Sentences with phrase «called backbone»

An anesthesiologist technician is responsible for maintaining the anesthesia laboratory, and can be called the backbone of the laboratory.

The so - called backbone of the building blocks of the body and a key part of other important compounds, such as testosterone and estrogen.

Not exact matches

The backbone of the housing market overhaul is the so - called Dodd - Frank law, a bill passed by Congress in 2010 that also sets out the general principles for shaking up Wall Street and the financial sector.

The li - on became the backbone of the mobile electronics revolution, with some calling its impact as big as the transistor's.

Diaz believes Republicans must look as if they care about keeping guns out of the hands of so - called homegrown extremists, while balancing issues of due process and the Constitution's Second Amendment right to bear arms that form the backbone of the NRA's opposition to gun control.

The physical Internet backbone that carries information between the various nodes of the network is now the work of several firms called Internet service providers (ISPs), including firms that offer long distance pipelines, occasionally at the international level, regional local conduit, which ultimately links in homes and businesses.

In May of 2016, Facebook published a post on its engineering blog about FBLearner Flow and posted about the technology on its Facebook Engineering profile page, calling it Facebook's AI backbone.

A familiar but oldest payment collection platform called Bill desk is the backbone of this exchange.

They will call for the House leadership to show «backbone» and «do something» - even if that something is counterproductive.

Tenacity seems to be the backbone of that thing they call intention (another buzz word).

My grrls did very well using their backbone over Valentine's Day thank you vey much - my 8 yo tried a bite of everything there - and she said the only thing she considered edible was the powdered donuts (spelled that way for a reason)- 5 other things she called * crap * on!!

And because the database consists of calls recorded and sent in by members of Shaun's list from around the country, the whole project has a serious social media backbone.

But if he had a backbone and respect for the truth, he would challenge what I'm saying now by giving to you, Liz Benjamin, his e-mails, his calls, during that period and then you'll find out exactly who I'm talking about.»

State Assemblywoman Stacey Amato — a former paraprofessional — called paras «the backbone of every classroom in every school,» at the 37th annual Paraprofessional Festival and Awards Luncheon on March 10 that drew nearly 1,000 paras to the New York Hilton in Midtown Manhattan to celebrate each other and their profession.

In his recent State of the Nation address, Mr. Akufo - Addo called the agriculture industry the «backbone» of his development agenda and said that factories like Mr. Poku's have been the «takeoff point for industrialization in most developed societies.»

«We'll be calling on leaders and candidates to address these issues, to stiffen their backbones, to be clear, and to champion these progressive policies,» Mr. de Blasio said as he stood under a blazing sun outside the U.S. Capitol with members of Congress, labor leaders and activists.

DNA is a long polymer of simple units called nucleotides, which are held together by a backbone made of sugars and phosphate groups.

Each has the same backbone, from which juts a group of atoms called a side chain that gives the amino acid its particular chemical characteristic.

If the furrow doesn't close properly, the spinal cord could protrude from the backbone, a birth defect called spina bifida.

Polymers are strings of molecules with a central backbone and may contain side chains called «pendant groups» that dangle from the central structure.

They found that organic compounds, called amino nitriles, the molecular precursors to amino acids, were able to use molecules present in interstellar ice to trigger the formation of the backbone molecule, 2 - deoxy - D - ribose, of DNA.

They all contain a carbon backbone, called a carbon skeleton, and have hydrogen atoms attached to that backbone.

Hagfish aren't a typical fish — they have cartilage instead of bones and a primitive skeletal rod (called a notochord) instead of a backbone.

After some trial and error, the team designed a structure that worked: a metallo - organic case containing both metal ions and a carbon backbone surrounding a spherical molecule called bicyclooctane.

«The bacteria are selected and tricked to elongate the carbon backbone of chemicals by a process that we call chain elongation.»

Such devices form the technological backbone of what's called the «internet of things,» or IoT, which refers to the idea that vehicles, appliances, civil - engineering structures, manufacturing equipment, and even livestock will soon have sensors that report information directly to networked servers, aiding with maintenance and the coordination of tasks.

If the National Science Foundation's new high - speed backbone, called vBNS, represents the hardware of the new «metacomputer,» Globus is the operating system, explains Foster, who developed it with computer scientist Carl Kesselman of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

There could be transport backbones like present rail or bus systems, with smaller vehicles that people could call up to take them to the nearest backbone, with the system working out the best way to get to the destination.

Although pyramidal neurons have been always considered the backbone of the cortex and therefore dominated the interest of neuroscientists, a century ago, Ramòn y Cajal has predicted that interneurons, or as he called them, the butterflies of the soul, are responsible for refining cortical processing.

There's what's called the glycerol backbone on those ketone bodies — betahydroxybutarate, acetoacetate, or 2 primary ketone bodies you get circulating around in your bloodstream.

During a process called gluconeogenesis, the liver will convert amino acids (protein in food) and glycerol (the backbone of triglycerides) into glucose.

However, most grains are made up of the carbohydrates called «amylose» and «amylopectin», the former is a linear chain of glucose molecules (similar to Maltodextrin) and the latter is an amylose backbone with amylose branches.

A white canvas plimsoll, or tennis shoe as our American friends like to call them, is the backbone to your spring summer footwear rotation; as long as you've got one pair in your line - up you're ready for pretty much whatever casual occasion or dress code is thrown at you.

The two sides of the ladder are called the DNA's backbone.

Through one of the many, many plot contrivances that make up the backbone of the film, the girl has a cell phone and is calling from the trunk of the kidnapper's car.

The application repeatedly holds up the Recovery School District as a model for the rest of Louisiana, calling it the «backbone of the state's plan to turnaround low - achieving schools,» and recommending that it oversee most schools in New Orleans through 2014.

Recognizing a need for innovation, we closely studied existing window covering technologies and developed a proprietary product that incorporates the best of both carbon and ceramic window films — what we call Nano Carbon Ceramic technology, the backbone of the Phantom line.

Another cultural contribution of blaxploitation movies was its music - a brand of funk, jazz and soul that provided much of the backbone for the narratives and became the genre's calling card.

Milk, often a milquetoast when backbone is called for, is his perfect foil, young and as malleable as wet clay.

when to incorporate them into the plan is a hard call, and one wonders whether it will damage more than help you... When you are a novel trader, at what point you decide that is your «real» trading plan (no changes allowed) and the backbone of your potentially future success?

Hemivertebrae is an orthopedic disease in which at least one of the bones in your French Bulldog's backbone is deformed into an abnormal shape called hemi.

Another thing to watch for, is if one of the dogs starts getting what I call a mohawk — where its hair stands up along its backbone.

The route offers such a compelling cross-section of the nation that Time magazine once devoted an entire issue to telling the story of the road it called the «Backbone of America.»

The highest point is on the east - west backbone, and is called Pico Ruivo or Purple Peak.

It's clear that the story in Call of Duty games is there mostly to provide a backbone for the multiplayer component.

Fast forward the Call of Duty universe about 50 years where technology plays a massive part in everyday life and is the backbone of the military, and you have the setting for the game.

«On the technical side, even though it is still the original code base of the early Killzone games, it has evolved [significantly]; the engine has had such a major overhaul that we actually rebranded it — we now call it Decima,» he says of the engine that has caused such a stir in the industry that even mad genius Hideo Kojima was spurred on to ditch any plans of creating his own proprietary backbone and instead decided to embrace Decima as his own for Death Stranding.

The first painting in this new series included a string hanging from upper right to lower left, generating a curve called a «catenary,» and this curve became the compositional backbone of the entire series.

They have just sent out a call for bloggers — see How to Blog With Backbone.

Second continuity was a venture announced at TechShow (I think in» 89) which was a connected email backbone just for lawyers, on DIALCOM, called ABAnet.