(n.) The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
(3) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
(4) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(5) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(6) The antiarrhythmic activity similar to that of quinidine (with ca.
(7) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(8) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(9) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(10) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(11) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(12) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
(13) Following in vitro C activation in NHS by delta IgG, the 40 KD C4d component increased markedly.
(14) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(15) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(16) This difference was not due to ATPase activity in the assay.
(17) In the surface epithelial cells, the basolateral cell surface showed moderate enzymatic activity.
(18) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
(19) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(20) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
Stagnate
Definition:
(v. t.) To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room.
(v. t.) To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.
(a.) Stagnant.
Example Sentences:
(1) This movement generates forward and backward shearing force in the stagnation region as the separated flow migrates back and forth.
(2) After sterilisation of mentally diseased patients had been legally enforced and finances were restricted, family care stagnated, promoting instead a type of family care that was independent of psychiatric hospitals and was carried out on a "district" basis.
(3) "We believe BAE's earnings could stagnate until the middle of this decade," said Goldman, which was also worried that performance fees on a joint fighter programme in America had been withheld by the Pentagon, and the company still had a yawning pension deficit.
(4) The implementation of equity policies in health have however been challenged by several trends and features of the health care system, these becoming more pronounced in the economic stagnation period after 1983.
(5) The well defined conditions of stagnation point flow using platelet-rich-plasma (PRP) as fluid permit quantitative treatment of the formation of platelet microthrombi on the stagnation plate.
(6) A belated acknowledgement of the damage inflicted by decades of stagnated earnings and inequality have meant pay levels have rightly climbed to prominence, in part spurred by Vermont senator Bernie Sanders who put fair pay at the heart of his campaign attempts to secure the Democratic nomination for president.
(7) Imagine how much greater we would be if the dreams and talents of 40 million human beings were unleashed.” Stagnating social mobility is expected to be the central message of Obama's state of the union address later this month and defining issue of the 2014 mid-term elections.
(8) Inflammatory parameters of disease progression and stagnation are well documentable.
(9) With the minimum volume doubling time being the same in all cases, the growth rate of the tumours varied according to longer or shorter phases of stagnation or delay.
(10) As in other forms of intestinal obstruction, there is stagnation of enteral content and edema of the bowel wall, theoretically facilitating translocation of bacteria.
(11) The survey was conducted at the end of a year in which Chinese growth had slowed and the eurozone stagnated, raising expectations that Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank will try to bolster the eurozone by starting QE on Thursday .
(12) "Britain has lost tens of millions of pounds over the last few days due to road stagnation," he said.
(13) We are a community and a market of 600 million people with some of the world's fastest growing economies, while much of Europe is in economic stagnation.
(14) Xeroradiography is stagnating after promising beginnings.
(15) Stagnation and functional obstruction in the proximal duodenum is the main factor influencing the morbidity rate among these patients.
(16) In design planning the stagnation areas should be avoided as well as major turbulences.
(17) Sixteen control samples taken from the connecting plumbing system at distant locations, after periods of stagnation which result in DU bacterial contamination, were negative.
(18) A review of the development of psychiatric pharmacotherapy often leads to the conclusion that the major discoveries were made in the years between 1952 and 1960; Since the psychiatric pharmacotherapy is said to stagnate.
(19) But again, many in the industry are concerned the recovery could be snuffed out, with the National Federation of Builders pointing to threats to the housbuilding as mortgage lending stagnates.
(20) Rising suburban poverty The report found that the number of jobs in suburbs has stagnated over the past decade, more people are claiming jobseeker’s allowance and pension credit, and that poverty has subsequently become more concentrated in many suburban areas.