(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.
Natively
Definition:
(adv.) By natural or original condition; naturally; originally.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 2 weeks, the native and heterotopic pituitaries were assayed for SP, TSH, PRL, and LH.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) The effects of in vivo administration of native prostaglandin E2 (PGE) on the cycling status of the granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cell (CFU-GM) were examined in a mouse model.
(4) This indicated that proteolysis at Lys1313-Glu also proceeded in native alpha 2M.
(5) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(6) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(7) The canine system allows quantitative separation of native heme containing alpha and beta chains which recombine to for tetrameric hemoglobin with normal functional properties (n = 2.17).
(8) We conclude that this enzyme is essentially identical to the native enzyme and should be very useful in the future study of this important hydroxylase.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
(11) At concentrations several hundredfold higher than the equivalents present in the minimum concentration of rat skin soluble collagen required for platelet aggregation, neither Hyl-Gal (at 29 muM) nor Hyl-Gal-Glc (at 18 muM) caused platelet aggregation or inhibited platelet aggregation by native collagen.
(12) The frequency of oesophageal cancer varies among the native and immigrant populations in different countries.
(13) 1H NMR spectroscopy has been used to characterize these proteins and to compare them to one another and to native antithrombin III.
(14) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
(15) Concanavalin A (con A) is a potent inhibitor of coagulant activity of native tissue factor.
(16) Binding of uPA to filters was blocked by a synthetic oligopeptide containing the known receptor binding region of native uPA.
(17) Refolding was observed by injection of denatured protein into columns having isocratic concentrations in the transition and native base-line zones.
(18) These two crystallins were compared with respect to their native molecular masses, subunit structures, peptide mapping and amino acid compositions in order to establish the identity of each crystallin.
(19) Hybridomas were selected on the basis of solid-phase reactivity with the purified native A transferase, cell immunofluorescence and immunoprecipitation of transferase activity, and absence of reactivity with blood group ABH carbohydrate determinants.
(20) Single-stranded circles did not form if a limited number of nucleotides were removed from the 3' ends of native molecules by Escherichia coli exonuclease III digestion prior to denaturation and annealing.