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Toll-like receptors (TLRs), which lie on the surface of certain white blood cells, serve to detect invading viruses and bacteria. They then cause the production of cytokine proteins, which activate other immune cells against the infection...
...What it is referring to is the fact that Nigerians often "squeeze"- crumple - Naira notes to detect fakes. If a crumpled note thrown on a flat surface immediately starts to un-crumple it's the real deal. "Spraying" Naira is also common at birthdays, weddings and in the thousands of evangelical churches across the country. Generous guests or churchgoers peel off notes from wads of cash, tossing them towards a wedding couple or priest. Tradition dictates that these notes are not picked up until after the celebrations are over, so they are often stomped into the ground...
...headlines haven't dented job seekers' desire to dissemble even as employers have grown increasingly able to detect deception. InfoLink Screening Services, a background-checking company, estimates that 14% of job applicants in the U.S. lie about their education on their résumés. (A common boast by guys: that they played on the college football team.) ResumeDoctor.com a résumé-writing business, found that of 1,000 résumés it vetted over six months, 43% contained one or more "significant inaccuracies...
...takes about 30 minutes. But the absence of an effective treatment for MND - of which there are some 1,400 sufferers in Australia - raises the question of whether there's much to be gained from early diagnosis. Kiernan and Vucic are adamant that there is. Their procedure can detect the disease in its very early stages, they believe, when symptoms amount to no more than stiffness, weakness or cramping in the hands - up to a year before a clinician relying on traditional methods could hope to make a diagnosis. Starting patients earlier on riluzole, which works by blocking the effects...
...signals across the galaxy. “With Earth technology 2006, we can transmit pulse lasers that outshine the sun by a factor of 10,000, but you have to look very quickly,†Betts said in a phone interview Tuesday. Most SETI work has focused on detecting messages encoded in microwave emissions, according to Horowitz. But he said that aliens might use optical messages. Radiation at frequencies that fall into visible-light segment of the electromagnetic spectrum is easy to generate and detect, moves through the space fairly easily, and can encode large amounts of information, Horowitz...