Stop and Consider

It took 34 years for biologists to appreciate Gregor Mendel s work on the genetics of peas. Does it surprise you that something that now seems like a profound discovery was not immediately recognized What do you think keeps people, even scientists, from understanding the importance of a discovery when it is first made  

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Before you reach for that alcohol-free product, stop and consider the features that you expect and desire in your cosmetics. The class of substances known to chemists as alcohols is commonly confused with the consumer interpretation of alcohol. Knowing the chemist s terminology will help you select the safest and most beneficial formulation. 

Gene Therapy to Treat Disease 95 Stop and Consider... 

In this example we have two slabs of different materials, A and B. The slabs are in contact and are at rest. A right-going shock is passing through and approaching the interface. When the shock reaches the interface, some change will occur, but at this point we must stop and consider an additional factor. 

We will now stop and consider reactor design for a fluid-solid system with decaying catalyst. To analyze these reactors we only add one step to our algoritlhm, that is, determine the catalyst decay law. The sequence is shown below. 

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