assistor

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assistor

(ă-sis′tŏr)

A ventilation system in which the patient initiates inspiration.

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One provision of state election code allows voters to select an "interpreter" to help them communicate with an election officer and "accompany the voter to the voting station for the purpose of translating the ballot to the voter." A separate provision governs "assistors" and says voters can receive help reading or marking a ballot and states that assistance "occurs while the person is in the presence of the voter's ballot."

Texas appears to concede voting rights case on language interpreter law

Wait times to speak to an assistor averaged about 10 minutes, slightly longer than last year.

2011 Tax Filing: IRS Dealt with Challenges to Date but Needs Additional Authority to Verify Compliance

As evidence of the strain imposed by the mission creep, the NTA reports that taxpayers and practitioners must routinely wait an average of 10 minutes to get through to the IRS on the phone; in that process, more than 25% of those taxpayers who wish to reach a live assistor are unable to do so.

National taxpayer advocate warns of IRS mission expansion

Most notably, after answering a high of 87 percent of its calls from taxpayers seeking to reach a telephone assistor in FY 2004, the IRS answered only 53 percent of its calls in FY 2008 and has set of goal of answering only 71 percent in the current fiscal year.

National taxpayer Advocate Annual Report

Stretching By Design is a company set up by David Collins, a former builder who was diagnosed with MS 20 years ago, and engineer Ron Stephenson to develop the Leg Adductor Relaxation Assistor (LARA).

Cream of the crop; Entrepreneurs in Coventry have been leading the way in this year's Lord Stafford Awards and The Prince's Trust Awards. Business reporter JENNY WADDINGTON speaks to those who have won the accolades

Abdulla Hussain Al Sahlawi, CEO of ECSSR, briefed the audience on the achievements and future plans of the Center, in the presence of Ahmed Saif Al Baloushi, Assistor Director for Administration, Mohammed Al Ali, head of communication committee, Tareq Za'al head of finance & administration and Mohammed Sulaiman, general manager of the Director General's Office, ECSSR.

15th Anniversary Stamps on Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research presented to ECSSR Director-General

The plastic lightweight device, called Lara (leg adductor relaxation assistor), was invented by Coventry company Stretching By Design.

Theory and practice: a team of specialists are turning rough sketches of medical inventions into the real thing

Peroneus tertius, sometimes thought of as an offshoot of extensor digitorum longus, also should be considered an assistor of dorsiflexion, (27) though it is absent in (10.) 5% of individuals.

Clinical anatomy and biomechanics of the ankle in dance

In addition, its assigned training support brigade (TSB) provides a unit mobilization assistor (UMA) to work with the unit at home station.

Training the neglected core of Army Leadership--troop-leading procedures

As a result a Flexifinger pneumatic flow assistor in the tote bin and a pneumatic vibrator on the hopper are employed to promote product flow into the throat of the conveyor.

Flexicon delivers savings on Unilever's raw materials

Groundnut rosette disease results from a synergism of three agents: Groundnut rosette assistor virus (GRAV, a luteovirus), Groundnut rosette virus (GRV, an umbravirus), and a satellite RNA (sat RNA) of GRV.

Registration of ICG 12991 peanut germplasm line

A caravan awning, which can be both bulky and heavy, may be better in your car's boot, especially if your car has heavy-duty suspension or you have fitted assistor springs to cope with the extra weight.

Tow the safe line; There's much more to towing than just hitching up and taking off. RUSSELL BRAY explains