(v. t.) To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
(v. t.) To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively.
(v. i.) To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
(2) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
(3) It behaves as an acidic protein, pI 4.5--5.0, which is thermolabile and sulphydryl-sensitive.
(4) However, I’m behaving as if it’s all going to happen as planned.” It has certainly been a long road to production.
(5) The thickness of the media in the groups behaves like the number of nuclei: in hypertension with the highest values, there is no significant decrease as far as the 8th cross-section, while in the coronary sclerosis and third decade groups the values come closer together after the 6th cross-section.
(6) The analyzed tRNA gene behaved like a single transcription unit driven by its own promoter.
(7) These results favour the idea that the factor present in peak II fraction might behave as an ouabain-like substance.
(8) Proud of the way his forces behaved, he plans to frame the operational map of the night for his office wall.
(9) The pharmacological examination showed that the new compounds are deprived of the hypnotic activity characteristic for 3,3'-spirobi-5-methyltetrahydrofuranone-2 (2) and behaved in most tests as tranquillizers.
(10) I wanted to investigate how people behave together."
(11) The reference material, which must behave immunochemically the same as the patient's sample in all methods, is then used to assign a target value to the calibrator in each method and system.
(12) The relative permittivity and conductivity of rabbit eye lens were measured in the frequency domain between 2 and 18 GHz at temperatures of 37 and 20 degrees C. An analysis of the data suggested that a significant proportion of the bulk water in nuclear and cortical lens tissue may behave differently to pure water.
(13) Hypersensitivity was observed up to 7 min after the injection, after which the mice behaved normally.
(14) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
(15) Population studies of continuously cultured primary amnion cells from appropriate donors and of HeLa cells have established that the H- cell behaves as a stem cell which commonly divides into a like cell and a differentiated H+ type.
(16) Eight alpha-helices behave as relatively rigid bodies and corner regions are more flexible, showing larger fluctuations.
(17) Systemically administered CPP blocked AGS and significantly reduced IC neuronal firing in the behaving GEPR, suggesting an important action of systemically administered NMDA receptor antagonists on brainstem auditory nuclei critical to AGS.
(18) This polypeptide behaved identically to skeletal muscle actin on DNaseI affinity columns.
(19) Under these assumptions, any time-invariant variable may behave like a metabolite concentration, i.e.
(20) Should Britain start behaving like the small island state it is rather than maintaining the pretensions of being a significant world player?
Behoove
Definition:
(v. t.) To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.
(v. i.) To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due.
(n.) Advantage; behoof.
Example Sentences:
(1) It behooves any physician who uses these powerful agents to be aware of the potential complications and side effects.
(2) It behooves us all to help contain rising medical costs.
(3) It behooves the psychiatrist to frankly reveal the risks of pregnancy to couples who wish to have a child or to advise about the pregnancy to term so they can make an informed decision.
(4) This case demonstrates that it behooves us to maintain a high level of awareness for potential cervical spine problems in all rheumatoid arthritis patients.
(5) It behooves the doctor to try to deal as effectively as possible with the symptoms and behavioral responses to litigation because of the subtle impact such changes have on doctor-patient relationships and patient care.
(6) It behooves all practising histopathologists to recognise these mimics of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease to ensure appropriate management for patients with inflammatory pathology of the intestines.
(7) Since the operation can be performed with greater technical efficiency without a shunt and without the potential complications of shunting itself, it behooves the surgeon to have a reliable method of knowing when it is not required.
(8) It behooves all physicians operating in this area and emergency room physicians and personnel to be acquainted with the diagnosis and management of these situations.
(9) It behooves all phys-cians caring for young women to be aware of these disease processes for the maximum therapeutic benefit to be achieved.
(10) It behooves librarians to be aware of modern management theory, as developed and tested in the environment of business, and to adopt such useful tools as operations analysis and the systems approach to problems in the library environment.
(11) Qualified and desperate young people are walking dollar signs to a cash-strapped industry, and it would behoove universities to endow their graduates with knowledge of their legal entitlements before turfing them out of the nest into a wilderness of financial precarity and un- or under-employment.
(12) It behooves all clinicians to look at all the options available in treating the adult so these patients can benefit most from our services.
(13) The applications of color flow mapping, a new and rapidly evolving technology, are still in their infancy, and it behooves the pediatric cardiologist to evolve in his expertise along with the evolution of the instrumentation toward new and important impacts which these imaging methods will have in the health care of children with heart disease.
(14) Thus it behooves dermatologists to study the basic biologic process of aging in the skin and the separable process of photoaging, which itself is a major clinical problem.
(15) It behooves us in the mental health field, having vociferously supported the community mental health movement, to assist police in the management of the mentally ill who are now in the community, perhaps by the use of mobile crisis intervention teams and by a considerably increased amount of effort and cooperation.
(16) Thus, with this understanding, it behooves us as nurses to intervene accordingly and "decode" the hallucinated messages and thereby assist in breaking into the third stage in the evolutionary cycle of a psychosis, as cited by R.D.
(17) It behooves those centers providing investigative protocol opportunities to develop liaisons with practicing physicians nearby as well as at some distance and to provide an organizational framework that will make participation in these protocols practical for a larger segment of our brain-tumor patient population.
(18) It behooves all clinical laboratory directors to re-examine and standardize their procedures and use the recommendations of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
(19) With recent changes in the management of carcinoma of the breast and a population that is increasingly aging, it behooves us to determine the most appropriate treatment of carcinoma of the breast in the elderly.
(20) As surgeons, we are behooved to look, assess, and reconsider in order to improve.