(n.) That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(3) Strains isolated from the environment and staff were not implicated.
(4) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
(5) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(6) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(7) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(8) The minimal change in gel fiber size caused by slow A release implies that fibrin fiber size is primarily a function of ionic environment and not of the sequence of peptide release.
(9) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(10) The probe has been used for the identification of new Legionella-like strains isolated from the environment.
(11) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(12) The results indicated that the role of contact inhibition phenomena in arresting cellular proliferation was diminished in perfusion system environments.
(13) This activity scheme uses as its base, dose potency measured as TD50, the chronic dose rate that actuarially halves the adjusted percentage of tumor-free animals at the end of the study (Gold et al., Environ.
(14) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
(15) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
(16) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(17) In the latter case, the studies have resulted in a ranking of processes and treatment methods to protect the environment.
(18) Although the performance aspects of electronic displays are crucial considerations in workstation design, experience suggests that human factors in mechanical operation, software accessibility, and workstation environment are also important.
(19) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
(20) Will the rate of late (four to five years) wound infection after operations done in a clean-air enclosure be lower than that after procedures done in a "normal" operating-room environment using preoperative, operative, and postoperative antibiotics?
Ide
Definition:
(n.) Same as Id.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, one possible mechanism of intracellular insulin degradation is that cell surface IDE may be internalized with the insulin receptor complex and may degrade insulin during the intracellular process.
(2) These results demonstrate that the IDE is evolutionarily conserved and that its expression is tightly regulated during differentiation of Drosophila.
(3) A ventrally localized melanization inhibiting factor (MIF) has been suggested to play an important role in the establishment of the dorsal-ventral pigment pattern in Xenopus laevis [Fukuzawa and Ide:Dev.
(4) The addition of NADPH to the membranes was shown to result in the conversion of inactive protochlorophyll (ide) absorbing at about 630 nm into a form(s) with light-absorption maxima at about 640 and 652 nm, both of which disappear when chlorophyll (ide) is formed on illumination.
(5) When IDE particles are injected intravenously, the Kupffer cells of the hepatic sinusoids accumulate particles within 10 to 20 minutes, after which the clearance and excretion of IDE takes place.
(6) On the other hand the lingual IDE withdraw from the cell cycle before the corresponding labial cells.
(7) Immunoblotting experiments demonstrate that this inhibition is mediated by the reactivity of these mAbs with a 110 kDa protein, the known M(r) of IDE.
(8) A stereospecific high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of (R,S)-flecainide acetate [(R,S)-N-(2-piperidylmethyl)-2,5-bis-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)benzam ide acetate] in human plasma and urine is described.
(9) A rapid, sensitive high-performance liquid chromatographic method has been developed for the determination of desmosine (DES) and isodesmosine (IDE), the specific cross-linking amino acids of elastin, in the tissue hydrolysates of rats.
(10) Two minutes after injection, intra- and extracellular IDE particles were found in the red pulp of the spleen.
(11) An insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) was purified from the cytosol of human erythrocytes via the use of ammonium sulfate precipitation and chromatography on columns composed of DEAE-Sephadex, pentylagarose, hydroxylapatite, chromatofocusing resins, and Ultrogel AcA-34.
(12) Since some of these peptides have insulin-like properties, amino acid analysis of these products may enable us to identify not only the splitting position of insulin by IDE but also the site of the hormone for receptor binding.
(13) A fully automated readout unit for the BG-8 blood-grouping machine, printing Idee identification numbers with matching ABO grouping and rhesus (D) typing results is described.
(14) In vitro incubation experiments confirmed that human PMNs ingest IDE particles.
(15) The relaxant effect of cromakalim (BRL 34915), pinacidil and RP 49356 (N-methyl-2-(3-pyridyl)-tetrahydro-thiopyran-2-carbothioamide-1-ox ide) on the sustained contractions induced by 20 mM KCl were compared with the effects of nicorandil.
(16) [4R,(2E,5E)]-3-Hydroxy-2,4,6-trimethyl-2,5,7-octatriene-4-thiol ide, C11H14O2S, Mr = 210.30, hexagonal, P6(5), a = b = 9.8514 (6), c = 19.954 (1) A, V = 1677.1 A3, Z = 6, Dx = 1.249 g cm-3, lambda(Cu K alpha) = 1.5418 A, u = 23.07 cm-1, F(000) = 672, T = 298 K, R = 0.028 for 1021 unique reflections [Fo2 greater than 2 sigma(Fo2)].
(17) Row III IDE cells are also devoid of organelles related to secretory protein synthesis, although these IDE cells accumulated large pools of intracellular glycogen.
(18) Indirect studies based upon inhibitors, degradation products, and microinjected antibodies have suggested that the IDE can initiate cellular insulin degradation in mammalian cells.
(19) To further localize the site of IDE action, the fate of insulin after receptor binding was examined.
(20) In her book "Vårdandets Ide" the Finnish nurse, Katie Eriksson puts forward the thesis, that all kind af caring activities do have a common core.