(n.) A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. The species are distinguished as the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc. The Scotch fir is a Pinus.
Example Sentences:
(1) A rater-specifuc varuabke was fiybd fir eacg if tge fiyr raters.
(2) Linear phase finite impulse response (FIR) filtering can be used to differentiate auditory brainstem evoked potentials (ABEP) components.
(3) Pieces of Douglas fir and polyvinyl chloride were colonized in a recirculating system and the comparative efficacy of two biocides (Bronopol and Kathon) against the sessile and planktonic populations was examined.
(4) A method is described for the isolation of DNA from spruce and fir, starting with 3 to 5 apices (5 mg material).
(5) The colonies of migrating monarch butterflies that spend the winter in a patch of fir forest in central Mexico were dramatically smaller this season than they have been since monitoring began 20 years ago, according to the annual census of the insects released this week.
(6) The channel will also air highlights from the traditional New Year's Day concert from Vienna, a three-part documentary about the city now known as Istanbul with Simon Sebag Montefiore, and the Fir Tree, a Danish film following the life of a Christmas tree, from the perspective of the tree.
(7) Cardiopulmonary parameters were studied in awake, instrumented goats following spontaneous inhalation of characterized Douglas fir smoke.
(8) An optimal correction of a conventional finite impulse response (FIR) filter is achieved by using a priori knowledge of noise variance and a continuous estimation of the error signal's power.
(9) In 4 series of experiments a dependence between 3,4-benzpyrene (BP) output and the temperature of fir sawdust pyrolysis under isothermic conditions has been investigated.
(10) A s the air cools in a fir-lined valley east of Croatia's Velebit mountains, the bears of Kuterevo stir to life in the gloaming.
(11) Recent literature has suggested that total intrauterine volume (TIUV) estimation is useful fir distinguishing normal from growth-retarded fetuses.
(12) Deletion mutant (IG-FIR delta 22) (amino acid 944-965) did not transduce the IGF-I signal to the GH gene.
(13) First, the eye-movement signal is smoothed using a predictive finite-impulse response (FIR), median hybrid filter.
(14) They were Douglas fir, wool, and polyvinyl chloride.
(15) The major wound-inducible monoterpene synthase (cyclase) of grand fir (Abies grandis) stems transforms geranyl pyrophosphate to both (-)-alpha-pinene (40%) and (-)-beta-pinene (60%).
(16) Rapidly conducting fibres are the firs ones to cease activity (fig.
(17) Douglas-fir possesses a major inversion of 40-50 kilobases relative to radiata pine and nonconiferous plants.
(18) The funds, which include New York-based Fir Tree Partners, Davidson Kempner Capital Management and Aurelius Capital, are known as the Ad Hoc Group of Puerto Rico and hold $5.2bn of Puerto Rico bonds.
(19) Therefore, the fast insulin release (FIR) to intravenously administered glucose was measured in 23 adult CF patients.
(20) In 11 of the 18 normoglycemic patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and the 3 nontreated diabetic CF patients studied, an FIR value lower than the 3rd percentile was found.
Mir
Definition:
(n.) A Russian village community.
(n.) Same as Emir.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most anti-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibodies in myasthenia gravis are directed against an immunodominant epitope or epitopes [main immunogenic region (MIR)] on the AChR alpha-subunit.
(2) The data challenge the concept that a MIR of the AChR is the principal stimulus for antibody production in MG and emphasize a potential pitfall in assuming seronegativity in MG on the basis of a single assay system.
(3) The likelihood of performing a surgical procedure in space will increase as the Soviet Mir space station is expanded and the Space Station Freedom becomes operational.
(4) Mir M7 is a spontaneous morphologically conditional mutant of Klebsiella pneumoniae which grows as round cells (cocci) at pH 7 and as normal rods at pH 5.8.
(5) The beta-subunits of insulin receptor in CHO, CIR-0, Monr-31, and MIR-2 were similarly phosphorylated.
(6) Amino acid composition was qualitatively similar in both strains, but Mir M7 cocci contained a higher amount of alanine and glucosamine.
(7) Eldar Mustafayev, a former Turkish Airlines representative who returned to farming when his employer left Crimea after the referendum, said the canal bringing drinking and irrigation water from Ukraine's Dnieper river into Crimea was dry near their village of Novy Mir.
(8) The mAb inhibition was not explainable by epitope competition because (1) the mAb was reactive with both Torpedo and human AChR, but antibodies in 85 of the MG sera did not bind to Torpedo AChR, and (2) the mAb blocked binding of rat anti-peptide antibodies to an alpha subunit region of the human AChR unrelated antigenically to the designated MIR region.
(9) This suggest that the majority of the human MG antibodies are also directed against the MIR.
(10) The three-dimensional and clavulanate double-disk potentiation tests were compared as procedures for the detection of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase production in 32 strains of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, 31 of which produced TEM-1, TEM-2, TEM-3, TEM-4, TEM-5, TEM-7, TEM-8, TEM-9, TEM-10, TEM-12, TEM-101, SHV-1, SHV-2, SHV-3, SHV-4, SHV-5, CAZ-2, MIR-1, or an unidentified extended-spectrum beta-lactamase with a pI of 5.95, with some strains producing multiple beta-lactamases.
(11) Mir Ali is a hotbed of al-Qaida and Taliban militancy that has borne the brunt of a sharp escalation in US attacks this year.
(12) Two-dimensional NMR experiments [correlated spectroscopy (COSY) and two-dimensional transferred nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy (TR-NOESY)] have been applied to study the interactions of a monoclonal antibody (mAb) directed to the main immunogenic region (MIR) of the acetylcholine receptor (AChR), and four synthetic decapeptides from the MIR.
(13) Nick Kanas, a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco, who has studied astronauts on the international space station and the Russian Mir station, said the crew face a tough time.
(14) The computer program MIR previously described (R. Bianchi, G.M.
(15) Fab fragments of an anti-MIR monoclonal antibody (mAb) or a mAb to the beta-subunit (neither of which causes antigenic modulation) were allowed to shield their corresponding regions on the AChR on the mouse muscle cell line BC3H1.
(16) Indices of JE transmission activity (vector abundance, pig seroconversions, and MIRs) increased proportionately with rainfall.
(17) We report the isolation and characterization of a strain of Bacillus, designed MIR 15, which appears to produce and excrete antimicrobials active against Gram-negative bacteria, but not against fungi.
(18) Chick dorsal root ganglion neurons thought to lack nicotinic acetylcholine receptors were not labeled by the anti-MIR mAb.
(19) The patient underwent a CT scan and MIR which showed a diffuse involvement of the ilium and sacrum along with the presence of two cysts (anterior and posterior).
(20) This is interpreted as the contribution to antigenic modulation of the anti-MIR antibody fraction in the human sera.