(n.) A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
(2) African Americans also have more outpatient episodes than whites.
(3) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.
(4) Using a simple precipitation technique we observed that the serum concentrations of low density lipoproteins in healthy Africans were less than half the serum concentrations in healthy Europeans.
(5) G6PD Tacoma-like may be common in some African tribes.
(6) Asian macaques are susceptible to fatal simian AIDS from a type D retrovirus, indigenous in macaques, and from a lentivirus, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is indigenous to healthy African monkeys.
(7) There is also young voter "Mike" in New York and "Alice," an African-American from Michigan, who underline the need to re-awaken Obama's most loyal supporters from 2008.
(8) Will African film-makers tell those kind of films differently?
(9) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(10) Recommendations have been made regarding the development of this specialisation in the South African health care setting.
(11) 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.
(12) The Mexican-Americans of Starr County, Texas, classified by sex and birthplace, were studied to determine the extent of genetic variation and contributions from ancestral populations such as Spanish, Amerindian and West African.
(13) Values obtained by combining Mini-ESR with indices of the African Neonates were 100%, 85% and 94%.
(14) As someone who worked in Washington DC in media activities, I often suspect that different standards in reporting are applied to African governments.
(15) Using what is known about AIDS and what is know about the population structure in African countries, it is possible to model the impact of AIDS on a typical developing country with a population of 10 million.
(16) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
(17) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
(18) The case of a Black African patient with an annular subvalvular left ventricular aneurysm of unknown origin is described, and the pathological findings in this condition together with a review of the literature is presented.
(19) In African trypanosomes, calmodulin is encoded by a small family of tandemly repeated genes consisting of three to four units.
(20) (S)-1-[3-Hydroxy-2-(phosphonylmethoxy)propyl]cytosine (S-HPMPC) was able to prevent simian varicella infection in African green monkeys inoculated intratracheally with virus.
Kob
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Koba
Example Sentences:
(1) The transition was characterized by a single first order rate constant (kobs,i) which was independent of enzyme concentration.
(2) Knowledge of the salt dependences of ka and of the observed equilibrium constance Kobs of the ligand-nucleic acid interaction should usually be sufficient to determine whether a screening controlled mechanism or a pre-equilibrium mechanism is suitable to describe the process.
(3) A log kobs versus pH profile for the approach to the ionization equilibrium was determined, and a mechanism consistent with the profile was postulated.
(4) In the absence of cyanide, ferrocytochrome a3 appears at a rate (kobs) of 0.016 s-1.
(5) Above 25 microM AT.H complex, an increasing dead time displacement of p-aminobenzamidine and a downward deviation of kobs from the initial linear dependence on AT.H complex concentration were found, reflecting the saturation of an intermediate Xa.AT.H complex with a KD of 200 microM and a limiting rate of Xa-AT product complex formation of 140 s-1.
(6) At pH 7.8, the apparent single rate constant for association (kobs) at 4 degrees C was 4.72 x 10(+5).M-1.min-1.
(7) Thus, under pseudo-first order conditions ([AT]o, [H]o much greater than [T]o much less than [P]o), the observed thrombin inactivation rate constant (kobs) exhibited a saturable dependence on [AT]o or [H]o when [H]o much less than KT,H, reflecting a KAT,H (0.25 microM) similar to that directly determined by equilibrium binding.
(8) The nature of the anion often has a major effect on the magnitude of the equilibrium constant (Kobs) and rate constant (kobs) of protein-DNA interactions, but a minor effect on SKobs and Skobs, which are dominated by the cation stoichiometry.
(9) The rate constant (kobs) for loss of ADP activation exhibits a nonlinear dependence on 2-BDB-TAMP concentration, suggesting a reversible binding of reagent (KR = 0.74 mM) prior to irreversible modification.
(10) The kobs max value in tissues from insulin-dependent diabetic patients was significantly greater than that in tissues from either noninsulin-dependent diabetics or nondiabetics.
(11) Reduction by lumiflavin semiquinone followed single exponential kinetics and the observed rate constant (kobs) was linearly dependent on protein concentration (k = 1.8 X 10(7) M-1s-1 heme-1).
(12) At 0.25 M-KX, the increase in Kobs for Osym is observed to be approximately 40-fold, whereas for non-operator DNA the increase in Kobs is estimated by extrapolation to be approximately 300-fold.
(13) The Kobs of this reaction reflects the difference between the observed standard free energy change (delta G-oobs) for the hydrolysis of acetylcholine and the delta G-oobs for the hydrolysis of acetyl-CoA.
(14) The observed equilibrium constants (Kobs) of the creatine kinase (EC 2.7.3.2), myokinase (EC 2.7.4.3), glucose-6-phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.9), and fructose-1,6-diphosphatase (EC 3.1.3.11) reactions have been determined at 38 degrees C, pH 7.0, ionic strength 0.25, and varying free magnesium concentrations.
(15) Stopped-flow spectrophotometry also showed that electron transfer from the Fe-protein to the MoFe-protein in states E0 and E1H occurs at the same rate (kobs.
(16) A study of kobs vs pH suggests this active-site lysine has a pKa of 8.1 and a pH-independent rate constant of inactivation of 47,700 M-1 min-1.
(17) At all temperatures, the pH strongly influenced the observed degradation rate constant (kobs) values, with rate minima observed near pH 4.
(18) Alkylation of the N-terminal half resulted in biphasic calcium release with rates (kobs 153 s-1 and 10.9 s-1 respectively) similar to those observed in intact alkylated calmodulin.
(19) At 1.2 mM 2-BDB-TAMP, kobs = 0.060 min-1 and is not affected by alpha-ketoglutarate or GTP, but is decreased to 0.020 min-1 by 5 mM NADH and to zero by 5 mM ADP.
(20) A plot of the pseudo-first order rate constant (Kobs) versus T1K concentration was linear, and values for the association (k1) and dissociation (k-1) rate constants were obtained.