(n.) A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proof that the atoll was used as a black site would be hugely damaging for British-American relations.
(2) But this later proved contentious because the reserve appeared to preclude any resettlement of the atolls by islanders whose families had been evicted in 1965 to make way for a giant US air force base.
(3) It offers package holidays which are also Atol-protected.
(4) These findings are used as reference standards for three groups of Tokelauan children, atoll residents, migrants in NZ, and NZ-born Tokelauan children.
(5) With this decrease however there has been lately a marked reduction in the percentage of wells with fish in some atolls.
(6) International court rules for Philippines in South China Sea dispute The international tribunal in the Hague has ruled against China in a key international legal case over strategic reefs and atolls in the South China Sea.
(7) To assess the influence of the environment on blood pressure levels in children, the patterns of blood pressure in Tokelauan children resident in the isolated atolls of Tokelau and in New Zealand are compared.
(8) What the rest of the world considers acceptable climate change is, quite simply, a disaster for atoll dwellers.
(9) Already 1,200-1,400 people are reported to have moved from rural atolls to district centres – exacerbating overcrowding and making flooding in the capital Majuro more damaging.
(10) If you have booked the different parts of your holiday independently and are not covered by Atol you will have to stump up any difference in price yourself.
(11) All customer orders are protected by the ATOL protection scheme and equivalent programmes, she added.
(12) The prevalence and 14 year incidence of clinical gout and its precursors were investigated in the Polynesian population of Tokelauans living in the Pacific basin, non-migrant Tokelauans living in their isolated atoll homeland being compared with migrant Tokelauans living in urban New Zealand.
(13) The CAA said: “All UK companies selling holidays involving flights must hold an Atol licence from the CAA, which is renewed annually.
(14) The three Tokelau atolls are 8 degrees south of the equator.
(15) If Tony Abbott was here, facing the situation we are facing now, what kind of an answer would he expect from me as prime minister of Australia?” Tong said that Abbott should visit Kiribati, a nation of 102,000 people living on 33 mostly pancake-flat coral atolls, to witness the potential damage that climate change will cause.
(16) An Atol – which requires an operator to show it has the financial resources to operate for three months – provides compensation to customers when travel companies go bust.
(17) As with the Tuvalu, talk of back-channel negotiations for future mass migrations to Australia, has long buzzed among residents of this chain of 26 atolls.
(18) It could not be much further from Cuba, nor more different from the men's homeland in the deserts of western China, but the government of the South Pacific atoll said today that it would accept the detainees, opening the way for the biggest transfer of inmates since Barack Obama promised to close Guantánamo prison.
(19) The recovery rate (Rr) in the Atole villages was 12% higher than in the Fresco villages (P less than 0.05).
(1) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
(2) After either 5 or 10 days of culture with both cytokines, intense immunofluorescent staining for Ia could be identified on the surface of greater than 80-90% of the viable islet cells.
(3) High mortality, severe destruction of pancreatic B-cells and presence of sporadic mononuclear infiltrations in islets and around excretory ducts were observed.
(4) These and other results suggest that the experimental agents do not provide protection against alloxan inhibition by preventing the entry of alloxan into the intracellular space of the islet.
(5) In attempts to correlate GLUT-1 and GLUT-2 expression to beta-cell function glucose uptake and glucose-stimulated insulin release in fresh and cultured islets were measured.
(6) It is suggested that PDGF is of importance for fetal islet development.
(7) LFD animals (n = 12) do not show any morphometric changes in comparison with LED controls; but macronesia, micronesia and polynesia of islets were observed.
(8) It is concluded that extracellularly generated free radicals induce damage to the plasma membrane of islet cells.
(9) Antibodies in sera from newly diagnosed insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) patients are directed to a human islet cell protein of relative molecular mass (Mr) 64,000.
(10) Both substances decreased the concentrations of NAD(+) in the islet cells to about 10% of the control values within 2h after injection.
(11) Grouped islets treated with actinomycin D and cycloheximide did not exhibit aggregation when incubated with these inhibitors.
(12) Although the islet promoter was found to lack a TATA box, a major transcript from the islet promoter was mapped 486 nucleotides upstream of the translation initiation site.
(13) Six days later, the islets exposed to heat shock showed a lower DNA content, indicating islet cell death.
(14) The results show that the difference in insulin secretory response between islets from normal and pregnant rats may be preserved when the islets are cultured for 20 h, and that these differences are enhanced for a variety of reasons after culture of islets in 83.3 mM glucose.
(15) The hamster islet B cell line HIT retains the ability to secret insulin in response to glucose and several receptor agonists.
(16) On the other hand, the islets in the duodenal lobe were small in size compared with the other 3 regions, and were predominant in insulin and pancreatic polypeptide (PP) cells, but almost lacked in glucagon cells.
(17) These new observations provide insight into the complex nature of GABAergic neurons and beta-cell GABA in regulation of islet function.
(18) Prior treatment with MMSucc in the presence of 2.75 mM glucose sensitized islets to the usually weak insulin secretory effect of 7.5 mM glucose.
(19) The glucose 6-phosphate content of intact islets is higher in the presence of beta- than alpha-D-glucose.
(20) Pancreatic islet cell tumors were induced in 32 of 49 male Wistar rats (73%) surviving 9 months or longer following treatment with streptozotocin alone, with streptozotocin and nicotinamide, or with streptozotocin and picolinamide.