(1) During this evolution the interior of the core blocks evolved as a homogeneous repetitive structure, while ancestor repeat units remained as sequence relicts in the terminal parts.
(2) Postoperative irradiation and chemotherapy effected relict of neurological symptoms.
(3) Biogenous sulphate reduction and accumulation of secondary H2S were caused by the action of pumping waters with a low content of mineral elements on carbonate collectors with a high concentration of relict H2S during long periods of time.
(4) The macronucleus may provide an important clue to early ciliate phylogeny, since we still have, among extant species, groups of distinct "karyological relicts" exhibiting the very features expected in hypothetical forms corresponding to postulated stages in macronuclear origin and evolution.
(5) In the North Bohemian region and East Bohemian region, only minor separate relict foci of tick-borne encephalitis were found.
(6) R751 shows no trace of the mercury resistance region, but contains a short relict of Tn501, derived from an independent insertion event.
(7) Though their genepool has been modified to some extent by immigrant genes, it is suggested that the Orcadians represent the remains of a relict population, in the same way as, but different from, those of the Gaelic fringe.
(8) This host-parasite association may represent an ecological-historical relict.
(9) In the beginning age of the intellectual evolution mutations have become a pruely negative relict of the declining phase of the biological evolution.
(10) There is evidence that the Shetlanders retain an element of an ultra-European population extreme in some gene frequencies and so, like the Orcadians, may be regarded as much diluted relict of an ancient population.
(11) The major hemoglobin component Hb A of the tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus, a relict of the rhynochocephalian reptiles that lived 200 million years ago, was investigated in the light of the apparent contradiction inherent in an effect of organic phosphate cofactors on the oxygen affinity of hemoglobins exhibiting hyperbolic oxygen equilibrium curves.
(12) The results of this study suggest that development and involution of the eye of Proteus are controlled by genetic factors which are not greatly influenced by environment, and one can, therefore, consider the microphthalmy of Proteus as a relict characteristic which is the result of a specific development with disturbance of the normal ontogenic process.
(13) Macaque distribution in the High Atlas is restricted to the Ourika valley where only a small relict population survives.
(14) Some more adults are infected very likely in coffee plantations or in the relict forest where the same vector species abounds and bites in daytime.
(15) The relationship of the groups of "relict" species to the predominant polyploid-macronucleate forms, with a direct impact on the classification system as well as ciliate evolution and phylogeny in general, is discussed in some detail.
(16) If Oklahoma insists on continuing the relict, needless, and barbaric practice of paralyzing executions, it should promulgate protocols and procedures that explicitly require that the medical practitioners who obtain IV access are certified, competent, and proficient in obtaining IV access and providing anesthetic monitoring.
(17) The Yungas primary forest may be also considered as a relict focus.
(18) In these cases, tooth extraction, removal of dental deposits, interrupted pulp treatment, apical periodontitis, or a relicted root were identified as causes of the development of erythema nodosum.
(19) Whenever it occurs there is a relationship with rain forest and this relationship is apparent in Gippsland, Australia which is not tropical but which contains isolated pockets of relict warm temperate rain forest.
(20) Infectious puma lentivirus (PLV) was isolated from several Florida panthers, a severely endangered relict puma subspecies inhabiting the Big Cypress Swamp and Everglades ecosystems in southern Florida.
Reluct
Definition:
(v. i.) To strive or struggle against anything; to make resistance; to draw back; to feel or show repugnance or reluctance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why Corporate America is reluctant to take a stand on climate action Read more “We have these quantum leaps,” Friedberg said.
(2) The quantitative principles of test selection and interpretation have been reluctantly integrated into clinical practice.
(3) Even the three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania , whose EU membership was championed by Britain, seemed reluctant to offer him public support.
(4) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
(5) While RT is regarded as a major treatment innovation in psychiatry, nonpsychiatrists are reluctant or unaware of the uses of antipsychotic medication as it pertains to RT.
(6) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
(7) "I have always been very reluctant to play that hand, to say it was because I was a girl," she said.
(8) It didn’t help either, Leslie argues, that Labour initially appeared reluctant to focus on the need for continued deficit-reduction.
(9) The possibility of pulmonary edema from fluid overload in nonhypovolemic patients, and reluctance of field personnel to infuse fluid at the rates necessary to produce benefit raise further questions about realistic benefit of IV's in all but the most rural systems.
(10) I was an immigrant, although a reluctant one, and I was living in a huge strange country that resembled the America I'd encountered in books and in films so much less than I had expected.
(11) Even his own people, all holidaying, seemed reluctant to help.
(12) We are in a hotel in Mobile, Alabama, a small town on the Gulf Coast where he and Danny Glover are filming an action movie called Tokarev , in which Cage plays a reformed mobster reluctantly returning to his violent roots when his daughter is kidnapped.
(13) Sampson, 10 years older, is also reluctant to revisit the past.
(14) It remains highly unstable, reports said, making many residents reluctant to go back.
(15) Some 59% of voters said the UK's recent entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan had made them more reluctant to support military interventions by UK forces abroad.
(16) Similarly, many pitfalls may be circumvented by the simple expedient of close collaboration between urologist and radiologist, and by the reluctance of either to accept urography that is suboptimal by current standards.
(17) "The book is widely taught in high schools across the country because of its appeal to reluctant readers.
(18) If Kim has indeed been set aside – and nobody outside Pyongyang really knows – then whoever has taken power is not seeking the limelight,” said John Everard, former UK ambassador to Pyongyang.“The visits to factories and military units that Kim frequently conducted have not been taken over by anyone else; they have simply stopped.” “As a woman in a very male-dominated society, the theory goes, she might be reluctant to push herself forward publicly straight away, preferring instead to bide her time while governing from behind the scenes.” However, Everard says though it is “not impossible” that Kim Yo-jong has stepped up to the leadership, “it is as hard to disprove this theory as it is to find anything to support it”.
(19) The agencies are understandably reluctant to get into operational detail, but it was reasonable to expect them to engage over the principles they applied prior to Paris.
(20) It is reluctantly forced to strip the UK of its treasured AAA rating when the government's growth forecasts have faced repeated downgrades and the upturn is out of sight.