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TransAlta announces strong second quarter results; on-track to ...
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Cash flow year-to-date was lower than the previous year due to higher contractually scheduled PPA revenues from 2006 being carried into the first quarter of ...TAC
Omniture Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results
MarketWatch - Jul 23, 2008
The webcast will be available on the "Investor Relations" section of the company's corporate web site at www.omtr.com. A replay of the conference call will ...OMTR
Cabot Oil & Gas Reports Record Second Quarter Profits
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Quarter Ended Six Months Ended June 30, June 30, 2008 2007 2008 2007 Realized Impacts to Gas Pricing $(0.97) $0.66 $(0.48) $0.77 Realized Impacts to Oil ...COG - OTC:CMTX

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Carolina Bank Holdings, Inc. Announces Improved Asset Quality and ...
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Non-performing assets were 0.48% of assets at June 30, 2007. Annualized net loan charge-offs to average loans held for investment were 0.13% and 0.09% for ...
Huntington Bancshares Reports 2008 Second Quarter Net Income of ... FOXBusiness
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Equity Residential Reports Second Quarter Results
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Banner Corporation Announces Second Quarter Results; Includes ...
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Mindspeed(R) Reports Fiscal 2008 Third Quarter Results
Trading Markets (press release), CA - Jul 21, 2008
To listen via the Internet, please visit the Investors section of Mindspeed's web site at www.mindspeed.com. Replay of the conference will be available via ...MSPDD - OTC:CMTX
Sovereign Bancorp, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results
MSN Money - Jul 23, 2008
31 June 30 Quarters ended (in thousands) 2008 2008 2007 Commercial real estate (1) $63624 $53486 $52730 0.48% 0.42% 0.45% Multi-family 49866 27769 19177 ...SOV
Corning Announces Second-Quarter Results
MarketWatch - Jul 30, 2008
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ProEx Reports Second Quarter Results
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QUARTERLY FINANCIAL SUMMARY The following table highlights ProEx's performance for the quarterly reporting periods from July 1, 2006 to June 30, ...TSE:PXE
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Web Accessibility Testing: When the Method is the Culprit -
G Brajnik - ICCHP, 2006 - Springer
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E 3 0.62 0.48 sev 2.34 1 n ... 2006. ... Formal investigation report: web accessibility ...

Relationship between web links and trade -
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A new look at evidence of scholarly citation in citation indexes and from web sources -
L Vaughan, D Shaw - Scientometrics, 2008 - Springer
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Web Release Date: November 22, 2006 -
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[PDF] … of a web-based teaching module and gender on accounting students? ethical judgements Copyright 2006 …
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[PDF] Web Presence and Impact Factors for Middle-Eastern Countries Alireza Noruzi -
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Web Release Date: December 21, 2006
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Evaluating Web Search Result Summaries
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N Bojanic, M ?olic, N Krstulovic, S ?estanovic, … - Scientia Marina, 2006 - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
... The Varimax rotation of extracted PC com- SCI. MAR., 70(3), September, 2006,
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Math Model Could Aid Study Of Collagen Ailments

Article Date: 19 Nov 2006 - 10:00am (PST)
An MIT researcher's mathematical model explains for the first time the distinctive structure of collagen, a material key to healthy human bone, muscles and other tissues. The new model shows collagen's structure from the atomic to the tissue scale.

An improved understanding of nature's most abundant protein could aid the search for cures to such ailments as osteoporosis, joint hyperextensibility and scurvy, all recognized as arising from diseased collagen. It could also guide engineers' development of synthetic versions of the protein, which in its healthy state is several times stronger than steel per molecule.

Biological experiments in the past have shown that collagen's universal design consists of molecules staggered lengthwise, arranged like fibers in a steel cable. Each tiny tropocollagen molecule--the smallest collagen building block--is around 300 nanometers long and only 1.5 nanometers thick. (A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter.) But why these ropy strands of amino acids--the molecular building blocks of proteins--associate to form tropocollagen molecules consistently at the same length has been unexplained until now.

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The molecular model of collagen developed by Markus Buehler, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, started on the atomic scale. Buehler then combined elements of quantum mechanics and molecular dynamics to scale his model up and show precisely which length and arrangement of molecules were best for sustaining large weights pulling in opposite directions, a process known as tensile loading.

Buehler discovered that the ideal length of tropocollagen molecules was indeed close to 300 nanometers. His work has shown that the characteristic nanopatterned structure of collagen is responsible for its high extensibility and strength. "This is the first time a predictive, molecular model was used to explain the design features that experiments have shown for decades without understanding the rationale behind them," he explained.

"The response of materials to tensile loading has been studied in materials science for computer chips, cars and buildings, but is still poorly understood for biological materials. What we are doing is looking at biological systems on a molecular level, the same way we would examine glass or metal," said Buehler. "This represents a new way of thinking about biological matter, and it may hold the key to engineering biological systems as we design man-made devices today."
 
The next step in the research will be to delve deeper into the structure of collagen. "We've developed a reference point for healthy collagen. This enables us now to study how diseases or genetic mutations impact the structure," said Buehler. Learning more about the structural differences between diseased and healthy collagen could help in the development of biomimetic materials.

Buehler is optimistic about the future. "Understanding the mechanical properties of protein materials--in particular their deformation and fracture--is a frontier in materials science. We're trying to figure out how nature creates better materials than we can," he said.

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The current work, which appeared in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was funded by startup grants Buehler received from MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and MIT's School of Engineering.

Contact: Elizabeth Thomson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
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