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Dorn


Definition:

  • (n.) A British ray; the thornback.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a 2013 Politifact interview , the author of the Urban Institute study, Stan Dorn, said: “It makes sense that as time goes by … health insurance coverage has greater impact on health outcomes.” The specific numbers might be hard to agree upon, and even harder to forecast if the Republican bill is passed.
  • (2) Dorn, G. (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, N.Y.), and W. Rivera.
  • (3) It is now perhaps more widely known as a backdrop for the kingdoms of Dorne and Meereen in Game of Thrones.
  • (4) Dorne, a part of the Seven Kingdoms, sends the second son of its ruling family to attend the upcoming Royal Wedding, as a calculated insult.
  • (5) The sedimentation potential or the Dorn effect occurs when heavy particles fall in a liquid.
  • (6) Previous studies in this laboratory have led to the identification of the 47-kDa cell binding protein of the AF, using the monoclonal antibody (mab) 5D2-D11 [Gramzow M, Bachmann M, Zahn RK, Uhlenbruck G, Dorn A, Müller WEG, J Cell Biol, 102: 1344-1349, 1986].
  • (7) A questionnaire was sent to diplomates of the American Board of Endodontics to determine changing trends in the treatment of endodontic emergencies since Dorn's survey 10 yr ago.
  • (8) In this paper the theory is used to interpret H. B. Dorn's data on the incidence of 21 kinds of cancer in both male and female Americans.
  • (9) This article describes a system of adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting implemented at WJB Dorn Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina, which involves reviewing all inpatient charts by medical record technicians for possible ADRs and notifying the chief pharmacist for investigation.
  • (10) The oblique parasagittal diameter of the lumbar spinal canal at the L5-S1 level was measured in 49 employees of the Wm Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans' Hospital using real time ultrasound in a case-control study.
  • (11) "Certainly the most destructive part of the Bush environmental legacy is not only his failure to act on global climate change, but his administration's covert attempt to silence the science alerting us to the urgency of the problem," said Jonathan Dorn of the Earth Policy Institute (EPA) in Washington.
  • (12) All spinach r-proteins that cross-reacted with antisera to chloroplast-synthesized r-proteins of C. reinhardtii are known to be made in the chloroplast (Dorne et al.
  • (13) In this article, we estimate accelerated time-to-failure and proportional-hazard functions with about 100,000 members of the Dorn sample, finding greater hazards associated with smoking and some dependence on occupational variables that measure risk and physical activity.
  • (14) A cohort of nearly 300,000 insured veterans (Dorn Cohort), experienced a much greater percent decline in CHD death rate over the period, 1954-1979, than the population of the U.S., while for stroke, the percent decline in death rate was virtually the same as the U.S. For CHD, greater percent declines were noted over the study period for non-smokers compared to cigarette smokers, for professionals compared to non-professionals and for persons with high socioeconomic scores (SES) compared to those with low scores.
  • (15) Use of the needle-catheter feeding jejunostomy at Richland Memorial Hospital and the Dorn Veterans Administration Hospital, both clinical teaching institutions of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, has been evaluated in 114 patients ranging from 20 to 90 years old.
  • (16) In a much-cited 2013 study , for example, economists David Autor of MIT and David Dorn of Spain’s CEMFI institute found that because computers could now be substituted for low-skill workers performing routine tasks (book-keeping, clerical work and repetitive production and monitoring activities) we were going to see a “hollowing-out” of middle-skilled, middle-wage jobs and “a corresponding rise in employment at both the high and low ends of the skills spectrum”.
  • (17) We analyzed the 1986 National Mortality Followback Survey, a sample of 18,733 U.S. death certificates, and the 1954-1962 Dorn study, a follow-up study of approximately 250,000 holders of U.S. Veterans Life Insurance.
  • (18) Two german physicians, Andreas Röschlaub and Anton Dorn, were against this project; they realised the possible results to man's health.
  • (19) Hypotheses about the extent, persistence, and constancy for different causes of the healthy worker effect are evaluated using the data of the Dorn Study of Mortality Among US Veterans.
  • (20) As the Dorne prince menacingly says to Tyrion: "Tell your father I'm here!

Norn


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Norna

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To resolve the apparent contradiction between Norn's work on human eyes suggesting that postoperative air protects the corneal endothelium and the work of Leibowitz on excised animal eyes suggesting that air damages the corneal endothelium, we have replicated Norn's findings in an animal model similar to that used by Leibowitz.
  • (2) This technique has been compared with that using the standardized Norn-pipette collecting fluid from the lateral part of the inferior fornix.
  • (3) Since fewer metabolically active cells may maintain corneal deturgesence even after cell loss we do not believe that Norn's work contradicts that of Leibowitz.
  • (4) N is also for Nibelungs , the race of dwarfs who live in the subterranean world of Nibelheim in the Ring cycle, and for Norns , three daughters of the earth goddess Erda who have a walk-on (or more usually sit-down) part in the Ring, where they are engaged in weaving the rope of destiny.
  • (5) November 8, 2013 David Buik (@truemagic68) What a messy set of Norn-farm Payrolls!
  • (6) 12.02pm: Sky's Norn Ironish correspondent Lawrie Sanchez looks glum and thinks his country's chances of finishing in the top two of their group with Italy, Serbia, Estonia, Slovenia and the Faroe Islands are slim.
  • (7) The methods of examination by which lacrimal insufficiency can be confirmed are discussed: Schirmer's test (I and II), Jones' test, Norn's dilution test, break-up time, tests with dyes such as fluorescein, rose bengal, and lissamine green 1%.
  • (8) Basophils were isolated with Day's technique modified by Shov and Norn.
  • (9) Possible cytological changes of the conjunctival fluid in association with physical activity were studied in a series of 39 subjects practising aerobics, 22 football players, and 29 marathon runners by means of the quantitative pipette method and the qualitative stix method of Norn.
  • (10) The Norn Lacrimal Dilution test showed increased tear flow after the climate-chamber exposures (P less than 0.05).
  • (11) to Norn 79%, and 55% for a standardized dilution (2.5 microliters of water) in the same pipette.

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