(n.) One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands.
(n.) Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java.
Example Sentences:
(1) Significant differences in S. typhi strain distributions were noted between two localities on Java with respect to phage type and tetrathionate reductase activity.
(2) But it would be by no means impossible, as witness the startling declines on the part of certain communities in Taiwan, South Korea, Java, Thailand, Kerala State in India, Sri Lanka, Cuba, Mexico, Costa Rica and Colombia, during the recent past – these being countries that represent a broad range of political and economic systems, as well as of social and cultural backgrounds.
(3) A worm removed intact from the anterior chamber of the left eye of a 23-year-old woman from Central Java was identified as a mle Angiostrongylus cantonensis, 11.1 mm in length and 0.24 mm in maximum width.
(4) Indonesian divers have found the black box flight recorders of the AirAsia plane that crashed in the Java Sea a fortnight ago with 162 people on board, the transport ministry has said.
(5) In Java 81.1% of the males and 99.2% of the females showed dental mutilations in the form of grinding the incisal and vestibular surfaces of the maxillary incisors and canines.
(6) Ministry of Health staff in West Java, Indonesia, and staff from 2 US organizations compared data on 15 community health volunteers (kader), who had undergone 2 days of training on the use of cards to advise mothers of children with diarrhea, with data on 16 kader who did not use the counseling cards.
(7) Then cases were detected in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Java, Sarawak, the New Hebrides, Guam and Hawaii during the 1960s.
(8) A. barbirostris from Java was able to support development of B. timori as well as A. barbirostris from Flores.
(9) Antibodies against plague were lacking in 237 wild mammal sera from Java and 103 from Kalimantan.
(10) • Install the latest versions of your internet browsers and update add-ons such as Java and Adobe Flash.
(11) The prison island off Central Java is the site where two rounds of executions were conducted last year: six prisoners were killed in January and eight, including Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumuran, in April .
(12) Areas suspected to have ciguatoxic poisoning problem in the Solomon Islands includes Santa Cruz, Rennell and Bellona, Indispensable reefs, Ontong Java and Wagina island.
(13) Laboratory reared Aedes aegypti (black eye and Jakarta strains), Aedes togoi, (Taiwan), Aedes albopictus, (Jakarta), wild caught Anopheles barbirostris, (Java) and Mansonia uniformis, (Jakarta) were fed on a carrier with mixed infection of Brugia timori and Wuchereria bancrofti.
(14) Oracle has big court case against Google alleging that Android infringes a number of Java patents, and claiming $6.1bn in damages.
(15) The malaria situation in Indonesia is reviewed in the major island group of Java-Bali and the remainder of the archipelago called the Outer Islands.
(16) Humoral immunity reactions in draining lymph nodes have been analyzed histologically and at the submicroscopical level after challenge with Salmonella Java vaccine, horse spleen ferritin, horse-gamma-globulin, a chemical sensitizer oxazolone (2 phenyl-4-ethoxymethylene-5-oxazolone) and after skin allografting respectively.
(17) In Central Java and on the island of Bali 779 and 437 villagers respectively were examined for dental mutilations.
(18) Since 1982, the intensity and spread of DHF has created an increasing public health problem in Indonesia, particularly in Java where 60% of the total population of the country resides.
(19) Twenty-eight health care workers developed acute infection with Salmonella java; 15 participated in a placebo-controlled trial of ciprofloxacin, beginning on day 9 after infection.
(20) Weight and length of infants, born in two villages in Madura, East Java were measured longitudinally from birth to 12 months (n = 391).
Kava
Definition:
(n.) A species of Macropiper (M. methysticum), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kava resin also decreased apomorphine-induced hyperreactivity and partially reversed tetrabenazine-induced ptosis.
(2) Kava resin decreased spontaneous motility and caused a loss of muscle control.
(3) All seven major, and several minor, kava lactones were identified in human urine.
(4) As the first of a series of studies on the neuropharmacological interactions of kava with CNS receptors we tested purified pyrones and kava resin for activity on GABA and benzodiazepine binding sites in rat and mouse brain membranes.
(5) These observations indicate that further studies of the clinical effects and the human metabolism of high dosage kava are needed.
(6) A scaly rash suggestive of ichthyosis and eye irritation were present in some heavy kava drinkers.
(7) The same concerns apply to taking kava kava with alcohol, barbiturates, anti-epileptic drugs or muscle relaxants, and there are also signs that extracts may increase muscular weakness and twitching in people with Parkinson's disease.
(8) The effects of the kava extract and its constituents were compared with those produced by the typical anticonvulsant, memantine.
(9) In addition, kava-lactones bind to GABA-receptors in the brain - docking sites for the natural chemical GABA, responsible for feelings of wellbeing and euphoria.
(10) Bornyl cinnamate has been identified as a constituent of kava resin and of the steam distillate of Piper methysticum.
(11) If echinacea is the Lemsip of the herbal pharmacopia and St John's Wort the Prozac, kava kava is the valium.
(12) On the basis of these findings, there is a strong rationale for urgent social action to improve health in Aboriginal communities and, in particular, to reduce the consumption of kava and to improve the nutritional status of kava users.
(13) In this German study, symptoms were greatly reduced in those taking kava kava compared with the placebo group.
(14) Using the tail immersion test the time course of action of the extracts of the four effective pyrones of kava were studied.
(15) The compounds responsible for the herb's calming yet stimulating qualities are kava-lactones - also known as kava-pyrones - which comprise up to 70% of most commercially available extracts.
(16) Similar lack of activity was observed in in vivo binding studies; injection of kava resin failed to influence the CNS binding of the benzodiazepine-receptor ligand [3H]Ro15-1788 injected into mice prior to sacrifice.
(17) The results showed that kava kava could dangerously increase the effects of anaesthesia.
(18) The kava bowl, a traditional feature of Pacific Island societies, has been adopted and adapted by a number of Aboriginal (Yolngu) communities of northern Australia, where it was introduced in the hope that it would challenge alcohol.
(19) Neither D,L-kavain nor the kava extract changed the threshold of the EEG arousal reaction.
(20) The effect of kava extract was slight compared to that of the standard antipsychotic drugs chlorpromazine and haloperidol in our procedure.