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FRANKFORT, Kentucky —Los granjeros y peones agrícolas de Kentucky cuyas herramientas o equipos fueron dañados por las tormentas severas, vientos directos, tornados, deslizamientos de tierra y de lodo ocurridos en febrero y abril pueden ser elegibles para recibir asistencia por desastre. La asistencia de la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA, por sus siglas en inglés) está disponible para remplazar herramientas esenciales, suministros, equipos y artículos necesarios para el empleo o el empleo por cuenta propia que hayan sido dañados por desastre.

Cobertura para herramientas y equipos

Las granjas familiares suelen tener un equipo variado necesario para operar. Esta maquinaria incluye, entre otros, tractores, arados, sembradoras o plantadoras, cosechadoras, rociadores, empacadoras de heno y vehículos utilitarios. Todos estos artículos son potencialmente elegibles para recibir asistencia por desastres de FEMA si el solicitante puede demostrar que fueron dañados por el desastre, el solicitante no tiene otro artículo en funcionamiento que cubra esta necesidad y la pérdida del artículo no fue cubierta por el seguro. Los cultivos y ganado no son “herramientas y equipo” ya que son el producto de una operación agrícola, mientras que las herramientas y equipo son los medios de producción.

Los trabajadores agrícolas pueden ser elegibles para recibir asistencia para remplazar herramientas y equipo dañado por desastre no cubierto por el seguro si pueden demostrar que estos artículos son un requisito

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FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky farmers and ranch hands whose tools or equipment were damaged by the February or April severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes, landslides and mudslides may be eligible for disaster assistance. FEMA assistance is available to replace disaster-damaged essential tools, supplies, equipment and items required for employment or for self-employment.

Coverage for Tools and Equipment

Family-owned farms typically have a variety of equipment needed to conduct business. These include, but are not limited to, tractors, plows, seeders or planters, harvesters, sprayers, hay balers and utility vehicles. These items are all potentially eligible for FEMA disaster assistance if the applicant can show that they were damaged by the disaster, the applicant does not have another working item that can meet this need, and the loss of the item was not covered by insurance. Crops and livestock are not “tools and equipment” because they are the products of a farming operation, whereas tools and equipment are the means of production.

Ranch hands may be eligible for assistance to replace disaster-damaged tools and equipment not covered by insurance when they can show these items are required by their employer.

Assistance is based on a need to replace disaster-damaged essential tools, supplies, equipment, items required by an employer as a condition of employment or required for education. This includes disaster-damaged tools and equipment, or other items required for

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Although a leopard cannot change its spots, new research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation uses the principles that govern patterns like leopard spots to understand biological processes at the nanoscale. The research, which combines physics, biology and theories first suggested by famed code breaker Alan Turing, increases knowledge of protein nanocluster formation and could enhance understanding of the causes of Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) and lead to possible treatments.

The project probes the formation of nanoclusters made of a protein called emerin, which plays a role in the structure and function of the membrane around a cell’s nucleus. These clusters are extremely important in mechanotransduction, the process by which cells respond to mechanical forces like stretching or pressure. When mechanotransduction fails, it can lead to diseases like EDMD and other forms of muscular dystrophy. Understanding how emerin molecules form nanoclusters will aid in deciphering how the process can be disrupted and how disruptions can lead to disease.

While the way in which proteins come together has been studied for some time, the new research uses biophysical concepts to understand the biological processes. Specifically, the researchers used rules that control the formation of patterns proposed by Turing. Turing’s work provided mathematical rules that govern the formation of nanoclusters, working at a vastly different scale than leopard spots or zebra stripes.

The research was led

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