(n.) A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
(n.) The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.
(n.) A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was founded in 1984 by Hussain, a former Chicago cab driver, and won broad support among the "mohajirs" - Muslims who fled India after partition in 1947.
(2) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
(3) Group 1 (purpose to preserve the bladder, preoperative MVP-CAB): Four of 7 patients achieved a partial response.
(4) Sequences from the 5' upstream regions (-400 to translational start) of some cab genes were determined in this study, and a total of 16 tomato cab gene promoters for which sequences are now available were analyzed.
(5) Uber drivers are employees not contractors, California rules Read more Like many Ethiopian immigrants in San Diego , Sahilu gravitated towards driving a cab because he didn’t speak much English and couldn’t get recognition for his educational qualifications – in his case, a chemistry degree.
(6) TfL , which has come under pressure from black-cab drivers, who feel Uber has been getting too easy a time from the regulators, is running the consultation until 23 December.
(7) It was concluded that important alterations in SNS activity and thyroid hormone homeostasis occur in humans during CABS and deep hypothermia, and that changes in core temperature may contribute to these findings.
(8) Even for those who don't know a "540 cab" from a "360 grab", or what it means to "huck it", the scale of the achievement was clear.
(9) Endemic outbreaks of CAB often originate from contaminated infusion fluids.
(10) At both temperatures, the conditioned PMMA, CAB, silafocon A, and pasifocon C lenses wet slightly better, by 1 degree to 12 degrees, than unconditioned lenses.
(11) In London, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall were jammed from the start of the planned "go slow" at 2pm, as thousands of black cabs gathered honking their horns, bringing total gridlock to the centre of the capital, while supporters waved banners and started occasionally chanting: "Boris, out!"
(12) Topographical distribution of concanavalin A binding sites (CABS) was studied in two lines of virally transformed fibroblasts as a function of fatty acid composition.
(13) Arrhythmias were analyzed in 50 patients undergoing cardiac surgery: 27 with valve surgery, 15 with coronary artery bypass (CAB), 5 with CAB and valve surgery, and 3 with miscellaneous procedures.
(14) She appeared out of nowhere, said a few words that no one could hear and then slowly made her way through the photographers to a cab and vanished: a great, big, fruitily dressed fairy godmother who, when you come to think of it, bears not the slightest resemblance to any of the other seven billion people on the planet.
(15) A study was made of lipid peroxidation and the antioxidant system in patients with bronchial asthma (BA) and chronic asthmatic bronchitis (CAB) before and after muscular exercise.
(16) The central subdivision of the BNST appeared as a histochemically clearly circumscribed compartment with massive fibre immunoreactivity for SOM, ENK, VIP, SYN, CHR-A, CAB as well as SOM, ENK, NT and CAB positive cells but lacked cytosolic or fibre-like immunolabel for NPY and SP.
(17) He picked the brothers up in his leased taxi-cab, and drove them to Man-O-Salwa, a kebab restaurant in Somerville, Massachusetts, where Matanov and Tamerlan often dined.
(18) London's black-cab drivers are to launch private prosecutions against minicab drivers who use Uber , the booking software that allows smartphone users to hail private-hire cars from any location.
(19) Another 129 patients with unstable disease (group II) had unilateral, asymptomatic carotid lesions and were prospectively randomized to receive either combined operations (IIA; n = 71) or CAB followed by delayed CE (IIB; n = 58).
(20) To determine the importance of operative variables in the development of postoperative atelectasis and the incidence of phrenic nerve injury caused by topical cold cardioplegic solution, we studied 57 patients (53 male, four female) undergoing CAB.
Cam
Definition:
(n.) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
(n.) A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
(n.) A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts.
(n.) A ridge or mound of earth.
(a.) Crooked.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combined results suggest that any possible heterogeneity in the L-CAM genes is not reflected in the size of either the mRNA or protein.
(2) The chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) model was used to study vascular effects of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and hyperthermia (HPT) and the synergism of these modalities.
(3) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.
(4) By 3 d in the chick embryo, the first neurons detected by antibodies to Ng-CAM are located in the ventral neural tube; these precursors of motor neurons emit well-stained fibers to the periphery.
(5) CD-349 inhibited the [3H]CD-349 binding to CaM, at a concentration producing a 50% inhibition (IC50) of 2.4 microM, whereas the CaM antagonist, trifluoperazine hydrochloride (TFP), stimulated the [3H]CD-349 binding to CaM.
(6) Comparison of the native and derivatized wheat germ CaMs with native bovine testis CaM indicates that the concentrations of these proteins required for half-maximal stimulation of either erythrocyte membrane Ca2+-ATPase activity or cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum phosphorylation are very similar.
(7) CAM, especially CD11c, were also detected in cytoplasmic granules by immunostaining in IL2-activated NK cells.
(8) compounds tested, chlordecone is a specific inhibitor of CaM-activated PDE.
(9) In situ hybridization in normal visual cortex revealed a complex sublaminar organization of GAD-expressing cells within layers IVC and VI and a distribution of CaM II kinase alpha-expressing cells that was greatest in layers II, III, IVB, and VI.
(10) We are describing two post-translational modifications; glycosylation and glypiation; which affect the neural cell adhesive molecule (N-CAM).
(11) These results show that mitogenic activation of human fibroblasts leads to the binding of Ca2+ to CaM and the subsequent activation of CaM-dependent processes.
(12) Conversion of S180 cells to a communication-competent phenotype by transfection with a cDNA encoding the cell-cell adhesion molecule L-CAM induced phosphorylation of connexin43 to the P2 form; conversely, blocking junctional communication in ordinarily communication-competent cells inhibited connexin43-P2 formation.
(13) The responsiveness of test tissue to low versus high androgen levels was evaluated in this CAM assay using both cellular morphology and mitotic index as response criteria.
(14) Immunoblot together with immunoprecipitation experiments with cell lines or tissue extracts showed that N-CAM are the major glycoproteins bearing such polysialosyl units.
(15) The fluorescent dihydropyridine calcium antagonist drug felodipine binds to calmodulin (CaM) in a Ca2+-dependent manner.
(16) However, whereas a critical value of N-CAM expression is required for increased neurite outgrowth, with small increases above this value having substantial effects, N-cadherin promotes neurite outgrowth in a highly linear manner.
(17) These results provide structural and functional evidence that CaM and CDP-I act synergistically in the regulated proteolysis of fodrin.
(18) In this study, we examined the modulation of cell surface expression of MHC antigens and the CAM intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1), lymphocyte function antigen 3 (LFA-3), and CD44 on human dermal microvascular endothelial cells (HDMEC) both grown in monolayers and differentiated into capillary-like structures on the basement membrane-like substrate matrigel.
(19) The second type of protein bound 125I-CaM only when the free Ca2+ concentration was below 1-2 microM and included polypeptides of 95 kDa (E95) and 105 kDa (E105).
(20) Day and night forms of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (EC 4.1.1.31) (PEPC) were extracted from leaves of the CAM plants Kalanchoe daigremontiana, K. tubiflora and K. blossfeldiana previously fed with [32P] labelled phosphate solution.