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    DOMESTIC RELATIONS Alimony and Child Support Generally: Provide for Accident and Sickness Insurance Coverage for Children

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    The Act provides for a mechanism for the Department of Human Resources, the Department of Medical Assistance, or a custodial parent to require a support-paying parent\u27s employer to obtain court-ordered accident and sickness insurance on behalf of the parent\u27s child. The Act provides for criminal and civil penalties for any employer who does not abide by an enrollment order

    DOMESTIC RELATIONS Alimony and Child Support Generally: Provide for Accident and Sickness Insurance Coverage for Children

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    The Act provides for a mechanism for the Department of Human Resources, the Department of Medical Assistance, or a custodial parent to require a support-paying parent\u27s employer to obtain court-ordered accident and sickness insurance on behalf of the parent\u27s child. The Act provides for criminal and civil penalties for any employer who does not abide by an enrollment order

    A Study of the Phylogeny of the Anteoninae

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    A study of the biology of insect parasites and their relationships with that of their hosts offers a most attractive and productive field for research, and as yet, comparatively speaking, but little has been done in this field. This is particularly true with the Hymenoptera, and the writer has been interested in working out the biology of the Anteoninae, one of the parasitic groups of this order. These insects are parasitic on three families of the Homoptera, namely, the Cicadellidae, and Fulgoridae, commonly known as leafhoppers, and the Membracidae or treehoppers

    Caribbean Coast Guard: A Regional Approach

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    For many Americans, pre-1980 thoughts of the Caribbean Basin\u27 were focused exclusively on tourism in an idyllic tropical paradise, While reality never matched that naive simplification, the US action in Grenada in October 1983 capped a series of events that graphically demonstrated the strategic importance of the Caribbean. Before that involvement, revolu­tionary upheavals in Nicaragua and Surinam; guerrilla movements in El Salvador, Guatemala and Colombia; the massive immigrations of Cubans and Haitians in 1980; the debt crisis of tlte Ilasin, and the persistent drumbeat of Cuban adverturism and propaganda already had focused US policy-level attention to a region long regarded as secure for American interests. Cynics will argue that Grenada represents a return to gu11boat diplomacy, characteristic of past US policy that has alternated between benign neglect and periodic, fitful unilateral interventions

    CRIMES AND OFFENSES Crimes Against the Person: Provide for the Criminal Offense of Offering to Assist in the Commission of Suicide and Committing an Act in Furtherance Thereof

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    The Act provides criminal penalties for those who offer or hold themselves out to assist another person in the commission of suicide and commit an act in furtherance thereof. The Act also provides criminal penalties for anyone who overcomes the will of another person and thereby causes that person to commit or attempt to commit suicide. The Act exempts withholding or withdrawing medical care pursuant to a living will, a durable power of attorney, or a written do-not-resuscitate order

    Competing mechanisms of stress-assisted diffusivity and stretch-activated currents in cardiac electromechanics

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    We numerically investigate the role of mechanical stress in modifying the conductivity properties of the cardiac tissue and its impact in computational models for cardiac electromechanics. We follow a theoretical framework recently proposed in [Cherubini, Filippi, Gizzi, Ruiz-Baier, JTB 2017], in the context of general reaction-diffusion-mechanics systems using multiphysics continuum mechanics and finite elasticity. In the present study, the adapted models are compared against preliminary experimental data of pig right ventricle fluorescence optical mapping. These data contribute to the characterization of the observed inhomogeneity and anisotropy properties that result from mechanical deformation. Our novel approach simultaneously incorporates two mechanisms for mechano-electric feedback (MEF): stretch-activated currents (SAC) and stress-assisted diffusion (SAD); and we also identify their influence into the nonlinear spatiotemporal dynamics. It is found that i) only specific combinations of the two MEF effects allow proper conduction velocity measurement; ii) expected heterogeneities and anisotropies are obtained via the novel stress-assisted diffusion mechanisms; iii) spiral wave meandering and drifting is highly mediated by the applied mechanical loading. We provide an analysis of the intrinsic structure of the nonlinear coupling using computational tests, conducted using a finite element method. In particular, we compare static and dynamic deformation regimes in the onset of cardiac arrhythmias and address other potential biomedical applications

    Control of the Potato Leafhopper

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    Potato fields In Iowa for several years have suffered from burning, which has seriously cut the yield of this crop. The trouble has been called tlpburn. Its cause was unknown until recently, when It was discovered that It Is due chiefly to the potato leafhopper, a little green, fly-llke Insect that appears In enormous numbers during the summer. The Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station has verified this connection between the leafhopper and tlpburn or hopperburn and control measures have been devised
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