(n.) One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since iron from fortified formulas is well absorbed during the first three months of life, even if it is not immediately used for hemoglobin formation, an inccrease in the iron stores will occur...
(2) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
(3) These results indicate that healthy VLBW infants maintain adequate growth and macronutrient balance for the first 2 months postnatally when fed mothers' milk fortified with additional skim and cream components.
(4) Thirty infants in the breast-milk group and 29 in the fortified group completed the study.
(5) The crops were fortified with each fungicide at 3 levels per crop.
(6) Feeding a zinc-fortified formula on the other hand had no influence on copper nutritional status.
(7) Lowest content of ascorbic acid occurred in bruised beans cooked in copper-fortified water.
(8) In NADPH-fortified reconstituted systems containing P-450b, DHS yielded a stable type III spectral complex with peaks at 428 and 458 nm; a complex with a single 456 nm peak was formed in systems containing cytochrome P-450c.
(9) Danes spent a day with an officer at Langley, the CIA's headquarters in Virginia, and that seems to have fortified her patriotism, too.
(10) When the same nuclei were incubated in the same medium fortified with dialyzed cytosol, spermidine and yeast RNA (medium II), release of labeled 60-S and 40-S particles was observed.
(11) The Americans went first, a great convoy of armoured Jeeps snaking out from their fortified embassy under air cover.
(12) Recoveries averaged 86.8% for unexposed fish fortified with 2-12 ppm of chlorpyrifos.
(13) Bacterial corneal ulcer is a potentially blinding emergency which should ideally be treated by an ophthalmologist aided by slit lamp biomicroscopy, microbial stain and cultures, and then selected fortified topical antibiotics.
(14) Mutagenic activity in the creatine-fortified product was enhanced 15-fold.
(15) For blind fortified samples containing 800 ppb FBZ, average recovery and relative standard deviations for repeatability and reproducibility (RSDr and RSDR) based on results from 6 of the participating laboratories were 83%, 12.7%, and 14.0%, respectively.
(16) Despite Ca and P concentrations 50% to 100% higher in the fortified human milk than is usual in unfortified human milk, group FMM's Ca and P intakes remained significantly below those fed formula (P less than 0.001).
(17) The fortified children presented higher mean ferritin values at the end of the first and second school periods.
(18) The protein efficiency ratio (PER) for the fortified cereal alone was 1.4; however, when given as a mixed diet of cereal and humanized milk (providing 41 and 59 per cent of the protein, respectively) PER was 2.6 (casein standard = 2.5).
(19) Their drinking water was deionized, fortified with 5 essential trace metals, and either 0, 1, 10, or 100 ppm barium was added.
(20) With the aid of satelliting, most of the strains were adapted to grow on a human Mycoplasma growth agar consisting of brain-heart infusion agar fortified with 20% human blood, yeast extract, and arginine.
Intensifier
Definition:
(n.) One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(2) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(3) Hyperimmunization with the tick encephalitis and Western horse encephalomyelitis viruses reproduced in the brain of albino mice, intensified the protein synthesis in the splenic tissue during the productive phase of the immunogenesis (the 7th day).
(4) First, SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed an intensified hepatic microsomal polypeptide (MW 54,000) following picloram pretreatment.
(5) This effect could be intensified by a preceding treatment of the animal with androgens.
(6) In a recent study, Orr and Lanzetta (1984) showed that the excitatory properties of fear facial expressions previously described (Lanzetta & Orr, 1981; Orr & Lanzetta, 1980) do not depend on associative mechanisms; even in the absence of reinforcement, fear faces intensify the emotional reaction to a previously conditioned stimulus and disrupt extinction of an acquired fear response.
(7) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
(8) Besides, the movement of mitochondria to the neuronal processes is intensified.
(9) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government has joined MPs, bloggers and local media in denouncing the newly-released Warner Brothers epic, 300, as a calculated attempt to demonise Iran at a time of intensifying US pressure over the country's nuclear programme.
(10) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.
(11) Families fear that after April’s disaster the cycle of poverty in the region will be intensified.
(12) These data indicate the existence of diverse, proinflammatory interactions of pyocyanin and 1-hp with human phagocytes, which may intensify neutrophil-mediated tissue damage during P. aeruginosa infections.
(13) Under identical conditions methandrostenon intensified the proteins synthesis in the nuclear fraction of the liver alone.
(14) The resolution also opens the door for other bodies, such as the European Union and the International Criminal Court, to intensify their pressure on Israel to desist from its illegal practices on the West Bank and its war crimes in Gaza.
(15) In this state, IPPV did not reduce the blood pressure in the supine position, and did not intensify its fall when the upper body was raised.
(16) After 10 months exposure to Fenthion, cellular necrosis and gliosis intensified in the CA4 and CA3 regions and occasionally involved the CA2.
(17) So far 34 patients in complete remission have been given one or two courses of the intensified consolidation therapy with high-dose cytosine-arabinoside and daunorubicin.
(18) The long-running dispute over the Senkaku islands – known as the Diaoyu in China – intensified earlier this month after Japan nationalised the territories, resulting in violent anti-Japanese demonstrations in dozens of Chinese cities.
(19) Two sets of a twin-focus X-ray tube and a 12-inch image intensifier (II) were mounted on the gantry in the isocentric and cross-firing positions.
(20) Elsewhere in the brain, minimal involvement of the entorhinal cortex neurons occurred 3 days postexposure and intensified by 7 days.