Recommendations for applying nitrogen (N) fertilizer in autumn involve delaying applications until daily soil temperature at 10-cm depth is #10 C. Daily soil temperature data during autumn were examined from 26 sites along a transect from 36 to 49 N latitude in mid-continent USA. After soils first cooled to #10 C (First10), temperatures usually rebounded for varying amounts of time before the f...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Diagnostic codes are used widely within health care for billing, quality assessment, and to measure clinical outcomes. The US health care system will transition to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM), in October 2015. Little is known about how this transition will affect pediatric practices. The objective of th...

Robert W. Johnson Alphawave Research, Atlanta, GA 30238, USA (Dated: December 26, 2009) Abstract To investigate the relation between observations of the 10.7 cm flux and the international sunspot number so that a physical unit may be ascribed to historical records, both polynomial and power law models are developed giving the sunspot number as a function of flux and vice versa. Maximum likeliho...

Experiments have been performed on a corona preionization type 10 cm aperture TEA CO2 laser. For a CO2 : N2 : He = 1 : 1 : 7 mixture an output energy of 34 joule per liter and for a 1 : 1 : 10 mixture 40 joule per liter could be obtained. The overall efficiency is about 18%. The time behaviour of the current and voltage of the system shows a delay of several hundreds of nanoseconds after the pr...

A high-resolution accelerometer with a bulk-micromachined silicon proof mass and an interferometric position sensor was developed for measuring vibratory accelerations. The interferometer consists of interdigitated fingers that are alternately attached to the proof mass and support substrate. Illuminating the fingers with coherent light generates a series of diffracted beams. The intensity of a...

G00–G09, Inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system G10–G14, Systemic atrophies primarily affecting the central nervous system G20–G26, Extrapyramidal and movement disorders G30–G32, Other degenerative diseases of the nervous system G35–G37, Demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system G40–G47, Episodic and paroxysmal disorders G50–G59, Nerve, nerve root, and plexus disorders G...

There has been an array of misperceptions, misinformation, and misrepresentations concerning ICD-10-CM/PCS—making it hard to discern the true facts. Due to the increased concerns, bills have been introduced in Congress to postpone or entirely abandon the conversion to ICD-10. In particular, the increase in the number of codes and the existence of codes that will rarely be coded have been used t...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is a relatively rare type of cancer that affects an estimated 5000 to 10,000 new people each year in the US. Most GIST tumors develop in the stomach; but they can also arise in the small intestine, colon and rectum, esophagus or abdominal cavity. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors are the most common mesenchymal, nonepithelial tumors of the gastrointestinal tr...