(n.) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggests that Mg2+ accelerated both reactions from a single class of site.
(2) By contrast, at 100 microM insulin concentration, both enhancers accelerated insulin proteolysis.
(3) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(4) The light intensity profile for any desired cell can be examined in "real time", even during acceleration of the rotor.
(5) However, it markedly accelerated GTP-gamma-S-induced degranulation.
(6) Polypeptide factor isolated from vascular wall of the cattle ("vasonin") was shown to affect the immunogenesis and hemostasis, to stimulate kallikrein-kinin system and to accelerate processes of regeneration.
(7) After using the OK method to obtain a distance curve for height, we introduce a new method (VADK) to derive velocity and acceleration curves from the fitted distance curve.
(8) Mice inoculated with tumor cells in the 10 NTX group had an acceleration (18%) in the latency of tumor appearance and, 2 weeks after cell inoculation, 70% of the mice in this group had tumors, in contrast to 10% of the controls.
(9) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
(10) Compared with results obtained with unimmunized, control rabbits, accelerated lesion development was noted in the rabbits immunized with TpN83.
(11) The method described uses film DOT-I and DOT-II by Dupont, whereby the exposure of the step wedge takes place on a linear accelerator with a photo energy of 10 MeV.
(12) The authors are also upfront about what has not gone so well: "We were too slow to mobilise … we did not identify clear leadership or adequate resources for the actions … it is vital to accelerate the programme of civil service reform."
(13) DNase I microspheres were then introduced into the extracorporeal circuit which resulted in an acceleration of degradation of acid precipitable 125I-nDNA.
(14) Between-group responsivity differences suggest developmental retardation in term (38-42 weeks) SGA newborns, but the faster SGA latencies may reflect 'induced' acceleration in auditory neurophysiologic function.
(15) Pregnancy per se did not appear to accelerate SLE in patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy.
(16) Survival ranged from 2 to 20 M, with a median survival time of 6 M. Tolerance to the subsequent CT, normal tissue reaction to accelerated RT, and the theoretical advantage of accelerated RT over conventional RT for SCCL were evaluated.
(17) In late 1983 the Hagahai sought medical aid at a mission station, an event which accelerated their contact with the common epidemic diseases of the highlands.
(18) This study investigates the photoneutron field found in medical accelerator rooms with primary barriers constructed of metal slabs plus concrete.
(19) Proceptive behavior, according to Beach (1976), maintains and accelerates sexual interactions toward the end goal.
(20) There will be a "significantly accelerated reduction" in the structural element of the deficit over the parliament.
Motion
Definition:
(n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.
(n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion.
(n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
(n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
(n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
(n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
(n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
(n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
(n.) A puppet show or puppet.
(v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
(v. i.) To make proposal; to offer plans.
(v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
(v. t.) To propose; to move.
Example Sentences:
(1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(2) 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.
(3) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
(4) Full consideration should be given to the dynamics of motion when assessing risk factors in working tasks.
(5) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(6) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
(7) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
(8) An unusually high degree of motional freedom is found for both these spin-labels, even in gel phase bilayers.
(9) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(10) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
(11) Clinical evaluation of passive range of motion, antero-posterior laxity and the appearance of the joint space showed little or no difference between the reconstruction methods.
(12) We present a paradigm to estimate local affine motion parallax structure from a varying image irradiance pattern.
(13) Echocardiographic findings included an abrupt midsystolic, posterior motion (greater than 3 mm beyond the CD line) in five patients, multiple sequence echoes in six, and posterior coaptation of the mitral valve near the left atrial wall in six.
(14) Results show that responses to motion of cortical cells are particularly sensitive to these manipulations.
(15) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
(16) Rapid right ventricular pacing increased the extent and degree of dyskinesia of the left ventricle, but premedication with nicorandil improved the wall motion.
(17) A method using selective saturation pulses and gated spin-echo MRI automatically corrects for this motion and thus eliminates misregistration artifact from regional function analysis.
(18) The relative importance of these properties depends critically on the presence and mode of motion of the tectorial plate.
(19) Left ventricular asynchrony was quantified by the phase difference of the first Fourier harmonic between postero-basal and antero-apical wall motion.
(20) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.