(v. t.) To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light.
(v. t.) To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(2) Cost-effective immunoassays for the detection of amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and methadone in urine have been developed using Syva EMIT reagents and a Cobas Bio centrifugal analyser.
(3) By 3 d in the chick embryo, the first neurons detected by antibodies to Ng-CAM are located in the ventral neural tube; these precursors of motor neurons emit well-stained fibers to the periphery.
(4) The first was a passive avoidance task in which the chicks were allowed to peck at a green training stimulus (a small light-emitting diode, LED) coated in the bitter liquid, methylanthranilate, giving rise to a strong disgust response and consequent avoidance of the green stimulus.
(5) To determine whether electromagnetic fields emitted by VDTs are associated with an increased risk of spontaneous abortion, a cohort of female telephone operators who used VDTs at work was compared with a cohort of operators who did not use VDTs.
(6) The vocalight lights up a variable number of light-emitting diodes depending upon the loudness of sounds received at a hydrophone within the suction cup.
(7) Kinetic analysis of residue and outflow curves of gamma-emitting indicators such as chromium-51-EDTA and iodide-131-thalamate from skeletal muscle gives the possibility to determine the extraction fraction and the plasma flow, and from these two values the capillary diffusion capacity can be calculated (Sejrsen 1970, preliminary report).
(8) Excellent correlation between EMIT and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) has been previously established.
(9) The results indicate that behavior in transition states maintained by reinforcement contingencies in the radial maze is similar to that maintained by extended chained schedules, despite the fact that some of the stimuli controlling behavior in the maze are absent at the moment behavior is emitted.
(10) The accuracy of two modified enzyme immunoassay (EMIT) methods using reduced sample and reagent volumes for determining serum tobramycin concentrations was compared with that of the standard method.
(11) Urine specimens from 93 selected subjects were run by fluorescence polarization immunoassay on the Abbott TDx; by enzyme multiplied immunoassay with two Syva EMIT assays; and by thin-layer chromatography with the TOXI-LAB system (Marion Laboratories).
(12) We have isolated a mutant of the luminous bacterium Beneckea harveyi, which requires exogenous adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) to synthesize luciferase and emit light.
(13) Comparisons of homogeneous enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique (EMIT) and high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) revealed that the EMIT slightly over-estimated plasma carbamazepine levels due to immunochemical cross reactivity with the epoxide metabolite.
(14) A homogeneous enzyme immunoassay (EMIT) for serum thyroxine determination has been evaluated.
(15) She ushers us into the kitchen, where a large metal pot simmering on the hotplate emits a spicy aroma.
(16) UMLBs (n = 14) had no spontaneous activity and emitted bursts of action potentials that preceded rapid eye movements by approximately 6 ms. Parameters of the burst (duration and number of spikes) were highly correlated with parameters of the rapid eye movement (duration and amplitude of the upward displacement of the eyes).
(17) However, Teryn Norris and Jesse Jenkins, of the Breakthrough Institute , argue that as the recession has deepened, Obama has been relatively silent on cap and trade emissions schemes similar to the one operating in Europe in which companies can trade permits to emit carbon dioxide.
(18) Sensitive cocultivation techniques were applied to study the radiation-induced activation of endogenous retroviral genomes in different mouse strains by the alpha-emitting radionuclide 224Radium.
(19) Eigenmannia is a weakly electric fish that emits a constant-frequency electric organ discharge (EOD).
(20) The EMIT assay was found reliable in therapeutic drug monitoring.
Radiancy
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun.
Example Sentences:
(1) Response saturation of blue-sensitive cone pathways was studied by measuring increment thresholds for violet test flashes on flashed violet fields in the presence of a steady yellow "auxiliary" field of constant radiance.
(2) The first study determined absolute thresholds for "white" and monochromatic lights by establishing a discrimination between lights of various radiances and a dark key.
(3) The radiance of the annulus required to make the central area (spot and ring) appear uniformly black was measured for different wavelengths (440-660 nm) of the annulus.
(4) Mayor Boris Johnson, whose default setting has been relentless and sometimes improbable cheerleading in the face of serious concerns and minor niggles, promised with typical restraint that as the flame "spreads through the city its radiance will dispel any last clouds of dankness and anxiety that may hover over some parts of the media".
(5) The minimal radiance at which phototherapy begins to be effective for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia was also determined.
(6) The effects of chromatic adaptation on the opponent interactions of cone mechanisms were investigated by using increment-threshold spectral-sensitivity (ITSS) functions and threshold-versus-radiance (TVR) curves in rhesus monkey subjects.
(7) This may in part be related to the intrusion of the blue-sensitive mechanism at the upper radiance range.
(8) The obtained constancy ratios were attributed to the role of distance estimation in the determination of colour appearance, an effect that is presumably masked under normal viewing conditions, where long viewpaths are necessary to produce significant radiance changes.
(9) All the cone mechanisms were in compliance of Ricco's law, summing target radiance linearly over a certain range of target diameters with an average slope of 2.4.
(10) "If you look at it as an exhibition, there is a lot of radiance and luminosity and jewel-like colours," she say.
(11) A small patch of achromatic light viewed within a large achromatic surround appears gray or black when the radiance of the surround is well above that of the patch.
(12) A study is reported of colour appearance in situations where the spectral radiance of an object changes significantly with viewing distance.
(13) Many times over the past decade and in the middle of making other films – All or Nothing , Happy-Go-Lucky , Another Year – Mike Leigh and his cinematographer, Dick Pope, would look at the sky and then at one another and say: “Oh God, we must make our Turner film.” A particular light, a moment’s radiance, a sunset – any of these might set them off.
(14) A rapid clinical protocol to assess the radiance response function of the SWS cone ERG is described.
(15) When changing the radiance ratio 630 nm-531 nm of the stimulus, the normal subject exhibited a P-ERG to all stimuli with only a relative amplitude minimum at a distinct radiance ratio, whereas the color-deficient observers failed to show a P-ERG at some color contrast 630 nm-531 nm, the radiance ratio of which was different in the protan and deutan.
(16) The responses of the phasic ganglion cells go through a minimum at relative radiances very similar to that predicted from the V lambda function.
(17) The diffusion length was also determined from radiance versus depth measurements.
(18) Biological weighting functions were used to calculate the blue-light radiance and the weighted UV irradiance.
(19) Considering a negative phototaxis as a stimulus reaction to narrow - or wideband monochromatic radiance of varying ranges of wavelengths and different irradiance it was established that both unfed and engorged I. and II.
(20) Different color sensations were generated by two areas in a complex scene, even though both areas sent to the eye the same 656-nanometer radiance that excited the long-wave cones and excited only the rods.