(n.) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped / banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nucleotide sequence of genome segment A cDNA of the STC strain of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) was determined and compared with sequences of the homologous genome segment of the 002-73 strain of IBDV and the Jasper strain of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV).
(2) Jaspers thus shows how, within the mind of every medical person, the researcher contests with the physician and the technician with the humanist.
(3) In the grounds of his house, Jasper Johns has a studio, a huge converted barn in which the 74 year old does most of his work.
(4) His invention of a new stoneware called Jasper has been described as the most important development in the history of ceramics since the Chinese discovery of porcelain nearly 1,000 years earlier.
(5) Jasper Cillessen, let it be noted, has never saved one in his career.
(6) The concept which makes a distinction between schizophrenic psychosis and manic-depressive psychosis grants the former a predominant position by applying Jasper's hierarchic rule: the presence of symptoms regarded as schizophrenic indubitably attributes the disorder to schizophrenia.
(7) Fewer infected sheep were observed annually when salt blocks were removed from Jasper National Park.
(8) Anglo-American psychiatry, in espousing Jaspers and rejecting psychoanalysis, has in consequence concentrated on the form and not the sense of delusions.
(9) Nucleic acid hybridizations using low stringency washing conditions and a synthetic DNA oligonucleotide probe (representing the 3' end of the A segment of the Jasper strain) gave positive results with the IPN virus Jasper, Ab, Sp, and N1 strains.
(10) To quote George Jasper Wherrett in The Miracle of the Empty Beds: One hundred years ago the word consumption (as tuberculosis was then called) struck horror in human hearts.
(11) The results of this investigation suggest that Jaspers' hierarchical principle, still important for many diagnostic systems, according to which the presence of delusions and hallucinations is considered to be pathognomonic for schizophrenia and takes priority over any affective ones, be abandoned.
(12) Lee Jasper has been at the centre of controversy because of his alleged involvement in the awarding of grants by the London Development Agency (LDA).
(13) The Ajax goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen, who was Van Gaal’s No1 when the coach led Holland at the World Cup, is a candidate to succeed De Gea.
(14) Prolonged isolated sialorrhea of epileptic origin was described by Penfield and Jasper (1954) in a patient with a lesional epilepsy.
(15) It means that his tactical hunches, l ike taking off Jasper Cillessen and putting Tim Krul in goal for the penalty shoot-out against Costa Rica , tend to come off.
(16) If De Gea does leave, the club have a plan in place, which could mean buying the Ajax goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen, who was Van Gaal’s No1 when the coach led Holland at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
(17) Lee Jasper, the former London mayoral adviser now involved in the Smiley Culture campaign, says he sees a number of parallels with 1981, including the loss of many experienced police – something highlighted by the Scarman report as a problem – job cuts, increased stop-and-search and high levels of black imprisonment.
(18) So argues Jasper Lawler of CMC Markets , who writes: The failure of the Pfizer-AstraZeneca deal has added to the bad feelings in markets today as a certain premium had been built into prices with the belief this mega-merger could bring about a new wave of M&A.
(19) Sigurdsson slap the penalty beyond Jasper Cillessen.
(20) Operation Indus hearings started and finished in November 2012 while Operation Jasper hearings also began in November 2012 but finished in March this year.
Wasp
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moderate to severe SRs were equally likely after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, and yellow hornet (65%), honeybee (67%), or wasp (70%), although historical SRs were reported more often after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, or yellow hornet (30%) than after honeybee (19%) or wasp (14%) stings.
(2) This interpretation is strongly supported by the observation that the wasp poison mastoparan, which is known to mimic receptor-mediated activation of certain Gi proteins, also promoted anchorage independence.
(3) A growth-blocking peptide (GBP) with repressive activity against juvenile hormone (JH) esterase has been isolated from the last (6th) instar larval plasma of the armyworm Pseudaletia separata (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) parasitized by the parasitoid wasp Apanteles kariyai (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) (1,2).
(4) Fifty-two analogues of the wasp toxin, philanthotoxin-433, have been synthesized and tested on a glutamatergic, nerve-muscle preparation from locust leg.
(5) The action of the venom of the wasp Campsomeris sexmaculata on the insect CNS has been studied using the cercal nerve-giant interneuron preparation of the sixth abdominal ganglion of the cockroach.
(6) Fifty nine patients (30%) with RXN3 responses to wasps failed to react to either test, while this applied to only 19 (6%) of the patients with RXN3 responses to bee stings.
(7) Taken together, these correlations indicate that the wasp may render the tick inhospitable to both pathogens.
(8) Other than snake venoms, only venoms of the toad Bufo calamita and the lizards were hemorrhagic, and only venoms of the social wasps, social bees and harvester ant exhibited strong anticoagulant activity.
(9) The precipitating agents were penicillin (7 cases), aspirin (3), food (2), and bee or wasp sting (8).
(10) In both bee venom allergy and wasp venom allergy the corresponding allergen induced concentration-dependent histamine release.
(11) Or are half these people too idle, not just to remove their own wasp nests, but to do their own redacting?
(12) Monoclonal antibodies raised against venom glands recognized epitopes conserved on several polydnavirus proteins and on multiple wasp oviduct and venom proteins.
(13) Studies have been made on thermal regulation in the nests of families of the honey bee Apis mellifera, wasp Dolihovespula silvestris and bumblebees Bombus terrestris, B. agrorum and B. lapidaris during their maximum development.
(14) Venoms from 20 species of stinging Hymenoptera, including nine species of ants and nine species of social wasps, were quantitatively analyzed for the following enzymic activities: phospholipase A, hyaluronidase, lipase, esterase, protease, acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and phosphodiesterase.
(15) The tiny wasps lay their eggs in the aphids, which are then eaten by the hatching grubs.
(16) The effect of electrophoretic ejection of philanthotoxin (the polyamine toxin, from the Egyptian digger wasp) was tested on responses of brainstem and spinal neurones in the pentobarbitone-anaesthetized rat to excitatory amino acids.
(17) By his own admission he is a Wasp, a White Ashkenazi Supporter of Peace.
(18) In larvae of a selected immune-reactive strain the rates of tyrosine hydroxylation, dopa oxidation, and dopamine oxidation were markedly increased during the early stages of melanotic encapsulation of the eggs of the parasitic wasp Leptopilina boulardi.
(19) Studies of the dorsal ocelli of the wasp Paravespula vulgaris (L.) led to the following results: Under a biconvex corneal lens, 150 microns in thickness, about 600 receptor cells are located.
(20) Over an eight and a half year period 742 patients were assessed for allergy to stinging and biting insects in Queensland; 452 (61%) had allergic reactions to honey bees, 244 (33%) to wasps, 30 (4%) to various ants, 11 (1.5%) to march flies (Tabanus sp.)