(1) Taken together, these findings suggest that Caiman, like mammals, contain a thalamic reticular nucleus but that thalamic organization in Caiman differs significantly from that of mammals.
(2) In contrast to those obtained from duck, goose and caiman, delta-crystallin isolated from the pigeon lens possessed very little argininosuccinate lyase activity.
(3) Five days after the removal of the foreign bodies from the stomach the caiman was alert and active and showed a normal appetite.
(4) The cochlear microphonic (CM) latency in caiman is unaffected by stimulus intensity and by cooling of the animal.
(5) Vibration measurements were made at a number of positions near the proximal (basal) end of the basilar membrane, and on the columella footplate, of Caiman crocodilus using a capacitive probe.
(6) There were four primary divisions of the spinal nerves in the thoracic region of the caiman, from ventral to dorsal: the intercostal nerve, the IC nerve, the Lo nerve, and the dorsal main trunk.
(7) These results are consistent with previous reports that the SN and AVT project to the dorsolateral and medial portions of the VLA, and strongly support the theory that the caiman VLA contains cell populations homologous to those found in the mammalian corpus striatum.
(8) Three juvenile captive spectacled caimans (Caiman sclerops) had scattered, gray-white, circular, 1- to 3-mm skin lesions.
(9) Immunological comparison of inactive and active delta-crystallins from the chicken, duck and caiman lenses established the apparent structural similarity of all delta-crystallins to the authentic enzyme regarding some of common surface epitopes, yet they are not completely identical.
(10) This outbreak closely resembled the disease described elsewhere in 3 juvenile captive caimans.
(11) The histological and physiological effects of the removal of superficial corneous epidermal materials have been studied in several squamate species and a caiman.
(12) Motilin-immunoreactive cells in the duodenum, pyloric stomach and pancreas of Caiman latirostris and Caiman crocodilus were investigated using region specific antisera for porcine and canine motilin molecules.
(13) The presence of a pretectal nucleus with neural connections and topographic location similar to nucleus pretectalis of Caiman has been described in lizards and pigeons.
(14) Rincón lists his most significant findings with the contagious enthusiasm of a child reciting the cast of the Ice Age movies: the giant femur of a six-tonne mastodon, a giant ground sloth, a 10-ft pelican, caimans the size of buses and the almost intact skull of a sabre-toothed tiger.
(15) Representative sonagrams of the distress calls of three other species of crocodilians (Caiman crocodilus, Crocodylus niloticus, and Crocodylus siamensis) are presented and compared with sonagrams of alligator distress calls.
(16) Caiman epsilon-crystallin similar to the previously characterized duck epsilon-crystallin appeared to possess a genuine and stable LDH activity as detected by nitro blue tetrazolium staining on polyacrylamide gels and conventional kinetic assays.
(17) When the coding segments, including both framework and complementarity-determining regions, of these genes and the murine probe sequences are compared by metric analysis, it is apparent that the caiman genes are only slightly more related to each other than to the mammalian sequence, consistent with significant preservation of nucleotide sequence over an extended period of phylogenetic time.
(18) The subcoeruleus nuclei are considerably larger in the caiman than in other reptilian species including turtles and lizards and closely resemble the subcoeruleus nuclei of birds in terms of position and anterior-posterior extent.
(19) The pineal is also ubiquitous except for the hagfish (Eptatretus) and the caiman (Caiman).
(20) These species occur in Crocodylus, Caiman and Alligator and are characterized by flat lips with alate margins, without anterior rostral plate, interlocking processes or dentigerous ridges, with weakly developed interlabia, by an irregular-shaped ventriculus, excretory pore behind or between the subventral lips, and by the presence of lateral alae or cuticular thickenings in the oesophageal region.
Cayman
Definition:
(n.) The south America alligator. See Alligator.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(2) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(3) How is it acceptable the prime minister has investments sitting in the Cayman Islands, every time the Liberal party votes against tax transparency, remember there is a house in the Cayman Islands, a house where Malcolm’s money resides.” The government is seeking to scrap transparency requirements for privately held companies with an income of $100m or more.
(4) The additional meeting is not now going ahead, the Cayman Islands government has confirmed to the Guardian.
(5) By far the biggest earners were Manchester United; the accounts for the main United company, registered in the Cayman Islands tax haven, showed income of £515m.
(6) I’m a tax exile.” The high-profile property developer – who with his brother, Nick, developed the superluxe One Hyde Park apartment complex for London’s oligarchs and is now converting a row of seven houses overlooking Regent’s Park into a single 4,600 sq metre London mansion – even named his twins Isabella Monaco Evanthia and Cayman Charles Wolf.
(7) Simmons also noted that: “In general, regulatory intervention in Bermuda is considered slightly heavier than in some other offshore jurisdictions.” The memo also highlights the advantages of operating in the Cayman Islands.
(8) "Banks use tax havens extensively not just to avoid tax and to help their private banking clients, but also to avoid regulation by mainstream financial centres, which is the attraction of creating shadow banks in offshore centres like Cayman, Jersey and Luxembourg," said John Christensen, director of the Tax Justice Network.
(9) The US has overtaken Singapore, Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands as an attractive haven for super-rich individuals and businesses looking to shelter assets behind a veil of secrecy, according to a study by the Tax Justice Network (TJN).
(10) It absolutely minimises off-target effects.” Initial trials in the Cayman Islands showed a reduction in the female populationof 90%.
(11) Theoretically on paper everyone could put $1m into the Cayman Islands.
(12) Bill Shorten has argued Labor’s focus on Malcolm Turnbull’s investment in funds registered in the Cayman Islands is not about any allegation of criminality, but whether leaders can understand the plight of ordinary Australians.
(13) In an extraordinary turn of events, the 51-year-old followed the claims by revealing he had hired forensic accountants at PricewaterhouseCoopers to investigate the payments made to a relatively unknown firm called Axes and its Cayman affiliate, Axam.
(14) Of the 10 jurisdictions flagged on the scorecard for their low tax rate, eight are British overseas territories or crown dependencies: Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
(15) The 164-page US Department of Justice indictment, outlining the case against the 14 football officials and marketing executives who were arrested last week, shows that three of Britain’s overseas territories – the British Virgin Islands (BVI), the Cayman Islands and the Turks and Caicos, all tax havens – allegedly played a part in masking kickbacks between officials and executives.
(16) He added that he would send a letter this weekend to British overseas territories – Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Gibraltar and Montserrat – and the crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
(17) Britain’s own array of satellite havens – the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands , Bermuda, Jersey, all of which sport the Queen on their banknotes – are part of the same problem.
(18) A report compiled for the committee detailed how HSBC's subsidiaries transported billions of dollars of cash in armoured vehicles, cleared suspicious travellers' cheques worth billions, and allowed Mexican drug lords buy to planes with money laundered through Cayman Islands accounts.
(19) The Trinidadian, at that time CFU’s president, sub-licensed those rights to his own Cayman Islands-registered company J & D International (JDI), according to the Press Association.
(20) Malcolm Turnbull has launched a forceful defence of his investments in funds registered in the Cayman Islands , while condemning Labor for mounting a “shabby smear campaign” about his personal wealth, based on “the politics of envy”.