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STANFORD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A university in California
Synonyms:
Stanford; Stanford University
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Instance hypernyms:
university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)
Holonyms ("Stanford" is a part of...):
Palo Alto (a university town in California)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893)
Synonyms:
Leland Stanford; Stanford
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
businessman; man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))
Context examples:
The new molecule—built by ICB in cooperation with the University of Stanford, in the US—paves the way for new medications capable of checking the evolution of the disease more efficiently than the ones available today.
(Molecule created in Brazil helps fight heart failure, Agência Brasil)
People are basing life decisions on the data provided by these devices, said Euan Ashley, a professor of cardiovascular medicine, of genetics and of biomedical data science at Stanford, who added that consumer devices aren’t held to the same standards as medical devices.
(Fitness Trackers Bad at Measuring Calories Burned, Study Says, VOA)
Keeping fossil fuels in the ground is the best way to limit further warming, said study lead author César Terrer, a postdoctoral scholar in Earth system science in Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.
(Study Suggests Trees' Potential to Slow Global Warming in Next 100 Years, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A team led by Drs. Ronald Davis and Carlos Milla at Stanford University School of Medicine developed a wearable device and tested whether it could measure chloride and sodium levels in patients with cystic fibrosis.
(Diagnosing cystic fibrosis with wearable devices, NIH)
Scientists from the Stanford University School of Medicine announced the invention of a new diagnostic tool that can sort cells by type: a tiny printable chip that can be manufactured using standard inkjet printers for possibly about one U.S. cent each.
(Scientists say new medical diagnostic chip can sort cells anywhere with an inkjet, Wikinews)
We saw the most remarkable growth when we closed the good eye, forcing the mice to look through the injured eye,” said Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., associate professor, Stanford University School of Medicine’s department of neurobiology.###!!!###
(Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain, NIH)
To map the brain circuitry between the BNST and the hypothalamus, Dr. William Giardino and colleagues at Stanford University exposed mice to rewarding and aversive stimuli, and then visualized and manipulated the activity of neurons using fiber optic techniques.
(Researchers identify key brain circuits for reward-seeking and avoidance behavior, National Institutes of Health)
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine created a magnetic wire that could, in theory, be inserted into a person's vein, where it could snatch up tumor cells that had been magnetized by special nanoparticles.
(Magnetic Wires May Soon Be Used in Your Veins to Detect Cancer Earlier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Thus, in addition to the cousins Dorothy and Florence, Martin encountered two university professors, one of Latin, the other of English; a young army officer just back from the Philippines, one-time school-mate of Ruth's; a young fellow named Melville, private secretary to Joseph Perkins, head of the San Francisco Trust Company; and finally of the men, a live bank cashier, Charles Hapgood, a youngish man of thirty-five, graduate of Stanford University, member of the Nile Club and the Unity Club, and a conservative speaker for the Republican Party during campaigns—in short, a rising young man in every way.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Adding extra zinc accelerated the switch—but not when we reduced the accumulation of Shank 2 or 3, explains Dr. Huong Ha - the study's lead author, a former Stanford graduate student.
(Zinc Deficiency during Pregnancy Linked to Autism in Babies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
