Engineering miRNA features into siRNAs: Guide-strand bulges are compatible with gene repression
Synthetic siRNA guide strands are typically designed with perfect complementarity to the passenger strand and the target mRNA. We examined whether siRNAs with intentional guide-strand bulges are functional in vitro and in vivo. Importantly, this was done
Judith Hauptmann +4 more
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Digital transformation and post-Covid-19 education in South Africa: a review of literature
Little thought or speculation was given to the possibilities of digital transformation for basic education until the global Covid-19 pandemic acted as a catalyst for digital transformation in education.
Silence Chomunorwa +2 more
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Educator perspectives on the use of technology in schools in previously disadvantaged communities
Technology plays a crucial role in education and many other sectors of the economy. The national lockdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has made apparent the importance of technology in education, with schools that adopted technologies continuing with ...
Silence Chomunorwa +2 more
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Less Is More: Novel Hepatocyte-Targeted siRNA Conjugates for Treatment of Liver-Related Disorders
N-acetyl-galactosamine (GalNAc) conjugation enhances liver specificity for therapeutic oligonucleotides. Here we report on a novel design with improved activity and stability compared with a triantennary design.
Adrien Weingärtner +4 more
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Cognitive Repesentations about Experiences of Organizational Silence: A Phenomenological Study in The Islamic Culture and Guidance Office of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province [PDF]
Background & Purpose: avoiding from expressing ideas and sharing knowledge and information deprives the organization from a great deal achievements. For this reason, it is necessary to know its causes and consequences of this study was to identify the ...
Abbas Gheadamini +2 more
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The Relationship Between Corporate Identity and Organizational Silence [PDF]
Organizational silence and corporate identity are challenging concepts for organizations. The the purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between organizational identity and the organizational silence of Bandar Abbas municipality ...
Hesameddin Kamalzade, Fahime Liaghat
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Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects of Silence: A Structural Model of Communication
Introduction. This work examines the role of silence along the lines of the theoretical considerations suggested by L. Wittgenstein and M. Heidegger. It also focuses on the role of communicative silence in each of the six functions of language in the ...
N. F. Shcherbak, V. I. Potienko
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THE CONCEPT OF HUMOR IN LIN YUTANG’S WRITING “MY COUNTRY AND MY PEOPLE” [PDF]
The aim of the article is to analyze the concept of humor in lin Yutang’s writing “My Country and My People”. Lin Yutang is a Sino-American writer best known for his research of comic category in the literary and, in general, cultural traditions of ...
Olena A. Mashchenko
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Evaluation of Mechanical and Control Systems Serving the Art Museums at Colonial Williamsburg [PDF]
This NEH planning grant would be used to evaluate mechanical and control systems serving the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, with the goals of a) developing a plan to replace and upgrade systems and
Patricia Silence, Patricia Silence
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We need to talk about silence: Re-examining silence in International Relations theory [PDF]
The critique of silence in International Relations theory has been long-standing and sustained. However, despite the lasting popularity of the term, little effort has been made to unpack the implications of existing definitions and their uses, and of ...
Dingli, Sophia
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