Sentences with phrase «of a quorum»

To explore the health consequences of quorum sensing in the crypts, the researchers introduced into the flow a molecule that acts as an antagonist to turn off quorum sensing in chambers colonized by the well - known scourge of hospitals, methicillin - resistant S. aureus, or MRSA.

«New York's election law provides that a majority of a quorum of the committee is required,» Mr. Cox said.

The Erie County Industrial Development Agency's Board of Directors tabled votes for several special project items due to a lack of quorum at Wednesday's meeting.

Access to the Directory of the Quorum Club members: senior level General Counsel from across Canada.

Oaks, a distinguished jurist and scholar of religious freedom whom I have had the pleasure of meeting, is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and so it garnered a lot of attention when he said that «officials [who] take an oath to support the constitution and laws of their jurisdiction» are not «free to use their official position to further their personal beliefs — religious or otherwise — to override the law.»

He claims there were procedural lapses; one in particular involved a lack of quorum on a vote to have the terms of his contract reviewed.

The intended purpose of a quorum call is to establish the presence of a constitutional quorum, but senators routinely use them to waste time while waiting for the next speaker to come to the floor or for leaders to negotiate off the floor.

«It really is a disservice to BB&T, because they have an 80, but in the minds of LGBT people, it will be considered a zero,» said Howard Buford, managing director of Quorum Consulting, a marketing, strategy and communications company in New York.

NOT OVER was organized by Quito Zeigler, L.J. Roberts and Ted Kerr as part of QuORUM, with support by Visual AIDS and Queerocracy.

Can a Presidential Veto be overridden with two thirds of the quorum, or is two - thirds of the total seats required?

«The purpose of a quorum is to prevent an unrepresentative group from taking action in the name of the organization,» says «Robert's Rules of Order» (as translated into plain English in the 19970 by Doris Zimmerman, a professionally registered parliamentarian).

Buffalo, NY — The Erie County Industrial Development Agency's Board of Directors tabled votes for several special project items due to a lack of quorum at Wednesday's meeting.

The presiding officer shall call for a vote of the quorum in attendance at the annual meeting to approve the slate of officers, directors, recent graduate and director emeritus.

And regardless of financial wealth, LGBT people do tend to have more time to spend, says Howard Buford, president and founder of Quorum Consulting, a cross-cultural marketing firm in East Hampton, New York.

Lack of a quorum blocks major agency actions and could short - circuit Trump's goal to jump - start infrastructure projects, a key part of his campaign pledge to create jobs.

The speech in question was that made by LDS Church apostle Boyd K. Packer, 86, the president of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles — a governing body in the worldwide church.

«In considering the equal partnership, Elder L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles eloquently said: «There is not a president or a vice president in a family.

And a quorum is a simple majority (that's in the Constitution) so there won't be an absence of a quorum if the majority party is all present.

Umberto Marengo is a PhD candidate at POLIS, Cambridge University and is the Partner & Co-founder of Quorum, an Italian start - up specialising in opinion polls, political and market research.

If all present «agree» a quorum is present by not challenging the presence of a quorum, they proceed.

The question of a quorum has come up before.

All 14 of the Democratic state senators left the state to Illinois on February 17, preventing the passage of the bill by the mostly Republican legislature in the absence of the quorum necessary for a vote.

The alignment makes the aussrance of a quorum to do business fraught with peril when a single missing member or two could shut down the work of the body.

Subsequent tests confirmed the role of quorum sensing and virulence.

By the time the infection is established, (right) enough of the quorum signaling molecule OHHL has been released by bacteria to communicate that a sufficient number of bacteria are present.

To investigate how the timing of the quorum sensing was linked to the receptor kinases, the researchers developed so - called nanodiscs allowed them to observe how Agr kinases operate in a cell - like environment.

The researchers concluded that identical bacterial strains — exposed to flowing liquids and in oddly shaped spaces — can experience widely different levels of quorum sensing, leading to complex patterns of pathogenesis and colonization.

In each situation, the researchers found that the level and location of quorum sensing depended on the three - dimensional shape of the physical space combined with the flow conditions.

In a separate study of host - bacterial interactions, Palmer tests the power of quorum - sensing molecules by manipulating the genes that code for them.

The researchers report in the journal Cell that expression of the shape - changing protein — which they named CrvA — is activated through the process of quorum sensing, in which bacteria communicate with one another to coordinate an infection.

Most forms of quorum sensing, including V. fischeri's luminescence circuit, act as a private language — that is, each germ speaks only to others of its own kind.

Genes involved in the biosynthesis of Quorum Sensing (QS) molecules were also searched, such as Acyl - homoserine lactone (AHL) and homologous genes to the luxI / R family.

General microbiome Quantifying the strength of quorum sensing crosstalk within microbial communities — Kalinga Pavan T. Silva — PLoS Computational Biology

They can shift the microbiome to restore normal commensal gut flora, suppress pathogenic overgrowths like Clostridia, and squelch opportunistic pathogens through the use of quorum sensing.

Past boycotts of quorum calls have set unfortunate precedents.

Writing on the blog «The Thicket at State Legislatures,» Karl Kurtz has reported all prior abuses of the quorum call detectable by search engine.

More than a dozen waiver requests from local educational agencies had to be set aside at last month's meeting of the California State Board of Education after the loss of a quorum but most are coming back as part of the board's special session next week.

A newsletter member can not vote or hold office and does not count in the determination of a quorum.

Members may resign from membership at any time by notifying the Secretary of the Executive in writing or their membership may be terminated by the decision of a quorum of the Executive at any time by notice in writing.

The focus of the Quorum Club is to dissect issues.

ZSA is pleased to be the Executive Producer of the Quorum Club that brings together the top legal minds in the country.

The 2013 Quorum Club will take place on September 25 - 26th at the Park Hyatt in Toronto The core idea of the Quorum Club is to bring together senior corporate counsel (Number one's only!)

We're fitting that on top of Quorum, and it's providing the same kind of security for Quorum that it provides for zcash.»

Even though the talks were still in their infancy, a potential spin - off of Quorum might raise a few eyebrows.