(n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
Example Sentences:
(1) At sufficiently high laser intensities, a photostationary mixture of bacteriorhodopsin (BR) and its red-shifted (batho) photoproduct (K) is obtained.
(2) The Batho power-law formula is in common use in many treatment planning systems to correct for the presence of lungs and other inhomogeneities.
(3) Reirradiation of the batho product with light at wavelengths longer than 520 nm yielded a mixture composed of presumably 9- or 11-cis forms of retro-gamma-rhodopsin.
(4) It was converted to the lumi intermediate through a metastable species, the BL intermediate, which has never been detected in Rh(9) at low temperature and whose absorption maximum was at shorter wavelengths than that of the batho intermediate.
(5) The lung dose correction was calculated using the methods of Batho or ratio of TMR.
(6) On irradiation with blue light at -191 degrees C, 9-cis-10-F-rhodopsin was converted to another bathochromic intermediate that was different in absorption spectrum from batho-10-F-rhodopsin.
(7) For high energies, however, it is more accurate in the build-up region than other commonly used correction techniques such as the ratio-of-TMR or Batho methods.
(8) It is suggested that in 5,6-diH-ISORHO, a primary bathorhodopsin intermediate analogous to the bathorhodopsin intermediate (BATHO) of the native pigment, rapidly converts to a blue-shifted intermediate (BSI, lambda max 430 nm) which is not observed after photolysis of native rhodopsin.
(9) Based on these results, it was infered that the formation of batho-rhodopsin is due to photoisomerization of the chromophoric retinal of rhodopsin and is not due to translocation of a proton on the ring or on the side chain from C-6 to C-8 of the chromophoric retinal to the Schiff-base nitrogen.
(10) It is shown that when BATHO is formed its transition dipole moves away from the original cis band transition dipole direction.
(11) Upon irradiation with red light at -191 degrees C, batho-12-F-rhodopsin was converted to a mixture of 12-F-rhodopsin and 9-cis-12-F-rhodopsin like that of the natural bathorhodopsin, whereas batho-10-F-rhodopsin was not converted to 9-cis-10-F-rhodopsin but only to 10-F-rhodopsin.
(12) The angles between both these transition dipoles and those of the long-wave-length bands of BATHO, BSI, and LUMI are also determined.
(13) "Track was originally offered to Christina Aguilera ," continued the subheading, with a detectable note of bathos.
(14) It is proposed that the rate of the BATHO to BSI transition is limited by the relaxation of the strained all-trans-retinal chromophore within a tight protein environment.
(15) It is concluded that in all of the pigments the results are consistent with the formation of an equilibrium between BATHO and BSI, which subsequently decays on a nanosecond time scale at room temperature to a lumirhodopsin intermediate.
(16) It is easy to understand Alastair Campbell's verdict on the unmanly spectacle of the governor's departure on the lease-expired colony of Hong Kong, an event which matches the taking leave of Granada by Boabdil, the last Moorish king of Spain, for dramatic bathos.
(17) These results suggest that the batho-lumi transition of iodopsin at low temperature is likely to be inhibited by the Cl- bound to the protein moiety of iodopsin, while at room temperature the Cl- bound to iodopsin could be released on the conversion process of batho- to lumiiodopsin.
(18) Inactivation by chelating agents such as o-phenanthroline or batho-phenanthroline sulfonic acid occurs only in the presence of reducing agents (mercaptoethanol and ascorbic acid).
(19) The photoproduct produced by the irradiation of AcRh(9) had an absorption spectrum red shifted from the original AcRh(9) and was identified as the batho intermediate of AcRh(9).
(20) Yesterday's push by Barclays into South Africa - by spending rand 33bn (£2.9bn) to buy a 60% stake in local banking group Absa - has the enthusiastic endorsement of the local black economic empowerment group Batho Bonke and the approval of the government.
Triviality
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.
(n.) That which is trivial; a trifle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The case of a 32-year-old man who suffered a blow to his left supraorbital region and eyebrow in an automatic closing door is reported to draw attention to the uncommon but trivial nature of this injury which may result in profound visual loss.
(2) Governmental regulations, requirements, and standards have improved the quality of many laboratories' work, but also result in greatly increased costs, excesses of often trivial procedures, and diversion of trained manpower from clinical service to regulatory procedures, with a resulting increase in manpower needs.
(3) Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter.
(4) While they might technically have been denied a majority in that scenario, making up the two missing seats would have been trivial.
(5) We have shown that patients with chronic airflow obstruction (CAO) complain of disabling dyspnea when performing seemingly trivial tasks with unsupported arms.
(6) Given the documented sensitivity of chest radiography in this respect, we conclude that any increase in extravascular lung water during exercise must be trivial.
(7) schizophrenia), the underestimation of prevalence by the proband method may be non-trivial.
(8) They range from relatively trivial conditions such as oral and genital thrush to fatal, systemic superinfections in patients who are already seriously ill with other diseases.
(9) Snoring usually is trivial and unimportant, but it can turn into a social or medical problem.
(10) To the sensitization and the sensitine production the following type strains (Trudeau Institute Saranac Lake) were used: M. avium, M. borstelense, M.chelonei, M. flavescens, M. fortuitum, M. gastri, M. gordonae, M.kansaii, M. marinum, M nonchromogenicum, M. phlei, M. scrofulaceum, M. smegmatis, M. terrae, M. triviale and M. bovis strain Vallee as well as M. intracellulare serotyp Davis ATCC 23435.
(11) Cardiovascular sequelae were generally trivial at all doses.
(12) Previous studies have indicated that suppression is mediated by "null cells" similar to natural suppressor (NS) cells (1), and have ruled out several possible trivial explanations for the suppressive effect.
(13) Since the biosynthetic route is similar to that of lipoxin A4 and lipoxin B4, we suggest the trivial names lipoxin C4, D4 and E4.
(14) This polysaccharide has been given the trivial name marginalan.
(15) Rupture of the bridging veins or the intratumoral abnormal vessels due to twisting of the brain from trivial head trauma or without trauma might produce subdural hematoma.
(16) Five patients had normal intracardiac hemodynamic values, 2 had trivial atrioventricular valve regurgitation and 1 patient had trivial pulmonary ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
(17) Six weeks later, two weeks after a trivial trauma with hyperextension of the shoulder joint, it was found that the catheter had broken and its tip portion had embolized into the pulmonary artery: it was retrieved without difficulty via the femoral vein.
(18) The results indicate that dichromatic and trichromatic monkeys differ only trivially on tests where performance is based on the contributions of non-opponent mechanisms, that the contribution of spectrally opponent mechanisms to the "brightness signal" is very similar in trichromatic and dichromatic monkeys, and that in increment-threshold discriminations where there are both chromaticity and luminance cues some test wavelengths yield superior performance for trichromats while others appear to favor the dichromat.
(19) Thus, the same tribunal that regularly consigns ordinary, powerless Americans to prison for decades for even trivial offenses yet again acts to protect the most powerful actors from any consequences for serious crimes: that is the US justice system in a nutshell.
(20) The appetite was selective as shown by the fact that when, after depletion, 0.34 M-CaCl2 was offered (which is equiosmotic to 3% NaCl) pigeons took just a trivial amount of it.