The only mechanical device that can with some probability be assigned to Archytas, apart from the children's toy known as a "clapper" (A10), is an automaton in the form of a wooden dove, which was connected to a pulley and counterweight and "flew" up from a lower perch to a higher one, when set in motion by a puff of air (A10a).
No Valkyries or Rhinemaidens or gods were around, just stagehands assigned to take it apart and send it off to storage.
Partial sequencing of the 26S rRNA gene resulted in 36 different sequences, they could be assigned to 16 genera, apart from two sequence types (from three isolates), which were not clearly assigned to any genus.
Read for pleasure -- apart from assigned school reading -- every day?
Roche's assembly software [29], which allows reads to be split apart and assigned to different contigs, performed well with de novo assemblies of 454-FLX shotgun libraries.
Finally, individuals assigned to all classes apart from the high baseline cognition group tended to have lower levels of late-life social engagement.
As the follow-up visits were two or three years apart, we assigned the midpoint of the time interval between two follow-up visits as the index date for dementia.
Interestingly, apart from assigned Y-HG Q5 (33.3%, 5/15) samples and the only one individual representing Q1 lineage, there were Y-HG Q bearing (60%, 9/15) samples, representing none of the known Q subgroups and designated as Q*.
The word, allocate, means to set apart, assign, or allot for a particular purpose.
