A new analysis of the connection between black-hole mass and radio luminosity in radioselected flat-spectrum quasars (FSQ) is presented. In contrast to recent claims in the literature, we find no evidence that the black-hole masses of radio-selected FSQ are systematically lower that those of luminous optically-selected radio-loud quasars. The black-hole masses of the FSQ are estimated via the v...

The case Tucson Woman's Clinic v. Eden (2004) established that some of Arizona's abortion [3] clinic laws violated physicians' and patients' rights to privacy, and it required Arizona's abortion [3] laws to be rewritten. The laws required most abortion [3] providers to be licensed with the Arizona Department of Health Services and to submit to all the regulations the Department established for ...

It is an important problem to compute the geodesics on a surface in many fields. To find the geodesics in practice, however, the traditional discrete algorithms or numerical approaches can only find a list of discrete points. The first author proposed in 2010 a new, elegant and accurate method, the geodesic-like method, for approximating geodesics on a regular surface. This paper will present b...

The preimaginal stages of Berosus decolor Knisch, 1924 are described for the first time, including illustrations of the egg case and all larval instars. Larval morphology of this species is studied emphasizing chaetotaxic and morphometric analyses. The egg case lacks a mast and contains 2‒3 eggs; all larval instars are characterized by the following features: presence of 6 teeth on anterior mar...

Background The house dust mites are cosmopolitan guest in human habitation. Dust mites occur in nearly all homes. They are generally found in pillows, bed sheets, mattress, stuff toys, carpets etc. Dust mites feed on organic detritus such as flakes of shed human skin and flourish in stable environment of dwellings. Exposure to house dust mites is recognized as major cause allergy worldwide. The...

We propose a simple method of explicit description of families of closed geodesics on a triaxial ellipsoid Q that are cut out by algebraic surfaces in R. Such geodesics are either connected components of spatial elliptic curves or rational curves. Our approach is based on elements of the Weierstrass–Poncaré reduction theory for hyperelliptic tangential covers of elliptic curves and the addition...

Introduction: Using MOC orbital images and several image sets from MER Spirit (Pancam, Navcam and MI), it is now possible to study at substantially different scales the effects on dust drapes over soil by dust devil vortices and other surficial processes. Dust Devil Scour: MOC image R07-01606-04 covers 2.95 x 12.06 km at 1.44 m/pxl and includes the Spirit landing site atop numerous dust devil t...

The design of an optimizing compiler for a large and rich language poses problems beyond those of sheer size and cost. One of the most serious is that the wealth and variety of the language makes it possible to express the same logical function in terms of many different source constructs. The choice may be based on naturalness of language use, program readability, ease of debugging, compil...

The GREC-MSR Task at Generation Challenges 2009 required participating systems to select coreference chains to the main subject of short encyclopaedic texts collected from Wikipedia. Three teams submitted one system each, and we additionally created four baseline systems. Systems were tested automatically using existing intrinsic metrics. We also evaluated systems extrinsically by applying core...

We have derived the dust emissivity in the FarInfrared (FIR) using data available in the literature. We use two wavelength dependences derived from spectra of Galactic FIR emission (Reach et al. 1995). A value for the emissivity, normalised to the extinction efficiency in the V band, has been retrieved from maps of Galactic FIR emission, dust temperature and extinction (Schlegel et al. 1998). O...