Following Overbeek's suggestion, we have studied in detail the influence of retardation on the mutual attraction of two neutral atoms. As is well known, the usual expression for the London force ...

An adult with mental retardation who commits a murder should be held legally accountable (assuming the retardation is not so profound as to render him or her incompetent to stand trial).

This book reviews theoretical and empirical work in the developmental approach to mental retardation. Armed with methods derived from the study of typically developing children, developmentalists have ...

Waveplates and retardation plates are optical elements with two principal axes, one slow and one fast, that resolve an incident polarized beam into two mutually perpendicular polarized beams. Their ...

Learn why the R-word, R-worded, or any form of the phrase "mental retardation" is no longer an acceptable way to describe ...

These retardation plates use high optical damage threshold crystal quartz. They are orientated with the optic axis in the plane of the plate and light polarized at 45 ...

Background: Although athletes with mental retardation (MR) have achieved an important role, literature concerning the evaluation tests in basketball is still poor. Objective: To assess basketball ...