(v. t.) To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
Example Sentences:
(1) Join us for a spot of future gazing as we discuss: The challenges and opportunities colleges and training providers will face over the next five years International expansion The role of FE in higher education New ways to diversify New technology – the possibilities and risks.
(2) In lieu of crop rotation and biodiversity (the non-toxic way to control weeds), the MSU extension service promotes what the article calls a "diversified herbicide program".
(3) "But the fact is when we looked at it although there were strong synergies it would have had to provide real value because it doesn't allow us to diversify [beyond our existing dependence on advertising]."
(4) Yet in recent months, Ma has pushed the company far beyond its core domain, placing it among the ranks of highly diversified conglomerates such as Google and GE.
(5) The immunoglobulin heavy chain gene configuration of B progenitors maintained on the PA6 layer diversified after their transfer onto ST2 layer.
(6) 2-Acyl-lysophosphatidylcholines were taken up without prior hydrolysis and reacylated into doubly labeled phosphatidylcholine, which was the most labeled lipid class, whereas lipid distribution of the unesterified fatty acid was more diversified.
(7) "A much larger and nationally more diversified force is needed to provide security and protect the population," he said.
(8) Current research suggests that orality circles produce very rich stimuli which develop perceptions and sensory abilities, in correlation with highly diversified abilities of the central nervous system.
(9) The stage-specific developmental appearance of extracellular matrix molecules such as type IV collagen, laminin, entactin, fibronectin and proteoglycans seems to reflect a diversified role of extracellular matrices already in the earliest stages of development.
(10) The chief executive of the Australian Industry Group, Innes Willox, said speeding up the pace of innovation could help create a more diversified and resilient economy after the mining investment boom.
(11) His scientific work is very extensive and diversified (535 paper in 12 scientific journals).
(12) Others such as Gannett have been diversifying away from publishing by buying other media assets.
(13) Strong selective pressures must exist to maintain the repeat regions and also to diversify them in the case proteins containing strain-variant repeats.
(14) between 1980 and 1983, diversified on districts they moved between 70.0 and 46.5 p.c.
(15) To further diversify risk and after the energy review has reported, we are prepared to sell part of our stake in British Energy and related energy assets.
(16) Species of Spirorchis arose and diversified with North America emydids following the separation of North America and Europe in the late Cretaceous or early Tertiary periods.
(17) There is a residual risk that some clients may opt to diversify their business away from BNP.” The fine was the latest against a number of foreign-owned banks in the US but, unusually, the deal included a guilty plea.
(18) In accordance to the Larsen system for grading rheumatoid arthritis lesions by conventional x-ray, we establish a clinically relevant magnetic resonance grading system which is able to diversify the stages of destruction and inflammative activity in rheumatoid arthritis.
(19) "Our economy is also much bigger [than Greece], more diversified and, with all the investments that we've made for years, it's more competitive," Campa said.
(20) Endothelial cells from different species and sites may utilize diversified antioxidant protective mechanisms.
Ramify
Definition:
(v. t.) To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.
(v. i.) To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.
(v. i.) To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two principal classes of striatum long axonal neurons (sparsely ramified reticular cells and densely ramified dendritic cells) were analyzed quantitatively in four animal species: hedgehog, rabbit, dog and monkey.
(2) However most of the TH-immunoreactive cell bodies showed an evident depletion of TH immunoreactivity and their processes, ramified in the inner and outer plexiform layers, disappeared almost completely.
(3) Subcellularly, the heaviest depositions of reaction product were observed lining the cytoplasmic membrane surfaces of the labyrinth of anastomosing plasma membrane tubules that ramifies throughout the chloride cell cytoplasm.
(4) These cells often surrounded cerebral capillaries, and sent ramifying processes into the neuropil.
(5) In contrast, choline acetyltransferase immunoreactivity was limited to matching subpopulations of amacrine (A14) and displaced amacrine (dA14) cells, ramifying narrowly at 20% and 49% depth levels within the IPL.
(6) The cell body is smaller in size than the oogonia, and cytoplasmic processes from it ramify around the periphery of the ovary.
(7) The antigenicity of the ramified microglia became elevated when rhodamine B isothiocyanate was present intracellularly and even more so with the presence of a nearby intracerebral stab wound.
(8) The ultrastructure of the Sertoli cell studied in sexually active control animals during May-June and experimental animals sexually activated by light in winter, presents the commonly described ramified aspect with an infolded nucleus, well developed Golgi complexes, rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum, numerous microfilaments, few liposomes and lysosomal formations; In the regressed testes of hibernating animals or blinded spring animals, the Sertoli cells are more round shaped with a significant increase in number and size of liposomes, lysosomes and various necrotic bodies.
(9) Whereas the noradrenergic and serotoninergic neuronal systems ramify profusely within the amygdala, the dopaminergic system appears to be more discretely and topographically organized.
(10) Ramified nerve fibres in the submucosa immunoreactive to SP, VIP, CGRP and PHI extended to the mucosa and to small blood vessels in the submucosa.
(11) The ovarian artery and vein and their uterine branches which supply the ovary, oviduct and uterus, ramify extensively.
(12) These neurons had a long apical dendrite, which ramified in the upper-half of SGC into horizontally arborized dendritic fields.
(13) Scanning electron microscopy revealed that in analogy to brain tissue two types of microglial cells are present in the cultures: the ameboid and the ramified type which both display similar appearance by transmission electron microscopy.
(14) These bipolar neurons possess one CSF-contacting process that protrudes into the ventricular lumen with a club-shape ending and a thick, ramifying process directed into the hypothalamic neuropil; the ependymofugal processes form intra- and extrahypothalamic projections.
(15) Computer reconstructions of two of the Golgi-impregnated dLGN interneurones and their subsequent 3-dimensional computer rotations showed that their processes ramified in long columnar-shaped territories aligned dorsoventrally.
(16) From implants placed in the host rostral mesencephalic region, HNF-positive axonal projections were seen to extend in large numbers rostrally along the medial forebrain bundle and the internal capsule, and ramify within the caudate putamen, the ventral striatum and the amygdaloid nuclei (a distance of about 5-6 mm), and more sparsely in the frontal cortex and the olfactory bulb (a distance of about 10 mm).
(17) A mobile full text processing system is reported which is independent of a computer, yet can be completely integrated into a data processing system and is purely a storage and retrieval system for data files and data banks which, with relatively little activity ratio of the individual items of information stored, still have an unusually large, widely ramified indexing depth.
(18) In some breasts of all three types of megalomastia ramified new ducts named "juvenile units" had developed and had proceeded to atrophy.
(19) Choline acetyltransferase was found in amacrine cells that ramify in sublamina a of the inner plexiform layer and in displaced amacrine cells ramifying in sublamina b.
(20) methods have been used to determine the composition of a mixture of oligosaccharides obtained by enzymic degradation of the modified hairy (ramified) regions of apple pectin with a new rhamnogalacturonase.