(1) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
(2) This blunted IPC sensitivity has been suggested to be a physiological adaptation to hypercapnic subterranean environments.
(3) The ultrastructure of the pinealocytes of the golden mole (Amblysomus hottentotus), a blind subterranean mammal living in complete darkness, was examined and compared with that of pinealocytes of other mammals.
(4) The 26 miles of tunnel being dug under the heart of the capital – picking a careful way among ancient remains, beneath prime property and past the oldest subterranean railway in the world – is restating Britain's traditional claim to be a world leader in the field.
(5) The term is used to refer to removing salt from both seawater and subterranean “brackish” water, as well as the treatment of waste water (aka sewerage) to make it drinkable.
(6) However, due importance must always be given to the subterranean economy.
(7) The mole rat (Spalax ehrenbergi) burrows throughout its life in subterranean tunnels.
(8) Anomalous nodulation of Trifolium subterraneum (subterranean clover) roots by Rhizobium leguminosarum 1020 was examined as a model of modified host-specificity in a Rhizobium-legume symbiosis.
(9) A 3-m-deep well drilled near these trees indicated that the source of tritiated water was a narrow zone of subterranean flow.
(10) The comparative study of the aortic trunks of Dibamus (subterranean limbless Squamate) and of the other Squamata shows the presence of an original vascular organization in the serpentiform animals submitted to the subterranean life constraints as Scolecophidia, Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, Anniellidae, Feyliniidae, and some Scincidae (genus Acontias and Typhlosaurus).
(11) Results of field physiologic and hygienic investigations of borer's work schedule during the subterranean gold extraction in the Chukot Range [correction of Chukotka] are presented.
(12) Genetic differentiation of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) nontranscribed-spacer (NTS) polymorphism was analyzed in 50 individuals from 13 populations among the four chromosomal species (2n = 52, 2n = 54, 2n = 58, and 2n = 60) of subterranean mole rats of the Spalax ehrenbergi complex in Israel.
(13) The Damara mole-rat (Cryptomys damarensis) leads a strictly subterranean existence in an extensive maze of plugged burrows and eats a strictly herbivorous diet.
(14) For example, behavioral and biomechanical observations have revealed a diversity of digging modes among subterranean mammals.
(15) The eardrum and the auditory ossicles of the middle ear, and the population of cochlear receptors in subterranean mole-rats of Spalax ehrenbergi complex were qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed.
(16) Dramatic sinkholes , such as the recent one in Japan , are not always caused by underground mining – but Paris’s subterranean history certainly makes it more vulnerable to such events.
(17) The effect of dietary fibre and starch content on digestibility, microfaunal population and caecal function was investigated in a subterranean mole-rat, Heterocephalus glaber (Rodentia).
(18) A comparison of the hemoglobins of mole rat, mouse, and other rodents shows homology but no indication of adaptation to subterranean life.
(19) In the early morning gloaming, they descend into the network of subterranean passages that span the few hundreds metres across the Gazan border, into Egypt.
(20) When 2,4-dinitrophenol and carbon dioxide were applied together to dormant seeds of Trifolium subterraneum L. (subterranean clover), 2,4-dinitrophenol did not disturb the breaking of dormancy which carbon dioxide usually induces in legume seeds.
Ulterior
Definition:
(a.) Situated beyond, or on the farther side; thither; -- correlative with hither.
(a.) Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain.
(n.) Ulterior side or part.
Example Sentences:
(1) Total gastrectomy is rarely indicated in childhood and when necessary it involves multiple ulterior therapeutic problems, mainly nutritional, which need a meticulous physiological approach to avoid further complications, as illustrated by the following patient who, at age 15 months, was submitted to total gastric resection, Y en Roux esophagojejunal anastomosis and splenectomy, because of peritonitis secondary to dehiscence of a recent esophagogastric anastomosis for partial gastric resection due to gastric volvulus and necrosis, which in turn were associated to diaphragmatic relaxation.
(2) She described the president, whom she has known for 40 years, as “a person without ulterior motives”.
(3) The addition of alpha-ecdysone permits only cellular divisions, a preliminary and indispensable condition for ulterior differentiation.
(4) The report made wild guesses, and was groundless and with ulterior motives,” the spokesperson said, adding that China’s stance was “clear”.
(5) Number 10 has been trying to contain the damage by briefing that the former work and pensions secretary is a ludicrous figure with an ulterior motive.
(6) Refugees from the Middle East and north Africa are “masking the movement” of terrorists and criminals, Nato’s top commander told Congress on Tuesday, despite the protests of human rights groups who say that refugees overwhelmingly have no ulterior motive but escape.
(7) Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the Dalai Lama had "ulterior motives" for his remarks.
(8) Ulterior motive in the helper would have to be excluded.
(9) "There are no ulterior motives other than genuinely sharing things we enjoy.
(10) After de follow-up study over 10 years regarding the children coming from a special scholarship (type 8) and having received all the adapted aids, it seems that a good adaptation has resulted to a good ulterior professional training college.
(11) As ever with Ashley, people will look for ulterior motives.
(12) A spokesman, Hong Lei, said the report "blackens China's name and has ulterior motives".
(13) But there is an ulterior motive,” said Luke Akehurst, a Labour councillor and former NEC member.
(14) After 12 weeks the mean pressure was ulteriorly lowered to some 104.3 mm Hg (13.90 kPa) on bopindolol and to some 106.0 mm Hg (14.12 kPa) on metoprolol.
(15) While the Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, acknowledged that his country's problems are "homemade" and that his government has a duty to put "our own house in order", he went on to claim that the crisis had been exacerbated by outside interference: "This an attack on the eurozone by certain other interests, political or financial … We are being targeted, particularly with an ulterior motive or agenda, and of course there is speculation in the world markets."
(16) I have an ulterior motive for wishing to contribute to Gove's scheme.
(17) The quality of the relation of attunement determines probably the ulterior level of the inter-subjective relatedness of the ability to "be-with", to share.
(18) Questioned by Pleming, Roberts denied he had said the marine reserve idea was a plan with an "ulterior motive" – namely, to prevent the islanders from returning.
(19) Hugh Lovatt, Israel and Palestine coordinator at the European Council on Foreign Relations , said that while al-Arouri was a significant Hamas figure – serving as the group's most prominent representative in Turkey – the former militant could have an ulterior motive for making his claim.
(20) Ulteriorly however, although dosages of Metiamide were increased, acid hypersecretion resumed and a duodenal ulcer developed.