What are the implications of personal genomes for drug discovery and development ? In the past decade‚ increasing amounts of dollars have been spent on drug development yet the amount of new drugs entering the market per year remains the same. Furthermore with 200 billion dollars of patents expiring in the past four years (Witty‚ 2010)‚ innovative pharmaceutical companies will need to look at new approaches to discover drugs. With the human genome being sequenced in 2003‚ a new field of science
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I agree in theory that the objective method‚ what we now call discovery learning‚ is the most effective way for children to acquire the skills and concepts necessary to become scientifically literate adults. However‚ in many classrooms teachers are still struggling to build a discovery-based science curriculum. There is an urgency today that makes acquiring science skills even more important now than they were before. In this hi-tech age‚ knowing how to acquire and evaluate information and how to
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Was Columbus’s discovery epochal? Many of us have grown up believing from our earliest school years that Christopher Columbus was the voyager who found America. In between the centuries several European explorers navigated around the world searching for treasures and new lands. Of all the explorers‚ Columbus is the most celebrated and acknowledged - for supposedly founding America in 1492. Columbus was born in Italy in 1452‚ of humble origins; he grew up surrounded by
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Leveraging Smartphone Cameras for Collaborative Road Advisories Submitted by R.S.Shenilton & M.Banu Chandhar Abstract : Ubiquitous smartphones are increasingly becoming the dominant platform for collaborative sensing.Smartphones‚ with their ever richer set of sensors‚ are being used to enable collaborative driver-assistance services like traffic advisory and road condition monitoring. To enable such services‚ the smartphones’ GPS‚ accelerometer and gyro sensors have been widely used.
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Homer with a friend. The poem expresses the intensity of Keats’s experience; it also reveals how passionately he cared about poetry. To communicate how profoundly the revelation of Homer’s genius affected him‚ Keats uses imagery of exploration and discovery. In a sense‚ the reading experience itself becomes a Homeric voyage‚ both for the poet and the reader. Written in October 1816‚ this is the first entirely successful (surviving) poem he wrote. John Middleton Murry called it "one of the finest
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CHE003 Chemistry Individual Assignment J.J. Thomson – Discovery of the electron Table of Contents Introduction 2 Biographical information 3 Background information 4 Experimental information 5 Impact 6 Conclusion 7 J.J. Thomson – Discovery of the electron Introduction The discovery of the electron is affirmative and justly credited to the English physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson (Weinberg‚ 2003). He had found and identified the electron in Cavendish Laboratory‚ Cambridge
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Title: Looking for Alaska Author: John Green Text type: Young adult; Fiction “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth‚ thinking about how you’ll escape it one day‚ and how awesome it will be‚ and imagining that future keeps you going‚ but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” John Green’s ‘Looking for Alaska’‚ tells a story about self-discovery‚ first experiences and the deep impact someone can have on a life. Miles Halter is fascinated by last words
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f- Self-Talk Edgar Gonzales California College San Diego Communication Arts/Eng223 Elizabeth Sanchez January 19‚ 2012 Self- Compassion & Self-Talk Self –Compassion is something that is critical in order for us to be confident in ourselves and stress free (Neff‚ 2011). We have a lot of respect for other people and compassion for them as well. Sometimes we even treat them better than ourselves! Sometimes we treat people better than ourselves. We help them when they are going through
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The purpose of this assignment is to explain about how to manage and motivate ourselves during the degree life. This essay is all about the self-management and self-motivation. Management is a process which involves several work activities and function that must be followed and completed by managers in order to achieve organisational goals. To manage is to forecast and plan‚ to organise‚ to command‚ to coordinate and to control. Management tries to achieve organisational goals with the effective
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Mink‚ who discovered Uranus’ rings. In both cases‚ we have individuals seeking data to further enhance our understanding of the universe and its mechanics. Though they may have been focused on a particular task at the time‚ to suggest that their discoveries were mere accidents would be diminishing to the overall goal of science. Though many had seen Uranus before‚ none of them had noticed its contrasting movement from other distant stars. Even when William Herschel noticed its
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