(n.) The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture.
(n.) Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
Example Sentences:
(1) The architecture of the aortic wall is highly organized, for adaptation to changes of blood pressure.
(2) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(3) A model for left ventricular diastolic mechanics is formulated that takes into account noneligible wall thickness, incompressibility, finite deformation, nonlinear elastic effects, and the known fiber architecture of the ventricular wall.
(4) In order to identify these anchorage structures, the non-DNA materials that remain firmly bound to chromosomal DNA under conditions that disintegrate the high salt-stable architecture of nuclei were investigated.
(5) The B-cell origin of this tumor was determined by its histological architecture, by immunophenotypic analysis, and by Southern analysis of immunoglobulin gene rearrangements.
(6) Review of the traditional medical hierarchy and its legal implications, architecture of health institutions, medical records systems, and the selection of medical students are other areas for specific attention.
(7) Histochemical and electron-microscopic observations on a 30-month-old child with Hurler syndrome showed marked irregularities in chondrocyte orientation within the growth plate, along with disruption of the normal columnar architecture.
(8) Our results indicated that sleep architecture differed from controls in that wakefulness, slow-wave sleep [SWS-stage 3 and 4 nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep] and stage rapid eye movement (REM) sleep were more evenly dispersed throughout the night.
(9) Rowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer Conran retrospective, New Review page 36
(10) Alternatively, a loss of collagen tethers or decline in matrix tensile strength can be responsible for regional or global transformations in myocardial architecture and function seen in the reperfused ("stunned") myocardium and in dilated (idiopathic) cardiopathy.
(11) An age and prevalence study of the categorized disc showed that, with age, the disc undergoes an architectural transformation from WD through IM to ID.
(12) The architecture of this study was designed to be simple, effective, and repeatable with minimal complications.
(13) The architecture of the tumour margin is an essential feature for the histological diagnosis of certain neoplasms.
(14) We have developed the DUNE (Diagnostic Understanding of Natural Events) system architecture that organizes the knowledge around processing structures.
(15) The forehead flap covers fabricated composite flaps of intravasal lining and primary cartilage grafts that create the subsurface architecture of the external nose.
(16) But while the duchess was surrounded by obstetricians and midwives, Natalie was at home with just her husband, Peter, an architectural technician, and a doula by her side.
(17) We first present a model of the functional architecture of the cognitive calculation system based on previous research.
(18) In the former group the changes observed were mucosal oedema with acute inflammation of varying severity but with preservation of the crypt architecture.
(19) In real life, the Hollywood star wants to reshape Hove as a member of the design team behind one of Britain's most daring architectural projects.
(20) True to her interest in art and architecture, Prada has set up a foundation to promote art exhibitions and off-the-wall projects like the Prada Transformer – a building by architect Rem Koolhaas in Seoul which changes shape depending on its function.
Microchip
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a small silicon microchip in a USB, a 'lab on a chip' as it has been coined, DNA data can be analysed within minutes and outside a laboratory.
(2) It's not useful, except in minute quantities for making microchips.
(3) ARM, whose microchip helps power Apple’s iPhone, rallied to a 12 year high after reporting a 19% increase in Q4 revenue whilst BP’s shares were seen trading as high as £4.7175, following adjusted profits that beat the market’s expectations.
(4) He did this initially by being the first to see that "the analogue world of biology" had to be transformed by the "digital world of the microchip".
(5) Microchip technology now makes it possible to view jaw movements in three dimensions while impeding physiological activity minimally.
(6) With direct video endoscopy, the microchip camera is mounted on the distal tip of the endoscope; with indirect video endoscopy, a miniature camera is coupled to the eyepiece of a standard fiberoptic endoscope.
(7) His invention uses small silicon microchips which can identify genetic differences which dictate a person's inclination to hereditary diseases like diabetes or how they will react to a drug like warfarin, which is used to treat blood clots.
(8) The major potential cutaneous hazards of each step in the production of microchips are the subject of this article.
(9) Rather than following the traditional model of extracting complex raw materials from the earth, AMD is producing microchips and solar cells that take plentiful raw materials like silica and inscribe on them a value-creating design, building value up .
(10) Hybridization of fluorescently labeled DNA fragments with microchips may simplify sequencing and ensure sensitivity of at least 10 attomoles per dot.
(11) The idea of a team at the University of Manchester, it combines the best of analogue and digital computing and replaces neurons with custom-designed microchips powered by low wattage ARM processors designed to mimic the spiking patterns seen in the human brain.
(12) When he started at Imperial in the late 80s, Toumazou's main interest was in microchips.
(13) A two-year study to determine the stability of and tissue reaction to a microchip glass-sealed device implanted in subcutaneous tissue of mice was conducted.
(14) This apparatus, which is operated by microchip controls, permits simultaneous collection of as many as 20 eluted samples directly into standard- or small-size scintillation vials contained in manufacturer's shipping cartons.
(15) Because phosphine is also used as a dopant in the microchip industry and is generated in waste treatment, the possibility of more widespread exposure and long-term health sequelae must be considered.
(16) A new intravital capillary microscopic technique is described using intravenous indocyanine green (Cardiogreen) in combination with a special filter set, an infrared sensitive microchip videocamera and a television-recording system.
(17) He believes the war in eastern Congo – which began in reprisal against perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and has evolved into a frenzied scramble for mineral wealth, especially for the prized colombo-tantalite (coltan), crucial for the production of microchips – has been allowed to continue because of discrimination by the international community.
(18) Despite the Note 7 safety scare, Samsung is expecting its fourth-quarter operating profits to reach their highest level in almost three years thanks to healthy microchip sales.
(19) It features magic mirrors that transform into screens when triggered by microchips hidden in the garments.
(20) To improve health monitoring, Toumazou decided to try to put pieces of DNA in microchips and in doing so found he could make devices that would trigger signals when they came in contact with a particular DNA sample.