(1) In regard to swimming performance, the weaver mutants swam with less ability but with more vigor than normal mice.
(2) However, cells grown in liquid medium swam normally and did not show any differences from wild-type cells in terms of swimming speed or tumbling frequency.
(3) The latest incident carries echoes of the case of another American, Evan Hunziker, who swam across the Yalu river from China to North Korea in 1996.
(4) Beppe Grillo , the former comedian who co-founded the M5S, made an impression on Sicilians when he swam the 3.5km (2.2-mile) stretch that divides the island from the mainland in 2012.
(5) However, when adapted to the dark for an hour or more, vis-à-vis pairs swam positively to the light.
(6) When rats swam in cold water for 10 min twice and were rewarmed by immersion in water at 38 degrees C during 20 min, embryo transport was accelerated despite that no changes occurred in the blood levels of sex steroids.
(7) The swimming time was increased by 5 min until the rats swam continuously for 1.5 hr.
(8) He told the Guardian he swam across a river and borrowed a friend’s car to make it into Port Vila.
(9) After a 4-week conditioning period, the "Long" group underwent a 6-week period during which they swam up to 44,000 m.wk-1, while the "Short" group maintained their swimming at 22,000 m.wk-1.
(10) After four boats carrying nearly 600 people successfully landed in western Indonesia – some migrants jumped into the water and swam – a fifth carrying hundreds more was turned away early on Monday.
(11) Rats that swam for 3 h showed a 6-fold increase in serum creatine phosphokinase (SCPK) activity which declined to control values within 7 h after swimming.
(12) At all times, morphologically normal spermatozoa from donors and patients swam faster and had greater rolling frequency, flagellar beat frequency and amplitude than did abnormally shaped cells.
(13) The rats swam for 50 min in 34-35 degrees C water with a tail weight (5% of body wt).
(14) Before stimulation, glycogen was higher in rats that swam on the preceding day (supercompensated rats) compared with controls.
(15) After dilution in salt solution, some caput sperm exhibited circular motion, whereas most cauda sperm swam progressively.
(16) The cheers of 1,300 Norwegian teenagers carry far over the still grey waters where, on 22 July 2011, children swam for their lives .
(17) During observations the diver either stayed in one place for 30 min, swam transects or followed individual fish.
(18) Sperm recovered from the proximal region of the caudal epididymis, near the corpus, swam in either the helical or hyperactivated patterns, or a mixture of the two.
(19) Perhaps that whale swam up the Thames for a reason.
(20) After each attack, the sharks swam round in a gentle arc and returned to the spot to snaffle the stunned and dead sardines.
Swap
Definition:
(v. i.) To strike; -- with off.
(v. i.) To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop.
(v. t.) To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.
(v. t.) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
(n.) A blow; a stroke.
(n.) An exchange; a barter.
(n.) Hastily.
Example Sentences:
(1) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
(2) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
(3) Dortmund seemed certain to score after Reus and Grosskreutz swapped passes on the edge of the area and Reuz tapped the ball into the path of Gundogan, charging in to meet it five yards out.
(4) We stayed together for several more years, until I swapped her for a flashy Mazda coupe.
(5) He considers himself more of a tracksuit coach, despite seeing his influence with the younger age groups at St George’s Park diminished since Matt Crocker swapped Southampton for the FA to become head of player and coach development, but would be more than happy to be part of the body’s consultation process as they seek to identify Hodgson’s successor.
(6) Businesses and financial institutions bought swaps as part of their risk management.
(7) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
(8) In general it is clear that patients with early infections respond strongly to SEA while response to SWAP are develop more slowly.
(9) Southern said on Tuesday it would reinstate travel passes for staff and allow them to swap shifts, reversing two contentious moves following strike action.
(10) There is no realistic prospect of completing a debt for equity swap.
(11) Run, Dates and The Returned all led the broadcaster into an unusually fruitful August, a period once regarded as a dumping ground for misfiring shows as many viewers swap the TV for their summer holidays.
(12) A tape-swapping culture grew, on plain tapes, without artwork or track lists.
(13) These results show that under the conditions tested, leukocytes appear to react directly with SEA or SWAP thus losing their property of adherence to glass.
(14) Key figures are Frank Lowenstein, Kerry’s special emissary for Middle East peace, and David Makovsky, an expert from the Washington Institute thinktank who specialises in the highly-complex mapping work that will be crucial to any land swaps.
(15) The discovery of "serious failings" in the sale of these so-called interest rate swaps comes as the banking industry is mired in controversy about manipulating interest rates following the record-breaking £290m fine slapped on Barclays on Wednesday.
(16) To define the domains of myogenin responsible for sequence-specific DNA binding, activation of muscle-specific transcription, and cooperativity with other transcription factors, we have generated an extensive series of mutants by site-directed mutagenesis and domain swapping.
(17) Twenty-one individuals at RBS were involved in manipulating the yen and Swiss franc Libor "either falsely high … or falsely low", according to the CFTC, which in turn helped the profitability of swaps positions held by the bailed-out bank.
(18) Attempts by backers of the rebels and the government to orchestrate a population swap have yet to succeed, but an evacuation of the wounded was agreed in late December.
(19) Additional examples were given including stories that Madeleine had been "sold" to ease financial burdens and that the McCanns were involved in "swinging" or "wife-swapping orgies".
(20) BBQ Champ, which will be hosted by Adam Richman, the American presenter of cult TV hit Man V Food, will feature Bake Off-style challenges but swaps pastries and cupcakes for burgers and kebabs.