Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, 2012 he nitrate ion (NO3) (CAS No. 14797-55-8, atomic mass 62.0049 g·mol) is the most oxidized form of nitrogen (N) present in the environment with an oxidation state of +5 (NRC 1978). It is the conjugate base of nitric acid (HNO3), a strong acid which is completely dissociated in solution (NRC 1978). The nitrate salts of all common metals (e.g....

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Nokia Research Center (NRC) in Lausanne, Switzerland has launched a rich data collection campaign during fall 2009, the purpose of which is to study user socio-geographical behavior, mobility patterns etc. of approximately 200 people. All sensors on the mobile devices (GPS, microphone, wireless interfaces etc.) were frequently activated in order to grab the most of the user contexts, to be gene...

THE HEALTH COMMUNITY has been concerned about the health effects of smoking on smokers for over two decades. With recent reports by the Surgeon General' and the National Academy of Sciences,2 a consensus has emerged that smoking also endangers nonsmokers who breathe secondhand smoke (table 1). Although there are always more details to learn, these reports effectively close the scientific case a...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering the issuance of a license amendment of Material License No. 24–17224–02 issued to Truman State University (the licensee), to terminate its license and authorize release of its Kirksville, Missouri facility for unrestricted use. The NRC staff has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) in support of this licensing action in accordance...

Recommender systems usually rely on user profiles to generate personalized recommendations. We argue here that such profiles are often too coarse to capture the current user’s state of mind/desire. For example, a serious user that usually prefers documentary features may, at the end of a long and tiring conference, be in the mood for a lighter entertaining movie, not captured by her usual profi...

In this study, a 35% phosphoric acid gel (3M Scotchbond etchant), a nonrinse etchant (NRC), and two EDTA-containing conditioners (RC-Prep and File-Eze) were tested in vitro for blocking nerve conductance evoked in the rat sciatic nerve after local application. The phosphoric acid gel and NRC completely and irreversibly inhibited conductance. On the other hand, RC-Prep reduced the compound actio...

It is becoming clear that the regulation of gas vesicle biogenesis in Halobacterium salinarum NRC-1 is multifaceted and appears to integrate environmental and metabolic cues at both the transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels. The mechanistic details underlying this process, however, remain unclear. In this manuscript, we quantify the contribution of light scattering made by both intrace...

A recent article in Biometrics (Stockmarr, 1999, 55, 671-677) has generated correspondence (56, 1274-1277; 57, 976-980) reigniting a controversy started by a 1996 report on DNA profile evidence issued by the U.S. National Research Council (NRC). The issue concerns the evidential weight of a DNA profile match when the match results from a search through a profile database. The views of both Stoc...

The 2002 NRC Report Bio2010 (NRC, 2003), calling for changes in undergraduate education for biologists, suggested the establishment of summer workshops to help implement reform. While the report was in press, Millard Susman, a retired genetics professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Bob Yuan, a professor at University of Maryland—College Park who also works as a consultant for th...