The International Bible Students Association ( precursor to Jehovah's Witnesses ) identified Abaddon as Satan in the 1917 seventh and final volume of Millennial Dawn, to which Charles Taze Russell's name was attached ( although his authorship of the work is doubted ).

His final work of the 1950s, Walking serves as a precursor to the 1960s: civil rights movement.

The precursor to modern-day Perryville was Harbeson's Station, a fort alongside the Chaplin River, settled during the final stages of the American Revolution.

In January 1997, Norman won his largest winner's check to date, one million dollars, when he won the Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf ( the precursor to the WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship ), making birdie on the last hole to defeat Scott Hoch in the 36-hole final.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

For synthetic polymers such as rayon or PAN, the precursor is first spun into filaments, using chemical and mechanical processes to initially align the polymer atoms in a way to enhance the final physical properties of the completed carbon fiber.

The process begins with an N-O or N-S shift when the side chain of the first residue ( a serine, threonine, or cysteine ) of the intein portion of the precursor protein nucleophilically attacks the peptide bond of the residue immediately upstream ( that is, the final residue of the N-extein ) to form a linear ester ( or thioester ) intermediate.

Chlorosarin is a chemical precursor used in the final step of one method for the production of the nerve agent Sarin.

Keval Gnan is a state of permanent, perpetual, absolute knowledge of the Soul ; it is the precursor to moksha, final liberation from samsara, the cycle of birth and death.

The strangest of all might be the qualification in the final of the Mitropa Cup ( precursor of the UEFA Champions League, ) at a moment when the competition was taking its last breath.

The final product is an aromatic hydroxy acid which is also known as salicylic acid ( the precursor to aspirin ).

His loose brushstrokes seem precursor to rococo styles of Guardi brothers. This final style, along with that of other " foreign " painters residing in Venice, Domenico Fetti and Bernardo Strozzi, represent the first inroads of Baroque style into the republic.

The team under Teichmann also finished in second place in 1993 and 1999 and made it to the final of the Super 10 ( the precursor to the Super 12 and Super 14 ) competition in 1994.

As a first approximation, it is possible to view introns as unimportant sequences whose only function is to be removed from an unspliced precursor RNA in order to generate the functional mRNA, rRNA or tRNA product.

In contrast to the model based on functional morphology described earlier, in the Epitheliozoa concept the ventral and dorsal cell layers of the Placozoa are homologs of endoderm and ectoderm, the two basic embryonic cell layers of the eumetazoans — the digestive gastrodermis in the Cnidaria or the gut epithelium in the bilaterally symmetrical Bilateria may have developed from endoderm, whereas ectoderm is, among other things, the precursor to the external skin layer ( epidermis ).

Selective alkylation, or adding parts to the chain with the desired functional groups, is used, especially if there is no commonly available biological precursor.

Another unique type of glial cell, the oligodendrocyte precursor cells or OPCs, have very well-defined and functional synapses from at least two major groups of neurons.

Iso-thio-cyanates are an important factor in the action of Wasabi against Helicobacter Pylori, and ITC is not a molecule, but a functional group on many different molecules, Sinigrin being a notable precursor of allyl-ITC, and AITC being a larger part of Wasabi than of most other Brassicaceae.

In RFT, functional contextualism is applied as a means for extending B. F. Skinner's radical behaviorism to account for the emergence of complex cognitive and language competencies and capabilities from more basic, precursor learning processes.

Bulletin board systems were in many ways a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web, social network services and other aspects of the Internet.

Attested as early as the late 15th century BC, it is the earliest known form of Greek ( its precursor, Linear A, has not been deciphered to this day ).

Representative ketones, from the left: acetone, a common solvent ; Oxaloacetic acid | oxaloacetate, an intermediate in the Krebs Cycle | metabolism of sugars ; acetylacetone in its ( mono ) enol form ( the enol highlighted in blue ); cyclohexanone, precursor to Nylon ; muscone, an animal scent ; and tetracycline, an antibiotic.

Ex-Legionnaires, idealistic reformers, and former Lopiztas joined in July 1887 to form the Centro Democrático ( Democratic Center ), a precursor of the Liberal party, to demand free elections, an end to land sales, civilian control over the military, and clean government.

Proteins are often synthesized in an inactive precursor form ; typically, an N-terminal or C-terminal segment blocks the active site of the protein, inhibiting its function.

Proinsulin is necessary for the folding of the polypeptide chain as the 2 polypeptide chains of insulin may not correctly assemble into the correct form while its precursor proinsulin do.

At first, an immature form of the virus particle is produced inside the ER, whose M-protein is not yet cleaved to its mature form and is therefore denoted as prM ( precursor M ) and forms a complex with protein E. The immature particles are processed in the Golgi apparatus by the host protein furin, which cleaves prM to M. This releases E from the complex which can now take its place in the mature, infectious virion.

Niacin synthesis is also deficient in carcinoid syndrome, because of metabolic diversion of its precursor tryptophan to form serotonin.

Wonder Woman has employed cloaking technology in comics since 1942 in the form of her Invisible plane, likely the precursor to all cloaking devices.

The caryatid is the female precursor of this architectural form in Greece, a woman standing — without effort — in the place of each column or pillar.

" Nevertheless, modern opinion has tended to regard Ingres and the other Neoclassicists of his era as embodying the Romantic spirit of his time, while his expressive distortions of form and space make him an important precursor of modern art.

Retinol in turn is ingested in a precursor form ; animal sources ( liver and eggs ) contain retinyl esters, whereas plants ( carrots, spinach ) contain pro-vitamin A carotenoids ( these may also be considered simply vitamin A ).

The supplement 5-HTP ( a hydroxylated form of tryptophan and a precursor to serotonin ) remains widely available.

*** adipic acid-a 6-carbon dicarboxylic acid, which can be a precursor used as a co-monomer together with a diamine to form an alternating copolymer form of nylon.

It may have probably been devised out of the game of Hocca, Hoca or even Hoc, considered the precursor and an outlawed form of Italian roulette at which people lost considerable sums of money and also an early iteration of Biribi, which was brought into fashion by Cardinal Mazarin.

It could be considered the precursor to the hard disk platter, but in the form of a drum rather than a flat disk.

Schwab resigned from U. S. Steel in 1903 to form Bethlehem Steel, which became the second largest U. S. producer on the strength of such innovations as the wide flange " H " beam — precursor to the I-beam — widely used in construction.

In women with PMDD — which supporters of the medical model of PMS say is a severe form of PMS, and critics say is unrelated — studies have shown a correlation between self-reported emotional distress and levels of a serotonin precursor as measured by positron emission tomography ( PET ).

Collagen is exocytosed in precursor form ( procollagen ), which is then cleaved by procollagen proteases to allow extracellular assembly.

In its natural form, fibrinogen can form bridges between platelets, by binding to their GpIIb / IIIa surface membrane proteins ; however, its major function is as the precursor to fibrin.

The historian David Sturdy has cautioned about regarding the fyrd as a precursor to a modern national army composed of all ranks of society, describing it as a " ridiculous fantasy ": The persistent old belief that peasants and small farmers gathered to form a national army or fyrd is a strange delusion dreamt up by antiquarians in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries to justify universal military conscription.

Chymotrypsin is synthesized in the pancreas by protein biosynthesis as a precursor called chymotrypsinogen that is enzymatically inactive.

Alternative splicing of introns within a gene acts to introduce greater variability of protein sequences translated from a single gene, allowing multiple related proteins to be generated from a single gene and a single precursor mRNA transcript.

When a protein must be available on short notice or in large quantities, a protein precursor is produced.

The presequence translocase23 ( TIM23 ) is localized to the mitochondial inner membrane and acts a pore forming protein which binds precursor proteins with its N-terminal.

Although these polymers have other properties of of contemporary protein as well, identity with the latter is not a necessary inference ". Some theories of abiogenesis propose that proteinoids were a precursor to the first living cells.

Familial Alzheimer ’ s disease has been strongly linked to mutations in the presenilin 1 ( PS1 ), presenilin 2 ( PS2 ), and amyloid precursor protein ( APP ) genes.

Reelin has been shown to interact with amyloid precursor protein, and, according to one in-vitro study, is able to counteract the Aβ-induced dampening of NMDA-receptor activity.

* Type I disorders involve disrupted synthesis of the lipid-linked oligosaccharide precursor ( LLO ) or its tranfer to the protein.

BACE1-AS concentrations are elevated in subjects with Alzheimer's disease and in amyloid precursor protein transgenic mice.

Secretin is initially synthesized as a 120 amino acid precursor protein known as prosecretin.

The following year, Altman demonstrated that RNA can act as a catalyst by showing that the RNase-P RNA subunit could catalyze the cleavage of precursor tRNA into active tRNA in the absence of any protein component.

The chains originate from a common precursor protein, which is proteolytically cleaved during protein synthesis.

They are excitatory neuropeptide hormones with approximately 50 % sequence identity, are produced by cleavage of a single precursor protein.

This precursor protein contains three segments — an N-extein followed by the intein followed by a C-extein.

Sometimes, the intein of the precursor protein comes from two genes.

Enzymes act on the amyloid precursor protein and cut it into Aβ fragments, which then aggregate to form senile plaques characteristic of Alzheimer's patients.

Its exact cause remains unknown, but the disease is identified as a protein misfolding disease and is associated with toxic aggregations of the amyloid beta ( Aβ ) peptide, a fragment of the larger amyloid precursor protein.