DefinitionsThe movement of ocean water is one of the twoprincipal sources of discrepancy between dead reckonedand actual positions of vessels. Water in motion is called acurrent; the direction toward which it moves is called set,and its speed is called drift.
Human RBC precursors are obtained by (i) separating glycophorin A(+) (gly A(+)) cells using a magnetic cell sorting (MACS) technique and by (ii) ex vivo expansion of precursors BFU-E (burst forming unit-erythroid) on methylcellulose semi-solid culture media from mononuclear cells of cord blood.
NSC is made up sugars, starches and fructans. This can be further broken down into the analyti-cal terms water soluble carbohydrates (WSC; sugar + fructan) and ethanol soluble carbohydrates (ESC; sugar). Non --Structural Carbohydrate then becomes the sum of WSC and Starch.