Researcher Susan Keay ( University of Maryland ) has found an unusual protein in the urine of IC patients which appears to interfere with healing, known as an Antiproliferative Factor.

Perhaps the best-known study of clairvoyance in recent times has been the US government-funded remote viewing project at SRI / SAIC during the 1970s through the mid-1990s ; at least those studies amongst these that did not involve " agents " visiting or being otherwise aware of the target sites.

Thickening agents such as Styrofoam, baking soda, tar, strips of tyre tubing, blood, XPS foam, egg whites, motor oil, rubber cement, and dish soap have been added to help the burning liquid adhere to the target and create clouds of thick, choking smoke.

Because it is a biological scavenger ( and universal target ) it is currently the only therapeutic agent effective in providing complete stoichiometric protection against the entire spectrum of organo-phosphorus nerve agents.

Israel attempted to assassinate Arafat on a number of occasions, but has never used its own agents, preferring instead to " turn " Palestinians close to the intended target, usually using blackmail.

Because the raids targeted entire organizations, agents arrested everyone found in organization meeting halls, not only arresting non-radical organization members but also visitors who did not belong to a target organization, and sometimes American citizens not eligible for arrest and deportation.

He called the Chicago police who dutifully responded and had to be waved off by the federal agents, who told them that they were on a stakeout for an important target.

For instance, health education programs focused on cystic echinococcosis and its agents, and improved water sanitation attempt to target poor education and poor drinking water sources, which are both risk factors for contracting echinococcosis.

Charles VI's friend and advisor, Olivier de Clisson, had recently been the target of an assassination attempt by agents of John V, Duke of Brittany ; the would-be assassin, Pierre de Craon, had taken refuge in Brittany.

The potential for using BBB opening to target specific agents to brain tumors has just begun to be explored.

Its central role in DNA precursor synthesis, coupled with its inhibition by antagonists such as trimethoprim and methotrexate, which are used as anti-bacterial or anti-cancer agents, has made DHFR a target of anticancer chemotherapy.

The Israeli agents had mistaken their target for Ali Hassan Salameh, the chief of operations for Black September.

Others are more rarely used to release chemical or biological agents either on impact or when over the target area ; designing an appropriate fuse is a difficult task which lies outside the realm of terminal ballistics.

The parties most concerned with the grey market are usually the authorized agents or importers, or the retailers of the item in the target market.

Treatments include ( 1 ) agents that increase the amount of insulin secreted by the pancreas, ( 2 ) agents that increase the sensitivity of target organs to insulin, and ( 3 ) agents that decrease the rate at which glucose is absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract.

The agents were misled into believing the next CTX target was at the airport, while Yu realizes the ticket held by his dead partner means the bomb is actually at the stadium.

Double agentry may be practiced by spies of the target organization who infiltrate the controlling organization, or may result from the turning ( switching sides ) of previously loyal agents of the controlling organization by the target ; the threat of execution is the most common method of turning a captured agent ( working for an intelligence service ) into a double agent ( working for a foreign intelligence service ) or a double agent into a re-doubled agent.

It is reported by Time Magazine, in 1991, DEA and U. S. Customs Service ( now ICE ) agents were monitoring a shipment being offloaded in Miami, only to find out later that the DEA agents were the target of Cali surveillance at the same time.

By contrast, most espionage agents, such as CIA Director of Counterintelligence Aldrich Ames and FBI agent Robert Hanssen who spied on the US government for the KGB, are either recruited or offer their services as spies after they are in place as members of the target organization.

The most common procedure used by intelligence services to recruit agents is to find the location within the foreign government or organization of the information they want ( the target ), find out which people have access to it, and attempt to recruit one of them as a spy ( agent ) to obtain the information.

For these reasons, some intelligence services have tried to reverse the above process, and recruit potential agents first, and have them conceal their allegiance, and pursue careers in the target government agency in hopes that they can reach positions of access to desired information.

Our state has been overrun with a gang of paid agents and retainers.

Whenever the Secretary of the Treasury, or the Comptroller General of the United States, as the case may be, shall find that any person is entitled to any such payment, after such payment shall have been received by such person, it shall be an absolute bar to recovery by any other person against the United States, its officers, agents, or employees with respect to such payment.

Look at Castro now -- cockier than ever with arms and agents to threaten the Americas.

This, of course, does not eliminate from consideration for this purpose agents that are associated naturally with epidemic disease.

The major defensive problems are concerned with the possibility of overt military delivery of biological agents from appropriate disseminating devices.

Although we are still far from a complete understanding of these problems, as a first approximation, it is suggested that alterations in the hypothalamic balance with consequent changes in the hypothalamic-cortical discharges account for major changes in behavior seen in various moods and states of emotions in man and beast under physiological circumstances, in experimental and clinical neurosis, and as the result of psychopharmacological agents.

What I find appalling -- and really dangerous -- is the American assumption that the Negro is so contented with his lot here that only the cynical agents of a foreign power can rouse him to protest.

Some may suggest that it is probably advisable to use mouthwash at least an hour after brushing with toothpaste when the toothpaste contains sodium lauryl sulfate, since the anionic compounds in the SLS toothpaste can deactivate cationic agents present in the mouthrinse.

Therefore, it is morally imperative to treat these agents with respect.

The term is often used synonymously with the term antibiotic ( s ); today, however, with increased knowledge of the causative agents of various infectious diseases, antibiotic ( s ) has come to denote a broader range of antimicrobial compounds, including anti-fungal and other compounds.

Heavy disputes between Hekmatyar and Massoud in 1975 reached to such a point that Hekmatyar with the help of two Pakistani agents tried to assassinate Massoud, then 22 years old.

Alkenes are oxidized with a large number of oxidizing agents.

Lamarr is furious that his plans keep failing and decides to destroy Rock Ridge with a newly recruited and diverse army of thugs ( which Lamarr characterized as ideally consisting of " rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperadoes, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, half-wits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswagglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass kickers, shit kickers – and Methodists ").

However, Holden-recovering from his injuries during the fight-later finds the truth: Rachael has been killed by Tyrell agents, and the " Rachael " who escaped with Deckard was actually Sarah.

Biological warfare ( also known as germ warfare ) is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi with intent to kill or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war.

In the First World War, German agents were arrested attempting to inoculate draft animals with anthrax, and they were believed to be responsible for outbreaks of glanders in horses and mules.

Methods for predicting the use of biological agents in urban areas as well as assessing the area for the hazards associated with a biological attack are being established in major cities.

In 1805 President Thomas Jefferson considered possessing Cuba for strategic reasons, sending secret agents to the island to negotiate with Governor Someruelos.

For this reason, some theorists have argued that consequentialist theories can only require agents to choose the best action in line with what they know about the situation.

Illegal and punishable crime is the violation of any rule of administrative, fiscal or criminal liability on the part of agents of the state or practice of any wrongdoing and notoriously harmful to self or against third parties, provided for in criminal law, since they practiced with guilt ( the first act that causes injury criminal actions or omissions to produce adequate evidence also illegal ).

Thus the necessary and sufficient conditions for the truth of a proposition of law simply involved internal logic and consistency, and that the state's agents used state power with responsibility.

More than a fighting style, it was created as a hope of survival, a tool with which an escaped slave, completely unequipped, could survive in the hostile, unknown land and face the hunt of the capitães-do-mato, colonial agents armed and mounted in charge of finding escapees.

Elements with low electronegativity, such as most metals, easily donate electrons and oxidize – they are reducing agents.