(n.) The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sensor's hysteresis is about 8 percent at 40 degrees Celsius (C) and 12 percent at 20 degrees C. The sensor has a maximal nonlinearity of 8 percent and a worst-case nonrepeatibility of 7 percent.
(2) But, as extended survival at 43 degrees Celsius depends absolutely on the ability of cells to continually synthesize HSPs, it appears that a prior heat shock as well as the recovery from protein synthesis inhibition elicits a change in the protein synthetic machinery which allows the translation of HSP mRNAs at what would otherwise be a nonpermissive temperature for protein synthesis.
(3) Yale Environment 360: It is becoming increasingly common to hear very knowledgeable people say that the possibility of holding average global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius is slipping away from us.
(4) Hypothermia of tissue is considered beneficial for the maintenance of viability of muscle in amputated limbs before surgical replantation, but it has never been established that conventional cooling in an ice bath or its equivalent (temperature of tissue, approximately 1 degree Celsius) is the optimum level of hypothermia for minimizing metabolic derangement in ischemic muscle.
(5) The same report – drawing on the full range of published science papers on the subject – points to a rise of about three-quarters of a degree celsius in the past century, with much of that warming taking place over the past few decades.
(6) The main conclusions of the review are: The levels of tracer substances in the brain tissue of conscious or anaesthetized animals can be altered by acute exposure to microwave radiation that is sufficient to raise the brain temperature by several degrees Celsius.
(7) None of these temperatures reached the level needed to induce a protective increase in blood flow (38.1 degrees Celsius).
(8) Water temperature can be maintained between 35 and 37 degrees Celsius (95-98 degrees F) to encourage mobility and relaxation and to minimize shivering.
(9) The patients in the disease group drank significantly hotter tea or coffee than the control group (medians 62 degrees and 56 degrees Celsius respectively, P less than 0.0001).
(10) However, at 5 degrees Celsius, no additional benefit was detected, and at 1 degree Celsius, there was a significant acceleration in the rates of degradation of adenosine triphosphate and phosphocreatine and in the production of lactate.
(11) The half-time for a(3) oxidation is calculated as 0.9 milliseconds at 24 Celsius.
(12) Warm and cold thresholds are measured using a forced choice method with an up-and-down-transform rule and expressed in degrees Celsius (degree C).
(13) His temperature peaked daily between 38-39 degrees Celsius for the 1st 3 days.
(14) Below him pipes of natural gas pump flames into the stack, lighting a fire that will burn day and night for 17 days to bake the bricks at 1080 degrees Celsius, sending the stench of sulphur into the air in billows of steam.
(15) For example, a concentration of .01mM gossypol incubated at 37 degrees celsius (body temperature) for 120 minutes sperm motility was 75% of the control.
(16) Measurements in 5 several Hopkins-Optics demonstrated temperatures up to 121,9 degrees Celsius.
(17) The half-time for oxidation of cytochrome b(557) in mitochondria from etiolated mung bean (Phaseolus aureus) hypocotyls is 5.8 milliseconds at 24 Celsius in the absence or presence of 0.3 mm KCN, when the oxidation is carried out by injecting a small amount of oxygenated medium into a suspension of mitochondria made anaerobic in the presence of succinate plus malonate.
(18) Even a two-degree celsius rise would be a very dangerous level of warming for coral reef ecosystems, including the Great Barrier Reef, and the people who derive benefits them,” it stated.
(19) In some cases this was equal to or exceeded 1 degree Celsius.
(20) The ambient temperature ranged from 26 to 28 degrees Celsius.
Metric
Definition:
(a.) Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
(2) This gives us the foundations to consider the method of evaluation of phenetic distances between natural groups of animals for the set of non-metric threshold skeletal traits more suitable for detection of genetical differentiation of wild populations.
(3) In reviewing recent progress concerning the motor system and drug action, the following subjects will be discussed on the basis of our data: 1) the mechanisms of action of mephenesin and baclofen, 2) baclofen and gamma-aminobutyric acid B (GABAB) receptor, 3) GABA-, benzodiazepine receptors, 4) control of spinal motor system by descending noradrenergic neuron, 5) pharmacology of the muscle spindle, and 6) pharmaco-metrics of centrally acting muscle relaxants.
(4) It is clear that the metric takes something – biodiversity and habitats – that are inherently very complex and tries to simplify them for easier decision-making.
(5) There are still areas where we focus on targets rather than outcomes as the key metrics of whether the NHS is performing well … We need to have a broader measure of what success is in the NHS and we need to do some careful thinking about how we achieve that.
(6) Forty-eight cranial metric and twenty-five cranial non-metric traits were scored on the left side of adult male crania from four North American Indian populations.
(7) But this metric is a good way to reward original source-finding.
(8) In addition, an electric field exposure metric is mechanistically consistent with a cell-surface interaction site.
(9) Multimeasurable systemic models have been constructed to demonstrate how quantitative indices of metrical properties of the capillaries depend on the cardiac size.
(10) It will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 900m metric tonnes, and save the equivalent of last year's imports of oil from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Libya and Nigeria combined.
(11) Some metric parameters (height and width, sizes of the isthmus the an angle between the corns) are given with the purpose of greater precision of roentgenological interpretation.
(12) The original metric system based on lenght (centimetre), mass (gramme) and time (second) has proved inadequate.
(13) These endeavoured to achieve a comprehension of the higher cortical functions on a metric basis.
(14) The distal phalanges are complete, however, and were analyzed metrically utilizing univariate and multivariate statistical techniques.
(15) By means of pH-metric and fluorescent analysis it was shown that vasopressin interacts with other membrane structures which have no specific receptors--phosphatidylcholinic liposomes and vesicles of sarcoplasmic reticulum of skeletal muscles causing increasing permeability of phospholipid bilayer for Ca2+ ions.
(16) Added to this there are varying interpretations of the metric with at least three different calculation tools that CIEEM is aware of.
(17) Neanderthal teeth were significantly more metrically asymmetric than those of either Australopithecus or H. erectus, with population differences in asymmetry centered in the maxillary teeth.
(18) These days, rat poison is not just sown in the earth by the truckload, it is rained from helicopters that track the rats with radar – in 2011 80 metric tonnes of poison-laced bait were dumped on to Henderson Island, home to one of the last untouched coral reefs in the South Pacific.
(19) FORTRAN IV programs allow calculation of surface area, villous heights, and component volumes in metric units, and of volume proportions, volume-to-volume ratios, and surface-to-volume ratios.
(20) The occlusal contacts of teeth in a dentition have been analysed metrically with the aid of a new method.