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Eir


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have surveyed the rates at which clinicians in the U.K. and Eire withdraw antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in patients with active epilepsy.
  • (2) Estimates of the entomological inoculation rate (EIR) ranged from 0.00006 to 0.005 in different samples and vectorial capacity (VC) was 0.0005 for the 1990 sample.
  • (3) In the fracture group, 2 patients suffered spinal fractures which is noteworthy in that neither were wearing back protectors which as yet are not compulsory safety equipment in Eire.
  • (4) Their beta-endorphin-like immunoreactivity (beta-EIR) was assayed in plasma before and immediately after running.
  • (5) The FT, which also increased its price twice last year, had an average daily circulation of 122,286 in the UK and Eire, 61.97% of which were sold at full rate.
  • (6) To this end the following receptor model system consisting of two receptors was co-expressed in NIH 3T3 cells: a kinase inactive human insulin receptor (HIR K1018A) and a chimeric (EIR) receptor corresponding to the extracellular and transmembrane domains of the human EGF receptor and the cytosolic domain of the human insulin receptor beta subunit.
  • (7) In contrast to our previous studies on the submersion of scuba divers in a state of neutral buoyancy, neither plasma beta-endorphin-like immunoreactivity (beta-EIR) nor affective feelings were significantly changes in scuba divers by mimicking diving pressures of 2 feet (0.6 m) and 50 feet (15.2 m) for 20 min in a hyperbaric chamber.
  • (8) Plasma beta-EIR was measured by radioimmunoassay in male scuba divers before and immediately after remaining motionless 10 ft under water in a state of neutral buoyancy.
  • (9) The gustatory information on early insulin response (EIR), reported by Steffens (1976), is supported by the electrophysiological observations.
  • (10) In a multi-centre trial of mazindol ('Teronac'), a new anorectic agent unrelated to amphetamine, 274 male and female patients were treated by 53 investigators in Eire.
  • (11) The result is a joint effort of the original eight participants and invited professors from Italy and Eire as well as from five non-EC countries (Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland).
  • (12) Described herein is the preliminary physicochemical characterization of one such regulant, that being the EIR responsible for the Lyt-2+ T cell-dependent expression of FcR epsilon and secretion of an IgE-binding factor (IgE-BF) which can potentiate IgE synthesis; the former activity has been denoted EIRT for its selectivity of action on T cells, and the latter activity has been termed enhancing effector molecule (EEM) for its presumed potentiating influence on IgE antibody synthesis.
  • (13) The findings of this study demonstrate that normolipidemic patients with CAD may have marked abnormalities in th eir LDL composition and these anomalies are present in both diabetic and nondiabetic patients.
  • (14) Entomological inoculation rates (EIR) averaged 0.82 infective bites per man per night inside houses in Kisian and 0.65 in Saradidi.
  • (15) A questionnaire and telephone survey was carried out in April 1991 of all 31 academic departments of general practice in the United Kingdom and Eire; 30 departments responded.
  • (16) Nine viruses of the Kemerovo serogroup (orbivirus genus; family, Reoviridae) isolated from seabird ticks (Ixodes uriae and Ornithodoros maritimus) from eight different geographical locations (four from Scotland, two from Morocco, one from Eire, one from England, one from the Faeroes Islands) were examined.
  • (17) A blood sample received from a field case of redwater in Eire caused simultaneous infections of Babesia divergens and Ehrlichia phagocytophila when inoculated into a splenectomised calf.
  • (18) During the course of these studies, clues as to the physicochemical nature of other EIR activities was obtained.
  • (19) glucose injection, especially in early insulin release (EIR) and the lesser known post EIR suppression of insulin levels below basal, or acute insulin decrement (AID).
  • (20) Venipuncture and scuba breathing out of the water did not alter beta-EIR levels.

Heir


Definition:

  • (n.) One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter.
  • (n.) One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues.
  • (v. t.) To inherit; to succeed to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Antoine Comte, a lawyer for the Schloss heirs, said all the family wanted was the return of the painting.
  • (2) Diana of the sapphire eyes was rated more perfect than Botticelli's Venus and attracted Bryan Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune, as soon as she was out in society.
  • (3) They are most commonly described as conduct disordered and hyperactive, appear heir to a variety of deficits in verbal and abstract cognition, and perform more poorly in the academic environment.
  • (4) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
  • (5) Museveni, who has held power for nearly three decades, has never said he sees his son as his political heir.
  • (6) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
  • (7) Her parents, Apiruj and Wanthanee Suwadee, were found guilty of violating Article 112 of Thailand’s criminal code which says anyone who “defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent” will be punished with up to 15 years in prison.
  • (8) The anointed heir, Xi Jinping , commanded less attention than former general secretary Jiang Zemin, seated next to current leader Hu Jintao.
  • (9) The two reformists Mr Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have sought to portray themselves as the true heirs of the Islamic revolution's spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, but this tactic has since worn thin and Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his drive to paint Mousavi and Karroubi as western-run heretics.
  • (10) Welsh, but London-based, Jones's real offence to leftwingers - heirs to Nye Bevan - was to be a Blairite, "parachuted" into Blaenau Gwent.
  • (11) Revelations about Charles' power of consent come amid continued concern that the heir to the throne may be overstepping his constitutional role by lobbying ministers directly and through his charities on pet concerns such as traditional architecture and the environment.
  • (12) In the past, they were mostly wealthy British citizens seeking to hold their money outside the UK to avoid income tax and capital gains tax on their earnings, and to pass their wealth to heirs without inheritance tax.
  • (13) The spectacular ascent that saw him grace the cover of Newsweek as Asian of the Year and become the heir apparent of then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad was met with an equally spectacular crash in 1998, when the two fell out and Anwar was imprisoned for six years on corruption and sodomy charges, claims he repeatedly dismissed as politically motivated.
  • (14) The American heirs of a German-Jewish family have launched an unprecedented partnership with German state institutions to try to recover a vast art collection stolen by the Nazis.
  • (15) For seven years, the government has been fighting to prevent the disclosure of the letters – dubbed "black spider memos" because of the heir's handwriting.
  • (16) Tim Loughton, a Sussex MP, said it would be a "nonsense" to stop the heir to the throne talking to ministers as he had always come across as "well briefed and knowledgeable" in their meetings.
  • (17) But both Kennedy and Marks are now dead and Mossa said they had been unable to establish an obvious heir.
  • (18) Carter and the former leaders of Finland, Norway and Ireland were hoping for talks with Kim Jong-il and his son and heir apparent, Kim Jong-un.
  • (19) The gene termed heir-1 was localized to the neuroblastoma consensus deletion at 1p36.2-p36.12.
  • (20) Since Evans’ original request to see Charles’s letters, the government tightened up the Freedom of Information Act to provide an “absolute exemption” on all requests relating to the Queen and the heir to the throne.