(n.) One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.
(n.) A child's game, played with dib bones.
Example Sentences:
(1) Akintonwa has classified degranulation into three types, viz, DIA, DIB, and DII (D.A.A.
(2) DIB profiles differed only with respect to slightly higher scores on the affect section among patients who committed suicide.
(3) The qualitative DIB was performed using capillary blood obtained by digi-puncture and results were compared in a blind fashion to the ELISA data.
(4) A case of moderately severe erythroblastosis fetalis due to anti-Dib is reported.
(5) No statistically significant changes in DIB occurred in any of the jaw locations between the 1-year and 2-year evaluations.
(6) red & blue shifts) in the fluorescence spectrum of diB(ae)F-treated cells before injection and in the increase spectrum after injection of G6P, as compared to the same spectra in the diB(ae)F-untreated cells.
(7) Hizb ut-Tahrir called dibs on the Caliphate, and they view Baghdadi’s group and his title as wholly illegitimate.
(8) The findings are consistent with the idea that Kernberg's borderline concept is an instance of a severity or maturity level construct, while DSM-III and DIB are characterological constructs, orthogonally related to the level construct.
(9) In recent years there have been attempts to circumscribe the definition with the help of DSM-III criteria and the DIB.
(10) The DIB may be a useful aid in assessing the host response to putative periodontopathic microorganisms.
(11) Some individual DMT signs correlated with some deviant behaviors as identified by the DIB.
(12) Whole-cell antigen, biotin-labeled goat anti-turkey IgG conjugate, and horseradish-peroxidase-labeled streptavidin were used in the AB-ELISA and AB-DIB assay.
(13) The conclusion is that the DIB may be used for retrospective diagnosis of borderline patients from hospital records.
(14) The DIB is suited to differentiate clinically diagnosed borderline personality disorders from schizophrenics and neurotic depressives.
(15) Both Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) and M. synoviae (MS) antigens prepared for the routine haemagglutination inhibition (HI) test were diluted and absorbed to the separate pieces of durapore membrane for the measurement of dot-immunobinding (DIB) titers of test sera.
(16) The concurrent validity of the DIB may be enlarged by modifications of the proposed scaling system.
(17) Two trained and experienced clinical psychologists and two nontrained students rated the sections in Gunderson's Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines (DIB) on the basis of hospital records for 16 patients (DIB-R).
(18) Using peripheral capillary blood and the DIB, detection of elevated systemic antibody levels can be performed in approximately 2 hours.
(19) Using the clinician-administered DIB as the diagnostic standard, the authors found that the DIS borderline index had a sensitivity of 85.7%, a specificity of 86.2%, and a kappa of 0.67.
(20) The Axis I phenomenology of 50 outpatients meeting both Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines (DIB) and DSM-III criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), 29 outpatients meeting DSM-III criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD), and 26 outpatients meeting DSM-III criteria for Dsythymic Disorder as well as DSM-III criteria for some other type of Axis II disorder (dysthymic OPD) was assessed blind to clinical diagnosis using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III (SCID).
Gib
Definition:
(n.) A male cat; a tomcat.
(v. i.) To act like a cat.
(n.) A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw.
(v. t.) To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.
(v. i.) To balk. See Jib, v. i.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fund is a new development for Gib because it raises private money up front for investment in a particular industry instead of investing project by project.
(2) Chris Huhne , the energy and climate change secretary, appears to concede the Treasury's concern that the liabilities taken on by the GIB would be added to the government's budget book.
(3) To analyse the importance of GIB we studied, retrospectively, the causes of hospitalization in 301 patients, all on HD in the same Unit in January 1990.
(4) Today's report also appeared to put pressure on Osborne as he works towards this autumn's comprehensive spending review (CSR), by warning that the task of setting up a GIB needs to begin immediately.
(5) Kingsbury is particularly proud of the large investments made this year in windfarms such as the £241m Gib put into Westermost Rough off the coast of Yorkshire and the £220m for a 10% stake in Gwynt y Mor, the biggest offshore field under construction in Europe.
(6) Extracts of B. malayi adult male worms, female worms, and microfilariae contained Gib 13 monoclonal antibody-reactive antigens of Mr 25-30,000, 57-90,000, and approximately equal to 200,000.
(7) "The GIB will build on this lead and enable businesses such as Aquamarine Power to leverage the significant private sector capital which will allow the UK's green energy sector to flourish," he said.
(8) A green investment bank (GIB) is being pushed for to turn the £50-80bn of traditional project capital available into the much higher amounts funding experts say will be needed to pay for the low-carbon technologies the UK is expected to need.
(9) Sue Charman, the "one planet finance leader" at WWF-UK, said the GIB had an essential role to play in shifting the UK to a low carbon economy, but giving it no immediate borrowing powers was a critical mistake.
(10) Vince Cable, the business secretary, has officially marked the launch of the new green investment bank ( GIB ) by announcing funding of a new waste-to-energy plant and an energy saving scheme.
(11) NSAID appear to be a risk factor for GIB from erosive Gastritis and or Duodenitis.
(12) I am confident that the sale process will provide GIB with good new owners who will support GIB’s continued growth and leadership role in the global green economy long into the future,” he said.
(13) Energy efficiency is a no-brainer, as is letting the GIB off the Treasury leash.
(14) The Gib 13 monoclonal antibody was raised against eggs of Onchocerca gibsoni and subsequently found to react with a phosphorylcholine epitope designated as the T15 idiotype.
(15) Salmond, who has played a prominent role in building up overseas investments in green energy, pointed out instead that £103m of the GIB's start up capital of £3bn came from the money owed to Scotland by the Treasury, which has been sitting on Scotland's share of the fossil fuel levy for some years.
(16) The evidence now indicates that only cells in a certain intermitotic state, called GIb, can be thus detached, and that when such cells are not locally available the expanding mitosis is forced into the vertical axis.
(17) Detection of circulating antigen in amicrofilaremic subjects with acute symptoms of lymphatic filariasis, and 53% of asymptomatic amicrofilaremic subjects, but not in nonendemic controls, suggests that the Gib 13 IRMA will also be of value in the diagnosis of occult filariasis.
(18) Lib Dem minister and energy secretary, Chris Huhne, wants the GIB to operate as a fully fledged bank that is able to issue bonds and underwrite loans, rather than just a fund, which would be more limited and unable to release the required capital.
(19) Cable will be in front of the environmental audit committee of MPs to discuss the GIB tomorrow.
(20) The report said that the forthcoming spending review on 20 October is a good time to deliver a GIB which is backed by between £4-6bn of capital until 2015.