(1) Our data do not support the possibility of hydrogen bonding between the 16 beta-hydroxyl of gitoxigenin and the lactone ring, previously suggested to account for the decreased activity of gitoxigenin vis à vis digitoxigenin, but, rather, suggest that the decreased activity may be due to an intramolecular hydrogen bond between the hydroxyls on C-14 and C-16 and an unusual D-ring conformation which combine to alter the carbonyl oxygen of the lactone ring away from the putative active position.
(2) So last week's news that, for the first time in decades, America's middle class is in relative decline vis à vis its international rivals, is more than just a statistic.
(3) The flurbiprofen complex of copper(II) was prepared and characterized by IR, UV-VIS and EPR Spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility, and thermogravimetric analysis.
(4) In all cases the dog's level of confidence must be increased vis a vis people.
(5) The competencies expected of students upon completing their professional programs are presented in the form of 'training modules' vis-a-vis basic science, medical educational, hearing conservation, aural rehabilitation and clinical practicum.
(6) (1991) Invest Opthalmol Vis Sci 32: 1619-1629; Fain GL, Farahbakhsh (1989) J Physiol (Lond) 417: 83-103] and human lens epithelium [Cooper K et al.
(7) By using Palmore's Facts on Ageing Quiz, it was determined that client selection did in fact make a difference vis-à-vis learning outcomes about ageing and the aged.
(8) The implication of this observation is discussed vis-a-vis the determination of Ra body burden.
(9) The reaction product trans-3-indoleacryloyl-CoA (IACoA) exhibits a characteristic UV-vis absorption spectrum with lambda max = 367 nm and epsilon 367 = 26,500 M-1 cm-1.
(10) In choroid plexus thyronines effects are well pronounced and there is modulation vis a vis plasma hormone concentrations.
(11) The RI detection can be especially valuable for the determination of compounds that have low ultraviolet-visible (UV-VIS) absorptions or absorb only at low UV wavelengths.
(12) Clinical research and opinion in this area have elicited both clinical euphoria and polarization vis-a-vis newer possibilities for resolving the predicaments of partial or complete edentulism.
(13) A dual detection system utilizing uv-vis absorption and radioactive (beta-particle) detector was used to quantify total and radio-iron-bound species.
(14) A mutagenic effect was indicated either by the appearance of localized clusters of revertant colonies or by an increase in total revertant growth vis-à-vis control plates.
(15) Factors influencing ethanol elimination rate and blood acetaldehyde concentration with regard to age, blood ethanol concentration, and degrees of alcoholic liver disorder were studied in alcoholic patients vis-à-vis healthy subjects.
(16) New directions include the importance of identifying a discrepancy between what the practice is doing vis-à-vis what it should be doing as the first stage in the adoption process; the identification of the particular stage within the overall adoption process which best characterizes the practice and tailoring specific interventions to the requirements of that stage; emphasizing the reshaping of work actually performed within the practice beyond simply changing knowledge and attitudes of physicians and support personnel; recognition that there is a changing set of expectations to which the practice is at risk to be held accountable in any litigation; and finally that the interventions have realistic time expectations.
(17) And, for what it's worth, helmets and hi-vis have never been included in any Italian's definition of bella figura .
(18) To gain insight into factors associated with the excessive accumulation of beta-amyloid in the Alzheimer disease (AD) brain, the present studies were initiated to distinguish between a unique primary structure of the AD-specific amyloid precursor mRNA vis a vis other determinants that may affect amyloid levels.
(19) In contrast, all but one were restricted by angina during bycycle exercise without treatment, at a level that produced the same increase in heart rate as the handgrip test, vis.
(20) Over the 4 years of medical school, students' perception of the physician's role vis-à-vis the patient and the health care team became more specific, while their perception of the nurse's role became more vague and diffuse.
Visa
Definition:
(n.) See Vis/.
(v. t.) To indorse, after examination, with the word vise, as a passport; to vise.
Example Sentences:
(1) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(2) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(3) It is understood that Labor, the Greens and the crossbench will seek to remove many of these additional measures, leaving the bill focused on the visa issue.
(4) And they face the criminal penalty and administratively their visa is cancelled.
(5) The websites of Visa, Mastercard and PayPal were brought down; so too the Swedish government's.
(6) (Incidentally, Australia had just revoked Blanc’s visa).
(7) Shelby Quast, of Equality Now, said the gathering could be a “tipping point” and act as a catalyst for change, so that girls in the US could finally be protected: “It’s the first time that members of the government are coming around the table to meet with civil society, survivors and members of the diaspora – this is the first step towards putting together a comprehensive action plan to tackling FGM.” Campaigners are calling for the government to look at practical ways that FGM could be wiped out in the United States – such as engaging with paediatricians and other doctors, immigration officers and visa offices.
(8) A similar visa program for Afghans who aided troops was enacted in 2009 and offered up to 8,500 visas .
(9) Government ministers and officials are distressed that the home secretary's resignation has failed to stem the tide of fresh allegation and counter allegation between the protaganists and a number of potentially damaging questions still hang over the visa affair.
(10) And there are consequences for the more than 30,000 asylum seekers already here, whom the Coalition says will never get permanent visas and who, at the moment, are being denied any visas or work rights or certainty because of a political standoff over the Coalition’s policy to give them “temporary protection visas” instead.
(11) She feared her chances of being offered a place would be diminished by a Brexit vote, and the practical considerations like a visa and funding would be more of an obstacle.
(12) About 2,200 Syrians were granted offshore humanitarian visas to Australia in 2014-15, up from 1,007 the previous year.
(13) With 66,000 signatures on a petition after four days, immigration minister Peter Dutton cancelled Allen’s visa.
(14) Demonstrations are planned in the capitals of Spain, the Netherlands, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and Peru to demand Assange's release, the re-establishment of the WikiLeaks domain name and the restoration of Visa and Mastercard credit services to allow supporters to donate money to the whistleblowing site.
(15) It is understood that some labour agents pay kafeels as much as $500 per visa, in effect a kickback from the fee the labour agent charges the worker for their visa, which the worker raises by borrowing or selling assets in their home country.
(16) The American photographer Alec Soth was told he could risk two years in prison if he took any photos in the UK without a work visa.
(17) Continuing, unauthorised US drone attacks against insurgents inside Pakistan, a source of deep public outrage, formed the backdrop to a string of ensuing tiffs over visas, reductions in the CIA presence, and the "outing" of the CIA station chief.
(18) Once this visa had been received, the parents took their new babies home – to Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom, Japan, the US.
(19) Germany and France have adopted a joint position, criticising but not rejecting the commission’s quota scheme while setting conditions such as the freezing of visa waiver schemes for the countries of the Balkans, and insisting that Italy fingerprint and register all new arrivals to keep them from travelling north to other EU countries.
(20) Childs said Castro told him Oswald "stormed into the embassy, demanded the visa, and when it was refused to him headed out saying, 'I'm going to kill Kennedy for this'."