The eponymous organism in Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain is described as reproducing via the direct conversion of energy into matter.

Much of the music by the band The Acacia Strain is written from a nihilistic point of view.

It is used to examine electronic standing stones in The Deviant Strain.

The Sentinel ( published 1982 ) is also the title of a collection of Arthur C. Clarke short stories, including the eponymous " The Sentinel ", " Guardian Angel " ( the inspiration for his Childhood's End ), " The Songs of Distant Earth ", and " Breaking Strain ".

The heroine, Julie, was inspired by Julie Strain, who provided the voice for the heroine in the movie, and the game is linked to Heavy Metal magazine.

The Andromeda Strain ( 1969 ), by Michael Crichton, is a techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism that rapidly and fatally clots human blood, while in other people inducing insanity.

Musically, the novel's wider, cultural influence is evidenced in the science fiction, death metal band Nocturnus who sing, inspired by the novel, the " Andromeda Strain " on their début album, The Key ; the Progressive metal band Shadow Gallery have a song titled " The Andromeda Strain ," about genetically engineered biological weapons, on their album Room V ; and Klaus Schulze has a concert recording titled " Andromeda Strain.

Judging from hyperthermophile organisms, the temperature limit is at about 120 ° C ( the recently discovered Strain 121 can reproduce at 121 ° C ), which limits the possible depth to 4-4. 5 km below the continental crust, and 7 or 7. 5 km below the ocean floor.

( Strain is one of the few artists in popular music history who is a double RRHOF inductee: with The O ' Jays in 2005, and The Imperials in 2009 ).

* Strain of public resources and schools: This reason is given for any increase in the local area's population, as additional school facilities might be needed for the additional children, but particularly to projects that might result in certain kinds of people joining the community, such as a group home for people with disabilities, or immigrants.

* Strain or reduced deformation is a mathematical term that expresses the trend of the deformation change among the material field.

Strain is the deformation per unit length.

Meanwhile, although Elixir is able to heal all of Warren's injuries, he cannot regrow his wings due to interference from the Apocalypse Strain.

Strain theory is associated mainly with the work of Robert Merton.

Strain theory holds that crime is caused by the difficulty those in poverty have in achieving socially valued goals by legitimate means.

They have observed the weakening of primary social relationships and relate this to a process of social disorganization ( comparison with the concept of anomie and the Strain Theories is instructive ).

In Guillermo del Toro's and Chuck Hogan's The Fall, the second installment of The Strain trilogy, Dr. Ephraim Goodweather's son, Zack, is described as being " born in the caul ".

* The Andromeda Strain: The microbiological laboratory where the story takes place is equipped with a nuclear device capable of destroying the facility ; this device activates automatically and can only be disarmed by the team member specified according to the Odd-Man Hypothesis, so that the area will be cauterized and the release of any infectious agent prevented even if it has wiped out the entire personnel of the base.

Silent Running is a 1972 environmentally-themed American science fiction film starring Bruce Dern and directed by Douglas Trumbull, who had previously worked as a special effects supervisor on science fiction films including 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Andromeda Strain.

An extraordinary heat-tolerant hyperthermophile is the recently discovered Strain 121 which has been able to double its population during 24 hours in an autoclave at 121 ° C ( hence its name ); the current record growth temperature is 122 ° C, for Methanopyrus kandleri.

By this time, Sammy Strain and Ernest Wright had left the group, although both would eventually return.

* In the games Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain and the original Syphon Filter both end with either the player or Gabe Logan having to disarm a nuclear missile.

* A secret underground biological testing facility in both the book The Andromeda Strain and the film made from the book

Plato was born Dana Michelle Strain on November 7, 1964, in Maywood, California, to Linda Strain, an unwed 16-year-old, who was already caring for an 18-month-old.

Strain gauges were mounted on each leg shock absorber to record the peak axial forces at landing impact of the spacecraft.

Strain on the right ventricle may be detected as a left parasternal heave, a loud pulmonary component of the second heart sound, and raised jugular venous pressure.

The microbe, temporarily named Strain 121, which was found away from Puget Sound in a hydrothermal vent, may provide clues to when and where life first evolved on Earth.

In The Judas Strain ( A novel by James Rollins ): The characters are on a journey to find a cure for a plague, and are following in the steps of Marco Polo.

But the fact that these theories focus on the absence of control or the barriers to progress, means that they are ignoring the societal pressures and cultural values that drive the system Merton identified in the Strain Theory or the motivational forces Cohen proposed were generating crime and delinquency.

In 2008, McCormack co-starred in A & E's television mini-series The Andromeda Strain, a remake of the 1971 movie based on the novel by Michael Crichton.

* " Dreamscape ", a song on In Flames's 1994 album Lunar Strain

* Strain gauges and load cells on the stay cables and their gussets

The group's, Wire Train ( 1990 ) and No Soul No Strain ( 1992 ), appeared on MCA Records.

Having returned to Hollywood, Trumbull set up his own company and subsequently bid on the job to produce special effects for the science-fiction film The Andromeda Strain.

Arthur C. Clarke's 1949 short story Breaking Strain is based on two people on a spacecraft and only one can live.

Improvisational Jazz musician and composer Roswell Rudd later collaborated with Lomax and Paulay on an unpublished study called the Urban Strain that used Cantometric and Choreometric analysis to study commercially produced twentieth century American popular music and dance.

The second batch of Ninth Doctor novels — comprising The Deviant Strain, Only Human and The Stealers of Dreams — were released in September 2005 and expand on the Doctor and Rose's travels with Jack Harkness.

Strain provides a time limit on how long Tempo can maintain a major time manipulation.

; Piezoresistive Strain Gage

L. tulipifera ' Florida Strain ' -- fast-growing early bloomer ; leaves have round lobes

Kelly's film credits include the Bob Fosse-directed film Sweet Charity ; Soylent Green ; The Spook Who Sat By The Door ; The Andromeda Strain ; Uptown Saturday Night ; Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling ; Drop Squad ; and Once Upon A Time.

On the US LP version, " Sinking Island " and " Time In A Glass " are dropped ; " I Found You " and " The Strain " are added ; and the track order is resequenced.

Lieutenant Strain was a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; the Historical and Geographical Institute of Brazil ; and the American Ethnological Society of New York.

* Strain, Isaac G .; Cordillera and Pampa, Mountain and Plain: Sketches of a Journey in Chili and The Argentine Provinces in 1849, New York: Horace H. Moore, 1853 ; Lightning Source, Inc., 2007, ISBN 0-548-37275-6 ; ISBN 978-0-548-37275-3.

Strain 116 was discovered in black smoker fluid of the Kairei hydrothermal field ; it can survive and reproduce at 122 ° C.

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