(n.) A large Australian bird, of two species (Dromaius Novae-Hollandiae and D. irroratus), related to the cassowary and the ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to fly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reference is made to possible modes of financial compensation in the context of mVGE or EmU procedures.
(2) The absence of a credible vision of a reformed EMU and financial 'firewall' has rendered Spain and other so-called peripheral nations vulnerable to capital flight and undercut their access to affordable fiscal funding."
(3) The rest of the week he drives to other city centres and commercial sites, with Emu sitting on a perch in a large wooden box in the back of the van.
(4) An assessment has been undertaken of potential doses to future aboriginal inhabitants of the Maralinga and Emu areas of South Australia, where nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s and 1960s have resulted in residual radioactive contamination.
(5) The size of the solubilized enzyme varied from r = 6.2 nm in sodium cholate to r = 8.3 nm in Berol EMU-043.
(6) A new type of globular particle, the 'insoluble yolk globule', was isolated from the egg yolk of three avian species (hen, duck, and emu) by centrifugation or gel-filtration chromatography.
(7) Competitive labelling with[14C]acetic anhydride over a range of pH values has been used to explore the surface topography of the apovitellenin I moiety in emu egg yolk low-density lipoprotein.
(8) Repeated examinations of EMU smears were positive in about 20% of cases.
(9) Emu takes the hint and flies back across the road to handler David Bishop.
(10) A laboratory test of E3G in early morning urine (EMU) from 38 subjects showed that delineating a defined fertile period (day of maximum follicular diameter minus 3 to day plus 2) was possible in 89% of cases.
(11) This value is low when compared with other birds and may be related to the large size of the emu.
(12) For this to be grounded in law, she called for a revision of the EU Treaty as her first choice, but also pointed to the possibility of bilateral contracts (see, EMU's post-crisis institutional landscape is taking shape, 28 November), if EU treaty change could not be achieved in the near term.
(13) We all know that our inclusion in EMU ensures for us greater stability and opens up new horizons," the prime minister, Costas Simitis, said in a televised New Year message.
(14) An out-of-control 4,000-hectare bushfire in the Benloch area on Thursday morning was travelling north and also threatening Pastoria East, Pastoria, Nulla Vale, Baynton and Emu Flat.
(15) We believe that the German commitment to complement EMU with a fiscal union may eventually include joint liability, which would exceed the narrowly defined limits under the ESM.
(16) This protein is analogous to the principal protein from the corresponding lipoprotein of emu's egg yolk, i.e.
(17) As we talk, parents and children on their way to school come up to say hello and ask about Emu.
(18) There's more: Herman Van Rompuy (@euHvR) Leaders agree fundamentals to tackle crisis: financial stability, sound public finances, fight unemployment, long-term reforms #BTTD13 #euro April 22, 2013 Herman Van Rompuy (@euHvR) Banking union crucial: we must keep momentum and overcome financial fragmentation & credit crunch #BTTD13 #euro April 22, 2013 Herman Van Rompuy (@euHvR) We have to fix systemic flaws of EMU architecture.
(19) Multimeric analysis on SDS agarose gels employing 125I-emu anti-human vWF revealed striking homology between human and guinea pig vWF.
(20) Before applying urinary determination of hormonal levels with a chemiluminescence immuno assay (LIA) method in early morning urine (EMU) samples, we had studied the correlation of RIA-LIA procedures with reference to follicular volumes at hCG day and to recovered oocyte maturity; in fact follicular growth and oocyte morphological features are the main parameters to evaluate a successful induced cycle.
Ratite
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Ratitae.
(n.) One of the Ratitae.
Example Sentences:
(1) In ducks and ratite birds, lymph heart myocytes more slowly but progressively differentiate a cytomorphology that does not conform in all characteristics to cardiac or skeletal muscle and even resembles in some aspects, smooth muscle.
(2) Although the phylogeny of Ratites is disputed, in particular their possible common origin with Carinates, which include most of the living birds, species of the first sub-class seem to have the same neurohypophysial hormones as those of the second.
(3) We have enzymatically amplified and sequenced approximately 400 base pairs of the mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene from bones and soft tissue remains of four species of moas as well as eight other species of ratite birds and a tinamou.
(4) Two groups of flightless ratite birds existed in New Zealand during the Pleistocene: the kiwis and the moas.
(5) These data support the theory that the ancestors of penguins were flying oceanic birds and that flightlessness in penguins has evolved independently from flightlessness in ratites.
(6) In juvenile ducks and ratites some myocytes differentiate to conductile cells, much as the conductile myocytes and myofibers of the blood heart.
(7) Osteocalcin (the 6,000 dalton Mr gamma-carboxyglutamate-containing protein of bone) has been detected in acid extracts of bones of the extinct class of New Zealand ratite birds, the moas, using a radioimmunoassay for sheep osteocalcin.
(8) This is similar to the pattern shown by ratite birds, where the decline period may be variable and facilitates hatching synchrony.
(9) Ultrastructural investigations of avian cardiac muscle, including ratite hearts, have provided great insights into the mechanisms as to how excitation leads to contraction in the heart.
(10) Alignment of the N-terminal sequence of osteocalcin from the extinct moa against the osteocalcins of the extant ostrich, rhea and emu reveals the homology amongst the ratite species is greater than the homology with the chicken osteocalcin.
(11) Ratites or paleognathid birds may have a different brain-to-metabolism association.
(12) To explain the current geographic distribution of ratites and the magnitude of the transferrin distances, it is supposed that the ancestors of these flightless birds walked across land bridges between the southern continents during Cretaceous times.
(13) These predictions seem to hold well for published data on the development of eggs of fish and ratite, precocial and altricial birds.
(14) Metallic proventricular foreign bodies are a potential source of heavy metal poisoning in ratites.
(15) A biochemical approach was used to study the evolution of ratite birds, i.e., the ostriches, rheas, cassowaries, emus, and kiwis.
(16) Quantitative immunological comparison of transferrin from ratites, tinamous, and other flying birds indicates that all the ratites and tinamous are allied phylogenetically and that they are of monophyletic origin relative to other birds.
(17) Osteocalcin the major gamma carboxyglutamic acid containing protein of vertebrate bone has been purified from the bones of a specimen of Pachyornis elephantopus, a species of the extinct class of New Zealand ratite birds, the moas.
(18) The study of the ratite conduction fibers bears out the idea of an inverse relationship between the size of the gap junctions and the input resistance of cardiac cells.
(19) The geometry of the conduction fibers of ratite hearts confirms earlier observations on birds showing that the geometry of the conduction system and its component cells is adapted to hearts of different sizes and rates of contraction so as to maintain a differential in conduction velocities between the conduction system and the working fibers.
(20) Thus, New Zealand probably was colonized twice by ancestors of ratite birds.