(n.) A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
(a.) Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.
(n.) A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.
(n.) Any similar fabric for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.
(n.) Anything growing thickly, or closely interwoven, so as to resemble a mat in form or texture; as, a mat of weeds; a mat of hair.
(n.) An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.
(v. t.) To cover or lay with mats.
(v. t.) To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
(v. i.) To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sires of the cows had been divergently selected on yearling weight (YW) and total maternal (MAT) EPD to form four groups: high YW, high MAT EPD; high YW, low MAT EPD; low YW, high MAT EPD; and low YW, low MAT EPD.
(2) Special conditions apply for the scoring of a first and a last bone stage in a sequence, which will introduce less bias in the estimation of individual skeletal maturity with the MAT-method than with the TW-method.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the Mat yoga pant by lulelemon.
(4) Immature mosquito populations were reduced by mats of Azolla microphylla covering more than 80% of the water surface.
(5) Except for the posterior end, the rest of the sperm is covered by longitudinally distributed electron-dense cellular processes and an outer mat of more electron-lucent tubular elements.
(6) The Km for L-methionine for enzyme from resting peripheral blood mononuclear cells was 19-23 microM, which is 3-8-fold higher than purified MAT from fresh leukemic cells or enzyme from Jurkat cells, both of which have a Km of 3.5-3.8 microM.
(7) The Brinks Mat gang, some with guns, surprised six security staff as they started the Saturday shift between 6.30am and 8.15am at the warehouse, on the Heathrow industrial estate at Hounslow.
(8) Hold the left side of the nori with both hands and flip over on the mat, so that the rice is facing down.
(9) Staggerer cerebellar cortex exhibits the greatest fluorescence with most terminals appearing as matted tangles adjacent cell bodies.
(10) Sialic acid analysis demonstrated that, whereas MAT-C1 ASGP-1 contained approximately equal amounts of N-acetylneuraminic acid (NeuAc) and N-glycolylneuraminic acid (NeuGl), MAT-B1 ASGP-1 was devoid of NeuGl.
(11) The mean IgM response was short lived whereas the IgG antibody response and the MAT persisted for much longer.
(12) The number of methylation sites in alpha Bgt has been shown to decrease significantly upon binding of the toxin to the AcChR [Soler, G., Farach, M. C., Farach, H. A., Mattingly, J. R., & Martinez-Carrion, M. (1983) Arch.
(13) The alpha 2 protein, the product of the MAT alpha 2 gene, is a regulator of cell type in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
(14) Using tonal stimuli based on the nonspeech stimuli of Mattingly et al., we found that subjects, with appropriate practice, could classify nonspeech chirp, short bleat, and bleat continua with boundaries equivalent to the syllable place continuum of Mattingly et al.
(15) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
(16) Jurkat MAT was determined to be structurally indistinguishable from enzyme from T- or B-leukemia cells but was different from resting, normal T-cells in that it lacked the lambda form.
(17) Res-O-Mat T4 was chosen as CPBA, and RIAMAT-T4(St) and T4-RIAKIT(Sp) were chosen as RIAs.
(18) Since both CG and MAT suffer some fundamental limitations, it is recommended that whenever problems arise, one should compare absorption rates by nonparametric system analysis methods (e.g., deconvolution) if possible.
(19) First, the fragment was inserted into a 53-base-pair MAT alpha deletion that expresses alpha 1 and alpha 2 constitutively.
(20) Monkeys treated with HAT daily for 14 days exhibited anti-HAT antibody titers which were 5- to 10-fold lower than their MAT-treated counterparts and these antibodies developed later than in the MAT-treated monkeys.
Shim
Definition:
(n.) A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds.
(n.) A thin piece of metal placed between two parts to make a fit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The model contains 13 parameters that can be varied, 12 shim coil currents, and the receiver mixer frequency.
(2) The derivatized bile acids were separated stepwise on a Shim-pack CLC-ODS column using acetonitrilemethanol-water (100:50:30) (A), (100:50:20) (B), and (100:50:0) (C) as mobile phases with changing automatically from A to C using a solvent changer.
(3) For this purpose, a method of automatic shimming was developed and tested on phantoms and volunteers.
(4) This probe design tunes to 23-Sodium for rapid shimming and then, to 31-Phosphorus for measurements of pH and high energy phosphate metabolites.
(5) Voxels may be shimmed using only first-order X, Y, and Z shims to produce three-dimensional shim current maps, thus avoiding shim coupling problems.
(6) A novel latent proteinase of which activity was induced by heating in the presence of NaCl was purified to homogeneity from threadfin-bream muscle by a combination of DEAE-cellulose, Con A-Sepharose, Arg-Sepharose, and Shim-pack HAC chromatographies.
(7) Our localization strategy also allows us to shim easily on the well-defined volume of interest and leads to high-resolution spectra that exhibit multiplet structure.
(8) A complete shimming process generally requires only 80 transients.
(9) A data link to the shim power supply allows automatic update of currents.
(10) Addition of CO2 to the oxygen and appropriate changes in gas flow and "shim" pressure permit changes to be made in the ventilation of the device during perfusion to achieve desired levels of PaO2 and PaCO2 under widely disparate conditions of temperature and flow.
(11) We recently described the identification of BOS1 (Newman, A., J. Shim, and S. Ferro-Novick.
(12) However, despite our monitoring of additional variables, including shim and inlet pressure and recirculation flow, gas exchange abnormalities were encountered in 5 patients on whom the membrane oxygenator was used; in 4 of these cases the abnormalities were encountered prior to our recognition of the potential for occasional internal shunting with this device.
(13) The thickness of the blood film is decreased by increasing the "shim" pressure, so that increasing the "shim" presure results in higher PaO2.
(14) The chromatographic conditions were as follows: column: Shim-pack CLC-ODS; mobile phase: methanol-water (70:30).
(15) In addition to the main magnet important additions like gradient and shim coils, aspects of site planning and future problems are discussed.
(16) An acid sialidase [EC 3.2.1.18] has been purified from human placenta by means of successive procedures including extraction, Con A-Sepharose adsorption, ammonium sulfate precipitation, activation, p-aminophenyl thio-beta-D-galactoside-CH-Sepharose (PATG-Sepharose) affinity chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography on a Shim pack Diol 300 column.
(17) The resolution and homogeneity limitations of echo-planar imaging (EPI) are overcome by zoom imaging of an easily shimmed localized volume.
(18) This high failure rate has led the authors to reevaluate the use of prosthetic shims or wedges in large fragment defects but to continue to use bone grafting for smaller, circumscribed defects.
(19) A sialidase [EC 3.2.1.18] has been partially purified from human placenta by means of procedures comprising Con A-Sepharose adsorption, ammonium sulfate precipitation, sucrose density gradient centrifugation, and high-pressure liquid chromatography on a Shim pack Diol 300 column.
(20) We have developed a pulse sequence which enables fast and accurate measurement of three-dimensional field maps in vivo, and a data analysis package that allows calculation of shim currents to optimally shim arbitrary selected volumes.