(n.) A northern constellation southerly from Lyra and Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Data obtained from tissue cultures initiated from F2 embryos of the cross Aquila x Chinese Spring suggest that at least two complementary genes are involved in this control.
(2) This is unlikely to happen, although Berlusconi has done himself no favours by asking his guests to stump up to help rebuild L'Aquila after April's earthquake while cutting Italy's bilateral aid budget by 56%.
(3) Where Moore tackled Bush, Guzzanti targets Silvio Berlusconi , and his handling of the 2009 Aquila earthquake.
(4) Berlusconi said yesterday that the choice of L'Aquila might help in this regard, saying he did not believe anti-globalisation protesters "would have the will or the heart to stage violent demonstrations" in Abruzzo.
(5) Fifty pregnant women attending the Obstetrics Department of the University of Aquila were included in the study.
(6) Michael Elliott, president of the development campaigning organisation One, thanked Obama for the commitment he gave to sustain the promises made at L'Aquila.
(7) "As part of that effort we commit to fulfil outstanding L'Aquila financial pledges, seek to maintain strong support to address current and future global food security challenges, including through bilateral and multilateral assistance, and agree to take new steps to accelerate progress towards food security and nutrition in Africa and globally, on a complementary basis," the statement said.
(8) Aquila was developed in Bridgwater, Somerset, and the drone, designed to fly non-stop for three months, will use lasers to beam down internet access to remote areas without online capacity.
(9) An epidemiologic research was carried out on a sample of 258 mothers of children and boys attending some schools of L'Aquila district in 1988.
(10) The paper identifies 55 cases of suicide registered at a local health unit in L'Aquila (98,751 inhabitants) during the period 1982-1987.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Aquila drone ascends from the runway.
(12) Although the mitochondrial genomes of the Chinese Spring and Aquila varieties of wheat are normally similar in organization, this is not so in tissue cultures initiated from their immature embryos where the mitochondrial genomes of both are rearranged and in different, characteristic, ways.
(13) He burst onto his British Airways chartered plane bound for the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy , a little before 6.30am.
(14) The genetic polymorphism of alpha 2 HS-glycoprotein (A2HS) was studied in continental Italy (Rome and L'Aquila) and in Sardinia (Cagliari).
(15) All patients were attending the Centre of Cytology and Colposcopy at the Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology in L'Aquila.
(16) Among the measures discussed in L'Aquila yesterday was a target range for oil prices that would be agreed between producing and consuming countries.
(17) From 1970 to 1989, multiple myeloma was diagnosed in 184 residents in the counties of L'Aquila and Avezzano, two cities of the Region Abruzzo in Central Italy.
(18) During studies on helminth parasites of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) from the river Tirino (L'Aquila - Italy), the intermediate hosts of Cyathocephalus truncatus (Pallas, 1781) and Dentitruncus truttae Sinzar, 1955 have been searched for.
(19) To assess the risk of developing liver cirrhosis associated with alcohol consumption, HBV and HCV infection markers, we carried out a case-control study involving 115 patients admitted to the medical departments of the general hospitals in the province of L'Aquila (Abruzzo, Italy) who received for the first time the diagnosis of liver cirrhosis, and 167 controls randomly selected among patients admitted to the same hospitals as the cases.
(20) Of the $22bn promised at L'Aquila, an accountability report published to coincide with the G8 showed only just over half of that has been disbursed so far, 58%.
Sagitta
Definition:
(n.) A small constellation north of Aquila; the Arrow.
(n.) The keystone of an arch.
(n.) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string.
(n.) The larger of the two otoliths, or ear bones, found in most fishes.
(n.) A genus of transparent, free-swimming marine worms having lateral and caudal fins, and capable of swimming rapidly. It is the type of the class Chaetognatha.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, we report a new type of photoreceptive cell in mesopelagic Sagitta zetesios, in which two receptoral processes emerge from single cells, in contrast to one in all the other species of Sagitta.
(2) The presumed photoreceptive region of the arrow-worms of the species Sagitta crassa and Spadella schizoptera consists of perforated lamellae which are unique as the photoreceptive structure.
(3) The sagittae of tire- and barrel-form toric surfaces differ off the principal meridians, as is shown by a numerical example.
(4) The exact equation for sagitta of spherical surfaces is generalized to toric surfaces which include spherical and cylindrical surfaces as special cases.
(5) The experience gathered in the correction of sagittal mandibular over- and under-development allows to make the following conclusions:--In the choice of osteotomy it is necessary that careful consideration be given not only to the proportions of the body and ramus of the mandible, but also to the angular interrelationships of mandibular bones.--Osteotomies in the body of the mandible are indicated especially in those cases where it is only necessary for parallel shifts to be made in the sagittal plane.--Osteotomies performed in the region of the angle of the mandible and the ramus of the mandible (Obwegeser-Dal Pont) enable both longitudinal compensation or adjustment in the sagitta.
(6) Generalized equations are derived for sagitta and lens thickness for surfaces of any form.
(7) The value of the second fundamental form is approximately double the sagitta.
(8) The gerbils' fleas are more abundant on D. sagitta than on the other species.
(9) Under study was the histological structure of the adrenal of the gopher Spermophilopsis leptodactylus L., jerboa Dipus sagitta Pall.
(10) A survey of the eye structure in 10 species of Sagitta (phylum Chaetognatha) which differ in habitat was carried out: 5 epipelagic, 4 mesopelagic and 1 bathypelagic species.
(11) A general routine exists for estimating dioptric power from any number of measurements of sagitta, lens thickness, meridional curvature or power, and prismatic effect.
(12) A method published elsewhere for estimating dioptric power from meridional measurements is generalized here to allow for measurements of sagitta, lens thickness, and prismatic effect as well.
(13) The histology of the Chaetognath's trunk is largely based upon works of Hertwig (1880) and Burfield (1927) and is revised here essentially on ultrastructural basis, in a study on Sagitta setosa.
(14) The existence of a visual pigment in this region was demonstrated by a histofluorescent technique using Spadella schizoptera, whose presumed photoreceptive region was much larger than in Sagitta crassa.
(15) 2) From the hemodynamic change, the progression of rapid increase of cerebral blood volume with increase of blood volume in the superior sagitta sinus during cerebral vasoparesis under intracranial hypertension is presumed.
(16) In four species, the sagitta exhibited a multifluted anterior part and a tapered posterior part; in Corydoras aeneus, however, the fluted part was absent, and a vertical component extended dorsally to terminate near the opening of the transverse canal.