(n.) Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
Example Sentences:
(1) The DRS and LCFS were compared in terms of how consistently ratings could be made by different raters, how stable those ratings were from day to day, their relative correlation with Stover Zeiger (S-Z) ratings collected concurrently at admission, and with S-Z, Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS), and Expanded GOS (EGOS) ratings collected concurrently at discharge, and finally in the ability of admission DRS and LCFS scores to predict discharge ratings on the S-Z, GOS, and EGOS.
(2) Similar effects were noted for the corn stover diet.
(3) Hay was fed in 8 of the 12 trials, fresh-cut green-chop in two trials and ensiled corn stover and ensiled milo stover in one trial each.
(4) A lambda gt11 expression library of Tn5-tagged invasion plasmid pWR110 (from Shigella flexneri serotype 5, strain M90T-W) contained a set of recombinants encoding a 60-kilodalton protein (designated IpaH) recognized by rabbit antisera raised against S. flexneri invasion plasmid antigens (J. M. Buysse, C. K. Stover, E. V. Oaks, M. M. Venkatesan, and D. J. Kopecko, J. Bacteriol.
(5) An EPA spokeswoman, Liz Purchia, said in a statement that the study "does not provide useful information relevant to the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from corn stover ethanol".
(6) This paper reports the levels of cadmium in corn grain and stover for six years -- three years with sludge applied annually and for three years after sludge applications were terminated.
(7) The Environmental Protection Agency's own analysis, which assumed about half of corn residue would be removed from fields, found that fuel made from corn residue, also known as stover, would meet the standard in the energy law.
(8) The enzyme also catalyzes the formation of (6S)-5-formyltetrahydropteroylpolyglutamate from a compound in equilibrium with (6R)-5,10-methenyltetrahydropteroylpolyglutamate believed to be (6R,11R)-5,10-hydroxymethylenetetrahydropteroylpolyglutamate , a putative intermediate in the nonenzymatic hydrolysis of 5,10-methenyltetrahydropteroylglutamate to 5-formyltetrahydropteroylglutamate [Stover, P., & Schirch, V. (1992) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)].
(9) Our study indicated that phytotoxic levels of cadmium did not exist even though elevated levels occurred in the corn stover.
(10) Nightingale and Stover remind physicians of their obligation to protest the misuse of medical skills and urge support for professional organizations actively engaged in human rights issues.
(11) His seriousness was manifest in more intensely felt novels such as Captive Universe (1969 – a Book of the Month Club choice in the US), Skyfall (1976), Stonehenge (1983 – written with the academic Leon Stover) and the Eden series of books, starting with West of Eden (1984).
(12) If pigs are fed on residues and waste, and cattle on straw, stovers and grass from fallows and rangelands – food for which humans don't compete – meat becomes a very efficient means of food production.
(13) It is also shown that the Eyring-Stover formalism for the dynamics of survival can correctly describe the distribution of the first round of cell divisions in a synchronized culture.
(14) The effects of isoacids, urea N, and S on ruminal fermentation of sugarcane bagasse- or corn stover-based diets were studied in sheep.
(15) The primary structures of the protein in two variants, Gilliam and Karp, have been reported independently by us and Stover et al.
(16) 91, 119-122; Stover, C. K., Marana, D. P., Carter, J. M., Roe, B.
(17) In corn stover from treated plots the cadmium concentration was greater than from untreated plots.
(18) Experiments were conducted over three dry seasons to investigate the value for fattening beef cattle, of crop residues (maize stover, groundnut haulm) and madeya (maize bran) with varying levels of dried leucaena leaf or cottonseed cake.
(19) Restricting the amount of maize stover and feeding madeya to appetite had no significant effect on liveweight gain, but the inclusion of leucaena up to a level of 12 per cent crude protein improved animal performance.
Straw
Definition:
(v. t.) To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.
(n.) A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
(n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
(n.) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(2) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
(3) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
(4) David Blunkett, not Straw, was the home secretary at the time the decision was taken to allow Poles and others immediate access to the British labour market.
(5) Pictures of the Social Network star emerged on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, showing Garfield in full costume for Punchdrunk's current show, The Drowned Man , chewing seductively on a stick of straw .
(6) 9.31am BST Jack Straw , the Labour former home secretary, was on the Today programme earlier talking about the "plebgate" affair.
(7) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(8) This paper investigates the effect of straw handling on the viability of 2-cell mouse embryos rapidly frozen in dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) solutions.
(9) "I have just seen a piece of straw flying over, which the hon lady is attempting to clutch at!"
(10) Jack Straw's detailed blueprint for a 300- strong, wholly elected upper chamber to replace the Lords appears to have been blocked at the last minute following resistance in cabinet.
(11) That was the straw that broke the camel's back and we thought it better to stop it dead in it tracks now.
(12) Straw meal integration had a gravidity-conditioned influence on the daily N balance.
(13) The highest level of contamination with fungi was observed in the concentrate feed mixture followed by clover hay and rice straw.
(14) Insemination with semen stored in 0.5-ml French straws was performed daily during the periovulatory period while the modified Insler score was 10 or greater out of 15.
(15) It’s still unclear which candidates will choose to compete in the straw poll and mount actual efforts to attract Iowans.
(16) Shortly after Blair and Straw issued their denials, Sir Richard Dearlove, who was head of MI6 at the time, said: "It was a political decision, having very significantly disarmed Libya, for the government to co-operate with Libya on Islamist terrorism.
(17) Hundred twenty three samples of bull semen fluid frozen at 196 degrees C including 83 plastic ampules, 20 granules and 20 plastic straws obtained from the containers of the insemination stations of 10 farms from the Sofia district were investigated.
(18) Mariah Carey 's need for a staff member to carry her drink and prop up the bendy bit of her straw is what makes me love her so much.
(19) Despite the freezing curve assayed, both the mini-straws and the bags depicted much shorter freezing point plateaus as compared to the maxi-straws.
(20) Even Jack Straw is trying to close down some of its overripe practices.