What's the difference between aboveground and alive?

Aboveground


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This approach successfully identified groups of common aboveground decay fungi including Cladosporium, Alternaria, Epicoccum, and Aureobasidium spp.
  • (2) TLC and GLC of an alkaloid extract of the aboveground portions of Lupinus argenteus Pursh.
  • (3) This study involves old and new material of 184 small mammalian species both insectivores and rodents; 111 living aboveground and 73 species living partly (fossorial, N = 28) or totally (subterranean, N = 45) underground.
  • (4) The herbal composition included Achillea millefolium, Urtica dioica, Cichorium (aboveground part), Polygonum, Matricaria chamomilla (flowers), Helichrysum arenarium, Calendula (flowers), corn stigmas, Humulus lupulus (racemes) in proportion 3:3:1:1:2:1:1:2:1 respectively.
  • (5) The relatively high levels of heterozygosity observed are not in accordance with the view that subterranean taxa should be less variable than aboveground species due to the uniformity of their environment.
  • (6) Fifteen micrometeorologic or microenvironmental parameters, including temperature, moisture, wind, and solar radiation, were repeatedly measured at 1 m and 2.5 cm aboveground, in the litter layer, and in the soil concurrently with drag samples of questing American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Say), in five plots (1 by 10 m) in Delaware County, Ohio.
  • (7) Daily use of coca was significantly higher among miners with a heavy work load as compared with those having a moderate-to-light work load (unadjusted odds ratio [OR] 4.24); it was also higher among those who had worked only underground rather than always or ever aboveground (OR 7.25), among those working as drillers or cart pushers as opposed to other tasks (OR 6.56), and among Mestizos and Indians compared with whites (OR 3.33).
  • (8) Measurements of the annual effective dose equivalent from radon daughters for different types of aboveground and underground buildings gave average values of 1.1 and 1.5 mSv, respectively.
  • (9) EtOH extracts of the rhizomes and aboveground portion of Trillium grandiflorum showed significant antifungal activity.
  • (10) The aboveground decay fungi sampled indoors in winter were present at relatively high concentrations in homes with gas stoves for cooking, suggesting a possible association between these fungi and increased humidity from the combustion process.
  • (11) Subterranean and fossorial small mammals are more homozygous in protein diversity, primarily isozymes, compared with aboveground species.
  • (12) Significant excesses in mortality due to stomach cancer were found for both underground (SMR = 167) and aboveground (SMR = 181) miners as compared with U.S. white males.
  • (13) The results indicated that (i) in general, insectivores harbor significantly lower levels of heterozygosity than rodents, and (ii) both overall, and in insectivores and rodents separately, the narrow-niche fossorial and subterranean species displayed significantly lower levels of observed heterozygosity than small mammalian species living aboveground.

Alive


Definition:

  • (a.) Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.
  • (a.) In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent; as, to keep the fire alive; to keep the affections alive.
  • (a.) Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged.
  • (a.) Sprightly; lively; brisk.
  • (a.) Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive.
  • (a.) Of all living (by way of emphasis).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As of November, 1988 after a median observation period of 34 months, 174 of the 256 patients (68%) were alive, 11 (4%) dead and 71 (28%) lost to follow-up.
  • (2) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
  • (3) Seven patients have not shown evidence of dissemination, and five are alive 1--15 years (median 9 years) after diagnosis.
  • (4) Nine of these patients are dead; four are alive, with three of these having progressive disease.
  • (5) In two patients with extensive marrow necrosis, the diagnosis of marrow necrosis was established by morphologic and radioisotopic studies, and the extent of involvement was accurately assessed by marrow scanning with technetium Tc 99m sulfur colloid while the patients were still alive.
  • (6) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
  • (7) Approximately 16,000 people were diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in 2012 but were not given the treatment they needed to stay alive and prevent the spread of the disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
  • (8) To this day, 10 patients (31%) are alive with a functioning kidney transplant, 16 (50%) are still treated by CPD awaiting a transplant, 5 have died (16%) and one went back to hemodialysis (3%).
  • (9) Six patients (30%) were alive without evidence of recurrent disease at follow-up ranging from 1 to 12 years.
  • (10) Only 13 patients were operable and only four are presently alive.
  • (11) Of the 5985 infants born alive under sole care of a midwife, 3.8% were admitted to hospital.
  • (12) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
  • (13) In classical psychosomatics dualism in medicine is kept alive by considering only so-called "psychosomatic diseases".
  • (14) And if the fathers of Europe, Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman , were alive today, they would see that their aim, to get Europe to move to a proper union through a series of crises, has moved a step closer.
  • (15) At 5 years postoperatively, 122 patients (34.7%) were alive with a better New York Heart Association functional classification than preoperatively.
  • (16) Landrace sows lost less weight during lactation (P less than .05) when fed diet F than when fed diet N. The total number of pigs born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and at weaning were higher (P less than .01) for S-line Duroc sows, and litter size at 21 d and at weaning was higher (P less than .01) for S-line Landrace sows than for C-line litters within each breed.
  • (17) On December 14, 1990, the gastrostomy tube which had kept Nancy alive since the accident was removed and she died 11 days later.
  • (18) So why did the police officers not even leave one of them alive to ask him this question?” Why was he killed?
  • (19) All 15 patients were alive and asymptomatic at the time of writing.
  • (20) Of the 52 patients, 31 survived to leave hospital and all patients known to be alive are leading active and useful lives.