Page A16 Obituaries ELLIOT HANDLER, 95 He co-founded the Mattel company and designed the plastic toys that have filled millions of Christmas stockings and made dinner parties possible by occupying otherwise fidgety children.
Elliot Handler, who co-founded the Mattel toy company and designed the plastic playthings that have filled millions of Christmas stockings, made dinner parties possible by occupying otherwise fidgety children, and stubbed countless parents' toes, died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles.
The functions of biomacromolecules usually depend on interactions with other biomacromolecules as well as ions and small molecules, such as water, messenger and endogenous compounds, pollutants and drugs, which can occupy "otherwise empty spaces" in biomacromolecular structures [1].
As the keeping of livestock spread throughout the world, the cattle egret was able to occupy otherwise empty niches.
These results strongly suggest that at increased FtsZ expression levels the Z-ring becomes denser because additional FtsZ molecules occupy otherwise empty space inside the Z-ring instead of aggregating onto existing FtsZ protofilaments.
Stronger competitors or predators or the absence of prey or other food sources could prevent species from occupying otherwise suitable habitats.
