(n.) An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.
(n.) A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee.
(n.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(2) The mean of the total daily energy intake was 104% of basal energy expenditure (BEE), and 70% of patients lost their weight.
(3) The hypothesis that metabolic rate, as well as foraging and recruiting activities, depend on the motivational state of the foraging bee determined by the reward at the food source is discussed.
(4) The public must have confidence that the government is doing all it can to safeguard Britain's threatened bees.
(5) We used two experimental paradigms inspired by developmental biology to study how bees obtain information on changing colony needs that results in precocious foraging.
(6) Differential and sucrose gradient centrifugation of honey bee thoraces, disrupted by gentle methods and using mannitol-triethanolamine-EDTA buffer at pH 6.5, showed that in the honey bee thorax 92-94.8% of the trehalase was mitochondrial.
(7) Pure honey bee cytochrome c was isolated from workers and used to produce antibodies in rabbits.
(8) In contrast, the bee-venom toxin melittin, which is also cytolytic, increased intracellular cyclic AMP in whole cells, but inhibited adenylate cyclase in isolated membranes.
(9) In subsequent dual-choice tests, the bees' discrimination between the various shapes was measured.
(10) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
(11) Under in vitro inhibition of alpha-glucosidasic activity by glucose in hemolymph of Bee prenymphas, the reaction order (n) (predetermined according to the initial natural glycemia) decreases with increasing inhibitor concentration and the affinity constant between enzyme and substrate undergoes lower variations than in other cases where (n) does not change.
(12) Using 5' deletion assay, we found three basal expression elements (BEE) in the BiP670.
(13) Honey bee mitochondrial trehalase was significantly activated by Lubrol WX treatment (30.0-fold), by high pH treatment (20.8-fold), and by a treatment consisting of 10 passes through a French press (37.9-fold) but not by the other treatments tried (salt, proteases, Waring blender, and sonication), despite the fact that these treatments also disrupted the mitochondria significantly.
(14) Also, the clinical pattern and treatment of the acute renal failure secondary to bee stings are discussed.
(15) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(16) What the study shows is that "the spillover for bees is turning into [a] boilover," said University of Illinois entomology professor May Berenbaum, who wasn't part of the study.
(17) Now I’ve got this bee in my bonnet and want to tell people “Roast it whole until the skin’s soft, take it out of the Aga, cool it a bit and it will be just lovely”.
(18) Fifty nine patients (30%) with RXN3 responses to wasps failed to react to either test, while this applied to only 19 (6%) of the patients with RXN3 responses to bee stings.
(19) On returning to the courtyard you can take an optional loop through the bee and butterfly wildflower meadow – the start of the path is just behind the engine shed building.
(20) In short, SBP rise during TI and DBP rise during BEE may be the markers of an enhanced cardiovascular reactivity of hypertensive subjects.
Bes
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) By flow cytometry, neither BES nor DFMO induced obvious perturbations in the cell cycle.
(2) 3.48pm GMT Security Once your phone is hooked up to the company email via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) secure network that BlackBerry supplies to businesses, you can use the BlackBerry Balance feature, which separates personal and work functions.
(3) Mutants of Methanococcus voltae were isolated that were resistant to the coenzyme M (CoM; 2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid) analog 2-bromoethanesulfonic acid (BES).
(4) After 8 months, following vasectomy, the response to BES at 24 hours was similar to that of controls.
(5) Fieldhouse said a significant advantage of the BES over commercial polls, which normally survey around 1,000 people, was that it tracked the same, much larger cohort of voters.
(6) Transformation of peripheral blood leucocytes was shown to be a valid assay for cell-mediated immunity to sperm in male guinea-pigs immunized with homologous epididymal sperm (heat treated extract-BES) in FCA.
(7) Evidence includes (1) growth with N2 as the sole nitrogen source; (2) incorporation of 15N2 into cellular material (both soluble amino acid pools and insoluble cell protein and other macromolecules) detected by 15N-NMR spectroscopy; (3) acetylene reduction to ethylene by the cells, and inhibition of this reaction by bromoethanesulfonic acid (BES), a methanogen inhibitor.
(8) All animals with SES, which were treated with coumadines, and all animals with BES (untreated) had patent stents after one week.
(9) The most plausible reading is that something has gone right with the face-to-face BES sampling which had gone wrong with all the pre-election internet and phone polls.
(10) The cleansing effect of whole-gut irrigation with a balanced electrolyte solution (BES), with or without pretreatment with bisacodyl, was compared, in order to establish whether bisacodyl reduces the duration and side effects of whole-gut irrigation.
(11) Two of the three most important factors affecting voting yes in the first wave of the BES were how voters felt independence would affect the general economic situation in the country, and their own personal economic situation," Fieldhouse wrote in a BES blog.
(12) The skin reactions to BES and to a purified protein derivative (PPD) in females were similar to those of any standard protein antigen.
(13) And how they're going to generate significant revenue from BES and BBM, and create a company driven by those two parallel paths – right now, the path isn't clear."
(14) The results indicate that oocytes cultured in medium supplemented with BES and gonadotrophins reveal high rates of maturation and development to the blastocyst stage after fertilization with fresh ejaculated spermatozoa.
(15) "We destroyed a checkpoint of the fascist Ukrainian army deployed on the land of the Donetsk Republic," said the commander, who wore a balaclava and identified himself by his nom de guerre, Bes – Russian for demon.
(16) BES differed distinctly from the ODC inhibitor by decreasing spermine pools, and by not increasing S-adenosyl-methionine decarboxylase activity, S-adenosylmethionine pools, or stimulating cellular uptake of polyamines.
(17) The cell death resulting from BES treatment is in direct contrast to results obtained with DFMO and occurs at concentrations of less than 10 microM, whereas 5 mM DFMO is required to maintain growth inhibition in NCI H157.
(18) The calculation of these Beam's Eye Section (BES) images requires a set of medium-to high-resolution transverse section data (the 3-D dataset), as well as a medium- to high-performance computer workstation.
(19) Both HS-CoM and CH3-S-CoM prevented the uptake of BES and protected cells from inhibition by it.
(20) The female subscales of the Body Esteem Scale (BES) have demonstrated convergent and discriminant validity in two previous studies.