(a.) Of or pertaining to Malta or to its inhabitants.
(n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Malta; the people of Malta.
Example Sentences:
(1) Compared with 97 Libyan schizophrenics who exhibited poor symptomatology, 100 Maltese cases were similar to those of other European countries.
(2) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
(3) In comparison with the Maltese the Libyan schizophrenics had less described and less systematized productive symptoms.
(4) (There are expensive cars in his driveway, I later found, but he is still taken to the airport in a tiny old Peugeot 106 by a retired Maltese taxi driver named Charlie.)
(5) The immunostained congophilic amyloid plaques in rodent brains measured 10 to 30 micron in diameter and exhibited a Maltese cross appearance.
(6) The second patient, a boy of Maltese extraction who was found to have bilateral lamellar cataracts at the age of 4 years, was identified as G6PD deficient only as a result of a survey of children of Mediterranean origin with unexplained cataract formation; he has approximately 15% of normal enzyme activity, with another unique combination of biochemical characteristics which has led to its designation as Gd(-) Camperdown.
(7) The responses of accommodation and vergence were measured simultaneously with a dual Purkinje image eye tracker and infrared optometer while subjects viewed a Maltese cross monocularly through a pinhole pupil and made voluntary efforts to imaginary changes in target distance.
(8) Escaping Eritrea: 'If I die at sea, it's not a problem – at least I won't be tortured' Read more “Planes can detect, can disseminate the information to the Italian, Maltese, or even Tunisian search-and-rescue centres,” he said.
(9) Before I leave, Vella cites a 2008 study that rated the Maltese as one of the happiest people in Europe.
(10) The incidence of multiple pregnancy for the Maltese Islands appears to have decreased slightly since 1959 with an overall rate of 10.21 per 1000 maternities.
(11) Allegedly acting as an able middle man between local mob bosses and corrupt politicians, Nicastri would secure all the permits required, then build and deliver functioning wind farms – totalling at least 250 turbines – to Spanish, Danish and Maltese operators, with profits finding their way back to Messina Denaro.
(12) A government spokesperson rejected the claims in the report, pointing to a range of technical standards the Maltese government had adopted through the EU and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development , the rich-country thinktank that has become an international forum for tax reform.
(13) Walter Huston (The Maltese Falcon, 1941) Walter Huston as Captain Jacoby in The Maltese Falcon The great character actor Walter Huston appeared in son John's directorial debut as Captain Jacoby, the merchant mariner in league with Kasper Gutman and co.
(14) While small stuffed birds used to dangle from rear view mirrors – the Maltese version of fluffy dice – such displays are now rare and hunters can face hefty fines of up to €5,000 (£3,600) and jail if they are caught killing protected species.
(15) Staining studies and their resistance to digitonin suggested that these Maltese cross crystals are largely esterified cholesterol.
(16) We hate to hear that we [the Maltese people] aren’t bird lovers; we are.
(17) On his final day, he visited the island of Camino off the Maltese coast and saw more birds than he had all week – spotted flycatchers, hoopoes and golden oriole.
(18) The dissenting opinion in her case, from a Montenegrin and a Maltese judge, argued in favour of a much greater strengthening of the rights of conscience, as opposed to merely religious freedom.
(19) This article is an enquiry into the current status of alcohol in Maltese culture.
(20) These are the actions of individuals rather than an organised campaign on the part of the Maltese church.
Maltose
Definition:
(n.) A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.
Example Sentences:
(1) One surprising finding is that the MAL1g-encoded maltose permease exhibits little sequence homology to the MAL1-encoded maltose permease though they appear to be functionally homologous.
(2) To gain further insight into the side chain requirement at position 177 that confers maltose recognition, further substitutions of isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, proline, and serine have been made via site-directed mutagenesis.
(3) Whereas fructokinase I was induced specifically by growth of the organism on sucrose, fructokinase II was derepressed during growth on ribose, galactose, maltose, and lactulose.
(4) After 2 hr of reperfusion, maltose absorption and weight gain of small intestine were determined.
(5) Maltose-positive strains were only demonstrable in birds with wounds inflicted by cats.
(6) In acting upon beta-D-glucosyl fluoride, maltose phosphorylase was found to use alpha-D-glucose as a cosubstrate but not beta-D-glucose or other close analogs (e.g., alpha-D-glucosyl fluoride) lacking an axial 1-OH group.
(7) One class II mutant carried a Tn10 insertion in or close to malT whereas in the remaining class II mutants the insertions were located at least 4 kb upstream of pulA in a region which may define a new regulatory locus of the maltose operon.
(8) The Cs cob.1 ORF was cloned into the vector pMALcr1 and over-expressed as a hybrid protein fused to maltose-binding protein (MBP).
(9) Monitoring of the intestinal allograft is possible with the combination of a function test (maltose absorption, glucose absorption, or any other function test) and repeated graft biopsy.
(10) Relocation of this segment, in effect, opens the D-glucose channel; maltose and cytochalasin B would thus inhibit transport by mechanisms which block this positional change.
(11) The action pattern on amylose, soluble starch, and glycogen showed that the products were maltose and maltotriose.
(12) The concentration of free glucose in the intestinal lumen during maltose absorption is not high enough to account for the rates of glucose transport observed.
(13) Mutants in malF and malK are defective in maltose transport at low concentrations as well as high concentrations, as previously shown, but are essentially normal in maltose taxis.
(14) Fibers were selected for this experiment, only if they responded to 1.0 M sucrose or 1.0 M maltose and they responded poorly to 0.1 M NaCl.
(15) Under our experimental conditions 20 to 30% of the administered maltose have been excreted and 7.5 to 23.4% have been oxidized within 8 hours.
(16) Renal excretion of sugar measures 25-35% of the maltose administered parenterally.
(17) Domestic and imported honey samples (115) contained 2.00% maltose and 0.71% isomaltose.
(18) SP-D can be selectively and efficiently eluted from isolated rat surfactant with glucose, maltose, and certain other saccharides.
(19) Studies were made on the ultraviolet difference-spectra of glucoamylase from Rhizopus niveus [EC 3.2.1.3] specifically produced by the substrate maltose and the inhibitors, glucose, glucono-1: 5-lactone (gluconolactone), methyl beta-D-glucoside, cellubiose, and cyclohexa-, and cyclohepta-amyloses.
(20) These results suggest that the structure of the reducing glucose is not important in the binding specificity of maltoporin or maltose-binding protein.