(a.) Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The private company Aspen Medical, which won a $20m contract to build an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone, gave $30,000 to the Liberal party.
(2) Rich people glide across it on skis and 4X4s, between resorts at Aspen, Crested Butte and Breckenridge.
(3) Speaking at an address to the Aspen Institute of India, Ramesh hailed the alliance between the Basic countries as a "watershed" moment that highlighted the growing influence of emerging economies in general and China in particular.
(4) Of the 734 adult tibial fractures treated in Aspen, Colorado, from 1968-1978, follow-up results were obtained on 527 (72%).
(5) A cDNA clone (Ptomt 1) encoding a lignin-bispecific O-methyltransferase (OMT) was isolated by immunological screening of a lambda gt11 expression library prepared from mRNA of developing secondary xylem of aspen (Populus tremuloides).
(6) The yeast flora of the majority of studied plants is diverse and comprises 10--20 species (in cabbage, potato, linden, aspen, and pear trees).
(7) Earlier in the Aspen discussion, for example, he talked about the Stuxnet worm – which was used to destroy centrifuges in the Iranian nuclear programme – as something that was obviously created by a nation-state, but affected not to know that the US was one of the nation-states involved.
(8) He told reporters at the Aspen Security Forum: “It was not part of the discussion.” Davutoğlu, when asked if the agreement with the US to use Incirlik base included the long-time Turkish demand of creating a safe haven in northern Syria, said it took into account Turkey’s considerations.
(9) The prime minister said the government would provide up to $20m for an Australian company, Aspen Medical, to run the UK-built medical centre in Sierra Leone until mid next year.
(10) Lyndon Haviland, a senior health fellow at the US-based Aspen Institute, said: "Children have high mortality.
(11) The Aspen Institute's New Voices Fellowship , launched this year with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, is one attempt to start figuring out an answer by providing both media coaching and contacts for development experts from Africa and, eventually, other parts of the developing world.
(12) My personal journey to the iPad began around 16 years ago in Aspen, Colorado.
(13) Palin acknowledged that he is usually painted as the villain for squashing the idea of a stage tour after the Aspen festival, but he was cautiously supportive of the adaptation.
(14) This culture also readily fermented hemicellulose hydrolysates obtained by mild acid hydrolysis of either hydrogen fluoride treated or steam exploded Aspen wood.
(15) Mouse hepatoma cell line, Hepa-1, was exposed to acetone extracts of hardwoods (alder and aspen), softwoods (pine and a mixture of pine and spruce) and cellulose materials.
(16) The inner microflora of blood-sucking mosquitoes genus Aedes inhabiting different biotops of aspen-birch woods of the Tomsc Priob region has been investigated.
(17) The Aspen Art Museum designed by architect Shigeru Ban.
(18) A biphasic pattern of gene expression and enzyme activity for OMT was observed from xylem samples of aspen during the growing season which suggests linkage between gene expression for a monolignol biosynthetic enzyme and seasonal regulation of xylem differentiation in woody plants.
(19) The regular occurrence of Giardia cysts in Aspen and Snowmass water was associated with lower rates of giardiasis acquisition than reported during outbreaks of waterborne giardiasis.
(20) The influence of acetone extract vapours of pepper, poplar buds, linden and aspen was tested.
Asper
Definition:
(a.) Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce.
(n.) The rough breathing; a mark (/) placed over an initial vowel sound or over / to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h before it; thus "ws, pronounced h/s, "rh`twr, pronounced hra"t/r.
(n.) A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster.
Example Sentences:
(1) The presence of proteins antigenically related to Bothrops asper myotoxins in various snake venoms, mainly from South America, was investigated by using polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
(2) The myotoxin shows partial immunologic identity with a myotoxic phospholipase A2 isolated from Bothrops asper venom.
(3) Mice that received antivenom (0.4 ml) by the iv or im route 15 min after im injection of B. asper venom (100 micrograms) had lower levels of plasma anti-myotoxin antibodies than controls injected with antivenom only, suggesting that at least a fraction of the antibodies combines with myotoxins in vivo.
(4) Metalloproteinase from the venom of Bothrops asper (proteinase G) is a glycoprotein with 1% neutral hexose and 3.5 moles of sialic acid per mole of protein.
(5) A new instrumentation for posterior spinal surgery consists of metallic rods carved with diamond-shaped asperities on which vertebral hooks or screws can be screwed in any position, level, or degree of rotation.
(6) Conditions that inhibited phospholipase A2 activity, i.e., substitution of calcium by EDTA, reduced liposome-disrupting activity of Bothrops asper myotoxin I and Bothrops atrox myotoxin, both of which have high phospholipase A2 activity, but did not affect the action of B. asper myotoxin II and Bothrops moojeni myotoxin II, which have extremely low phospholipase A2 activity.
(7) The time-course and composition of inflammatory infiltrate in mouse gastrocnemius injected with Bothrops asper venom was studied.
(8) Also, the organization of these asperities is directly related to cellular cytoskeletal elements.
(9) The neutralization of two myotoxic phospholipases A2 from the venom of Bothrops asper, myotoxins I and II, by two murine monoclonal antibodies is reported.
(10) Seventeen batches of ICP antivenom were analyzed by EIA, using B. asper myotoxin II as antigen.
(11) No major differences in the DNase electrophoretic pattern were observed between individual venoms of adult B. asper specimens nor between lyophilized and frozen venoms.
(12) It is suggested that muscle regeneration is partially impaired after myonecrosis induced by Bothrops asper venom, probably due to the damage induced by this venom on muscle microvasculature and nerves.
(13) He used fine needle asperation or scraping of pathological tissue and hematoxylin-eosin staining of smears.
(14) Immunochemical results indicate a close immunological relationship between venoms of B. asper, B. nummifer and C. d. durissus collected in Honduras and Guatemala with those of the same species collected in Costa Rica.
(15) A new muscle damaging toxin, myotoxin II, was purified from the venom of Bothrops asper by ion-exchange chromatography on CM-Sephadex C-25.
(16) Ouchterlony immunodiffusion analysis of purified antibodies showed two precipitation bands with a pattern of complete immunologic identity between samples of crude B. asper venoms from specimens collected in the Atlantic and Pacific regions of Costa Rica.
(17) Myotoxin is an abundant component in adult B. asper venom.
(18) Five polyvalent antivenoms (Crotalidae; Orient, North, Central and South Africa) were tested for their ability to neutralize the thrombin-like activity of snake venoms (Bitis gabonica, Agkistrodon acutus, Bothrops asper, B. atrox, Crotalus adamanteus).
(19) A myotoxic, basic phospholipase A2 (pI greater than 9.5) with anticoagulant activity has been purified from the venom of Bothrops asper, and its amino acid sequence determined by automated Edman degradation.
(20) The effects of a myotoxic phospholipase A2 isolated from the venom of the crotaline snake Bothrops asper on skeletal muscle myofibrils were studied by histological, ultrastructural, immunohistochemical, and biochemical parameters.