interrupters
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Those characteristics include the same number of exons, which encode the protein, and phases of introns, which act as interrupters to stop or start splicing of the RNA molecules transcribed from the gene.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
Tyrone Parker, executive director of the nonprofit Alliance of Concerned Men, said the District’s ecosystem of violence interrupters and other support programs aren’t collaborating with each other to squash the blood feuds.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Violence interruption works: There was a 31% drop in homicides and 19% in shootings in two Chicago districts where interrupters worked.
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2022
Hall added that any violence interrupters or community intervention should be run by a different department or third party because “credibility erodes” if people are working for the police.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
I thank my honorable interrupters, feeling sure that their loud disapprobation is given to this strange dismissal, which is not open to the slightest doubt.
From The Deputy of Arcis by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
