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the lak
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An ethnic group who live primarily in southern Dagestan, Russia.
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Inspection of the key structural features of the LAK motif prompted the de novo design and combinatorial synthesis of a 13-membered solid-phase ligand library, employing as a lead ligand the Phe-Trz-X structure, mimicking the LAK motif.
De novo ligand design was effected using bioinformatics and molecular modeling and based on mimicking the interactions of the LAK motif.
In other words, the Lak population is close to Lurs Khorramabadi and Kurd but far from Lurs Kohkiloyeh/Boyerahmad and Bakhtiari.
The most important ethnic groups in Fārs are the Qashqāʾī (Kashgai) of Turkic origin and speech, the Khamseh of Arab and Turkic stock, and the Lak, who speak an East Caucasian language.
Our results based on HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DQB1 allele frequencies showed that the Lak population possesses the previously reported general features of the Lur and Kurd populations but still with unique, decreased or increased frequencies of several alleles.
For years, whether they were of Sinhalese origin, like the owner of the Lak Bojun restaurant on Victory Boulevard, or part of the Tamil minority, like a doctor who has long relished the curries there, they counted each other as friends — and never talked politics.
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The Dagestanian division is more multifarious and includes such groups as the Avar-Andi-Dido languages, the Lak-Dargin (Lak-Dargwa) languages, and the Lezgian languages.
The Laks memory watch is more than just a pretty face: it incorporates a flash memory chip of up to 256 megabytes in a slim quartz timepiece with a U.S.B. connector cord nestled in the watchband.
The LAKs reciprocally matured DCs, and the combination of LAKs and DCs, on addition of melanoma cells, supported priming of specific anti-tumour CTLs better than DCs alone.
In the city, the three main ethnic groups called the Kurds (in majority), the Fars and the Laks (minority) cohabit.
The Kurds, who also live in Iraq and Turkey, and the Laks live only in the western part of Iran – where Kermanshah is situated – and the Fars are in the majority in most of the rest of the country.
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