(a.) Of or pertaining to Artois (anciently called Artesium), in France.
Example Sentences:
(1) The outbreak was traced to contamination of the community water supply, an artesian well.
(2) Artesian groundwaters of high radionuclide concentration are ubiquitous and may have provided the large, sustained energy sources that were required to drive the multistage process of DNA and primordial cell evolution.
(3) Before New England Greens members make a decision on preferences, they will examine each candidate’s policy on meaningful action to limit climate change, protecting the Great Artesian Basin from coalmining and CSG, and fast-tracking the national broadband network in our regional towns and communities.” Goldstein, who has lived in the seat since 2010, said during his campaigning that Gonski education funding had surged as an issue for voters in the lead-up to the 2016 federal budget.
(4) The data related to the incidence and severity of the disease from the papers are reevaluated, paying special attention to the fact that the incidence of the disease increased after the installation of pipe system water-supply to replace the artesian wells.
(5) The sources of water, from upland surfaces, artesian wells and rivers, were classified in eight groups, and significant associations were found for cancers of the stomach, oesophagus, prostate, male bladder and female breast, and for hypertensive and chronic rheumatic heart disease.
(6) The high arsenic content of artesian well water in the area is regarded as the main causal factor of this disease.
(7) The age-sex-adjusted odds ratios of developing bladder, lung and liver cancers for those who had used artesian well water for 40 or more years were 3.90, 3.39, and 2.67, respectively, as compared with those who never used artesian well water.
(8) Ictaluridae, Siluriformes) from the subterranean waters (artesian wells penetrating San Antonio pool of Edwards Aquifer) of Texas, USA.
(9) In Gokwe District, water from artesian wells was found to contain between 5ppm and 10ppm fluoride ion concentration and as a result, fluorosis was found to be extremely severe in those communities solely dependent on artesian wells.
(10) Blackfoot disease is an endemic peripheral vascular disease found among the inhabitants of a limited area on the southwest coast of Taiwan, where artesian well water with a high concentration of arsenic has been used for more than eighty years.
(11) If it went ahead this project would destroy wildlife habitat, damage precious artesian water and contribute to the global climate problem once the coal is burned.” The federal court’s decision echoes a ruling by the same court in 2013 that Tony Burke, the then environment minister, had erred by failing to properly consult his department’s advice on the impact of the Shree Minerals mine on the Tasmanian devil.
(12) The objective of this study was to examine multiple risk factors and correlated malignant neoplasms of blackfoot disease (BFD), a unique peripheral vascular disease related to continuous exposure to high-arsenic artesian well water.
(13) Water samples were obtained from artesian wells, raw untreated surface water, treated raw water, and pipe borne water.
(14) Thirty four Thermus aquaticus strains have been isolated from the non-volcanically naturally heated waters of the Australian Artesian Basin which extends the known ecological habitat of this group of organisms.
(15) Microbial cells were cultivated in sterile artesian-well water or physiological saline with no organic substrate added.
(16) Age-adjusted mortality rates were analyzed to examine the dose-response relation between ingested arsenic levels and risk of cancers and vascular diseases among residents in the endemic area of blackfoot disease, a unique peripheral vascular disease associated with long-term exposure to high-arsenic artesian well water and confined to the southwestern coast of Taiwan.
(17) Fiona Harvey The brewer An artesian well stretching down to an aquifer below Faversham in Kent has been supplying the Shepherd Neame brewery since 1507, and has never yet run dry.
(18) Factors affecting indoor concentrations include type of bedrock under dwellings, house foundation characteristics, radon dissolved in artesian water, and ventilation and degree of air movement in living spaces.
(19) The objective of this study is to elucidate the association between high-arsenic artesian well water and cancers in endemic area of blackfoot disease, a unique peripheral vascular disease related to continuous arsenic exposure.
(20) In October 1990 pneumonia due to Legionella pneumophila was diagnosed in two employees working in the area of Apulia, southern Italy, where artesian wells were in construction.
Cartesian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the French philosopher Rene Descartes, or his philosophy.
(n.) An adherent of Descartes.
Example Sentences:
(1) In naive Cartesianism this assertion starts out from the assumption that illness may develop solely from physical causes.
(2) We have determined experimentally the temperature dependence of human erythrocyte spectrin dimer intrinsic viscosity at shear rates 8-12 s-1 using a Cartesian diver viscometer.
(3) Modern physics has put in question the validity of its own metaphysical basis, namely the belief in Natural Law, and modern biology has been unable to come to terms with the Cartesian dualism of body and soul.
(4) Such dependence on proximity is appropriate for the vestibular reflex, which must transform signals from Cartesian to polar coordinates, but not for the visual reflex, which operates entirely in polar coordinates.
(5) We extended the model to binocular viewing conditions, which allows for a description of the visual axes in Cartesian coordinates in relation to the head.
(6) By CNDO (Complete Neglect of Differential Overlap) molecular orbital method, interatomic distances and XYZ cartesian corrdinates were calculated in five polymorphs (monohydrated, alpha, two beta, and gamma) of sulfanilamide.
(7) The events in Pavlov's laboratory lead toward the postulation of a new paradigm that rejected the Cartesians conceptualization of the reflex as a mechanistic response to stimuli by replacing it with the Darwinian notion of the organism's adaptation to the environmental conditions.
(8) A schematic representation of the organization of the programme includes feeding of information in the form of Cartesian co-ordinates; the geometric determination of the points for calculating the base doses, the calculation of the strength of the base dose, the reference dose, and doses at particular points in the central plane, and finally, tracing the isodoses.
(9) Cartesian dualism has become untenable in view of recent neuropsychology but it still obstructs our management of functional patients.
(10) Every profile was normalized by subdividing in 120 points and standardized by positioning the sagittal line of skull vault profile parallel to the ordinate axis of a Cartesian system.
(11) Also, this Cartesian representation may be common to many orienting movements, yet it appears to differ from the coordinate systems controlling other movement types such as stabilization or phasic movements.
(12) The main feature is the capability to draw graphs in a Cartesian coordinate system.
(13) The co-ordinates can be used in more conventional analytic ways in the same way as cartesian co-ordinates.
(14) This program provides the printout of the Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates of all atoms of a double-stranded helix of nucleic acid in either A, A' or B conformation with any specified base sequence up to 50 nucleotides or longer.
(15) The radial thrombus length is then measured at 5 degrees increments and plotted on Cartesian coordinates as a function of polar coordinate.
(16) The oxygen consumption of these vessels, determined with the Cartesian diver microrespirometer, was found to be size dependent.
(17) Comparison is based on the time span 5 to 15 ps and considering cartesian coordinates, dihedral angles, H-bond length, and accessible surface area.
(18) Performance appears to be consistent with decision processes based upon the least squares minimum distance classifier (LSMDC) operating over a cartesian feature space consisting of the real (even) and imaginary (odd) components of the signals.
(19) The 2D spectral response profiles of most of the remaining cells were neither polar nor Cartesian separable, because the response profiles were elongated about an axis of symmetry that did not pass through the origin.
(20) The sampling techniques we consider are uniform distribution of points on a regular Cartesian grid and random selection of points.