(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.
Swarm
Definition:
(v. i.) To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.
(n.) A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
(n.) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
(n.) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
(v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
(v. i.) To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
(v. i.) To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
(v. i.) To abound; to be filled (with).
(v. i.) To breed multitudes.
(v. t.) To crowd or throng.
Example Sentences:
(1) Swarming is a requisite for mating in populations of Aedes communis and Ae.
(2) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
(3) Although only a small fraction of the yield of that of the murine Engelbreth-Holm, Swarm (EHS) sarcoma, the yield of the human basement membrane-producing tumors could be increased by rendering the mice lathyritic.
(4) Pronase-released glycopeptides of isolated laminin, from a mouse Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm tumor, were fractionated using a combination of gel permeation chromatography and Con A-Sepharose affinity chromatography.
(5) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(6) The viability and morphology of RPE was improved by using a serum-free medium containing a bovine pituitary extract in conjunction with an extracellular matrix coating derived from Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm tumors.
(7) The Heat come out with some swarming defense and Indiana can't get a shot off in time, giving the ball back to Miami.
(8) After a dramatic day which saw police swarm Seven properties across Sydney searching for proof Schapelle Corby had been paid for an interview, Seven West Media boss Tim Worner said that the police action had come as a total surprise because the Seven had cooperated with the inquiry fully.
(9) The fire extinguisher was thrown after protesters swarmed into Millbank Tower, the Westminster building that houses the Conservative party's headquarters.
(10) An LSC colony spreads on the surface of solid 100:10 medium as a monolayer of cells in a fashion resembling that of certain swarming or gliding bacteria.
(11) In some instances swarming is stimulated at very low toxin doses.
(12) Swarm cells of Thiothrix nivea were found to possess a group of fimbriae at one pole.
(13) Monoclonal antibodies that recognize epitopes in these domains were raised against Swarm rat chondrosarcoma aggrecan that was either denatured through reduction and alkylation or partially deglycosylated through chondroitinase ABC digestion or alkali elimination, the latter with or without sulfite addition.
(14) The rhetoric that sees innocent people labelled “marauding,” “swarms” and “cockroaches” is what makes it permissible for society to imprison them, and it should come as no surprise that women and children are at particular risk from punitive immigration laws.
(15) It was established that coupling took place in swarms with swarming males and out of swarms with freely flying males.
(16) But much worse things are happening here.” The UK prime minister, David Cameron, drew widespread criticism on Thursday for saying that the 185,000 men, women and children who have risked their lives to flee poverty, persecution and war in search a better life were “swarming” across the Mediterranean .
(17) Richard Dunne clatters into him late, the goalkeeper goes down and several France players swarm around Dunne to voice their displeasure at the Ireland defender.
(18) David Cameron used ‘swarm’ instead of ‘plague’ in case it implied that God had sent the migrants | Frankie Boyle Read more David Cameron recently spoke of a “swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean”.
(19) In a speech in July, prime minister David Cameron referred to migrants and refugees trying to reach Britain as a “swarm” .
(20) If the concentration is increased the swarming ceases, and at still higher concentrations the bacteria are inactivated.