Pollution reduction is one of the important challenges confronting contemporary business and society. Firms are largely responsible for undertaking sustainable practices initiatives as they major contributors to global pollution. This study empirically examines how investment influences firm energy carbon performance. Using a sample 23,501 firm-year observations from 2440 unique firms over peri...

We investigated the abundance ratio of C/C in planetary nebulae by examining emission lines arising from C III 2s2p P2,1,0 → 2s 2 S0. Spectra were retrieved from the International Ultraviolet Explorer archives, and multiple spectra of the same object were coadded to achieve improved signal-to-noise. The C hyperfine structure line at 1909.6 Å was detected in NGC 2440. The C/C ratio was found to ...

Bridging the gap: global disparity processing in the human 2 visual cortex 3 4 Benoit R. Cottereau 5 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA 6 Suzanne P. McKee 7 Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA 8 Anthony M. Norcia 9 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA 10 11 12 Corresponding Author: Benoit R. Cottereau 13 14 Adress: Department of Psychology | Jordan Hall, Buildi...

We develop a discontinuous ®nite element method for advection±di€usion equations arising in contaminant transport problems, based on the Local Discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method of Cockburn B and Shu CW. (The local discontinuous Garlerkin method for time-dependent convection±di€usion systems. SIAM J Numer Anal 1998;35:2440±63). This method is de®ned locally over each element, thus allowing for...

Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a systemic hereditable disorder of the connective tissue with mainly cardiovascular manifestations, such as aortic dilatation and dissection. We describe a case of a 32-year-old Caucasian woman, clinically asymptomatic with MFS who presented for genetic consultation to prevent the transmission of disease to her offspring. She underwent controlled ovarian stimulation (CO...

Background and Objective: Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) causes serious nosocomial and non-nosocomial infections. blaOxacillinases (OXA)-23 and blaOXA24/40 provide resistance to carbapenem antibiotics. The aim of this study was assessment of blaOXA-23 and blaOXA-24/40 in P. aeruginosa isolated from patients with nosocomial and non-nosocomial infections. Me...

Address all correspondence and request for reprints to: Jan Dommerholt Bethesda Physiocare, Inc. 7830 Old Georgetown Road, Suite C-15 Bethesda, MD 20814-2440 [email protected] Abstract: Trigger point dry needling is a treatment technique used by physical therapists around the world. In the United States, trigger point dry needling has been approved as within the scope of physica...