Topic “probes”
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2008-10-09
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Bank of America, RBC Settle Probes
Weeks after eight other large investment banks similarly settled their own investigations, Bank of America has reportedly agreed to buy back as much as $4.7 billion in auction-rate securities in an effort to resolve allegations that the bank misled investors. read
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GFP wins Nobel Prize! [Pharyngula]
[…] stuck in here", and also to allow us to visualize the morphology of individual cells, which is all very useful, and there's quite an industry built around making new probes of this sort. GFP is different. It allows one to use the molecular biology of the cell to generate your green glowing compound. If you want to know when and where a particular gene of interest is expressed, for instance, you just make a construct that couples the regulatory elements of that gene to a GFP gene, and presto, […] read
2008-10-08
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FCC probes role of military analysts in war-related broadcasts
Federal regulators are looking into allegations that a number of military analysts failed to disclose their ties to the Pentagon when they appeared on television to discuss the Iraq war, according to U.S. News & World Report. "In its letter signed by the chief of the investigations and hearings division enforcement bureau, the FCC suggests that TV stations and networks may have violated two sections of the Communications Act of 1934 by not identifying the... read
2008-10-05
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SEC Probes Denied Report on Apple CEO
An Internet report claiming that Apple Inc chief executive Steve Jobs has had a heart attack is not true, the company said on Friday. read
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907 accused of fraud over Katrina, Rita claims; U.S. probes Ike, Gustav reports
The Justice Department reports that 907 people nationwide are facing fraud charges related to contracts or claims for Hurricanes Katrina or Rita. The department's Katrina Fraud Task Force also is investigating 667 calls relating to possible fraud from Hurricane Gustav and 466 complaints regarding Hurricane Ike, The Times-Picayune of New Orleans writes. One indictment alleges a false claim in Galveston for Hurricane Ike from a woman the Justice Department accuses of filing a fraudulent claim... read
2008-10-03
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Apple probes poison-pumping Mac claim
Yet to find toxins in 'new computer' niff Apple has found "no evidence" to justify a claim that new Macs are releasing toxic gases, it said yesterday.… read
2008-10-02
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Yet Another Slick Sarah Palin Secret E-Mail Account
[…] campaign account, with access confined to "a group of people, her closest confidants and co-workers and advisers and the person she sleeps with." The existence of additional private e-mail accounts may affect two state probes into whether Palin, her husband and her staff attempted to influence the job status of a state trooper who divorced Palin's sister. "Fresh face," my ass. Sarah Palin is every bit the sneak and the snake in the grass as the rest of the rotted-out Republican gang. read
2008-10-01
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Regulon organization of Arabidopsis
[…] this model plant, the organization of expression of Arabidopsis genome is only partially understood. Here, we create a coexpression network from a 22,746 Affymetrix probes dataset derived from 963 microarray chips that query the transcriptome in response to a wide variety of environmentally, genetically, and developmentally induced perturbations. Results: Markov chain graph clustering of the coexpression network delineates 998 regulons ranging from one to 1623 genes in size. To assess the […] read
2008-09-30
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U.S. probes Fannie, Freddie
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2008-09-27
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Dion Wins Lucelia Prize With Edgy Pseudo-Exhibits
Organizing a career retrospective of artist Mark Dion wouldn't be easy. His work probes the whole idea of the museum show and sometimes even takes the form of pseudo-exhibitions. Put on a show of Dion's displays and you risk an infinite regress, like looking at a mirror in a mirror. read