(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.
Unsophisticated
Definition:
(a.) Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite advances in resuscitation, the ability to predict survival at cardiac arrests remains unsophisticated.
(2) Survival data was more difficult to obtain due to cultural biases in a medically unsophisticated patient population.
(3) The majority of adolescents contacted had an unsophisticated but approximate understanding of HIV transmission dynamics and how to guard against infection.
(4) This makes the program easy to use and adaptable even to unsophisticated microcomputers.
(5) Aside from the unsophisticated health practices stemming from a knowledge of Puerto Rican folk medicine, the cultural phenomena of spiritualism plays a significant role in retarding the health status of the Puerto Rican.
(6) Different groups of sophisticated and unsophisticated judges made ratings at either 15 sec, 30 sec, or 60 sec intervals while listening to the samples.
(7) The unsophisticated will imagine this works crudely, with Cameron pulling out his notepad and taking dictation from Uncle Rupe.
(8) The unexpected occurrence of Lie scale elevations among paranoid patients not considered to be unsophisticated or naive prompted previous researchers to speculate that the measure might have other interpretive utility.
(9) Despite Obama's confidence, some experts are expressing serious doubts about whether the IRGC would be involved in such an uncharacteristically unsophisticated operation with a trail leading right to their doorstep.
(10) The shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said on Tuesday current superannuation tax concessions were “not equitable and not sustainable”, and he made an overture to the new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull , saying he could have the capacity to rise above the unsophisticated scare campaigns of the past.
(11) The results show that relatively unsophisticated raters in comparison with trained and experienced raters are able to utilize the drug severity form with a minimum of error.
(12) The relatively low prevalence of RA in this population is consistent with the results of other surveys in unsophisticated African Negro populations in West Africa and South Africa, and contrasts with the higher prevalence encountered in an urbanized South African Negro community and in populations in Europe and the USA.
(13) According to researchers, the "unsophisticated" spy program was designed specifically to search and steal Hangul word processor (HWP) documents, which are used widely by South Korean officials.
(14) Unsophisticated lower-class clients are likely to receive scantier, less accurate information and less courteous treatment than educated middle-class clients.
(15) In children as well as in adults, capillaroscopy is an unsophisticated and non invasive technique which allows to investigate vascular acrosyndromes and systemic diseases.
(16) Psychophysical testing of the warning agents has been rather unsophisticated.
(17) We describe herein an unsophisticated method which reveals that at least certain simple repetitive (gt)n(ga)m sequences bind nuclear proteins and show characteristics of a specific DNA-protein interaction via gel retardation.
(18) The study shows that in developing countries, unsophisticated research, using basic facilities, can be of value in identifying the problems of infection and in recognizing possible solutions to them.
(19) Such international ostracism had a powerful effect on the ruling government, but elsewhere some campaigners began to voice concern that organisations were being unsophisticated in their activism, opting for a knee-jerk boycott in every instance and risking the public's goodwill.
(20) These relatively unsophisticated methods produced satisfactory results.