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The point is, that it was innovative in the sense that it attempted to specify the learning objectives more comprehensively than the kind of narrowly focused, single-strand syllabuses that had, up until then, been the norm.
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Attached to it are three ‘legs’ of single-strand enzymatic DNA, which binds to, and then cuts, a particular sequence of DNA.
Nano-Spiders: DNA Robots that Could One Day Be Walking Through Your Body | Impact Lab 2010
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Lead-core is just that: a single-strand lead wire inside a braided nylon covering.
Four Ways to Troll for Trout, Salmon, Crappies, Walleyes, and Northern Pike 2009
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Tests of cell phone frequencies conducted on animals provide clear cause for concern: not only did extended exposure cause single-strand and double-strand DNA breaks, but exposing rats to only two hours of cell phone radiation a day caused nerve-cell damage in their brains, particularly where memory is stored, after just a few weeks.
Omar Baddar: Full Signal and the Effects of Wireless Technology 2010
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They dangle by a single-strand financial thread on the verge of bankruptcy in an attempt to give their children a better life because the system they have invested in to protect them has intrinsically failed.
Shelley Hendrix Reynolds: The Autism Treatment Acceleration Act and the Autism Sandbox 2009
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The airway was removed and Skeps was bound at the wrists and ankles with single-strand steel wire about an eighth of an inch in diameter, tight enough that it would have hurt atrociously to struggle.
TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009
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Because the dimensions of the lipid bilayer and the alpha-hemolysin pore, as well as the required amount of electrical current, are at the nanoscale level, the "single-molecule mass spectrometry" technology may one day be incorporated into "lab-on-a-chip" molecular analyzers and single-strand DNA sequencers.
DNA Sieve — Nanoscale Pores can be Tiny Analysis Labs | Impact Lab 2007
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Even Peggy is moving on up in accessories with a simple single-strand of pearls.
Nour Akkad: Mad Men Fashion Report: Pearls And Brooches, Then And Now (SPOILER ALERT) 2008
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So many viewpoints creates a range of difficult choices which the single-strand narrative doesn't have to address.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008
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So many viewpoints creates a range of difficult choices which the single-strand narrative doesn't have to address.
Archive 2008-11-01 Tim Stretton 2008
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