• Adaptive Properties of the Genetically Encoded Amino Acid Alphabet Are Inherited from Its Subsets 

  Ilardo, Melissa; Bose, Rudrarup; Meringer, Markus; Rasulev, Bakhtiyor; Grefenstette, Natalie; Stephenson, James; Freeland, Stephen; Gillams, Richard J.; Butch, Christopher J.; Cleaves II, James (natureresearch, 2019-08-28)

  Life uses a common set of 20 coded amino acids (CAAs) to construct proteins. This set was likely canonicalized during early evolution; before this, smaller amino acid sets were gradually expanded as new synthetic, proofreading ...

•  ICTV virus taxonomy profile: Picobirnaviridae 

  Delmas, Bernard; Attoui, Houssam; Ghosh, Souvik; Malik, Yashpal S.; Mundt, Egbert; Vakharia, Vikram N.; ICTV Report Consortium (Microbiiology Society, 2018-11-28)

  Picobirnaviridae is a family of viruses with bi-segmented (rarely unsegmented) dsRNA genomes comprising about 4.4 kbp in total, with small, non-enveloped spherical virions. The family includes one genus (Picobirnavirus) ...

• Positioning of African Art in the Global Art Market: A Look at Western Attitudes and Influences in the Lives of Contemporary African Artists in the United States 

  Archer, Tineka (2003)

  The success of a contemporary African artist depends on how well the artist does in the global art market. The purpose of a global art market is to respectfully promote and equally recognize cultural others. However, the ...

• Anthracite and the Irish : extricating the Irish immigrant mining community from the Molly Maguire myth, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1850-1879 

  Byron, William Francis, 1959- (1996)

  The Molly Maguires were a reputed secret society of Irish immigrant mine workers who allegedly terrorized the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania from the Civil War until twenty men convicted as Molly Maguires were ...

• Gender in cross-cultural perspective : insights from Cameroonian women living in the U.S. 

  Shaw, Octavia Nerissa. (2002)

  This research attempts to understand the perspectives of two Cameroonian women living in the U.S. The research focuses on the roles, expectations, and stereotypes of Cameroonian and American women and men. After interviewing, ...

• Digital Storytelling in ESL Instruction: Identity Negotiation through a Pedagogy of Multiliteracies 

  Vinogradova, Polina (2011-01-01)

  This qualitative descriptive exploratory study investigated how a pedagogy of multiliteracies can be introduced to the ESL curriculum using digital stories and explored the ways ESL learners negotiate their identities ...

• Mechanical Properties of Human Tooth Enamel: Patient Age and Spatial Distribution 

  Park, Saejin (2008-08-27)

  In this study the influence of aging on the mechanical behavior of human enamel was evaluated using 3rd molars from young (18-30 years) and old (55) patients. The elastic modulus and hardness were quantified using ...

• The Persistent Presence of a Successful Failure; The Maryland State Colonization Society and the Importance of its Existence 

  Kelly, Kevin (2009-01-01)

  In 1832, the Maryland State Colonization Society officially seceded from the American Colonization Society. With this declaration of independence, the Maryland State Colonization Society embarked on a thirty year journey ...

• The influence of Lysenkoism on China’s genetics : the importance of the 1956 Qingdao symposium 

  Long, Alice R. Chase, 1953- (1993)

  In 1956, prompted by Mao Zedong himself, the Qingdao symposium was convened to bring together scientists with training in "Morgan-Mendel" genetics and scientists following the Michurin school. The effects of government ...

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