(n.) An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
(n.) The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
(n.) Applied colloquially to human flesh.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
Example Sentences:
(1) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
(2) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(3) The slope of the thermal inactivation curve of enterotoxin A in beef bouillon (initial pH 6.2) was found to be approximately 27.8 C (50 F) with three different concentrations of toxin.
(4) More likely is that the constitutional court would use its recently beefed-up powers to deal with separatists if they were to assume powers that the constitution does not allow them.
(5) We compared the effects of meals containing the same amounts of either isolated soy or beef protein on acid secretion and serum gastrin concentration in normal humans.
(6) 1. cis-4-Decenoyl-CoA, an intermediate of linoleic acid catabolism, is degraded by a soluble enzyme fraction of beef liver mitochondria to octanoyl-CoA.
(7) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
(8) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(9) The present study demonstrated that delayed administration of a marine lipid diet, 25% menhaden oil (MO) by weight, until after the onset of overt renal disease, also resulted in significant improvement in rates of mortality, proteinuria, and histologic evidence of glomerular injury, compared with control animals fed a diet that contained mostly saturated fatty acids, 25% beef tallow.
(10) administration of pig relaxin (greater than or equal to 3000 U) does not effectively alter periparturient characteristics of beef heifers.
(11) When the amounts of MeIQx measured in the urine collections were compared to the quantities of amine ingested in the fried beef, it was found that 1.8-4.9% of the oral dose was excreted unchanged in urine.
(12) Eight long-term (3 yr) ovariectomized beef cows were randomly assigned to one of two treatments: immunization against LHRH conjugated to human serum globulin (n = 4) and nonimmunization (control, n = 4).
(13) The commission is also proposing a new system of European borders and coastguards, beefing up the Warsaw-based Frontex agency to police the external frontiers.
(14) The role of zinc in beef heart cytochrome c oxidase has been studied by using x-ray absorption spectroscopy, zinc depletion and secondary structure predictions of subunits of beef heart cytochrome c oxidase.
(15) Ultrasonic attenuation in fresh and 5% formalin fixed beef skeletal muscle has been measured, as a continuous function of frequency, in the range 1-8 MHz, for muscle fibre orientations both parallel and normal to the direction of propagation.
(16) "Most of the grain produced on our farm ends up bound for export," said Jack McCormick, who raises beef cattle and grain with his father.
(17) However, the Kis of formycin A triphosphate for the leishmanial kinases (Ki 40-120 microM) were far less than that of the beef heart kinase (Ki 1,380 microM).
(18) A young woman with diabetes mellitus developed chronic urticaria after changing from isophane been insulin suspension to isophane beef-pork insulin suspension.
(19) The following systems were investigated as a function of temperature: sarcoplasmic reticulum ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3) complexed with 1-myristoyl-2-(14,14,14-trideuteriomyristoyl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC-d3) or 1,2-bis(16,16,16-trideuteriopalmitoyl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC-k6); human brain lipophilin complexed with DPPC-d6 or 1,2-bis(6,6-dideuteriopalmitoyl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC-6,6-d4); beef brain myelin proteolipid apoprotein (PLA) reconstituted with DMPC labeled as CD2 (or CD3) at one or more of positions 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, or 14 of the sn-2 chain.
(20) A survey of gastrointestinal nematodes in Georgia cattle was conducted from 1968 through 1973 from actual worm counts from viscera of 145 slaughtered beef cattle or from egg counts made from fecal samples from 3,273 beef and 100 dairy cattle.
Wiener
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The system identification results are in the form of first- and second-order frequency kernels, which are related to temporal kernels that appear in the Wiener functional series.
(2) For the noise analysis, we compared the Wiener spectra of uniformly exposed film samples before and after digitization.
(3) In addition, the use of the new non-empirical heteroatom parameterization scheme in the calculation of Wiener numbers and Balaban indices was successfully tested for the first time.
(4) We summarize Wiener's theory of the dielectric constant of heterogeneous systems and extend its application to suspensions of particles with corrugated surfaces and interstitial solvent.
(5) We have applied Wiener analysis to a study of response dynamics of N (sustained) and C (transient) amacrine cells.
(6) By means of white gaussian noise stimulation, the Wiener kernels are derived for the Phycomyces light growth response for a variety of intensity conditions.
(7) The light-growth response of Phycomyces has been studied further with the sum-of-sinusoids method in the framework of the Wiener theory of nonlinear system identification.
(8) Applications of Wiener-like identification methods to biological systems have revealed several limitations of this technique.
(9) The input-output characteristics of muscle stretch receptors can be represented by a set of Wiener kernels estimated from responses to random length stimuli.
(10) Updated at 9.03am BST 8.52am BST Roux's comments about the reluctance of some witnesses to appear for the defence could be laying a foundation for a possible future appeal, some commentators are suggesting: Mandy Wiener (@MandyWiener) Defence claims witnesses refused to testify because of broadcast.
(11) This quantity, called the image quality index (IQI), can be derived from the basic image parameters: contrast, MTF, Wiener spectrum.
(12) Adaptation of the Wiener-Inverse filter with respect to the beam properties gives acceptable results, at the expense of a rather large computational effort.
(13) It is shown that Wiener filtering may cause information loss for certain types of evoked potentials, since the transient evoked response components of the brain are of damped oscillatory character and are not stationary signals.
(14) Since this suggested the existence of form birefringence, the influence of solvents of different refractive indices on the observed birefringence was investigated, using a new derivation of the Wiener form birefringence equations which allows direct comparison of Wiener's theory with experimental results.
(15) Various identification schemes that have been proposed for the Hammerstein and Wiener systems are critically reviewed with reference to the special problems that arise in the identification of nonlinear biological systems.
(16) It turns out that the modulation transfer function is correlated to the visual sharpness and the Wiener spectrum is correlated to the visual impression of graininess.
(17) DianaTorrens A trio of restaurants, Vienna Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wiener schnitzels hang over the plate edge at Restaurant Figlmueller.
(18) The performance of the proposed method is compared with that of conventional methods (Wiener filter and parametric projection filter).
(19) A posteriori Wiener filtering, time varying filtering, and smoothing of the average EP have been proposed to meet this problem.
(20) From this estimate an approximate Wiener filter was calculated.