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...found that a majority of the rate constants in the oscillator are not temperature-sensitive, but a small number are—suggesting that the temperature compensation of period length may result from a more fundamental property of the clock. Low proposed that the small number of temperature-sensitive rate constants may play an integral role in entraining the clock to diurnal temperature cycles in the environment...

Author: By Natalie duP. C. Panno, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Ticking Biological Clock | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...article also stated that the temperature compensation of period length results from a process of entrainment. In fact, Low proposed that the small number of temperature-sensitive rate constants may play an integral role in entraining the clock to diurnal temperature cycles in the environment...

Author: By Natalie duP. C. Panno, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Ticking Biological Clock | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...unit, the executive producers are spread out across the room, supervising and talking with the rest of the cast. For all their relaxed demeanor before, today is serious business. Su calls everybody in, and explains that they must run through it again but this time paying attention to the small things. “We’ll be shouting at you,” warns Feliz-Taveras, wearing her sweet grin that suggests anything...

Author: By Alexander J.B. Wells, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eleganza | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...With the failing economy, researchers are seeing their funding go stagnant,” he said. “This is one small way I can help and remember my sister...

Author: By Jyotika Banga, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ultimate Race: Four Marathons and a Cure for Cancer | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...undergraduate tap dance company, performed original pieces to music such as “We’re in the Money” from “42nd Street” and Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz.” Although a relatively small group of eight members, their dancing filled the room in “Tapped Out,” their money-themed spring show. The performers were percussionists as well as dancers—with the strike of a tap-shoe against the pale wood floor, they could conjure a light drizzle...

Author: By Sofia V. McDonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: TAPS | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

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