This is an extremely broad category — essentially covering all health care products that do not achieve their intended results through predominantly chemical ( e. g., pharmaceuticals ) or biological ( e. g., vaccines ) means, and do not involve metabolism.

The second is the social acceptability of celibacy among the Burmese, who are predominantly Buddhist and value celibacy as a means of spiritual development.

He chaired a fund-raising drive by students, and then was named to a committee that supported citywide efforts to outlaw restrictive covenants, the legal means by which minorities were prohibited from purchasing real estate in predominantly white neighborhoods.

A more recent strategy involves the company increasingly leveraging the relationship between the eBay auction site and PayPal: The impact of driving buyers and sellers to use PayPal means not only does eBay turn buyers into clients ( as a pure auction venue its clients used to be predominantly sellers ) but for each new PayPal registration it achieves via the eBay auction site it also earns offsite revenue when the resulting PayPal account is used in non-eBay transactions.

The latitude of the area means that it is influenced by predominantly westerly winds with depressions and their associated fronts, bringing with them unsettled and windy weather, particularly in winter.

Its latitude means that it is influenced by predominantly westerly winds with depressions and their associated fronts, bringing unsettled and windy weather particularly in winter.

The term has more recently begun to be particularly applied to New Zealand-born persons of predominantly European descent as a means of distinguishing themselves from more recent settlers and emphasising their temporal and spatial distinctiveness, but acceptance of this notion still remains far from universal.

They speak the Patani Malay language, which differs from the Bahasa Malay predominantly by means of actively used vocabulary and also in pronunciation.

This means that every kilogram ( roughly one litre by volume ) of seawater has approximately of dissolved salts ( predominantly sodium () and chloride () ions ).

Sălaj County or the Land of Silvania ( silva ,-ae means " forest ") has a predominantly hilly relief-the Someș Plateau and the piedmont hills of Silvania-as well as mountainous hills-the northern ramifications of Apuseni Mountains ( Meseș and Plopiș Mountains ).

Abuses were at their worst in regions with a predominantly Christian population, where local authorities often openly supported them as a means to keep Christians subjugated.

Now, however, county in county constituency means predominantly rural.

The latitude of the area means that it is influenced by predominantly westerly winds with depressions and their associated fronts, bringing with them unsettled and windy weather, particularly in winter.

The predominantly young users of the modern means of communication ( SMS, email ) have found advantages of using the rarely spoken verb forms like aorist and imperfect as they require fewer characters than compound verbs, thus bringing them back to popular use.

Allowing people to vote at age 16 ; the introduction of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote ; a predominantly elected Senate to replace the House of Lords.

Non-heterosexual is found predominantly in research and scholarly environments possibly as a means to avoid terms deemed politically incorrect like lesbian, dyke, gay, bisexual, etc.

The Welsh word " porth " means " gate " when translated into English, however, Porth is a predominantly English-speaking community.

This means that noctilucent clouds form predominantly during summer when, counterintuitively, the mesosphere is coldest, therefore they can't be observed ( even if they are present ) inside the Polar circles because the Sun is never low enough under the horizon at this season at these latitudes.

For example, schranzen means to eat loudly and voraciously in German ( and Dutch ) slang and it is also a surname found predominantly in Austria.

Finally ( though by no means exhaustively ), Jacques Lacan's Seminar on the Psychoses and one of his ecrits " On a Question prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis " are predominantly concerned with reading and evaluating Schreber's text over-against Freud's original and originating interpretation.

East of this river lay Sarmatia Europaea, a vast region stretching as far as the Crimea, predominantly, but by no means exclusively, populated by Sarmatian tribes.

On another occasion he stated that " the forces of Darkness cannot stand it Greece is a predominantly Orthodox country, and for this reason they want to decapitate it and flatten everything, by means of globalization, the novel deity that has appeared alongside another deity called human rights, and on account of which they expect us to curtail our own rights ".

The archbishop has attributed human rights to a ploy by Satan on a second occasion, stating that " the forces of Darkness cannot stand it Greece is a predominantly Orthodox country, and for this reason they want to decapitate it and flatten everything, by means of globalization, the novel deity that has appeared alongside another deity called human rights, and on account of which they expect us to curtail our own rights ".

A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities.

Hyperthermia alters the cell walls by means of so-called heat shock proteins.

Protein structure prediction methods attempt to provide a means of generating a plausible structure for proteins whose structures have not been experimentally determined.

However, intrinsic membrane proteins remain challenging to crystallize because they require detergents or other means to solubilize them in isolation, and such detergents often interfere with crystallization.

The more recent developments of vibrational circular dichroism ( VCD ) techniques for proteins, currently involving Fourier transform ( FFT ) instruments, provide powerful means for determining protein conformations in solution even for very large protein molecules.

This means that even the basic set of proteins which are produced in a cell needs to be determined.

A more common way to determine post-translational modification of interest is to subject a complex mixture of proteins to electrophoresis in " two-dimensions ", which simply means that the proteins are electrophoresed first in one direction, and then in another, which allows small differences in a protein to be visualized by separating a modified protein from its unmodified form.

The globular nature of these proteins can be determined without the means of modern techniques, but only by using ultracentrifuges or dynamic light scattering techniques.

Proteinuria ( or ; from protein and urine ) means the presence of an excess of serum proteins in the urine.

It is for this reason that many chaperones, but by no means all, are also heat shock proteins because the tendency to aggregate increases as proteins are denatured by stress.

The chemicals used in embalming repel most insects, and slow down bacterial putrefaction by either killing existing bacteria in or on the body themselves or by " fixing " cellular proteins, which means that they cannot act as a nutrient source for subsequent bacterial infections.

The other proposed mechanism has been called a " perigenetic pathway ", and involves enhancement of the transformed host cell phenotype by means of alterations in cell proteins, such as adhesion proteins.

Use of the term chemosynthesis reinforces the view that this is feasible by pointing out that several alternate means of creating complex proteins, mineral shells of mollusks and crustaceans, etc., evolved naturally, not all of them dependent on photosynthesis and a food chain from the sun via chlorophyll.

Sponge cells can communicate with each other via calcium signalling, or by other means ; new research suggests that sponges express a group of proteins which conglomerate together to produce a partly synaptic formation.

They include proteins ( including antibodies ), nucleic acids ( DNA, RNA or antisense oligonucleotides ) and living microorganisms like virus and bacteria where the virulence of viruses and bacteria is reduced by the process of attenuation, they can be used for therapeutic or in vivo diagnostic purposes, and are produced by means other than direct extraction from a native ( non-engineered ) biological source.

It is likely that a similar mechanism occurs in other mammals, but the diversity of zona proteins across species means that the relevant protein and receptor may differ.

Cyclopia can occur in the womb when certain proteins are inappropriately expressed and causes the brain to stay whole instead of forming into two distinct hemispheres, which also means one optic lobe and one olfactory lobe resulting in one eye.

These proteins can then be detected by a variety of means, but the most commonly used stains are silver and Coomassie Brilliant Blue staining.

Since the glypiation is the sole means of attachment of such proteins to the membrane, cleavage of the group by phospholipases will result in controlled release of the protein from the membrane.

This means that large proteins ( such as antibodies ) can pass through the stomach wall.

Secretion in bacterial species means the transport or translocation of effector molecules for example proteins, enzymes or toxins ( such as cholera toxin in pathogenic bacteria for example Vibrio cholerae ) from across the interior ( cytoplasm or cytosol ) of a bacterial cell to its exterior.

Increased production of all proteins means α2-macroglobulin concentration increases.