(1) One of the things Yang has said he wants to investigate is: "This state we're in ... a moment when we have to negotiate our past while inventing our present."
(2) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(3) Clearly, therefore, image is everything, especially in a world that can still be unkind to geeky people venturing out in public wearing their latest invention.
(4) Since its invention a few years ago, the atomic force microscope has become one of the most widely used near-field microscopes.
(5) No, Did they invent sliding fingers across substances?
(6) They just lacked the invention to find a way through.
(7) Three times a week, he rolled his wheelchair up to a computer monitor and allowed scientists from Battelle , a nonprofit research organisation that invented the technology they hoped would let him move his hand with his thoughts again, to plug into his brain.
(8) The cecal foramen pointer was invented for a Sistrunk median cervical cyst operation.
(9) Inside, the tiles and the stained glass are said to be perfection, matched against murals that depict the inventions of the industrial revolution and the signing of the Magna Carta.
(10) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
(11) The words you attribute to Mr Mitchell are an invention and they were invented for the same reason – because you could not conceivably have justified giving a Public Order Act warning on what Mr Mitchell actually said.” Rowland said: “No, the evidence I have given is the truth.
(12) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
(13) Apple has used the month of January to launch revolutionary products before, in part as a way of diverting attention from its rivals presenting their latest inventions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which Apple does not attend, and that takes place the same month.
(14) Southampton remained the more inventive in the second half.
(15) Holden Caulfield puts it in a slightly different way: "I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented.
(16) "I used to hate lions," he adds, "but now, because my invention is saving my father's cows and the lions, we are able to stay with the lions without any conflict."
(17) After that is accomplished I will change all history books to say that I have invented the frisbee and that this is the most important invention ever.
(18) With the invention of the laser, many clinical disciplines have taken advantage of this new energy source.
(19) At last, as we have found, also in Ethiopia, stone-tools more than three million years old in association with Australopithecus, it seems that the very first made tools were the invention of prehumans who did not have yet the hands completely free from locomotion.
(20) It captures the fact that the eclectic and inventive Adams - who cut his compositional teeth as a member of the minimalist school in the 1970s and 1980s, and then moved on into less strict forms of tonal music - is almost certainly America's most widely performed contemporary composer.
Inverted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Invert
(a.) Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.
(a.) Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval.
Example Sentences:
(1) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
(2) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
(3) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
(4) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
(5) IS1106 has a length of 1137 bp and is flanked by 36bp inverted repeats.
(6) The responses were compared when two electrode pairs were stimulated simultaneously with current pulses in phase and when the same electrodes were stimulated with current pulses inverted relative to each other.
(7) Inverted repeat plasmids recombine approximately 20-fold less frequently in the mutant than in the wild-type strain.
(8) The cytoplasmic moiety of the inverted EII could be removed with trypsin without effecting the integrity of the liposomal membrane.
(9) This study concluded that inverted positioning for short periods significantly increased spinal length and reduced emg activity of the superficial lumbar area musculature of normal males.
(10) A site for initiation of the intramolecular recombination in the S. cerevisiae host was delimited into, at most, a 58-bp region in the inverted repeats by using mutant plasmids created by linker insertion.
(11) Treadmill acceleration impulses were backwards or forwards directed, or their direction was inverted after 30 ms. Backwards directed impulses were followed by gastrocnemius and forwards directed ones by tibialis anterior EMG responses (latency 65-75 ms) whose duration depended on impulse duration.
(12) We postulate that the apposition of trophotaenial epithelium to the internal ovarian epithelium constitutes a placental association equivalent to a noninvasive, epithelioform of an inverted yolk sac placenta.
(13) The interaction with these lipids, the rotational conformations of the 17-acetyl group, and invertible conformations of the cyclohexenone of PROG were discussed on the basis of the elliptical strength of the Cotton effect and energy estimation of the preferred conformers.
(14) Exteriorization is accomplished by mobilizing 2 lateral skin flaps from the perineum and joining them with the inverted U flap to reach the vagina.
(15) Two of the families, defined by subregions that do not contain parts of the inverted repeat, one in the "loop" and one in the "right flanking region," are totally eliminated during macronuclear development--and contain open reading frames.
(16) Eight of 10 residues encompassing a continuous region of protection within RB3 (positions -45 to -36) matched in the inverted orientation the conserved core sequence (ACCGTTCGTC) of RB1 and RB2.
(17) The pachytene behavior of the chromosomes of Microtus agrestis (L.) (Rodentia, Arvicolidae) males carrying either the standard, or the pericentrically inverted Lund Y chromosome have been examined by electron microscopy of microspread spermatocytes.
(18) To clarify how T3R, RAR, and related factors recognize DNA response elements, we analyzed the interaction of purified receptors with a series of inverted and direct repeats of an idealized AGGTCA half-site separated by different sized nucleotide gaps.
(19) A simplified procedure is described whereby tissue is removed via a posterior eyelid approach so that the eyelid may be tightened both horizontally and vertically, thus inverting the punctum and fixating it in the lacrimal lake.
(20) When pseudorabies virus (PrV) strains are grown in chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF), variants ("translocation" mutants) arise in which there is a duplication of the leftmost sequences of the genome and their translocation in inverted orientation next to the internal inverted repeat bracketing the S component.