(n.) A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Example Sentences:
(1) What he liked best was to talk to the cricket pro, Bert Wensley, formerly of Sussex, about such heroes as Maurice Tate, Duleepsinhji and HT Bartlett, and to encourage Bert to enlarge on his reasons for describing Sir Home Gordon, Bart, the overlord of Sussex cricket, as a "shit" - the first time we heard that word.
(2) In 1980 to 1981, 1 of the 6 patients (17%) who were eligible for ECMO by criteria of Bartlett et al survived, which is consistent with the published data.
(3) So we’re eagerly awaiting Mike Bartlett’s darkly satirical verse drama.
(4) Another paradigm to consider would be Bartlett's "Behavioral Diagnosis," a practical approach to patient education.
(5) A BASIC program is described which, upon the input of raw data from an experiment comparing several treatment groups to a control, will output group parameters (mean, SEM), test for outliers in each group (maximum normalized residual test), and examine the homogeneity of variance (Bartlett's test).
(6) Dr. John G. Bartlett and his colleagues in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been responsible for many of these advances.
(7) Bartlett's test was applied to estimate the precision of the determination method of amino acids using the automatic analyser "Unichrom".
(8) This trend is indicative of the inhibitors acting as transition-state analogues [Bartlett, P.A., & Marlowe, C.K.
(9) Asked whether there was any indication people with serious illnesses would avoid medical care, Bartlett said: “Logically you would expect that if somebody is feeling particularly ill, they’re more likely to go and see a GP than somebody who’s not.” The Greens senator Richard Di Natale said symptoms did not necessarily correlate with severity of potential conditions.
(10) This inhibitor is bound an order of magnitude less tightly than the corresponding phosphonate, ZAAP(O)F, a result that contrasts with the 840-fold higher affinity of phosphonamidates for thermolysin [Bartlett, P. A., & Marlowe, C. K. (1987) Science 235, 569-571], a zinc peptidase with a similar arrangement of active-site catalytic residues.
(11) In general, the peroxisomal beta-oxidation of dicarboxylates is very similar to that of monocarboxylates [Bartlett, K., Hovik, R., Eaton, S., Watmough, N. J.
(12) Using general theory of Bartlett (1953, Biometrika 40, 306-317; 1955, Biometrika 42, 201-203), we correct this method for asymptotic skewness.
(13) For Bartlett, being at university helped him choose the area of law he wants to work in, while Taylor-Ward is concerned that apprentices may qualify without a depth of knowledge of the wider legal system.
(14) "The idea is to put together our own hugely talented production capabilities alongside Simon's incredible expertise creating and selling worldwide hits, to produce a range of new successful programming that can work not only in their home country but internationally as well," Bartlett said.
(15) A Christmas Carol Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s festive tale gets right to the frozen heart of the story, which makes the thaw seem all the more welcome when it comes.
(16) His stage work included two memorable Shakespearean kings – Leontes in The Winter’s Tale at the National Theatre in 1988, and Lear at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2011 – and one quasi-Shakespearean ruler: a future King Charles III in Mike Bartlett’s blank-verse fantasy about the succession to the throne of the current Prince of Wales.
(17) Oleic acid in concentrations from 0.22 to 22 mM suspended in 10 mM DCA significantly stimulated release of PYY (P less than 0.01) but resulted in no graded response (Bartlett's test, P = 0.15).
(18) Lee Bartlett, the former managing director of ITV Studios, is to leave the broadcaster as part of a management shake-up in the production division.
(19) It is concluded that the CFU-s observed by Bartlett in preparations of mouse brain did not originate from the brain tissue.
(20) Given that inference and interpretation are important aspects of normal memory functioning (Bartlett, F. C., Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology, Cambridge University Press, 1932), one would expect this hemispheric difference to extend to mnemonic processing.
Texas
Definition:
(n.) A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
(2) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
(3) A coalition of plaintiffs suing Texas – which includes minority rights groups, voters and Democratic lawmakers – say their experts have estimated 787,000 registered voters lacking one of seven acceptable forms of ID.
(4) They’re putting on a heavy sales job as one would expect,” Texas representative Mac Thornberry, the Republican who chairs the House armed services committee, told reporters upon leaving one of the briefings.
(5) The Mexican-Americans of Starr County, Texas, classified by sex and birthplace, were studied to determine the extent of genetic variation and contributions from ancestral populations such as Spanish, Amerindian and West African.
(6) "The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
(7) An Associated Press analysis found no evidence that Texas authorities were investigating threats to pharmacies, though the Oklahoma attorney general said he was examining an alleged bomb threat to a pharmacy in Tulsa .
(8) The Mexican government has said that it “strongly rejects” the scheduled execution in Texas of a Mexican man convicted of killing a police officer .
(9) Abigail Aiken, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said the numbers inevitably underrepresented the demand.
(10) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(11) Crocker had retired from the government in April 2009, becoming dean of the Bush school of government and public service at Texas A&M University.
(12) Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, and Rick Perry, the Texas governor, are both headed to South Carolina for most of the next week.
(13) In this study, the Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test was used as part of a health screening interview of patients attending a South Texas family health clinic.
(14) The majority of Angora goats in the United States are in Texas, although several other states have significant populations.
(15) Yet Texas’s big cities are some of the most diverse in the nation, and last year 7,214 refugees were resettled in the state – more than anywhere else in the country .
(16) The George Bush campaign juggernaut hit the first serious pothole of its cash-fuelled drive to the presidency yesterday, as the Texas governor tried in vain to fend off questions about whether he had used cocaine as a young man.
(17) Seven people have been reported dead in Oklahoma as a result of severe weather that has also badly hit Texas.
(18) 18) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 Needs: Offensive line, safety, defensive tackle, running back Pick: Kenny Vaccaro, safety, Texas Tony Romo often carries the can for the Cowboys' offensive calamities, but the truth is that not many quarterbacks look great when they are running for their lives.
(19) Texas has obtained a new batch of the drugs it uses to execute death row inmates, allowing the state to continue carrying out death sentences once its existing supply expires at the end of the month.
(20) Some will be here a day, some will be here weeks.” 9.14pm BST Earlier today, Texas governor Rick Perry declared McLennan County a disaster area and said he plans to request federal aid.