Actually the original article in Science is
The Influence of CCL3L1 Gene-Containing Segmental Duplications on HIV-1/AIDS Susceptibility
by
Enrique Gonzalez, Hemant Kulkarni, Hector Bolivar, Andrea Mangano, Racquel Sanchez, Gabriel Catano, Robert J. Nibbs, Barry I. Freedman, Marlon P. Quinones, Michael J. Bamshad, Krishna K. Murthy, Brad H. Rovin, William Bradley, Robert A. Clark, Stephanie A. Anderson, Robert J. O'Connell, Brian K. Agan, Seema S. Ahuja, Rosa Bologna, Luisa Sen, Matthew J. Dolan and Sunil K. Ahuja
It's a gene duplication, an extra amount of gene for a potent HIV-1-suppressive chemokine.
or buy your own island from a cash-strapped island nation.
This is the way more traditional companies solve these problems. It could also help on other tax issues. Plus it might bring tourist money to the lucky country.
From the article, the report orders
the National Institutes of Health to develop a plan for electronic archiving. The institutes are to find a way to put an electronic copy of any paper resulting from NIH-funded research on PubMed Central, the free digital library maintained by the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Md.
The societies/publishers don't really have to worry if they can work out a deal where NIH pays them
the appropriate amount for their services. NIH generally pays publication costs so this
shouldn't be a big deal
The police will get a warrant with your name on it and take it to your
ISP and tell them to tap your VoIP traffic. Your ISP will recognize it the same way
your receivers client recognizes it. If it's encrypted the police
will know you are using encryption. If your worth enough to them, they'll crack it.
They've had it all along for the landlines, there's no reason to think they'd
change their mind at this juncture.
In the 60's I watched as precinct workers removed the tapes and
manually tallied the votes for each candidate. There were
representatives of each party watching and reporting back to
their area command posts.
In the 90's I was a pollworker, we
would count the punch cards to be sure it matched the number we
had issued (+/- 0.5%) and reported the discrepancy. We would
also look for write-ins. We would also instruct and sometimes
assist people to make their punches.
The touch-screen
machines are a little easier for the people, a little less time
in the booth. About 5% of the people mention they would like a
paper trail. The overwhelming majority seem to actually trust
the system. At the end of the day the technician told us the
number of votes cast and we compared that to the number of
people that signed in to vote and recorded the discrepancy. The
technician wasn't sworn in at the same time as the rest of us
but he said he worked for the police in between elections so I
guess he was ok.
There will always be errors/bugs. The
question is is there an acceptable error rate?
Is it even
possible to accurately know the error rate? What about false
registrations and denied registrations? There are lots of
people who were caught in traffic and arrived to late, should
their vote count?
The real unfairness in the process is that
someone can win by a number of votes that is less that the known
error rate, and having won by 0.01% (or perhaps lost by twice
that much depending on which ballots you allow), takes 100% of
the state's electors (who are the people who actually elect the
president).
Let the people trust the computers for elections.
They trust them to keep track of their social security, to
issue their pay checks, to fly their airplanes and even to carry
their email. It will always be you vote, we count (which is
more likely attributable to "Boss" Tweed than Joe Stalin).
If you want the election to rpresent the will of the people it
would be better to use the popular vote than the electoral vote.
The electoral college method of counting the vote introduces
much larger errors than the technology used to collect the votes.
What's new in todays article is the holographic part, to be able to have multiple tweezers. The classical optical tweezer was/is done with a lens. It turns out that an intense tightly focused light beam can hold a small bit of dielectric, a small plastic bead or a bacteria or other cell.
The neater optical tweezer work (IMHO) has been done by attaching a protein molecule to a plastic bead and measure the force generated when that molecule interacts with another molecule. One can measure the force that a single myosin molecule exerts as it pulls on an actin chain and the size of the step that it makes or the force that is exerted on a DNA molecule as it is pulled through the duplicating process.
Even "sideways" you would be going closer to the center of the earth, sliding downhill until you are halfway there, then using the kinetic energy to coast uphill the rest of the way.
The trans-planetary subway http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/exhibits/f uturistics/oddities/5.html has a description of accelerators and things to take care of the g-forces but, if they'd even read Scientific American they'd know that if you dig the tunnel in a straight line, through the planet, from Los Angeles to New York, you can get gravity to do most of the work and free fall all the way in about 45 minutes, coming to rest at the surface at the far end. You just have to worry about friction and the temperature rise.
in finding genes in microbes that are similar to human genes because it can help understand how the human protein works. It's a little like studying a volkswagen (beetle) engine or a Model T engine to learn how a lexus engine works. Sure there major differences but the older ones are easier to study and might give you a clue about the human protein.
For instance the best (=only) high resolution structures of ion channels were solved from genes found in microbes, including one from a deep sea thermal vent.
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Actually the original article in Science is The Influence of CCL3L1 Gene-Containing Segmental Duplications on HIV-1/AIDS Susceptibility
by Enrique Gonzalez, Hemant Kulkarni, Hector Bolivar, Andrea Mangano, Racquel Sanchez, Gabriel Catano, Robert J. Nibbs, Barry I. Freedman, Marlon P. Quinones, Michael J. Bamshad, Krishna K. Murthy, Brad H. Rovin, William Bradley, Robert A. Clark, Stephanie A. Anderson, Robert J. O'Connell, Brian K. Agan, Seema S. Ahuja, Rosa Bologna, Luisa Sen, Matthew J. Dolan and Sunil K. Ahuja
It's a gene duplication, an extra amount of gene for a potent HIV-1-suppressive chemokine.
There was a link in the Wired article.
or buy your own island from a cash-strapped island nation.
This is the way more traditional companies solve these problems. It could also help on other tax issues. Plus it might bring tourist money to the lucky country.
they pattern match.
No authors of hep-ex/0407057 can endorse Observation of Direct CP Violation in B0 -> K+pi- Decays
From the article, the report orders the National Institutes of Health to develop a plan for electronic archiving. The institutes are to find a way to put an electronic copy of any paper resulting from NIH-funded research on PubMed Central, the free digital library maintained by the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Md.
The societies/publishers don't really have to worry if they can work out a deal where NIH pays them the appropriate amount for their services. NIH generally pays publication costs so this shouldn't be a big deal
The police will get a warrant with your name on it and take it to your ISP and tell them to tap your VoIP traffic. Your ISP will recognize it the same way your receivers client recognizes it. If it's encrypted the police will know you are using encryption. If your worth enough to them, they'll crack it.
They've had it all along for the landlines, there's no reason to think they'd change their mind at this juncture.
There are many pages and pictures at Fairchild Tropical Garden. There is even an animated gif
It's a huge flower.
In the 90's I was a pollworker, we would count the punch cards to be sure it matched the number we had issued (+/- 0.5%) and reported the discrepancy. We would also look for write-ins. We would also instruct and sometimes assist people to make their punches.
The touch-screen machines are a little easier for the people, a little less time in the booth. About 5% of the people mention they would like a paper trail. The overwhelming majority seem to actually trust the system. At the end of the day the technician told us the number of votes cast and we compared that to the number of people that signed in to vote and recorded the discrepancy. The technician wasn't sworn in at the same time as the rest of us but he said he worked for the police in between elections so I guess he was ok.
There will always be errors/bugs. The question is is there an acceptable error rate?
Is it even possible to accurately know the error rate? What about false registrations and denied registrations? There are lots of people who were caught in traffic and arrived to late, should their vote count?
The real unfairness in the process is that someone can win by a number of votes that is less that the known error rate, and having won by 0.01% (or perhaps lost by twice that much depending on which ballots you allow), takes 100% of the state's electors (who are the people who actually elect the president).
Let the people trust the computers for elections. They trust them to keep track of their social security, to issue their pay checks, to fly their airplanes and even to carry their email. It will always be you vote, we count (which is more likely attributable to "Boss" Tweed than Joe Stalin).
If you want the election to rpresent the will of the people it would be better to use the popular vote than the electoral vote. The electoral college method of counting the vote introduces much larger errors than the technology used to collect the votes.
I think the small dots are distant stars. I suspect the glow around the earth is over-exposure. The explanatory websites are refusing connection (/.?)
The neater optical tweezer work (IMHO) has been done by attaching a protein molecule to a plastic bead and measure the force generated when that molecule interacts with another molecule. One can measure the force that a single myosin molecule exerts as it pulls on an actin chain and the size of the step that it makes or the force that is exerted on a DNA molecule as it is pulled through the duplicating process.
Even "sideways" you would be going closer to the center of the earth, sliding downhill until you are halfway there, then using the kinetic energy to coast uphill the rest of the way.
Retro-future isn't what it used to be.
The Nature reference is an editorial discussion, there is one in Science as well.
It only seems to work when you have a sid
For instance the best (=only) high resolution structures of ion channels were solved from genes found in microbes, including one from a deep sea thermal vent.
Try http://www.transparentcorp.com/products/np/index.p hp?service=google&keyword=brainwaveThe Neuro-programmer Also I believe there is a military version that allows you to aim your weapon with eye movements and fire it with the right neural activity.
It will if it is circularly polarized