(n.) A rod or stick used by masons in mixing hair with mortar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, it is not clear that the British government has ever made it a priority at the highest levels to tell RAB that if it doesn't change, it will not co-operate with it."
(2) The gene encodes a hydrophilic, glycine-rich protein (18.5 kDa), which contains the conserved serine- and lysine-rich domains characteristic of similar RAB proteins in other plant species.
(3) Mammalian cells express many ras-like low molecular mass GTP-binding proteins (rab proteins) that are highly homologous to the Ypt1 and Sec4 proteins involved in controlling secretion in yeast.
(4) In addition, the expression of small molecular weight guanine nucleotide binding protein (small G protein) mRNA (smg p25A [rab 3] and smg p21 [rab 1]) was investigated.
(5) This G protein was cloned from the HT4 neural cell line and has the closest homology to the rab, sec4, and ypt1 members of the low-molecular-weight (LMW) G-protein family.
(6) The mammalian ras gene family includes at least 35 distinct members that can be divided into three main groups on the basis of their sequence similarity to ras, rho, or rab genes.
(7) "The NPIA has given limited support to the Bangladeshi Police and the RAB in technical areas of policing such as forensic awareness, management of crime scenes and recovery of evidence.
(8) The rab1, rab2, rab3A, and rab4 proteins are the human counterparts of the rat rab gene products that we have previously characterized.
(9) This newly identified rab protein is 81% identical to human rab5, the canine counterpart of which has been localized to the plasma membrane and early endosomes.
(10) This technique would be applicable to the estimation of 222Rn daughters concentration and to examination of disequilibrium between 214Pb(RaB) and 214Bi(RaC) and of those height distribution up to about 200 m. The accuracy for estimating the concentration is as good as that of the filter method.
(11) On the other hand, TN-55 induced PGE2 production in a rabbit dermal fibroblast cell line (RAB-9) and exhibited pyrogenicity in rabbits in vivo.
(12) Normal H. influenzae type b (Rab), capsule-deficient strain ATCC 9333, and experimental L-phase and its revertants were used in this investigation.
(13) The rab genes code for small GTP binding proteins that share with p21ras the ability to bind and hydrolyze GTP.
(14) Among the rabies patients, only the two vaccinated ones had serum Rab; this was also detected in the CSF of one and RIgM was in the CSF of the other.
(15) In an attempt to define other LMW GTP-binding proteins that may regulate neurotransmitter release, seven cDNA clones encoding new members of the rab family of LMW GTP-binding proteins were isolated from a rat brain cDNA library.
(16) But then, Carswell always reminds me of the remark Iain Macleod made of his even cleverer colleague, Enoch Powell, who jointly refused to serve under Lord Home when he succeeded Harold Macmillan as PM (they wanted Rab Butler) in 1963.
(17) Isoproterenol (1 microM) or analogs of cAMP stimulated beta-endorphin secretion from AtT20 cells, but failed to stimulate secretion in RAB cells expressing the mutant R subunit.
(18) The present report indicates that the structurally distinct cysteine motifs of rab proteins are subjected to isoprenylation both in vitro and in vivo.
(19) As Roger Ford, editor of Modern Railways, puts it: "When government authorises an enhancement – say the Midland main line electrification – it does so on the basis that Network Rail will borrow to pay for the work and that taxpayers yet unborn will stump up through the RAB mechanism to pay the interest on those loans."
(20) To test directly the possible involvement of these genes in neuronal differentiation, purified rab proteins produced in E. coli were introduced into neurons dissociated from E15 rat midbrain.
Robert
Definition:
(n.) See Herb Robert, under Herb.
Example Sentences:
(1) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(2) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(3) Of course there are some who are stubborn, like Robert Mugabe.
(4) Robert Francis QC's official report in February on the Mid Staffordshire care scandal, in which an estimated 400 to 1,200 patients died unnecessarily at Stafford hospital between 2005 and 2008, called for the NHS to make "zero harm" its objective.
(5) Grace has no capacity so she will be very mechanised.” This week Robert Mugabe described Mujuru, his vice-president of a decade, as too simplistic .
(6) The age distribution for Caulobacter cells in an exponential population has been calculated (Appendix by Robert Tax) and used to analyze some of the results.
(7) The first decades of this Institute were shaped by the assistant of Robert Koch, Friedrich Loeffler (1852-1915), an important microbiologist and one of the founders of virology.
(8) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
(9) 'The right-wing bloc will now be able to unify around one leader,' said Robert Misik, a senior Austrian journalist and commentator.
(10) Three dead after gunman storms Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Read more Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old from North Carolina, has been named as the suspected gunman behind a standoff at a Planned Parenthood health clinic in which three people died and nine were injured .
(11) A lot is being expected of rookie cornerbacks Desmond Trufant and Robert Alford, but defensive co-ordinator Mike Nolan has a good track record of keeping his units competitive.
(12) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
(13) And if the fathers of Europe, Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman , were alive today, they would see that their aim, to get Europe to move to a proper union through a series of crises, has moved a step closer.
(14) Seventy-six students and staff at Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology weighed their food for 1 week and the records were used to determine the frequency of consumption of foods and portion sizes, as well as nutrient intakes.
(15) The station programmer of the year went to Andy Roberts of dance station Kiss.
(16) When researching his book, Moore could see from Margaret Roberts's student days onwards that she was conscious of the attention being paid to her.
(17) Dominick and Elliot pose looking at the camera, in a photograph taken by Robert Mapplethorpe in 1979.
(18) Commanders were calling Roberts on his mobile phone, pleading for help.
(19) Roberts described the TGF-betas as providing the cells with cues to their temporal positions in a developmental program, that is, telling the cells "where they were, where they are, and where they're going."
(20) He has every confidence with the team now in place, and that team includes Robert Devereux."