(1) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(2) His senior role in the Popalzai tribe and his chairmanship since 2005 of Kandahar provincial council bolstered his reputation as an Asian version of a mafia don.
(3) Asian teenagers had a 50% marker rate and a 27.2% rate for persistent antigenemia.
(4) Asian macaques are susceptible to fatal simian AIDS from a type D retrovirus, indigenous in macaques, and from a lentivirus, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is indigenous to healthy African monkeys.
(5) The BBC has reversed its decision to close the Asian Network digital radio station – but will look to cut its budget in half.
(6) Bangkok Centre serves the Asian countries on the Global Programme on Prevention of Hearing Impairment and Deafness.
(7) More than a million white women between the ages of 50 and 64 were recruited between 1996 and 2001, alongside nearly 6,000 south Asian women and almost 5,000 black women.
(8) I categorically never said that ‘Britain has so many paedophiles because it has so many Asian men’.” She added that it was “totally untrue” that she had threatened to “take this inquiry down with me”, and absolutely rejected being rude and abusive to junior staff.
(9) Where UV radiation is restricted, individual propensity to rickets within a given Asian community is mainly determined by dietary factors.
(10) The summary adjusted relative risk for a Down syndrome livebirth for all those of North African or Asian origin, compared to those for women of European origin, was about 1.56.
(11) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
(12) Now, 42 years later, he lives in the same flat in Portland Place, central London, though he is richer by £1bn, a peer in the House of Lords, and this week received a lifetime achievement gong at the Asian Business Awards.
(13) Omeprazole 40 mg therefore was found to produce rapid healing and symptom relief in Asian patients with H2-antagonist-resistant peptic ulcers.
(14) This was also true of the Asian population (Trafford dmft = 4.49.
(15) But many inside these Asian nations are wary of efforts to make emerging economies break ranks.
(16) Last night, the trouble spread to the mainly Asian suburb of Manningham, an area of sprawling and deprived terraced housing estates.
(17) I gave her my personal opinion, which was that there would be no problem for her, but I was not able to give her the guarantee that I think she was entitled to deserve.” The peer reminded the House of Lords about the shock in Britain when Idi Amin expelled the Asians from Uganda.
(18) The actuarial survival at 2 years after grafting of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians was compared with that of Caucasians transplanted between 1971 and 1985 for aplastic anaemia, acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
(19) Last week he argued that properly primed immigrants will "see off the racists" - as if once blacks and Asians could conjugate their verbs properly and learn the date of the Battle of Agincourt, then racists would refrain from attacking them.
(20) This article reports how the Staying Healthy After Fifty Program, designed for the general United States population, was introduced into the State of Hawaii, how it was adapted for use with two Asian-American groups, the Japanese and Filipinos, and on the benefits reported by participants.
Myna
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of Asiatic starlings of the genera Acridotheres, Sturnopastor, Sturnia, Gracula, and allied genera. In habits they resemble the European starlings, and like them are often caged and taught to talk. See Hill myna, under Hill, and Mino bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) When orchidectomized, the adrenals of semi-domestic, adult common myna, Acridotheres tritis atrophied.
(2) 4 species of Mallophaga (2 Amblycera, Menacanthus eurysternus and Myrsidea sp., and 2 Ischnocera, Brueelia chayanh and Sturnidoecus affinis) coexist on the body of Common Myna, Acridotheres tristis.
(3) The low dose of reserpine in the passerine (common myna and bulbul) birds resulted in 40-84% reduction of both norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine (E) from the adrenal glands irrespective of its nerve supply.
(4) The primordial oocytes in the myna ovary are loosely arranged in groups or nests, whereas in crow they form compact nests surrounded by highly vascularized connective tissue bands or lie in layers beneath the surface epithelium.
(5) In brahminy myna a photosensitive species, long days caused full gonadal development followed by rapid regression, whereas short days inhibited these responses.
(6) Thyroidectomy in Myna, Acridotheres tristis, increased the levels of cholesterol, ascorbic acid and decreased the activity of the adrenal.
(7) These laboratory investigations clearly suggest that the annual photocycle affects the timing of the reproductive cycle of brahminy myna.
(8) These results suggest that refractoriness is a process used by the brahminy myna to terminate the breeding season, and that this species becomes totally photorefractory.
(9) A morphological and histochemical study has been made of ovarian surface epithelium during the sexual cycle of seasonally breeding birds: crow (Corvus splendens) and common myna (Acridotheres tristis).
(10) A morphological and histochemical study has been made of the primordial and early growing oocytes in the ovaries of crow (Corvus splendens) and common myna (Acridotheres tristis).
(11) A correlative morphological and cytochemical study has been made of the nucleoli and nuclear bodies in the growing oocytes of the crow (Corvus splendens) and common myna (Acridotheres tristis).
(12) Study of the oviduct of the pied myna (Sturnus contra contra) throughout the year reveals that oviductal weight, length, surface epithelial height and glycogen content are low during August to January (nonbreeding phase), partially increase during February to April (pre-breeding phase), maximally increase in May (breeding phase) and decrease in June and July (post-breeding phase).
(13) Experiments were performed to study the extent of the involvement of photoperiod in the timing of seasonal reproduction in brahminy myna (Sturnus pagodarum).
(14) Some notable features in the oviduct of the pied myna are described: 1) All five regions of the oviduct (infundibulum, magnum, isthmus, uterus, and vagina) are clearly distinguishable when studied from serial sections of the oviduct even during the nonbreeding phase of the annual ovarian cycle.
(15) A close synchrony between ovarian and oviducal cycles is indicated in the pied myna (Sturnus contra contra).
(16) Seasonal variations in a population of an amblyceran louse, Menacanthus eurysternus, infesting the common myna have been studied.
(17) Recently a number of orthomyxoviruses have been isolated from wild birds such as myna, banded parakeets, etc.
(18) 83.41% specimens of Common Myna were found infested with one to four species of Mallophaga, during the year 1984.