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CRS and specialists
Most commonly, treatment involves surgery, and, as of 2011, specifically CRS, or cytoreductive surgery, with IPHC, performed by specific specialists trained in treating this disease.

CRS and may
Infection of the mother by Rubella virus during pregnancy can be serious ; if the mother is infected within the first 20 weeks of pregnancy, the child may be born with congenital rubella syndrome ( CRS ), which entails a range of serious incurable illnesses.
However, it may persist for some months post partum in infants surviving the CRS.
Other manifestations of CRS may include:
The CRS definition may be in a document ( i. e. a flat file ) or in an online web service.
The srsName URI may also be a Uniform Resource Name ( URN ) for referencing a common CRS definition.
) may mean " a CRS man ".
At the preliminary stage, members may ask CRS to provide background information and analysis on issues and events so they can better understand the existing situation and then assess whether there is a problem requiring a legislative remedy.
CRS also identifies national and international experts with whom Members and staff may consult about whatever issues concern them and sponsors programs at which Members meet with experts to discuss issues of broad interest to Congress.
If a Member decides to introduce a bill, CRS analysts can assist the legislator ( or his or her staff ) in clarifying the purposes of the bill, identifying issues it may address, defining alternative ways for dealing with them, evaluating the possible advantages and disadvantages of each alternative, developing information and arguments to support the bill, and anticipating possible criticisms of the bill and responses to them.
Although CRS does not draft bills, resolutions, and amendments, its analysts may join staff consulting with the professional draftsman within each chamber s Office of the Legislative Counsel as they translate the Member s policy decisions into formal legislative language.
CRS attorneys can help clarify legal effects the bill may have.
CRS analysts can assist in this process by providing background information and reports, presenting a preliminary briefing to Members or staff, identifying potential witnesses, and suggesting questions that Members may consider asking the witnesses.
If requested, CRS staff may attend these meetings to serve as a nonpartisan source of expert information available to all Members.
Current Members of Congress and their offices may access the CRS website ( www. crs. gov ) and CRS's Legislative Information Service ( LIS ) website ( www. congress. gov ).
CRS may refer to:
The surcharges may appear as " Relay Service and Communications Devices Fund " or " CRS " or other notations.
A difference between a tested sample and the CRS may have arisen in the lineage of the CRS or in the lineage of the tested sample.

CRS and assist
For example, CRS attempts to assess emerging issues and developing problems so that it will be prepared to assist the Congress if and when it becomes necessary.
:: During committee and floor consideration, CRS can assist Representatives and Senators in several different ways, in addition to providing background information to assist Members in understanding the issues a bill addresses.

CRS and committee
According to the CRS, " The LIS ... provides bill summary and status, full text of legislation and public laws, full text of committee reports, hearings, and other documents, and the Congressional Record for the current and earlier Congresses.
In the year 2000, there were approximately 11, 692 personal staff, 2, 492 committee staff, 274 leadership staff, 5, 034 institutional staff, and 3, 500 GAO employees, 747 CRS employees, and 232 CBO employees.
The CRS was later formed in June 1963, with the original advisory committee constituting the new society's ' steering committee ', with Karl W. Linsenmann, David A. Warriner and John N. Moore joining it at that time.

CRS and
CRS offers timely and confidential assistance to all Members and committees that request it, limited only by CRS s resources and the requirements for balance, nonpartisanship and accuracy.
CRS s success is due to a balanced, science-based, and inclusive approach.
In mammals, cyclin B1 / CDK1 translocation to the nucleus is activated by phosphorylation of five serine sites on cyclin B1 s cytoplasmic retention site ( CRS ): S116, S26, S128, S133, and S147.
This is typically one of the large Global Distribution Systems, such as Amadeus, Sabre, Worldspan or Galileo, but if the booking is made directly with an airline the PNR can also be in the database of the airline s CRS.
* Agriculture — CRS immediate goal is to improve family well-being through agro-economic development and environmental stewardship.
Included in CRS HIV / AIDS work is home-based care for individuals and families living with HIV / AIDS ; support to orphans and vulnerable children affected by AIDS ; behavior change and life skills education ; voluntary counseling and testing ; and projects that help increase beneficiaries livelihoods.
Each summer, CRS conducts training programs for its staff and overseas partners at the Mindanao Peace Institute in the Philippines and at University of Notre Dame s Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
* Operation Rice Bowl — Nearly 12 million parishioners, students and teachers participate in CRS Lenten program, which emphasizes prayer, fasting, learning and giving.
* 2011 Better Business Bureau / Wise Giving Alliance: CRS was found to meet all 20 Standards for Charity Accountability, which take into account an organization s governance, financial accountability, truthfulness and transparency.
After the liberation war of Bangladesh, Father Timm Actively took part in the newborn country s reconstruction work together with the UN, USAID, CORR ( The Christian Organization for Relief and Rehabilitation, later Caritas ) and CRS.

CRS and s
A fully populated CRS contains over 1000 linecards at 40 Gbit / s each and theoretically can scale to 92 Tbit / s bandwidth via multi-chassis configuration, although multichassis systems of such size were never delivered or shown to public.
Each airline will create their own booking record with a unique record locator, which, depending on service level agreement between the CRS and the airline ( s ) involved, will be transmitted to the CRS and stored in the booking.

CRS and staff
As a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress, CRS works primarily and directly for Members of Congress, their Committees and staff on a confidential, nonpartisan basis.
The Library of Congress, the home of CRS, had experimented during the 1940s with unrestricted publication Public Affairs Bulletins, which were produced by staff of the Legislative Reference Service, and devoted to various public policy issues.
The realignment, which has required extensive relocation of staff and the design of more efficient workstations, was intended to promote improved communication within the CRS and increase the service's ability to focus on legislative deliberations of Congress by applying its multidisciplinary expertise to public policy issues in user-friendly, accessible formats when Congress needs assistance.
CRS staff can clarify the legislative procedures of the House and Senate, assisting Members and staff in understanding the effects of these procedures and how Members can use the procedures to promote their own legislative goals.
* Support agency staff, non-partisan employees of the Congressional Research Service ( CRS ), Congressional Budget Office ( CBO ), and Government Accountability Office ( GAO ).
Soon after, the 1994 massacre in Rwanda – in which more than 800, 000 people were killed – led CRS staff to reevaluate how they implemented their relief and development programs, particularly in places experiencing or at high risk of ethnic conflict.
CRS assembled a team of regional advisors and a headquarters-based technical staff to work with partners, and peacebuilding projects were started in dozens of countries.

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