It does not mean you simply copy the patterns of nature.

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"A leaner, more responsive and more productive shipbuilding and offshore construction business will be better placed to take advantage of emerging market opportunities and to counter the cyclical nature of ship-ordering patterns, " he said.

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The terms sense and antisense were coined by Paul Zamecnik to show the complementary, double-strand nature of DNA. One strand consisted of alternating patterns of the four nucleotides that make up DNA adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine and it could be read in order.

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"From the nature of the document requests, they are looking into trading patterns with respect to Southridge, and they are looking at what Southridge Capital promised companies with regard to certain financings versus what actually happened, " says James "Wes" Christian, an attorney who represents Vyta and Hyperdynamics.

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The promise: cutting-edge strategies for software for a coming world of multiple supercomputers, where continually swapped programs and big databases will find and exploit unseen patterns in nature and society.

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There are investment professionals with multiple Ivy League degrees, people who wrote PhD theses on nuclear fusion or fractal patterns in nature, who have been lured to Wall Street to estimate whether or not a knock off version of Scrabble called Words with Friends will grow to 65 or 65.2 million users by September.

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