(1) Essential features are the use of reagent grade chemicals only, a pretreatment solution to ensure optimal impregnation of different organs from different animals and species, and an unvarying procedure.
(2) In the preimplantation period, ER patterns remained unvarying on days 2-6 of gestation in both cytoplasmic and nuclear compartments; their levels in nuclear fraction were significantly higher from day 3 onwards while, total cytoplasmic ER concentrations were higher from day 4 of gestation compared with the values obtained for secretory phase tissues from normal ovulatory cycles.
(3) The sum of life events, several SCL-90R scores and the scores of distress in relationships were already elevated in hypomanics 7 years before diagnosis of hypomania, indicating an increased activity level, a generalized increase in neuroticism, and a relatively unvarying behaviour pattern in social relationships.
(4) The action of E2 on the pituitary in the presence of unvarying GnRH pulsation may, however, be limited to an early transient inhibition of responsiveness to GnRH, with no subsequent direct stimulation during the period of the surge.
(5) This relation remained substantially unvaried when nonsmokers and smokers were analyzed separately.
(6) In terms of the present model, B and deltaVh are explicit functions of the internal K+ concentrations and are thus constant only as long as this is unvaried.
(7) When MgCl2 replaced MnCl2, the kinetic parameters for oxaloacetate remained substantially unvaried, whereas the Km and Vm values for L-malate have been found to vary depending on the metal ion.
(8) It is suggested that the survival advantage and hence the prevalence of sickle cell trait may be greatest in some hyperendemic areas and less where malaria transmission is extremely high or when it is high and unvaried.
(9) In addition, the reanalysed data show that yield strain is strongly strain-rate dependent, but that Young's modulus is rather unvarying over physiological strain rates.
(10) A series of 24 visually evoked potentials was obtained from a normnal human subject under a set of unvarying experimental conditions.
(11) Also intracellular Na+ and K+ levels remained unvariable.
(12) In athyreotic insulin-administered dogs, the circulating T4 and T3 remain at more or less unvarying values, the plasma disappearance slope of radiothyroxine is not altered.
(13) Simple unvarying or repetitive speech sounds were not sufficient to induce the irrelevant speech effect (Experiment 1): in addition, simple analogues of speech, possessing regular or irregular envelopes and using a range of carriers, failed to imitate the action of speech (Experiment 2).
(14) Head circumference greater than the 90th percentile for age was associated with unvarying behavior and clumsiness; tactile agnosia with unvarying behavior; asymmetry of the eyes with hyperactivity; and asymmetrical position of the child's head with underachievement.
(15) The 188 phylogenetically informative sites (i.e., those positions that neither were unvaried nor had only autapomorphic substitutions) supported a single tree topology 481 steps in length with a consistency index of 0.65 in which the monophyly of the Apicomplexa was supported.
(16) Exposure of male edible dormice all year round to an unvarying photoperiod and warm temperature disrupted their biological cycles; hibernation was almost completely suppressed, and short lived infradian cycles of body weight, and of plasma testosterone and thyroxine were measured instead of the normal annual pattern.
(17) In 70% of the cases an improvement was observed in the symptomatology and a decrease in total serum IgE, while specific IgE remained unvaried.
(18) Repeated measures of CSF 5-HIAA and HVA in another 22 males living in unvarying settings showed that individual differences in these measures persisted over time.
(19) The synchronous paradigm is a model of families whose members remain uninvolved and disconnected from each other yet somehow maintain relatively unvarying or even rigid patterns of behavior.
(20) In LRP rats gonadotropin levels remained low and unvarying throughout the experiment; PRL levels were high in the morning, low at 1300 h, and then surged in the afternoon.
Variety
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.
(n.) That which is various.
(n.) A number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks.
(n.) Something varying or differing from others of the same general kind; one of a number of things that are akin; a sort; as, varieties of wood, land, rocks, etc.
(n.) An individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means; hence, a subdivision, or peculiar form, of a species.
(n.) In inorganic nature, one of those forms in which a species may occur, which differ in minor characteristics of structure, color, purity of composition, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(2) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(3) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(4) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(5) The E. coli used did not possess collagenolytic activity nor did a variety of common aerobic clinical isolates.
(6) The effects of H1 and H2 antihistamines on a variety of physiological vasodilator responses were examined.
(7) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(8) We have examined the in vitro membrane assembly characteristics of a variety of leader peptidase mutants and found that domains required for insertion in vivo are also necessary for insertion in vitro.
(9) A variety of nonspecific inhibitors produce approximately the same inhibition of both activities.
(10) A variety of homobifunctional crosslinking agents have been used to gain insight into the nature of the murine interleukin 3 (mIL-3) receptor.
(11) It was possible to classify the bacteriophages broadly, according to the variety of mutants that were resistant to them.
(12) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
(13) A variety of weak acids at and below their pK(a) are potent inhibitors of transport in Penicillium chrysogenum.
(14) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
(15) Production of glucose was a linear function of time for up to 120 min of incubation at 37 degrees C under a variety of conditions.
(16) Cytochrome P-450 is known to catalyze the following oxygen transfer reaction: RH + PhIO----ROH + PhI where RH represents a variety of hydroxylatable substrates and PhIO a variety of iodosobenzene derivatives that serve as oxygen donors, and neither molecular oxygen nor an external electron donor is required.
(17) Using this technique, genes were transferred into a variety of developing mouse tissues with high efficiency.
(18) Prior exposure and subsequent reactions can, however, take a wide variety of forms, and blanket avoidance may prevent many deserving patients from being transplanted.
(19) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
(20) A prospective, double-blind study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of oral dexamethasone premedication in reducing a variety of side effects associated with metrizamide myelography.