(n.) A term used by modern archaeologists instead of cella. See Cella.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that the Nao+-Mgi2+ exchange system has an absolute requirement for ATP and that it is more probable that ATP is supplying energy for transport rather than activating transport by protein phosphorylation or simply by binding.
(2) Will Iain Duncan Smith confirm the facts in today's NAO report.
(3) Ko+ less than Nao+ less than Lio+ less than Mgo2+ reduce furosemide-resistant Rb+ inward leakage relative to cholineo+.
(4) On Tuesday the National Audit Office (NAO) published a report on financial management at the BBC saying the corporation should do more to streamline internal financial reporting, and monitor more closely whether its spending decisions were aligned with its strategic and editorial objectives.
(5) "The BBC's internal financial reporting and planning processes are slow and resource intensive," the NAO said.
(6) We want to build 1m more English homes by 2020, says government Read more “If it is to oversee the new programme effectively, then this must specifically include tracking sale proceeds and progress with the actual construction of new homes, and oversee the programme in a way that gives parliament and the taxpayer much greater assurance over the value for money achieved from all disposals.” A statement from the DCLG did not address the main criticisms contained within the PAC report, and repeated figures that had been disputed by the NAO.
(7) Under constant voltage clamp (-80 mV) inward currents were measured after the addition of Nao+ to 0-Na+ 0-Ca2+ saline and outward currents were measured after the addition of Cao2+ to 0-Na+ 0-Ca2+ saline.
(8) The public accounts committee, which receives reports from the NAO, has heavily criticised the corporation and the BBC Trust, which have resisted full disclosure .
(9) Housing is a key issue and this does not give me any confidence that the department has a grip on its own figures.” Jeremy Blackburn, head of policy at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, said: “The NAO report has shown what was suspected by many.
(10) Thompson concludes that the evidence given to the NAO and the PAC on 10 July was "inadequate, and in some important instances, very misleading testimony".
(11) The pre-briefing we’re seeing, tinkering with schedules, now going on about pay, it’s very, very threatening to an institution that’s loved, [even one] that needs to reform.” Jeremy Hunt was the last culture minister to try to increase NAO oversight at the BBC, in 2010.
(12) The NAO says the new patient records have been implemented in a tiny minority of trusts while other IT systems, such as the digitisation of x-ray images, have been achieved.
(13) However, the timing was “primarily driven by the desire to sell prior to the 2015 general election”, said the NAO.
(14) The NAO said the decision helped save around £1.5bn in future interest payments and ensured these bondholders contributed to the costs of nationalisation.
(15) Enrichment of erythrocytes with cholesteryl hemisuccinate caused a marked reduction in Li leak but did not change kinetic and thermodynamic properties of Lii-Nao countertransport of either normotensive persons or patients with essential hypertension.
(16) Recovery from a Ca2+ load caused by reversal of the Na+ gradient could be induced by removal of Cao2+ in the continuing absence of Nao+, indicating the importance of a Na(+)-independent [Ca2+]i-lowering system.
(17) The BBC said that the Broadcasting House redevelopment, in addition to its two other major capital projects included in today's NAO report, came at a time of "profound and unprecedented transformation".
(18) Nao inhibited ouabain binding in the absence of Ki or Ko, so Nao and Ko also act at different sites.
(19) The NAO also discovered instances in which departing managers were given large payoffs even after they had found work elsewhere, and examples of staff who were offered consultancy roles at the time of their departure.
(20) TV coverage of Wimbledon in 2008 was £700,000 above the BBC's approved budget of £3.5m, although the NAO emphasised that four out of the other five came in at or below budget.
Nays
Definition:
(pl. ) of Nay
Example Sentences:
(1) Although NaY and NaG are effective heavy metal chelators and renal function is spared and kidney platinum levels are substantially reduced by the dithiocarbamates, no parallel loss of antineoplastic activity by Cis-Pt on the rat Walker carcinoma was observed.
(2) "She was jealous of the past, but she'd have done better being jealous of the future," political commentator Catherine Nay said this week.
(3) By contrast, the latter mutants designated mafB were defective in replication of nay of these plasmids at a high temperature.
(4) But at other times it's fine – nay, fantastic – to just let the saltiness shine, as in these olive choux buns.
(5) In doing so, we must learn to acknowledge- nay embrace- its innate goodness, decency and beauty.
(6) The National Review's Robert Costa says it looks good: Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) Leadership sources: no snags right now on informal whip count, legislation continues to move twd floor, vote coming later October 15, 2013 Except: Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) Pressure mounts on conservatives to vote nay RT @Heritage_Action Key Vote: “NO” on House Spending and Debt Deal October 15, 2013 The failure of the latest Boehner initiative could make a strong argument for the terminal paralysis of the House and the return of the legislative initiative to the Senate.
(7) What's insulting is that despite decades, nay centuries, of women's political activism, and despite years of hard work aimed at opening politics up to those from less privileged backgrounds, in 2010 we're still being presented with the same old same old.
(8) Renal damage, as estimated by blood urea nitrogen (BUN) values and serum creatinine levels, was less at all times up until sacrifice in animals given NaY or NaG than in those given DDTC.
(9) The nay-sayers argue that it will waste billions of pounds when a straightforward upgrade of the west coast line would do just as good a job without tearing up idyllic parts of Buckinghamshire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire.
(10) It's not that they say, yea or nay regarding your right to speech, but can this be handled that it doesn't dramatically and drastically impact the rest of society?"
(11) The nay-sayers insist loudly that they're "climate sceptics", but this is a calculated misnomer – scientific scepticism is the method of investigating whether a particular hypothesis is supported by the evidence.
(12) Back in 2012, Sunder Katwala of the thinktank British Future (talking of the pre-Olympic opening ceremony whinging), said that for those nay-saying: “their cynicism is a performative act of Britishness.” In a country that prefaces a litany of complaints with “mustn’t grumble”, we don’t need gene science to tell us how much we take pleasure in our role.
(13) The results of Study 1 suggested the existence of six MHLC clusters: pure internal; double external; pure chance; yea sayer; nay sayer, and believer in control.
(14) Two vaccinations by the conjunctival route, as in group D, would be simpler, more economical and at least as effective as the standard system of vaccination, and would have the advantage that vaccination could be done at nay age without risk of serological response.
(15) Wily David Carney chalked one up for the nay-saying ageists by outfoxing youngster Thomas Deng to execute a superb run and finish, one which was harder than it may have seemed.
(16) On Thursday, however, one could hardly imagine a more emollient, nay flattering, figure, than Dame Liz.
(17) Even contestants no one picks are showered, nay tsunami-ed, with praise.
(18) Elizabeth Warren on the presidency: Fifty shades of nay Read more “To be sure, Warren – and grassroots economic populism more broadly – was already a rising force well before our efforts began,” the group’s organizers wrote in preparation to fold last week.
(19) In the future, when it has two cameras for fully featured video conferencing, GPS and who knows what else built in (1080 HD TV reception and recording and nano projection, for example) and when the iBook store has recorded its 100-millionth download and the thousands of accessories and peripherals that have invented uses for iPad that we simply can't now imagine – when that has happened it will all have seemed so natural and inevitable that today's nay-sayers and sceptics will have forgotten that they ever doubted its potential.
(20) And if you listen well, you can tell if she is likely to play or nay.