(1) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
(2) Based on this concern, the objectives of this study were to: (1) compile, review, and synthesize literature on the fate, persistence, and environmental concentrations of DFB in both freshwater and saltwater environments; (2) compile, review, and synthesize acute and chronic aquatic toxicity data on DFB effects on freshwater and saltwater organisms; (3) assess possible risk to aquatic biota associated with the use of this insecticide in one specific area (Maryland); and (4) recommend future research based on the data gaps identified from this study.
(3) The paint whooshed down through the freshwater, but as soon as it hit the saltwater it was repelled, spreading out laterally as if the pigment had hit an invisible horizon.
(4) The following stages were studied: 12-month-old freshwater presmolts, 17-month-old freshwater presmolts, 18-month-old saltwater smolts, 19-month-old saltwater postsmolt, 24-month-old postsmolt, and adult spawners.
(5) Samples of fish from freshwater and saltwater sources of ocean, rivers, and lakes over the state of South Carolina were collected.
(6) A significant finding of this report is that saltwater fish have more trace metal levels than freshwater fish, and larger fish have higher trace metals than smaller fish.
(7) As a group, more children survive a potentially fatal saltwater immersion (67%) than do those who lose consciousness in freshwater (50%).
(8) Organic matter is a major factor influencing the adsorption and degradation of DFB in freshwater, saltwater, and sediment.
(9) Information on the accumulation of cadmium in cytosolic proteins of Great Lake brine shrimp (Artemia salina) was obtained from animals collected directly from the lake and also from animal hatched and maintained in three sublethal concentrations of cadmium (0.5, 2.0, 5.0 ppm) in saltwater aquaria.
(10) In domestic ducks acclimated to 2% saltwater (SW ducks), chronic elevations of plasma osmolality and sodium concentration, and of the circulating levels of antidiuretic hormone and angiotensin II indicate a trend towards dehydration when compared to ducks maintained on freshwater (FW ducks).
(11) In Tuvalu , a collection of reef islands and atolls midway between Hawaii and Australia, saltwater intrusion has already made it difficult to grow traditional crops, and the rainfall that provides much of the drinking water has become unreliable.
(12) taeniorhynchus emergence in saltwater plots for 44 days posttreatment and 35% of Cx.
(13) The metabolism of a saltwater leachate of 14C-labeled Spartina alterniflora was examined in laboratory systems using mixed, salt marsh microbial communities and, by addition of appropriate antibiotics, communities with bacteria or eukaryotes inhibited.
(14) Finding a nice beach is an easy task on the small volcanic island, but visiting three is mandatory: Praia do Sancho, which is reached through a crack in a rock wall; Baía dos Porcos (Pig's Bay), a place of astonishing beauty and great for swimming; and Atalaia, a natural saltwater pool with abundant sea life.
(15) The presence of a saltwater ocean a billion kilometres from Earth more than satisfies Nasa's long-held mantra of "follow the water" to find signs of alien life, but water is not the only factor that makes Enceladus such a promising habitat.
(16) America divides its economists into two camps – the freshwater monetarists hailing from the University of Chicago and the Keynesian-leaning saltwater economists from the colleges on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts.
(17) A homogeneous group of 8-week-old Pekin ducks was divided into two groups: saltwater (SW) ducks received salt water of gradually increasing salinity (200-600 mOsm.kg-1) from the 8th to 20th week of age; freshwater (FW) ducks were maintained on fresh water but otherwise treated identically.
(18) The 5-HIAA content in the CSF of trout held in freshwater for several weeks is significantly higher than in trout held in either 1.6 or 3.0% saltwater while sodium content only exhibits a very slight change in the CSF of trout held in 3.0% saltwater.
(19) Paul Samuelson, who has died aged 94, launched a Nobel prize-winning career spanning eight decades as a member of the freshwater fraternity on the shores of Lake Michigan, but spent most of his distinguished career as one of the saltwater fraternity on the east coast at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
(20) Lago Budi, La Araucanía Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy In a forgotten corner of Chile’s La Araucanía region lies Lago Budi, a saltwater lagoon formed after the devastating Valdivia earthquake and tsunami of 1960 (the most powerful tremor ever recorded).
Tang
Definition:
(n.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
(n.) A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
(n.) Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang.
(n.) A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position.
(n.) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
(n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
(n.) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
(n.) The tongue of a buckle.
(n.) A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
(v. t.) To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.
(v. i.) To make a ringing sound; to ring.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has been postulated that mammalian aspartic proteases, which contain two structurally homologous lobes, are derived in evolution from a homodimer enzyme by gene duplication and fusion (Tang, J., James, M. N. G., Hsu, I.-N., Jenkins, J.
(2) But the Wu-Tang leader went on to speak about it anyhow: “[The album has] been handed over to an auction house, and they plan on doing something,” he said.
(3) The Wu-Tang Clan’s 20th anniversary reunion certainly didn’t always seem like a foregone conclusion.
(4) Ins(1,3,4)P3 was dephosphorylated to two InsP2 (inositol bisphosphate) isomers, one of which is Ins(3,4)P2 [Shears, Parry, Tang, Irvine, Michell & Kirk (1987) Biochem.
(5) Wu-Tang Clan have already started taking pre-orders for A Better Tomorrow – which should not be confused with their "single-sale collector's item" Once Upon a Time in Shaolin – and have released a new single, Keep Watch .
(6) R u ok kumamon?” “Are Kumamon and his friends safe?” wondered Eric Tang, a college student.
(7) Eric Tang, 21, a student at Open University of Hong Kong, said he was turned away this month while trying to shop with his girlfriend in Shenzhen.
(8) The Wu-Tang Clan's last album, 8 Diagrams , was released in 2007.
(9) Tang is a Shanghai businesswoman in her 30s and began to blog on opera in 2005.
(10) A region common to all the active fragments (amino acid residues 97-178) is 70% homologous with the corresponding region from a second member of the lipocortin family which recently was cloned (Huang, K-S., Wallner, B.P., Mattaliano, R.J., Tizard, R., Burne, C., Frey, A., Hession, C., McGray, P., Sinclair, L.K., Chow, E.P., Browning, J.L., Ramachandran, K.L., Tang, J., Smart, J.E., and Pepinsky, R.B.
(11) Tang responded that they were not the only African country with a bad reputation.
(12) & Fischbach, G. D. (1989) Neuron 3, 209-218; Tang, C.-M., Dichter, M. & Morad, M. (1989) Science 243, 1474-1477] that receptor desensitization governs the strength of fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the brain.
(13) These data suggest that Wen-Jing-Tang induces LH release from the pituitary through hypothalamic LH-RH.
(14) Relatively high levels of TNF activity were noted in the groups given Angelica radix, Bupleuri radix, Cnidii rhizoma, or Cinnamomum cortex, very low activities in the groups given Xiao-chai-hu-tang, Zhu-ling-tang, or Krestin, and no TNF activities in the groups given Polyporus or Hoelen.
(15) In this paper, the long-term effects of the ancient Chinese formula of San-Huang-Hsieh-Hsin-Tang on patients with essential hypertension were reported.
(16) Solutions of methadone were prepared in (1) orange-flavored Tang, (2) grape-flavored Kool-Aid, (3) apple juice, (4) grape-flavored Crystal Light, and (5) grape-flavored Crystal Light plus 0.1% sodium benzoate.
(17) Raekwon has rejoined the Wu-Tang Clan, performing with his hip-hop compatriots on The Daily Show.
(18) Our previous studies on carbohydrate structures of purified porcine spleen cathepsin B indicated that there are two cathepsin B isozymes, each containing a different carbohydrate (Takahashi, T., Schmidt, P.G., and Tang, J.
(19) The city's Communist Party chief Tang Jun and mayor Li Wancai attempted to mollify the crowd with a promise to move the polluting project out of the city," according to the Xinhua news agency.
(20) If the city wall was largely executed as planned, Tange’s more ambitious “city gate” was a failure from the start.