(1) Six of the patients were operated using the McIndoe and Bannister technique while on the other two the Tobin and Day technique was used.
(2) Outcome measures at 1 year included the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (Bayley, 1969) and the Sequenced Inventory of Communication Development (SICD; Hedrick, Prather, & Tobin, 1984) Receptive and Expressive scales.
(3) The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, said a Tobin tax was "not a priority" but she did not rule it out, saying simply that the US could not act single-handedly: "We couldn't do it alone, we'd have to do it as an international initiative."
(4) The next time Tobin bumped into Issing, he said cheerfully: "Here I am, the Loch Ness monster still!"
(5) Britain could have cut up rough about a so-called Tobin tax , but Osborne has decided that the aggro is not worth it.
(6) The weakness of this approach was well captured many years ago by the economist James Tobin, he of the famous Tobin tax on financial transactions, much favoured by President Hollande.
(7) Shortly afterwards, Angerer denied Morgan on a one-on-one breakaway after a clever ball from Tobin Heath.
(8) Advocates of a Tobin tax on financial transactions accept that any international levy would need US support and an increasingly vocal coalition of Democrats in Washington is pressing a sceptical Obama administration to get on board.
(9) And if increased capital requirements are insufficient I am happy to consider taxes on financial transactions – Tobin taxes."
(10) About half of these subjects also have chronic bronchitis as defined by persistent sputum production (Tobin et al.
(11) Tobin wrote: "Despite the dire science-fiction prophecies that accompany every period of high unemployment, revival of aggregate demand has always created jobs in numbers vastly beyond the imagination of the pessimists … Structural labour market policies can make only marginal improvements."
(12) The entire Russian relay team have been disqualified as a result of Alexeev’s doping, meaning the British squad of Andrew Steele, Robert Tobin, Michael Bingham and Martyn Rooney will move up from fourth place.
(13) The data to be retained by service providers remains ill-defined, and new enforcement agencies can be added on an ad hoc basis through additional regulations,” wrote Professor George Williams and Dr Keiran Hardy, of the Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law.
(14) Like the other left wing candidates, he has proposed raising income tax and VAT, and he supports the introduction of an international financial tax, nicknamed the Tobin Tax, by 2014.
(15) One of the law’s most prominent backers is the state’s House speaker, Andy Tobin, who is the Republican candidate standing against the Democratic incumbent, Ann Kirkpatrick, in one of the other most hotly contested house races in the country, Arizona’s first congressional district.
(16) University of Sydney law professor Ben Saul and the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law both lodged submissions expressing serious concerns about the extension of the regime.
(17) Specific application to Peru of the model estimated by Tobin for the United States indicates that high levels of mortality, current Peruvian birth rates, and Peruvian age-income profiles imply optimal rational savings rates far below those of the United States.
(18) The introduction of a transaction - or Tobin - tax has been gaining support as nations seek to prevent a repeat of the global economic crisis.
(19) Among many changes, this means breaking up big banks, ensuring only governments can create credit and gradually unwinding the casino that investment banking has become through initiatives such as a Tobin – or financial transaction – tax , which adds a small cost to each financial transaction, putting an end to the majority of flash trading.
(20) In 2000 the possibility of a tax on these transactions (what we have come to call a Tobin tax ) was discussed in the US Congress.
Toxine
Definition:
(n.) A poisonous product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous ptomaine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nutritional factors or environmental toxins have important effects on CNS degenerative changes.
(2) Arteries treated with atrial natriuretic peptide showed no alterations in relaxation or cGMP content after incubation with pertussis toxin.
(3) The mechanism by which pertussis toxin (PT) breaks the unresponsiveness of delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) was examined in B10 mice.
(4) Cloned genes encoding pertussis toxin from B. pertussis were transferred into Bordetella bronchiseptica and Bordetella parapertussis by conjugation.
(5) Strains 1120-A-83-013 and B205BT produced considerably higher levels of dermonecrotic toxin activity than did strains CSU-P-1 and 64-C-0406.
(6) The phosphorylation pattern was affected by the addition of cholera toxin or GDP beta S to the isolated nuclei.
(7) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
(8) Cholera toxin-catalysed ADP-ribosylation identified two forms of Gs alpha-subunits whose labelling was about 4-fold greater in membranes from diabetic animals compared with those from lean animals.
(9) The slope of the thermal inactivation curve of enterotoxin A in beef bouillon (initial pH 6.2) was found to be approximately 27.8 C (50 F) with three different concentrations of toxin.
(10) The antibodies were used for identifying cross-reacting proteins in individual C. s. scutulatus and other Crotalus venoms and to isolate Mojave toxin.
(11) Antisera were raised against intact crotoxin (Crotalus durissus terrificus), Mojave toxin (Crotalus scutulatus scutulatus) and concolor toxin (Crotalus viridis concolor), as well as the subunits of crotoxin.
(12) Interestingly, different mechanisms of nucleated and non-nucleated TC directed lysis by CD4+ effectors were implied by distinct patterns of sensitivity to cholera toxin (CT) and cyclosporin A (CsA).
(13) The second step occurs several hours later and consists of the transactivation of adenylate cyclase and pertussis toxin genes.
(14) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(15) Bordetella pertussis and Bacillus anthracis, two taxonomically distinct bacteria, secrete adenylate cyclase toxins that are activated by the eukaryotic protein calmodulin.
(16) Approximately a third of patients had stools that were positive for C difficile by either toxin or culture.
(17) The binding of radioidinated cholera toxin on its solidified antibody was inhibitable by unlabeled cholera toxin and cholera toxin antibody.
(18) To facilitate detoxification, the centrifuge is employed to provide plasma rich in toxins, but void of potentially interfering blood components such as platelets and whole blood cells.
(19) The toxins all create pores in the cell membrane of target cells leading to eventual cell lysis and they appear to require Ca2+ for cytotoxic activity.
(20) A state of net secretory fluid flux was induced in isolated jejunal loops in weanling pigs by adding theophylline or cholera toxin to the lumen of the isolated loops.