(n.) A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc.
(n.) A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.
(n.) The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.
(n.) A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.
(n.) A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Experiment 3, intermediate and upper-rank abacus experts performed a similar task to Experiment 1 under two instruction conditions.
(2) The results revealed that in the mental calculation condition, abacus experts showed a non-significant tendency towards greater interference in the left hand whereas the controls showed no hand difference.
(3) Instead it came to a knife-fight armed only with an abacus .
(4) The trypsin sensitivity expressed according to this index allowed the establishment of an abacus wherein several zones, A, B, C and D, define cell adhesion behaviour on different biomaterials.
(5) Paulson is alleged to have been allowed to stuff Abacus with mortgages doomed to default.
(6) All subjects had equivalent abacus performance ratings.
(7) Within nine months, more than 99% of the mortgages referenced by Abacus were in default, leaving Royal Bank of Scotland's Dutch subsidiary, ABN Amro, with an $840m bill as it had insured the derivative against failure.
(8) A task-demand variable was defined as a conjoint of mental arithmetic (3 min) and abacus arithmetic (30 min).
(9) In 2010, the firm was fined $550m by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US, and £17.5m by UK's Financial Services Authority over the Abacus sub-prime mortgage product and the activities of Fabrice Tourre, a London-based employee.
(10) In addition to offering simulation exercises for teaching purposes, this abacus provides the means for studying the instantaneous urodynamic situation (correspondences between cycle time points, symptoms, and effects of treatments) and determining the effect of various medicosocial events on the course of the bladder and sphincter dysfunction.
(11) Loss of function mutations in the abacus A (abaA) regulatory locus result in formation of aberrant conidiophores that fail to produce conidia.
(12) These data suggest that (1) learning experiences can affect the pattern of cerebral specialization through the change of approaches to perform cognitive tasks, and (2) the right hemisphere engages in mental calculation for the abacus experts whereas the left hemisphere contributes to mental calculation in ordinary people having no experience of abacus learning.
(13) Conidiophore morphogenesis requires regulatory interactions between the products of the stuA, bristle (brlA), and abacus (abaA) genes.
(14) The SEC's case against Goldman centres on a 2007 mortgage derivatives deal named Abacus, struck by Fabrice Tourre, a banker now based in London.
(15) In tissues treated directly with OsO4-pyroantimonate, antimonate reaction product was found chiefly in abacus bodies and secretory granules of the Golgi region and in secretory granules in the distal pole of the cell.
(16) Temperature shift experiments with an abaA14ts strain demonstrated that abaA+ function induced phialide formation by the aberrant abacus cells and was continuously required for maintenance of phialide function.
(17) All nutrient data were converted to bead units which were summed on an abacus until the meal requirements were met.
(18) The authors hope this abacus will be an attractive aide to the understanding of the complex function of the distal urinary tract.
(19) Only noise exposure tended to influence the performance of male students in abacus arithmetic.
(20) The results revealed that in the mental calculation condition, abacus experts showed greater interference effects on left hand tapping, whereas control subjects showed greater interference effects on right hand tapping (as compared to left hand).
Uppermost
Definition:
(a.) Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme.
Example Sentences:
(1) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(2) The authors, in other words, obtained information on expression of keratin 10, normally occurring in all suprabasal keratinocytes, as well as of the basal proliferation keratin 16 in the uppermost vital cell positions of PC lesion.
(3) A net of blood capillaries located in the uppermost part of the tunica propria occupies these grooves.
(4) Variation in risk in association with sugar and starch intake was also insubstantial, while for fiber, there was a nonuniform reduction in risk at the three uppermost fifths of intake.
(5) The nature of the horny layer which, as the uppermost barrier takes over the main part of the protective function of the skin against all locally applied substances, is shortly outlined.
(6) Pure-tone audiometry was performed before and after a 30-minute period of positioning the patient horizontally with the affected ear uppermost.
(7) A significant difference between the dependent and the uppermost triceps brachii was recorded.
(8) So, although the larger and more newsworthy constitutional clash in this case is about whether the law should apply to the heir to the throne – and thus about the wisdom or not of the prince’s way of lobbying ministers – this wasn’t the uppermost issue for the court today.
(9) This investigation compared teams at the two uppermost levels of men's volleyball in Canada for differences in physical, physiological and performance characteristics.
(10) On the skin surface, cytomembranes of the uppermost corneocytes frequently had unilateral, very slightly flat-elevated, zonal areas along the junctions between the corneocytes.
(11) ESCA analysis of the uppermost 5-nm point layer revealed the presence of N on silver points removed from failed treatments.
(12) Cholesterol 3-sulphate (CS) is a component of the intercellular lipid found in the uppermost layer of human epidermis (the 'stratum corneum') and is thought to play an important role in tissue cohesion.
(13) In BP, degenerated keratinocytes adjacent to the blister roof, may, after undergoing a filamentous change, drop off into the dermis and subsequently form homogeneous, fibrillar bodies in the uppermost dermis when reepithelization is completed.
(14) In the Commons, Cameron said continuation of the current system of regulation was "not an option" and that the victims of phone hacking needed to be uppermost in people's minds.
(15) There were no significant difference between the two groups in the mean time from the injection to recovery from analgesia in the two uppermost segments (121 min versus 107 min).
(16) In addition to a swelling that is generally only slightly tender to pressure, the most important symptom is usually a long-standing, intermittent, dull pain in the upper sternum, the claviculae and the adjacent uppermost ribs.
(17) The marking of the medial lip segment of the Millard rotation advancement procedure for repair of the unilateral cleft lip has been altered in the uppermost portion by utilizing tissue from the columellar base.
(18) Using immunocytochemistry and fluorography of newly synthesised collagens, we report that surface articular chondrocytes (which occupy the uppermost 10-15% of the tissue depth) from normal human cartilage initiate de novo synthesis of both type X collagen and alkaline phosphatase when maintained in suspension culture.
(19) Using ruthenium tetroxide as a secondary fixative, we are able to demonstrate stacks of lamellae filling the intercellular spaces in the uppermost layers of the stratum corneum.
(20) Electron microscopy of the nonvesiculated early erythematous skin showed small vacuoles and lacunae along the uppermost portion of the dermis.