(1) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
(2) Surprisingly, the clonal elimination of V beta 6+ cells is preceded by marked expansion of these cells.
(3) Peaks in the sperm index were preceded by 6 days with peaks in the serum testosterone concentration.
(4) Local application of 8-OH-DPAT (0-5 micrograms) into the median raphe nucleus, facilitated male rat sexual behavior, as evidenced by a decrease in number of intromissions preceding ejaculation and in time to ejaculation.
(5) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
(6) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
(7) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
(8) In some animals, the response was marked vasodilation, whereas in others transient vasoconstriction preceded the vasodilation.
(9) When Zn injection was preceded by a Cd injection, induction as measured by MT-1 mRNA and MT concentrations were approximately additive in liver.
(10) The results indicated that 48% of the sample either regularly checked their own skin or had it checked by another person (such as a spouse), and 17% had been screened by a general practitioner in the preceding 12 months.
(11) TIA preceded intracerebral hemorrhage in 11% and brain infarction in 15-20%.
(12) In all cases foetal administration of glucocorticoid led to the onset of labour, and lambing, and in all animals the hormonal changes preceding parturition were indistinguishable (either qualitatively or quantitatively) from the changes observed in animals carrying intact lambs.
(13) In the improved group, the families reported that the gait abnormality preceded the dementia in 11 patients and occurred at the same time in five.
(14) This effect could be intensified by a preceding treatment of the animal with androgens.
(15) These neurons can be identified uniquely by 3H-thymidine exposure during the week preceding the neurogenesis of cortical layer 6.
(16) They were preceded by the publication of The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965) and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969); in one, he made a hopeless mess of Picasso’s later career, though he was not alone in this; in the other, he elevated a brave dissident artist beyond his talents.
(17) A manual search, derived from the references of these papers, was performed to obtain relevant citations for the years preceding 1970.
(18) A traumatic factor in the aetiology of the AVM was also discussed, since the patient had had two preceding episodes of traffic accidents with cranial and lumbar injury.
(19) Neither was the intra-VMH infusion of MA effective if: (i) the rats were not primed with estrogen; (ii) the tips of the cannulae were outside the VMH; or (iii) it was preceded by an intra-VMH infusion of the alpha 1b-antagonist, chloroethylclonidine (CEC).
(20) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
Preempt
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by preemption.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one patient the information obtained by two-dimensional echocardiographic studies was believed to be sufficient to preempt the need for cardiac catheterization.
(2) It is concluded that cytologic examination of colonic brushings is a highly accurate and reliable technique for the detection of malignant neoplasms of the colon and can preempt the use of biopsy forceps.
(3) The influences of Li or protons, however, are so strong as to preempt the volume effects, so that the pathway can be activated even in swollen cells and deactivated in shrunken ones.
(4) A proactive style of preempting opportunities for misbehavior, in contrast to a reactive style of responding only after misbehavior occurred, was correlated with a lower incidence of undesirable child acts.
(5) As transcription proceeds, it is preempted by formation of an alternative domain designated stem-loop IV.
(6) In a written statement earlier this week , the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, sought to preempt the committee by asserting the UK would continue to export weapons to Saudi Arabia, claiming the “key test” of a serious risk of breach of international humanitarian law had not been met.
(7) Though Washington law does not preempt federal statute, under which marijuana is still illegal, the Justice Department assured Washington governor Jay Inslee that it would not sue to overturn the state’s development of a highly regulated marijuana market.
(8) "In the Senate and in America, the concerns that kept us out of Kyoto back in 1997 are still with us today, and we need to preempt them here in Copenhagen," Kerry warned.
(9) The "security hypothesis" suggests food hoarding by rats serves to preempt attack and therefore might be motivated by "anxiety".
(10) The federal requirements, while not preempting state law damages claims, do provide a mechanism for achieving some protection from liability.
(11) While MRI has clearly preempted many applications, CT is still the examination of choice in several clinical settings.
(12) Furthermore, Congress, through the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act and Smokeless Tobacco Education Act, has not preempted or removed the power of states to ban sampling.
(13) Preempting innovations--novel terms identical in form to conventional terms, such as uniforms--provide the means to contrast the models.
(14) We’re working to 2025.” He said he did not believe there was a need to preempt judicial reviews, adding: “The government has been stung by these before so I can understand them wanting to be sure it is robust.” In an unusually strong attack on Gatwick, Holland-Kaye warned that the prime minister had a choice of a third runway at Heathrow or a Gatwick option that “will not get us to emerging markets, which does nothing for the regions of the UK, or for exports, that delivers a fraction of the jobs or the economic benefits, is less financially robust, does not have the support of business or unions, nor the local community, nor the airlines, nor politicians, nor the policy basis of the airports commission.
(15) Without preempting them, I can tell you something about the direction of travel," he told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in central London today.
(16) These unnatural deaths preempted any excess in natural causes before the age of 70 years, such as cardiovascular disease.
(17) The concept of dissociation increasingly preempts repression and other defense mechanisms in current nosological thinking.
(18) The present results indicate that diuretics preempt the appearance of a forthcoming increase in serum glucose and cholesterol, and lessen the clinical relevance of these events.
(19) Joyce had already held a press conference in New England to preempt the announcement.
(20) Thus the ability of the Act to preempt litigation substantially is questionable, the authors state, and they recommend a broader definition.