(a.) Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
(n.) Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several oilseed and legume protein products were fed to rats as the sole source of dietary protein, and in blends with cereals for the determination of protein efficiency ratio (PER) and biological availability of amino acids.
(2) The processes of germination and gruel preparation of germinated materials contributed to the digestibility of weaning foods prepared from cereals and legumes.
(3) Samples of raw cereals imported in Italy and of other foodstuffs that can be treated with bromine-containing fumigants were analysed for the total bromide content.
(4) Wastewater from Mexico city is used to irrigate over 85 000 hectares, mainly of fodder and cereal crops in the Mezquital Valley.
(5) In cereals and legume seeds the activity of chymotrypsin inhibitors is generally lower than that of the trypsin inhibitors.
(6) The restaurant was already castigated by Channel Four News for serving £4 bowls of cereal in a borough in which thousands of poor families can’t afford to feed their children.
(7) A comparison was made of the kinetics of the carboxylation reaction of bicarbonate-magnesium-activated ribulose biphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase purified from cold-hardened and unhardened winter rye (Secale cereale L. cv.
(8) Alkaline ribonuclease (pH optimum 7.6) was isolated from rye (Secale cereale L) germ cytosol and partially purified; the preparation was devoid of other nucleolytic activities.
(9) The data reported here indicates that Korean cereals harvested in 1984 are simultaneously contaminated with NIV, DON and ZEN, and the incidences and levels are similar to those observed in the cereals harvested in 1983.
(10) Although intestinal cytochrome P450-dependent monooxygenase activity, as determined by benzo[a]pyrene hydroxylase and 7-ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase, was greatly reduced (65-90%) in animals maintained on a semipurified control diet compared with standard cereal-based chow, there were no differences observed in heme oxygenase activity between the two dietary treatment groups.
(11) Foods such as legumes appear to be digested less rapidly than many cereal foods although even amongst these large differences in rates of in vitro digestion exist.
(12) Nuts, tomatoes, milk, eggs and cereals were most frequently involved.
(13) The effect of chain length and unsaturation on the haemolytic properties of cereal resorcinolic lipids, (5-n-alk(en)ylresorcinols), was studied using isolated saturated, monoenoic and dienoic homologues.
(14) The completness of the lipids removal from the fish muscles and fish products was investigated by making extraction in a filtering separating funnel (FSF) formerly proposed for determining lipids in oil-bearing seeds and cereals.
(15) Canned spaghetti and meat balls, the TV dinner, canned chicken-and-vegetable baby food, and food bars had PER values between 91 and 73 per cent of that of casein, while PER values for ground beef and high-protein cereal were significantly higher than casein.
(16) Of 1353 cereal samples, 11.7% contained the mycotoxin; of 1372 samples of feed, 1.5%; of 368 bread samples, 17.2%; of 215 flour samples, 22.3%; of 894 porcine serum samples, 37.4%; and of 1065 human serum samples, 7.2%.
(17) "I'd just ask what type of breakfast cereal they like," he says.
(18) We face a number of technical challenges in reducing it further in our cereals.
(19) Two mixed-food breakfast meals composed predominantly of either red kidney beans or bran cereal were fed to six healthy young men.
(20) It contains the largest introns of all the cereal alpha-amylase-encoding genes examined to date.
Ceres
Definition:
(n.) The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage.
(n.) The first discovered asteroid.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicate that corticosteroids commonly used in the management of cere
(2) There’s a steadily growing number of companies and investors calling for stronger climate policies, many of them members of Ceres’ Businesses for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP) and Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) .
(3) Because those organisations, groups like As You Sow, CERES, and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, managed in very short order to get Exxon Mobil, the leader of the fossil fuel industry, to show its cards.
(4) Meanwhile the Ceres report, launched by its president Mindy Lubber, highlights not only the widespread environmental and social impact of oil sands development, but also the high production costs and limited market for this fuel, for which companies have committed $200 billion in investments.
(5) Other investors, including the Ceres coalition which manages $3tn collectively, have demanded fossil fuel companies confront openly the risk of a "carbon bubble" , by either diverting their investment to clean energy or giving the money back to shareholders.
(6) We have recently joined the Ceres Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy, in an effort to advocate for more meaningful energy and climate legislation.
(7) Ceres also directs the US-based Investor Network on Climate Risk, a network of 110 institutional investors with collective assets totaling about $13tn.
(8) Both transmission and scanning electron microscopical techniques were used to study the ultrastructural morphology of the epidermal barrier in the cere of the domestic racing pigeon.
(9) The resolutions and upcoming engagements build on the Carbon Asset Risk Initiative , an effort – launched last year by Ceres, Carbon Tracker and 75 investors – aimed at 45 of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies.
(10) Mars Mars signed the Ceres letter supporting the EPA Clean Power Plan.
(11) The revelations come just 24 hours before Shell's annual general meeting and on the day when Ceres, a coalition of a investors and environmentalists, launches its own survey warning that Canadian tar sands extraction could pose an even bigger risk to an oil company share price than the US rig disaster which has knocked $30bn (£20.6bn) off the value of BP.
(12) In the 1 mA groups, significant differences in step-through latencies were measured between 0.9% saline- and E021-pretreated animals on retention day 11 and between saline and CERE on retention days 9 and 13.
(13) Plans for an electric car charging point in every new home in Europe Read more “Investors expect the industry to embark upon a smoother route to future prosperity by developing and implementing long-term business strategies that are resilient to climate change and resulting regulatory shifts.” Sustainable returns Chris Davis, senior programme director of the Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk , another IIGCC member, agrees.
(14) Ceres circulated the letter, which was published in full-page ads in the Washington Post and Financial Times.
(15) "I can say conclusively that the hacked emails are just blips of information that will have absolutely no impact whatsoever on the push to get policymakers to back the science," said Anne Kelly, the policy director at Ceres, a sustainable business network whose members include PepsiCo, American Airlines and Bloomberg.
(16) Triacylglycerol lipase (EC 3.1.1.3) from rape (Brassica napus L. cv Ceres) is quite easily prepared from the 100,000 x g supernatant of cotyledon homogenates.
(17) Lipase (EC 3.1.1.3) from oilseed rape (Brassica napus L., cv Ceres) hydrolyzes triacylglycerols containing a broad range of fatty acids at similar rates.
(18) The environmental consulting group Ceres argues that the city that was the centre of the foreclosure crisis is hardly in a position to take on a construction project that it claims could cost well over $15bn.
(19) Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, said the action by the banks and the food industry, along with China’s promise to enact a cap-and-trade program to curb climate emissions, are beginning to shift the debate in the US.
(20) "These big pipelines are a throwback to the early days of the development of the west," said Sharlene Leurig of Ceres.