(1) On the model of anoxic cardioplegia in cardiosurgical patients the influence of anoxia on the activity of monoamine oxidase (MAO) and catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMPT) in right auricular tissue was studied.
(2) In a report in July this year, the French Cour des Comptes, the official public auditors, estimated that of local public debt of about €160bn, between €30bn and €35bn was in structured loans, and of these between €10bn and €12bn "present a potential risk".
(3) Brain COMT of rat fetus declined progressively from day 16 of fetal life up to 0 hours after birth, while COMPT activity in adrenal and heart showed its maximum value at the 20th day of fetal life and at 0 hours after birth respectively.
(4) The method is content analysis applied to the law itself and to directly relevant official texts (Bloch Lainé report of 1967, motives statement of the law, debates in parliament, Cour des Comptes report of 1982, Lasry Gagneux report of 1983).
(5) The Cour des Comptes has called for a ban on loans where the interest rate is pegged to non-euro currencies.
(6) The data were fitted to the two-compartment open model and the appropriate kinetic parameters were calculated with the COMPT computer program modified by Pfeffer.
Coopt
Definition:
(v. t.) To choose or elect in concert with another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radio remained hostile to electronic dance music unless it had a conventional pop song structure and vocals (as with the Prodigy's punk-rave or Madonna's coopting of trance on Ray of Light ).
(2) Where family members are involved in the rituals they need to be coopted, with the patient's agreement, as exposure cotherapists and taught in role rehearsal with the patient to withhold requests for reassurance.
(3) In a twist to the immigration reform campaign, some grassroots activists are now pressuring Washington-based advocacy groups to not meet Obama unless undocumented individuals are also invited, reflecting a perception that those inside the beltway have to an extent been coopted.
(4) It coopts the natural immune defences of bacteria to create what is often described as “molecular scissors”.
(5) Several financing mechanisms created to coopt private capital into the health system are described as well as the evolution of private and public health care expenditures.
(6) There is basis for concern that applied psychophysiology, if not the field of biofeedback, is being coopted by, and merged into, a reborn "inner" model, with the return of "cognition" to preeminence in the "psych" and "neuro" disciplines.
(7) If such a potonuon has been coopted into a variant or novel function, an evolutionary process termed "exaptation," we employ the term "xaptonuon."
(8) The marines were after Moby Dick, the head of a criminal enterprise that had alternately terrorised and coopted the Mexican state while smuggling huge quantities of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs to Chicago, New York and other US cities.
(9) The new results indicated that highly specialized elements for normal cell function may be coopted for virus growth.