(1) Bed nets were allocated at random among a group of 16 Fula hamlets, where they were previously rarely used.
(2) This finding, together with the results of a previous study in Nigeria, suggest that Fulas have a predisposition to this condition.
(3) In order to question this opposition, a study was carried out among 100 Haalpulaaren mothers (Tukulors and Fulas), 50 from a village in the Sahelian area along the Senegal River and 50 from an underprivileged suburb of Dakar.
(4) They are thought to be the work of the Macina Liberation Movement (FLM), an Islamist group rooted in the Fula ethnic group.
(5) Among young children splenomegaly and malaria were less prevalent in Mandinkas than in Wollofs or Fulas, suggesting that some genetic or environmental factors protect Mandinka children from this infection.
(6) One class II DQA-DQB combination (serological specificity DQw2) was particularly common among members of the Fula ethnic group.
(7) Comparing Mandinka with Wolof and Fula, there were ethnic differences in net owning and the proportion of children sleeping in beds with a mattress.
(8) A study in the Gambia revealed that, among 3 ethnic groups, Mandinkas children had the lowest prevalence rate because almost everyone used bed nets while 1-6% of people in Fula and Wolof villages did.
(9) Among older children and adults splenomegaly was found most frequently in Fulas.
(10) Mutations in fulA probably confer resistance by lowering ornithine transcarbamoylase, thereby making the normally arginine-specific carbamoyl phosphate pool available for increased uracil synthesis.
(11) In a survey of the Fula Bande, a rural population of Senegal, deaths and causes of death have been registered during an 8-year period.
(12) Both fulA and fulD mutants suppress pyrA mutants which lack the uracil-specific carbamoyl phosphate synthetase.
Thesaurus
Definition:
(n.) A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of a dermatopathology thesaurus with more than 200 different diagnoses, the system allows quick access to diagnostic and patient data and supplies rapid seaching and sorting facilities.
(2) The flexible design of the thesaurus facilitates frequent revision and addition of new terminology.
(3) The thesaurus is built on keywords or key-expressions.
(4) We have previously described a user-interactive rule-based computer program (Dyna-SaurI) designed for dynamic thesaurus integration, and demonstrated its efficacy on integrating dermatological subsets of the MeSH and SNOMED thesauruses.
(5) The most striking example is Icelandic, whose thesaurus hasn't changed much since the 12th century.
(6) A thesaurus has been developed to serve as the integrating unit for the computerized information storage and retrieval system of the Vision Information Center.
(7) It was conformed to and conjugated with the thesaurus in the field.
(8) If I ever got round to writing one, both would have prominent entries in my personal flavour thesaurus.
(9) He's a fearsome creation, a thesaurus of withering insults, with a temperament that can only be measured in degrees of boiling rage.
(10) I finally pull the tire off, and I look at the inside of the tire, and it reads: ‘Matsumoto Tire Company – We Are Obstinacy!’” I mention the tire, because it illuminates the experience of reading Paul Ryan’s brand-new don’t-call-it-a-campaign book, The Way Forward: an hours-long ordeal with an epistemically locked-shut Mad Libs thesaurus accident that ultimately says “screw you” as sunnily as possible.
(11) Maybe it’s constant the job ad “buzzwords” that make you want to tear out all the pages of a thesaurus and papier-mâché them in front of the recruiter.
(12) External formatting by semantic fields allows the physicians to attribute medical expressions dynamically to concepts of the thesaurus.
(13) A thesaurus can be used to define the units in relationship to the examination methods described.
(14) These are literature selection, thesaurus maintenance and indexing.
(15) A hierarchical structure was placed on the terms to produce a thesaurus typical of the sort often used in the indexing and retrieving of documents.
(16) The numerical coding system used in the thesaurus permits seven levels of specificity; this specificity is required for depth of indexing, as well as to limit the retrieval to those bibliographic citations which are relevant to a highly specific search request.
(17) Finally, all of the symptom terms were incorporated into a thesaurus from which the questionnaire was derived.
(18) The original system has been improved to provide a thesaurus processor with added capabilities for expanding search request terms and a newly developed set of search programs with user options that make complex and more accurate retrievals possible.
(19) This paper describes the process of preparing the thesaurus and presents an evaluation of its coverage of the "MEDINFO-86 Proceedings."
(20) Modification of the thesaurus is expected to have a far-reaching impact on the retrieval of information in nursing and allied health.