(n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.
(n.) A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.
(n.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.
(n.) Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.
(n.) A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time.
(n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
(v. t.) To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.
(v. i.) To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.
(v. i.) To move to and fro; to rock.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The ED50 and ED95 of mivacurium in each group were estimated from linear regression plots of log dose vs probit of maximum percentage depression of neuromuscular function.
(3) Probability distributions are fitted to these data and it is shown that the log-series distribution best fits the data for two subgroups.
(4) Each line exhibited 1-4 log differences in sensitivities to the two toxins.
(5) At a concentration of 10 microM, tetraamine 4 did not affect histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors of guinea pig ileum or alpha-adrenoreceptors of guinea pig atria whereas it inhibited postsynaptic alpha-adrenoreceptors of rat vas deferens with a -log K value of 5.23 and nicotinic receptors of frog rectus abdominis with an IC50 value of 0.23 microM.
(6) The best compound was trans-alpha-[[(4-bromotetrahydro-2H-pyran-3-yl) amino]methyl]-2-nitro-1H-imidazole-1-ethanol (18), which, due to its activity and log P value, is a candidate for additional in vivo studies.
(7) The final approved log contained 72 problems, 64 of which received importance ratings greater than or equal to 2 on the three-point scale.
(8) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
(9) The results clearly demonstrate local separability in this log frequency and orientation discrimination domain.
(10) Positive correlations were observed between mean log fasting insulin concentration and all parameters of obesity except log triceps skinfold thickness in men.
(11) Cocaine, 3 microM, shifted the noradrenaline concentration response curve to the left about 0.4 log units in all renal vessel groups, thus renal vascular smooth muscle sensitivity to noradrenaline was significantly greater in vessels from rats receiving CyA than in vessels from control rats.
(12) Details of sexual activity and experience were followed by the use of daily logs.
(13) The results should be analysed by the Kaplan-Meier estimator, and patency rates should be compared by the log-rank test or Gehan's test.
(14) There was a significant negative correlation between propranolol level (log-transformed) and glycemic responses, suggesting that propranolol has direct effect on the latter.
(15) Evaluation of lymphocyte phenotype frequencies, functional responses, serum immunoglobulin levels, and autoantibodies was completed for 38 individuals (i.e., 10 families) who were exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP) in manufacturer-treated log houses.
(16) Spatial summation was found to decrease by 30-50% as the cell was light-adapted to a threshold some 4 log units above the dark-adapted one.
(17) The difference in binding capacity was of the same order of magnitude as the difference in sodium content, indicating that the excess sodium in the thoracic aortas from the hypertensive rats was osmotically inactive and thus unable to cause water logging.
(18) The equations of best fit of log(wax esters) vs age suggested that sebum secretion declines about 23% per decade in men and 32% per decade in women.
(19) Challenge studies using the standard National Veterinary Services Laboratory laryngotracheitis (LT) challenge virus (Log 10(6.7) EID50 per ml) were conducted to assess the presence of maternal protection in chicks of various ages (1, 7, 14, 21, and 28 days).
(20) In lymph node-positive patients a trend between high TA1 reactivity and a worse overall survival was also noted (log rank P = 0.128; Wilcoxon P = 0.054), with a 6-year survival of 42% in the strongly reactive tumors (n = 16) and 65% in the negative to weakly reactive carcinomas (n = 105).
Nul
Definition:
(a.) No; not any; as, nul disseizin; nul tort.
Example Sentences:
(1) recently, TALAMO discovered a subject whose serum contained no alpha-1-antitrypsin; this was the first case of total deficiency, and the patient carried a double dose of the so-called Pi--allele (Pi nul).
(2) The subunits of terminase, gpNul and gpA, are the products of genes Nul and A.
(3) In such case, the left hemisphere assumed to be dominant for awareness of body and space would receive from the right hemisphere a message interpreted as nul and would neglect information coming from the left.
(4) Pefloxacin had a sieving coefficient of 0.42 and a clearance of 6.8 ml min-1 when Qdi was nul.
(5) One note of warning: despite the historic strength of the Viking Empire bloc, Noway has finished last on 10 previous occasions, once achieving the dreaded nul points.
(6) The synthesis of genes Nul and A products is extremely efficient upon derepression.
(7) Correlation between observers was practically nul for ASP and was poor for LDC.
(8) The 11 low grade lymphomas were all of B cell origin, whereas the 14 high grade lymphomas comprised B and T cell tumours, true histiocytic proliferations, and one "nul" cell lymphoid neoplasm.
(9) Witness Jemini (the UK's first nul points), Scooch, Love City Groove etc etc.
(10) BVe of beef proved to be equal to BVp, and C was close to nul.
(11) The results from this study suggest that the large nul cell lymphocyte population seen in patients with Shigella dysentery, does contain a sub-population of cells that will respond in vitro to thymopoietin, a bovine thymic extract, by increased E-rosette formation.
(12) The results are good for 16 patients, nul for 2 patients and we observed 2 complications.
(13) The inflammatory response of the ascitic fluid in the different variants of AFI was gradual, being lower in BP and nul in BA.
(14) Statistical analysis did not allow to establish the optimal number to be taken at a single procedure but it showed that the probability of obtaining the diagnosis in sarcoidosis was 2.6% at the first specimen taken, while in fibrosis it was nul at the first and at the second specimen.
(15) The phase lead is higher for the VOR than for the CL-VCR (40 degrees and 32 degrees respectively at 0.03 Hz), but both phases also become nul around 1 Hz.
(16) The responsible mutation, ohm1, alters the 40th codon of the Nul reading frame.
(17) A unilateral verrucous lesion with clinical characteristics of nevus unius lateralis (NUL) in an 18-year-old boy, showed histopathological features of intraepidermal basaloid cell formation simulating superficial basal cell epitheliomas.
(18) The effect of Bordetella pertussis adjuvant on the immune response of protein deficient mice seems nul.
(19) The sti30 mutation causes a approximately 50-fold increase in the level of expression of a Nul-lacZ reporter gene, indicating that the sti30 mutation overcomes the gp1 inhibition by increasing the level of expression of gpNul.
(20) The much less than Quantigen T and B Cell Assay much greater than method is used to evaluate T and B lymphocyte levels, Nuls Cells and monocytes in the peripheral venous blood of patients surgically treated for breast cancer.