(1) Praia do Cabeço is popular with clammers but also families and strollers, and runs from Monte Gordo to Manta Rota.
(2) The parameatal foreskin flap, both in the form of a manta-wing and in extended circumferential form, appears to have an enough microcirculation suitable for one-stage repair (OUPF II and OUPF IV, respectively) of hypospadias.
(3) The trade is on the increase, with Mozambique recording an 86% decline in sightings of the fish over the past eight years, but manta rays are very important for tourism and attract divers who will pay a lot to see them.
(4) Anderson-TAMVEC (Houston and College Station, Texas), University of Washington (Seattle, Washington), and MANTA (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.).
(5) Conservationists have called for legal protection of species such as sharks and manta rays, the banning of gillnets – which create a wall of netting to catch fish – and greater education of and alternative livelihoods for fishermen.
(6) The determination of the RBE for the MANTA fast neutrons produced by NRL is inprogress, with the model system using tumor cell population kinetic response patterns assayed in vitro after irradiation in vivo.
(7) Those looking for a tapering would welcome the forthcoming drop in the monthly purchase amount,” said Grant Lewis and Mantas Vanagas, at Daiwa Capital Markets.
(8) There is a manta ray inside the tank who is a music producer called Tony Reason.
(9) Photograph: Alamy She continued: "People come from all over the world to enjoy diving with sharks and manta rays, but if this goes on, they won't be there any more.
(10) The Cites meeting is also considering protection for manta rays, which are being fished for their gill plates, sold in China as medicine and claimed to treat a range of health complaints from asthma to chicken pox and even cancer.
(11) Marshall, principal scientist for the manta ray programme, said: "We're looking at decimation in the next decade or decade-and-a-half.
(12) I am keen to see trade controls introduced for vulnerable and endangered species like porbeagle, hammerhead and oceanic whitetip sharks and manta rays."
(13) A system has been developed for the computer generation of dose distributions for the MANTA-NRL fast-neutron radiotherapy beam.
(14) Helen got scuba qualified, and we spent hours diving alongside whale sharks and manta rays, but the sea lions stood out as our finest animal encounter.
(15) But this burgeoning trade along the Mozambican coast is putting precious species such as manta rays in existential danger, according to local conservationists.
(16) But it is an open secret that Chinese syndicates are supplying improved fishing nets, buying shark fins and manta ray "wing" tips and shipping them back to Asia, where there is increasing demand for delicacies such as shark fin soup.
(17) Time is running out for the manta ray, a beautiful fish with big, triangular pectoral "wings" that has a meagre reproductive cycle.
(18) The displacement correction factor to be used for analysis of fast-neutron dosimetric measurements using air-filled EG and G tissue-equivalent ion chambers in a tissue-equivalent phantom has been investigated using the MANTA neutron radiotherapy beam generated by 35-MeV deuterons on a thick Be target.
(19) There’s whale watching, swimming with dolphins, and diving with manta rays to be had, plus canyoning and kayaking.
(20) First, the centrality of the state as the driver of modernisation, a tenet linked to anti-imperialism vis-a-vis the US (closing the Manta military base; the aggressive struggle against American energy group Chevron and the environmental destruction it caused in the Amazon; and granting asylum to Julian Assange).
Mantua
Definition:
(n.) A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy.
(n.) A woman's cloak or mantle; also, a woman's gown.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this paper, we investigate the effects on the hospital activity of two different organizational models of care in two neighbouring areas in Northern Italy, Cremona and Mantua, very similar in sociodemographic features.
(2) The last part of the paper presents a case series covering 5 years' activity in the Antirabbies Centre in the Province of Mantua (1979-83).
(3) Cremona is hospital oriented, while Mantua has well developed community services.
(4) But the cogent finding was the number of admissions, much higher in Cremona than in Mantua, especially for some age groups.
(5) But it blooms in the mockery of the wise jester with the Fool in King Lear : “I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are,” he scolds the king, “they’ll have me whipp’d for speaking true; thou’lt have me whipp’d for lying.” Likewise the dwarves employed at the court of Spain and depicted so insightfully by Velázquez, or at Mantua by the Gonzaga dukes.
(6) Examination of rates in various geographical areas showed generally higher rates in the North, and a few provinces with exceedingly high mortality in the central part of Northern Italy, particularly in a chiefly rural province (Mantua).