(n.) A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed.
Example Sentences:
(1) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
(2) After the diagnosis of a soft-tissue injury (sprain, strain, or contusion) has been made, treatment must include an initial 24- to 48-hour period of RICE.
(3) The accumulation of the mRNA corresponding to a rice high pI alpha-amylase gene, OSamy-c, was stimulated 20-fold by exogenous GA3 in half-seeds lacking embryos.
(4) Traditional dietary preparations for diarrhea such as carrot soup and products based on rice have essentially an absorbent power and do not diminish intestinal loss of water and electrolytes.
(5) Altogether, 17 species were recorded from the rice fields.
(6) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(7) Channels containing a variety of viable cells permeated the rice bodies.
(8) The pattern of distribution of histone H3 mRNA during the development of the rice grain and its germination was monitored by in situ hybridization and confirmed by Northern blot analysis.
(9) The sera were used to type 137 isolates of B. cereus from 34 British and Australian incidents of food poisoning associated with the consumption of cooked rice.
(10) 3) In all age groups the foods most ingested were: steamed rice, wakame, tofu, bread, scallions, Japanese omelette, and tomatoes.
(11) Dogs fed on both gari diet and the rice + cyanide diet generated significant amounts of thiocyanate when compared with the controls, with the rice + cyanide group having higher plasma thiocyanate than the gari group (P less than 0.01).
(12) In the case of mutation assays, presoaked rice seeds were treated with 100, 200 or 300 ppm 2,4-D for 4 h and sown in the field.
(13) Cases tended to consume slightly more rice, but less protein-rich foods (i.e., bean curd, meat, eggs) and vegetables than did controls.
(14) The isolates were grown on rice and tested as a diet for toxicity to rats.
(15) Polished rice samples harvested in 1985 were collected from 25 prefectures throughout Japan.
(16) The rough spot where protesters say shots were fired from Rice recalled in a telephone interview that he “heard gunshots go off and felt a bullet whizz by my head,” prompting him to take cover from the direction of the shots by hiding behind a car, while facing the police line.
(17) Feasibility of home treatment of diarrhoea with packaged rice-based oral rehydration salts (R-ORS) was compared, in terms of cost, with that for glucose-based oral rehydration salts (G-ORS).
(18) For now, temporary carers receive rice, secondhand clothes for the children, toiletries and a small stipend, while regular financial help from the government and Unicef is being considered.
(19) The extrachromosomal DNA represents about 1% of total rice DNA and its level of amplification is not affected by the different phases of growth in culture.
(20) Northern blot analysis showed that the catalase intron was efficiently spliced in rice cells while transgenic tobacco plants contained both spliced and unspliced gusA transcripts in equal amounts.
Rie
Definition:
(n.) See Rye.
Example Sentences:
(1) cMG1 is a primary response gene first identified in a rat intestinal epithelial (RIE-1) cell-line [(1990) Oncogene 5, 1081-1083].
(2) Complement C3d split product was estimated using double-decker rocket immunoelectrophoresis (DD-RIE) and measurements of C3d neodeterminants exposed after C3 activation was carried out with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
(3) The incidence, severity, and onset of radiation-induced emesis (RIE) are related to field size, site, and dose per fraction.
(4) In the pilot study, ondansetron achieved major or complete control of vomiting in 77% to 90% of patients; subsequently, he reported a significant difference between ondansetron (97%) and metoclopramide (45%) in controlling RIE on the day of radiotherapy.
(5) Michael Rie, M.D., assistant professor of anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and associate anesthetist, Massachusetts General Hospital, also of Boston, thinks it's time that multitiered levels of care were recognized by the law and that insurers were legally bound to reimburse providers at a fair rate.
(6) Comparisons were made with two other specific and sensitive immunological methods for quantifying apo-B: enzymeimmunoassay (EIA) and rocket immunoelectrophoresis (RIE).
(7) An increasing amount of research is now being car ried out in the form of collective proj ects in large institutions where publica tion is no longer the standard method of accounting for individual work.
(8) The great names are all there, from Lucie Rie and Ian Godfrey up to Elizabeth Fritsch , Edmund de Waal and Grayson Perry , and the gallery has been very clever to make so much of this work.
(9) Scientists sometimes like to portray what they do as divorced from the everyday jealousies, rival ries and tribalism of human relationships.
(10) With regard to the test-set developed by RIES and co-workers for the purpose of determination of the biological age the authors again refer to the necessity of a corresponding catalogue of methods with a view to the measurement of work capacity and of health condition at the age.
(11) A solid-phase micro-radioimmunoassay (RIE-S) test was adapted fore the study of the humoral immune response induced by Trypanosoma cruzi infection.
(12) Other growth factors tested did not stimulate RIE-1 cell migration, and EGF did not stimulate the migration of fibroblasts in this assay.
(13) When correlating the serum-SP1 concentration of samples containing various ratios of SP1-reactive molecules by means of RIE, RID and AIP, it was demonstrated that there was no correlation between the results achieved using one method compared to the results achieved by either of the other methods.
(14) The introduction and effectiveness of the 5-hydroxytryptamine3 receptor antagonists in chemotherapy-induced emesis and the location of these receptors in the upper abdomen (possible site of the radiation-associated emetic response) suggested that this group of compounds may have a role in RIE.
(15) Using the concept of vitality a relation between the inverse vitality and the Ries biological index is derived.
(16) Transformants progressively became negative on continued growth and retesting by RIE, with only two clones still expressing GAA at the eighth testing.
(17) When the allergen was oxidized with periodate the size of its precipitate in rocket immunoelectrophoresis (RIE) was reduced.
(18) One of the methods gives an estimation of C3 conversion by ELISA measurement of neodeterminants present on the C3d moiety; the other method measures C3 split products expressing D, but not C, epitopes by rocket immunoelectrophoresis (RIE) with intermediate anti-C3c gel.
(19) Incubation of the allergen with various glycosidases did not significantly affect its precipitation in RIE.
(20) A total of 595 blood samples were measured in parallel in the DD-RIE and the ELISA test systems.