DAKAR, Senegal — The last time foreigners tried to topple the government of the tiny, oil-rich nation of Equatorial Guinea, it was a band of upper-crust Britons-turned-mercenaries involved in an elaborate plot, allegedly for a shadowy businessman, in exchange for cash.
We discovered we both had a band of freckles on our upper left arms that looked like the Big Dipper.
A jet stream, like a freeway of air, is a band of wind gushing through the upper atmosphere.
In an essay about Rothko, Danto looks for the meaning in a real Rothko painting by comparing it with "a ready-made Rothko," a sunset he sees while flying 33,000 feet over Iceland -- a heavy purple at the bottom, separated from the upper band of light blue by a band of rose and orange".
In the first group, the most common procedure is laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB), which consists of placing a band around the upper part of the stomach, thereby creating a small pouch that empties into the lower stomach without bypassing the foregut (see Figure A1 in the online appendix available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc08-1762).
This device is effectively a cuff that applies controllable pressure on a 47-mm wide band of the upper arm.
The mutant K308A was efficiently expressed at the cell surface, but displayed a complete absence of upper band, demonstrating that the presence of the upper band was not a requirement for cell-surface expression.
Cysteine substitutions in the region Arg Ile almost all showed a reduced amount of upper band (black bars), whereas those in the region Asp Ile did not (grey bars), with the exceptions of K324C and F325C.
The cornea is divided by a horizontal band of pigment, separating an upper, strongly convex part from a lower, flatter division.
CT-26 cells incubated with 100 μ M [I]ICEU for 24 h displayed a double immunoreactive band of β-tubulin (upper panel, Figure 5A) that could be superimposed over the radioactive ICEU protein (lower panel, Figure 5A); the ICEU-induced alkylation of β-tubulin occurred in cultured CT-26 cells.
