(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
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 mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.
Siesta
Definition:
(n.) A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Peter Walker For many years Seville had only about 0.5% of journeys made by bike, with roads choked by four rush hours a day, due to siestas.
(2) Stable state of awareness varying only between active waking and relaxed waking, apart from a clearly demarcated siesta period (8 subjects).
(3) Moreover, if 2 or more REM periods are registered altogether in the 4 or 5 siestas studied, the test is highly suggestive of narcolepsy and permits sure differentiation with idiopathic hypersomnia.
(4) Yet it suffers from an inconsistency of tone, an overly picaresque procession of events, and a general wooziness – perhaps imparted by the scorching Puerto Rican locations – that around the 60-minute mark induces an insidious siesta-time sleepiness in the viewer (well, this one, at least).
(5) Hugo Inc, an internet consulting company based in Osaka, has a more flexible approach: employees can take a 30-minute siesta any time between 1pm and 4pm.
(6) Ageing is associated with deterioration of the quality of nocturnal sleep, more frequent siestas in the afternoon, a forward shift of sleep in the 24-hour cycle.
(7) Our temporal isolation data thereby account quantitatively for the timing of the afternoon siesta and suggest that malfunctions of the phasing of the circadian pacemaker may underlie the insomnia associated with sleep-scheduling disorders.
(8) Everyone rests well too: at around two in the afternoon you will hear most locals quietly announce "kalo mesimeri" - or "have a good siesta" - as they slope off for a nap.
(9) Lunch with friends, a siesta, a walk, a meeting with your adviser to see how the markets are doing, a visit to the bank to weigh up the interest rates, or to see if the salary the club is still paying you has cleared the account.
(10) Seven of 10 patients (70%) presented with seizures during the siesta, and in 3 of 10, seizures occurred if they fell asleep at any time of the day.
(11) A negative association with duration of afternoon siesta was of borderline statistical significance.
(12) One group of four awoke roughly every 24 h, after a sleep which was alternately about 8 h, or about 4 h and believed by the subjects to be an afternoon siesta.
(13) Holidays with small children don't usually fall into the relaxing category but the daily routine of asthanga in the light-filled studio, followed by a session in the hot tub while the kids splashed about in giant buckets, lunch, a siesta, more yoga, more bathing, was almost coma-inducing.
(14) Neither of them had an influence on sleep diurnal seizures outside of the siesta or on seizures of nocturnal sleep reinitiation.
(15) The addition of coffee or amphetamine suppressed seizures of sleep beginning at night or during the siesta.
(16) The sanctioned siesta has spawned an industry in daytime sleep services.
(17) State of awareness moderately stable but containing as well as one or two clearly defined, siestas some somnolent episodes (6 subjects).