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The letter Τ/τ in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twenty-first letter of Old and Ancient Greek.

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A Τ-shaped sign or structure; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol.

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1658: Nor shall we take in the mysticall Tau, or the Crosse of our blessed Saviour, which having in some descriptions an Empedon or crossing foot-stay, made not one single transversion. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 168)

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A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon.

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An unstable heavy lepton, which decays into a muon or electron; a tauon.

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Tau protein, a type of protein that stabilizes microtubules in the human central nervous system, failures of which are associated with forms of dementia.

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A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.

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An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its radius, approximately 6.2831853071; equal to twice the value of pi. Often written τ or 2π.

The popular pronunciation to and tau for tab has given rise to the spellings Toris and Tauris met with in older travellers and used even now.

The decays of tau's including radiative corrections are simulated by the dedicated package TAUOLA.

The quantity t is known as the Kendall rank correlation coefficient tau.

Rising out of the left hand figure's shoulder is a Tau Cross, which is associated with the Mithraic cult and alchemy.

The tau decays and quark hadronization are performed, respectively, with the help of the dedicated packages TAUOLA and JETSET.

Perl led the team of scientists that found the tau lepton in electron-positron collisions in 1975.

Leptons A family of particles consisting of the electron,the muon and the tau, along with their neutrinos.

Importantly, in rare families, a gene mutation has been shown to cause the abnormal build up of tau protein in the brain.

An example of this would be a tau neutrino with considerable mass.

Remember that the tau decays to produce two neutrinos in addition to the muon.

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Supports marks ' claims tau xsubi phi in contrast workers.

For the simple case of a tensile stress sigma x combined with a shear stress tau xy.

The neurofibrillary tangles -- which look like knotted string -- are mostly made up of a protein called tau.

Each filament is made up of many molecules of a protein called tau.

In contrast diurnal species have a tau of greater than 24 hours.

Furthermore we have shown that the severity of the effects is related to the phosphorylation state of the expressed tau.

That is, one introduces a time coordinate, tau, which I take to be Euclidean, and shift and lapse functions.

Such a diffusion rate can be expressed in terms of a time constant tau.

Abnormally phosphorylated tau in these cells is generally not seen in young patients but can occasionally be identified in FCD from adults.

Pick's disease is thought to be due to a build up in the brain of an abnormal form of the protein tau.

Phenytoin (300 mg once daily) decreased the C max and AUC tau of voriconazole by 49% and 69 %, respectively.

The target group tau xsubi stands ie without distinguishing elasticity of outcome.

A search was made for isolated tracks coming from hadronic tau decays.

The tau protein is one such scaffold protein in brain cells.

Pick 's disease is thought to be due to a build up in the brain of an abnormal form of the protein tau.

Toga parties have become a part of college history, like the one thrown by the Delta Tau Chi fraternity in the 1978 film Animal House.