(1) The nerd may have been more in evidence early on - not least when he was doing his doctorate and ignored the advice of his Nobel prize-winning supervisor, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and opted for a stats fest, "a classic piece of Popperian science", instead of a fluffier study of animal behaviour - but it's still around.
(2) This year though, the annual fest of tit tape, weepy self-congratulation and sheer star power will be remembered for more than a frock faux pas: there was a serious cock-up .
(3) At least if it'd been an absolute fuck-fest that would've been exciting.
(4) Put it this way: he is so beloved that there is an annual event in Toronto called Ford Fest where his supporters (known as "Ford Nation") gather to sing songs about him , eat barbecue and maybe even meet him.
(5) At the Voodoo Fest in New Orleans in October 2012, 21-year-old Clayton Otwell was offered a single drop of 25I-NBOMe up his nose as a gift from a grateful stranger whose phone he had found.
(6) (2) A minor addendum to last week's fact-fest : the last time Dundee and Dundee United both played at home on the same day was as recently as Boxing Day 2012, just weeks ago.
(7) Some MPs say it is impossible for Johnson to return before the election as the campaign would turn into a giant "Boris fest".
(8) David Penney notes: "If the Ivory Coast really find themselves on the wrong side of a kick-fest, maybe their supporters could take a leaf out of the French rugby fans and release their own mascot onto the field; 4 tons of rampaging elephant."
(9) Stimulation of secretion in guinea pig exocrine cells is associated with an enhanced synthesis in these cells of 1-O-alkyl-2-sn-acetyl-glycero-3-phosphocholines (PAF) from 1-O-alkyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (lyso-PAF) (Söling, H-D., and Fest, W. (1986) J. Biol.
(10) All the same, who would bet against another goal-fest?
(11) I think this may be the first two-sided goal-fest of the tournament.
(12) Potentially this has the makings of a goal fest, no?
(13) The rest appeared content to watch the match on the giant screens at the Fifa Fan Fest, to simply wear their colours in a Brazilian bar, or to head further north and soak up the festival spirit in Rio.
(14) Trump bragged on MSNBC about the “more than 2,500 people” who attended the town hall event , which he said was “an evening of love, it was a love fest, and we all had a great time”.
(15) It’s not all one big eco-hippy love-fest, though – it’s simple financial common sense.
(16) • Film Fest Australia runs 14 - 23 September • Taylor also features in Lawless, released in the UK on 7 September Footnotes [1] Adopted hometown.
(17) The class of '92 is a fascinating narrative strand and kind of sums up why football is so riveting: it is an absolute yarn-fest...
(18) The Argentines looked set for a goal-fest but despite their dominance in possession could not add to their tally in what was Lionel Messi’s 100th appearance for his country.
(19) The EBU regularly reminds anyone listening that, particularly at such times of economic strain in Europe , it's this music-fest, rather than worthy pan-European political gestures from Brussels or elsewhere, that nudge us toward loving this continent.
(20) Across the Avenida Atlantica other supporters were still stopping outside Fifa’s Fan Fest to have their photographs taken in front of the Adidas billboard from which Suárez’s image stared out, teeth bared almost prophetically, alongside the company’s slogan of the moment, Tudo ou nada .
Gest
Definition:
(n.) A guest.
(n.) Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure.
(n.) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
(n.) A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.
(n.) Gesture; bearing; deportment.
(n.) A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest.
(n.) A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office.
Example Sentences:
(1) EE2 was exclusively bound to albumin, whereas GEST and KDG were also bound to sex-hormone binding globulin (SHBG).
(2) The dystonia began 1 to 4 days after the trauma and differed clinically from idiopathic torticollis by marked limitation of range of motion, lack of improvement after sleep ("honeymoon period"), and absence of geste antagonistique.
(3) These data demonstrate that the three contraceptive steroids EE2, GEST and KDG were all bound extensively to serum proteins, however, with pronounced differences concerning their distribution over the various binding proteins.
(4) The results showed that there was a gradual decrease in serum trough levels of GEST during the cycle, due to a concomitant and equally high decrease in SHBG concentrations in the serum of about 26%.
(5) An examination of the free GEST concentrations revealed the same time course of GEST trough levels during the cycle as the simulated curve.
(6) Sows injected with GRF during GEST (P = .05) and(or) LACT (P less than .01) were lighter than CTL sows at weaning; in addition, sows treated during lactation had less backfat (P less than .01).
(7) GEST was mainly bound to SHBG, while KDG was predominantly bound to albumin.
(8) Results of NET, LN and GEST were compared with published in vivo experiments.
(9) SHBG concentrations were correlated with the total concentration of GEST and its free fraction and a positive (r=0.395) and negative (r=0.491) correlation respectively was found.
(10) GEST and KDG were analyzed in individual serum pools whereas EE2 was repeatedly measured in two serum pools, each one representing one treatment group.
(11) SHBG concentrations were correlated with the total concentration of GEST and its free fraction and a positive (r = 0.395) and negative (r = -0.491) correlation respectively was found.
(12) EE2 was exclusively bound to albumin, whereas GEST and KDG were also bound to sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG).
(13) Thus, the present study showed that the pharmacokinetics of GEST can be fully explained on the basis of single dose pharmacokinetics and the changes in serum protein binding which were caused by a reduction of SHBG levels in the serum during chronic treatment with GEST.
(14) Drug level decreases (NET, LN, GEST) and prodrug conversions (NETO, NGM) were followed by radiochromatography (HPLC) for 60 min.
(15) The clearance of unbound GEST, however, remained unchanged.
(16) We su-gest that such mixtures may serve as calibrating standards for ion-selective electrodes in clinical analysis.
(17) The above abservations su;gest that sodium deprivation raises ASR by a mechanism or mechanisms unrelated to plasma volume.
(18) Fifty-two Yorkshire x Landrace gilts were equally allotted to four treatments: 1) controls, saline injections (CTL); 2) injections of 12 mg of growth hormone-releasing factor (GRF) (1-29)NH2 thrice daily (0700, 1500, and 2300) from d 100 of gestation until parturition (GEST); 3) injections of GRF thrice daily from d 3 to 29 of lactation (LACT); and 4) injections of GRF thrice daily during gestation (d 100 to parturition) and lactation (d 3 to 29) (GEST-LACT).
(19) GEST AND KDG were analyzed in individual serum pools whereas EE2 was repeatedly measured in 2 serum pools, each representing a treatment group.
(20) The protein binding of ethinyl estradiol (EE2), gestodene (GEST), and 3- keto-desogestrel (KDG) has been determined by ultrafiltration in the serum of women who had either taken a gestodene (n=37) or desogestrel (n=28) containing oral contraceptives for a time period of at least 3 months.