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repulsion - A double heterozygote in which the dominant (or wild-type) allele at one locus and the recessive (or mutant) allele at a second linked locus occur on the same chromosome (genetic constitution Ab/aB). Synonym: trans configuration. Opposite: coupling, cis configuration.[FAO]

News archive for repulsion.

A Personal Reaction to Michael Vick  -  21 Aug 2007
Crosswalk.com,Personally, I have alternated between repulsion and an odd sympathy for Michael Vick. I cannot imagine how a heart could become so hardened and so dark that

The Art of Queerness  -  21 Aug 2007
New City Chicago,Again, it’s that attraction to repulsion. The fact that the transformative nature of "queer" is centered on sexual acts is both its strength and its

New Way To Levitate Objects Discovered  -  Aug 6, 2007
Science Daily (press release)The pair have worked out how to turn the normally 'sticky' quantum force of empty space from attraction to repulsion using a specially developed lens placed

READY, BREAK  -  Aug 16, 2007
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com,...players will look back on their training camp experience at Millsaps College with the same reverence and repulsion they had a year ago when, to a man,

Polanski's Latent Claustrophobia  -  Jul 29, 2007
New York Sun,And yet Polanski's unsettling camera angles and chiaroscuro lighting ("Repulsion" is the only black-andwhite film in the series) transform the film into a

Quantum Ferrofluid: A Bose-Einstein Condensate of Tiny Magnets  -  Aug 14, 2007
Scientific AmericanFortunately, the strength of the isotropic part can be tuned, even up to the point of turning attraction into repulsion (and vice-versa), by putting the

Spin Cycle  -  Aug 11, 2007
Contra Costa Times,..."In order to reduce friction in the nanoworld, turning nature's stickiness into repulsion could be the ultimate remedy."

Market Takes a Shot, but Is Still Standing  -  Aug 10, 2007
TheStreet.com (subscription),...this definitely tilts the odds toward a very volatile one in which the "magnetic" power of strike prices will not be one of attraction, but repulsion,

Block Copolymer Assembly via Kinetic Control  -  Aug 2, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)In solution, amphiphilic blocks can self-assemble as a result of energetic repulsion effects between blocks. The degree of repulsion, the lengths of the

Quantum to real levitation  -  Aug 20, 2007
Central Chronicle,In order to reduce friction in the nano-world, turning nature's stickiness into repulsion could be the ultimate remedy. Instead of sticking together,

DON'T JUMP, ROMAN!  -  Jul 28, 2007
New York Post,July 29, 2007 -- BE sure you leave a light on at home if you go forth to see "Repulsion" (1965). You won't want to re turn to a dark apartment after viewing

For David Lee Edwards, winning the lottery was a wild rocket ride  -  Aug 20, 2007
Broward New Times,...which he readily acknowledges: "The big, big thing I'm always looking for is a sort of attraction/repulsion, where the stuff is beautiful to begin with

When Media Creates its Own Killer  -  Aug 20, 2007
Asharq Alawsat,Traits such as these have deepened my repulsion from a model that is embodied by a large group of ‘celebrity’ preachers who specialize in issuing fatwas

Space Sailing - Electro-magnetic Propulsion and Electro-dynamic ...  -  Jul 24, 2007
Best Syndication,The experimental package is then positioned so that the field coil of the package is aligned so the coil will be at maximum repulsion with earth’s

Obloquy Booklet by Delhi Police on North-East Students  -  Aug 19, 2007
KanglaOnline,His chopping charlatanism and inured assortment and repulsion in clothings of NE students in cynical manner arouses squeamishness by and large, one by one,

Navigating the Uncanny Valley  -  Aug 17, 2007
BusinessWeekThat year, Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori hypothesized that robots provoke a feeling of repulsion in humans when they look and act too real.

In praise of the weird ones  -  Aug 19, 2007
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,When my friend told me of this fetish, and even as I tried not to express repulsion, she went on to describe her mother's reaction and here's what the

ANALYSIS: Mbeki's buck-passing worries West  -  Aug 15, 2007
Taipei Times,...after a brutal crackdown on government critics, including the beating of MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, caused international repulsion earlier this year.

Europe and America: Sharing the Spoils of War  -  Aug 19, 2007
Center for Research on Globalization,It is this geographic stretch that has been, and continues, to be a geo-strategic chessboard for competitions of expansion and repulsion.

2007 Pacific Classic Betting Preview  -  Aug 17, 2007
WagerWeb,It has a high stock absorption rate and low elasticity repulsion rate. It's a mixture of sand, synthetic fibers and recycled rubber with a microcrystalline

Now "Dirty Dancing," next "The Breakfast Club: The Musical?"  -  Aug 17, 2007
AfterEllen.comOn the heels of expressing my attraction/repulsion to the idea of Xanadu as a Broadway musical, I read that Dirty Dancing, the West End musical version of

'Circling My Mother' by Mary Gordon  -  Aug 12, 2007
Los Angeles Times,Gordon graphically describes her mother's affliction, remembers her drunk and helpless moments and expresses repulsion over her mother's failing body before

Gravity stumps scientists  -  Aug 10, 2007
MSNBCThe repulsion between two positively charged protons, for example, is 1036 times stronger than gravity's pull between them — that's 1 followed by 36 zeros

Free floating phenomenon  -  Aug 8, 2007
Hindustan Times,The smart scientists have, thus, found out how to work on this tiny scale where the vacuum remains — but instead of cohesion there’s repulsion.

CG artists look for love in 'valley'  -  Aug 7, 2007
Hollywood Reporter,It suggests that as CG characters get close to being human, if they are not quite right, the response from the viewer shifts from empathy to repulsion.

Three ways to levitate a magic carpet  -  Aug 6, 2007
New Scientist (subscription),Capasso's early experiments suggest that such repulsion could occur, and that in turn could be used to levitate one object above another.

Scientists crack levitation  -  Aug 6, 2007
VNUNet.com,By using a lens to reverse the effect the team were able to keep particles apart, by turning the attractive force into repulsion.

They came from behind the camera  -  Aug 14, 2007
Time Out,Oddest of all, however, is the spectacle of Roman Polanski – director of ‘Knife in the Water’, ‘Repulsion’ and ‘The Pianist’ – dressed as a French police

Passing the colonial buck  -  Aug 14, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,...a brutal crackdown on government critics, including the beating of the MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, caused international repulsion earlier this year.

The women behind Mrs Woolf  -  Jul 27, 2007
Telegraph.co.uk,She at least struggled to rationalise her feelings about those in her employment, and attempted to turn her mix of guilt and repulsion into something

A life under the knife  -  Jul 24, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,The public reaction was violent repulsion. It was then obvious that I'd touched a nerve. I was the first artist to use surgery to question the habitual

The young brigade  -  Aug 13, 2007
Khaleej Times,So much so that one starts getting a feeling of repulsion. For me, it's like a failed marriage that has been dragged on over a period of 60 years,

Publish and debunk this relic of history  -  Jul 27, 2007
Times Online,Whatever he read into it then, we now know that by the 1930's, he yeilded a response of deeply held repulsion and obstinate resistance to Hitlers will,

Shock opera  -  Aug 10, 2007
commercialappeal.com (subscription),Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence." Getting to the Memphis premiere, indeed, was a controversial

Coil design confines plasma in stellarator fusion reactor  -  Aug 10, 2007
PhysOrg.com,When confined by a strong magnetic field in the vacuum of a fusion reactor, the isotopes can overcome their repulsion and combine, producing helium ions

Osprey News Archive Service  -  Aug 10, 2007
St. Catharines Standard,It shows a vivid, violent sequence of events involving General Isaac Brock and the repulsion of Americans from the Queenston area in a War of 1812 battle

An American Idiot in Paris  -  Aug 9, 2007
New York Sun,It is refreshing to see a female lead with quirks that run the risk of veering closer to repulsion than charm. Marion may be beautiful, but she is a strange

Scientists discover way of levitating small objects  -  Aug 9, 2007
NEWSFOOD.com Primo piano,...'In order to reduce friction in the nanoworld, turning nature's stickiness into repulsion could be the ultimate remedy. Instead of sticking together,

Valletta's Heritage  -  Aug 8, 2007
di-ve.com,The fort was again centre-stage in July 1941, in the repulsion of an Italian E-boat attack. Fort St. Elmo's days of vigilance are now over.

Celebrity Justice  -  Aug 8, 2007
Phoenix New Times,Interview starts by playing on our pieties about "serious" journalists vs. celebrity airheads, but the actors keep our sympathies — and our repulsion

Watering Can Blues  -  Aug 8, 2007
Monday Magazine,A sign on the magnificent Beacon Hill park facility over the long weekend said the tourist repulsion was “not operational,�? thanks to a “technical

Extreme vengeance  -  Aug 8, 2007
Catholic Online,This visceral, almost biological repulsion at the actions of those who prey on the defenseless has left us at times unable to judge when our own reaction

THE BRIDGE: Inactivism With Comfort  -  Aug 7, 2007
Eurweb.com,They prompt me to near violent regurgitation from the repulsion because I grew up in abject poverty, and I know damned well that I could not have risen

Becoming Jane  -  Aug 7, 2007
BostonNOW,Of course, this sudden crossing of that paper-thin line between repulsion and attraction is at the heart of most of Austen’s work. Overall Rating: 3 stars.

Quantum force manipulated to levitate objects  -  Aug 6, 2007
TECH.BLORGE.com,The two men used a specially developed lens, placed between two objects, to allow the reversal of the Casimir effect, thereby producing a repulsion between

The secret of levitation  -  Aug 6, 2007
ZDNet.com blogsWe show that the Casimir force of two conducting plates may turn from attraction to repulsion if a perfect lens is sandwiched between them.

‘Revolutionary’ levitation theory  -  Aug 6, 2007
p2pnet.net,...“In order to reduce friction in the nanoworld, turning nature’s stickiness into repulsion could be the ultimate remedy,�? said Professor Leonhardt.

Crowd is aiming at the stars  -  Aug 6, 2007
Worcester Telegram,During one experiment, Nathan placed in the box a vertical wooden rod with two ring-shaped magnets separated vertically by magnetic repulsion.

The Iron Mask - The Common Sources of Personality Disorders  -  Aug 5, 2007
أرابياDriven by the mortal fear of being abandoned or ignored, the personality disordered debases and demeans himself to the point of provoking repulsion in the

Full Text  -  Aug 2, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)In solution, repulsion between the blocks leads to a variety of morphologies, which are thermodynamically driven. Polyferrocenyldimethylsilane block

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