(n.) The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.
(n.) The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue.
(n.) The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports.
(n.) The principal component part of a thing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
(2) The combined analysis of pathogenesis and genetics associated with the salmonella virulence plasmids may identify new systems of bacterial virulence and the genetic basis for this virulence.
(3) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
(4) For the first time it was organized on the basis of population.
(5) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
(6) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
(7) A novel prostaglandin E2 analogue, CL 115347, can be administered transdermally on a long-term basis.
(8) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
(9) The structures of 1 and 2 were established mainly on the basis of nmr spectroscopic data.
(10) Determination of the primary structure for factor V has provided the basis for examination of structure-function relationships.
(11) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
(12) On the basis of obtained data on the uniformity of chemical compounds of the secretion of glands belonging to different groups their common origin has been suggested.
(13) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(14) On the basis of primary sequence homology with other known Pseudomonas lipases, a number of putative active site residues located in conserved areas were found.
(15) If, indeed, there is an immunologic basis for pre-eclampsia, it is more subtle than the methodology used in this study is capable of detecting.
(16) "These developments are clearly unwarranted on the basis of economic and budgetary fundamentals in these two member states and the steps that they are taking to reinforce those fundamentals."
(17) On the basis of mathematical models of the obtained dose-time-effect relationship, the risk of cancer occurrence due to small carcinogen doses is predicted.
(18) The relatively high incidence of nephroblastoma in the Nb rat using transplacentally administered ENU appears to represent a suitable basis for developing a rodent model of human nephroblastoma or Wilms' tumor.
(19) In this study we investigated the recovery or regenerative process of nasal mucosa in rabbits after mechanical injury on the basis of ultrastructural as well as functional observations.
(20) Three distinct antigenic regions of bovine somatotropin (bST) were identified on the basis of the ability of a set of monoclonal antibodies to bind to proteolytic fragments and deletion variants of recombinant bST (rbST) in Western blot analyses.
Circumstance
Definition:
(n.) That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
(n.) An event; a fact; a particular incident.
(n.) Circumlocution; detail.
(n.) Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
(v. t.) To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.
Example Sentences:
(1) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
(2) The conus was found to contribute little to forward flow under ordinary circumstances, but its contribution increased greatly during bleeding or partial occlusion of the truncus.
(3) This paper details the circumstances of some of the cases and cites precautions to be taken in the use of this therapeutic mode.
(4) Attention should be paid to the circumstances under which the chart is applied, as normal micturition behaviour seems to be highly dependent on social factors.
(5) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
(6) Under any other circumstances, a penalty of life imprisonment could be imposed on both the woman undergoing the abortion and anyone assisting her – even if the abortion is sought because of a fatal foetal impairment, for example, or because the pregnancy is the result of rape.
(7) Duraphat-treated samples submerged in water after the exposure lost only about 50% of the deposited fluoride, whereas samples treated with 2% NaF are known to lose all their fluoride under similar circumstances, a condition which may be related to the favorable clinical effect of Duraphat.
(8) The circumstances surrounding 142 hospital admissions for acute asthma in 110 children during a one year period were examined.
(9) The length of the interpulse interval for LH release secretion decreased in unilateral decorticate animals, whereas the length of the cycle of FSH secretion increased in this circumstance.
(10) However, there are exceptional circumstances in which it is in a child’s best interests to be resettled in the UK.
(11) Differences in incidence of unplanned pregnancies among women was more a result of socioeconomic circumstance and the tendency to have a large family than attitude towards children.
(12) Ten patients (16.67 per cent) of the mortality group were in the ninety-ninth percentile of risk, whereas these factors or variables of similar weight produced an equivalent risk of only 0.34 per cent of the survivors; thus, operative death in these circumstances could be predicted with an estimated 98.0 per cent assurance.
(13) Under certain circumstances, the effects of chlordiazepoxide appear to be best predicted by knowledge of maintaining conditions.
(14) It is proposed that although the same retinoblastoma cells in different circumstances are responsive to HPD-PDT, no clinical response is demonstrable utilizing this model, due to the absence of tumor vascularity.
(15) • Police would be given discretion to remove face masks from people on the street "under any circumstances where there is reasonable suspicion that they are related to criminal activity".
(16) Naturally, in individual patients, special circumstances may exist which alter these decisions.
(17) In such circumstances faith in the project inevitably ebbs among the faithful.
(18) During this period, however, the cows were housed in a stable with markedly worse environmental circumstance than those in production stable.
(19) A Home Office spokeswoman said: "It is vital that police and security services are able to obtain communications data in certain circumstances to investigate serious crime and terrorism and to protect the public.
(20) In the second phase of diagnosis are further neurophysiological investigations, which are only indicated in more special circumstances.