In a study published last year in Conservation Letters, a group of scientists led by Brian MacKenzie, of the Technical University of Denmark, describe how they ran a computer model of the bluefin tuna's population dynamics.
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And in the current issue of Applied Physics Letters, a group led by Haroun Ahmed at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory in Britain reports another vital step, a single-electron transistor that, for the first time, amplifies its input signal (though only by a factor of 3.7, several hundred times more weakly than a conventional transistor does).
There's also a group of letters and postcards he wrote to his family while living in Paris in the 1920s.
Then French, where spelling is almost as crazy as in English, but where at least one given group of letters tend to be always pronounced in the same way.
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One pathway, known as the ventral route, is direct and efficient: We see a group of letters, convert those letters into a word and then directly grasp the word's meaning.
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The group will present letters from him and his doctor during the hearing.
More letters, this time from a group of senators and representatives, led by senators Jeff Merkley (D-Or.) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) and representatives Sander Levin (D-MI)and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY).
On average, patients in the Lucentis group could read seven more letters on an eye chart than they could at the beginning of the experiment.
In 2008, Dr Cummer first described the theory of acoustic cloaking in an article in Physical Review Letters, and earlier this year a group from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign demonstrated the first practical use of the theory in an article in the same journal.
In addition to the myriad letters, fan sites and blogs, a group of Mars fans dispatched a plane towing a "Renew Veronica Mars" banner to fly over the CW offices.
In letters delivered to the finance ministers of the Group of Seven countries, the principal Latin American debtor nations, the IMF and the World Bank, the Center calls attention to the growing inequities in the industrialized West's approach to funding Mr. Gorbachev's perestroika and the financial requirements of the flegling democratic governments of Latin America.
The postal group has said customers welcome the convenience of letters and parcels being left at a nearby address if they are not in.
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One such group, Democracy 21, wrote a series of letters to the IRS arguing that many of the groups should not receive favored tax status.
Lloyds Banking Group, which encompasses the three banks, sent letters to 582, 206 people between May 2011 and March 2012, informing these customers that they would be paid compensation.
Earlier this year, a group of unions called the Change to Win coalition sent letters to a variety of big lenders, including Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ), Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ), Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ), Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ), and Wachovia (nyse: WB - news - people ) and WaMu, demanding to know why they hadn't spotted the warning signs in the mortgage markets earlier.
Letters will be sent to customers of Ulster Bank, part of the RBS Group, from January that explains the change.
This year, Wrapports, an investment group that owns the Chicago Sun-Times, carried out the annual Letters to Santa program.
Meanwhile, a Gulf War support group, formed in the early 1990s, has been revived to write letters and send parcels to service men and women.
Opponents have formed the Bodelwyddan Development Action Group, headed by Alice Jones, and said they had received hundreds of letters of support.
Since the announcement, Shanteau has received e-mails, cards and letters from all over the world, but he points to his fellow swimmers as a huge support group.
In 1999, a group of respected scientists, along with the American Chemical Society, launched a journal called Organic Letters, designed to rival Tetrahedron Letters, a chemistry title owned by Reed Elsevier.
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