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JOHNS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930)
Synonyms:
Jasper Johns; Johns
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)
Context examples:
Researchers of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore analyzed data on 1,442 mother-child pairs from the Boston Birth Cohort, a large observational study that aims to determine the causes of preterm birth.
(New study suggests high lead levels during pregnancy linked to child obesity, National Institutes of Health)
This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
(Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, NCI Thesaurus)
Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have confirmed NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft impacted the surface of Mercury, as anticipated, at 3:26 p.m. EDT.
(NASA Completes MESSENGER Mission with Expected Impact on Mercury's Surface, NASA)
In their new study, a team of researchers headed by Drs. Akhilesh Pandey at Johns Hopkins University and Harsha Gowda at the Institute of Bioinformatics in Bangalore, India, used an advanced form of mass spectrometry to sequence proteins and create a draft map of the human proteome.
(Revealing the human proteome, NIH)
Examining data collected by the ultraviolet spectrograph and energetic-particle detector instruments aboard the Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft, a team led by Barry Mauk of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, observed signatures of powerful electric potentials, aligned with Jupiter's magnetic field, that accelerate electrons toward the Jovian atmosphere at energies up to 400,000 electron volts.
(Jupiter's Auroras Present a Powerful Mystery, NASA)
Asthma is an immune-mediated disease, said Sonali Bose, M.D., lead author of the study and assistant professor of medicine, pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins.
(Vitamin D may protect against pollution-associated asthma symptoms in obese children, National Institutes of Health)
