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MTs emanate from the microtubule organizing center at the centrosome and they grow and shrink in a highly dynamic and rapid polymerization-depolymerization process.

Since the microtubules grow and shrink in a stochastic manner known as dynamic instability [ 90], the mean length of microtubules (n av) is defined by the velocities of growth (v +) and shrinking (v -), the frequency of switching from growth to shrinking (f +-) and vice versa (f -+), as n av ≈ (v -v +)/(v -f +- - v +f -+) [ 91].

Thus, co-evolutionary signal may reside in gene families that are expanding and shrinking in a correlated manner.

With their endowments and contributions continuing to shrink in a sagging economy, the nation's private colleges and universities are raising tuition for the next academic year more sharply than in recent years, sometimes significantly so.

The lattice spacing expanded in the a-direction and shrank in the c-direction by adding Ti and Cr atoms with larger atomic radius into AlN structure, respectively.

About a psychiatrist who evaluated her rapist in prison and described him as "not a sexually dangerous person," she thinks: "I imagine this doctor's penis wilting and shrinking in terror, as small as a bean, and there is some satisfaction in this cruel thought.

Because gravitation is a warping of geometry, when a gravitational wave crosses a region of space it stretches distances in one direction and shrinks them in a perpendicular direction, in an oscillating fashion.

Morwood and his colleagues originally suggested that the small-brained hobbit was the descendant of a group of H. erectus that colonized Flores and then shrunk in an evolutionary process called "island dwarfism".

Now, with fuel prices almost double the level of a year ago, many big airlines have decided that less is more, and they are shrinking in a hurry.

If anything, conditions have grown worse, as the economy has deteriorated and state revenues have shrunk in a damaging climate of insecurity and a war raging next door in Libya, on the country's southern borders.

A spatio-temporal analysis has shown that the lake and adjacent wetlands are shrinking in a fast pace.