BRIEFLY : CO-WORKER SAVES MAN IN ELECTRICAL MISHAP.ENCINO - A worker was nearly electrocuted Monday before being rescued by a co-worker while installing a light fixture outside an Encino home, a Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. spokesman said. Just before 2:30 p.m., the 27-year-old man was working at the rear of 5180 Louise Ave., and apparently did not realize he was standing on ``sod that was freshly installed and damp,'' Brian Humphrey said. ``As he drove in a nail, he was hit with 227 volts of electricity,'' the spokesman said. ``At great danger to himself, a co-worker kicked the man free of the current.'' The co-worker was unhurt, but the victim suffered burns to his hands and the left side of his chest, Humphrey said. The man was taken to Sherman Oaks Hospital Sherman Oaks Hopital (SOH) is an 153 bed acute care facility in Sherman Oaks, California, USA and is home of world renowned the Grossman Burn Center. SOH is owned and operated by Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. and Health Center, where he was listed in serious but stable condition. ?13City News Service CIT n. 1. A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; - used contemptuously. Which past endurance sting the tender cit. - Emerson. to back program in molecular biology molecular biology, scientific study of the molecular basis of life processes, including cellular respiration, excretion, and reproduction. The term molecular biology was coined in 1938 by Warren Weaver, then director of the natural sciences program at the Rockefeller PASADENA - The California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. announced Monday it will use a $2.5 million grant to support interdisciplinary research by graduate students in the emerging field of computational molecular biology (application) computational molecular biology - The area of bioinformatics concerning the use of computers to characterise the molecular components of living things. . ``The program's central theme is the integration of experimental and theoretical methods, approaches more typically used in the physical sciences, to complex problems in molecular biology,'' said Michael Roukes, a physics professor who is a co-director of the new program. Computational molecular biology involves applying computers to the dynamical systems and complexity of the nervous systems of living organisms. ?13City News Service |
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