(1) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(2) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(3) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
(4) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(5) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(6) The nucleotide sequence of a 2.2-kb DNA fragment which contains the complete RAD7 gene was determined.
(7) We have determined the genomic structure of the fosB gene and shown that it consists of 4 exons and 3 introns at positions also found in the c-fos gene.
(8) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(9) It is quite interesting to analyse which gene of the virus determines the characteristics of the virus.
(10) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(11) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(12) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
(13) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(14) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
(15) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
(16) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
(17) Using the oocyte system to express size-fractionated mRNA, we have also determined that the mRNA coding for this protein is between 1.9-2.4 kilobases in length.
(18) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(19) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
(20) The serum concentration of hyaluronan (HYA) was determined in 59 patients with various myeloproliferative disorders, including 33 patients with idiopathic myelofibrosis.
Headstrong
Definition:
(a.) Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn.
(a.) Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) She went straight into the theatre, where she earned a reputation for being headstrong and undirectable.
(2) Vinterberg's version stars Carey Mulligan as headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, while Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Matthias Schoenarts play the contrasting suitors who jockey for her attention.
(3) Despite the fact that Wall Street and the City of London seemed to be dominated by headstrong young men with far too much money and far too little sense, the chance of a catastrophic blow-out was viewed as alarmist nonsense.
(4) In 1969, a screening of Paint Your Wagon wasn't complete without the chance to stop halfway, have a breather and ponder whether or not Lee Marvin would manage to tame Jean Seberg's headstrong ways come the second act.
(5) When the tapes went up on Channel 4's coverage, Mick Fitzgerald was a little headstrong, stumbling a little as he told Balding, "I know you did the Olympics last summer, but this is our Olympics, and we're lucky we do it every year", lesser presenters would have hesitated.
(6) Succoured by Rwanda , Nkunda nevertheless proved himself to be a headstrong and unreliable negotiating partner with the regional powers and with the government of Congo's president, Joseph Kabila, who Nkunda openly talked about toppling.
(7) Prachi was quiet, nine years old and painfully shy; Tanuja more headstrong, an independent 11-year-old.
(8) It took three auditions for her to win the part of headstrong 15-year-old Mia in Arnold's second feature, Fish Tank , but already her fierce, touching portrayal has earned her a best British performance award at this year's Edinburgh film festival, and helped win Arnold the jury prize at Cannes – the same gong she had scooped in 2006 for her debut feature, Red Road.
(9) The truth is, the current crisis results not from too much democracy but from long-standing failure to reform an oligarchic constitution which left the Group with a board unable to rein in a headstrong management.
(10) And now – surprised by his own headstrong change of direction – Stewart is giving it up to join a House of Commons whose reputation has been trashed by the expenses scandal.
(11) He was idiosyncratic, and headstrong, out of fashion, vaguely otherwordly.
(12) A busy and regular film actor, he headed the bomb-disposal squad in the Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger wartime drama The Small Back Room (1949), and in The Go-Between (1970) played the father of a headstrong young woman (Julie Christie).
(13) As a very young child, she was wilful and headstrong, constantly questioning everything.
(14) On screen, she excels at headstrong outsiders and exuding a steely single-mindedness.
(15) If only my headstrong sister Lydia had not eloped with Mr Wickham, all would be well."
(16) In Sense and Sensibility, a tale of thwarted love, a girl's headstrong feelings misguide her.
(17) On the surface this seems like a particularly nasty slice of family life made public, a bullying parent who can’t control his headstrong daughter.
(18) They tend to be more idealistic, headstrong, and social media-savvy than their elder counterparts.