(n.) The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.
(n.) Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care.
(n.) The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture.
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.
Wildland
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The current study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of smoke on forced expiratory volumes and airway responsiveness in wildland fire fighters during a season of active fire fighting.
(2) It was the biggest loss of life in a wildland fire since 1933.
(3) Sometimes Mother Nature is going to do what it wants to do and bad things happen.” The “nasty, dirty” fire – in the words of the local fire chief – surprised scientists by igniting its own fires, said Mike Flannigan, who studies wildland fire at Edmonton’s University of Alberta.
(4) We studied cross-seasonal changes in pulmonary function and respiratory symptoms in 52 wildland firefighters in Northern California.
(5) Results show that wildland fire fighters may at times be exposed to concentrations of carbon monoxide, total or respirable particulates, or silica at levels near or higher than recommended occupational exposure limits, although group means were generally well below the limits.
(6) But Stefan Doerr, a wild fire expert at the University of Swansea, and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Wildland Fire, said the case for such "prescribed burning" was not clear cut.
(7) Industrial hygiene measurement of exposures to wildland fire fighters was conducted in northern California during three consecutive fire seasons (1986-1989) in conjunction with three separate health effects studies.
(8) Sixty-three seasonal and full-time wildland fire fighters from five U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (USDAFS) Hotshot crews in Northern California and Montana completed questionnaires, spirometry, and methacholine challenge testing before and after an active season of fire fighting in 1989.
(9) These findings suggest that wildland firefighters experience a small cross-seasonal decline in pulmonary function and an increase in several respiratory symptoms.
(10) These data suggest that wildland fire fighting is associated with decreases in lung function and increases in airway responsiveness independent of a history of cigarette smoking.
(11) Soon after Artemis of the wildland's flyers began appearing on Portland doors, the local Craigslist boards began to yield posts of people offering support to Artemis on the crusade.
(12) Coincidently, a large wildlands fire that may have affected pollen levels occurred in the region shortly before sampling began.
(13) Measurements were taken at both wildland fires and prescribed (planned) burns.
(14) So, Artemis of the Wildland, I shall beat you to the punch: I am a voter, and I am a recipient of Snap food benefits.
(15) Signed by "Artemis of the wildland", the roughly-cut half-sheets claimed that their author would soon be posting lists of the registered voters in the area who were also recipients of disability payments or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (commonly known as Snap, or food stamps).