(1) The crystallographic parameters of four different unit cells, all of which are based on hexagonal packing arrangements, indicate that the fundamental unit of the complex is composed of six gene 5 protein dimers.
(2) The molecular structure of the hexagonal crystal form of porcine pepsin (EC 3.4.23.1), an aspartic proteinase from the gastric mucosa, has been determined by molecular replacement using the fungal enzyme, penicillopepsin (EC 3.4.23.6), as the search model.
(3) The "hexagonal ribbon" model proposes that hexagonal profiles are true cross-sections of elongated hexagonal ribbons.
(4) Crystal structure analysis and refinement at 2.0 A resolution of a rhombohedral crystal form of human annexin V at high calcium concentration revealed a domain motion compared to the previously analysed hexagonal crystal form.
(5) Abnormalities included absence of a hexagonal pattern, incomplete portal tracts with dilated veins only, lack of bile ducts and canaliculi, and apparent failure of bile formation and glycogen deposition.
(6) Using a hexagonal electrode array and switching times of 75 min at 45 V for 14 days, nine bands could be resolved.
(7) The PENN-PET scanner consists of six hexagonally arranged position-sensitive Nal(TI) detectors.
(8) This result was quite the same as that of the hexagonal plate crystals.
(9) When negatively stained with uranyl acetate, LPSI was ribbon-like but LPSII exhibited hexagonal lattice structures.
(10) Endothelial specular photography during an attack reveals dramatic changes: large black nonreflecting areas between quite normal-looking hexagonal cells.
(11) It is suggested that distortion in the hexagonal lattice below the pretransition temperature previously reported by X-ray diffraction techniques may be responsible for interchain interactions which give rise to a Raman band observed only in the triclinic lattice of even-numbered n-alkanes.
(12) 31P-NMR and X-ray diffraction techniques are used to study the comparative ability of myelin basic protein (MBP) vs. other basic proteins to convert hexagonal (HII) phases to stable lamellar (L alpha) structures.
(13) The influence of the intercalation of ethidium bromide (EB) on the characteristics of the DNA cholesteric and hexagonal mesophases is studied by optical microscopy, circular dichroism, and X-ray diffraction.
(14) Wide angle X-ray diffraction results indicate no major effect of the protein on the 4.1 A spacing, characteristic of hexagonal packing of the hydrocarbon chains.
(15) After in vitro perfusion of cytochalasin D to the corneal endothelium, the F-actin became randomly distributed throughout the cytoplasm, the hexagonal shape of the endothelial cell was disrupted, and endothelial permeability to carboxyfluorescein increased.
(16) The thermophilic eubacterium Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum L77-66 is covered by a crystalline surface layer composed of identical glycoprotein subunits which are arranged in a hexagonal lattice with centre-to-centre spacings of approx.
(17) Pyramidal, cubical or hexagonal magnetic grains could be seen in different species of bacteria.
(18) The six subunits form a hexagon which is skewed with respect to the main rows of hexagons in such a way that the subunits lie on rows which make an angle of approximately 37 degrees with the main rows.
(19) In the invaginating synapses of cone pedicles, the plasma membrane of the photoreceptor ending contains an aggregate of A-face particles, a hexagonal array of synaptic vesicle sites, and rows of coated vesicle sites, which are deployed in sequence from apex to base of the synaptic ridge.
(20) The design and construction of a transistor-driven hexagonal contour-clamped homogeneous electric field (CHEF) apparatus is discussed in detail.
Snowflake
Definition:
(n.) A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.
(n.) See Snowbird, 1.
(n.) A name given to several bulbous plants of the genus Leucoium (L. vernum, aestivum, etc.) resembling the snowdrop, but having all the perianth leaves of equal size.
Example Sentences:
(1) By late afternoon we have climbed to over 2,500 metres and, with occasional snowflakes blowing around our heads, we pitch our tents by a small lake.
(2) The sections produced with dull knives had a snowflake appearance in the light microscope.
(3) LastPass generates new passwords for them, which will then autofill through a snowflake button on the browser.
(4) It’s a beautiful game though, as you soar over London, San Francisco, Japan, China and Australia collecting snowflakes.
(5) From American Pearl's wedding rings ("thousands of possibilities, billions of permutations: every piece is like a snowflake") to MIT-born startup Matter.io's design-your-own-bling service to the work of individual designers like Maria Jennifer Carew there is plenty happening on this front.
(6) She had become Snowflake’s unofficial welcome wagon, local therapist and advocate.
(7) Corneal endothelial snowflake dystrophy was diagnosed in a child of 12 years as part of an inherited syndrome associated with various oculocutaneous pigmentation disturbances and malabsorption.
(8) Not a snowflake's chance in hell of succeeding with that sort of roll call.
(9) When used as probes in Southern blots of total DNA from wild-type strains, multicent-2 (a multiple mutant strain), and snowflake mutants, the P59Nc cDNAs revealed comparable patterns of hybridizing bands for all of the restriction enzymes tested.
(10) Snowflake dystrophy was associated with two kinds of intraocular pigment changes: the prevalence rate of green irides was 21.7% and the prevalence rate of large star-shaped chromatophore-like cells attached to the anterior lens capsule, 23.9%.
(11) The body should be celebrated, not shamed.” The day I got naked for Spencer Tunick In case you missed it ... the Arizona town where residents find refuge from the world In Snowflake, you can escape fragrances, electricity, Wi-Fi and other facets of modern life.
(12) But, mummy, I want to be the snowflake!” seems to be their hidden mantra.
(13) Snowflake dystrophy was also associated with malabsorption: the prevalence rate of milk intolerance was 37.6%, lactose malabsorption (hypolactasia) 39.0%, and vitamin A or fat malabsorption 23.3%.
(14) I am told that all snowflakes are unique, and so they may be under a microscope, but frankly, they all look the same to me.
(15) As much as I’d like to think my career is all thanks to my special snowflake qualities, it’s difficult, when looking around at the rest of my heavily privately-educated profession, to draw any conclusion other than that my schooling might have helped me.
(16) The Snowflake Tendency has even begun to infect political discourse in Scotland .
(17) But in her submission, she says: “I’ve become extremely frustrated at being labelled a remoaner, snowflake, metropolitan elite.” Rachel Green, who features holding an eagle, hopes there will be a second referendum.
(18) The associations between snowflake dystrophy, milk intolerance and hypolactasia were statistically significant.
(19) Apparently it was common, around Snowflake, for people to kill themselves.
(20) Like Susie, most of the residents in Snowflake have what they call “environmental illness”, a controversial diagnosis that attributes otherwise unexplained symptoms to pollution.