(1) Proton induced X-ray emission (PIXE) analyses were performed on single hair fibers in triplicate from 103 individuals in order to determine sulfur, zinc, calcium, and chlorine content.
(2) quinone complex (X) was chemically reduced (state [PIX-]; P is the reaction center bacteriochlorophyll dimer, I is the long wavelength bacteriopheophytin), and compares these with the fluorescence observed when all the traps are open (state [PIX]) and with the fluorescence observed when all the traps are closed (state [P+IX]).
(3) The effect of dietary zinc deficiency on the mossy fiber zinc content of the rat hippocampus was investigated using PIXE (Particle Induced X-Ray Emission) spectroscopy.
(4) The great advantage of PIXE analysis in studying physiologically important trace elements such as Zn, Mg, Fe, and Cu is underlined.
(5) These viruses are the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE), St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE), Mucambo (MUC) and Pixuna (PIX).
(6) A microwave acid digestion method for the preparation of biological samples for PIXE analysis is presented.
(7) The trace elements of both calcified atherosclerotic plaques and plaque-free vessel walls of the carotid bifurcation from 31 autopsies were investigated using the proton-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) method.
(8) In contrast, efficient transcription was observed in the cells transfected with a replicating plasmid containing the pIX gene.
(9) Antioxidant status can be evaluated by blood selenium, vitamins A and E. The level of selenium was determined in whole blood, erythrocytes and plasma of 170 French people (70-95 years old) healthy and with intercurrent illness, by using PIXE (proton-induced X-ray emission analysis).
(10) Deletion of either the sequence between positions -45 and -70 or the TATA box abolished the initiation of pIX gene transcription in vivo and transcription with HeLa cell nuclear extracts in vitro.
(11) Large samples of tissue and biopsy specimen were taken from a single human liver, homogenized or paraffin-embedded, then analyzed by PIXE.
(12) Plasmid constructs containing the pIX gene with deletions in the SP1 or TATA sites were defective in pIX mRNA production in transient expression assays.
(13) Particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) allows accurate determination of various elements including iron in cells and biological fluids.
(14) Particle-induced x-ray emission (PIXE) was used to determine the trace element content of bovine retinal disk membranes.
(15) A minor capsid protein, pIX, was unable to substitute in assembly of the heterologous phage.
(16) The femoral bone from the 18-day pregnancy embryo and an rib cartilage of mature mice have been investigated using PIXE (proton induced X-ray emission) in combination with a proton microprobe on snap frozen cryosectioned material.
(17) The PIX virus has the lowest prevalence and, it was isolated in only a few cases, one being from a laboratory infection.
(18) The spatial distribution of platinum (Pt) in the kidney was studied by an autoradiographic technique, in which cisplatin (CDDP) was replaced by 195mPt-labeled CDDP, and by proton-induced X-ray emission (PIXE).
(19) The multielemental capability of PIXE allows the analysis time per element to be very low if a number of elements are detected in each sample.
(20) Apart from studies on aerosols, the majority of applications of proton induced X-ray emission (PIXE) with a normal beam or a microprobe (micro-PIXE) is found in biology and medicine.
Pixy
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Pixie
Example Sentences:
(1) I resented my own parents on far flimsier grounds (unwillingness to buy me purple suede pixie boots, for instance).
(2) Their European tour , which finishes in London on Monday, is sold out and there seems to be a general consensus that Pixies, who suddenly find themselves with everything to prove, are playing ferociously.
(3) • Black Francis speaks of Kim Deal's departure from the Pixies
(4) We started seriously talking about recording new music about four years ago,” Pixies drummer David Lovering explained.
(5) Aside from asking Essex to "put a ring on it", she'll debut that new pixie cut in the UK.
(6) The rights of women and of minority populations and vulnerable and low-income people are under threat and we must do everything we can to protect these rights and fight for true equality.” Musician Pixie Geldof, writer Stella Duffy, activist Jack Monroe and US rock musician Thurston Moore are supporting the London march, while in the US organisers claim that many of the musicians who have refused to play at Trump’s inauguration will join them.
(7) Scott Morrison says Labor 'selling a unicorn' with negative gearing savings Read more “I can sell them a fantasy or whatever you want to call it, pixie horses, whatever your preferred analogy is, but I’m not going to spin the public a line that there is some simple answer to getting expenditure down,” Morrison told 3AW on Friday.
(8) Whatever they’ve been talking about in public – tax cuts, steel workers’ jobs, unicorns, pixie horses , negative gearing, etc – behind the scenes politicians from all parties have been utterly preoccupied for months with this proposed change.
(9) The inhibition by PIXI of factor XIa-catalyzed activation of factor IX and its capacity to prevent factor XIa inactivation by alpha 1-protease inhibitor, combined with the specificity of PIXI for factor XIa among serine proteases found in blood, suggest a role for PIXI in the regulation of intrinsic coagulation.
(10) He has engineered more than 2,000 records – by bands you mostly won’t have heard of, although a few of them you will, including PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsom, Pixies, Fugazi and that little three-piece out of Seattle, Nirvana .
(11) But unlike, say, Duran Duran or the Pixies, they've never really been away, so there's no opportunity to key into the nostalgia circuit.
(12) pIXY 321 may offer significant clinical advantages over the individual cytokines.
(13) Pixies made me forget I was dressed in a bin-liner I wasn't expecting too much from the Pixies before their second from top slot on the Other stage .
(14) Clockwise from top left: Grimshaw with Kelly Osborne; Sara Cox and Annie Mac at the Brit awards; Queens of Noize DJ Tabitha Denholm; dressed as Lily Allen, off to Mark Ronson’s birthday party; at Amy Winehouse’s funeral; with Henry Holland; Pixie Geldof and Alexa Chung at the NME awards afterparty; predecessor Chris Moyles.
(15) Look, Pixie Geldof has found a big conker made of twigs, and it might have something to do with River Island, and she looks quite pleased .
(16) The full title of this event is the artistic gymnastics, and for 2012 the event seems to want to place the emphasis on art; thus the competitors were played in with a curious acoustic set from singer Pixie Lott, standing in the middle of the floor mat, surrounded by feline acrobats in latex body stockings.
(17) The festival in question, Summer in the City, has officially announced some of its July performers: Pixies and Royal Blood on 10 July, and James with Starsailor on 11 July.
(18) Double dissolution is a 'live option' as Morrison rules out 'pixie horse' tax cuts Read more The Coalition government kept the option of calling a double-dissolution election up its sleeve, he said, and could pull the trigger if the Senate “becomes inoperable”.
(19) Widely read, with a quick wit and sharp intelligence, she was also a devoted partner and mother to her and Geldof's extravagantly-named daughters, Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches and Pixie.
(20) "Today, the thrill and pixie dust of Barack Obama's presidency is gone."