(n.) A plant of the genus Cannabis (C. sativa), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage. The name is also applied to various other plants yielding fiber.
(n.) The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. The name has also been extended to various fibers resembling the true hemp.
Example Sentences:
(1) The experiment resulted in the most complete study of the Czechoslovak variety of hemp from the point of view of extractibility of substances, as well as of the amount of CBD and delta 9-THC.
(2) Adolescents tended to use the following drugs in decreasing order of frequency: alcohol, cigarettes, stimulants, cannabis (Indian hemp) and sedative-hypnotics.
(3) The relationship between immunological status and respiratory function was studied in 42 hemp workers and in 49 control workers.
(4) Plethysmographic measurements in six healthy volunteers exposed to hemp-dust extract confirmed the results obtained in textile workers, that is, that TLC does not change significantly during dust-induced airway constriction and that maximum expiratory flow rate at 50% VC (MEF50%) is a more sensitive test than FEV1-0 in detecting acute ventilatory changes caused by the dust extract.
(5) The highest prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms and diseases and greatest changes in ventilatory capacity were due to exposure to hemp and flax aerosols.
(6) And rather than to the purists of Camra, it was to the anything-goes craft brewers of America that many turned for their inspiration: to exuberant beers with exotic ingredients (chilli, honey, chocolate, hemp, mustard, even myrrh), but also to hip design, guerrilla marketing and social media savvy.
(7) The prevalence of respiratory symptoms and acute and chronic changes in ventilatory function were studied in three groups of textile workers: 68 workers with exposure to synthetic fibers only, 30 with previous exposure to cotton, and 77 with previous exposure to hemp.
(8) A high prevalence of byssinosis was found among female hemp workers in both mills (group A, 47.8%; group B, 57.9%) as well as in the male workers (66.7%).
(9) A significantly higher prevalence of almost all chronic respiratory symptoms was found in female hemp workers when compared to control workers.
(10) Immunological status and its relation to respiratory findings were studied in 42 female textile workers occupationally exposed to hemp dust and in 49 female control workers.
(11) We previously demonstrated that human embryonic mesenchymal cells derived from the palate (HEMP cells) retain alkaline phosphatase (ALP) content and capacity for collagen synthesis after long-term culture, and their growth is markedly stimulated by epidermal growth factor (EGF).
(12) Administration of 20 mg disodium cromoglycate by spinhaler 30 minutes prior to challenge with hemp dust or hemp dust extract protected a small number of subjects against the airway constrictor effect, mostly those with a large acute reduction in flow rates.
(13) Products Revitalift, PerfectSlim, Age Perfect, Lancôme, Maybelline, Helena Rubinstein, Kiehl's, Ellnett, Studio Line, Kerastase, Redken, Giorgio Armani, Ambre Solaire, Fructis They say "Fights the changes that threaten the youthfulness of your face" (Revitalift) "After eight days, skin is 41% firmer and 89% more toned" (PerfectSlim, test on 24 women) "Fights sagging" (Age Perfect) Celebrity faces Natalie Imbruglia, Milla Jovovich, Beyoncé Knowles, Claudia Schiffer Advertising "Because I'm worth it" (Jennifer Aniston, Andie MacDowell) Products Carrot Daily Hydrating Moisturiser, Grape Seed Glossing Serum, Hemp Face Protector, Seaweed Moisture Cream, Nettle Oil Balance Shampoo They say "You are a woman.
(14) The flow rate response is attributed to a pharmacological bronchoconstrictor effect of hemp dust on small airways, the conductance response to a mechanical or reflex effect of hemp dust on large airways.
(15) There is no indication that these substances will be espoused by the drug enthusiasts of the West as avidly as other ethno-psychopharmacological agents such as Peruvian coca leaf, the Indian hemp, the Asian poppy, or the American tobacco.
(16) The on-line version of OPLC proved suitable for the isolation of hemp constituents.
(17) A galactose-specific lectin from seeds of Sunn Hemp (Crotalaria juncea) has been purified by fractional precipitation with ammonium sulfate followed by biospecific affinity chromatography and preparative isoelectric focusing.
(18) Hemp workers with positive skin tests had significantly higher prevalences of chronic respiratory symptoms than those with negative skin tests.
(19) The hemp is grown on farms in France, Spain and the Czech Republic without chemicals or fertiliser, the company claims on its website.
(20) However, internalization of bound 125I-EGF in HEMP-RV cells was profoundly diminished.
Hessian
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Hesse.
(n.) A mercenary or venal person.
(n.) See Hessian boots and cloth, under Hessian, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 677 unrelated persons from the Central Hessian region, the following distribution of amylase 2 phenotypes was found: type 1 in 89.22%, type 2-1 in 8.57%, type 2 in 0.30%.
(2) The Hessian RPK model (RPK = rehabilitation facility for persons with mental illness) is characterized by a number of social-integrative features that might provide impulses for further rehabilitative models.
(3) The conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) was on the defensive on Monday over a draft motion drawn up by senior officials for a party conference this week, stating that people wanting permanent residency “should be urged to speak German in public and in the family.” Peter Tauber, general secretary of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, said on Twitter it’s “none of politicians’ business whether I speak Latin, Klingon or Hessian at home,” referring to his home region’s dialect.
(4) A few days later, she was returning across the border after a trip into Germany to buy supplies, when she noticed that large hessian screens had been erected on either side of the road.
(5) For this the measurements of the air measuring stations of the network for emissions of the German Umweltbundesamt (Federal Environmental Protection Agency) at Berlin and Frankfurt were used and well as those of the Hessische Landesanstalt für Umwelt, Wiesbaden (Hessian Office for Environmental Protection); Landesanstalt für Umweltschutz Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe (Regional Office for Environmental Protection of Baden-Württemberg); Bayerische Landesanstalt für Umweltschutz (Bavarian Office for Environmental Protection, Munich), were used.
(6) I confess to having no idea what "carrot sacks" are: probably not the kind of coarse hessian sack in which one might transport 20 kilos of carrots, but then what?
(7) In summer 2013, Andreas Temme, the Hessian LfV agen t who was inside Halit Yozgat’s internet cafe in Kassel when Yozgat was murdered, testified that he did not hear the silenced shots, nor did he notice the sprinkles of blood on the counter where he placed his payment in coins when he left.
(8) Superovulation responses from 299 Hessian donors were used to analyse the influence of selected traits and ovulation-parameters.
(9) In a small town and its adjacent villages of the Hessian Neckar Valley, Federal Republic of Germany, 155 of the officially registered domestic dogs were examined for intestinal helminths.
(10) One hundred seventeen samples of DDT 50% WP received from field where supplies were effected, were tested during 1988-89 for suspensibility without accelerated storage treatment (ATS) as per ISI specifications and compared with their suspensibilities after ATS obtained during the initial testing to know the stability status of the insecticide during transit and tropical storage in the field when packed in hessian bags.
(11) For our purposes a design was considered optimal when it maximized the sensitivity of the model output to changes in parameter values as indicated by the determinant of the Hessian matrix of the objective function.
(12) The Hessian of the potential energy is thereby reduced to a series of blocks of order n or 2n.
(13) The parameter covariance matrix obtained by inverting the Hessian matrix of the objective function is shown to be a good approximation to the estimate obtained by Monte Carlo sampling for low order models (n less than 3).
(14) From 1982 to 1986, data of 446 pregnancies in diabetic women were compared to equivalent information on 111,390 unselected non-diabetic pregnancies with the help of the Hessische Perinatalstudie (Hessian Perinatal Study, HEPS), a computerized system of collecting information on obstetrical care in the state of Hesse, F.R.G.
(15) GGOPT uses an adjustable mesh together with linear least squares to find smoothed values of the function, gradient and Hessian at the center of the mesh.
(16) "They were repeatedly beaten when handcuffed and hooded with hessian sacks, deprived of sleep, continually shouted at and generally abused."
(17) The Hessian ministry of education has said that, from this autumn, teachers must have conversations about sexual and gender diversity with children – not only in sex education classes, which are mandatory in Germany, but in subjects like English and maths too.
(18) They camped in a field with no flushing toilets available; instead latrines were dug – a trench (which was filled in gradually as it was used) surrounded by hessian cubicles.
(19) The amount of caesium 134 and 137 in Hessian game hunted for food (556 animals) after the reactor accident at Chernobyl was investigated.
(20) Beside Ruqayah huddled another teenage girl and a young man, pressed as close as they could get to the rough hessian of the sandbags.