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Includes: Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History: The Department of Economic and Social Statistics; Labor Economics and Income Security Department: A Parent Department: Human Resources and Administration; The Organizational Behavior Department; Evolution of the Human Resources and Administration Department
Application of the Rule against Perpetuities to Powers of Appointment: Ohio Style
Of all the instruments available to a donor wishing to transfer property, none has the versatility of the power of appointment. The transfer of legal title to property combined with the creation of a power of appointment rids the donor of ownership of the property and provides the donee of the power with the flexibility to apportion the property in accordance with future needs and events arising long after the time of such transfer. This flexibility is often unavailable even in a carefully drafted trust which does not contain powers of appointment. A trustee with power to invade principal or to spray income among a class of beneficiaries can control somewhat the eventual distribution, but the identity of the beneficiaries must be definite, at least as to such class, or the trust will fail for lack of a cestui que trust. This is not the case with a power of appointment. The donor of a power can postpone until well after his death a final determination of both the amount of the gift and the identity of the recipient. The outcome of future events can thus be taken into consideration before ownership finally vests
Evaporation and growth of crystals - propagation of step density compression waves at vicinal surfaces
We studied the step dynamics during crystal sublimation and growth in the
limit of fast surface diffusion and slow kinetics of atom attachment-detachment
at the steps. For this limit we formulate a model free of the quasi-static
approximation in the calculation of the adatom concentration on the terraces at
the crystal surface. Such a model provides a relatively simple way to study the
linear stability of a step train in a presence of step-step repulsion and an
absence of destabilizing factors (as Schwoebel effect, surface electromigration
etc.). The central result is that a critical velocity of the steps in the train
exists which separates the stability and instability regimes. When the step
velocity exceeds its critical value the plot of these trajectories manifests
clear space and time periodicity (step density compression waves propagate on
the vicinal surface). This ordered motion of the steps is preceded by a
relatively short transition period of disordered step dynamics.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figure
Intranasal ciclesonide for allergic rhinitis
Ciclesonide is a novel corticosteroid which is optimized for topical use. It is a pro-drug which is activated locally in the airway mucosa, lipid-conjugated for local retention, and has very high protein binding in circulation leading to low systemic bioavailability. These characteristics should lead to highly selective activity with reduced local and systemic side effects. It has been established as an inhaled medication for asthma and has also been shown in double-blind trials to be efficacious for the treatment of seasonal and perennial allergic rhinitis. However no data have yet demonstrated superiority over existing nasal topical corticosteroids, either in terms of efficacy or adverse effects, and trials have not yet clearly shown efficacy in rhinitis in children. Therefore the place of ciclesonide in the treatment of allergic rhinitis relative to other existing products remains unclear
Focus on Research: A podiatry intervention to reduce falls in care home residents: development, feasibility and acceptability study with exploratory randomised controlled trial
Outer zone electrons
Spatial and temporal behavior of high energy trapped electrons in outer zone of magnetospher
Population of 13Be in a Nucleon Exchange Reaction
The neutron-unbound nucleus 13Be was populated with a nucleon-exchange
reaction from a 71 MeV/u secondary 13B beam. The decay energy spectrum was
reconstructed using invariant mass spectroscopy based on 12Be fragments in
coincidence with neutrons. The data could be described with an s-wave resonance
at E = 0.73(9) MeV with a width of Gamma = 1.98(34) MeV and a d-wave resonance
at E = 2.56(13) MeV with a width of Gamma = 2.29(73) MeV. The observed spectral
shape is consistent with previous one-proton removal reaction measurements from
14B.Comment: Published in Phys. Rev.
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A Prospective Study of Prepregnancy Dietary Iron Intake and Risk for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
OBJECTIVE It is important to identify modifiable factors that may lower gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) risk. Dietary iron is of particular interest given that iron is a strong prooxidant, and high body iron levels can damage pancreatic β-cell function and impair glucose metabolism. The current study is to determine if prepregnancy dietary and supplemental iron intakes are associated with the risk of GDM. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A prospective study was conducted among 13,475 women who reported a singleton pregnancy between 1991 and 2001 in the Nurses’ Health Study II. A total of 867 incident GDM cases were reported. Pooled logistic regression was used to estimate the relative risk (RR) of GDM by quintiles of iron intake controlling for dietary and nondietary risk factors. RESULTS Dietary heme iron intake was positively and significantly associated with GDM risk. After adjusting for age, BMI, and other risk factors, RRs (95% CIs) across increasing quintiles of heme iron were 1.0 (reference), 1.11 (0.87–1.43), 1.31 (1.03–1.68), 1.51 (1.17–1.93), and 1.58 (1.21–2.08), respectively (P for linear trend 0.0001). The multivariate adjusted RR for GDM associated with every 0.5-mg per day of increase in intake was 1.22 (1.10–1.36). No significant associations were observed between total dietary, nonheme, or supplemental iron intake and GDM risk. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that higher prepregnancy intake of dietary heme iron is associated with an increased GDM risk
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