(1) Not because we are “chippy, moronic gits” (thank you, Twitter), but because we do not see the social benefit of a two-tier education system that provides a small minority with vastly more opportunities than the rest.
(2) The addition of EGF did not stimulate, but rather inhibited, the growth of HSC-1 cells in GIT medium as well as Dulbecco's modified essential medium with low concentrations of fetal calf serum (0.5-1%) in vitro.
(3) To date, 12 subjects completed two months of goal blood pressure with nifedipine GITS.
(4) Spouses of younger patients receiving atenolol reported deterioration in sexual satisfaction as compared to spouses of patients taking nifedipine GITS (P less than .02).
(5) Sixteen autistic children with WISC Performance IQs of 70 or above were analyzed to determine their conceptions of spatial relations, size comparisons, and gesture imitations through the use of the WISC, an originally devised Language Decoding Test (LDT), and a modified Gesture Imitation Test (GIT).
(6) Neurofilament immunoreactivity was not detected in normal GIT and pancreatic NE cells, whereas CR immunoreactivity was always present.
(7) In the diabetic group iv administration of idazoxan 20 min before the GIT did not alter the insulin response to the GIT.
(8) These results indicate nifedipine GITS is well-tolerated and effective as monotherapy in the treatment of severe hypertension.
(9) Disorders of postprandial reactions of the endocrine system which were specific for these nosological forms, were revealed in GIT diseases.
(10) Two methods to preserve gastrointestinal tract (GIT) organs and tissues, plastic coating (PC) and plastination (PN), were investigated and compared.
(11) This study was a randomized, complete crossover trial with 12 healthy male volunteers who were given single doses of the 24-h GITS under fed and fasted conditions.
(12) Necrotizing lesions, due to the parasite could be seen in brain, heart, lungs, pancreas, adrenal glands and testis, only intracellular trophozoites without tissue damage in GIT, liver, lymphnodes, spleen, prostate, kidney and gl.
(13) Two experiments were conducted to compare body composition, plasma concentrations of glucose, lipid and protein, gastrointestinal tract (GIT) morphology, and digestive enzyme activities among populations of chickens exhibiting wide differences in growth.
(14) Significance of this mechanism is emphasized not only for the GIT activity but as a "timer" for ultraradian rhythms as well.
(15) To evaluate differences in efficacy, safety, and quality of life, 394 male patients with mild-to-moderate hypertension were randomized to receive 20 weeks of either atenolol or nifedipine gastrointestinal therapeutic system (GITS) in a multicenter double-blind trial.
(16) The mean over-all survival time was 11.7 months (range of one to 60 months) after surgical treatment of a first metastasis to the GIT and 3.6 months (range of zero to 12 months) postoperatively for a second GIT metastasis.
(17) Forty-nine patients, with ages ranging from eighteen to seventy years and with mild to moderate primary hypertension (sitting diastolic blood pressure of greater than or equal to 95 mmgH and less than or equal to 115 mmHg) were randomized into a twenty-one-week, double-blind, prospective study to determine the effects of monotherapy of nifedipine GITS (gastrointestinal therapeutic system) versus atenolol on serum lipids, lipid subfractions, apolipoproteins, (apo), and blood pressure (BP).
(18) Thus, results from this open-label, crossover trial suggest that nifedipine GITS dosing is similar to multidose standard nifedipine with equivalent 24-hour efficacy for nifedipine GITS.
(19) Overall, nifedipine GITS significantly reduced the weekly number of anginal episodes from 5.7 to 1.8 (p = 0.0001) and the number of ischemic events from 7.3 to 4 (p = 0.0001) reported during the 48-h monitoring periods, with a significant increase in both during the placebo withdrawal period.
(20) The nifedipine-GITS (gastrointestinal therapeutic system) tablet formulation and the clonidine-TTS (transcutaneous delivery system) patch may also reduce side effects in patients while preserving the therapeutic efficacy of the origin drug formulations (nifedipie capsule, clonidine tablet).
Twit
Definition:
(v. t.) To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the twits that think this stuff are inheriting the Earth.
(2) Hackney Council has actually done a good job of improving the environment and by and large the borough is a fairly good place to live and not nearly as overrun with snotty upper-middle class twits as other gentrified boroughs.
(3) Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) BREAKING NEWS: I'm now a Twit.
(4) Keith Field, 76, a former builder who stops to chat outside the British Heart Foundation charity shop, says he's amazed Huhne was "such a twit.
(5) When I first met her around Camden she was just some twit in a pink satin jacket shuffling round bars with mutual friends, most of whom were in cool indie bands or peripheral Camden figures Withnail-ing their way through life on impotent charisma.
(6) Two black males winning the individual categories, don't imagine that's happened before... 8.24pm: From the twits: marielalaa RT @horrorrrrr: I LOVE YOU JAY Z HAVE MY BABIES #britawards 8.29pm: Winner!
(7) Macmillan was transformed overnight from "Supermac" into a doddering old Edwardian twit.
(8) While this clown's latest assertion of his alpha-maleness, in debased imitation of Bertram Wooster's misadventures, will undoubtedly add to female consternation about a Drones Club government whose leader insults women and twits his rival for being insufficiently "macho", Mitchell's contribution to the public understanding of hegemonic masculinity also deserves a mention.
(9) "Inane stuff about what twits are having for breakfast.
(10) Photograph: Amy Watters What about lunch Cafe Twit sells jacket potatoes (from £3.20), soup (from £3.80), panini (from £3.40).
(11) The consensus that social media is a powerful platform for youth engagement: Trisha Tahmasbi (@Trisha_Tahmasbi) @LetGirlsLead Platforms that allow youth to communicate through photos: FB, Twit, Instagram, Tumblr & snapchat, are among favs.
(12) Johnson stood by his comments on Monday, describing the reaction as an “artificial media twit storm”.
(13) The peer calls Boris Johnson “a joke” and a “public school upper-class twit”, and describes Scottish MP Alex Salmond, the former SNP leader, as a “silly, pompous prat”.
(14) Or there's the irresistably named Cafe Twit at the Roald Dahl museum.
(15) Tedious headline cliche you can expect "Twit and Twitterer" for pictures of her and Gordon, plus a thousand variations on "Don't mention 'im indoors".
(16) 7.58pm: On the twits - @JamesRogers79 Sitting down to watch the Brits tonight.
(17) Fortunately for the well-being of Gogarty and Moir, virtuous fury appears to be more capricious than government exclusion orders: the moving finger tweets and, having twit, seeks out another enemy of the public good.
(18) 9.53pm: She didn't hashtag this, but I've still nicked it from the Twits: @gracedent robbie.
(19) Look and listen out for The "twit-twoo" of tawny owls.
(20) England had become a nation of penalty-missers, contract-outers, public-school twits and twats, bigots and Bullingdon club bullies, snarling bulldogs and rapacious bankers.A country in which even Labour leaders preached deregulation, prized unfettered wealth and puckered up to the world’s media magnates.