(1) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
(2) It is possible that the outer layer is a smooth geodesic shell.
(3) On teleological grounds alone, it would appear that ocular versions and rotations take place, in many cases, along geodesics of least energy and that paths of higher energy are only taken for reasons of binocular near vision.
(4) UK designer Phil Pauley has updated Fuller's geodesic concept: a ring of spherical modules, his SubBiosphere2 would float in fair weather, then submerge whenever the seas became rough.
(5) It’s a humble affair, a large geodesic dome with a wooden floor, decorated with paintings and drawings that have been made by the inhabitants of the camp.
(6) One is Buckminster Fuller ’s famed geodesic dome: though the acrylic cover burned off in a fire in 1976, the former United States pavilion is now the Montreal Biosphere , a museum devoted to the environment.
(7) There is the rippling curtain wall of the Hall of Science , and the geodesic dome of the Winston Churchill pavilion , now repurposed as an aviary for the local zoo.
(8) Seville’s Expo 92 was one of the largest ever at the time, sprawling across 215 hectares dotted with geodesic domes and snaking monorails, at a cost of almost €10bn.
(9) while the other side of the fence was home to geodesic domes, marquees and ridge tents, all functionally decorated with solar cells, LED string and the occasional antenna.
(10) Based on our findings, we conclude that PAs, which resemble geodesic domes, do not take an active part in near-point accommodation; but like SFs, may serve to resist overextension by internal pressure of the fiber mass or by zonular tension.
(11) The deviation of geodesics (which are perceptually "straight") from physically straight lines may offer an explanation to the perceptual distortion of angular relationships such as the Hering illusion.
(12) In the kitchen and herb gardens you can buy salad and vegetables for your tea before wandering on to the fern garden with its geodesic dome (one of the largest collections in Scotland), the shady rhododendron dell, tranquil Japanese garden and, in front of the elegant whitewashed house, a giant sundial, over 10 metres in diameter.
(13) In the perceptual reconstruction process these parameters assume positive or negative values, and this equivocation is related to a form of the adjacency principle involving central projections and "perceptual geodesics".
(14) Trajectories impinging on such basins may be captured; repeated capture will warp the trajectory toward a geodesic, a process called conditioning.
(15) They surrounded main cell body, looking like a headband, or were occasionally situated over nuclei, looking like a geodesic dome.
(16) I’ve got a plan to help.” He launched an online thinktank called A Better San Francisco and as recently as June he announced “a new civic solution that can forever change how homelessness is perceived in America”, adding: “A Better SF is building community transition centres, the perfect solution for the majority of those experiencing homelessness.” Artists’ impressions and accompanying text detailed proposed mini-villages of geodesic domes providing individual bedrooms, and larger group domes for showers, computers, movies and cooking.
(17) So does Charles Norrie, whose brother Tony, a geodesic surveyor, was working in Congo when he boarded the fatal UTA flight.
(18) In mature (stage-VI) oocytes, the cytokeratin filaments of the vegetal region form a unique, almost geodesic network; in the animal region, cytokeratin organization appears much more variable and irregular.
(19) I propose a number of forms for a geodesic constraint and present psychophysical evidence from a contour-labeling experiment that the human visual system implicitly incorporates a geodesic constraint in the processing of reflectance contours.
(20) Keratin patches consistently appear as linear and discontinuous white streaks arranged along geodesic lines.
Specific
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice.
(a.) Specifying; definite, or making definite; limited; precise; discriminating; as, a specific statement.
(a.) Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
(n.) A specific remedy. See Specific, a., 3.
(a.) Anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
(2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(3) Anti-Leu 7 could not be considered as a specific marker for oligodendroglioma.
(4) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
(5) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(6) The role of Ca2+ in cell agglutination may be either to activate the cell-surface dextran receptor or to form specific intercellular Ca2+ bridges.
(7) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(8) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
(9) On the other hand, after exposure to BrdUrd, neuron specific enolase decreased in NB-1 and SK-N-DZ and increased in GOTO.
(10) Most of the radioactivity in spleen cells from these rats were associated with antigen-reactive cells which formed rosettes specifically with HO erythrocytes.
(11) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(12) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
(13) Proliferation assays using F3 showed that 15 (14 CD4+ and 1 CD8+) of the 18 isolated clones were specific for T. gondii.
(14) We have developed a new procedure for the rapid preparation of undegraded total RNA from cultured cells for specific quantitation by dot blotting analysis.
(15) Further studies are required to elucidate specific roles of the steroid-induced proteins in the effects of glucocorticoids on HTM and HS cells.
(16) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(17) Four other independent LCMV-GP2(275-289) specific H-2Db-restricted CTL clones also expressed V alpha 4 and V beta 10 gene elements.
(18) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(19) When compared with self-reported exposures, the sensitivity of both job-exposure matrices was low (on average, below 0.51), while the specificity was generally high (on average, above 0.90).
(20) The specific limited trypsinolysis of bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase (T7RP) was performed in the presence of various components of the polymerase reaction and some GTP-analogs--irreversible inhibitors of the enzyme.