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Sri Sathya Sai Prasanthi Nilayam (station code: SSPN) is a major railway station and is located around 8 km to the west of the pilgrim town of Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh, India. Puttaparthi is a renowned pilgrim center and the location of the ashram of Sathya Sai Baba .
Sarcospan is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SSPN gene.. Originally identified as Kirsten ras associated gene (), sarcospan is a 25-kDa transmembrane protein located in the dystrophin-associated protein complex of skeletal muscle cells, where it is most abundant.
Bougainville has been inhabited by humans for at least 29,000 years, according to evidence obtained from Kilu Cave on Buka Island. [11] Until about 10,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum, there was a single island referred to as "Greater Bougainville" that spanned from the northern tip of Buka Island to the Nggela Islands north of Guadalcanal.
Buka is a town located on the southern coast of Buka Island, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea. [1] It is administered under Buka Rural LLG . [ 2 ] It is the capital of the North Bougainville District and the interim capital of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
Buka is a relatively flat island some 52 kilometres (32 miles) long in the north–south axis, and up to 18 kilometres (11 miles) wide in the west–east axis. It is separated from Bougainville by the Buka Passage, a narrow, deep and very fast flowing tidal channel about 200 metres (660 feet) wide.
The much smaller Buka Island, c. 500 km 2 (190 sq mi), lies to the north, across the 400–500 m (1,300–1,600 ft) wide Buka Strait. Even though the strait is narrow, there is no bridge across it, but there is a regular ferry service between the key settlements on either side. The main airstrip in the north is in the town of Buka.
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The population dropped rapidly from around 2010 with the end of regular shipping, and expatriate Takuu chartered open boats to bring off family members, most of whom settled in Buka. In 2019 the estimated resident population was 150.