The rate of antennal contact is a way for ants to measure raft-mate density.
Since γ-secretase is thought to be concentrated in rafts (Hur et al, 2008; Wada et al, 2003), we measured raft-associated γ-secretase activity rather than CHAPSO-solubilized activity.
To measure the raft's deviation from circular, top view images of rafts (size N = 5, 10, 50, 100, 1000, 5000, and 10000) at equilibrium (Fig. 5A) are processed using Matlab to find an ellipse which best fits the raft profile.
As the method of measuring the raft γ-secretase activity was not yet established, we first determined the assay conditions.
I'd want all those bullies, and AA Gill too for good measure, on a raft.
Bundling the measure with a raft of other stringent anti-Communist provisions -- preventing party members, for example, from holding American passports -- McCarran fashioned an omnibus bill that all but outlawed the American Communist Party.
Rail Minister Norman Baker said the new measures represented "a raft of improvements and greater flexibility".
Other measures in the raft of legislation have received more national notice, like the so-called Volcker rule, which aims to prevent banks from trading with their own money, or the watchdog agency known as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Dodd-Frank established.
The addition of a cloned and purified recombinant PLD to HeLa cells resulted in substantial remodeling of the host membrane architecture, as measured by lipid raft formation.
"We unveiled a whole raft of measure to do that, and I think from a local member of parliament, from listening to people around the country as a government, most people do want ID cards, do want their neighbourhoods cleaned up from local yobbery, do want us to adopt tough action against illegal asylum seekers and terrorists.
To be fair to Miliband, the tax was just one measure in a whole raft of property-related ideas.
