(n.) A light fabric of wool, worn on the head by women; a cloud.
Example Sentences:
(1) The impressive choice of drinks ranges from local cider to unusual rosés from Navarra and punchy Toro and Bierzo reds, all selected by charming Nubia, wife of Juan Mari.
(2) Much of the earlier work on the prehistory of Sudanese Nubia has emphasized discontinuity between early Nubian populations.
(3) In 5000-year-old premolars from Nubia and in 500-year-old teeth from Greenland, the lead concentrations were very low; modern teeth contained 10-100 times more lead.
(4) Virgilio, Rafael (Escuela de Química y Farmacia, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile), C. González, Nubia Muñoz, and Silvia Mendoza.
(5) Hair samples from 76 burials at Semna South (Sudanese Nubia) were examined using a variety of techniques.
(6) Nubia Delmas, 52, came out to remonstrate with the team.
(7) • www.ashmolean.org Galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia reopen, free, at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford, on 26 November
(8) An analysis of the relationship between oral pathology and degenerative change at the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) was undertaken on an archaeological sample of 122 adult crania from the Medieval site of Kulubnarti in Sudanese Nubia.
(9) Using a sample of 172 tibias from children excavated from the Medieval Christian site of Kulubnarti, located in Nubia's Batn el Hajar, the present research examines the relationship between percent cortical area, bone mineral content, and cross-sectional moments of inertia.
(10) Functional analysis of the true pelvis (defined as that portion lying below and including the pelvic brim) was undertaken on a sample of 36 females from the Medieval site of Kulubnarti in Sudanese Nubia.
(11) The present research focuses on craniofacial variation in Nubia over approximately 10,000 years.
(12) That was unveiled in 2009 and on 26 November the public will finally see the all new Ancient Egypt and Nubia galleries, also redesigned by Mather.
(13) Analysis of enamel hypoplasia frequencies for two medieval populations representing the earliest and latest Christian periods of ancient Nubia reveals important diachronic shifts in childhood stress.
(14) To Hisham, the young man who followed me halfway along Aswan's corniche, it was the doorway to a land that has since disappeared beneath the waters of Lake Nasser: "Nubia, my home."
(15) Four skeletal series (Corinth, Greece; Gran Quivira, New Mexico; Semna South, Sudanese Nubia, and a large group from scattered sites in England) were coded for sex, jaw, tooth group, dental attrition, dental caries, site and time period.
Nubian
Definition:
(n.) A native of Nubia.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Nubia in Eastern Africa.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cultured skin fibroblasts derived from Nubian goats deficient in lysosomal beta-mannosidase, which had previously been shown to accumulate storage oligosaccharides with the structures Man beta 4GlcNAc beta 4GlcNAc and Man beta 4GlcNAc (in the ratio of 2.7:1) were evaluated for their ability to catabolize exogenous [3H]GlcN-labelled glycoproteins isolated from the secretions of cultured goat or human fibroblasts.
(2) Total litter weight at 150 days was significantly lower for SEA (14.5 kg) than for Alpine (18.8 kg), the Anglo-Nubian (16.9 kg) not differing significantly from either.
(3) Multivariate statistical analyses were performed on 22 size measurements of the humerus from five sample populations: Sudanese Nubians, Arikara, Pecos Pueblos, American blacks, and American whites.
(4) The next day, said Madany, the Nubian community retaliated – entering a Haleyla area and killing "whoever they could find".
(5) The purposes were: (1) to compare the Mesolithic sample with the later Nubian populations; and (2) to evaluate further the hypothesis that change in Nubian craniofacial morphology was due to changing functional demands associated with the progressive change in subsistence adaptation and associated behavior.
(6) At the core of the Ashmolean Museum 's spectacular new £5m Ancient Egyptian and Nubian galleries, designed by the architect Rick Mather and displaying one of the greatest collections outside Egypt, there lies a man who died almost 3,000 years ago – and has just been revealed as having no heart.
(7) Compared to contemporary lead levels in Denmark, the oldest Nubian bones contained about 10 times less lead, while the teeth contained about 30 times less lead.
(8) Much of the earlier work on the prehistory of Sudanese Nubia has emphasized discontinuity between early Nubian populations.
(9) Samples of isoelectrically precipitated goat casein from the milks of French-Alpine and Anglo-Nubian breeds were separated into four components in a single run by reversed-phase HPLC.
(10) Five young Anglo-Nubian goats were found to have developed a fluid-filled cyst in the upper neck.
(11) However, recent investigations suggest the converse - that a remarkable degree of cultural and biological continuity exists among indigenous Nubian groups, perhaps as far back as the Paleolithic.
(12) Nubian goat milk had the highest levels of the three major buffering chemical entities, and the infant formulas contained less total N and NPN compared with natural goat and cow milks.
(13) The infection was common in all breeds of dairy goats with an indication of a significantly lower prevalence in the Saanen breed (24.4%) compared to Nubians, British Alpines and Toggenbergs (43.8%, 38.7% and 39.1% respectively).
(14) The building of the Aswan Dam in the 1960s, as well as ending the annual rise and fall of the Nile, forced the resettlement of many thousands of Nubians, Hisham's family among them, and the town of Aswan mushroomed into a city.
(15) I wonder what the world would have made of me if I had suddenly become the wife of a Nubian nomad about whom I knew nothing?
(16) Twenty-four hours later, members of the Haleyla responded in kind in a Nubian area – with accounts suggesting that the police had done too little to quell the violence.
(17) Nubian people lived historically in southern Egypt and northern Sudan, and have their own dialect and traditions.
(18) While Nubian goats developed anaemia more rapidly than the other breeds, all animals experienced a pronounced reduction in packed red cell volume.
(19) Eight Nubian and eight Alpine dairy goat does were used in a crossover experimental design to determine the effect of 30 min of isolation on behavior and plasma concentrations of thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), cortisol, norepinephrine (NOR), and epinephrine (EPI).
(20) Milk production data on 5084 Alpine, 2052 LaMancha, 7024 Nubian, 2194 Saanen, and 2339 Toggenburg does were grouped into 90 subclasses: five breeds x three parities (1, 2, and 3) x two seasons of kidding (early, December to March; late, April to July) x three measures of 305-d milk production within breed (low, medium, and high).