What's the difference between poi and samoan?

Poi


Definition:

  • (n.) A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Females scored consistently and significantly more in the purported self-actualizing direction on the POI scales and subscales than males in this study.
  • (2) Slope at POI was greatest in quail and the same for turkeys and chickens.
  • (3) Thirty-six instances of POI in children (aged 1 month to 18 years) were treated between 1970 and 1987.
  • (4) These data establish that Lf binds to specific components in the bacterial OM; the heat-modifiable, anti-PoI-reactive, and LPS-associated properties suggested that the Lf-binding proteins are porins in S. flexneri.
  • (5) Two cases of postoperative intussusception (POI) are reported.
  • (6) For example, at Dora in Poi ( Via Catania 21 ) in Vanchiglietta, the restaurant where Vassily and I work, all our base ingredients are Piemontese – such as rice, garlic and salmon – but we have created dishes with influences from northern Europe, Asia and South America, so you’ll see plenty of ceviche, dim sum, ramen-style soup and quinoa.
  • (7) Highly significant positive correlations were obtained between one's overall score on the IPD and the two major dimensions of the POI.
  • (8) In classroom testing sessions, 160 high school students completed the POI and personal data sheets, which gave information about their menstrual cycle phase.
  • (9) Slope at POI was greater for females than for males.
  • (10) Nine of the 12 Shostrom POI subscales were significantly correlated with the religious participation index in the predicted direction.
  • (11) In the cases described, the first surgical procedure combined most causative factors for POI: young age, preoperative chemotherapy, prolonged general anaesthesia, extensive retroperitoneal dissection close to components of the neurovegetative system.
  • (12) The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI), the Inventory of Temporal Experiences (ITE), and the Adjective Check List (ACL) were administered to 80 subjects.
  • (13) The 39-kDa component was also reactive to a monoclonal antibody specific for porin (PoI) proteins of members of the family Enterobacteriaceae.
  • (14) POI followed Nissen fundoplication in 9 patients, neuroblastoma resection in 5, small-bowel procedures in 4, inguinal herniorrhaphy in 3, pull-through procedures in 3, ureterostomy in 2, thoracic procedures in 2, ventral hernia in 1, nephrectomy in 1, hepatic resection in 1, Heller myotomy in 1, ventriculo-atrial shunt in 1, and gastrocystoplasty in 1.
  • (15) Compared with BUT hens, the slope of the growth curve was greater, but the BW and age at the point of inflection (POI) was decreased in NIC hens.
  • (16) The findings show that persons high on PIL and POI scores reported higher levels of sexual enjoyment.
  • (17) Although POI is a classical complication of abdominal surgery, it is often forgotten.
  • (18) Studied the relationship between menstrual cycle phase and self-actualization as measured by the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI).
  • (19) No significative differences were poi nted out for the most part of the determined parameters between the stations upstream and downstream Cremona and Casalmaggiore, except the turbid load (turbidity, suspended matter at 105 degrees C, setteable solids) which presented at Casalmaggiore an average value absolutely higher than the calculated one which was achieved considering concentrations and river flow at Cremona and at the mouths of Arda-Ongina and Taro.
  • (20) Males achieved higher weights at POI and asymptote but took longer to reach these weights.

Samoan


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Samoan Islands (formerly called Navigators' Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean, or their inhabitants.
  • (n.) An inhabitant of the Samoan Islands.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Samoan men showed an increase in the frequency of obesity with increasing modernity of residence or occupation.
  • (2) They ended up exceeding that margin comfortably, surging to a 14-0 lead inside the first 19 minutes and then withstanding the inevitable Samoan fightback, with the Wigan wing Pat Richards kicking four penalties to punish their growing indiscipline.
  • (3) The largest number were in Samoans (61%) although the infection was present in some other Pacific Islanders.
  • (4) The presence of the rare Lewis phenotype Le(a+b+) is reported in various Polynesian groups, including Maoris, Samoans, Cook Islanders, Nuieans and Tokelau Islanders.
  • (5) The Samoan children appear larger than their European counterparts in early infancy, although this difference is lost by nine months of age.
  • (6) Ninety-three percent of Polynesians exhibited this 9-bp deletion, including 100% of Samoans, Maoris, and Niueans.
  • (7) The data from the first 3 years of the Samoan pilot filariasis control programme were reanalysed using incidence instead of prevalence statistics.
  • (8) Although cases may have been missed, it seems likely that incidence rates among Samoans are substantially lower than those recorded in Polynesian populations elsewhere.
  • (9) The frequencies of genes in these various systems suggest that Samoans fall partly into an island Melanesian-Micronesian pattern, and partly are unique.
  • (10) Variation in physical activity due to residence and occupation in Western Samoan men is related to lipoprotein cholesterol levels, but not to total cholesterol levels, and some effects may be secondary to differences in body composition.
  • (11) A single-dose of diethylcarbamazine citrate (DEC, 6 mg per kg body weight) was administered in three mass treatment campaigns to > 80% of the estimated total Samoan population (160,000) in 1982, 1983, and 1986.
  • (12) In 1975, 461 American Samoan men responded to the CMI.
  • (13) Rarely does an entire nation get behind something as wholeheartedly as the Samoans did.
  • (14) If his forthcoming album, Doris, is anything like last year's Chum , on which he stitched together observations about his absent father and his time at a Samoan reform school, even the staunchest Odd Future critics will have to put down their copy of Illmatic and pay attention.
  • (15) As an element of verbalized group sentiment, it is a positive assertion of Samoan values, astatement of social solidarity.
  • (16) The prevalence of malabsorption varied with location: for Samoans it ranged from 41% to 60% in Western Samoa and 0% to 35% in New Zealand; white children had rates of 27% in the Cook Islands and 5% in New Zealand.
  • (17) On digestion with Bgl II the third alpha-globin gene was found in an additional 3.7 kb fragment in all seven Samoans with triplicated alpha-globin loci, while digestion with Bam HI produced an abnormal elongated 18.2 kb fragment carrying alpha-globin genes in addition to the normal 14.5 kb fragment.
  • (18) Results of the lifestyle characteristic comparisons show that the villagers have greater life satisfaction, emotional stability, agreement with Samoan customs, and familial responsibility (P less than 0.05).
  • (19) The higher norepinephrine excretion rate in the more modernized Samoan groups may be related to differences in relative work load associated with changes in body weight, work capacity, and work patterns which accompany modernization.
  • (20) The purpose of this study was to examine whether the relationships between the rates of urinary catecholamine excretion and blood pressure were similar in more traditionally living and more acculturated Western Samoan men.

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