What's the difference between activities and doings?

Activities


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Activity

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
  • (2) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
  • (3) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
  • (4) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
  • (5) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
  • (6) The antiarrhythmic activity similar to that of quinidine (with ca.
  • (7) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
  • (8) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
  • (9) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
  • (10) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
  • (11) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
  • (12) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
  • (13) Following in vitro C activation in NHS by delta IgG, the 40 KD C4d component increased markedly.
  • (14) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
  • (15) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
  • (16) This difference was not due to ATPase activity in the assay.
  • (17) In the surface epithelial cells, the basolateral cell surface showed moderate enzymatic activity.
  • (18) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
  • (19) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (20) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.

Doings


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Doing

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The author did not originally devise this new frame of reference to account for the observable 'doings' of one-celled organisms.
  • (2) But it is also possible that the government will have hatched a legislative strategy to minimise the possible disclosure of Charles’s doings and to make absolutely sure that the impact of today’s decision is decreased.
  • (3) "The Sunday Times has given me the freedom of speech over the last 46 years to criticise world leaders for what I see as their wrong-doings.
  • (4) But then the gothic, right from its nightmare beginnings, was about colonial anxiety and fears of what comes back to haunt from nefarious doings overseas.
  • (5) Walter Bagehot in 1867 described how the British constitution was divided into dignified and efficient parts, but now the dignified area has extended to many of the doings of Parliament, of embassies and of the boards of big companies.
  • (6) The fund managers at F&C call on banks "as a whole" to be accountable for "past transgressions" even when management has left after wrong-doings: "This means that regulatory or legal penalties should impact the incentive pool that is distributed to its executives."
  • (7) Yadier Molina’s 2006 Game Seven NLCS home run against the Mets - there’s more - a lot more, including Tony La Russa's devilish doings - it goes on and on and on.
  • (8) Conservative MPs arguing that Ukip's vote is all about a sudden surge of critical voter interest in the doings of Brussels ignore that their current leader has already taken a more stridently Eurosceptic line in word and deed than any prime minister in history, including withdrawing from the main centre-right party group in the European parliament; vetoing the EU treaty designed to deal with the eurozone crisis and promising an EU referendum in the next parliament.
  • (9) The righteous reaction will get stronger to smash the evil doings.” Some cybersecurity experts say they’ve found striking similarities between the code used in the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment and attacks blamed on North Korea that targeted South Korean companies and government agencies last year.
  • (10) This is nothing to do with exposing evil doings by the powerful, for which there are public interest exemptions.
  • (11) Given all this, it seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.
  • (12) Had regular strikers Bobby Zamora or Andrew Johnson been available, then Fulham would probably have done just that; it was unfortunate that both should have been ill. A minute's applause in memory of Blake Melbourne, a 14-year-old Albion academy player who lost his life to cancer recently, having put the Premier League and all its over-blown doings firmly into context, it was Fulham who began more brightly.
  • (13) The media, for reasons I have similarly yet to fathom, have an outsized interest in the doings of hipsters, even though they represent a tiny-to-the-point-of-non-existent proportion of the populace.

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