Molecular cloning

Molecular cloning Abstract Molecular cloning is a method to produce quantities of a specific DNA segment. It contains an abundance of techniques including DNA transfer, DNA recombination, DNA sequencing and so on. Though this practical, restriction maps were draw for plasmid pMA and pMB by doing single and double digest, a pMB fragment digested with PstI was inserted to plasmid pUC19 and then transferred to host cells to have proliferation and expression, and the sequence of PstI digested pMB fragment was analysed. 1. Introduction Recombinant DNA molecules are molecules containing DNA sequences derived from more than one source. In molecular cloning, by using recombinant DNA, a specific combination of genes can be put into a carrier, and then can be proliferated and expressed in a recipient cell. In medicine, by making use of molecular cloning, scientists have successfully constructed engineering strains of insulin, growth hormone of human, cattle and chicken, human interferon, erythropoietin, antigen of hepatitis B virus and antigen of foot-and-mouth disease virus, and conducted a large-scale production by fermentation industry. In gene therapy, there is a possibility of reversing cancer cells to normal cells through genetic engineering, for example, mouse tumor cells caused by SV40 virus can reverse to normal cells at high temperature. Many chemical reagents such as acrylic acid, ethylene glycol, methanol, ethylene oxide and salicylic acid can possibly be produced by making use of molecular cloning. In environmental protection, people transfer genes of one microorganism into another through genetic manipulation to create new strains that are more capable of degrading harmful substances, in order to break down toxic substances in industrial waste.[1,2] Blue-White selection is a method for screening recombinant DNA. Vectors containing a ÃŽ ²-galactosidase gene (lacZ) can have a complementation (ÃŽ ±-complementation) with E.coli strain to form a functional ÃŽ ²-galactosidase enzyme. Neither vectors, nor host cells have the enzyme activity. The lacZ gene has an internal multiple cloning sites (MCS) which can be cut by different restriction enzymes. Therefore, when a gene fragment is inserted in the vector, the lacZ gene will be disrupted and cannot form active ÃŽ ²-galactosidase enzyme. X-gal can be metabolized by ÃŽ ²-galactosidase to gain a blue product. Therefore, in the presence of X-gal, DNA with no insert gene can display a blue colour, while recombinant DNA, which have no enzyme function, display a white colour.[3] The aim of the practical is to draw restriction maps of simple plasmids for recombinant DNA, do basic molecular cloning and sequence a DNA fragment. 2. Results Table 1: Antibiotic resistances of 5 E. coli strains LB/Ampicillin LB/Tetracycline LB/Kanamycin DH5a No growth No growth No growth pUC19 Grown No growth No growth pMA Grown Grown No growth pMB No growth Grown Grown XL1-Blue No growth Grown No growth DH5a: E. coli strain DH5a; pUC19: E. coli strain DH5a containing plasmid pUC19; pMA: E. coli strain DH5a containing plasmid pMA; pMB: E. coli strain DH5a containing plasmid pMB; XL1-Blue: E. coli strain XL1-Blue. NO. DNA Enzyme 1 pMA Bam HI 2 pMA XhoI 3 pMA PstI 4 pMA EcoRI 5 pMB Bam HI 6 pMB XhoI 7 pMB PstI 8 pMB EcoRI 9 Lambda marker 10 X174 marker NO. DNA Enzymes 1 pMA EcoRI, Bam HI 2 pMA EcoRI, PstI 3 pMA EcoRI, XhoI 4 pMA Bam HI, PstI 5 pMA Bam HI, XhoI 6 pMA PstI, XhoI 7 pMB EcoRI, Bam HI 8 pMB EcoRI, PstI 9 pMB EcoRI, XhoI 10 pMB Bam HI, PstI 11 pMB Bam HI, XhoI 12 pMB PstI, XhoI 13 Lambda marker 14 X174 marker 1 Lambda marker 2 Blue colony digested with PstI 3-7 White colonies digested with PstI 8 X174 marker gagtantagttcgccngttaatagtttgcgcaacgttgttgccattgctgcaggggggggggggaaagccacgttgtgtctcaaaatctctgatgttacattgcacaagataaaaatatatcatcatgaacaataaaactgtctgcttacataaacagtaatacaaggggtgttatgagccatattcaacgggaaacgtcttgctcgaggccgcgattaaattccaacatggatgctgatttatatgggtataaatgggctcgcgataatgtcgggcaatcaggtgcgacaatctatcgattgtatgggaagcccgatgcgccagagttgtttctgaaacatggcaaaggtagcgttgccaatgatgttacagatgagatggtcagactaaactggctgacggaatttatgcctcttccgaccatcaagcattttatccgtactcctgatgatgcatggttactcaccactgcgatccccgggaaaacagcattccaggtattagaagaatatcctgattcaggtgaaaatattgttgatgcgctggcagtgttcctgcgccggttgcattcgattcctgtttgtaattgtccttttaacagcgatcgcgtatttcgtctcgctcaggcgcaatcacgaatgaataacggtttggttgatgcgagtgattttgatgacgagcgtaatggctggcctgttgaacaagtctggaaagaaatgcataagcttttgccattctcaccggattcagtcgtcactcatggtgatttctcacttgatgaggttatttttgacgaggggaaattaataggttgtattgatgttggacgagtcggaatcgcagaccgataccaggatcttgctttttcaaaaatatggtattgataatcctgatatgaataaattgcagtttcatttgatgctcgatgagtttttttaatgagaattggttaattggttgtaacactggcagagcattacgctga cttgacgggacggcggctttgttgaataaatcgaacttttgctgagttgaaggatcagatcacgcatcttcccgacaacgcagaccgttccgtggcaaagcaaaagttcaaaatcaccaactggtccacctacaacaaagctctcatcaaccgtggctccctcactttctggctggatgatggggcgattcaggcctcaacgactgagtatggaccttcttcacgaggcagacctcagcgccccccccccccctgcaggca Enzyme No. of cuts Position of sites (bp) Recognition sequence PstI 2 52, 1243 ctgca/g XhoI 1 204 c/tcgag E X Stop F A X Stop _ F A Q R C C H C C R G G G E S H V V S Q N L Stop C Y I A Q D K N I S S Stop T I K L S A Y I N S N T R G V M S H I Q R E T S C S R P R L N S N M D A D L Y G Y K W A R D N V G Q S G A T I Y R L Y G K P D A P E L F L K H G K G S V A N D V T D E M V R L N W L T E F M P L P T I K H F I R T P D D A W L L T T A I P G K T A F Q V L E E Y P D S G E N I V D A L A V F L R R L H S I P V C N C P F N S D R V F R L A Q A Q S R M N N G L V D A S D F D D E R N G W P V E Q V W K E M H K L L P F S P D S V V T H G D F S L D E V I F D E G K L I G C I D V G R V G I A D R Y Q D L A F S K I W Y Stop _ S Stop Y E Stop I A V S F D A R Stop V F L M R I G Stop L V V T L A E H Y A D L T G R R L C Stop I N R T F A E L K D Q I T H L P D N A D R S V A K Q K F K I T N W S T Y N K A L I N R G S L T F W L D D G A I Q A S T T E Y G P S S R G R P Q R P P P P C R Aminoglycoside 3-phosphotransferase, putative 3. Discussion 3.1 Antibiotics resistances Seen from table 1, DH5a has no resistance to any of the three bacteria, pUC19 is resistant to ampicillin, pMA is resistant to ampicillin and tetracycline, pMB is resistant to tetracycline and Kanamycin, and XL1-Blue is resistant to tetracycline. Plasmid pUC19, pMA and pMB, which were used in the cloning procedure, had different antibiotic resistances, while the bacterial host, DH5a, have no antibiotic resistance. Therefore, cells containing recombinant DNA could be selected by growing host cells in presence of antibiotic. Even when different plasmids are contained in the host cells, this method can be used. For example, tetracycline can be used to select cells containing only pMA from a mixture of cells containing pMA and pUC19. 3.2 Restriction maps and relationship of pMA and pMB From the single digest (1), pMA could be cut by Bam HI, PstI and EcoRI, and each enzyme could cut pMA once. However, pMA could not be cut by XhoI. pMB could be cut by Bam HI, XhoI and EcoRI once, and cut by PstI twice. Therefore, pMA has three restriction enzyme sites, while pMB has five. From the double digest (2), the results were consistent with single digest, and the length of each fragment could be obtained. Restriction maps (3) were drawn based on the single and double digests. From the restriction maps, the fragments in pMA and pMB, cutting by Bam HI and EcoRI, have the same base pairs (430bp). The fragment cutting by EcoRI and PstI in pMA has the same base pair (720bp) with one of the fragments cutting by EcoRI and PstI in pMB. The fragment cutting by Bam HI and PstI in pMA has the same base pair (1150bp) with one of the fragments cutting by EcoRI and PstI in pMB. The longer fragment in pMB cutting by PstI was round about 3780bp, which was very close to the length of pMA (3800bp). As all the lengths of fragments were roughly obtained and were not accurate. Therefore, we can assume that pMA is a part of pMB. pMB can be cut by PstI. If the longer fragment is re-circled, it will have the same base pairs and restriction enzyme sites (PstI, EcoRI and Bam HI) with pMA. The XhoI restriction site on pMB is between the two restriction sites of PstI, therefore, the longer fragment cannot be cut by XhoI, which is consistent with pMA. Seen from the antibody resistances, pMA is resistant to ampicillin and tetracycline, pMB is resistant to tetracycline and Kanamycin. This might because the tetracycline resistant gene is in pMA, which is a part of pMB. And kanamycin resistant gene is in the PstI fragment of pMB, which pMA does not have. For the ampicillin resistant gene, it might be located around the PstI restriction site in pMA, which will be insertion inactive when insert the PstI fragment to pMA to make it become pMB, therefore, pMB does not have ampicillin resistance. This hypothesis can be proved by sequencing pMA and pMB fragment cutting by PstI, which was not included in this experiment. 3.3 Sub cloning recombinant clones In 4, the blue colony had only one band, which meant that there was only one PstI restriction site in the plasmid. This was consistent with pUC19 that did not have an insert fragment. Four of the white colonies had two bands each, including one band located around 1200bp. These were the recombinant DNA, with the pMB fragment digested with PstI. One white colony (No. 7) did not have a band located around 1200bp, but a fragment shorter than that. This was also a recombinant DNA, with other fragment rather than PstI fragment. This might be caused by some impurities through the procedure. 3.4 Sequence analysis The sequence of the PstI fragment in pMB was obtained by overlapping two fragments (forward and reverse). Seen from 5, there are two PstI restriction sites (ctgca/g) and one XhoI restriction site (c/tcgag), and the XhoI restriction site is between the two PstI restriction sites. Therefore, if the fragment is digested with PstI and XhoI, two fragments (152bp, 1039bp). This is roughly consistent with the restriction map of pMB which was not accurate. The amino acid sequence shown in 6 is one of the six possible sequences (53 Frame 1), methionine, which is a start of protein sequence, and stop codons are over striking. One potentially matching sequence of protein encoded in the PstI fragment of pMB shown in 7, aminoglycoside 3-phosphotransferase, begins with the first methionine in the fragment and have a length of 253 amino acids. 4. Conclusion This practical provide us a better understanding of how to make a recombinant DNA and molecular cloning technique. These experiences can act as fundament of further researches such as researches in cancer cells. References: [1] Williams Wu, Michael J. Welsh, [et al.] (2003) Gene Biotechnology (2nd edition). [2] Gerald Karp. (2002) Cell and Molecular Biology (3rd edition). [3] Benjamin Lewin. (2004) Gene (International edition).

How does Russell make the audience sympathise with Shirley ? Essay

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Essay on Robert Ressler Coined the Term Serial Killer

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The White Underclass Free Essays

string(62) " New Immigrants were discriminated against \(Merritt, 2012\)\." The White Underclass A) What is the White Underclass, and what are the national economic changes and forces? The United States economy took a turn for the worse in 2008, and has been steadily declining ever since. The reason for the financial crisis began with the failing of the financial institutions, which threatened the global economy. The reason for the failing of the largest financial institutions can be debated, but many believe that it was due to the failure of accurately and safely evaluating the risks involved in their lending procedures. We will write a custom essay sample on The White Underclass or any similar topic only for you Order Now Whatever the reason, the recession had a massive impact on the country, and none were affected more than the Americans living at or below the poverty level. These people are known as the American underclass. What defines an underclass? 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Charles Murray, an American libertarian political scientist, wrote â€Å"illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time – more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness, because it drives everything else. † (â€Å"The White Underclass†, 1994) These families are the victims of a vicious circle; the children of these families have a high dropout percentage, which often leads to having children out of wedlock. The absence of these fathers is usually due to crime, drugs, or just a lack of responsibility. Twenty-two percent of children born in 1991 were born out of wedlock, with that number increasing every year (â€Å"The White Underclass†, 1994). Many of these unwed mothers are too young and inexperienced to be more than a burden on society, which doesn’t leave much hope for the children that they give birth to. Many of these young white women that are having children out of wedlock are not in the least ashamed at getting pregnant at such a young age and without being married. They believe that having children will â€Å"give them someone to love† (â€Å"The White Underclass†, 1994). Unfortunately, as seen in the documentary â€Å"Culture of Hate†, our children are a reflection of what we are (â€Å"A Culture of Hate†, 2002). Financial obstacles are faced by almost everyone at some point in time, but with those that are part of the underclass, it is a way of life. It’s not poverty that is the issue, but rather the widening gap in economic classes. As learned in the most recent lecture, the median middle class makes between seventy-five thousand to one-hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, whereas the underclass make on or under thirty thousand dollars a year, most often under (Merritt, 2012). This is quite a significant gap. The underclass is under educated, and under employed. Many people don’t think of whites when they think of those living in poverty, but the realization is that the whites are a growing group of those that are living in poverty. B) What is the White Underclass, and what are the regional (Lakeside, CA) economic changes and forces that account for its growth? Here in the county of San Diego, Lakeside California specifically, economic change is a leading factor to the growth of the white underclass. Change is inevitable in life, but that change is not always for the better. This is the case with the controversial East County city of Lakeside. Ranchers and farmers were the first inhabitants in the town of Lakeside, and the tight knit community was the proverbial picture of country living. Lakeside is a â€Å"place of many generations with deep roots, a place of hard working people with values† (â€Å"A Culture of Hate†, 2002). Many people want to hang onto the past, but things in Lakeside have changed dramatically. Dry riverbeds riddled with graffiti and litter has taken the place of where rivers once flowed. Sand mining operations have removed precious resources, only to replace them someone else’s trash. A town that was mostly rural, filled with farms and cowboys, has turned into an urban city with widened streets that are filled with strip malls and fast food restaurants. Economic hard times have hit the working class. With the changes that came to Lakeside, changes in employment opportunities have also been effected. The majority of employment available is in the service industry; low paying, dead-end jobs that have little to no hope of making enough money to help the underclass rise out of poverty. The rate of unemployment is high, currently national rate is 7. 8%. California is significantly higher than the national average at 10. 2% (www. bls. gov , 2012). With the loss of jobs, and the high unemployment rate that plagues the state, poverty is rising and in turn, so are the numbers of the white underclass. Until the economy changes for the better, there is little hope that the numbers of white underclass will decrease. What are some of the social issues and demographic changes facing the White Underclass? America is no stranger to struggling ethnic groups. Since the beginning of this country, others have strived to cast out groups of people that they didn’t consider equal. In the beginning, it was the Native Americans; next came the blacks. As time progressed on, white European immigrants known as the New Immigrants were discriminated against (Merritt, 2012). You read "The White Underclass" in category "Papers" Now, though ethnicity still plays an integral part, any group that is at or below the poverty level is subject to acquiring the underclass status. In the mid 90’s, the white underclass were less than 2% of all whites. Black ghettos contained three to four times as many residents as the white slums (â€Å"The White Underclass†, 1994). The numbers remained constant from the 1980’s through the 1990’s. The ghettos of the blacks and whites were found to be very similar in percentages. Both had a high number of men that abandoned the work force and children that dropped out of school, however, the black underclass had a slightly higher percentage of female-headed households than the white underclass. The white underclass, however, had a higher percentage of children who dropped out of school (â€Å"The White Underclass†, 1994). The demographics are changing in the Grossmont school district as well. It has gone from having 95% white in the district, to 65% in the 2000’s (â€Å"A Culture of Hate†, 2002). This has brought on racial issues to the area that once gave little reason to worry about. There are a lot of similarities between the ghettos of different ethnic groups, but there are still very distinct differences among them. Though the conditions of the white ghettos are bad, they are still not as bad as those of the Hispanics and blacks. They tend to experience less poverty than the others, and the crimes being committed in their neighborhoods, albeit violent, are far less in numbers to that of other ethnic groups. The main substance abuse in the black ghettos is crack cocaine, whereas the drug of choice for the whites is alcohol, with methamphetamines and heroine on the rise. This is a factor that heavily contributes to the number of violent crimes and domestic abuse cases that plague the white underclass. Poor whites do not tend to face as many problems as poor blacks, and this is because discrimination has caused the blacks to be more likely to live in extreme poverty than whites. In 1990, a census showed that 30% of blacks lived in extreme poverty areas, whereas the white percentage was only 7% (â€Å"The White Underclass†, 1994). Not only are the numbers of white underclass fewer than that of the blacks, but the white underclass are also more likely to leave the slums behind. The white underclass is a growing concern. The numbers are continually raising in the white underclass neighborhoods with no sign of improving. The effects of living in these neighborhoods have ruined the lives of so many. The only hope for the underclass lies with the state of the economy. How does â€Å"White Power† affiliation address the issue of identity for the â€Å"White Power† youth in Lakeside, California? What do the signs and symbols of their affiliation represent, and what do they mean to the â€Å"White Power† youth? We’ve seen the many hardships that are faced by the children of the white underclass. We’ve seen what happens to the youth that grow up in these areas. We’ve seen them set up for failure from the moment that their parents conceive them, whether it be on purpose or on accident. We’ve seen the life choices that most of them are forced to make due to the lack of opportunity, but we’ve yet to take a look at how these young men and women choose to affiliate themselves. In the case of the youth in Lakeside, California, the youth of the white underclass have a large affiliation with â€Å"White Power†. They have â€Å"no place to belong, except in a world of outcasts† (â€Å"A Culture of Hate†, 2002). The children of the white underclass struggle with an ethnic identity. What does it mean to be white? According to Randy Blazak in the documentary â€Å"A Culture of Hate†, he believes that these youth have no ethnic identity and struggle because there is no real distinction to being white (â€Å"A Culture of Hate†, 2002). â€Å"White Power† group members seem to follow a pattern. They come from broken homes, filled with violence and drugs. They have nobody to show them what it is to be a productive member of society. This fits perfectly in line with the patterns of the white underclass found in Lakeside. The symbols of â€Å"White Power† represent a symbol of belonging to these kids that had none before (â€Å"A Culture of Hate†, 2002). Symbols like the swastika, whose meaning has been poisoned from what it once symbolized to a symbol of evil, a symbol of the desire to create a superior race of whites. Other symbols that have a closer regional significance are the Dago bolts, which are the symbol of the local San Diego chapter of the Hell’s Angels. The Dago bolts are said to be mirrored after the SS bolts of Nazi soldiers, which ties directly to the same lineage as the swastika. The final predominant symbol that can be found â€Å"all around the edges of everyday life†, is the 4:20 symbol, which is widely known as a symbol for marijuana, but is also a reference to Adolf Hitler’s birthday (â€Å"A Culture of Hate†, 2002). To the â€Å"White Power† youth of Lakeside, these symbols represent a sense of belonging, even if they aren’t really sure why. In the documentary â€Å"A Culture of Hate†, a young boy talks about a time that he shaved a swastika into the back of his girlfriends head. When he was asked why a swastika, he answered â€Å"Why? Because. Why not? † The girl quickly responded with â€Å"Nothing else to draw. It was the first thing that popped into our heads. † (â€Å"A Culture of Hate†, 2002). Many of these youth were students in the Grossmont school district, but were kicked out due to incidents where â€Å"White Power† symbols were involved. These students were expelled from school due to a â€Å"Zero Tolerance† position that the district took, which only made matters worse by pushing these kids closer toward the only identity that they knew (â€Å"A Culture of Hate†, 2002). Disintegration of the traditional family, lack of boundaries, lack of guidance, and an unlimited amount of anger drives these kids toward a life of hate. When combined with drugs and alcohol, as it so often happens with the children of the white underclass, the perfect storm is created. Children learn from their parents, parents who choose not to invest in their futures. These fate of these white underclass children have been set, their lives have been set up for failure before they ever even began. How to cite The White Underclass, Papers

The Nature of Critical thinking and Approach

Question: Discuss about The Nature of Critical thinking and Creative thinking and plagiarism Approach. Answer: Introduction The essay will develop an idea which is based on the integration of critical and creative thoughts in education. Minds are engaged with full of creative ideas in the field of reading, writing, speaking, listening of a new subject or language and while making sense of experience during the time. It has been argued that all thinking is not considered to be a same quality[1]. The literature frequently represent the creative person deliver the highly imaginative, impulsive, emotional, a source of unusual ideas but may be considered as less significant in everyday reality. However, the functions of creativity and critically can be sense together because creativity originates the thoughtful ideas whereas critically assess fault finding, the volume of emotion and the power of imagination. Thesis Statement Thoughts of creatively and criticality is the phase where creatively masters the process of making or developing, and simultaneously its critically been assessed or judged. The scope of the discussion will evaluate the interrelation between the elements of creativity and criticality is the people though process. Throughout the discussion the essay will explore the intellectual acts of the mind or those of the most imaginative quality of thinker, the creative and sensitive sides of human elements. Discussion: The generative power (creativity) and its prudence (criticality) can be segregated only artificially. In this process of actual thought, they are one. The generative and the productive creative mind help to make plan, strategy or tactics with the enough judiciousness, judgmental approach. In other words, a system of consistency, accuracy, and relevancy must be required for developing the creative thinking approach. Creative thinking refers using imagination to finding a solution for accomplishing the learning task[2]. High quality thinking definitely follows the purpose of the assignment. If it is aimless, the creative function of mind needs to emphasize more on the personal thinking attributes. However, individual frequently have trouble in focused thinking. In this situation of the importance of critically and sensitive approach of learning minds is desirable. Creative thinking elaborates a relaxed and flexible approach [3]. However, it is contradictory that the structural practice and certainty need not to be followed by individual while developing the creative thinking. It is bound to be innovative and flexible which are needs to be inclined with the purpose of the task. Therefore, an individual needs to take some risk as there is a high possibility that minds may be distracted or make mistakes or not to address the proper findings. Therefore, the approach of creative thinking skills needs to be practiced by engaging in reflection, allowing persons to make wild and innovative suggestions along with maintaining the sensitiveness. Thus critical approach in thinking process is necessary for excelling the creative mind of the practitioners. Critical thinking can be defined as the reflective thinking approach in consideration of what to believe or do [4]. This is indeed difficult to act maintaining rationality and objectivity for all the time. The criticality in thinking process enables us to perceive a wide range of subjective analyses of otherwise aimed data, along with evaluation of how well each analysis might accomplish the needs [5]. To meet any challenges end, it is important to follow condition including models, principles, standards, or tests. However, such conditions or criteria must be applied by maintaining the judiciousness. One must continually monitor and access how thinking is going to be shaped up, whether it is on a right track or adequate enough to accomplish the purpose of the tasks or assignment. This has been stated by researchers that minds need to be focused; otherwise energy and drive are considerable low [6]. On the contrary, when the process of thinking takes on a challenging task, the mind mus t function actively. Here the active participation of the intellectual labor needs to be implemented by evaluating the sensitiveness and the critical approach of thinking process of an individual. In the academic writing and research, the individualistic, innovative and distinct thinking needs to be implemented while initiating the creative thinking approach maintaining the criticality in the task. Here the issue of plagiarism needs to be avoided in the academic studies. The unfavorable practice of plagiarism can reduce the level of privacy and thus it is a major obstruction of the creativeness in individual thinking approach. Conclusion: This has been found from the above discussion that the foundation of the critical thinking is all about ideas maintaining relevancy, accuracy, depth purpose understanding and significance of the task. Critical thinkers must display the skeptical and active nature of mind in developing new ideas. Rationale: The topic of creative and critical thinking process needs to be developed for accomplishing task after investing competing evidence. Thus the topic is quite rationale for the combination of skills development such as skepticism and suspicion approach before initiating new ideas. References: "Critical Thinking Habits Of The Mind".Umich.Edu. Last modified 2016. Accessed October 14, 2016. https://www.umich.edu/~elements/5e/probsolv/strategy/ctmind.htm. Chiu, Fa-Chung. 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