(n.) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
Example Sentences:
(1) The circulatory levels of T4, T3, rT3, TSH as well as TSH response to TRH, thyroid hormone binding proteins and T3 concentration of erythrocytes were studied in (i) healthy euthyroid sea level residents (SLR) at sea level, (ii) during three weeks of stay of SLR at an altitude of 3500 m (sojourners, SJ), (iii) SLR staying at high altitude (HA) for 3 months to 10 years (acclimatised low landers.
(2) Here, we show that these assertions are both incorrect: the Lander-Green algorithm is an EM algorithm, while the Morton-Collins algorithm is not.
(3) • 1999 Nasa's Mars Polar Lander crashes into the planet, probably after an engine malfunction failed to slow the spacecraft's descent.
(4) 7 Eric S Lander President and founding director of the Eli and Edythe L Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
(5) Unlike the Landers and Landers study, no model type by model skill interaction was found.
(6) It has been suggested (E. Lander) that one use the highest frequency for the most common allele as a baseline frequency estimate.
(7) Interaction of heparin fragments (Mr less than or equal to 6KD) with type I collagen was analyzed by affinity co-electrophoresis (Lee and Lander, 1991) and showed higher affinity heparin binding to native as compared with denatured collagen.
(8) "I'd really love to put a lander on the surface of Europa, the moon of Jupiter, that we feel is a place in the solar system most likely to have life.
(9) At each lander site, activity was strongly diminished.
(10) It was founded by the Little Landers, the cooperative agriculture movement of the early twentieth century that believed in the modest aspiration of “a little land and a living”.
(11) Landers that are searching for life must be exceptionally clean, and fall under category IVb, but those entering special regions are category IVc missions and must be cleaner still.
(12) Approximately 3 months of radio tracking data from the Viking landers have been analyzed to determine the lander locations, the orientation of the spin axis of Mars, and a first estimate from Viking data of the planet's spin rate.
(13) The Lib Dems are citing a letter to Cameron and Clegg, signed by the former Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Blair and the former MI5 director Sir Stephen Lander, which called on Britain not to abandon its European partners.
(14) When we saw Armstrong descend from the lander's ladder and put the first human footprints on the lunar surface, it had already happened.
(15) The analytical scheme originally envisioned was severely compromised in the latter stages of the Lander instrument package design.
(16) State-run China Central Television showed a computer-generated image of the Chang'e 3 lander's path as it approached the surface of the moon yesterday, explaining that during its 12-minute landing period it would have no contact with Earth.
(17) These reactions were qualitatively similar to the chemical activity observed during the active cycles of the Viking lander Gas Exchange and Labeled Release Biology experiments.
(18) Llewellyn Landers, an ANC MP, said the bill would not have a public-interest defence clause because "it would do irrevocable harm to the state and the people of South Africa if a court should find that a whistleblower was found to have given information not out of public interest but out of maliciousness".
(19) The Landers-Foulks temporary keratoprosthesis was used to combine penetrating keratoplasty, pars plana vitrectomy, and scleral buckling in the management of 13 eyes with opaque cornea and posterior segment abnormalities.
(20) The lipids of C. eugametos cells contain PtdIns, PtdIns(4)P and PtdIns(4,5)P2 [Irvine, Letcher, Lander, Drøbak, Dawson & Musgrave (1989) Plant Physiol.
Surface
Definition:
(n.) The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.
(n.) Hence, outward or external appearance.
(n.) A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface.
(n.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
(v. t.) To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain.
(v. t.) To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(2) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(3) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
(4) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(5) In the surface epithelial cells, the basolateral cell surface showed moderate enzymatic activity.
(6) Such an increase in antibody binding occurred simultaneously with an increase in the fluidity of surface lipid regions, as monitored by fluorescence depolarization of 1-(trimethylammoniophenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene.
(7) The role of Ca2+ in cell agglutination may be either to activate the cell-surface dextran receptor or to form specific intercellular Ca2+ bridges.
(8) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(9) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(10) A total of 555 caries lesions were registered on proximal surfaces, 49.1% being primary lesions in the enamel, 21.4% primary lesions into the dentin and 29.5% secondary lesions.
(11) Contact angles of Silafocon A and PMMA were relatively uninfluenced by front surface radii between 7.7 and 8.85 and 7.3 to 8.8 mm, respectively.
(12) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
(13) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(14) Our Ph1-positive ALL revealed B-cell lineage leukemia, since their surface phenotype were Ia+ and CD10+ and they have rearranged immunoglobulin JH genes.
(15) The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene for a cell surface protein antigen (SpaA) of Streptococcus sobrinus MT3791 (serotype g) was determined.
(16) To investigate the mechanism of enhanced responsiveness of cholesterol-enriched human platelets, we compared stimulation by surface-membrane-receptor (thrombin) and post-receptor (AlF4-) G-protein-directed pathways.
(17) Lysis of EAC4b,3b cellular intermediates formed to contain a low surface amount of C3b was more inhibited than was lysis of cells formed with a standard amount of C3b on the surface.
(18) After either 5 or 10 days of culture with both cytokines, intense immunofluorescent staining for Ia could be identified on the surface of greater than 80-90% of the viable islet cells.
(19) Within the capillary-perfused mucosa and muscularis (between 50 and 2000 microns from the urothelial surface), concentrations decreased by 50% for each 500-microns distance.
(20) Displacement of the surface of the cornea of bovine eyes after disruption of intact structures was investigated by means of holographic interferometry.