(n.) The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table.
(n.) A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.
(n.) A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of the subtle nature of histological changes in DAI, awareness and intentional search for the lesion is essential.
(2) The same phosphorylation is catalyzed by a different enzyme (DAI) which, while constitutive in reticulocytes, is induced by interferon in other cells.
(3) Six systems for defining and evaluating disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (the Ropes system, the National Institutes of Health [NIH] system, the New York Hospital for Special Surgery system, the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group [BILAG] scale, the University of Toronto SLE Disease Activity Index [SLE-DAI], and the Systemic Lupus Activity Measure [SLAM]) were tested on 25 SLE patients who were selected to represent a range of disease activity.
(4) The experimental proof that two types of dopamine receptors--the excitation-mediating (DAe) receptors and the inhibition-mediating (DAi) receptors--exist in the snail brain is put forward.
(5) It is unusual for an official of Dai's rank to intercede.
(6) Xishuang Banna is ethnically very diverse; the largest group is the Dai followed by the Hani (Aini) and various smaller national minorities.
(7) We synthesized DAI in vitro and located its RNA-binding domain within the amino-terminal 171 residues.
(8) Four hundred eighty-five Native American students in grades 7-12 from two remote sites--Pine Ridge, SD, and Many Farms, AZ--and one nonremote site--Lapwai, ID--were scored for the DAI.
(9) Dai said this was a hope, though it was a wild card.
(10) The range from 25.99 to 40.50 per cent LAac with minimum in the duodenum and maximum in the ileum was observed on the 3rd DAI.
(11) Pretreatment with the DAi receptor antagonist ergometrine (10, 20 mg kg-1 i.p.)
(12) Greater improvement of memory, learning, and visuomotor speed occurred after DAI.
(13) Access to prenatal care is severely limited, and the majority of rural births are attended by local dai.
(14) We investigated the effects of the traditional Chinese herbal drugs, Dai-saiko-to (D) and Saiko-ka-ryukotsuboreito (S) on blood pressure, pulse rates, serum lipids, lipoproteins and apolipoproteins in 30 patients with mild to moderate hypertension in an open, randomised trial.
(15) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(16) In a real sense it not only pits 36-year-old Smith, a former BBC producer and lobbyist, against Dai Davies, former shop steward at the down defunct steel works, but Blairism against Bevanism and Nye's ghost.
(17) Thus, this newly identified substrate of DAI appears to have affinity for dsRNA structures and may be involved in dsRNA-regulated processes in the reticulocyte.
(18) For asymptomatic cirrhosis the risk was lower than for chronic hepatitis, especially at high DAI, probably because high consumption carried a high probability of liver decompensation.
(19) Tokyo Electric Power Company came under fire for underestimating the risk of a tsunami and building a seawall that was less than half the height of the wave that hit its Fukushima Dai-ichi plant and caused multiple meltdowns and massive radiation leaks.
(20) But one of Liu Xia's invitees – well-known dissident Dai Qing – is already outside China and has said she will attend the ceremony.
Rais
Definition:
(n.) Same as 2d Reis.
Example Sentences:
(1) But she says she is totally convinced that, as a public broadcaster, RAI has an ethical responsibility to start showing women in a more realistic light.
(2) The natural killer (NK) activity of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and lymphocytes with the capacity to form stable rosettes with neuraminidase-treated sheep red blood cells (E+) was studied in 28 previously untreated patients (11 at stage 0, 10 at stage I and 7 at stages II and III, according to Rai's classification) and 7 treated patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL), all of them at stage 0 according to Rai's classification after treatment, and in 15 healthy controls.
(3) Fibromyalgia patients reported significantly higher levels of learned helplessness, assessed according to a rheumatology attitudes index (RAI), than patients with all other diseases, and scleroderma patients showed significantly lower RAI scores (P less than 0.05).
(4) RAI scanning is necessary postoperatively to determine the completeness of the surgical procedure and to detect residual or metastatic disease.
(5) As critics of Mr Berlusconi have been barred from the state broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italia, Mr Fo protests that artists are being "defenestrated" metaphorically from the RAI for the same reasons that leftwing dissidents were literally thrown out of police station windows in the 1970s when Mr Fo wrote his work Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
(6) The RAI indicates that our level is that of a developed country.
(7) The validity of the RAI was established in comparisons to the Arthritis Helplessness Index.
(8) The performances have also beaten viewing records at Rai Due public television, with audience shares of up to 15%.
(9) All patients had evidence of active disease, and the majority had advanced Rai stages.
(10) We conclude that even at early stages in the disease (12 patients were Rai stage 0 patients) when the total serum immunoglobulin levels are still near normal, the B cells respond poorly to B cell mitogens.
(11) The 5 tests performed were radioactive iodine uptake (RAI) at 2 and 24 hours, serum protein-bound iodine (PBI), thyroxine iodine by column, triiodothyronine absorption test, and serum cholesterol.
(12) Ninety-four percent of patients were in Rai stage III or IV with extensive marrow infiltration, massive splenomegaly, and cytopenias refractory to chemotherapy.
(13) Cholesterol and RAI determinations were extremely variable precluding any evidence of drug effect.
(14) These results rais the possibility that the carbodiimide-reactive protein may be present as an oligomer in the energy-transducing complex.
(15) Taking into account the value of the TTM score, patients of the intermediate risk group (stage II of Rai et al.)
(16) An empirical comparison of the proposed procedure to that of Rai and Van Ryzin demonstrates the improvement that can be achieved with the new procedure.
(17) During the same time, 303 patients received RAI therapy for Graves' disease and one (0.3%) has subsequently developed thyroid carcinoma.
(18) Discordant results (increased serum hormone levels and a low RAI) are found either in the usual forms of hyperthyroidism when large quantities of iodide are ingested, or in atypical forms of hyperthyroidism, including spontaneously resolving hyperthyroidism of subacute thyroiditis, thyrotoxicosis factitia, toxic struma ovarii, and functioning metastatic thyroid cancer.
(19) In one of these, the administration of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) resulted in an appropriate increase in 24 hour RAI uptake from 14.9 to 37.1 per cent.
(20) In accordance with Rai's staging system the patients were distributed as follows: 0.29%; I, 20%; II, 25%; III, 13%; IV, 13%, and according to Binet's staging the distribution was: A, 55%; B, 21%; C, 24%.