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unusual facts about mechanism



Afobazole

Its mechanism of action remains poorly defined however, with GABAergic, NGF and BDNF release promoting, MT1 receptor antagonism, MT3 receptor antagonism, and sigma agonism suggested as potential mechanisms.

Bacteriophage Qβ

The mechanism of lysis is similar to that of penicillin; A2 inhibits the formation of peptidoglycan by inhibiting the enzyme UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 1-carboxyvinyltransferase (MurA), which catalyzes the first committed step of peptidoglycan synthesis.

Benzopyrene

Especially the mechanism of action of benzo(a)pyrene-related DNA modification is well investigated and relates to the activity of cytochrome P450 subclass 1A1 (CYP1A1).

Bilateral investment treaty

The distinctive feature of many BITs is that they allow for an alternative dispute resolution mechanism, whereby an investor whose rights under the BIT have been violated could have recourse to international arbitration, often under the auspices of the ICSID (International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes), rather than suing the host State in its own courts.

Bremsstrahlung

Bremsstrahlung is also the dominant emission mechanism for H II regions at radio wavelengths.

Charles Rood Keeran

Around 1914, Keeran invented the basic mechanism for the Eversharp, thought up the "Eversharp" trademark (inspired by the Winchester Rifle logo), and set up a company to make and sell Eversharp pencils.

Christmas Tree EXEC

Its core mechanism was essentially the same as the ILOVEYOU worm of 2000 - although running on mainframes rather than PCs, spreading over a different network, and scripted using REXX rather than VBScript.

Congenital myasthenic syndrome

Another common underlying mechanism of CMS is the mutation of the rapsyn protein, coded by the RAPSN gene.

EiffelStudio

5.4, November 2003: new conversion mechanism, major run-time performance improvements (in particular for agents), major compilation speed improvements, improved support for multithreading, major EiffelBuild enhancements, first support for new mechanisms as defined by the ECMA Eiffel committee, support for preconditions and postconditions in external (e.g. C) routines, transparent way to call overloaded .

Étienne Ozi

The technical demands of Ozi's literature spurred on its development; instrument maker Carl Almenräder in particular used his compositions to direct further development of the bassoon in his development of the key mechanism.

EU Anti-Corruption Report

The proposals suggest that starting in 2013 the non-binding report will act as a monitoring mechanism which according to Cecilia Malmström the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, will be capable of identifying “failures and vulnerabilities across the 27 EU Member States”.

Examination table

During these exams, doctors in offices (UK: surgeries), clinics and hospitals use an adjusting mechanism to manipulate and position the table to allow patient support, closer examination of a portion or the entire patient, and the ability to move the patient on and off the table safely.

Florence Benoît-Rohmer

Her academic interest is focused on mechanism for the preservation of human rights both within the European Union and the Council of Europe, especially the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter.

Flush toilet

1924-1927: Philip Haas of Dayton, Ohio, designed and improved a water closet flushing and recycling mechanism similar to those in use today, incorporated in US Patents 1,576,600, 1,601,210, 1,605,939, 1,623,109, 1,629,914, 1,638,395, 1,639,997, 1,660,922.

Geneva drive

The Geneva drive is also commonly called a Maltese cross mechanism due to the visual resemblance when the driven wheel has four spokes.

Goose step

Zim, in the show Invader Zim, walks with a goose step as his normal walking mechanism.

Heteropatric speciation

The importance of behavioral separation as a mechanism for promoting sympatric speciation in a heterogeneous or patchwork landscape is highlighted in John Maynard Smith's seminal paper on sympatric speciation.

HindIII

They have proven to be ideal modeling systems for the study of protein-nucleic acid interactions, structure-function relationships, and the mechanism of evolution.

Independent electron approximation

For example, the theory covering much of superconductivity is BCS theory, in which the attraction of pairs of electrons to each other, termed "Cooper pairs", is the mechanism behind superconductivity.

Intracellular antibody-mediated degradation

Intracellular antibody-mediated degradation (IAMD) is a neutralization mechanism of intracellular antibody-mediated immunity whereby an effector protein, TRIM21, directs antibody bound virions to the proteasome where they are degraded.

Jaime Imitola

In 2004, Jaime Imitola and colleagues demonstrated for the first time, an inflammation-dependent molecular mechanism for the responses of NSCs to stroke.

Keith Usherwood Ingold

He was awarded the 1968 Petroleum Chemistry Award, the 1988 Linus Pauling Award and has been awarded both the Davy Medal and Royal Medal of the Royal Society, the latter for "elucidating the mechanism of reactions involving free radicals".

Latent image

The basic mechanism by which this happens was first proposed by R W Gurney and N F Mott in 1938.

Lupin III: Dead or Alive

The island's super-intelligent defense mechanism, however, proves to be too much for Lupin, Jigen, and Goemon to handle by themselves.

Lysosome

Christian de Duve, then chairman of the Laboratory of Physiological Chemistry at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, had been studying the mechanism of action of a pancreatic hormone insulin in liver cells.

Maned rat

The rat is known to deliberately smear these hairs with poison from the bark of the Acokanthera schimperi, on which it chews, thus creating a defense mechanism that can sicken or even kill predators which attempt to bite it.

Mass generation

The Standard Model uses this mechanism as part of the Glashow–Weinberg–Salam model to unify electromagnetic and weak interactions.

Morphogen

Alan Turing, better known for his work in wartime cryptography and the theory of computing, wrote a paper, The chemical basis of morphogenesis, correctly predicting a chemical mechanism for pattern formation.

Nirbheek

The gun's simple mechanism is thought to have been based on earlier designs by Webley & Scott and Smith & Wesson.

Nuclear fratricide

This theory was put forward as a defense mechanism for the LGM-118 Peacekeeper missile deployment, reasoning that multiple detonations would be required to knock out an entire battery of missiles if sufficiently protected.

On-board

Onboarding, the mechanism through which new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective organizational members and insiders

Oxycodone

In August 2010, Purdue Pharma reformulated their long-acting oxycodone line, marketed as OxyContin, to use an abuse-resistant polymer designed to decrease abuse potential by defeating the release mechanism.

Pluggable authentication module

This lack of functionality is also the reason SSH does its own authentication mechanism negotiation.

Power reserve

The first wristwatch with the mechanism was created by Breguet in 1933.

PWB shell

In particular, Environment variables and related machinery were designed by Stephen Bourne, John Mashey, and Dennis Ritchie as a general mechanism to replace the earlier, more limited features.

Rabies virus

The exact molecular mechanism of this transport is unknown although binding of the P protein from rabies virus to the dynein light chain protein DYNLL1 has been shown.

Rational Software

This effort combined the HTML-based process delivery mechanism employed by Objectory with Rational's 15-year experience base in working with customers developing significant software systems.

Rheological fluids based firearms mechanisms

An RB-MECHANISM controls the recoil and the reloading process by altering the viscosity of a rheological fluid, or "smart fluid," to control the force necessary to accelerate a piece of ammunition to high speeds.

Scuba set

After having travelled to England and discovered William James' invention, the French physician Manuel Théodore Guillaumet, from Argentan (Normandy), patented in 1838 the oldest known regulator mechanism.

Secret Cutting

Unlike most people, who are able to express extreme emotions outwardly through words or through tears, Dawn's only mechanism for channeling her pain is through self-injury.

Security and safety features new to Windows Vista

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 includes Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol, a new Microsoft proprietary VPN protocol which provides a mechanism to transport Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) traffic (including IPv6 traffic) through an SSL channel.

Seecamp

The Seecamp, like the Czechoslovakian CZ 45 pistol, utilizes a very compact and reliable DAO trigger mechanism.

Seesaw mechanism

In the theory of grand unification of particle physics, and, in particular, in theories of neutrino masses and neutrino oscillation, the seesaw mechanism is a generic model used to understand the relative sizes of observed neutrino masses, of the order of eV, compared to those of quarks and charged leptons, which are millions of times heavier.

Shintom

Shintom was mostly well-known for designing, selling, and supplying the VHS transport chassis mechanism to various Japanese VHS VCR manufacturers during the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s.

SkyJack

The only security currently in the Parrot drones prevents a second pilot from taking over, however SkyJack uses Aircrack-ng to perform a "deauthentication attack" against the pilot, exploiting a mechanism in wireless security.

String-net liquid

In condensed matter physics, a string-net is an extended object whose collective behavior has been proposed as a physical mechanism for topological order by Michael A. Levin and Xiao-Gang Wen.

The eclipse of Darwinism

As a consequence of the debate over the viability of neo-Lamarckism in the 1890s, James Mark Baldwin, Henry Fairfield Osborne and C. Lloyd Morgan all independently proposed a mechanism where new learned behaviors could cause the evolution of new instincts and physical traits through natural selection without resort to the inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Thermobaric weapon

Thermobaric and fuel-air explosives have been used in guerrilla warfare since the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing in Lebanon, which used a gas-enhanced explosive mechanism, probably propane, butane or acetylene.

URM1

Urm1 is known to be conjugated to the peroxiredoxin Ahp1, ATPBD3, and CTU2 and human MOCS3, through a mechanism involving the E1-like protein Uba4 via lysine residues.

Windows Activation Services

Windows Process Activation Service (also known as WAS) is the process activation mechanism introduced within Internet Information Services v7.0.


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