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While HD-PTP has been described as a classical non-transmembrane PTP based on its amino acid sequence, our results demonstrate that it is a catalytically inactive tyrosine phosphatase.— PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
The subjects are various,--classical, academical, political, critical, and artistic, as well as theological, and upon the Movement none are to be found which do not keep quite clear of advocating the cause of Rome So I went on for years up to 1841.— Apologia Pro Vita Sua
His brilliant work on the development of the ear-ossicles founded what we may justly call the classical theory of their homologies.— Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
It is another kind of art that studies character in detail, one by one, and then sets them playing at chance medley, and trusts to luck that the result will be entertaining That Aristotle is confirmed by these barbarian auxiliaries is of no great importance to Aristotle, but it is worth arguing that the barbarous German imagination at an earlier stage, relatively, than the Homeric, is found already possessed of something like the sanity of judgment, the discrimination of essentials from accidents, which is commonly indicated by the term classical.— Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature

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