(n.) The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.
(n.) Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
(2) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(3) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(4) "We have determined that an unprecedented framework has been established, where an organisation that can make decisions at a national level ... will be at the forefront of the investigations," Abe said.
(5) Two different approaches were developed within the framework of Relational LABCOM to address both the intermediate and long-term storage of data.
(6) The paper develops a model as a framework for monitoring the course of the program through the policy cycle and recommends that the policy process be considered as dynamic, interactive, and evolutionary.
(7) We have operated within the policy and regulatory framework set out by the Commonwealth government.
(8) These findings provide a framework for future investigations of our congenital syphilis model.
(9) We interpreted these results within an attributional framework that emphasizes the salience of upsetting events within a social network.
(10) Given that patient preferences constitute a central concept within the framework of HRQL, further empirical evaluation of utility measures of preference is fundamental to improving the HRQL measurement tool-kit.
(11) Different techniques for attaching the gold cylinders to the frameworks were used.
(12) The interface between these nutritional factors and the normal regulation of vascular smooth muscle is discussed, providing a theoretical framework in which to assess the current information and to formulate the necessary future research.
(13) We found that in the patient's view an adequate result requires establishment of a proper lip sphincter--either by restoring muscular tone, or by creating an anatomical framework to which can be added either a motor unit or stabilization to aid the opposite intact muscle.
(14) Comparison of the main coding sequence of this gene to another member of this subgroup reveals germline sequence differences that occur not only in complementarity determining regions but also in framework regions.
(15) Designing and fabricating the metallic framework for a fixed partial denture requires planning and an understanding of what is desired in the final form.
(16) The primary myosymplasts serve as a framework along which the myoblasts move and participate in the myofibrilles formation.
(17) In stage I, a tympanoplasty is performed before transplantation of the carved cartilage framework.
(18) With the City's regulatory framework being tightened by the coalition government, which is disbanding the FSA and handing control of bank oversight to the Bank of England , there is concern in London that the US politicians are being opportunistic.
(19) Full integration of professional activities from training to education is accomplished within the framework of Emergency Medical Services.
(20) To overcome some of these problems it is suggested that an investigation of lay evaluation of health care should be carried out within a conceptual framework which incorporates the following elements.
Valance
Definition:
(n.) Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor.
(n.) The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk. which covers the joint when the lid is closed.
(v. t.) To furnish with a valance; to decorate with hangings or drapery.
Example Sentences:
(1) America, as John Ford cannily observed in his western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, is a country that likes to build up its heroes and villains and rarely appreciates having the record corrected to restore them to the stature of ordinary, fallible human beings.
(2) -- The given valance equation for a change in the concentration of a cancerostatic in tumor tissue has been evaluated using, for an example, a substance from the alkylating group whose mass number approximately coindices with that of cyclophosphamide in its active form.
(3) He can actually be quite good company, but he has a bit of a temper when things don’t go his way.” Once a serial dater, Nick settled down when he met former Neighbours actor Holly Valance in 2009.
(4) His girlfriend, the model, singer and former Neighbours star Holly Valance (pictured with Candy, right), briefly shimmers outside the door, a vision in white silk.
(5) Holly Valance is sad that she's no longer the world's sexiest woman.
(6) Four of these proteins exhibited the expected valances of approximately 10 and relatively low affinities (less than or equal to 2.2 x 10(5) M-1).
(7) Developer Nick Candy, 38, attended with his girlfriend, the singer and actress Holly Valance, 28.
(8) Valance describes him as “like a naughty schoolboy to my naughty schoolgirl”.
(9) Absorbance changes at 446 nm in purified cytochrome oxidase following flash photolysis of carboxy-oxidase poised in the mixed valance state at +220 mV show biphasic kinetics.
(10) Bryant duly writes his book and uncovers all sorts of secrets about Daphne's tangled relationship with Cecil Valance, the Rupert Brooke figure at the centre of the novel, whose memory is fought over for decades after his death.