(n.) An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.)
Example Sentences:
(1) Others lay down in the crops, but the 58-year-old agriculturalist, who was respected in his community as a supervisor at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, had two daughters at home.
(2) With the index, we were able to compare the distribution and prevalence of emaciation between the population of nomadic herdsmen of the Adrar of Iforas and the population of sedentary agriculturalists of the Region of Gao in Mali.
(3) This must include the study of peasant agriculturalists who have adapted many techniques from cultures that have long been extinct.
(4) A total of 1323 sera from healthy subjects in the Philippines including Filipino lowlanders, Mongoloid slash-and-burn agriculturalists and the Mongoloid aboriginal hunter-gatherers (Aeta group and Mamanwa group) were examined for the presence of antibodies to HTLV-1 by the indirect immunofluorescence test and by the Western blot technique using HTLV-1 carrying cells.
(5) This study examines degenerative joint disease of the major appendicular joints in hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists from northwestern Alabama.
(6) Changes in mean tooth size and associated t-tests reveal strong and significant reduction in dental size between the Mesolithic and Agriculturalist samples, followed by a continued although diminished trend of reduction for only the molar teeth between the two Agriculturalist groups.
(7) This article presents the rationale for education in nutrition in the preparation of agriculturalists and reviews some of the past efforts and present activities of national and international organizations to meld nutrition into agricultural world development programs.
(8) Cribra orbitalia, a form of porotic hyperostosis associated with iron deficiency anemia, is just as common among these fisherpeople, whose diet was rich in iron and essential amino acids, as it is among maize-dependent agriculturalists.
(9) While care is needed in generalising, the evidence suggested that for agriculturalists in the tropics, the worst times of year are the wet seasons, typically marked by a concurrence of food shortages, high demands for agricultural work, high exposure to infection especially diarrhoeas, malaria, and skin diseases, loss of body weight, low birth weights, high neonatal mortality, poor child care, malnutrition, sickness and indebtedness.
(10) Parasite prevalences and intensities were analysed in relation to age, sex, religion and occupation: females (70%) were found to be more infected than males (64%); Muslims (50%) were less infected than Christians (68%) and agriculturalists (90%) were the most infected occupational group.
(11) The population structure of Barra is similar to other British isolates in the recent past, but an order of magnitude less inbred than slash-and-burn agriculturalists and Pacific Islanders.
(12) The spread of thalassemia among prehistoric populations of the Mediterranean Basin has been linked to the increased risk to early agriculturalists posed by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite.
(13) (A-group, C-group, Pharaonic); and Intensive Agriculturalist, A.D. 0-1400 (Meroitic, X-Group, Christian).
(14) The study suggests that prehistoric hunter-gatherer peoples carried fewer helminth parasites than agriculturalists.
(15) A maize-based iron- and protein-deficient diet is commonly cited as the most important cause of porotic hyperostosis among American Indian agriculturalists.
(16) Most of the people examined in the present study were agriculturalists.
(17) The modern Japanese are tied to Koreans, Chinese, Southeast Asians, and the Yayoi rice agriculturalists who entered Japan in 300 B.C.
(18) In all cases focal agriculturalists exhibited smaller teeth and a higher frequency of severe linear enamel hypoplasia.
(19) During this period differences developed as a result of selective advantage in the Negroes following the pastoralist-agriculturalist way of life as opposed to the hunter-gatherer way of life.
(20) The cross-cultural distribution of handedness provides support for this model since the more conforming agriculturalists as measured by the Asch Test have a significantly lower incidence of left-handedness (0.59%, 1.5% and 3.4%), while the more permissively socialized Eskimo and Arunta hunters, who are seen to be more independent on the Asch Test, have 11.3% and 10.5% left-handers, respectively.
Null
Definition:
(a.) Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
(n.) Something that has no force or meaning.
(n.) That which has no value; a cipher; zero.
(v. t.) To annul.
(n.) One of the beads in nulled work.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
(2) DR(+) cells, however, showed no change in percentage and a lesser drop in absolute numbers, suggesting an increase with advancing disease of DR(+), Ig(-) null cells, which may represent immature B cell precursors.
(3) In this report we describe an improvement upon the design by Stanton and Lightfoot for a simple photographic null method to determine the kVp of a diagnostic region x-ray source.
(4) At least two (Rh null and the McLeod type) are responsible for congenital hemolytic disorders.
(5) (2) Sequences of brightness steps of like polarity (either increments or decrements) elicit positive and negative motion-dependent response components when mimicking motion in the cell's preferred and null direction, respectively.
(6) The analysis also involved statistical tests of a modified null hypothesis, the generation of confidence intervals (CIs) and a meta-analysis.
(7) The null potential of both responses became more and less negative with a decrease and an increase, respectively, in the extracellular potassium concentration.
(8) The null mutation of algR was generated in a mucoid derivative of the standard genetic strain PAO responsive to different environmental factors.
(9) Endoneurial fluid pressure (EFP) was recorded by an active, servo-null pressure system after a glass micropipette was inserted into rat sciatic nerve undergoing wallerian degeneration.
(10) In thymo-deprived mice (nude mice and B mice) the percentage of null cells increases during the stage of regeneration, and B mice develop a large number of Ig +-bearing cells.
(11) Alkaline phosphatase activity was elevated in the lymphocytes from T-CLL, cord blood and tonsils and the blast cells from Null-ALL.
(12) Analysis of ldlA cells has identified three classes of mutant alleles at the ldlA locus: null alleles, alleles that code for normally processed receptors that cannot bind LDL, and alleles that code for abnormally processed receptors.
(13) Putative null sup-38 mutations cause maternal-effect lethality which is rescued by a wild-type copy of the locus in the zygote.
(14) Null cells of patients with hypoplastic anemia did not produce erythroid colonies under any culture conditions.
(15) Comparison of simulated versus actual inheritance data demonstrates that the so-called null structural alleles actually produce functional globins.--The genetic controls in Peromyscus may be analogous to those in primates.
(16) A null zone and associated sudden phase-reversal of RSA were observed in stratum lucidum of CA3.
(17) When the stimulus is placed at a position approximately 80 degrees dorsal to the eye axis, there is no response; this area is called the null region.
(18) Northern blot analysis showed that Adh-1 mRNA was synthesized at wild-type levels in immature seeds of the null mutant, but dropped to 25% in mature seeds.
(19) Two tumours were null cell adenomas with PIs less than 0.1 and 0.2%.
(20) Thus this methodology offers the potential to study naturally occurring ADH electromorphs and null alleles independent of enzymatic activity assays.