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Just off Via della Scrofa is an old tower called Torre della Scimmia . A votive lamp permanently lit on this tower commemorates the miraculous rescue of a baby girl from a scimmia `pet monkey' that had carried her off to its top.
In addition to the Presidential Candidate Selector, the company offers a Lawn Grass Selector, a Pet Selector, a Hair Products Selector, and a Contraception Selector.
3 [ 43 ] . Methylphenidate, the primary stimulant used in pharmacological treatment of ADHD, was shown by PET imaging to block the dopamine transporter [ 44 ] . ADHD patients have also been found to show higher levels of DAT1 in the striatum [ 45 ] . The most well studied polymorphism is a VNTR in the 3' untranslated region of the DAT gene [ 46 ] . Since this VNTR is not in the coding region of the DAT gene, it does not affect the protein sequence of the dopamine transporter, but may affect the translational efficiency and thus the amount of protein expressed.
There is a range of theories involving fatal encounters with Jews, among them 1) a Jewish doctor who incompetently caused the death of his mother during cancer treatment; 2) a Jewish music teacher who seduced his half-niece and somehow incited her suicide; and 3) a Jewish prostitute who gave Hitler syphilis (this is a pet notion of the Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal).
In the post-Soviet era, the adjective merely denotes a hard worker, though there's a slight hint that one's being accused of being the teacher's pet.