(n.) The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
(2) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
(3) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(4) The Notch locus in Drosophila encodes a transmembrane protein required for the determination of cell fate in ectodermal cells.
(5) The second protein could represent either an allozymic form of the enzyme or the product of a distinct locus.
(6) The availability of locus-specific probes should significantly expand the role of minisatellite markers in population biology.
(7) The effects of clozapine on the spontaneous firing rate of noradrenergic (NE, locus coeruleus), dopaminergic (DA, zona compacta, ventral tegmental area) and non-dopaminergic (zona reticulata) neurons was studied in chloral hydrate anesthetized rats.
(8) Twenty-nine deletion breakpoints were mapped in 220 kb of the DXS164 locus relative to potential exons of the Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy gene.
(9) Mice homozygous for mutations at either locus exhibit several phenotypic abnormalities including a virtual absence of mast cells.
(10) These data suggest that increased TNF production may be responsible for endotoxin hypersensitivity in TCDD-treated mice and that the Ah locus mediates this response.
(11) (3) Two RFLP defined patterns of the DQA1 locus, DQA1.5 (DQA1*0501) and DQA1.8 (DQA1*0401, *0601) are strongly associated with the disease.
(12) Interspecific hybridization between sexual species carrying different b-alleles and producing different B subunits may be responsible for the heterozygosity at the lactate dehydrogenase b-locus in diploid parthenogenetic Cnemidophours.
(13) These findings are consistent with reports that implicate the PYK locus in yeast cell cycle control and suggest that it may be challenging to model relations between fitness and activity for multifunctional proteins.
(14) Evidence for a third locus, ENO3, is supplied by the electrophoretic pattern of muscle extracts.
(15) The data indicate that the locus for the alpha chain of the T-cell receptor is split by the chromosomal breakpoint between the V alpha and the C alpha gene segments, and that the V alpha segments are proximal to the C alpha segment within chromosome band 14q11.2.
(16) The new scale appears to be a more sensitive measure of locus of control than Rotter's scale.
(17) Incomplete penetrance of the simpler pattern suggests that this genetic locus interacts in a probabilistic manner with epigenetic mechanisms involved in morphogenesis of the cerebellum.
(18) Proposed models for the inheritance of locus-specific methylation phenotypes in somatic cells include those in which there is stable inheritance of a methylation pattern such that all cells contain a similarly methylated locus, as well as models in which the inheritance of methylation can be variable.
(19) Extensive LSR data were obtained as a by-product of specific-locus experiments.
(20) The deficits noted in the granule cells of the dentate gyrus in this study were more severe than those found in our previous studies on the effect of the low protein diet in these same rats on visual cortical pyramidal cells and on the 3 cell types in the nucleus raphe dorsalis and nucleus locus coeruleus.
Roulette
Definition:
(n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
(n.) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.
(n.) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
(n.) the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Read Rachel’s full story Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chris Owen: ‘I’ve been sober for six years now, and I don’t miss alcohol.’ Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian I spent my 20s playing Russian roulette with alcohol The NHS has been there time and time again for Chris Owen, who battled alcoholism throughout his 20s.
(2) Recent use of cocaine, the most common drug found at autopsy, was detected in 64% of Russian roulette fatalities and in 35% of the control group (P less than .05).
(3) The sound of chips landing on the tables chimes with house music filling the room and the roll of the ball along the roulette wheel.
(4) Severe restriction of the stakes on FOBTs or, better still, banishing roulette back to the casinos altogether would focus the minds of both CEOs and shareholders on getting their slice of the action from of the best betting medium ever devised.
(5) Until now the controversial electronic FOBTs - which account for half of betting shop profits - allowed players to lose £100 of their own money every 20 seconds on casino games such as roulette.
(6) Meanwhile in Britain, the game of Russian roulette played out by young drug users every night continues apace, with the risks continually heightened by the introduction of ever more dangerous drugs, such as PMA, which killed 23 people last year .
(7) He naively thought the roulette wheel in the City would keep turning and the house price bubble keep floating, forever.
(8) Labour accuses the government of playing Russian roulette with homes and businesses by cutting flood protection, but McIntosh said: "Be in no doubt, a Labour government would have cut flood defences.
(9) The waiting goes on to discover what, if anything, the Government proposes to do next about the addictive, high-stakes roulette and gaming machines which have created several thousand mini-casinos on our high streets.
(10) Unite has accused the company of playing "Russian roulette" with the future of Grangemouth, the biggest industrial site in Scotland, and is backing any efforts by the Scottish Government to find a new buyer for the oil refinery and petrochemical complex.
(11) The terminals allow bets of up to £100 every 20 seconds on casino games such as roulette, leading to the machines being dubbed the "crack cocaine of gambling".
(12) Because people buying advance tickets get seat reservations, for regular commuters it's like Russian roulette.
(13) If he is playing electoral roulette with the one-time bankable constituency of students, he is also hopeful of picking up voters "abandoned" by Labour in the north, where the Lib Dems are second to Labour in 52 constituencies.
(14) Britain’s hardworking taxpayers will pay the price for the economic chaos.” Where the parties stand on the economy Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, said: “Ed Miliband and Ed Balls are intent on playing Russian roulette with Britain’s economy … The fact is, Labour want a return to reckless and excessive borrowing.” The Labour leadership is aiming to wrong-foot Osborne, who hopes to portray Labour as fiscally irresponsible, by placing the elimination of the budget deficit at the centre of its manifesto.
(15) "Banks should be safe places for people's savings, not huge roulette wheels," Cable said.
(16) There were only four accidents, two of which were the results of 'Russian roulette'.
(17) Nicknamed ‘Casino Jimmy’ by the Danish press after skipping curfew to go play roulette while on international duty with the Under-21 team, Nielsen would go on to become a hardened gambling addict.
(18) William Hill , Ladbrokes and Coral, together with the smaller competitor Paddy Power, have promised from next month to remove all adverts for touch-screen roulette machines from their windows and to dedicate a fifth of the space to responsible gambling messages.
(19) A reply is offered to an article likening the use of condoms to Russian roulette in its vaunted protection against AIDS.
(20) In the caloric test especially the patients show canal paresis (CP) on the more impaired side, but none of them appeared to be nonresponsive to the test; lumbar air insufflation is often an effective treatment for this disease; pneumoencephalo-roulette tomography is very useful for diagnosing pathological changes in the posterior fossa.