(a.) Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius; as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
(2) Because each linkage project is different, the modular nature of the software allows for better control of the programming process and development of unique strategies.
(3) 1.--Craneo-encephalic traumatisms with loss of consciousness, Feeding with a combination of parenteral nutrition and modular enteral nutrition for 7 days.
(4) A low-cost modular compact personal computer-based system for surface precordial mapping (SPM) developed by the authors was used to detect rejection periods, documented by endomyocardial biopsy (EB), in heart transplant patients on cyclosporine A therapy.
(5) The divergence of the cytochrome b gene is modular: various parts of the gene have changed with a different mode and tempo of evolution.
(6) (3) Full-time and part-time programs must be developed, possibly using a modular format.
(7) A general concept is applied to laboratory scale reactors as well as to large scale production facilities consisting of many unit operations with a hierarchical and highly modular structure.
(8) We have designed, from macronutrient and micronutrient modules, modular tube feeding diets that can vary according to patient needs.
(9) The increase in total medullary mass resulted from diffuse and multifocal modular proliferations of adrenal medullary cells primarily within the head and body regions of the glands.
(10) A deduced amino acid sequence of NvTN.1 showed a modular structure unique to tenascin characterized by epidermal growth factor-like and fibronectin type III repeats.
(11) Among these are manufacturing processes that adversely affect the wear-resistance of polyethylene (such as heat treatments to the articular surface or gamma irradiation used for sterilization), tibio-femoral articular geometry, polyethylene thickness, knee alignment, femoral-component-bearing surface material, modularity of the tibial inserts and tibial trays, and quality of the polyethylene itself.
(12) These modular courses, first implemented in 1982, involve students in a series of internal (college) assessments and two external (national) examinations.
(13) Such standardization ensures accurate interpretation of the modular enteral formula order by the enteral nutrition aide.
(14) Studies of output connections from the STS also reveal a modular anatomical organization of repeating 3-5 mm patches connected to the parietal cortex, an area thought to be involved in spatial awareness and in the control of attention.
(15) The integrated, associative view of number processing is supported by the dependence of modular views on abstract codes and other conceptual inadequacies, evidence for integrated associative networks in calculation tasks, acalculia phenomena, shortcomings in modular architectures for number-processing dissociations, close ties between semantic and verbal aspects of numbers, and continuities between number and nonnumber processing.
(16) The program is written in C, which facilitates transportability and modularity.
(17) Our analysis suggests that enhancers are composed of a modular arrangement of short conserved sequence motifs and that enhancer strength is correlated with the redundancy of these motifs.
(18) A similar 36-home scheme of RSH+P's modular flats for discount rent has also been ordered by Newham council in east London.
(19) NACI's unique modular form design facilitates thorough data collection, even for the most complex treatment scenarios.
(20) A modular gamma ray camera is described that gives useful image information over its entire crystal face.
Scaffolding
Definition:
(n.) A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body.
(n.) Materials for building scaffolds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Detailed analysis presented here reveals the presence of only two closely linked sites in 35,000 base-pairs scanned that mediate attachment of the dhfr gene to the nuclear scaffold.
(2) Both contain an internal protein (VP22a in the case of HSV-1 B capsids and gp8 or "scaffolding" protein in phage P22) that can be extracted in vitro with GuHCl and that is absent from mature virions.
(3) These muscle cells are then cultured on a scaffold with nutrients and essential vitamins and grown to desired quantities.
(4) According to the Times of India newspaper, officials handling the royal tour requested scaffolding at the site be taken down.
(5) The arrival of sensory axons in the brain triggers changes in glial shape and position that lead to the formation of a glial scaffolding for the developing glomeruli.
(6) After more than a quarter of a century of camping out, the house, with its seven flights of stairs (a trial to Lessing in her final years), seemed almost to be supported by a precarious interior scaffolding of piles of books and shelves.
(7) Two recently identified genes (genes 67 and 68) and one already known gene (gene 22), whose products are scaffold constituents, have been investigated.
(8) In the preceding article we described a polyclonal antibody that recognizes cSc-1, a major polypeptide component of the chicken mitotic chromosome scaffold.
(9) A less complex pattern was found for nuclear scaffolds.
(10) The products of three of these genes, the portal, scaffolding, and coat proteins, are structural components of the precursor particle, and two, the products of genes 2 and 3, are not.
(11) We now demonstrate that the protein scaffold may be isolated independently of the DNA by treating HeLa chromosomes with micrococcal nuclease before removing the histones.The chromosomal scaffolds may be isolated by sucrose density gradient centrifugation as a well-defined peak that is stable in 2 M sodium chloride, but is dissociated by treatment with proteases, 4 M urea, or 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate.
(12) We speculate that the microfibril bundles serve as a scaffolding for the corneal stroma or as a light-diffracting element.
(13) Thus, they represent a strong candidate as a scaffold ligament or tendon prosthesis if crosslink density can be increased.
(14) In osteoconduction, the implant does not provide many viable cells but rather acts as a scaffolding for the ingrowth of new bone from the margins of the defect with the concurrent resorption of the implant; cortical bone grafts or banked bone segments are examples of this "creeping substitution."
(15) In the control grafts regenerating axons grew almost completely through the inside of the basal lamina scaffolds (92%) and adhered to the structure, while in the anti-laminin antiserum treated grafts the axons were present outside (52%) and inside (48%) the scaffolds simultaneously.
(16) These preparations and sections revealed that titin, a putative scaffolding protein of sarcomeres, is present in a punctate state and also in a diffuse form throughout the cytoplasm of cardiac myocytes in the premyofibril stages (4-7 somite stages) as well as in the early stages of myofibril formation.
(17) Their massed voices roll like thunder across the open-sided, scaffold-roofed stadium.
(18) The scaffold-like structures were not accessible to G-, R-, or C-banding techniques.
(19) We conclude that synchronous assembly of the scaffold and shell is not obligatory and that naked cores can serve as intermediates in the T4 assembly pathway.
(20) The key components of the model consisted of an oligomeric lysine scaffolding to amplify peptide antigens covalently 4-fold and a lipophilic membrane-anchoring group to further amplify noncovalently the antigens many-fold in liposomal or micellar form.