(n.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
(2) Following Nagle, we assume that the steric repulsions between chains and between head groups and the trans-gauche rotation energies are the dominant interactions in determining the transition and we describe the effect of the other interactions with a mean field approximation.
(3) It is also true in France , where the pro-EU, anti-cuts Front de Gauche performed so well in the first round of the presidential election.
(4) The crystalline structure of five enantiomeric hydrochlorides were determined, the CPhe-C-C-N torsion angle is anti-periplanar in all cases but in p-fluoro-amphetamine where it is gauche.
(5) Interestingly, chi 2(3) (63.6 degrees) of lysine side-chain has a gauche+ conformation unlike in most of the other structures, where it is trans.
(6) The vibrational Raman spectra of dimyristoyl (DMPC)-, dipalmitoyl (DPPC)-, and distearoylphosphatidycholine (DSPC)-water bilayer system were used to probe lipid hydrocarbon chain trans-gauch isomerization dynamics below the gel-liquid crystalline phase transition temperature.
(7) The results suggested the gauche conformation for the C alpha-C beta bond in the choline moiety, a constrained glycerol region, a magic angle orientation for the sn-2 carbonyl, and a preferred orientation close to the bilayer normal for the plane of the sn-1 carbonyl bond and acyl chain C = C bond.
(8) The glycosidic torsional angle, chiCN = -28.4 degrees, is in the anti region; the sugar pucker is C(2')exo-C(3')endo in a nearly pure 32H twist; and the conformation of C(4')-C(5') is gauche-gauche.
(9) This leads us to assume that the gauche-gauche conformation is an essental prerequisite for substrates of RNA polymerase.
(10) All backbone torsion angles fall into the range expected for the A-DNA form, except for the nucleotide G5, whose alpha and gamma torsion angles adopt the trans, trans conformation instead of the common gauche-, gauche+ conformation.
(11) The percentage of (single gauche bend + kink) conformers, relative to multiple gauche forms, decreases dramatically from 78% in the 30:1 mixture to 15% in the 10:1 mixture at 44C.
(12) On 5th Gear, from 2007, he talked about internet nerds reinventing themselves through social media, and offered an intentionally redneck perspective on the battle of the sexes in the deliberately gauche I'm Still a Guy.
(13) Part of their appeal was their apparent nonchalance, which tended to be mistaken for cool but was really, she says, just gauche bemusement.
(14) In contrast, a substantial population of gauche rotamers was observed for the 4-d4-DPPC.
(15) The following year, he and the slightly gauche new prime minister, John Major, took part in the fraught Maastricht treaty negotiations that created the modern European Union.
(16) A method is proposed and demonstrated for the direct determination of conformational disorder (trans-gauche isomerization) as a function of acyl-chain position in phospholipid bilayer membranes.
(17) Even below the main transition temperature, considerable amounts of the methylene segments of the acyl chains of lipid A were found to assume gauche conformations.
(18) These results favour the view that the dopamine uptake site is able to accept the substrate as the gauche rotamer.
(19) The IleRS-bound L-valine takes the gauche- form about the C alpha-C beta bond.
(20) The ribose is puckered C(2')-endo, the heterocycle is in anti position and the C(5')-O(5') bond gauche, gauche.
Gaucho
Definition:
(n.) One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mario Götze, Miroslav Klose, Toni Kroos, André Schürrle, Shkodran Mustafi and Roman Weidenfeller enacted an old football chant that had previously only been seen on the terraces, jumping and waving as they sang "That's what the Germans look like," then slouching with hanging heads to the words "That's what the Gauchos (Argentinians) look like".
(2) Gaucho Rasmussen, an OFT director, said: "OFT research has found that reference pricing can mislead consumers into thinking the item they have bought is of higher value and quality."
(3) Juan Manuel gives me the lowdown on riding gaucho style, which involves holding the reins very loosely in one hand.
(4) A former model, who trained as a chef in New York, she’ll occasionally drop nuggets like “My father was a gaucho,” into the conversation.
(5) She and her friends dress in bombachas de campo (baggy gaucho trousers), and congregate in the town plaza to drink mate (the traditional national drink, made from steeping dried leaves of yerba mate ).
(6) The Gaucho Martín Fierro, written by José Hernández in 1872 and 1879, is today considered the most beautiful of the original productions of the River Plate literature.
(7) Blood samples of a normal, blood group 0 individual and of a patient who exhibited methemoglobinemia after Loxosceles bite were incubated separately with antisera against Loxosceles gaucho, Crotalus terrificus, Bothrops jararaca, with Loxosceles gaucho venom and 0.3% phenol.
(8) Gel filtration on Sephadex G 100 of L. gaucho spider venom resulted in three fractions: fraction A, containing the higher mol.
(9) A search for IgG antibodies anti-Loxosceles gaucho venom in patients with loxoscelism submitted to serumtherapy showed antibodies in four out of 20 patients.
(10) Most especially, he gives vivid and pathetic shape to the myth of the gaucho in his context: the rural community in its early stages.
(11) According to Juan Manuel, Sol is a prime example of how Uruguayan gaucho culture is undergoing a revival.
(12) So if tango and gauchos belong as much to Uruguay's national identity as they do to its gigantic neighbour, what else has this tiny country been hiding?
(13) Immunoblotting tests showed that human anti-L. gaucho IgG antibodies recognize preferentially the components responsible for the dermonecrotic and lethal activities of the venom.
(14) Before then, there's a chance to refuel with a typical Panagea spread: hearty pasta, fainá (a thick pancake of chickpea flour and cheese), salad and galleta (a traditional gaucho's loaf of bread which looks like a concertina and lasts for a month).
(15) Porto Alegre is known throughout Brazil for its gauchos and rock music scene, with hyped alt-rockers Apanhador Só currently toast of the town.
(16) Gaucho Rasmussen, head of the OFT's goods and consumer group, said: "Retailers advertise bargains and discounts by referring to a previous or future higher price.
(17) I've come here as a complete beginner to learn how to ride, gaucho-style.
(18) Loxosceles gaucho spider venom causes a typical dermonecrotic lesion in bitten patients and rarely causes lethal systemic effects.
(19) Gauchos don't gallop unless there's a problem," Juan Manuel assures me, as we prepare to set off on horseback from his farmhouse in the deepest reaches of the Uruguayan interior.