(1) Meanwhile two cases of submersion in water were investigated and the causes of death were diagnosed correctly.
(2) We studied human fetal lung tissue in submersion organ culture to determine whether the bronchopulmonary epithelium secretes fluid during development.
(3) The semi-submersible vessel which arrived at its drilling site on Monday morning is in a 500-metre security zone which is out of bounds to unauthorised people.
(4) The whole animal showed a constrictor response during submersion, with the sciatic vascular bed showing average constriction.
(5) The keratin pattern noted indicated that these epithelia differentiate and keratinize but do not express a complete program of keratinization, a finding usually noted when cells are grown submersed.
(6) To analyze prognostic indicators and the outcome of resuscitation in submersion victims (drowning and near drowning).
(7) Heart rate during submersion was unaffected by inspired gas composition in control (data from intact and sham-operated ducks combined) and CB-denervated ducks, though diving behaviour was significantly modified in both groups of animals in response to altered inspired gas composition.
(8) To prepare debris from polyethylene, a stainless steel block was rubbed over a polyethylene block submersed in liquid nitrogen.
(9) Because alcohol is often involved in water accidents with associated submersions, these initial experiments dealt with human volunteers who consumed alcohol to a blood level of 0.1 g% (legal level of intoxication).
(10) boy suffered cardiac arrest after submersion in a winter pond for more than fifteen minutes.
(11) Heart rate during overnight rest and while diving were recorded from five emperor penguins with a microprocessor-controlled submersible recorder.
(12) Concern over the effects of submersion of the valves in liquid nitrogen, i.e., plunging to -196 degrees C, prompted this study.
(13) Breath-hold diving involves head-out water immersion, apnoea and submersion, exercise, cold stress, and pressure exposure.
(14) These experiments demonstrate that O2, CO2, and ventilatory minute-volume have significant effects upon the heart rate of seals under water and suggest the presence of chemoreceptor-mediated effects on heart rate during submersion.
(15) The age-groups between 1 and 3 years and 15 and 25 years are most likely to be at risk for submersion accidents.
(16) Injections were performed before and 8--12 min after submersion of the head in iced seawater.
(17) We measured laser Doppler flux (LDF) in the fingertip and blood cell velocity (CBV), via videodensitometry, in individual capillaries of the finger nailfold both before and during submersion of the contralateral arm in a 15 degrees C water bath.
(18) Forty brine samples used for submersion salting of mozzarella cheese in a dairy industry in the State of S. Paulo, Brazil, were analysed for the purpose of discovering the variation in the physical, chemical and microbiological characteristics observed over their period of utilization.
(19) It is concluded that stimulation of adrenergic alpha-receptors is responsible for the increase in resistance to flow through the sciatic artery and the maintenance of blood pressure during submersion in the normal animals.
(20) An experiment to validate predictions concerning submersible survivability was performed in December, 1975, by members of the Canadian Forces in the CF Submersible Lockout Vehicle SDL-1 in Halifax Harbour in water of 4 degrees C temperature at a depth of 40 ft. Data was collected relevant to the life support equipment to determine if it would operate for a simulated 6-h mission followed by a 24-h immobility period, at the end of which rescue was presumed to have occurred.
Subverse
Definition:
(v. t.) To subvert.
Example Sentences:
(1) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(2) In the three cases examined, the panel said that none "represents subversion of the peer review process nor unreasonable attempts to influence the editorial policy of journals".
(3) Beijing is furious at the Nobel committee's decision to give the award to Liu, who is serving an 11-year sentence for incitement to subversion for co-authoring Charter 08, an appeal for democratic reforms.
(4) Zhou Shifeng, the founder of Beijing’s Fengrui law firm and one of the lawyers at the centre of the crackdown, is accused of “state subversion”.
(5) Yet the whole thing was sly and subversive, for it whispered, see, see what you have been missing.
(6) It is likely that this process involves subversion of the normal regulatory mechanisms which control expression of proto-oncogenes through the interposition of exogenous, cis-acting enhancer sequences.
(7) They were subversive, and they hung out together and watched films.” It meant a lot to her, because until then she had never heard staff talk about the Connor his parents knew and loved.
(8) According to state media, he began serving a three-year sentence for subversion last month.
(9) His political activism earned him a 10-year jail term for "subversive speech", after which he fled to neighbouring Mozambique to lead guerrilla forces in a protracted war against Ian Smith's government that left 27,000 dead.
(10) Where there were pictures of powerful women, the images tended to be subversive: the same photograph of a grimacing Theresa May was used to illustrate three different stories about the home secretary, and two of the three pictures of the German chancellor showed Angela Merkel puffing out her cheeks, looking mildly absurd.
(11) One man – Guo Xianliang, an engineer from Yunnan Province – is detained on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power after distributing flyers about Liu and the prize in Guangdong, southern China, the organisation reported.
(12) People who are now mainstream politicians were, at their start of their political careers, deemed to be subversive by the Special Branch - to name one: Jack Straw.
(13) The "political subversion" consisted of support for those resisting the murderous assaults of the US and its client regimes, and sometimes – horror of horrors – perhaps even providing arms to the victims.
(14) O'Brien has since become notorious among equal rights campaigners for his vigorous attacks on gay marriage and gay adoptions , calling homosexuality a "grotesque subversion" and "harmful to the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of those involved".
(15) Kenton's alliance with Zaleshoff isn't always an easy one - the journalist is unimpressed by the spy's attempt to fob him off with the official Stalinist line on Trotskyite subversion, for example, and Zaleshoff is, not unreasonably, suspicious of Kenton's motives for helping him - but it's kept afloat by the undercurrent of sexual attraction between Kenton and Zaleshoff's sister.
(16) Warp's next act of subversion was to wind up Pete Tong by declaring that bleep was dead and that the future of music was "clonk" - the title of Sweet Exorcist's next 12in.
(17) "I love the making of a book, I love the clash between commerce and art and the subversive quality of thinking, right, if you talk about this book in a certain way you can get it in people's hands."
(18) Microorganisms implement their strategy of persistence by two principal tactics: (1) sabotage of the host's bronchial defenses (ie, direct microbe-mediated damage to the host), and (2) subversion of the host's normally protective defenses into damaging host tissue itself (ie, indirect host-mediated damage provoked by the microbe).
(19) The "final definition" of the program recognized that "final success will require decisive US military intervention," after terrorism and subversion had laid the basis.
(20) So the battles of the last century that were considered subversive at the time, have largely been won.