In Brief: International Year of Chemistry

Celebrating the international year of chemistry.

the soft-clipped part of a read, the read sequence that does not map to the same location as the rest of the read, to identify breakpoints of structural variations. When applied to several cases of pediatric leukemia, CREST found all major types of structural variations with a validation rate of over 80%. Membrane proteins are notoriously difficult to study mostly because of their requirement o...

International Year of Chemistry 2011: Clinical Chemistry celebrates.

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have designated 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry (IYC2011). This special designation is meant to celebrate the achievements of chemistry and its contributions to mankind and is aimed at, under the unifying theme of “chemistry— our life, our ...

a contrastive study of rhetorical functions of citation in iranian and international elt scopus journals

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...

International Year of Astronomy. A brief history of the telescope.

2011—the year of Maria Skłodowska-Curie in the International Year of Chemistry

Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867–1934) [1] Maria Skłodowska-Curie is the only scientist in history to receive the Nobel Prize twice, once in Physics (1903) for the discovery of radioactivity and once in Chemistry (1911) for the discovery of polonium and radium and studies concerning the nature of these elements. Scientific work, which she started together with her husband Pierre Curie and continued...