(n.) The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The durable power of attorney concept, though not free of problems, appears more likely to be of practical utility.
(2) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
(3) The system is characterized by high durability, simplicity, and economy and offers an attractive alternative to prevalent columns used for flow analysis.
(4) Follow-up data showing near zero rates of self-injury for 22 months following the conclusion of active treatment with naltrexone indicated that the intervention produced a durable result.
(5) Durability of surgical reconstruction was improved if autogenous saphenous vein was used and if the reconstruction was performed before development of complications.
(6) We have reviewed results of secondary therapy in 427 patients with acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) who did not have a durable satisfactory response after primary treatment.
(7) In short, a durable, successful currency union requires some ceding of national sovereignty."
(8) A three-dimensional network is thus formed, held in place through durable adhesions to stainless steel pins.
(9) Development of a durable color overnight allows application of the DHA preparation in the evening, thus eliminating possible interference with sunscreen use during the day.
(10) In selected cases, prolonged chemotherapy administration can result in durable complete remissions.
(11) Four patients received IFN for approximately 6 months and have manifested extraordinarily durable regressions of greater than 4+ years.
(12) It is the objective of the investigations to improve the adherance of the bone cement at the interface to achieve a more durable anchorage of bone cement in the tissue.
(13) Furthermore, changes in diet composition did not lead to any durable, significant change in plasma peptide levels.
(14) Three of the seven surviving patients have durable engraftment (greater than 230 to greater than 550 days) while four patients have autologous hematopoietic recovery.
(15) We review parent training research along three general dimensions: (1) overall effectiveness, (2) differences in effectiveness attributable to certain features of the program, and (3) durability and generalization.
(16) We conclude that the Hancock porcine bioprosthesis has an acceptable long-term durability and satisfactory performance after tricuspid valve replacement, and we continue to favor its use in the tricuspid position even in association with mechanical prostheses in the left side of the heart.
(17) Current equipment is compact, durable, and not difficult to use or extremely expensive.
(18) The results of an extended follow-up of patients with combined mitral-aortic valve replacement indicate that mechanical prostheses perform better in the long-term owing to their superior durability when compared with biological valves.
(19) Cognitive therapy is often used in treating attention-deficit-disordered (ADD) children because of its purported ability to address this population's attentional deficits and behavioral difficulties and to create durable therapeutic effects.
(20) Finding the funds to invest in durable and improved sanitation remains a major hurdle.
Primer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, primes
(n.) an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder.
(a.) First; original; primary.
(n.) Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.
(n.) A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
(n.) A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(2) Elongation of existing RNA primers by the human polymerase-primase was semi-processive; following primer binding the DNA polymerase continuously incorporated 20 to 50 nucleotides, then it dissociated from the template DNA.
(3) This cDNA was obtained because of an identical 10 bp match with the 3' end of one of the GnRH primers.
(4) When PCR products in each of the 12 cats were subjected to a second amplification using the same primer pair (two-step amplification: double PCR), FIV proviral DNA was detected in all of the cats.
(5) In junctions, 3' PSS termini are preserved by fill-in DNA synthesis, although their 5' recessed ends cannot serve as a primer.
(6) Previous studies demonstrated that, when poly(dT).oligo(dA) was used as a template-primer, both proteins were required for poly(dA) synthesis.
(7) 5'-Ends of transcripts of the region were located by S1 nuclease mapping and primer extension.
(8) Nucleotide incorporation kinetics were determined and sequence specific pausing was analyzed by primer-extension.
(9) Primer extension and S1 nuclease protection analysis demonstrate that the hepatic and kidney specific mRNAs are transcriptionally initiated at different sites within the sialyltransferase gene.
(10) alpha 1 and alpha 2 were very similar as DNA polymerases in their sensitivity to several inhibitors and their preference for template-primers, except that alpha 1 had a slightly greater preference for poly (dT) X (rA)10 than alpha 2 did.
(11) Our results indicate that provirus expression occurs by two different mechanisms: one provirus acquired a single base pair mutation in the retrovirus tRNA primer binding site, permitting provirus expression; expression of three proviruses was mediated by 5'-flanking DNA sequences.
(12) Cognate sites in genomes that diverged approximately 100 million years ago can be detected by PCR assays based on primer pairs from unique sequences.
(13) HDV cDNA was then directly amplified with Taq polymerase using three pairs of specific primers.
(14) This reaction involved the synthesis of a short oligoribonucleotide primer which was then extended into a DNA chain.
(15) cDNA was prepared by reverse transcription of peripheral blood mRNA and amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers corresponding to sequences 400 bp apart on the cDNA, spanning the last three exons (X, Y, Z) of the beta-Sp gene.
(16) B.subtilis phage M2 uses a protein, instead of RNA, as the primer of its DNA replication.
(17) Optimum specific amplification resulted when the primer annealing temperature was 60 degrees C. The gene fragment was amplifiable in 25 different Brucella species and strains.
(18) Primer extension experiments show that in fission yeast transcripts are initiated at the same starting point as in tomato, indicating for the first time that a plant promoter can be correctly recognized in fission yeast.
(19) Genomic clones for the mouse estrogen receptor have been isolated from a cosmid library and used in conjunction with the cDNA clones to study the expression of the receptor in vivo by RNase mapping, primer extension, and Northern blotting.
(20) By using primer 1 (5'-AAAGAATTCATGGAATCCAGGATCTG-3', upstream nucleotides 157 to 2877), primer 2 (5'-AAAGAATTCATGAACGTGAAGGAATCG-3', upstream nucleotides 1846 to 2877), and primer 4(5'-ATAAAGCTTAATCAGACGTTCTCTTCTTC-3', downstream nucleotides 157 to 2877 and 1846 to 2877), the HCMV B gene code region sequence and its glycoprotein 52 kd antigenic domain sequence were amplified from the recombinant plasmid pBH1 DNA containing the HCMV B gene.