(n.) The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.
(n.) The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant.
(n.) Reference; respect; regard.
(n.) Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.
(n.) A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.
(n.) The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation.
(n.) The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
(2) In contrast, DNA polymerase alpha, the enzyme involved in chromosomal DNA replication, was relatively insensitive to CA1.
(3) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(4) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(5) The typical findings have been related to their anatomical localisation and frequency.
(6) There was a weak relation between AER and both systolic and diastolic blood pressures.
(7) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(8) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(9) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(10) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
(11) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(12) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(14) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(15) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
(16) This study examined the [3H]5-HT-releasing properties of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and related agents, all of which cause significant release of [3H]5-HT from rat brain synaptosomes.
(17) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(18) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
(19) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
(20) Also we found that the lipid deposition in the glomeruli of patients with Alagille syndrome is related to an abnormal lipid metabolism, which is the consequence of severe cholestasis.
Tuple
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
(2) A matching matrix species which k-tuples match each other.
(3) In our master-worker (MW) parallel implementation, a master process creates several worker processes, extracts a test sequence and multiple library sequences from a database and stores them in tuple space.
(4) An algorithm is described for generation of the long sequence written in a four letter alphabet from the constituent k-tuple words in the minimal number of separate, randomly defined fragments of the starting sequence.
(5) The present study proposes an algorithm that allows to overcome the computational difficulties occurring in the course of the method during reconstruction of the DNA sequence by its l-tuple composition.
(6) It is shown also that the biochemical problems connected with the loss of information about the l-tuple DNA composition during hybridization are not crucial and can be overcome by finding the maximal flow of minimal cost in the special graph.
(7) We then studied the distribution of oligonucleotides (or k-tuples) of each length in a subset of 129 complete mammalian genes spanning 0.607 Mb.
(8) It is shown that the efficiency of the statistical l-tuple filtration upon DNA database search is associated with a potential extension of the original four-letter alphabet and grows exponentially with increasing l. The formula that allows one to estimate the filtration parameters is presented.
(9) The concept of the algorithm enables operations with the k-tuple sets containing false positive and false negative k-tuples.
(10) In addition, one can match k-tuples or words instead of matching individual residues in order to speed the search.
(11) The frequency occurrences of K-tuple (overlapping sequences of defined length, K) were computed from the known human genome sequences.
(12) Parental bonding was assessed using the Parental Bonding Instrument [PBI; Parker, G. Tupling, H. & Brown, L.B.
(13) Each worker reads the test sequence and then repeatedly extracts library strings from tuple space, performs pairwise sequence comparison using a local comparison algorithm to generate a similarity score, and returns the similarity scores to tuple space.
(14) Average CLW distances for a variety of common word structures were more or less parallel to MDD distances for appropriately long t-tuples.
(15) relatively evenly distributed over a genome) versus non-stationary l-tuples has been introduced previously.
(16) Some of the rare 5-tuples identified by this strategy belonged to a portion of the nine base-pair binding site in promoters, which is also known as the octamer motif.
(17) Very few rare 5-tuples were identified; in addition, three oligonucleotides, reverse complements of rare 5-tuples, were found to have a frequency ranging between 0.582 and 0.671.
(18) We report that, through the use of alternative encodings of the DNA sequence in the complex plane, the number of FFTs performed can be traded off against (i) signal-to-noise ratio, and (ii) a certain degree of filtering for local similarity via k-tuple correlation.
(19) We defined as rare those 5-tuples having an observed frequency less than 50% of that expected by chance on the basis of base composition, and which had a reduction in frequency not attributable to CpG suppression or to coding constraints.
(20) Nucleotide or amino-acid sequences are interpreted as successions of words of length k (k-tuples) the frequencies of which are highly variable in different statistical populations of genes or proteins.