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Floatation


Definition:

  • (n.) See Flotation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The vitamin A and test meals were given at noon (4 h after a standard breakfast), and blood was obtained hourly from noon to midnight for measurement of plasma glucose, insulin, triglyceride (TG), and cholesterol concentrations; concentrations of TG and cholesterol in Sverdberg floatation (Sf) unit above 400 and Sf 20-400 lipoproteins; retinyl ester concentration in plasma; and both Sf more than 400 and Sf 20-400 lipoproteins.
  • (2) Mandibular first molars from 17-d-old mouse embryos were cultured in vitro for 2 to 4 d by a simple, disposable, improved floatation method.
  • (3) The floatation is expected to confirm him as China's richest man.
  • (4) Radial haemolysis appears to be as sensitive as immunofluorescence and floatation centrifugation.
  • (5) Light lysosomes were then freed from mitochondria and membranes by sucrose density gradient centrifugation and further purified by floatation-centrifugation on a sucrose gradient.
  • (6) It was ascertained that both orosomucoid and low-density lipoproteins obtained by floatation had no action on the hemolysis by Sendai virus while lipoproteins precipitated with dextrane sulphate showed a certain inhibiting effect.
  • (7) Previous studies have shown that these emulsions contain chylomicron-like emulsion particles of diameters of 300-400 nm and excess phospholipids aggregated as vesicles (liposomes), which remain in the infranatant upon floatation of the emulsion particles by ultracentrifugation.
  • (8) Facebook is currently lining up a $100bn floatation that could come as early as next April.
  • (9) Of a total of 254 dogs sampled using saturated brime solution floatation method and formalin-ether sedimentation method, 223 (86.97%) were infected.
  • (10) Gas caps, being conical accumulations of gas vacuoles, impart increased floatation to spores and favour therefore their distribution in nature.
  • (11) Nick Fletcher (@nickfletchergdn) 2000 sellers 600 buyers at Peel Hunt so far as private investors cash in October 11, 2013 Nick Fletcher (@nickfletchergdn) Peel Hunt: this is not "froth" its real, people buying, selling, averaging down October 11, 2013 8.33am BST Hundreds of millions of Royal Mail shares changing hands While Vince Cable was defending the Royal Mail floatation ( see 8.15am ), shares in the company continued to change hands at a huge premium to the 330p float price.
  • (12) Stool examination of 196 subjects from Sharkia Governorate was done by the use of direct smear, Zinc sulphate centrifugal floatation method and stool culture.
  • (13) The improved floatation method, as well as our previous method, was capable of the three-dimensional development of tooth germs.
  • (14) We have used a fractionation procedure involving bovine serum albumin gradient floatation, adherence to glass, and rosetting with antibody-coated sheep erythrocytes to purify an accessory cell fraction from Lewis rat spleens.
  • (15) Reorganization of hair-follicle rudiments was accompanied by reaggregation of the cells during a 24-hour initial culture with rotation, and the rudiments differentiated into hair follicles within a week during subsequent subculture of the cell aggregates by floatation.
  • (16) But somewhere between the non-coast guard approved rubber duckie floatation device and open manholes there is a happy middle ground.
  • (17) As the floatation method resulted in the three-dimensional development of the molars and the development of the enamel without the presence of histological disturbances, it was considered superior to other culture methods for the facilitation of orientation and the development of cusps.
  • (18) The possibility that floatation of the cultures was necessary to allow access to the basolateral surface of cells was tested by culturing cells on nitrocellulose filters in Millicell (Millipore Corp., Bedford, MA) chambers.
  • (19) As if that wasn't enough to drain any possible pleasure out of the experience, the lifeguards, who could pass for navy Seal trainees, were so authoritarian that a five-year-old girl was ordered out of the toddler section because her rubber duckie ring was not a "coast guard approved floatation device".
  • (20) Free Con A-Sepharose beads could be separated from the bound beads (cell-bead complexes) by sedimentation of the high density beads and floatation of the low density complexes.

Flotation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act, process, or state of floating.
  • (n.) The science of floating bodies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 5.53pm GMT MPs to seek answers from Royal Mail shareholders And finally, the House of Commons business committee plans to write to large investors in Royal Mail to ask for their views on the flotation of the postal service .
  • (2) The company, which claims to have more than 24 million users, a quarter of whom pay for its premium ad-free service, has a $200m credit line from lenders including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, any of which could take the lead role in a flotation and earn millions in fees.
  • (3) This article gives a concise guide to the insertion of pulmonary arterial flotation catheters with the emphasis on points of safety that should minimize the risk to the patient.
  • (4) Appearing before the Business, Innovation and Skills committee, Richard Cormack of Goldman Sachs and James Robertson, managing director of UBS, were accused of botching the flotation and costing the taxpayers many millions of pounds.
  • (5) The specimens were mounted on a stainless steel plate with self-curing resin to prevent flotation, mechanical damage, and collapse of the cast specimens following preparation.
  • (6) Preparative isolation of lipid granules from the protoplasts of Candida tropicalis was conducted by a technique of flotation in a stepwise density gradient.
  • (7) This study investigates the effect of contrast medium on flotation of gallstones in bile and its role in stone and fragment dissolution with MTBE.
  • (8) HDL increased the flotation of apoAI to 12-fold and very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) increased the flotation of apoCIII and apoE to 6.5- and 5.5-fold, respectively.
  • (9) Keratinocytes were isolated and prepared from the skin of neonatal rats by a trypsin flotation method.
  • (10) Five months after the £2.2bn flotation of the business he has aggressively built into Britain’s biggest sports retailer and three months after taking control of Newcastle United for £134m, Mike Ashley is sitting in the bar of London’s Four Seasons hotel in ripped jeans and a casual shirt.
  • (11) The helminthological diagnosis is based on the enrichment methods of flotation.
  • (12) Suspensions of enzymatically dispersed human lung parenchymal mast cells were fractionated according to density by flotation through discontinuous Percoll gradients and examined for their responsiveness to release stimulants and pharmacologic agonists.
  • (13) Stock market flotation raised £1.35bn, and this month Hayward, as Vallares's chief executive, announced that new shares worth a similar amount would be sold to finance a merger (technically, a reverse takeover) with a Turkish company, Genel Energy International, which holds rights to oil reserves in the Iraqi province of Kurdistan.
  • (14) The density distribution of the cells was determined by differential flotation on 20 mixtures of di-n-butyl and dimethyl phthalates with specific gravities of 1.062 to 1.142.
  • (15) By the use of chromatography on Sephadex G-200 and single analytic flotation, RIF was found to be contained in the beta-lipoprotein fraction.
  • (16) Stool specimens from a sample of schoolchildren at six schools in Kweneng District were examined for hookworm infection, using the brine flotation method.
  • (17) The latex-containing phagocytic vacuoles are isolated by flotation in a discontinuous sucrose gradient.
  • (18) Single cell suspensions have been prepared, by enzyme digestion, from the mouse preputial gland tumor and separated by flotation centrifugation into populations of different buoyant densities.
  • (19) In the Rhinocerotidae, the high density lipoprotein characteristic of the Equidae and Tapiridae was absent, and the plasma lipoproteins consisted of a complex group having beta mobility on electrophoresis and a flotation pattern usually associated with low density lipoprotein.
  • (20) Cryptosporidiosis was confirmed by zinc sulfate flotation of fecal specimens in four persons, three of whom had been responsible for the care and treatment of infected calves.

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