(1) Spurr joined the Prison Service as a prison officer in 1983 and worked his way up to become chief executive of Noms in 2010.
(2) Acute NOM suppressed muricide in 55% and chronic NOM suppressed it in 60 80% of OB rats.
(3) In October 2007, under the nom de guerre Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki (the American) he gave an interview to al-Jazeera in which he implored other Muslim Americans to join him in Somalia.
(4) High resistance to mastitis was determined in the progeny of AO-4, EM-01, NC-17, NB-10, NEB-15, NUN-3, Nx-33 bulls, while opposite results were recorded in the progeny of NAR-45, NAR-47, NER-01, NOM-19 and REN-100 bulls.
(5) Strikingly, the protection of the free 17 alpha-hydroxyl group of NOM by an acetate led to a potent progestin with high affinity for PgR.
(6) The possible relation between the changes of 3H-IMP binding, exhibition of muricide by OB rats and the antimuricidal activity of NOM are discussed.
(7) His nom de guerre was Sayyed Zul Fikar: Sayyed indicating a claimed descent from the prophet Muhammad; Zul Fikar being the name of the legendary forked sword of Imam Ali, the prophet’s cousin and one of the most revered figures in Shia Islam.
(8) This suggested that L-arginine was synthesized endogenously because there are no other known natural substrates for NOM.
(9) NOM increased the basal efflux of endogenous DA and inhibited electrically evoked [3H]ACh release but these effects were quantitatively much less than those produced by AMPH.
(10) Qualitative and quantitative examinations of the cultivable bacterial flora in biopsies from recurrent aphthous ulcerations (RAU), experimental oral ulcerations (EOU), and normal oral mucosa (NOM) were carried out under aerobic and continuous anaerobic conditions.
(11) There was no statistically significant difference between groups 2 and 3 in the suppression with Nom.
(12) contrarily, NOM decreased the duration of ethanol narcosis, potentiated PCPA and antagonized the influence of AMPT.
(13) The type strain of Candida polymorpha Ohara et Nonomura, nom.
(14) Among 55 patients treated over a 10 years period for BHT, NOM.
(15) The 50% effective doses in reducing estrogen receptor levels and the corresponding potencies relative to P showed NOM-Ac to be 2.4-fold more active than P and to present, when compared to the other progestins, the highest antiestrogenic capacity.
(16) In 10 patients with an intrasellar tumour (group I), Prl had a positive response to TRH, metoclopramide (MCP), and nomifensine (NOM), both pre- and postoperatively.
(17) But noms de guerre given to the new arrivals had left their trails cold.
(18) One of the suicide bombers was an Australian teenager , with the nom de guerre Abu Abdullah al Australi.
(19) "We destroyed a checkpoint of the fascist Ukrainian army deployed on the land of the Donetsk Republic," said the commander, who wore a balaclava and identified himself by his nom de guerre, Bes – Russian for demon.
(20) I retired as chief executive of the National Offender Management Service (Noms) and director general of the Prison Service in June 2010, at which point the service was performing strongly.
Norm
Definition:
(a.) A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.
(a.) A typical, structural unit; a type.
Example Sentences:
(1) The norms are reported as "Scaled Score Equivalents of Raw Scores" for each age group and as "IQ Equivalents of Sums of Scaled Scores."
(2) Specifically, the study investigated the cross-cultural utility of the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) by examining scores of community and patient samples of Korean immigrants and comparing them with norms for Americans and for Koreans living in Korea.
(3) The Metro-Manila Developmental Screening Test (MMDST) is a Philippine version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) for which norms were developed in 1980 on 6006 Filipino children.
(4) Both the indirect and direct measures of attitude and social norm explained a significant amount of the variance in intention and BSE frequency.
(5) Examples include growth trajectories, morphological shapes, and norms of reaction.
(6) This study was designed to assess whether the influences of affect, utility, norm, and habit on intention to seek care promptly for a breast cancer symptom were conditional upon race.
(7) Following the cognitive orientation theory, we hypothesized that beliefs concerning goals, norms, oneself, and general beliefs would predict the extent of improvement following acupuncture.
(8) On this planet, extinction is the norm – of the 4 billion species ever thought to have evolved, 99% have become extinct.
(9) Normative ranges of drinking converged from September to April, suggesting the emerging norms were the product of social experience with classmates.
(10) In 30 patients, the structure and function of the reproductive organs was within age norm.
(11) On the basis of detected wide species variety of microorganisms potentially dominating by their biotope numerical limits of the norm were determined only for the microbial groups of the accompanying microflora.
(12) Overall, both groups scored higher than the norm and showed a more optimal personality development than has been observed in earlier studies of this kind.
(13) Its average values are significantly lower up to the 6th month post treatment discontinuation and closrm, with only 13 above the norm.
(14) The biological tolerability was excellent without any variation of the biological norm values (47 parameters).
(15) Referencing these dismal truths on the website Race Files , Soya Jung criticised Chua and Rubenfeld for "buying into exceptionalist arguments to explain disparities means endorsing a dehumanising system of racialised norms".
(16) An interactive effect between drug testing and subjective norms on attitudes toward a company was also significant.
(17) Gilmore said she can understand that antipathy towards teenage pregnancy in many countries, but said traditional belief systems were not a reason to hold on to a “toxic norm”.
(18) In the athletic population the maximal aerobic power increased across ages 10 to 14, whereas, the values for the less active norms decreased with age.
(19) This, in turn, would provide the cover to push through aspects of the Trump agenda that require a further suspension of core democratic norms – such as his pledge to deny entry to all Muslims (not only those from selected countries), his Twitter threat to bring in “the feds” to quell street violence in Chicago, or his obvious desire to place restrictions on the press.
(20) Prolonged breast feeding should be encouraged, child health improved, and research conducted on the traditions, norms, customs, and taboos of target populations.