Sentences with word «avidity»

This curse is the eery punishment, imposed by the wise Nature for greed and avidity of the city inhabitants.

Think of Little Men, which I read with avidity.

In a decision issued Thursday, Judge Philip Minardo ruled Oddo has the authority to pick street names of his choosing, despite a complaint from the developer, Savo Brothers, that the three he chose — Cupidity Drive, Fourberie Lane and Avidity Place — are «derogatory,» according to court papers.

Buprenorphine has both high affinity and high avidity for the opioid receptors8, making it a highly effective pain medication for feline pain relief.

Cupidity means greed, according to Politico, while fourberie is synonymous with trickery or deception, and avidity comes from a Latin word that also connotes greed.

«All cancer cells utilize these two pathways, and they have a strong avidity for these nucleotides to synthesize their DNA or repair it,» Nathanson said.

Recruitment of latent pools of high avidity CD8 + T cells to the antitumor immune response.

Freedman, B.D., Liu, Q.H., Somersan, S., Kotlikoff, M.I. & Punt, J.A. Receptor avidity and costimulation specify the intracellular Ca2 + signaling pattern in CD4 + CD8 + thymocytes.

One unifying aspect of these methods is that we are expecting extracellular interactions to be very weak, and so we purposefully increase binding avidity when performing our receptor interaction screens experiments by oligomerising the protein probes.

Most significantly, the researchers believe that the evolution of a given receptor system can be understood in terms of its optimal location in avidity - consumption parameter space.

Dr. Martin is currently a director at ArmaGen, Avidity Biosciences, BioMotiv, Bioniz, Cortexyme, FutuRx, Hookipa Biotech, OrphoMed, Univercells and an advisor to Arix Biosciences, Atlas Ventures and UK Dementia Discovery Fund.

Fishwild et al. «High - Avidity Human IgGK Monoclonal Antibodies From A Novel Strain of Minilocus Transgenic Mice», Nature Biotechnology, 14: 845 - 851, 1996.

Lack of Avidity Maturation of Merozoite Antigen - Specific Antibodies with Increasing Exposure to Plasmodium falciparum Amongst Children and Adults Exposed to Endemic Malaria in Kenya.

A culture doyenne with a particular avidity for potato salad - bathtubs of the stuff, in fact - Jenkins dreams of bringing her coloratura soprano to the tony confines of Carnegie Hall.

Book publishers routinely release millions of copies of new titles at a time to satisfy market demand, and book readers routinely release millions of copies of new breathing formations at a time and at a place to satisfy avidity for new interconnection formations in the marketplace of greenhouse.

In its spiky avidity, «Wheel House» might even read as a rejoinder to the edge - to - edge lyricism of Brice Marden's loopy abstractions, though Arnoldi's picture clearly grew out of his own earlier work such as the 1986 example here - an actual thicket of painted sticks attached to painted plywood.

In vitro, neutralizing activity correlated with avidity and with neutralization rate constant, a measure of on - rate.

For the new streets, Oddo chose Cupidity Drive, which means inordinate desire for wealth; Fourberie Lane, defined as trickery and deception; and Avidity Place, derived from avidita, meaning greed.

Avidities for these mAbs and for the antibodies that did not neutralize infection in vitro were estimated by Scatchard plot analyses of ELISA data (shown in parentheses).

Dishes, bowls, cups, and platters made their appearance — all being shells of the calabash, of different shapes; and as soon as Herbert and the captain were helped to the choicest portions of the savoury stew, the remainder was distributed among the men: who, seating themselves in groups over the ground, proceeded to discuss the well known viand with an avidity that showed it was also their breakfast.

Cupidity means greed, fourberie means trickery or deception and avidity is derived from a Latin word that also connotes greed.

If Oddo — who has the power to assign street names and numbers in new developments — wins out over Savo Brothers developers, homebuyers will live on Cupidity Drive, meaning inordinate desire for wealth, Fourberie Lane, defined as trickery and deception, and Avidity Place, which is derived from avidita, meaning greed.

Judge Philip Minardo ruled Thursday that Oddo is allowed to name the streets whatever he wants, despite the developer complaining that the names chosen by the borough president — Cupidity Drive, Fourberie Lane and Avidity Place — are «derogatory.»

Oddo rejected the developer's suggested names for the streets, such as Timber Lane and Lamb Run, and instead went Cupidity Drive, Fourberie Lane (Deception Lane, essentially) and Avidity Place (Greed Place).

In December, the developers — under the name Mount Builders LLC — sued Oddo after he took to the dictionary for revenge over the project and chose Cupidity Drive, using a word meaning inordinate desire for wealth; Fourberie Lane, defined as trickery and deception: and Avidity Place, which is derived from avidita, meaning greed, for the new streets.

Oddo — who is responsible for assigning street names and numbers — chose Cupidity Drive, using a word meaning inordinate desire for wealth, Fourberie Lane, defined as trickery and deception, and Avidity Place, which is derived from avidita, meaning greed, for the new streets.

However, in vivo, protection was independent of immunoglobulin subclass, avidity, neutralization rate constant, and in vitro neutralizing activity; above a minimal avidity threshold, protection depended simply on a minimum serum concentration.

Using mathematical analysis, they showed that receptor system efficiency and robustness are encoded by two fundamental parameters: the avidity, which quantifies the ability of a receptor system to capture ligand, and the consumption, which quantifies the ability to internalize bound ligand (see figure).

By examining a number of receptor systems (see figure), the researchers demonstrated that receptor system response can be characterized as being either avidity - controlled, which depends primarily on ligand capture efficiency; consumption - controlled, where the ability to internalize surface - bound ligand is the primary control parameter; and dual - sensitive, in which both the avidity and consumption parameters are important.

If Phantom Thread isn't exactly a narrative triumph, it still manages to deliver, especially as a haunting evocation of avidity, appetite and aesthetic pursuit at its most rarefied.

Those chilly Teutonic tones somehow manage to convey amazement, dread, avidity, detachment, superiority, and creepiness rolled into one.

The people in this movie are writhing in various states of turmoil, but they have an avidity for their own misery.

If creative work protects a man from mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity.

Its eyes are imbecilic with avidity, and a smell of meat rises from its flanks and loins.

Its sports are of little interest to us and the last television series it made that we watched with avidity was Skippy.

SIMBADOL is a partial mu agonist with a high affinity and avidity, which allows for a prolonged duration of analgesia.

The longer duration of analgesia associated with SIMBADOL is likely related to a combination of dosage, metabolism and receptor affinity and avidity.

Piero Manzoni's Merda d'artista (1961), a numbered edition of 90 cans of the artist's feces, pokes fun at the avidity of some collectors.

You see that all the time in this show: children leaning forward and staring hard at the artist who looks back at them, avidity and animation among the adults.

He explored it with an avidity and sureness of instinct that stayed with him to the end and marked him a genius.

«The Whitney show makes a strong case for the rigor and, often, the beauty of Koons's art, justifying the avidity of the collectors for whom his works are coveted trophies.»

David Hume (b 1711) «This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.»

-- the prickle of their curiosity, avidity, satisfaction, hate?