(1) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
(2) The increase in membrane resistance at low pH allowed S. bovis to maintain its membrane potential and expend less energy when its ability to ferment glucose was impaired.
(3) Approximately 76.5 percent of the funds was expended for treatment services, 12.6 percent for prevention services, and 10.9 percent for other services (for example, administration, research, training).
(4) Total hydraulic power expended per unit of forward flow was computed as an index of right ventricular-pulmonary artery coupling.
(5) Intuitively, weight lost should be determined by the difference between the total energy consumed and the total energy expended.
(6) We conclude that a greater effort should be expended to encourage and even direct patients toward this form of therapy.
(7) However, the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander , is adamant Labour could not afford to spend the first two years of government wrestling with a referendum on Europe, pointing to the energy it had expended on the near-disastrous no campaign for the Scotland independence vote.
(8) Both required regions are near the carboxyl terminus, and they are separated by a region which is expendable for binding (K. W. Ryan and A. Portner, 1990, Virology 174, 515-521).
(9) The full duplex of tetramer d(G4).d(C4) was prepared by expending about a month.
(10) There's no doubt that MacMaster expended an enormous amount of effort compiling the blog and creating Gay Girl's persona: poems, long imaginary reminiscences – even warning readers to treat some other websites "with a very large grain of salt" – but to what purpose?
(11) The FSB expends enormous effort on keeping track of its targets.
(12) For a club of such means, with fortunes expended already, the focus on Carlos Tevez alone in attack should be troubling.
(13) Portions of the carbon of methane expended for synthesis of the biomass, carbon dioxide, and exometabolites was different among methanotrophic cultures belonging to different genera.
(14) The percentage of individuals expending 2000 kcal or more per week in LTPA was significantly lower in black men than white men (25 vs. 35%; p = .01) but was not different in black versus white women (18 vs. 17%).
(15) "When it became clear that they wouldn't help themselves, Nick wasn't going to expend political capital defending them.
(16) This scheme not only maximizes the size of the coated vesicle generated, but also minimizes the number of transformations, thus minimizing the energy expended.
(17) It has stoked an existing paranoia that the lives of ordinary Africans are expendable.
(18) But on the strength of the effort expended on the right royal cover-up thus far, it seems a fair guess that officials and ministers will have given the prince’s letters rather more favourable attention than routine correspondence with a member of the public.
(19) This is probably because the grafted cell clone, reactive to mouse antigens, is small and has to be expended in order to be effective.
(20) Effects of levels-of-processing on retention of visually presented target and nontarget letter words were studied in relation to the amount of processing resources expended on the attended task.
Single
Definition:
(a.) One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
(a.) Alone; having no companion.
(a.) Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
(a.) Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
(a.) Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.
(a.) Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
(a.) Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
(a.) Simple; not wise; weak; silly.
(v. t.) To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.
(v. t.) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
(v. t.) To take alone, or one by one.
(v. i.) To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single-foot.
(n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single.
(n.) The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
(n.) A handful of gleaned grain.
(n.) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.
Example Sentences:
(1) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(2) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
(3) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
(4) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(5) The coefficient of variation in the integrated area of a single peak is 16%.
(6) The diffusion of Myocamicin in the prostatic tissue of patients undergoing prostatectomy after a single oral dose of 600 mg has been studied.
(7) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
(8) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
(9) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
(10) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(11) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
(12) Comparison if single injections of MSB and atropine in normal subjects also demonstrated a more reliable dose-response relationship with MSB.
(13) Since interferon alfa-2b (Intron A) is useful as a single agent, it is important to determine if interferon can be combined with standard chemotherapy to improve both response and survival in patients with cancer.
(14) This suggests that Mg2+ accelerated both reactions from a single class of site.
(15) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
(16) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
(17) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
(18) The results indicated that roughly 25% of patients treated in this way will become hypothyroid after 5 years and that 85% are cured (need no further therapy during the follow-up period) using a single dose of iodine-131.
(19) In the triploids, the 40 female chromosomes present (mouse, n = 20) were derived from a single diploid pronucleus formed after the extrusion of a first polar body, and following the monospermic fertilization of primary oocytes.
(20) Such an approach to investigations into subclinical mastitis is not feasible by means of either single- or double-parameter techniques.