(n.) A nesting or unfledged bird; in falconry, a young hawk from the nest, not able to prey for itself.
(a.) Unfledged, or newly fledged.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was supported by the fact that Poly EYK(EYA)5 is alpha-helical but the peptides used here showed only a slight propensity to adopt this structure and it did not correlate with their functional activity.
(2) To understand the molecular basis of epitope selection we have analysed the hierarchy of T cell epitopes in a repeating synthetic polypeptide antigen Poly 18, Poly EYK(EYA)5 in the mice of H-2d haplotype.
(3) Animals which are nonresponders to Poly EYA or Poly EFA, when primed with Poly EYAEFA, produce both T cells and antibodies which crossreact with Poly EYA and Poly EFA.
(4) However, we observed the dominance of (EYA)5 reactive clones even when EYK(EYA)3 was used as an immunogen and this could be related to the degeneracy of their antigen specificity.
(5) We investigated the Ia and T cell receptor interaction sites on the synthetic polypeptide antigen poly-18 [poly-EYK(EYA)5] using T cell hybridoma clones specific for this antigen in the context of I-Ad.
(6) We have analyzed the fine specificity of 21 randomly chosen Poly 18-reactive, (EYA)5-specific and H-2d-restricted T cell hybridomas derived from H-2d, H-2bxd, and H-2b----H-2bxd Poly 18-responding mice to determine the number of unique antigen reactivity patterns represented by this T cell population.
(7) In these mice Poly 18 induced good T-cell proliferative response, which was inhibited by anti-Ia antibody, and the mice were able to respond to tyrosine-containing polypeptide Poly EYA but not to the phenylalanine-containing antigen Poly EFA.
(8) Synthetic antigen Poly EYK(EYA)5 induces T cells of narrowly defined fine specificity as represented by the two I-Ad-restricted T cell hybridomas, A.1.1 and B.1.1.
(9) Mice of H-2b,d haplotypes are high responders to Poly EYA, mice of H-2p,q haplotypes are high responders to Poly EFA and mice of H-2b,d,p,q strains are high responders to Poly EYAEFA.
(10) The binding of (EYA)5 to the antigen-binding groove of I-Ad appears to generate a highly diversified T cell response.
(11) (EYA)5 reactive T cell clones appear to be very heterogenous and much larger in number than EYK(EYA)4 reactive clones.
(12) Hybridoma A.1.1 responds to EYK(EYA)4 as the minimum antigenic sequence while hybridoma B.1.1 recognizes (EYA)5 sequence.
(13) By considering, in particular, the kinetic constants obtained with the pentapeptides AAYAA, EEYAA, AEYAA, EAYAA, with the tetrapeptides AYAA and EYAA and with the tripeptides AYA and EYA, it turns out that N-terminal acidic residue(s) are only essential with TPK-IIB for efficient phosphorylation with multiple residues displaying a synergistic effect.
(14) The unusual hierarchy observed for immunodominance in these overlapping epitopes of EYK(EYA)5 sequence suggest a bias in the selection of T cell repertoire based upon the crossreactivity between potential epitopes generated as a result of antigen processing.
(15) The T cell response directed to the repeating tripeptide epitope (EYA)5 is extremely heterogenous even though the epitope has a relatively simple amino acid sequence.
(16) Therefore, (EYA)5-I-Ad complex allows the activation of unrelated T cell clonotypes with the same overall antigen specificity and MHC restriction, but with distinct microheterogeneity in response and receptor usage.
(17) The epitope (EYA)3EYK appears to be subdominant since it can elicit Poly EYK(EYA)5 specific T cells upon immunization but does not appear to be part of Poly EYK(EYA)5 repertoire.
(18) (EYA)5 reactive clones could be elicited by at least three short Poly-18 derived epitopes (EYA)4, EYK(EYA)3 and (EYA)3EYK while EYK(EYA)4 reactive clones elicited only by the EYK(EYA)3 epitope.
(19) Surprisingly, the substituted peptide EYAEAA(EYA)3 could activate A.1.1, indicating that an Ala at position 5 instead of a Tyr obviates the critical requirement for Lys3.
(20) Hen egg lysozyme, pigeon cytochrome C and the synthetic polypeptide Poly 18, Poly EYK(EYA)5 antigen produce good antibody responses.
Falconry
Definition:
(n.) The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.
(n.) The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Harris hawks are not known for their speed but they are social birds and easy to train, making them popular for falconry.
(2) He thought it hilarious that God had made a woman with the falconry bug.
(3) It’s a memoir of mourning, a history of falconry, and has this wonderful special vocabulary of falconry.
(4) After all, her book H is for Hawk is a visceral depiction of the grief and depression she fell into after the sudden death of her father in 2007, and her salvation through falconry.
(5) He is also reported to like big game hunting and falconry.
(6) There are thousands of falconers in the UK ("there also are a lot of falconry widows out there"), and several firms use the technique for pest control in London, according to Bishop.
(7) Later, while spending weekends practicing falconry at Blow’s country estate, McQueen relished the contrast with his early foray into ornithology.
(8) For services to Falconry and the Conservation of Raptors.
(9) In one highly compressed volume, we have the working through of the most desperate grief, a potted history of falconry, a rumination on nature, and an essay on the life of White, a writer best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels The Once and Future King .
(10) She has written one other book, an academic history of falconry, but the story told in H is for Hawk is one that was deeply personal to Macdonald, and it took her almost seven years to put it on to paper.
(11) Cortisol and aldosterone levels were measured in plasma of eastern cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus) collected by three different methods, i.e., shooting, live-trapping and falconry.
(12) ‘There are divers Sorts and Sizes of Goshawks ,’ wrote Richard Blome in 1618, ‘which are different in Goodness, force and hardiness according to the several Countries where they are Bred; but no place affords so good as those of Moscovy , Norway , and the North of Ireland , especially in the County of Tyrone .’ But the qualities of goshawks were forgotten with the advent of Land Enclosure, which limited the ability of ordinary folk to fly hawks, and the advent of accurate firearms that made shooting, rather than falconry, high fashion.
(13) Van Vynck recruited Bishop to work on the Trafalgar Square clearance because his then job as head falconer at the English School of Falconry had given him plenty of experience of dealing with the public.
(14) The British Falconers’ Club worked out that for the cost of importing a goshawk from the Continent for falconry, you could afford to bring in a second bird and release it.
(15) She published poetry in her 20s, produced a cultural history of falconry a decade ago, and sees herself as someone who can act as a bridge between academia and the general reader.
(16) Her references to 17th-century disquisitions on falconry sit surprisingly easily in her memoir.
(17) In 2008, Unesco extended its reach to intangible customs and traditions including falconry, French gastronomy and the Spanish flamenco.
(18) Once you start [being interested in falconry], you just keep going and going."
(19) She says she was bullied at school because she was solitary and fascinated by falconry.