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Nonfiction Usage

Journalism Usage

United States - News: October 6, 2004 — Headline: Israelis, American Share Nobel Chemistry Prize. Excerpt: Aaron Ciechanover is director of the Rappaport Family Institute for Research in Medical Sciences at the Technion, in Haifa, Israel. Avram Hershko is a professor there. American Irwin Rose is a specialist at the department of physiology and biophysics at the college of medicine at the University of California in Irvine.

United States - News: November 13, 2007 — Headline: Biomedical Research Interests Student Studying at Columbia University. Author: Marsha James. Excerpt: Enkelejda Bashllari came to the United States as an exchange student on an academic program when she was seventeen. Now, the Albania native is in the city of New York furthering her education. “Currently, I am a PhD candidate at the Columbia University Medical Center studying for a very inter-disclipinary program in Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysics. I do Biomedical research and I am on a full scholarship to attend Columbia University.”.

Bibliographic Usage

A. Wells D., Loken M.R. Authors of "Flow cytometric mean fluorescence intensity: The biophysics behind the number," published in Leukemia Research, on November 19, 2007.

A.P. Liss. Publisher of "Membrane biophysics, structure and function in epithelia: a symposium held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, May 21-22, 1981." Editors, Mumtaz A. Dinno, Arthur B. Gallahan. Publisher: A.P. Liss (New York). Published in 1981.

Aaron R.K., Ciombor D.M., Wang S., Simon B. Authors of "Clinical biophysics: the promotion of skeletal repair by physical forces," published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1068, p. 513-31, in April 2006.

Abbruzzetti S., Bruno S., Faggiano S., Grandi E., Mozzarelli A., Viappiani C. Authors of "Time-resolved methods in Biophysics. 2. Monitoring haem proteins at work with nanosecond laser flash photolysis," published in Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences: Official Journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology, vol. 5, no. 12, p. 1109-20, in December 2006.

Abdelmohsen K., Stuhlmann D., Daubrawa F., Klotz L.O. Authors of "Dicumarol is a potent reversible inhibitor of gap junctional intercellular communication," published in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol. 434, no. 2, on February 15, 2005.

Abdus Sattar, A. K., et al. "Lyophyllum cinerascens aminopeptidase: purification and enzymatic properties" appears in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics written by A. K. Abdus Sattar, T. Yoshimoto and D. Tsuru. Published in October 1989.

Abillon, E. "Geometry of the five-membered ring mathematical demonstration of the pseudorotation formulae" appears in Biophysics of Structure and Mechanism written by E. Abillon. Published in 1982.

Ablondi, F. B., et al. "Inhibition of plasmin, trypsin and the streptokinase-activated fibrinolytic system by 6-aminocaproic acid" appears in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics written by F. B. Ablondi, J. J. Hagan, M. Philips and E. C. De Renzo. Published in May 1959.

• Preface iv
• Nonfiction Usage 1
• Journalism Usage 1
• Bibliographic Usage 1
• Encyclopedic Usage 364
• Lexicographic Usage 367
• Index 375