(1) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(2) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(3) "We are working with Liberata and Capita to make the transfer as smooth as possible.
(4) The number of cows needed to meet US milk requirements is primarily influenced by per capita consumption and production per cow.
(5) By some estimates, Belgium has supplied the highest per capita number of fighters to Syria of any European nation – between 350 and 550 , out of a total population of 11 million that includes fewer than half a million Muslims.
(6) Prof John Appleby, the chief economist at the Nuffield Trust health thinktank, said the MPs were right to warn that cutting the amount of per capita funding for healthcare could mean major restrictions to NHS services being needed in the later years of this parliament, too.
(7) The central reimbursement method used in Medicare risk contracting (adjusted average per capita cost) does not adequately control for enrollment selection, unmet medical need, or recent regional cost variations.
(8) There are other countries, too.” In a European Union of 28 member states, there are 12 countries poorer than Greece, according to World Bank per capita gross national income (GNI) figures for 2013.
(9) The analysis shows that this structural change is more significant than changes in quantity of drugs consumed per capita and changes derived from the increase in population.
(10) "While it is true that legal aid is higher per capita in the UK than in almost all other countries in Europe, our judicial and court costs are much lower per capita," he told the Harbour Litigation Funding lecture.
(11) We found that the higher expenditures per capita in the United States are explained entirely by higher fees; the quantity of physicians' services per capita is actually lower in the United States than in Canada.
(12) There were, however, correlations with total fat and animal protein consumption per capita even after controlling for the 3 anthropometric variables.
(13) Researchers applied data on caloric supply per capita and on number of female and male live births to the Pearson product-moment correlation to examine the relationship between various countries' caloric supply per capita and their sex ratio at birth.
(14) "This will mean that management of these services, which are now operated by G4S and Serco, will transition to Capita by the end of the current financial year.
(15) The campaigners argue that the trillions of dollars companies are still spending on exploration for even more fossil fuels is a danger to both the climate and investors’ capita.
(16) There appears to be some association between income per capita and nutritional status.
(17) Health budgets, with an average of $10 per capita, cannot buy such drugs as are available.
(18) This paper describes the planning efforts of a community agency that was ultimately unsuccessful in converting two primary care centers from the traditional fee-for-service Medicaid reimbursement system to a per-capita prepaid Medicaid reimbursement system.
(19) The number of nurses per capita in the United States increased 100% over the period 1972-1983, owing largely to funds made available through the Nurse Training Act (NTA).
(20) Data from questionnaire surveys on household characteristics were related to per capita use of water.
Caput
Definition:
(n.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.
(n.) The top or superior part of a thing.
(n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nuclei were isolated from boar spermatid or sperm cells at three distinct stages of spermatogenesis: just before the completion of a maturation process in the testis (late spermatid), immediately after a subsequent transformation into spermatozoa (caput spermatozoon), and after full maturation (cauda spermatozoon).
(2) Rat spermatozoa were recovered from the caput, corpus, and cauda epididymides and assayed for glycosidase activity, total nonamino (neutral) carbohydrate, and protein content.
(3) Flagellar movement of golden hamster spermatozoa obtained from the testis and the caput and cauda epididymides was observed by a light microscope while holding them at their heads with a micropipette.
(4) Results indicate that sperm first exhibit WGA reactivity on their flagellae in the region of the distal caput, and that the appearance of WGA receptors is due to the binding of a 54-Kd glycoprotein (SMA4) to the cell surface.
(5) There were no changes in SGP-2 mRNA concentrations in the initial segment and caput epididymidis.
(6) These binding sites, localized in the circumference of the epididymal tubule and most concentrated within the proximal cauda, are present throughout the caput, corpus, and remaining cauda epididymis.
(7) During the first 15 days of the postnatal life, the histochemical reaction intensities were identical from the caput to the cauda epididymidis.
(8) The 8.2S form of the AR is also present in all three segments of the immature epididymis, with the highest concentration occurring in the caput.
(9) Filaments were least prominent in intact caput spermatozoa and most prominent in ejaculated spermatozoa.
(10) Adult Wistar rats were bilaterally caput epididymectomized and the effects on testicular germinal epithelium and formation of multinucleated bodies were studied and quantified at 2, 4, 7, 14, 21, and 28 days after surgery.
(11) Most of the caput epididymidis was composed of efferent ducts.
(12) Dibutyryl cAMP and cAMP stimulated caput spermatozoa but had no effect on cauda spermatozoa.
(13) Eventually efferentectomized animals showed a progressive alteration, but its level was much lower than that observed after partial epididymectomy, indicating a possible specific function of the caput epididymidis in the control of testicular function.
(14) In all the principal cells of the caput, the supranuclear ER cisternae were heterogeneously impregnated.
(15) These immunoreactive pale cells occurred in the distal caput and proximal corpus of the epididymidis.
(16) The changes in the weight, histology and biochemical composition of the epididymis (caput, corpus and cauda segments) in prepuberal rabbit and rhesus monkey in response to testosterone treatment were investigated.
(17) A well circumscribed area of necrotic bone was demonstrated in the weight bearing part of the caput giving evidence of a solitary infarction.
(18) Spermatozoa from the caput epididymis are known to be much less capable of fertilization when compared to sperm from more distal segments of the epididymis.
(19) Analysis by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of proteins secreted directly into the epididymal luminal fluid revealed that clusterin was secreted by caput epithelium and not by the corpus and cauda epithelium.
(20) When a caput succedaneum has developed in the measuring area the mean value of the tcPco2 is significantly higher (62.70 mmHg instead of 55.14 mmHg respectively 68.98 mmHg instead of 65.98 mmHg) at 39 degrees C respectively 44 degrees C. No significant influence of different preparation techniques of the measuring site has been found during this investigation.