(1) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(2) "In the wake of Julio Baptista's quad-trick, which player has scored the most goals against Liverpool in one game at Anfield?"
(3) ECC:CON PT for QUAD were higher (p less than 0.05) in females than in males.
(4) The echocardiographic images were digitized and randomly assigned in a quad-screen format for nonbiased interpretation.
(5) Long-term controls suggest the use of Quad-Helix and III Class elastic traction as soon as possible, in order to correct premaxillary and maxillary hypoplasia eventually complicated by a posterior cross-bite.
(6) It was concluded that the MMS Enteric Quad Panels provide an efficient, relatively inexpensive, and reasonably accurate method for identification of the Enterobacteriaceae.
(7) The purpose of this investigation was to characterize the in vitro force delivery of the quad-helix appliance.
(8) Osborne confirmed on Sunday that the main points of the budget were agreed by the "quad" group of ministers – the chancellor, the prime minister, Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander – last Monday.
(9) Differences in posture were not associated with differences in abscissal intercepts in either Quad or Con.
(10) The G3 will also have metal body and use Qualcomm’s quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor, which other flagship phones from Samsung, Sony and HTC have used to produce fast smartphones with at least one full day's battery life.
(11) The assembly of fibronectin into disulfide cross-linked extracellular matrices requires the interaction of mesenchymal cells with two distinct sites on fibronectin, the Arg-Gly-Asp cell adhesive site and an amino-terminal site contained within the first five type I homologous repeats (Quade, B. J., and McDonald, J.
(12) EF Synergy Quad plates, standard microdilution panels prepared in house, Pasco MIC Gram-Positive panels (Difco Laboratories, Detroit, Mich.), MicroScan MIC Type 5 dry panels (Baxter Healthcare Corp., MicroScan Div., West Sacramento, Calif.), and Vitek GPS-TA cards (Vitek Systems Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.).
(13) The sand was criss-crossed by police on horses and quad bikes.
(14) RVA in the QUAD group was significantly higher than in the PARA or AB group (P less than 0.003).
(15) Reducing the scanning time and the X-ray tube anode current to 80-100 mA is the main way of reducing the radiation dose without noticeably lowering the tomogram image quality in examination of the eye area using the USA QUAD-1 X-ray computer tomograph of the fourth generation.
(16) Variations in QUAD, FDHL, and MTIB PSP pattern and amplitude were correlated with variations in the PSP pattern evoked by stimulation of the sural nerve: excitatory oligosynaptic group I PSPs generally appeared in motoneurons receiving excitatory cutaneous (sural nerve) input, whereas inhibitory PSPs generally appeared in motoneurons receiving some inhibitory cutaneous input and were largest in motoneurons receiving predominantly inhibition from the sural nerve.
(17) 4,500 containers or TEUs, as the Ministry of Defence calls them (the acronym stands for Twenty Foot Equivalent Units), will be packed with small arms, ammo, quad bikes, and other less valuable kit, and put on trucks.
(18) These studies show significant alterations in the sensitivity of osmotically stimulated vasopressin release related to differences in posture in Quad, characterized by enhanced sensitivity in erect posture due to nonosmotic stimuli not evident in Con.
(19) In the experiments described in the preceding paper electrical stimulation of the quadriceps (QUAD), medial tibial (MTIB), and flexor digitorum and hallucis longus (FDHL) muscle nerves was used to evoke oligosynaptic group I postsynaptic potentials (PSPs) in medial gastrocnemius (MG) motoneurons.
(20) Changes in plasma arginine vasopressin concentration (PAVP) during hypertonic NaCl infusions were also greater in erect than in supine Quad (P less than 0.005), despite identical changes in plasma osmolality (Posm).
Quid
Definition:
(n.) A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.
(v. t.) To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; -- said of horses.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the guy we've all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book - fifty quid's worth - and frantically computing how he's going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment."
(2) The results suggest that formation of reactive oxygen species in the presence of NNN may be a key factor in the initiation of oral tumours in tobacco and betel-quid chewers.
(3) He compared the situation to insider trading or corruption, in which there may not be direct proof of a criminal quid pro quo taking place, but where there is a pattern of behaviour that warrants attention.
(4) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
(5) It costs 25 quid, which is why I only went when I was offered a free lunch: I was being given some sort of award.
(6) If somehow they can, it’s even harder to see how we can sell less than the EU yet be the side that’s “quids in”, and harder still to see how so much money would be allowed to bypass the treasury for the department of business.
(7) There is the very real, or perhaps surreal, prospect, of postal workers simultaneously downing tools (parking their trolleys) and subscribing a few hundred quid for Royal Mail shares.
(8) The frequency of micronucleated cells (MNC) derived from exfoliated human oral mucosal cells has been measured to assess genotoxic damage in chewers of betel quid with tobacco (BQT) and tobacco with lime (T).
(9) Behind the scenes, ITV is offering to look again at the importance of national and regional news as a quid pro quo for political support for deregulation.
(10) Taken together, the observed pathobiological effects of areca-nut extract and certain related compounds in cultured human buccal epithelial cells indicate that these agents may contribute to the oral carcinogenicity associated with chewing betel quid.
(11) The elevation of MEC in Taiwanese, who are at low risk for oral cancer, is relatively small as compared to that found in chewers of Indian betel quids (pan), who show a highly elevated oral cancer risk.
(12) To prevent relapses, quinidine had been continued in 25 patients in doses 100 mg quid lower than those used for conversion.
(13) Whether the law was actually broken, whether there was quid pro quos, or inside information is a better way to put it, we don’t know.
(14) Oh, and they also stung you for £25 last month when you went a few quid over your overdraft limit.
(15) A link between the generation of areca nut-related N-nitrosamines in the saliva, the induction of genotoxic damage in the oral mucosa, as judged by an increase in micronucleated exfoliated cells (MEC), and a low incidence of oral cancer was studied in 2 population groups characterized by their habit of chewing quids without tobacco: Guamanians, who chew areca nuts (Areca catechu) with or without the addition of betel leaf (Piper betle); Taiwanese, who use areca nut, betel leaf or inference and slaked lime.
(16) But the joint plan does involve a quid pro quo – states agreeing to making their own taxes more efficient and to longer term reforms before the commonwealth puts its money on the table.
(17) The EU commissioner for economic and financial affairs, Pierre Moscovici, said Greece and its creditors were still at loggerheads over reforms to Greek pensions and VAT rates, which lenders want to be toughened as a quid pro quo for giving Athens further bailout funds.
(18) (3) Formation of endogenous NOC was assessed by the NPRO test in: (i) subjects living in high- and low-incidence areas for stomach cancer in northern Japan, Costa Rica and Poland; (ii) subjects with different habits of betel-quid chewing and tobacco use; (iii) patients with urinary bladder infections; and (iv) subjects infested with liver fluke in Thailand.
(19) A real corker of a package if you are a bingo-playing pensioner who likes a tot of the hard stuff and has a few quid in the bank.
(20) According to one source close to the paper, the quid pro quo for such support is simple: the paper will demand the same "Rolls Royce" service from the Conservatives provided by Alastair Campbell and Tony Blair in the years immediately following Murdoch's warm embrace of New Labour.