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Capacities

Capacity

power or ability to hold, retain or contain or the ability to absorb.

Origin: L. Capacitas, from capere = to take


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Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)

... Rushton (1992a) examined a stratified random sample of 6,325 U.S. Army personnel and calculated that for Asians, Whites, and Blacks, cranial capacities corrected for body size averaged 1,416, 1,380, and 1,359 cm3, respectively (Figure 4). In an examination of averaged measurements from tens ...

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by TJJ
Fri May 16, 2008 12:17 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)
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Re: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)

... and width) than did unskilled groups. The results were striking for men but less clear-cut for women. Rushton and Ankney (1996) calculated cranial capacities from Johnson et al.s (1985) summary of Galtons head-size data and found that cranial capacity increased from unskilled to professional classes ...

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by TJJ
Fri May 16, 2008 12:13 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)
Replies: 18
Views: 12508

Re: In Vitro Meat - meat of the future?

... a functional heart in vitro, is probably still far away. This being said, edible, artificial meat probably doesn't require that much functional capacities, just that it looks, tastes and feels about like normal meat. This shouldn't be as demanding technically: you could just attach your engineered ...

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by biohazard
Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:11 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: In Vitro Meat - meat of the future?
Replies: 1
Views: 463

Re: What is a Bioreactor?

... are used synonymously. And what comes to the size of bioreactors - they are not always small scale at all: some industrial bioreactors can have capacities of thousands of litres, and therefore the term 'bioreactor' has nothing to do with size.

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by biohazard
Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:46 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: What is a Bioreactor?
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Views: 1179

New DNA manipulation program (freeware)

... my hand at programming and designed/wrote a program with what I considered were the most important and missing features ( within the limits of my capacities :) ) The result came out quite good, and I am using it a lot. With the help of the university I set up a website where it can be downloaded ...

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by loustau
Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:27 pm
 
Forum: Bioinformatics
Topic: New DNA manipulation program (freeware)
Replies: 11
Views: 2751
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