(a.) Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
(2) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
(3) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
(4) The results are discussed in terms of a two-site model in which separate, but interacting, regions exist on the enzyme to accommodate the adenosine and nicotinamide moieties of NAD, and a single-site model in which the adenosine part of the molecule is bound preferentially and this interacts with the nicotinamide fraction.
(5) The so-called apparent accommodation has been measured in patients implanted with anterior chamber, iris support and posterior chamber IOLs.
(6) In the anatomy laboratory we looked for an alternative approach to the glenohumeral joint which would accommodate these difficulties.
(7) The government’s increase in the discount offered to tenants has prompted a massive increase in purchases of local authority accommodation.
(8) The Hindu belief system accommodates this by prescribing use in such a way that this effect becomes beneficial.
(9) The 61-year-old paid to transport prize-winning children to the fair in St Thomas and funded their accommodation.
(10) The rationale for this assumption seems logical because using all of the available accommodation is not sustainable without discomfort.
(11) It is clear that some degree of thyroid inhibition can be accommodated within the bounds of the normal feedback mechanism without the induction of either hyperplasia or neoplasia.
(12) This will not be helped by the fact that the AU still accommodates the likes of Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasago, who was until January its chair despite having been accused of serious human rights abuses.
(13) The commission heard AWH charged luxury accommodation in Queensland, limousine rides and Liberal party donations to Sydney Water.
(14) These findings supported the idea that the ferrochelatase active site could accommodate alkyl groups larger than methyl only if they were present on the nitrogens of the A or B pyrrole rings of the N-alkylPP.
(15) A Tory planning minister has admitted that the coalition's new wave of garden cities would not have to contain a single affordable home, despite Nick Clegg's claims that they would offer low-cost accommodation and help solve the UK's housing crisis.
(16) After a short review of the literature the reduction of earning capacity on the common labour market in cases of decrease of fusion, convergence and accommodation caused by head injuries is discussed and percentual values are proposed.
(17) During each session, measurements were made of either tonic accommodation or tonic vergence 30 s before stimulus onset and at 0.5, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 min after stimulus offset.
(18) To investigate the ability of a protein to accommodate potentially destabilizing amino acid substitutions, and also to investigate the steric requirements for catalysis, proline was substituted at different sites within the long alpha-helix that connects the amino-terminal and carboxyl-terminal domains of T4 lysozyme.
(19) Accommodation measurements of nine young, emmetropic subjects were obtained with an infrared optometer while they viewed superimposed horizontal and vertical square-wave gratings at various dioptric separations.
(20) The hydrolysis of a series of n-alkyl esters of 4-nitrobenzoic acid, and of isopropyl 4-nitrobenzoate, 4'-nitrophenyl 4-nitrobenzoate, and 4-nitrobenzoyl 1-monoglycerol, catalyzed by human milk lipase in the absence and presence of cholate stimulation, has been measured at pH 7.3, 37.5 degrees C. It has been shown that the enzyme possesses a specific alkyl binding site which is hydrophobic in nature and wide enough to accommodate two fatty acid chains lying side by side or a phenyl ring lying flat.
Pioneering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pioneer
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(2) Pioneers (41% of Britons) are global, networked, like innovation and believe in the importance of ethics.
(3) That's right, centuries of political columnists owe their careers to the pioneering efforts of Davy, Davy Crockett, the king of the wild frontier.
(4) Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn ran the counter-terrorism operation under Task Force Pioneer, which was led by assistant commissioner Mark Murdoch, who reports to Burn.
(5) In this article the results of studies on the relationship between anaphylaxis and CNS, performed by both pioneers and contemporary investigators, are briefly reviewed.
(6) For example, where 2 longitudinal tracts are pioneered independently in grasshopper, only one is formed in Drosophila.
(7) At a time when the intrauterine diagnosis of hydrocephalus is commonplace and pioneering efforts of antenatal therapy are evolving, review of the chronology of treatment of this disorder becomes pertinent.
(8) Since acetylcholine (ACh) was identified as a neurotransmitter at parasympathetic nerve terminals by pioneering pharmacologists such as O. Schmiedeberg, R. Hunt, O. Loewi and H.H.
(9) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(10) But Olney wanted to be an artist and he set off for Paris, where he found himself a garret in which he could make portraits and a new life among friends, lovers and acquaintances that included the black American writer and civil rights pioneer James Baldwin, WH Auden and, distantly, Edith Piaf, whom he saw sing Je ne Regrette Rien for the first time at the Olympia theatre.
(11) He was a pioneer sexologist, demographer, and sportsman and an early Zionist.
(12) Their pioneering studies led to the continuing discoveries of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) and today's considerable knowledge concerning the molecular identity of antigens and further consolidation of ANA.
(13) The move signals a change for Democrats , who have traditionally shied away from gun control in a state with a pioneer tradition of gun ownership.
(14) Seven health habits, commonly referred to as the "Alameda 7," were shown to be associated with physical health status and mortality in a pioneer longitudinal study initiated in 1965 in Alameda County, CA.
(15) In a speech to the United Nations , Hu will declare that China is ready to pioneer a new low-carbon path of development, make a commitment to increase forest cover and pledge financial support for poorer nations to adapt to global warming, according to a source close to his delegation.
(16) Their growth cones pioneer a stereotyped pathway through the limb which becomes the route of one of the major leg nerve trunks.
(17) Just as the National Institute for Care and Health Excellence was the global pioneer for assessing new drugs and treatments in the last decade, London should become the pioneer for digital health technology assessments in the decade ahead.
(18) We, in the infection control field, are quality pioneers in hospitals.
(19) It is widely accepted that Sir James Young Simpson discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and pioneered its application in surgery and midwifery.
(20) From its earliest days, Facebook has navigated – even pioneered – the territory around privacy, and how we express our personal identities online.