(a.) Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
(a.) Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
(a.) Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(2) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
(3) This suggests that S1 is a flexible protein with at least two domains that can rotate independently.
(4) A more current view of science, the Probabilistic paradigm, encourages more complex models, which can be articulated as the more flexible maxims used with insight by the wise clinician.
(5) With improved monitoring, the use of smaller, more flexible endoscopes, and more experience, routine general anesthesia in children less than 3 years of age, as recommended in the past, may not be mandatory.
(6) Flexibility and integration of approaches may be advantageous and hypnosis, including regression and reframing, may be especially powerful in the treatment of phobics.
(7) The drug orientation and the DNA orientation (reflecting flexibility) are observed to vary differently and nonmonotonically with binding ratio, suggesting specific binding and varying site geometries.
(8) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
(9) Flexibility is essential so that the appropriate technique or agent can be selected for a particular pediatric ICU patient.
(10) The flexible adaptation of psychosomatic aspects to the current needs of dermatologists was found most important.
(11) Lenses with inserted flexible open loops (e.g., Dubroff) have only been implanted in small series, but the results have been quite good.
(12) The presence of aspartic acid and asparagine residues in other conformations, such as those in partially denatured, conformationally flexible regions, may lead to more rapid succinimide formation and contribute to the degradation of the molecule.
(13) Eight alpha-helices behave as relatively rigid bodies and corner regions are more flexible, showing larger fluctuations.
(14) We interpret the high resistance of this protein to urea as reflecting a reduced flexibility of its structure at normal temperatures which should be correlated to the thermophilic origin of this protein.
(15) We argue that the power and flexibility of computer simulation as a technique for dealing with uncertainty and variability is especially appropriate in the case of HIV and AIDS.
(16) A one-way analysis of variance showed that there were no significant differences in flexibility of the five fixation constructs (P greater than .05).
(17) All patients with distal polyps detected during flexible sigmoidoscopy underwent colonoscopy.
(18) A small helix is identified at the carboxy terminus of A2 which emerges through the central pore of the B subunits and probably comes into contact with the membrane upon binding, whereas the A1 subunit is flexible with respect to the B pentamer.
(19) These observations strongly suggest that (i) GCN4 specifically recognizes the central base pair, (ii) the optimal half-site for GCN4 binding is ATGAC, not ATGAG, and (iii) GCN4 is a surprisingly flexible protein that can accommodate the insertion of a single base pair in the center of its compact binding site.
(20) New laws to give parents more flexible leave and strong commitments to family-friendly working hours will be among the headline measures.
Vinyl
Definition:
(n.) The hypothetical radical C2H3, regarded as the characteristic residue of ethylene and that related series of unsaturated hydrocarbons with which the allyl compounds are homologous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Replacement of vinyl groups with bulkier substituents (hydroxyethyl or acetyl groups) decreases holoenzyme stability and catalytic activity.
(2) Glove manufacturers were queried to ascertain the occurrence of Lowinox 44S36 and butylhydroxyanisole in different brands of latex and vinyl examination gloves.
(3) This was possible because the Ara test, for volatile compounds (such as vinyl bromide), did not require the use of special vaporization techniques, which are difficult to evaluate quantitatively for mutagenic activity.
(4) A gas chromatographic method is described for the quantification of levels of 1,1,1-trichloroethane in vinyl chloride polymer resins and in poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) bottles used in the packaging of foods.
(5) Rats have been exposed in a closed system to the chlorinated ethylenes vinyl chloride and trichloroethylene and to carbon tetrachloride as a reference compound.
(6) Biochemical and pharmacological effects of gamma-vinyl GABA (Vigabatrin, GVG), and irreversible enzyme-activated inhibitor of 4-aminobutyrate: 2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.19; GABA-T), were measured in mice.
(7) Also, if you want to press vinyl, forget it – leading up to this day all of the pressing plants are booked.
(8) A sensitive potentiometric monitoring method was developed that permits the continuous measurement of the disolution profiles of methyl vinyl ether-maleic anhydride-acid copolymers and salt derivatives.
(9) Vinyl perdeuterated arachidonic acid (20:4 delta 5,8,11,14-d8) was prepared from eicosatetraynoic acid (ETYA) and was esterified with 1-palmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine to yield 1-palmitoyl-2-vinylperdeuterioarachidonoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocho line [(16:0)(20:4-d8)PC].
(10) The arts and social space in Deptford opened in 2015 after three years of fundraising and it now runs a programme of gigs, screenings, talks and performances, as well as being home to Tome Records, which has a distractingly good selection of vinyl, as well as tapes and zines.
(11) Measurements of GABA were performed at two different times of day (11.00 and 15.00 h), 3 h after intraperitoneal administration of gamma-vinyl-GABA (GVG), an irreversible inhibitor of GABA transaminase.
(12) Similarly, incubation of cells with methyl vinyl ketone or allyl alcohol, but not N-dimethylnitrosamine, altered cellular GSH status.
(13) Vinyl chloride disease is the best known among these.
(14) The number of 6-TG-resistant cells increased in the high-occupational-cancer-risk group of vinyl chloride- and mixed organic industrial dust (MOID)-exposed workers as well as in the primary lung cancer patients.
(15) Also screened without exogenous activation were seven potential metabolites of vinyl chloride in their pure forms as well as the related epichlorohydrin.
(16) Admixtures were prepared in 2-L ethylene-vinyl acetate bags using conventional techniques and stored at room temperature.
(17) The interaction of vinyl chloride (VC) with poly(vinyl)chloride) (PVC) has been studied by inverse gas chromatography (IGC).
(18) A total nutrient admixture composed of 5% amino acid injection, 20% dextrose injection, and 3% intravenous fat emulsion was prepared aseptically in four 2-L ethylene-vinyl acetate bags.
(19) Vinyl chloride has been associated recently with findings of angiosarcoma in animals and man.
(20) The present investigation was undertaken to gain insight into the factors governing diffusion of a series of monosubstituted benzoic acids across ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers.