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Kappa Velorum is only a couple of degrees from the south Celestial pole of Mars.
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The oncogene silences production of an immune protein called interferon-kappa.
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The cows possess additional copies of genes for two proteins, beta and kappa casein.
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Kappa-opioids produce significantly greater analgesia in women than in men.
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When idle, NF-kappa-B resides in the watery outer region of a cell known as the cytoplasm.
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Grape seed extracts, for example, do not affect the NF kappa B pathway, the authors wrote.
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Kappa Sigma states they annually broke recruiting records from 2003-2011.
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Note that Cohen's kappa measures agreement between two raters only.
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In ancient Greek, gamma was used to represent nu before a khi, ksi, kappa and another gamma.
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  • The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet
  • Paul Kappa (also known as Amazing Kappa) is a Rock and Roll / Soul / Funk band from Liverpool, England. Its members are Paul Kappa (Guitar and vocals), Martin Byrne (Bass Guitar and Vocals) and Tony Smith (drums and percussion).
  • Kappa is a well known Italian clothing company that started as a sock and underwear manufacturer in 1916 in Turin.
  • In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, most commonly in the Kara-Tur sub-setting of the Forgotten Realms, the kappa is an evil creature based upon the kappa of Japanese mythology.
  • Kappa is a village in Woodford County, Illinois, United States. The population was 170 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.
  • Kappa is also a number of Japanese sounding rockets, which were built starting from 1956.
  • A measure of the rate of change in an option's theoretical value for a one-unit change in the volatility assumption.
  • This monster spirit lives in water and has been associated with rivers. Kappa are very strong and are dangerous to humans. They like to drink sake and eat cucumbers, in fact, their love of cucumbers is so great that the sushi made from cucumber has come to be called kappa-maki.
  • Kappa is an index which compares the agreement against that which might be expected by chance. Kappa can be thought of as the chance-corrected proportional agreement. Possible values range from +1 (perfect agreement) via 0 (no agreement above that expected by chance) to -1 (complete disagreement).