(a.) Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things).
(n.) That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
(2) The equilibrium binding constants for the binary complex formation of eIF-4E-eIF-4A, m7GpppG-eIF-4E, m7GpppG-eIF-4F, globin mRNA-eIF-4E, globin mRNA-eIF-4F, and globin mRNA-eIF-4A were measured by direct fluorescence titration experiments.
(3) As a result, more and more people are beginning to look towards Irish reunification as being a real possibility.” The overriding issue, however, in this most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland is the old binary, sectarian one: the zero-sum game of orange versus green.
(4) For tests with binary outcomes, these measures are fixed.
(5) Whenever the univariate analysis achieved statistical significance, a multivariate analysis was performed by means of a multiple correlation and regression study in accordance with the Cox's model, in which the variables were expressed in a binary model.
(6) The results are most consistent with a general non-compulsory model for the formation of a ternary complex between carrier, phenylalanine molecule and a sodium ion, which can be formed from either binary complex, i.e., either species can combine first to the carrier.
(7) The ternary complexes between enzyme, NAD+ and either Cl- or trifluoroethanol and the binary complex between enzyme and orthophenanthroline have almost identical spectral parameters which are not consistent with a four coordinated geometry, but are consistent with a five coordinated geometry.
(8) Binary and ternary complexes of bovine adrenocortical mitochondrial cytochrome P-450scc with adrenodoxin and adrenodoxin reductase.adrenodoxin complex are formed in the presence of cholesterol and Emulgen 913.
(9) This paper addresses the latter assumption by applying a direct and flexible approach, cubic spline functions, to two widely used models: the logistic regression model for binary responses and the Cox proportional hazards regression model for survival time data.
(10) It is evident that assembly of the surface domain of TF with VIIa to form the binary TF.VIIa complex induces a significant increase in the Kcat of the catalytic domain of VIIa for small peptidyl substrates and more profoundly for protein substrate.
(11) Additional knowledge of the miscibility properties (phase diagrams) of the binary bulk systems is required.
(12) In the binary complex with enzyme, the positions of the resonances of oxaloacetate are shifted relative to those of the free ligand as follows: C-1 (carboxylate), -2.5 ppm; C-2 (carbonyl), +4.3 ppm; C-3 (methylene), -0.6 ppm; C-4 (carboxylate), +1.3 ppm.
(13) dUMP binary complex can be isolated and conveniently assayed by nitrocellulose disc filtration using [6-3H]dUMP as the radioactive ligand.
(14) 1965.-Thin sections of filterable hemolytic anemia agent of rat, now identified as Haemobartonella muris, revealed (i) that the agent is spherical or ellipsoidal and 350 to 700 mmu in size, (ii) that it has a single limiting membrane enclosing granules and some filaments (neither cell wall nor nucleoid was found), and (iii) that it is found preferentially at the surface and sometimes within the cytoplasmic vacuoles of erythrocytes in the circulating blood and bone marrow, and multiplies there through binary fission.
(15) These two processes are controlled by three parameters only: a lower threshold L on the platelet volume, below which the probability of a binary division is zero; a parameter lambda which defines the probability of division for volumes larger than this lower threshold; and the standard deviation S of the Gaussian distribution of possible volumes created by the binary division.
(16) The actin monomer-binding protein, deoxyribonuclease I, (DNase I) forms a binary complex with G-actin.
(17) The computer display of the molecular surfaces of the binary complex of substituted benzamidines and trypsin permitted unique insight into the identity and chemical properties of the atoms that participate at the interface of the molecular surfaces of the inhibitor and the protein.
(18) There was no evidence of a drug effect on cognitive processes associated with serial comparison, binary decision, or translation-response organization (response selection).
(19) Using similar techniques, the present study shows that the Gal-specific lectins from Erythrina indica and Ricinus communis (agglutinin I) form homogeneous cross-linked complexes with individual carbohydrates in binary mixtures of triantennary and tetraantennary complex-type oligosaccharides with terminal Gal residues.
(20) Serial binary dilutions of amyl acetate and nitrobenzene were used in a double-blind test to determine olfactory acuity of 40 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients.
Spica
Definition:
(n.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.
(n.) A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients were discharged with a hip spica when the fracture site was nontender (average three weeks).
(2) A lightweight fiberglass spica has proven to be useful after repair of the deltoid origin, repair of complete rupture of the rotator cuff, and shoulder arthrodesis.
(3) In this experimental study, 18 beagles were immobilized in a shoulder spica for periods of time ranging from 6 to 32 weeks and then remobilized.
(4) A review was made of 20 of 27 consecutively treated patients under 9 years of age with femoral shaft fractures treated by early application of bilateral fixed skin traction spica cast.
(5) We recommend initial nonoperative treatment with hip spica cast immobilization for this type of fracture in the very young child.
(6) A shoulder spica cast is often required after major surgery to the shoulder.
(7) The patients were immobilized in a spica cast for six weeks postoperatively.
(8) The condition was successfully treated by conservative measures including a plaster hip spica allowing frequent changes of position.
(9) When there is segmental instability of the pelvis that cannot be controlled by conventional methods of pelvic slings or spica casts or when associated injuries preclude the use of these methods, then the treatment of choice should be external fixation.
(10) Data from the study support our opinion that the immediate spica system is the treatment of choice for these fractures and that traction methods should probably be abandoned as definitive treatment of a femoral shaft fracture in a child.
(11) Immobilization for up to 60 weeks was achieved by placing the forelimb in a spica cast and remobilization by removing it.
(12) Thus the results of closed reduction and hip spica are unfavorable, compared with those of nontreated cases.
(13) Older methods of treatment, i.e., prolonged traction, offer no advantage over early spica immobilization and markedly increase the hospitalization time and expense.
(14) Thumb spica cast immobilization was maintained for an average of 8 weeks, followed by thumb spica orthoplast splintage on a part time basis.
(15) The treatment included closed reduction and immobilization in a spica cast.
(16) These findings have led us to abandon the use of a spica cast as a mode of treatment for slipped capital femoral epiphysis.
(17) The most dangerous causative factors include forced reduction under general anesthesia, spica cast immobilization of the hips in the Lorenz or Lange position, insufficient continuous prereduction traction, and splints or braces that are either too rigid or that force the hip into an extreme position.
(18) Thirteen patients who had seventeen slipped capital femoral epiphyses were managed with a spica cast between 1984 and 1986.
(19) Techniques for managing traumatic diastasis of the pubic symphysis include bed rest, hip spica casting, pelvic slings, external fixation, and internal fixation.
(20) In four of the earlier cases there was a Schanz's screw infection and three of these required removal of the external fixation and treatment in a hip spica.