(1) It is anomalous that the world is equipped with global funds to finance action on infectious diseases and climate change, but not humanitarian crises.
(2) The example of psychosocial stress (coping with the diagnosis, self esteem, life crises etc.)
(3) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(4) The sensitivity is, now that this is official, it will make things worse.” Like Australia, Canada weathered the financial crash of 2008 well, avoiding the banking crises suffered by the US, UK and the eurozone, instead growing fast on the back of exports of abundant natural resources.
(5) Crises such as the Ebola outbreak in west Africa and mass displacement in Central African Republic, South Sudan and Syria triggered a 22% rise in humanitarian spending among the DAC’s 28 member countries, which spent $13bn in that area last year, the OECD said.
(6) And if the fathers of Europe, Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman , were alive today, they would see that their aim, to get Europe to move to a proper union through a series of crises, has moved a step closer.
(7) For 11,199 randomly selected autopsies, the proportions of AMI in the above two occupational groups were significantly higher in the years of both oil crises than in the preceding years.
(8) Urapidil has been successfully administered also in patients with congestive heart failure and in hypertensive crises during or following surgical procedures; in all these conditions urapidil lowers total peripheral resistance, but blood pressure is lowered only in patients with hypertensive crises and no clinically relevant reduction in blood pressure is found in patients with congestive heart failure.
(9) Various articles have described the need for psychological response teams in such crises.
(10) If more people are helped before their problems become crises, this would alleviate some of the pressures on our social care services.
(11) There is a rich populist history of winning big victories for social and economic justice in the midst of large-scale crises.
(12) Among 103 family members with sickle cell trait (Hgb AS), no significant risk of developing crises could be identified with either mountain or pressurized aircraft travel.
(13) We conclude that if the role of physicians is to aid and protect patients against disease or experimentation on humans, then he or she must maintain heightened political awareness in order to deal with social crises before they overwhelm any response.
(14) The treatment we propose for the post-partum psychotic crises in a day unit would ease: 1) The preservation of part of the patient's autonomy which would valorise her.
(15) Intensive care of myasthenic crises is critical to the prevention of maternal complications and death.
(16) I have not known any time in my half century in this business in which we have had this many simultaneous, complex and protracted crises, of no solution right now.
(17) For the moment, the fit between older men and caring roles can be uncomfortable and is unlikely to get better, and all that can mean for the long term is more crises and more pressure on professional services, unless gender is put more firmly on the caring agenda.
(18) The recurrent crises explain why a range of figures, from Blake to Gandhi , and Simone Weil to Yukio Mishima, reacted remarkably similarly to the advent of industrial and commercial society, to the unprecedented phenomenon of all that is solid melting into thin air, across Europe, Asia and Africa.
(19) But although economic crises don't bring out the best in human behaviour, I feel these options are unlikely.
(20) 5 Labetalol reduced the blood pressure when administered intravenously and thus merits further investigation as a treatment for acute hypertensive crises.
Irises
Definition:
(pl. ) of Iris
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither a steady-state component (Is-s) nor a slowly activated component (Irise) of inward rectifier currents were observed in fibres of P0 and P4 mice.
(2) Bovine Pierce-bTSH, the purest thyrotropin preparation, stimulated lens regeneration sporadically at the lower concentration of 0.04 micrograms ml-1 up to the advanced stage 9 with large lens fiber core and flattened lens epithelium in one of nineteen irises.
(3) Melanin appears to decrease the light sensitivity of the irises of normally pigmented animals by acting as a simple light shield.
(4) The pigment cells of the yellow and white irises are structurally identical differing only in the presence or absence of these yellow pigments.
(5) The photomechanical response of the vertebrate iris sphincter pupillae isolated from irises of many species of vertebrates contract when light is shined on them.
(6) With polychotomous logistic regression, an increased risk of cataract was found for females (cortical; odds ratio (OR) = 2.20) and persons with less than a high school education (all types; OR = 1.53), brown irises (nuclear, mixed; OR = 1.43), job locations in the sunlight (cortical, mixed; OR = 1.75), leisure time activities in the sunlight (cortical, mixed; OR = 1.45), a history of wearing a hat in summertime (posterior subcapsular, cortical, mixed; OR = 1.80), a positive family history of cataract (posterior subcapsular, cortical, mixed; OR = 1.88), a history of cortisone use (posterior subcapsular; OR = 8.39), increased red blood cell glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity (cortical, nuclear, mixed; OR = 1.36), and increased serum levels of uric acid (posterior subcapsular; OR = 1.62), lactic dehydrogenase (posterior subcapsular; OR = 1.76) and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (mixed; OR = 1.22).
(7) The prelabeled irises were then washed and incubated for 10 minutes in nonradioactive Ca++-free medium which contained 10 mM 2-deoxyglucose under various conditions.
(8) Fluorescence photomicrographs of stretch preparations from the dilator muscle of the rat irises showed a weaker fluorescence in the eyes treated with EPI and DPE as compared with controls treated with a placebo vehicle.
(9) The animals with CHS had photophobia, pale irises, and fundic hypopigmentation associated with red fundic light reflections.
(10) We conclude that Is-s and Irise develop within 3 weeks after birth, and suggest that innervation plays a key role in their induction.
(11) Cells of regenerates at 10-15 days after lentectomy have significantly lower electrophoretic mobilities than those of the irises of nonlentectomized newts.
(12) The surgeon, especially the neophyte, must recognise which irises may present a difficulty in establishing, maintaining, and reversing mydriasis, with or without the introduction of an intraocular lens.
(13) (1) In light microscopical studies of living isolated frog irises, it was found that the maximal areas of experimentally light induced contractions in the m. sphincter pupillae were located beneath small illuminated regions.
(14) In muscle fibres denervated at P16 or P20, the specific amplitudes of Is-s and Irise decreased, reaching the levels of P4-denervated fibres in 2-4 days after denervation.
(15) It is also concluded that use of a 10 per cent fluorescein solution can lead to a significant underestimation of tear turnover rates and that any resulting errors are likely to be larger for light coloured irises.
(16) The only indication of phenotypical changes in these cells was the formation by some of them, of neuritic processes which could be visualized in glyoxylic acid-treated whole mounts of irises.
(17) Hyaluronidase activity was 1.7 to 2 times higher in dorsal iris tissue than in ventral irises both prior to lentectomy and throughout the regeneration process.
(18) Arterial necrosis in the irises and other viscera in acute 1K1C hypertension in rabbits is qualitatively similar to that occurring in rabbits with acute one-kidney, one wrapped (1K1W) hypertension with regard to both the histological features and organ distribution.
(19) An abnormal angiogram of the retina was observed in one-third of the cases and in 50% of the irises, respectively.
(20) Irise did not appear in P4-denervated fibres throughout the development.