That means switching on genes relevant to a particular function, and switching off the others.
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His method acknowledges that the first duty of television is to prevent the ruthless viewer switching off.
Well I managed to sit through the first twenty minutes of 'The Battle of Basra' before switching off.
Others try to limit the expectations of their boss or family by taking longer to reply, or switching off.
His carer, Violetta Aylward, an agency nurse working for the NHS, was filmed switching off her patient's life support machine.
In November 2012, Microsoft announced that it was switching off Live Messenger in early 2013 but gave no firm date.
"For them to be switching off football games and all the other sports to watch my race is something special, " he said.
Switching off phone chargers is like bailing the Titanic with a teaspoon.
Now 61, he is not old, but may be too elderly for a country whose youth are switching off politics in droves.
Microsoft is switching off its Windows Live Messenger service on 15 March.
The selective switching off of genes that have come from one or other parent is called imprinting and, though rare, is not unknown.
This allows for clever tricks such as concentrating virtual machines on as few computers as possible and switching off the rest to save energy.
She had no memory of the crash and her family was told to consider switching off her life support machine at Newcastle General Hospital.
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For small projects, the night was the most profitable time to generate electricity and switching off turbines could make them financially unviable, the committee heard.
It has also provided details of a temporary way around the flaw which involves switching off the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer in Windows XP.
Pembrokeshire is also considering switching off non-essential street lights after midnight.
Northern Ireland's most successful Olympian, Dame Mary Peters, was given the honour of switching off the UK's last active analogue transmitter at Divis Mountain in Belfast.
More and more people are taking their tablets to bed with them to surf the web, check Facebook or email before switching off the light.
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Finally, the government must know that the condition it has set for switching off analogue 95% of consumers must have access to digital equipment is both insufficient and unattainable.
On March 23, millions of people around the world will be asked again to mark Earth Hour by switching off their lights and non-essential appliances for an hour in symbolic support for climate change mitigation.
As soon as you back off, say by switching off the background music and allowing your foreground process to have all the processing power (and thereby complete its task more quickly), the benefits of having a dual-core machine will become far less tangible.
In my mind now I'm starting to switch off a little bit and starting to think maybe the fight's not happening, which is a bad thing because once I start switching off mentally then if it does happen I'm not going to be fully on my game.
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The maps of these days, superimposed, would have made a tangle, but every morning he emerged from the same place, just as the sun came up, and every evening he returned there, tired now, darkened, switching off the bike, rolling it over the wooden threshold of the door leading into the courtyard, the engine ticking as it cooled.
It would be tragic if by switching the lights off that progress was to be put back many years.
When a drive is in full swing, though, you can forget hearing anything useful--you're probably better off switching to a commercial radio station.
The pieces of scenery are activated by switching on and off so-called passthrough transistors that control the flow of electronic signals from one part of the chip to another.
We're big fans of this seemingly benign option because it combines the physical gesture of turning the sound source away from you with the software response of switching all audio off.
So unless it is prepared to let power shortages continue restricting growth, Brazil may be better off switching back towards a free market, difficult though it may be to get right.
Its staff of biologists and astrophysicists uses pattern-recognition software to get a clear picture of how all these genes are switching on and off, literally following how the genetic code is creating and recreating the body.
This means that switching the phone charger off for a whole day saves the same energy as is used in driving an average car for one second.
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