(n.) The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.
(n.) The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
(n.) The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
Example Sentences:
(1) In each sheep there was a significant negative correlation between the glucose and corticosteroid concentrations in both maternal and fetal plasma, and there were positive correlations between the maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of glucose, and between the glucose and fructose concentrations of fetal plasma.
(2) Synthesis of choline esterase on the medium with acetylcholine at a concentration of 1% was increased more than twofold upon addition of glucose at a concentration of 0.1%.
(3) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(4) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(5) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
(6) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
(7) Maximum increases in portal plasma secretin concentrations of 143, 146 and 190% and maximum increases in VIP of 116, 155 and 147% after, respectively, intraduodenal 0.1 M NaHCO3, 0.1 M Na2CO3, and 0.025 M NaOH were found.
(8) ), the concentration of AMPO in the hypothalamus was 5.4 times the concentration at 20 h after one injection.
(9) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
(10) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
(11) Cyclic AMP stimulated phosphorylation by [gamma-32P]ATP of two proteins of apparent Mr = 20,000 and 7,000 that were concentrated in sarcoplasmic reticulum, but the stimulation was markedly dependent on the presence of added soluble cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase.
(12) We conclude that the SHBG concentration strongly affects this estimation.
(13) Ursodeoxycholate was the only dihydroxy bile salt which was able to solubilize phospholipid (although not cholesterol) below the critical micellar concentration.
(14) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
(15) The observed relationship between prorenin and renin substrate concentrations might be a consequence of their regulation by common factors.
(16) In the presence of insulin, a qualitatively similar pattern of increasing responses to albumin is observed; the enhancement of each response by insulin is, however, only slightly potentiated by higher albumin concentrations.
(17) We maximize an objective function that includes both total production rate and product concentration.
(18) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
(19) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(20) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
Vehemence
Definition:
(n.) The quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence.
(n.) Violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; as, the vehemence of love, anger, or other passions.
Example Sentences:
(1) But they are usually less accepting of hypocrites and liars, and especially those that challenge the establishment with such vehemence.
(2) With all the vehemence I could muster, I took a spoonful of the spinach and threw it at the ceiling.
(3) On the way back he looks out over the fields and says with sudden vehemence: "Deer: I hate them.
(4) The vehemence of Conservative divisions over same-sex marriage were exposed when one Tory MP said it would undermine "normal marriage", another questioned whether polygamy would be legalised next, and a third claimed that European judges will soon force the Church of England to allow same-sex marriages against its will.
(5) It surpassed its rivals in the vehemence and cogency of its opposition to the Iraq invasion.
(6) For the average climate science denier in the street (and there are a lot of them on some streets), there is often little correlation between the vehemence of their denials and the so-called "facts" at their disposal.
(7) To the south are Shia militias who have responded with vehemence and are transforming the frontlines into a sectarian showdown that pays no heed to the state.
(8) The taxpayer hasn't lost anything, the business minister insists with some vehemence.
(9) And, though it was perhaps unsurprising that Cameron should be unenthusiastic about Juncker’s candidacy, the vehemence of his opposition was extraordinary.
(10) Indeed, there seems to be some sort of inverse correlation between the ignorance of the speaker and the vehemence with which they hold their opinion.
(11) The vehemence of his attack will antagonise the pensions industry, already angry at Miliband's promise to clamp down on City predators.
(12) Militant communists, capable of mobilising thousands on to the streets, and unions representing civil servants, the mainstay of the Greek workforce, have already announced strikes for later this week, attacking the prospect of yet more austerity with extreme vitriol and vehemence.
(13) In fact, each of these operators has an eccentric take on the standards supplied by his forebears – in Poussin's case, the transparent pictorial window of Renaissance art, in Twombly's the in-your-face vehemence of the Abstract Expressionists .
(14) What distinguished Rivers' work was the vehemence (and the delight) she brought to the task, the quality of the jokes (she was, above all, a great gag woman) – and of course the fact that the last laugh was always on her.
(15) So it is with vehemence rather than violence that they dismiss the Falklands' first referendum on sovereignty, due to start on Sunday, which is expected to reinforce at the ballot box what was determined by guns and tanks in 1982: UK rule over the south Atlantic islands and the sea lanes around them.
(16) Yet, at the same time, they resist with great vehemence change in the way they do their business.
(17) Although sports fans may be a little surprised by the vehemence of Morrissey's reaction, an event that combined corporate sponsorship from McDonald's with the near-constant presence of the royal family was unlikely to win his favour.
(18) When she announced her candidacy she criticised the “financial industry” and “multinational corporations” that have “created huge wealth for a few by focusing too much on short-term profit and too little on long-term value, too much on complex trading schemes and stock buy-backs, too little on investments in new businesses, jobs and fair compensation.” She may not share Sanders’s vehemence on the issue.
(19) The rising number of interests in the war and the vehemence of the protagonists is, however, making attempts to control Lebanon evermore difficult.
(20) Mediated by cognitive variables persons with emphatic perception may develop an association between anxiety and allergic processes with high probability, the reciprocal influence of which can increase with vehemence.