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The book was expanded from an article first published in the Antioch Review in 1950, [7] and in the preface to the first edition, Gardner thanks the Review for allowing him to develop the article as the starting point of his book. [8] Not all material in the article is carried over to the book. For example, in the article, Gardner writes:
It was first used in "The Robots of Death", [54] the fifth serial of the 14th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Semaphobia – fear of average web developers to use Semantic Web technologies. [55] Venustraphobia – fear of beautiful women, according to a 1998 humorous article published by BBC News. [1]
Meaning: a prefix used to make words with a sense opposite to that of the root word; in this case, meaning "without" or "-less". This is usually used to describe organisms without a certain characteristic, as well as organisms in which that characteristic may not be immediately obvious.
Unusual names have caused issues for scientists explaining genetic diseases to lay-people, such as when an individual is affected by a gene with an offensive or insensitive name. [14] This has particularly been noted in patients with a defect in the sonic hedgehog gene pathway and the disease formerly named CATCH22 for "cardiac anomaly, T-cell ...
In molecular biology, an inducer is a molecule that regulates gene expression. [1] An inducer functions in two ways; namely: By disabling repressors.The gene is expressed because an inducer binds to the repressor.
This is a list of names for observable phenomena that contain the word “effect”, amplified by reference(s) to their respective fields of study. Contents: Top
Night terror, also called sleep terror, is a sleep disorder causing feelings of panic or dread and typically occurring during the first hours of stage 3–4 non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep [1] and lasting for 1 to 10 minutes. [2]
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