On the other hand, if you were to look at strain this is how much a fiber can be extended if you look at the maximum value here, again, there's a lot of variation and the clear winner is flagelliform, or the capture spiral filament.

These buckets act as electrodes to conduct the current from the skin's surface to the filament.

A float is the portion of a yarn that crosses over two or more yarns from the opposite direction.

When fish take the bait, they are likely to remain caught for many hours before the line is hauled in.

The Abhisit government, congenitally beholden to the army, took its cue and effectively reneged on the Indonesia brokered peace drive.

What silk biologists do is we try to relate these sequences, these amino acid sequences, to the mechanical properties of the silk fibers.

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Rather than grappling with this, radicals like bin Laden blame outsiders, particularly the United States and Europe.

The frame and radii of this web is made up of one type of silk, while the capture spiral is a composite of two different silks the filament and the sticky droplet.

So this makes quantifying silk properties by methods such as tensile testing, which is basically, you know, tugging on one end of the fiber, very amenable.

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And from the evil of those who practice sorcery .

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And then we look at the High Line in New York City, an excellent use of reimagining existing infrastructure for something good, which is a brand new park in New York City.

In my own case, I behave pretty well already I swim for 50 minutes a day, I floss regularly, I eat sensibly, and so forth.

We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them.

The thread holding the lock is free to execute its critical section (the section of a program that requires exclusive access to some variable), and to unlock the data when it is finished.

A processor capable of simultaneous multithreading has only one execution unit ( core ), but when that execution unit is idling (such as during a cache miss), it uses that execution unit to process a second thread.

But the thread that united all, the theme that remained unerringly constant, was the yearning for change immediate, real, and tangible, not a promise or a tantalizing, unreachable mirage.

The scale of the nanopore means that the DNA may be forced through the hole as a long string, one base at a time, rather like threading through the eye of a needle.

The era of reform and opening has outlived its emperor by more than a decade, and has been the common thread running through transfers of political authority from Deng to Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao.

The key though in all of these, the red thread, is the shift in mindset, moving away from a situation where we simply are pushing ourselves into a dark future, where we instead backcast our future, and we say, What is the playing field on the planet?

In an orb web weaving spider, you can find seven types of silk glands, and what I have depicted here in this picture, let's start at the one o'clock position, there's tubuliform silk glands, which are used to make the outer silk of an egg sac.

So for example this would be one sentence, and you would get this sort of green region and the red polyalanine, that repeats over and over and over again, and you can have that hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times within an individual silk molecule.

It's short. And on the bottom, this is the repeat sequence for the egg case, or tubuliform silk protein, for the exact same spider. And you can see how dramatically different these silk proteins are so this is sort of the beauty of the diversification of the spider silk gene family.

Specifically, if you look on the vertical axis, that's stress. If you look at the maximum stress value for each of these fibers, you can see that there's a lot of variation, and in fact dragline, or major ampullate silk, is the strongest of these fibers.

Each of these silk fibers exits from the spigot, and if you were to trace the fiber back into the spider, what you would find is that each spigot connects to its own individual silk gland. A silk gland kind of looks like a sac with a lot of silk proteins stuck inside.

A tactic favored by Chinese anti corruption investigators is to detain junior officials who have worked closely with their primary target. Typically, these minions are threatened with long prison sentences, or even the death penalty, unless they cooperate.

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