(1) Tetrapolar rheovasography was used to medically examine 54 riveters, of equal age and duration of work, who were exposed to the complex action of low-intensity vibration and noise.
(2) It was a riveting and perverse study of decadent Parisian student life, the first of his many films in which Chabrol presents an opposition between a Dionysian character (often called Paul or Popaul) and an Apollonian one (often called Charles), the defender of the status quo.
(3) The "graying" of America has riveted the attention of policy makers in the United States on the potential specter of an excess population of sick, poor, disabled, aged Americans.
(4) Although the exposure time for the riveting hammer was 1 min and the total tool time was 40 min per day, more than 50% of the riveters had symptoms of vibration-induced white finger (VWF) after more than 10 years of work.
(5) History suggests we should not be too surprised when the rivets pop.
(6) Among the remaining patients was a divorced mother of four with a failing liver who was engaged to be remarried; a second world war " Rosie Riveter " who had trouble speaking because of a stroke; and Ma'Dear, an ailing matriarch with long, braided hair, renowned for her cooking and the strict but loving way she raised 12 children.
(7) With the last kick of a riveting final Group F match Agnor Ingvi Traustason, a second-half replacement, scored a memorable goal, and as Szymon Marciniak, the Polish referee, blew instantly for time, a jubilant Iceland bench ran on to the pitch, and the fans celebrated wildly.
(8) The calculated equivalent frequency-weighted acceleration for a period of 4 h was the questionnaire survey 101 riveters reported statistically significant more complaints of pain and stiffness in their hands and arms when compared with 76 controls with no, or little, exposure to vibration.
(9) The real strength of Lean In is in its Rosie the Riveter 2.0 message: "You can do it!
(10) A bit like Desert Island Discs only miles more revealing, the "A Room of My Own" feature showed the rooms of the famous and distinguished in rivetingly detailed colour photographs for 15 years, while in the text below their owners wibbled on about them.
(11) The Sejusa case has riveted many in this east African country that once was prone to violent takeovers of power but which has seen relative stability under Museveni.
(12) The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Sheila Fitzpatrick A riveting account of the institution that implemented the cultural and educational policies of the revolution after 1917.
(13) Bill Gates sipping from a glass of water doesn’t sound like riveting television.
(14) It was just two people sitting at a table talking, but it was electric and riveting.
(15) And Jaye Griffiths in Don't Wake Me: The Ballet of Nihal Armstrong was riveting.
(16) The very substantial riveted plates of the converted Aberdeen-built trawler had had huge holes torn in them, but the jagged pieces of metal that remained were all bent inwards.
(17) An RAF Rivet Joint surveillance plane equipped with listening devices has also been flying missions from al-Udeid air base in Qatar to eavesdrop on Isis communications.
(18) The riveting thing about the CLEWI isn't the headline attached, because that tends to be the same every year.
(19) Adhesion had a tongue-and-groove appearance with corneosomes riveting corneocyte peripheries into a lipped groove on adjoining cells.
(20) That's what's riveting here: the mechanics of the escape.
Tool
Definition:
(n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.
(n.) A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.
(n.) Hence, any instrument of use or service.
(n.) A weapon.
(n.) A person used as an instrument by another person; -- a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes.
(v. t.) To shape, form, or finish with a tool.
(v. t.) To drive, as a coach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(2) The HTCA is promising as a potential tool for studying the biology of tumors.
(3) But both for malaria and Aids we’re seeing the tools that will let us do 95-100% reduction.
(4) These studies demonstrate the potential of ICAM-1 transfectants as tools for analysis of the role of ICAM-1 in lymphoid adhesion.
(5) This method can characterize reliably flavivirus field isolates at the molecular level without extensive virus propagation and molecular cloning, and will be a valuable tool for molecular epidemiological studies.
(6) The basic principle of the resonant tool, its adaptation for surgery, the experimental results of its use in animals, and clinical experience are reported.
(7) Colloidal gold immuno-electron microscopy is a powerful tool for defining antigenicity at the subcellular level.
(8) A diversity of serogroups and toxigenicity was a general finding, however, strains found in the proximal gut were also cultured from the rectum, indicating that faecal specimens would be a valid tool in investigating the role of these organisms in SIDS cases compared with healthy controls.
(9) SR 42128 is a potent and long-acting tool for studying the role of the renin angiotensin system in primates and humans.
(10) In this study we propose a method for the analysis of the relationship between heart rate changes and respiration as a possible diagnostic tool for cardiac autonomic damage.
(11) However LHRH agonists alone or in combination with ovarian steroids are of potential value as a research tool.
(12) These findings demonstrate that heteroantisera can provide an additional important tool for dissecting the heterogeneity of T-cell leukemias and for relating them to more differentiated normal T cells.
(13) This model provides a standard nonoperative approach for the induction of intestinal ischemia in dogs and could be a valuable tool in the study of intestinal ischemia.
(14) Before we embark on the next steps of the global technological revolution, we must ensure that the most basic of online tools are accessible to all.
(15) This ion-selective microelectrode may show promise as a useful tool for the determination of intracellular bile salt activity.
(16) Axotomy should be a useful tool for determining which other neurotransmitter receptors are produced by facial motoneurons and efferent neurons in other cranial nerve nuclei.
(17) Given that patient preferences constitute a central concept within the framework of HRQL, further empirical evaluation of utility measures of preference is fundamental to improving the HRQL measurement tool-kit.
(18) This study also demonstrates that pulsed-field gel electrophoresis is a powerful new tool for the analysis of human chromosomal translocations.
(19) In order to maximize the utility of these tools a high degree of reliability is essential.
(20) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.