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Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid

Journal article · 1953 · Watson, J. D., Crick, F. H. C.

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Watson, J. D., & Crick, F. H. C. (1953). Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid. Nature, 171(4356), 737–738.
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Watson, J. D., & Crick, F. H. C. (1953). Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid. Nature, 171(4356), 737–738. https://doi.org/10.1038/171737a0
Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Orwell, G. (1949). Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg.
Harari, Y. N. (2015). Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Harper Collins.

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Smith, J. A., & Doe, M. B. (2024). The effects of climate change on coastal ecosystems. Journal of Environmental Science, 45(3), 234–251. https://doi.org/10.1234/jes.2024.045

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Smith, Jane A., and Mark B. Doe. "The Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Ecosystems." Journal of Environmental Science, vol. 45, no. 3, 2024, pp. 234–51.

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Jane A. Smith & Mark B. Doe, The Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Ecosystems, 45 J. Env't Sci. 234 (2024).

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Smith, Jane A., and Mark B. Doe. "The Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Ecosystems." Journal of Environmental Science 45, no. 3 (2024): 234–51.

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¹ Jane A. Smith and Mark B. Doe, “The Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Ecosystems,” Journal of Environmental Science 45, no. 3 (2024): 237.

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[1] J. A. Smith and M. B. Doe, "The effects of climate change on coastal ecosystems," J. Environ. Sci., vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 234–251, 2024.

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Smith, J.A. and Doe, M.B. (2024) 'The effects of climate change on coastal ecosystems', Journal of Environmental Science, 45(3), pp. 234–251.

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1. Smith JA, Doe MB. The effects of climate change on coastal ecosystems. J Environ Sci. 2024;45(3):234-51.

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Smith, J. A.; Doe, M. B. The Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Ecosystems. J. Environ. Sci. 2024, 45 (3), 234–251.

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Smith and Doe¹

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Smith, Jane A., and Mark B. Doe. "The Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Ecosystems." Journal of Environmental Science 45, no. 3 (2024): 234–51.

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¹ Jane A. Smith and Mark B. Doe, “The Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Ecosystems,” Journal of Environmental Science 45, no. 3 (2024): 237.

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Rodriguez, M., & Chen, L. (2024). The hidden architecture of attention in large language models. Nature, 628, 412–419.

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  • ConferenceVaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., Kaiser, Ł., & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30, 5998–6008.
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