Directory of Illinois public retirement systems and pension funds /

"March 2010."

Hospital beds in Illinois : alternative systems and bed counts : a report for the Certificate of Need Committee, Illinois Health Care Cost Containment Council /

Includes bibliographical references.

The New and complete American encyclopedia: or, Universal dictionary of arts and sciences; on an improved plan: in which the respective sciences are arranged into complete systems, and the arts digested into distinct treatises; also the detached parts of knowledge alphabetically arranged and copiously explained, according to the best authorities.

"From the Encyclopedia Perthensis, with improvements."

Organizational maintenance manual for cab, armament, sighting, and fire control, elevating and traversing systems and associated components : howitzer, medium, self-propelled, 155mm, M109A2 (2350-01-031-0586), M109A3 (2350-01-031-8851).

"June 1986."

Technical manual for direct support and general support maintenance for cab, armament, elevating and traversing systems, and associated components, howitzer, medium, self-propelled, 155mm, M109A2 (2350-01-031-0586), M109A3 (2350-01-031-8851).

Includes index.

Organizational maintenance manual for cab, armament, sighting, and fire control, elevating and traversing systems and associated components : howitzer, medium, self-propelled, 155mm, M109A2 (2350-01-031-0586), M109A3 (2350-01-031-8851).

"30 June 1986."

Unit maintenance repair parts and special tools list for cab, armament, sighting and fire control, elevating and traversing systems, and associated components, howitzer, medium, self-propelled, 155mm, M109A2 (NSN 2350-01-031-0586), M109A3 (NSN 2350-01-031-8851) ...

"November 1989."

Direct support and general support maintenance repair parts and special tools list ... for cab, armament, sighting and fire control, elevating and traversing systems, and associated components, howitzer, medium, self-propelled, 155mm, M109A2 (NSN 2350-01-031-0586), M109A3 (NSN 2350-01-031-8851) ...

"December 1989."

Servo systems and data transmission.

Includes index.

Physiographic history and the soils, entrenched stream systems, and gullies, Harrison County, Iowa /

Literature cited: p. 82-87.

Unemployment compensation in the post-war period; suggestions for expanding and perfecting state unemployment compensation systems and a digest of state and federal provisions.

Mode of access: Internet.

U.S. Department of Agriculture : revitalizing structure, systems, and strategies /

Running title: USDA structure, systems, and strategy.

Managing for results : EPA's efforts to implement needed management systems and processes : report to Congressional requesters /

"B-276608"--P. 1.

Illusions in advanced cancer: The effect of belief systems and attitudes on quality of life

Patients with advanced cancer frequently express positive attitudes and can be unduly optimistic about the potential benefits of treatment. In order to evaluate an illusory domain in the context of advanced cancer, we developed a scale of will to live and characterized the beliefs that patients held about the curability of their cancer, and how committed they were to using alternative treatments. A measure of quality of life was used as the dependent variable in order to assess the association between these attributes. After a preliminary exploration confirmed the presence of an illusory domain, these concepts were prospectively tested in 149 ambulant patients with advanced cancer who attended for palliative systemic treatment, radiation treatment or supportive care. The scale of global quality of life was reliable (Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.72). The distribution of the scores of will to live was skewed, with no respondent scoring poorly, and the scale was reliable (Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.82). The scale of belief in curability showed diverse beliefs. In some cases, there was a discrepancy between respondents' beliefs in curability and what they believed to be the report by their doctors. There was also an association between a committed use of alternative treatments and a belief in the curability of the cancer (p

Merging of low-mass systems and the origin of the Fundamental Plane

We present a new set of dissipationless N-body simulations to examine the feasibility of creating bright ellipticals (following the Kormendy relation, hereafter KR) by hierarchically merging present-day early-type dwarf galaxies, and to study how the encounter parameters affect the location of the end product in the (mu(e))-R-e plane. We investigate the merging of one-component galaxies of both equal and different masses, the merging of two-component galaxy models to explore the effect of dark haloes on the final galaxy characteristics, and the merging of ultracompact dwarf galaxies. We find that the increase of (mu(e)) with R-e is attributable to an increase in the initial orbital energy. The merger remnants shift down in the (mu(e))-R-e plane and fail to reach the KR. Thus, the KR is not reproducible by mergers of dwarf early-type systems, rendering untenable the theory that present-day dwarfs are responsible for even a small fraction of the present-day ellipticals, unless a considerable amount of dissipation is invoked. However, we do find that present-day dwarfs can be formed by the merger of ultracompact dwarfs.