The specific location of a DNA sequence within a chromosome is known as a locus.

The locus also includes the genes for the proteins that attach themselves to the surface of F bacteria and initiate conjugation.

The fruitless gene locus also controls the expression of hundreds of other genes, any subset of which may actually regulate behavior.

The unavoidable reality of our global economy is that the principal locus of legitimate democratic accountability still resides within the nation state.

The corners of the color triangle are therefore on the spectral locus, and the triangle is about as big as it can be.

Indeed, the ethical philosophy of F OSS focuses on the importance of knowledge, self cultivation, and self expression as the vital locus of freedom.

In the first stage, beginning in the spring of 2008, the locus of the North Atlantic crisis moved from the United States to the eurozone.

Myanmar possesses considerable development potential, given its fertile agricultural land, a rich endowment of other natural resources and potential as a locus of regional trade.

There's this absolute concentration of being, the absolute concentration of consciousness, awareness, an absolute locus of compassion and love that defines the primary attributes of divinity.

Then and now, Vietnam was the locus of a struggle between the vision of a monolithic Asia and that of an Asia that is open internally and to the world.

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In some cases of internal conflict, non State actors or rival political groupings may make offers to adhere to such instruments precisely to gain legitimacy or a political locus standi.

Whyte advocated including aspects of art education with locus of control identification counseling experiences to help higher education students develop confidence in their unique problem solving abilities in the classroom and in life.

It is the locus of points corresponding to the locations over time of a point moving away from a fixed point with a constant speed along a line which rotates with constant angular velocity.

In the first stage, beginning in the spring of 2008, the locus of the North Atlantic crisis moved from the United States to the eurozone. Banks in the eurozone came under pressure, and interbank tensions increased.

It was a Polish version of the ancient Greek agora, a meeting place of all citizens, a locus of a free conversation about our communal and individual future, about all kinds of problems and their solutions.

For any satisfactory progress to be achieved, one has to address the question of the distribution of economic power that is, development and equally of political power of which, in the United Nations, the Security Council is the locus.

Despite the prominence of early modern intellectual historians (those studying the age from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment), the intellectual history of the modern period has also been the locus of intense and creative output on both sides of the Atlantic.

The locus of the monoamine action of modafinil has also been the target of studies, identifying effects on dopamine in the striatum and nucleus accumbens, norepinephrine in the hypothalamus and ventrolateral preoptic nucleus, and serotonin in the amygdala and frontal cortex.

In this regard, it was pointed out that if an injured person changed nationalities in the intervening period, then the new State of nationality lacked locus standi, since it had had no duty to protect the injured person at the time of the injury.

Moreover, the environmental losses as referred to in draft principle 2 (a) (iii) could not easily be quantified in monetary terms, and there would be difficulties in establishing locus standi as well as in establishing a causal connection between the activity in question and the environmental damage.

God, Bokh, whatever name you want to call him with, Allah, Ram, Om, whatever the name might be through which you name or access the presence of divinity, it is the locus of absolute being, absolute love and mercy and compassion, and absolute knowledge and wisdom, what Hindus call satchidananda.