The pair of small wooden beads, one on each end of a leather thong ( string ), is worn around the neck as part of the Scout uniform.

Because Adenine and Thymine pair together in DNA, the poly ( A ) tail and synthetic beads are attracted to one another, and once they bind in this process the cell components can be washed away without removing the mRNA.

Frex sends his favorite child a " back-to-school " gift, a pair of shoes covered with hand-blown glass beads, a technique taught to him by Turtle Heart.

The sandang is a pair of long beaded strands, mostly with matching beads.

With these aids, and a pair of skiis substituting for wheels on the Waco, Bob Fogg made the first landing on what is now part of the Barre-Montpelier Airport on November 21, 1927.

Grant then made a few more albums before dropping out of college to pursue a career in music — Never Alone, followed by a pair of live albums in 1981 ( In Concert and In Concert Volume Two ), both backed by an augmented edition of the DeGarmo & Key band.

" Modern Love " and " China Girl " made number two in the UK, accompanied by a pair of acclaimed promotional videos that, as described by biographer David Buckley, " were totally absorbing and activated key archetypes in the pop world.

In it, a pair of inert electrodes usually made of platinum immersed in water act as anode and cathode in the electrolytic process.

In 1973 the number theorist Hugh Montgomery was visiting the Institute for Advanced Study and had just made his pair correlation conjecture concerning the distribution of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function.

" He also made visits to his sister at Headingley, during which he visited the Brontë Parsonage at Haworth, where he was " chiefly impressed by a pair of Charlotte Brontë's cloth-topped boots, very small, with square toes and lacing up at the sides.

Daishō made as a pair, mounted as a pair, and owned / worn as a pair, are therefore uncommon and considered highly valuable, especially if they still retain their original mountings ( as opposed to later mountings, even if the later mounts are made as a pair ).

In order to make money for his newly founded company, he made The Kingdom ( Riget, 1994 ) and The Kingdom II ( Riget II, 1997 ), a pair of miniseries recorded in the Danish national hospital, the name " Riget " being a colloquial name for the hospital known as Rigshospitalet ( lit.

The royal physician John Bradmore had such a tool made, which consisted of a pair of smooth tongs.

The earliest depictions show the pair love-making with some explicitness — more so than in any depictions of a human pair made by artists of high quality in the same period.

Protection in poker is a bet made with a strong but vulnerable hand, such as top pair when straight or flush draws are possible.

) If a hand is made up of a pair, it always scores higher than a non-pair, no matter what the value of the pips are.

Augustine wrote: That the good purpose of marriage, however, is better promoted by one husband with one wife, than by a husband with several wives, is shown plainly enough by the very first union of a married pair, which was made by the Divine Being Himself.

When a measurement is made and it causes one member of such a pair to take on a definite value ( e. g., clockwise spin ), the other member of this entangled pair will at any subsequent time be found to have taken the appropriately correlated value ( e. g., counterclockwise spin ).

Guildenstern tries to look on the bright side, while Rosencrantz makes it clear that the pair had made no progress, that Hamlet had entirely outwitted them.

The return spring tension may be adjusted to suit individual requirements by gripping the spring housing with a pair of pliers ( to prevent the spring from unwinding when it is released ), loosening the lock nut or screw, and rotating the housing until the desired tension is achieved.

while projecting from beneath the couch were a pair of feet which, as Fate would have it, belonged to District Attorney Welch.

In repetitions of the experiment from couple to couple, the votes of the two persons in a couple probably agree more often than independence would imply, because couples who visit the museum together are more likely to have similar tastes than are a random pair of people drawn from the entire population of visitors.

later he flees in panic from the family table just as his theft is about to be discovered and is blocked at the front door by a soldier who accusingly holds out a pair of handcuffs which he has brought to Gargery's forge for mending.

And watch for a headline from this pair any time now.

Pond-type larvae often have a pair of balancers, rod-like structures on either side of the head which perhaps prevent the gills from getting clogged up with bottom sediment.

A Lewis acid is a species that accepts a pair of electrons from another species ; in other words, it is an electron pair acceptor.

Fluoride " loses " a pair of valence electrons because the electrons shared in the B — F bond are located in the region of space between the two atomic nuclei and are therefore more distant from the fluoride nucleus than they are in the lone fluoride ion.

BF < sub > 3 </ sub > is a Lewis acid because it accepts the electron pair from fluoride.

A proton is transferred from an unspecified Brønsted acid to ammonia, a Brønsted base ; alternatively, ammonia acts as a Lewis base and transfers a lone pair of electrons to form a bond with a hydrogen ion.

For example for any ( even infinite ) collection of pairs of shoes, one can pick out the left shoe from each pair to obtain an appropriate selection, but for an infinite collection of pairs of socks ( assumed to have no distinguishing features ), such a selection can be obtained only by invoking the axiom of choice.

The pair are attested in both the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.

Autosomes appear in pairs whose members have the same form but which differ from other pairs in a diploid cell, whereas members of an allosome pair may differ from one another and thereby determine sex.

Although he uses the terms interchangeably, remarks that, for example, the final glides of English par and buy differ from French par (' through ') and baille (' tub ') in that, in the latter pair, the approximants appear in the syllable coda, whereas, in the former, they appear in the syllable nucleus.

After exiting Orion, the pair drove the lunar rover away from the LM before adjusting their heading to travel to North Ray Crater.

This signal would be fed into the sound card audio input of the PC, and Banpaia would decode the ESN / MIN pair from this signal and display it on the screen.

Most cantilever bridges use a pair of continuous spans that extend from opposite sides of the supporting piers to meet at the center of the obstacle the bridge crosses.

They have 10 – 32 trunk segments, decreasing in size from front to back, and each bears a pair of legs which also carry gills.

* The first Christmas special featured the pair sitting in front of the television providing crude commentary on various aspects of Christmas, and commenting on Christmas-themed music videos from various artists.

Whenever possible, a pair will adopt an ideal attacking formation with one player hitting down from the rearcourt, and his partner in the midcourt intercepting all smash returns except the lift.

In mathematics, the Borsuk – Ulam theorem, named after Stanisław Ulam and Karol Borsuk, states that every continuous function from an n-sphere into Euclidean n-space maps some pair of antipodal points to the same point.

This sea eagle has two known sub-species and forms a species pair with the White-tailed Eagle.

In the Lebor Gabála, Gainne & Rea were the names of the pair of horses belonging to the king of the isle of Sicily the ( Tyrrhene sea ), which Lug demanded as éric from the sons of Tuirill Briccreo.

These incubation shifts can last days and even weeks as one member of the pair feeds at sea.

In the Aeneid, a pair of sea serpents killed Laocoön and his sons when Laocoön argued against bringing the Trojan Horse into Troy.

The sea was calmed by Poseidon and at the request of Zeus the pair survived.

In her sea bird form, she flies with a flock of enchanted birds, with each pair joined together by a silver chain.

They are notorious for boring into ( and commonly eventually destroying ) wood that is immersed in sea water, including such structures as wooden piers, docks and ships ; they drill passages by means of a pair of very small shells borne at one end, with which they rasp their way through.

If, for example, a pair of atomic nuclei are merged to very briefly form a nucleus with a charge greater than about 140, ( that is, larger than about the inverse of the fine structure constant, which is a dimensionless quantity ), the strength of the electric field will be such that it will be energetically favorable to create positron-electron pairs out of the vacuum or Dirac sea, with the electron attracted to the nucleus to annihilate the positive charge.

" The first white-tailed sea eagle breeding pair since 1912 nested 100 years later on Lough Derg ( Loch Deirgeirt ) marking a great success for the Irish reintroduction programme.

During the return to New York from this expedition, Beebe continued to dredge animals from the sea, using a pair of new devices he had devised to assist himself with this: a " pulpit ", an iron cage affixed to the bow of the ship that enabled its occupant to examine the surface of the sea more closely ; and a " boom walk ", a boom jutting from the side of the ship from which he suspended himself.

For instance, on Earth the horizontal plane at a given point ( as determined by a pair of spirit levels ) changes with the position of the Moon ( air, sea and land tides ).

The coloring and shape of the pygmy right whale, dark gray dorsally and lighter gray ventrally, commonly with a pair of chevron-shaped lighter patches behind the eyes, is similar to that of the dwarf minke and Antarctic minke whales and at sea may easily be confused with these two species if the jaw and flippers are not carefully observed.

Eagles defend their territory vigorously, and a pair of sea eagles are shown engaging in an aerial battle.

Pi recounts that after an indeterminate time at sea, the pair encountered a mysterious island, seemingly constructed of edible algae supporting a forest and a large population of meerkats.

An Earth battery is a pair of electrodes made of two dissimilar metals, such as iron and copper, which are buried in the soil or immersed in the sea.

This makes it so that in a pair of two mating sea slugs it is impossible for either of the slugs to act as both male and female at the same time.

This is a reference to one of a pair of sea monsters in Homer's Odyssey.

Open the sea urchins with a pair of scissors and remove the Corail with a small spoon.

*** Description: black sea slug with yellow warts on a white background ; the mantle encloses the bubble-shaped fragile shell ; there is a pair of enrolled rhinophores on the head ; the eyes are the two black spots on the head, just in front of the shell ;

A pair of bronze figures on the promenade by the pier depicts the idea of families welcoming back the fishermen from sea.

The image was not computer-generated ; rather, Thorgerson built a platform, employed a pair of models, and placed them in the sea off Chamber Sands in England to get the photograph.

Other scenes show the birth of Aphrodite, often raised in a conch shell by a pair of sea centaurs, and accompanied by fishing Erotes ( winged love gods ).

Having thought he was finished, a pair of wire cutters slips from Wren's hands and falls into the sea just before he discovers a last wire as the remaining seconds tick away.