Extensive research and experience show that employing expanded function dental auxiliaries under dentists’ supervision to complete restorations (fill teeth) after the cavity has been prepared by the dentist is one way of increasing the efficiency of the Nation’s dental care delivery system and providing needed services to more people at less cost. Nevertheless, most States have laws precluding ...

Abstract Hospital ships are vessels that designed or equipped and primarily used to provide medical surgical treatment nursing care for sick in-jured people at sea. Under the law of sea maritime law, such ves-sels not dealt with separately. Therefore, their status respective rules applicable them depend on entities operating them. If operated by armed forces a State exclusively government non-c...

We implement and evaluate systems for automatically distinguishing habitual and episodic sentences. Using features such as tense, aspect, noun phrase characteristics, temporal modifiers, specific adverb modifiers, and specific verb auxiliaries on genericity we built and evaluated a supervised machine learning classifier that provides 86.3% precision in disambiguating habitual and episodic sente...

Michael addition is a premier synthetic method for carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond formation. Using chiral dilithium amides as traceless auxiliaries, we report the direct enantioselective Michael addition of carboxylic acids. A free carboxyl group in the product provides versatility for further functionalization, and the chiral reagent can be readily recovered by extraction with aqueou...