The glass electrode ( and other ion selective electrodes ) should be calibrated in a medium similar to the one being investigated.

It provided a $ 16. 2 billion line of credit to small and medium businesses ( 34 % more than in 2007 ) and authorized a $ 200 million selective capital increase, of which $ 130 million accounted for new shares which grew the representation of developing countries by 6. 07 % to a total share of 39. 48 %.

Mineral salts pyridone broth is a selective medium for bacteria that can metabolize pyridone ( which is an unusual carbon source that only a select few types of bacteria can use ).

Second, the isolate is cultured on mannitol salt agar, which is a selective medium with 7 – 9 % NaCl that allows S. aureus to grow, producing yellow-colored colonies as a result of mannitol fermentation and subsequent drop in the medium's pH.

Before the 1970s when Malay was made the medium of instruction, many such selective schools became known for providing excellent English-medium education and have produced many notable alumni, including the current Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Tun Razak ( St. John's Institution ) and all five of his predecessors.

* Wort Agar, a selective medium commonly used in microbiological settings.

* Lauryl tryptose broth ( biological selective medium )

He won a position in a selective English medium secondary school, having become fluent in English well ahead of his primary school peers.

Polyethylene glycol is used to fuse adjacent plasma membranes, but the success rate is low so a selective medium in which only fused cells can grow is used.

The selective culture medium is called HAT medium because it contains hypoxanthine, aminopterin, and thymidine.

This medium is selective for fused ( hybridoma ) cells.

Guided light wave transmission via frequency selective waveguides involves the emerging field of fiber optics and the ability of certain glassy compositions to act as a transmission medium for a range of frequencies simultaneously ( multi-mode optical fiber ) with little or no interference between competing wavelengths or frequencies.

Toxigenic culture, in which organisms are cultured on selective medium and tested for toxin production, remains the gold standard and is the most sensitive and specific test, although it is slow and labour-intensive.

Ashdown's medium, a selective medium containing gentamicin, may be required for cultures taken from non-sterile sites.

Burkholderia cepacia medium may be a useful alternative selective medium in non-endemic areas, where Ashdown's is not available.

Thus, minimal medium containing only phenyl-Gal as a source of carbon and energy is selective for repressor mutants and operator mutants.

Looking forward, Brodsky announced in a January 2010 interview that Cave In will be more selective about their touring schedule, and that future releases from the band might be more focused on a digital medium.

The plasmid DNA ( s ) carrying the two genes are then delivered into cells by transfection, and the cells are grown under selective conditions in GHT-minus medium.

Blood-free, charcoal-based selective medium agar ( CSM ) for isolation of Campylobacter jejuni

mFC medium is a medium used in membrane filtration which contains selective and differential agents.

Such a list must naturally be selective, and the treatment of each man is brief, for I am interested only in their general ideas on the moral measure of literature.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

There we held `` that the statutory scheme for review, within the selective service system, entitles [ conscientious objectors ] to no guarantee that the FBI reports must be produced for their inspection ''.

The gallium / germanium ratio is higher than that for ordinary igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary matter as a result of selective volatilization of the components of the tektite.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

Another likely explanation for the loss of its eyes is that of selective neutrality and genetic drift: in the dark environment of the cave, the eyes are neither advantageous nor disadvantageous and thus any genetic factors that might impair the eyes ( or their development ) can take hold with no consequence on the individual or species.

The importance of this family for food crops has led to its selective breeding throughout history.

Changes can also be caused by natural events such as a large meteor hitting Earth and selective breeding ( artificial selection ) of plants by humans for specific traits.

For thousands of years, humans have used selective breeding to improve production of crops and livestock to use them for food.

The views range from those that hold that benzodiazepines are not effective long-term and that they should be reserved for treatment-resistant cases to that they are as effective in the long term as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

Xanthistic forms of both the zebra and leopard pattern, along with long-finned subspecies, have been obtained via selective breeding programs for the aquarium trade.

Among the reasons given by those who oppose the use of Common Era notation is that it is selective as other aspects of the Western calendar have origins in various belief systems ( e. g., January is named for Janus ), Style guides for academic texts on religion generally prefer BCE / CE to BC / AD.

Though frank in places, Gaskell was selective about which details she revealed ; she suppressed details of Charlotte's love for Heger, a married man, as being too much of an affront to contemporary morals and source of distress to Charlotte's still-living father, husband and friends.

As the city's population — and public college enrollment — grew during the early 20th century and the city struggled for resources, the municipal colleges slowly began adopting selective tuition, also known as instructional fees, for a handful of courses and programs.

The manual, amongst other things, advised on how to rationalize killings of civilians and recommended to hire professional killers for specific selective tasks.

A standard piece of database design guidance is that the designer should create a fully normalized design ; selective denormalization can subsequently be performed for performance reasons.

It is characterized by transition from the typically compulsory, comprehensive primary education for minors, to the optional, selective tertiary, " post-secondary ", or " higher " education ( e. g. university, vocational school ) for adults.

Since enzymes are selective for their substrates and speed up only a few reactions from among many possibilities, the set of enzymes made in a cell determines which metabolic pathways occur in that cell.

A computer, for instance, allows us so many more freedoms than we have without a computer, but should these technological mediums be implied freedoms, or selective privileges?

The Falkland Islands Development Corporation was formed in mid 1984 and in its annual report at the end of that year it set out to increase employment opportunities by encouraging diversification, to increase population levels through selective immigration, to aim for long-term self-sufficiency and to improve community facilities.

* Cell and molecular biology: detection of colocalization using fluorescence-labelled antibodies for selective detection of the antigens of interest using specialized software, such as CoLocalizer Pro.