(v.) Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
(v.) Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
(v. t.) To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.
(v. t.) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
(v. t.) To charge; to tax; as with a fault.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(2) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
(3) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(4) Full consideration should be given to the dynamics of motion when assessing risk factors in working tasks.
(5) This implementation reduced a formidable task to a relatively routine run.
(6) Early detection of breast cancer is the major indication, and mammography is the single best test for this task.
(7) An operant delayed-matching task was used to assess the role of proactive interference (PI) effects on short-term memory capacity of rats.
(8) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(9) The effects of noise on information processing in perceptual and memory tasks, as well as time reaction to perceptual stimuli, were investigated in a laboratory experiment.
(10) A control experiment demonstrated that changes in general arousal could not account for the effects of task difficulty on neuronal responses.
(11) The pattern of results in simpler tasks is more difficult to interpret.
(12) In the appetitive passive avoidance task, only the substantia nigra lesion group exhibited a deficiency.
(13) For such a task, Malawi needs the best government it can get, and this will have to be demanded by the people.
(14) Stress may increase to an intolerable level with the number of tasks, with higher qualified work and due to the lack of familiarity with fellow workers in ever changing settings.
(15) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
(16) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
(17) Similarities are pointed out between tasks used for the purpose of operationally defining the schizophrenic 'deficit' and tasks used to define creativity.
(18) On the reaction time task no main effects were found but the time X drinker category interaction was significant; in session 1 LSD's RT were shorter than those of HSD.
(19) Two different mental stressors were used: a mental arithmetic task with low stimulus intensity and one with high stimulus intensity characterised by more challenging instructions, a more competitive situation, and exposure to affective noise.
(20) This information then will allow the physician to determine safe levels of ventilation for a particular work task.
Tsk
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This enzyme was purified to homogeneity and exhibited an apparent molecular weight of 36,000 on sodium dodecyl sulfate gels and 180,000 on a TSK G-3000SW column in the presence of Triton X-100.
(2) HPLC gel filtration of a 15 times concentrated SCCM preparation on a TSK gel G3000SW revealed Leydig cell-stimulating activity at approximately 13 kDa.
(3) The stationary phases used are TSK-Gel NPR-C18, TSK-Gel NPR-DEAE, TSK-Gel NPR-SP and HYTACH MicroPell C18.
(4) Despite small differences in the mean linear intercept seen at 1 and at 16 months, both male and female tsk mice were found to be similarly susceptible to the development of the emphysematous lesion.
(5) Purification of the new conjugate was performed in three sequential steps: (1) by HPLC gel filtration on TSK G3000SW to remove the unconjugated ricin: (2) by affinity chromatography on Affi-Gel Blue to separate the free antibody from the conjugate and (3) by affinity chromatography on Sepharose 6B to separate the galactose-binding IT from the non-binding moiety.
(6) This observation led us to compare the molecular forms of SHBG by high performance liquid chromatography on a TSK G 3000 SW column, in the presence or absence of DTT.
(7) Three other reversed-phase columns were examined for use with the TSK columns.
(8) Phospholipase A2 released from rat platelets was purified by the sequential use of column chromatography on heparin-Sepharose and TSK gel G2000SW (high-performance liquid chromatography, HPLC).
(9) Orthostatic tolerance was measured in 20 lowlander Indian soldiers (sojourners) by recording responses of heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP) and mean skin temperature (Tsk) to 70 degrees head-up passive tilt, initially at Delhi (260 m altitude) and thereafter at 3500 m at weekly intervals for 3 weeks.
(10) Tsk of WD increased rapidly during the first 5-10 min of exercise and continued to rise at a slower rate throughout the exercise.
(11) High resolution of peptides from the TSK fractions was achieved on C4 or C18 reverse-phase columns by eluting with a gradient of acetonitrile in 50 mM ammonium acetate (pH 6.8) and in 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid, respectively.
(12) The purification procedure included ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, high pressure liquid chromatography on TSK 545 DEAE and gel filtration through Toyopearl HW-55.
(13) The HSV-1 mutant tsKsyn, which produces only immediate early polypeptides at 38.5 degrees C, was as effective as the late mutant tsIsyn, but tsK which had been irradiated with u.v.
(14) The signal from cutaneous receptors was altered in two ways: by altering skin temperature (Tsk) and by sectioning nerves supplying cutaneous receptors.
(15) This induction, which is dependent upon viral protein synthesis, does not occur in the HSV-1 mutant tsK which is defective in the gene encoding the viral protein ICP4.
(16) TSK gel filtration HPLC provides a molecular weight estimation of 60,000 daltons.
(17) Mean skin temperature (Tsk) and esophageal temperature (Tes), heart rate (HR), skin evaporative heat loss (Esk), and warm discomfort were continuously observed.
(18) The 8.6- and 12.6-kilodalton species were isolated from the pH 5.5 peak by TSK gel filtration HPLC, whereas the pH 4.5 peak was further purified by passage over successive affinity columns coupled to antiserum against BAM 22P (proenkephalin 182-203) and [Met5]-enkephalin-Arg6-Gly7-Leu8.
(19) This procedure employed a column chromatography on DE-52, followed by three steps of HPLC procedures with threonine-Sepharose (prepared as described in this report), TSK gel Phenyl-5PW (Toyo Soda), and TSK gel G3000SW (Toyo Soda) columns.
(20) Purification procedures consisted of ammonium sulfate fractionation, chromatographies on columns of phenyl-Sepharose and CM-Sepharose, gel filtration on a TSK-gel G3000SW, and Mono S fast protein liquid chromatography.