(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.
Unisex
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Doumar, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, ruled that Gloucester high school could force Grimm to use unisex bathrooms because Title IX “allows schools to maintain separate bathrooms based on sex as long as the bathrooms for each sex are comparable”, he wrote.
(2) Animals, transport and building-simulation were unisex, and if you really wanted to test the limits of female objectification, you could get a severed head with retractable hair.
(3) When identical (unisex) BMI cutpoints were used, results were the same; (RR = 2.4, P less than 0.05 for men; RR = 3.1, P less than 0.01 for women).
(4) At the start of his junior year, the school forced him to use standalone unisex bathrooms installed specifically for him .
(5) The appropriate physical assessment and anticipatory counseling relative to competitive sports, the age mix and the appropriateness of mixed sex and unisex participation are reviewed.
(6) In many newspapers, the checks and balances on owners and executives are weak – readers identify with their papers so strongly that, for instance, even Friday's publication of 12 pages of yellow journalism about obscure do-gooders who use unisex loos will not be enough to dent the Mail's sales.
(7) Vic Goddard washes his hands in Passmores' open-plan unisex toilet facilities.
(8) With the T-shirts, Hamnett showed padded white silk decontamination suits, generously cut, beautifully detailed parkas and trench coats, cropped jackets in heavy cotton, skirts that were straight and short or long, narrow and flared from round about knee level, unisex baggy slept-in trouser suits in dark denim.
(9) The primary sources of inconsistency are variation in the prevalence of heartworm infection among populations of dogs and the sensitivity of immunodiagnostic tests to various categories of heartworm infections (ie, patent, immune-mediated occult, unisex occult, and immature occult).
(10) He became editor in 2000 when Heat was struggling immediately after its launch and reinvented it as a unisex entertainment title and women's celebrity weekly that became a publishing sensation.
(11) Mixed sex twins tended to be lighter than unisex twins.
(12) Fundamental assumptions of the model are (1) that data treated in unisex fashion have the normal distribution required of Z-type statistics throughout the period of growth, and (2) that it is reasonable to consider anthropometric measurements in all populations (regardless of ultimate size) as growing toward the common height chosen for the phantom.
(13) These data indicate that unisex and sex-specific cutpoints for BMI identify the same sex-specific patterns of association between obesity and risk of NIDDM.
(14) A spokesperson for Next said its toy range, some of which was labelled "boys' stuff", had this year been branded under one unisex title, The Little Gift Co. "Our packaging designs, labelling and in-store signage was intended to help customers choose appropriate gifts last year; however, we realise that these classifications could be misleading," said the spokesperson.
(15) It's essentially unisex: the women's suits are simply men's in smaller sizes.
(16) Paoletti writes that during the heyday of unisex parenting, which lasted from 1965 to 1985, "pink was so strongly associated with traditional femininity that it was vehemently rejected by feminist parents for their daughters' clothing.
(17) They won’t even consider it a problem, lest it hamper the future careers of their children, Madison (unisex), Avery (unisex) or Hunter (also unisex).
(18) Newly developed "unisex" regression equations were developed with "dummy" coding of gender (i.e., 0 = female; 1 = male), age, height, weight, and various interactions.
(19) Moreover, application of the unisex phantom procedure to the Trois Rivières sample does little to clarify anticipated sex-related differences in regional growth, and it is argued that univariate standardization against a power function of an arbitrary adult height may not provide the best method of examining the multivariate problem of growth.
(20) The site contained information on subjects such as penis tucking, chest-binding and unisex school toilets, Shelton said, and until those references were removed parents would continue to be “misinformed” about Safe Schools by thinking it was purely about anti-bullying.