conferred a degree

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After sieving the fecal samples to extract hookworms eliminated when the worm treatment pill was given, the team reached an intriguing conclusion: Villagers with the highest levels of allergy-related antibodies in their blood had the smallest and least fertile parasites, indicating that these antibodies conferred a degree of protection against parasite infection.

Davidson et al. have proposed that a two-point fixation using a miniplate alone conferred a degree of stability comparable to most three-point fixation methods, regardless of the site in which the miniplates were applied [15].

My post graduate experience ended with an MFA in short fiction, University of San Francisco Class of 2000, which conferred a degree, but no title.

Van Hamersveld said the Surfing Walk of Fame marker is one of the few honors he's had from institutions; another came when former Art Center President Richard Koshalek conferred a degree on him even though he hadn't accumulated enough credits in the 1960s.

Expression of IGF-II conferred a degree of serum independence of growth in cell culture, however, when cells were injected into nude mice as subcutaneous grafts, clones expressing IGF-II from the retrovirus were found to have a greatly increased (five fold) latency of sarcoma formation.

And certain riders might choose a Ross simply because it confers a degree of anonymity.

1. Statehood, even if qualified as provisional or interim, confers a degree of sovereignty.

Too often elections are manipulated, flawed, or used to confer a degree of legitimacy to authoritarian regimes.

Not to give a speech or confer a degree, but to sing with a seven-person group called Irish Celebration before the Mets game tomorrow night.

Through a process of protein fractionation and vaccination we previously identified four native antigens that confer a degree of protection against challenge with Anaplasma marginale.

But doing so confers a degree of legitimacy on the views expressed (or seems so to me) that leaving the writer unidentified does not.