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Libration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or state of librating.
  • (n.) A real or apparent libratory motion, like that of a balance before coming to rest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The simulation reproduces the amplitudes of the fast librational motions of the backbone N-H bonds determined from 15N nuclear magnetic relaxation data, as well as the crystallographic B-factors.
  • (2) This has provided information on the translational and librational motions of individual groups in the complex.
  • (3) Above about 52 degrees C cholesterol improves the order by decreasing the amplitude of the librational motions.
  • (4) In its thermal vibrations, the adenosine molecule behaves as two rigid segments with a torsional libration about the glycosidic bond of 14.4 deg2 at 123 K. The force constant for this libration, as determined from the diffraction data, is 73 (10) J mol-1 deg-2.
  • (5) In the 1970s, Princeton physicist Gerald K O’Neill envisioned 100,000-person colonies, stationed at what is known as the fifth Lagrangian libration point (L5) in the moon’s orbit – like a gravitational eddy where things stay put by themselves.
  • (6) The source of the entropic elastomeric force is demonstrated to be the result of internal chain dynamics, and the mechanism is called the librational entropy mechanism of elasticity.
  • (7) The librational motions are to some extent cooperative.
  • (8) A translational, librational, and screw analysis of the thermal parameters of endothiapepsin also supports a model in which the two parts can move relative to each other.
  • (9) Collectively these results suggest that hydrophobic interactions make contributions to elastin entropy at low extensions, but that librational mechanisms make larger contributions to the elastic restoring force at longer extensions.
  • (10) Many such motions reflect peptide plane librations that result from anticorrelated crankshaft rotations of psi i and phi i+1.
  • (11) 7 nsec at 40 degrees C) where the band has been assigned to a peptide librational mode.
  • (12) The amplitude of the base motion, modeled as a fast four-site libration, or diffusion in a cone, increased slightly with higher levels of hydration.
  • (13) The TLS model has also been applied to the whole protein molecule and shows that the average motion is approximately isotropic with little librational character.
  • (14) Calculations of the relative statistical weights of these conformations confirm earlier theoretical considerations on the importance of the librational free energy of stable conformations of peptides.
  • (15) Since the spin-lattice relaxation rate for the active R-state (immobilized) phosphate is similar to that observed in other phosphoenzymes of different size it is suggested that a librational motion on the nanosecond time scale may constitute a common spin-lattice relaxation pathway for phosphates in macromolecules.
  • (16) The absorption bands of the glycerol ester, phosphoryl, and choline groups were broadened upon hydration, suggesting the activation of the librational or torsional motion.
  • (17) The similarity of Raman frequencies for B-, A-, C-, and Z-DNA suggests that these modes originate from concerted motions of the bases (librations), which are not strongly dependent upon helix backbone geometry or handedness.
  • (18) Thus, while the rate of these transitions cannot be quantified, the simulated decay of these correlation functions is completely consistent with the physical picture in which the N-H vectors, in addition to fast librational motion, undergo large amplitude jumps between conformations stabilized by hydrogen bonds.
  • (19) By analogy this allows for the first assignment of a peptide librational mode in a naturally occurring polypeptide or protein.
  • (20) The hydrophobic side groups in the protein core show mainly translational motion, with mean-square librations of 20 deg2 which are similar to those found in some close-packed crystals of small organic molecules.

Slightly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a slight manner.
  • (adv.) Slightingly; negligently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A slight varus angle of 2.1 degrees became apparent.
  • (2) At the moment we are, if anything, slightly lagging."
  • (3) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
  • (4) In the presence of insulin, a qualitatively similar pattern of increasing responses to albumin is observed; the enhancement of each response by insulin is, however, only slightly potentiated by higher albumin concentrations.
  • (5) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
  • (6) At the highest dose of chloroquine tested (500 microM), a slightly greater increase in insulin binding and a decrease in insulin degradation were observed in fetal cells as compared with adult cells.
  • (7) Epidermal growth factor reduced plating efficiency by about 50% for A431 cells in different cell cycle phases whereas a slight increase in plating efficiency was seen for SiHa cells.
  • (8) )-induced gnawing behavior in rats was slightly more potent than that of clocapramine.
  • (9) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
  • (10) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
  • (11) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
  • (12) Gross brain atrophy was slight and equal in both groups.
  • (13) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
  • (14) The binding to DNA-cellulose of heat-activated [3H]RU486-receptor complexes was slightly decreased (37%) when compared with that of the agonist [3H]R5020-receptor complexes (47%).
  • (15) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
  • (16) Hyperosmolar buffer slightly increased the sensitivity and maximal response to methacholine as well as the cholinergic twitch to electric field stimulation.
  • (17) Though three of these presumable metabolites could slightly inhibit the binding of [3H]-KW-3049, they were not detected in rat and dog plasma at 0.5 h after oral administration of KW-3049.
  • (18) Lambing rates approach 1.5 lambs per ewe per year, but a death rate of 23 per cent and an offtake of 27 per cent, means that flock numbers are probably slightly declining.
  • (19) Subjects who trained an additional 52 wk showed a slight drop in SV at submaximal work loads from the initial increase following the first 9 wk.
  • (20) Steroid-treated steers showed a slight decline in synthesis which was significant (P less than 0.05) at week +5 post-implant while amino acid oxidation was significantly lower at weeks +2 (P less than 0.01) and +5 (P less than 0.05) compared with control animals.