(n.) The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
(n.) The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
(n.) The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
(v. t.) To cultivate; to educate.
Example Sentences:
(1) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(2) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(3) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(4) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(5) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(6) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(7) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(8) Rapid overgrowth of all cultures with the E. coli necessitated the use of selective media containing antimicrobial agents to which the E. coli was sensitive.
(9) Patient or fetal cord serum is commonly used as a protein supplement to culture media used in in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
(10) The rate of accumulation of degraded LDL products was lower in collagen gel cultures, but the final levels achieved were the same in the two substrata.
(11) We have developed a new procedure for the rapid preparation of undegraded total RNA from cultured cells for specific quantitation by dot blotting analysis.
(12) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
(13) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
(14) The effects of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides were investigated on the induction of chromosome aberrations in human peripheral lymphocyte cultures in vitro and in lymphocytes of exposed workers in vivo.
(15) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(16) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
(17) However, further improvement of culture systems is needed for active replication of HBV in vitro.
(18) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
(19) Cells (1 x 10(5)) were seeded in 12- x -75-mm tissue culture tubes and incubated with various doses of IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma, alone or in specific combinations, for 15 min, two, 12, 24, and 72 h. PGE concentrations in the media were measured by radio-immunoassay.
(20) This activation demonstrated in humans confirms the pharmacological results of the interferon induction obtained with SL04 in vivo in mice and in vitro in human cell cultures.
Prehistory
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The estimation obtained for theta permit us to assert that the model describes the phenomenon of "socio-cultural selection" in prehistory.
(2) Much of the earlier work on the prehistory of Sudanese Nubia has emphasized discontinuity between early Nubian populations.
(3) The first phase, which belongs to the prehistory of Phlebology, includes two notable facts: the start of ambulatory compression in London around 1800, and the interest that the French school immediately showed in this discovery.
(4) A t some point in remote prehistory, roughly 12,000 years ago, a group of men and women – no more than half a dozen, scientists believe – crawled into the labyrinth of Rouffignac cavern in the Dordogne's Vézère valley.
(5) An ambitious project to showcase the prehistory of the south coast of England, famous for its marine fossils from ammonites to giant sea reptiles, has attracted support from David Attenborough and Eden Project founder Tim Smit.
(6) According to the model, the shape of the growth curves, the kinetics of substrate consumption and changes of intermediate concentration depend on culture prehistory and the nature of the intermediate regulatory function.
(7) to 500 A.D.) of Central California Prehistory is described in light of an extensive clinical literature.
(8) Two other hypotheses regarding the causes of the framentation have been raised: a substantial portion of the breakage in the Krapina collection is attributable to excavation damage; and the rest of the breakage is attributable to sedimentary pressure and to natural rock falls that occurred during the site's prehistory.
(9) The prehistory of cyclical development of corpus luteum goes back to early follicular phase.
(10) The second time you visit, without this ready-made exhilaration, you are more conscious of what the building contributes to its prehistory.
(11) "As with so many 'new trends', this one has a fairly distinguished prehistory," explains essayist and author Geoff Dyer .
(12) Unique aspects of the prehistory and current distribution of the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans Peale) have been applied to the problem of determining the biogeographical origin of its parasites as found on 'exulans only' islands of New Zealand.
(13) To gain an understanding of helminth parasitism in prehistory on the Colorado Plateau of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, 319 coprolites from 5 archaeological sites were analyzed.
(14) Hysteresis of the stretch reflex led to uncertainty of the equilibrium value of the muscle length and the equilibrium length depended on the movement prehistory.
(15) More generally, with the availability of teeth from genetically homogeneous populations, studies of enamel hypoplasias in prehistory should provide a useful complement to research on this condition in contemporary peoples.
(16) The value of works of art lost to Britain Paintings, foreign £489m Paintings, British, modern £463m Drawings, prints, watercolours £187m Manuscripts, documents and archives £119m Oriental furniture, porcelain and works of art £59m Transport £58m Silver, metalwork and jewellery £49m Sculpture £48m Musical instruments £23m Paintings, portraits of British persons £21m Oriental antiquities £21m Furniture and woodwork £19m Middle East antiquities £19m Prehistory & Europe £18m Photographs £13m Books, maps etc £11m Egyptian antiquities £11m Tapestries, carpets etc £10m Pottery £5m Clocks and watches £5m Coins and medals £5m Scientific and mechanical material £2m Drawings: architechtural, engineering and scientific £2m
(17) Their systematic campaign seeks to take us back into prehistory, but they will not succeed.” The archaeologist and scholar, who held a diploma in history and education from the University of Damascus, published many books and scientific texts.
(18) Although Nei's standard genetic distance analysis demonstrates genetic similarity at the Gm and Km loci, the heterogeneity that does exist is consistent both with what is known about the prehistory of Native Americans and traditional cultural categories.
(19) If so, other oncogenes should be equally transposable to the "Ig hot spots" during the long series of cell divisions in the preneoplastic target cell population that characterizes the prehistory of both BL and MPC.
(20) Egyptian artefacts were, for Freud, links to the prehistory of the Jewish people; they also represent an era when maternal deities found their proper place in man's pantheon--an echo of Freud's prehistoric past.