(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).
Stingray
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Example Sentences:
(1) Specificity studies suggest that the stingray insulin receptor may represent a phylogenetic position prior to the evolutionary divergence of insulin and the insulin-like growth factors.
(2) The 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray has been described as the poor man’s Porsche.
(3) Based on the experiments described above, the hypothesis that the hyperpolarizing response of horizontal cells is due to the permeability change of the membrane to chloride ion was excluded in the stingray retina.
(4) The cytoarchitecture of the lymphohaemopoietic masses occurring in the "meninx primitiva" of the stingray Dasyatis akajei (Elasmobranchii, Chondricthyes) has been analyzed by light and scanning and transmission electron microscopy.
(5) Thus, the HG of the red stingray exhibited a striking left-right asymmetry, the most remarkable aspect of which was considered to be differences of the size, form and location of the LH between the left and right HG.
(6) When the US government is not loaning police agencies their own Stingrays, the Defense Department and Homeland Security are giving federal grants to cops, which allow departments to purchase the gear at the cost of $400,000 a pop from defense contractors like Harris Corporation, which makes the Stingray brand.
(7) The cerebellar corpus of the Atlantic stingray consists of an anterior lobe which is divided into rostral and caudal lobules, and a posterior lobe.
(8) Thus, the afferent fibers to the HG in the red stingray exhibited a striking left-right asymmetry.
(9) An unusual case report of a retained stingray spine foreign body in the foot is presented.
(10) The sizes and numbers of axons in peripheral nerves and spinal roots were investigated in the stingray, Dasyatis sabina.
(11) Two new tetraphyllidean cestodes are described from the freshwater stingray Potamotrygon magdalenae from Colombia.
(12) Guests paddle through the South Water Caye Marine Reserve, exploring mangrove channels and reefs, watching out for stingrays, manatees and pelicans.
(13) A combined light and electron microscopic study revealed that there are conspicuous aggregations of smooth muscle cells in several hemopoietic organs and tissues such as in the Leydig (esophageal) and epigonal organs, diencephalic choroid plexus and perihypophyseal connective tissue sheath of the stingray, Dasyatis akajei.
(14) Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of cross-linked, affinity-labeled stingray insulin receptor shows an apparent molecular mass of 210 kDa for the intact receptor.
(15) Hypocalcemic potency of calcitonin isolated from the stingray (cartilaginous fish), Dasyatis akajei, was examined using the rat bioassay and compared with the activities of other calcitonins (human, pig, salmon, eel, and fowl).
(16) Glutamine synthetase is present as isozymic forms in the elasmobranchs Squalus acanthias (dogfish shark) and Dasyatis sabina (stingray).
(17) Like Stingrays, and the NSA's phone dragnet before them, the militarization of America's local cops is a phenomenon that's only now getting widespread attention.
(18) Three other cases of less serious stingray envenomation are described which illustrate the significant localized morbidity that may occur without immediate wound exploration and toilet after adequate anaesthesia.
(19) The Cl conductance of the resting membrane in the normal stingray saline at pH 7.7 is 8-10 times greater than the K conductance.3.
(20) Intracellular and extracellular concentrations of chloride ([Cl-]i, [Cl-]o) ions in the horizontal cells of the stingray retina were studied by means of ion-selective microelectrodes.