(n.) The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have addressed the effect of late intensification with autologous bone marrow transplantation on SCLC through a randomized clinical trial.
(2) After incubation of cells in a fresh medium (in the course of 18, 24 hours) there occurs a total restoration of the ultrastructure of the nuclei, granular endoplasmatic reticulum, mitochondria, due to the repairing and strong intensification of synthetic processes, respiration and glycolysis, mitotic activity of the cells.
(3) An important observation was that there was no patient disease free at 1 year in the group that did not receive intensification whereas there were patients who were free of disease up to 271 weeks in the group receiving late intensification.
(4) The first stage is characterized by circular disturbances of conditioned activity, vegetative shifts of compensatory character and intensification of individual characteristics of behaviour.
(5) Monospecific antisera against catalase and three enzymes of peroxisomal lipid beta-oxidation (acyl-CoA oxidase, bifunctional protein (enoyl-CoA hydratase, 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase) and 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase) were used in conjunction with either the indirect immunoperoxidase method or the protein A-gold technique followed by silver intensification.
(6) It is interpreted to contribute to development or intensification of a caudal thoracic oesophageal sphincter.
(7) Some factors which suppress pigmentation are characterized: these are an increase in SH groups content, deficiency of tyrosine, rise in growth rate and reduction of the diameter of hairs, intensification of antagonism between melanocytes and keratinocytes.
(8) Postremission therapy consolidation has been judged to be necessary while the clinical roles of maintenance and intensification remain to be clarified and appear to still require an investigational approach.
(9) The extent of intensification varied both with mouse strain and treatment, indicating possible differences in repair capacity and LET-dependency of sensitization effects.
(10) Rats trained to the high-altitude hypoxia displayed signs of intensification of both the plastic and lytic processes; one of these processes prevailed in different cells.
(11) The cholinergic cells and processes within the pontomedullary reticular formation were studied in the rat by application of peroxidase-antiperoxidase immunohistochemistry with silver intensification for choline-acetyltransferase (ChAT).
(12) Intensification of surgical work on the basis of the standardization of the main stages of the patient's treatment is regarded as one of the approaches to the lethality reduction.
(13) In an intensification of his engagement with the EU debate, David Cameron, the UK prime minister, will take on the arguments for this semi-detached relationship with the EU during a visit to Iceland on Wednesday.
(14) Strategies to support chemotherapy dose intensification include BMT, use of CSFs and antiemetic drug combinations.
(15) In the case of agriculture, growing demand for food also requires sustainable intensification – in other words, producing more on less land, without unacceptable uses of chemicals and water to do so.
(16) In an intensification of Labour's attack on the justice and security bill, which will restrict access to some sensitive intelligence, the shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan accuses Clarke of misrepresenting it.
(17) Among the 21 patients who received intensification, nine remain alive in a CR with a median survival of 27 months.
(18) These changes show the intensification on their specific function manifest in an increase of relative volume of intracellular structures.
(19) This was not microcredit's intended poverty reduction so much as the intensification of poverty , suffering and deprivation among the very poorest communities forced into informal sector work.
(20) The response from the SPD opposition was harsh and noted that the government's gradual approach had led to a dramatic intensification of the sovereign debt crisis.
Intensify
Definition:
(v. t.) To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.
(v. i.) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(2) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(3) Hyperimmunization with the tick encephalitis and Western horse encephalomyelitis viruses reproduced in the brain of albino mice, intensified the protein synthesis in the splenic tissue during the productive phase of the immunogenesis (the 7th day).
(4) First, SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed an intensified hepatic microsomal polypeptide (MW 54,000) following picloram pretreatment.
(5) This effect could be intensified by a preceding treatment of the animal with androgens.
(6) In a recent study, Orr and Lanzetta (1984) showed that the excitatory properties of fear facial expressions previously described (Lanzetta & Orr, 1981; Orr & Lanzetta, 1980) do not depend on associative mechanisms; even in the absence of reinforcement, fear faces intensify the emotional reaction to a previously conditioned stimulus and disrupt extinction of an acquired fear response.
(7) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
(8) Besides, the movement of mitochondria to the neuronal processes is intensified.
(9) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government has joined MPs, bloggers and local media in denouncing the newly-released Warner Brothers epic, 300, as a calculated attempt to demonise Iran at a time of intensifying US pressure over the country's nuclear programme.
(10) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.
(11) Families fear that after April’s disaster the cycle of poverty in the region will be intensified.
(12) These data indicate the existence of diverse, proinflammatory interactions of pyocyanin and 1-hp with human phagocytes, which may intensify neutrophil-mediated tissue damage during P. aeruginosa infections.
(13) Under identical conditions methandrostenon intensified the proteins synthesis in the nuclear fraction of the liver alone.
(14) The resolution also opens the door for other bodies, such as the European Union and the International Criminal Court, to intensify their pressure on Israel to desist from its illegal practices on the West Bank and its war crimes in Gaza.
(15) In this state, IPPV did not reduce the blood pressure in the supine position, and did not intensify its fall when the upper body was raised.
(16) After 10 months exposure to Fenthion, cellular necrosis and gliosis intensified in the CA4 and CA3 regions and occasionally involved the CA2.
(17) So far 34 patients in complete remission have been given one or two courses of the intensified consolidation therapy with high-dose cytosine-arabinoside and daunorubicin.
(18) The long-running dispute over the Senkaku islands – known as the Diaoyu in China – intensified earlier this month after Japan nationalised the territories, resulting in violent anti-Japanese demonstrations in dozens of Chinese cities.
(19) Two sets of a twin-focus X-ray tube and a 12-inch image intensifier (II) were mounted on the gantry in the isocentric and cross-firing positions.
(20) Elsewhere in the brain, minimal involvement of the entorhinal cortex neurons occurred 3 days postexposure and intensified by 7 days.