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Quint


Definition:

  • (n.) A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.
  • (n.) The interval of a fifth.

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  • (1) Mutant virus is then reconstituted by cotransfection with overlapping viral clones, together comprising the entire viral genome, as described previously (M. van Zijl, W. Quint, J. Briaire, T. de Rover, A. Gielkens, and A. Berns, J. Virol.
  • (2) A perchlorinated, cage-structured hydrocarbon, C(10)C(l2), also known as mirex or Dechlorane, has been identified in fish samples from the Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario, Canada.
  • (3) Quint Fontana drinks to remember... and he’s thirsty!” Of course, this is all a character act – Fontana is the infectiously appealing creation of comedian Andy Davies, who has been honing the character via a monthly show at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club.
  • (4) A quintuple mutant, with all cysteines converted to alanines (Quint), was also constructed.
  • (5) Quint Fontana is also interested in the power of the female, but he approaches things from a rather different trajectory.
  • (6) Although the soft-tissue analysis can be made easier by the use of a Quint intensifying screen (Quint X-Ray Co, Inc, Los Angeles) which enhances the soft-tissue image, when the enhanced cephalometric radiograph was compared with a standard, nonenhanced radiograph, it was found to have the same level of diagnostic accuracy.
  • (7) The mutants C82A and C191A exhibit nearly the same CM in urea denaturation experiments as WT, while the other single mutants and Quint are less stable, with CM differences of up to 0.7 M urea.
  • (8) After quantitative comparison, it appears that hinge rotation is the primary physiologic movement of the mandible, and that the Hanau quint provides compensatory factors in facilitating hinge jaw movement.
  • (9) The thermal stabilities of Quint and of the wild-type enzyme (WT) were determined by differential scanning calorimetry.
  • (10) Pleasance Courtyard, 5.30pm, to 24 Aug Quint Fontana: I Remember Me Facebook Twitter Pinterest Quint Fontana Last year, Bridget Christie picked up the Edinburgh Comedy award with an impassioned, gag-festooned tribute to feminism.
  • (11) Quint is also less thermostable than WT, with a delta TM of 3.3-4.4 degrees C. Thus the five cysteine replacements yield small, but significant, changes in catalytic and denaturation parameters, but none of the cysteines was found to be essential.
  • (12) The 1st step in Quint's analysis was a determination of the ratio of new endometrial carcinoma cases to the total "major gynecologic operations" for the intervals 1960-1966 and 1966-1973.
  • (13) Thus, type-2 astrocytes express the two quint-essential astrocytic features: glial fibrillary acidic protein (previously reported by others) and glutamine synthetase.
  • (14) This work has been extended by undertaking a computer simulation of the movement of the mandible between centric occlusion and centric relation in an effort to establish a possible mathematical relationship between the variables in Hanau's "Quint."
  • (15) Dr. Boyd C. Quint recently presented important data regarding the relationship of estrogen therapy to the risk of endometrial carcinoma, but the data seem to have been inappropriately analyzed.
  • (16) Dr. Quint studied 291 postmenopausal women who received primary treatment for endometrial carcinoma at the Swedish Hospital Medical Center in Seattle, Washington between 1960 and 1973.
  • (17) Quint's data do support the hypothesis that estrogen therapy may be an etiologic factor among the more recent cases of endometrial carcinoma.

Quirt


Definition:

  • (n.) A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.

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