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When mice still used a mechanical design ( with slotted ' chopper ' wheels interrupting a beam of light to measure rotation ), trackballs had the advantage of being in contact with the user's hand, which is generally cleaner than the desk or mousepad and does not drag lint into the chopper wheels.
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When hunting small animals such as mice, they slowly stalk through the grass, and use their acute sense of smell to track down the prey.
When used to test venom from venomous creatures, such as snakes, LD < sub > 50 </ sub > results may be misleading due to the physiological differences between mice, rats, and humans.
When estrogen levels were raised through the increased activity of the enzyme aromatase in male lab mice, OCD rituals were dramatically decreased.
* Rhyme ( When the cat is away, the mice will play )
When administered to mice, the results were promising ; this vaccine provided immunity for three years.
When Bmi1 was knocked out in mice, impaired cerebellar development resulted, leading to significant reductions in postnatal brain mass along with abnormalities in motor control and behavior.
When Griffith injected heat-killed S into mice, as expected no disease ensued.
When mice were injected with a mixture of heat-killed S and live R, however, pneumonia and death ensued.
When ob / ob mice are treated with injections of leptin, they lose their excess fat and return to normal body weight.
When small amounts of melatonin were administered to lab mice, it reduced the oxidative damage caused by aging and delayed the inflammatory process, which in turn increased the longevity of the mice.
When breeding laboratory mice in a controlled environment, the weaning is defined as the moment when the pups are transferred out of the mothers ' cage.
When graphical interfaces were first introduced, many computers did not have mice, so this alternative was necessary.
When optical mice, which use image sensors to detect movement, were first introduced into the market, they required special mousepads with optical patterns printed on them.
When mice were tested with a hotplate analgesia meter, both venlafaxine and mirtazapine induced a dose-dependent, naloxone-reversible antinociceptive effect following intraperitoneal injection.
When he subsequently collected serum from these Guinea pigs and injected it into normal mice he observed a marked depletion in the number of circulating mouse lymphocytes.
When AMPK activity was pharmacologically raised ( AICAR see below ) the mice ate more and gained weight.
When Alley-Kat-Abra is arrested for murdering Little Cheese, she tells them she did it simply because she is a cat and cats hate mice.
When settlers sailed from Europe to North America, they carried cats on board to protect the stores from mice.
When mice were given a single oral dose of 25 mg / kg dicofol, approximately 60 % of the dose was eliminated within 96 hours, 20 % in the urine, and 40 % in the feces.
When mice were infected with either the cardiac isolate or a lab strain, 10 times as much bacteria were found in the hearts of mice infected with the cardiac strain.
When they arrive, Mombi's elephants surprise them, but, when Dorothy flips open Glinda's box, a large army of mice emerge from it, scaring off the elephants.
When compared to control mice, oxiracetam-treated DBA mice demonstrated a significant increase in spatial learning performance as determined by the Morris task.
When and still
When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.
When the victory cheer went up this officer found himself still mounted, with his horse pressed broadside against Cleburne's log parapet in a tangled group of infantrymen.
When Partisan and Kenyon set up shop, Mencken was still accepted as an arbiter of taste ( remember Hergesheimer??
When it was over, eight of his company were still alive and all eight were wounded.
When Juanita awoke, Kate was still rocking the dead child, still crooning in disbelief, `` No, no, oh, no!!
When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.
When he heard of his brothers' anger, Palfrey was still hopeful that they could be persuaded to accept his notion of paying wages.
When he came to the movies -- more or less by accident -- they were still cheap entertainment capable of enthralling the unthinking for an idle few minutes.
When the neon sign flashed on, the shadow was still there.
When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.
When police arrived the man was still violent, Slate said.
`` When Mickey went to the Yankees '', says Mark Freeman, an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, `` DiMaggio still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this hero of his.
When a fisherman brought her up in his arms, still, small, as if she were a child asleep, I began to shudder with a terrible excitement, almost triumphant, that I still cannot account for.
When he rose in the morning, the image was still there.
When they were first occupied, the present-day islands including Milos with its important obsidian production were probably still connected to the mainland.
When Ajax finally left Troy, Athena hit his ship with a thunderbolt, but Ajax still survived, managing to cling onto a rock.
When King Constantine's eldest son Constans is murdered at Vortigern's instigation, the two remaining sons, Ambrosius and Uther, still very young, are quickly hustled into exile in Brittany.
When my father, who had been appointed by his country as public notary in the customs at Bugia acting for the Pisan merchants going there, was in charge, he summoned me to him while I was still a child, and having an eye to usefulness and future convenience, desired me to stay there and receive instruction in the school of accounting.
The monochrome combinations still existing in the 1950s are standardized by the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) as capital letters A through N. When color television was introduced, the hue and saturation information was added to the monochrome signals in a way that black & white televisions ignore.
When observers or cells are not authorised they can still request fire.
When the audience applauded — testimonies differ over whether at the end of the scherzo or the whole symphony — Beethoven was several measures off and still conducting.
When the country was still part of the former Yugoslavia, joint ventures and cooperation played a large role here ( motor industry, metal processing, textile industry / contract processing work, steel and chemicals ).
When Högni comes to fight Heðinn on an island, Hildr comes to offer her father a necklace on behalf of Heðinn for peace ; but the two kings still battle, and Hildr resurrects the fallen to make them fight until Ragnarök.
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