(n.) The act of making various, or of changing form or quality.
(n.) State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Further diversification of the V lambda 1 locus did not occur after prolonged in vitro passage of the cell lines.
(2) The discrepancy between the judgement of the insurance company based upon the medical records and the patients complaints also 4-7 years after injury as well as the diversification of therapeutical procedures used in the long term patients career are indicating a necessity of prospective study on cervical spine injury.
(3) "2013 was a tough year for us both in minerals and in oil and gas," Cochrane said, adding that the group had relied on"self help", including diversification which offset some of the challenges in its core mining market, improving operational efficiency, and strong growth in its after sales business, where orders were up 16% on 2012 and which accounted for 63% of revenues last year.
(4) Diversification within these tumor cells seems to occur by gene conversion events comparable with those observed in bursal B cells.
(5) These results suggest that during tumor development, alterations in the relative levels of S-adenosylhomocysteine and S-adenosylmethionine may lead to the inhibition of DNA methylation, resulting in the activation of previously quiescent genes, thereby promoting the phenotypic diversification of tumor cell populations as well as their progression from a relatively benign to a highly malignant state.
(6) In addition, antibody molecules derived by somatic diversification from the same germ line gene segments could be distinguished from one another.
(7) Thus, cell fates are segregated during cleavage stages in both symmetric and asymmetric manners, and the lineages exhibit a diversification mode (G. S. Stent, 1985, Philos.
(8) The medical treatment has been diversificated according to the cause which has generated it, with normalisation of the ocular pressure and sight ameliorations in 50 p. 100 of cases.
(9) The developmental and phenotypic characteristics of the bursal lymphocytes and chicken B cell lines that express RAG-2 mRNA demonstrate that selective RAG-2 expression occurs specifically in B cells undergoing Ig diversification by gene conversion.
(10) Certain aspects of this regional diversification result from competitive cell interactions which occur at the level of the postmitotic neuron.
(11) We report evidence suggesting that this cellular diversification can be brought about by the combinatorial action of two diffusible signals, cAMP and DIF-1.
(12) The diversification into infrastructure for battery-powered cars would mark a new departure for the company, which has largely backed biofuels as a greener alternative to petrol and diesel in the past.
(13) The onset of D diversification through gene conversion between day 15 and day 18 of embryonic development is further documented.
(14) Light-chain diversification occurs during or after the rearrangement event.
(15) The extraordinary polymorphism of class I MHC molecules in man (HLA-A, B and C) and mouse (H-2 K, D and L) poses many questions concerning their diversification and evolution.
(16) These results throw further light onto the complex processes of fetal development of eccrine sweat glands and their cellular diversification.
(17) The genetic mechanism responsible for the somatic diversification of two mAbs was determined.
(18) "Product and service diversification, infrastructure investment and platforms for direct consumer interaction ... it will be the next CEO's role to continue that transformation.
(19) Williams hopes renewed government interest in the sector, and the diversification of Britain's skills base, will help change the public's perceptions of manufacturing and engineers.
(20) Diversification of a duplicated ancestral sequence has resulted in three lipid-binding proteins with distinct and shared functions.
Strategy
Definition:
(n.) The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.
(n.) The use of stratagem or artifice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
(2) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(3) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(4) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(5) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
(6) Its articulation with content and process, the teaching strategies and learning outcomes for both students and faculty are discussed.
(7) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(8) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(9) We describe both the three supportive psychotherapeutic steps, which may last months to years including subsequent dynamically psychotherapeutic strategies as well as the reactions of the auxiliary therapist function on the students.
(10) This article describes a method of selecting a potentially successful strategy using a combination of two factors: change target and level of change willingness and ability.
(11) C. parasitica mutant strains deficient in the production of endothiapepsin (eapA-) were constructed using a gene-replacement strategy.
(12) Cocktails of two or more BsAbs, selected to bind to multiple epitopes on ribosome-inactivating proteins and perhaps also on unwanted cells, could provide an important new strategy in immunotherapy.
(13) Changing conditions call for each Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) to develop a survival strategy based on its own standards and values.
(14) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(15) Although this operational classification does not produce etiologically homogeneous groups, it is believed to have pragmatic utility with respect to planning targeted surveillance and management strategies.
(16) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
(17) Probably a mixed strategy will be to reduce the risk of HIV or IVDUs.
(18) Our studies suggest that the applicability of the HPRT gene probe strategy may be limited by (1) the low frequency of informative cases and (2) potential inappropriate methylation of the HPRT gene in a proportion of cases.
(19) The need for follow-up studies is stressed to allow assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention and to search for protective factors, successful coping skills, strategies and adaptational resources.
(20) The independent effects of pain and pain coping strategies, as well as the interaction effects between pain and pain coping strategies on depression, were evaluated cross-sectionally and prospectively over a 6-month interval.