Sentences with phrase «of small companion»

The standards were developed through a rigorous, science - based, substantive process to ensure the health and wellbeing of small companion animals.
The committee engaged in a rigorous, science - based and substantive process to ensure the health and well - being of small companion animals.
Little consideration has been given to the known and potential zoonotic infectious diseases of small companion animals.
A landmark initiative to help assure proper care of small companion animals was unveiled today by the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) and leaders from across the pet community.
Our goal is to end the unnecessary euthanasia of small companion animals in the San Francisco Bay Area, and to provide welfare and care information to pet owners everywhere to try and improve the lives of small animals and their owners alike.
Many of our small companion animals are so tiny that even a fraction of a «human dose» can have devastating effects, and swift intervention is necessary to prevent fatalities.
By purchasing a plaque, you support our mission of improving the health of small companion animals through academic studies into diseases affecting dogs, cats and exotic pets.
All veterinarians prescribing PEPPS were engaged exclusively in primary care of small companion animals.
Previous observations have provided tantalizing, but weak hints of a small companion orbiting this red dwarf star, but this new campaign will make a more sensitive search for the telltale wobbles in the dwarf star's orbital motion that might reveal the presence of an Earth - like orbiting planet.

Not exact matches

Though at times the movie feels like a laundry list of all the ways Jobs could be cruel to his closest companions, small moments of compassion prevent the filmmakers from portraying him as completely heartless.
Barnabas was the silent partner of the two, but was tall and stately in appearance; Paul did all the talking, but was smaller and less prepossessing than his companion.
His companion for over thirty years was a woman old enough to be his mother; and when she died it was not long before, like a Pavlovian dog trained to lacerate his heart with the same emotional experiences, he, married a woman whose circumstances were exactly parallel to those of his own mother in 1908 — a woman dying of cancer who had two small sons.»
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Pregnancy — is a wonderful event, completely change the life of every woman.Adjusting to the beat of a small heart, the mother tries to do everything to make your child feel comfortable during all nine months.Unfortunately, for many weeks, forty expectant mother has to experience not only the joy of emergency meetings with the baby, but also a lot of unpleasant sensations that accompany pregnancy.Some of the inevitable companions of pregnancy do not carry any hazard to the fetus, while others require constant medical supervision.One of the most serious complications in the waiting period is a child gestational diabetes — a condition in which increased levels of glucose in the peripheral blood.
We now live in a world where smartphones are ever - present companions, a saturation that normalizes the sight of small screens in tiny hands.
A false - color close - up of this unnamed spiral galaxy (left) shows a strange plume of light, which appears to be a small companion galaxy being ripped apart by the gravity of the larger galaxy's dark matter halo.
The imagery revealed a bow shock — like the wave that piles beneath the prow of a moving ship — in front of the star and its smaller companion, Mira B, as well as a wake broken into turbulent knots or loops, according to a report in Nature.
Prior scrutiny of the typical star Gliese 876 had rustled up two Jupiter - size companions, and further research revealed a third body, dubbed Gliese 876 d, pegged at 7.5 Earth - masses — the smallest - mass exoplanet then known.
At a distance of 415 million miles (668 million kilometers) from Earth, Jupiter offered spectacular views of its colorful, roiling atmosphere, the legendary Great Red Spot, and it smaller companion at farther southern latitudes dubbed «Red Spot Jr..»
Finally, at the same October meeting in Florence at which the 51 Peg discovery was announced, Shri Kulkarni of Caltech reported that he'd found a star just 19 light - years away, GL229, that has a small, cool companion.
At first glance this exploding star had all the features of a type Ia supernova, which happens when a small, dense white dwarf star steals material from an orbiting companion and then explodes.
By carefully monitoring tens of millions of stars in the Magellanic Clouds, two small companions of our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have detected some 20 microlenses over the past 10 years.
But a low - mass star can not have the size exceeding the size of a more massive companion in that double system, and would it be smaller, the eclipse would not take place at all, as you can not hide a larger object behind a smaller one.»
It's smaller plants that are using different technologies that are more agile and can shift from developing one medicine to another, it's the develop - ment of companion diagnostic technologies that will help identify the people that this particular drug will work best for.
«It's smaller plants that are using different technologies that are more agile and can shift from developing one medicine to another, it's the development of companion diagnostic technologies that will help identify the people that this particular drug will work best for,» he says, predicting that personalized medicine will create a «different dynamic in terms of how the industry is funded and how medicines are manufactured in the future.»
Our Milky Way galaxy and its small companions are surrounded by a giant halo of million - degree gas (seen in blue in this artists» rendition) that is only visible to X-ray telescopes in space.
Astronomers have scrutinized about 100 nebulas for signs of a small, faint companion amid the glare of the bright core, but so far, in some five out of six cases they've come up empty.
The smaller but considerably more massive neutron star can draw off material from its companion, forming a flattened disk of gas around the neutron star.
Such a companion must be something special, though, like a small black hole or a hunk of white - dwarf matter.
This psychological effect, known as social modelling, leads people to eat less than they normally would if alone when their companion consumes a small amount of food.
Like a child leaving a trail of crumbs when emptying a cookie jar, the Andromeda galaxy contains a stream of stars that suggests it is eating its smaller companion galaxies.
The GBT images also confirmed the presence of a small moon - like companion zipping around the asteroid, which was previously detected with ground - based optical telescopes by Joe Pollock of Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and Petr Pravec of Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic.
The astronomers determined that this galaxy's rapid star formation was likely triggered by a close encounter with its slightly smaller companion, which already hosts about 35 billion solar masses of stars and is increasing its rate of starburst at the breakneck pace of 540 solar masses per year.
Both occur in systems where two stars orbit each other: a white dwarf sucks away the outer layers of a larger companion star until the smaller star reaches a critical mass, causing an explosion.
In October the HARPS scientists announced that about 40 percent of the sunlike stars they have examined have small, potentially Earth - like companions.
In a new study a team of researchers in Germany, Poland and Bulgaria has used transit timing of a known massive exoplanet to identify a hypothetical, much smaller companion.
A NASA lunar mission scheduled to launch in September, the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), may help settle the question of whether the moon once had a smaller companion.
M32 is a small companion galaxy of the great (full extent several times that of the full moon) spiral galaxy in the constellation of Andromeda.
One either uses a much smaller photometric aperture than normal, excluding the nearby star, or one uses a much wider aperture, containing both stars, and makes a correction for the dilution of the companion.
NASA's venerated Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of the larger galaxy NGC 7714 colliding with its smaller companion NGC 7715.
The astronomers» plot of the smaller star's orbit shows that it followed an apparently elliptical orbit around its twin companions, moving at about 6 miles per second.
Prior to 2009, small but significant variations in radial velocity had been detected which may have been caused by a substellar companion of one to nine Jupiter - masses with an orbital period of 50 years of less (Campbell et al, 1988, pages 904, 906, and 919).
Following the announcement of the discovery of Proxima b, the Red Dots campaign aims at detecting additional small planetary sized companions to Proxima Centauri.
If you are new to this saga make sure you read Tau II Abstract: The successful detection is reported of radial - velocity variations due to orbital motion of the substellar companion of the star tau Boötis, from data obtained with a small aperture (0.4 - m) telescope and a fibre - fed high resolution spectrograph.
Alpha Centauri B is the companion star, or secondary, of the binary system, and is slightly smaller and less luminous than the Sun.
Near the bottom of the left image is a small dark spot with bright companion clouds.
The possibility that the passive disks are caused by the presence of an as yet undetected companion at a small separation (0.3 - 3 AU) is possible for any individual system, however, it can not account for the spectral type dependence of the passive disk sample as a whole.
This pair of interacting galaxies consists of NGC 5754, the large spiral on the top and NGC 5752, the smaller companion in the bottom left corner of the image (Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)- ESA / Hubble Collaboration and W. Keel (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)-RRB-
Additional close companions have been found, all of them small and inconspicuous objects of the dwarf elliptical class.
Abbreviations: Aβ, amyloid β - peptide; AD, Alzheimer's disease; ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Ambra1, activating molecule in Beclin -1-regulated autophagy; AMPK, AMP - activated protein kinase; APP, amyloid precursor protein; AR, androgen receptor; Atg, autophagy - related; AV, autophagic vacuole; Bcl, B - cell lymphoma; BH3, Bcl - 2 homology 3; CaMKKβ, Ca2 + - dependent protein kinase kinase β; CHMP2B, charged multivesicular body protein 2B; CMA, chaperone - mediated autophagy; 2 ′ 5 ′ ddA, 2 ′, 5 ′ - dideoxyadenosine; deptor, DEP - domain containing mTOR - interacting protein; DRPLA, dentatorubral pallidoluysian atrophy; 4E - BP1, translation initiation factor 4E - binding protein - 1; Epac, exchange protein directly activated by cAMP; ER, endoplasmic reticulum; ERK1 / 2, extracellular - signal - regulated kinase 1/2; ESCRT, endosomal sorting complex required for transport; FAD, familial AD; FDA, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; FIP200, focal adhesion kinase family - interacting protein of 200 kDa; FoxO3, forkhead box O3; FTD, frontotemporal dementia; FTD3, FTD linked to chromosome 3; GAP, GTPase - activating protein; GR, guanidine retinoid; GSK3, glycogen synthase kinase 3; HD, Huntington's disease; hiPSC, human induced pluripotent stem cell; hVps, mammalian vacuolar protein sorting homologue; IKK, inhibitor of nuclear factor κB kinase; IMPase, inositol monophosphatase; IP3R, Ins (1,4,5) P3 receptor; I1R, imidazoline - 1 receptor; JNK1, c - Jun N - terminal kinase 1; LC3, light chain 3; LD, Lafora disease; L - NAME, NG - nitro - L - arginine methyl ester; LRRK2, leucine - rich repeat kinase 2; MIPS, myo - inositol -1-phosphate synthase; mLST8, mammalian lethal with SEC13 protein 8; MND, motor neuron disease; mTOR, mammalian target of rapamycin; mTORC, mTOR complex; MVB, multivesicular body; NAC, N - acetylcysteine; NBR1, neighbour of BRCA1 gene 1; NOS, nitric oxide synthase; p70S6K, ribosomal protein S6 kinase - 1; PD, Parkinson's disease; PDK1, phosphoinositide - dependent kinase 1; PE, phosphatidylethanolamine; PI3K, phosphoinositide 3 - kinase; PI3KC1a, class Ia PI3K; PI3KC3, class III PI3K; PI3KK, PI3K - related protein kinase; PINK1, PTEN - induced kinase 1; PKA, protein kinase A; PLC, phospholipase C; polyQ, polyglutamine; PS, presenilin; PTEN, phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted from chromosome 10; Rag, Ras - related GTP - binding protein; raptor, regulatory - associated protein of mTOR; Rheb, Ras homologue enriched in brain; rictor, rapamycin - insensitive companion of mTOR; SBMA, spinobulbar muscular atrophy; SCA, spinocerebellar ataxia; SLC, solute carrier; SMER, small - molecule enhancer of rapamycin; SMIR, small - molecule inhibitor of rapamycin; SNARE, N - ethylmaleimide - sensitive factor - attachment protein receptor; SOD1, copper / zinc superoxide dismutase 1; TFEB, transcription factor EB; TOR, target of rapamycin; TSC, tuberous sclerosis complex; ULK1, UNC -51-like kinase 1; UVRAG, UV irradiation resistance - associated gene; VAMP, vesicle - associated membrane protein; v - ATPase, vacuolar H + - ATPase; Vps, vacuolar protein sorting
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