Example sentences for: peaks

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  • The road commands sweeping views of the coast and countryside, and on a clear day the eye is inevitably drawn to the twin peaks flanking the Strait of Gibraltar — the Rock of Gibraltar on the right, and Morocco’s Jebel Musa on the left.

  • Recently, the use of surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization (SELDI) time-of-flight mass spectrometry profiling of patient serum proteins, combined with advanced data mining algorithms, to detect protein patterns associated with malignancy, has been reported as a promising field of research to achieve the goal of early cancer detection [ 1 2 3 4 5 ] . Several reports have detailed the ability of this proteomic method to diagnose the difference between ovarian cancer [ 6 7 8 ] , prostate cancer [ 9 10 11 12 13 ] , and bladder cancer [ 13 14 ] . Much of the effort in these analyses has focused on the use of a variety of data mining tools such as the evaluation of prostate cancer using peaks in the mass to charge (M/Z) region between 2 K and 40 K combined with boosted decision tree analysis [ 10 ] to try to detect patterns that allow the diagnosis of cancer versus non-cancer.

  • It was on one of its highest peaks, Mount Sinai (Gebel Musa), that Moses received the word of God written down as the Ten Commandments.

  • When viewed in VISTA plot alignments [ 35 ] , miRNA genes reside in short regions of exceptional conservation, easily seen as local 'peaks' (Figure 1).

  • The researchers checked to see whether peaks in such events occurred not just according to the phase of the moon but also according to one's zodiac sign or numerological readings (as "calculated according to the formulas contained in Zolar's Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge ").


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