(1) A Puf- strain of Rhodobacter sphaeroides (PUFB1) was constructed by deleting a portion of the proximal region of the puf operon and inserting a kanamycin resistance gene cartridge.
(2) Chromosome banding patterns are very similar between tissues, but puffing patterns show considerable differences.
(3) The adjacent region, 23B2, is slightly puffed and displays typical RNP particles, some of which may be observed close to band 2-23B1,2.
(4) At the same time the RNA quantity increases by a factor of 2. thermal denaturation profiles of formaldehyde fixed chromosomes show that the Tm of this region in puffed and non puffed state differ by 10 degrees C. Moreover these profiles suggest that a large fraction of histone-bound DNA is destabilized during puffing.
(5) He huffed and puffed, gazed at the heavens at times, and at one point he accused the country’s foremost human rights officer of verballing him.
(6) Habitual smokers of perforation-ventilated cigarettes and of channel-ventilated cigarettes (18 male and 18 female subjects each; nicotine yield 0.1-0.3 mg, 0.2 mg, respectively) were compared with respect to different smoke exposure indicators and puffing behavior.
(7) The boosts for perforation-ventilated cigarettes remained unchanged and were reached with only moderately intensified puffing behavior.
(8) Where there were pictures of powerful women, the images tended to be subversive: the same photograph of a grimacing Theresa May was used to illustrate three different stories about the home secretary, and two of the three pictures of the German chancellor showed Angela Merkel puffing out her cheeks, looking mildly absurd.
(9) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
(10) Southern blot analysis demonstrated that in PUFB1, the defective copy of the puf operon had replaced, through homologous recombination, the normal chromosomal copy.
(11) Heat a little oil in a pan then cook the dumplings until crisp and puffed, then roll in the cinnamon sugar.
(12) Fluorescence polarization measurements of the lipopholic probe, 1, 6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH), in the purified lymphocyte plasmalemma from mice fed a diet high in PUF indicated an increase in mobility.
(13) The pufBA messages, which end in a large intercistronic stem-loop structure, are long-lived processing products of the puf operon transcripts.
(14) The best subset of predictors, especially with respect to puffing parameters, was found to vary considerably across smoking conditions and dependent variables.
(15) The influence of temperature (17 and 31 degrees) on the maternal effect of mutation Puffed (Pu) in Drosophila hybrids has been studied.
(16) Last month I was given unrestricted access to the enormous archive the PCGG has assembled in its years of global detective work: the president’s handwritten diary, frequently puffed with self-regard; the notepaper headed “From the office of the president”, with scribbled sums endlessly totting up his cash; minutes of company meetings with his comments scrawled in the margins; contracts; “side agreements”; records of multiple bank accounts; hundreds of share certificates; private investigators’ reports; and tens of thousands of pages of court judgments.
(17) The polytene chromosome puffing patterns of Drosophila guanche were established and compared with those of Drosophila subobscura.
(18) David Cameron was “pumped up” ; Russell Brand and Ed Miliband exchanged “aint’s” and “innits” and puffed out their chests.
(19) The individual response to smoke might be assessed by an analysis of puffing on a single cigarette.
(20) Neither between-subject consistency nor within-subject reproducibility was improved by this paced puffing procedure, despite apparent topographical control.
Snorting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snort
Example Sentences:
(1) The disposition of radiolabeled cocaine in humans has been studied after three routes of administration: iv injection, nasal insufflation (ni, snorting), and smoke inhalation (si).
(2) Symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, a potentially life-threatening disorder, include excessive daytime sleepiness and sleep attacks, nocturnal breath cessation, and snorting and gasping sounds.
(3) In this case a 29-year-old White man presented to the emergency room 3 days after he 'snorted' approximately 200mg of colchicine powder.
(4) The Ohio native suffered from PTSD and a traumatic brain injury, his lawyers say, and he had been drinking contraband alcohol and snorting Valium – both provided by other soldiers – the night of the killings.
(5) Further evidence of apnea can be obtained by determining the presence of the additional signs of loud nocturnal snorting and gasping sounds and nocturnal breath cessations.
(6) The execution of Joseph Wood in Arizona, which left the convicted killer “gasping and snorting” for two hours as the state put him to death, is the third botched delivery of capital punishment this year.
(7) It has moments of snort-out-loud laughter (the paddle steamer named the Wonderful Fanny, the Jane Austen vignette – see below).
(8) Spall's performance has been much celebrated for its emotional depth, despite Turner's vocabulary in the film often consisting of grunts, snorts and spitting saliva onto the canvas.
(9) She won’t say if she’d quit the party if he won, “because it’s not going to happen”, but when later I ask if she would defect from the Tory party today, had she not done so in 2013, she snorts: “Not if Raheem were leading the party.
(10) Most of the time the cast hadn't seen the script until this moment, so the frequent snorts of laughter were music to our ears.
(11) "Nothing to celebrate on the Champs Elysees," snorts Paul Griffin.
(12) Since that time he has been gasping, snorting, and unable to breathe and not dying.
(13) When asked about his inclusion, in 1995, on New York Magazine’s 100 Smartest New Yorkers list, he snorted.
(14) In Crank, famously, he is injected with a poison that will kill him if his adrenaline level drops, leading him to snort cocaine, get in a lot of fights and have sex with his girlfriend in front of a crowd of cheering tourists.
(15) In this study, we are interested in the character of the mucosa and their changes as affected by long-term injury from the trauma of the inspiratory and expiratory air currents, which, on sniffling or snorting, may reach hurricane speeds.
(16) The STS gene has been localised by deletion mapping to the distal tip of the snort arm of the X chromosome, and is of interest in that it appears to escape X-inactivation.
(17) Does the public have an “interest” in what all politicians once said, drank, smoked or snorted, or what they got up to with their lovers or stockbrokers?
(18) They nudge the soft earth or a companion before snorting and continuing on up through the paddocks to the shed.
(19) Recreational cocaine abuse via intranasal "snorting," "free-base" smoking, "body-packing," or intravenous injection can be lethal.
(20) Jon Stewart, who has taken to the story of the crack-smoking mayor like Ford to the pipe, laughed at the city council's apparent toothlessness when attempting to strip him of his mayoral position: "That's justice, Canadian style," he snorted.