`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

Does the organization show an affinity for a foreign government, political party or personality in opposition or preference to the American system??

It has been suggested that the plasma thyroxine-binding proteins, which have an extremely high affinity for thyroxine, compete with thyroglobulin for thyroxine ( Ingbar and Freinkel, 1957 ).

Miss Xydis has a natural affinity for the keyboard, and in the twenty years since her debut here she has gained the authority and inner assurance that lead to audience control.

Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.

** The L stands for Linux affinity

The latter flame, in addition, offers a more reducing environment, being ideally suited for analytes with high affinity to oxygen. A laboratory flame photometer that uses a propane operated flame atomizer

* Processor affinity, a computing term for the assignment of a task to a given core of a multicore CPU

Agarose is used generally as the medium for analytical scale electrophoretic separation in agarose gel electrophoresis and for column-based preparative scale separation as in gel filtration chromatography and affinity chromatography.

The royals decorated Balmoral with tartans and attended highland games at Braemar ; Queen Victoria expressed an affinity for Scotland, even professing herself to be a Jacobite.

Cultural Christian is a broad term used to describe people with either ethnic or religious Christian heritage who may not believe in the religious claims of Christianity, but who retain an affinity for the culture, art, music, and so on related to it.

It has the highest electron affinity and the third highest electronegativity of all the elements ; for this reason, chlorine is a strong oxidizing agent.

This book was responsible for supplanting the chemical affinity for the term free energy in the English-speaking world.

Phosphocellulose chromatography utilizes the binding affinity of many DNA-binding proteins for phosphocellulose.

A molecule with a high affinity for the chromatography matrix ( the displacer ) competes effectively for binding sites, and thus displace all molecules with lesser affinities.

Affinity chromatography often utilizes a biomolecule's affinity for a metal ( Zn, Cu, Fe, etc .).

Immobilized Metal Affinity Chromatography ( IMAC ) is useful to separate aforementioned molecules based on the relative affinity for the metal ( I. e.

Specially targeted delivery vehicles have a differentially higher affinity for tumor cells by interacting with tumor-specific or tumor-associated antigens.

He also appeared in a series of television roles, some of which ( such as A Tale of Two Cities in 1980 ) mirrored his affinity for the classics.

For example, in the 1919 book Chemistry of Human Life physician George W. Carey states that, " Health depends on a proper amount of iron phosphate Fe < sub > 3 </ sub >( PO < sub > 4 </ sub >)< sub > 2 </ sub > in the blood, for the molecules of this salt have chemical affinity for oxygen and carry it to all parts of the organism.

Douglas became a local cultural icon in Philadelphia, often inviting prominent players from the city's professional sports teams to be guests on his show ( he had a particular affinity for the city's pro football team, the Philadelphia Eagles, constantly referring to the team as " Our Eagles ", and he could often be seen in attendance at Eagles ' home games, especially whenever they appeared on Monday Night Football ).

There was a large, permitted march by members of the AFL-CIO, and other unauthorized marches by assorted affinity groups who converged around the Convention Center.

This was not a problem because they all had a strong affinity with the polis ; their own destiny and the destiny of the community were strongly linked.

Physical chemistry, however, was one of the first branches of science to study and formulate a " theory of affinity ".

The first-ever affinity table, which was based on displacement reactions, was published in 1718 by the French chemist Étienne François Geoffroy.

Part of this rejection was due to the belief that atoms of one element would have no chemical affinity towards atoms of the same element, and part was due to apparent exceptions to Avogadro's law that were not explained until later in terms of dissociating molecules.

Kekulé's idea of assigning certain atoms to certain positions within the molecule, and schematically connecting them using what he called their " Verwandtschaftseinheiten " (" affinity units ", now called " valences " or " bonds "), was based largely on evidence from chemical reactions, rather than on instrumental methods that could peer directly into the molecule, such as X-ray crystallography.

The original scores, which dated from 1804 when the composer was twelve, were found in the Library of Congress in Washington D. C. Often transcribed for string orchestra, these sonatas reveal the young composer's affinity for Haydn and Mozart, already showing signs of operatic tendencies, punctuated by frequent rhythmic changes and dominated by clear, songlike melodies.

Boccaccio was apprenticed to the bank, but it was a trade for which he had no affinity.

The findings state that the benzene PC for rat Hb was much higher than human that for Hb ; however, the tests that measured the PCs of the oxygenated and deoxygenated forms of HbA and HbS did not differ, indicating that the affinity of benzene was not affected by the water solubility of Hb.

Protestantism in France was considered a grave threat to national unity, as the Huguenot minority felt a closer affinity to ( and often allied themselves with ) German and Dutch Calvinists than with their fellow Frenchmen.

" This paper was central to any chemical affinity theory in the first half of the nineteenth century.

The Irish Government acknowledged this interpretation — although it did not acknowledge any legal obligations to persons in this larger diaspora — when Article 2 of the Constitution of Ireland was amended in 1998 to read " urthermore, the Irish nation cherishes its special affinity with people of Irish ancestry living abroad who share its cultural identity and heritage.

Stephen Pearl AndrewsFor American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster " It is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affinity to the Individualist Anarchism of Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews ... William B. Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form .".

Lithium has a low ionization energy and readily gives up its lone valence electron to the fluorine atom, which has a positive electron affinity and accepts the electron that was donated by the lithium atom.

For American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster " It is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affinity to the Individualist Anarchism of Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews ... William B. Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form .".

In later years, Frankenheimer theorized that the audience may have developed an affinity over the course of the movie for the character played by Bruce Dern and thus felt conflicted when he was defeated at the end.

For American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster " It is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affinity to the Individualist Anarchism of Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews ... William B. Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form .".

As she matured, she demonstrated a strong affinity for the plays of Henrik Ibsen, as Irene in When We Dead Awaken ( Cambridge, 1968 ), as Mrs. Alving in Ghosts ( Edinburgh, 1972 ), Aase in Peer Gynt ( BBC, 1972 ) and as Gunhild in John Gabriel Borkman ( Old Vic, 1975 ), in which she appeared with Ralph Richardson and Peggy Ashcroft.

-Quatrième Mémoire " Where two principal properties of the electric fluid are demonstrated: first, that this fluid does not expand into any object according to a chemical affinity or by an elective attraction, but that it divides itself between different objects brought into contact ; second, that in conducting objects, the fluid, having achieved a state of stability, expands on the surface of the body and does not penetrate into the interior.

In one particular incident his sense quick wit and affinity for humour were demonstrated when a heckler pointed to his ample paunch and exclaimed " What are you going to call it, George?

Recent studies have demonstrated that the BAPTA moiety actually binds to zinc ions with a substantially higher affinity than calcium.

Although remaining in Egypt certainly exposed Guénon to the cultural ambience of Sufism and ancient esotericism for which he had already demonstrated a strong affinity, his refusal to return to Europe created undoubted hardship for him.

Philosophically, Clarke demonstrated an affinity for legal realism in his opinions.

" Since she was a little girl she demonstrated an affinity for the entertainment world, participating in school plays, until at the age of nine, she was part of the musical comedy " Anita la Huerfanita ," ( Little Orphan Annie ).

Tiffany has also demonstrated an affinity for using fire, which she considers a friend, ( most Witches do not consider fire to have good associations for them in view of its history.

He demonstrated the importance of somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin V genes in antibody affinity maturation.

Cells containing pMMO have demonstrated higher growth capabilities and higher affinity for methane than sMMO containing cells.

Although there is no truth to the urban legend of Cordera spending some time in that institution, the band has demonstrated an affinity for everything related to madness and marginalization.

Correia's deep affection for her native island's native beauty is demonstrated profoundly in the themes, images and symbols portrayed in her works, as well as by her affinity for the contemporary authors Antero de Quental and Vitorino Nemésio.

Two cases demonstrated economic tort's affinity to competition and labour law.

Although initial reports suggested that the PCNA-MutSα complex may enhance mismatch recognition, it has been recently demonstrated that there is no apparent change in affinity of MutSα for a mismatch in the presence or absence of PCNA.