(1) The results suggest that the ACTH-containing part of the hypothalamus around the PVH is crucially involved in the organization of grooming behaviour.
(2) Thus, D1 receptor-mediated grooming and perioral movements seem to be exceptions to the otherwise general finding that co-stimulation of the two receptor subtypes needed for the expression of D1 or D2 agonist effects in normosensitive rats and mice.
(3) These videotaped responses were then scored for a variety of grooming and other behaviours.
(4) "We see him driving around, but he keeps to himself and we're quite close neighbours," said Libbi Darroch, as she groomed her 7-year-old showjumper Muffy at the Coatesville pony club.
(5) The chances of Sam Allardyce becoming the next England manager have been enhanced by his willingness to help the Football Association to mentor a young assistant who would be groomed as his successor.
(6) Females significantly predominated in the second and the third week in ambulatory activity, in entering central fields and in the frequency of grooming periods and in the third and fourth week also in grooming duration.
(7) Specific kinds of maternal behaviour such as nesting, retrieving, grooming and exploring, are seen in non-human mammalian mothers immediately before, during and after delivery.
(8) All three drugs reduced the amount of bombesin-induced grooming.
(9) For all its posing and grooming, there are no nightclubs - the only flashing lights along this coast are the glowworms strobing across the grass at dusk.
(10) It is assumed that one function of grooming behaviour may be a merely cleansing one.
(11) This is training that predators rely upon,” she says in the book, “It is, perhaps, a form of gender-wide grooming.” For Caro, the opportunity of the book was to “place the blame where it lies,” she says, “squarely on the shoulders of those who use their power to exploit and damage others.” For all its bleakness, I drew comfort from the stories of the other contributors.
(12) In situations where excessive grooming is elicited by other peptides or by water immersion, TRH does not further activate the operating systems involved in the existing excessive grooming.
(13) This decline was attributed to increased grooming by cattle and was the only apparent mechanism by which resistance was expressed.
(14) Intracerebroventricular but not parenteral application of ACTH has been shown to elicit excessive grooming behavior in rats and mice.
(15) In order to establish whether the periaqueductal gray (PAG) is indispensible for peptide-induced excessive grooming, lesions were placed in the dorsal part of this structure.
(16) After weaning, open field behavior was nearly normal, there was a mild decrease of rearing, grooming and ambulation and an initial preference for the periphery of the open field decreased.
(17) Since 1921 the average age at marriage has increased by 3.6 years for brides and 1.7 years for grooms.
(18) Exposure of adult male Sprague--Dawley rats to a non-traumatic noise-light stress procedure subsequently increased grooming behavior in a novel environment.
(19) Injection of the same dose of this antagonist analogue did not effect the increased grooming behavior after AVP injection.
(20) In 1995, a year after his novel Forrest Gump had been sanitised for the screen, Winston Groom published Gump and Co , a sequel, which began with: "Let me say this: Everybody makes mistakes ...
Hygiene
Definition:
(n.) That department of sanitary science which treats of the preservation of health, esp. of households and communities; a system of principles or rules designated for the promotion of health.
Example Sentences:
(1) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(2) The socioeconomic and hygienic features of the patients' homes, some clinical variables, the therapeutic habits and the features of the foci were evaluated.
(3) This technique enables the demonstration of an hygienic parameter important for food microbiology within a short time.
(4) Significant correlations existed between the average number of leukocytes in the gingival exudate and the oral hygiene indices.
(5) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(6) The survival and the interactions of selected, hygienically relevant bacterial species in activated carbon filters was investigated.
(7) One abutment was used to evaluate each of nine oral hygiene instrumentation methods used for specified lengths of time or instrument strokes.
(8) It was shown that: although the oral hygiene level was very low and no dental treatments were performed, caries level was very low--although gingivitis rate was high, advanced periodontitis rate was low--the frequency of interincisive diastema (one subject out of 4 in the 15-19 age group), the progressive decline of tooth cutting, a traditional practice, in town people but the large extent of cola use (one adult out of two).
(9) More than 80% of the carriers who were interviewed ignored the directions about personal hygiene.
(10) During each test period one group chewed a combination of one piece sorbitol and one piece sucrose flavored gum five times per day, the second group correspondingly chewed xylitol and sucrose flavored gum, while the third group served as a no hygiene control group.
(11) A total of 1097 people in two communities in Chiapas, Mexico, were examined for trachoma, and information was obtained about personal and family hygiene.
(12) Consumers, dentists, dental students, dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental assistant trainees, and dental hygiene students in Massachusetts were surveyed for their attitudes toward the concept of expanded-duties auxiliaries.
(13) You won’t read about this in adverts for “feminine hygiene” (because of course having periods makes us dirty).
(14) The measures to be adopted are also stressed in view of a more strict control and protection of human and animal health together with environmental hygiene from Salmonella infection and other Enterobacteria which are increasingly met inhuman and animal pathology.
(15) Principal directions of hygienic investigations are determined.
(16) This outbreak underscores the importance of adopting appropriate industrial hygiene measures in a rapidly industrializing nation such as Taiwan.
(17) The oral hygiene practices and oral hygiene status were poorer among children from low than from high socioeconomic status.
(18) Kathon is an anti-microbial agent that is used as a preservative in cosmetics and bodily hygiene products.
(19) Oral hygiene education during pregnancy either is not provided or at best inadequately available.
(20) Preventive hygiene wards off or reduces these infections.