(1) These chemical body burdens were obtained naturally under free-living conditions at the maternity roost.
(2) By exploiting this bat's preference to roost in crevices, we could separately measure O2 uptake during ventilatory bouts and apneic periods using a flow-through metabolic chamber with a small dead space volume and short time constant.
(3) Nevertheless I am thankful that Elizabeth Windsor has ruled the roost rather than some of those likely to have become president in her place.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An example of a rare Bechstein’s bat roost in a partially hollow oak tree, Finemere Wood, Buckinghamshire, ancient wood and nature reserve next to HS2 Photograph: Patrick Barkham for the Guardian After Prideaux dropped me off in a neighbour’s muddy farmyard, I climbed a hill into Finemere Woods, an ancient woodland owned by Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust .
(5) A survey was made by serology and virus isolation techniques on 387 wild free-flying birds that fed and roosted in the area.
(6) The improved performance with water-cooled over air-equilibrated roost treatments, especially during heat-stress periods, indicates that the water-cooled roosts minimized the deleterious effects of heat stress through conductive heat loss from the birds to the roost.
(7) The Tories had previously always been the very clear second place challengers in Brent East, particularly when Ken Livingstone ruled the local roost.
(8) Collections of this tick were associated with bat roosting sites in attics of houses.
(9) Birds roosting on the floor tended always to be the same individuals.
(10) Turnbull had “consistently talked down” the cost of the Coalition’s fibre to the node model “and now the chickens are coming home to roost”, Quigley wrote in the paper.
(11) A split-plot experiment was conducted in thermally controlled chambers using Columbian Plymouth Rock chickens to determine the effect of water-cooled roosts on performance in hot ambient conditions.
(12) Brains of juvenile gray bats, Myotis grisescens, found dead beneath maternity roosts in two Missouri caves contained lethal concentrations of dieldrin.
(13) Decreases in performance during the heat-stress period from the thermoneutral control values were: 5.95 and 13.1 percentage points for hen-day egg production, 22.2 and 34.8 percentage points for average daily feed intake, and 5.17 and 15.38 percentage points for hatchability in water-cooled and air-equilibrated roost treatments, respectively.
(14) Seven species of mites were recovered from 133 Brazilian free-tailed bats, Tadarida brasiliensis, and 94 big brown bats, Eptesicus fuscus, from February through November 1990 in colonies that shared roosting space in east-central Alabama.
(15) Plater's agent for many years was the terrifying Peggy Ramsay, whom he memorialised in his Hampstead theatre play, Peggy for You (1999), with Maureen Lipman giving one of her greatest performances, ruling the roost in her St Martin's Lane eyrie with the eccentric hauteur of a mad Russian empress.
(16) But four years after Greece went hypercritical, triggering a eurozone sovereign debt crisis and a reshaping of how the EU works, the social, economic and political costs of the upheaval are coming home to roost.
(17) Hens were housed in an apparatus consisting of an upper roosting chamber connected to two descending passages which led to separate identical feeding chambers.
(18) It is concluded that the water-cooled roost partially alleviated heat stress by lowering metabolic rate.
(19) Birds subjected to the water-cooled roost treatment had consistently higher performance than birds using the air-equilibrated roost under all three ambient temperatures.
(20) On top of that the SNP, which would doubtless rule the roost in the aftermath of a vote for independence it would rightly be seen to have brought about, is still no party of the centre-left.
Rooted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Root
(a.) Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(2) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
(3) Subdural tumors may be out of the cord (10 tumors), on the posterior roots (28 tumors), or within the cord.
(4) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
(5) But the roots of Ukip support in working-class areas are also cultural.
(6) The Ca2+ channel current recorded under identical conditions in rat dorsal root ganglion neurones was less sensitive to blockade by PCP (IC50, 90 microM).
(7) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
(8) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
(9) We have characterized previously a model of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection of rat dorsal root ganglia (DRG) following cutaneous infection.
(10) After 1 month, scaling and root planing had effected significant clinical improvement and significant shifts in the subgingival flora to a pattern more consistent with periodontal health; these changes were still evident at 3 months.
(11) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(12) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
(13) Statistical diagnostic tests are used for the final evaluation of the method acceptability, specifically in deciding whether or not the systematic error indicated requires a root source search for its removal or is simply a calibration constant of the method.
(14) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
(15) The ventral root dissection technique was used to obtain contractile and electromyogram (e.m.g.)
(16) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(17) The roots of the incisor teeth should, if possible, be placed accurately in this zone and a method of achieving this is suggested.
(18) Terrorist groups need to be tackled at root, interdicting flows of weapons and finance, exposing the shallowness of their claims, channelling their followers into democratic politics.
(19) Rooting latency showed a significant additive maternal strain effect but little systematic effect of pup genotype.
(20) Dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons cultured from neonatal rats contained high concentrations of protein kinase C (PKC).