonic foraminifers and radiolarians, positively correlate with synchronous beds of the Crimean-Caucasian region, and beyond. Benthic foraminifers suggest a connection with the basins of the East European Platform.

  7. Fokker-Planck electron diffusion caused by an obliquely propagating electromagnetic wave packet of narrow bandwidth

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Hizanidis, Kyriakos

    1989-01-01

    The relativistic motion of electrons in an intense electromagnetic wave packet propagating obliquely to a uniform magnetic field is analytically studied on the basis of the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov (FPK) approach. The wavepacket consists of circularly polarized electron-cyclotron waves. The dynamical system in question is shown to be reducible to one with three degrees of freedom. Within the framework of the Hamiltonian analysis the nonlinear diffusion tensor is derived, and it is shown that this tensor can be separated into zeroth-, first-, and second-order parts with respect to the relative bandwidth. The zeroth-order part describes diffusive acceleration along lines of constant unperturbed Hamiltonian. The second-order part, which corresponds to the longest time scale, describes diffusion across those lines. A possible transport theory is outlined on the basis of this separation of the time scales.

  8. 38 CFR 52.140 - Dietary services.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... meals. (1) At regular times comparable to normal mealtimes in the community, each participant may... management must provide each participant with a nourishing, palatable, well-balanced meal that proportionally... program management must employ a qualified dietitian either part-time or on a contract consultant basis to...

  9. 29 CFR 553.221 - Compensable hours of work.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... time (§ 553.222) apply to both law enforcement and firefighting employees for whom the section 7(k) exemption is claimed. Also, special rules for meal time apply in the case of employees in fire protection... independent employer, early relief, and work performed on an occasional or sporadic and part-time basis, all...

  10. Computer program to perform cost and weight analysis of transport aircraft. Volume 1: Summary

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    1973-01-01

    A digital computer program for evaluating the weight and costs of advanced transport designs was developed. The resultant program, intended for use at the preliminary design level, incorporates both batch mode and interactive graphics run capability. The basis of the weight and cost estimation method developed is a unique way of predicting the physical design of each detail part of a vehicle structure at a time when only configuration concept drawings are available. In addition, the technique relies on methods to predict the precise manufacturing processes and the associated material required to produce each detail part. Weight data are generated in four areas of the program. Overall vehicle system weights are derived on a statistical basis as part of the vehicle sizing process. Theoretical weights, actual weights, and the weight of the raw material to be purchased are derived as part of the structural synthesis and part definition processes based on the computed part geometry.

  11. "It Sort of Feels Uncomfortable": Problematising the Assessment of Reflective Practice

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Tummons, Jonathan

    2011-01-01

    This article forms part of an exploration of assessment on one part-time higher education course: a professional qualification for teachers and trainers in the learning and skills sector, which is delivered on a franchise basis across a network of colleges in the north of England. This article proposes that the validity of the assessment of…

  12. 29 CFR 452.92 - Unemployed members.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... not be disqualified from voting merely because they are currently unemployed or are employed on a part-time basis in the industry served by the union, provided, of course, that such members are paying dues. ...

  13. 38 CFR 17.605 - Selection of participants.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ...-time students, the Secretary may, at the Secretary's discretion— (Authority: 38 U.S.C. 7612(b)(5)) (1) Award scholarships geographically to part-time students so that available scholarships may be distributed on a relatively equal basis to students working throughout the VA health care system, and/or (2...

  14. 38 CFR 17.605 - Selection of participants.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ...-time students, the Secretary may, at the Secretary's discretion— (Authority: 38 U.S.C. 7612(b)(5)) (1) Award scholarships geographically to part-time students so that available scholarships may be distributed on a relatively equal basis to students working throughout the VA health care system, and/or (2...

  15. 77 FR 66443 - Renewal of the Defense Health Board

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-11-05

    ... an annual basis according to DoD policy and procedures. Board members who are not full-time or permanent part-time Federal employees shall be appointed to serve as experts and consultants under the... exception of travel and per diem for official travel, Board members shall serve without compensation. The...

  16. 76 FR 43674 - Renewal of Department of Defense Federal Advisory Committee

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-07-21

    ... communities. No Committee members shall be a full-time or part-time DoD employee. Committee members are... of Defense shall renew their appointments on an annual basis. With the exception of travel and per diem for official travel, Committee members shall serve without compensation. Committee members shall...

  17. 13 CFR 108.20 - Legal basis and applicability of this part 108.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 13 Business Credit and Assistance 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Legal basis and applicability of... MARKETS VENTURE CAPITAL (âNMVCâ) PROGRAM Introduction to Part 108 § 108.20 Legal basis and applicability of this part 108. The regulations in this part implement Part B of Title III of the Small Business...

  18. 76 FR 20342 - Renewal of Department of Defense Federal Advisory Committees

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-04-12

    ... Defense, who are not full-time or permanent part-time federal employees, shall be appointed as experts and... Secretary of Defense shall renew their appointments on an annual basis. With the exception of travel and per diem for official travel, Board members shall serve without compensation. The Assistant Secretaries of...

  19. 76 FR 67426 - Renewal of Department of Defense Federal Advisory Committees

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-11-01

    ... industry. Panel members appointed by the Secretary of Defense, who are not full-time or permanent part-time... an annual basis by the Secretary of Defense, and with the exception of travel and per diem for official travel, Panel members shall serve without compensation. The Secretary of the Navy shall select the...

  20. 76 FR 43991 - Amendment of Department of Defense Federal Advisory Committee

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-07-22

    ... adviser to the chair. Board members appointed by the Secretary of Defense, who are not full-time or permanent part-time Federal employees, shall be appointed as experts and consultants under the authority of... shall renew their appointments on an annual basis. With the exception of travel and per diem for...

  1. 77 FR 22292 - Renewal of Department of Defense Federal Advisory Committees

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-04-13

    ... Defense, and their appointments will be renewed on an annual basis. Board members who are not full-time or permanent part-time Federal employees, shall be appointed to serve as experts and consultants under the... Board's Chairperson and Vice Chairperson from the total Board membership. With the exception of travel...

  2. 77 FR 68747 - Reestablishment of Department of Defense Federal Advisory Committees

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-11-16

    ... an annual basis. Those members, who are not full-time or permanent part-time Federal officers or... point of view and in a manner that is free from conflict of interest. With the exception of travel and per diem for official Committee related travel, Committee members shall serve without compensation...

  3. Stress Related Factors among Primary and Part-Time Caregiving Grandmothers of Kenyan Grandchildren

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Oburu, Paul Odhiambo; Palmerus, Kerstin

    2005-01-01

    The present study examined whether the total stress experienced by 241 caregiving grandmothers was linked to levels of care provided, child behavioral difficulty, and perceived availability of emotional and instrumental support. One hundred and twenty eight of these participants adopted their orphaned grandchildren on full-time basis. The rest (n…

  4. 13 CFR 107.20 - Legal basis and applicability of this part 107.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 13 Business Credit and Assistance 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Legal basis and applicability of this part 107. 107.20 Section 107.20 Business Credit and Assistance SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT COMPANIES Introduction to Part 107 § 107.20 Legal basis and applicability of this part...

  5. 32 CFR 1800.33 - Allocation of resources; agreed extensions of time.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... strictly “first-in, first-out” basis and utilizing two or more processing queues to ensure that smaller as... Coordinator is responsible for management of the NACIC-wide program defined by this part and for establishing...

  6. 32 CFR 1801.33 - Allocation of resources; agreed extensions of time.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ...” basis and utilizing two or more processing queues to ensure that smaller as well as larger (i.e... management of the NACIC-wide program defined by this part and for establishing priorities for cases...

  7. The Assessment of Lesson Plans in Teacher Education: A Case Study in Assessment Validity and Reliability

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Tummons, Jonathan

    2010-01-01

    This paper forms part of an exploration of assessment on one part-time higher education (HE) course: an in-service, professional qualification for teachers and trainers in the learning and skills sector which is delivered on a franchise basis across a network of further education colleges in the north of England. This paper proposes that the…

  8. Faculty's Role in the Retention of Nontraditional Undergraduate Students

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Dutcher, Gail Lynam

    2016-01-01

    Nontraditional students are students who are at least 25 years old and attend school on a part-time basis. They also have one or more of the following characteristics: delayed enrollment in higher education, full-time work, financially independent, have dependents, are single parents, and do not have a high school diploma (Choy, 2002). Retention…

  9. Reflections on Finally Becoming a Professor after Forty Years

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Watkins, J. Foster

    2016-01-01

    I wrote this reflective piece in 1999 as I was assuming my first full-time position as a professor with limited administrative responsibilities at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). After 30-plus years in administrative roles in higher education that provided the opportunity to teach on a part-time basis only, I quickly became aware of…

  10. 22 CFR 142.12 - Reasonable accommodation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL RIGHTS NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS... of an otherwise qualified handicapped applicant or employee unless the recipient can demonstrate that... usable by handicapped persons, and (2) job restructuring, part-time or modified work schedules...

  11. 22 CFR 142.12 - Reasonable accommodation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL RIGHTS NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS... of an otherwise qualified handicapped applicant or employee unless the recipient can demonstrate that... usable by handicapped persons, and (2) job restructuring, part-time or modified work schedules...

  12. 22 CFR 142.12 - Reasonable accommodation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL RIGHTS NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS... of an otherwise qualified handicapped applicant or employee unless the recipient can demonstrate that... usable by handicapped persons, and (2) job restructuring, part-time or modified work schedules...

  13. 22 CFR 142.12 - Reasonable accommodation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL RIGHTS NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS... of an otherwise qualified handicapped applicant or employee unless the recipient can demonstrate that... usable by handicapped persons, and (2) job restructuring, part-time or modified work schedules...

  14. 45 CFR 84.12 - Reasonable accommodation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Employment Practices... physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified handicapped applicant or employee unless the... readily accessible to and usable by handicapped persons, and (2) job restructuring, part-time or modified...

  15. New Method for Solving Inductive Electric Fields in the Ionosphere

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Vanhamäki, H.

    2005-12-01

    We present a new method for calculating inductive electric fields in the ionosphere. It is well established that on large scales the ionospheric electric field is a potential field. This is understandable, since the temporal variations of large scale current systems are generally quite slow, in the timescales of several minutes, so inductive effects should be small. However, studies of Alfven wave reflection have indicated that in some situations inductive phenomena could well play a significant role in the reflection process, and thus modify the nature of ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling. The input to our calculation method are the time series of the potential part of the ionospheric electric field together with the Hall and Pedersen conductances. The output is the time series of the induced rotational part of the ionospheric electric field. The calculation method works in the time-domain and can be used with non-uniform, time-dependent conductances. In addition no particular symmetry requirements are imposed on the input potential electric field. The presented method makes use of special non-local vector basis functions called Cartesian Elementary Current Systems (CECS). This vector basis offers a convenient way of representing curl-free and divergence-free parts of 2-dimensional vector fields and makes it possible to solve the induction problem using simple linear algebra. The new calculation method is validated by comparing it with previously published results for Alfven wave reflection from uniformly conducting ionosphere.

  16. Relativistic hydrodynamics from quantum field theory on the basis of the generalized Gibbs ensemble method

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Hayata, Tomoya; Hidaka, Yoshimasa; Noumi, Toshifumi; Hongo, Masaru

    2015-09-01

    We derive relativistic hydrodynamics from quantum field theories by assuming that the density operator is given by a local Gibbs distribution at initial time. We decompose the energy-momentum tensor and particle current into nondissipative and dissipative parts, and analyze their time evolution in detail. Performing the path-integral formulation of the local Gibbs distribution, we microscopically derive the generating functional for the nondissipative hydrodynamics. We also construct a basis to study dissipative corrections. In particular, we derive the first-order dissipative hydrodynamic equations without a choice of frame such as the Landau-Lifshitz or Eckart frame.

  17. 41 CFR 101-8.306 - Reasonable accommodation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 8.3-Discrimination Prohibited on the Basis of Handicap § 101-8.306 Reasonable... an otherwise qualified handicapped applicant or employee unless the recipient can demonstrate that... usable by handicapped persons; and (2) Job restructuring; part-time or modified work schedules...

  18. 41 CFR 101-8.306 - Reasonable accommodation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 8.3-Discrimination Prohibited on the Basis of Handicap § 101-8.306 Reasonable... an otherwise qualified handicapped applicant or employee unless the recipient can demonstrate that... usable by handicapped persons; and (2) Job restructuring; part-time or modified work schedules...

  19. 41 CFR 101-8.306 - Reasonable accommodation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 8.3-Discrimination Prohibited on the Basis of Handicap § 101-8.306 Reasonable... an otherwise qualified handicapped applicant or employee unless the recipient can demonstrate that... usable by handicapped persons; and (2) Job restructuring; part-time or modified work schedules...

  20. 41 CFR 101-8.306 - Reasonable accommodation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 8.3-Discrimination Prohibited on the Basis of Handicap § 101-8.306 Reasonable... an otherwise qualified handicapped applicant or employee unless the recipient can demonstrate that... usable by handicapped persons; and (2) Job restructuring; part-time or modified work schedules...

  1. 7 CFR 4290.20 - Legal basis and applicability of this part 4290.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... INVESTMENT COMPANY (âRBICâ) PROGRAM Introduction to Part 4290 § 4290.20 Legal basis and applicability of this... 7 Agriculture 15 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Legal basis and applicability of this part 4290. 4290.20 Section 4290.20 Agriculture Regulations of the Department of Agriculture (Continued) RURAL...

  2. Part-time work among older workers with disabilities in Europe.

    PubMed

    Pagán, R

    2009-05-01

    To analyse the use of part-time work among older workers with disabilities compared with their non-disabled counterparts within a European context. Cross-sectional. Data were drawn from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. The key advantage of this dataset is that it provides a harmonized cross-national dimension, and contains information for European individuals aged 50 years or over on a wide range of health indicators, disability, socio-economic situation, social relations, etc. Older people with disabilities (aged 50-64 years) are more likely to have a part-time job compared with their non-disabled counterparts. Although there is an important employment gap between the two groups, many older workers with disabilities use part-time work to achieve a better balance between their health status and working life. The econometric analysis corroborated that being disabled has a positive effect on the probability of working on a part-time basis, although this effect varies by country. Policy makers must encourage part-time employment as a means of increasing employment opportunities for older workers with disabilities, and support gradual retirement opportunities with flexible and reduced working hours. It is crucial to change attitudes towards older people with disabilities in order to increase their labour participation and reduce their levels of poverty and marginalization.

  3. A flexible nursing workforce: realities and fallouts.

    PubMed

    Grinspun, Doris

    2002-01-01

    While policy-makers are increasingly concerned about a looming nursing shortage, almost half of Canada's nursing workforce is currently employed on a part-time or casual basis. Why are so many nurses not working full-time and providing the nursing care that would help to alleviate such shortages in our healthcare organizations? Do nurses want to work part-time, or are they driven into this by labour market forces, life demands, poor working conditions and policy decisions external to them? The answers to these questions are critical to ensure that care will be there for all of us. This article presents a brief analysis of flexible employment arrangements in nursing, particularly part-time and casual work, and the impact on nurses, patients and the healthcare system as a whole. Given the sharp increases in these work arrangements in Canada during the last decade, the limited discussion of these trends in the literature is both surprising and troublesome.

  4. 26 CFR 31.3121(a)-2 - Wages; when paid and received.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... recognized as having been, paid on a piece rate basis in the region of employment; (B) Commutes daily from... in this paragraph (d)(2), see § 31.3121(a)-2 in effect at such time (see 26 CFR part 31 contained in...

  5. 26 CFR 31.3121(a)-2 - Wages; when paid and received.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... recognized as having been, paid on a piece rate basis in the region of employment; (B) Commutes daily from... in this paragraph (d)(2), see § 31.3121(a)-2 in effect at such time (see 26 CFR part 31 contained in...

  6. 26 CFR 31.3121(a)-2 - Wages; when paid and received.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... recognized as having been, paid on a piece rate basis in the region of employment; (B) Commutes daily from... in this paragraph (d)(2), see § 31.3121(a)-2 in effect at such time (see 26 CFR part 31 contained in...

  7. 26 CFR 31.3121(a)-2 - Wages; when paid and received.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... recognized as having been, paid on a piece rate basis in the region of employment; (B) Commutes daily from... in this paragraph (d)(2), see § 31.3121(a)-2 in effect at such time (see 26 CFR part 31 contained in...

  8. 26 CFR 31.3121(a)-2 - Wages; when paid and received.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... recognized as having been, paid on a piece rate basis in the region of employment; (B) Commutes daily from... in this paragraph (d)(2), see § 31.3121(a)-2 in effect at such time (see 26 CFR part 31 contained in...

  9. 47 CFR 13.1 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION GENERAL COMMERCIAL RADIO OPERATORS General § 13.1 Basis and purpose. (a) Basis. The basis for the rules contained in this part is the Communications Act of 1934, as... purpose of the rules in this part is to prescribe the manner and conditions under which commercial radio...

  10. Chemical constituents from aerial part of Curcuma wenyujin.

    PubMed

    Tao, Zheng-Ming; Li, Ying-Yu; Ji, Ping; Wang, Yu-Bo; Qin, Guo-Wei

    2007-12-01

    To investigate the chemical constituents from aerial part of Curcuma wenyujin. Compounds were isolated by repeated column chromatography on silica gel. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectral analysis and comparison with literature data. Six compounds were isolated and identified as codonolactone (1), voleneol (2), octacosanoic acid (3), beta-sitosterol (4), mangdesisterol (5), and daucosterol (6). Compounds 1, 2, and 5 were isolated from the plant for the first time.

  11. Thermospheric O/N2 in the Sunlit Disk From More Than Five Years of GUVI/TIMED Observations

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Craven, J. D.; Christensen, A. B.; Paxton, L. J.

    2007-12-01

    GUVI indirect observations of the thermospheric column density ratio, O/N2, in the sunlit hemisphere have been made on a nearly continuous basis from day 50 of 2002 to the present as part of the TIMED spacecraft mission. The basic large-scale spatial structure includes variations with local time (greater values in the morning), Universal Time (modulation at high latitudes due to the offset magnetic dipole), and season (greater values in the local winter hemisphere). These differences are seen to fade in the approach to solar minimum. Superposed on this reasonably well-behaved background structure are the complex, transient perturbations driven by auroral substorms and geomagnetic storms. The spatial and temporal variations are summarized in part by time-lapse movies

  12. Post-16 Educational Choices and Institutional Value Added at Key Stage 5. CEE DP 124

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    Crawford, Claire; Meschi, Elena; Vignoles, Anna

    2011-01-01

    In the UK there has historically been a clear demarcation between the academic and vocational routes through education post-16. Generally vocational study is taken either on a part time basis or full time at Further Education (FE) colleges. Students who want to take academic qualifications such as A levels have the option to enrol in a school…

  13. From Soap Opera to Research Methods Teaching: Developing an Interactive Website/DVD to Teach Research in Health and Social Care

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    Sabey, Abigail; Horrocks, Sue

    2011-01-01

    Research methods modules have become a core component of a range of nursing and allied health professional educational programmes both at pre-qualifying, undergraduate level and at post-qualifying and Masters' level, in keeping with requirements of professional bodies. These courses are offered both on a full time basis and part time for qualified…

  14. 48 CFR 970.0371-7 - Outside employment of contractor employees.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... ENERGY AGENCY SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS DOE MANAGEMENT AND OPERATING CONTRACTS Improper Business.... Employees of a management and operating contractor are entitled to the same rights and privileges with... full or part-time basis under a DOE management and operating contract may engage in employment outside...

  15. Online Learner's "Flow" Experience: An Empirical Study

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Shin, Namin

    2006-01-01

    This study is concerned with online learners' "low" experiences. On the basis of Csikszentmihalyi's theory of flow, flow was conceptualised as a complex, multimentional, reflective construct composing of "enjoyment", "telepresence", "focused attention", "engagement" and "time distortion" on the part of learners. A flow model was put forward with…

  16. [Part-time residency training in Israel].

    PubMed

    Fishbain, Dana; Levi, Baruch; Borow, Malke; Ashkenazi, Shai; Lindner, Arie

    2012-08-01

    Full-time work has long been perceived as a cornerstone of medical residency, the consensus being that a resident must apply the bulk of his time and attention to his professional training. Demographic and cultural changes that have taken place over the last several years, specifically the rise in the number of female doctors and the importance of leisure time to the younger generation, have intensified the need to find new and innovative ways to deal with the plight of the resident population. One idea, already in effect in many Western countries, is the institution of part-time residency programs. The possibility of fulfilling residency requirements on a part-time basis is intended to assist medical residents in integrating their professional development with their personal and family life, without compromising the quality of their training. A number of research studies conducted over the last several years in countries that allow part-time residency, among them the United States, England and Switzerland, aimed to examine the quality of part-time training. The various studies evinced a high level of satisfaction from the program both by the residents themselves and their supervisors, and in many aspects those doing residency part-time received higher appraisals than their full-time colleagues. Some of the residents polled noted that they would have totally foregone the practice of medicine had there not been an option to complete residency part-time. In light of the experience throughout the world and the changing landscape in Israel, the Scientific Council of the Israeli Medical Association decided to examine the issue and its various aspects, and weighed all the considerations in favor and against part-time residency. Recently, the Scientific Council approved the launch of a pilot program to allow part-time residency in several fields that were carefully selected according to specific criteria. Once the Ministry of Health completes the LegisLation process, part-time residency will officially begin in Israel.

  17. [Part-time Work and Men's Health : Results based on Routine Data of a Statutory Health Insurance Scheme].

    PubMed

    Grobe, Thomas G

    2016-08-01

    With the introduction of a new occupational classification at the end of 2011, employment characteristics are reported by employees to social insurance agencies in Germany in more detail than in previous years. In addition to other changes, the new classification allows a distinction between full- and part-time work to be made. This provided a reason to consider the health-related aspects of part-time work on the basis of data from a statutory health insurance scheme. Our analysis is based on the data of 3.8 million employees insured with the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), a statutory health insurance scheme, in 2012. In addition to daily information on employment situations, details of periods and diagnoses of sick leave and the drugs prescribed were available. Although approximately 50 % of women of middle to higher working age worked part-time in 2012, the corresponding percentage of men employed in part-time work was less than 10 %. Overall, part-time employees were on sick leave for fewer days than full-time employees, but among men, sick leave due to mental disorders was longer for part-time employees than for full-time employees, whereas women working part time were affected to a lesser extent by corresponding periods of absence than those working full time. The results provide indications for the assertion that men in gender-specifically atypical employment situations are more frequently affected by mental disorders. Further evidence supports this assertion. With the long-term availability of these new employment characteristics, longitudinal analyses could help to clarify this cause-effect relationship.

  18. Accounting Clerk Guide, Learner Packet--Part I. A Spec Unit for the 10th, 11th, or 12th Grade. A Career Education Unit (An Edited Developmental Draft).

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Foster, Brian; And Others

    The learner packet is part of an eight volume unit for grades 10, 11, and 12, designed for individualized progression in preparing students for entry into the occupation of accounting clerk. Intended to be used on an individual basis at the student's own speed, the learner packet contains vocabulary, suggested lesson time, self-check keys, and…

  19. Who Should Develop Instructional Materials for CAI?

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Seidel, Robert J.

    The nonprofit special organization as a developer of computer-administered instruction (CAI) is advocated in this paper. The organization of universities and their mode of operation do not lend themselves to instructional product development. Faculty members engage in such efforts on a part-time basis and in competition with higher priority…

  20. 14 CFR 91.417 - Maintenance records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... alteration and records of the 100-hour, annual, progressive, and other required or approved inspections, as... propeller, and each rotor. (ii) The current status of life-limited parts of each airframe, engine, propeller... are required to be overhauled on a specified time basis. (iv) The current inspection status of the...

  1. 14 CFR 91.417 - Maintenance records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... alteration and records of the 100-hour, annual, progressive, and other required or approved inspections, as... propeller, and each rotor. (ii) The current status of life-limited parts of each airframe, engine, propeller... are required to be overhauled on a specified time basis. (iv) The current inspection status of the...

  2. Planning & Urban Affairs Library Manual.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Knobbe, Mary L., Ed.; Lessel, Janice W., Ed.

    Written especially for persons without a library degree who are operating a small urban study or planning agency library on a part-time basis. Subjects covered are: (1) library function and staff function, duties and training; (2) physical layout and equipment of library; (3) establishing and maintaining the library; (4) library administration;…

  3. 42 CFR 440.185 - Respiratory care for ventilator-dependent individuals.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 4 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Respiratory care for ventilator-dependent... Definitions § 440.185 Respiratory care for ventilator-dependent individuals. (a) “Respiratory care for... plan, provided on a part-time basis in the beneficiary's home by a respiratory therapist or other...

  4. 42 CFR 440.185 - Respiratory care for ventilator-dependent individuals.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 4 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Respiratory care for ventilator-dependent... Definitions § 440.185 Respiratory care for ventilator-dependent individuals. (a) “Respiratory care for... plan, provided on a part-time basis in the beneficiary's home by a respiratory therapist or other...

  5. 42 CFR 440.185 - Respiratory care for ventilator-dependent individuals.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 4 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Respiratory care for ventilator-dependent... Definitions § 440.185 Respiratory care for ventilator-dependent individuals. (a) “Respiratory care for... plan, provided on a part-time basis in the recipient's home by a respiratory therapist or other health...

  6. 42 CFR 440.185 - Respiratory care for ventilator-dependent individuals.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 4 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Respiratory care for ventilator-dependent... Definitions § 440.185 Respiratory care for ventilator-dependent individuals. (a) “Respiratory care for... plan, provided on a part-time basis in the beneficiary's home by a respiratory therapist or other...

  7. 42 CFR 440.185 - Respiratory care for ventilator-dependent individuals.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 4 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Respiratory care for ventilator-dependent... Definitions § 440.185 Respiratory care for ventilator-dependent individuals. (a) “Respiratory care for... plan, provided on a part-time basis in the recipient's home by a respiratory therapist or other health...

  8. Epilogue: Change Leadership and Leadership Development

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Cloud, Robert C.

    2010-01-01

    Desna Wallin defines change leadership as a four-part process that "anticipates" change, "analyzes" the internal and external environments, "acts" on the basis of appropriate and timely data and the strengths of team members, and "affirms" institutional actions with the goal of continuous organizational improvement. In its finest form, change…

  9. Time Analysis of Building Dynamic Response Under Seismic Action. Part 2: Example of Calculation

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Ufimtcev, E. M.

    2017-11-01

    The second part of the article illustrates the use of the time analysis method (TAM) by the example of the calculation of a 3-storey building, the design dynamic model (DDM) of which is adopted in the form of a flat vertical cantilever rod with 3 horizontal degrees of freedom associated with floor and coverage levels. The parameters of natural oscillations (frequencies and modes) and the results of the calculation of the elastic forced oscillations of the building’s DDM - oscillograms of the reaction parameters on the time interval t ∈ [0; 131,25] sec. The obtained results are analyzed on the basis of the computed values of the discrepancy of the DDS motion equation and the comparison of the results calculated on the basis of the numerical approach (FEM) and the normative method set out in SP 14.13330.2014 “Construction in Seismic Regions”. The data of the analysis testify to the accuracy of the construction of the computational model as well as the high accuracy of the results obtained. In conclusion, it is revealed that the use of the TAM will improve the strength of buildings and structures subject to seismic influences when designing them.

  10. Is networking different with doctors working part-time? Differences in social networks of part-time and full-time doctors.

    PubMed

    Heiligers, Phil J M; de Jong, Judith D; Groenewegen, Peter P; Hingstman, Lammert; Völker, Beate; Spreeuwenberg, Peter

    2008-10-04

    Part-time working is a growing phenomenon in medicine, which is expected to influence informal networks at work differently compared to full-time working. The opportunity to meet and build up social capital at work has offered a basis for theoretical arguments. Twenty-eight teams of medical specialists in the Netherlands, including 226 individuals participated in this study. Interviews with team representatives and individual questionnaires were used. Data were gathered on three types of networks: relationships of consulting, communication and trust. For analyses, network and multilevel applications were used. Differences between individual doctors and between teams were both analysed, taking the dependency structure of the data into account, because networks of individual doctors are not independent. Teams were divided into teams with and without doctors working part-time. Contrary to expectations we found no impact of part-time working on the size of personal networks, neither at the individual nor at the team level. The same was found regarding efficient reachability. Whereas we expected part-time doctors to choose their relations as efficiently as possible, we even found the opposite in intended relationships of trust, implying that efficiency in reaching each other was higher for full-time doctors. But we found as expected that in mixed teams with part-time doctors the frequency of regular communication was less compared to full-time teams. Furthermore, as expected the strength of the intended relationships of trust of part-time and full-time doctors was equally high. From these findings we can conclude that part-time doctors are not aiming at efficiency by limiting the size of networks or by efficient reachability, because they want to contact their colleagues directly in order to prevent from communication errors. On the other hand, together with the growth of teams, we found this strategy, focussed on reaching all colleagues, was diminishing. And our data confirmed that formalisation was increasing together with the growth of teams.

  11. [Chemical constituents from aerial part of Aconitum brachypodum].

    PubMed

    Wang, Hong-Yun; Zuo, Ai-Xue; Sun, Yun; Rao, Gao-Xiong

    2014-08-01

    To study the chemical constituents from the aerial part of Aconitum brachypodum. The constituents were isolated and purified by silica gel, activated alumina and Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography. their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectral data and physiochemical evidence. Eleven compounds were isolated from 80% ethanol extract and identified as secokaraconitine (1), brachyaconitines A (2), C (3), talatisamine (4), hypaconitine (5), songrine (6), bullatine A (7), 7-carbony sitosterone (8), lupeol (9), β-sitosterol (10) and daucosterol (11). All compounds are isolated from the aerial part of Aconitum brachypodum for the first time.

  12. The psychiatrist's role at a local hospital in the northern part of Norway and his cooperation with the primary health service in the area.

    PubMed

    Hartviksen, I

    1979-01-01

    This paper describes a practical working situation for a psychiatrist situated in the northern part of Norway. The psychiatrist is attached to the local hospital on a part time basis and takes care of the psychiatric cases in the medical ward together with somatic cases. In addition, he works in a polyclinical setting in town, in close contact with several health and social services, and tries to be close to where the problems originate. The psychiatrist deals mainly with crisis interventions and has a social psychiatric approach.

  13. Property rights in human gametes in Australia.

    PubMed

    White, Vanessa

    2013-03-01

    It has long been a basic tenet of the common law that there can be no property interest in human bodies or body parts. However, exceptions to the rule have been recognised from the mid-19th century and developed over time. In the early 21st century, there have been interesting developments in the common law of Australia and England, with Australian Supreme Court judges and the English Court of Appeal casting aside existing exceptions, and finding property rights in human body parts, including gametes, by relying instead on a "rational" and "logical" basis to identify property interests in human body parts.

  14. [Personalist bioethics in the Romano Guardini's thought].

    PubMed

    Fayos Febrer, Rafael

    2014-01-01

    The present article tries to offer some elements of Romano Guardini's thought as a basis for a personalist bioethics. This paper is structured in two main parts. First we will expose the known critic of the Modern Age by Romano Guardini since at this time are set the basis and the principles that later on will bring forth the big bioethics 'questions as human cloning, in vitro fertilization, embryo transference, euthanasia, etc. The power without a guiding ethic rule, the modern human conception and the roll of the Estate will be analyzed too in this first part. This analysis brings to light the error in which modernity has fallen. Secondly, in a more positive way, we will try to deduce other principles from the Romano Guardini's anthropology, commenting his essay "The right to human life in develop".

  15. Cross-National Differences in the Association Between Parental Work Hours and Time with Children in Europe: A Multilevel Analysis.

    PubMed

    Roeters, Anne

    2013-01-01

    This study investigates cross-national differences in the association between parental work hours and parent-child interaction time and explains differences in this individual-level association on the basis of country characteristics. It extends prior research by testing the moderating effects of country characteristics through multilevel analyses and by considering the possibility of selection effects. The presumption was that parents employ strategies to protect family life from work encroachments and that these strategies are enhanced by reconciliation policies, stronger parenthood ideologies, access to part-time work and higher income levels. Multilevel analyses were based on a subset of 5.183 parents in 23 countries from the 2005 European Working Conditions Survey that was complemented with country-level data. The negative association between parental work hours and parent-child time indeed varied significantly across countries and was weaker in countries where formal child care coverage was higher, part-time work was less prevalent, and earnings were lower. The effects of part-time work and earnings mainly applied to mothers. These findings suggest that child care coverage limits the availability of children and that differences in parent-child time between parents who work short and long hours are more pronounced when part-time work is more accessible and affordable.

  16. Postgraduate Research Success: Communities of Practice Involving Cohorts, Guardian Supervisors and Online Communities

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Wisker, Gina; Robinson, Gillian; Shacham, Miri

    2007-01-01

    Traditionally, supervisors work with students on an individual basis and postgraduate development programmes are run on site. However, with increasing numbers of part-time and international students, supervisory relationships are likely to be conducted at a distance as students study alongside other commitments. Isolation can often be a key…

  17. Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) Reference Guide

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Minnesota Department of Education, 2017

    2017-01-01

    The PSEO program is a dual credit program that allows high school students to simultaneously earn high school and college credit through enrollment in and successful completion of college-level courses on a college campus or online. Students may take PSEO courses on a full- or part-time basis. The PSEO program provides students with a greater…

  18. 30 CFR 1206.301 - Value basis for royalty computation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ...) The gross value for royalty purposes shall be the sale or contract unit price times the number of units sold, Provided, however, That where the authorized officer determines: (1) That a contract of sale... whole or in part upon considerations other than the value of the commodities, or (2) That no bona fide...

  19. 30 CFR 1206.301 - Value basis for royalty computation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ...) The gross value for royalty purposes shall be the sale or contract unit price times the number of units sold, Provided, however, That where the authorized officer determines: (1) That a contract of sale... whole or in part upon considerations other than the value of the commodities, or (2) That no bona fide...

  20. 30 CFR 1206.301 - Value basis for royalty computation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ...) The gross value for royalty purposes shall be the sale or contract unit price times the number of units sold, Provided, however, That where the authorized officer determines: (1) That a contract of sale... whole or in part upon considerations other than the value of the commodities, or (2) That no bona fide...

  1. 30 CFR 206.301 - Value basis for royalty computation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... gross value for royalty purposes shall be the sale or contract unit price times the number of units sold, Provided, however, That where the authorized officer determines: (1) That a contract of sale or other... lease is not a bona fide transaction between independent parties because it is based in whole or in part...

  2. INCOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR RURAL FAMILIES FROM OUTDOOR RECREATION ENTERPRISES.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    BIRD, RONALD; INMAN, BUIS T.

    MANY LOW INCOME AREAS OF THE U.S. POSSESS NATURAL ATTRACTIONS WHICH CAN BE USED AS A BASIS FOR ESTABLISHING EITHER PART OR FULL-TIME RECREATIONAL ENTERPRISES. THE SUCCESS OF PEOPLE UNDERTAKING THESE TYPES OF BUSINESS VENTURES DEPENDS ON THEIR MANAGERIAL ABILITY IN ASSESSING DEMAND, ACQUIRING THE NECESSARY CAPITAL, BUILDING APPROPRIATE FACILITIES,…

  3. 17 CFR Appendix A to Part 37 - Guidance on Compliance With Registration Criteria

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... facility should include the system's trade-matching algorithm and order entry procedures. A submission involving a trade-matching algorithm that is based on order priority factors other than on a best price/earliest time basis should include a brief explanation of the alternative algorithm. (b) A board of trade's...

  4. 17 CFR Appendix A to Part 37 - Guidance on Compliance With Registration Criteria

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... facility should include the system's trade-matching algorithm and order entry procedures. A submission involving a trade-matching algorithm that is based on order priority factors other than on a best price/earliest time basis should include a brief explanation of the alternative algorithm. (b) A board of trade's...

  5. Course Delivery Platform Changes and Instructional Delivery Methods: Student Attitudes and Perceptions

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Garner, William E.; Pack, Tresvil G.; Szirony, Gary M.; Beeson, Eric T.

    2013-01-01

    The purposes of this study were to examine students' perceptions and attitudes toward changes in Distance Education (DE) course management systems and to evaluate their instructional delivery preferences. Students (N = 145) enrolled in an online master's degree program on either a full- or part-time basis completed an online survey instrument…

  6. Grammatical, Situational and Notional Syllabuses.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Wilkins, D.A.

    Most textbooks for teaching foreign languages have as their basis a grammatical syllabus. The theory has been that it is easier for students to learn a language if they are exposed to one part of the grammatical system at a time. Recently critics have questioned this theory, arguing that the grammatical syllabus fails to provide the necessary…

  7. Perceptual awareness and its neural basis: bridging experimental and theoretical paradigms

    PubMed Central

    Raffone, Antonino; Srinivasan, Narayanan; van Leeuwen, Cees

    2014-01-01

    Understanding consciousness is a major scientific challenge of our times, and perceptual awareness is an integral part of that challenge. This Theme Issue aims to provide a timely focus on crucial insights from leading scientists on perceptual awareness and its neural basis. The issue refers to key research questions and findings in perceptual awareness research and aims to be a catalyst for further research, by bringing together the state-of-the-art. It shows how bridges are being built between empirical and theoretical research and proposes new directions for the study of multisensory awareness and the role of the states of the body therein. In this introduction, we highlight crucial problems that have characterized the development of the study of perceptual awareness. We then provide an overview of major experimental and theoretical paradigms related to perceptual awareness and its neural basis. Finally, we present an overview of the Theme Issue, with reference to the contributed articles and their relationships. PMID:24639576

  8. 47 CFR 87.1 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES AVIATION SERVICES... purpose for which this part is issued. (a) Basis. The rules for the aviation services in this part are... Regulations). (3) The Convention on International Civil Aviation—(ICAO Convention). (b) Purpose. This part...

  9. 34 CFR 104.6 - Remedial action, voluntary action, and self-evaluation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... CIVIL RIGHTS, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR... has discriminated against persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part... persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part and where another recipient...

  10. 34 CFR 104.6 - Remedial action, voluntary action, and self-evaluation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... CIVIL RIGHTS, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR... has discriminated against persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part... persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part and where another recipient...

  11. 34 CFR 104.6 - Remedial action, voluntary action, and self-evaluation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... CIVIL RIGHTS, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR... has discriminated against persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part... persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part and where another recipient...

  12. 34 CFR 104.6 - Remedial action, voluntary action, and self-evaluation.

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    ... CIVIL RIGHTS, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR... has discriminated against persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part... persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part and where another recipient...

  13. 34 CFR 104.6 - Remedial action, voluntary action, and self-evaluation.

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    ... CIVIL RIGHTS, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR... has discriminated against persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part... persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part and where another recipient...

  14. RURAL RECREATION ENTERPRISES FOR PROFIT, AN AID TO RURAL AREAS DEVELOPMENT.

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    Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC.

    MANY RURAL AREAS OF THE U.S. POSSESS ENOUGH SPACE AND NATURAL ATTRACTIONS TO SERVE AS A BASIS FOR ESTABLISHING EITHER PART OR FULL-TIME RECREATIONAL ENTERPRISES. MOST OUTDOOR LEISURE ACTIVITIES CENTER AROUND WATER, HUNTING AND FISHING, ADMIRING SCENERY, AND ENJOYING THE NATURAL RURAL LANDSCAPE. THUS THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL RECREATION RESOURCES IS…

  15. Investigating Experimental Effects within the Framework of Structural Equation Modeling: An Example with Effects on Both Error Scores and Reaction Times

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    Schweizer, Karl

    2008-01-01

    Structural equation modeling provides the framework for investigating experimental effects on the basis of variances and covariances in repeated measurements. A special type of confirmatory factor analysis as part of this framework enables the appropriate representation of the experimental effect and the separation of experimental and…

  16. Latin American Youth in a Time of Change and Crisis.

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    United Nations Economic and Social Council, New York, NY.

    This 4-part study reaffirms the concepts of a previous study entitled "Situation and Prospects of Youth in Latin America" and approved in 1983, and on the basis of new knowledge explores more deeply national situations and their diversity. It offers new conceptual and theoretical contributions on the condition of youth in Latin America…

  17. 40 CFR 86.1905 - How does this program work?

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    2011-07-01

    ... least in part on the Phase 1 or Phase 2 testing outcomes described in § 86.1915. (2) The engine family... this section. We may select an engine family from the current model year or any previous model year... months longer to complete Phase 2 testing if there is a reasonable basis for needing more time. In very...

  18. The Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA): Lessons from North American Experience

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    Park, Chris

    2004-01-01

    The employment of graduate students on a part-time basis to help with the teaching of undergraduates is growing in the UK and many higher education institutions are confronted with challenges about how best to do this. UK institutions have much to learn from North American experience of appointing graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), and this…

  19. Coherent Waves in Seismic Researches

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    Emanov, A.; Seleznev, V. S.

    2013-05-01

    Development of digital processing algorithms of seismic wave fields for the purpose of useful event picking to study environment and other objects is the basis for the establishment of new seismic techniques. In the submitted paper a fundamental property of seismic wave field coherence is used. The authors extended conception of coherence types of observed wave fields and devised a technique of coherent component selection from observed wave field. Time coherence and space coherence are widely known. In this paper conception "parameter coherence" has been added. The parameter by which wave field is coherent can be the most manifold. The reason is that the wave field is a multivariate process described by a set of parameters. Coherence in the first place means independence of linear connection in wave field of parameter. In seismic wave fields, recorded in confined space, in building-blocks and stratified mediums time coherent standing waves are formed. In prospecting seismology at observation systems with multiple overlapping head waves are coherent by parallel correlation course or, in other words, by one measurement on generalized plane of observation system. For detail prospecting seismology at observation systems with multiple overlapping on basis of coherence property by one measurement of area algorithms have been developed, permitting seismic records to be converted to head wave time sections which have neither reflected nor other types of waves. Conversion in time section is executed on any specified observation base. Energy storage of head waves relative to noise on basis of multiplicity of observation system is realized within area of head wave recording. Conversion on base below the area of wave tracking is performed with lack of signal/noise ratio relative to maximum of this ratio, fit to observation system. Construction of head wave time section and dynamic plots a basis of automatic processing have been developed, similar to CDP procedure in method of reflected waves. With use of developed algorithms of head wave conversion in time sections a work of studying of refracting boundaries in Siberia have been executed. Except for the research by method of refracting waves, the conversion of head waves in time sections, applied to seismograms of reflected wave method, allows to obtain information about refracting horizons in upper part of section in addition to reflecting horizons data. Recovery method of wave field coherent components is the basis of the engineering seismology on the level of accuracy and detail. In seismic microzoning resonance frequency of the upper part of section are determined on the basis of this method. Maps of oscillation amplification and result accuracy are constructed for each of the frequencies. The same method makes it possible to study standing wave field in buildings and constructions with high accuracy and detail, realizing diagnostics of their physical state on set of natural frequencies and form of self-oscillations, examined with high detail. The method of standing waves permits to estimate a seismic stability of structure on new accuracy level.

  20. Is networking different with doctors working part-time? Differences in social networks of part-time and full-time doctors

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    Heiligers, Phil JM; de Jong, Judith D; Groenewegen, Peter P; Hingstman, Lammert; Völker, Beate; Spreeuwenberg, Peter

    2008-01-01

    Background Part-time working is a growing phenomenon in medicine, which is expected to influence informal networks at work differently compared to full-time working. The opportunity to meet and build up social capital at work has offered a basis for theoretical arguments. Methods Twenty-eight teams of medical specialists in the Netherlands, including 226 individuals participated in this study. Interviews with team representatives and individual questionnaires were used. Data were gathered on three types of networks: relationships of consulting, communication and trust. For analyses, network and multilevel applications were used. Differences between individual doctors and between teams were both analysed, taking the dependency structure of the data into account, because networks of individual doctors are not independent. Teams were divided into teams with and without doctors working part-time. Results and Discussion Contrary to expectations we found no impact of part-time working on the size of personal networks, neither at the individual nor at the team level. The same was found regarding efficient reachability. Whereas we expected part-time doctors to choose their relations as efficiently as possible, we even found the opposite in intended relationships of trust, implying that efficiency in reaching each other was higher for full-time doctors. But we found as expected that in mixed teams with part-time doctors the frequency of regular communication was less compared to full-time teams. Furthermore, as expected the strength of the intended relationships of trust of part-time and full-time doctors was equally high. Conclusion From these findings we can conclude that part-time doctors are not aiming at efficiency by limiting the size of networks or by efficient reachability, because they want to contact their colleagues directly in order to prevent from communication errors. On the other hand, together with the growth of teams, we found this strategy, focussed on reaching all colleagues, was diminishing. And our data confirmed that formalisation was increasing together with the growth of teams. PMID:18834545

  1. The Relations Between Sleep, Personality, Behavioral Problems, and School Performance in Adolescents.

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    Schmidt, Ralph E; Van der Linden, Martial

    2015-06-01

    According to recent meta-analyses, adolescents across different countries and cultures do not get the recommended amount of sleep. Extracurricular activities, part-time jobs, and use of electronic devices in the evening delay bedtime in adolescents. Early school start times also shorten the time for sleep. Insufficient sleep in adolescents has been associated with weakened emotional-behavioral regulation and poor academic achievement. Multicomponent intervention programs have been developed on the basis of cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia to improve sleep in youth. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  2. 45 CFR 144.101 - Basis and purpose.

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    2010-10-01

    ... RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE General Provisions § 144.101 Basis and purpose. (a) Part 146 of this..., et seq.) that apply to group health plans and group health insurance issuers. (b) Part 147 of this... group health plans and health insurance issuers in the Group and Individual Markets. (c) Part 148 of...

  3. 45 CFR 1326.1 - Basis and purpose of this part.

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    2013-10-01

    ... SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATION ON AGING, OLDER AMERICANS PROGRAMS GRANTS TO INDIAN TRIBES FOR SUPPORT AND NUTRITION SERVICES § 1326.1 Basis and purpose of this part. This...

  4. 45 CFR 1326.1 - Basis and purpose of this part.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATION ON AGING, OLDER AMERICANS PROGRAMS GRANTS TO INDIAN TRIBES FOR SUPPORT AND NUTRITION SERVICES § 1326.1 Basis and purpose of this part. This...

  5. 45 CFR 1326.1 - Basis and purpose of this part.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATION ON AGING, OLDER AMERICANS PROGRAMS GRANTS TO INDIAN TRIBES FOR SUPPORT AND NUTRITION SERVICES § 1326.1 Basis and purpose of this part. This...

  6. 45 CFR 1326.1 - Basis and purpose of this part.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATION ON AGING, OLDER AMERICANS PROGRAMS GRANTS TO INDIAN TRIBES FOR SUPPORT AND NUTRITION SERVICES § 1326.1 Basis and purpose of this part. This...

  7. 45 CFR 1326.1 - Basis and purpose of this part.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATION ON AGING, OLDER AMERICANS PROGRAMS GRANTS TO INDIAN TRIBES FOR SUPPORT AND NUTRITION SERVICES § 1326.1 Basis and purpose of this part. This...

  8. A novel water quality data analysis framework based on time-series data mining.

    PubMed

    Deng, Weihui; Wang, Guoyin

    2017-07-01

    The rapid development of time-series data mining provides an emerging method for water resource management research. In this paper, based on the time-series data mining methodology, we propose a novel and general analysis framework for water quality time-series data. It consists of two parts: implementation components and common tasks of time-series data mining in water quality data. In the first part, we propose to granulate the time series into several two-dimensional normal clouds and calculate the similarities in the granulated level. On the basis of the similarity matrix, the similarity search, anomaly detection, and pattern discovery tasks in the water quality time-series instance dataset can be easily implemented in the second part. We present a case study of this analysis framework on weekly Dissolve Oxygen time-series data collected from five monitoring stations on the upper reaches of Yangtze River, China. It discovered the relationship of water quality in the mainstream and tributary as well as the main changing patterns of DO. The experimental results show that the proposed analysis framework is a feasible and efficient method to mine the hidden and valuable knowledge from water quality historical time-series data. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  9. 40 CFR Table 6 to Subpart Cccc of... - Emission Limitations for Energy Recovery Units That Commenced Construction After June 4, 2010, or...

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    2012-07-01

    ... parts per million dry volume Biomass—160 parts per million dry volume 30 day rolling average Carbon... concentration of 300 ppm or less for a biomass-fed boiler. Dioxins/furans (Total Mass Basis) No Total Mass Basis... Biomass—290 parts per million dry volumeCoal—340 parts per million dry volume 3-run average (1 hour...

  10. 40 CFR Table 6 to Subpart Cccc of... - Emission Limitations for Energy Recovery Units That Commenced Construction After June 4, 2010, or...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... parts per million dry volume Biomass—160 parts per million dry volume 30 day rolling average Carbon... concentration of 300 ppm or less for a biomass-fed boiler. Dioxins/furans (Total Mass Basis) No Total Mass Basis... Biomass—290 parts per million dry volumeCoal—340 parts per million dry volume 3-run average (1 hour...

  11. 47 CFR 1.901 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... Wireless Radio Services Applications and Proceedings Scope and Authority § 1.901 Basis and purpose. These... licensed in the Wireless Radio Services as described in this part and in parts 13, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 74...

  12. 47 CFR 1.901 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... Wireless Radio Services Applications and Proceedings Scope and Authority § 1.901 Basis and purpose. These... licensed in the Wireless Radio Services as described in this part and in parts 13, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 74...

  13. 47 CFR 1.901 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Wireless Radio Services Applications and Proceedings Scope and Authority § 1.901 Basis and purpose. These... licensed in the Wireless Radio Services as described in this part and in parts 13, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 74...

  14. A Decade of Reforms at Compulsory Education Level in the European Union (1984-94).

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    EURYDICE European Unit, Brussels (Belgium).

    This report focuses on the compulsory education reforms introduced throughout the European Union from 1984-1994. Compulsory education that stage of education established formally by a government for the education of all children and young people, usually institutionalized on a full- or part-time basis, and compulsory for a certain number of years.…

  15. Do-It-Yourself Critical Path Method.

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    Morris, Edward P., Jr.

    This report describes the critical path method (CPM), a system for planning and scheduling work to get the best time-cost combination for any particular job. With the use of diagrams, the report describes how CPM works on a step-by-step basis. CPM uses a network to show which parts of a job must be done and how they would eventually fit together…

  16. Expanding Access to Quality Pre-K Is Sound Public Policy

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    Barnett, W. Steven

    2013-01-01

    In 2013, preschool education received more attention in the media and public policy circles than it has for some time, in part because of a series of high-profile proposals to expand access to quality pre-K. The scientific basis for these proposed expansions of quality pre-K is impressive. This paper brings to bear the full weight of the evidence…

  17. 76 FR 53072 - Certification; Importation of Vehicles and Equipment Subject to Federal Safety, Bumper, and Theft...

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    ... used as a basis for the non-automatic suspension of an RI registration, deletes redundant text from... Part 592 as a Basis for the Non-Automatic Suspension or Revocation of an RI Registration B. Deletion of... violations of the regulations in part 592 as a basis for the non-automatic suspension or revocation of an RI...

  18. In Situ Manufacturing is a Necessary Part of Any Planetary Architecture

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    Edmunson, Jennifer E.; McLemore, Carole A.

    2012-01-01

    The key to any sustainable presence in space is the ability to manufacture necessary tools, parts, structures, spares, etc. in situ and on demand. Cost, volume, and up-mass constraints prohibit launching everything needed for long-duration or long-distance missions from Earth, including spare parts and replacement systems. There are many benefits to building items as-needed in situ using computer aided drafting (CAD) models and additive manufacturing technology: (1) Cost, up-mass, and volume savings for launch due to the ability to manufacture specific parts when needed. (2) CAD models can be generated on Earth and transmitted to the station or spacecraft, or they can be designed in situ for any task. Thus, multiple people in many locations can work on a single problem. (3) Items can be produced that will enhance the safety of crew and vehicles (e.g., latches or guards). (4) Items can be produced on-demand in a small amount of time (i.e., hours or days) compared to traditional manufacturing methods and, therefore, would not require the lengthy amount of time needed to machine the part from a solid block of material nor the wait time required if the part had to be launched from Earth. (5) Used and obsolete parts can be recycled into powder or wire feedstock for use in later manufacturing. (6) Ultimately, the ability to produce items as-needed will reduce mission risk, as one will have everything they need to fix a broken system or fashion a new part making it available on a more timely basis.

  19. 76 FR 61655 - Definition of Part 15 Auditory Assistance Device

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    ... allocated on a primary basis for radio astronomy, and the 74.8-75.2 MHz band is allocated on a primary basis... radiodetermination, radio astronomy, and TV broadcast services are in bands adjacent to the part 15 auditory...

  20. Benchmarking physician performance, part 2.

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    Collier, David A; Collier, Cindy Eddins; Kelly, Thomas M

    2006-01-01

    Part 1 of this article (January-February 2006) reviewed ways of measuring the work of physicians through methods such as data envelopment analysis (DEA) and relative value units (RVUs). These techniques provide insights into: 1. Who are the best-performing physicians? 2. Who are the underperforming physicians? 3. How can underperforming physicians improve? 4. What are the underperformers' performance targets? 5. How do you deal with full- and part-time physicians in a university setting? Part 2 compares the performance of 16 primary care physicians in the same medical specialty using DEA efficiency scores. DEA is capable of modeling multiple criteria and automatically determines the relative weights of each performance measure. This research also provides a preliminary framework for how work measurement and DEA can be used as a basis for a medical team or physician compensation system.

  1. MS-Based Metabolite Profiling of Aboveground and Root Components of Zingiber mioga and Officinale.

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    Han, Ji Soo; Lee, Sunmin; Kim, Hyang Yeon; Lee, Choong Hwan

    2015-09-03

    Zingiber species are members of the Zingiberaceae family, and are widely used for medicinal and food purposes. In this study aboveground and root parts of Zingiber mioga and Zingiber officinale were subjected to metabolite profiling by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-Q-TOF-MS) and gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC-TOF-MS) in order to characterize them by species and parts and also to measure bioactivities. Both primary and secondary metabolites showed clear discrimination in the PCA score plot and PLS-DA by species and parts. Tetrahydrocurcumin, diarylheptanoid, 8-gingerol, and 8-paradol were discriminating metabolites between Z. mioga and Z. officinale that were present in different quantities. Eleven flavonoids, six amino acids, six organic acids, four fatty acids, and gingerenone A were higher in the aboveground parts than the root parts. Antioxidant activities were measured and were highest in the root part of Z. officinale. The relatively high contents of tetrahydrocurcumin, diarylheptanoid, and galanganol C in the root part of Z. officinale showed highly positive correlation with bioactivities based on correlation assay. On the basis of these results, we can suggest different usages of structurally different parts of Zingiber species as food plants.

  2. Genetic heterogeneity underlying variation in a locally adaptive clinal trait in Pinus sylvestris revealed by a Bayesian multipopulation analysis.

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    Kujala, S T; Knürr, T; Kärkkäinen, K; Neale, D B; Sillanpää, M J; Savolainen, O

    2017-05-01

    Local adaptation is a common feature of plant and animal populations. Adaptive phenotypic traits are genetically differentiated along environmental gradients, but the genetic basis of such adaptation is still poorly known. Genetic association studies of local adaptation combine data over populations. Correcting for population structure in these studies can be problematic since both selection and neutral demographic events can create similar allele frequency differences between populations. Correcting for demography with traditional methods may lead to eliminating some true associations. We developed a new Bayesian approach for identifying the loci underlying an adaptive trait in a multipopulation situation in the presence of possible double confounding due to population stratification and adaptation. With this method we studied the genetic basis of timing of bud set, a surrogate trait for timing of yearly growth cessation that confers local adaptation to the populations of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). Population means of timing of bud set were highly correlated with latitude. Most effects at individual loci were small. Interestingly, we found genetic heterogeneity (that is, different sets of loci associated with the trait) between the northern and central European parts of the cline. We also found indications of stronger stabilizing selection toward the northern part of the range. The harsh northern conditions may impose greater selective pressure on timing of growth cessation, and the relative importance of different environmental cues used for tracking the seasons might differ depending on latitude of origin.

  3. 45 CFR 154.101 - Basis and scope.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Welfare Department of Health and Human Services REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS HEALTH... scope. (a) Basis. This part implements section 2794 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act. (b) Scope. This part establishes the requirements for health insurance issuers offering health insurance coverage...

  4. 45 CFR 154.101 - Basis and scope.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS HEALTH... scope. (a) Basis. This part implements section 2794 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act. (b) Scope. This part establishes the requirements for health insurance issuers offering health insurance coverage...

  5. 45 CFR 154.101 - Basis and scope.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS HEALTH... scope. (a) Basis. This part implements section 2794 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act. (b) Scope. This part establishes the requirements for health insurance issuers offering health insurance coverage...

  6. 45 CFR 154.101 - Basis and scope.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS HEALTH... scope. (a) Basis. This part implements section 2794 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act. (b) Scope. This part establishes the requirements for health insurance issuers offering health insurance coverage...

  7. Low-complexity image processing for real-time detection of neonatal clonic seizures.

    PubMed

    Ntonfo, Guy Mathurin Kouamou; Ferrari, Gianluigi; Raheli, Riccardo; Pisani, Francesco

    2012-05-01

    In this paper, we consider a novel low-complexity real-time image-processing-based approach to the detection of neonatal clonic seizures. Our approach is based on the extraction, from a video of a newborn, of an average luminance signal representative of the body movements. Since clonic seizures are characterized by periodic movements of parts of the body (e.g., the limbs), by evaluating the periodicity of the extracted average luminance signal it is possible to detect the presence of a clonic seizure. The periodicity is investigated, through a hybrid autocorrelation-Yin estimation technique, on a per-window basis, where a time window is defined as a sequence of consecutive video frames. While processing is first carried out on a single window basis, we extend our approach to interlaced windows. The performance of the proposed detection algorithm is investigated, in terms of sensitivity and specificity, through receiver operating characteristic curves, considering video recordings of newborns affected by neonatal seizures.

  8. Computer-Assisted Instruction in the Context of the Advanced Instructional System. Part II. Materials Development Procedures and System Evaluation.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1980-03-01

    authoring system which would provide a basis for the cost effective production of computer-assisted irstruction (CAI) materials, It addresses the definition...RESULTS- - ------------------- 58 CAI Materials Development Times - - - 5J CAI Module Instructional Effectiveness -------- -- 59 First-Pass Module...CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ------ --- -- -- 70 Effectiveness of the Authoring System and Suggestions for Further Development - ----- --- -- --- 70

  9. 15 CFR Appendix A to Part 14 - Contract Provisions

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    2010-01-01

    ... wages of every mechanic and laborer on the basis of a standard work week of 40 hours. Work in excess of... than 11/2 times the basic rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours in the work week.... Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act (40 U.S.C. 327-333)—Where applicable, all contracts awarded by...

  10. 40 CFR 63.1325 - Batch process vents-performance test methods and procedures to determine compliance.

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    2011-07-01

    ... production or activity level. (1) If the expected mix of products serves as the basis for the batch mass... from the high-level calibration gas is at least 20 times the standard deviation of the response from... 25A, 40 CFR part 60, appendix A, is acceptable if the response from the high-level calibration gas is...

  11. 15 CFR Supplement No. 2 to Part 742 - Anti-Terrorism Controls: North Korea, Syria and Sudan Contract Sanctity Dates and Related Policies

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    2013-01-01

    ...) Robots capable of employing feedback information in real time processing to generate or modify programs...-uses in Syria will be considered on a case-by case basis. (A) Contract sanctity date for such robots... Supplement. (B) Contract sanctity date for all other such robots: August 28, 1991. (iii) Sudan. Applications...

  12. 15 CFR Supplement No. 2 to Part 742 - Anti-Terrorism Controls: North Korea, Syria and Sudan Contract Sanctity Dates and Related Policies

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    2012-01-01

    ...) Robots capable of employing feedback information in real time processing to generate or modify programs...-uses in Syria will be considered on a case-by case basis. (A) Contract sanctity date for such robots... Supplement. (B) Contract sanctity date for all other such robots: August 28, 1991. (iii) Sudan. Applications...

  13. 15 CFR Supplement No. 2 to Part 742 - Anti-Terrorism Controls: North Korea, Syria and Sudan Contract Sanctity Dates and Related Policies

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    2014-01-01

    ...) Robots capable of employing feedback information in real time processing to generate or modify programs...-uses in Syria will be considered on a case-by case basis. (A) Contract sanctity date for such robots... Supplement. (B) Contract sanctity date for all other such robots: August 28, 1991. (iii) Sudan. Applications...

  14. 15 CFR Supplement No. 2 to Part 742 - Anti-Terrorism Controls: North Korea, Syria and Sudan Contract Sanctity Dates and Related Policies

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ...) Robots capable of employing feedback information in real time processing to generate or modify programs...-uses in Syria will be considered on a case-by case basis. (A) Contract sanctity date for such robots... Supplement. (B) Contract sanctity date for all other such robots: August 28, 1991. (iii) Sudan. Applications...

  15. Part-Time Work by High School Seniors: Sorting Out Correlates and Possible Consequences. Monitoring the Future Occasional Paper 32. Revised.

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    Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John

    This study is intended to assess the changing lifestyles, values, and preferences of American youth on a continuing basis. Each year since 1975, about 17,000 seniors have participated in the survey, which is conducted in about 130 high schools nationwide. In addition, subsamples of seniors from previously participating classes receive follow-up…

  16. Mapping of compositional properties of coal using isometric log-ratio transformation and sequential Gaussian simulation - A comparative study for spatial ultimate analyses data.

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    Karacan, C Özgen; Olea, Ricardo A

    2018-03-01

    Chemical properties of coal largely determine coal handling, processing, beneficiation methods, and design of coal-fired power plants. Furthermore, these properties impact coal strength, coal blending during mining, as well as coal's gas content, which is important for mining safety. In order for these processes and quantitative predictions to be successful, safer, and economically feasible, it is important to determine and map chemical properties of coals accurately in order to infer these properties prior to mining. Ultimate analysis quantifies principal chemical elements in coal. These elements are C, H, N, S, O, and, depending on the basis, ash, and/or moisture. The basis for the data is determined by the condition of the sample at the time of analysis, with an "as-received" basis being the closest to sampling conditions and thus to the in-situ conditions of the coal. The parts determined or calculated as the result of ultimate analyses are compositions, reported in weight percent, and pose the challenges of statistical analyses of compositional data. The treatment of parts using proper compositional methods may be even more important in mapping them, as most mapping methods carry uncertainty due to partial sampling as well. In this work, we map the ultimate analyses parts of the Springfield coal from an Indiana section of the Illinois basin, USA, using sequential Gaussian simulation of isometric log-ratio transformed compositions. We compare the results with those of direct simulations of compositional parts. We also compare the implications of these approaches in calculating other properties using correlations to identify the differences and consequences. Although the study here is for coal, the methods described in the paper are applicable to any situation involving compositional data and its mapping.

  17. 47 CFR 13.1 - Basis and purpose.

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    2012-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 1 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Basis and purpose. 13.1 Section 13.1 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION GENERAL COMMERCIAL RADIO OPERATORS General § 13.1 Basis and purpose. (a) Basis. The basis for the rules contained in this part is the Communications Act of 1934, as...

  18. 32 CFR Appendix A to Part 37 - What Is the Civil-Military Integration Policy That Is the Basis for Technology Investment...

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    2010-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false What Is the Civil-Military Integration Policy That Is the Basis for Technology Investment Agreements? A Appendix A to Part 37 National Defense... INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS Pt. 37, App. A Appendix A to Part 37—What Is the Civil-Military Integration Policy That...

  19. [Influence of Gentiana lutea L extract on blood coagulation].

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    Bakuridze, A D; Nikolaev, S M; Tsagarenshvili, N T; Kurdiani, N G; Mikaia, G A

    2009-01-01

    The dry extract from the terrestrial parts of Gentiana Lutea was received in accordance to the developed by us general technological scheme. Study of the pharmacological influence of obtained extract on the coagulating properties of blood revealed that after its per os instillation into experimental animals the time of the formation of active thromboplastin reliably increases, while the time of thrombin and fibrinous cluster formation is shortened in comparison with those indices in the animals, that did not receive phyto-preparation, at the same time morphological appearance of the peripheral blood remains unchanged. Dry extract of terrestrial parts of Gentiana Lutea prepared in accordance to the technology recommended by us, together with widely known pharmacological effects, is characterized with new activity - influence on haemostasis. Obtained preliminary data concerning influence of the extract on coagulation of the blood request further deep studies of its mechanism. Revealed new activity of the terrestrial parts of Gentiana Lutea and the studies of the mechanism of its activity will serve in future as a basis for the recommendation of its use in new nosology. Terrestrial parts of Gentiana lutea L. are proposed as an alternative of the underground parts of the plant. Alongside with that, it is expedient to continue the studies devoted to the development of the haemostatic remedies of plant origin with systemic and local action (sponges, films, skin glues) from terrestrial parts of Gentiana lutea L.

  20. Independent representation of parts and the relations between them: evidence from integrative agnosia.

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    Behrmann, Marlene; Peterson, Mary A; Moscovitch, Morris; Suzuki, Satoru

    2006-10-01

    Whether objects are represented as a collection of parts whose relations are coded independently remains a topic of ongoing discussion among theorists in the domain of shape perception. S. M., an individual with integrative agnosia, and neurologically intact ("normal") individuals learned initially to identify 4 target objects constructed of 2 simple volumetric parts. At test, the targets were mixed with distractors, some of which could be discriminated from the targets on the basis of a mismatching part, whereas the rest could be discriminated only on the basis of the altered spatial arrangements of parts. S. M. learned to identify the target objects, although at a rate slower than that of the normal participants. At test, he correctly rejected distractors on the basis of mismatching parts but was profoundly impaired at rejecting distractors made of the same local components but with mismatching spatial arrangements. These results suggest that encoding the spatial arrangements of parts of an object requires a mechanism that is different from that required for encoding the shape of individual parts, with the former selectively compromised in integrative agnosia. Copyright 2006 APA.

  1. Part-time employment in Jordan as a nursing policy solution.

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    Al-Motlaq, M; Azar, N; Squires, A

    2017-03-01

    Explore the potential of a part-time work option for nurses as a strategy for managing domestic markets in Jordan by examining perceptions of working nurses and nursing students in the context of current social and cultural variables. Unemployment among Jordanian nurses has become a reality in recent years. However, labor markets literature in nursing rarely studies what kind of policy responses should occur during a surplus of nurses. A cross-sectional design structured the study. The perceptions of nurses and students were measured through a questionnaire developed specifically for the purpose of this exploratory study. Both nurses (n = 51) and students (n = 56) supported the introduction of the new suggested part-time option. However, students were more willing to start working or transfer into part-time work, take payment on hourly basis, and support colleagues to transfer into part-time work. Different solutions were also suggested by participants. The results were useful for providing the foundational data to further study the viability of a part-time work option for Jordanian nurses. The results show how optimistic current and future Jordanian nurses are regarding this employment option. For countries that may need to diversify their employment models due to excess supply of nurses and to address gender imbalances, this work may help inform policy development. Both employed and unemployed nurses will benefit if health care managers consider its application. The flexibility of this option may help improve the quality of life of many nurses. The results of this study provide nursing leaders and managers with foundational evidence that may be applicable in the Jordanian health sector. Although further studies are recommended, nursing leaders and policy makers should consider such a solution. © 2016 International Council of Nurses.

  2. Decoupled ARX and RBF Neural Network Modeling Using PCA and GA Optimization for Nonlinear Distributed Parameter Systems.

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    Zhang, Ridong; Tao, Jili; Lu, Renquan; Jin, Qibing

    2018-02-01

    Modeling of distributed parameter systems is difficult because of their nonlinearity and infinite-dimensional characteristics. Based on principal component analysis (PCA), a hybrid modeling strategy that consists of a decoupled linear autoregressive exogenous (ARX) model and a nonlinear radial basis function (RBF) neural network model are proposed. The spatial-temporal output is first divided into a few dominant spatial basis functions and finite-dimensional temporal series by PCA. Then, a decoupled ARX model is designed to model the linear dynamics of the dominant modes of the time series. The nonlinear residual part is subsequently parameterized by RBFs, where genetic algorithm is utilized to optimize their hidden layer structure and the parameters. Finally, the nonlinear spatial-temporal dynamic system is obtained after the time/space reconstruction. Simulation results of a catalytic rod and a heat conduction equation demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy compared to several other methods.

  3. 12 CFR 268.710 - Compliance procedures.

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    2014-01-01

    ... (CONTINUED) RULES REGARDING EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Prohibition Against Discrimination in Board Programs and... this part, applies to all allegations of discrimination on the basis of a disability in programs or... discrimination in employment on the basis of a disability in accordance with subparts A through G of this part...

  4. Challenges in Melt Furnace Tests

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    Belt, Cynthia

    2014-09-01

    Measurement is a critical part of running a cast house. Key performance indicators such as energy intensity, production (or melt rate), downtime (or OEE), and melt loss must all be understood and monitored on a weekly or monthly basis. Continuous process variables such as bath temperature, flue temperature, and furnace pressure should be used to control the furnace systems along with storing the values in databases for later analysis. While using measurement to track furnace performance over time is important, there is also a time and place for short-term tests.

  5. Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Handicap in Programs and Activities Receiving or Benefiting from Federal Financial Assistance. Federal Register. Part VI.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Federal Register, 1979

    1979-01-01

    The document presents the text of a proposed addition (Part 15b) to the rules and regulations of the United States Department of Agriculture, designed to eliminate discrimination on the basis of handicap in any of its programs or activities. Intended to implement Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Part 15b is subdivided into six…

  6. Comparative safety assessment of plant-derived foods.

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    Kok, E J; Keijer, J; Kleter, G A; Kuiper, H A

    2008-02-01

    The second generation of genetically modified (GM) plants that are moving towards the market are characterized by modifications that may be more complex and traits that more often are to the benefit of the consumer. These developments will have implications for the safety assessment of the resulting plant products. In part of the cases the same crop plant can, however, also be obtained by 'conventional' breeding strategies. The breeder will decide on a case-by-case basis what will be the best strategy to reach the set target and whether genetic modification will form part of this strategy. This article discusses important aspects of the safety assessment of complex products derived from newly bred plant varieties obtained by different breeding strategies. On the basis of this overview, we conclude that the current process of the safety evaluation of GM versus conventionally bred plants is not well balanced. GM varieties are elaborately assessed, yet at the same time other crop plants resulting from conventional breeding strategies may warrant further food safety assessment for the benefit of the consumer. We propose to develop a general screening frame for all newly developed plant varieties to select varieties that cannot, on the basis of scientific criteria, be considered as safe as plant varieties that are already on the market.

  7. Atmospheric Neutrinos as a Tool for Exploring the Earth's Inner Parts

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    Naumov, P. Yu.; Sinev, V. V.

    2017-11-01

    Investigation of the Earth's inner parts requires developing new methods. It is well known that atmospheric neutrinos traverse the Earth, undergoing virtually no interaction. The change in the neutrino flux is due exclusively to neutrino oscillations, which are enhanced by the effect of Earth's matter. At the present time, there are two projects outside Russia (PINGU and ORCA) that are aimed at detecting atmospheric neutrinos that traversed the Earth, which are supposed to be used for purposes of Earth's tomography. The creation of a large neutrino detector on the basis of a liquid scintillator is planned at the BaksanNeutrino Observatory (Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences) in the North Caucasus. After testing this detector, there will arise the possibility of employing it as part of the worldwide network of neutrino detectors for studying the Earth's inner parts.

  8. 45 CFR 1328.1 - Basis and purpose of this part.

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    2013-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 4 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Basis and purpose of this part. 1328.1 Section 1328.1 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) OFFICE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATION ON AGING, OLDER AMERICANS PROGRAMS...

  9. 45 CFR 1328.1 - Basis and purpose of this part.

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    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 4 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Basis and purpose of this part. 1328.1 Section 1328.1 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) OFFICE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATION ON AGING, OLDER AMERICANS PROGRAMS...

  10. 45 CFR 1328.1 - Basis and purpose of this part.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 4 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Basis and purpose of this part. 1328.1 Section 1328.1 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) OFFICE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATION ON AGING, OLDER AMERICANS PROGRAMS...

  11. 45 CFR 1328.1 - Basis and purpose of this part.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 4 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Basis and purpose of this part. 1328.1 Section 1328.1 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) OFFICE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATION ON AGING, OLDER AMERICANS PROGRAMS...

  12. 45 CFR 1328.1 - Basis and purpose of this part.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 4 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Basis and purpose of this part. 1328.1 Section 1328.1 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) OFFICE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATION ON AGING, OLDER AMERICANS PROGRAMS...

  13. Integrand-level reduction of loop amplitudes by computational algebraic geometry methods

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    Zhang, Yang

    2012-09-01

    We present an algorithm for the integrand-level reduction of multi-loop amplitudes of renormalizable field theories, based on computational algebraic geometry. This algorithm uses (1) the Gröbner basis method to determine the basis for integrand-level reduction, (2) the primary decomposition of an ideal to classify all inequivalent solutions of unitarity cuts. The resulting basis and cut solutions can be used to reconstruct the integrand from unitarity cuts, via polynomial fitting techniques. The basis determination part of the algorithm has been implemented in the Mathematica package, BasisDet. The primary decomposition part can be readily carried out by algebraic geometry softwares, with the output of the package BasisDet. The algorithm works in both D = 4 and D = 4 - 2 ɛ dimensions, and we present some two and three-loop examples of applications of this algorithm.

  14. Directionality analysis on functional magnetic resonance imaging during motor task using Granger causality.

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    Anwar, A R; Muthalib, M; Perrey, S; Galka, A; Granert, O; Wolff, S; Deuschl, G; Raethjen, J; Heute, U; Muthuraman, M

    2012-01-01

    Directionality analysis of signals originating from different parts of brain during motor tasks has gained a lot of interest. Since brain activity can be recorded over time, methods of time series analysis can be applied to medical time series as well. Granger Causality is a method to find a causal relationship between time series. Such causality can be referred to as a directional connection and is not necessarily bidirectional. The aim of this study is to differentiate between different motor tasks on the basis of activation maps and also to understand the nature of connections present between different parts of the brain. In this paper, three different motor tasks (finger tapping, simple finger sequencing, and complex finger sequencing) are analyzed. Time series for each task were extracted from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, which have a very good spatial resolution and can look into the sub-cortical regions of the brain. Activation maps based on fMRI images show that, in case of complex finger sequencing, most parts of the brain are active, unlike finger tapping during which only limited regions show activity. Directionality analysis on time series extracted from contralateral motor cortex (CMC), supplementary motor area (SMA), and cerebellum (CER) show bidirectional connections between these parts of the brain. In case of simple finger sequencing and complex finger sequencing, the strongest connections originate from SMA and CMC, while connections originating from CER in either direction are the weakest ones in magnitude during all paradigms.

  15. Sawflies and ponderosa pine: hypothetical response surfaces for pine genotype, ontogenic stage, and stress level

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    Michael R. Wagner

    1991-01-01

    Patterns that occur in nature are the result of a complex set of current and historical factors that interact with one another and the adaptive plasticity of plants. Scientists are forced to assess such processes on the basis of series of "snapshots" over a relatively short time that represent only part of the grand pattern. In the case of insects interacting...

  16. Glossary Defense Acquisition Acronyms and Terms

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1991-09-01

    of work to complete a job or part of a project . Actual Cost A cost sustained in fact, on the basis of costs incurred, as... of a project which shows the activities to be completed and the time to complete them is represented by horizontal lines drawn in proportion to the ...recorded for the total estimated obligations for a program or project in the initial year of funding. (For distinction, see Full

  17. Identification of seismic anomalies caused by gas saturation on the basis of theoretical P and PS wavefield in the Carpathian Foredeep, SE Poland

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    Pietsch, Kaja; Marzec, Paweł; Kobylarski, Marcin; Danek, Tomasz; Leśniak, Andrzej; Tatarata, Artur; Gruszczyk, Edward

    2007-06-01

    The thin-layer build of the Carpathian Foredeep Miocene formations and large petrophysical parameter variation cause seismic images of gas-saturated zones to be ambiguous, and the location of prospection wells on the basis of anomalous seismic record is risky. A method that assists reservoir interpretation of standard recorded seismic profiles (P waves) can be a converted wave recording (PS waves). This paper presents the results of application of a multicomponent seismic survey for the reservoir interpretation over the Chałupki Dębniańskie gas deposit, carried out for the first time in Poland by Geofizyka Kraków Ltd. for the Polish Oil and Gas Company. Seismic modeling was applied as the basic research tool, using the SeisMod program based on the finite-difference solution of the acoustic wave equation and equations of motion. Seismogeological models for P waves were developed using Acoustic Logs; S-wave model (records only from part of the well) was developed on the basis of theoretical curves calculated by means of the Estymacja program calibrated with average S-velocities, calculated by correlation of recorded P and PS wavefields with 1D modeling. The conformity between theoretical and recorded wavefields makes it possible to apply the criteria established on the basis of modeling for reservoir interpretation. Direct hydrocarbon indicators (bright spots, phase change, time sag) unambiguously identify gas-prone layers within the ChD-2 prospect. A partial range of the indicators observed in the SW part of the studied profile (bright spot that covers a single, anticlinally bent seismic horizon) points to saturation of the horizon. The proposed location is confirmed by criteria determined for converted waves (continuous seismic horizons with constant, high amplitude) despite poorer agreement between theoretical and recorded wavefields.

  18. A qualitative phenomenological study: Enhanced, risk-based FAA oversight on part 145 maintenance practices

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    Sheehan, Bryan G.

    The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to examine the phenomenon of enhanced, risk-based Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) oversight of Part 145 repair stations that performed aircraft maintenance for Part 121 air carriers between 2007 and 2014 in Oklahoma. Specifically, this research was utilized to explore what operational changes have occurred in the domestic Part 145 repair station industry such as variations in management or hiring practices, training, recordkeeping and technical data, inventory and aircraft parts supply-chain logistics, equipment, and facilities. After interviewing 12 managers from Part 145 repair stations in Oklahoma, six major theme codes emerged from the data: quality of oversight before 2007, quality of oversight after 2007, advantages of oversight, disadvantages of oversight, status quo of oversight, and process improvement . Of those six major theme codes, 17 subthemes appeared from the data that were used to explain the phenomenon of enhanced oversight in the Part 145 repair station industry. Forty-two percent of the participants indicated a weak FAA oversight system that has hindered the continuous process improvement program in their repair stations. Some of them were financially burdened after hiring additional full-time quality assurance inspectors to specifically manage enhanced FAA oversight. Notwithstanding, the participants of the study indicated that the FAA must apply its surveillance on a more standardized and consistent basis. They want to see this standardization in how FAA inspectors interpret regulations and practice the same quality of oversight for all repair stations, particularly those that are repeat violators and fail to comply with federal aviation regulations. They believed that when the FAA enforces standardization on a consistent basis, repair stations can become more efficient and safer in the performance of their scope of work for the U.S. commercial air transportation industry.

  19. Uvulectomy in Nigeria.

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    Ijaduola, G T

    1981-11-01

    The removal of the uvula for minor pharyngeal lesions is unusual in Western otorhinolaryngological practice. However, uvulectomy is a common procedure for "throat problems' in Nigeria and some other African countries by traditional surgeons. This is because it is believed that the elongated uvula is the root cause of all throat problems. These traditional surgeons are usually barbers by profession and only practice surgery on a part-time basis. Most of their patients do well but some have to be rushed to the hospital with severe post-operative bleeding. Attention of Europeans and other foreign otolaryngologists who may find themselves practising in any part of Africa is hereby drawn to the procedure.

  20. 45 CFR 1321.1 - Basis and purpose of this part.

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    2014-10-01

    ... SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATION ON AGING, OLDER AMERICANS PROGRAMS GRANTS TO STATE AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ON AGING Introduction § 1321.1 Basis and purpose of this part. (a... on title III of the Act. Title III provides for formula grants to State agencies on aging, under...

  1. 45 CFR 1321.1 - Basis and purpose of this part.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATION ON AGING, OLDER AMERICANS PROGRAMS GRANTS TO STATE AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ON AGING Introduction § 1321.1 Basis and purpose of this part. (a... on title III of the Act. Title III provides for formula grants to State agencies on aging, under...

  2. 45 CFR 1321.1 - Basis and purpose of this part.

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    2012-10-01

    ... SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATION ON AGING, OLDER AMERICANS PROGRAMS GRANTS TO STATE AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ON AGING Introduction § 1321.1 Basis and purpose of this part. (a... on title III of the Act. Title III provides for formula grants to State agencies on aging, under...

  3. 42 CFR 456.1 - Basis and purpose of part.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... appropriateness of care and services. Section 1902(a)(33)(A) requires that the plan provide that the State health... 42 Public Health 4 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Basis and purpose of part. 456.1 Section 456.1 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES...

  4. 42 CFR 456.1 - Basis and purpose of part.

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    2010-10-01

    ... appropriateness of care and services. Section 1902(a)(33)(A) requires that the plan provide that the State health... 42 Public Health 4 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Basis and purpose of part. 456.1 Section 456.1 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES...

  5. 42 CFR 456.1 - Basis and purpose of part.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... appropriateness of care and services. Section 1902(a)(33)(A) requires that the plan provide that the State health... 42 Public Health 4 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Basis and purpose of part. 456.1 Section 456.1 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES...

  6. 42 CFR 456.1 - Basis and purpose of part.

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    2011-10-01

    ... appropriateness of care and services. Section 1902(a)(33)(A) requires that the plan provide that the State health... 42 Public Health 4 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Basis and purpose of part. 456.1 Section 456.1 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES...

  7. 42 CFR 456.1 - Basis and purpose of part.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... appropriateness of care and services. Section 1902(a)(33)(A) requires that the plan provide that the State health... 42 Public Health 4 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Basis and purpose of part. 456.1 Section 456.1 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES...

  8. 31 CFR Appendix to Part 351 - Tax Considerations

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    .... 351, App. A Appendix to Part 351—Tax Considerations 1. What are some general tax considerations... any other obligations purchased on a discount basis. (b) Changing methods. If you use the cash basis... primary owner. (d) The purchase of a Series EE savings bond as a gift may have gift tax consequences. ...

  9. 31 CFR Appendix to Part 351 - Tax Considerations

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    .... 351, App. A Appendix to Part 351—Tax Considerations 1. What are some general tax considerations... any other obligations purchased on a discount basis. (b) Changing methods. If you use the cash basis... primary owner. (d) The purchase of a Series EE savings bond as a gift may have gift tax consequences. ...

  10. How to manage without being a manager

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    Sweeney, M.A.

    1997-06-01

    In the author`s current position at Sandia National Laboratories within the Pulsed Power Sciences Center, much of the author`s time is spent in composing short (one page) technical reports and long (> 20 page) technical contracts and program plans for transmission to the Department of Energy and to upper management and also in reviewing long technical documents for accuracy. A major requirement of these efforts is to complete them on a timely basis, often within a few hours or a few days. In this talk, the author reveals some communication {open_quotes}secrets{close_quotes} that have been learned. The idea behind these twelvemore » {open_quotes}secrets{close_quotes} is to get the answers you, as a nonmanager, need quickly from a manager without creating stress either on your part or the manager`s part.« less

  11. Supervision of dynamic systems: Monitoring, decision-making and control

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    White, T. N.

    1982-01-01

    Effects of task variables on the performance of the human supervisor by means of modelling techniques are discussed. The task variables considered are: The dynamics of the system, the task to be performed, the environmental disturbances and the observation noise. A relationship between task variables and parameters of a supervisory model is assumed. The model consists of three parts: (1) The observer part is thought to be a full order optimal observer, (2) the decision-making part is stated as a set of decision rules, and (3) the controller part is given by a control law. The observer part generates, on the basis of the system output and the control actions, an estimate of the state of the system and its associated variance. The outputs of the observer part are then used by the decision-making part to determine the instants in time of the observation actions on the one hand and the controls actions on the other. The controller part makes use of the estimated state to derive the amplitude(s) of the control action(s).

  12. A comparison of classroom and online asynchronous problem-based learning for students undertaking statistics training as part of a Public Health Masters degree.

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    de Jong, N; Verstegen, D M L; Tan, F E S; O'Connor, S J

    2013-05-01

    This case-study compared traditional, face-to-face classroom-based teaching with asynchronous online learning and teaching methods in two sets of students undertaking a problem-based learning module in the multilevel and exploratory factor analysis of longitudinal data as part of a Masters degree in Public Health at Maastricht University. Students were allocated to one of the two study variants on the basis of their enrolment status as full-time or part-time students. Full-time students (n = 11) followed the classroom-based variant and part-time students (n = 12) followed the online asynchronous variant which included video recorded lectures and a series of asynchronous online group or individual SPSS activities with synchronous tutor feedback. A validated student motivation questionnaire was administered to both groups of students at the start of the study and a second questionnaire was administered at the end of the module. This elicited data about student satisfaction with the module content, teaching and learning methods, and tutor feedback. The module coordinator and problem-based learning tutor were also interviewed about their experience of delivering the experimental online variant and asked to evaluate its success in relation to student attainment of the module's learning outcomes. Student examination results were also compared between the two groups. Asynchronous online teaching and learning methods proved to be an acceptable alternative to classroom-based teaching for both students and staff. Educational outcomes were similar for both groups, but importantly, there was no evidence that the asynchronous online delivery of module content disadvantaged part-time students in comparison to their full-time counterparts.

  13. Data-Mining Toolset Developed for Determining Turbine Engine Part Life Consumption

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Litt, Jonathan S.

    2003-01-01

    The current practice in aerospace turbine engine maintenance is to remove components defined as life-limited parts after a fixed time, on the basis of a predetermined number of flight cycles. Under this schedule-based maintenance practice, the worst-case usage scenario is used to determine the usable life of the component. As shown, this practice often requires removing a part before its useful life is fully consumed, thus leading to higher maintenance cost. To address this issue, the NASA Glenn Research Center, in a collaborative effort with Pratt & Whitney, has developed a generic modular toolset that uses data-mining technology to parameterize life usage models for maintenance purposes. The toolset enables a "condition-based" maintenance approach, where parts are removed on the basis of the cumulative history of the severity of operation they have experienced. The toolset uses data-mining technology to tune life-consumption models on the basis of operating and maintenance histories. The flight operating conditions, represented by measured variables within the engine, are correlated with repair records for the engines, generating a relationship between the operating condition of the part and its service life. As shown, with the condition-based maintenance approach, the lifelimited part is in service until its usable life is fully consumed. This approach will lower maintenance costs while maintaining the safety of the propulsion system. The toolset is a modular program that is easily customizable by users. First, appropriate parametric damage accumulation models, which will be functions of engine variables, must be defined. The tool then optimizes the models to match the historical data by computing an effective-cycle metric that reduces the unexplained variability in component life due to each damage mode by accounting for the variability in operational severity. The damage increment due to operating conditions experienced during each flight is used to compute the effective cycles and ultimately the replacement time. Utilities to handle data problems, such as gaps in the flight data records, are included in the toolset. The tool was demonstrated using the first stage, high-pressure turbine blade of the PW4077 engine (Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, CT). The damage modes considered were thermomechanical fatigue and oxidation/erosion. Each PW4077 engine contains 82 first-stage, high-pressure turbine blades, and data from a fleet of engines were used to tune the life-consumption models. The models took into account not only measured variables within the engine, but also unmeasured variables such as engine health parameters that are affected by degradation of the engine due to aging. The tool proved effective at predicting the average number of blades scrapped over time due to each damage mode, per engine, given the operating history of the engine. The customizable tools are available to interested parties within the aerospace community.

  14. 45 CFR 79.1 - Basis and purpose.

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    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Basis and purpose. 79.1 Section 79.1 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GENERAL ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 79.1 Basis and purpose. (a) Basis. This part implements the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986, Pub. L...

  15. The impact of the 2007-2009 recession on workers' health coverage.

    PubMed

    Fronstin, Paul

    2011-04-01

    IMPACT OF THE RECESSION: The 2007-2009 recession has taken its toll on the percentage of the population with employment-based health coverage. While, since 2000, there has been a slow erosion in the percentage of individuals under age 65 with employment-based health coverage, 2009 was the first year in which the percentage fell below 60 percent, and marked the largest one-year decline in coverage. FEWER WORKERS WITH COVERAGE: The percentage of workers with coverage through their own job fell from 53.2 percent in 2008 to 52 percent in 2009, a 2.4 percent decline in the likelihood that a worker has coverage through his or her own job. The percentage of workers with coverage as a dependent fell from 17 percent in 2008 to 16.3 percent in 2009, a 4.5 percent drop in the likelihood that a worker has coverage as a dependent. These declines occurred as the unemployment rate increased from an average of 5.8 percent in 2008 to 9.3 percent in 2009 (and reached a high of 10.1 percent during 2009). FIRM SIZE/INDUSTRY: The decline in the percentage of workers with coverage from their own job affected workers in private-sector firms of all sizes. Among public-sector workers, the decline from 73.4 percent to 73 percent was not statistically significant. Workers in all private-sector industries experienced a statistically significant decline in coverage between 2008 and 2009. HOURS WORKED: Full-time workers experienced a decline in coverage that was statistically significant while part-time workers did not. Among full-time workers, those employed full year experienced a statistically significant decline in coverage from their own job. Those employed full time but for only part of the year did not experience a statistically significant change in coverage. Among part-time workers, those employed full year experienced a statistically significant increase in the likelihood of having coverage in their own name, as did part-time workers employed for only part of the year. ANNUAL EARNINGS: The decline in the percentage of workers with coverage through their own job was limited to workers with lower annual earnings. Statistically significant declines were not found among any group of workers with annual earnings of at least $40,000. Workers with a high school education or less experienced a statistically significant decline in the likelihood of having coverage. Neither workers with a college degree nor those with a graduate degree experienced a statistically significant decline in coverage through their own job. Workers of all races experienced statistically significant declines in coverage between 2008 and 2009. Both men and women experienced a statistically significant decline in the percentage with health coverage through their own job. IMPACT OF STRUCTURAL CHANGES TO THE WORK FORCE: The movement of workers from the manufacturing industry to the service sector continued between 2008 and 2009. The percentage of workers employed on a full-time basis decreased while the percentage working part time increased. While there was an overall decline in the percentage of full-time workers, that decline was limited to workers employed full year. The percentage of workers employed on a full-time, part-year basis increased between 2008 and 2009. The distribution of workers by annual earnings shifted from middle-income workers to lower-income workers between 2008 and 2009.

  16. Employee assistance programs: an overview and suggested roles for psychiatrists.

    PubMed

    Brill, P; Herzberg, J; Speller, J L

    1985-07-01

    Although employee assistance programs are rapidly becoming the predominant vehicle for the delivery of mental health services in occupational settings, few programs employ a psychiatrist on either a part-time or a full-time basis. After providing an overview of the need for, cost-effectiveness of, and current status of employee assistance programs, the authors draw on their own experiences with employee assistance programs to present four broad categories of roles the psychiatrist can assume in such programs: clinician, supervisor and educator, administrator, and organizational consultant. Problems encountered in these roles are also discussed.

  17. Scheduling job shop - A case study

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    Abas, M.; Abbas, A.; Khan, W. A.

    2016-08-01

    The scheduling in job shop is important for efficient utilization of machines in the manufacturing industry. There are number of algorithms available for scheduling of jobs which depend on machines tools, indirect consumables and jobs which are to be processed. In this paper a case study is presented for scheduling of jobs when parts are treated on available machines. Through time and motion study setup time and operation time are measured as total processing time for variety of products having different manufacturing processes. Based on due dates different level of priority are assigned to the jobs and the jobs are scheduled on the basis of priority. In view of the measured processing time, the times for processing of some new jobs are estimated and for efficient utilization of the machines available an algorithm is proposed and validated.

  18. Complete N-point superstring disk amplitude II. Amplitude and hypergeometric function structure

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    Mafra, Carlos R.; Schlotterer, Oliver; Stieberger, Stephan

    2013-08-01

    Using the pure spinor formalism in part I (Mafra et al., preprint [1]) we compute the complete tree-level amplitude of N massless open strings and find a striking simple and compact form in terms of minimal building blocks: the full N-point amplitude is expressed by a sum over (N-3)! Yang-Mills partial subamplitudes each multiplying a multiple Gaussian hypergeometric function. While the former capture the space-time kinematics of the amplitude the latter encode the string effects. This result disguises a lot of structure linking aspects of gauge amplitudes as color and kinematics with properties of generalized Euler integrals. In this part II the structure of the multiple hypergeometric functions is analyzed in detail: their relations to monodromy equations, their minimal basis structure, and methods to determine their poles and transcendentality properties are proposed. Finally, a Gröbner basis analysis provides independent sets of rational functions in the Euler integrals. In contrast to [1] here we use momenta redefined by a factor of i. As a consequence the signs of the kinematic invariants are flipped, e.g. |→|.

  19. Excited states from quantum Monte Carlo in the basis of Slater determinants

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    Humeniuk, Alexander; Mitrić, Roland, E-mail: roland.mitric@uni-wuerzburg.de

    2014-11-21

    Building on the full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC) algorithm introduced recently by Booth et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 131, 054106 (2009)] to compute the ground state of correlated many-electron systems, an extension to the computation of excited states (exFCIQMC) is presented. The Hilbert space is divided into a large part consisting of pure Slater determinants and a much smaller orthogonal part (the size of which is controlled by a cut-off threshold), from which the lowest eigenstates can be removed efficiently. In this way, the quantum Monte Carlo algorithm is restricted to the orthogonal complement of the lower excitedmore » states and projects out the next highest excited state. Starting from the ground state, higher excited states can be found one after the other. The Schrödinger equation in imaginary time is solved by the same population dynamics as in the ground state algorithm with modified probabilities and matrix elements, for which working formulae are provided. As a proof of principle, the method is applied to lithium hydride in the 3-21G basis set and to the helium dimer in the aug-cc-pVDZ basis set. It is shown to give the correct electronic structure for all bond lengths. Much more testing will be required before the applicability of this method to electron correlation problems of interesting size can be assessed.« less

  20. 10 CFR 13.1 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Basis and purpose. 13.1 Section 13.1 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 13.1 Basis and purpose. (a) Basis. This part implements the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986, Public Law No. 99-509, §§ 6101-6104, 100 Stat. 1874...

  1. Analysis of Radionuclide Releases from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident Part I

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    Le Petit, G.; Douysset, G.; Ducros, G.; Gross, P.; Achim, P.; Monfort, M.; Raymond, P.; Pontillon, Y.; Jutier, C.; Blanchard, X.; Taffary, T.; Moulin, C.

    2014-03-01

    Part I of this publication deals with the analysis of fission product releases consecutive to the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident. Reactor core damages are assessed relying on radionuclide detections performed by the CTBTO radionuclide network, especially at the particulate station located at Takasaki, 210 km away from the nuclear power plant. On the basis of a comparison between the reactor core inventory at the time of reactor shutdowns and the fission product activities measured in air at Takasaki, especially 95Nb and 103Ru, it was possible to show that the reactor cores were exposed to high temperature for a prolonged time. This diagnosis was confirmed by the presence of 113Sn in air at Takasaki. The 133Xe assessed release at the time of reactor shutdown (8 × 1018 Bq) turned out to be in the order of 80 % of the amount deduced from the reactor core inventories. This strongly suggests a broad meltdown of reactor cores.

  2. Contribution to the Uropodina mites of Peru (Acari: Mesostigmata).

    PubMed

    Kontschán, Jenő; Friedrich, Stefan

    2017-02-27

    Soil dwelling Uropodina mites were collected from a primary lowland rainforest in Amazonian Peru. The species found belong to three different families. A new diagnosis and the type genus of Tetrasejaspidae fam. nov. are given, and the family is recorded from Peru for the first time on the basis of Tetrasejaspis sellnicki Hirschmann, 1973. Two rotundabaloghid mites were collected (Rotundabaloghia (Circobaloghia) magna Hirschmann, 1992 and Rotundabaloghia (Circobaloghia) iquitosensis Hirschmann, 1992), both already reported from Peru. A new species (Origmatrachys peruensis sp. nov.) from the family Trachyuropodidae was collected in large numbers from soil, and is described on the basis of females, males, nymphs and larvae. This is the first description of the protonymphs and larvae of Origmatrachys. The new species differs from the previously described ones in the basis of sculptural pattern of dorsal, ventral, sternal shields and the length of the setae in the central part of the dorsal shield. A new key to the known adults and deutonymphs of Origmatrachys is given.

  3. 19 CFR Annex V to Part 351 - Comparison of Prior and New Regulations

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... weighted-average dumping margin Subpart B—Antidumping Duty Procedures 353.11 351.201 Self-initiation 353.12... Verification 353.37 351.308 Determination on the basis of the facts available 353.38 (a)-(e) 351.309 Written... 355.35 Removed Ex parte meeting 355.36 351.307 Verification 355.37 351.308 Determinations on the basis...

  4. 17 CFR 240.3b-13 - Definition of eligible OTC derivative instrument.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... purchase or sale of a security on a firm basis; or (2) Provides, in whole or in part, on a firm or... derivative instrument means any contract, agreement, or transaction that: (1) Provides, in whole or in part, on a firm or contingent basis, for the purchase or sale of, or is based on the value of, or any...

  5. 17 CFR 240.3b-13 - Definition of eligible OTC derivative instrument.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... purchase or sale of a security on a firm basis; or (2) Provides, in whole or in part, on a firm or... derivative instrument means any contract, agreement, or transaction that: (1) Provides, in whole or in part, on a firm or contingent basis, for the purchase or sale of, or is based on the value of, or any...

  6. 17 CFR 240.3b-13 - Definition of eligible OTC derivative instrument.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... purchase or sale of a security on a firm basis; or (2) Provides, in whole or in part, on a firm or... derivative instrument means any contract, agreement, or transaction that: (1) Provides, in whole or in part, on a firm or contingent basis, for the purchase or sale of, or is based on the value of, or any...

  7. 12 CFR Appendix D to Part 225 - Capital Adequacy Guidelines for Bank Holding Companies: Tier 1 Leverage Measure

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... Consolidated Financial Statements (FR Y-9C Report), less goodwill; amounts of mortgage servicing assets... part. b. The tier 1 leverage guidelines apply on a consolidated basis to any bank holding company with consolidated assets of $500 million or more. The tier 1 leverage guidelines also apply on a consolidated basis...

  8. [Professional and working conditions of newly licensed nurses in the province of Trento].

    PubMed

    Castelli, C; Saiani, L

    1997-01-01

    Aim of the survey was to gather information on the occupational situation of recently trained registered nurses of the Trento Province. 484 questionnaires were mailed to all the nurses that obtained their diploma from 1993 to 1995; 379 questionnaires (78%) were returned. Among the 70 subjects not working as nurses, 19 are unemployed, 12 study full time, 26 work full time in other professions, 11 are in the army, all the others work occasionally, but not as nurses. 46% are unsatisfied or partially satisfied with their job; 87.3% would choose again the nursing profession. 20% of the nurses would prefer to work on a part time basis.

  9. Family Separation and Reunion. Families of Prisoners of War and Servicemen Missing in Action

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1975-01-01

    either on a f!,ll or part time basi3. Almost two-thirds of the group (62.3%), however, were unemployed . Decision-making, disciplining of the children...different in both its severity and psychic import. Although no phobias, per se, were present, one man did develop the defensive ritual of formally...Medical Psychology, 1959, 32, 161-170. Tas, J. Psychical disorders among inmates of concentration camps and repatriates. Psychiatric Quarterly, 1951

  10. Pyrene-based chemosens or detects picric acid upto attogram level through aggregation enhanced excimer emission.

    PubMed

    Chopra, Rakesh; Kaur, Paramjit; Singh, Kamaljit

    2015-03-15

    A pyrene-based small molecular weight probe, exhibiting aggregation enhanced excimer emission has been synthesized. The crystalline emissive form detects 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (picric acid) at parts-per-billion concentration in solution and as low as 0.46 attogram in direct contact mode, operating predominantly in a static quenching mechanism, proposed on the basis of steady state and life-time fluorescence measurements. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  11. Maintenance Management Information and Control System (MMICS). Administrative Boon or Burden.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1984-03-01

    training schools (fundamentals and theory ) for the particular career field; through correspondence courses developed and written by the Air Force, and...are identified, scheduled and done on a timely basis. 6 "The administration of an individual’s Upgrade Training ( UGT ) to meet the job knowledge and...formal OJT must study and complete a Career Develop- ment Course (CDC) as part of their upgrade training ( UGT ). The progress and status of the course is

  12. Decentralized nursing education in northern Norway: a basis for continuing education to meet competence needs in rural Arctic healthcare services.

    PubMed

    Skaalvik, Mari Wolff; Gaski, Margrete; Norbye, Bente

    2014-01-01

    Ensuring a sufficient nursing workforce, with respect to both number and relevant professional competencies, is crucial in rural Arctic regions in Norway. This study examines the continuing education (CE) of nurses who graduated from a decentralized nursing programme between 1994 and 2011. This study aims to measure the extent to which the decentralized nursing education (DNE) in question has served as a basis for CE that is adapted to current and future community health care service needs in rural Arctic regions in northern Norway. More specifically, the study aims to investigate the frequency and scope of CE courses among the graduates of a DNE, the choice of study model and the degree of employment with respect to the relevant CE. This study is a quantitative survey providing descriptive statistics. The primary finding in this study is that 56% of the participants had engaged in CE and that they were employed in positions related to their education. The majority of students with decentralized bachelor's degrees engaged in CE that was part time and/or decentralized. More than half of the population in this study had completed CE despite no mandatory obligation in order to maintain licensure. Furthermore, 31% of the participants had completed more than one CE programme. The findings show that the participants preferred CE organized as part time and or decentralized studies.

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

    Nicholson, J. C.

    Performance metrics for evaluating commercial fixatives are often not readily available for important parameters that must be considered per the facility safety basis and the facility Basis for Interim Operations (BIO). One such parameter is the behavior of such materials in varied, “non-ideal” conditions where ideal is defined as 75 °F, 40% RH. Coupled with the inherent flammable nature of the fixative materials that can act to propagate flame along surfaces that are otherwise fireproof (concrete, sheet metal), much is left unknown when considering the safety basis implications for introducing these materials into nuclear facilities. Through SRNL’s efforts, three (3)more » fixatives, one (1) decontamination gel, and six (6) intumescent coatings were examined for their responses to environmental conditions to determine whether these materials were impervious to non-nominal temperatures and humidities that may be found in nuclear facilities. Characteristics that were examined included set-to-touch time, dust free time, and adhesion testing of the fully cured compounds. Of these ten materials, three were two-part epoxy materials while the other seven consisted of only one constituent. The results show that the epoxies tested are unable to cure in sub-freezing temperatures, with the low temperatures inhibiting crosslinking to a very significant degree. These efforts show significant inhibiting of performance for non-nominal environmental conditions, something that must be addressed both in the decision process for a fixative material to apply and per the safety basis to ensure the accurate flammability and material at risk is calculated.« less

  14. 45 CFR Appendix A to Part 86 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational... GENERAL ADMINISTRATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING... Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in...

  15. 34 CFR Appendix A to Part 106 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs A... RIGHTS, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES... Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and...

  16. 34 CFR Appendix A to Part 106 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs A... RIGHTS, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES... Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and...

  17. 45 CFR Appendix A to Part 86 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational... GENERAL ADMINISTRATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING... Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in...

  18. 45 CFR Appendix A to Part 86 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational... GENERAL ADMINISTRATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING... Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in...

  19. 45 CFR Appendix A to Part 86 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational... GENERAL ADMINISTRATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING... Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in...

  20. 45 CFR Appendix A to Part 86 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational... GENERAL ADMINISTRATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING... Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in...

  1. 34 CFR Appendix A to Part 106 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs A... RIGHTS, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES... Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in...

  2. 34 CFR Appendix A to Part 106 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs A... RIGHTS, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES... Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and...

  3. 34 CFR Appendix A to Part 106 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs A... RIGHTS, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES... Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in...

  4. Attention theory and training research

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Connelly, James G., Jr.; Wickens, Christopher D.; Lintern, Gavan; Harwood, Kelly

    1987-01-01

    This study used elements of attention theory as a methodological basis to decompose a complex training task in order to improve training efficiency. The complex task was a microcomputer flight simulation where subjects were required to control the stability of their own helicopter while acquiring and engaging enemy helicopers in a threat enviroment. Subjects were divided into whole-task, part-task, and part/open loop adaptive task groups in a transfer of training paradigm. The effect of reducing mental workload at the early stages of learning was examined with respect to the degree that subordinate elements of the complex task could be automated through practice of consistent, learnable stimulus-response relationships. Results revealed trends suggesting the benefit of isolating consistently mapped sub-tasks for part-task training and the presence of a time-sharing skill over and above the skill required for the separate subtasks.

  5. Shear Resistance between Concrete-Concrete Surfaces

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Kovačovic, Marek

    2013-12-01

    The application of precast beams and cast-in-situ structural members cast at different times has been typical of bridges and buildings for many years. A load-bearing frame consists of a set of prestressed precast beams supported by columns and diaphragms joined with an additionally cast slab deck. This article is focused on the theoretical and experimental analyses of the shear resistance at an interface. The first part of the paper deals with the state-of-art knowledge of the composite behaviour of concrete-concrete structures and a comparison of the numerical methods introduced in the relevant standards. In the experimental part, a set of specimens with different interface treatments was tested until failure in order to predict the composite behaviour of coupled beams. The experimental part was compared to the numerical analysis performed by means of FEM basis nonlinear software.

  6. A new class of weight and WA systems of the Kravchenko-Kaiser functions

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Kravchenko, V. F.; Pustovoit, V. I.; Churikov, D. V.

    2014-05-01

    A new class of weight and WA-systems of the Kravchenko-Kaiser functions which showed its efficiency in various physical applications is proposed and substantiated. This publication consists of three parts. In the first the Kravchenko-Kaiser weight functions are constructed on basis of the theory of atomic functions (AFs) and the Kaiser windows for the first time. In the second part new constructions of analytic WA-systems of the Kravchenko-Kaiser functions are costructed. In the third part their applications to problems of weight averaging of the difference frequency signals are considered. The numerical experiment and the physical analysis of the results for concrete physical models confirmed their efficiency. This class of functions can find wide physical applications in problems of digital signal processing, restoration of images, radar, radiometry, radio astronomy, remote sensing, etc.

  7. 45 CFR 164.102 - Statutory basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Statutory basis. 164.102 Section 164.102 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS SECURITY AND PRIVACY General Provisions § 164.102 Statutory basis. The provisions of this part are adopted...

  8. 45 CFR 164.102 - Statutory basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Statutory basis. 164.102 Section 164.102 Public Welfare Department of Health and Human Services ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS SECURITY AND PRIVACY General Provisions § 164.102 Statutory basis. The provisions of this part are adopted...

  9. 45 CFR 164.102 - Statutory basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Statutory basis. 164.102 Section 164.102 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS SECURITY AND PRIVACY General Provisions § 164.102 Statutory basis. The provisions of this part are adopted...

  10. 47 CFR 4.1 - Scope, basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Scope, basis and purpose. 4.1 Section 4.1 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION GENERAL DISRUPTIONS TO COMMUNICATIONS General § 4.1 Scope, basis and purpose. In this part, the Federal Communications Commission is setting forth requirements...

  11. 47 CFR 4.1 - Scope, basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 1 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Scope, basis and purpose. 4.1 Section 4.1 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION GENERAL DISRUPTIONS TO COMMUNICATIONS General § 4.1 Scope, basis and purpose. In this part, the Federal Communications Commission is setting forth requirements...

  12. Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Handicap in Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance. Title 34, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 104.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Office for Civil Rights (ED), Washington, DC.

    This document presents the final regulations of the Office for Civil Rights, Department of Education, concerning nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The first part covers general provisions such as purpose, application,…

  13. [Study on the histological anatomy on medicinal parts of Semiaquilegia adoxoides in different developmental stages].

    PubMed

    Yang, Jun; Peng, Hua-Sheng; Wang, De-Qun; Sun, Jing

    2012-08-01

    To study the structural characteristics of medicinal parts at different developmental stages of Semiaquilegia adoxoides. Observed on sections of medicinal parts of Semiaquilegia adoxoides at various developmental stages during growth periods. There was a great difference between the upper and bottom of the medicinal parts of Semiaquilegia adoxoides: rhizome at the top of root had the structure of rhizome with pith; The upper one third of enlarged root was root-stem transition zone, also with pith; And the other two thirds of enlarged root had the structure of root without pith. The microscopic structures of the medicinal parts of Semiaquilegia adoxoides at various developmental stages presented great disparities, the structures regularly increased as the size of plant increased. It was the first time to find that there were structure of growth rings in xylem of the root and rhizome of Semiaquilegia adoxoides. The method of identification of characteristics and histology of medicinal parts of Semiaquilegia adoxoides at different developmental stages is established, and the results provide a basis for identification of Semiaquilegia adoxoides medicinal materials.

  14. 45 CFR 79.1 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Welfare Department of Health and Human Services GENERAL ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 79.1 Basis and purpose. (a) Basis. This part implements the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986, Pub. L... for imposing civil penalties and assessments against persons who make, submit, or present, or cause to...

  15. 45 CFR 79.1 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GENERAL ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 79.1 Basis and purpose. (a) Basis. This part implements the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986, Pub. L... for imposing civil penalties and assessments against persons who make, submit, or present, or cause to...

  16. 45 CFR 79.1 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GENERAL ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 79.1 Basis and purpose. (a) Basis. This part implements the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986, Pub. L... for imposing civil penalties and assessments against persons who make, submit, or present, or cause to...

  17. 45 CFR 79.1 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GENERAL ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 79.1 Basis and purpose. (a) Basis. This part implements the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986, Pub. L... for imposing civil penalties and assessments against persons who make, submit, or present, or cause to...

  18. 45 CFR 86.31 - Education programs or activities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Discrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Prohibited § 86.31 Education programs or activities. (a) General. Except as provided elsewhere in this part, no person shall, on the basis of sex, be...

  19. 45 CFR 86.31 - Education programs or activities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Discrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Prohibited § 86.31 Education programs or activities. (a) General. Except as provided elsewhere in this part, no person shall, on the basis of sex, be...

  20. 45 CFR 86.31 - Education programs or activities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Discrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Prohibited § 86.31 Education programs or activities. (a) General. Except as provided elsewhere in this part, no person shall, on the basis of sex, be...

  1. 45 CFR 159.100 - Basis and scope.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Basis and scope. 159.100 Section 159.100 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS HEALTH CARE REFORM INSURANCE WEB PORTAL § 159.100 Basis and scope. This part establishes provisions governing a Web...

  2. 10 CFR 110.80 - Basis for hearings.

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    2010-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 2 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Basis for hearings. 110.80 Section 110.80 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (CONTINUED) EXPORT AND IMPORT OF NUCLEAR EQUIPMENT AND MATERIAL Public Participation Procedures Concerning License Applications § 110.80 Basis for hearings. The procedures in this part will...

  3. 42 CFR 505.1 - Basis and scope.

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    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 5 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Basis and scope. 505.1 Section 505.1 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) HEALTH CARE... Criteria § 505.1 Basis and scope. This part implements section 1016 of the Medicare Prescription Drug...

  4. 42 CFR 505.1 - Basis and scope.

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    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 5 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Basis and scope. 505.1 Section 505.1 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) HEALTH CARE... Criteria § 505.1 Basis and scope. This part implements section 1016 of the Medicare Prescription Drug...

  5. Kinetics of Slow Neutrons in a Time-of-flight Spectrometer. II. Probability of Transmission Across a Rotating Slit and Distribution after the Flight of Neutrons with Velocity Spectrum F (v); CINETICA DEI NEUTRONI LENTI IN UNO SPETTROMETRO A TEMPO DI VOLO. II. PROBABILITA DI TRANSMISSIONE ATTRAVERSO UNA FENDITURA RUOTANTE E DISTRIBUZIONE DOPO IL VOLO DI NEUTRONI CON SPETTRO DI VELOCITA F (V)

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    Marsequerra, M.; Pauli, G.

    1958-12-01

    On the basis of the results obtained in Part I (CNC-1), expressions are derived for the transmission probability through a revolving curved slit for neutrons having a velocity distribution f(v), the distribution shown by the neutrons after the flight, and the uncertainty in the energy of neutrons detected in an infinitesimal time interval. (auth)

  6. Experimental and Analytical Studies for a Computational Materials Program

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Knauss, W. G.

    1999-01-01

    The studies supported by Grant NAG1-1780 were directed at providing physical data on polymer behavior that would form the basis for computationally modeling these types of materials. Because of ongoing work in polymer characterization this grant supported part of a larger picture in this regard. Efforts went into two combined areas of their time dependent mechanical response characteristics: Creep properties on the one hand, subject to different volumetric changes (nonlinearly viscoelastic behavior) and time or frequency dependence of dilatational material behavior. The details of these endeavors are outlined sufficiently in the two appended publications, so that no further description of the effort is necessary.

  7. Competition in the Acquisition of Replenishment Spare Parts.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1983-09-01

    Brost for willingly sharing his knowledge, data, and time to help get this project off the ground. Mr. Bob Begley of AFLC, who, on the basis of a...lower than originally perceived and reported (5; 24:82). Brost found that there could just as likely be losses as savings from the use of competition in...to competitive savings (s3:54). Research Study 6 In a 1982 thesis at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Brost studied the effects of competition

  8. Combining Accuracy and Efficiency: An Incremental Focal-Point Method Based on Pair Natural Orbitals.

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    Fiedler, Benjamin; Schmitz, Gunnar; Hättig, Christof; Friedrich, Joachim

    2017-12-12

    In this work, we present a new pair natural orbitals (PNO)-based incremental scheme to calculate CCSD(T) and CCSD(T0) reaction, interaction, and binding energies. We perform an extensive analysis, which shows small incremental errors similar to previous non-PNO calculations. Furthermore, slight PNO errors are obtained by using T PNO = T TNO with appropriate values of 10 -7 to 10 -8 for reactions and 10 -8 for interaction or binding energies. The combination with the efficient MP2 focal-point approach yields chemical accuracy relative to the complete basis-set (CBS) limit. In this method, small basis sets (cc-pVDZ, def2-TZVP) for the CCSD(T) part are sufficient in case of reactions or interactions, while some larger ones (e.g., (aug)-cc-pVTZ) are necessary for molecular clusters. For these larger basis sets, we show the very high efficiency of our scheme. We obtain not only tremendous decreases of the wall times (i.e., factors >10 2 ) due to the parallelization of the increment calculations as well as of the total times due to the application of PNOs (i.e., compared to the normal incremental scheme) but also smaller total times with respect to the standard PNO method. That way, our new method features a perfect applicability by combining an excellent accuracy with a very high efficiency as well as the accessibility to larger systems due to the separation of the full computation into several small increments.

  9. The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata Archive (GSIM) - Part 2: Quality control, time-series indices and homogeneity assessment

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Gudmundsson, Lukas; Do, Hong Xuan; Leonard, Michael; Westra, Seth

    2018-04-01

    This is Part 2 of a two-paper series presenting the Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata Archive (GSIM), which is a collection of daily streamflow observations at more than 30 000 stations around the world. While Part 1 (Do et al., 2018a) describes the data collection process as well as the generation of auxiliary catchment data (e.g. catchment boundary, land cover, mean climate), Part 2 introduces a set of quality controlled time-series indices representing (i) the water balance, (ii) the seasonal cycle, (iii) low flows and (iv) floods. To this end we first consider the quality of individual daily records using a combination of quality flags from data providers and automated screening methods. Subsequently, streamflow time-series indices are computed for yearly, seasonal and monthly resolution. The paper provides a generalized assessment of the homogeneity of all generated streamflow time-series indices, which can be used to select time series that are suitable for a specific task. The newly generated global set of streamflow time-series indices is made freely available with an digital object identifier at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.887470 and is expected to foster global freshwater research, by acting as a ground truth for model validation or as a basis for assessing the role of human impacts on the terrestrial water cycle. It is hoped that a renewed interest in streamflow data at the global scale will foster efforts in the systematic assessment of data quality and provide momentum to overcome administrative barriers that lead to inconsistencies in global collections of relevant hydrological observations.

  10. U.S. Standard Atmosphere, 1976

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    1976-01-01

    Part 1 gives the basis for computation of the main tables of atmospheric properties, including values of physical constants, conversion factors, and definitions of derived properties, including values of physical constants, conversion factors, and definitions of derived properties. Part 2 describes the model and data used up to 85 km, in the first section; and the model and data used above 85 km in the second section. The theoretical basis of the high altitude model is given in an appendix. Part 3 contains information on minor constituents in the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere. The main tables of atmospheric properties to 1000 km are given in Part 4. The international system of metric units is used.

  11. 42 CFR 405.701 - Basis, purpose and definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Basis, purpose and definitions. 405.701 Section 405... Medicare Part A § 405.701 Basis, purpose and definitions. (a) This subpart implements section 1869 of the... following matters, and section 1869(b) provides for a hearing for an individual who is dissatisfied with the...

  12. 14 CFR 1251.105 - Remedial action, voluntary action, and self-evaluation.

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    2011-01-01

    ... NONDISCRIMINATION ON BASIS OF HANDICAP General Provisions § 1251.105 Remedial action, voluntary action, and self... against persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part, the recipient shall... discrimination. (2) Where a recipient is found to have discriminated against persons on the basis of handicap in...

  13. 14 CFR 1251.105 - Remedial action, voluntary action, and self-evaluation.

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    2013-01-01

    ... NONDISCRIMINATION ON BASIS OF HANDICAP General Provisions § 1251.105 Remedial action, voluntary action, and self... against persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part, the recipient shall... discrimination. (2) Where a recipient is found to have discriminated against persons on the basis of handicap in...

  14. 14 CFR § 1251.105 - Remedial action, voluntary action, and self-evaluation.

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    2014-01-01

    ... ADMINISTRATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON BASIS OF HANDICAP General Provisions § 1251.105 Remedial action, voluntary... recipient has discriminated against persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this... persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part and where another recipient...

  15. 14 CFR 1251.105 - Remedial action, voluntary action, and self-evaluation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... NONDISCRIMINATION ON BASIS OF HANDICAP General Provisions § 1251.105 Remedial action, voluntary action, and self... against persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part, the recipient shall... discrimination. (2) Where a recipient is found to have discriminated against persons on the basis of handicap in...

  16. 45 CFR 84.6 - Remedial action, voluntary action, and self-evaluation.

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    2012-10-01

    ... NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE General... Director finds that a recipient has discriminated against persons on the basis of handicap in violation of... persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part and where another recipient...

  17. 14 CFR 1251.105 - Remedial action, voluntary action, and self-evaluation.

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    2012-01-01

    ... NONDISCRIMINATION ON BASIS OF HANDICAP General Provisions § 1251.105 Remedial action, voluntary action, and self... against persons on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 or this part, the recipient shall... discrimination. (2) Where a recipient is found to have discriminated against persons on the basis of handicap in...

  18. 42 CFR § 512.1 - Basis and scope.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2017-10-01

    ...) HEALTH CARE INFRASTRUCTURE AND MODEL PROGRAMS EPISODE PAYMENT MODEL General Provisions § 512.1 Basis and scope. (a) Basis. This part implements the test of episode payment models under section 1115A of the Act... sets forth the following: (1) The participants in each episode payment model. (2) The episodes being...

  19. 42 CFR 436.2 - Basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 4 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Basis. 436.2 Section 436.2 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS ELIGIBILITY IN GUAM, PUERTO RICO, AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS General Provisions and Definitions § 436.2 Basis. This part implements the...

  20. 42 CFR 436.2 - Basis.

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  1. 42 CFR 436.2 - Basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

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    ... 42 Public Health 4 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Basis. 436.2 Section 436.2 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS ELIGIBILITY IN GUAM, PUERTO RICO, AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS General Provisions and Definitions § 436.2 Basis. This part implements the...

  2. 42 CFR 436.2 - Basis.

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    ... 42 Public Health 4 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Basis. 436.2 Section 436.2 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS ELIGIBILITY IN GUAM, PUERTO RICO, AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS General Provisions and Definitions § 436.2 Basis. This part implements the...

  3. 42 CFR 436.2 - Basis.

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    ... 42 Public Health 4 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Basis. 436.2 Section 436.2 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS ELIGIBILITY IN GUAM, PUERTO RICO, AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS General Provisions and Definitions § 436.2 Basis. This part implements the...

  4. 26 CFR 1.1014-8 - Bequest, devise, or inheritance of a remainder interest.

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    2012-04-01

    ... (CONTINUED) INCOME TAX (CONTINUED) INCOME TAXES (CONTINUED) Basis Rules of General Application § 1.1014-8... adding to (or subtracting from) the part of the adjusted uniform basis assigned to the remainder interest... between— (i) The value of the remainder interest included in the remainderman's estate, and (ii) The basis...

  5. 26 CFR 1.1014-8 - Bequest, devise, or inheritance of a remainder interest.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... (CONTINUED) INCOME TAX (CONTINUED) INCOME TAXES (CONTINUED) Basis Rules of General Application § 1.1014-8... adding to (or subtracting from) the part of the adjusted uniform basis assigned to the remainder interest... between— (i) The value of the remainder interest included in the remainderman's estate, and (ii) The basis...

  6. 26 CFR 1.1014-8 - Bequest, devise, or inheritance of a remainder interest.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... (CONTINUED) INCOME TAX (CONTINUED) INCOME TAXES (CONTINUED) Basis Rules of General Application § 1.1014-8... adding to (or subtracting from) the part of the adjusted uniform basis assigned to the remainder interest... between— (i) The value of the remainder interest included in the remainderman's estate, and (ii) The basis...

  7. 77 FR 39800 - Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel: Draft Technical Assistance Manual

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    2012-07-05

    ... specific learning disabilities. (Sec. 382.3). What is not considered a physical or mental impairment... Secretary 14 CFR Part 382 Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel: Draft Technical... [Docket No. DOT-OST-2012--0098] Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel: Draft...

  8. Maglev guideway route alignment and right-of-way requirements

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Carlton, S.; Andriola, T.

    1992-12-01

    The use of existing rights-of-way (ROW) is assessed for maglev systems by estimating trip times and land acquisition requirements for potential maglev corridors while meeting passenger comfort limits. Right-of-way excursions improve trip time but incur a cost for purchasing land. The final report documents findings of the eight tasks in establishing right-of-way feasibility by examining three city-pair corridors in detail and developing an approximation method for estimating route length and travel times in 20 additional city-pair corridor portions and 21 new corridors. The use of routes independent of existing railroad or highway right-of-way have trip time advantages and significantly reduce the need for aggressive guideway geometries on intercity corridors. Selection of the appropriate alignment is determined by many corridor specific issues. Use of existing intercity rights-of-way may be appropriate for parts of routes on a corridor-specific basis and for urban penetration where vehicle speeds are likely to be reduced by policy due to noise and safety considerations, and where land acquisition costs are high. Detailed aspects of available rights-of-way, land acquisition costs, geotechnical issues, land use, and population centers must be examined in more detail on a specific corridor basis before the proper or best maglev alignment can be chosen.

  9. Antioxidant constituents of the aerial parts of Globularia alypum growing in Morocco.

    PubMed

    Es-Safi, Nour-Eddine; Khlifi, Samira; Kerhoas, Lucien; Kollmann, Albert; El Abbouyi, Ahmed; Ducrot, Paul-Henri

    2005-08-01

    Three new phenolic compounds were isolated from the aerial parts of Globularia alypum. Their structures were determined as 6-hydroxyluteolin 7-O-laminaribioside (1), eriodictyol 7-O-sophoroside (2), and 6'-O-coumaroyl-1'-O-[2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethyl]-beta-D-glucopyranoside (3). In addition, three phenylethanoid glycosides (acteoside, isoacteoside, and forsythiaside) and two flavonoid glycosides (6-hydroxyluteolin 7-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside and luteolin 7-O-sophoroside) were also isolated and are reported here for the first time in this plant. The structures of compounds 1-3 were established on the basis of their spectroscopic data analysis. Evaluation of the antioxidative activity, conducted in vitro, showed that the isolated phenylethanoids and flavonoid glycosides possess strong effects of this type.

  10. Basis And Application Of The CARES/LIFE Computer Program

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Nemeth, Noel N.; Janosik, Lesley A.; Gyekenyesi, John P.; Powers, Lynn M.

    1996-01-01

    Report discusses physical and mathematical basis of Ceramics Analysis and Reliability Evaluation of Structures LIFE prediction (CARES/LIFE) computer program, described in "Program for Evaluation of Reliability of Ceramic Parts" (LEW-16018).

  11. Evidence for open field lines in Jupiter's magnetosphere

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    Goertz, C. K.; Randall, B. A.; Thomsen, M. F.; Jones, D. E.; Smith, E. J.

    1976-01-01

    A model for the night-side Jovian magnetic field is derived partly on the basis of theoretical considerations and partly on the basis of the magnetic-field data obtained during the outbound leg of the path of Pioneer 10. This model can explain the observed sawtooth modulation of energetic particle fluxes in terms of closed and open field lines that cannot contain the particles. The model is applicable only to the Jovian magnetotail.

  12. Wet tropospheric delays forecast based on Vienna Mapping Function time series analysis

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Rzepecka, Zofia; Kalita, Jakub

    2016-04-01

    It is well known that the dry part of the zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) is much easier to model than the wet part (ZTW). The aim of the research is applying stochastic modeling and prediction of ZTW using time series analysis tools. Application of time series analysis enables closer understanding of ZTW behavior as well as short-term prediction of future ZTW values. The ZTW data used for the studies were obtained from the GGOS service hold by Vienna technical University. The resolution of the data is six hours. ZTW for the years 2010 -2013 were adopted for the study. The International GNSS Service (IGS) permanent stations LAMA and GOPE, located in mid-latitudes, were admitted for the investigations. Initially the seasonal part was separated and modeled using periodic signals and frequency analysis. The prominent annual and semi-annual signals were removed using sines and consines functions. The autocorrelation of the resulting signal is significant for several days (20-30 samples). The residuals of this fitting were further analyzed and modeled with ARIMA processes. For both the stations optimal ARMA processes based on several criterions were obtained. On this basis predicted ZTW values were computed for one day ahead, leaving the white process residuals. Accuracy of the prediction can be estimated at about 3 cm.

  13. 42 CFR 423.464 - Coordination of benefits with other providers of prescription drug coverage.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... per capita basis) for Part D eligible individuals enrolled in the Part D plan and the SPAP or entity... Part D eligible individuals; (ii) Provides assistance to Part D eligible individuals in all Part D plans without discriminating based upon the Part D plan in which an individual enrolls; (iii) Meets the...

  14. Evaluation of Environmental Conditions on the Curing Of Commercial Fixative and Intumescent Coatings

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    Nicholson, J. C.

    2016-09-26

    Performance metrics for evaluating commercial fixatives are often not readily available for important parameters that must be considered per the facility safety basis and the facility Basis for Interim Operations (BIO). One such parameter is the behavior of such materials in varied, “non-ideal” conditions where ideal is defined as 75 °F, 40% RH. Coupled with the inherent flammable nature of the fixative materials that can act to propagate flame along surfaces that are otherwise fireproof (concrete, sheet metal), much is left unknown when considering the safety basis implications for introducing these materials into nuclear facilities. Through SRNL’s efforts, three (3)more » fixatives, one (1) decontamination gel, and six (6) intumescent coatings were examined for their responses to environmental conditions to determine whether these materials were impervious to non-nominal temperatures and humidities that may be found in nuclear facilities. Characteristics that were examined included set-to-touch time, dust free time, and adhesion testing of the fully cured compounds. Of these ten materials, three were two-part epoxy materials while the other seven consisted of only one constituent. The results show that the epoxies tested are unable to cure in sub-freezing temperatures, with the low temperatures inhibiting crosslinking to a very significant degree. These efforts show significant inhibiting of performance for non-nominal environmental conditions, something that must be addressed both in the decision process for a fixative material to apply and per the safety basis to ensure the accurate flammability and material at risk is calculated.« less

  15. Assessment of GPS carrier-phase stability for time-transfer applications.

    PubMed

    Larson, K M; Levine, J; Nelson, L M; Parker, T E

    2000-01-01

    We have conducted global positioning system (GPS) carrier-phase time-transfer experiments between the master clock (MC) at the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) in Washington, DC and the alternate master clock (AMC) at Schriever Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, Colorado. These clocks are also monitored on an hourly basis with two-way satellite time-transfer (TWSTT) measurements. We compared the performance of the GPS carrier phase and TWSTT systems over a 236-d period. Because of power problems and data outages during the carrier-phase experiment, the longest continuous time span is 96 d. The data from this period show agreement with TWSTT within +/-1 ns, apart from an overall constant time offset (caused by unknown delays in the GPS hardware at both ends). For averaging times of a day, the carrier-phase and TWSTT systems have a frequency uncertainty of 2.5 and 5.5 parts in 10(15), respectively.

  16. Quantum Dynamics with Short-Time Trajectories and Minimal Adaptive Basis Sets.

    PubMed

    Saller, Maximilian A C; Habershon, Scott

    2017-07-11

    Methods for solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation via basis set expansion of the wave function can generally be categorized as having either static (time-independent) or dynamic (time-dependent) basis functions. We have recently introduced an alternative simulation approach which represents a middle road between these two extremes, employing dynamic (classical-like) trajectories to create a static basis set of Gaussian wavepackets in regions of phase-space relevant to future propagation of the wave function [J. Chem. Theory Comput., 11, 8 (2015)]. Here, we propose and test a modification of our methodology which aims to reduce the size of basis sets generated in our original scheme. In particular, we employ short-time classical trajectories to continuously generate new basis functions for short-time quantum propagation of the wave function; to avoid the continued growth of the basis set describing the time-dependent wave function, we employ Matching Pursuit to periodically minimize the number of basis functions required to accurately describe the wave function. Overall, this approach generates a basis set which is adapted to evolution of the wave function while also being as small as possible. In applications to challenging benchmark problems, namely a 4-dimensional model of photoexcited pyrazine and three different double-well tunnelling problems, we find that our new scheme enables accurate wave function propagation with basis sets which are around an order-of-magnitude smaller than our original trajectory-guided basis set methodology, highlighting the benefits of adaptive strategies for wave function propagation.

  17. Decentralized nursing education in Northern Norway: a basis for continuing education to meet competence needs in rural Arctic healthcare services

    PubMed Central

    Skaalvik, Mari Wolff; Gaski, Margrete; Norbye, Bente

    2014-01-01

    Background Ensuring a sufficient nursing workforce, with respect to both number and relevant professional competencies, is crucial in rural Arctic regions in Norway. This study examines the continuing education (CE) of nurses who graduated from a decentralized nursing programme between 1994 and 2011. Objective This study aims to measure the extent to which the decentralized nursing education (DNE) in question has served as a basis for CE that is adapted to current and future community health care service needs in rural Arctic regions in northern Norway. More specifically, the study aims to investigate the frequency and scope of CE courses among the graduates of a DNE, the choice of study model and the degree of employment with respect to the relevant CE. Design This study is a quantitative survey providing descriptive statistics. Results The primary finding in this study is that 56% of the participants had engaged in CE and that they were employed in positions related to their education. The majority of students with decentralized bachelor's degrees engaged in CE that was part time and/or decentralized. Conclusions More than half of the population in this study had completed CE despite no mandatory obligation in order to maintain licensure. Furthermore, 31% of the participants had completed more than one CE programme. The findings show that the participants preferred CE organized as part time and or decentralized studies. PMID:25279355

  18. Temperature estimation for the most upper part of magmatic chamber of the Elbrus volcano

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Likhodeev, Dmitry

    2013-04-01

    The results of theoretical and experimental studies on thermal processes in the Elbrus volcanic center and adjacent territories are presented. Distributed temperature measurements on the Elbrus volcano and near the Maloye Azau glacier by means of temperature data loggers («High Capacity Temperature Loggers iButton» and «Rejim-avtomat-termo-10-100») have been performed. The comparative time series analysis is provided. On the basis of the Geophysical Observatory in Northern Caucasus, in the laboratory located some 20 km from the Elbrus volcano in the tunnel at a depth of 4 km the array of temperature sensors has been deployed. Results of continuous observations over variations of underground temperatures, including pin-point measurements in the vicinity of sources of carbonaceous mineral waters are presented and discussed. Temperature estimations for the most upper part of the shallow magmatic chamber of the of the Elbrus volcano were obtained on the basis of experimental measurements in the 180-meter deep borehole drilled through the glacier on the western plateau of Mount Elbrus. The estimations of deep temperatures have confirmed the possibility of existence of the magmatic chamber at depths of 0-1 km below sea level. At the same time the magnitudes of local heat flux were identified with enhanced precision. Thus, the original scientific results provide significant extension to our knowledge on possible resumption of volcanic activity in the vicinity of Mount Elbrus.

  19. Conservaton and retrieval of information

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

    Jensen, M.

    This is a summary of the findings of a Nordic working group formed in 1990 and given the task of establishing a basis for a common Nordic view of the need for information conservation for nuclear waste repositories by investigating the following: (1) the type of information that should be conserved; (2) the form in which the information should be kept; (3) the quality of the information as regards both type and form; and (4) the problems of future retrieval of information, including retrieval after very long periods of time. High-level waste from nuclear power generation will remain radioactive formore » very long times even though the major part of the radioactivity will have decayed within 1000 yr. Certain information about the waste must be kept for long time periods because future generations may-intentionally or inadvertently-come into contact with the radioactive waste. Current day waste management would benefit from an early identification of documents to be part of an archive for radioactive waste repositories. The same reasoning is valid for repositories for other toxic wastes.« less

  20. Aftershock identification problem via the nearest-neighbor analysis for marked point processes

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Gabrielov, A.; Zaliapin, I.; Wong, H.; Keilis-Borok, V.

    2007-12-01

    The centennial observations on the world seismicity have revealed a wide variety of clustering phenomena that unfold in the space-time-energy domain and provide most reliable information about the earthquake dynamics. However, there is neither a unifying theory nor a convenient statistical apparatus that would naturally account for the different types of seismic clustering. In this talk we present a theoretical framework for nearest-neighbor analysis of marked processes and obtain new results on hierarchical approach to studying seismic clustering introduced by Baiesi and Paczuski (2004). Recall that under this approach one defines an asymmetric distance D in space-time-energy domain such that the nearest-neighbor spanning graph with respect to D becomes a time- oriented tree. We demonstrate how this approach can be used to detect earthquake clustering. We apply our analysis to the observed seismicity of California and synthetic catalogs from ETAS model and show that the earthquake clustering part is statistically different from the homogeneous part. This finding may serve as a basis for an objective aftershock identification procedure.

  1. 12 CFR 261b.1 - Basis and scope.

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    ... 12 Banks and Banking 3 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Basis and scope. 261b.1 Section 261b.1 Banks... REGARDING PUBLIC OBSERVATION OF MEETINGS § 261b.1 Basis and scope. This part is issued by the Board of... public is entitled to the fullest practicable information regarding the decision making processes of the...

  2. 26 CFR 1.742-1 - Basis of transferee partner's interest.

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    ... under the general basis rules for property provided by part II (section 1011 and following), subchapter... death or at the alternate valuation date, increased by his estate's or other successor's share of...

  3. Toward a Neural Basis for Social Behavior

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    Stanley, Damian A.; Adolphs, Ralph

    2014-01-01

    Nearly 25 years ago, the shared interests of psychologists and biologists in understanding the neural basis of social behavior led to the inception of social neuroscience. In the past decade, this field has exploded, in large part due to the infusion of studies that use fMRI. At the same time, tensions have arisen about how to prioritize a diverse range of questions and about the authority of neurobiological data in answering them. The field is now poised to tackle some of the most interesting and important questions about human and animal behavior but at the same time faces uncertainty about how to achieve focus in its research and cohesion among the scientists who tackle it. The next 25 years offer the opportunity to alleviate some of these growing pains, as well as the challenge of answering large questions that encompass the nature and bounds of diverse social interactions (in humans, including interactions through the internet); how to characterize, and treat, social dysfunction in psychiatric illness; and how to compare social cognition in humans with that in other animals. PMID:24183030

  4. Toward a neural basis for social behavior.

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    Stanley, Damian A; Adolphs, Ralph

    2013-10-30

    Nearly 25 years ago, the shared interests of psychologists and biologists in understanding the neural basis of social behavior led to the inception of social neuroscience. In the past decade, this field has exploded, in large part due to the infusion of studies that use fMRI. At the same time, tensions have arisen about how to prioritize a diverse range of questions and about the authority of neurobiological data in answering them. The field is now poised to tackle some of the most interesting and important questions about human and animal behavior but at the same time faces uncertainty about how to achieve focus in its research and cohesion among the scientists who tackle it. The next 25 years offer the opportunity to alleviate some of these growing pains, as well as the challenge of answering large questions that encompass the nature and bounds of diverse social interactions (in humans, including interactions through the internet); how to characterize, and treat, social dysfunction in psychiatric illness; and how to compare social cognition in humans with that in other animals. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  5. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulation of LiBr association in water

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    Izvekov, Sergei; Philpott, Michael R.

    2000-12-01

    A computationally economical scheme which unifies the density functional description of an ionic solute and the classical description of a solvent was developed. The density functional part of the scheme comprises Car-Parrinello and related formalisms. The substantial saving in the computer time is achieved by performing the ab initio molecular dynamics of the solute electronic structure in a relatively small basis set constructed from lowest energy Kohn-Sham orbitals calculated for a single anion in vacuum, instead of using plane wave basis. The methodology permits simulation of an ionic solution for longer time scales while keeping accuracy in the prediction of the solute electronic structure. As an example the association of the Li+-Br- ion-pair system in water is studied. The results of the combined molecular dynamics simulation are compared with that obtained from the classical simulation with ion-ion interaction described by the pair potential of Born-Huggins-Mayer type. The comparison reveals an important role played by the polarization of the Br- ion in the dynamics of ion pair association.

  6. Teaching for Engagement: Part 3: Designing for Active Learning

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    Hunter, William J.

    2015-01-01

    In the first two parts of this series, ("Teaching for Engagement: Part 1: Constructivist Principles, Case-Based Teaching, and Active Learning") and ("Teaching for Engagement: Part 2: Technology in the Service of Active Learning"), William J. Hunter sought to outline the theoretical rationale and research basis for such active…

  7. 78 FR 15053 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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    ...: 1. The title of the information collection: 10 CFR part 5, ``Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex... to eliminate (with certain exceptions) discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or...

  8. 75 FR 27618 - Notice of Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) Approvals and Disapprovals

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    ... scheduled, whole plane charter basis and not selling tickets to individual passengers; (2) air carriers operating under part 298 on an on-demand, non scheduled, whole plane charter basis and not selling tickets...

  9. The Safety and Feasibility of Three-Dimensional Visualization Technology Assisted Right Posterior Lobe Allied with Part of V and VIII Sectionectomy for Right Hepatic Malignancy Therapy.

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    Hu, Min; Hu, Haoyu; Cai, Wei; Mo, Zhikang; Xiang, Nan; Yang, Jian; Fang, Chihua

    2018-05-01

    Hepatectomy is the optimal method for liver cancer; the virtual liver resection based on three-dimensional visualization technology (3-DVT) could provide better preoperative strategy for surgeon. We aim to introduce right posterior lobe allied with part of V and VIII sectionectomy assisted by 3-DVT as a promising treatment for massive or multiple right hepatic malignancies to retain maximum residual liver volume on the basis of R0 resection. Among 126 consecutive patients who underwent hepatectomy, 9 (7%) underwent right posterior lobe allied with part of V and VIII sectionectomy. 21 (17%) underwent right hemihepatectomy (RH). The virtual RH was performed with 3-DVT, which provided better observation of spatial position relationship between tumor and vessels, and the more accurate estimation of the remnant liver volume. If remnant liver volume was <40%, right posterior lobe allied with part of V and VIII sectionectomy should be undergone. Then, the precut line ought to be planned on the basis of protecting the portal branch of subsegment 5 and 8. The postoperative outcome of patients was compared before and after propensity score matching. Nine patients meeting the eligibility criteria received right posterior lobe allied with part of V and VIII sectionectomy. The variables, including the overall mean operation time, blood transfusion, operation length, liver function, and postoperative complications, were similar between two groups before and after propensity matching. The postoperative first, third, fifth, and seventh days mean value of aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), albumin (ALB), and total bilirubin had no significant difference compared with preoperative value. One patient in each group had recurrence six months after surgery. Right posterior lobe allied with part of V and VIII sectionectomy based on 3-DVT is safe and feasible surgery way, and can be a very promising method in massive or multiple right hepatic malignancy therapy.

  10. The origin of the concept of partial epilepsy.

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    Eadie

    1999-03-01

    The International League Against Epilepsy has devised classifications which subdivide both epileptic seizures and the epilepsies and epileptic syndromes into two main types: generalized and partial. Epileptogenesis in the partial variety is believed to originate in a localized part of the cerebral cortex and results in clinical manifestations which appear to commence in only a restricted part of the sufferer's body. Use of the term 'partial' in relation to these entities has often been said to date back to James Cowles Prichard (1786-1849) who was the author of the second major work on epilepsy to be written in the UK. While Prichard certainly described 'partial epilepsy', he stated that he intended the words to refer to the fact that the disorder he described under that designation was only partly, and not fully, epileptic in nature. He did not refer to the fact that it affected only part of the body as his basis for using the term. In the absence of knowledge of localization of function in the cerebral cortex at Prichard's time of writing, he had no basis for deducing that the underlying epileptic process arose in only part of the brain. However, there is an earlier mention of the use of the word 'partial' in relation to epilepsy. This is to be found in the writings of the great Scottish physician William Cullen (1710-1790), and there is reason to believe that Prichard should have been aware of this. Cullen used 'partial' with an intention similar to the modern one, employing the word to refer to seizures which affected only part of the body. Credit for the origin of the idea of a 'partial' epilepsy should belong to Cullen; not only did he have priority over Prichard but his concept was closer to the modern one than was Prichard's. Copyright 1999 Harcourt Publishers Ltd.

  11. [Physicians, books and medical knowledge in Norway around the year 1700].

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    Dahl, Gina

    2009-12-17

    Development of medicine in the early modern period (1500-1800) formed the basis for modern medicine, in that iatrochemical and mechanistic perceptions of the human body gradually became more influential. Several different medical theories prevailed and were tested in parallel, and perceptual changes developed over time. Few studies have looked into the knowledge universe that Norwegian doctors were part of in this period. I have examined book collections owned by the physicians Jacob Woldenberg, Georg Blumenthal and Paul Dons, in order to discern how physicians practicing in Norway around 1700 responded to this particular situation of "complexity". In general, these book collections covered antique medical theories and more recent debates within the medical profession at the time. Most of the books are from Germany and the Netherlands, which means the three doctors were part of firstly a German and secondly a Dutch medical tradition. The article is based on the authors' doctoral thesis about doctors' and clergymens' book collections in the period 1650-1750.

  12. Numerical analysis of composite STEEL-CONCRETE SECTIONS using integral equation of Volterra

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    Partov, Doncho; Kantchev, Vesselin

    2011-09-01

    The paper presents analysis of the stress and deflections changes due to creep in statically determinate composite steel-concrete beam. The mathematical model involves the equation of equilibrium, compatibility and constitutive relationship, i.e. an elastic law for the steel part and an integral-type creep law of Boltzmann — Volterra for the concrete part. On the basis of the theory of the viscoelastic body of Arutyunian-Trost-Bažant for determining the redistribution of stresses in beam section between concrete plate and steel beam with respect to time "t", two independent Volterra integral equations of the second kind have been derived. Numerical method based on linear approximation of the singular kernal function in the integral equation is presented. Example with the model proposed is investigated. The creep functions is suggested by the model CEB MC90-99 and the "ACI 209R-92 model. The elastic modulus of concrete E c (t) is assumed to be constant in time `t'. The obtained results from the both models are compared.

  13. Using stochastic language models (SLM) to map lexical, syntactic, and phonological information processing in the brain.

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    Lopopolo, Alessandro; Frank, Stefan L; van den Bosch, Antal; Willems, Roel M

    2017-01-01

    Language comprehension involves the simultaneous processing of information at the phonological, syntactic, and lexical level. We track these three distinct streams of information in the brain by using stochastic measures derived from computational language models to detect neural correlates of phoneme, part-of-speech, and word processing in an fMRI experiment. Probabilistic language models have proven to be useful tools for studying how language is processed as a sequence of symbols unfolding in time. Conditional probabilities between sequences of words are at the basis of probabilistic measures such as surprisal and perplexity which have been successfully used as predictors of several behavioural and neural correlates of sentence processing. Here we computed perplexity from sequences of words and their parts of speech, and their phonemic transcriptions. Brain activity time-locked to each word is regressed on the three model-derived measures. We observe that the brain keeps track of the statistical structure of lexical, syntactic and phonological information in distinct areas.

  14. 45 CFR Appendix B to Part 84 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

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  18. 45 CFR Appendix B to Part 84 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

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  19. 17 CFR 4.7 - Exemption from certain part 4 requirements for commodity pool operators with respect to offerings...

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    2012-04-01

    ... percentage amounts and computational basis for each such fee and include a statement that the CPO is not able... percentage amounts and computational basis for each such fee and include a statement that the CPO is not able... fund, the commodity pool operator must disclose the percentage amounts and computational basis for each...

  20. Contribution of Near Real Time MODIS-Based Forest Disturbance Detection Products to a National Forest Threat Early Warning System

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    Spruce, Joseph; Hargrove, William; Gasser, Gerald; Smoot, James; Kuper, Philip

    2011-01-01

    U.S. forests occupy approx. 751 million acres (approx. 1/3 of total land). These forests are exposed to multiple biotic and abiotic threats that collectively damage extensive acreages each year. Hazardous forest disturbances can threaten human life and property, bio-diversity and water supplies. Timely regional forest monitoring products are needed to aid forest management and decision making by the US Forest Service and its state and private partners. Daily MODIS data products provide a means to monitor regional forest disturbances on a weekly basis. In response, we began work in 2006 to develop a Near Real Time (NRT) forest monitoring capability, based on MODIS NDVI data, as part of a national forest threat early warning system (EWS)

  1. The problem of genesis and systematic of sedimentary units of hydrocarbon reservoirs

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    Zhilina, E. N.; Chernova, O. S.

    2017-12-01

    The problem of identifying and ranking sedimentation, facies associations and their constituent parts - lithogenetic types of sedimentary rocks was considered. As a basis for paleo-sedimentary modelling, the author has developed a classification for terrigenous natural reservoirs,that for the first time links separate sedimentological units into a single hierarchical system. Hierarchy ranking levels are based on a compilation of global knowledge and experience in sediment geology, sedimentological study and systematization, and data from deep-well coresrepresentingJurassichydrocarbon-bearing formationsof the southeastern margin of the Western Siberian sedimentary basin.

  2. Knowledge sifters in MDA technologies

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    Kravchenko, Yuri; Kursitys, Ilona; Bova, Victoria

    2018-05-01

    The article considers a new approach to efficient management of information processes on the basis of object models. With the help of special design tools, a generic and application-independent application model is created, and then the program is implemented in a specific development environment. At the same time, the development process is completely based on a model that must contain all the information necessary for programming. The presence of a detailed model provides the automatic creation of typical parts of the application, the development of which is amenable to automation.

  3. Detection of West Nile and Usutu Viruses in Italian Free Areas: Entomological Surveillance in Piemonte and Liguria Regions, 2014.

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    Pautasso, Alessandra; Radaelli, Maria Cristina; Ballardini, Marco; Francese, Danila Raffaella; Verna, Federica; Modesto, Paola; Grattarola, Carla; Desiato, Rosanna; Bertolini, Silvia; Vitale, Nicoletta; Ferrari, Angelo; Rossini, Irene; Accorsi, Annalisa; Mosca, Andrea; Monaco, Federica; Savini, Giovanni; Prearo, Marino; Mignone, Walter; Chiavacci, Laura; Casalone, Cristina

    2016-04-01

    West Nile virus and Usutu virus have established in different parts of Italy over the past 10 years. Piemonte and Liguria Regions (Northwestern Italy) are known to be nonendemic areas, despite the presence of competent vectors and environmental conditions conducive to maintaining infection. This work evidences for the first time, through an entomological surveillance implemented on the basis of risk factor approach, the presence of West Nile and Usutu viruses in Piemonte and Liguria Regions (Northwestern Italy).

  4. Conforming Amendments to the Regulations Governing Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Race, Color, National, Origin, Disability, Sex, and Age under the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987; Final Rule. Federal Register, Part IV: Department of Education, 34 CFR Parts 100, 104, 106, and 110.

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    2000-01-01

    The Secretary amends the regulations governing nondiscrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, handicap, and age to conform with statutory amendments made by the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 (CRRA). These amendments add a definition of "program or activity" or "program" that adopts the statutory…

  5. Rerating the Movie Scores in Douban through Word Embedding

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    Cui, Mingyu

    2018-04-01

    The movie scores in the social networking service website such as IMDb, Totten Tomatoes and Douban are important references to evaluate the movies. Always, it will influence the box office directly. However, the public rating has strong bias depended on the types of movies, release time, and ages and background of the audiences. To fix the bias and give a movie a fair judgement is an important problem. In the paper, we focus on the movie scores on Douban, which is one of the most famous Chinese movie network community. We decompose the movie scores into two parts. One is the basis scores based on the basic properties of movies. The other is the extra scores which represent the excess value of the movies. We use the word-embedding technique to reduce the movies in a small dense subspace. Then, in the reduced subspace, we use the k-means method to offer the similar movies a basis scores.

  6. Estimation of Energy Expenditure Using a Patch-Type Sensor Module with an Incremental Radial Basis Function Neural Network

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    Li, Meina; Kwak, Keun-Chang; Kim, Youn Tae

    2016-01-01

    Conventionally, indirect calorimetry has been used to estimate oxygen consumption in an effort to accurately measure human body energy expenditure. However, calorimetry requires the subject to wear a mask that is neither convenient nor comfortable. The purpose of our study is to develop a patch-type sensor module with an embedded incremental radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) for estimating the energy expenditure. The sensor module contains one ECG electrode and a three-axis accelerometer, and can perform real-time heart rate (HR) and movement index (MI) monitoring. The embedded incremental network includes linear regression (LR) and RBFNN based on context-based fuzzy c-means (CFCM) clustering. This incremental network is constructed by building a collection of information granules through CFCM clustering that is guided by the distribution of error of the linear part of the LR model. PMID:27669249

  7. Stress-strain state on non-thin plates and shells. Generalized theory (survey)

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    Nemish, Yu.N.; Khoma, I.Yu.

    1994-05-01

    In the first part of this survey, we examined exact and approximate analytic solutions of specific problems for thick shells and plates obtained on the basis of three-dimensional equations of the mathematical theory of elasticity. The second part of the survey, presented here, is devoted to systematization and analysis of studies made in regard to a generalized theory of plates and shells based on expansion of the sought functions into Fourier series in Legendre polynomials of the thickness coordinate. Methods are described for constructing systems of differential equations in the coefficients of the expansions (as functions of two independent variablesmore » and time), along with the corresponding boundary and initial conditions. Matters relating to substantiation of the given approach and its generalizations are also discussed.« less

  8. Aeronautic Instruments. Section IV : Direction Instruments

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    Franklin, W S; Stillman, M H; Sanford, R L; Warner, John A C; Sylvander, R C; Rounds, E W

    1923-01-01

    Part one points out the adequacy of a consideration of the steady state gyroscopic motion as a basis for the discussion of displacements of the gyroscope mounted on an airplane, and develops a simple theory on this basis. Principal types of gyroscopic inclinometers are described and requirements stated. Part two describes a new type of stabilizing gyro mounted on top of a spindle by means of a universal joint, the spindle being kept in a vertical position by supporting it as a pendulum of which the bob is the driving motor. Methods of tests and the difficulties in designing a satisfactory and reliable compass for aircraft use in considered in part three. Part four contains a brief general treatment of the important features of construction of aircraft compasses and description of the principal types used.

  9. 6 CFR Appendix A to Part 21 - Activities to Which This Part Applies

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  10. 6 CFR Appendix A to Part 21 - Activities to Which This Part Applies

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  11. 6 CFR Appendix A to Part 21 - Activities to Which This Part Applies

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  12. 6 CFR Appendix A to Part 21 - Activities to Which This Part Applies

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  13. 6 CFR Appendix A to Part 21 - Activities to Which This Part Applies

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  14. A classification system for predicting pallet part quality from hardwood cants

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    E. Paul Craft; Kenneth R., Jr. Whitenack

    1982-01-01

    Producers who manufacture pallet parts from hardwood cants generally must purchase cants on the basis of existing structural timber grades that do not adequately reflect the quality of pallet parts produced from resawed cants. A system for classifying cants for pallet part production has been developed that more accurately reflects the parts grade mix that can be...

  15. 75 FR 9443 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB...

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  16. 34 CFR Appendix B to Part 104 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

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  1. 40 CFR 85.2114 - Basis of certification.

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    ... an alternative, the aftermarket part manufacturer may use a different durability procedure if it can..., appendix IV. As an alternative, the aftermarket part manufacturer may use a different durability procedure..., appendix IV can be used. As an alternative, the aftermarket part manufacturer may use a different...

  2. Judgments of facial attractiveness as a combination of facial parts information over time: Social and aesthetic factors.

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    Saegusa, Chihiro; Watanabe, Katsumi

    2016-02-01

    Facial attractiveness can be judged on the basis of visual information acquired in a very short duration, but the absolute level of attractiveness changes depending on the duration of the observation. However, how information from individual facial parts contributes to the judgment of whole-face attractiveness is unknown. In the current study, we examined how contributions of facial parts to the judgment of whole-face attractiveness would change over time. In separate sessions, participants evaluated the attractiveness of whole faces, as well as of the eyes, nose, and mouth after observing them for 20, 100, and 1,000 ms. Correlation and multiple regression analyses indicated that the eyes made a consistently high contribution to whole-face attractiveness, even with an observation duration of 20 ms, whereas the contribution of other facial parts increased as the observation duration grew longer. When the eyes were averted, the attractiveness ratings for the whole face were decreased marginally. In addition, the contribution advantage of the eyes at the 20-ms observation duration was diminished. We interpret these results to indicate that (a) eye gaze signals social attractiveness at the early stage (perhaps in combination with emotional expression), (b) other facial parts start contributing to the judgment of whole-face attractiveness by forming aesthetic attractiveness, and (c) there is a dynamic interplay between social and aesthetic attractiveness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).

  3. Slow approach to steady motion of a concave body in a free-molecular gas

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    Tsuji, Tetsuro; Arai, Junichi; Kawano, Satoyuki

    2015-07-01

    A body in a free-molecular gas accelerated by a constant external force is considered on the basis of kinetic theory. The body is an infinitely long rectangular hollow column with one face removed, and thus it has a squarish U -shaped cross section. The concave part of the body points toward the direction of motion, and thus the gas molecules may be trapped in the concavity. Gas molecules undergo diffuse reflection on a base part, whereas specular reflection on two lateral parts. It is numerically shown that the velocity of the body approaches a terminal velocity, for which a drag force exerted by the gas counterbalances the external force, in such a way that their difference decreases in proportion to the inverse square of time for a large time. This rate of approach is slower than the known rate proportional to the inverse cube of time in the case of a body without concavity [Aoki et al., Phys. Rev. E 80, 016309 (2009), 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.016309]. Based on the detailed investigation on the velocity distribution function of gas molecules impinging on the body, it is clarified that the concavity prevents some molecules from escaping to infinity. This trapping enhances the effect of recollision between the body and the gas molecules, which is the cause of the inverse power laws, and thus leads to the slower approach.

  4. Kubo formulas for the shear and bulk viscosity relaxation times and the scalar field theory shear τπ calculation

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    Czajka, Alina; Jeon, Sangyong

    2017-06-01

    In this paper we provide a quantum field theoretical study on the shear and bulk relaxation times. First, we find Kubo formulas for the shear and the bulk relaxation times, respectively. They are found by examining response functions of the stress-energy tensor. We use general properties of correlation functions and the gravitational Ward identity to parametrize analytical structures of the Green functions describing both sound and diffusion mode. We find that the hydrodynamic limits of the real parts of the respective energy-momentum tensor correlation functions provide us with the method of computing both the shear and bulk viscosity relaxation times. Next, we calculate the shear viscosity relaxation time using the diagrammatic approach in the Keldysh basis for the massless λ ϕ4 theory. We derive a respective integral equation which enables us to compute η τπ and then we extract the shear relaxation time. The relaxation time is shown to be inversely related to the thermal width as it should be.

  5. 45 CFR 148.101 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... FOR THE INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET General Provisions § 148.101 Basis and purpose. This part... individual health insurance coverage for certain eligible individuals who previously had group coverage, and... and protects all individuals and family members who have, or seek, individual health insurance...

  6. 45 CFR 148.101 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Welfare Department of Health and Human Services REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS REQUIREMENTS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET General Provisions § 148.101 Basis and purpose. This part... individuals and family members who have, or seek, individual health insurance coverage from discrimination...

  7. Basis convergence of range-separated density-functional theory.

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    Franck, Odile; Mussard, Bastien; Luppi, Eleonora; Toulouse, Julien

    2015-02-21

    Range-separated density-functional theory (DFT) is an alternative approach to Kohn-Sham density-functional theory. The strategy of range-separated density-functional theory consists in separating the Coulomb electron-electron interaction into long-range and short-range components and treating the long-range part by an explicit many-body wave-function method and the short-range part by a density-functional approximation. Among the advantages of using many-body methods for the long-range part of the electron-electron interaction is that they are much less sensitive to the one-electron atomic basis compared to the case of the standard Coulomb interaction. Here, we provide a detailed study of the basis convergence of range-separated density-functional theory. We study the convergence of the partial-wave expansion of the long-range wave function near the electron-electron coalescence. We show that the rate of convergence is exponential with respect to the maximal angular momentum L for the long-range wave function, whereas it is polynomial for the case of the Coulomb interaction. We also study the convergence of the long-range second-order Møller-Plesset correlation energy of four systems (He, Ne, N2, and H2O) with cardinal number X of the Dunning basis sets cc - p(C)V XZ and find that the error in the correlation energy is best fitted by an exponential in X. This leads us to propose a three-point complete-basis-set extrapolation scheme for range-separated density-functional theory based on an exponential formula.

  8. Intelligent technologies in process of highly-precise products manufacturing

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    Vakhidova, K. L.; Khakimov, Z. L.; Isaeva, M. R.; Shukhin, V. V.; Labazanov, M. A.; Ignatiev, S. A.

    2017-10-01

    One of the main control methods of the surface layer of bearing parts is the eddy current testing method. Surface layer defects of bearing parts, like burns, cracks and some others, are reflected in the results of the rolling surfaces scan. The previously developed method for detecting defects from the image of the raceway was quite effective, but the processing algorithm is complicated and lasts for about 12 ... 16 s. The real non-stationary signals from an eddy current transducer (ECT) consist of short-time high-frequency and long-time low-frequency components, therefore a transformation is used for their analysis, which provides different windows for different frequencies. The wavelet transform meets these conditions. Based on aforesaid, a methodology for automatically detecting and recognizing local defects in bearing parts surface layer has been developed on the basis of wavelet analysis using integral estimates. Some of the defects are recognized by the amplitude component, otherwise an automatic transition to recognition by the phase component of information signals (IS) is carried out. The use of intelligent technologies in the manufacture of bearing parts will, firstly, significantly improve the quality of bearings, and secondly, significantly improve production efficiency by reducing (eliminating) rejections in the manufacture of products, increasing the period of normal operation of the technological equipment (inter-adjustment period), the implementation of the system of Flexible facilities maintenance, as well as reducing production costs.

  9. 29 CFR 1614.103 - Complaints of discrimination covered by this part.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ...), the Equal Pay Act (sex-based wage discrimination), or GINA (discrimination on the basis of genetic information) shall be processed in accordance with this part. Complaints alleging retaliation prohibited by...

  10. The relevance of the Hippocratic Oath to the ethical and moral values of contemporary medicine. Part I: The Hippocratic Oath from antiquity to modern times.

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    Askitopoulou, Helen; Vgontzas, Antoniοs N

    2017-10-27

    The present paper discusses the relevance and significance of the Hippocratic Oath to contemporary medical ethical and moral values. It attempts to answer the questions about some controversial issues related to the Oath. The text is divided in two parts. Part I discusses the general attributes and ethical values of the Oath, while Part II presents a detailed analysis of each passage of the Oath with regard to perennial ethical principles and moral values. Part I starts with the contribution of Hippocrates and his School of Cos to medicine. It continues by examining the moral dilemmas concerning physicians and patients in the Classical Times and in the Modern World. It also investigates how the Hippocratic Oath stands nowadays, with regard to the remarkable and often revolutionary advancements in medical practice and the significant evolution in medical ethics. Further, it presents the debate and the criticism about the relevance of the general attributes and ethical values of the Oath to those of modern societies. Finally, it discusses the endurance of the ethical values of the Hippocratic Oath over the centuries until today with respect to the physicians' commitment to the practice of patient-oriented medicine. Part I concludes with the Oath's historic input in the Judgment delivered at the close of the Nuremberg "Doctors' Trial"; this Judgement has become legally binding for the discipline in the Western World and was the basis of the Nuremberg Code. The ethical code of the Oath turned out to be a fundamental part of western law not only on medical ethics but also on patients' rights regarding research.

  11. Unsupervised self-testing as part public health screening for HIV in resource-poor environments: some ethical considerations.

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    Scott, P Anne

    2014-07-01

    The use of unsupervised self-testing as part of a national screening program for HIV infection in resource-poor environments with high HIV prevalence may have a number of attractive aspects, such as increasing access to services for hard to reach and isolated populations. However, the presence of such technologies is at a relatively early stage in terms of use and impact in the field. In this paper, a principle-based approach, that recognizes the fundamentally utilitarian nature of public health combined with a focus on autonomy, is used as a lens to explore some of the ethical issues raised by HIV self-testing. The conclusion reached in this review is that at this point in time, on the basis of the principles of utility and respect for autonomy, it is not ethically appropriate to incorporate unsupervised HIV self-testing as part of a public health screening program in resource-poor environments.

  12. Authorization basis requirements comparison report

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    Brantley, W.M.

    The TWRS Authorization Basis (AB) consists of a set of documents identified by TWRS management with the concurrence of DOE-RL. Upon implementation of the TWRS Basis for Interim Operation (BIO) and Technical Safety Requirements (TSRs), the AB list will be revised to include the BIO and TSRs. Some documents that currently form part of the AB will be removed from the list. This SD identifies each - requirement from those documents, and recommends a disposition for each to ensure that necessary requirements are retained when the AB is revised to incorporate the BIO and TSRs. This SD also identifies documentsmore » that will remain part of the AB after the BIO and TSRs are implemented. This document does not change the AB, but provides guidance for the preparation of change documentation.« less

  13. 45 CFR 144.101 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE General Provisions § 144.101 Basis and purpose. (a) Part 146 of this... is to improve access to individual health insurance coverage for certain individuals who previously...

  14. 45 CFR 144.101 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE General Provisions § 144.101 Basis and purpose. (a) Part 146 of this... is to improve access to individual health insurance coverage for certain individuals who previously...

  15. 45 CFR 144.101 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Welfare Department of Health and Human Services REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE General Provisions § 144.101 Basis and purpose. (a) Part 146 of this... is to improve access to individual health insurance coverage for certain individuals who previously...

  16. 42 CFR 493.1 - Basis and scope.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... AND CERTIFICATION LABORATORY REQUIREMENTS General Provisions § 493.1 Basis and scope. This part sets forth the conditions that all laboratories must meet to be certified to perform testing on human specimens under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). It implements sections 1861...

  17. 42 CFR 493.1 - Basis and scope.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... AND CERTIFICATION LABORATORY REQUIREMENTS General Provisions § 493.1 Basis and scope. This part sets forth the conditions that all laboratories must meet to be certified to perform testing on human specimens under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). It implements sections 1861...

  18. [Dentinopulpar organ: biological basis of clinical response to Ca(OH)2 application].

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    Gani, O; Crosa, M E

    1989-01-01

    We have studied the changes presented by mediate and immediate roentgenographic images of indirect pulp capping and pulpotomies. In the cases of indirect pulp capping it was observed an increase of radiolucidity in the places occupied by Ca(OH)2, and sclerotic dentin was present. In pulpotomies, it was found the dentin bridge, which thickness increases with time. The radiolucidity of pulp chamber occupied by Ca(OH)2 was greater in the long time treatment. The radiopacity of non-vital dentin of walls and floor chamber was increased too. It has suggested that Ca++ ion would have migrated from its place and probably would take part in the synthesis of sclerotic dentin, independently of the vitality of the tissue.

  19. Evaluation of nuclear fuel reprocessing strategies. 2. LWR fuel storage, recycle economics and plutonium logistics

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    Prince, B.E.; Hadley, S.W.

    1983-10-27

    This is the second of a two-part report intended as a critical review of certain issues involved with closing the Light Water Reactor (LWR) fuel cycle and establishing the basis for future transition to commercial breeder applications. The report is divided into four main sections consisting of (1) a review of the status of the LWR spent fuel management and storage problem; (2) an analysis of the economic incentives for instituting reprocessing and recycle in LWRs; (3) an analysis of the time-dependent aspects of plutonium economic value particularly as related to the LWR-breeder transition; and (4) an analysis of themore » time-dependent aspects of plutonium requirements and supply relative to this transition.« less

  20. Role of MODIS Vegetation Phenology Products in the U.S. for Warn Early Warning System for Forest Threats

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    Spruce, Joseph; Hargrove, William; Norman, Steve; Gasser, Gerald; Smoot, James; Kuper, Philip

    2012-01-01

    U.S. forests occupy approx 751 million acres (approx 1/3 of total land). Several abiotic and biotic damage agents disturb, damage, kill, and/or threaten these forests. Regionally extensive forest disturbances can also threaten human life and property, bio-diversity and water supplies. timely regional forest disturbance monitoring products are needed to aid forest health management work at finer scales. daily MODIS data provide a means to monitor regional forest disturbances on a weekly basis, leveraging vegetation phenology. In response, the USFS and NASA began collaborating in 2006 to develop a Near Real Time (NRT) forest monitoring capability, based on MODIS NDVI data, as part of a national forest threat Early Warning System (EWS).

  1. 34 CFR 222.19 - What other statutes and regulations apply to this part?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... the basis of sex), and the implementing regulations (34 CFR part 106). (Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1681-1683... for federally connected children with disabilities), 8007 (construction), and 8008 (school facilities... children with disabilities), 8007 (construction), and 8008 (school facilities). (4) 34 CFR part 82 (New...

  2. JPL preferred parts list: Reliable electronic components

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Covey, R. E.; Scott, W. R.; Hess, L. M.; Steffy, T. G.; Stott, F. R.

    1982-01-01

    The JPL Preferred Parts List was prepared to provide a basis for selection of electronic parts for JPL spacecraft programs. Supporting tests for the listed parts were designed to comply with specific spacecraft environmental requirements. The list tabulates the electronic, magnetic, and electromechanical parts applicable to all JPL electronic equipment wherein reliability is a major concern. The parts listed are revelant to equipment supplied by subcontractors as well as fabricated at the laboratory.

  3. Evolving concepts of heredity and genetics in orthodontics.

    PubMed

    Carlson, David S

    2015-12-01

    The field of genetics emerged from the study of heredity early in the 20th century. Since that time, genetics has progressed through a series of defined eras based on a number of major conceptual and technical advances. Orthodontics also progressed through a series of conceptual stages over the past 100 years based in part on the ongoing and often circular debate about the relative importance of heredity (nature) and the local environment (nurture) in the etiology and treatment of malocclusion and dentofacial deformities. During the past 20 years, significant advancements in understanding the genomic basis of craniofacial development and the gene variants associated with dentofacial deformities have resulted in a convergence of the principles and concepts in genetics and in orthodontics that will lead to significant advancement of orthodontic treatments. Fundamental concepts from genetics and applied translational research in orthodontics provide a foundation for a new emphasis on precision orthodontics, which will establish a modern genomic basis for major improvements in the treatment of malocclusion and dentofacial deformities as well as many other areas of concern to orthodontists through the assessment of gene variants on a patient-by-patient basis. Copyright © 2015 American Association of Orthodontists. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  4. A distributed real-time model of degradation in a solid oxide fuel cell, part I: Model characterization

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    Zaccaria, V.; Tucker, D.; Traverso, A.

    2016-04-01

    Despite the high efficiency and flexibility of fuel cells, which make them an attractive technology for the future energy generation, their economic competitiveness is still penalized by their short lifetime, due to multiple degradation phenomena. As a matter of fact, electrochemical performance of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) is reduced because of different degradation mechanisms, which depend on operating conditions, fuel and air contaminants, impurities in materials, and others. In this work, a real-time, one dimensional (1D) model of a SOFC is used to simulate the effects of voltage degradation in the cell. Different mechanisms are summarized in a simple empirical expression that relates degradation rate to cell operating parameters (current density, fuel utilization and temperature), on a localized basis. Profile distributions of different variables during cell degradation are analyzed. In particular, the effect of degradation on current density, temperature, and total resistance of the cell are investigated. An analysis of localized degradation effects shows how different parts of the cell degrade at a different time rate, and how the various profiles are redistributed along the cell as consequence of different degradation rates.

  5. Predicting river travel time from hydraulic characteristics

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    Jobson, H.E.

    2001-01-01

    Predicting the effect of a pollutant spill on downstream water quality is primarily dependent on the water velocity, longitudinal mixing, and chemical/physical reactions. Of these, velocity is the most important and difficult to predict. This paper provides guidance on extrapolating travel-time information from one within bank discharge to another. In many cases, a time series of discharge (such as provided by a U.S. Geological Survey stream gauge) will provide an excellent basis for this extrapolation. Otherwise, the accuracy of a travel time extrapolation based on a resistance equation can be greatly improved by assuming the total flow area is composed of two parts, an active and an inactive area. For 60 reaches of 12 rivers with slopes greater than about 0.0002, travel times could be predicted to within about 10% by computing the active flow area using the Manning equation with n = 0.035 and assuming a constant inactive area for each reach. The predicted travel times were not very sensitive to the assumed values of bed slope or channel width.

  6. Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection of Angiostrongylus cantonensis DNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid from Patients with Eosinophilic Meningitis

    PubMed Central

    Qvarnstrom, Yvonne; Xayavong, Maniphet; da Silva, Ana Cristina Aramburu; Park, Sarah Y.; Whelen, A. Christian; Calimlim, Precilia S.; Sciulli, Rebecca H.; Honda, Stacey A. A.; Higa, Karen; Kitsutani, Paul; Chea, Nora; Heng, Seng; Johnson, Stuart; Graeff-Teixeira, Carlos; Fox, LeAnne M.; da Silva, Alexandre J.

    2016-01-01

    Angiostrongylus cantonensis is the most common infectious cause of eosinophilic meningitis. Timely diagnosis of these infections is difficult, partly because reliable laboratory diagnostic methods are unavailable. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay for the detection of A. cantonensis DNA in human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimens. A total of 49 CSF specimens from 33 patients with eosinophilic meningitis were included: A. cantonensis DNA was detected in 32 CSF specimens, from 22 patients. Four patients had intermittently positive and negative real-time PCR results on subsequent samples, indicating that the level of A. cantonensis DNA present in CSF may fluctuate during the course of the illness. Immunodiagnosis and/or supplemental PCR testing supported the real-time PCR findings for 30 patients. On the basis of these observations, this real-time PCR assay can be useful to detect A. cantonensis in the CSF from patients with eosinophilic meningitis. PMID:26526920

  7. Dispersal in patchy environments: effect on the prevalence of small mammal ectoparasites.

    PubMed

    Lundqvist, L; Edler, A

    1987-01-01

    Part-time ectoparasites on small mammals disperse via the habitat, while full-time parasites spread throughout the host population by direct contacts between host animals. It is therefore supposed that the effect of the natural environment is different for the two groups. This was studied as differences between observed and expected prevalence, the percentage of the infested host population, during different environmental conditions. Two possible mechanisms of such an effect were analysed, i.e. a) host selection and its change with host frequency and b) parasite migration and reproduction rates as reflected by the frequency distribution patterns on the hosts. As expected the prevalence of full-time ectoparasites (Anoplura and subfamily Laelapinae) could be predicted on the basis of host species frequencies during different environmental conditions, with the exception of one louse species (Hoplopleura acanthopus), because of its restricted distribution. Prediction was not possible for part-time ectoparasites (subfamily Hameogamasinae). Species of the subfamily Haemogamasinae were more catholic in host selection than species of Anoplura and subfamily Laelapinae. The haemogamasin mites changed host species to a greater extent than did Anoplura and Laelapinae. All haemogamasin mites had short-tailed frequency distribution patterns and all Anoplura and Laelapinae, except Hyperlaelaps microti, had long-tailed frequency distributions.

  8. Diachronism between extinction time of terrestrial and marine dinosaurs

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Hansen, H. J.

    1988-01-01

    The dinosaur eggs of southern France occur in continental, fine-grained red-beds, rich in carbonate. The last eggs in the region occur in the magnetic polarity interval 30 normal. Estimates of the accumulation rate of these sediments on the basis of the magneto-stratigraphy leads to placement of the time of disappearance of the dinosaurs in this region of 200,000 to 400,000 years earlier than the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. In the Red Deer Valley, Canada, estimates of average accumulation rate lead to a time of disappearance of the dinosaurs of 135,000 to 157,000 years earlier than the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. In the central part of Poland, in the Nasilow Quarry, the paleomagnetic pattern shows 7 m of chalk of reversed polarity containing in its upper part the marine Cretaceous-Tertiary biostratigraphic boundary. A greensand deposit contains numerous re-deposited Maastrichtian fossils. The fossils show no signs of wear and are of very different sizes including 1 mm thick juvenile belemnites. The deposit was described as a lag-sediment. Among the various fossils are teeth of mosasaurs. Thus there is coincidence in time between the extinction of mosasaurs and other Cretaceous organisms. This leads to the conclusion, that extinction of terrestrial dinosaurs took place earlier than extinction of marine dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary.

  9. Biochemical adaptations of antigravity muscle fibers to disuse atrophy

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Booth, F. W.

    1978-01-01

    Studies are presented in four parts of this report. The four parts include; (1) studies to gain information on the molecular basis of atrophy by antigravity muscle; (2) studies on the work capacity of antigravity muscles during atrophy and during recovery from atrophy; (3) studies on recovery of degenerated antigravity fibers after removal of hind-limb casts; and (4) studies on the atrophy and recovery of bone. The philosophy of these studies was to identify the time sequence of events in the soleus muscle of the rat following immobilization of the hind limbs, so that the length of the soleus muscle within the fixed limb is less than its resting length. In two separate studies, no decline in the weight of the soleus muscle could be detected during the first 72 hours of limb immobilization.

  10. Interprofessional team meetings: Opportunities for informal interprofessional learning.

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    Nisbet, Gillian; Dunn, Stewart; Lincoln, Michelle

    2015-01-01

    This study explores the potential for workplace interprofessional learning, specifically the learning that occurs between health professionals as part of their attendance at their regular interprofessional team meetings. While most interprofessional learning research to date has focused on formal structured education programs, this study adds to our understanding of the complexities of the learning processes occurring between health professionals as part of everyday practice. Through observations of team meetings and semi-structured interviews, we found that the interprofessional team meeting provided a practical, time-efficient, and relevant means for interprofessional learning, resulting in perceived benefits to individuals, teams, and patients. The learning process, however, was influenced by members' conceptions of learning, participation within the meeting, and medical presence. This study provides a basis for further research to assist health professionals capitalize on informal learning opportunities within the interprofessional meeting.

  11. Correlation of regional geohydrologic units to geological formations in southern Missouri

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Smith, Brenda J.; Imes, Jeffrey L.

    1991-01-01

    As part of the U.S Geological Survey's Regional Aquifer-System Analysis Program, geologic formations in southern Missouri (index map) were grouped into eight regional geohydrologic units on the basis of relative rock permeability and well yields (imes and Emmett, in press). Geohydrologic unit boundaries do not necessarily coincide with geologic unit boundaries or geologic time lines, but are determined by regional hydrologic properties, which may vary from one area to another.  The geologic formaitons were grouped into the geohydrologic units to determine the hydrologic characteristics of regional aquifer systems and associated regional confining units in parts of Arkansas, Kansas,Missouri, and Oklahoma.  This report presents a correlation of the regional geohydrologic units to corresponding geologic formations in southern Missouri.  Included in the report is a brief geologic history of southern Missouri.

  12. Heterogeneous nucleation of aspartame from aqueous solutions

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    Kubota, Noriaki; Kinno, Hiroaki; Shimizu, Kenji

    1990-03-01

    Waiting times, the time from the instant of quenching needed for a first nucleus to appear, were measured at constant supercoolings for primary nucleation of aspartame (α-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methylester) from aqueous solutions, which were sealed into glass ampoules (solution volume = 3.16 cm 3). Since the waiting time became shorter by filtering the solution prior to quenching, the nucleation was concluded to be heterogeneously induced. The measured waiting time consisted of two parts: time needed for the nucleus to grow to a detactable size (growth time) and stochastic time needed for nucleation (true waiting time). The distribution of the true waiting time, is well explained by a stochastic model, in which nucleation is regarded to occur heterogeneously and in a stochastic manner by two kinds of active sites. The active sites are estimated to be located on foreign particles in which such elements as Si, Al and Mg were contained. The amount of each element is very small in the order of magnitude of ppb (mass basis) of the whole solution. The growth time was correlated with the degree of supercooling.

  13. Celestial mechanics - Methods of the theory of motion of 'artificial' celestial bodies

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    Duboshin, G. N.

    This book is concerned with the translational motion of 'artificial' celestial bodies. The difference between natural celestial bodies, which are ordinarily considered by celestial mechanics, and 'artificial' celestial bodies is discussed, taking into account hypothetical celestial bodies introduced in connection with mathematical developments and problems, invisible celestial bodies whose existence can be assumed on the basis of some plausible hypothesis, and man-made satellites of the earth. The book consists of two parts. The first part presents introductory material, and examines a number of general mathematical questions to provide a basis for the studies conducted in the second part. Subjects considered in the first part are related to basic problems, integration methods, and perturbation theory. In the second part, attention is given to the motion of artificial celestial bodies in the gravitational field of the basic planet, external perturbations regarding the motion of these bodies, the motion of the bodies in the earth-moon system, and periodic solutions.

  14. The Names of Heavenly Bodies and Luminaries as a Basis for Word-building and Metaphorical Application in the Poetry of Misak Metzarents

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    Arakelyan, Karine; Santryan, Liana

    2016-12-01

    The metaphorical applications of heavenly bodies and luminaries in the poetry of the famous Western Armenian poet Missak Metsarents are very diverse and of great variety. The poet admired the beauty of nature and the greater parts of his poems are devoted to representation of nature, where heavenly bodies and phenomena are of special interest. They often help to reveal one's inner life, emotions, expectations, and feelings. Many times these units are bases for word-building; new, also poetical words building and they create unique beauty.

  15. Operational Space Weather Models: Trials, Tribulations and Rewards

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    Schunk, R. W.; Scherliess, L.; Sojka, J. J.; Thompson, D. C.; Zhu, L.

    2009-12-01

    There are many empirical, physics-based, and data assimilation models that can probably be used for space weather applications and the models cover the entire domain from the surface of the Sun to the Earth’s surface. At Utah State University we developed two physics-based data assimilation models of the terrestrial ionosphere as part of a program called Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements (GAIM). One of the data assimilation models is now in operational use at the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) in Omaha, Nebraska. This model is a Gauss-Markov Kalman Filter (GAIM-GM) model, and it uses a physics-based model of the ionosphere and a Kalman filter as a basis for assimilating a diverse set of real-time (or near real-time) measurements. The physics-based model is the Ionosphere Forecast Model (IFM), which is global and covers the E-region, F-region, and topside ionosphere from 90 to 1400 km. It takes account of five ion species (NO+, O2+, N2+, O+, H+), but the main output of the model is a 3-dimensional electron density distribution at user specified times. The second data assimilation model uses a physics-based Ionosphere-Plasmasphere Model (IPM) and an ensemble Kalman filter technique as a basis for assimilating a diverse set of real-time (or near real-time) measurements. This Full Physics model (GAIM-FP) is global, covers the altitude range from 90 to 30,000 km, includes six ions (NO+, O2+, N2+, O+, H+, He+), and calculates the self-consistent ionospheric drivers (electric fields and neutral winds). The GAIM-FP model is scheduled for delivery in 2012. Both of these GAIM models assimilate bottom-side Ne profiles from a variable number of ionosondes, slant TEC from a variable number of ground GPS/TEC stations, in situ Ne from four DMSP satellites, line-of-sight UV emissions measured by satellites, and occultation data. Quality control algorithms for all of the data types are provided as an integral part of the GAIM models and these models take account of latent data (up to 3 hours). The trials, tribulations and rewards of constructing and maintaining operational data assimilation models will be discussed.

  16. Site-specific accumulation and dynamic change of flavonoids in Apocyni Veneti Folium.

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    Chen, Cui-Hua; Xu, Hu; Liu, Xun-Hong; Zou, Li-Si; Wang, Mei; Liu, Zi-Xiu; Fu, Xing-Sheng; Zhao, Hui; Yan, Ying

    2017-12-01

    Site-specific accumulation of flavonoids in Apocyni Veneti Folium was determined by laser scanning confocal microscope (LSCM) and the localization of catechins also was observed via vanillin-HCl staining under the conventional optical microscope. The contents of five flavonoids in Apocyni Veneti Folium from different harvest times and growth parts were measured using HPLC method. LSCM observation showed that flavonoids are accumulated in cuticle of epidermal cells and vessel walls, especially in protoplasts and nucleolus of the collenchyma cells and the epidermal cells. Catechins are localized in the palisade parenchyma cells and vessel walls, particularly in the laticifers found in the phloem. On the basis of the difference of the maximal emission wavelength between quercetin and kaempferol derivatives which have fluorescence behavior by appropriate treatment, kaempferol and its derivatives are localized exclusively in the cuticle. Results showed that the content of astragalin in Apocyni Veneti Folium from different parts revealed the decreasing trend, while hyperin and isoquercitrin were higher in June and July analyzed by HPLC. In summary, the site-specific accumulation of flavonoids in Apocyni Veneti Folium can be determined by LSCM and vanillin-HCl staining. The contents of flavonoids in Apocyni Veneti Folium are correlated with harvest times and growth parts. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

  17. 10 CFR Appendix C to Part 73 - Nuclear Power Plant Safeguards Contingency Plans

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... command and delegation of authority as these apply to safeguards contingencies. b. Physical Layout—(i..., up to and including the design basis threat of radiological sabotage. The goals of licensee... general description of how the response is organized. a. Perceived Danger—Consistent with the design basis...

  18. 24 CFR 92.257 - Faith-based activities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... basis of religion or religious belief. (2) Beneficiaries. In providing services supported in whole or in... basis of religion, a religious belief, a refusal to hold a religious belief, or a refusal to attend or... regulations of this part without impairing its independence, autonomy, expression of religious beliefs, or...

  19. 42 CFR 414.707 - Basis of payment.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Basis of payment. 414.707 Section 414.707 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) MEDICARE PROGRAM PAYMENT FOR PART B MEDICAL AND OTHER HEALTH SERVICES Payment for Drugs and Biologicals...

  20. 42 CFR 414.707 - Basis of payment.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Basis of payment. 414.707 Section 414.707 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) MEDICARE PROGRAM PAYMENT FOR PART B MEDICAL AND OTHER HEALTH SERVICES Payment for Drugs and Biologicals...

  1. 45 CFR 84.8 - Notice.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Notice. 84.8 Section 84.8 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GENERAL ADMINISTRATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN... recipient that it does not discriminate on the basis of handicap in violation of section 504 and this part...

  2. 48 CFR 315.204-5 - Part IV-Representations and instructions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... as using too few.) (3) Examples of topics that form a basis for evaluation factors. Typical examples of topics that form a basis for the development of evaluation factors are listed in the following... special research, test, and other equipment or facilities. (vii) Managerial capability (ability to achieve...

  3. 48 CFR 315.204-5 - Part IV-Representations and instructions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... as using too few.) (3) Examples of topics that form a basis for evaluation factors. Typical examples of topics that form a basis for the development of evaluation factors are listed in the following... special research, test, and other equipment or facilities. (vii) Managerial capability (ability to achieve...

  4. 48 CFR 315.204-5 - Part IV-Representations and instructions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... as using too few.) (3) Examples of topics that form a basis for evaluation factors. Typical examples of topics that form a basis for the development of evaluation factors are listed in the following... special research, test, and other equipment or facilities. (vii) Managerial capability (ability to achieve...

  5. 40 CFR 60.54a - Standard for municipal waste combustor acid gases.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... for Municipal Waste Combustors for Which Construction is Commenced After December 20, 1989 and on or... weight or volume) or 30 parts per million by volume, corrected to 7 percent oxygen (dry basis), whichever... by volume, corrected to 7 percent oxygen (dry basis), whichever is less stringent. ...

  6. 45 CFR 148.101 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS REQUIREMENTS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET General Provisions § 148.101 Basis and purpose. This part implements sections 2741 through 2763 and 2791 and 2792 of the PHS Act. Its purpose is to improve access to...

  7. 45 CFR 148.101 - Basis and purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS REQUIREMENTS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET General Provisions § 148.101 Basis and purpose. This part implements sections 2741 through 2763 and 2791 and 2792 of the PHS Act. Its purpose is to improve access to...

  8. 26 CFR 1.169-3 - Amortizable basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... determining gain (see part II (section 1011 and following), subchapter O, chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue... purposes of determining gain (computed without regard to paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of this section) of a... amortization deduction allowable under section 169, the adjusted basis for purposes of determining gain for a...

  9. 26 CFR 1.169-3 - Amortizable basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... determining gain (see part II (section 1011 and following), subchapter O, chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue... purposes of determining gain (computed without regard to paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of this section) of a... amortization deduction allowable under section 169, the adjusted basis for purposes of determining gain for a...

  10. 26 CFR 1.169-3 - Amortizable basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... determining gain (see part II (section 1011 and following), subchapter O, chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue... purposes of determining gain (computed without regard to paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of this section) of a... amortization deduction allowable under section 169, the adjusted basis for purposes of determining gain for a...

  11. 26 CFR 1.169-3 - Amortizable basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... determining gain (see part II (section 1011 and following), subchapter O, chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue... purposes of determining gain (computed without regard to paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of this section) of a... amortization deduction allowable under section 169, the adjusted basis for purposes of determining gain for a...

  12. 26 CFR 1.169-3 - Amortizable basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... determining gain (see part II (section 1011 and following), subchapter O, chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue... purposes of determining gain (computed without regard to paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of this section) of a... amortization deduction allowable under section 169, the adjusted basis for purposes of determining gain for a...

  13. Basis convergence of range-separated density-functional theory

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

    Franck, Odile, E-mail: odile.franck@etu.upmc.fr; Mussard, Bastien, E-mail: bastien.mussard@upmc.fr; CNRS, UMR 7616, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, F-75005 Paris

    2015-02-21

    Range-separated density-functional theory (DFT) is an alternative approach to Kohn-Sham density-functional theory. The strategy of range-separated density-functional theory consists in separating the Coulomb electron-electron interaction into long-range and short-range components and treating the long-range part by an explicit many-body wave-function method and the short-range part by a density-functional approximation. Among the advantages of using many-body methods for the long-range part of the electron-electron interaction is that they are much less sensitive to the one-electron atomic basis compared to the case of the standard Coulomb interaction. Here, we provide a detailed study of the basis convergence of range-separated density-functional theory. Wemore » study the convergence of the partial-wave expansion of the long-range wave function near the electron-electron coalescence. We show that the rate of convergence is exponential with respect to the maximal angular momentum L for the long-range wave function, whereas it is polynomial for the case of the Coulomb interaction. We also study the convergence of the long-range second-order Møller-Plesset correlation energy of four systems (He, Ne, N{sub 2}, and H{sub 2}O) with cardinal number X of the Dunning basis sets cc − p(C)V XZ and find that the error in the correlation energy is best fitted by an exponential in X. This leads us to propose a three-point complete-basis-set extrapolation scheme for range-separated density-functional theory based on an exponential formula.« less

  14. 22 CFR Appendix A to Part 142 - Federal Financial Assistance to Which This Part Applies

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    2012-04-01

    ... Applies A Appendix A to Part 142 Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL RIGHTS NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Pt. 142, App. A... Assistance Administered by the Department of State Subject to Handicap Discrimination Regulations. 1...

  15. 22 CFR Appendix A to Part 142 - Federal Financial Assistance to Which This Part Applies

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... Applies A Appendix A to Part 142 Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL RIGHTS NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Pt. 142, App. A... Assistance Administered by the Department of State Subject to Handicap Discrimination Regulations. 1...

  16. 22 CFR Appendix A to Part 142 - Federal Financial Assistance to Which This Part Applies

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... Applies A Appendix A to Part 142 Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL RIGHTS NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Pt. 142, App. A... Assistance Administered by the Department of State Subject to Handicap Discrimination Regulations. 1...

  17. 22 CFR Appendix A to Part 142 - Federal Financial Assistance to Which This Part Applies

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... Applies A Appendix A to Part 142 Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL RIGHTS NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Pt. 142, App. A... Assistance Administered by the Department of State Subject to Handicap Discrimination Regulations. 1...

  18. 22 CFR Appendix A to Part 142 - Federal Financial Assistance to Which This Part Applies

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... Applies A Appendix A to Part 142 Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL RIGHTS NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Pt. 142, App. A... Assistance Administered by the Department of State Subject to Handicap Discrimination Regulations. 1...

  19. A bispectral q-hypergeometric basis for a class of quantum integrable models

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Baseilhac, Pascal; Martin, Xavier

    2018-01-01

    For the class of quantum integrable models generated from the q-Onsager algebra, a basis of bispectral multivariable q-orthogonal polynomials is exhibited. In the first part, it is shown that the multivariable Askey-Wilson polynomials with N variables and N + 3 parameters introduced by Gasper and Rahman [Dev. Math. 13, 209 (2005)] generate a family of infinite dimensional modules for the q-Onsager algebra, whose fundamental generators are realized in terms of the multivariable q-difference and difference operators proposed by Iliev [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 363, 1577 (2011)]. Raising and lowering operators extending those of Sahi [SIGMA 3, 002 (2007)] are also constructed. In the second part, finite dimensional modules are constructed and studied for a certain class of parameters and if the N variables belong to a discrete support. In this case, the bispectral property finds a natural interpretation within the framework of tridiagonal pairs. In the third part, eigenfunctions of the q-Dolan-Grady hierarchy are considered in the polynomial basis. In particular, invariant subspaces are identified for certain conditions generalizing Nepomechie's relations. In the fourth part, the analysis is extended to the special case q = 1. This framework provides a q-hypergeometric formulation of quantum integrable models such as the open XXZ spin chain with generic integrable boundary conditions (q ≠ 1).

  20. Reconstructing the magnetosphere from data using radial basis functions

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Andreeva, Varvara A.; Tsyganenko, Nikolai A.

    2016-03-01

    A new method is proposed to derive from data magnetospheric magnetic field configurations without any a priori assumptions on the geometry of electric currents. The approach utilizes large sets of archived satellite data and uses an advanced technique to represent the field as a sum of toroidal and poloidal parts, whose generating potentials Ψ1 and Ψ2 are expanded into series of radial basis functions (RBFs) with their nodes regularly distributed over the 3-D modeling domain. The method was tested by reconstructing the inner and high-latitude field within geocentric distances up to 12RE on the basis of magnetometer data of Geotail, Polar, Cluster, Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms, and Van Allen space probes, taken during 1995-2015. Four characteristic states of the magnetosphere before and during a disturbance have been modeled: a quiet prestorm period, storm deepening phase with progressively decreasing SYM-H index, the storm maximum around the negative peak of SYM-H, and the recovery phase. Fitting the RBF model to data faithfully resolved contributions to the total magnetic field from all principal sources, including the westward and eastward ring current, the tail current, diamagnetic currents associated with the polar cusps, and the large-scale effect of the field-aligned currents. For two main phase conditions, the model field exhibited a strong dawn-dusk asymmetry of the low-latitude magnetic depression, extending to low altitudes and partly spreading sunward from the terminator plane in the dusk sector. The RBF model was found to resolve even finer details, such as the bifurcation of the innermost tail current. The method can be further developed into a powerful tool for data-based studies of the magnetospheric currents.

  1. Evaluation of criteria for optimal time AI postulated by estrous signs in lactating dairy cows kept in tie-stalls

    PubMed Central

    SUMIYOSHI, Toshiaki; ENDO, Natsumi; TANAKA, Tomomi; KAMOMAE, Hideo

    2017-01-01

    Relaxation of the intravaginal part of the uterus is obvious around 6 to 18 h before ovulation, and this is considered the optimal time for artificial insemination (AI), as demonstrated in recent studies. Estrous signs have been suggested as useful criteria for determining the optimal time for AI. Therefore, this study evaluated the usefulness of estrous signs, particularly the relaxation of the intravaginal part of the uterus, as criteria for determining the optimal time for AI. A Total of 100 lactating Holstein-Friesian cows kept in tie-stall barns were investigated. AI was carried out based on the criterion for the optimal time for AI (optimal group), and earlier (early group) and later (late group) than the optimal time for AI, determined on the basis of estrous signs. After AI, ovulation was assessed by rectal palpation and ultrasonographic observation at 6-h intervals. For 87.5% (35/40) of cows in the optimal group, AI was carried out 24-6 h before ovulation, which was previously accepted as the optimal time for AI. AI was carried out earlier (early group) and later (late group) than optimal time for AI in 62.1% (18/29) and 71.0% (22/31) of cows, respectively. The conception rate for the optimal group was 60.0%, and this conception rate was higher than that for the early group (44.8%) and late group (32.2%), without significance. Further, the conception rate of the optimal group was significantly higher than the sum of the conception rates of the early and late groups (38.3%; 23/60) (P < 0.05). These results indicate that the criteria postulated, relaxation of the intravaginal part of the uterus and other estrous signs are useful in determining the optimal time for AI. Furthermore, these estrous signs enable the estimations of stages in the periovulatory period. PMID:29081451

  2. 15 CFR Supplement No. 6 to Part 760 - Interpretation

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... variety of reasons, many having to do with that nation's cultural and religious beliefs. On this basis, we... the six-pointed star is a religious symbol. See § 760.2(b), example (viii) of this part. Agreeing to...

  3. 15 CFR Supplement No. 6 to Part 760 - Interpretation

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... variety of reasons, many having to do with that nation's cultural and religious beliefs. On this basis, we... the six-pointed star is a religious symbol. See § 760.2(b), example (viii) of this part. Agreeing to...

  4. 15 CFR Supplement No. 6 to Part 760 - Interpretation

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... variety of reasons, many having to do with that nation's cultural and religious beliefs. On this basis, we... the six-pointed star is a religious symbol. See § 760.2(b), example (viii) of this part. Agreeing to...

  5. 15 CFR Supplement No. 6 to Part 760 - Interpretation

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... variety of reasons, many having to do with that nation's cultural and religious beliefs. On this basis, we... the six-pointed star is a religious symbol. See § 760.2(b), example (viii) of this part. Agreeing to...

  6. 15 CFR Supplement No. 6 to Part 760 - Interpretation

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... variety of reasons, many having to do with that nation's cultural and religious beliefs. On this basis, we... the six-pointed star is a religious symbol. See § 760.2(b), example (viii) of this part. Agreeing to...

  7. 32 CFR Appendix B to Part 284 - Standards for Waiver Determinations

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... how careless the act of the Government may have been, the recipient must make restitution. In theory... the result of administrative error or mistake on the part of the Government is not sufficient basis in...

  8. [The quantitative recovery of microbes during testing of disinfectants for instruments].

    PubMed

    Höller, C; Gundermann, K O

    1990-02-01

    The efficacy of a disinfectant can only be determined exactly, when quantitative as well as qualitative tests are being performed. Aim of this study was to ascertain whether the earlier published method of a germ carrier test could be applied also to the testing of disinfectants for instruments. Rubber tubes of 1 cm length were used as germ carriers, Staph. aureus, Pseud. aerug., Proteus mir., E. coli and Cand. alb. as test organisms. The culture media were CASO-agar and -broth, latter containing 20% defibrinated sheep blood in some experiments. Two disinfectants on aldehyde-basis and one disinfectant on phenol-basis and on biguanide-basis, respectively, were used for the disinfectant tests. The rubber tubes were contaminated with bacterial suspension, dried upright on sterile filters and then put into 10 ml CASO-broth. After high speed vortexing of the germ carriers the bacterial count was determined. Following factors that were believed to probably having an influence on the recovery rate of bacteria were investigated: 1. the amount of fluid staying on the rubber tubes; 2. the drying time; 3. the vortexing time; 4. repeated vortexing; 5. variations of the initial concentration of bacteria on the rubber tubes; 6. addition of inactivating substances. ad 1. The mean amount of fluid staying on the tubes was 0.0056 g. ad 2. Drying times longer than 30 to 60 min resulted partly in considerably lower bacterial counts. ad. 3. and 4. Neither extension of vortexing time nor repeated vortexing of the same germ carrier could raise the recovery rate of bacteria. ad 5. Higher initial concentration of bacteria on the rubber tubes could not be achieved. The recovery rate of bacteria was reliable even when the initial bacterial concentration was low. ad 6. Addition of inactivating substances to the CASO-broth had no influence on the recovery rate of bacteria. The test method was checked by testing four disinfectants for instruments and proved itself a good and reliable quantitative method.

  9. Forecasts and predictions of eruptive activity at Mount St. Helens, USA: 1975-1984

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Swanson, D.A.; Casadevall, T.J.; Dzurisin, D.; Holcomb, R.T.; Newhall, C.G.; Malone, S.D.; Weaver, C.S.

    1985-01-01

    Public statements about volcanic activity at Mount St. Helens include factual statements, forecasts, and predictions. A factual statement describes current conditions but does not anticipate future events. A forecast is a comparatively imprecise statement of the time, place, and nature of expected activity. A prediction is a comparatively precise statement of the time, place, and ideally, the nature and size of impending activity. A prediction usually covers a shorter time period than a forecast and is generally based dominantly on interpretations and measurements of ongoing processes and secondarily on a projection of past history. The three types of statements grade from one to another, and distinctions are sometimes arbitrary. Forecasts and predictions at Mount St. Helens became increasingly precise from 1975 to 1982. Stratigraphic studies led to a long-range forecast in 1975 of renewed eruptive activity at Mount St. Helens, possibly before the end of the century. On the basis of seismic, geodetic and geologic data, general forecasts for a landslide and eruption were issued in April 1980, before the catastrophic blast and landslide on 18 May 1980. All extrusions except two from June 1980 to the end of 1984 were predicted on the basis of integrated geophysical, geochemical, and geologic monitoring. The two extrusions that were not predicted were preceded by explosions that removed a substantial part of the dome, reducing confining pressure and essentially short-circuiting the normal precursors. ?? 1985.

  10. Regular Mechanical Transformation of Rotations Into Translations: Part 2. Kinematic Synthesis of the Elements of High Kinematic Joints, Realizing the Process of Motions Transformation

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Abadjieva, Emilia; Abadjiev, Valentin

    2017-09-01

    This work is developed on the basis of the illustrated main parts of the kinematic theory (theory of gearing) of the spatial rack drives in Part 1 of this study. The applied theoretical approach to their synthesis, based on the T. Olivier's second principle is defined. A study of the geometric nature of the surface of action (mesh region, respectively) of these class transmissions is shown. Research software programs for synthesis and visualization of these transmissions and their specific elements are elaborated, on the basis of the given algorithms to the synthesis of the elements of high kinematic joints (active tooth surfaces), with which the movable links of the studied gear systems are equipped.

  11. Potential therapeutic agents for circulatory diseases from Bauhinia glauca Benth.subsp. pernervosa. (Da Ye Guan Men).

    PubMed

    Tang, Yingzhan; Ling, Junhong; Zhang, Peng; Zhang, Xiangrong; Zhang, Na; Wang, Wenli; Li, Jiayuan; Li, Ning

    2015-08-15

    Because of platelets as critical factor in the formation of pathogenic thrombi, anti-platelet activities have been selected as therapeutic target for various circulatory diseases. In order to find potential therapeutic agents, bioassay-directed separation of Bauhinia glauca Benth.subsp. pernervosa. (called Da Ye Guan Men as a traditional Chinese medicine) was performed to get 29 main components (compounds 1-29) from the bioactive part of this herbal. It was the first time to focus on the composition with anti-platelet aggregation activities for this traditional Chinese medicine. The constituents, characterized from the effective extract, were established on the basis of extensive spectral data analysis. Then their anti-platelet aggregation effects were evaluated systematically. On the basis of the chemical profile and biological assay, it was suggested that the flavonoid composition (5 and 18) should be responsible for the anti-platelet aggregation of the herbal because of their significant activities. The primary structure and activity relationship was also discussed briefly. Copyright © 2015. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

  12. Form Perception of Partly Occluded Shapes in 4-Month-Old Infants

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    de Wit, Tessa C. J.; Vrins, Sven; Dejonckheere, Peter J. N.; van Lier, Rob

    2008-01-01

    Two habituation experiments were conducted to investigate how 4-month-old infants perceive partly occluded shapes. In the first experiment, we presented a simple, partly occluded shape to the infants until habituation was reached. Then we showed either a probable completion (one that would be predicted on the basis of both local and global cues)…

  13. Physiology of Exercise for Physical Education and Athletics. Second Edition.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    deVries, Herbert A.

    This three-part text, which is concerned with human functions under stress of muscular activity, provides a basis for the study of physical fitness and athletic training. Part 1 reviews pertinent areas of basic physiology. Muscles, the nervous system, the heart, respiratory system, exercise metabolism, and the endocrine system are reviewed. Part 2…

  14. An Occupation and Participation Approach to Reading Intervention (OPARI) Part II: Pilot Clinical Application

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Grajo, Lenin C.; Candler, Catherine

    2016-01-01

    The Occupation and Participation Approach to Reading Intervention (OPARI) is an intervention approach for children with reading difficulties that emphasizes reading as an important occupation of children. Part I presented the theoretical basis of the OPARI. Part II describes a pilot clinical application of the OPARI. Guided by Schkade and…

  15. Real-time remote scientific model validation

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    Frainier, Richard; Groleau, Nicolas

    1994-01-01

    This paper describes flight results from the use of a CLIPS-based validation facility to compare analyzed data from a space life sciences (SLS) experiment to an investigator's preflight model. The comparison, performed in real-time, either confirms or refutes the model and its predictions. This result then becomes the basis for continuing or modifying the investigator's experiment protocol. Typically, neither the astronaut crew in Spacelab nor the ground-based investigator team are able to react to their experiment data in real time. This facility, part of a larger science advisor system called Principal Investigator in a Box, was flown on the space shuttle in October, 1993. The software system aided the conduct of a human vestibular physiology experiment and was able to outperform humans in the tasks of data integrity assurance, data analysis, and scientific model validation. Of twelve preflight hypotheses associated with investigator's model, seven were confirmed and five were rejected or compromised.

  16. Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in West Africa in 2014

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    Xu, M.; Cao, C. X.; Guo, H. F.

    2017-09-01

    Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) is an acute hemorrhagic diseases caused by the Ebola virus, which is highly contagious. This paper aimed to explore the possible gathering area of EHF cases in West Africa in 2014, and identify endemic areas and their tendency by means of time-space analysis. We mapped distribution of EHF incidences and explored statistically significant space, time and space-time disease clusters. We utilized hotspot analysis to find the spatial clustering pattern on the basis of the actual outbreak cases. spatial-temporal cluster analysis is used to analyze the spatial or temporal distribution of agglomeration disease, examine whether its distribution is statistically significant. Local clusters were investigated using Kulldorff's scan statistic approach. The result reveals that the epidemic mainly gathered in the western part of Africa near north Atlantic with obvious regional distribution. For the current epidemic, we have found areas in high incidence of EVD by means of spatial cluster analysis.

  17. Time-Domain Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Investigation of Water Dynamics in Different Ginger Cultivars.

    PubMed

    Huang, Chongyang; Zhou, Qi; Gao, Shan; Bao, Qingjia; Chen, Fang; Liu, Chaoyang

    2016-01-20

    Different ginger cultivars may contain different nutritional and medicinal values. In this study, a time-domain nuclear magnetic resonance method was employed to study water dynamics in different ginger cultivars. Significant differences in transverse relaxation time T2 values assigned to the distribution of water in different parts of the plant were observed between Henan ginger and four other ginger cultivars. Ion concentration and metabolic analysis showed similar differences in Mn ion concentrations and organic solutes among the different ginger cultivars, respectively. On the basis of Pearson's correlation analysis, many organic solutes and 6-gingerol, the main active substance of ginger, exhibited significant correlations with water distribution as determined by NMR T2 relaxation, suggesting that the organic solute differences may impact water distribution. Our work demonstrates that low-field NMR relaxometry provides useful information about water dynamics in different ginger cultivars as affected by the presence of different organic solutes.

  18. 45 CFR 1225.3 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 1605; National Origin Discrimination: 29 CFR part 1606; Age Discrimination: 45 CFR part 90; Handicap... DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT PROCEDURE General Provisions § 1225.3 Definitions. Unless the context requires otherwise...) Illegal discrimination means discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, age...

  19. 45 CFR 1225.3 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 1605; National Origin Discrimination: 29 CFR part 1606; Age Discrimination: 45 CFR part 90; Handicap... DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT PROCEDURE General Provisions § 1225.3 Definitions. Unless the context requires otherwise...) Illegal discrimination means discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, age...

  20. 45 CFR 1225.3 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 1605; National Origin Discrimination: 29 CFR part 1606; Age Discrimination: 45 CFR part 90; Handicap... DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT PROCEDURE General Provisions § 1225.3 Definitions. Unless the context requires otherwise...) Illegal discrimination means discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, age...

  1. 45 CFR 1225.3 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 1605; National Origin Discrimination: 29 CFR part 1606; Age Discrimination: 45 CFR part 90; Handicap... DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT PROCEDURE General Provisions § 1225.3 Definitions. Unless the context requires otherwise...) Illegal discrimination means discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, age...

  2. 45 CFR 1225.3 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 1605; National Origin Discrimination: 29 CFR part 1606; Age Discrimination: 45 CFR part 90; Handicap... DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT PROCEDURE General Provisions § 1225.3 Definitions. Unless the context requires otherwise...) Illegal discrimination means discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, age...

  3. [Working hours and productivity of curative services in general practice in 1993. Practice profile of Norwegian primary physicians].

    PubMed

    Johnsen, R; Holtedahl, K A

    1997-04-20

    In a survey of task profiles in General Practice 164 general practitioners (GPs) in Norway, 51% of a random sample, answered a questionnaire and 147 doctors also kept a diary on their practice for one week, specifying their activities throughout the day. Men reported working more hours per week than women, and practitioners working on a fee-for-service basis had more consultations than colleagues on a fixed salary. Fixed salary GPs spent more time on emergency service. More women than men had part time jobs. The number of GPs has doubled from 1978 to 1993, but the total workload for a GP is approximately the same. The population must have doubled its consumption of primary health care services over this 15 year period.

  4. Analysis and Synthesis of Load Forecasting Data for Renewable Integration Studies: Preprint

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

    Steckler, N.; Florita, A.; Zhang, J.

    2013-11-01

    As renewable energy constitutes greater portions of the generation fleet, the importance of modeling uncertainty as part of integration studies also increases. In pursuit of optimal system operations, it is important to capture not only the definitive behavior of power plants, but also the risks associated with systemwide interactions. This research examines the dependence of load forecast errors on external predictor variables such as temperature, day type, and time of day. The analysis was utilized to create statistically relevant instances of sequential load forecasts with only a time series of historic, measured load available. The creation of such load forecastsmore » relies on Bayesian techniques for informing and updating the model, thus providing a basis for networked and adaptive load forecast models in future operational applications.« less

  5. 10 CFR Appendix C to Part 73 - Nuclear Power Plant Safeguards Contingency Plans

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... command and delegation of authority as these apply to safeguards contingencies. b. Physical Layout—(i..., up to and including the design basis threat of radiological sabotage. The goals of licensee.... Perceived Danger—Consistent with the design basis threat specified in § 73.1(a)(1), licensees shall identify...

  6. 42 CFR 414.904 - Average sales price as the basis for payment.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... for Drugs and Biologicals Under Part B § 414.904 Average sales price as the basis for payment. (a... end-stage renal disease patient. (i) Effective for drugs and biologicals furnished in 2005, the payment for such drugs and biologicals, including erythropoietin, furnished to an end-stage renal disease...

  7. 42 CFR 414.904 - Average sales price as the basis for payment.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... for Drugs and Biologicals Under Part B § 414.904 Average sales price as the basis for payment. (a... biologicals furnished in 2005, the payment for such drugs and biologicals, including erythropoietin, furnished...) of this section, the payment for drugs and biologicals, furnished to an end-stage renal disease...

  8. 23 CFR 140.904 - Reimbursement basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... 23 Highways 1 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Reimbursement basis. 140.904 Section 140.904 Highways...), (3) Incurred in accordance with the provisions of 23 CFR, part 646, subpart B, and (4) Properly attributable to the project. [40 FR 16057, Apr. 9, 1975, as amended at 53 FR 18276, May 23, 1988; 62 FR 45328...

  9. 23 CFR 140.904 - Reimbursement basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... 23 Highways 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Reimbursement basis. 140.904 Section 140.904 Highways...), (3) Incurred in accordance with the provisions of 23 CFR, part 646, subpart B, and (4) Properly attributable to the project. [40 FR 16057, Apr. 9, 1975, as amended at 53 FR 18276, May 23, 1988; 62 FR 45328...

  10. 23 CFR 140.904 - Reimbursement basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 23 Highways 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Reimbursement basis. 140.904 Section 140.904 Highways...), (3) Incurred in accordance with the provisions of 23 CFR, part 646, subpart B, and (4) Properly attributable to the project. [40 FR 16057, Apr. 9, 1975, as amended at 53 FR 18276, May 23, 1988; 62 FR 45328...

  11. 23 CFR 140.904 - Reimbursement basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... 23 Highways 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Reimbursement basis. 140.904 Section 140.904 Highways...), (3) Incurred in accordance with the provisions of 23 CFR, part 646, subpart B, and (4) Properly attributable to the project. [40 FR 16057, Apr. 9, 1975, as amended at 53 FR 18276, May 23, 1988; 62 FR 45328...

  12. Monitored Natural Attenuation of Inorganic Contaminants in Ground Water Volume 1 – Technical Basis for Assessment

    EPA Science Inventory

    This document represents the first volume of a set of three volumes that address the technical basis and requirements for assessing the potential applicability of MNA as part of a ground-water remedy for plumes with non-radionuclide and/or radionuclide inorganic contaminants. Vo...

  13. 42 CFR 1003.102 - Basis for civil money penalties and assessments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... AND HUMAN SERVICES OIG AUTHORITIES CIVIL MONEY PENALTIES, ASSESSMENTS AND EXCLUSIONS § 1003.102 Basis... provided as claimed, including a claim that is part of a pattern or practice of claims based on codes that... of the amount permitted to be charged; (iii) An agreement to be a participating physician or supplier...

  14. 45 CFR 83.10 - General obligations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... not discriminate on the basis of sex, in violation of this part, in the admission of individuals to... fails to take whatever remedial action in accordance with § 83.3(a) that is necessary for such entity to eliminate the effects of any discrimination on the basis of sex in the admission of individuals to its...

  15. 45 CFR 83.10 - General obligations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... not discriminate on the basis of sex, in violation of this part, in the admission of individuals to... fails to take whatever remedial action in accordance with § 83.3(a) that is necessary for such entity to eliminate the effects of any discrimination on the basis of sex in the admission of individuals to its...

  16. 45 CFR 83.10 - General obligations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... not discriminate on the basis of sex, in violation of this part, in the admission of individuals to... fails to take whatever remedial action in accordance with § 83.3(a) that is necessary for such entity to eliminate the effects of any discrimination on the basis of sex in the admission of individuals to its...

  17. 45 CFR 83.10 - General obligations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... not discriminate on the basis of sex, in violation of this part, in the admission of individuals to... fails to take whatever remedial action in accordance with § 83.3(a) that is necessary for such entity to eliminate the effects of any discrimination on the basis of sex in the admission of individuals to its...

  18. 45 CFR 83.10 - General obligations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... not discriminate on the basis of sex, in violation of this part, in the admission of individuals to... fails to take whatever remedial action in accordance with § 83.3(a) that is necessary for such entity to eliminate the effects of any discrimination on the basis of sex in the admission of individuals to its...

  19. 16 CFR 435.1 - The rule.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... the seller lacks a reasonable basis for providing a definite revised shipping date the notice shall... provide the buyer with a new definite revised shipping date, but where the seller lacks a reasonable basis... buyer has the right to exercise any option under this part or to cancel an order by so notifying the...

  20. Magnetic-assisted triboelectric nanogenerators as self-powered visualized omnidirectional tilt sensing system

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Han, Mengdi; Zhang, Xiao-Sheng; Sun, Xuming; Meng, Bo; Liu, Wen; Zhang, Haixia

    2014-04-01

    The triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is a promising device in energy harvesting and self-powered sensing. In this work, we demonstrate a magnetic-assisted TENG, utilizing the magnetic force for electric generation. Maximum power density of 541.1 mW/m2 is obtained at 16.67 MΩ for the triboelectric part, while the electromagnetic part can provide power density of 649.4 mW/m2 at 16 Ω. Through theoretical calculation and experimental measurement, linear relationship between the tilt angle and output voltage at large angles is observed. On this basis, a self-powered omnidirectional tilt sensor is realized by two magnetic-assisted TENGs, which can measure the magnitude and direction of the tilt angle at the same time. For visualized sensing of the tilt angle, a sensing system is established, which is portable, intuitive, and self-powered. This visualized system greatly simplifies the measure process, and promotes the development of self-powered systems.

  1. LGBTQ Part 2.

    PubMed

    Perron, Tracy; Kartoz, Connie; Himelfarb, Chaya

    2017-03-01

    In addition to dealing with the normal challenges of being a teenager, many times LGBTQ youth have to deal with harassment, intimidation, and bullying on a daily basis as they disproportionately experience verbal and physical harassment while in school as a result of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. This violence adversely affects these students' health and well-being as reflected in the depression and suicide rate among LGBTQ youth. As Part 2 of a series in articles on caring for LGBTQ youth in a school setting, this article reviews specific health risks in this group of students. School nurses can help reduce disparities in health for LGBTQ youth by understanding risk for psychological consequences of bullying and advocating for a just and responsive social school culture. Implications for school nurses include educating school staff and families as well as providing prompt and appropriate referrals for necessary psychological care.

  2. Modelling of stamping of DP steel automotive part accounting for the effect of hard components in the microstructure

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Ambrozinski, Mateusz; Bzowski, Krzysztof; Mirek, Michal; Rauch, Lukasz; Pietrzyk, Maciej

    2013-05-01

    The paper presents simulations of the manufacturing of the automotive part, which has high influence on improvement of passengers safety. Two approaches to the Finite Element (FE) modelling of stamping of a part that provides extra stiffening of construction subassemblies in the back of a car were considered. The first is conventional simulation, which assumes that the material is a continuum with flow stress model and anisotropy coefficients determined from the tensile tests. In the second approach two-phase microstructure of the DP steel is accounted for in simulations. The FE2 method, which belongs to upscaling techniques, is used. Representative Volume Element (RVE), which is the basis of the upscaling approach and reflects the real microstructure, was obtained by the image analysis of the micrograph of the DP steel. However, since FE2 simulations with the real picture of the microstructure in the micro scale, are extremely time consuming, the idea of the Statistically Similar Representative Volume Element (SSRVE) was applied. SSRVE obtained for the DP steel, used for production of automotive part, is presented in the paper in the form of 3D inclusion. The macro scale model of the simulated part is described in details, as well as the results obtained for macro and micro-macro simulations.

  3. General contraction of Gaussian basis sets. Part 2: Atomic natural orbitals and the calculation of atomic and molecular properties

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Almloef, Jan; Taylor, Peter R.

    1989-01-01

    A recently proposed scheme for using natural orbitals from atomic configuration interaction (CI) wave functions as a basis set for linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO) calculations is extended for the calculation of molecular properties. For one-electron properties like multipole moments, which are determined largely by the outermost regions of the molecular wave function, it is necessary to increase the flexibility of the basis in these regions. This is most easily done by uncontracting the outmost Gaussian primitives, and/or by adding diffuse primitives. A similar approach can be employed for the calculation of polarizabilities. Properties which are not dominated by the long-range part of the wave function, such as spectroscopic constants or electric field gradients at the nucleus, can generally be treated satisfactorily with the original atomic natural orbital (ANO) sets.

  4. A new flavonoid from the aerial parts of Tridax procumbens.

    PubMed

    Ali, M; Ravinder, E; Ramachandram, R

    2001-03-01

    A new flavonoid (procumbenetin), isolated from the aerial parts of Tridax procumbens, has been characterised as 3,6-dimethoxy-5,7,2',3',4'-pentahydroxyflavone 7-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (1) on the basis of spectroscopic techniques and by chemical means.

  5. The role of the attractive and the repulsive interactions in the nonpolar solvation dynamics in simple fluids from the gas-like to the liquid-like densities

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Yamaguchi, T.; Kimura, Y.; Hirota, N.

    1999-09-01

    We have performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the nonpolar solvation dynamics in simple fluids composed of particles interacting through the Lennard-Jones (LJ) 12-6 potential or its repulsive part. The attractive or the repulsive part of the solute-solvent interaction is assumed to change on the excitation of a solute. We have followed the transition energy fluctuation of the solute by the equilibrium simulation. The division of the LJ potential followed the method of WCA [J. W. Weeks, D. Chandler, and H. C. Andersen, J. Chem. Phys. 54, 5237 (1971)]. We have surveyed over a wide solvent density region from gas-like to liquid-like densities at the constant temperature. When the attractive part changes, the relaxation becomes faster with an increase of the solvent density. This result contradicts with previous theories that treat the nonpolar solvation dynamics in terms of the diffusion of solvent particles. The time scale of the initial part of the relaxation is well correlated with the static fluctuation divided by the static average, which suggests the importance of the curvature of the free energy surface in the initial part of the solvation. When the repulsive part changes, the initial part of the relaxation is almost density independent, determined by the binary motion between solute and solvent. It is consistent with the result that the static fluctuation is almost proportional to the static average, which indicates the absence of the static correlation between solvent particles. On the other hand, the solvation correlation function shows rather complicated density dependence at the longer time scale. In the case of the binary mixture solvent, the relaxation time is inversely proportional to the diffusion coefficient. On the basis of the nonpolar solvation dynamics, the validity of the isolated binary collision model for the vibrational energy relaxation is also discussed, and the recent hydrodynamic theory on the vibrational energy relaxation [B. J. Cherayil and M. D. Feyer, J. Chem. Phys. 107, 7642 (1997)] is critically examined.

  6. Near Hartree-Fock quality GTO basis sets for the second-row atoms

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Partridge, Harry

    1987-01-01

    Energy optimized, near Hartree-Fock quality Gaussian basis sets ranging in size from (17s12p) to (20s15p) are presented for the ground states of the second-row atoms for Na(2P), Na(+), Na(-), Mg(3P), P(-), S(-), and Cl(-). In addition, optimized supplementary functions are given for the ground state basis sets to describe the negative ions, and the excited Na(2P) and Mg(3P) atomic states. The ratios of successive orbital exponents describing the inner part of the 1s and 2p orbitals are found to be nearly independent of both nuclear charge and basis set size. This provides a method of obtaining good starting estimates for other basis set optimizations.

  7. 45 CFR Appendix A to Part 84 - Analysis of Final Regulation

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Analysis of Final Regulation A Appendix A to Part 84 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GENERAL ADMINISTRATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Pt. 84, App. A Appendix A to Part 84—Analysis of Final...

  8. 45 CFR Appendix A to Part 84 - Analysis of Final Regulation

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Analysis of Final Regulation A Appendix A to Part 84 Public Welfare Department of Health and Human Services GENERAL ADMINISTRATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Pt. 84, App. A Appendix A to Part 84—Analysis of Final...

  9. 45 CFR Appendix A to Part 84 - Analysis of Final Regulation

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Analysis of Final Regulation A Appendix A to Part 84 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GENERAL ADMINISTRATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Pt. 84, App. A Appendix A to Part 84—Analysis of Final...

  10. 45 CFR Appendix A to Part 84 - Analysis of Final Regulation

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Analysis of Final Regulation A Appendix A to Part 84 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GENERAL ADMINISTRATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Pt. 84, App. A Appendix A to Part 84—Analysis of Final...

  11. Computer-science guest-lecture series at Langston University sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey; abstracts, 1992-93

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Steele, K. S.

    1994-01-01

    Langston University, a Historically Black University located at Langston, Oklahoma, has a computing and information science program within the Langston University Division of Business. Since 1984, Langston University has participated in the Historically Black College and University program of the U.S. Department of Interior, which provided education, training, and funding through a combined earth-science and computer-technology cooperative program with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). USGS personnel have presented guest lectures at Langston University since 1984. Students have been enthusiastic about the lectures, and as a result of this program, 13 Langston University students have been hired by the USGS on a part-time basis while they continued their education at the University. The USGS expanded the offering of guest lectures in 1992 by increasing the number of visits to Langston University, and by inviting participation of speakers from throughout the country. The objectives of the guest-lecture series are to assist Langston University in offering state-of-the-art education in the computer sciences, to provide students with an opportunity to learn from and interact with skilled computer-science professionals, and to develop a pool of potential future employees for part-time and full-time employment. This report includes abstracts for guest-lecture presentations during 1992-93 school year.

  12. 40 CFR Table 7 to Subpart Dddd of... - Model Rule-Emission Limitations That Apply to Energy Recovery Units After May 20, 2011

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... volume Biomass—490 parts per million dry volumeCoal—59 parts per million dry volume 3-run average (1 hour... with a concentration of 1000 ppm or less for biomass-fed boilers. Dioxins/furans (total mass basis) 2.9... million dry volume Biomass—290 parts per million dry volumeCoal—340 parts per million dry volume 3-run...

  13. Impairment-oriented training or Bobath therapy for severe arm paresis after stroke: a single-blind, multicentre randomized controlled trial.

    PubMed

    Platz, T; Eickhof, C; van Kaick, S; Engel, U; Pinkowski, C; Kalok, S; Pause, M

    2005-10-01

    To study the effects of augmented exercise therapy time for arm rehabilitation as either Bobath therapy or the impairment-oriented training (Arm BASIS training) in stroke patients with arm severe paresis. Single blind, multicentre randomized control trial. Three inpatient neurorehabilitation centres. Sixty-two anterior circulation ischaemic stroke patients. Random assignment to three group: (A) no augmented exercise therapy time, (B) augmented exercise therapy time as Bobath therapy and (C) augmented exercise therapy time as Arm BASIS training. Fugl-Meyer arm motor score. Secondary measure: Action Research Arm Test (ARA). Ancillary measures: Fugl-Meyer arm sensation and joint motion/pain scores and the Ashworth Scale (elbow flexors). An overall effect of augmented exercise therapy time on Fugl-Meyer scores after four weeks was not corroborated (mean and 95% confidence interval (CI) of change scores: no augmented exercise therapy time (n=20) 8.8, 5.2-12.3; augmented exercise therapy time (n=40) 9.9, 6.8-13.9; p = 0.2657). The group who received the augmented exercise therapy time as Arm BASIS training (n=20) had, however, higher gains than the group receiving the augmented exercise therapy time as Bobath therapy (n=20) (mean and 95% CI of change scores: Bobath 7.2, 2.6-11.8; BASIS 12.6, 8.4-16.8; p = 0.0432). Passive joint motion/pain deteriorated less in the group who received BASIS training (mean and 95% CI of change scores: Bobath -3.2, -5.2 to -1.1; BASIS 0.1, -1.8-2.0; p = 0.0090). ARA, Fugl-Meyer arm sensation, and Ashworth Scale scores were not differentially affected. The augmented exercise therapy time as Arm BASIS training enhanced selective motor control. Type of training was more relevant for recovery of motor control than therapeutic time spent.

  14. Automatic classification of sleep stages based on the time-frequency image of EEG signals.

    PubMed

    Bajaj, Varun; Pachori, Ram Bilas

    2013-12-01

    In this paper, a new method for automatic sleep stage classification based on time-frequency image (TFI) of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is proposed. Automatic classification of sleep stages is an important part for diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. The smoothed pseudo Wigner-Ville distribution (SPWVD) based time-frequency representation (TFR) of EEG signal has been used to obtain the time-frequency image (TFI). The segmentation of TFI has been performed based on the frequency-bands of the rhythms of EEG signals. The features derived from the histogram of segmented TFI have been used as an input feature set to multiclass least squares support vector machines (MC-LS-SVM) together with the radial basis function (RBF), Mexican hat wavelet, and Morlet wavelet kernel functions for automatic classification of sleep stages from EEG signals. The experimental results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed method for classification of sleep stages from EEG signals. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

  15. Learning and Collective Knowledge Construction With Social Media: A Process-Oriented Perspective

    PubMed Central

    Kimmerle, Joachim; Moskaliuk, Johannes; Oeberst, Aileen; Cress, Ulrike

    2015-01-01

    Social media are increasingly being used for educational purposes. The first part of this article briefly reviews literature that reports on educational applications of social media tools. The second part discusses theories that may provide a basis for analyzing the processes that are relevant for individual learning and collective knowledge construction. We argue that a systems-theoretical constructivist approach is appropriate to examine the processes of educational social media use, namely, self-organization, the internalization of information, the externalization of knowledge, and the interplay of externalization and internalization providing the basis of a co-evolution of cognitive and social systems. In the third part we present research findings that illustrate and support this systems-theoretical framework. Concluding, we discuss the implications for educational design and for future research on learning and collective knowledge construction with social media. PMID:26246643

  16. The Construction of Teaching Model on College English Writing from the Perspective of Cognitive Genre

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    Wenjuan, Hao; Rui, Liang

    2016-01-01

    Teaching is a spiral rising process. A complete teaching should be composed of five parts: theoretical basis, goal orientation, operating procedures, implementation conditions and assessment. On the basis of the genre knowledge, content-based approach and process approach, this text constructs the Teaching Model of College Writing Instruction, in…

  17. 42 CFR 414.509 - Reconsideration of basis for and amount of payment for a new clinical diagnostic laboratory test.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... for a new clinical diagnostic laboratory test. 414.509 Section 414.509 Public Health CENTERS FOR... FOR PART B MEDICAL AND OTHER HEALTH SERVICES Payment for New Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests § 414.509 Reconsideration of basis for and amount of payment for a new clinical diagnostic laboratory...

  18. 10 CFR Appendix A to Part 824 - General Statement of Enforcement Policy

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 4 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false General Statement of Enforcement Policy A Appendix A to... penalty; or denying that the violation has occurred and providing the basis for its belief that the... action is warranted on the basis of the circumstances of an individual case. [70 FR 3607, Jan. 26, 2005...

  19. 10 CFR Appendix A to Part 824 - General Statement of Enforcement Policy

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 4 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false General Statement of Enforcement Policy A Appendix A to... penalty; or denying that the violation has occurred and providing the basis for its belief that the... action is warranted on the basis of the circumstances of an individual case. [70 FR 3607, Jan. 26, 2005...

  20. 40 CFR 63.1203 - What are the standards for hazardous waste incinerators that are effective until compliance with...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... as propane; (6) Hydrochloric acid and chlorine gas in excess of 77 parts per million by volume, combined emissions, expressed as hydrochloric acid equivalents, dry basis and corrected to 7 percent oxygen... basis, corrected to 7 percent oxygen, and reported as propane; (6) Hydrochloric acid and chlorine gas in...

  1. 40 CFR 63.1203 - What are the standards for hazardous waste incinerators that are effective until compliance with...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... as propane; (6) Hydrochloric acid and chlorine gas in excess of 77 parts per million by volume, combined emissions, expressed as hydrochloric acid equivalents, dry basis and corrected to 7 percent oxygen... basis, corrected to 7 percent oxygen, and reported as propane; (6) Hydrochloric acid and chlorine gas in...

  2. 40 CFR 96.71 - Initial certification and recertification procedures

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ...: replacement of the analyzer, change in location or orientation of the sampling probe or site, or changing of... basis under § 96.74(d); (i) For a unit that has commences operation before its compliance deadline under... control period basis under § 96.74(b)(3)(ii) of this part: (i) For a unit that commenced operation before...

  3. Development of Foreign Language Lexical Competence on the Basis of a Learner's Terminological Thesaurus and Dictionary

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    Chainikova, Galina R.; Zatonskiy, Andrey V.; Mitiukov, Nicholas W.; Busygina, Helena L.

    2018-01-01

    The article suggests a method of foreign language lexical competence development on the basis of a Learner's terminological thesaurus and dictionary of software terms which includes four main components: classification part demonstrating the inner logic of the subject area, glossary with definitions of key terms, thesaurus demonstrating logical…

  4. [Education in our time: competency or aptitude? The case for medicine. Part II].

    PubMed

    Viniegra-Velázquez, Leonardo

    Part II is focused on participatory education (PE), a distinctive way to understand and practice education in contrast to passive education. The core of PE is to develop everyone's own cognitive potentialities frequently mutilated, neglected or ignored. Epistemological and experiential basis of PE are defined: the concept of incisive and creative criticism, the idea of knowledge as each person's own construct and life experience as the main focus of reflection and cognition. The PE aims towards individuals with unprecedented cognitive and creative faculties, capable of approaching a more inclusive and hospitable world. The last part criticizes the fact that medical education has remained among the passive education paradigm. The key role of cognitive aptitudes, both methodological and practical (clinical aptitude), in the progress of medical education and practice is emphasized. As a conclusion, the knowhow of education is discussed, aiming towards a better world away from human and planetary degradation. Copyright © 2017 Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez. Publicado por Masson Doyma México S.A. All rights reserved.

  5. Formation of Load Parameters of Destroyed Massife in Explosion of Multicharge Composition with Separation of its Parts by Profile Inert Interval

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    Paramonov, G. P.; Mysin, A. V.; Babkin, R. S.

    2017-10-01

    The paper introduces construction of multicharge composition with separation of parts by the profile inert interval. On the basis of the previous researches, the pulse-forming process at explosion of the borehole multicharge taking into account the offered design is considered. The physical model for definition of reflected wavelet taking into account an increment of radius of cross section of a charging cavity and the expiration of detonation products is offered. A technique is developed for numerical modeling of gas-dynamic processes in a borehole with a change in the axial channel of a profile inert interval caused by a high-temperature flow of gaseous products of an explosion. The authors obtained the dependence of the change in mean pressure on the borehole wall on time for each of the parts of the multicharge. To blast a series of charges of the proposed design, taking into account optimization of the stress fields of neighboring charges, the delay interval is determined for a short-delayed explosion.

  6. Spot breeding method to evaluate the determinism of magnetorheological finishing

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    Yang, Hang; He, Jianguo; Huang, Wen; Zhang, Yunfei

    2017-03-01

    The influences of immersion depth of magnetorheological finishing (MRF) on the shape and material removal rate (MRR) of removal function are theoretically investigated to establish the spot transition mechanism. Based on this mechanism, for the first time, the spot breeding method to predict the shape and removal rate of MRF spot is proposed. The UBK7 optical parts are polished to verify the proposed method on experimental installation PKC-1000Q2 developed by ourselves. The experimental results reveal that the predictions of shape and MRR with this method are precise. The proposed method provides a basis for analyzing the determinism of MRF due to geometry of the process.

  7. Global changes: Impacts on habitability. A scientific basis for assessment

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Goody, R.

    1982-01-01

    The feasibility of a major NASA research initiative to document, to understand, and if possible, to predict long-term (5 to 50 years) global changes that can affect the habitability of the Earth is addressed. The major factor contributing to change is human activity. The program discussed involves studies of the atmosphere, oceans, land, the cryosphere, and the biosphere. On decadal time scales, these regimes and the cycles of physical and chemical entities through them are coupled into a single interlocking system. Some part of this system can be studied in a straightforward manner (the atmosphere) and some with great difficulty (the biosphere).

  8. The multi-mode polarization modulation spectrometer: part 1: simultaneous detection of absorption, turbidity, and optical activity.

    PubMed

    Arvinte, Tudor; Bui, Tam T T; Dahab, Ali A; Demeule, Barthélemy; Drake, Alex F; Elhag, Dhia; King, Peter

    2004-09-01

    Circular dichroism (CD) is an important spectroscopic technique for monitoring chirality and biological macromolecule conformation. However, during a CD measurement, absorbance, light scattering/turbidity, and fluorescence can also be detected. The simultaneous measurement of these different spectral features for a single sample is the basis of a multi-mode optical spectrometer. This allows time-efficient gathering of complementary information and provides a scheme to ensure that CD measurements are reliable. Aspects of circular polarization differential light scattering, pH, and temperature variation of a protein (antibody) solution are described. A procedure to help ensure that CD measurements are reliable is described.

  9. Molecular flip–flops formed by overlapping Fis sites

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    Hengen, Paul N.; Lyakhov, Ilya G.; Stewart, Lisa E.; Schneider, Thomas D.

    2003-01-01

    The DNA-binding protein Fis frequently uses pairs of sites 7 or 11 base pairs (bp) apart. Two overlapping Fis sites separated by 11 bp are found in the Escherichia coli origin of chromosomal replication. Only one of these sites is bound by Fis at a time, so the structure is a molecular flip–flop that could direct alternative firing of replication complexes in opposite directions. Alternatively, the flip–flop could represent part of an on–off switch for replication. Because they can be used to create precise switched states, molecular flip–flops could be used as the basis of a novel molecular computer. PMID:14602927

  10. Molecular flip-flops formed by overlapping Fis sites.

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    Hengen, Paul N; Lyakhov, Ilya G; Stewart, Lisa E; Schneider, Thomas D

    2003-11-15

    The DNA-binding protein Fis frequently uses pairs of sites 7 or 11 base pairs (bp) apart. Two overlapping Fis sites separated by 11 bp are found in the Escherichia coli origin of chromosomal replication. Only one of these sites is bound by Fis at a time, so the structure is a molecular flip-flop that could direct alternative firing of replication complexes in opposite directions. Alternatively, the flip-flop could represent part of an on-off switch for replication. Because they can be used to create precise switched states, molecular flip-flops could be used as the basis of a novel molecular computer.

  11. WATER HAMMER OSCILLATIONS IN THE IRRIGATION FACILITIES

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Kurata, Kouichi; Sasaki, Katsuhito; Makihata, Toshiaki

    In case a gate installed at the end of discharge conduit is vibrating during discharge, or an air valve is vibrating during water-filling operation into the conduit pipe between main gate and auxiliary gate, and vibration period tv is larger than tc (water hammer propagation time) that is equivalent to the phenomenon of slow closure, there is a possibility that water hammer oscillation in the discharge conduit could be induced. In this paper, by using two case examples, vibration phenomena transmitted to each part are analyzed, on the basis of water pressure fluctuation and pressure wave propagation due to occurrence of water hammer oscillation.

  12. 31 CFR 501.801 - Licensing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... organizations (“NGOs”), registration numbers may be issued on a case-by-case basis to NGOs involved in... NGO otherwise prohibited by the specific part with respect to which the registration number is issued... part for the purpose of relieving human suffering. The transactions authorized for registered NGOs...

  13. 31 CFR 501.801 - Licensing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... organizations (“NGOs”), registration numbers may be issued on a case-by-case basis to NGOs involved in... NGO otherwise prohibited by the specific part with respect to which the registration number is issued... part for the purpose of relieving human suffering. The transactions authorized for registered NGOs...

  14. A University of a New Type: University Combines Education with Labor

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    Chinese Education, 1973

    1973-01-01

    The educational program of a communist labor university in South China's Kiangsi Province is described. Classes in agriculture, forestry, accounting, animal husbandry, and farm machinery are offered on a part-work, part-study basis which combines education with productive labor. (SM)

  15. 45 CFR 152.1 - Statutory basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... to establish a temporary high risk health insurance pool program to provide health insurance coverage for individuals described in § 152.14 of this part. (b) Scope. This part establishes standards and sets forth the requirements, limitations, and procedures for the temporary high risk health insurance...

  16. 45 CFR 152.1 - Statutory basis.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... to establish a temporary high risk health insurance pool program to provide health insurance coverage for individuals described in § 152.14 of this part. (b) Scope. This part establishes standards and sets forth the requirements, limitations, and procedures for the temporary high risk health insurance...

  17. The neural circuit basis of learning

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    Patrick, Kaifosh William John

    The astounding capacity for learning ranks among the nervous system's most impressive features. This thesis comprises studies employing varied approaches to improve understanding, at the level of neural circuits, of the brain's capacity for learning. The first part of the thesis contains investigations of hippocampal circuitry -- both theoretical work and experimental work in the mouse Mus musculus -- as a model system for declarative memory. To begin, Chapter 2 presents a theory of hippocampal memory storage and retrieval that reflects nonlinear dendritic processing within hippocampal pyramidal neurons. As a prelude to the experimental work that comprises the remainder of this part, Chapter 3 describes an open source software platform that we have developed for analysis of data acquired with in vivo Ca2+ imaging, the main experimental technique used throughout the remainder of this part of the thesis. As a first application of this technique, Chapter 4 characterizes the content of signaling at synapses between GABAergic neurons of the medial septum and interneurons in stratum oriens of hippocampal area CA1. Chapter 5 then combines these techniques with optogenetic, pharmacogenetic, and pharmacological manipulations to uncover inhibitory circuit mechanisms underlying fear learning. The second part of this thesis focuses on the cerebellum-like electrosensory lobe in the weakly electric mormyrid fish Gnathonemus petersii, as a model system for non-declarative memory. In Chapter 6, we study how short-duration EOD motor commands are recoded into a complex temporal basis in the granule cell layer, which can be used to cancel Purkinje-like cell firing to the longer duration and temporally varying EOD-driven sensory responses. In Chapter 7, we consider not only the temporal aspects of the granule cell code, but also the encoding of body position provided from proprioceptive and efference copy sources. Together these studies clarify how the cerebellum-like circuitry of the electrosensory lobe combines information of different forms and then uses this combined information to predict the complex dependence of sensory responses on body position and timing relative to electric organ discharge.

  18. Relationship between COMLEX-USA scores and performance on the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine Part I certifying examination.

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    Li, Feiming; Gimpel, John R; Arenson, Ethan; Song, Hao; Bates, Bruce P; Ludwin, Fredric

    2014-04-01

    Few studies have investigated how well scores from the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination-USA (COMLEX-USA) series predict resident outcomes, such as performance on board certification examinations. To determine how well COMLEX-USA predicts performance on the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine (AOBEM) Part I certification examination. The target study population was first-time examinees who took AOBEM Part I in 2011 and 2012 with matched performances on COMLEX-USA Level 1, Level 2-Cognitive Evaluation (CE), and Level 3. Pearson correlations were computed between AOBEM Part I first-attempt scores and COMLEX-USA performances to measure the association between these examinations. Stepwise linear regression analysis was conducted to predict AOBEM Part I scores by the 3 COMLEX-USA scores. An independent t test was conducted to compare mean COMLEX-USA performances between candidates who passed and who failed AOBEM Part I, and a stepwise logistic regression analysis was used to predict the log-odds of passing AOBEM Part I on the basis of COMLEX-USA scores. Scores from AOBEM Part I had the highest correlation with COMLEX-USA Level 3 scores (.57) and slightly lower correlation with COMLEX-USA Level 2-CE scores (.53). The lowest correlation was between AOBEM Part I and COMLEX-USA Level 1 scores (.47). According to the stepwise regression model, COMLEX-USA Level 1 and Level 2-CE scores, which residency programs often use as selection criteria, together explained 30% of variance in AOBEM Part I scores. Adding Level 3 scores explained 37% of variance. The independent t test indicated that the 397 examinees passing AOBEM Part I performed significantly better than the 54 examinees failing AOBEM Part I in all 3 COMLEX-USA levels (P<.001 for all 3 levels). The logistic regression model showed that COMLEX-USA Level 1 and Level 3 scores predicted the log-odds of passing AOBEM Part I (P=.03 and P<.001, respectively). The present study empirically supported the predictive and discriminant validities of the COMLEX-USA series in relation to the AOBEM Part I certification examination. Although residency programs may use COMLEX-USA Level 1 and Level 2-CE scores as partial criteria in selecting residents, Level 3 scores, though typically not available at the time of application, are actually the most statistically related to performances on AOBEM Part I.

  19. Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection of Angiostrongylus cantonensis DNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid from Patients with Eosinophilic Meningitis.

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    Qvarnstrom, Yvonne; Xayavong, Maniphet; da Silva, Ana Cristina Aramburu; Park, Sarah Y; Whelen, A Christian; Calimlim, Precilia S; Sciulli, Rebecca H; Honda, Stacey A A; Higa, Karen; Kitsutani, Paul; Chea, Nora; Heng, Seng; Johnson, Stuart; Graeff-Teixeira, Carlos; Fox, LeAnne M; da Silva, Alexandre J

    2016-01-01

    Angiostrongylus cantonensis is the most common infectious cause of eosinophilic meningitis. Timely diagnosis of these infections is difficult, partly because reliable laboratory diagnostic methods are unavailable. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay for the detection of A. cantonensis DNA in human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimens. A total of 49 CSF specimens from 33 patients with eosinophilic meningitis were included: A. cantonensis DNA was detected in 32 CSF specimens, from 22 patients. Four patients had intermittently positive and negative real-time PCR results on subsequent samples, indicating that the level of A. cantonensis DNA present in CSF may fluctuate during the course of the illness. Immunodiagnosis and/or supplemental PCR testing supported the real-time PCR findings for 30 patients. On the basis of these observations, this real-time PCR assay can be useful to detect A. cantonensis in the CSF from patients with eosinophilic meningitis. © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

  20. Able or unable to work? Life trajectory after severe occupational injury.

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    Kulmala, Jarna; Luoma, Arto; Koskinen, Lasse

    2018-04-24

    To study the probabilities and permanence of return to work, inability to work and rehabilitation, and to explore the connection between these life situations and later working after a severe occupational injury. A historical cohort of Finnish workers with a severe occupational injury during 2008 (N = 11,585) were followed up annually on the outcomes of return to work over a 5-year observation period. We examined transition probabilities from one life situation to another with Markov chain analysis, and applied logistic regression with generalized estimating equations to assess the effect of register-based determinants on return to work. Within the five anniversaries, 85% of the injured were working, 9% were unable to work (fully or partly) and 2% received rehabilitation. Age, gross annual income, type of work, injured body part, injury type and the injured's annual condition subsequent to the work injury were significant determinants of return to work. The probability of return to work decreased with time, but, on average, one-fifth of the injured workers succeeded in return to work after being unable to work on the previous anniversary, which indicates that it is worthwhile to conduct efforts for this target group in order to promote return to work. Implications for Rehabilitation The current life situation of the injured should be taken into account when promoting return to work, as it is a strong predictor of later working after a serious occupational injury. Rehabilitation and return to work programs should start in time due to declining return to work rates as the disability continues. Return to work on a part-time basis could be a good option during the early phases of recovery, since a notable proportion of those partly unable to work on the first anniversary returned later to full-time workers. The probability of recovery is relatively high even for those with long-term disabilities, so the promotion of return to work is highly recommended also for this target group.

  1. Predicting complex syntactic structure in real time: Processing of negative sentences in Russian.

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    Kazanina, Nina

    2017-11-01

    In Russian negative sentences the verb's direct object may appear either in the accusative case, which is licensed by the verb (as is common cross-linguistically), or in the genitive case, which is licensed by the negation (Russian-specific "genitive-of-negation" phenomenon). Such sentences were used to investigate whether case marking is employed for anticipating syntactic structure, and whether lexical heads other than the verb can be predicted on the basis of a case-marked noun phrase. Experiment 1, a completion task, confirmed that genitive-of-negation is part of Russian speakers' active grammatical repertoire. In Experiments 2 and 3, the genitive/accusative case manipulation on the preverbal object led to shorter reading times at the negation and verb in the genitive versus accusative condition. Furthermore, Experiment 3 manipulated linear order of the direct object and the negated verb in order to distinguish whether the abovementioned facilitatory effect was predictive or integrative in nature, and concluded that the parser actively predicts a verb and (otherwise optional) negation on the basis of a preceding genitive-marked object. Similarly to a head-final language, case-marking information on preverbal noun phrases (NPs) is used by the parser to enable incremental structure building in a free-word-order language such as Russian.

  2. Management traceability information system for the food supply chain

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    Bendriss, S.; Benabdelhafid, A.; Boukachour, J.

    2008-06-01

    For a long time, the traceability was applied only for management reasons, but with the advent of new communication and information technologies more and more used in the logistic medium, the notion of the traceability became new extensive to meet the new market needs in term of information by ensuring accessibility the data characteristic or been dependent on the product throughout its life cycle. On the basis of this postulate, we tried to raise some questions of research, beginning by the presentation of the progress achieved, assumptions and objective relating to the traceability, in the second time we mentioned principal work by showing how evolved the scientific question especially the information systems integrating the traceability were developed very little in the literature. Based on what was developed in the first part, we present our generic modeling approach of communicating product "smart object", able to take into account the various essential elements for its traceability: the product in its various states, various operations carried out on the product, resources used, its localization, and interactions between the product and its environment carried out on the basis of whole of service. In order to validate our generic modeling, a case of study representing an application in a context of food industry is presented.

  3. 38 CFR 21.6140 - Evaluation and improvement of rehabilitation potential.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... basis for planning: (i) A program of services and assistance to improve the veteran's potential for.... The duration of services needed to improve rehabilitation potential, furnished on a full-time basis... total program, may not exceed 9 months. If these services are furnished on a less than full-time basis...

  4. Time series analysis of tool wear in sheet metal stamping using acoustic emission

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    Vignesh Shanbhag, V.; Pereira, P. Michael; Rolfe, F. Bernard; Arunachalam, N.

    2017-09-01

    Galling is an adhesive wear mode that often affects the lifespan of stamping tools. Since stamping tools represent significant economic cost, even a slight improvement in maintenance cost is of high importance for the stamping industry. In other manufacturing industries, online tool condition monitoring has been used to prevent tool wear-related failure. However, monitoring the acoustic emission signal from a stamping process is a non-trivial task since the acoustic emission signal is non-stationary and non-transient. There have been numerous studies examining acoustic emissions in sheet metal stamping. However, very few have focused in detail on how the signals change as wear on the tool surface progresses prior to failure. In this study, time domain analysis was applied to the acoustic emission signals to extract features related to tool wear. To understand the wear progression, accelerated stamping tests were performed using a semi-industrial stamping setup which can perform clamping, piercing, stamping in a single cycle. The time domain features related to stamping were computed for the acoustic emissions signal of each part. The sidewalls of the stamped parts were scanned using an optical profilometer to obtain profiles of the worn part, and they were qualitatively correlated to that of the acoustic emissions signal. Based on the wear behaviour, the wear data can be divided into three stages: - In the first stage, no wear is observed, in the second stage, adhesive wear is likely to occur, and in the third stage severe abrasive plus adhesive wear is likely to occur. Scanning electron microscopy showed the formation of lumps on the stamping tool, which represents galling behavior. Correlation between the time domain features of the acoustic emissions signal and the wear progression identified in this study lays the basis for tool diagnostics in stamping industry.

  5. Global geological map of Venus

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    Ivanov, Mikhail A.; Head, James W.

    2011-10-01

    The surface area of Venus (∼460×106 km2) is ∼90% of that of the Earth. Using Magellan radar image and altimetry data, supplemented by Venera-15/16 radar images, we compiled a global geologic map of Venus at a scale of 1:10 M. We outline the history of geological mapping of the Earth and planets to illustrate the importance of utilizing the dual stratigraphic classification approach to geological mapping. Using this established approach, we identify 13 distinctive units on the surface of Venus and a series of structures and related features. We present the history and evolution of the definition and characterization of these units, explore and assess alternate methods and approaches that have been suggested, and trace the sequence of mapping from small areas to regional and global scales. We outline the specific defining nature and characteristics of these units, map their distribution, and assess their stratigraphic relationships. On the basis of these data, we then compare local and regional stratigraphic columns and compile a global stratigraphic column, defining rock-stratigraphic units, time-stratigraphic units, and geological time units. We use superposed craters, stratigraphic relationships and impact crater parabola degradation to assess the geologic time represented by the global stratigraphic column. Using the characteristics of these units, we interpret the geological processes that were responsible for their formation. On the basis of unit superposition and stratigraphic relationships, we interpret the sequence of events and processes recorded in the global stratigraphic column. The earliest part of the history of Venus (Pre-Fortunian) predates the observed surface geological features and units, although remnants may exist in the form of deformed rocks and minerals. We find that the observable geological history of Venus can be subdivided into three distinctive phases. The earlier phase (Fortunian Period, its lower stratigraphic boundary cannot be determined with the available data sets) involved intense deformation and building of regions of thicker crust (tessera). This was followed by the Guineverian Period. Distributed deformed plains, mountain belts, and regional interconnected groove belts characterize the first part and the vast majority of coronae began to form during this time. The second part of the Guineverian Period involved global emplacement of vast and mildly deformed plains of volcanic origin. A period of global wrinkle ridge formation largely followed the emplacement of these plains. The third phase (Atlian Period) involved the formation of prominent rift zones and fields of lava flows unmodified by wrinkle ridges that are often associated with large shield volcanoes and, in places, with earlier-formed coronae. Atlian volcanism may continue to the present. About 70% of the exposed surface of Venus was resurfaced during the Guineverian Period and only about 16% during the Atlian Period. Estimates of model absolute ages suggest that the Atlian Period was about twice as long as the Guineverian and, thus, characterized by significantly reduced rates of volcanism and tectonism. The three major phases of activity documented in the global stratigraphy and geological map, and their interpreted temporal relations, provide a basis for assessing the geodynamical processes operating earlier in Venus history that led to the preserved record.

  6. [Guidelines for vaccination of immunocompromised individuals].

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    Wiedermann, Ursula; Sitte, Harald H; Burgmann, Heinz; Eser, Alexander; Falb, Petra; Holzmann, Heidemarie; Kitchen, Maria; Köller, Marcus; Kollaritsch, Herwig; Kundi, Michael; Lassmann, Hans; Mutz, Ingomar; Pickl, Winfried F; Riedl, Elisabeth; Sibilia, Maria; Thalhammer, Florian; Tucek, Barbara; Zenz, Werner; Zwiauer, Karl

    2016-08-01

    Immunosuppression of various origins is associated with an increased risk of infection; therefore the prevention of infectious diseases by vaccination is especially important in immunocompromised patients. However, the response to vaccinations is often reduced in these risk groups and the application of live vaccines is contraindicated during immunosuppression.In the following expert statement, recommendations for vaccination were created on the basis of current evidence and theoretical/immunological considerations. A first, general part elaborates on efficacy and safety of vaccinations during immunosuppression, modes of action of immunosuppressive medications and recommended time intervals between immunosuppressive treatments and vaccinations. A core piece of this part is a graduation of immunosuppression into three stages, i. e. no relevant immunosuppression, mild to moderate and severe immunosuppression and the assignment of various medications (including biologicals) to one of those stages; this is followed by an overview of possible and necessary vaccinations in each of those stages.The second part gives detailed vaccination guidelines for common diseases and therapies associated with immunosuppression. Primary immune deficiencies, chronic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, solid and hematological tumors, hematopoetic stem cell transplantation, transplantation of solid organs, aspenia, rheumatological-, gastroenterologic-, dermatologic-, neurologic diseases, biologicals during pregnancy and HIV infection are dealt with.These vaccination guidelines, compiled for the first time in Austria, aim to be of practical help for physicians to facilitate and improve vaccination coverage in immunocompromised patients and their household members and contact persons.

  7. Fluid Intelligence Predicts Novel Rule Implementation in a Distributed Frontoparietal Control Network.

    PubMed

    Tschentscher, Nadja; Mitchell, Daniel; Duncan, John

    2017-05-03

    Fluid intelligence has been associated with a distributed cognitive control or multiple-demand (MD) network, comprising regions of lateral frontal, insular, dorsomedial frontal, and parietal cortex. Human fluid intelligence is also intimately linked to task complexity, and the process of solving complex problems in a sequence of simpler, more focused parts. Here, a complex target detection task included multiple independent rules, applied one at a time in successive task epochs. Although only one rule was applied at a time, increasing task complexity (i.e., the number of rules) impaired performance in participants of lower fluid intelligence. Accompanying this loss of performance was reduced response to rule-critical events across the distributed MD network. The results link fluid intelligence and MD function to a process of attentional focus on the successive parts of complex behavior. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Fluid intelligence is intimately linked to the ability to structure complex problems in a sequence of simpler, more focused parts. We examine the basis for this link in the functions of a distributed frontoparietal or multiple-demand (MD) network. With increased task complexity, participants of lower fluid intelligence showed reduced responses to task-critical events. Reduced responses in the MD system were accompanied by impaired behavioral performance. Low fluid intelligence is linked to poor foregrounding of task-critical information across a distributed MD system. Copyright © 2017 Tschentscher et al.

  8. 47 CFR 90.103 - Radiolocation Service.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... basis to the Government Radiolocation Service. (13) Operations in this band are limited to survey....403(f), and 90.429 of this part. (23) Devices designed to operate as field disturbance sensors on... part 15 of this chapter. (24) Devices designed to operate as field disturbance sensors on frequencies...

  9. 47 CFR 90.103 - Radiolocation Service.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... basis to the Government Radiolocation Service. (13) Operations in this band are limited to survey....403(f), and 90.429 of this part. (23) Devices designed to operate as field disturbance sensors on... part 15 of this chapter. (24) Devices designed to operate as field disturbance sensors on frequencies...

  10. 40 CFR Table 10 to Part 455 - List of Appropriate Pollution Control Technologies

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... Technologies 10 Table 10 to Part 455 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED... Appropriate Pollution Control Technologies This table contains those pollutant control technologies, such as... estimating compliance costs on a PAI specific basis. In general, these treatment technologies have been...

  11. Combination of cheminformatics and bioinformatics to explore the chemical basis of the rhizomes and aerial parts of Dioscorea nipponica Makino.

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    Li, Xu-Zhao; Zhang, Shuai-Nan; Yang, Xu-Yan

    2017-12-01

    This study was aimed to explore the chemical basis of the rhizomes and aerial parts of Dioscorea nipponica Makino (DN). The pharmacokinetic profiles of the compounds from DN were calculated via ACD/I-Lab and PreADMET program. Their potential therapeutic and toxicity targets were screened through the DrugBank's or T3DB's ChemQuery structure search. Eleven of 48 compounds in the rhizomes and over half of the compounds in the aerial parts had moderate or good human oral bioavailability. Twenty-three of 48 compounds in the rhizomes and 40/43 compounds from the aerial parts had moderate or good permeability to intestinal cells. Forty-three of 48 compounds from the rhizomes and 18/43 compounds in the aerial parts bound weakly to the plasma proteins. Eleven of 48 compounds in the rhizomes and 36/43 compounds of the aerial parts might pass across the blood-brain barrier. Forty-three 48 compounds in the rhizomes and 18/43 compounds from the aerial parts showed low renal excretion ability. The compounds in the rhizomes possessed 391 potential therapeutic targets and 216 potential toxicity targets. Additionally, the compounds from the aerial parts possessed 101 potential therapeutic targets and 183 potential toxicity targets. These findings indicated that combination of cheminformatics and bioinformatics may facilitate achieving the objectives of this study. © 2017 Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

  12. Job Market Investigation. The Career Life Assessment Skills Series, Booklet Two. A Program to Meet Adult Developmental Needs.

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    Curtin, Bernadette M.; Hecklinger, Fred J.

    As part of a series on career and life planning for adults, this booklet provides a guide to the job market and strategies for choosing a career. Part I suggests the reader list prospective careers and preferred job conditions. Part II helps the reader to categorize careers on the basis of requisite skills, occupational classifications,…

  13. 42 CFR 414.509 - Reconsideration of basis for and amount of payment for a new clinical diagnostic laboratory test.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ...) or § 414.509(a)(3) that the basis for payment for a new test will be gapfilling, CMS posts interim... for a new clinical diagnostic laboratory test. 414.509 Section 414.509 Public Health CENTERS FOR... FOR PART B MEDICAL AND OTHER HEALTH SERVICES Payment for New Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests...

  14. 34 CFR Appendix B to Part 100 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs B..., Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs I. Scope and Coverage A... race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap in performing any of the following activities: 1...

  15. 34 CFR Appendix B to Part 100 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs B..., Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs I. Scope and Coverage A... race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap in performing any of the following activities: 1...

  16. 34 CFR Appendix B to Part 100 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

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    2011-07-01

    ... Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs B..., Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs I. Scope and Coverage A... race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap in performing any of the following activities: 1...

  17. 45 CFR Appendix B to Part 80 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

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    2010-10-01

    ... Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational..., National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs I. Scope and Coverage a. application of... race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap in performing any of the following activities: 1...

  18. 34 CFR Appendix B to Part 100 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

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    2013-07-01

    ... Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs B..., Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs I. Scope and Coverage A... race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap in performing any of the following activities: 1...

  19. 45 CFR Appendix B to Part 80 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

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    2014-10-01

    ... Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational..., National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs I. Scope and Coverage a. application of... race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap in performing any of the following activities: 1...

  20. 45 CFR Appendix B to Part 80 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

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    2011-10-01

    ... Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational..., National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs I. Scope and Coverage a. application of... race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap in performing any of the following activities: 1...

  1. 45 CFR Appendix B to Part 80 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational..., National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs I. Scope and Coverage a. application of... race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap in performing any of the following activities: 1...

  2. 45 CFR Appendix B to Part 80 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational..., National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs I. Scope and Coverage a. application of... race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap in performing any of the following activities: 1...

  3. 34 CFR Appendix B to Part 100 - Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... Services on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs B..., Color, National Origin, Sex, and Handicap in Vocational Education Programs I. Scope and Coverage A... race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap in performing any of the following activities: 1...

  4. From Semantics to Syntax and Back Again: Argument Structure in the Third Year of Life

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    Fernandes, Keith J.; Marcus, Gary F.; Di Nubila, Jennifer A.; Vouloumanos, Athena

    2006-01-01

    An essential part of the human capacity for language is the ability to link conceptual or semantic representations with syntactic representations. On the basis of data from spontaneous production, Tomasello (2000) suggested that young children acquire such links on a verb-by-verb basis, with little in the way of a general understanding of…

  5. 40 CFR 63.1203 - What are the standards for hazardous waste incinerators that are effective until compliance with...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... monitoring system), dry basis, corrected to 7 percent oxygen, and reported as propane; (6) Hydrochloric acid... hydrochloric acid equivalents, dry basis and corrected to 7 percent oxygen; and (7) Particulate matter in... oxygen, and reported as propane; (6) Hydrochloric acid and chlorine gas in excess of 21 parts per million...

  6. 40 CFR 63.1203 - What are the standards for hazardous waste incinerators that are effective until compliance with...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... monitoring system), dry basis, corrected to 7 percent oxygen, and reported as propane; (6) Hydrochloric acid... hydrochloric acid equivalents, dry basis and corrected to 7 percent oxygen; and (7) Particulate matter in... oxygen, and reported as propane; (6) Hydrochloric acid and chlorine gas in excess of 21 parts per million...

  7. 40 CFR 63.1203 - What are the standards for hazardous waste incinerators that are effective until compliance with...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... monitoring system), dry basis, corrected to 7 percent oxygen, and reported as propane; (6) Hydrochloric acid... hydrochloric acid equivalents, dry basis and corrected to 7 percent oxygen; and (7) Particulate matter in... oxygen, and reported as propane; (6) Hydrochloric acid and chlorine gas in excess of 21 parts per million...

  8. Part 106--Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Office for Civil Rights (ED), Washington, DC.

    This document addresses nondiscrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance. It includes the amendments made in the notice of Final Regulations published in the Federal Register on November 13, 2000. The amendments effectuate Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The official…

  9. 32 CFR 165.6 - Procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... defense equipment are sold at a reduced price due to age or condition, the nonrecurring cost recoupment... set forth in this part shall determine the allocation basis for recouping from the third party... the policies in this part to sales to third parties by any of the parties to the agreement and for the...

  10. 48 CFR 217.7505 - Limitations on price increases.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Limitations on price... Acquisition of Replenishment Parts 217.7505 Limitations on price increases. This section provides implementing... award, on a sole source basis, a contract for any centrally managed replenishment part when the price of...

  11. 45 CFR 86.14 - Membership practices of certain organizations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE..., Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. This part does not apply to the membership practices of... Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. (c) Voluntary youth service organizations. This part does not apply to...

  12. 34 CFR 106.14 - Membership practices of certain organizations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ..., DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING... education. (b) YMCA, YWCA, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. This part does not apply to the... Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. (c) Voluntary youth service organizations. This part...

  13. 34 CFR 106.14 - Membership practices of certain organizations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ..., DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING... education. (b) YMCA, YWCA, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. This part does not apply to the... Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. (c) Voluntary youth service organizations. This part...

  14. 34 CFR 106.14 - Membership practices of certain organizations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ..., DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING... education. (b) YMCA, YWCA, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. This part does not apply to the... Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. (c) Voluntary youth service organizations. This part...

  15. 45 CFR 86.14 - Membership practices of certain organizations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE..., Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. This part does not apply to the membership practices of... Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. (c) Voluntary youth service organizations. This part does not apply to...

  16. 45 CFR 86.14 - Membership practices of certain organizations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE..., Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. This part does not apply to the membership practices of... Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. (c) Voluntary youth service organizations. This part does not apply to...

  17. 45 CFR 86.14 - Membership practices of certain organizations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE..., Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. This part does not apply to the membership practices of... Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. (c) Voluntary youth service organizations. This part does not apply to...

  18. 34 CFR 106.14 - Membership practices of certain organizations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ..., DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING... education. (b) YMCA, YWCA, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. This part does not apply to the... Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. (c) Voluntary youth service organizations. This part...

  19. 34 CFR 106.14 - Membership practices of certain organizations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ..., DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING... education. (b) YMCA, YWCA, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. This part does not apply to the... Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. (c) Voluntary youth service organizations. This part...

  20. 45 CFR 86.14 - Membership practices of certain organizations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE..., Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. This part does not apply to the membership practices of... Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. (c) Voluntary youth service organizations. This part does not apply to...

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