(n.) Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes.
(n.) A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted.
(n.) A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present investigation examines the assortative mating coefficients for scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) from five separate studies.
(2) In the 18 asymptomatic diamond assorters, electrophysiological studies revealed an ulnar neuropathy in two (again in the hand used for holding the eye-glass).
(3) In assortative mating systems modifiers favoring reduced assortment propensities tend to increase.
(4) On the other hand, in the "Ms" (as in other "panmixed" populations) positive assortative mating among hereditary-predisposed persons is a more significant factor influencing family transmission of EFP, since the correlation between probands and their spouses is rpp = 0.31 (p less than 0.001) in the "Ms", as compared to rpp = 0.19 (p less than 0.1) in the "Rs".
(5) The Price equation provides a natural framework within which to examine certain kinds of non-additive allelic effects, recombination and assortative mating.
(6) Assortative mating is not found and thus cannot explain this effect.
(7) Third, marital assortment was not of sufficient magnitude to account for these common environment effects.
(8) The owner of Biogenesis, the now-closed Florida anti-aging clinic , said in an interview with CBS TV show "60 Minutes" that the 38-year-old sportsman paid him $12,000 per month for an assortment of banned drugs including testosterone and human growth hormone.
(9) Assortative mating was present and environmental factors common to siblings did not make a significant contribution to the phenotypic variance.
(10) The plasma cortisol (PC) level at 08.00 a.m. was assessed in 250 unselected psychiatric inpatients suffering from various disorders, assorted in 8 diagnostic groups.
(11) The initial, intact cellular products of a fusion cross are prototrophic heterokaryons which frequently assort single parental nuclei into monokaryotic blastospores containing biparental cytoplasms.
(12) Linkage analysis using polymorphic restriction sites along the X chromosome in eight SS and one AA family localized the F-cell production (FCP) locus to Xp22.2, with a maximum lod score (logarithm of odds of linkage v independent assortment) of 4.6 at a recombination fraction of 0.04.
(13) Staff battled the rays with an assortment of big umbrellas and pot plants, before covering the entire 57-storey glass wall with non-reflective film – the likely solution in London.
(14) Inbreeding coefficient was estimated for Adyg population and its structure analysed: a random component contributes mostly to the inbreeding coefficient (Fst = 0.00991), non-random component of the inbreeding coefficient being Fis = 0.010009, which testifies to negative marital assortativity among Adygs.
(15) Subtle lighting gives a magical beauty to the assorted ruins below, the Colosseum looming in the background.
(16) Freeman was awarded an MBE in 1998 and over the years picked up an assortment of prestigious gongs for his radio work, including the Sony awards radio personality of the year in 1987, the Radio Academy's outstanding contribution to UK music radio award in 1988, and a special Sony award in May 2000 commemorating 40 years of service to broadcasting.
(17) A significant negative assortative mating pattern was found.
(18) With Robert Snodgrass having only 18 months remaining on his contract, the manager’s biggest battle looks certain to be a tug of war with the gifted Scotland winger’s assorted suitors.
(19) The significant assortative mating for the sensation-seeking motive in (married) American students reported by Farley and Davis was significantly cross validated on American (N = 160) and German (N = 160) samples randomly selected from two comparable cities in the Federal German Republic and the United States.
(20) The combined data show that there is very highly significant assortative mating, but only of intermediates.
Rainbow
Definition:
(n.) A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.
Example Sentences:
(1) It felt like my very existence was being denied,” said Hahn Chae-yoon, executive director of Beyond the Rainbow Foundation.
(2) In the saccus dorsalis of the rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri Richardson, the activity of various enzymes (transferase, lyases, oxidoreductases, hydrolases) have been studied in detail.
(3) In fish tests, rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were caged at the discharge site and simultaneously at a reference area.
(4) In the retina of the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri, Richardson) two types of microtubular structures are demonstrated.
(5) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(6) As the Democrats have often found in the US, when they have tried to construct rainbow coalitions out of class- and colour-defined blocs of the population, groups that can be counted on wholesale in theory often splinter into individuals that it may not be possible to count on at all.
(7) The excretion routes and tissue distribution of [3H]pristane were measured in rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri, after a single intragastric dose (0.1 mg).
(8) After 36% of hepatic mass removal , rainbow trout recovered its initial liver weight in 20-30 days, i.e., with a regeneration rate clearly lower than in mammals.
(9) Rainbow trout were infused continuously for 24 h with epinephrine in order to elevate circulating levels to those measured during periods of acute extracellular acidosis (about 5 X 10(-8) mol l-1).
(10) Various compounds, with known clinical efficacy against human viruses, were evaluated for their ability to inhibit the growth of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV, a rhabdovirus), and infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV, a birnavirus), in rainbow trout cell cultures.
(11) In the rainbow trout hepatoma cell line, ZnCl2 was a better inducer of the MT-B gene, as compared to CdCl2 and CuCl2.
(12) Two distinct coding sequences (A and B) were elucidated for rainbow trout metallothioneins but single isoforms were encoded by genes isolated from the stone loach and pike.
(13) Rainbow trout brain extracts contained CCK-li that co-eluted with CCK-8 in gel permeation chromatography whereas CCK-li extracted from the various gut regions exhibited marked molecular heterogeneity.
(14) Another free school, Rainbow Primary in Bradford, opened despite the local authority telling the government that "these additional primary places are not required, especially in light of … plans to expand a number of existing primary schools and the expansion of some existing academies to all-through schools".
(15) Transgenic rainbow trout (RT) were generated in earlier experiments by an in vivo modification of the chromosome-mediated gene transfer technique.
(16) However, reproducing populations of the most sensitive species, rainbow trout, have been observed in surface waters in these regions, indicating no cause for concern.
(17) The fact is, you can’t quite see the tartan rainbow when you’re living right under it.
(18) In the rainbow trout intestine, where SP-like material may be released from both nerve fibres and endocrine cells, it is indicated that the contractile effect is in part direct upon the smooth muscle and in part via stimulation of cholinergic and serotonergic neurons.
(19) Rainbow trout are known to be more susceptible to aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) hepatocarcinogenesis than coho salmon, or trout pre-fed the carcinogenesis inhibitors beta-naphthoflavone (beta NF), Aroclor 1254 or indole-3-carbinol.
(20) By employing rainbow trout growth hormone cDNA as a probe, the coho salmon cDNA was isolated and the complete nucleotide (nt) sequence determined.