(a.) Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating.
Example Sentences:
(1) By its calorific value the mycelial waste is equal to brown coal or peat.
(2) Production of radioactive CO2 from 14C-fructose administered intraperitoneally was studied in 18 male Wistar rats given food containing saccharose with calorific value of 0-56%.
(3) Helping to change people’s behaviour and increasing the proportion of locally grown, nutritious and less calorific foods in the diets of islanders would certainly appear to be a step in the right direction.
(4) As far as the loss is concerned, the burned area may lead to a veritable "calorific haemorrhage", arising in cases where more than 30 to 40% of the body surface is affected.
(5) Baseline measurements were similar on all three test days and the non-calorific control drink resulted in no changes in any of the measured variables.
(6) Ethyl alcohol was substituted for about 20% of the total calorific input of the animals.
(7) The calorific values of 100 g dry matter of seed material are 408.19 KCal (Kerala) and 378.60 KCal (Tamilnadu) germplasms.
(8) If ice cream was less calorific, would we consume more of it?
(9) The paper carries information on the requirement in calorific supply, basic nutritional and biologically active substances of some occupational groups of workers engaged in the construction of the railroad.
(10) Nine healthy adult subjects consumed four types of proprietary liquid diet of similar volume and calorific value but of different nutritional composition.
(11) More favourable indices of the bioelectric activity of the heart, myocardial contractility, the trends in the lipids metabolism, body weight, the blood clotting activity were registered in persons with reduced calorific value of the alimentation.
(12) The calorific value of the nutrition declines parallel with the increasing age.
(13) The feeding of rats for a space of 30 days on diets with elevated content of starch or saccharose (71 per cent of the total calorific value) was followed by an accelerated synthesis and secretion into the blood of pre-beta-lipoproteins.
(14) It was shown that a calorie-restricted diet (at 37% of the ad libitum calorific level) did not change the rate of succinate oxidation coupled with oxidative phosphorylation in homogenates, but resulted in a decrease of succinate, glutamate plus malate and beta-hydroxybutyrate oxidation and cytochrome c-oxidase activity in isolated mitochondria without any uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation or change in cytochrome content in the mitochondria.
(15) Ten patients with stable severe chronic obstructive lung disease underwent a six minute walk before and 45 minutes after taking 920 kcal of a fat rich drink, an isocalorific amount of a carbohydrate rich drink, and an equal volume of a non-calorific control liquid on three separate days, in a double blind randomised crossover study.
(16) The effect of calorifically reduced diet No 8e on the lipoproteinic composition of the blood serum in patients with metabolic-alimentary adiposity was studied.
(17) The reduction of the animals' nutrition calorific value influences the general development of growing rats and the blood protein turnover rate, the specific action on the mechanisms of the blood protein half-life regulation being of a greater importance than the energy deficiency.
(18) When some of the butter is replaced with methylcellulose for the purpose of reducing the calorific value of the cream there was observed an accelerated proteolysis by comparison with both the traditional specimens and those containing the same amount of fat as the test samples.
(19) An experiment was carried out in a reconstructed building for cell-battery rearing of young pigs, heated by two petroleum calorifers.
(20) These factors can all make our net calorific intake (the amount we absorb) substantially different from what it says on the label.
Calorimetry
Definition:
(n.) Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.
Example Sentences:
(1) The differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) studies demonstrate an increased susceptibility of the Ala 183----Pro mutant to thermal denaturation.
(2) Respiratory gas exchange and indirect calorimetry were used to obtain resting energy expenditure (REE) and net substrate oxidation rates.
(3) A theoretical treatment is included of the temperature dependence of total heat capacity, the variable recorded in the form of continuous thermograms by means of differential scanning calorimetry.
(4) The conformational similarity between tubules, sheets, and the dry powder is corroborated by calorimetry, which reveals a cooling exotherm at the same temperature where tubules form upon cooling hydrated sheets.
(5) Average increases in resting metabolic expenditure for a group of patients following elective operation, skeletal trauma, skeletal trauma with head injury, blunt trauma, sepsis and burns were determined by indirect calorimetry and protein need by urinary nitrogen losses over extended time periods.
(6) The thermal transitions of rat liver microsomes and isolated lipids were investigated by using differential scanning calorimetry.
(7) The precipitated protein was denatured as measured by differential scanning calorimetry, but was also completely redissolved if pH was increased to above the isoelectric point.
(8) The average specific absorption rates (SARs) in the head, tail, and body of the exposed rats were measured by means of a calorimetry system.
(9) Simultaneously, energy expenditure and whole-body lipogenesis were measured by indirect calorimetry.
(10) Measurements of hand blood flow were made by calorimetry and of forearm, calf, and foot blood flows by straingauge venous occlusion plethysmography at rest (Ta = 22 degrees C) and during rewarming.
(11) Absorption spectra, circular dichroism spectra, and differential scanning calorimetry thermograms suggest that the amino acid change at the active site causes no detectable change in the tertiary structure of the enzyme.
(12) The interactions of Cd(II) and A1(III) with phytic acid to form both soluble and insoluble complexes have been studied by calorimetry.
(13) Over the last year, important strides were made in improving bioprocess monitoring using NADH fluorescence, viscosity, affinity techniques, enzyme and microbial sensors, calorimetry, flow injection analysis and bioluminescence.
(14) This method is a more direct, simpler and more accurate one for the assessment of rehabilitation effectiveness in clinics than the more widely used direct measurement of energy cost by indirect calorimetry.
(15) Its stability was measured by optical rotatory dispersion, differential scanning calorimetry, and trypsin susceptibility of the partially unfolded molecules.
(16) Moreover, this experiment showed that direct and indirect calorimetry provided comparable energy-expenditure measurements during this period.
(17) For the estimation of energy expenditure without calorimetry assessment of cardiac function is essential.
(18) By using thermal analysis, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), electric conductometry, and polarized light cryomicrographic techniques, the solubilities in water, freezing point, eutectic point, and melting behavior of CET-Na in aqueous solution were investigated.
(19) Metabolic carts (MC) for indirect calorimetry are expensive, require the use of meticulous technique by trained personnel, and impose conditions that are difficult to maintain in critically ill patients.
(20) Daily activities were recorded and the energy cost of representative activities was determined by indirect calorimetry.