Sentences with phrase «first guinea»

Kids can get very excited when they have their first guinea pig (or pet) and will definitely want to carry or snuggle with them.

Computerbasedmath.org — the radical mathematics education reform organization — has its first guinea pig: Estonia.

I'm grateful that Fran was willing to be my first guinea pig for the project!

Megan co-founded the Intensive Dietary Management Program with Dr. Fung in 2014 after being diagnosed with diabetes herself and was the program's first guinea pig.

These people are the first guinea pigs in the Well Living Lab, an immersive, high - tech facility where Big Brother meets big data.

When the institute tried injecting Ebola - infected animals — first guinea pigs, then monkeys — with its therapeutic agent encased in the lipid nanoparticles, the survival rate rose to 100 %, from around 20 % in previous trials.

Not exact matches

The recent Lassa fever death in Guinea — the first in more than two decades, as the Washington Post notes — is worrisome for a number of reasons, but one of those is where the Guinean victim died: next door in Liberia.

His buddy was his guinea pig, his first customer.

RCM will first test Mint Chip using its 200 employees as guinea pigs, and the closed environment of its cafeteria as the playpen later in January.

Wild banana was likely first cultivated 7,000 years ago in Papua New Guinea.

By: Henry Lazenby 24th April 2018 Canadian mining major Barrick Gold's Porgera Joint Venture mine, in Papua New Guinea, is still operating at only 25 % of capacity following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck the island on February 26, the company announced on Monday in its first - quarter earnings release.

Guinea is a Muslims dominated nation as I told you in the first message.

This Ebola virus has claimed the lives of over 700 people since it was first reported in Guinea back in February.

It was in his childhood years, spent in Ourous, one of the smallest and most neglected villages in the mountainous heartlands of Guinea, that Sarah first learned to pray.

First, Cardinal Sarah, in his farewell speech in Guinea before leaving for Rome, challenged the country's regime in the strongest terms:

The first two pancakes were ready, so I plated them and let David be the guinea pig.

Nigeria perhaps got the short end of the stick as they finished on 11 points and still failed to qualify, but they took one out of a possible six points against first placed Guinea.

On more than one occasion it was one of us who went flying face first in the mad scramble after a flock of guineas.

The viewpoint is sometimes a bit smug, sometimes avuncular, but always anthropological, rather as if the show were about naked natives from deep in New Guinea using La Machine or blow dryers for the first time.

Sam Bergman says, «Tell that little guinea so - and - so his birds are first, second and third.»

Last week we found a big upset in the Africa Cup of Nations with a 21/10 winner that Guinea - Bissau would not lose their first ever match in the tournament and they did us proud with a last minute equaliser against Gabon.

Ghana were already guarantee a spot in the knock out rounds but Nigeria needed a win against the host nation after drawing their first two games against Mali and Guinea respectively.

Libya served a stern warning to their African Nations Championship Group C opponents as two first - half goals from Saleh Taher Saeid and a late strike from Zakaria Alharash saw them ease past Equatorial Guinea in Tanger on Monday.

Originally from Guinea, he played for Istres in France and it was there that he first piqued the interest of the big European clubs.

Morocco have been drawn against neighbours Mauritania in the First Round, with the winner of that match set to face Guinea in the Second Round.

The players were used as guinea pigs... small white pills were given to first - team players before each game.

The first kid is really your parenting guinea pig.

Equatorial Guinea first shot into the lead with a lone goal till the end of the first half.

• On 22 April, Rio Tinto, its subsidiary Simfer and the Government of Guinea signed a Settlement Agreement securing Rio Tinto's mining title in Guinea and paving the way for first shipment of iron ore by mid-2015.

As President of ECOWAS, he played an important role in the Ebola crisis: He was the first President to travel to the affected places (Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia) to ascertain the true facts on the ground.

Indeed, the odious and foul smell of crisis, which had dogged the last NFF board headed by Aminu Maigari and culminated in the non-qualification of the Super Eagles for the 2015 African Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea, seemed a thing of the past in Pinnick's first year at the Glass House.

Barrow, who is visiting Nigeria for the first time since his inauguration as Gambian President on Jan. 19, 2017, ended the rule of long - time leader of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, who is currently on exile in Equatorial Guinea.

A 2 - year - old boy named Emile Ouamouno, who is thought to be the first person to contract Ebola in this outbreak, often played with other children in the hollow tree near his home in the village of Meliandou, Guinea.

Cinner and the other researchers spent a year traveling across Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, living in coastal villages for weeks at a time to get a first - hand look at the villagers» fishing practices.

Kuru was first observed in the mid-twentieth century among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea.

Samples from 12 of the first EVD patients in Sierra Leone, all believed to have attended the funeral of an EVD case from Guinea, fall into two distinct clusters (clusters 1 and 2)(Fig. 4A and fig.

The new numbers come six months after the WHO first published formal notification of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea on its website.

The results confirm that Vanuatu's first people were of the Lapita culture and arrived 3,000 years ago from South East Asia, followed by Papuan arrivals from the island of New Britain, in the Bismarck Archipelago just to the east of New Guinea and part of the nation of Papua New Guinea.

Raphael's team first gave the guinea pigs antibiotics which destroyed their inner - ear hair cells.

Guinea fowl and doves come in flocks at first light to the funnellike holes made by the elephants at night in dry sand rivers.

Better care is urgent: more powerful trawlers now reach deeper waters, oil drilling is moving ever downward, and Papua New Guinea just signed the first commercial sea - mining agreement.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, they found that most songbirds first appeared in Australasia — the ancient landmass that included Australia, New Guinea, Tasmania, and parts of Indonesia — not in Eurasia, as was long believed.

The fragment has seven mutations compared with genomes from the current outbreak in Guinea, but only four mutations compared with the strain that caused the first known Ebola outbreak in 1976, also in the DRC, which was then named Zaire.

As my first graduate student, she was also a bit of a guinea pig for my experiments on how to become a scientific mentor.

This breathtaking octopus, first discovered a few years ago, does a pinwheel - like somersault in the waters of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.

One hour after the treated animals got their first dose, the researchers subjected these and other guinea pigs to a 5 - hour - long exposure to a 120 - decibel, broad - frequency noise.

Guinea had been nearing the end of a 90 - day period of heightened surveillance when the fresh cases were reported - the country's first known re-emergence of Ebola after the outbreak was officially declared over there at the end of December 2015.

The duo first reanalyzed data from a 2007 paper in PloS Pathogens by Peter Palese of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and his colleagues, who found that virus transmission between two guinea pigs housed in neighboring cages falls as relative humidity rises (ScienceNOW, 19 October 2007).

Not so, according to a trio of genomic studies, the first to analyze many full genomes from Australia and New Guinea.

The first commercial enterprise in deeper waters, expected to target mineral - rich sulphides at depths of 1.5 - 2 km off Papua New Guinea, is scheduled to begin early in 2019.