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Web.com Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results
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"Despite challenging economic conditions, Web.com was able to hit the top of its quarterly revenue and earnings guidance. The operating leverage potential ...
LoopNet, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results Trading Markets (press release)
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La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company Reports Second Quarter and Year-to ...
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More information about the Company is available on its Web site: http://www.ljpc.com. The forward-looking statements in this press release involve ...LJPC
Feds halt ASD
Tulsa Today, OK - Aug 3, 2008
?ASD adds $ 0.25 to every dollar invested, and pays back to the account 1% per day for a maximum of 125%. In other words, if you buy an ad packet for $1000, ...
Independent.co.uk Web
Independent, UK - Jul 24, 2008
Alliance & Leicester gained 0.25p to 342.75p and Barclays climbed to 353.5p, up 1.75p. Bradford & Bingley was the strongest, up 6p at 62p. ...
Warning: Recall of Sandoz Timolol Ophthalmic Solution 0.25% and ...
MarketWatch - Jul 18, 2008
Sandoz Timolol Ophthalmic Solution 0.25% and 0.5% are eye drops taken for treatment of increased intraocular pressure (high fluid pressure inside the eye) ...
Yuan Falls Most Since End of Peg as China Signals Growth Focus
Bloomberg - Jul 28, 2008
The currency has climbed 0.25 percent versus the dollar in July. The goal of achieving stable growth has been made more difficult due to uncertainties and ...
BlueLinx Announces Second-Quarter Results
MarketWatch - Jul 30, 2008
Investors can listen to the conference call and view the accompanying slide presentation by going to the BlueLinx web site, www. ...
Ness Technologies Announces Record Second Quarter 2008 Financial ... IT News Online
Nicholas Financial Reports Results for the 1st Quarter Ended June ... istockAnalyst.com
TSMC Reports Second Quarter EPS of NT$1.12 PR Newswire (press release)
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Independent.co.uk Web
Independent, UK - Jul 14, 2008
J Sainsbury was one of the few companies in negative territory on the FTSE 100, down 0.25p at 270.75p after Panmure Gordon reduced its target price for the ...
Yahoo Regains Most Session Losses as Board Defends Microsoft Dealings
TMCnet - Aug 1, 2008
The stock is currently down fractionally (0.25%) at $19.83 compared with its $19.89 close yesterday. Shares hit a session high of $20.12 at the bell before ...
Mexico?s inflation accelerates more than forecast
Tehran Times, Iran - Jul 25, 2008
Inflation was 0.38 percent in the first half of July, the central bank said on its Web site. Economists expected consumer prices to rise 0.25 percent, ...
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Measuring the Independence of Central Banks and Its Effect on Policy Outcomes -
A Cukierman, SB Web, B Neyapti - The World Bank Economic Review, 1992 - World Bank
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JouleTrack-A Web Based Tool for Software Energy Profiling -
A Sinha, AP Chandrakasan - Proceedings of the 38th Design Automation Conference (DAC … - doi.ieeecomputersociety.org
Page 1. JouleTrack - A Web Based Tool for Software Energy Profiling Amit Sinha Anantha
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A Yamaguchi, T Ino, H Adachi, S Murata, H Kamio, M … - The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1998 - Soc Thorac Surgeons
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CHF (see Table 2). The mean EF increased significantly from 0.25 0.06 to ...

The Superiority of Water-Diluted 0.25% to Neat 1% Lidocaine for Trigger-Point Injections in … -
H Iwama, Y Akama - Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2000 - IARS
... Search for citing articles in: ISI Web of Science (3 ... The Superiority of Water-Diluted
0.25% to Neat 1% Lidocaine for Trigger-Point Injections in Myofascial Pain ...

[PS] Data mining for path traversal patterns in a web environment -
MS Chen, JS Park, PS Yu - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on …, 1996 - ee.ntu.edu.tw
Page 1. Data Mining for Path Traversal Patterns in a Web Environment Ming-Syan Chen,
Jong Soo Park and Philip S. Yu IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. ...
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A 90-day study of the efficacy and side effects of 0.25% and 0.5% apraclonidine vs 0.5% timolol. … -
WC Stewart, R Laibovitz, B Horwitz, RH Stewart, R … - Archives of Ophthalmology, 1996 - Am Med Assoc
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Topical locality in the Web -
BD Davison - Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR …, 2000 - portal.acm.org
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Learning and Revising User Profiles: The Identification of Interesting Web Sites -
M Pazzani, D Billsus - Machine Learning, 1997 - Springer
... learning user profiles would be a useful additional capability of Web search engines ...
the interesting pages, and subtract away a weighted fraction (0.25) of the ...

Scale invariance in food web properties -
G Sugihara, K Schoenly, A Trombla - Science, 1989 - sciencemag.org
... 28 December 1988; accepted 10 April 1989 Scale Invariance in Food Web Properties ...
webs and addresses a common concem held by critics of food web theory that ...

[PS] Overview of the TREC-8 Web Track -
D Hawking, E Voorhees, N Craswell, P Bailey - Proc. of TREC-8 - research.microsoft.com
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Polonium-210

Article Date: 04 Dec 2006 - 0:00am (PST)
Two UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) physicians with special expertise in radiation poisoning have compiled a fact sheet on polonium-210, the substance implicated in the death of a former Russian spy. Benjamin C. Smith, M.D., is a nuclear engineer, and Ziad N. Kazzi, M.D., is a medical toxicologist. They are in UAB's Department of Emergency Medicine. Kazzi, co-director of the UAB Center for Emerging Infections and Emergency Preparedness, studied radiation poisoning at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training site. They both are available for interviews through UAB Media Relations.

Polonium-210: Fact Sheet

Polonium-210 is a radioactive material that releases alpha particles. Its typical uses include devices that eliminate static charges and dust in textile mills, photographic plates and phonographs/records. It is found in small amounts as a contaminant in cigarette smoke and is likely a significant contributor to lung cancer.1,2

Alpha particles are ionizing radiation that can be stopped simply with a piece of paper, or by the dead superficial layer of skin. The particles release all their energy in a very short distance, so when polonium-210 is placed on the skin, it is not dangerous; however, when taken into the body via inhalation or ingestion, polonium can enter the blood stream and alpha particles can impact organs and vital tissues directly.

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Polonium-210 is excreted in feces and urine over a period of several months.3

The polonium-210 dose that will kill 50 percent of persons who internalize it is about 100,000th of a milligram, one-million times more toxic than cyanide.4

Some commercially manufactured antistatic devices may contain as much as 500 micro-curies of polonium-210, theoretically enough radioactive material to kill 5,000 persons.5 However, this polonium is affixed in a gold foil amalgam; extremely sophisticated techniques and advanced technical knowledge would be required to weaponize such polonium.6

In its purest form, the amount of polonium-210 that would fit on the tip of a pen (0.5 mm3), if properly dispersed, could kill 500 persons. In the U.S., access to pure radioactive material such as polonium-210 is heavily government-regulated and requires a license for its handling and use.

Dimercaprol, also known as British Anti-Lewisite, is a chelating agent that may be effective as a treatment for Polonium-210 poisoning.7

References

1. Lung cancer induced in hamsters by low doses of alpha radiation from polonium-210. J. Little, A. Kennedy, and R. McGandy (1975) Science 188, 737-738

2. Polonium-210 in Bronchial Epithelium of Cigarette Smokers. J. B. Little, E. P. Radford Jr., and R. B. Holtzman (1967) Science 155, 606-607

3. Nuclide Safety Data Sheet, Polonium - 210 (http://www.nchps.org)

4. Ellenhorn, M.J., S. Schonwald, G. Ordog, J. Wasserberger. Ellenhorn's Medical Toxicology: Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Poisoning. 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Williams and Wilkins, 1997., p. 1477

5. Amstat Industries online catalog: http://www.amstat.com/solutions/staticmaster.html

6. Gumkowski, G. NRD LLC (phone 716-773-7634)

7. NRCP Report No. 65: Management of Persons Accidentally Contaminated With Radionuclides
 
 
 
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