(a.) Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.
Example Sentences:
(1) When coping responses were categorized according to four modes--intrapsychic, inaction, direct action, and information seeking--the Appalachian group was found to use the information-seeking mode; the Cherokee group, the intrapsychic mode.
(2) Ethological reproductive isolation and genetic divergence across 26 protein loci were measured among populations of the salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus in the southern Appalachian Mountains.
(3) In a small, rural Appalachian settlement, the pattern of retirement to the porch illustrates how claims by old men for social attention and care are anchored in the interests of others and are vested with significance for the entire community.
(4) They represent single amino acid substitutions at positions 30 (type I), 60 (Appalachian), and 84 (type II).
(5) Molecular genetic and protein analyses show that two new patients from the same region have a mutation in the transthyretin gene previously reported in a family with an Irish ancestor from the Appalachian region of the United States.
(6) In Breathitt County, Kentucky, an Appalachian Mountain community, 1,267 children were examined to determine goiter prevalence.
(7) It is estimated that more than 500 Appalachian mountains have been decapitated, resulting in 2,000 miles of streams becoming strewn with debris.
(8) Cervical cancer mortality rates in the Appalachian population of southeastern Kentucky have been shown to be unusually high.
(9) Four subjects with FAP (two type II and two of the Appalachian type) had biochemical evidence of hypothyroidism.
(10) Also known as mountaintop-removal mining, it is exactly what the name suggests: the practice of dynamiting the tops off of Appalachian peaks, some of the earth's oldest, to harvest the valuable coal seams contained inside.
(11) Where did you get the idea for Flight Behaviour , a novel charting the impact of climate change on a rural farming community in the Appalachians?
(12) A study of 3,726 Appalachian coal miners was undertaken to determine the standard mortality ratio (SMR) for heart disease and to ascertain the effect of smoking, excess weight, and the level of physical activity on deaths due to this cause, SMR's were calculated for all forms of heart disease and also separately for ischemic heart disease.
(13) Rough it for free in one of the 12 primitive Appalachian Trail backpacker shelters or relax in an Almost Heaven log cabin in Gatlinburg.
(14) In 2003, Davis led a campaign against a CBS plan to remake the comedy as reality television by setting up a poor Appalachian family in a Beverly Hills mansion.
(15) It's a leisurely cruise, winding over covered bridges and past meadows, and it parallels two of the state's great hiking trails, the Long Trail and Appalachian Trail, offering easy access to waterfalls, ancient forests and mountain scenery, as well as the pastoral beauty of Granville Gulf, where Moss Glen Falls drops into the Mad river.
(16) West Virginia is America's second poorest state after Mississippi, and the show has been criticised for exploiting stereotypes of the Appalachian poor.
(17) Illustration is provided from an ethnographic study of aging in a rural Appalachian community.
(18) Health science students worked as members of interdisciplinary health teams as the teams provided services to multiple-problem Appalachian families.
(19) Campaigners against mining in the Appalachian mountains protested outside the AGM, and in the meeting Paul Corbit Brown urged the board to rethink financing such activities.
(20) Heavy snow is likely over the Appalachian mountains.
Cordillera
Definition:
(n.) A mountain ridge or chain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Medical advice was given for such feats as crossing The Andes Cordillera in a balloon in 1915.
(2) Observations made with a group of 25 tourists mountaineering in the Cordilleras (South America) over 24 days in altitudes between 3200 and 6000 m are described.
(3) Between November and December 1987, 201 subjects from three communities of the Cordillera Province, Santa Cruz Department, South-East Bolivia (Camiri, Boyuibe, and Gutierrez) were examined for serum iron levels.
(4) The Cordillera Condor between Peru and Ecuador is a shining example of achieving peace through conservation.
(5) His scientific results were published in the Himalayan Journal of Sciences and he is now in the Cordillera Blanca mountains in Peru where he will replicate Schneider's 1930 photos of glaciers.
(6) We believe that this murder is part of a pattern of escalating violence against indigenous leaders which responds to the Ecuadorean government and the companies’ need to clear the opposition to a mega-mining project in the Cordillera del Condor,” he said.
(7) Some mayors claim wildlife is given a higher priority than humans in the rugged countryside along the Cordillera Cantábrica chain of mountains.
(8) It spreads in the form of epizootic and epidemic waves through the forests at the foot of the eastern cordillera.
(9) In 1988-1989, as part of a co-operative programme with the local Unidad Sanitaria, two cross-sectional surveys were carried out to study the prevalence of malaria in eight villages in the rural areas near Camiri, Boyuibe and Gutierrez (Cordillera Province, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia).