(1) The pressure is ramping up on Asda boss Andy Clarke, who next week will reveal the chain’s sales performance for the quarter covering Christmas.
(2) Stiffness was reduced in approximate proportion to the ramp stretch rate, and the reduction was confined largely to the elastic component.
(3) Twenty-six rapidly adapting units (RA), eighteen slowly adapting units (SA) and ten Pacinian corpuscle units (PC) were differentiated from each other mainly on the presence of the off response in RA and PC units to a ramp stimulation, the persistence of discharges of the SA units during steady pressure on the receptive field and the classical tuning curve seen in the PC units.
(4) Modulation in relation to tremor was superimposed on the bidirectional pattern related to ramps.
(5) Fiber activity was assessed by applying to the Achilles tendon a 5-mm ramp stretch at 5 or 25-30 mm X s-1.
(6) Phasic-tonic MUs exhibited a phasic burst of activity during the torque ramp which exceeded the firing rate during the static hold period.
(7) Three-dimensional wavelength-absorbance-furnace temperature spectra can be obtained by using ramped heating steps to provide a rough separation of elements in a mixture.
(8) This report considers the accuracy of the measurement method as a function of ramp width.
(9) Slow-adapting free nerve endings were also observed through response to square wave pressure stimuli and ramp shaped pressure stimuli.
(10) The ventilatory sensitivity to CO2 obtained from a non-steady-state step-ramp CO2 challenge (analogous to the Read rebreathing method) was compared with the one of the steady-state method.
(11) These findings indicate that muscle length does influence the discharge pattern of motor unit spike trains during isometric ramp contractions.
(12) For years a small army of therapists has worked in the shadows to help older people stay in their own homes – fitting stair rails, ordering hoists, measuring ramps and offering support vital to rehabilitation.
(13) This report describes an inexpensive ramp generator which produces multiple ramp-and-hold stimuli ("staircase-type" wave forms).
(14) Wheelchair ramps Raul Krauthausen is the man behind Wheelmap, a crowdsourced map of wheelchair-friendly places around the world.
(15) An IBM PC-compatible computer program, RAMP, for evaluation of single-channel recordings acquired using voltage ramp protocols is presented.
(16) When step-ramp stimuli were presented in the normal field, the monkeys delayed the initiation of saccades to targets moving towards the central fixation point, and hastened the initiation of saccades to targets moving away from the central fixation point.
(17) The aim of this work was to provide well defined criteria for ramp construction for wheelchair dependent individuals (WDI).
(18) The council apparently told Lally that the giant ramp was the only option because of building regulations.
(19) The findings suggest that with the stimulator used in this study, ramp time has no effect on the three basic excitatory responses, i.e., thresholds of sensory, motor and painful stimulation.
(20) The responses of slowly-adapting neurons were separated into two components, a "dynamic" response corresponding to activity elicited by the initial indenting ramp and a "static" response produced by the sustained indentation.
Ramus
Definition:
(n.) A branch; a projecting part or prominent process; a ramification.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
(2) In 27 decerebrate cats under various experimental conditions, we studied the effects of programmed premature ventricular contractions on the impulse activity of preganglionic sympathetic fibres isolated from the third left thoracic ramus.
(3) In one horse, the superior aspect of the right ascending ramus of the lower jaw below the coronoid process revealed a gunshot wound; the other skeletons showed no evidence of trauma.
(4) Joints are originally created by the author as an imitation of TMJ and mandibular ramus.
(5) The method and the program are illustrated using the leave-one-out method on a sample of N = 12 male rhesus monkeys whose mandibular ramus height was measured five times at yearly intervals.
(6) The mandibular ramus was short in length and the mandibular condyle had not developed on the right.
(7) Twenty-three adult female rhesus monkeys underwent advancement of the mandible by the sagittal split ramus osteotomy.
(8) The present study, however, qualitatively evaluates the unsharpness of redundant shadows of the mandibular ramus, especially with reference to the effects of first-slit width.
(9) The healing rate was similar at different sites except for the ramus where healing appeared to be quicker.
(10) Myxofibroma developing in the mandibular ramus region is rare, and there has been only one case reported so far in Japan.
(11) For pinning subcondylar fractures, a guide groove cut on the lateral surface of the mandibular ramus is a useful method of directing a Kirschner wire into the correct position.
(12) Extension of main duct, smooth defect of posterior border of mandibular ramus, posterior displace of styloid process, and filling defect of branch ducts and acini in the pterygomandibular space were seen in deep lobe parotid tumors.
(13) The exposure and operative management comprised a latero-facial approach combined with multiple exposure osteotomies of the ascending mandibular ramus, orbitozygomatic region and a frontosphenotemporal craniotomy.
(14) A the caudal edge of the articular process, the ramus divides into medial and lateral branches, and the medial branch supplies the L5--S1 articulation.
(15) Deep notch cases had more retrusive mandibles with a shorter corpus, smaller ramus height, and a greater gonial angle than did shallow notch cases.
(16) The length of the mandibular ramus was measured in lateral radiographs of all mandibles.
(17) X-ray examination showed excellent union between the inverted segment and the rest of ramus and satisfactory appearance.
(18) We describe five cases of radiographically proven stress fracture of the pubic ramus in serious runners, three of whom were elite female marathoners.
(19) The material consisted of presurgical and 1-year postsurgical profile cephalograms of 52 adult orthognathic surgery patients (40 females and 12 males) who initially had mandibular prognathism and had undergone bilateral vertical ramus osteotomy through an extraoral incision in the retroangular area.
(20) In anaesthetised cats the response of the soma dendritic region of sympathetic preganglionic neurones (SPN) recorded intracellularly in T3 spinal segment was studied following excitation of third thoracic white ramus and following orthodromic inputs.