Split-and-mix combinatorial chemistry has made important contributions to the study of molecular recognition. In systems for which fully rational design is unrealistic, the method allows large libraries of potential receptors or substrates to be tested in parallel. Screening is typically visual, employing colored targets that concentrate in beads bearing the...
This paper proposes an intertemporal model of venture capital investment with screening and advising where the venture capitalist's time endowment is the scarce input factor. Screening improves the selection of firms receiving finance, advising allows firms to develop a marketable product, both have a variable intensity. In this setup, optimal...
The article discusses the fact that employee investigations have soared since Sept. 11, leading to the firing of hundreds, if not thousands, of workers with blemishes in their pasts. Screening is up sharply at other kinds of workplaces, such as pharmaceutical and service companies. Congressionally mandated background checks are being...
INTRODUCTION Establishing the most favorable vibration operation conditions for swinging screens is the essential problem when devising such equipment. The amplitude and the frequency of vibrations are the decisive factors that influence the vibrating conditions. The sieves operate best in over-critical angular resonant regime, at high frequencies coupled...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After Paul Wellman's 1951 book on Jim Bowie was published, Warner Brother's brought the novel to the silver screen staring Alan Ladd. John Beckman, the Art Director on the 1952 film produced a unique knife design while prop maker Arthur Rhoades actually constructed the blade used...
Preventative screening in the form of clinical breast examinations remains among the best protections against breast cancer. Despite the benefits that regular examinations confer, many women fail to obtain screening tests. Because ethnic minority women are particularly unlikely to undergo regular screening, and experience increased mortality and morbidity as a...
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The holidays are prime time for moviegoers to check out new films, and this season offers great talent-packed options. In THE SOLOIST Dreamworks and Universal, Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx is creating Oscar buzz in an emotionally soaring drama about lost dreams and the redemptive power...
Thank you, thank you, thank Y.O.U. for sharing the "Sisterspeak" column on Tasha Smith by Tasha Smith! I have been a fan of hers since the movie ATL and respect her roles in Daddy's Little Girls and Why Did I Get Married? She has such a genuine, charismatic and spiritual...
Trainer-to-the-stars Harley Pasternak has spruced up the physiques of such celebs as Jessica Simpson and Robert Downey Jr., but he may have his ultimate challenge in preparing Seth Rogen for the titular role in The Green Hornet. Rogen is best known for playing slackers in movies like Knocked Up and...
Most healthcare professionals agree that SBIRT--"Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment"--is a worthwhile and proven prevention practice that can substantially reduce the number of people who move from substance use to substance abuse and even addiction. The potential financial and social benefits of the SBIRT practice are compelling. I look...
Iomega, an EMC company (NYSE:EMC) and a global leader in data protection, has added to its ScreenPlayTM series of Multimedia drives with the new IomegaR ScreenPlayTM Pro HD 1.0TB* Multimedia Drive. The new ScreenPlay Pro HD Multimedia Drive creates a convenient link between the home network and the...
Just in time for the holidays, AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T ) has announced the availability of the AT&T QuickfireTM, the final of four new quick messaging mobile phones designed to make messaging faster and easier than ever before. The Quickfire was developed for AT&T by Personal Communications Devices LLC PCD. ...
* You may write off diabetes as a disease that strikes only older people. But the reality is nearly 2 million women under the age of 45 suffer from the condition, which sets the stage for heart disease and stroke. New research in Diabetes Care shows that catching--and treating--it early...
Prezza the TV star makes the grade John Prescott's brief stint on television appears to have paid off. The former deputy prime minister, pictured, won praise for his BBC2 documentary Prescott: The Class System And Me - although his wife Pauline seemed the real...
The truck driver who rolled his semitrailer, causing a propane leak that forced thousands to evacuate their homes last week, was driving too fast, police said Wednesday. Prosecutors were still screening charges against the man, who has not been identified, following the Friday crash at the merge...
ROTHKO (TATE MODERN, LONDON) It's hip to be square... Late canvases of the post-war abstract painter: deep, dark, muffled arrangements of oblong forms, in solemn sequ-ences. You stand, you stare, and the canvas, with its fields and layers of paint, does its sensational work...
OREM -- Once again, Ryan Toolson's shooting proved to be too much for an Utah Valley opponent, as the undefeated Wolverines moved to 4- 0 with a 82-75 home win over Montana on Tuesday night. Toolson's 38 points led all scorers, but the Wolverines needed every bit...
Cyberclinic In the past week, those British iPhone users who pride themselves at frolicking at the bleeding edge of technology have been bellowing into their handsets in a remarkable range of accents. That's because Google has launched a Voice Search facility for the device; it senses...
His career's already on the wane. And on Christmas Day, he'll ask people to go see him on the big screen -- in a Nazi uniform. But Tom Cruise, as always, is unfazed by the controversy surrounding his film "Valkyrie," which centers on a failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler...
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