(1) It was great: a sort of cryptographic cowrie shell for virtual fish.
(2) If one cowrie shell bought a fish, there wasn't any risk that some fisherman would try to corner the market and push the price of fish up in order to become rich.
(3) Cowrie shells were a 13th-century medium of exchange: they were a fairly effective currency at a time when there was no risk that people might hoard them in order to speculate on their value rising.
(4) It’s an old jetty in the city’s Ikoyi neighbourhood that sticks out into the still waters of Five Cowrie Creek, which separates Lagos Island from the Lekki Peninsula at its westernmost tip.
(5) Look out for "groatie-buckies", small cowrie shells often found here.
(6) But Bitcoin is just a bunch of people trading cryptographic cowrie shells - but now with internet-speed ability to see instantaneous prices, and with a burgeoning desire to spend it on "real" things.
Lowry
Definition:
(n.) An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sitting in the bar at the Lowry theatre in Salford’s Media City, Shindler is talking about the word “gritty”.
(2) Of the big national companies, the only one to take a major hit was English National Opera, while there was also a big cut for the Lowry, and complete cuts for Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and touring companies including the long-standing Red Ladder.
(3) (1951), its modified method (Lowry-TCA method) with protein precipitation by trichloroacetic acid (TCA) and the new method (BCA method) with bicinchoninic acid reaction, were reexamined as to whether these three methods were applicable to urinary protein quantitation of rats.
(4) This study supports the use of a standardized selected Lowry-sodium dodecyl sulfate method traceable to quantitative amino acid analysis as a point of reference for determining the protein concentration of primary calibration reference materials for apolipoproteins.
(5) As Weeks read out his judgment, Al Lowry, brother of the killed highway patrol officer Ed Lowry, shouted out: "Judge, you had your mind made up the first day."
(6) The Lowry method, standardized with bovine serum albumin, correctly measures the protein content.
(7) The protein content varied from 16% to 42% as determined by dye binding test and 17 to 60% by Lowry phenol method using bovine serum albumin as the standard, which implies that the proteins associated with LPS may also play important roles in the complex for the immunochemical interactions and the heterogeneity of B. abortus lipopolysaccharide protein complex.
(8) In order to investigate the consequences of presence of aggregates in human albumin standards, pools of monomer, dimer and polymer albumin were prepared and quantitated by three total-protein methods (biuret, Folin-Lowry and spectrophotometry at 279 nm) and by four different albumin methods (dye-binding by bromcresol green, electroimmunoassay, radial immunodiffusion and automated immunoprecipitation).
(9) The linearity and reproducibility of the microcolorimeter when used with the Lowry assay has been verified.
(10) We have used the method of Austin, Lowry, Brown and Carter, to measure the steady-state metabolic half-life of tubulin (alpha and beta individually) and actin (beta and gamma together) in the total cytosolic (S3), microsomal (P3), synaptic plasma membrane (SPM) and synaptic junction (SJ) subcellular fractions from 6-day-old and adult chicken forebrain.
(11) The mutants were deficient in streptolysin S, as was the naturally occurring nonhemolytic Lowry strain.
(12) Comparison of the results obtained with the refractometric and the Lowry methods indicated that refractometry, when used with due caution in a typical laboratory situation, provided a simple, fast, inexpensive and valid method for determining the protein content of plasma from young chickens.
(13) Unfortunately, more general reactions, such as the permanganate, the 'Lowry' and the ninhydrin stains, cannot be utilized since the carrier ampholytes react very strongly with all these reagents.
(14) Peroxydability of the dental pulp has been evaluated with Lowry method with dental pulp homogenate and rat liver homogenate (see Table 1).
(15) Historian Richard Lowry, who interviewed nearly 200 veterans of the Iraq battle, likens it to "a thousand SWAT teams going through the city, clearing criminals out."
(16) The utility of this method as an in-process assay during isolation of a protein is demonstrated by comparing estimates of protein content from fourth derivative spectroscopy with those from the Lowry assay for samples at several steps along the isolation pathway for outer membrane vesicles of N. meningitidis.
(17) Protein and amino acid contents of liver of normal (untreated) adult male garden lizard, Calotes versicolor, were quantitatively determined by the method of Lowry et al.
(18) The hydrolytic activity was measured by Lowry's method.
(19) The protein content in each HPLC peak was measured by the Lowry method.
(20) Quantitation of stained, electroeluted proteins by the classical Lowry and Bradford protein assay is not possible because of some different interferences.