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from biotechnology to genomes the meaning of the double helix - philippe goujon

from biotechnology to genomes the meaning of the double helix - philippe goujon

... Introduction: The Essence of Life and the Labyrinth of the Genome The Invention of Biotechnology 1.1 The Origins of Biotechnology 1.2 The Emergence of a New Concept of Life 1.3 From Zymotechnology to Biotechnology ... testifled to the vision of a science of the artificial l This tranhmihsion of the intenial movement of decomposition inside matter is at the heart of Liebig’s theory IL denieh any essential role to the ... vision of life The metaphor of the machine was being used a lot by the organic philosophers of the time, but they felt the machine was the symbol of a system greater than the sum of its parts,...

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From certainty to uncertainty the story of science and ideas in the 20th century

From certainty to uncertainty the story of science and ideas in the 20th century

... the ball forward But because the system is too complex to take into account all the factors involved— the speed of the ball, the speed of the wheel, the precise angle at which the ball hits the ... matter how the earth moves with respect to the background of distant stars, the speed of light remains the same This mystery of the speed of light and the existence, or nonexistence, of the ether was ... catalogs of books Many of these catalogs contain references to their own titles, as well as to those of other books But some of these catalogs not refer to themselves The librarian decides to make...

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from cosmos to chaos the science of unpredictability aug 2006

from cosmos to chaos the science of unpredictability aug 2006

... difficult to get the hang of it The difficulty stems not from there being lots of complicated rules to learn, but from the fact that there are so few In the field of probability it is not possible to ... probability theory to astronomy It had been known for centuries that the orbits of the planets are confined to the same part in the sky as seen from Earth, a 42 From Cosmos to Chaos narrow band called the ... 0.50 The last two columns show the contributions of each arrangement to the probability of success of either playing for the drop or the finesse The drop is slightly more likely to work than the...

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Praise for Marketing Insights from A to Z“The bagwan of Marketing strikes again pptx

Praise for Marketing Insights from A to Z“The bagwan of Marketing strikes again pptx

... “Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make Marketing is the art of creating genuine customer value It is the art of helping your customers become better off The marketer’s ... 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright ... people to the job Marketing begins with top management If top management is not convinced of the need to be customer minded, how can the marketing idea be accepted and implemented by the rest of the...

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Praise for Marketing Insights from A to Z The bagwan of Marketing strikes again. pptx

Praise for Marketing Insights from A to Z The bagwan of Marketing strikes again. pptx

... “Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make Marketing is the art of creating genuine customer value It is the art of helping your customers become better off The marketer’s ... 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright ... people to the job Marketing begins with top management If top management is not convinced of the need to be customer minded, how can the marketing idea be accepted and implemented by the rest of the...

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From silver to gold the implications of japans ageing population

From silver to gold the implications of japans ageing population

... It also aims to improve the quality of life of the elderly by offering them the chance to remain active, including the chance to work Remodeling society to incorporate the needs of the elderly ... using technology to meet the needs and wants of the target market 16 The significance of this is keyed to the expected rise in the number of single elderly households in Japan (see The agenda of ... significant that the government has made the decision to turn these sectors into growth-driving industries Talking about the way to secure efficiency in the system, the quality of the workforce...

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Tài liệu Banks’ exposure to interest rate risk, their earnings from term transformation, and the dynamics of the term structure pptx

Tài liệu Banks’ exposure to interest rate risk, their earnings from term transformation, and the dynamics of the term structure pptx

... contribution of the systematic factor and the regulation to the total timely variation of the exposure is 17.24% and, therefore, 82.76% of the variation is due to idiosyncratic effects These effects ... however the explanatory power, measured by the R2 , is relatively low (4.08% compared to the R2 of the corresponding within- regression of 30.48%), for the other banking groups (apart from the regression ... due to changes in the systematic component of the exposure to interest rate risk μ(t) or whether the composition of banks in the sample (α(t) − α(t − 1)) has changed, or whether changes in the...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Structure of coenzyme F420H2 oxidase (FprA), a di-iron flavoprotein from methanogenic Archaea catalyzing the reduction of O2 to H2O ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: Structure of coenzyme F420H2 oxidase (FprA), a di-iron flavoprotein from methanogenic Archaea catalyzing the reduction of O2 to H2O ppt

... one iron to be more loosely bound to the enzyme than the other [34] The low occupancy of the proximal iron leads to an increase of the temperature factor of its surroundings but not to a significant ... points to the di-iron center The iron closer to FMN is, in the following, referred to as proximal iron, and the other as distal iron The distance between N5 ˚ of FMN and the proximal Fe of about ... between the isoalloxazine ring of FMN and the segment between His151 and Pro153 of the switch loop, whereby the imidazole group of His151 interacts with the bottom of F420H2 and the side chain of...

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Cancer Research UK’s strategy 2009–2014: Cancer Research UK’s aim is to reduce the number of deaths from cancer. Our future plans are ambitious, but they are in line with the challenge and the responsibility we face. docx

Cancer Research UK’s strategy 2009–2014: Cancer Research UK’s aim is to reduce the number of deaths from cancer. Our future plans are ambitious, but they are in line with the challenge and the responsibility we face. docx

... thousands of new cases of the disease, both in the UK and across the world Cancer Research UK has been at the heart of this progress thanks to the sustained support and generosity of the UK public The ... goals that, together with our partners, we aim to accomplish by the year 2020: • People will know how to reduce their risk of cancer Three-quarters of the UK public will be aware of the main lifestyle ... in the 1970s Our work has been at the heart of this progress and has saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the UK and many millions more around the world • We were the first to...

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from bulk to nano. the many sides of magnetism, 2008, p.188

from bulk to nano. the many sides of magnetism, 2008, p.188

... between the direction of the magnetic field H and the direction of the magnetization M of the bar magnet [11] The product pl is the magnetization M of the bar [13] The work done by the torque gives ... Nevertheless, the Land´ g-factor results from the calculation of the first-order e perturbation of the energy of an atom when a weak external magnetic field acts on the sample [15,16] Normally, the ... Magnetic Moment of a Sample of N Atoms In a simple paramagnet, the atoms not interact with each other, and the ˆ only contributions to the Hamiltonian H come from their interaction with the applied...

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From Conflict to Peacebuilding The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment pdf

From Conflict to Peacebuilding The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment pdf

... as part of the United Nations humanitarian assistance and part of the reconstruction efforts to countries and regions […] Requests the Executive Director to further strengthen the ability of the ... presence in the field, with the consent of the parties, to implement or monitor arrangements relating to the control of conflicts (cease-fires, separation of forces), and their resolution (partial ... for the provision of these certificates, thus enabling their enemy to raise the funds to pursue their war effort.38 In the 1995 dry season, overland exports of timber from Khmer Rouge-held territory...

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State-of-the-Art Antenna Technology: The 2008 Antenna Applications SymposiumFrom docx

State-of-the-Art Antenna Technology: The 2008 Antenna Applications SymposiumFrom docx

... support to attend the symposium and present their work The winning paper is selected by a panel of judges, based on the technical merit of the fulllength conference paper and the quality of the student’s ... for such a high-profile, hightechnology product The talk included a number of photos as well as interesting and often humorous anecdotes about the development team, the other technology innovations ... Prof Dan Schaubert, Matthew J Radway from the University of Colorado, supervised by Prof Dejan Filipovic, and Jacob Adams from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, supervised by Prof...

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báo cáo khoa học: "Applying mass spectrometry based proteomic technology to advance the understanding of multiple myeloma" ppt

báo cáo khoa học: "Applying mass spectrometry based proteomic technology to advance the understanding of multiple myeloma" ppt

... all cases of MM arise from MGUS [55] On the other hand, the majority of MGUS cases will not develop into MM Although the status of M-protein may offer insight into the development of MM, it is ... peptides leading to ejection of charged peptides into the gas phase (B) Mass analyzers The quadrupole uses both AC and DC current to affect the trajectory of incoming charged particles The first quadrupole ... refractory MM [78] In order to determine the mechanisms of ATO activity, Ge et al used 2D gel electrophoresis coupled with MALDI TOF/TOF analysis to evaluate proteins altered following ATO activity...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:21

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Combining information from surveys of several species to estimate the probability of freedom from Echinococcus multilocularis in Sweden, Finland and mainland Norway" docx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Combining information from surveys of several species to estimate the probability of freedom from Echinococcus multilocularis in Sweden, Finland and mainland Norway" docx

... dogs entering the country was assumed to be proportional to the total number of dogs in each country Therefore, the risk of introduction of EM by dogs was assumed to be 50% and 75% of the Swedish ... SasSeSp,t,y is the probability of not detecting EM in the sample s of animals of species Sp tested with test t in year y Page of 13 Calculation of the probability of freedom from EM in the country The probability ... scenarios to evaluate the effect of changes in the input variables on the probability of freedom: i) The prior probability of infection was decreased from 0.5 to 0.2 to include prior knowledge of absence...

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Báo cáo y học: " A method to estimate the efficiency of gene expression from an integrated retroviral vector" potx

Báo cáo y học: " A method to estimate the efficiency of gene expression from an integrated retroviral vector" potx

... cells resistant the calculation An example ofto puromycin to estimate the proportion of An example of the calculation to estimate the proportion of cells resistant to puromycin Data from table was ... obtained by dilution of plasmids to the limit of detection (figure 2b) One could expect that, if the limiting factor of detection is the sensitivity of the PCR, the frequency of positive signals ... the proportion of populations that were resistant to puromycin Theoretically, after T days of culture in the presence of puromycin, the number of cells in the culture NT, the initial number of...

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Báo cáo y học: "The burden of sepsis-associated mortality in the United States from 1999 to 2005: an analysis of multiple-cause-of-death data" pptx

Báo cáo y học: "The burden of sepsis-associated mortality in the United States from 1999 to 2005: an analysis of multiple-cause-of-death data" pptx

... (0.8 to 0.9) 0.9 (0.8 to 0.9) 15 to 24 1.8 (1.8 to 1.9) 2.0 (1.9 to 2.1) 1.9 (1.9 to 2.0) 25 to 34 4.1 (4.0 to 4.2) 4.7 (4.6 to 4.8) 4.4 (4.3 to 4.5) 35 to 44 10.1 (9.9 to 10.2) 12.8 (12.6 to 13.0) ... are also grateful to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and to the Department of Preventive Medicine of the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine for financial ... (52.6 to 56.6) 58.2 (55.8 to 60.7) 56.2 (54.7 to 57.7) >1 18.7 (18.0 to 19.5) 22.7 (22.0 to 23.5) 20.8 (20.24 to 21.3) to 1.9 (1.8 to 2.1) 2.3 (2.2 to 2.5) 2.1 (2.0 to 2.2) to 14 0.8 (0.9 to 0.9)...

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palley - from financial crisis to stagnation; the destruction of shared prosperity and the role of economics (2012)

palley - from financial crisis to stagnation; the destruction of shared prosperity and the role of economics (2012)

... may be to American capitalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was to the Soviet system In hindsight, it may mark the end of the era of unbound neoliberalism that is behind the tragedy of the Great ... as happened in the 1930s and is happening again Core Thesis The core thesis of the book is that the roots of the financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession can be traced to a faulty U.S ... central parts of the story, but they are not the ultimate cause of the crisis Financial developments contributed significantly to the housing bubble and the subsequent crash However, they served...

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