(n.) The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.
(n.) The deposition of material in successive layers in the growth of a cell wall, thus giving rise to a stratified appearance.
Example Sentences:
(1) An important stratification factor, however, was related to tobacco usage.
(2) As retinal stratification continued, more cells were observed to have elaborated membrane systems for GABA uptake with varying degrees of affinity.
(3) Since T-antigen expression is correlated directly with impairment of stratification and differentiation, it is interesting that treatment of SVK14 with a single growth factor.
(4) We discuss advantages and disadvantages of total randomization, of Zelen-type randomization procedures, of Efron-type procedures vs more classical blocking procedures to control the balance between groups, and of Simon-Pocock-type procedures vs more classical stratification for controlling possible biases in prognostic factors.
(5) Heavy birthweight was 50% more frequent among Natives than non-Natives (relative risk 1.47, 95% confidence limits 1.35 and 1.59), after stratification by week of gestation.
(6) After allowance for the fact that regression analyses suggested that the proportion of tremolite in dust was probably 2.5 times higher in Thetford Mines, Quebec, than in Charleston, the results from both matched pair and stratification analyses of tremolite fibre concentrations in lung were almost the same as for chrysotile.
(7) Two prognostic stratification schemes were developed on the 1973 population which identified low and high risk groups with meaningfully different four-month cardiac death rates.
(8) It can be concluded that (i) stratified inhomogeneity in distal alveolar space does not exhibit a limiting factor of oxygen uptake in lungs, (ii) a contribution of stratificational effects to sloping alveolar plateau is expected to be of minor importance.
(9) The co-stratification of the two kinds of DS ganglion cell is consistent with the sharing of some inputs in common, including some cone bipolar cell inputs.
(10) Because hemicysts originated by detachment of squamous cells from the basal layers but not from adjacent squamous cells, they were considered to indicate stratification in the cultures.
(11) The value of invasive electrophysiologic testing for risk stratification in the general postinfarction patient population remains unclear.
(12) Although there is general concern about the psychological effects of gender stratification, we know relatively little about the particular aspects of inequality that affect men and women's mental health.
(13) The study used a cohort of elderly people randomly divided into two groups after stratification for sex.
(14) The recognition that tumor grade is the dominant prognostic variable has resulted in the more common use of a grading system, and a more uniform reporting and stratification of end results.
(15) Stratification of patients by either high or low predominant histologic grade is recommended in future GBA treatment studies.
(16) Extra-cellular recordings from single cells in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) of the tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii, were made to find out whether the stratification of the nucleus could be correlated with the receptive field properties of units.
(17) Based on dendritic stratification within the inner plexiform layer (Famiglietti and Kolb, '76), the somatostatin-immunoreactive large cells were found to include both on-center cells and off-center cells, but were predominantly of the off-center type.
(18) Finally, we found that the changes in integrin expression that occur on initiation of stratification in vivo could be reproduced in organ cultures of developing skin; such cultures therefore provided a useful experimental model for further studies of the role of integrins in epidermal stratification.
(19) Patients with T1 squamous cell carcinomas had, in fact, the best prognosis (26.5% recurred) among the subgroups obtained by stratification of T number and cell type together; loco-regional failure as exclusive modality of relapse had a 5-year rate of 19.7% and metastatic failure of 30.0%.
(20) In 70% of cases the osseous adhesion is formed at the level of disks which demineralized osseous sawdust was introduced to (adhesion was formed, mainly, as perifocal osseous stratifications).
Texture
Definition:
(n.) The act or art of weaving.
(n.) That which woven; a woven fabric; a web.
(n.) The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
(n.) The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.
(n.) A tissue. See Tissue.
(v. t.) To form a texture of or with; to interweave.
Example Sentences:
(1) Models incorporating linear spatial-frequency- and orientation-selective channels explain many aspects of visual texture segregation.
(2) The texture of a food item can be distinguished in hardness, toughness, stickiness, juiciness and chewability.
(3) The prognostic significance of nuclear texture features has to be proved by further studies in which clinical data of the course of the tumor disease must be included.
(4) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
(5) Soybean proteins are widely used in human foods in a variety of forms, including infant formulas, flour, protein concentrates, protein isolates, soy sauces, textured soy fibers, and tofu.
(6) Our results force a reexamination of the process of human texture segregation and of some recent models that were introduced to explain it.
(7) If young children know this association, they should attend to texture as well as shape in classifying objects with eyes.
(8) The torque was dependent on the physical distribution of the texture of the sole and slightly dependent on the frictional force.
(9) A split-skin graft is used to reconstruct both (not one) areolae; this provides almost complete symmetry in terms of size, texture, and color.
(10) Repeated exposure of the nasal hoods to microwaves resulted in no damage to their texture and flexibility.
(11) Pressing was regulated in order to get maximum pressing force effect for 0.1 s, 30 s and 60 s. Textures of side of compressed forms as well as edge and middle of surface of compressed forms were investigated by scanning electron microscope.
(12) An increased number of femora showed hypertrophy with normal bone texture.
(13) The general scheme of mapping spatial distribution of cytoplasm texture parameters, realized using computed microscope LEITZ-T.A.S., allowed the imaging of geometrical relationship between yolk granules in the Rana Temporaria fertilized egg.
(14) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
(15) I want to make use of its virtual texture capability to create vast procedurally generated worlds, stuff I can't currently do with the hardware available to me now.
(16) The surface texture was also dependent upon the temperature of the preparation and polymer used.
(17) A textured figure moving across a stationary textured background ("texture bar" stimulus) often elicited vigorous neural responses, but, on average, the responses to texture bars were significantly smaller than to solid (uniform luminance) bars.
(18) Using a 3-MHz transducer, no discrete alterations in the echo texture of the livers were seen to correspond to the regenerating nodules.
(19) The sector scanner through the supraclavicular approach adequately visualized the external profile and the internal texture of the lesions in all 11 patients, which is a significant improvement (p less than 0.05) over what can be accomplished with linear-array scanner through the intercostal approach.
(20) Neuronal texture discrimination in the cat striate cortex was investigated by measuring the responses of single cells to different pattern structures.