There are outbreaks of Oropouche in Espírito Santo, Brazil, and Darién Province, Panama. Oropouche is spread primarily through the bites of infected midges (small flies) and mosquitoes. Country List : Brazil, Panama
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A Canadian startup called Xanadu has built a new quantum computer it says can be easily scaled up to achieve the computational power needed to tackle scientific challenges ranging from drug discovery to more energy-efficient machine learning.
Aurora is a “photonic” quantum computer, which means it crunches numbers using photonic qubits—information encoded in light. In practice, this means combining and recombining laser beams on multiple chips using lenses, fibers, and other optics according to an algorithm. Xanadu’s computer is designed in such a way that the answer to an algorithm it executes corresponds to the final number of photons in each laser beam. This approach differs from one used by Google and IBM, which involves encoding information in properties of superconducting circuits.
Aurora has a modular design that consists of four similar units, each installed in a standard server rack that is slightly taller
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This Notice provides information regarding the salary limitation for AHRQ grant and cooperative agreement awards and extramural research and development contract awards.
Since 1990, Congress has legislatively mandated a limitation on direct salary for individuals under AHRQ grant and cooperative agreement awards (referred to here as a grant) and contract awards. The mandate appears in the annual appropriation act that provides authority for AHRQ to incur obligations for a given Fiscal Year (FY). At this time, AHRQ has not received an FY 2025 appropriation and is operating under a Continuing Resolution, the “Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (Public Law 118-83), that applies the terms and conditions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 restricts the amount of direct salary to Executive Level II of the Federal Executive pay scale. The Office of Personnel Management recently released new salary levels for the
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