(1) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
(2) A total of 13 ascertainments of folate sensitive autosomal fragile sites is observed, of which 10q23 fragility appears to be the most frequent.
(3) The fragile site at 10q25 was expressed in larger proportions of malignant than normal cells.
(4) The green fund contributions already announced (which include a $3bn pledge by the US and a $1.5bn pledge by Japan revealed during the G20 summit) “show very clearly that if we want the emerging countries and the more fragile countries to participate in this global growth, we have to ... support them,” Hollande said.
(5) Direct detection of the mutation enables the identification of fragile X negative normal transmitting males and fragile X negative carrier females.
(6) Tim Potter, managing director of support charity the Fragile X Society , adds that the challenges Tom faces in the film will give "hope and encouragement to many other families".
(7) A case of fragile-X syndrome (the Martin-Bell syndrome) in two male half-sibs from different marriages of their mother was described.
(8) Of the 188 males, 19 were found to have the fragile X syndrome, while the remaining 169 males had no recognizable cause of their mental retardation, including normal chromosomes.
(9) "The world economy remains in a deep recession and its financial system in a fragile condition," King said.
(10) A correlation between specific fragile sites and cancer breakpoints has been suggested raising the question of fragile site expression as a predisposing factor in the occurrence of cancer in some persons.
(11) Taking this into account, we derived equilibrium equations for the fragile X [fra(X)] genotype frequencies.
(12) An 18-year-old mentally retarded male with the Martin-Bell syndrome was fragile X positive.
(13) The problems Europe is having today could have a very real effect on our economy at a time when it's already fragile.
(14) The economics of the scene, she says, are "fragile".
(15) A significant relationship with heritable fragile sites was found in this study.
(16) It is associated with bony fragility, blue sclerae and abnormality of tooth dentin.
(17) The ankylosed spine may be fractured following relatively mild trauma attributable to loss of flexibility and increased fragility from osteoporosis.
(18) Apart from evidence of enhanced lysosomal and peroxisomal fragility, probably secondary to the intracellular oedema, the intracellular organelles investigated in this study were unaffected by the myopathic process.
(19) "The economy is still far too fragile to talk of a sustained recovery in the housing market, but the hope is that we are past the worst," he added.
(20) Of these new DNA markers, 5 lie in an interval defined as containing the fragile X region.
Vulnerability
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.
Example Sentences:
(1) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
(2) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
(3) The facts are that the vulnerable children of this country remain largely unprotected.
(4) Since neutrophils are the first line of defense against infection the vulnerability to infection of the elderly may be due, at least in part, to age-related changes in neutrophils (PMNs).
(5) From these results, it can be suspected that the motor fibres are more vulnerable during aging.
(6) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(7) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(8) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
(9) For me, it would be to protect the young and vulnerable, to reduce crime, to improve health, to promote security and development, to provide good value for money and to protect.
(10) The results support Kuiper and colleagues' distinction between concomitant and vulnerability schemas, and help to clarify differences between cognitions that are symptoms or correlates of depression and those that may play a causal role under certain conditions.
(11) "It is difficult to imagine the torment experienced by the vulnerable victims of crimes such as these.
(12) Dietary fat can modify the vulnerability of the myocardium to arrhythmic stimuli.
(13) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
(14) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
(15) Although the greater vulnerability of the verbal intelligence of the younger radiated child and the serial order memory of the child with later tumor onset and hormone disturbances remain to be explained, and although the form of the relationship between radiation and tumor site is not fully understood, the data highlight the need to consider the cognitive consequences of pediatric brain tumors according to a set of markers that include maturational rate, hormone status, radiation history, and principal site of the tumor.
(16) It's typically sober and elegant, and Cotillard excels in a nervy, vulnerable role.
(17) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(18) Speaking through an interpreter, he said: “Most of the children in the camps do have their families and parents with them but those stranded around Europe and in Calais are very vulnerable because other people could do something to them.
(19) The authors hypothesize that an interplay of late adoption intrinsic vulnerabilities in the children, and weakness of parental bonds accounts for the differential outcomes.
(20) Therefore, cells containing HSP72 immunoreactivity may serve as an early marker for neuronal injury from hypoxia-ischemia in the neonatal rat brain and more importantly may illustrate previously unrecognized areas of central nervous system vulnerability.