(a.) Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty.
(a.) Divided into two parts almost to the base, as a leaf; consisting of two parts or subdivisions.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is present in active form as isolated from the nucleus, suggesting a bipartite cellular location and function.
(2) The structure of nonverbal communication expressed as eye-contact between two human beings is analyzed using graph-theoretic tools involving a theorem of König on bipartite graphs and various results concerning directed graphs (as in Harary).
(3) FIS protein binds to a bipartite site in oriC between DnaA boxes R2 and R3.
(4) Mucoserous cells predominate and show secretory granules with a typical bipartite structure.
(5) The complete nucleotide sequence of a Venezuelan isolate of potato yellow mosaic virus (PYMV) has been determined, showing it to be typical of subgroup I geminiviruses in that it is whitefly-transmitted, has a circular, bipartite ssDNA genome and possesses bidirectionally orientated open reading frames (ORFs).
(6) In 300 Sienese skulls of known age and sex (146 male and 154 female) 6 modes of expression of bipartition of the hypoglossal canal were studied on the basis of a new scheme of notation that takes into account gradually increasing intensity.
(7) If striate cells had the simple bipartite or tripartite receptive fields (RF's) classically attributed to them, they should be quite broadly tuned for spatial frequency.
(8) The authors emphasize but then rule out the hypothesis of a congenital bipartite scaphoid associated with the synostosis.
(9) However, the region containing BS II and BS III constituted a second and more efficient bipartite NLS for the nuclear targeting of the AdPol-E. coli beta-gal fusion protein.
(10) The capping determinant in mammalian U6 snRNA is a bipartite element--a phylogenetically conserved stem-loop structure and an AUAUAC sequence, or a part thereof, following this stem-loop.
(11) Once these single or bipartite mechanisms are identified, the limitations of our understanding of features of the disease caused by genes with partial penetrance or expressivity, or by compound genetic loci, promise to become a reality at long last.
(12) Additivity of heterochromatic brightness matching was investigated between unique-green and red (660 nm), and between unique-blue and unique-yellow with 2-deg bipartite field composed of a 100 td white reference field and a bichromatic mixture field.
(13) The predicted amino acid sequences reveal that both proteins contain a bipartite DNA-binding domain consisting of a leucine repeat and an adjacent basic region, which are characteristic of members of the AP-1 family.
(14) Presented is information concerning the internal and external structural components of a bipartite metatarsal sesamoidal joint, which may inherently lead it to symptomatology.
(15) Raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV) has isometric, 33 nm diameter particles and a bipartite RNA genome.
(16) Flock house virus is an insect virus belonging to the family Nodaviridae; members of this family are characterized by a small bipartite positive-stranded RNA genome.
(17) The dioptric elements in each ommatidium consist of a laminar cornea, which is flat externally and convex internally, and a bipartite crystalline cone.
(18) The requirement for a bipartite genome for whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses is discussed.
(19) Mutation-expression and cell-free transcription analyses show that the SMS-UE is a bipartite element with two interdependent functional domains.
(20) After negative staining the large subunits (20.3nm width) usually show a roundish profile, whereas the small subunits (12nm width) show an elongated, often bipartite, profile.
Dichotomous
Definition:
(a.) Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem.
Example Sentences:
(1) Individual tests and batteries of tests should be standardized, employ positive controls, generate results capable of quantitative analyses that may make dichotomous classification as "positive" and "negative" obsolete, be interpreted in light of mechanisms of action, and be cost-effective on a grand scale.
(2) Low income was found to be an independent predictor of birth weight when birth weight was treated both as a dichotomous and as a continuous variable.
(3) The issue has in some respects been inappropriately dichotomized as a conflict between public health agendas and the traditional priorities of drug treatment.
(4) With respect to the issue of complexity in perception, the findings clearly contradicted the notion that dieters simply dichotomize food into "good" and "bad" categories.
(5) In numerous points of these plexuses, single adrenergic fibers or polyaxonal structures are observed to issue into nonvascular areas of the mesentery where after repeated dichotomic division they pass into the preterminal and terminal parts.
(6) In this report, we examined the psychiatric correlates of behavioral inhibition by evaluating the sample of offspring of parents with panic disorder and agoraphobia, previously dichotomized as inhibited and not inhibited, and an existing epidemiologically derived sample of children, followed by Kagan and colleagues and originally identified at 21 months of age as inhibited or uninhibited.
(7) When considering two dichotomous tests in combination for reaching a treatment decision, the choice between single and multiple testing depends, in part, on the pretest probability of disease.
(8) In order to react to diagnostic tests in an ordinal, dichotomous manner, the clinician has to choose a particular level of a test at which he initiates treatment without having the assurance that this level represents the one and only standard at which treatment has to be initiated.
(9) HIV-positive subjects were predominantly symptomatic and were dichotomized into AIDS and non-AIDS groups.
(10) Between ages 13 yrs and 15 yrs the human breast shows evidence of ductal elongation and branching, with lobules formed by lateral and dichotomous branching.
(11) A modified dichotomous plaque index (MPI), gingival bleeding index (GBI) and probing pocket depths (PPD) were assessed on days 0, 28 and 56.
(12) The prediction of 2 and 3 vessels disease was found to be significantly greater when patients were dichotomized into those with ST depression greater than or equal to 4 mm compared to less than 4 mm.
(13) Birth weight can be analyzed as a continuous variable or as a dichotomous one using the standard cutpoint of 2500 g or less to indicate low birth weight.
(14) This was true whether hostility or coronary occlusion was treated as a dichotomous variable or as a continuous variable.
(15) In this paper attention is restricted to dichotomous response variables that frequently arise in toxicological studies, such as the occurrence of fetal death or a particular malformation.
(16) Subsequent patient management and the dichotomous behavior of the lymphoid infiltrates are discussed.
(17) The clinical observations comprised plaque index scores, dichotomous measurements of gingival redness and suppuration, pocket depths and attachment levels.
(18) Previously reported incidence of exclusive right hemisphere language may be an artifact of dichotomizing a continuous variable.
(19) The Breslow and Mantel-Cox statistics were used to compute survival (surgery-free) dichotomized by prognostic variables.
(20) When ratings were dichotomized (ie, low v high neonatal illness and low v high parent education), the level of neonatal illness primarily influenced the likelihood of normal outcome, whereas the level of parent education influenced the degree of severity of the disability.