(n.) The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most important conclusions for basic research on 'fast fibers', for clinical ophthalmo-electromyography and for the duality concept of eyemovement control are given.
(2) New-Hebrides Condominium, an archipelago in the South Pacific, is a country with a special socio-political environment, due to the duality of its French-British regime.
(3) It is not easy to see a simple outline in the progress of the idea of duality, because it did not develop evenly or reach the stage of general acceptance.
(4) The intracranial click image with long disparities and duality threshold was evaluated.
(5) The weight distribution of S for RI demonstrates the heterogeneity of this material, and the variation in the weight distribution with ionic strength demonstrates the duality of structure in RI.
(6) We show that the diversity-selection duality of Darwinian evolution is achieved at this state if we start from four different monomers capable of forming two complementary pairs.
(7) These observations give a new convincing support of the genetic basis of the molecular duality of DNA ligases.
(8) It is a show, in some ways, nostalgic for the dualities of 60s protest (currently celebrated in the V&A exhibition You Say You Want a Revolution?
(9) The existence of two types of neurons corresponding to these two fibres cannot yet be asserted, but seems very likely, perhaps connected with the hormonal duality of the magnocellular nuclei.
(10) In the light of the cases reported, it would appear that the scintigraphic picture of the "hot" nodule is more in favor of a duality between the latter and healthy tissue with respect to iodine than of a hypersensitivity to TSH.
(11) As a consequence, family attachment styles, which proceed-throughout development-together with personal identity construction processes, stress the notion of relationship as a dialectical and interactive process, defining the irreducible duality of human experience, in which the personal individuality construction is linked, since the earliest phases of life, to the significant relationships.
(12) Collectively, these findings demonstrate that ET-1 exerts a potent duality of action in rabbit TSM which varies significantly with maturation, wherein 1) age-dependent differences in airway relaxation are associated with changes in the evoked release of bronchodilatory prostaglandins and 2) maturational differences in airway contraction are associated with changes in Ins(1,4,5)P3 accumulation and extracellular Ca2+ mobilization, coupled to differences in PKC activation.
(13) An explanation of this apparent duality is suggested by recent reports that Bof is a corepressor of genes that are regulated by the phage C1 repressor, including the autoregulated c1 gene itself.
(14) We discuss whether this duality is caused by the triggering of different B cell subpopulations at different developmental stages, preprogramed to one or the other pathway or whether the final direction of development depends on the microenvironment of individual dividing cells.
(15) Duality between automatism and interactivity is provided.
(16) The transformation group has the following properties: duality of invariance, non-divergency of transformations produced, and availability of indirect test of invariance.
(17) Related to this, few appreciate that the perceived duality of options constituted by "sampling by exposure" and "sampling by outcome" is, similarly, but an illusion.
(18) For uncovering striking evidence of strong-weak duality in certain supersymmetric string theories and gauge theories, opening the path to the realisation that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory.
(19) For contributions to physics spanning topics such as new applications of topology to physics, non-perturbative duality symmetries, models of particle physics derived from string theory, dark matter detection, and the twistor-string approach to particle scattering amplitudes, as well as numerous applications of quantum field theory to mathematics.
(20) The rates of decay of virus neutralizing and haemagglutination inhibition antibodies in vaccinated birds showed a divergence indicating the possible duality of antibodies measured in serum neutralization and haemagglutination inhibition tests.
Physiognomy
Definition:
(n.) The art and science of discovering the predominant temper, and other characteristic qualities of the mind, by the outward appearance, especially by the features of the face.
(n.) The face or countenance, with respect to the temper of the mind; particular configuration, cast, or expression of countenance, as denoting character.
(n.) The art telling fortunes by inspection of the features.
(n.) The general appearance or aspect of a thing, without reference to its scientific characteristics; as, the physiognomy of a plant, or of a meteor.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a case report of 2-month-old boy who had a peculiar physiognomy with a microcephalus and an undeveloped forehead.
(2) The important variability between investigators in the rating of the clinical profile of fluoxetine suggests that more experience is needed in order to define better its physiognomy.
(3) After a brief philologic introduction on some correlated concepts of pathogenesis we suggest the concept of pathological physiognomy of the organs.
(4) These results support the priority of innate and perceptual processes in physiognomy over those of learning and memory, although some ambiguities still remain.
(5) In the thirties of our century, patient physiognomy has undergone a renaissance (Killian, Fervers, Risak, Lange and others) which was repeated in the sixties.
(6) The disruption of the normal functional development mechanism causes the formation of the characteristic physiognomy of a child with a cleft.
(7) Altering the typical mongoloid physiognomy facilitates the integration of these children into the community.
(8) In this study of 13 HED families with 16 affected males, 12 carriers, and 12 normal individuals, affected individuals had at least 3 of the following 4 clinical signs and symptoms: a) hypodontia, b) hypohidrosis, c) hypotrichosis, and d) clinically distinct facial physiognomy.
(9) Physiognomy found acceptance in the medicine of modern times, particularly through the publications of Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801), Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) and then, after 1838, of Karl Heinrich Baumgärtner (1798-1886) who took advantage of lithography, which had just come into use, to reproduce pictures of patients.
(10) The findings are suggestive of a differing facial physiognomy in isolated cleft palate.
(11) He asserts the rightfulness of the treatment and the hypotheses of unlawfulness; he mentions aspects of personal identification of a patient surgically treated whose physiognomy is modified, in the light of identification regulations.
(12) West Greenlanders with a predominantly Eskimoan physiognomy showed smaller anterior chambers than unmixed East Greenland Eskimos and Eskimo-Caucasian hybrids.
(13) A characteristic physiognomy, variable ophthalmologic anomalies and relatively specific dental and digital defects provide the diagnostic features.
(14) The characteristic physiognomy, shortness of stature with thin extremities, and large trophic ulcers are the key signs for the diagnosis.
(15) Low temperatures induce drastic changes in plant physiognomy and leaf anatomy, but dry matter allocation to the different plant compartments does not show a uniform trend.
(16) They stress the very particular physiognomy of this type of meningo-radiculitis, its seasonal occurrence and the uncertain nature of its pathogenesis.
(17) In 1864, one critic, J Hain Friswell, wrote: "One cannot readily imagine our essentially English Shakespeare to have been a dark, heavy man, with a foreign expression, of decidedly Jewish physiognomy, thin curly hair [and] a somewhat lubricious mouth" - an unpleasant xenophobic fantasy, but revealing, perhaps, of an ancestral urge for the national poet not only to have an identifiable face, but look the part.
(18) Outstanding features are early onset occurring during childhood or adolescence, unlike the idiopatic sporadic form of the disease, and the association with a peculiar physiognomy that reminds one of the facial expression found in Modigliani's paintings.
(19) Among the various types of hepatic ductular atresias, there is a group of patients with a definable syndrome of malformations: typical physiognomy, malformation of pulmonary arteries, mental retardation and disturbed growth of body and genitals.
(20) Study of clinical features observed during two separate periods of 10 years shows a modification in the physiognomy of this cancer, with, notably, a larger frequence of lower stages (45% of stage II in 1984 vs 20% in 1974) and a slight tendancy towards the discovery of smaller non - or early - infiltrating tumors (4% in 1984 vs 0% in 1974).