(n.) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
Example Sentences:
(1) Through concatenation, autocovariance for periodicity identification becomes possible.
(2) Recent data are cited for the proposition that these changes constitute a closed pathogenetic concatenation creating a vicious circle.
(3) The model consists of a concatenation of modules, one for each anatomical section of the periphery.
(4) These studies revealed that biological activity was sensitive to both the identity of the concatenating atoms and the pattern of ring substitution.
(5) Ligation of the blunt end to high molecular weight target DNA proceeds efficiently and there is no tandem concatenation of the adaptor.
(6) Reintroduction of this DNA into mammalian cells as a concatenated phage clone gave rise to dicentric chromosomes which gave rise to a new, stable, chromosome.
(7) Cows with coliform mastitis showed, in addition to fever, tachycardia and ruminal stasis and a concatenation of nonspecific responses, such as neutrophylic leukopenia followed by leukocytosis, lymphopenia, hypocalcaemia, hypoferraemia, hypozincaemia, and hypercupremia, and changes in the concentration of certain serum proteins.
(8) This enhancement of expression can be competed in vivo by concatenated double-stranded oligonucleotides, indicating that protein-DNA binding is a requisite for enhancer activity.
(9) The oscillatory interneurones are connected both intra- and interganglionically to form a topologically complex intersegmental network of concatenated ring circuits that possess the feature of recurrent cyclic inhibition.
(10) The consequential errors led to (a) an injudicious imposition of 'objectivity' at all levels of allocation, (b) an unjustified insistence that the same method be used at each administrative level in an additive and transitive manner, (c) the exclusion of general practitioner services from their considerations, (d) a failure to delineate those decisions which are in fact political decisions, thus to concatenate them, inappropriately, with technical and professional issues.
(11) Furthermore, we observed that concatenated Pit-1 binding sites were able to confer cAMP responsiveness to the thymidine kinase promoter in GC cells.
(12) However, the number of copies of the exogenous DNA sequences retained per average genome in postmetamorphic juveniles was usually less than 0.1 (range 0.05-50), and genome blot hybridizations indicate that these sequences are organized as integrated, randomly oriented, end-to-end molecular concatenates.
(13) It has been shown before (Part I) that covariances or coincidences in the signal activity of a neural net can be used in the construction of a simultaneous functional order in which a modality is represented as a concatenation of districts with a lattice structure.
(14) This finding was seen as consistent with "continuous" correction of movement errors and as contrary to the suggestion that infant movements are concatenations of ballistic movement units whose boundaries are marked by troughs in the speed profile.
(15) A concatenated DNA fragment containing a five-repeat binding site was used for DNase I footprinting.
(16) Thus, the patient's oral reading of a sentence is not a concatenation of isolated words, but depends on an implicit, context-sensitive analysis.
(17) For statistical analysis the night studies of each subject were concatenated.
(18) These include the uptake of the donor DNA by the recipient cells, the transport of the DNA to the nucleus, transient expression prior to integration into the host cell genome, concatenation and integration of the transfected DNA into the host cell genome and finally the stable expression of the integrated genes (2,3).
(19) In contrast, most linearly concatenated DNA molecules (derived from end-to-end joining of microinjected monomeric plasmid DNA) underwent at least two rounds of DNA replication during this same period.
(20) We have constructed an artificial variant of the proenkephalin gene by concatenation of synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (oligo) coding for Met-enkephalin preceded by two arginines.
Decimal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage.
(n.) A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.
Example Sentences:
(1) This combined process decreased by 63% the decimal reduction times for the heat treatment when the organism was suspended in buffer and by 43% when suspended in milk.
(2) An isolated colony of red squirrels at Formby , Merseyside, were decimated by an outbreak of squirrelpox in 2008 , which saw the population crash by 85% to less than 200 squirrels.
(3) We have an operation an hour away on the border and the barrel bombs cause horrific injuries.” Islamic Relief and MSF said the health system in Syria is decimated and the need for reconstructive surgery and burns treatment is enormous.
(4) Fish stocks have been decimated by methods that include cyanide poisoning.
(5) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
(6) On average, aided Snellen VA's were better (decimal acuity = 0.98) than the unaided interferometric VA's (decimal acuity = 0.67).
(7) The observation led the authors to put forth the hypothesis of acquired provisional immunity or a temporary decimation of disease vectors.
(8) Google enlisted members of the US congress, whose election campaigns it had funded, to pressure the European Union to drop a €6bn antitrust case which threatens to decimate the US tech firm’s business in Europe.
(9) His Third Man studio complex and shop in Nashville is introducing a new generation to the joys of vinyl at a time when the music industry has been decimated by a drop in physical-format sales.
(10) Multiplication of the legionellae was found to occur in a temperature range between 20 and 43 degrees C and inactivation was observed above 50 degrees C. Decimal reduction times decreased with increasing temperatures.
(11) The phenotype cosegregates with a DNA haplotype of the apo B gene in an Idaho pedigree, with a maximum decimal logarithm of the ratio (LOD) score of 7.56 at a recombination rate of zero.
(12) Oxfam has already had to scale back life-saving work in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and sub-Saharan Africa – the poorest region in the world – due to unprecedented aid cuts.” Childfund Australia’s chief executive, Nigel Spence, said the budget had made “even deeper cuts to an already decimated aid budget”.
(13) Many GPs are already working 12-hour days, with much of our time (both clinical and administrative) spent dealing with the consequences of failed political initiatives, failure of appropriate regulation, decimation of local voluntary sector support agencies and NHS bureaucracy.
(14) To counter claims that the policy is decimating social housing stock, the government introduced its one-for-one replacement principle that each social home sold should be replaced with a similar one.
(15) With tourism decimated since the ousting of Mohamed Morsi as president in July, Egyptian authorities hope the new tomb will help bring visitors back to Luxor.
(16) Decimal serial dilutions of eight common bacterial species were prepared, and the detection times were determined by measuring the (14)CO(2) metabolized from the (14)C-labeled glucose substrate.
(17) Being from Yorkshire in the late 90s and early 2000s: we were decimated, I saw how hard it was to keep the show on the road, and it was that voluntary party that kept that show on the road."
(18) Read more Still, though polls will not perfectly predict the US election, state by state and down to the decimal point, they are likely to accurately guess who will win nationally, especially if Clinton has a large enough lead.
(19) Disinfectant activities were compared by statistical analysis of log reduction factors and log count time gradients (decimal reduction times).
(20) As we speak, further education is being silently decimated in the name of "vocational training".