The grooming peak, concurrently with the visit of outgroups, probably represents a social shield adopted by resident males to make their pre-existing affiliation more evident to the stranger "audience".
This vacuole represents a unique compartment, shielding the parasite from the host cell cytosol, but nevertheless allowing passage of nutrients, waste products and even large polypeptides both to, and from the host cell and surrounding environment [1].
Cp binding to MPO should represent a protective shield against increased oxidant production by MPO, also in HF patients.
Many Indians are convinced that Mr. Headley is a C.I.A. agent, perhaps gone rogue, and that the U.S. intransigence represents an attempt to shield him and his past activities from scrutiny.
The material is so much lighter than existing thermal shielding that it represents a significant cost advantage and makes much smaller yet durable satellites possible, says materials scientist Boris Yakobson of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
The white shield upon the leaf represents "a sign of heraldry to be created and recorded for Canadians".
Comet assay, allowing the assessment of DNA breaks, performed on shielded and de-shielded nuclei, showed a direct evidence that the nuclear shield represents an efficient protection barrier for the genetic material, both in the presence and in the absence of oxidizing compounds (Figure 5A).
The shield represents an area that has undergone extensive erosion and sculpting by ice and weathering processes.
The egg is shielded by a rigid acellular envelope, the chorion, which represents a prime candidate for a diffusion barrier [ 3].
Now, with the euro-zone debt crisis threatening to spread from Greece, the single currency represents an equally epochal challenge to shield the broader European project from derailment.
