(v. t.) To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.
(v. t.) To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish.
(v. t.) To seek the society of; to court intimacy with.
(v. t.) To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine.
(v. t.) To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
(2) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(3) The authors present the first results on the utilization of fish infusion (IFP) as a basic medium for the cultivation of bacteria.
(4) Throughout the entire cultivation cytidyl derivatives occurred in trace quantities.
(5) A human salivary gland adenocarcinoma cell line was cultivated in the presence of dibutyryl cyclic AMP (dB-cAMP), cis-diammine dichloroplatinum (cisplatin) or mitomycin C (MMC) only, or of the combination of dB-cAMP and each of the antineoplastic drugs.
(6) Liver cells, however, cultured in this way, can also be used for experiments in the early stage of serial cultivation.
(7) When rabbit and horse sera were used instead of human serum for cultivation, in both groups the share of positive cultures increased and more large forms of B. hominis cells were observed.
(8) After 21 days, supragingival and marginal plaque was collected from each subject and assayed for total cultivable microbiota, total facultative anaerobes, facultative Streptococci, Actinomyces, Fusobacterium, Veillonella and Capnocytophaga.
(9) The cultivation of embryos in shell-less culture did not affect the normal macroscopic or histological appearance of the membrane, or the rate of proliferation of its constituent cells, as assessed by tritiated thymidine incorporation.
(10) A procedure for cultivation of the seed material for biosynthesis of eremomycin providing an increase in the antibiotic yield by 24 per cent was developed.
(11) Several species of leishmania and three methods of cultivation: monophasic, biphasic and co-cultivation were used in a compared study bearing on the intensive production of leishmania.
(12) It is a very widely cultivated plant in eastern countries like India, Bangladesh, Ceylon, Malaya, the Philippines and Japan.
(13) The ratio of total protein content of DNA content increased 1.46 fold in 10(-5) M dexamethasone-treated cells on the seventh day of cultivation.
(14) The phenomenology of various protrusions, including fimbria, is described, and the effect of cultivation conditions (continuous culture, periodic culture) and growth phases on their emergence was elucidated.
(15) Finally, the analytical device was applied to the registration of production of monoclonal antibodies in a cultivation.
(16) After 48-hour cultivation the incorporation of 3H-thymidine into the DNA of mouse cells was 5 times higher than into the DNA of guinea-pig cells.
(17) The effect of cultivation temperature and pH on growth of the culture Penicillium brevi-compactum and biosynthesis of extracellular phosphohydrolases (acid and alkaline RNases and acid PMEase) involved in RNA degradation was studied.
(18) The pH effect on the nisine biosynthesis during the cultivation of Streptococcus lactis was studied at pH 5,8 6,7 and 7,2.
(19) We have studied the expression of genes that typify osteogenic differentiation in mandibular condyles during in vitro cultivation.
(20) By Western blot analysis we found that cultivated liver stellate cells secreted RBP into the medium.
Reclamation
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of reclaiming.
(n.) Representation made in opposition; remonstrance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The target enzymes, acetylcholinesterase (for phosphamidon and carbaryl) and Mg2+ ATPase (for DDT and fenvalerate) have been assayed during exposure and reclamation of these insecticides in M. monoceros.
(2) After meeting the summit host, the president of the Philippines, Obama said the US and Manila had agreed on the need for “bold steps to lower tensions, including pledging to halt reclamation, new construction and militarisation of disputed islands in the South China Sea”.
(3) In ongoing lawsuits objecting to the island reclamation scheme , the Jakarta Legal Aid association has argued these new islands are occupying traditional fishing grounds, while the sediment and dredging work have driven away fish from the remaining waters.
(4) None of these alternatives would be a silver bullet – they need to be undertaken alongside habitat reclamation.
(5) Land reclamation measures carried out on the territory of a flood-plain-paludal focus of tularemia change the ecological and biocenotic links, which leads to the formation of a meadow-field focus with other-than-before sources and vectors of tularemia infection.
(6) Head east to find Barriera di Milano , a once-deprived quarter now blooming with artists’ studios and microbusinesses in places such as the 1912 warehouse complex Docks Dora, which is flanked by another showpiece reclamation project, Parco Aurelio Peccei .
(7) The comparative toxicity of halogen-containing oxidizing agents was investigated with the purpose of their utilization as urine preservatives in water reclamation systems.
(8) The Chinese dredger barges can reach up to 30 metres below the surface, cutting out and scooping up huge quantities of sand and coral for land reclamation projects.
(9) The public prosecutor also announced he had sequestered land belonging to the Saudi billionaire, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal at Toshka, in the south of the country which is part of a desert reclamation project.
(10) Reclamation of bicarbonate is highly regulated in the proximal tubule: an increase in luminal [HCO3-], flow rate and arterial PCO2 increase, while alkalinization of the peritubular surface inhibits bicarbonate absorption.
(11) South China Sea islands are Chinese plan to militarise zone, claims US Read more The shadow foreign minister, Tanya Plibersek , told ABC radio: “Australia and our Asian neighbours in particular and others in the region have an expectation of being able to move freely now and in the future in this area.” She urged the government to take a softly-softly approach to China’s land reclamation program.
(12) Hunt added that he would require all spoil from future dredging in central and northern Queensland to be placed at the “shoreline, near to shore or land reclamation disposal”.
(13) The immediate and ultimate objectives of the project were threefold: (a) to demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing as a hydroponic medium untreated municipal wastewater having relatively high mean values for BOD and mineral content; (b) to achieve the growth of useful plants on such readily available hydroponic media, thereby saving on fertilizers and scarce water resources; and (c) reclamation of the wastewater through biological purification leading to the gradual depletion of the nutritive constituents.
(14) Reefs are ideal locations for land reclamation because they rise far above the surrounding seabed, making them accessible to dredger barges.
(15) Dog surveillance, land reclamation and changes in population habits during the last few decades are considered to be responsible for the reduction of transmission to man.
(16) The US Bureau of Reclamation , for example, manages 337 reservoirs, and a science advisor to the agency, Dave Raff, says the bureau is taking on the emissions accounting task.
(17) The US and its allies have a very different view than China over the rules of the road in the South China Sea.” Beijing says it will not stop reclamation work, with China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, describing its sovereignty claims as “hard as a rock”.
(18) Earlier this week, the US deputy secretary of state, Antony Blinken, warned that Chinese land reclamation work was damaging stability in the region and could even lead to conflict.
(19) First is that it goes the way of Badia East, razed for high-rises, or Bar Beach, site of a massive land reclamation project that is turning nine square kilometres of Atlantic Ocean into what developers are touting as “the Manhattan of west Africa”, a residential and commercial mini-city called Eko Atlantic .
(20) Newborn Sprague-Dawley rat pups were found to have reduced net tubular reclamation of the beta-amino acid taurine in vivo.