(a.) Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants.
(n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Assam.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, samples of DNA from three ethnic groups (Germans, Assamese Hindus and Thais) and from German and Thai families were restricted with MboI and probed with Hz1103, Hz4103, and Hz4201.
(2) The results of 1. allele distribution of five red cell enzyme polymorphisms in ten Assamese populations, 2. heterogeneity of allele frequencies and extent of gene differentiation among these populations, and 3. standard genetic distances are presented here.
(3) Four polymorphic sites of the short arm of the X chromosome were studied in two racial groups from India, the Assamese and the Malayalee.
(4) The metabolic disposition and pharmacokinetics of the aldose reductase inhibitor tolrestat were studied in rats, dogs, and assamese and capuchin monkeys.
(5) Hb CS was absent in two Assamese populations with a high prevalence of Hb E. The Hb CS gene frequency was 0.033 in northern Thailand and near 0.01 in central Thailand and Cambodia.
(6) The clusters suggest some genetic relation between these four Assamese populations and South Chinese, which is again understandable considering the ethnohistory of the populations of Northeast India.
(7) The A3 allelic fragment of the RC8 probe was not found among 67 Indians, and in one Assamese woman an additional 7.0-kilobase fragment was found.
(8) Five regional groups of the Kalitas, an Assamese caste group, have been investigated for the distribution of anthropometric and dermatoglyphic traits as well as for the distribution of ABO blood groups and PTC taste sensitivity.
(9) HbbetaE frequencies in these groups are compared with the frequencies in the general Assamese population and the austroasiatic Khasi of Meghalaya.
(10) Population genetic studies, in Australian, Assamese, Cambodian, Chinese, Caucasian and Melanesian populations, were performed with several highly polymorphic DNA loci.
(11) With the help of a simplified and quick method, cellulose acetate electrophoresis, the phenotypes of esterase D were determined in an Assamese population.
(12) Tamils should be there, Telugus should be there, Assamese should be there,” Varshney explains.
(13) Jagadish Shettar, the chief minister of Karnataka state, met Assamese and Muslim leaders separately on Thursday in an effort to restore calm.
(14) Four Assamese caste groups--Jogis, Hiras, Kumars and Kaibartas--have been analysed for the distribution of anthropometric and dermatoglyphic traits as well as for the distribution of ABO blood groups and PTC taste sensitivity.
(15) Especially the distribution of Gc subtype alleles reveals some Mongoloid admixture among Assamese populations, which is reflected by the presence of Gc1A8 alleles in them.
(16) In 1978-79 13 Assamese populations--two Muslim groups, five Mongoloid groups and 6 Hindu caste groups--have been investigated for the distribution of anthropometric, anthroposcopic and dermatoglyphic traits as well as for the distribution of ABO blood groups and PTC taste sensitivity.
(17) The initial violence started on August 12 when the Nagaland villagers allegedly attacked the Assamese who retaliated, with clashes leaving at least 12 people dead, an Assamese students' group said.
(18) The paper deals with variation with regard to certain physical traits like AB0 blood groups, cerumen type, cross section of head hair, finger patterns and anthropometric characters in three Assamese caste populations, namely Brahmin, Kalita and Kaibarta representing three strata of the Assamese caste society.
(19) Haemoglobins S, D and E are also quite common: Hb S has been found mostly in the aboriginal tribes, Hb D in Gujaratis and Punjabis and Hb E in Bengalis, Assamese and Nepalese.
Bengali
Definition:
(n.) The language spoken in Bengal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bose grew up with the idea, as the child of a well-to-do Bengali family in Kolkata.
(2) His name is Moudud Ahmed and he was then a young lawyer who had defended the Bengali independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
(3) My identity comes in many parts: Bengali, Londoner and the rest.
(4) Yet few of them are encouraged to learn Bengali, Urdu or Polish in the playground, and I'm not aware that any school has tried to foster or formalise peer group learning of that kind.
(5) Like Ray, my parents are Bengali and while they had been taking me back to Kolkata during long summer holidays, I had failed to take to the city, which seemed to offer only August heat, difficult food and calamine lotion for mosquito bites.
(6) Hanging on the walls are faded posters, a world map and the alphabet in Bengali and English.
(7) Instead it insists that a group with its own language and a history in Burma that goes back many generations must be called Bengalis, and describes them as illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh .
(8) Two years ago, he also organised a Rainbow Rally for the Bengali new year celebrations in Dhaka.
(9) Most of the output is in English, but there are programmes in Hindi-Urdu, Mirpuri, Gujarati, Bengali and Punjabi.
(10) To her, Pakistani army personnel are gentle, quiet, kind, honest, "fine men" with a good humour and "with no ethnic bias against the Bengalis".
(11) Instead, Burmese authorities are trying to coerce Rohingya, the world’s largest stateless population within any single country’s borders, to identify as Bengali, a crude strategy to erase the Rohingya ethnic identity.
(12) Of those patients who attended for postnatal glucose tolerance test, 20% of the Bengali population demonstrated persisting abnormality of glucose tolerance, whereas no abnormalities were evident in the Caucasian group.
(13) American atheist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh Read more Akbar said Roy’s “beautiful writings in Bengali” were an attempt to educate people without directly attacking religion.
(14) Tower Hamlets Tory councillor Peter Golds also claims that at one polling station he visited, 11 supporters of Rahman were stationed inside the grounds and could be seen thrusting leaflets into the hands of Bengali voters and escorting them to the door of the polling station.
(15) An explorative study was carried out to ascertain the knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding diet patterns during pregnancy and lactation among Non-Bengali Muslim mothers.
(16) He has also worked for several long-established companies (Monte-Carlo Ballet, Geneva Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Cullberg Ballet in Sweden, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in New York); as well as in several duets – Zero Degrees (2005) with British-Bengali wunderkind Akram Khan , Dunas (2009) with flamenco dancer María Pagés , and Play (2009) with Paris-based Indian dancer Shantala Shivalingappa .
(17) I can describe last month’s celebration of Pohela Boishakh , Bengali new year, which was carried out with great fanfare and not a religious symbol in sight.
(18) Communities that once co-existed peacefully have been sent to segregated refugee camps all around the state, the majority of them filled with Rohingya – a population of roughly 800,000 who claim to be rightful citizens of Burma but whom the Burmese government widely calls "Bengali immigrants", denying them citizenship and placing restrictions on their rights to travel, attend higher education and even marry.
(19) In contrast to the West Bengali study, maternal behavior showed no differences between the two nutritional groups, and the intercorrelations between maternal and child scores showed similar or parallel patterns of reciprocity for the well-nourished and the undernourished children.
(20) For every sale, these aparajitas (Bengali for a “woman who never gives up”) receive between 10-15% commission.