What's the difference between circumpolar and draco?

Circumpolar


Definition:

  • (a.) About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Polar Psychology Project brings together three organizations from Canada and Argentina to study human adaptation to the boreal and austral circumpolar environments.
  • (2) Environmental factors are also likely to be responsible for the current differences between these indigenous populations in the circumpolar region, assuming that they share susceptibility genes for diabetes inferred from their close genetic relationships based on markers in other loci.
  • (3) The original said Aqqaluk Lynge is the former president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council.
  • (4) "Every one of the 56,000 Inuits in Greenland have had to adapt to the retreat of the ice," said Carl-Christian Olsen, president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council in Nuuk, Greenland.
  • (5) However, the literature shows that like all other acculturating groups, successful adaptations are possible for Circumpolar peoples, especially when they are in a position to understand and control the process.
  • (6) The mean frequencies of alleles in nine polymorphic loci of Chuckotka Eskimos and Chuckchi, Eskimos of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland, some Mongoloid populations of Siberia, American Indians, and Lapps of circumpolar areas of Western Europe were obtained.
  • (7) When these findings and conclusions are applied to Native Peoples in Circumpolar regions, some particular experiences stand out, resulting in the potential for difficult social and psychological adaptations.
  • (8) The program for securing man's survival in circumpolar regions should comprise several stages of practical measures to provide necessary resources and to combine international efforts.
  • (9) Formed from an inferno of underwater volcanoes more than six million years ago, the 10km long crescent-shaped island sits in a bath of turquoise water, exactly where the warm East Australian Current meets the icy waters of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
  • (10) The preservation of human health in polar and circumpolar regions depends mainly on the strategy for future development of these regions.
  • (11) D. dendriticum, for example, occurs throughout the circumpolar area at high latitudes beyond the range of D. latum.
  • (12) The differences between the parasite fauna of Rutilus rutilus L. and Coregonus albula L. are caused by the fact that the former host is more warm-requiring and the conditions in waters of the Arctic Ocean Province of the Circumpolar Subregion are less favourable to it.
  • (13) Attention is drawn to the urgency of genetic studies in the Arctic because of the accelerating hybridization of the Inuit in all circumpolar areas.
  • (14) The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in several genetically closely related indigenous populations in the circumpolar arctic and subarctic regions of Russia, Alaska and Canada is compared.
  • (15) In the circumpolar region, the light-dark environment, which is the most potent Zeitgeber among others, and to which polar route travelers are exposed, varies greatly with the season and the time of day.
  • (16) Formal surveys of glucose tolerance and potential risk factors such as diet, physical activity, obesity, insulin resistance and genetic admixture in the circumpolar region would improve knowledge of the aetiology of diabetes in genetically and culturally diverse human populations.
  • (17) By Christmas, though, it may have dimmed again to magnitude 5 but it will be so far north as to be circumpolar for Britain and visible throughout the night as it tracks towards Polaris.
  • (18) Patricia Cochran, a former chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council from Alaska, expresses the view of many indigenous people on industrial development in the Arctic.
  • (19) The high reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation in the xanthine-xanthine oxidase system is one of the important mechanisms which is responsible for capillary penetration disturbance and for accelerated development of inflammatory and non-inflammatory disease among immigrants to Circumpolar regions.
  • (20) Attention is drawn to the urgency of genetic studies in the Arctic because of the accelerating hybridization of Inuit in all circumpolar areas.

Draco


Definition:

  • (n.) The Dragon, a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic.
  • (n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds.
  • (n.) A genus of lizards. See Dragon, 6.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dracotoxin, a protein possessing toxic, membrane depolarizing and hemolytic activities, was isolated from the crude venom of the greater weever fish Trachinus draco.
  • (2) was described from the flying lizard Draco maculatus (Agamidae) collected near Bangkok, Thailand.
  • (3) It all depends on whether players invest in the IP… Crimson Dragon Crimson Dragon Once upon a time this game was called Project Draco and, like Ryse, it was a Kinect title.
  • (4) Latin pop album: Vida, Draco Rosa Latin rock, urban or alternative album: Treinta Dias, La Santa Cecilia.
  • (5) Dracotoxin represents a major toxic component of T. draco venom.
  • (6) Crude venom of the greater weever fish, Trachinus draco was analyzed to assess its toxicity, stability and biological properties.

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