(n.) The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interaction between antibacterial agents is often assessed in chessboard titrations, in which bacteriostatic synergy is detected as a mutual reduction in the minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of the agents being tested.
(2) The days when empires could treat sovereign states as pieces on a chessboard are over," he said, speaking to graduates from Moscow's New Economic School.
(3) I think it's sort of time to let go of the icon of the globe, because it places us above it and I think it has allowed us to see nature in this really abstracted way and sort of move pieces, like pieces on a chessboard, and really loose touch with the Earth.
(4) We investigated the exploratory movements of Anabantid fishes in a chessboard-like aquarium (divided into 25 communicating compartments) as a new environment.
(5) Antagonism was not reliably demonstrated in chessboard titrations, especially with the newer quinolones.
(6) The value of combination therapy, as evidenced by chessboard and killing-curve techniques with the strain, is discussed.
(7) In an anonymous basement a few streets from the 1 Undershaft site stands a chessboard showing the City of London’s future skyline.
(8) However, treatment with incomplete chessboard vaccinations in combination with a low dose of cyclophosphamide (which is not immunosuppressive, but partly inhibits tumor growth) had a synergistic therapeutic effect on minimal residual disease of Lewis lung adenocarcinoma.
(9) How many knights on a chessboard was the first question.
(10) In 21 patients with idiopathic retrobulbar neuritis (IRN) the optic nerve function was assessed using visual evoked potentials under a reversible black-and-white chessboard pattern stimulation.
(11) In a macrodilution chessboard assay against multiple combinations of penicillin, gentamicin and netilmicin, bactericidal activity uniformly occurred at two- to four-fold lower concentrations of penicillin + netilmicin than with penicillin + gentamicin.
(12) If you don't respect yourself, if you don't project your own authority, how do you expect not to end up a plaything of the bloviators and the rent seekers and people who would move you about like a piece on a chessboard?
(13) The therapeutic effect of this so-called chessboard vaccination on minimal residual disease was compared to that of the subcutaneous or i.d.
(14) As chessboard vaccination only proved to be successful in Lewis lung adenocarcinoma, but not in the other tumors, it can be concluded that the exposure of Thomsen-Friedenreich antigen plays no decisive role in tumor therapy with tumor cells and VCN.
(15) The young men of the Black Car Brigade were sprawled across the living room, chessboard on the table, guitar on the sofa, guns leaning against the wall.
(16) It’s not just another piece on the Westminster chessboard.
(17) The results show that compared to VCN-treated M-TC or single mixtures of M-TC and VCN, chessboard vaccination is the only procedure that is therapeutically effective on metastasation of Lewis lung adenocarcinoma.
(18) injections were performed in a chessboard-like manner: different numbers (10(5), 10(6), 10(7), and 10(8) of mitomycin-treated autologous tumor cells (M-TC) were each mixed with different amounts (10, 50, and 100 mU) of VCN.
(19) Embryonal carcinomas show a chessboard-like pattern of proliferating fractions with high 3H-thymidine labelling indices and short tpot.
(20) This was observed in the control system in which at 1 C'H50 hemolysis inhibition increase from 50 to 90% was found after 2 hr at 37 degrees C, after 8 hr at 20 degrees C and after 18 hr at 4 degrees C. Simultaneously, a double increase of the standard serum titre was obtained at 4 and 20 degrees C as compared with that at 37 degrees C. At stable concentration of the antigen and complement the effect of C' fixation was the strongest at 4 degrees C, slightly weaker at 20 degrees C and the weakest at 37 degrees C. The above dependence resulted from a different reaction distribution in the chessboard system at each temperature.
Subdivide
Definition:
(v. t.) To divide the parts of (anything) into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided.
(v. i.) To be, or to become, subdivided.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-five enteropathogenic (enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-like) strains isolated in commercial rabbit farms were subdivided into four biotypes with the help of six carbohydrate fermentation tests, ornithine decarboxylase tests, and motility tests.
(2) The recorded APs were further subdivided into those exhibiting consistent antegrade conduction during sinus rhythm (overt APs: 50 left APs, eight right APs), those exhibiting intermittent antegrade conduction (intermittent APs: six left APs, two right APs), and those exhibiting only retrograde conduction (concealed APs: 33 left APs, two right APs).
(3) Except for one control group, the other three groups were subdivided into six groups and administered three different kinds of germanium (inorganic germanium, organic germanium, and natural organic germanium) one month before and during dimethylhydrazine treatment, and during dimethylhydrazine treatment, respectively.
(4) It is concluded that LLC may be subdivided into functional subclasses because less than 10% of bovine luteal cells release OXT.
(5) Comparative analysis of DNAs digested with EcoRI, BamHI, HindIII, SalI and NcoI revealed that C. trachomatis isolates belonging to serovars D and K, but not E, could be subdivided into different genome types.
(6) It is concluded that renin levels in hypertension are influenced by several factors and that any attempt to subdivide patients into renin subgroups is therefore arbitrary.
(7) The specimens obtained from horses and cows were subdivided according to age and lactation status, respectively.
(8) The rationality of subdividing the tumours of this type into separate entries of different onconosological unities is discussed.
(9) This invertebrate precipitin, Tridacnin, may be used as a marker for nearly two thirds of all asialo serum glycoproteins; A number of different cross-reactions with various other polysaccharides and galactans subdivides those neuraminidase-treated glycoproteins into several subgroups, indicating that the uncovered carbohydrate structures are not always completely identical.
(10) Subdividing the A and A+C responsive neurones according to their mono- (M) or polysynaptic (P) connexions yielded the following sub-samples: MC, 39%; PC, 15%; MA, 13%; PA, 33%.
(11) In addition, cows in the Short d 5 group were subdivided into two groups following second estrus (normal luteal phase, n = 5 per group) to receive 100 IU oxytocin on Day 5 (Normal d 5) or 16 (Normal d 16), respectively.
(12) The patients were subdivided into two groups that received identical traditional therapy.
(13) These receptors were subdivided by their morphology in the next groups: pear-shaped receptors with capsule; capsuled spherical receptors located near vascular walls; ovoidal receptors with capsule and glomerular structure; simple or complex mace-shaped receptors without capsule.
(14) These indexes are divided into clinical and laboratory topics, and subdivided into such topics as the type of opioid explored and the general area of biological interest (e.g., physiology).
(15) They subdivided patients suffering from "natural" morbid processes from those suffering from "medico-legal kind of diseases; this was done taking into account age, sex and clinical progress of the diseases.
(16) Ninety-six Wistar rats were subdivided into 4 group: 1) control; 2) "waistcoat" plastic surgery; 3) plastic surgery using a vicryl prosthesis.
(17) An additional 30 cm of clay covered the tailings on one plot and each plot was subdivided into bare soil and vegetated subplots.
(18) In the periphery of the ballooning area, a large vascular lumen was subdivided into smaller capillary lumina by endothelial and mesangial bridging, which resembled to the process in the fetal glomerulogenesis.
(19) The duplex scans were subdivided into those showing a greater than 50% stenosis of the internal carotid artery and those with a less than 50% stenosis.
(20) After 8 days of incubation, SM subdivides into superficial (compact) and deep (disperse) sublaminae.