nactment of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in 1965 was a major turning point in federal education policy. This legislation dramatically increased the federal government’s financial support of K-12 education, but more importantly represented a new commitment to educational equity. For the last 35 years, federal programs have funded and promoted expanded educational services fo...

Map-based cloning is an iterative approach that identifies the underlying genetic cause of a mutant phenotype. The major strength of this approach is the ability to tap into a nearly unlimited resource of natural and induced genetic variation without prior assumptions or knowledge of specific genes. One begins with an interesting mutant and allows plant biology to reveal what gene or genes are ...

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Description: This refresher course lecture will highlight the anesthetic considerations for a variety of interventional cardiology procedure. The concept of the Hybrid OR is a reality in many centers now, and a basic understanding of the types of procedures being done is necessary to provide anesthetic care. This syllabus will provide the background information for the lecture, which will focus...

In this paper, we address challenges of organizing future-oriented consultation processes within European coordination tools for ‘Open Method of Coordination’ – such as ERA-NETs – which are promoted by the European Commission towards the establishment of the European ResearchArea. Specifically, we report experiences from a recent consultation process that was organized withinWoodWisdom-Net (ERA...

Diabatic heating is diagnosed from the 40-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-40) circulation as a residue in the thermodynamic equation. The heating distribution is compared with the heating structure diagnosed from NCEP and 15-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-15) circulation and latent heating generated from Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) observations using the convective–stratiform heating (CSH) ...

Purpose: Hawaii had the highest incidence of liver cancer in the US and had a unique patient population with many immigrants from the Pacific and Asia where Hepatitis B virus (HBV) was endemic. HBV screening in high risk populations was a recommended measure of preventative medicine, thus we sought to examine physician screening patterns for HBV in Hawaii. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed b...

The shaped charge tandem warhead is an effective weapon against the ERA (explosive reactive armor). Whether the pre-warhead can reliably initiate the ERA directly determines the entire performance of the tandem warhead. The existing shaped charge pre-warhead mostly adopts a metal shaped jet, which effectively initiates the ERA, but interferes the main shaped jet. This article, on the other hand...