(n.) The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries
(n.) physical examination.
Example Sentences:
(1) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
(2) To explore an early step, we synthesized 5 beta-cholest-7-ene-3 beta,6 alpha,14 alpha-triol in tritiated form.
(3) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
(4) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(5) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.
(6) Further exploration of these excretory pathways will provide interesting new insights on the numerous cholestatic and hyperbilirubinemic syndromes that occur in nature.
(7) The relationship of weight history with current fat distribution was also explored.
(8) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
(9) Recognition of this deficiency in our knowledge spurred a belated explosion of research that began with an exploration of the fine structure of the mesothelium.
(10) In our efforts to explore alternative treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant tumors we have examined the sensitivity of MDR tumor cell lines to lymphokine activated killer (LAK) cells.
(11) Dacryography is the only means of exploring the permeability of the lacrymal ducts and to conclude as the whether watering of the eyes is organic or functional.
(12) Intraperitoneal drain should therefore be used when choledochus has been explored.
(13) Individual play techniques are explored, and two case histories are given as examples of how the occupational therapist works with the child, the family, and other practitioners.
(14) The present study explored the possibility that SOD-mimics such as desferrioxamine-Mn(III) chelate [DF-Mn] or cyclic nitroxide stable free radicals could protect from O2-.-independent damage.
(15) The remaining 16 patients were explored for persistent symptoms, an abnormality on GI series, or a mass lesion on CT scan.
(16) The current study explored the temporal course of the perception of vowel duration.
(17) All 15 patients survived, and exploration of the cannulation site for bleeding was required in three patients.
(18) Forty five elderly patients undergoing total hip replacements were assessed one day before and two days after surgery in order to explore the relationship between pre-operative anxiety and post-operative delirium.
(19) The aim of the present study was to explore the possible role of heat shock proteins in the manifestation of this heat resistance.
(20) In the present study, the role of antiperipheral nerve myelin antibody (anti-PNM Ab) in demyelination by generating the terminal attack complex (C5b-9) of complement was explored in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and other demyelinating neuropathies.
Oceanography
Definition:
(n.) A description of the ocean.
Example Sentences:
(1) Amazon reef map Its discovery came as a complete surprise, says co-author Patricia Yager, a professor of oceanography and climate change at the University of Georgia.
(2) At one level they look quite reasonable, for example in suggesting a merger between BAS and the National Oceanography Centre based in Southampton and Liverpool.
(3) David Zee, oceanography professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, says the same pattern was evident at other sites that were supposed to have been improved in time for the Games.
(4) The programme has been heavily criticised for distorting scientific data to fit the sceptic argument and Carl Wunsch, a professor of physical oceanography at MIT who featured in the programme, later said that he was "totally misled" by the film makers and that his comments were "completely misrepresented".
(5) Five hundred miles away in India, on the other side of the Bay of Bengal, researchers in the oceanography department at the University of Jadavpur in Kolkata say dozens of islands in the Indian Sunderban region are being regularly flooded, threatening thousands.
(6) Professor of Deep-Sea Biology and Professorial Research Fellow, University of Southampton National Oceanography Centre.
(7) "We detect an insatiable demand for information about the oceans," said Ed Hill, the director of the National Oceanography Centre at Southampton University .
(8) • Tim Barnett, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US, to Gabi Hegerl, Duke University, US, 18 May 2007 (email 850) This is during a discussion about information a group of scientists wants to request from climate modellers to improve their understanding of the models – and presumably improve the models themselves.
(9) "If you want to understand climate, we should invest more in making observations of climate change, and as the Arctic ocean is the amplifier of global warming, we should concentrate on the Arctic region to understand how fast the warming is taking place," says Wieslaw Maslowski, a research associate professor in oceanography at the US Naval Postgraduate School and science adviser to the Catlin survey.
(10) Google Earth has collected huge amounts of data from reliable sources such as the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and the US Navy.
(11) "We had a computer lab, we had oceanography, we had anatomy, we had physics, that's where it started."
(12) Photograph: credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Drought and erratic rainfall caused less carbon to be stored by parched forests and drylands, on top of the effect of fossil fuel emissions, Noaa said.
(13) The oil spill modelling was conducted by an oceanographer, Laurent Lebreton, and was peer-reviewed by Matthias Tomczak, emeritus professor of oceanography at Flinders University.
(14) Two CO2 monitoring stations high on the Hawaiian volcano of Mauna Loa are run by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and provide the global benchmark measurement.
(15) The past decade has seen the development of small submersibles as a new and effective tool of geology, acoustics, marine biology, and physical oceanography.
(16) On 11 October, two French oceanography students, their faces wind-beaten and sun-scorched, arrived in Istanbul after a 14-month journey from Gibraltar.
(17) The enlargement of the canal will increase the number of invasions from the Red Sea resulting in a diverse range of harmful effects on the ecosystem structure and functioning of the whole Mediterranean sea, with implications to services it provides for humans,” Bella Galil , a marine biologist at Israel’s National Institute of Oceanography, told the Guardian.
(18) "This is the part that's really exciting, for me: people will understand that we know almost nothing about a lot of these places, and Google will do it for us," said David Sandwell, professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, at the University of California, San Diego.
(19) If the current remains as weak as it is, temperatures in Britain are likely to drop by an average of 1C in the next decade, according to Harry Bryden at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton who led the study.
(20) While scientists like José Iglesias Estévez from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography refer to octopus “an ideal mass-produced food”, farming octopus and their close relatives would be a big mistake.