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Wolfgang Bremer

In March 2008 he moved to Spain, to join Strands, Inc. as Mobile Designer, where he has been the UI/UE design responsible for Strands mobile products.


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Ann Leckie

The reviewer of Locus appreciated the ambitious structure of Leckie's novel, which interweaves several past and present strands of action in a manner reminiscent of Iain M. Banks's Use of Weapons, and its engagement with the tropes of recent space opera as established by Banks, Ursula K. Le Guin, C.J. Cherryh and others.

Biography in literature

While other biographical fiction will create two parallel strands of narrative one in the contemporary and one focusing on the biographical history, such as Malcolm Bradbury's To the Hermitage and Michael Cunningham's The Hours.

Christmas ornament

Glass baubles were first made in Lauscha, Germany, by Hans Greiner who produced garlands of glass beads similar to the popcorn strands and tin figures that could be hung on trees.

Dissociation curve

Melting curve analysis, a biochemical technique relying on heat-dependent dissociation between two DNA strands

DNA demethylation

The passive process takes place in the absence of methylation of newly synthesised DNA strands by DNMT1 during several replication rounds (for example, upon 5-Azacytidine treatment).

DNA ligase

It plays a role in repairing single-strand breaks in duplex DNA in living organisms, but some forms (such as DNA ligase IV) may specifically repair double-strand breaks (i.e. a break in both complementary strands of DNA).

Equality and Diversity Forum

The Forum was established by Sarah Spencer CBE and Patrick Grattan MBE in 2002 to promote dialogue and understanding across the separate equality ‘strands’, and to ensure that policy debate on proposals for discrimination legislation and a single equality body recognises the cross-cutting nature of equality issues.

Fly Music

The channel broadcast a range of music videos and profiles of alternative artists (such as Goldfrapp, Björk, Massive Attack, Hercules & Love Affair, Antony & the Johnsons, MGMT, etc.), throughout the day during named strands.

Foyle's War

There are some running strands, mainly involving the career of Foyle's son Andrew (played by Julian Ovenden), a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force, or Foyle's continuing relationships with cameo characters.

Henry M. Hart, Jr.

Philip Bobbitt cites Hart's process approach to constitutional law as archetypal of one of two strands of the "doctrinal" mode of constitutional jurisprudence, the other being the substantive approach taken by the American Law Institute's Restatements and Model Code efforts of the late 1950s-60s.

Heteroduplex

In crossing-over, a Spo11 enzyme makes staggered nicks in a pair of sister chromatid strands (in a tetrad organization of prophase).

Hugh Logue

The Northern Ireland State Papers of 1980 show that together with John Hume and Austin Currie he played a key role in presenting the SDLP'S 'Three Strands' approach to the Thatcher Government's Secretary of State Humphrey Atkins in April 1980 (Irish Times, 30 December 2010).

MediaCorp Suria

Prime 12 was best known for its programmes, notably the World's first Tamil sitcom, Amali Thumali, Malay and Tamil weekly drama strands, Sandiwara and Naadaga Arangam, respectively and also for its sports coverage such as the Southeast Asian Games in 1995, 1997 & 1999, UEFA Euro 1996 (selected matches) and the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Molecular motor

Helicases separate double strands of nucleic acids prior to transcription or replication.

Murong

Different strands of evidence exist linking the Murong to the language family of Mongols.

Najran Region

In Najran city, the Khushaiwa compound, with its Mansura mosque complex, is the spiritual capital of the Sulaymani branch of the Ismaili sect, one of two major strands of contemporary Ismailism.

Nucleoside analogue

Once they are phosphorylated, they work as antimetabolites by being similar enough to nucleotides to be incorporated into growing DNA strands; but they act as chain terminators and stop viral DNA Polymerase.

Photopheresis

8-Methoxypsoralen irreversibly binds covalently to both strands of the DNA of nucleated cells following photoactivation.

Phragmosome

Actin filaments along these cytoplasmic strands pull the nucleus into the center of the cell.

Slow match

In Japan, however, match cord was made from braiding together strands of bark from the Japanese cypress.

Strands of Sunlight

Strands of Sunlight is a novel written by Gael Baudino in 1994.

Strands Social Player

The design of the Strands Social Player has been led by Wolfgang Bremer, currently Director of Design and User Experience at Strands, Inc.

Tyghuset

Built in 1663 as one of the first major structures the Swedish Navy constructed on the island, the length of the building still reflects its original use as a rope walk (repslagarbana), a building where strands were stretched out to be twined into ropes (the length of the building thus being of strategic importance).

Zonule of Zinn

The zonule of Zinn (Zinn's membrane, ciliary zonule) (after Johann Gottfried Zinn) is a ring of fibrous strands connecting the ciliary body with the crystalline lens of the eye.


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