(n.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data of the children with ROP, at birth and at the time when ROP developed, were recorded on a prognosis card, in each case between the child's absolute age (abscissa) and birthweight in g (ordinate).
(2) A negative correlation was found to exist between hepatic blood flow (ordinate) and fractional hepatic extraction (abscissa) of 125I-bPTH(1-84), both in the basal state (r = -.483, p less than .05, n = 24) and after having modified serum calcium (r = -.548, p less than .01, n = 24).
(3) Thus, both these agents which increase intracellular c-AMP caused a rightward shift in the curve expressing force (ordinate) as a function of Ca2+ influx (abscissa).
(4) By using a small computer, an analog to digital conversion is made and then the different spikes are recognized and characterized by means of their temporal abscissa (time of occurrence), amplitude, duration and type.
(5) Slopes greater than 1 were obviously due to discrepancies between the free inhibitor concentration (If) present in the assay and It plotted on the abscissa and could, therefore, be indicators of tight-binding conditions.
(6) The method makes use of (i) the abscissa of the first inflection point of the plot of any signal proportional to the binding of ligand to receptors versus the logarithm of the total ligand concentration, and (ii) the initial slope of the saturation curve plotted in direct coordinates.
(7) The relationship between the slope of the plot and the substrate concentration shows characteristic features depending on the inhibition type: for partial competitive inhibition, the straight line converging on the abscissa at--Ks, the dissociation constant of the enzyme-substrate complex; for non-competitive inhibition, a constant slope independent of the substrate concentration; for uncompetitive inhibition, a hyperbola decreasing with the increase in the substrate concentration; for mixed-type inhibition, a hyperbola increasing with the increase in the substrate concentration.
(8) In order to calculate a short segment of a V-P curve, the P"V"V was plotted on the ordinate and the PAW on the abscissa.
(9) Force increased in all intact muscles continually with sarcomere length from 1.6-2.4 microns; the relation between force and sarcomere length was convex toward the ordinate at high Ca++0 and convex toward the abscissa at low Ca++0.
(10) Locus equations are straight-line regression fits to data points formed by plotting onsets of F2 transitions along the ordinate and their corresponding midvowel nuclei along the abscissa.
(11) Each rearrangement was graphed once with actual (unbalanced result) or potential (normal or balanced result) imbalances plotted with trisomy as the ordinate and monosomy as the abscissa.
(12) Seven abscissas show the oxygen partial pressure gradients from the inspired air at a distinct altitude to the arterial blood.
(13) The curve representing the relation between force and sarcomere length shifted from convex towards the ordinate (pH 7.35) to convex towards the abscissa (pH 6.68) as after [Ca++]o had been reduced from 1.5 to 0.3 mmol X litre-1.
(14) Furthermore, extrapolated lines at high MgATP concentrations intersect on the abscissa, indicating loss of synergism in binding of substrates.
(15) Double reciprocal plots for Isi versus [Ca]0 drawn at pH 7.3 and 6.3 intersected at the abscissa, and indicated that H and Ca did not compete for a common site.
(16) 4 and 8 and the axis of abscissae can be taken as an objective criterion of a qualitatively abnormal movement of the cervical vertebral units.
(17) Definite integration from the origin to 1.0 and 2.0 on the abscissa gives the numerical value of AUC in each curve.
(18) A linear relationship between plasma DOPEG (ordinate) and plasma noradrenaline (NA; abscissa) was found during orthostasis as well as during NA infusion.
(19) The resulting double-reciprocal plot was linear; its slope and its intercepts on the ordinate and abscissa were pH-dependent.
(20) The dose-depolarization curve for enhanced aspartate responses (measured at a fixed time following a given dose of glutamate) was displaced to the left along the abscissa scale relative to control, with no detectable change in limiting log-log slope.
Domain
Definition:
(n.) Dominion; empire; authority.
(n.) The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively.
(n.) Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne.
(n.) Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
(2) The monoclonal antibody (mAb), SY38, binds to a cytoplasmic domain of synaptophysin.
(3) Therefore, neither of these two regions of the Tat protein appear to be discrete activation domains.
(4) Mapping of the cross-link position between U2 and U6 RNAs is consistent with base-pairing between the 5' domain of U2 and the 3' end of U6 RNA.
(5) A domain containing a CA repeat, similar to ones found in other late, cAMP-induced Dictyostelium genes, is required for cAMP-induced and developmental expression.
(6) Blocking the heparin-binding domains of fibronectin inhibited osteoblast attachment by 40-45%, which is complementary to inhibition results previously obtained with the RGDS tetrapeptide.
(7) The specified region of the inner E2 core domain was highly homologous to the region of the E2 subunit of pyruvate dehydrogenase and alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase.
(8) The relevant phase diagram shows different macroheterogeneous phases and microstructured domains.
(9) We have examined the in vitro membrane assembly characteristics of a variety of leader peptidase mutants and found that domains required for insertion in vivo are also necessary for insertion in vitro.
(10) Combination of domain substitutions to generate the [Glu107,123]bFGF and [Arg19,Lys123,126]bFGF mutants did not show any additivity of the mutations on biological activity.
(11) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
(12) The peptides, which were synthesized using a FMOC solid phase procedure and purified by HPLC, consisted of residues 6-25 from the putative aqueous domain, residues 22-35, which overlaps the putative aqueous and transmembrane domains, and residues 1-38 and 1-40 representing nearly the full length of beta-AP.
(13) The region is distinctive in that the sequence is absent from the homologous domain of the erythroid alpha chain and diverges from the normal internal repeat structure observed throughout other spectrins.
(14) Synthetic DNA corresponding to the hydrophobic domain of cytochrome b5 was enzymatically fused in-frame to cloned DNA corresponding to the C-terminus of the Escherichia coli enzyme, beta-galactosidase.
(15) In this paper the domain of validity of the unlabelled and labelled minimal models of glucose disappearance is studied.
(16) In vivo labeling with 32Pi showed that plectin was the target for cAMP-independent protein kinases which phosphorylated 18-kDa domains at the end(s) of the molecule.
(17) In contrast, the enzymic domain of the colicin (T2) remained in the aqueous phase and was recovered in a highly active form as a consequence of its dissociation from the immunity protein.
(18) The most striking homology was to yeast SEC7 in the central domain of the gene (57% identical over 466 bp) and also the protein level (42% identical amino acids; 39% conserved amino acids).
(19) Its features are consistent with observed structural dimensions and the molecular periodicities related to transcription, replication and matrix attachment domains.
(20) The three major RNA domains, as defined by secondary structure, appear to exist as autonomous structural units in three dimensions, for the most part.