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In the News (Mon 16 Nov 09)

  
  MNT News: Colorado's Multi-Use Network (MNT)
Colorado's MNT is a public/private partnership to build a high-speed fiber-optic network for the State of Colorado.
MNT is bridging the Digital-Divide, promoting economic development, providing a strong backbone for e-government and providing the infrastructure to aggregate to reduce costs.
MNT also allows for the elimination of backhaul charges in many areas throughout the state of Colorado, which is a key benefit of this new telecommunications model.
www.imakenews.com /mnt/e_article000049971.cfm   (287 words)

  
 Part B Medicare Benefits for MNT - DSMT/MNT FAQs - American Diabetes Association
Both the MNT final rule and the NCD must be read together to understand the legal requirements of the new MNT benefit.
MNT is described in the NCD as a more intensive nutritional counseling and therapy regimen that relies heavily on follow-up and feedback to the beneficiary to change their behavior over a period of time.
MNT services and the nutrition component of a DSMT program remain distinct services even when a single registered dietitian provides both the MNT services and the nutrition component of a DSMT program.
www.diabetes.org /for-health-professionals-and-scientists/recognition/dsmt-mntfaqs.jsp   (2036 words)

  
 Interactive Fly, Drosophila
Mnt is one of 20 genes deleted in a heterozygous fashion in Miller-Dieker syndrome (MDS), a contiguous gene syndrome that consists of severe neuronal migration defects and craniofacial dysmorphic features.
Mnt is expressed both in growth-arrested and proliferating mouse fibroblasts and is phosphorylated when resting cells are induced to re-enter the cell cycle.
Mnt overexpression suppresses cell cycle entry and cell proliferation, suggesting that the ratio of Mnt-Max to c-Myc-Max is critical for cell cycle entry.
www.sdbonline.org /fly/newgene/mnt2.htm   (4650 words)

  
 Molecular nanotechnology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Formulating a roadmap for the development of MNT is now an objective of a broadly based technology roadmap project led by Battelle (the manager of several U.S. National Laboratories) and the Foresight Institute.
MNT nanofacturing is popularly linked with the idea of swarms of coordinated nanoscale robots working together, as proposed by Drexler in his 1986 popular discussions of the subject.
If MNT were realized, some resources would remain limited, because unique physical objects are limited (a plot of land in the real Jerusalem, mining rights to the larger near-earth asteroids) or because they depend on the goodwill of a particular person (the love of a famous person, a painting from a famous artist).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Molecular_nanotechnology   (2655 words)

  
 MNT Systems, Inc. - Terms of Usage
Elements of MNT Systems Web sites are protected by trade dress, trademark, unfair competition, and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part.
MNT Systems does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to MNT Systems (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Services or its associated services for review by the general public, or by the members of any public or private community, (each a "Submission" and collectively "Submissions").
MNT Systems is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and MNT Systems may remove any Submission at any time in its sole discretion.
www.mntcorp.com /Home/TermsofUsage   (1463 words)

  
 Part B Medicare Benefits for MNT - FAQs - American Diabetes Association
MNT services are defined in statute as "nutritional diagnostic, therapy, and counseling services for the purpose of disease management which are furnished by a registered dietitian or nutrition professional...pursuant to a referral by a physician..." (2)
The eligibility criteria for Part B Medicare beneficiaries to receive MNT are for diabetes: 1) must be diagnosed with type 1, type 2 or gestational diabetes (defined in diagnostic criteria for diabetes is a fasting glucose = 126 mg/dl)(1); 2) must be referred for MNT by their treating physician.
For group MNT, using the 2002 CMS conversion factor and including the 20% patient co-pay, this translates to about $5.53 per patient for each 30 minutes (or $11.08 for 60 minutes per patient).
www.diabetes.org /for-health-professionals-and-scientists/recognition/mnt-faqs.jsp   (2474 words)

  
 MyNew Technologies: MNT - Information Technology Network / MyNewTechnologies Computer Consultancy
MNT strives to give clients more than their moneys worth.
MNT realizes that when it comes to using a network consulting firm that one size does not fit all.
MNT will analyze your business single-user or multi-user needs and will recommend solutions ranging from a single PC or notebook to local area and wide area networks.
mynewtechnologies.com   (1130 words)

  
 General Comparisons of DSMT Benefits and MNT Medicare Benefits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
From this comparison, CMS determined the MNT assessment is more in-depth, the MNT benefit allows the provider to relate the individual meal plan to management of the disease process, and the MNT protocols require specific follow-up guidance with previously set nutrition goals as well as feedback.
For MNT the registered dietitian or nutrition professional must be enrolled as the Medicare provider and bill the carrier directly for MNT services, or reassign to his/her employer.
Additional hours of MNT services may be covered beyond the number of hours typically covered under an episode of care when the treating physician determines there is a change of diagnosis or medical condition within such episode of care that makes a change in diet necessary.
www.eatright.org /cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/nutrition_1141_ENU_HTML.htm   (1512 words)

  
 UNICEF - Immunization plus - Eliminating MNT
Maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) is a swift and painful killer that killed 200,000 newborns and 3“Those affected by tetanus are often populations in remote places in the poorest countries.
At the time of the World Health Assembly in 1989, when the goal of eliminating MNT was called for, 104 of 161 developing countries had eliminated MNT as a major public health problem.
In 1999, the goal to eliminate MNT was reinvigorated and the target date of elimination in the remaining 57 countries was set for 2005.
www.unicef.org /immunization/index_MNT.html   (939 words)

  
 MNT
Yes, MNT requires a doctor referral in order to provide specialized dietary prescriptions based on an individual's medical and nutrition history.
MNT services are covered by Medicare and Medicaid and may be covered by your private health insurance plan.
MNT can help you maximize the effectiveness of medical and drug therapies, while preventing specific nutrient deficiencies and minimizing drug side-effects.
www.mntofga.com /mnt.htm   (557 words)

  
 MNT News: The MNT Current Status Report/Update
MNT is set-up so that the project is conducted in three one-year phases in which 70 Aggregated Network Access Points (ANAP) will be implemented across the State.
MNT is currently six months ahead of schedule with 48 of the 70 ANAPs and Super ANAPs now available.
Contract arrangements between the MNT and the Department of Higher Education have been finalized to provide the MNT with transport to the Internet on the Front Range GigaPop.
www.imakenews.com /mnt/e_article000049975.cfm   (360 words)

  
 MNT CONSULTING. Company Profile.
MNT consulting is an international Project Management and Consultancy company.
MNT has established long term partnerships with many companies and organisations around the world.
MNT maintains a comprehensive database of experts and consultants within the region, and links with local universities and research establishments, thus enabling MNT to successfully tackle almost any project in the transition economies and abroad.
www.mnt.kg /profile.php   (162 words)

  
 Mnt
However, because these studies of Mnt have been carried out in settings where wild-type Mad1 to Mad4 proteins are expressed, it is difficult to sort out the extent and consequences of the overlapping functions of these proteins (Loo, 2005 and references therein).
Sequence comparisons indicate that the predicted protein sequence of SID for dMnt is 56% identical to the SID domains of mouse Mad1 and Mnt, and the bHLHZ domain is 55% and 33% identical to the bHLHZ domains of mouse Mnt and Mad1, respectively.
The SID and bHLHZ domains of Mnt proteins are approximately 200 aa apart, whereas the Mad proteins have an average of 30 aa that separate these two domains.
www.sdbonline.org /fly/newgene/mnt1.htm   (2437 words)

  
 MNT Reimbursement Politics as usual - Newsletter - Pennsylvania Dietetic Association
However, at best, any expansion of MNT would not be effective until 2007 or 2008.
As a result, ADA has had to draft and re-draft several proposals to expand the MNT benefit in order to overcome some budgetary obstacles.
ADA drafted and recommended a demonstration program that would allow Medicare to expand MNT services in certain sites and for certain conditions to determine its effectiveness on reducing health care costs, improving quality of life and overall health status.
www.eatrightpa.org /newsletter/ActionforHealthyKids.htm   (633 words)

  
 FAQs on Coordination of the Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) and Diabetes Self-Management Training (DSMT) Part B ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Both the MNT final rule and the NCD must be read together to understand the legal requirements of the MNT benefit.
MNT services are defined in the MNT statute as “nutritional diagnostic, therapy, and counseling services for the purpose of disease management which are furnished by a registered dietitian or nutrition professional…pursuant to a referral by a physician…”
A: MNT claims must be billed using the CMS1500 form or its electronic equivalent form, unless a hospital outpatient facility does not have systems in place to bill on the CMS1500 form.
www.eatright.org /cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/nutrition_1941_ENU_HTML.htm   (2031 words)

  
 MNT | MyNewTechnologies - Internet Technology Resource   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
MNT clients benefit from our service and support systems which make technology operations efficient and cost effective.
All this is accomplished by a hacker who could be thousands of miles away or a disgruntled ex-employee with access to the network from their house.
Let MNT implement the correct security system to protect your computing environment from being invaded by malicious intruders.
mnt.cc   (1799 words)

  
 Foresight Guidelines on Molecular Nanotechnology
Adding particular weapons related applications of MNT to the list of technologies covered in Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Weapons treaties may be appropriate in certain cases.
Incentives are in place to encourage industry, government, and NGO developers to collaborate on continuous improvement and use of best practices in nanotechnology and risk management, including the theory, mechanisms, and experimental designs for increasingly safe manufacturing, as well as effective monitoring and control systems.
The long-term goal was to eventually produce a dialog and set of Guidelines that would be useful to policy makers, the public, and the MNT research and development community.
www.foresight.org /guidelines/current.html   (6862 words)

  
 Micro & Nano Technology (MNT) Measurement Club
The MNT Measurement Club focuses on metrology and related issues such as national and international standards and regulations.
To ensure maximum relevance, the MNT Measurement Club will consult widely with representatives from industry, academia and government to identify the metrology barriers to innovation in micro and nano technology and develop collaborative programmes of work to solve these.
The MNT Measurement Club will be of particular value to scientists, engineers and managers involved in micro/nano research or applications across a wide range of industry sectors and technical disciplines.
www.npl.co.uk /mnt   (540 words)

  
 American Association of Diabetes Educators - Anonymous
Effective October 1, 2002, Medicare will cover DSMT (Diabetes Self-Management Training) and MNT in initial and subsequent years without decreasing either benefit as long as DSMT and MNT are not provided on the same date of service.
Until October, the provisions of the final regulation are in effect regarding coordination of MNT and DSMT.
Only the client may be billed for MNT that is not currently covered under Medicare Part B. If client has secondary insurance, he/she may submit claim to insurance; plan may/may not cover the MNT.
members.aadenet.org /scriptcontent/MNTQuickGuide.cfm   (1203 words)

  
 Clinical Reengineering: Policy for Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) in Direct Care Clinical Practice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
MNT is the assessment of patient nutritional status followed by therapy ranging from diet modification and counseling to administration of specialized nutrition therapies such as enteral/ parenteral feedings.
In the direct care system, MNT is available when referred to Registered Dietitians or authorized enlisted staff with specialized training in diet therapy.
The benefit of including MNT is lowered morbidity, prevention of inpatient episodes, and progress towards optimal health outcomes.
www.tricare.osd.mil /policy/fy97/mnt9755.html   (257 words)

  
 About MNT ERA-Net — MNT Eranet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
MNT ERA-Net is a network of European Micro- and Nanotechnology (MNT) support programmes.
MNT ERA-Net started in January 2004 with a core group of 8 European programmes.
MNT ERA-Net has the potential to support the implementation of European MNT strategies by complementing initiatives such as FP7.
www.mnt-era.net /home.html   (221 words)

  
 Mnt Loss Triggers Myc Transcription Targets, Proliferation, Apoptosis, and Transformation -- Nilsson et al. 24 (4): ...
Mnt repression of Odc is relieved by c-Myc.
Knockdown of Mnt was associated with an increase in p53 levels in all fibroblasts and with the induction of Arf in MEFs.
The loss of Mnt was also associated with the activation of caspase-9, since larger (inactive) proenzyme form of caspase-9 was lost in MntRNAi-expressing fibroblasts.
mcb.asm.org /cgi/content/full/24/4/1560   (4661 words)

  
 Info :: MNT Assistant
MNT Patient Profile Reports may be printed after entering the data from the MNT Patient Profile questionnaires.
The MNT session notes include the session time, all your charting notes, client goals, your nutrition prescription, and other information such as a list of the materials distributed or what’s expected for the next session.
The MNT Assistant provides you with a set of commonly used interventions and objectives including those found in the ADA evidence based guides for practice.
www.mntassistant.com /info.php   (1678 words)

  
 MNT Systems, Inc. - Leadership
He holds several professional certifications and is a member of CM pros, a professional organization whose focus is to seek to improve content management practices, and the American Marketing Association, Houston chapter.
Prior to co-founding MNT Systems in 2003, Mike was the initiating co-founder of Tenaid Technologies in 1997.
The MNT System's Director of Professional Services is responsible for consulting account management, internal professional development, staffing decisions, and execution of strategies for professional services.
www.mntcorp.com /Home/AboutUs/Leadership   (235 words)

  
 The MNT Network
Hugh is passionate about the importance of Microsystems and Nanotechnology (MNT) to the future of UK industry, and UK society at large, and has played a leading role in helping to raise awareness of the technology.
The MNT Bulletin is free of charge and provides an archive of the articles from the e-News Bulletin as provided by members of the Network.
Allowing members to get across to the community their news and views on what is happening in their organisations and in the broader MNT field.
www.mntnetwork.com   (531 words)

  
 Mnt-Deficient Mammary Glands Exhibit Impaired Involution and Tumors with Characteristics of Myc Overexpression -- ...
MNT maps to human chromosome 17p13.3, a region frequently deleted
in the absence of Mnt is analogous to that caused by Myc deregulation.
Mnt Is a Tumor Suppressor in Mammary Gland
cancerres.aacrjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/66/11/5565   (405 words)

  
 Mnt-Max to Myc-Max complex switching regulates cell cycle entry -- Walker et al. 169 (3): 405 -- The Journal of Cell ...
Mnt and c-Myc fluctuated as a function of c-Myc levels (Fig.
Mnt was immunoprecipitated under high stringency conditions (representing total Mnt) or from low stringency Max immunoprecipitated material at 0, 1, 2, and 4 h, as indicated, during the chase period.
RNA from wild-type and Mnt null primary MEFs was harvested at the indicated times after serum stimulation and quantitative real-time RT-PCR assays performed in triplicate for the indicated genes.
www.jcb.org /cgi/content/full/169/3/405   (5705 words)

  
 American Association of Diabetes Educators - Anonymous
The NCD states that qualifying registered dietitians or nutrition professionals may choose how many units are performed per day as long as all of the other requirements in the NCD and the MNT final rule(1, 2).
The statute states that a ‘certified provider’ is a physician or other individual [ie RD] designated by the Secretary that, in addition to providing diabetes self-management services, provides other items for which payment may be made under title XVII [ie MNT] such as medical services or durable medical equipment, and meets certain quality standards.
MNT may only be ordered by a physician and the physician must be the "treating physician." Meaning "the primary care physician or specialists coordinating care for the beneficiary with diabetes or renal disease." (2) DSMT may be ordered by either a physician or a qualified non-physician practitioner, such as a nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant.
members.aadenet.org /scriptcontent/MNTFAQonCoordination.cfm   (1793 words)

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