(1) He brings us his mackerel, and his marigolds, as a child just able to walk solemnly brings objects … a birdcage, or a colander … and deposits them as an offering before the attentive adult."
(2) The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the probe was compared to a 5-cm birdcage coil and exceeded the birdcage coil's SNR by three to six times at superficial structures.
(3) In her 1963 novel A Summer Birdcage , Margaret Drabble’s narrator Sarah describes a “loathsome flat” in the King’s Road, Chelsea, and an “unspeakably sordid” place in Highgate.
(4) Presented is a derivation of an exact closed-form expression for the spectra of resonant frequencies for magnetic resonance imaging birdcage coils in the limit of long coils with many elements.
(5) Although the birdcage resonator has been theoretically described for single- and multinuclear operation, this study provides the basic experimental guidelines needed for the fabrication and testing of such coils for various geometries and resonant frequencies from 10 to 95 MHz.
(6) This paper presents a general analysis, derived from lumped element transmission line theory, of the electrical behavior of unloaded, N-column birdcage resonators applicable to several versions of the basic design including low-pass and high-pass coils.
(7) In vivo microscopy was performed using single turn radiofrequency (RF) coils that were surgically implanted around the left kidney of two rats and inductively coupled to an external "birdcage" body coil.
(8) He nods when reminded of his father's birdcage analogy.
(9) The P-31 MR spectroscopic data were acquired by means of three-dimensional chemical shift imaging (phase encoding in three spatial dimensions) on a 1.5-T clinical instrument equipped with a specially designed quadrature P-31 birdcage coil constructed in the authors' laboratory.
(10) A formulation has been developed for the determination of self and mutual inductances in unloaded, eight-column symmetric birdcage coils using their expected resonant mode current patterns and well-known inductance formulas.
(11) She collapsed in Birdcage Walk, near St James's Park, on the final stretch of the 26.2-mile course, just one bend away from the finishing line.
(12) Claire Squires, 30, collapsed in Birdcage Walk, a mile from the finish line of the 26.2-mile event last year.
(13) Resonant radiofrequency (RF) coils were implanted around the left kidney of four rats and inductively coupled from within a birdcage body coil.
(14) We also describe a variant of the birdcage resonator which utilizes a novel tuning mechanism of simple construction.
(15) This analysis provides the first explicit evaluation of the total end-ring and column inductances L1 and L2 within each birdcage section at resonance with resulting excellent agreement in resonant frequencies between theory and experiment.
(16) Following protestations from Republican Political Prisoners, the jail administration responded belligerently by covering the birdcages with darkened Perspex and sheets of wood.
(17) A 16-turn birdcage-like RF coil of radius 5 cm, designed for a ROI of radius 4 cm has an average error of 0.79%.
(18) Ten low-pass birdcage coils with eight legs were evaluated and their four resonant frequencies were within 4% of theoretical predictions.
(19) Presented is a theoretical description of the self-capacitance of a low-pass birdcage coil.
(20) This latter expression is applicable to any two-port receiver coil assembly, including single coils with two modes, such as a birdcage coil, and in general, to any two ports of an n-port receiver system.
Coop
Definition:
(n.) A barrel or cask for liquor.
(n.) An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.
(n.) A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.
(v. t.) To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.
(v. t.) To work upon in the manner of a cooper.
Example Sentences:
(1) The population in the chicken coop contains a relatively stable nucleus which may be organized in demes with an excess of females over males and limited territorial mobility.
(2) These results indicate that crop clearance is improved by lighting both before and after cooping.
(3) A total of 209 bulls selected from herds in the northeastern US by Eastern AI Coop., Inc. from 1978 to 1981 were identified.
(4) He has had a good run at the movies, not too many turkeys in the coop.
(5) We conclude that the COOP Charts are practical, reliable, valid, sensitive to the effects of disease and useful for quickly measuring patient function.
(6) The 29 Chart physicians used the Dartmouth COOP Charts to measure their adult patients' health status during a single clinical encounter; the 27 control clinicians used no measure of health status.
(7) Opponents of extended coverage insisted that it be put to a vote at the coop's annual meeting in April, at which time contraceptive coverage won by 10 votes.
(8) No response differences were observed between patients who received COOP Chart illustrations and those who did not receive illustrations.
(9) A play in which the characters were so cooped up that they did not often have to enter or exit seemed to be a solution, and the resultant play was Disciplines Of War, later renamed The Long And The Short And The Tall.
(10) The combination of meal feeding and cooping soon after feed withdrawal greatly increased the quantity of digesta in the crop 8 h after feed withdrawal.
(11) Plasma B concentrations and tonic immobility (TI) fear reactions were measured in unstressed (control) and stressed (overnight cooping) chicks of both lines.
(12) The survival of VA-Coop surgical patients with three-vessel disease without left main lesions was significantly better (p less than 0.05 by Wilcoxon test) than the medical group with the 6-month (surgical) mortality adjusted to a more acceptable level (5%).
(13) I am Greek, I love my country, and furthermore I live here, with my family, and work here – unlike many APEs, incidentally, who pontificate on what's best for the country safely cooped up in universities of their despised "centre".
(14) Nine raucous, angry and confusing days cooped up in the windowless halls of Copenhagen's biggest conference site.
(15) In patients with Hodgkin's disease the excretion of pyrimidine deoxyribonucleosides in urine was followed up within the course of 92 chemotherapeutical series with cytostatics of COOP group.
(16) Self-assessment instruments, such as the COOP charts, offer promise.
(17) I have worked in penthouse apartments, right down to what can reasonably be described as a chicken coop.
(18) The event was a jolly for those routinely cooped up in the agency's distinctive doughnut-shaped headquarters in Cheltenham, and they were furnished with six pages of rules and regulations to ensure fair play.
(19) Comparison of results from 1972-1974 showed the following differences: cardiopulmonary bypass time per graft, 61 minutes (VA-Coop) vs 33 minutes (VA-W); perioperative myocardial infarction (MI), 18% vs 6%; hospital mortality, 6% vs 1%; revascularization index (patent grafts per patient determined by postoperative angiography divided by diseased arteries per patient), 0.55 (VA-Coop) vs 0.84 (VA-W).
(20) The increase occurred in both populations but was more apparent in the chicken-coop population.